On the first night in Qingdao, Liu Ren slept well, the private housekeeper even made Sichuan food, and he could eat seafood sushi for snacks after meals.

The next morning, Liu Ren habitually got up early in the morning on the training day, because there was no court in the hotel, and the gym was not bad, Liu Ren ran to do aerobic exercise training physical fitness, and then went to the stadium to train after dawn.

I don't know how, it was supposed to be good to train alone, but Giannakis suddenly told him to train with everyone, although Liu Ren felt strange, but there was no difference, to be honest, training alone, becoming a "foreign aid" of the national team, this feels really weird, and it is much more comfortable to train together.

In the next twenty days, Liu Ren's training attitude made everyone awe-inspired, everyone saw Liu Ren's training, even high-intensity training that he had never seen from Yi Jianlian, Liu Ren's success in the NBA was exchanged for sweat many times more than others, and more importantly, after he succeeded, he did not relax at all, and still maintained training several times stronger than others, only this kind of talent is higher than you and you work harder than you, can become the best player in the world.

But there are very few such people, there are only a dozen or so in the entire history of basketball, and only those players who have become superstars of the era can treat themselves with the best training attitude in history when they have the top talent in history.

It's like Nash said, if everyone in the league trains like him, he won't be able to play in the NBA, because most people in the NBA are more talented than him, and if these people train like him, all teams will be as terrifying as the Spurs, abusing them every year.

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Originally, Giannakis was preparing to train with Liu Ren when he was screening the 12-man squad in China for half a month, and then the players who were selected for the official list would train with Liu Ren, and then start a complete overall training when they went to Rio.

However, after discovering that Liu Ren's crushing strength not only did not hit the morale of the players, but made the players more confident, Giannakis found a problem.

It's that European players and Chinese players think completely differently!

Why does Europe always produce some players who have poor statistics in their leagues, but can actually go to the NBA to make the top three picks or even the top picks?

It's because their coaches tend to suppress players who can't stay in European leagues and will definitely go to the NBA, because in Europe, a person is much better than others, and other teammates will be beaten and have no heart to play, so those young people with excellent strength are often isolated, anyway, you are going to the NBA, so you won't be trained, so as not to affect the mentality of other players with average talent.

Giannakis is also a European coach, who has led the national team and the league team, so he naturally developed a habit, and when he discussed with Yao Ming, he actually fooled Yao Ming.

Now Yannakis understands how strong the plot of Chinese idols is! They need a backbone, and even if Yi Jianlian has played in the NBA before, due to Yi Jianlian's failed journey in the NBA, most people in the national team don't think he has the strength to compete with NBA players, so they can't find that feeling of backbone at all, and now that Liu Ren is back, the players have all found confidence!

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The goal is to protect eight and fight for four!

This is the goal given by Yannakis.

In fact, the goal given by the Blue Association is only to ensure that it is not the bottom one, and it is best to be in the top eight, because if you enter the top four in the group, you will enter the quarterfinals, and then the fourth place in the group is the third from the bottom.

Giannakis directly raised the goal to one of the strongest teams in the world to finish in the top four, and now the top two teams are recognized as the United States and Spain, and then the other favorable contenders for the top four are all players from a former country, formerly called Yugoslavia......

Liu Ren's training is at the NBA level, and after a few years, he has been training for all the training, post-workout protection, physiotherapy programs, relaxation sessions, recovery training...... All of them have been carved into their bones as clearly as they remember, this time the national team also has an NBA-level training venue, and then the medical team equipped with is the best sports medical team in China borrowed from table tennis, and there are also conditions for physiotherapy recovery, so Liu Ren directly launched NBA preparation-level training.

Liu Ren's high-intensity training is much stronger than others, and others are not far behind, and their emotions are all brought up by Liu Ren, even if they can't fight Liu Ren's training intensity, but they can't be a few grades worse!

Sometimes it takes a role model.

In the past, although Yi Jianlian's training intensity was also high, after all, he played in the CBA, and the confrontation intensity was much worse than in the NBA before, so his high training intensity was only relative to CBA players, in fact, it was average, not too much higher than others, and not so high that others would feel embarrassed by their training when they saw it.

But now that there is a comparison, others feel that their training has been disgraced to their grandmother's house, and they take the initiative to ask for more training.

This has given Giannakis a huge amount of confidence, what was the biggest problem for him in 2014? Isn't it just a group of CBA uncles who refuse to practice with a fat body? Now that he actually took the initiative to ask for training, Giannakis's goal suddenly became higher.

Originally, no matter how weak the Chinese team was, it was also the top 15 in the world...... Of course, if all the teams in Europe are counted, the top 15 is a bit enough, after all, whether it is football or basketball, there are a bunch of teams that are much stronger than other continents participating in the World Series every year, but the top 20 of the Chinese team still have, after joining a world-class superstar, Giannakis feels that it is not particularly difficult to reach the quarterfinals, but when he meets the top eight other teams, he will not have much confidence, after all, there is only one Liu Ren, and the others have no physical fitness if they only run with the opponent. I can't open up the space, no matter how powerful Liu Ren is, it's useless.

But now that they're willing to train, Yannakis is a touch...... Then I took out the Devil's physical fitness training that I had prepared in 2014.

This time it was the turn of the players to complain, and Giannakis also began to gradually eliminate the members of the training camp, which made the players bitter and had to practice, because playing in the CBA, if you have played in the national team, you have the identity of a national player, and the salary is at least one million higher than the same strength but did not enter the national team, this is the national team effect, something unique to China, only this one has no other branch.

Training at Yannakis is divided into individual training and team training.

Individual training is based on whether you can accept high-intensity training, during individual training, the coaching staff will gradually eliminate some people according to everyone's training attitude and post-training effect, everyone's competitive state, and the ability and tactical fit shown by everyone during the team training in the afternoon.

And the team training is to see if the degree of cooperation with Liu Ren and Yi Jianlian is good enough, this national team is undoubtedly built around the best internal and external lines of these two teams, can't cooperate with them? I'm sorry, no matter how strong they are, they will be eliminated directly, no matter how strong they are, can they compare to Liu Ren and Yi Jianlian? Apparently impossible.

The main content of team training is to accept FIBA's offensive and defensive concepts, which is the same problem that American players and Chinese players have, because the rules of the NBA and CBA are very different from FIBA, and the size of the court is also different, and the style of play is naturally very different.

Giannakis' offensive and defensive philosophy is completely different from what Liu Ren has learned in the NBA in the past three years, and it feels somewhat similar to Popovich's overall offensive feeling, but it may be because there are few players in Europe who have individual abilities that are much higher than their teammates, and Yanakis's tactics are more dependent on integrity than Popovich's tactics, and Liu Ren's three-point shooting ability can be more fully played.

This is probably the reason why players who like to shoot in the NBA can go to Europe to pan for gold and get a high salary when they can't play in the NBA when they are old, because Liu Ren's three-point shooting on the FIBA court is simpler than the mid-range shot, and the other party is estimated to be unable to react at all when he shoots three points, because he can shoot more than one meter or two meters away from the three-point line, and the shooting rate is more accurate than the position of the three-point line they marked!

For Giannakis to bring the Greek team that was originally considered to be of average strength to defeat the American team in 2006, the blades finally know why, this coach is definitely the world's top coach who is no less than the old Coach K and Coach Larry Brown in the United States! On the defensive end, Giannakis is worthy of being known as the first coach of European defense, and he can have a fight with the defensive effect constructed by Bickerstaff, the important thing is that the players of the Chinese national team, the defensive ability is much worse than the Lakers' defensive ability, and the defense of the five starters is strengthened by the small three-point line of the FIBA, which is regarded as a defensive advantage, and it can be completely comparable to the defense of the Lakers' starting five tigers. The defensive attitude of the players, coupled with the reasonable use of the defensive advantages of the court, coupled with Liu Ren's mobility to make up for the defense everywhere, the defense is really practiced.

Although this defense is limited to Sun Yue, Liu Ren, Ji Zhe, Yi Jianlian, and Zhou Qi, the five best defensive players in the national team, and due to the thin domestic players, it is impossible to maintain a high-intensity defense for too long, but this is enough! Facing other teams other than the United States and Spain, it is completely enough!

Time passed day by day, the number of training camps became smaller and smaller day by day, and the attitude, strength, ball quotient and tacit understanding with Liu Ren determined whether they could stay in this new national team.

Of course, Liu Ren doesn't have to worry about being eliminated at all, even if he doesn't come to the training camp, he can still enter the national team, but he is not the kind of person who plays a big name.

The screening of the 12-man squad is going very smoothly, and the current members of the national team know that the current Chinese men's basketball team is a place that can really rely on strength to enter, not the fifth team in Asia that can be entered by stuffing money and engaging in relationships, Yao Ming is going to do big things, although the CBA restructuring and the overall restructuring of the national team will take some time, it is estimated that it will take several years or even ten or twenty years to achieve the new system that you want, but one step at a time is the premise of doing great things! The first place is the national team that represents the country!

On July 27, the fifteen-day training camp came to an end, and the 12-member roster of the Chinese men's national basketball team was released.

Liu Ren and Yi Jianlian are unshakable, even if they don't practice, they will enter, Liu Ren will not say, the world's top player, the only double-team player in the NBA last season.

Yi Jianlian, about to be 30 years old, is at his peak, and his strength is a well-deserved hegemon among China's centers, the only one who can go head-to-head with the United States team and the Spanish team, and there is no doubt about entering the squad.

On the bench, Yanakis really kept Liu Wei, plus Sun Yue and Guo Allen, and the national team already has three point guards.

The players left in the front court are Li Muhao and Wang Zhelin, two young players who have had an impact on the NBA draft, Wang Zhelin was selected in the second round of last year with the 50th pick, but he was notified not to go before he participated in the summer league, and their youngest are a few months older than Liu Ren, and their talent has passed, so they can only stay in the CBA.

There is also a super tall center Zhou Qi who has the talent to impact the NBA, he has just turned 20 years old, he is two meters tall and twenty-one, and his athletic talent is good in such a tall center, after Porzingis played, the expectation of domestic fans for him is another Porzingis, but unfortunately he is too thin, only less than 100 kilograms, but his height cannot be practiced, his vacant jumpers and blocking abilities are good, and gaining weight can be used as a suitable interior barrier.

Zhou Qi originally participated in this year's draft, but was not selected, and the Rockets gave him an offer contract, but not this season, but the 2016-2017 season, hoping that he would go to the United States after gaining weight, otherwise he would probably be knocked apart.

There are also Ji Zhe, Sui Ran, Ding Yanyuhang, Zhou Peng...... and others stayed.

The final 12-man roster of the Chinese men's basketball team is:

Backcourt players: Liu Wei, Guo Allen, Sun Yue, Liu Ren, Sui Ran.

Frontcourt players: Yi Jianlian, Ji Zhe, Li Muhao, Zhou Qi, Wang Zhelin, Ding Yanyuhang, Zhou Peng.

After the 12-member roster passed the FIBA review, on July 29, the Chinese men's national basketball team officially flew to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to prepare for the first Olympic men's basketball game starting on August 7.

The 31st Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, will kick off on August 5.

Liu Ren didn't care much about other games, as a Chinese, he may go to watch the games of tennis, gymnastics and diving, table tennis, maybe he will also watch, but there is no suspense in this game, more than the national football team can not enter the World Cup.