Chapter 100: Newcomer to the national team

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Putting down the phone, Lehi picked up the basketball newspaper in front of him.

"It looks really enviable, can I be here tomorrow?"

The newspaper was accompanied by color photos of the players, All-Defensive First Team, Larry Hughes, Bruce Bowen, Kevin Garnett, Tim Duncan, Ben Wallace.

All-Defensive Second Team, Jason Kidd, Chauncey Billups, Tyshawn Prince, Andrei Kirilenko, Marcus Camby.

The most enviable best teams are basically the stars of each team, with the first team being Steve Nash, Allen Iverson, Dirk Nowitzki, Tim Duncan and Shaquille O'Neal.

The All-NBA Second Team is, Dwyane Wade, Ray Allen, LeBron James, Kevin Garnett and Amare Stoudemire.

The best third team is, Gilbert Arenas, Kobe Bryant, Tracy McGrady, Sean Marion and Ben Wallace.

The playoffs are still in full swing, with the Heat and Pistons reaching the Eastern Conference Finals, while the Suns and Spurs are making it to the Western Conference Finals.

If nothing else, the Spurs will play the Pistons in seven games in the Finals, and Tim Duncan will win the Most Valuable Player in the Finals.

Unable to continue to participate, Lehi felt a sense of loss in his heart.

After returning, he first went to visit the current head coach of the Chinese men's basketball team, Younas Kazlauskas.

Because of his achievements in the NBA, basketball association officials specially accompanied him on a trip.

Younas, however, was very familiar with Lehi, who had been inspected before the Athens Olympics, but he was still an assistant coach at the time.

As soon as Younas became the head coach, he established the names of several young players, among whom was Lehi.

Lehi was never the prickly type, and the two sides had a great conversation.

After putting away the newspaper, Li Hai only carried a suitcase and walked out of the hotel, ready to report to the men's basketball training site, although he played a small name in the NBA, but it was the first time to participate in the national team training camp.

He is not the only newcomer this time, Younas likes to use young people, such as Sun Yue, Wang Shipeng and others, but the younger Yi Jianlian entered the national team last year.

Li Hai is only familiar with Yao Ming in this training camp, and when he was in the United States, he and Yao Ming often exchanged text messages and became friends.

Yao Ming is familiar with the three generations of the national team, and he said hello to Li Hai, especially a few veterans.

For this kind of thing, Li Hai has never resisted this kind of thing, for him, only to unite with his teammates to win the game is a big deal, and he did not get angry because he came back from the United States, and he made a good impression on his teammates and coaches.

He was conscientious in training and never shouted tired, but when it came to confrontation training, he did not have the slightest modest attitude, and soon established a certain position in the national team.

Competitive sports are such things, no matter what kind of sport, only if you show your strength, you will be respected accordingly.

Head coach Younas attaches great importance to strength training, and the players who watch the training camp are miserable, and Lehi, whose strength has reached the standard of an interior player, makes Younas very happy.

His coaching philosophy is a combination of complex tactics and a rigorous team division of labor, combined with American fast and sharp individual performances, and Lehi is clearly a player who fits his requirements very well.

When Lehi began to participate in the training camp, the 2005 NBA draft also began.

The Knicks received two draft picks from the Spurs due to a mid-season trade, the 2005 first-round pick that originally belonged to the Phoenix Suns and a 2006 pick to the Spurs, so this year the Knicks have two first-round picks and a second-round pick.

The Knicks' goal is clear, which is to be an interior player.

However, unlike in history, the Knicks have become 15th in the first round because they have reached the playoffs.

But they still chose the player they had been eyeing for a long time, New York native Channing Frye with 2.11m, then David Lee with 2.06m in 30th and finally Massin Gortat with 2.11m in 57th.

Because of Lehi's rapid growth, they just need to choose an interior player.

They also completed a number of trades on draft day, trading Kurt Thomas for Quentin Richardson from the Phoenix Suns and the right to sign rookie Nate Robinson.

Lehi had a good relationship with Kurt Thomas, and it hurt a little to hear that he was leaving.

But this is also Kurt Thomas's own choice, he doesn't want to be on the same team with Marbury anymore, Lehi also called to say goodbye to Kurt Thomas, Kurt Thomas is a little reluctant to New York, but he is also very willing to join the Suns.

The Knicks' summer was certainly not over yet, and Isiah Thomas vowed to make a big deal, and it wasn't long before Lehi learned from Marbury that he and Isiah Thomas had gotten out of the famous coach Larry Brown.

Marbury's previous experience with Larry Brown at the Olympics wasn't very pleasant, but he still wanted the coach to come to New York, not because Larry Brown helped the Pistons win the '03-04 championship, but because Larry Brown had led Allen Iverson to the Finals.

Marbury thinks that he is very similar to Allen Iverson's style of play, and if Larry Brown can lead Iverson to achieve results, then he will definitely be able to lead him to achieve results, and only by showing results will he not be scolded as a cancer every season.

Lehi was not in the United States, and most of the news about the team's operation was also inquired about from Marbury, and their communication during this time was no less than when they were playing.

At the end of July, the first Stankovic Intercontinental Basketball Champions Cup was held in BJ, with teams participating in the Asian champion China, the African champion Angola, the Oceania champion Australia, the Central and South American champion Puerto Rico, the 2004 Athens Olympic champion Argentina, and the veteran basketball powerhouse Lithuania.

The Stankovic Intercontinental Basketball Champions Cup is an important warm-up for the 23rd Asian Men's Basketball Championship, and the final 12-man roster will be confirmed after the Szstan Cup.

For fans, they most want to see the cooperation of Li Hai and Yao Ming, but Yao Ming still has a foot injury and will not play in the Si Cup, and the official appearance of the two on the court is estimated to be in the Hadoya Asian Championships.

Yao Ming can't play, it's a pity for the fans, there aren't too many ideas within the team, Yao Ming definitely wants to stay in the team, and the cooperation between him and the national team is no problem, and the Si Cup is used to test other inside players.

However, the officials of the Basketball Association have some ideas, the Si Cup is also a high-level official international basketball event, as the host, and it is the first time, they hope that the Chinese team can play a good role.