The Chinese team is making great progress, but Wang Mingming found that the Chinese team is really not as good as it was in the 08 Olympic Games, and the main reason is that there is no home advantage.

Home court advantage, which is extremely important in basketball games, can be regarded as an all-round buff, and under the home court advantage, it is more common to defeat the strong with the weak and turn the tables against the score.

This year's Turkish team is not weak, with NBA giants such as Turkoglu, Asik, and Ilyasova.

If you just look at the pre-match rankings, the Turkish team seems to be an upset, but with the cheers of the home fans and the addition of home advantage, they have taken one step at a time, and now they have also reached the semi-finals.

The Chinese team defeated Slovenia and was very popular with fans, and the next game will be against Serbia, who beat Spain in an upset.

At this time, the NBA's free agency market was coming to an end.

A few players have not yet been signed, and basically all the players have already found a home.

The Kings' new roster is also basically formed, and now there are many fringe people on the team who have no guaranteed contracts, and these players can only keep a few people before the start of the new season, and the rest will be cut, which sounds a bit cruel, but the team is not a nursing home, and the league rules only 15-man roster, which is a given.

Unexpectedly, the highest-paid players such as "Big Shark" O'Neal and Tracy McGrady are not in demand on the free market.

The main reason is that they still want a contract that matches their worth.

In reality, their value has plummeted.

In the end, O'Neal signed with the Celtics with a base salary, and Maddy signed with the Pistons with a base salary, both of whom signed for one year, and it seems that the two teams are just looking for a temporary worker.

The Celtics signed O'Neal in September, and then Delonte West.

Delonte West is known to fans because of his involvement in the scandal with James's mother last season, which is often referred to as the "Friends of Mom" actor. He was a rookie selected by the Celtics in '04, was sent to the Seattle SuperSonics in the big trade of Ray Allen in '07, and then he was traded to the Cleveland Cavaliers, where he has since had a good streak, and was the Cavaliers' main point guard in the '08-09 season, averaging 11.7 points per game in 34 minutes.

West was squeezed off the bench by Anthony Parker last season, but still averaged 25 minutes per game, still 8.8 points and 3.3 assists.

Delonte has been doing well on the court, but he has been in turmoil off the court, and he has not been idle for three consecutive offseasons since joining the Cavaliers, including one time when he was caught by the police for carrying marijuana, and another time when he switched to depression and did not return to the team until long after the start of the game. In the middle of this past season, he was charged with illegal possession of firearms, and was formally sued in court not long ago, and finally West pleaded guilty, and the NBA officials also imposed a severe punishment of 10 games of suspension without pay.

This is also a cow person, like "friends and mothers" or something, it is not even counted in the resume, it can only be regarded as lace.

Although the Celtics claimed that the signing of Delonte West was to fill the vacancy after Tony Allen went to the Grizzlies, everyone could see that the Celtics were disgusting some people, after all, they have been life-and-death enemies for many years, and the enemy of the enemy is a friend.

This matter, the king who is far away in Turkey can see that he is tired of tomorrow, and he can't help but shake his head.

"The Big Three have been formed, and the Celtics will no longer be able to form an encirclement of James in the next few years, and now the only team that can compete with James in the East is the Magic, and the rest is that the Bulls seem to have some potential."

Wang will be concerned about the NBA every day tomorrow and deal with some team things.

Yao Ming is also the kind who can't sleep, and every morning he will get up and go to the breakfast room to chat with Wang Mingming, and the two have also expressed their opinions on some things in the NBA, and they are more familiar with each other.

Yao Ming smiled and shook his head: "The Heat have really become the target of public criticism, and this summer, all the NBA news revolves around them." ”

"It's inevitable, and that's one of the ways the NBA claims it, after all, there will be new collective bargaining next year." Wang tomorrow sees through the essence, who dares to guarantee that there is no alliance to help him?

"In short, a huddle like this has never happened before." Yao Ming said with a bitter face: "If our rocket encounters it, the outside line is really a big problem." ”

"The Rockets actually beat the Heat, although the Heat have made up the Big Three, but because of the salary problem, they can't find some high-quality players, and they can't even give a decent middle class, and the interior line only relies on Chris Bosh and Haslem to support the scene, Haslem, you have a lot of experience."

Wang Mingming said with a smile: "That time you hit all 12 shots, wasn't it him!" ”

"That's the reasoning." Yao Ming laughed, "I'm not afraid of the Heat, I just feel that the game is not very balanced, and the Heat can't defend me, but I feel that if I meet them, this offensive and defensive defense may also be a huge problem." ”

"They will probably choose the style of play of the American team, defending and counterattacking."

Wang Mingming said: "The Big Three must have sacrifices, James has his own system, Wade is invincible with the ball, and Bosh will average 18 points per game next season, I think they are all hanging." ”

"But Bosh went anyway, for his brother basketball."

"For the warm sunshine and beautiful women of Miami, the relationship between brothers has not been good to that extent."

"The agent persuaded me, so last season Toronto saw it and traded him."

Wang Ming spread his hands: "We took the right to use Bosh for one year, and after we finished it, we exchanged a bunch of draft picks and trade exceptions, which is actually quite worthwhile." ”

"Coach, will you still be at the Kings next year?" Yao Ming asked suddenly.

Wang was stunned for a moment, and then replied lightly: "I will definitely be with the Kings in the first half of next year, but it may not be the case next season. ”

"If you don't want to work at the King, you can come to Houston." Yao Ming stared at Wang Mingming with burning eyes and said excitedly.

Wang Tomorrow snorted, but did not refuse, nor did he agree.

After all the quarter-finals have been played, Istanbul will first play a 5-8 place qualifying match, with four teams, each playing two games for three consecutive days.

In the end, Argentina finished fifth, Spain sixth, Russia seventh, and Slovenia eighth.

In the semifinals, the United States and Turkey faced each other.

Turkey's home whistle is more serious, and teams like Argentina and Lithuania have suffered too much in free throws, in Zhang Weiping's words, "Oh, this is really dare to shoot, oh, this foul is really dare to blow." ”

The Turkish lads are not without hard work, but there is no doubt that without the help of international referees, they could be at most a place in the quarterfinals.

Against the United States, Turkey also took the lead in the first quarter.

In the second quarter of the game, the U.S. team changed to a small lineup, not even a center, and ran all over the court, showing their physical and physical advantages, especially Westbrook and Derrick Rose, who were like monsters with the same speed as two missiles, frequently hitting the Turkish basket and injuring Asik.

Then Durant fired wildly from the outside, and the three-pointers soared in a row, showing the perverted scoring ability.

The U.S. team's lead extended to 20 points, and the Turkish team was unable to recover in the final moment, and finally lost 64-81.

Although the U.S. team is only a team composed of some young people, there is a group of flankers with explosive physical fitness in the team, there are shooters and rebounding monsters, there are ball-holding offensive maniacs, and there are outside blockers.

After the game, Iguodala said that there were a lot of strange things going on in the U.S. team.

He really enjoys playing and spending time with this group of people who are also from the NBA: "KD [Durant] puts on a different show every night, we enjoy playing with him, it seems like he's always going to score 40 points easily, and we're more here to help. ”

Just after this game, many stars in the American team shouted to the king tomorrow as the head coach.

"Yes, Coach Wang is a top coach, he's great enough, but we're clearly the better team and I can't wait to play against my manager on the international stage, and honestly, it's really fun." Tyson Chandler smiled happily when he spoke to the Chinese media, very friendly.

"I won't keep my hand, I especially hope to be able to show myself on such a stage, to be able to show myself in front of Coach Wang Mingming, and to show my full strength, which is respect for Coach Wang Mingming, and also respect for the Chinese team." Westbrook said with a serious face.

Among the rookies in the class of '09, only Stephen Curry was selected for the Dream Nine team, and the rest including James Harden or DeMar DeRozan lost to him in the final list competition, but Curry is not an arrogant person, and he was more cautious in the face of media interviews: "The Chinese team has shown very outstanding strength in the past few years, we will pay attention to their performance, we will study thoroughly, and we will go all out." ”

The day after the match between the United States and Turkey, the Chinese team faced Serbia.

At this time, people reacted, obviously the Chinese team has not played against Serbia, how can it be that everyone thinks that the decisive player of the American team has been determined?

Isn't this a little too disrespectful to Serbia.

Durant immediately praised the performance of his teammate Kostic in an interview, "Yes, he played well, he has this energy, I know he can play, and in the call of his country, he is in the spotlight right now." ”

In everyone's attention, the Chinese team VS the Serbian team.

After Serbia entered the knockout round, every game was very difficult, in the quarterfinals, narrowly defeated Croatia 73-72, defeated Spain 92-89 in the quarterfinals, and now in the semifinals, against the Chinese team, it is foreseeable that it will be a battle again.

Serbia's centre-forward Kostic said defending Yao Ming would be the toughest task for Serbia.

In the eyes of everyone, the game officially began.

After Serbia opened the game, Bjelica took the lead in hitting a three-pointer, and then Tepic and Teodosic hit shots respectively, and the Serbian boy took the lead and led the Chinese team 7-0.

The king asked for a timeout tomorrow.

After the pause, Yao Ming turned around in a low position and caused Kostic to foul, and the two plus one hit stabilized the situation of the Chinese team.

Serbia's offensive firepower slowed down a bit, but then Bjelica hit a frantic three-pointer from beyond the three-point line.

The 22-year-old was selected by the Washington Wizards with the 35th overall pick in this year's draft and was subsequently traded to the Timberwolves.

Bjelica was thin, and after the Timberwolves had the right to sign Bjelica, they did not rush to summon Bjelica, but let Bjelica continue to stay in the European League to exercise.

It just so happened that Bjelica was not ready to enter the NBA, and in August, he signed a five-year contract with Spanish team Basquenia.

"What a genius this man is!"

Wang Mingming exclaimed, Bjelica's running awareness is outstanding, and he dares to shoot when he gets the opportunity, the position of the big forward, but he has a soft shooting ability, and the shooting range is expanded beyond the three-point line, Wang Mingming has always hoped that Yi Jianlian will play like this in the NBA.

Yi Jianlian is always led astray by American trainers, always thinking about confronting blacks and being more aggressive.

There's nothing wrong with being aggressive, just letting a specific player in the team do it, being a high battery and honing your shooting skills.

Serbia took the lead in scoring thanks to two three-pointers from Bjelica.

The first quarter was tied 21-17.

After the start of the second quarter, the two sides alternated points, Xu Yong, who played with the bench, suddenly broke out, and scored 5 points in a row to catch up with the score, and Savanovic stepped forward at this time, and he scored 7 points in a row, which stabilized the lead for the Serbian team.

Serbia went into the halftime break with a 7-point lead at 42-35.

Yao Ming took the initiative to attack in the low post at the beginning of the second half, forced a turn in the middle of the two-man package, and hit a hook shot.

Then he received Xu Yong's ball, a mid-distance top jumper, and hit it steadily.

Soon after the start of the third quarter, the Chinese team chased the score to 41-44.

With about six and a half minutes left in the quarter, the Chinese team tied the score.

Teodosic hit a 3-pointer on a pull-up jumper, and he assisted Rasic and Keserje to score respectively, and an 8-0 attack wave allowed Serbia to reopen the gap, and China had to call a timeout. Xu Yong hit a 3-pointer shortly after the timeout, and the Chinese players frequently fouled opponents and used free throws to score, and they launched a wave of 9-2 counterattacks, and they chased the score to 55-56 with 2:28 left in the quarter.

Yao Ming dominated the game in the last two minutes of the third quarter, constantly killing inside, causing Kostic to foul for the fourth time, and Serbia could only replace the backup center, which was undoubtedly the last straw that overwhelmed the Serbian team.

After all, the Serbian team is a center like Kostic who can resist NBA-level confrontation, and Yao Ming is the strongest among NBA centers.

Yao Ming scored eight points in two minutes, and the American players in the stands stood up and applauded.

Yao Ming led the Chinese team to play a shock wave, and now led by 7 points into the fourth quarter.

Serbia lacked a reliable interior line, and in a critical part of the fourth quarter, Kostic fouled Xu Yong and left the court with five fouls when defending Xu Yong, who was attacking the basket.

The Chinese team seized the loophole in Serbia's interior line to attack and fully grasp the situation on the field.

In the end, the Chinese team defeated the Serbian team 81-72 and won the first medal of the Chinese team in the World Championships, and entered the final as strongly as the Olympic Games two years ago.