The previous defeat at the World Championships made Doon realize that if he wanted to achieve results in the World Championships, he had to rely on a group of reliable teammates to help him.

If Doon alone leads the team, it is not a big problem to lead the men's basketball team out of the group stage.

However, if you want to go far in a win-lose knockout game, you need to have absolutely strong strength.

Instead of relying solely on Doon's personal touch, he broke out and led the team to victory with a wonderful performance of 40+ and 50+.

After all, Doon's goal is to win a medal, which requires winning at least three matches in the knockout rounds.

And the road to the knockout round, in addition to relying on strength, also needs to rely on a little luck.

The dream team also has times when the horse misses, and the men's basketball team will undoubtedly have more difficulty winning medals than the dream team.

However, for Doon, he has to consider whether this Olympics is the only chance for him to win a medal at the world championships in his career.

Two years ago, Doon could blame the World Championship loss on a lack of helpers around him, and his teammates were all CBAs.

However, in the past two years, the men's basketball team has continued to send young players to the NBA, and most of the current men's basketball team members are NBA players.

Even if they don't fully adapt to the NBA, practicing for a year or two is at least better than competing for supremacy in the CBA fishpond.

Moreover, time is running out, Yao Ming has been injured over the years because of weight gain and continuous participation in various events of the national team in the summer.

Even if Doon helped Yao Ming relieve some of the pressure, in Doon's opinion, Yao Ming was able to continue to play in the NBA for three or five years.

No way, big men who lack endurance attributes just can't fight for a long time in the NBA.

Not to mention that Yao Ming has a reason to have to play in the summer, and he has to work harder than most NBA players.

If Doon wants to make achievements in the men's basketball team, he must seize Yao Ming's peak period, take advantage of the time when Yao Ming can still play in a relatively healthy state, give it a go, and try to lead the men's basketball team to win a medal.

For this reason, Doon had to return to China early on the third day after the championship parade and meet up with the rest of the men's basketball team as soon as possible for training.

But even so, the time has come to the beginning of July, and there is only a little more than a month left before the group stage of the Olympic Games.

It is worth mentioning that the momentum of the men's basketball team has been good recently.

The opponents who depend on the warm-up game are relatively vegetable, and the men's basketball team now has a lot of NBA players, and the overall strength is not bad.

Relying on the warm-up game, the men's basketball team has cultivated the confidence to win, and then it depends on whether the three NBA old men, Du En, Yao Ming, and Wang Zhizhi, can quickly integrate into the men's basketball team and help the men's basketball team go further.

For Doon, this year is easier than preparing for the World Championships two years ago.

The men's basketball teammates all know Doon's strength and recognize Doon's ability.

Coupled with the experience of playing the World Championships together, everyone will subconsciously play with Doon, rather than them playing the same way as before.

Even, in terms of life, he used to love to play wild ball, but after Doon returned to the team, he regained his heart and honestly practiced hard with Doon.

Of course, the nightclub door incident that has occurred has had some impact on the men's basketball team.

After Doon returned to the team, he was even chased by reporters to ask questions about his private life.

In order to avoid the distractions of the outside world, Doon turned off his communication tools, and then the stadium and the hotel were two points and one line, and life was extremely regular.

It wasn't until July 17, when the Stankovic Intercontinental Basketball Championship began, that Doon appeared in public with the rest of his men's basketball teammates.

"Winning the championship? We are sure to be confident.

But as a respectful opponent, we don't talk too much.

Let's try to pay attention to the game, and you will be able to see the results of our training in two days. ”

On the first day of the Stankovic Intercontinental Basketball Champions Cup, media from all over the country gathered in Lin'an.

Although most of the scene was official media, there were also many media that paid more attention to peach news and off-site information.

Doon knows that the pressure of public opinion will have some impact on the mentality of young players, and Yi Jianlian will also play a heavier role in the next Olympics.

For this reason, Doon does not want Yi Jianlian to be affected, but hopes that public opinion can let him go for the time being.

So just throw out a topic to win the championship and attract everyone's attention.

In addition to the host of the men's basketball team, the four participating teams in this year's Stankovic Intercontinental Basketball Champions Cup are the Serbian men's basketball team, the Angolan men's basketball team and the Russian men's basketball team.

Among them, the Serbian team and the Russian team sent the second team, and obviously did not pay much attention to this Stankovic Continental Basketball Championship Cup.

The basketball management center communicated with Dune, Yao Ming, and Wang Zhizhi in advance, hoping that Dune and the three could play the Stankovic Intercontinental Basketball Champions Cup, just to win the championship and build up some confidence for domestic fans.

Although Doon wanted to complain about this, this year was indeed the most promising year for the Olympic men's basketball team, so he didn't refuse.

However, in this Stankovic Intercontinental Basketball Champions Cup, Doon is not ready to play more, he goes up to play for more than ten minutes on each court, and cooperates with other teammates to find the feeling.

And even more Doon's similar thoughts, there is Yao Ming.

As for Wang Zhizhi, even if he has an idea, he can only put it on hold first, after all, the level is not enough.

The rest, Yi Jianlian, Sun Yue, Zhu Fangyu, these who entered the NBA through the draft, as well as Wang Shipeng, Liu Wei, and Chen Jianghua who played a few games in the NBA through trials, can only play the whole court honestly.

is also because the men's basketball team is bound to win, for a warm-up game with low gold content such as the Stankovic Intercontinental Basketball Champions Cup, a lot of energy was invested early, and even the referees were arranged, and it was difficult for the men's basketball team not to win the championship.

On July 17, the men's basketball team easily defeated the Serbian second team 99-62.

On July 19, the men's basketball team continued to beat Angola 79-72.

Although Du En and Yao Ming did not go all out, they also showed the true level of the men's basketball team after this battle.

After winning this game, Stankovic's winning of the Intercontinental Basketball Champions Cup basically fell into the hands of the men's basketball team.

On July 20, there were no upsets.

Back in the first half, the men's basketball team took a 15-point lead against the Russian second team, 41-26.

At the end of the second half, the score on the court came to 78-50.

The men's basketball team is still easier to win against the second team of other teams.

In some ways, the men's basketball team is somewhat invincible.

Playing the Stankovic Intercontinental Basketball Champions Cup, a warm-up game like the Continental Basketball Champions Cup, all sent Doon and Yao Ming, so how can other teams compete with the men's basketball team for the championship?

In other words, after the men's basketball team won the Stankovic Intercontinental Basketball Champions Cup as they wished, they soon moved to Jinling.

Before the start of the group stage of the Olympic Games, the men's basketball team still has a round of "warm-up matches", that is, the diamond cup with a higher gold content.

The quality of opponents in the Diamond Cup is much higher than that of the Stankovic Intercontinental Basketball Champions Cup, and in addition to the men's basketball host, the remaining five teams are Serbia 1, Angola, Iran, Australia and Argentina.

On July 29, the men's basketball team played Angola again in the Diamond Cup and won 92-75.

Then, on July 30, the men's basketball team won the Australian team 72-67 thanks to Doon's full court.

On August 1, the men's basketball team advanced to the finals against Argentina, first tied 85-85 and went into overtime.

Then relying on Dune to lock Ginobili, Wang Shipeng hit a key three-pointer, Yi Jianlian finally protected the rebound, and the men's basketball team won the Diamond Cup 92-91.

Although, winning the Diamond Cup was a bit of a disgrace, and the referees took advantage of it.

However, the fans watched the men's basketball team win the championship one after another, and the morale was very high.

The men's basketball team is also thriving.

(End of chapter)