At half past six the next morning, in front of the conference table in the conference room of the training hall of the Chinese Basketball Association. Coach Sanjiang Li Nan and Assistant Coach Gore each held a steaming cup of Tieguanyin in their hands, and slowly teaed slowly. Li Nan looked at the ups and downs of the tea leaves in the cup, as if all the troubles floated lightly in the cup with a piece of tea, and beyond the fragrance, the troubles of the world were far away.

Some time ago, Coach Gore's visa had a very complicated and tricky situation, because his contract with the Shanghai team expired, the work visa of the Xinjiang team had not yet been processed, and the national team could not apply for a long-term work visa for him in the first time, which made him anxious and suffering.

To this end, Coach Li stepped forward at the critical moment, used all his relationships in a timely manner, spared no effort to help Coach Gore solve difficulties, and even paid out of his own pocket to help Coach Gore coordinate and deal with it.

Because of this little thing, Coach Gore has always been grateful to Coach Li, and the two have become very good friends.

Before Coach Gore came to China, he had a habit of drinking a cup of coffee every morning. Since he came to the Chinese national team as an assistant coach, perhaps under the influence of Coach Li, he has also changed to drinking tea, and when he is free, he will take out a tea bag and brew a cup with hot water......

At this time, on the LED screen on the wall, the video of the quarterfinals of the 2014 Incheon Asian Games was being played, and Coach Li Nan sighed heavily, and the scenes that had made him unable to let go appeared in front of him again. At the last Incheon Asian Games, the Chinese men's basketball team was defeated by Japan and Iran in a row, and finally ranked only fifth.

Time back to the 2014 Asian Games, when it was the quarterfinals, the Chinese team played against the Chinese Taipei team, although Yao Ming retired at that time, but Wang Zhizhi, Yi Jianlian, Zhu Fangyu, Sun Yue and other veterans are still there, and the emaciated camel is still bigger than the horse.

No one can believe that the Chinese team will be forcibly reversed by 28 points by the Chinese Taipei team in the second half, which has become the darkest moment for the Chinese men's basketball team.

At that time, as the commentator of that game, Su Qun, like many fans, was very disappointed with the performance of the Chinese team, and was very angry and sad to watch.

At that time, Su Qun choked up and said: We won't be so bad, this deeply pierced the heart of every fan in front of the TV, during the commentary, Mr. Su Qun also had a rare variety of explosions, and he was almost scolded to the Sports Bureau, but fortunately, Liu Xingyu on the side stopped him in time.

In that game, the chairman of the men's basketball team at the time sat in the audience, expressionless and silent throughout the whole game.

And the head coach Giannakis stood in front of the bench, holding the seat with his hands, his hands clenched hard, his face was bruised, and his face was extremely pale.

As the core, Yi Jianlian covered his mouth with a towel off the court, sat on the bench for a long time and did not leave, and those years were also the period when he was criticized and questioned the most, but fortunately, the dunk in the next 15 years allowed Yi Jianlian to prove his ability again.

I remember that Lin Zhijie, who beat up the Chinese team at that time, said arrogantly after the game: "The Chinese team was finally beaten into a stupid pen by us." ”

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There is no doubt that for the Chinese team, which aims to return to the top of Asia this time, the Chinese Taipei team is a hurdle that has to be crossed on the road to success of the Chinese men's basketball team, and it has become a thorn in Li Nan's heart, deeply stabbing his heart, and he can't wait to pull it out quickly.

After a while, Li Nan shook his head slightly, then rubbed his temples with both hands, forcibly retracted his thoughts from the outside world, and refocused all his attention on his current thoughts.

Li Nan looked at it for a while, took his eyes off the screen, leaned back on the chair, and seriously recalled the performance of the players in the team's training match yesterday.

Judging from the performance of the two inside lines, Wang Zhelin is obviously more into the state and has a better performance. Zhou Qi was his most optimistic interior player at the beginning, because he had just returned from the NBA Summer League and was in good shape.

Moreover, Zhou Qi has an absolute advantage over Wang Zhelin in terms of arm span and foot movement.

But in yesterday's confrontation training, Zhou Qi's performance did not make Li Nan feel very bright, but exposed more problems.

Zhou Qi's performance in the first quarter was remarkable, and under the tandem of Li Yang, Zhou Qi played a good offensive performance, responding in a high position, going down, and making up for everything. On the defensive end, he also made frequent efforts and sent several blocks one after another.

However, from the second quarter onwards, his role was not so great, on the one hand, his physical decline, and on the other hand, the psychological changes.

When the score is chased closely, he needs to become more courageous, his heart needs that determination to kill his opponent, this is the source of bravery, he comes from the heart of a person, and Zhou Qi, it is precisely this determination that needs to be cultivated!

And his bad habit of always liking to float on the outside line to shoot has not changed, and he obviously lacks confrontation, so he doesn't dare to chisel the inside line and create damage.

Although Zhou Qi's ability to respond to the high position made Li Nan's eyes shine, Li Nan would rather see unyielding interior defense and tough basket offense than strategy.

But now there is still more than a week before the start of the Asian Games, Li Nan told himself that he must be patient.

That group of children, there is still room for growth.

"Bang, bang, bang, bang"

Li Nan was thinking about it, but he was in the conference room when he faintly heard a sound from outside.

It sounded like the sound of a basketball hitting a wooden floor.

"Gore, did you hear anything?" Li Nan looked at Gore suspiciously.

At this time, Gore took a sip of tea, and then closed his eyes beautifully. It seems that he is still deeply reminiscent of the residual aftertaste of the tea fragrance between his lips and teeth.

Hearing Director Li's question, he opened his eyes, turned his head and responded with a smile: "No, Director Li shouldn't be hungry and faint early in the morning, right?" ”

"No, someone is coming, but someone is here so early?" Li Nan looked up at the wall clock on the wall in astonishment, it was only 6:40 now!

Since it was a Sunday, the training was late, and it didn't start until 9 o'clock.

Under normal circumstances, the players are thankful that they don't arrive late on Sunday morning.

But today, there is still a big man who comes to train in advance on the weekend?

Li Nan curiously pushed open the door of the conference room, and on the empty training ground, he saw Li Yang who was practicing three-point shooting.

"Ah!! Coach, you two are here too! Seeing Li Nan suddenly appear, Li Yang was almost taken aback.

He had always thought there was no one in the training hall.

"Well, I can't sleep at home, so the two of us came over." Li Nan nodded, he was so anxious about the Asian Games that he couldn't sleep at five o'clock in the morning, so he simply woke up Gore, and the two went directly to the conference room to drink tea while watching the video.

"Are you very diligent, don't you sleep the next day?" Li Nan looked at Li Yang's jersey and found that his upper body had sweated a lot, soaking his entire chest.

"I can't sleep very much, and I can't sleep when I think I still have a lot of shortcomings, so I don't want to waste this precious time in the morning, so I get up early to train." Li Yang tilted his head, and then continued to practice his three-point shot.

Watching Li Yang hit and shoot in various positions, Coach Li Nan began to seriously consider how to design special tactics and targeted special training for Li Yang and Zhou Qi.

My skills in the NBA are a bit too much

My skills in the NBA are a bit too much