Chapter 178: We want champions!
When Angel sweated and maintained his competitive state on the Asian Championships, Thunder rookie Andrew Morris warmed up in the Drew League.
Although the Drew League is just an amateur league, its level is not low. Every summer, several nBa stars will come to the Drew League to exercise themselves to maintain their competitive state and muscle strength.
The day ago, Presti officially announced that he had signed the Congolese Sergi Ibaka, who was selected by the Thunder last year. Although there was Anjie in the Thunder last year, the abilities of the other three white men were indeed unsatisfactory.
As for the outside players, Durant and Westbrook's combination looks very good, and Seversa's defense and shooting can provide support to both of them to a certain extent. Therefore, this summer Presti has focused on finding an inside partner for Angel. As for the outside, a more mature combination of Durant and Westbrook is enough.
Because of this, Morris and Ibaka were both recruited by Prestiyi.
Although Sergi Ibaka's pick is much lower than Morris, he has at least had the experience of playing in the professional league. If Morris wants to prove himself, he must seize the opportunity in the summer league.
How to improve its competitive state before the Summer League, Meslav recommended the Drew League to Morris.
The land of the United States is simply hidden and hidden. In this amateur league, Morris has seen too many folk masters. If you want to survive in the Drew League, you must show some real skills.
"I won't lose either, An!" Morris just finished blocking and landing. He wiped his sweat and focused his eyes. The Thunder's inside competition will be very fierce this year. Morris came to nBa, not to fight garbage time!
At the same time, the quarter-finals between the Chinese team and the Chinese Taipei team have been held for two quarters. Unexpectedly, the Chinese team did not have a significant advantage in the first half. An Jie, the center in the inside, really lacks the support of his teammates. Liu Wei and other defenders even had difficulty dribbling through the halftime under the pressure and defense.
Their attacks were even more chaotic and made frequent mistakes.
"If you want to get to the position, you can pass it in, reduce the dribbling and your own breakthrough, and make the ball into the inside!" Guo Shiqiang was anxious when he watched off the court, but the player level was not enough, and it was impossible to solve the tactics. What he could do was increase the ball holding time of Anjie and Yi Jianlian.
The long-standing problem is that the Chinese team's outside, especially the back line, have been criticized. Chinese people who are obviously better at technical skills have produced most of the excellent basketball talents in the inside line. I really don't understand what exactly caused this situation.
Regardless of whether these "big brothers" were willing or not, in the second half, they could only become a machine for feeding An Jie and Yi Jianlian.
As long as the yi runs through half the game, as long as Anjie or Yi Jianlian gets to the position, they will pass the ball immediately. Although this tactic lacks changes and does not have much ornamentality, the effect is indeed obvious.
Anjie's yishi support can give Yi Jianlian the opportunity, and his low-post skills that have just been developed for a while can also allow him to score by himself in the box. Even if he doesn't have double-teams, Anjie is an unrestricted existence in the Asian arena.
In the Asian Championships, Anjie dunked much more times than when playing in nBa. Anjie, who was weak in nBa, rarely met an opponent who could compete with him in the Asian arena. Yi's rolling back dunk after repeated crushing back has become Anjie's signature offensive action.
In the third quarter, Anjie ravaged the basket four times, completely polishing the Chinese Taipei team's sharpness. Except Anjie, no one on the court had completed even if he dunked it, even Yi Jianlian could not complete it.
Under An Jie's full command, the Chinese team finally achieved a level, 32-6, winning yi6 points in a single quarter.
In the fourth quarter, An Jieyi, who had already exploded, led the Chinese team to pursue the victory and completely broke the Chinese Taipei team's fantasy of winning.
In addition, Wang Zhizhi felt hot in the second half, and he made three three-pointers, which made him even more powerful, making the Taipei team unable to turn over.
Although the difference between yoyi and 22 points is not an exaggeration, it is quite a lot. An Jie scored 35 points and 4 rebounds, and the vitality he showed on the court was something Yao Ming had never had. 35 points was the first time An Jie scored and broke through the 3o mark since he became a professional player.
"There is no way. An Jie's level is not at the level of the others here. I have tried many methods, but I still can't defend him." After the game, Taipei team coach Xu Jinzhe told this fact helplessly in an interview.
Chinese fans cheered for their new inside pillar. You should know that An Jie is only 20 years old and only celebrates his 2nd birthday this year. How far can such a young guy lead Chinese basketball in the future is indeed very exciting.
Under the good situation of Yi Film, the Chinese team advanced to the semi-finals. Their opponent is the Lebanese team with equal strength.
West Asian powerhouse Lebanon reached the finals in Oyi and O5 years. This year, they naturalized American player Jackson Fromman, and their local scorer Frejar also performed well. This also allowed the Lebanese team to successfully reach the semi-finals and once again tied the arm of the Chinese team that lacked Yao Ming.
Speaking of this naturalized player Jackson Forman, Angel has some connection with him. Forman was selected by the Bulls in the second round of 2004, but before that, Forman was a member of the Iowa State University Tornado.
However, Forman himself has limited strength and has wandered around in nBa and the European League, and has not made any name for himself. Now, he unexpectedly found that he could play so easily in the Asian arena and frequently scored 2oyio data. So Forman set his next goal, bsp;
In the whole game, Fromman almost had no use. He was the core of the Lebanese team in the previous game, but today, he was guarded by Anjie to make no achievements.
He couldn't play inside, and his touch was not as good as Anger on the outside. Forman was completely inaccurate in the whole game, and Angeri personally strangled the core of the Lebanese team to death.
Forman did not give up and held the ball frame to break through Anjie's defense. However, Anjie's footsteps were not something that Forman could break through as soon as he said.
As soon as he took a step, Anjie quickly blocked Fromanka and couldn't move. Before he could react, Anjie cut off the basketball in Froman's hand with his left hand.
Zhu Fangyu reacted quickly and picked up the basketball and started to advance. Unfortunately, the Chinese team's outside players were too slow, so this counterattack failed.
After that ball just now, Forman had made four mistakes and made 2 of yio. If Frege hadn't been accurate in shooting, Lebanon might have given up resisting long ago.
However, how could a mere Frejay compete with the entire Chinese team? 88 to 68. The TV commentator thought this would be a tough battle, but unexpectedly, An Jie was beaten into a huge battle with a huge gap in strength.
After winning this game, the Chinese team will compete with the same strong Iran team for the championship on August 6.
Because the Chinese team performed well before, the winning situation was very good.
"Iran's Hadadi can't even play in nBa, our Anjie is the core of the Thunder team building!"
"Anjie's previous performance was already at the dominant level. A mere Hadadi couldn't do anything to him."
Chinese fans are very confident about Anjie, which is understandable. But Hadadi is definitely not an underestimated opponent.
He is almost the same as Anjie at 2 meters tall, and his weight is 27 kilograms but he is much taller than Anjie. He frequently performs excellently in international arenas. Even when facing world-class teams like the United States and Brazil, Haddadi can still achieve results.
There is little playing time in nBa, which does not mean that Hadadi's ability is not worth mentioning. Yao Ming's second center in Asia is not given in vain.
When the game started on August 6, Chinese fans realized that the game was so difficult.
"Wang Shipeng's three-pointer chance to make an open three-pointer! Still no! This is Wang Shipeng's second time, he won't make an open three-pointer!" Yu Jia was anxious in the studio, but the Chinese players on the court just couldn't show their performance.
Haddadi grabbed Anjie and grabbed the defensive rebound. Although Anjie's bounce was much better than Haddadi, he wouldn't have exaggerated him to directly ignore Haddadi's offensive rebound.
After the Iranian team came over, Hadadi received the ball again. Hadadi failed to succeed when he played against Anjie two times. Yi was blocked by Anjie and yi deviated from the basket under the interference of Anjie. However, Hadadi could not open it does not mean that other people from the Iranian team could not open it either.
Hadadi's support ability is also very good. He leaned against Anjie's back and pushed in with the advantage of tonnage. However, he did this just a feint, in order to make the Chinese team relax their vigilance against his teammates.
Haddadi suddenly turned around, but his proud footsteps did not work in front of Anjie at all. Anjie blocked Haddadi's offensive space, but Haddadi's wrists shook, causing the basketball to fly to the hands of Iran's small forward Sakhachien.
Zhu Fangyu saw Haddadi turn around and unconsciously shrinking into the inside, which gave Sakhaqin the opportunity to shoot. Unlike the cold touch of the Chinese team, Sakhaqin's three-pointer was accurately entered br >
Yi6 to 8, the Chinese team was eight points behind the Iran team!
"Hey!" Guo Shiqiang stood up again, reminding the players on the court to be careful not to miss people. The game has been very unsuccessful. Except for An Jie and Wang Zhizhi, everyone else cannot find a feeling on the offensive end.
It is not as easy as I imagined to have crossed the Iran team to win the Asian championship. Perhaps the Chinese team in front of me were easily won, so they also relaxed their vigilance against Iran.
Seeing Zhu Fangyu's three-pointer deviating from the target again, and watching the Iranian team make another mid-range shot. Guo Shiqiang had to call a timeout, and the Chinese team was already ten behind!
"What's going on today!? Is that hard to shoot the basket?? Reduce the outside shots, Alian, you go out and rest, Dazhi and Anjie partner in the inside, you two are our main attack points!" Another time, Guo Shiqiang gave up the change and handed over the right to decide the life and death of the Chinese team to Anjie and Wang Zhizhi.
"Leave it to me...oh, coach." When he met a strong enemy, An Jie could only watch his teammate Yi wasting opportunities outside the three-point line again and again. Now with the head coach's arrangement, he can finally get the best in the inside with Haddadi as he wished.
The yi quarter ended with two minutes, and the Chinese team fell behind yio points, which was a situation that no fans expected. However, after the timeout came back, can the Chinese team with Anjie as the core change its decline?
Yao Ming's baton was passed to An Jie without realizing it. The previous game was not painful, and in the final, An Jie had to come out with some real guys.
An Jie looked down at the battle robe on his body. The team name written on his chest was no longer "Thunder", bsp; An Jie clenched his fist, the champion, yi must get it!
Chapter completed!