"After the Olympic qualifiers, I almost passed out that day."

At the end of another day of training, the Olympic Village was already very lively, most of the staff were in place, and the teams of some countries and regions had also arrived in the capital. Compared with the deserted and spacious when they first arrived, the Olympic Village now has a bit of a warm atmosphere of the upcoming competition, with athletes and coaches of all colors and speaking various Chinese languages everywhere.

It was mid-July 2008, and during the daytime training, the players got the news that Yao Ming would be able to start full-court practice tomorrow.

This news is undoubtedly a shot in the arm for the Chinese team, although the outside world has already said that Chen Mu, who got the first Chinese in history, can already wrestle with Yao Ming or even sit on an equal footing in terms of overall strength, to say that the core of the team's game, Chen Mu and Yao Ming are qualified.

However, the rise of Chen Mu is a matter of the last three years, and the preparation and selection of the 2008 Olympic men's basketball team has begun as early as the last Olympic cycle. At that time, Chen Mu was still a stunned young man who could not realize his talent in the national youth team, and he was not considered for inclusion in the list of Olympic-level teams at all. Yao Ming has long been a star all over the world, and the overall strategy of the Chinese team is undoubtedly deployed with Yao Ming as the core.

In such a situation, the selection of personnel of the Chinese team, the tactical arrangement, and the direction of preparation all the time are carried out with Yao Ming as the criterion. In other words, the Chinese team will definitely play a half-court offensive and dominate the game with Yao Ming's threat under the basket.

And Chen Mu's style is much more modern than Yao Ming. Although in terms of back singles, Chen Mu has also been called a kaleidoscope level, but everyone knows that this is because Chen Mu's personal strength is indeed superb. Second, because in this era, there are very few real back-to-back defensive and offensive players, so Chen Mu, the "monkey king", will be called.

If Chen Mu is the core of the attack. The Chinese team is bound to play fast offense and defense. Chen Mu's rebounding, athleticism, especially among the big guys, the historical level of mobility, help defense, organizational ability, and the iconic backcourt long pass, are all extremely standard small-ball play.

Maximizing Chen Mu's role is to focus on small ball, which is the unanimous view of all those who support Chen Mu as the core of this men's basketball team.

The Chinese men's basketball team used to be characterized by small and fast spirits. It's a pity that there was not enough "modern" super inside line at that time, and when the super inside line grows up, the spirituality and impact of the outside line have weakened. In fact, this situation cannot be said to be completely a problem of players, different tactical tendencies will lead to different personnel deployment and growth curves, and in terms of selecting talents, it will be more or less inclined to the direction of tactical needs.

This is an advantage and a disadvantage brought about by the national system, and it cannot be changed in a short period of time.

If you take Chen Mu as the core. Then the Chinese team actually has a good chance to regain the offensive system of Xiao Kuailing, with Chen Jianghua, Sun Yue, Yi Jianlian and other new generation of young talents inside and outside, it is expected that the Chinese team will play a historic level of rapid offensive and defensive performance.

But Yao Ming existed, there was such a heavy weapon. But don't make good use of it? I'm afraid it will make people laugh out of their big teeth when they say it. Therefore, the staffing of the Chinese team has created a big problem for Younas.

"Germany and Greece, the lineup is difficult to restrain, and I had a headache at the time."

Preparation room. Younas saw the eighteen people who had finally arrived completely, and opened his mouth to recall a past incident: "At that time, I really thought that our luck was too bad to enter a super death group. But think about it. There are only two groups in total, but in the other group, we will meet the United States and Spain a little later, which may help our results. ”

What Younas said, Chen Mu still has an impression. At that time, the defeat was over, the group list was completely released, and Group B, where the Chinese team was located, was a veritable group of death.

Needless to say, any country will tremble when it sees it, and it's good if you don't come forward to sign it.

Secondly, Spain is also one of the favorites to win the Olympic Games, and is regarded by many people as a super strong team second only to the Dream Eight team. The combination of big and small Gasol, Fernandez, Rubio, Navarro and other good players on the outside. Although the Spanish team does not reach the level of an all-NBA All-Star level like the United States, it is still an NBA star and rotation-level player.

And everyone knows that Pau Gasol is a monster under the FIBA system, and if two teams meet, it's really hard to say who is strong and who is weak.

In addition, Germany and Greece, which are in the same group as the Chinese team, are also strong teams in Europe, Greece has created fairy tales, and the German team has Novitzki, a chariot at the peak of his career, and the inside combination of the tough center Kaman, who has just joined, are not easy to gnaw on.

The only team in Group B that the Chinese team has a relatively good chance of beating is Angola. This old African brother is basically a character who accompanies the prince to study, and the Chinese team's internal advantage is huge, which is a target that must be won.

In contrast, although Group A is also star-studded, compared to Group B, it is not heaven, and it is not hellish at all.

The most striking thing in Group A is naturally Ginobili and his Argentine team, the golden generation of the Argentine men's basketball team is at the tail end of its peak, all players are declining in athleticism, but basketball IQ and technology are at their peak. If you want to get your hands on the world's highest honor again, the Beijing Olympics is the best opportunity.

Among the rest of the Group A teams, Lithuania is Younas's hometown, and if they play against each other, they should have a certain resource advantage. Russia's AK47 is still vigorous, and with a group of extremely tough Feitianliu players, it may not have such a dazzling advantage in terms of technology, but it is enough to make people feel intimidated in terms of playing style.

The rest of Australia, Iran, and Croatia are also among the best in strength, and if the Chinese team can enter Group A, public opinion believes that other teams can fight except Argentina.

And Group B?

The United States and Spain are enough, Greece is not a fuel-efficient lamp, and it is difficult to say everything in Germany in case of a Dirk explosion.

What a real group of death.

"For this grouping, I don't remember how many videos I watched, Hu stayed up with me for a long time, and my hair was gray."

Younas said, looked at Lao Hu, and gave him a grateful look.

"Later, when the schedule came out, I looked at it and my scalp was numb. You know that feeling, right? It's the kind of fear that arises in my heart when I see that my side is about to face an opponent who is absolutely impossible to defeat. ”

Younas spoke calmly, not in the slightest bit uneasy about saying such discouraged words in front of the players.

"The first game was against the United States, the second game was against Spain...... Hehe, our luck is also amazing. The fans should be very happy, Chen, Yi, Yao, you are also very happy, you can meet the old opponents in the league. ”

Younas smiled, Chen Mu and the others also laughed, and at the end, Younas added "and Sun", which caused Sun Yue to scratch his head embarrassedly, causing laughter.

"But now, I'm not afraid at all."

Younas suddenly changed his words and looked up at the crowd: "I have carefully calculated the situation of the alignment and the psychological game between the two sides, and what I am going to say next may sound a little crazy to you, but I hope you listen carefully, maybe, really, things will develop as I think." ”

As he spoke, Younas got up and went to a whiteboard next to the preparation room, took out a marker pen and wrote the battle schedule of the Chinese team on it.

August 10, against the United States.

August 12, against Spain.

August 14, against Angola.

August 16, against Germany.

August 18, against Greece.

"Will you be afraid of the first game against the United States? I'm scared anyway, but don't worry. ”

Younas wrote the starting list of the U.S. team on the whiteboard, and said: "Starting point guard Kidd, scoring guard Kobe, small forward Anthony, power forward LeBron James, center Howard." This lineup is very strong, with abundant mobility and mid-to-long-range attack methods, and strong rebounding points under the basket, which can basically be said to be inexplicable. ”

"Depending on how they rotated in the warm-up games, the first wave of rotation would be to replace Kidd, go to Paul, then Wade, Delon, Bosh, Reed, Boozer, Prince."

While talking and drawing, Younas drew a string of substitution timelines on the whiteboard, although the substitution time in the warm-up game cannot be said to have much reference significance, but it can basically be seen that the coaches in the team trust and reuse the players.

"Everybody take a closer look, this rotation and this lineup, do we have any way to deal with it?"

Younas asked, and everyone was stunned.

What to do?

Isn't that what your coaching staff should be thinking? Come and ask us what the players are doing?

However, Chen Mu, who has always liked to interject a few words when the coach arranges tactics, still couldn't help but think about it, and suddenly had an idea, as if he thought of something.

"There's a super small period."

When Chen Mu spoke, everyone was stunned, and when they looked back at Chen Mu, their faces were full of doubts.

Only Younas smiled with satisfaction on his face and nodded incessantly.

"Good!"

Younas reached out and drew a curve on the whiteboard, which was linked together by five players who would appear together on the pitch at a certain time period.

"Chen is right, the U.S. team will have a super small lineup at a certain time period."

The five names connected by the curves drawn by Younas are Paul, Delon, Wade, Reed, and Bosh.

"This is a scoring frenzy for the U.S. team to pull away quickly, but it's also a period that we can take advantage of."

Younas's eyes narrowed, "It's also the only period that can be exploited." (To be continued.) )

PS: I want to win against the United States! But how to win??