Chapter 171: The top four have arrived

Since the first day of the performance, Roy has been given the privilege of being able to arrange his own training time and content on his own, and he has even been allowed to go back whenever he wants, and Coach Fan means that Roy has been clearly selected for the national youth team.

However, now Roy has completely lost the idea of being lazy, he has changed, he is now a basketball player Roy, he needs to train now, more training, so the training facilities and environment like the sports academy are what he needs.

So, for the next ten days, Roy continued to carry out physical strengthening training according to his previous plan, he would spend 6 hours a day on physical training, and in the afternoon would come to the court to practice a "Jordan-style step-back jumper".

It's good that he doesn't practice, but it's even worse that after Roy perfectly showed his shooting ability, those guys who wanted to challenge him to shoot instantly ran out of ideas.

In this way, a week before the start of the invitational tournament, the national youth team determined all the personnel who participated in this competition, Roy was naturally on the list, and Ji Boyan also stayed through his own efforts.

Counting the five absolute main players Zhou Qi, Zhao Jiwei, Gao Shang, Yuan Shuai and Zhao Rui who returned from rest, all the twelve players who participated in the International U22 Men's Basketball Invitational Tournament have arrived.

Speaking of which, the five young talents who returned to the team are all the original team members of the Chinese team who won the seventh place in the U19 World Youth Championship in 2013, and they have also performed quite well in their respective clubs, and in this respect, they are more famous than Roy in China.

Especially Zhou Qi, like Roy, he has announced his participation in the draft this year, and there is a high probability that he will be selected by the NBA team in the first round, and at this time, many domestic media still don't know Roy's draft situation, but judging Roy's strength by simulating the draft ranking may be weaker than Zhou Qi, so the outside world is more optimistic about Zhou Qi.

Roy can see that these five people are indeed a cut above the ability of others, and the comprehensive strength of Zhou Qi, the most talented, has reached 58-60, which is a relatively high value among his peers in the United States.

And after all the main forces arrived, Roy's privileges were gone, and he returned to the team and participated in the training session again with all the other team members.

In the last week, Fan Bin's training focused on coordination and running-in, at this stage, the amount of training was not much, more about running tactics and recovering state.

Roy is also very smart, and began to pretend to be low-key during this time, in the final analysis, he is here to participate in the game, not to steal the limelight and show off his skills, the national team is a very sensitive team, Su Dong deliberately took care of Roy before departure, everything obeys the collective, and acts in a low-key manner.

Roy's advice to Su Dong was to follow his word, and he had read the stories of Wang Zhizhi and Yao Ming from the NBA Encyclopedia, and he quickly understood the importance of handling personal relationships with club teams and national teams.

Of course, the new five main players have also heard Roy's story, and they sometimes ask about Roy's deeds in the United States, which Roy just casually copes with and laughs at it.

In this congenial atmosphere, Roy is about to make his national team debut.

On Saturday, April 10, 2016, all four teams participating in the International U22 Men's Basketball Invitational Tournament arrived in Shanghai.

According to the schedule, the first game of the Chinese team will face the powerful and abnormal United States team, according to the requirements of the organizers and sponsors, the American team is composed of star players who have just finished the NCAA league, including Malik Newman, Jaylen Brown, Diamond Stone, Ivan Raab, who were selected into the NCAA All-NBA team of "Slam" magazine, as well as Brandon Ingram, Chris Dern, etc., who are highly drafted candidates.

The other two teams are not easy to match, with Australia led by this year's top pick Ben Simmons and 2014's No. 5 rookie Dante Exum.

Croatia have two big stars, all-round attacker Dario Sharic and three-point striker Mario Herzonia.

Since the three teams arrived in Shanghai only two days before the game, Roy only met the members of the NCAA team for the first time during today's open training session for the U.S. team.

But then again, Roy is not too new to this American team, many of them know Roy, and through the scouting report given to him by Su Dong, Roy is familiar with almost all of his competitors.

Including the top rookies who are now in high demand for the draft.

And Roy's participation this time is precisely to verify how much strength these touted guys have.

Judging from the situation on the scene, there are indeed a few good guys.

For example, Jaylen Brown (201cm tall, 103kg), a small forward with excellent physical fitness, is now 65-68 in terms of overall ability.

There is also Brandon Ingram (206cm tall, 86kg weight, 64-66 overall ability) who has been clamoring for the Los Angeles Lakers, a strong forward from Duke University, who has skyrocketed in the mock draft with his outstanding performance in the just-concluded NCAA.

In addition, Chris Dunn (height 193cm, weight 100kg) from Providence College, Marquis Chris (height 208cm, weight 106kg) from the University of Washington, and Denzel Valentin (height 198cm, weight 96kg) from Michigan State University, all of them are very good.

After all the players stepped on the field, the head coach of the U.S. team, Mike "Old K" Schashzewski, and star player Brandon Ingram announced that the whole team participated in the pre-game press conference.

At the press conference, "Coach K" also talked about how the U.S. team has not sent college students to participate in international competitions for a long time, and he and his players will take this invitational tournament seriously.

Compared to "Coach K", Ingram's speech is much sharper, he is young and vigorous, he said that it is his lifelong dream to represent the United States, and he will prove to the world that he has what it takes to become the top pick in the NBA.

Ingram didn't need to ask what he said to Australia's main player Ben Simmons, but to Roy's ears, this sentence also applies to himself, and he is also a player who participates in the draft, and who doesn't want to impact the top spot.

Just as the U.S. team had finished warming up and returned to the hotel, the Australian team was late, while Roy and his teammates were still warming up on the field.

The Australian team came quietly, but when a player appeared, Roy felt the pressure instantly.

Ben Simmons, undoubtedly him, from Louisiana State University, 6 feet 10 inches (208cm), 240 pounds (109kg) of the talented player Ben Simmons came, different from the scouting report without tension textual description, after the two met, Roy immediately felt Ben Simmons' strength, 70-72, there is no doubt that he is the strongest player in this competition......