Not selected as an All-Star this year, everyone thinks O'Neal is old, but the prophet Li Zhi knows that O'Neal is still the top center in the league.

Last season, in response to people's doubts about O'Neal's suitability for the Suns' style, and even questioning O'Neal's strength, O'Neal expressed his dissatisfaction at the press conference and said that he wanted to win the first championship in the team's history for the Suns.

O'Neal's first game was the "old club" Lakers, and in the Suns' loss to the Lakers, O'Neal scored six times in a row in the fourth quarter to close the score.

In the playoffs, the Suns met the San Antonio Spurs, a powerhouse in the Western Conference, in the first round, and the two teams fought until the second overtime in the first game.

Although in the end, Tim Duncan's key three-pointer helped the Spurs get their first victory. The Suns were unable to follow up throughout the series, and the Spurs eliminated the Suns in the first round of the playoffs with a score of 4-1. But O'Neal averaged 15.2 points and 9.2 rebounds in the series.

In his previous life, O'Neal's second season with the Suns was even more rejuvenated, and O'Neal's previous injuries seemed to have all disappeared, and his performance was getting better and better compared with the previous two seasons.

On February 27, 2009, O'Neal scored 45 points and 11 rebounds against the Toronto Raptors, the 49th game of his career over 40 points, leading the Suns to a 133-113 victory over the Raptors. After O'Neal scored 45 points, he became only the second player in NBA history to still score 45+ at the age of 37 (the other being Michael Jordan).

Then, without the team's core Steve Nash and Amare Stoudemire, he scored 33 points to lead the team to a victory over the Western Conference leaders Lakers, which also made O'Neal the fourth player in NBA history to score 30+ in two consecutive games at the age of 35 (the other three are Karl Malone, Alex Inglish and Michael Jordan).

The team has also made changes, and the run-and-gun tactics have changed from the offensive of "7 seconds or less" to the choice of "7 seconds or O'Neal". O'Neal was also named to the NBA All-NBA All-NBA Team of the Year third team that year.

"You're an American, how can you cheer for the Chinese team now!" Li Zhi teased O'Neill on Twitter.

O'Neal responded after a few seconds: "Don't be like this, I'm your fan now, of course I support China, besides, does the American team still need my support?" ”

O'Neal's words revealed a full sense of joy and pride in his heart, and the United States really did not lack O'Neal's support, because the American team had already booked the championship.

Next, Li Zhi's whole mind is on studying Spain, Yao Ming, Yi Jianlian, Roughly, Sun Yue, Zhu Fangyu and others are all in Li Zhi's house, and several people are the main force of the national team.

In fact, this was specially arranged by Yao Ming and several people for Li Zhi, everyone thought that Li Zhi did not understand Spain, so they specially taught Li Zhi a lesson, and also asked Li Zhi to strengthen the connection with his teammates, not to think about the last battle, completely separated from the system.

After discussion, it was found that there were only two points that were difficult for Spain to deal with.

First of all, Spain is a typical European basketball, and Li Zhi has a limited understanding of this, but he also played against West Tooth Extraction a lot in his previous life, which is considered to be some experience.

It's just that there are a lot of strong teams in Europe, why is Spain unique in the world basketball world?

That's where the Spanish squad comes in, and that's where they are strong.

Pau Gasol No. 4, Rudi Fernández No. 5, Raul López No. 6, Juan Navarro No. 7, José Calderón No. 8, José Calderón No. 9, Carlos Gimenez No. 10, Rubio No. 11, Bodríguez No. 12, Gasol Jr. No. 13, No. 14 Adex, No. 15 Gabajosa.

This list of names somewhat confuses people who don't know much about European basketball now.

However, at least six or more of those 12 are making a name for themselves in the NBA, now or in the future.

Like the U.S. team, the Spanish team is full of talents, and the reason why many people don't go to the NBA now is not because they don't have the strength, but because some players don't have the characteristics of the NBA type, and some players continue to study in Europe for a few years.

Compared with the American team, the Spanish players rely more on technology to eat, but for the Chinese team, such an opponent is also difficult to deal with.

However, fortunately, the Chinese players will not suffer too much physically, and will not be directly hit by the American team with their bodies like in the last game, and then break through. Spain's number one star Pau Gasol, like Yao Ming, is a technical stream, and if he goes head-to-head, Yao Ming is better than Gasol.

The Chinese men's basketball team can be regarded as a technical stream in the end, although it is not as good as Spain, the Chinese team is not afraid. What the Chinese team is poor about is tactical literacy and tactical awareness.

However, the media believes that there are still uncertainties in this game.

Commentator Yang Yi commented in the Basketball Herald newspaper that he first summed up Spain's advantages. Needless to say, Li Zhi knows this, even better than him.

Spain is full of talent, Gasol is known as the first person in FIBA on the inside, and his younger brother Gasol Jr. is also a fierce man, and will be the NBA's No. 1 All-Star player in the future, fortunately not at this time, but even so, he is now the MVP of the Spanish league.

The outside line is even stronger, Fernandez and Calderon are also the No. 1 people in the NBA, even Navarro is now a rookie in the same year as Li Zhi in the NBA, and Lao Lopez is also an NBA first-round pick.

In addition to the first time, there is also Ricky Rubio, who is now being blown up by NBA scouts. After the '08 draft ended a few days ago, SLAM magazine immediately followed up with an outlook on the '09 draft, which mentioned Rubio, and it was not small.

At a young age, Rubio is already a celebrity in world basketball, having led Spain to the 2006 European Under-16 Men's Championship.

In the 110-106 double-overtime win over Russia, Rubio scored 51 points, grabbed 24 rebounds, had 12 assists and seven steals, and was considered a future superstar by NBA scouts. He plays in the style of class

Like the NBA Hall of Fame "pistol" Malawizi, not only has excellent offensive ability, but also has a high level of passing, and Rubio, who can complete a variety of basketball skills, does not ignore practicality, just like NBA superstar Nash, who has an eye-catching performance in the ACB league and stable efficiency, and is called "Spain's magician" by fans, and the major NBA draft websites believe that as long as he participates in the 2009 draft, he is very likely to be selected as the top pick.

The most talked-about names in Spain's 12-man squad are not the long-established Gasol, Navarro and Gabajosa, but the talented teenager Rubio.

Yang Yi then mentioned that the biggest variable in the Chinese team is Li Zhi, about the reason, Yang Yi did not say clearly, but Yang Yi believes that Li Zhi will definitely break out in this game!