In the Sino-US men's basketball match, the bell rang at halftime, and the strongest Chinese team composed of red and blue teams was 37-56 behind at halftime, and the dream team that obviously did not send the strongest lineup was 37-56 at halftime.

Just like Game 6 of the Finals, the Houston Rockets trailed the "unconventional" Cavaliers 42-62 at home at the Toyota Center Arena. The two teams represented by Yang Yiming thought that they would have a chance against an opponent who played civilian basketball, but they were shocked and scattered.

In the locker room at halftime.

Coach Du Feng of the blue team explained the tactical response in the second half, and Li Nan, the coach of the red team, was responsible for cheering for the players:

'In the second half we had to keep pressing and everybody was expanding their zone. We have also seen their old tactics, which is to open up from the No. 1 position to the No. 5 position and expand to the outside line - we can't shrink, even the center has to follow out and press them. Rotate in a timely manner, communicate with each other, shout, and grab rebounds together. Several inside players in the audience, Wang Zhelin and Zhou Qi, nodded one after another.

"They are not as strong as you fear. The U.S. men's basketball team isn't invincible either—they're messy under joint defense and pressure. The most important thing is not to be disrupted by their rhythm, our goal in this warm-up is not to win, but to play our own basketball and test the results of the team's training! As soon as Coach Li Nan's words fell, more players began to nod.

But Yang Yiming sat in the crowd and looked left and right, and he saw the expressions of every "new" teammate. In the year of the NBA, he has encountered all kinds of opponents, especially the seemingly inexplicable scene of Game 6 of the Finals, which pushed everyone from the emotional high point to the bottom, and it can be seen that although everyone is nodding at the moment, the look on their faces is not convincing enough.

No one is sure they can beat the opponent in front of them.

The unsolvable situation is not solved just because of a few words.

If you set off a Jedi counterattack, someone in the charging lineup must blow the horn for them first!

Yang Yiming was thinking about this when the door of the player's locker room was pushed open with a whin. "Chairman Yao, please first." A girl's voice came in with her arm sticking out of the doorframe.

Chairman Yao?

Yao?

Yang Yiming turned his head sharply and cast his eyes to the door of the locker room, and sure enough, the mountain-like figure, who was drilling through the doorway, was not the representative of the Chinese men's basketball team, the current chairman of the Chinese Basketball Association, Yao Ming?!

I saw that Chairman Yao took a full 2 seconds to get in from under the door and straighten out in the locker room, while a group of officials-like escorts and representatives of several event sponsors, like a bunch of dwarfs, also poured in from behind the giant Yao Ming at once.

Yang Yiming looked around. His gaze shifted from Chairman Yao's slightly blessed and vicissitudes of life, which has now become a popular set of comics on the Internet, but instead looks more and more standard, to the group of officials and sponsor representatives behind him. A pair of eyes met him, and the person on the other end of the line of sight actually winked at Yang Yiming.

This is...?

It's actually Stella Qin! How did she end up here?

Stella Qin changed into a serious makeup, a neat lilac dress, took off those exaggerated accessories and famous brands, and only carried a low-key Celine smiley bag, Yang Yiming almost didn't recognize her. By the way, she said that she would take the lead in organizing this Sino-US men's basketball match, so that she could set aside a schedule to participate. It wouldn't be surprising that Stella would show up.

I saw Stella and Yang Yiming's eyes meet, blink to say hello, and then raise her head to direct Yang Yiming's gaze to Yao Ming's back. It was Chairman Yao who was about to make a speech.

Yao Ming cleared his throat, his voice was very low, Yang Yiming didn't hear the first half of the sentence clearly, he pricked up his ears, and finally got used to hearing the content behind clearly: "... We had chances in the first half, but we had to admit the gap. Boys, this is the value of our red and blue teams teaming together this time and playing a warm-up game with the American men's basketball dream team. ”

As soon as Chairman Yao broke the sentence, the group of people behind him nodded silently with great cooperation, as if they were silently applauding the chairman.

Yao Ming walked to the middle of the "boys" and patted several people on the shoulders in turn. Although he is still the tallest one, he is finally less obtrusive around a group of basketball players. Yao Ming was wearing a black suit, his body may have been used to leaning forward slightly in order to meet the people around him, Yang Yiming leaned forward, and measured his height with Yao Ming when his back was to him, and found that his jaw was almost flush with the other party's shoulders.

Yao Juju continued: "There is a gap, and it is possible to improve the level by playing against opponents who are stronger than yourself." We Chinese say that playing chess with a stinky chess basket will stink the more you play, and this is the truth. Always winning against teams that are not as good as me, winning too easily will only make us stand still or even go backwards. That's why we specially invited the dream team of the U.S. men's basketball team this time..."

As Yao Ming said this, Stella Qin turned her head again, her eyes passed through the dense head to find Yang Yiming, and she winked at him proudly. Although Chairman Yao explained this, who knows what purpose and original intention Stella actually had to organize this friendly match - Yang Yiming muttered secretly in his heart, thinking that this Stella is actually very good-looking when she doesn't have a straight face.

“… It's not terrible to lose. The scariest thing is that we don't know what to lose. Chairman Yao's face became serious, and the entire locker room was silent except for his deep voice, and he could probably even distinguish a needle when he landed. The U.S. team we played against wasn't their strongest team. But why can't even their second team win, and they are beaten to the point where they can't fight back? Why? Because in the end, they didn't think of themselves as the so-called dream team, as a superstar. They're just everybody the same, playing basketball. Play the basketball that suits you best and belongs to the team the most. Unpretentious civilian basketball—"

Yao Ming also talked about "civilian basketball", and Yang Yiming in the audience couldn't help but be surprised.

"This kind of basketball, the dream team can play, can we play?" Yao Ming turned his body, looked left and right, looked around from Du Feng and Coach Li Nan to the players, and finally his eyes fell on Yang Yiming. He seemed to start speaking to him alone: "I think we should be able to fight more." Civilian Basketball – We are more civilian than the Dream Team. How many of you have played in the NBA? In the CBA, you may all be big names, the stars of the team, or you are the treasures you focus on cultivating. But compared to these NBA stars, your ranks are still far behind. So in this case, if the stars on the opposite side can put down their shelves and not be greedy for the ball, then I think our team can learn from them and play our civilian basketball! ”

Yao Ming's tone became higher and higher, and his emotions became more and more excited, as if the horn of the whole team's counterattack was really blown in this locker room, and the people around him began to be moved, their bodies moved slightly, and they muttered words in their mouths.

"What's more, among all of us, there are people who have had the experience of dealing with this situation, and in the end, they fought back and won the ball - so Yiming, share with all of us, what happened in the midfield of G6 in the finals, in your locker room?!"