The opening ceremony of the Rio Olympics will be held on August 5, 2016, and Wang Xiao and Hao Peng will report on their return to China on June 27.

In other words, there is only one month left for the Chinese men's basketball team to train intensively.

After Wang Xiao returned to China, he immediately convened a meeting with the coaching staff and made an overall plan and detailed formulation of the month.

First of all, the two-week period from June 28th to July 11th is the training time within the team, mainly to run in the tacit understanding, cooperation and tactical running of the players.

In the two weeks from July 12th to July 26th, there will be 5 to 8 warm-up games, which will deepen the run-in of the players through matches, and at the same time look for flaws in the squad.

July 27-August 3 will be the last week, this week will only arrange the most basic training for players to maintain their condition, and at the same time arrange to watch the game video, analyze the technical characteristics and targeted play of the opponents in the group stage, and check and fill in the gaps.

From the point of view of time, this arrangement is a little tight, after all, there are only 5 to 8 warm-up games, which is completely insufficient in the eyes of many assistant coaches.

In fact, in another time and space, before the Rio Olympics, the Chinese men's basketball team played a total of 19 warm-up games in the summer, with 10 wins and 9 losses, and the quality of the opponents in the warm-up games was also uneven, including the strong American team, European teams, and teams formed by small Asian countries with very low standards.

In Wang Xiao's view, this arrangement is of little significance, the main purpose of the warm-up game is to help the players warm up, adjust the state of the game, and familiarize themselves with the rhythm of the game, not for practice, arranging a large number of warm-up games will not only make the players physically tired, but the fiasco will affect the confidence of the players, but the gains outweigh the losses.

For example, the American Dream Team usually arranges a few warm-up games, and more often than not, they still practice within the team.

As for the opponents in the warm-up games, the Basketball Association has given a large squad, which includes the United States and some European teams.

Wang Xiao didn't think about it, and first excluded the American team.

In Wang Xiao's field of vision, the only opponent in this Olympic Games is the United States men's basketball team, in terms of overall strength, even if Wang Xiao has been strategizing for so long, the Chinese men's basketball team is still weaker than the United States men's basketball team.

Even if the current main lineup of the Chinese men's basketball team basically plays in the NBA, the American men's basketball team already knows the roots, but what kind of chemistry these people will have when they get together is something that the American men's basketball team can't judge.

In the earlier group draw, the Chinese men's basketball team, like the history of another time and space, was divided into Group A of the Group of Death, in Group A, there is the world dominant United States team, Australia, France, Serbia several teams, and originally in the Rio Olympics, the United States team, Australia and Serbia have entered the semi-finals, and only one team from Spain in Group B has entered the semi-finals.

Being assigned to such a group is a little disadvantageous for the Chinese men's basketball team, but in Wang Xiao's opinion, there is no big problem in qualifying from the group.

After all, the current Chinese men's basketball team has the most luxurious lineup in history, and at the same time has the strongest head coach in the NBA Wang Xiao coaching, and it will definitely get a good result in the Olympic Games.

Some optimistic fans even think that the Chinese men's basketball team may hit the medal table.

Of course, even they don't think that the Chinese men's basketball team has a chance to win the championship and win the gold, they are more inclined to the men's basketball team to get a bronze medal or even a silver medal, after all, in their opinion, in addition to the United States team, teams from other countries may not be able to win against the current Chinese men's basketball team.

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The two-week intensive training began.

Wang Xiao first started the team's main tactical training.

In fact, as long as you take a look at the main lineup of the Chinese men's basketball team, you will know how this team should play.

Point guard Jeremy Lin, point guard Cheng Jie, small forward Wang Meng, power forward Yi Jianlian, center Hao Peng.

The strongest of these five is naturally Jeremy Lin, who has been in the best team and the best defensive team for several consecutive years, and he will be the core of the Chinese men's basketball team.

And the core of the inner line, naturally, is the use of David. Robinson's Hao Peng of the Growth Template Card.

The current Hao Peng is far from growing up to David. Robinson's peak level, but even so, in the current lack of strong centers, Hao Peng's interior lethality is unmatched.

Wang Xiao knows the roster of the U.S. men's basketball team, and of course he also knows that in this Olympics, the U.S. men's basketball team has only DeMarcus on the inside. Cousins and Dunn, one good at offense and the other good at defense, are the best interior match that the American men's basketball team can think of, and these two people are not Hao Peng's opponents without exception.

The 12-man squad for the U.S. men's basketball team at the Rio Olympics is: LeBron Brown. James, Kevin. Durant, Cameron. Anthony, Paul. George, Kyle. Lowry, DeMarcus. Cousins, Jimmy. Butler, Dunn, Jamal. DeRozan, Clay. Thompson, Damien. Lillard and Carey. Irving.

James and Lillard's participation in the competition surprised Wang Xiao, because in another time and space, both of them made it clear that they would not participate in the Rio Olympics.

But when you think about it, it makes sense.

Why Lillard chose to participate, Wang Xiao is not very clear, but it is not surprising that James participated, after all, this is a very shrewd player who knows how to ensure his value.

In the original alternate time and space, James had just won his third championship at this time, and he won it in the Finals against the 73-win Warriors, and there is no doubt that he has reached the peak of his life, and it doesn't matter much to him whether he has an Olympic gold medal or not.

But in this time and space, James's situation is a little bad, although he also won an O'Brien Cup last year, but it was the only championship in his entire career, in order to add an extra touch to his honor, James participated in the Olympics, wanting to add an Olympic gold medal.

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There is no doubt that the addition of James and Lillard is far more than Harrison, who was supposed to be competing. Barnes and Drummond. Green is much tougher to deal with, but even so, this is the weakest year for the American Dream Team as a whole in recent years.

Curry, Harden, Westbrook, Paul and other super first-line guards have announced their retirement, so that the American Dream Team can only send Irving, Lillard and Lowry in the point guard position, and there are also Griffin, Aldridge, Love, Davis and others on the inside who announced their retirement.

Although the U.S. men's basketball team still has James and Durant, two top superstars, this is already the best opportunity for Wang Xiao and the Chinese men's basketball team!