Chapter 59: Obstacles to Entering the National Youth Team

Hu Weidong is still holding the ball and trying to step, Lu Fei still did not move to maintain the defensive position, suddenly Hu Weidong pulled up and shot directly, Hu Weidong's height of 198 cm, even if Lu Fei has grown now, it is close to 190, but because he jumped up a beat late, Hu Weidong had reached the highest point and pulled the basketball out with one hand.

The basketball arcs high in the air and falls into the basket with a thud.

Lu Fei didn't say anything, turned around and picked up the basketball, threw it to Hu Weidong, and then bent down to continue to defend.

Hu Weidong took the ball, shot the basket with a virtual shot, Lu Fei's center of gravity rose slightly, Hu Weidong stepped over Lu Fei's side and dribbled to accelerate, and Lu Fei's body had a confrontation.

"The strength is okay."

Hu Weidong had seen Lu Fei's speed and knew that the first step would definitely not be able to break through, so he deliberately gave a physical confrontation, but found that Lu Fei only shook slightly, and then quickly stood firm and stuck in the defensive position.

The basketball hit the floor rhythmically, and Hu Weidong squeezed his back to the elbow area.

Lu Fei suddenly felt a strong impact on his chest, and he guessed that Hu Weidong must be about to close the ball and turn around, so he hurriedly pounced.

Sure enough, Hu Weidong turned around, but his jumping body obviously leaned back in order to prevent being blocked by Lu Fei.

The ball is very difficult.

Even though Hu Weidong had a good rhythm of turning before, in the face of Lu Fei's extremely fast reaction speed, he had to lean back to the limit, and the basketball brushed Lu Fei's fingertips and threw it.

Hu Weidong himself was not sure whether this goal could be scored.

Lu Fei turned around and saw that the basketball was tossed on the basket, and finally fell into the basket, and shook his head helplessly.

He also tried his best, but Hu Weidong's shooting wrist was too soft.

This kind of backward shooting is very similar to Michael Jordan, no wonder everyone calls Hu Weidong the Asian Jordan.

You must know that Hu Weidong is 32 years old at this time, and it is only three years before he officially retires.

But Lu Fei didn't think that he would be able to compare to the other party, because basketball is always the offensive side that has the initiative, and if he is replaced to attack, he is confident that Hu Weidong will not be able to prevent him.

At this time, footsteps came from the direction of the stadium gate, and Guo Qiang walked in.

"Lao Hu hasn't left yet......" Guo Qiang and Hu Weidong said hello.

The two of them used to be teammates when they were in the city youth team, and they were small from childhood to adulthood.

"No, I don't train much at my age, and I guess people won't look down on me when I go to the Olympics next year." Hu Weidong quipped.

Lu Fei was silent on the side.

It's 2003 now, and the old players at last year's World Championships, by the time of next year's Olympics, like Liu Yudong, Gong Xiaobin and Hu Weidong in front of them, none of them entered the national team.

In 03, Liu Yudong retired due to injury, and took out a full 10 broken bones from the kneecap, A Dijiang sighed: "Ten small pieces are grinding in the knee, let alone playing basketball, ordinary people just can't walk." Liu Yudong endured it.

In 03, Gong Xiaobin was injured again in the last game of the CBA regular season, and became the head coach of the team after the season, the former free king was already disheartened at the end of his career, and the 2000 Sydney Olympics was not even selected for the national team because of the conflict with Jiang Xingquan's guidance, if it weren't for Wang Fei, he wouldn't even have a chance to play in the 2002 World Championships.

They are the golden generation, and now only Hu Weidong is still struggling to hold on.

Although he himself knows that the chances of being selected for the national team at Athens 2004 are not very good, as can be seen from his slightly self-deprecating words, he still insists on training, and as long as he can persevere, he does not want to give up.

Guo Qiang walked over, took out a towel from Hu Weidong's bag on the sidelines and threw it over.

"Wipe your sweat and go out to eat later." He looked at Lu Fei again: "Lu Fei happens to be together, I have something to tell you." ”

Only then did Hu Weidong know the name of the young man who had just defended him, and turned his face and asked, "You are Lu Fei?" ”

He has heard Guo Qiang mention Lu Fei's name more than once in the past few days, and knows that Lu Fei plays in the NCAA Division I league and is still the scoring champion of the league to which he belongs.

He is a professional player and has also been to the United States, so he naturally knows the gold content of Lu Fei's ability to play this result in the NCAA.

Lu Fei nodded, walked over with a smile and stretched out his hand, "Hello, my name is Lu Fei." ”

Hu Weidong shook hands with him and said with a smile: "Hello, just call me Brother Hu, no wonder I defended so well just now, it turned out to be a basketball talent who came back from the United States." ”

"Brother Hu laughed."

At this time, Hu Weidong reacted, glanced at Guo Qiang, and said, "You didn't want to recruit Lu Fei into the national youth team, right?" ”

Guo Qiang did not deny it.

Hu Weidong pouted, "What kind of national youth, don't say that this kid can play in the NCAA, just say that his defense is stronger than Liu Wei just now, so he is directly recommended to go to the national team." ”

Lu Fei was stunned.

Guo Qiang rolled his eyes at Hu Weidong and said: "You don't know what the situation is in China, no matter how well Lu Fei plays abroad, who will be convinced if he directly enters the national team?" Yao Ming also went to the United States after winning the championship in the CBA, and Lu Fei, this kid, has played a few CUBA games in China, and he also fucking played half of it for Lao Tzu to pick a son and run away......"

Speaking of last season's CUBA competition, Guo Qiang was heartbroken.

If Lu Fei is here, he is confident that he will come back with a championship for the University of Mines.

Hu Weidong sighed, he knew that what Guo Qiang said was right, in this place of seniority in China, if you want to enter the national team, in addition to being strong, you must also make a name for yourself in the league.

Unless......

He smiled: "If Lu Fei can enter the NBA next year, he can shut up those lay leaders." ”

Guo Qiang nodded.

After packing up their things and leaving the arena, Lu Fei and Hu Weidong sat on Guo Qiang's Poussin.

"What are you going to eat?" Guo Qiang asked, holding the steering wheel.

"Feng Qi, I want to eat Feng Qi's meat when I play outside." Hu Weidong thought for a while and replied.

"Don't take Lu Fei with you, it's nothing for you to eat indiscriminately when you're about to retire, Lu Fei is a flower of the motherland with red roots." Guo Qiang said.

It's common sense that athletes can't eat indiscriminately.

Lu Fei smiled: "It's okay to eat once in a while." ”

Guo Qiang thought about it, and then said that who doesn't have big fish and meat in the New Year, what's wrong with having a meal.

The three of them came to Fengqi's store and asked for three pieces of meat and some vegetarian dishes.

Guo Qiang also asked himself for a bottle of beer.

"Lu Fei, I want you to go to Guoqing, are you willing?" Guo Qiang didn't beat around the bush and said directly.

"I do."

Lu Fei nodded without hesitation, whether it was the national team or the national youth team, he would go as long as he needed to.

Guo Qiang nodded and said, "Now as an assistant coach of the national youth team, Gong Chen and I have recommended you to head coach Daniel Zhang, and he is very curious about you. ”

"But isn't your team roster already decided?" Hu Weidong, who was stuffing the meat in his mouth, interjected.

He knows too well the doorways of the country, and knows that things are definitely not as easy as Guo Qiang said.

Guo Qiang said with a smile: "The quota has been confirmed, but Coach Daniel Zhang Jun watched Lu Fei's game video, and he decided to take the team to the United States to watch Lu Fei's game when he played a warm-up game in March, and now it is February, that is, next month, and there is a certain leader of the Basketball Association......

Lu Fei understood, that is, although Guo Qiang and Gong Chen strongly recommended him, coach Daniel Zhang was also very optimistic about him, but if he wanted to join the national youth team, he still needed the consent of the basketball association.

The reason is simple, Lu Fei is not a registered player of the Basketball Association.

No matter whether Lu Fei plays well or not, he can't bring any benefits to the Basketball Association, and the Basketball Association is not stupid, so it will not cultivate a player who can't bring benefits.

It's different like Yao Ming, Yao Ming still has to pay money to the Basketball Association every year.

The Basketball Association initially asked for 50% of Yao's salary next year, and after difficult negotiations, finally paid 5% of the annual salary to the Basketball Association.

Lu Fei thought of this, and suddenly remembered the taxi driver who walked out of the train station.

There doesn't seem to be much difference between the two.