Chapter 343: The 19 Men's Basketball World Cup Begins!
On August 10, the Kunshan International Men's Basketball Championship held by Kunshan City, JS Province officially kicked off, also known as the Kunshan Four Nations Tournament.
This is a small-scale event held by Kunshan under the instruction of the Basketball Association, and it is also one of the warm-up games for the Chinese men's basketball team to prepare for the World Cup.
In addition to the Chinese men's basketball team, the other three participating teams are Angola, Croatia and Puerto Rico.
This small tournament has attracted the attention of many Chinese fans, because this is the first warm-up match that Wang Feng participated in after returning to the team.
A large number of fans gathered in Kunshan City to get a closer look at Wang Feng's demeanor.
On the 10th, the Chinese men's basketball team played against the Angolan men's basketball team first.
The gap in the strength of the two teams made the game process uneventful, and the Chinese men's basketball team occupied the absolute initiative from the beginning and maintained the lead until the end of the game.
But it was an unexpected game.
The surprise point is mainly that Wang Feng did not shoot once in the whole game, but in the 22 minutes he played, he grabbed 14 rebounds and handed out 10 assists.
On the field, Wang Feng, who is a forward, behaves like a point guard, and the ball basically stays in his hands, while Wang Feng uses various passes to successfully assist his teammates to score, in the process there are some fancy and beautiful fancy passes, and even at the end, Wang Feng also performed a back elbow pass, which caused a burst of screams from the fans off the court.
Wang Feng is so good at passing?
Many people are a little surprised, after all, in the NBA, Wang Feng is obviously not a player who is good at passing, playing an average of more than 38 minutes per game last season, and with a large number of ball possession, the average assists per game are only about 3, which is basically a luck assist.
At first, people thought that the level of the NBA was too high, so that Wang Feng originally had the ability to assist and pass, but he couldn't play in an NBA level of competition, but he could play in a relatively low-level game.
But then in the second and third games, Wang Feng continued to show his passing and assist ability, and with the blessing of the ten-cent badge, all the vacant players who received Wang Feng's pass had a significant increase in shooting percentage, which indirectly made Wang Feng's assists further increase.
In the second game against Croatia, Wang Feng scored 15 points, 15 rebounds and 15 assists, leading the Chinese men's basketball team to an easy victory.
Then in the third game against Puerto Rico, he handed out 20 assists in a single game!
The Huaguo men's basketball team won all three games and easily won the championship, but the fans were dumbfounded.
Is Wang Feng preparing to change jobs to be a point guard?
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The Kunshan Four Nations Tournament ended, but Wang Feng was slightly disappointed.
Sure enough, this kind of competition held in a city-level city, although the name is high, what is the Kunshan International Basketball Championship, but it is still not recognized by the system, and there is no reward for completing the game.
Even if it's a little symbolic reward for a few points of free distribution, it's okay, nothing is too bumpy.
However, after three games, Wang Feng's goal was successfully achieved, and his passing and assist ability was recognized by everyone in the team, from the coaching staff led by the head coach to all the players in the team, they were convinced by Wang Feng, including several point guards, including Guo Allen.
"Brother Feng is still awesome! As a forward, his dribbling and passing skills are better than those of us guards, and he is worthy of being the top star in the NBA who can win the regular season MVP! ”
After the Kunshan Four Nations Tournament, the Huaguo men's basketball team began to rebuild the tactical system around Wang Feng's ball-holding.
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Time flies, and soon it is the end of August.
On August 29, the Huaguo men's basketball team officially announced the list of 12 players to participate in the 2019 Men's Basketball World Cup.
"The Legend of the Fairy Tree"
After the joining ceremony was held on June 6, the Huaguo men's basketball team conducted more than 2 and a half months of training, participated in 17 warm-up games, and finally cut the original 20-man roster and set a 12-man squad.
In addition to Wang Feng, who joined the team halfway and trained with the team for only one month, the rest of the players are Yi Jianlian, Zhou Qi, Wang Zhelin, Guo Allen, Fang Shuo, Zhao Jiwei, Sun Minghui, Zhao Rui, Ren Junfei, Kelan Baike-Makan, and Zhai Xiaochuan.
On August 31, the Men's Basketball World Cup officially opened, and 32 participating teams will compete in the group stage in eight cities in China.
The group stage group was decided by drawing lots a few months ago.
As the host, the Chinese men's basketball team, the United States, Spain and France men's basketball teams are automatically separated into four different groups to ensure that the group can qualify.
The Chinese men's basketball team was finally selected for Group A, the only capital to hold the competition, and the other teams in the same group were Ivory Coast, Poland and Venezuela.
Overall, the strength of Group A is not strong, and there is no big problem for the Huaguo men's basketball team to qualify from the group.
After the opening ceremony on the 31st, the Chinese men's basketball team played the first round of group stage with Ivory Coast on the same day.
The Ivory Coast men's basketball team is not a strong team, and the world ranking is only 40, in another time and space, without Wang Feng, the Chinese men's basketball team still won with a score of 70:55.
Now that there is Wang Feng, there is no suspense.
In the first quarter alone, Wang Feng scored 20 points by himself, and the Huaguo men's basketball team scored 31:13 in a single quarter, establishing an 18-point advantage!
In the second quarter of the game, the Huaguo men's basketball team went further, and the difference was expanded from 18 points to 24 points.
The score of the two teams was 58:34 at halftime, and the game was out of suspense.
The Huaguo men's basketball team replaced a large number of main players, including Wang Feng, who had already scored 31 points, 6 rebounds and 5 assists at halftime, as well as the main players such as UAE and Zhou Qi to replace young players for training.
In the end, when the whistle blew at the end of the game, the score of the two teams was fixed at 89:56, with a score difference of 33, and the Chinese men's basketball team won a good start.
Wang Feng's stable and efficient performance gave Huaguo's fans and viewers a big reassurance.
In the first half, after playing the whole game, you can cut 31+6+5 data in 20 minutes, although the opponent is not strong Ivory Coast, but even then not everyone can easily play this kind of performance.
For example, the Greek team in Group F, facing the same weak Montenegro men's basketball team, although the Greek men's basketball team won the final victory, but the biggest player in the team, that is, Antetokounmpo, who previously competed with Wang Feng for the regular season MVP, played mediocre in the game, with only 10 points and 8 rebounds, which is very different from the performance of Brother Alphabet in the NBA.
Of course, why this is so, fans who know a little bit about the ball know it, mainly because of the difference in the rules of the game between FIBA and the NBA.