The Way of the Center

Although it was the second time to return to China during the holiday, An Jie did not have the chance to go home this time. E novel Ww "W. ┡1XIAOSHUO. COM He came back today not to relax, but to carry a task on his shoulders.

"The World Championships must at least qualify for the group stage!" After winning the Asian Championships last year, the Basketball Association issued such a hard target to the national team this year. Although from an international point of view, this World Championship has become very weak. Not to mention Kobe, James and other NBA stars voluntarily quitting, even Tony Parker, Dirk Nowitzki and other leading stars from various countries will not participate in the battle due to various reasons. The World Championships, which has always been known as a gathering place for stars, suddenly lost its focus. Without stars, not only is there no attention, but the level of the entire World Championship is greatly reduced.

Looking at the lineup of the "Dream Nine Team" in the United States, you can see how unrepentant they are for the World Championships. Most of the members of this American team are young people, and there is only one "old man", that is, Chauncey Billups, who is no longer in glory. Others, such as Durant and Westbrook, etc., are young guys who are about the same age as Anjie.

In July, when Anjie was still training hard, James, who originally planned to recruit Anjie, announced that the Heat would be his next home, and the formation of the Heat's fantasy Big Three, which was enough to change the structure of the NBA league, was completed. This signing alone is enough to show how lively the free agent market is this summer. In the minds of NBA players, the O'Brien Cup is their highest aspiration. Now all the powerful guys are busy looking for a new home, who has the heart to participate in this painless World Championships?

For example, Stoudemire originally wanted to play for the country, but under the pressure of his new owner, the Knicks, he finally chose to give up.

It is also ruthless to say that Stoudemire almost reached the peak of his career in the Suns last season. But because he failed to reach the finals, Xiaobawang just left without looking back.

And what about Anthony? After losing to the Thunder in the first round, he also completely fell out with the management of the Nuggets, and his transfer and departure are almost a certainty. All the big names are thinking about their own future or "money", and no one is willing to spend more time on the World Championships.

Perhaps at this moment, only Presti's Thunder can generously "borrow" their players. It is not surprising that the names of the Thunder's three young players all appeared in this World Championship. Presti just signed a new contract with Durant, the future cornerstone of the team, while Anjie and Westbrook each have a one-year contract to fulfill. What's more, after the execution of this year's contract, the Thunder still retains the team draft, and Presti will definitely choose to execute without hesitation.

It can be said that in this turbulent summer, as long as Durant is stabilized, it has almost nothing to do with the Thunder. It is no wonder that Presti and San Shao are willing to devote themselves to the World Championships, because for the three of them, all the rumors and rumors outside have nothing to do with them.

Even if the transfer news in the nba summer is much more exciting than the World Championships, not everyone will lose interest in the World Championships.

For example, for the sports environment in China, where bureaucracy is particularly strong, the World Championships are still a big competition. As long as it is a big competition, it must win glory for the country and must not lose face! So although Durant and the others participated with the mentality of coming to play, Anjie had to go all out just like playing in the nba.

As soon as he reported to the training camp, An Jie found that the national team was quite different from a year ago. Although the men's basketball team won the Asian Championship last year, Guo Shiqiang's lack of coaching level was also seen by the superiors. In April of this year, the Basketball Association announced that the American and Shanghai team coach Bob Deng Huade II would become the new national team coach.

Not to mention the American's coaching ability, at least his tough style can bring more blood to the national team. But what makes people laugh and cry is that the Basketball Association actually arranged for the former coach Guo Shiqiang to be Deng Huade's assistant. Guo Shiqiang was not happy about Deng Huade taking his position away, and now he has to do chores for a foreigner who took his position in his national team, Guo Shiqiang was even more unwilling. Although the Basketball Association gave Guo Shiqiang the title of "the head of the Chinese coaching staff", but to put it bluntly, he was just a handyman. I really don't know what the Basketball Association thinks. They don't seem to be happy if it doesn't bring some turmoil and division to the national team.

The coaching staff of China and the United States are fighting openly and secretly, but fortunately, the players of the national team are in harmony and do not form cliques.

When An Jie met with the team on the first day, almost everyone greeted him warmly. Yi Jianlian, Wang Zhizhi and other leaders who have a good relationship with An Jie needless to say, they have been waiting for An Jie for a long time. And Su Wei, Zhou Peng and other newcomers respect An Jie, who plays in the United States.

"My God, An Jie, what did you and Ah Lian eat? You are as strong as a cow." Wang Zhizhi ran over and squeezed An Jie's arm in disbelief. Like a person. Yi Jianlian is much stronger than before, but compared with An Jie, his improvement is not surprising at all.

"I just practiced in Los Angeles a month ago, hehe." An Jie scratched his head embarrassedly. On the surface, it was a year of change, but in fact the past one and a half months was the main reason for his huge change.

Looking at An Jie's body, even Su Wei swallowed. He thought Yi Jianlian was strong enough, but he didn't expect that An Jie looked even more terrifying now. When he thought that he would train and fight against this kind of guy in the near future, he felt a chill down his back.

In cBa, Su Wei is already a representative of a strong center. But as soon as I arrived at the national team, I realized that my "small body" was nothing at all.

"You have to take it easy, that guy An Jie, people in the NBA call him a butcher. Tsk tsk, I feel really sad for you." Guo Ailun looked at An Jie and joked in Su Wei's ear. But Su Wei couldn't laugh at all. To Guo Ailun, this was a joke, but to him, this was a fact he had to face. Just having the ball against the training was enough for him, Su Wei. You know, he is facing an NBA All-Star center!

"Welcome back to the team Ann, you are already half a month late, I hope you can quickly adapt to the team." Suddenly, a burst of fluent English came into An Jie's ears. An Jie turned his head to look, and it turned out that Deng Huade, the head coach of the national team, walked into the training ground.

"Hello, coach." An Jie stretched out his hand and held Deng Huade together. Although An Jie didn't know Deng Huade well, An Jie had heard of his fiery temper. For domestic players, Deng Huade may be too ostentatious. But for Yi Jian and Anjie, they have seen this typical American coach a lot.

"After a while, you warm up first, then the tactical class, and then, it's group confrontation." Deng Huade arranged today's training plan in threes, fives and twos. Compared with most procrastinating local coaches, Deng Huade's style is simply It is vigorous and resolute.

When warming up, every movement of An Jie is always eye-catching. As the most successful Chinese player now, he is naturally the target of everyone's observation. How does this guy play differently from us? They are all Chinese. Why can he gain a firm foothold in the nba at a young age? With countless questions, almost everyone except Yi Jianlian and Wang Zhizhi was warming up while observing An Jie.

Just warming up, the players of the Chinese team found something different. At the beginning, people thought that Anjie could play in the NBA because of his strong body and outstanding height. But after a few minutes of warm-up, many people admired An Jie's basic basketball skills and felt ashamed.

Even defenders such as Liu Wei and Guo Ailun admire Anjie's basic basketball skills. Every movement, every shot, every movement of his is in place. In some respects, they are even better than those full-time defenders.

Just as everyone else was dumbfounded watching Anjie's training, Deng Huade called everyone into the office. Why did Deng Huade wait for Anjie to come to the tactical class? All of this is not without reason.

As the core, although the national team has Yi Jianlian and Wang Zhizhi, Deng Huade still left the core position to the young An Jie without hesitation. In the tactics class, almost every tactic Deng Huade talked about revolved around An Jie.

Although Anjie is the core, Deng Huade also emphasized that the players must share the ball more. A truly powerful team cannot have only one powerful core. Others must also use their strengths to make themselves and the team better.

In this point alone, Deng Huade is much smarter than Guo Shiqiang. Guo Shiqiang only knows the deadlock tactics, and it is difficult to give full play to the strengths of the players. At critical moments, he relies on the players to tide over the difficulties. But Deng Huade is different. He emphasized at the beginning that Anjie is the core, but the Chinese team cannot rely too much on Anjie.

Guo Shiqiang listened with a disheartened face, and Deng Huade seldom adopted his own opinions. His assistant coach is only in name only.

In the afternoon, Su Wei's nightmare finally came. In the confrontation with An Jie, Su Wei took no advantage at all. Even in the past, Su Wei would not have been able to take down An Jie, not to mention that An Jie's body is now more than a star and a half stronger than before under Peterson's transformation.

During the entire confrontation training, Su Wei never once defended against An Jie's attack. Of course, if fouls can be counted as stopping the attack, then Su Wei has defended it a few times.

An Jie felt like he was training with a trainer, with little resistance behind him. He didn't even need the footsteps that Olajuwon taught him, and he could get a chance just by pushing hard.

Su Wei was "tortured" until he was sweating profusely, but An Jie still looked relaxed. Only then did Su Wei realize that the gap between himself and the NBA All-Star center was not just one or two points. In all aspects, it can be said that there is a huge gap between Su Wei and Anjie in all aspects.

Regardless of how strong An Jie is now, his movement speed is much faster than Su Wei. Although there is not much difference in height, An Jie is really as easy as beating a child when facing Su Wei.

Deng Huade watched all the confrontation training process. Later, in order to test An Jie's true strength, Deng Huade arranged Yi Jianlian to face An Jie again.

At this time, An Jie finally encountered some obstacles. Although Yi Jianlian's performance was very good, and he defended An Jie beautifully several times, but in the end, An Jie still won the competition. Now Deng Huade is relieved, Yi Jianlian is placed in the international arena, that is also a "big killer" level figure. Now this An Jie is better than Yi Jianlian, so it is definitely not wrong to take him as the core!

After training in China for a week, the men's basketball team set off for Istanbul, Turkey, where the competition was held, to participate in closed training. During this period, An Jie's condition was getting better and better. Deng Huade really didn't dare to think about what An Jie would do in the official competition.

At this moment, qualifying for the group stage did not seem like an impossible task.

An Jie was also very excited about the arrival of the Asian Championships. He hadn't played an official game for more than three months, and the butcher wanted to taste the blood again.

On August 28th, in Group C of the 2010 Men's Basketball Asian Championships, China played against Greece. May God see the butcher, good luck to the Greeks...