Chapter 13 Summer League Quarterfinals
After winning the Kings, the Chinese men's basketball team has a very gratifying record of 3-0 in the summer league. In this three-game winning streak, Yi Jianlian's strong performance of 25 plus 10 per game was even more surprising.
It's a pity that the influence of the summer league is limited, and not too many people pay attention to it, so this news has not caused much sensation, and even the influence of the United States is not as big as in China.
After all, it was the national team that won three consecutive victories in the summer league, and several mainstream newspapers still didn't hold back and carried out a lot of reports, especially Yi Jianlian's performance.
"25 plus 10 per game! Yi Jianlian's summer league ushered in a metamorphosis, he is really the next Yao Ming! ”
"The Chinese men's basketball team in the United States is training, celebrating three consecutive wins, and the UAE superstar performance is dominating the summer league!"
"From the beginning of dominating the summer league, Yi Jianlian's NBA journey is full of light!"
It may be that Yao Ming's dominance in the NBA has made many Chinese fans and even the media ignore the gap between Chinese basketball and American basketball in terms of hard power.
They thought that the MVP who went out of the CBA could also mix well in the NBA!
This concept was not corrected until Yao Ming retired and Huaxia basketball was ousted from the No. 1 throne in Asia in the following years.
It's not the CBA league that's strong, it's just Yao Ming who is strong!
Yao Ming's strength can make the Chinese men's basketball team stand on the top of Asia, and it can also make the Chinese men's basketball team become a world-class team!
It's a pity that most people's thoughts at the time thought that the overall level of the Chinese men's basketball team had come up.
There's a word called killing!
During the period when Yao Ming covered up too many problems for the Chinese men's basketball team, the Chinese media did not hesitate to praise every potential stock in the Chinese basketball world, and they were often praised as the future superstars of the NBA before they made any achievements.
Before it has time to bloom, it will wither directly!
07 is the most serious time of this unhealthy trend, "Yi Di" and "Space Yi" are all ivory spit out of the mouth of the media during this period.
But at that time, Yi Jianlian, who was far away in the United States, was far less optimistic than they thought!
Of course, all this is a matter of the previous life, and it doesn't hurt that Yi Jianlian is blown up like this now, after all, so far, among all the players participating in the summer league, there is really no one whose data can be better than him!
'07's champion Oden is going through the most embarrassing period of his life - a player can have 10 foul opportunities in the summer league, the purpose is to let their respective teams better inspect the players, but Oden was blown full of 10 fouls and ejected!
Durant's performance is good, averaging 24.1 points per game, but in addition to scoring, his other statistics are almost zero, which is a little worse than Yi Jianlian's 10 rebounds.
As for the other warblers and Yanyan, don't mention them, for the time being, Yi Jianlian is really a one-man beauty!
However, it is worth noting that Yi Jianlian's playing time is also the highest among these people, Li Chunjiang seems to be familiar with the plan of "handing over the ball to Yi Jianlian", basically every game, Yi Jianlian played the whole game.
Fortunately, this is the summer league, the intensity is not high, and the time of each game is only 10 minutes, otherwise, Yi Jianlian would have been tired!
His physical fitness can only be regarded as an upper-middle level now, and there are still several levels of difference between him and a weirdo like LeBron.
However, there are still some advantages to playing like this, first of all, he has become more proficient in the use of tactics, and his ability value has increased from 55 to 65.
After these three games, the growth rate is almost as fast as the book he has been reading for so long!
Sure enough! Or as the old saying goes, learn in war! This theory has been put into practice, and the speed of proficiency is indeed much faster.
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The entire summer league schedule is very short, and the Las Vegas Summer League is already the largest, but it only lasts for 9 days. There's also the regular season and the playoffs – three points games as the regular season rankings, and then the playoffs are based on the rankings.
The organizers of the Summer League are really having a good time!
The Chinese men's basketball team has won all three games before, so it ranks second in the standings, only behind the Knicks, I don't know why it is behind, anyway, it is behind.
According to the rules of the playoffs, you can skip the first round directly and advance to the second round.
The previous Chinese men's basketball team had to play the first round of the playoffs because they lost all the first three games, but they didn't play in the first round and were eliminated as the loser.
This has also led to the fact that since the playoffs, the Chinese men's basketball team has encountered completely different opponents from the previous life.
They first met the New Orleans Hornets in the second round, who fought from the first round, but their overall strength was not high in the standings, and they were easily defeated by the Chinese men's basketball team.
After this victory, the Chinese men's basketball team reached the quarterfinals of the playoffs in the Summer League, which no one expected!
"The next game is against the Atlanta Hawks! I hope that everyone will not have any burden, just concentrate on playing this game, win or lose, our training has achieved the expected goal! Next, if you can fight the next one, it's a game! ”
The final quarterfinals have their own representative players, such as Durant on the SuperSonics and Nate Robinson on the Knicks, all of which are not easy to mess with.
The Atlanta Hawks met by the Chinese men's basketball team are more prominent in the entire summer league this year, not only this year's No. 3 pick Horford and No. 11 Asilao, but even last year's No. 4 pick Sheldon Williams were sent.
With three NBA players on a team, and even a super-talented rookie like Horford, it's strange to say that it's not difficult to play!
So Li Chunjiang didn't say it casually, he really didn't want to win this game, as long as everyone still played their own ability like in the previous games.
To put it bluntly, this time in the summer league, the results are not important, the main thing is to run in the team.
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Yi Jianlian didn't take this game seriously at first, thinking that as Li Chunjiang said, just play the game seriously, until the day of the game, when he saw his team's general manager Hammond and head coach Xiao K, as well as the general manager of the Eagles, Danny Ferry, he knew that today's game might be a focus of battle.
Just like the first game of the Las Vegas Summer League against the Trail Blazers vs. the SuperSonics, Durant met Oden, the third pick in 07 and the fourth pick in 07, Horford met Yi Jianlian, and the first official matchup between the same position is destined to attract the attention of many people in the industry!