Chapter 402: The Gap in Strength
The gap is indeed extremely obvious, four of the five positions on the court are at a disadvantage, and the scoring guards and small forwards played by Cheng Jie and Wang Meng are no exception.
In the past two years, in the NCAA, Cheng Jie and Wang Meng have grown up too smoothly.
Reggie. Miller and Artest's growth template cards make the two invincible in the collegiate arena.
But in the NBA, it's a different story.
Even Reggie Miller and Artest were just the better players of their time.
Reggie Miller was a five-time All-Star and a three-time All-Three All-Star selection.
Artest was named to the All-Star once, All-Three Team once, and All-Defensive Team four times in his career.
Looking at the careers of both players, it can be considered successful, but that's about it.
Not to mention Curry Lin, Jeremy alone, George, his career has just begun, and his personal honors have not lost to Reggie. Miller has received accolades throughout his career.
What's more, Cheng Jie and Wang Meng are not Reggie Miller and Artest themselves, although they have obtained the same potential and ability as them by relying on the growth template card, they are far from being able to reach in terms of experience and fighting spirit.
Among the five positions of the Chinese men's basketball team, the only one that can occupy the upper hand is the position of the center.
Jokic is still a little tender after all, although he performed very well in the regular season last season, he still inevitably suffered a loss against Hao Peng.
After all, Hao Peng used David Robinson's growth template card.
Unlike Reggie Miller and Artest, Admiral is a leading figure of the era, who has won MVP, won the best defensive player, won the scoring title, rebounding king, block king, and has been selected to the All-NBA All-NBA team countless times.
This is also the reason why David Robinson's growth template card can give an SS grade.
At present, there is a lack of high-quality centers in the NBA league, even if you look for them in the entire league, I am afraid it is difficult to find a few players who can compete with Hao Peng, even if it is only Hao Peng, who has not fully grown up at this stage.
Even so, the situation on the court was still one-sided, and the Huaxia men's basketball team was defeated, and could only rely on Hao Peng's interior offense and Cheng Jie's medium and long-distance shooting to barely score points.
The warm-up matches are divided into two halves, each lasting 10 minutes.
At the end of the first half, the score of both teams was 32:18.
By the end of the second half, the gap between the two teams had widened to 58:32.
The reason why the gap in the second half was even greater was because the physical fitness of the players of the Chinese team could not keep up.
Whether it is the Bucks or the Wizards, under the coaching of Wang Xiao, they play small-ball tactics, the offensive and defensive transitions are amazing, and the physical consumption is naturally greater.
In the continuous back and forth running, the players of the Chinese men's basketball team consumed a lot more physical energy than usual.
After the game, the players of the Chinese men's basketball team looked a little depressed, especially Cheng Jie and Wang Meng.
At the Incheon Asian Games last year, the men's basketball team swept the championship with an invincible momentum, which made the domestic media blow them to the sky, and even some people once said that the current Chinese men's basketball team is qualified to challenge the American Dream Team.
Cheng Jie and Wang Meng also thought the same, after all, their opponents were completely vulnerable in the NCAA, and those opponents have also joined the NBA one after another over the years and become the backbone of the league.
When they were at Harvard, the three of them often enjoyed themselves together, and if the Chinese men's basketball team could overturn the United States under their leadership, it would really be able to blow for a lifetime!
But the reality is that against an NBA team with only three All-Stars (Jeremy Lin, Curry, George), they are powerless.
Team USA is a super dream team of 14 All-Stars! Why do they think they can win?
"How do you feel?"
Wang Xiao looked around at the players and asked.
In the locker room, the players of the Chinese men's basketball team were dejected and silent.
In fact, if it was to lose to the American Dream Team, they would not have been so touched, after all, the Dream Team's dominance in the basketball world for many years has been deeply rooted, and it is normal that they can't win.
But now, they're losing neatly to two NBA teams that have been put together, and many of them are just first- and second-year rookies, which is different.
"Do you know why I specifically brought this group of people to play a warm-up match with you?" Wang Xiao said lightly: "I just want you to see where your gap is, obviously, you are still far from it now, but!" Time is running out for you! ”
"Do you know what kind of commitments I made when I coached the men's basketball team?" Wang Xiao smiled slightly: "World champion!" I promise to lead the Chinese men's basketball team to win the world championship! ”
No one spoke to the players, this matter was exposed by the media, and their first reaction at that time was to exaggerate, it was too exaggerated, Coach Wang Xiao didn't have to pay taxes for talking big.
There is still a big gap between the Chinese men's basketball team and the world's top national teams, even the 08 men's basketball team at its peak, with three major inside lines and local battles, can still only reach the quarterfinals.
Not to mention that if you want to win the world championship, you have to cross the mountain of the American team, which is simply impossible!
"Now, I can tell you about my plan, Rio 2016, I want to beat the U.S. men's basketball team and win the Olympic gold medal!" Wang Xiao looked around at everyone and said this sentence slowly.
Silence, death-like silence, including Cheng Jie, Wang Meng, and Hao Peng, all looked at Wang Xiao dumbfounded.
That's a lot of excitement to say!
Because when Wang Xiao said that he wanted a world championship, almost everyone thought that he was the champion of the World Championships, after all, the United States team did not attach so much importance to the world championships, and many NBA superstars would not play in the World Championships.
Unexpectedly, Wang Xiao's goal was to be an Olympic champion!
Since the U.S. men's basketball team lost the Olympics in 04, the U.S. team has attached great importance to the Olympic Games, the luxury lineup of the Dream Eight team in 08, and the lineup of the Dream Ten team in 12 years are not inferior, and no one would think that in the 16 Rio Olympics, the U.S. men's basketball team will send a team with a little less strength.
In this case, Wang Xiaoxiang led the Chinese men's basketball team to defeat the United States team?!!
Only Wang Xiao knows that this is possible!
In the next year, Cheng Jie and Wang Meng will enter the NBA to start their professional game, and their game experience and awareness will grow rapidly and become more mature and perfect.
Hao Peng's David Robinson Growth Template Card will also continue to play a role and make him stronger.
The most important thing is that he has already negotiated with Jeremy Lin, and the other party will apply for Chinese citizenship at the end of this year!
In this way, the Chinese men's basketball team has successfully gathered four NBA All-Star level players! Coupled with Yi Jianlian, who relied on Wang Xiao's training module to successfully improve his strength, he can still play in the NBA, this is a complete NBA lineup!
What Wang Xiao is doing now is to let them feel what NBA-level players are like up close, and then be fully prepared for the next year, waiting for the Rio Olympics to face off against the monsters of Team USA!
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