August 19, 2006, Sapporo, Japan, Hokkaido Prefectural Gymnasium, away team locker room.

"Tonight we are against Italy, the silver medallist in Athens.

But don't worry, just do a good job of defending and throw the ball you should throw, and I'll take care of the rest.

I'm going to lead everybody to win, and trust me. ”

The game is about to start, and Doon, as the boss of the men's basketball team, directly set aside Younas, gathered other men's basketball players in the locker room, and began to arrange the main tactics for tonight.

"Listen carefully, I've studied the Italian team and their weakness is in the centre.

In the first half, we focused on the inside, and I would break through with the ball and kill inside.

Yao Ming, Yi Jianlian, Wang Zhizhi, when the three of you are present, you must always pay attention to my movements and cooperate with my attack.

I'm going to get the ball to you guys a little bit more, and you're going to play with Dennis Maknado.

Of the three center forwards in the Italian team, only Denis Maknado is more than 2.1 meters tall.

The remaining Richard Mason Roca is only 2.04m, while Luca Gali is also only 2.07m, and he is still a newcomer with little experience in major competitions.

We were able to beat Dennis Maknado and we won half the game. ”

Du En prescribed the right medicine, and first arranged the work of Yao Ming, Yi Jianlian and Wang Zhizhi.

Through the three games of the Stankovic Intercontinental Basketball Champions Cup, Younas also corrected some problems as the head coach of the men's basketball team.

is in the starting lineup, the inside line cannot arrange Yao Ming and Wang Zhizhi to play at the same time, otherwise the inside defensive ability will be relatively insufficient.

Although Yi Jianlian, who did not enter the NBA for further study, is not strong enough, at least his defensive attitude is better than Wang Zhizhi's.

Now that he is a junior in the men's basketball team, he finally played the starter, and he is still willing to do the dirty work for Yao Ming.

After arranging the work of the inside line, Du En turned his head and said to Liu Wei, Wang Shipeng and others.

"The remaining half is on defense! It's mainly about our defense on the outside.

By the way, as long as Gianluca Basray is on the field, I'm going to lead and defend him, you don't have to interfere, just defend your goals.

Whether the defense can be effective or not depends mainly on the attitude.

Everyone put their hands on each other's waists, and when the opponent shoots, they reach out to cover them, and when the cover is not shot, they cover their faces.

In short, to take out the aggressiveness, you must make the other side uncomfortable and even afraid of us.

By the way, Yao Ming, you don't have to come out to help defend, even if the big man of the Italian team comes out to shoot, I will go to help defend.

Your job is to play in the low post with the ball and distribute your energy properly, and I need you to have some scoring ability in the fourth quarter.

As for the rest, the offensive end is ready to catch the ball.

In the first half, I kept pushing and Yao Ming kept playing inside, and they might have strengthened the protection of the penalty area.

At that time, the opportunity will be more on the outside, maybe in the fourth quarter we don't have enough physical strength and the shooting is not very consistent.

However, when I passed the ball out in the first three quarters, please don't hesitate to take the initiative, actively and confidently complete the shot. ”

When Doon finished speaking, he clasped his hands together and clapped his hands, motioning for everyone to come closer.

"I'm sure you're all good players and I've felt the energy of everyone in the previous training camp.

I am confident that I will lead you to win tonight's game, and please believe in me and give me your hand!

My hand is at the bottom, giving you the bottom!

Tonight is our first fight at the World Championships and it will be our first win at the World Championships! ”

Doon was the first to reach out his hand, and Yao Ming immediately reached out to follow, covering Doon.

Seeing this, the others also stretched out their hands one after another and stacked them together.

“3，2，1…… Chinese men's basketball team, come on! ”

"Come on!" Everyone said in unison.

After Doon had taken care of the locker room, he took a step back and handed over the field to Younas.

But Younas doesn't have much to say, and the previous three Stankovic Intercontinental Basketball Championships are not considered to be coaching Doon.

And tonight's Doon is the main score, which is different from the previous situation of holding the ball alone, one person single-handedly watching the ball.

So, there's nothing to add.

To put it bluntly, once he loses, Younas is here to take the blame for Doon.

For the next game, all Younas needs to do is make substitutions and call a timeout.

Because he has just started coaching Doon, he doesn't know much about Doon, and he must not be as tacit as Scott Skeyles.

However, Younas is still confident for tonight's game. There are no complaints about Doon's elevation of him.

Younas' basketball philosophy is that team basketball is true, but no one would want to coach a world-class superstar like Doane who has all but dominated the NBA.

Chuck Daley is still going to make Jordan see blood! But if there is an opportunity to coach Jordan, Chuck Daley is not willing to miss it.

Not to mention, he can also coach magicians, big bird bird, Barkley and others......

Anyway, the game is about to start, and the men's basketball team will soon come out of the locker room.

As the two teams started on the court, Yi Jianlian jumped on behalf of the men's basketball team, and the game began.

Italy's center forward Denis Maknado defeated Yi Jianlian in the jump ball.

Point guard Fabio Di Vela dribbled across half court and delivered the ball directly to the team's core at the top of the arc, shooting guard Gianluca Basrae.

Gianluca Basley apparently didn't expect Doon to come and defend him.

Perhaps considering the shadow of the famous tree, Doon is too famous. Gianluca Basley did not dare to play Doon alone, so he could only pass the ball to Marco Belinelli, who was defending by Wang Shipeng.

After receiving the ball, the latter turned his back and rushed inside, Yao Ming stepped forward to make up for the defense, and Marco Belinelli could only try a pull-up jump shot.

Because Yao Ming is too tall, although the arm span is short, it is also very scary for the wing players.

Marco Belinelli made a hasty shot and missed.

Dennis Maknado under the basket grabbed the offensive rebound, but as soon as he got up, he was slapped away by Yi Jianlian, who rushed to the basket to grab the rebound.

Wang Shipeng, who also rushed to the basket to protect the rebound, protected the rebound, and then passed the ball to Doon.

"Play slowly, don't be in a hurry, don't run, wait for Yao Ming to walk to the basket and fall into a good position, and the others will pull away."

Doon didn't pass the ball to Liu Wei, and directly dribbled through the half court unhurriedly.

Yao Ming was already running, trying to keep up with everyone's speed.

Hearing Doon say this, he just jogged, landed low on the left side of the frontcourt, and then put on a back to catch the ball.

At this time, the Italian team put up a 212 joint defense, and the men's basketball team had a 131 offensive formation.

Yao Ming's low back obviously attracted some attention from the Italian team.

And as Wang Shipeng ran without the ball, running from a 45-degree angle on the right side to the bottom corner of the right side, Yi Jianlian at the free throw line cut directly to the basket, and after the two of them ran to mobilize the defense of the team with one stone, Doon also took action.

Doon faced Marco Belinelli's defense and crossed straight into the basket from the middle.

Yao Ming noticed that Yi Jianlian had cut the basket empty, so he came out from under the basket and took the initiative to pull out to make space.

However, Italy saw Doon burst into the basket and chose to wrap Doon first.

Doon originally intended to let Yao Ming play Dennis Maknado, but at this time, Yao Ming was vacant, and Doon still chose to pass the ball to Yao Ming.

"And this kind of thing?"

Yao Ming couldn't have dreamed that when it came to the international schedule, one day he would be able to be empty!

So, Yao Ming, who received the ball, took the time to aim at the basket, and then raised his hand to shoot.

Because there was no one around, Yao Ming didn't have to perform the step-back jumper he learned from Da Meng, he didn't have to jump, just like a free throw, standing in place was a mid-range.

The Yao Du connection in the imagination of domestic fans should be Du En breaking through the inside line, and Yao Ming eating cakes and dunking violently.

However, the reality was that Doon broke through to attract the three-man bag, and Yao Ming was released and scored easily with a direct shot.

However, it is normal for the Italian team to defend so much, it is also a two-point shot, choose to let the forward break through and hit the basket, or let the center shoot the middle distance on the wing? Anyone who knows a little about penalty kicks will choose the latter.

After all, under the front line, the shooting rate must be more than 5 percent, and then it is possible to play 2+1.

And the center floats outside to shoot the distance, and it is thankful that he can have a 5% shooting rate.

After all, Jordan is here, and he can't shoot 6 percent of the middle distance.

Once the opponent's center shoots the basketball, because the opponent's basket does not have a big man to grab the frontcourt rebound, it is easier for the opponent to protect the rebound.

The truth is this truth, but the center forward that the Italian team is facing at this time is Yao Ming!

The Italian team didn't expect that Doon's shot didn't kill them, but Yao Ming's shot scared them to sweat.

It was also because Doon took the initiative to lead the defense of Gianluca Basray, the player with the most offensive firepower in the Italian team in the past, and he was directly dumbfounded.

And the men's basketball team's interior height is here, and the outside line can't be opened, and if you want to score inside, it's simply self-defeating.

After the Italian team tried to play positional battles to no avail, they could only try to speed up and switch attacks.

However, European teams don't have the physicality of NBA players and can't play too fast.

It's more about projection, and then relying on the team's cooperation to pass and cut, and break points, to create better opportunities for teammates.

However, the men's basketball team protected the penalty area, Doon strangled Gianluca Basray again, and the other outside players of the Italian team still had to shoot some ball stars or difficult balls.

Then there was the clattering iron, and the men's basketball team relied on its height advantage to protect the rebound.

Immediately after that, Liu Wei dribbled through the half, Doon lowered the tempo, waited for his teammates to settle down, relieved his breath, and then broke through the inside line to find his teammates.

I have to say that Yao Ming's mid-range of 2 shots and 2 shots is still effective.

Dennis Maknado didn't dare to let Yao Ming go, Yao Ming took it apart, Dennis Maknado followed, and there was a lot of space under Doon's basket.

Doon went straight to the crossover and then scored back-to-back inside with a small throw and a layup defense under the European step basket.

"UAE, you don't have to cut inside all the time, you can run without the ball to the bottom corner first, or switch positions with Wang Shipeng and cut from the bottom corner to the basket."

Doon noticed that Yi Jianlian was playing too actively, but it was easy to block him under the basket, so he took the time to direct Yi Jianlian's work.

In the first four minutes of the men's basketball game, after playing a small climax of 10-4, the Italian team also had to take the lead in calling a timeout and adjusting the defensive arrangement.

"Da Yao, take a rest first!"

If Younas said this, Yao Ming would definitely say: "Coach, I'm not tired, I'm just sweating." ”

But when Doon spoke, Yao Ming directly picked up a towel to wipe his sweat and sat on the bench: "No problem, Dazhi will rely on you next." ”

"Liu Wei and Wang Shipeng, you two should rest first! Sun Yue and Zhu Fangyu will come with me later! ”

Doon intervened in the player rotation again, and Younas noticed that he could only communicate with the interpreter first, but did not shout.

On the player's side, Sun Yue heard Doon call his name, and glanced at Doon with a probe in his head, as if he was puzzled: "What position do I play?" Point guard? Younas has three point guards, can it be my turn to control the ball? ”

However, Sun Yue didn't dare to ask more, so he could only nod weakly like a chicken pecking rice.

"Allian, you are young, your physical strength must be fine, just fight with me for a while!

And, you should be feeling like playing with me by now, right?

If you feel it, play more and get used to it more.

In the future, it depends on your performance! ”

In the first half of the previous quarter, Doon could feel that Yijian Lenovo had to do more.

For players who play actively, Doon is more recognized.

Moreover, the Olympic Games will be in two years, and it will be difficult to win medals in the Olympic Games if Yi Jianlian is not trained.

Therefore, it is not a bad thing to give Yi Jianlian more opportunities, even if he may make mistakes.

Soon, the timeout ended, and the men's basketball players continued to return to the court under Doon's leadership.

The Italian team was originally going to play a dozen more on the outside, but who wanted to see that Yao Ming was gone, so they temporarily adjusted the main inside.

However, Wang Zhizhi has played in the NBA for so many years, no matter how bad his defense is, his physical condition is still good.

Although I still don't like confrontation, in order to make up for my previous mistakes and make up for my previous regrets, I still worked very hard to defend tonight.

Dennis Maknado couldn't beat Wang Zhizhi, but he did cause a kill.

The first free throw missed, and the second penalty went in.

The men's basketball team serves and relaunches the offense.

Doon passed the ball to Sun Yue and encouraged: "You find your feelings first, and then give it to me after half time." ”

Sun Yue was very cautious and focused after getting the ball, meticulously completed the task of dribbling through half the court, and then ran to the flank to hide.

However, the men's basketball team didn't need Sun Yue on the offensive end, and Doon continued to break through with the ball and find teammates inside.

Yi Jianlian didn't score for more than four minutes in the first minute, but this time he was still active in cutting the basket.

Du En saw that Yi Jianlian ran out, so he threw the ball directly into the sky, Yi Jianlian understood and jumped to catch it.

The ball jumped a little high, and Yi Jianlian took it off a little after receiving the ball.

But luck is not bad, the basketball didn't have much strength after hitting the basket, and finally bounced into the basket, but it was supposed to be a dunk, but it became a "meteor slam dunk".

Either way, it's good to score.

After the ball was scored, Yi Jianlian was also amused by himself, and smiled at Doon.

In order to encourage Yi Jianlian, Du En chose to nod to Yi Jianlian.

In any case, after Yao Ming went off the court, someone scored on the inside of the men's basketball team, and Dune's sudden score was not in vain, which is worthy of recognition.

In the past, without Doon, once Yao Ming was off the court, the men's basketball team would become another team that did not enter the stream.

Now having Doon in charge and inspiring other players to score on the pitch is certainly a good sign.

However, Du En didn't trust Wang Zhizhi and Yi Jianlian too much, as the boss of the team, there are still some things that need to be done by himself.

Doon had already thought of a winning strategy, but the plan couldn't keep up with the change, and the Italian team didn't pay enough attention to Yao Ming at first, and Yao Ming failed to create fouls on Denis Maknado.

So in order to win the game, Doon needs to make a kill on the inside and let Dennis Maknado accumulate more fouls.

It was also because of the inertia of playing that the Italian team noticed that Doon had been breaking through and looking for teammates.

So the pincer attack on Du En was not so compact, but more attention was paid to Wang Zhizhi and Yi Jianlian.

Of course, after Doon enters the paint area, the Italian interior players will still defend against it, but they will not attack in advance.

And Doon was waiting for Dennis Maknado to come over.

As Doon took the initiative to find a confrontation, after the layup was made, the whistle followed.

Two plus one, Doon made a shot that allowed Dennis Makenado to accumulate a foul.

When Yao Ming on the field saw this scene, he also remembered what Doon had confessed in the locker room before.

"I'll play later, and I'll have to do it too!"

Although the men's basketball team has now achieved a big advantage, Yao Ming still chooses to do what Doon tells him.

In particular, the men's basketball team is easy to appear, and it has a big lead in the first half, even a dozen points ahead, but when the game is over, it loses by more than a dozen points.

So, if you want to win, you should follow Doon's plan.

"I can't play the fourth quarter, and you don't want to play Dennis Maknado!"

The clock was fast approaching more than seven minutes, and Doon took advantage of the timeout to finally choose to take a break and hand over the rest of the game to his trusted teammates.

After a pause, Yao Ming also returned to lead the team.

Without Doon controlling the rhythm of the game, the men's basketball team returned to the old routine of Liu Wei passing the ball to Yao Ming and Yao Ming playing singles in the low post.

However, the men's basketball team firmly controlled the initiative of the game, and Yao Ming also continued to expand the score advantage through low-post singles.

The only thing that didn't go well was that Dennis Maknado was also resting off the court, and Yao Ming couldn't trouble Dennis Maknado in terms of foul counts.

Fortunately, at the end of the first quarter, 26-14, the men's basketball team led the Italian team by 12 points and almost killed the opponent.

You must know that the Italian team was the runner-up team in the Athens Olympics two years ago, and the men's basketball team can play this effect against the Italian team without much change in the lineup, which is definitely commendable.

And in the second quarter, Doon once again came on the court to lead the team.

On the offensive end, he continued to kill the interior to find trouble for Dennis Maknado.

Defensively, he chose to lead Gianluca Basray, forcing the opponent to constantly block and walk around Doon, or pass the ball to other teammates.

Doon's influence on both ends of the offensive and defensive ends helped the men's basketball team continue to open up and expand its advantage.

And Yao Ming also relied on Doon's help, and before the second quarter came off the court, he scored 20 points in advance, becoming the first player to score 20 points in this game.

"This is the Yao Du connection we have always dreamed of!"

"Doon is too strong, Yao Ming has become stronger with the help of Doon!"

"We have Doon and Yao Ming, and winning medals is really not a dream!"

"You should send players to the NBA, go to workout, and become as strong as Doon and Yao Ming!"

Domestic fans who came from afar saw that after the first half, Doon had 16 points, 3 rebounds, 6 assists and 1 steal, and Yao Ming had 22 points, 4 rebounds, 2 assists and 1 block, and they couldn't help themselves.

Doon and Yao Ming combined to score 38 points, which should normally be a full game, who would have thought that it would only take half a game to get it?

Not to mention, playing a strong team like the Italian men's basketball team, the men's basketball team took an 18-point lead in the first half.

However, in the second half, the old problems of the men's basketball team were exposed.

Even though Doon took the initiative to lower the pace of the game in the first half, the men's basketball players continued to defend and worked hard to defend, which also consumed a lot of physical strength.

Although the decline in performance on the offensive end is not particularly serious, the pace has become heavy, the lateral speed has slowed down, and the defensive quality has declined, which has also given the Italian men's basketball team more opportunities to hit the basketball.

The Italian men's basketball team has limited internal strength and can only try to shoot to chase points in the third quarter, while most European players shoot well.

The men's basketball team can't defend it well, so it can only give more physical contact and interfere with the opponent's shooting under Doon's emphasis.

At the same time, Doon's offense with the ball also maintained the efficiency of the first half.

In the third quarter, Doon scored 14 points alone.

Originally, Doon scored behind Yao Ming, but when the third quarter was over, Doon had 2 points more than Yao Ming.

And Yao Du scored 58 points in the third quarter, which also made the basketball leaders on the sidelines laugh crazy.

Not only because of the excellent relationship between Doon and Yao Ming's scoring data, but also because the men's basketball team entered the fourth quarter with a 16-point lead under the leadership of Doon and Yao Ming.

In the past, after the third quarter, the score was basically tied or even overtaken.

Now with such a big advantage, you can't win?

In the eyes of the basketball leader, as long as Doane casually scored another seven or eight points in the fourth quarter, the game would be won.

What's more, Yao Ming has no strength, and it's no problem to get another one or two points.

It was also because Doon calculated from the beginning that he played less than half of the fourth quarter before Dennis Makenado was beaten.

Although Yao Ming didn't play much time in the fourth quarter, he still scored 2 points and scored 30 points.

As for the reason why Yao Ming didn't play much time in the fourth quarter, on the one hand, it was because of Yao Ming's own physical strength, and on the other hand, because the situation in the fourth quarter was relatively clear, and before Dennis Maknado was knocked off, the outcome was basically decided.

The men's basketball team just relied on Doon's individual ability to play the rest of the game into garbage time early.

Yao Ming was given more time to rest.

And Chen Jianghua, Wang Shipeng, Zhu Fangyu, Sun Yue, Yi Jianlian and others also got more playing time.

"Doon has worked hard for you!"

In the fourth quarter, when Doon left the court early, Director Li of the basketball team personally stepped forward to greet Doon.

And Doon also gave a perfect answer of 15 of 21 shots, 3 of 5 three-point shots, 5 free throws, 38 points, 6 rebounds, 11 assists, 2 steals and 1 block for his World Championship debut.

Four years ago, also in the World Championships, Yao Ming also scored 38 points, and Doon played the first game in the style of an NBA supergiant.

94-83, the first game of the men's basketball World Championships won the first game, and the news of the 11-point victory over the Italian team was transmitted back to China, and it is not an exaggeration to say that the whole country is boiling.

However, Duane, the boss of the men's basketball team, is not particularly optimistic about this.

You must know that on the second day of the group stage, the men's basketball team will meet the Dream Seven team, which bloodied them by 46 points some time ago.

Although they are also in Group D, the men's basketball team and the Dream Seven team will meet sooner or later.

But now that the men's basketball team has not run in well, if the dream seven team is played again in a few days, the hope of winning will inevitably be much greater.

It is worth mentioning that in order to crusade against Doon, the foreign NBA champion and the MVP of the finals, this year's Dream Seven team is not the rookie team led by James in Doon's memory.

But the good news is that James is still here.

On August 20th, the war was rekindled, and the men's basketball team faced the Dream Seven team! (End of chapter)