Chapter 160: Wuhan Asian Championships
"Hello everyone!"
Tang Wenlong had a mouthful of white teeth, standing on the sidelines grinning, short sleeves with white printed words, and black shorts with the logo of the 76ers, a head taller than everyone around him.
"Hey, Tang Wenlong!"
Yi Jianlian was the first to react, and walked over to greet Tang Wenlong, the two of them have won several derbies in the NBA, and they are relatively familiar with each other.
Subsequently, followed by Sun Yue, Liu Wei, Wang Zhizhi and others, these veteran basketball players, Tang Wenlong saw them all when he was in high school, when he was still on the TV screen, when he was the Olympic men's basketball team in 08, I didn't expect that it would be three years now, and what I didn't expect was that he would have the opportunity to wear the same uniform to fight together one day.
So, he greeted them one by one with a smile.
The coach with a round face walked over, Deng Huade, Joe Thomas had also instructed him before, so Tang Wenlong reacted quickly and stretched out his hand to say hello in advance.
"Hey, Coach Bob, I'm Tang Wenlong."
"Welcome, lad, you've done a great job in the NBA and I hope you enjoy your trip to the national team." Deng Huade is cunning and cunning, and he has honed his mouth in the past few years in China, and he can't do it smoothly.
So the meeting was like an old friend meeting, Tang Wenlong greeted everyone, but it was not cold.
The players in the distance also stopped training, and everyone was curious about this young player who could play well in the NBA, and came over one by one to watch.
Tang Wenlong was embarrassed, he didn't expect it to be such a scene, and then he was surrounded in the middle of everyone. There are mature and experienced players who ask him questions. He answered them one by one. The words are humorous, and from time to time everyone laughs.
"Okay, let's welcome Tang Wenlong back to the team!"
Coach Deng Huade interrupted everyone with applause, and then this proposal was immediately agreed by everyone.
Everyone applauded and welcomed, which made Tang Wenlong quite embarrassed.
"Let's disperse, let's take a break at noon, and in the afternoon we will start a simple two-two-three-three cooperation, and start the overall tactical drill in a small area." Coach Deng Huade let the crowd disperse. Then he said to Tang Wenlong, "Tang Wenlong, do some simple physical basic fitness measurements this morning, your physical data sports center didn't send it to me." ”
Tang Wenlong: "Okay, coach, no problem. ”
Deng Huade was very satisfied when he saw Tang Wenlong's cooperation, he was afraid that Tang Wenlong would have a big name mood, and now it seems that the young man seems to be quite good, and he is a little looking forward to the Asian Championships in September.
Subsequently. Tang Wenlong was pulled to measure his net height and weight. Arm span, standing and feeling high, jumping in place and touching high, attracting the attention of other players, the exaggerated arm span and amazing bounce envy everyone, as long as you play basketball, no one wants to have a pair of legendary hands over the knee arm span.
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The closed training camp lasted for half a month, and Tang Wenlong played several team trainings, and his outstanding ball skills easily convinced everyone.
When interviewed by the outside media, Coach Deng Huade was full of spring breeze and said bluntly: "We have the strongest athletes, and the new Chinese team will surprise everyone!" ”
This kind of selling tricks has made sports media reporters itch, and marginal reporting simply cannot satisfy the inner thirst for the truth.
Half a month before the start of the Asian Championships, the Chinese team officially announced the 12-member roster for the Asian Championships.
Defenders: No. 5 Liu Wei, No. 6 Zhang Bo, No. 9 Sun Yue, No. 15 Xi Relijiang, No. 12 Tang Wenlong
Forwards: No. 4 Ding Jinhui, No. 7 Yi Li, No. 8 Zhu Fangyu, No. 11 Yi Jianlian
Center: No. 10 Zhang Zhaoxu, No. 13 Su Wei, No. 14 Wang Zhizhi.
Among them, Tang Wenlong, Sun Yue, Zhu Fangyu and Yi Li can be regarded as swing guards, who can not only play the position in the front court, but also in the backcourt.
China have been drawn in Group D, along with the Philippines, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain.
These three teams, the Philippine men's basketball team often appear in international competitions, others like the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, the level of basketball competition is very low, and when Tang Wenlong plays with them, he feels even inferior to NCAA college students.
On September 15, in Wuhan, the Asian Championships officially began.
Because of Tang Wenlong's participation, this year's Asian Championships has become a little different, and the entire host city of Wuhan has become lively because of this event.
After all, it's a competition at home!
Therefore, the Chinese team is actually a home game, and the court station broadcasts the whole process.
In the first game of the men's basketball team against Bahrain, Deng Huade discharged the starting lineup of Liu Wei, Tang Wenlong, Zhu Fangyu, Yi Jianlian and Wang Zhizhi, and the Bahrain team was a bunch of players named Mohammed.
At the start of the game, Yijian United won the jump ball.
Tang Wenlong fell to the low post to receive the ball, defending him was a scoring guard with a height of a little more than 1.9 meters, although he had dark skin, but he was thin, and when he was on Tang Wenlong's back, even Tang Wenlong was obviously stronger than him.
Everyone pulled away to give Tang Wenlong a single, Tang Wenlong hit twice, easily squeezed into a close-range position, and turned over and hit a jumper.
The first attack was so easy that the whole audience burst into deafening cheers.
"Tang Wenlong, I love you!" There were even hot and generous female fans in the stands, Tang Wenlong turned to look at it, as if they were all young, they should be college students!
The Chinese team did not take Bahrain seriously, Deng Huade also played simply, and did not stop using Tang Wenlong's super personal ability to cause damage in the low position, and once Bahrain was trapped, Tang Wenlong would pass a very beautiful advance pass.
Ten minutes later, at the end of the first quarter, the Chinese team won 25-8 by 17 points in a single quarter, and there was a huge gap between the two teams.
In the end, Tang Wenlong played less than three quarters, scored 17 points and 4 rebounds, and the men's basketball team beat Bahrain by 42 points 103-61, feeling like the American Dream Team is playing other national teams.
In the other two games of the group stage, the Chinese team was also very easy, winning the Philippines 91-72 and the United Arab Emirates 95-68, winning all three games and finishing first in the group.
Every big win is like offering benefits to the fans, the only pity is that Tang Wenlong generally rests directly after three quarters, so his data is average, but anyone with a discerning eye can see that the Chinese team with Tang Wenlong is terrifying, at least the whole court is pressing, for the current Chinese team, it is a joke-like tactic.
The Japanese men's basketball team, the South Korean men's basketball team and several other men's basketball teams that are still strong teams in Asia are beginning to rejoice, thanks to the fact that they did not encounter the terrifying Chinese team in the group stage, otherwise it is estimated that there is no chance of even advancing (to be continued. )