The Godfather of Basketball

Mitchell's breakthrough ability is not as good as Fultz, but his ability to combine sudden shots is worse than Fultz.

After Mitchell, other American defenders all came on the field one after another. Zhou Qi couldn't defend at first, and then became unfocused, and was sieved one by one.

The undisguised dissatisfaction can be seen on the faces of the few young players in China.

If they are asked to challenge the American big man now, they will all volunteer.

Tang Tian didn't do that, it wasn't necessary, of course, if they were allowed to go up, they would probably be fooled and lose their way.

"Zhou, I'm very disappointed in you."

At the end of this round of confrontation, Tang Tian spoke directly.

"You are two years older than them. According to the draft, you are at least one year older than them. I am not asking you to guard them all, but you really can't guard any of them? Where is your fighting spirit behind? Do you think every player has the opportunity to match up like this?"

Tang Tian showed no mercy.

Because I care, I am willing to say a few more words.

He turned to look at Jarrett Allen and Tony Bradley.

"Ask them, are they wishing that the person on the field just now was themselves."

"Yes, coach, I want to fight against Fultz!"

"I want to cover Mitchell hard!"

This is the difference between Chinese and American basketball cultures. Most Chinese players will doubt themselves after suffering setbacks, while most American players will become more courageous as they get frustrated.

"There will be full-court confrontation in the future. If you still have this attitude, you don't even think about playing. Even if you don't cherish the opportunity to play basketball in the future, you should give up this career early."

After Tang Tian finished speaking, he turned around and signaled for other training to continue, leaving Zhou Qi alone.

If Zhou Qi is more depressed than in his previous life because of these two sentences, then Chinese basketball doesn't have to count on him.

Tang Tian turned and left. Sun Minghui and the others wanted to comfort Zhou Qi. Zhou Qi waved his hand and went to the corner to sit alone.

After this period of training was over, it was followed by shooting training. Tang Tian instructed these players to make some corrections in shooting posture and hand shape.

Fultz's shooting posture is very problematic, and Tang Tian also coached him a lot alone.

After this period of training is over, it will be the full-court confrontation training.

After half a day of training, the self-confidence on the faces of these children is much more than that at the beginning.

Tang Tian directly divided the players from the two countries into two teams.

Since they are so aggrieved, let these young Chinese players realize the gap in understanding.

The game started quickly, as expected, whether it was Tang Zihao, who played in the United States, or Sun Minghui, who played for the domestic youth team, they were absolutely below Fultz and Mitchell.

Even when Sun Minghui hit Jarrett Allen in a misplaced position, he was directly slapped out of the front.

After more than half a quarter, 6 to 16, the situation was completely one-sided.

Tang Tian replaced Zhou Qi at this time.

When Zhou Qi came on stage, his expression was a bit dignified. It was the first time for him, who had been trained intensively since his debut, to receive such treatment.

Mitchell's breakthrough, continuous change of direction, passed Sun Minghui, and directly slammed towards the basket. Seeing Zhou Qi, after leaning on it, there was a rhythm change, and then accelerated low-handed layup.

At this moment, a big hand came towards him.

It's Zhou Qi!

Mitchell adjusted in the air and directly pulled the lever to switch to the other hand.

But Zhou Qi's other hand actually covered it after landing!

"Snapped!"

After all, Mitchell was still young, and Zhou Qi's double-blocking wingspan made him unable to deal with it, and the ball was directly slapped out of the court.

China's offense did not score, and Fultz came back to meet Zhou Qi with the ball, changing direction and dodging consecutively to score.

But looking back, Zhou Qi caught the ball inside and faced Fultz who was supplementing the defense, scoring and causing an additional penalty.

After scoring the goal, Zhou Qi shouted excitedly this time.

Tang Tian's eyes lit up when he saw this.

It seems that his taming of Zhou Qi, coupled with his deliberate suppression of him, still had some effect.

As for whether this can change his basketball career in the future, it depends on his own luck.

The Chinese team eventually lost the game, but driven by Zhou Qi, they still played their own style.

After the game, when Fultz and Mitchell shook hands and greeted each other, they also took the initiative to say "good game".

After everyone took a group photo together to mark the end, this China-US basketball training camp officially came to an end.

"Coach, thank you." To Tang Tian's surprise, at the end, Zhou Qi took the initiative to come over to thank him.

"Come on." Tang Tian was slightly relieved, and patted Zhou Qi's elbow with a smile.

"By the way, coach, can I come to your arena to train in summer? I can pay, as long as I can get your guidance." Zhou Qi said.

With the deepening of Sino-US basketball cultural exchanges, there are more and more Chinese players going to the United States for special training. Zhou Qi should be talking about this kind of thing.

"Not this year." Tang Tian shook his head.

Hearing Tang Tian's answer, Zhou Qi was disappointed.

"It's closed this year, players can't use the arena facilities, and the arena is closed now." Tang Tian continued.

"Then next year?"

"I can arrange it next year."

"Thank you coach!"

Zhou Qi was a little excited.

People are actually very strange things. Some people are easy to change their nature, and some people may have completely different lives after being taught by others in the process of growing up.

Zhou Qi seems to belong to the latter.

But this is not too strange. Compared with other domestic players of the same age, Zhou Qi is not bad in terms of golf quotient.

After finishing the basketball training camp, Tang Tian returned to Cleveland.

The situation of the NBA lockout is further escalating.

The players in the league also began to get nervous. The previous summer league had little to do with them, but if they couldn't play until the preseason, then their financial loss would be huge.

You must know that during the lockout, all the contracts they signed before are invalid, and the league and the team will not pay them salaries.

To put it bluntly, they are going to become people without income.

Some players couldn't sit still and clamored to play overseas to put pressure on the league.

Under such pressure, the representatives of the labor and management sides once again held relatively large-scale consultations, but the results still did not make much progress.

With neither side likely to make concessions, negotiations have stalled and a new collective bargaining agreement looks out of reach.

In such a stalemate, the time came to September in a blink of an eye.

On this day, Tang Tian wore a handsome suit and went to Raleigh, North Carolina with Swift.

After eight years of long-distance love, Paul and his fiancée Yada Crawley will usher in the most important wedding in their lives.

As the coach of the team, Tang Tian was also one of the invited guests.