Chapter 5 Warm-up Match – Team Japan
At this time, the Wukesong Stadium was crowded with people, and there were many fans, but more wanted to see how the Chinese team defeated the Japanese team, after all, the relationship between China and Japan was very tense, especially Japan's invasion of China: the Japanese imperialist invaders invaded and occupied a large area of land in China, implemented the poisonous plan of "governing China with China", supported traitors and puppets to traitorous regimes, brutally enslaved and killed the Chinese people, frantically plundered China's resources and property, seriously violated and undermined China's sovereignty, and seriously divided China, As a result, the degree of unity of the Chinese state was seriously weakened during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression. Japan committed a series of heinous atrocities in the war of aggression against China, such as the three-light policy of "killing, burning, and robbing" in the occupied areas; the Nanjing Massacre; causing the Pingdingshan tragedy, etc.; The Japanese army killed tens of millions of Chinese civilians and displaced tens of millions of Chinese civilians.
History will not be forgotten, as long as there are competitions between China and Japan, the Chinese people are still relatively powerful, and they will cheer for the athletes of the Chinese team on Chinese soil.
The game started at 4 p.m., and an hour before the start of the game, the Japanese team players for the Asian Championship were introduced in detail.
No. 4 Captain Yuta Tawo: Born in Kanazawa Ward, Yokohama City, Kanagawa, a basketball player who is small but has excellent passing skills, a rare sense of passing, and a wide field of vision and is good at shooting. In 2004, he signed a contract with the NBA Phoenix Suns. On November 1, local time, as one of the opening players of the 2004~2005 season, he became the first Asian guard to appear in the NBA regular season, and also the first Japanese player to enter the NBA. Even Suns president Brian Curangra still has a high opinion of him, saying, "We appreciate everything Yuta Tawo has done to the team and think he can be a help to an NBA team." We also made the decision to cut players because of his future development so that he can get more playing time for other teams, and I don't think that's his last chance. However, on December 18 of the same year, he was dismissed by the club.
No. 5 Ishizaki Takeshi: Member of the Japanese delegation to the 2010 Asian Games in Guangzhou.
No. 6 Keishiro Matsui: Keishiro Matsui first appeared in Tiger Pounce, probably in 2005 at the Nike training camp, Keishiro Matsui's background is very special, he is not a product of Japanese youth training, but an international student who plays high school league in the United States. Keijuro Matsui was a student at Maryland High School (which was said to be ranked 19th in the nation that year), when he and another Japanese point guard, Daiji Ito (182 cm), were considered the future backcourt duo of the Japanese national team, and later attended Columbia University in the Ivy League League in the NCAA Division I. In 2009, Keishiro Matsui joined the Hokkaido Fengshen team. Keishiro Matsui represented the Japanese national team in the Taipei Jones Cup this summer, and he is known for his projection, and he shot 8 of 8 in a single game against the Philippines; Recently, in a series of warm-up games for the Japanese national team in Germany, including a match against the Euroleague-level Brosebaskets club, Keishiro Matsui shot 8 of 10 three-pointers and scored 26 points.
No. 7 Mt. Arao: Japan's second and third players are players with unlimited potential, and they are a major emerging force in Japan.
No. 8 Zhang Bentianjie: Zhang Tianjie, Chinese of the Japanese national youth team, born in Shenyang, Liaoning Province in 1991, is 1.97m tall, and is the first Chinese player to be "naturalized" by Japan. With his excellent basketball talent, he caught up with the wave of naturalized foreign players in Japan after the 2009 Asian Championships to revitalize his own basketball, and finally became a member of the Japanese national team.
No. 9 Takuya Kawamura: The new ace of Japanese basketball, he is the core of the backcourt of the current Japanese team, his scoring ability is extremely strong, and the best thing is mid-to-long-distance shooting. He averaged 20.43 points per game in the Japanese Basketball League JBL 08-09 season, and has been playing for the Japanese national team since 2005 and played for the NBA Phoenix Suns in the summer league in 2009. Growing up in Sendai, Kawamura had played four seasons in the Japanese professional league and had been training in Los Angeles for the first two months after arriving in the United States. Unlike the lanky Taka, 23-year-old Kawamura is 6 feet 5 inches tall, thanks to his parents, who both stand out from the crowd. Kawamura is the first player in Japanese history to play in a professional league after graduating from high school, and he has been a key player for the Japanese youth team and national team for the past three years, and last season he became the "scoring champion" of the Japanese league with an average of 21 points per game, and was also elected MVP of the All-Star Game.
No. 10 Naoto Tsuji: A 185-year-old two-way defender, his breakthrough has been a huge lethal force for teams around the world, and he is also a famous player in Japan.
No. 11 Yuta Watanabe: With a height of 201 cm and an all-round style of play, he has been praised by the outside world as a small forward candidate for Japan in the next 10 years, and he will also follow in the footsteps of his predecessor Keishiro Matsui, go to the United States to realize his basketball dream, will first study in a language school, and hope to enter the NCAA Division I League in the future. In the 2011 Jones Cup, Yuta Watanabe, who was only 16 years old at the time, followed the Japanese team and had a record of 6 games, and in the first game against the Chinese team, he only played 13 minutes, and handed over 12 points, 5 rebounds, and also threw a three-point shot, and the overall shooting rate was as high as 5 percent, and the performance was very amazing.
No. 12 Takeuchi and No. 13 Takeuchi Kosuke: The twin brothers Kosuke Takeuchi and Takeuchi Koji have a legend in the Japanese basketball world, and the brothers who are both 2.05 meters tall are also similar in weight, and both of them serve as forwards, and the style of play is the same. Born on January 29, 1985, he plays as a power forward. In high school, both of them studied at Luonan High School, a famous basketball school in Kyoto, Japan. Both of them are well-known players at Lonan High School. In the third year of high school, Kosuke Takeuchi was 2.03 meters tall and Takeuchi was 2.01 meters tall. And at that time, they were also the first pair of brothers in the history of Japanese college basketball to exceed 2 meters tall. After excelling in high school, his elder brother Kosuke Takeuchi was admitted to Keio University, while his younger brother Takeuchi went to Tokai University. Entering the college campus, the outstanding height of the two has attracted the attention of the school, and the two are also very self-motivated, and they continue to improve in the college basketball world. In the college league, Tokai University is super strong and is the hegemon of basketball, and under the leadership of Takeuchi Rangji, the team is invincible and has won the league championship many times, because of his excellent performance, Takeuchi Rangji has also become a frequent guest in MVP. Compared with his younger brother, his elder brother Kosuke Takeuchi only helped Keio University win the league championship for the first time in 45 years in 2004. And Kosuke Takeuchi has a habit of breaking out in the opening game of the league, and his performance is extremely eye-catching. Although the two brothers do not play at the same university, the name of the "Takeuchi Brothers" is very loud in the Japanese basketball world and is known as the strongest "twin stars" in the history of Japanese basketball.
Twin brothers Kosuke Takeuchi and Yoji Takeuchi are the main internal forces of the Japanese national team after the 2006 World Championships, and the younger brother Takeuchi Koji is slightly taller than the elder brother Kosuke Takeuchi. It is generally believed that Takeuchi is a little better than his brother and played in the Milwaukee Bucks' summer league. Judging from the game, there is no obvious difference between the two, they both belong to the lower set is relatively stocky, lack of explosiveness and instant bounce, good at mid-distance fixed-point projection of the face frame, the back basket technology is not very mature, and the younger brother Takeuchi has a hook shot in a move. A week ago, the Takeuchi brothers dominated the Japanese team's attack in a training match in Germany. On the defensive side, the Takeuchi brothers have a certain amount of mobility and frontal defensive strength, but in the past two years of East Asian games, the Takeuchi brothers can't withstand Su Wei's strong position, and there are not many ways to grab the frontcourt rebounding big forward like Tian Lei.
No. 14 Atsuya Ota: 206 cm tall and weighing 110 kg, there are very few post-mail centers in East Asia (for Japan, in fact, we are still relatively rich in centers. )。 There is not much information about Atsuya Ota, who jumped from the JBL League to the BJ League, which was not on good terms with the Japan Basketball Association, which led to his exclusion from the national team. In the Jones Cup a few years ago, Atsushi Ota also participated as the center of the Japanese national second team, his center offensive skills are not skilled, the advantage is to make a tactical wall, create opportunities for teammates, and the other is the front defense of the inside, his strength makes up for the lack of hardness in the paint area of the Japanese second team.
No. 15 Shin Eejima: Shin Eejima High School studied at Rokunan High School, a famous basketball school in Kansai, Japan, and has been a frequent visitor to the top four of national competitions since he was in high school because of the overall strength of the team. Although Shin Eejima did not win the IH tournament in high school, he won the Winter Cup in December for three consecutive years in 2006~2008, and he was selected as the top five in the high school cup twice. This is a rare record, and the last time the player who was able to experience three consecutive dominances in the Winter Cup was only Yuta Tawo, who was able to represent the senior engineer period. Because of this, he has been famous in the entire Japanese basketball world since he was in high school. [1] In the summer of his junior year of high school, Shin Ejima was naturally selected for the U18 Asian Youth League, and he was also the ace of the team, and that year the Japanese Asian Youth broke into the semi-finals of the Asian Youth League again after 1998 (led by Yuta Tawo) (although there was an incident of China boycotting and falling out of the semi-finals that year, and the results may not be accurate). In particular, in the preliminaries against South Korea, he scored 26 points and sent 6 assists, defeating South Korea in the Asian Youth Stadium for the first time, which is an important masterpiece. After graduating from high school than Eshima, he also joined Aoyama College, a famous school in the Japanese university world, and his personal development was also very smooth, except for the first 2009 when he first entered the national competition, he only won the third place in the national competition, and in the next three years, Aoyama College won the championship of the Kanto League for three consecutive years with an almost undefeated record, and also won the national championship for two years at the same time. He failed to achieve three consecutive hegemony, but he did not affect his status in the Japanese university world, and it can even be said that he is the biggest trump card in the Japanese university world in the past four years. In 2012, Shin Eejima was elected as the national player of the Japanese national team for the first time, and although he did not play much, Japan won the second place in the Asian Cup, which also added another glory to his smooth career. In the 2013 Emperor's Cup, Shin Eejima met the Hokkaido team led by Ryota Sakurai and Takehiko Orimo, he scored 28 points, 9 rebounds and 11 assists in the quasi-big triple score, and became the first college team to beat a professional team in the Emperor's Cup in the past five years. It shows that he is ready to go professional. Among the new alliances established in Japan, Shin Ejima is definitely a popular candidate for the first-year rookie king.
Before the warm-up game, the situation of the Japanese team was introduced in detail, the purpose is to let the domestic players believe in understanding and be able to defeat the Japanese team, before the game started, Li Chuanfeng and a few of them also listened carefully to the situation in Japan, although it is only a warm-up game, but it is still very important, after all, they are in Group D, and they will not be able to avoid meeting in the future, Li Chuanfeng said in his heart after listening to the introduction, this warm-up game is not easy to play!
What a game! Check out the next chapter!