On Monday, April 12, 2016, the International U22 Men's Basketball Invitational Tournament officially started.

Although it is only a game of the U22 youth team, because the specifications of the American team that came this time are not low, and the Chinese team also has several eye-catching players such as Zhou Qi and Roy.

As a result, the game still attracted a large number of media and fans.

Of course, NBA scouts are part of this kind of competition, and with half of the 24 players on both sides going to play in this year's NBA Draft, it's a great opportunity to focus on rookies.

During the warm-up, Roy saw many fans holding fan boards with his name on the scene, and he seemed to vaguely hear Wang Jie's roar.

But it's a pity that today he has to start from the bench, China has always had a tradition of seniority, as a newcomer to the national youth team, Roy will not start playing, Coach Fan Bin will continue to use the original starting lineup, that is, double point guards Zhao Jiwei (185cm, 77kg) and Zhao Rui (196cm, 82kg), scoring guard Gao Shang (198cm, 95kg), small forward Yuan Shuai (194cm, 85kg), center Zhou Qi (216cm, 95kg), this is a standard small lineup, It is also the main lineup of the national youth team to win the seventh place in the World Youth Championships in history.

After the warm-up, the starting five tigers of the American team also came on the court, they are point guard Chris Dunn (193cm, 100kg), scoring guard Brandon Ingram (206cm, 86kg), small forward Jaylen Brown (201cm, 103kg), power forward Marquis Chris (208cm, 106kg), center Damian Jones (213cm, 111kg).

Before the competition, as usual, the representative of the sponsor spoke, and the sponsor of this competition was a terrible one, and its boss was the horse boss who was praised as "Ma Dad" by the people of the whole country.

It is said that the reason why he wants to sponsor this competition and specify that each team should send all the main players is because Boss Ma also has the idea of entering the NBA, especially when he invests in football and achieves unprecedented success, and witnesses Cheng Yuyang's prestige after joining the Kings, Boss Ma, as a sports fan, can't bear it.

Sponsoring national teams at all levels is only the first step for Boss Ma, and his bigger ambitions are still to come.

At the end of Boss Ma's brief speech, he symbolically made a ball-throwing ceremony, and the game officially began.

The two groups of people stood in the middle circle, and the difference in physique between Chinese and American players was immediately apparent.

The American college students over there are all strong and fierce, but the professional players on the Chinese team are thin and small, and they are slightly nervous.

Roy was on the bench, watching the players on the court, and it was obvious that the American team also had an absolute advantage in ability, even if they were just a group of non-professional college players, which may be the institutional advantage of American basketball.

The course of the game immediately confirmed Roy's judgment.

At the beginning of the game, before the Chinese team entered the rhythm of the game, the American team offered their best full-court pressing marking, it seems that the "old K coach" is right, the American team does take the game seriously.

In a situation where one-on-one strength is fully superior, full-court pressing and marking is a very effective tactic.

If the time goes back to the early nineties, the reason why the dream team at that time was able to play invincible opponents all over the world relied on super individual ability and domineering full-court pressing tactics, and the Chinese team at that time was the biggest victim of the full-court pressing tactics.

With the passage of time, today's Chinese players have suffered a lot in physical confrontation after years of baptism in international competitions and professional leagues, although they are no longer panicked when dealing with the pressure of the whole court.

Only 5 minutes into the opening game, the national youth team has made 5 mistakes under the encirclement and interception of this group of American muscle sticks, and the score is naturally ugly, 6:16, a full 10 points behind.

Coach Fan called a timeout with a sad face, he had long expected that today's game would be very difficult, and there would be such a situation in front of him, but he really didn't have much room for change, except for Roy, almost all of the young players on the bench had never played in the professional league, and the chance to turn the situation around by them was too small.

Coach Fan didn't have much to set up, he asked the two point guards to slow down the pace of the game to prevent further blood loss, and there was only regular encouragement.

The national youth team returned to the court with Coach Fan's encouragement, but the situation did not change significantly, and the confrontation with those "black and hard" muscle sticks consumed too much physical strength, while the American team replaced the bench players in advance, and their overall strength was strong enough to play wheel battles.

With the continuous setbacks of the national youth team, the decibel level of the audience was not as high as at the beginning, and the frequent mistakes made the fans a little depressed, and they were even more chest-tighter when they looked at Ingram and Jaylen Brown who were flying on the field.

Roy didn't have time to be depressed, and during his time off the field, he was thinking about ways to turn the tide, and combined with the scouting reports he had read before, his brain was racing for thought......

The game continued, the situation on the court was as bad as ever, although the Chinese team used dual point guards, but under the pressure of the American team, the players were divided and fragmented, and they could not establish a connection at all, let alone feed the ball to the strongest point Zhou Qi.

This group of NCAA All-Stars came to China to play for the first time, and the game was extremely exciting, and it was not easy for the two major point guards on the court, Zhao Jiwei and Zhao Rui, to keep the ball in a stable manner without being cut off, and it was difficult to attack in tandem.

The game played 9 minutes and 16 seconds, Ingram scored another dragon counterattack dunk, the score became 12:34, the national youth team fell behind by 22 points, and Fan Bin had no choice but to call a timeout.

"Roy, you wait to go up and play with a few substitutes, as long as you control the rhythm and try to bite the point difference, let the main team have a good rest, and the purpose will be achieved." When Fan Bin said this, he didn't have the confidence, looking at the few substitutes who were expressionless and sitting quietly, he also knew how difficult it was to rely on them to resist the group of NCAA All-Stars who were like wolves.

Roy moved his hands and feet, and he finally stood on the field.

The U.S. team also replaced the last main player Ingram, and now the field is a pure substitute lineup.

Malik Newman (193cm, 81kg), Denzel Valentine (198cm, 96kg), Torrien Prince (203cm, 100kg), Ivan Raab (208cm, 100kg), Diamond Stone (211cm, 116kg), this lineup is much worse than those main players, but it still has an overwhelming advantage over the national youth team.

Roy looked at the five fierce American men in front of him, and suddenly had an idea.

He gathered the other four players together.

"Listen to me, although these American players are physical, but the ball quotient is not necessarily so high, I have played against this kind of players in the United States, they are not as terrible as I imagined, when the ball will be given to me, all of you will rush to the opponent's half together, occupy the baseline and two 45-degree angle three-point positions, and then watch my passing, than shooting, we will not lose to the Yankees."

"Than shooting? Didn't the coach tell us to control the tempo and bite the score? Ji Boyan asked suspiciously, but he immediately dispelled his doubts, and Roy's confident eyes gave everyone a positive answer.

"Come on." With Roy's secret tactics, the substitutes of the national youth team took to the court.