You should cross the mountains like a brave man

Chapter 822 Let It Go
In early August, Wei Xia returned to China.

In order to prepare for the Asian Championships held in Changsha, the national team has been training for four months.

In April, the CBA was playing the playoffs, and the Basketball Association drew up the training list for the first batch of national teams.The main recruiters of this list are those CBA players who have not made the playoffs and the national youth players who have not yet entered the professional league.

By August, all domestic players who could be named had already come to the national team, and some players who were not capable enough had packed up and returned home earlier.

This is a brand new national team, and Wei Xia doesn't recognize many faces.

Kong Tianyi, who has returned to the CBA, Guo Ailun, who has played with the national team for 10 years, Zhou Peng, an engineering winger who has made his mark, and China's Okafor Wang Zhelin, who was recently selected by the 76ers with the last pick.

The last time Wei Xia saw him was in 2012, when he was still a young man full of vigor, when he saw him today, he was shocked—"Is your face swollen?"

Wang Zhelin's weight has increased by at least 20-30 catties compared with the past.

Moreover, he didn't gain weight systematically, as if he hadn't trained for a while, and he didn't control his mouth, which resulted in a lot of fat.

His face was round and swollen, and the handsome young man suddenly changed.

"hurt."

Wang Zhelin spoke with an obvious Fujian accent, and he was a little embarrassed to say the reason for his departure.

After Wei Xia asked carefully, he found out that Wang Zhelin's knee was injured and he hadn't exercised for several months. In addition, athletes are used to eating a lot of calories when they eat, and they don't exercise to expel these energy. It is inevitable to gain weight.

In addition to Wang Zhelin, Wei Xia also met many new young faces.

It's a pity that the top talents are all concentrated in the interior, such as Kong Tianyi, Wang Zhelin, or Li Muhao, who is [-] meters tall and has top running and jumping ability, but other strengths are not obvious.

It is often said that Li Muhao's athletic ability is like that of a buck, but who has seen the buck play basketball?

In addition, there is Zhou Qi, the future star who was promoted from the youth team.

Zhou Qi was the first batch of players to go to the national team for training. Those who came with him have already left.In other words, he is the only player left in the first training list.

He has a lot of advantages, he is accurate at the head; he can support, and this area has great development value; his offensive ability with the ball is really top-notch for an insider of his size; 218 cm and a wingspan of more than 230 cm, this body ratio may be unprecedented in China, and he also has forward-like agility, coordination, and movement speed.

The shortcomings are also obvious, such as low body fat and thin stature, resulting in lack of physical strength; poor confrontation; rebound rebounds do not like to get stuck; symptoms similar to Rudy Gay and Wiggins on the court are in a trance; inside skills need to be greatly improved.

In fact, the problem is not insoluble.

The series of problems behind him are not big problems if the NBA's requirements for big men are followed.As long as he can improve his confrontation, train his physical strength, and maintain his current characteristics, he will have no problem finding a foothold in the NBA.

Confrontation is the main reason why many FIBA ​​stars have difficulty surviving in the NBA.

The inside talent of the Chinese team is undoubtedly the only one in Asia. The addition of Wei Xia has promoted their flanks from the top in Asia to the world.

In addition to a few insiders and old men, there are also a few rookie strikers and guards with their own characteristics. It's just a pity that except for Zhou Qi and Wang Zhelin, almost none of these people are talented enough to be in the NBA.

Wei Xia set his mind right from the first day he joined the training team.

The last time he played for the national team was two years ago, and some young people have never played against him at all.

In a training match, Wei Xia scored 50 points alone and established his prestige.

"Isn't this the same as CBA? Give the ball to foreign players. I am familiar with this routine, and the old horse cooperates with me like this." Zhai Xiaochuan, a striker from Beijing, laughed.

His figure and athletic ability are at the top level in Asia.

It's a pity that I practiced high jump in my early years, and I changed to basketball when I grew up. The basic skills are not solid.

If talent is the top in Asia, then the basic skills of controlling movement are at the level of primary and secondary schools in China.

Fortunately, he knows where his problems are. He has never played recklessly, passed the ball when he should pass, and moved when he should move. He has his own understanding of cutting in positional battles and finishing at the basket.

Wei Xia practiced with them for half a month and found out the characteristics of most of them.

The national team coach Gong Luming decided to put Wei Xia in the third position.

Although he plays the No. [-] position in the NBA, in the national team, the No. [-] position is obviously more capable of displaying his full abilities.

Since everyone in the 96 golden generation retired, the Chinese team has not produced a few all-round creators.

Wei Xia set a position, initially cultivated a tacit understanding with the team, and then "came out" to play a warm-up match.

Putting on the national team shirt again after two years, Wei Xia's joining has increased the ticket fee for the warm-up match, and all the places where people can be human at the game site are full of people.

Moreover, the attention of the regular season has reached the level of the official game.

In the first warm-up match, the opponent was the second army of the Argentine team.

Argentina's second army commander left a deep impression on Wei Xia. This person may be less than 1 meters tall, and his figure is very similar to Deron Williams. The whole small tank has the amazing creativity of Ginobili.

Fairy spirit and coquettishness seem to be the characteristics of Argentine players.

The small tank defender repeatedly sent the back pass and the crotch pass;
How can Wei Xia sit back and watch his home court be dominated by his opponent?First shot the ground with a pistol and changed the line to pass the ball against Xiuzhi, then Pearl Monroe turned around and broke through the baptism, humiliating him with an NBA-range three-pointer.

Facing the current No.1 in the basketball world, the Argentine defender is not timid, he dares to fight and fight hard, and he cannot escape the end of being blown up in the end.

Although Wei Xia and everyone on the scene have different levels of strength, his style of play does not give people the feeling of being superior.

He is very humble, he should run, cover and cover, and do green leaves when he should make green leaves for the inside.

Only when the other party shows off, he will show off.

At the end of the game, Wei Xia and the small Argentine defender exchanged jerseys.

From this, he learned the other party's name - Facundo Campazze.

He is not young anymore, he was born in 1991, and now the youngest to enter the NBA league is a child in 1996.

His height and style of play may be difficult to adapt to the NBA, but on the FIBA ​​stage, there may be another world.

The Argentine Second Army is the strongest warm-up opponent that the men's basketball team encountered in August.

Next, they encountered a large number of low-level tourist teams.

Wei Xia is very helpless, but he can't force anything. Even if the strength of these opponents is not strong, for the rest of the national team, they have achieved the effect and purpose of warming up.

Wei Xia quickly adjusted his mentality.

He began to emphasize the tactical discipline within the team and correct the bad habits of young players.

If there is a problem with Wang Zhelin's defense, Wei Xia will joke half-seriously: "Don't you want to play in the NBA?"

Wei Xia will point out Zhou Qi's lack of concentration or lack of positioning when grabbing rebounds, or other weird problems on the spot.

He turned himself into a milder version of Rajon Rondo.

Sometimes even Space Yi can't escape being complained about.

People who often watch Space Yi play know that his talent is beyond doubt, but from young to old, he has a problem with playing: too rigid and inflexible.

So whenever he plays like a robot according to the formula he set, Wei Xia will say: "I think it might be better if you changed more XX just now."

He was by no means harsh, just took the trouble to point out the issues.

Every time he said these things, Gong Luming would keep up with the follow-up output.

He formed a clever tacit understanding with the old man.

Wei Xia has touched the bottom of everyone, and he can roughly know where the upper limit of this team is.

Even without him, as long as the coaching staff does not make mistakes and everyone is united, it will be no problem to dominate Asia.If it is not enough to put it on the world stage, if you add him, it will only be the strength of the top 8 or top 4.

This is not the problem of the Chinese team alone. With the vigorous development of youth training in European countries, and the introduction of a large number of talented blacks in training camps opened in Africa, if they cannot form an active NBA starter, they will be ashamed to call themselves a strong team in the world.

The status quo of Asian basketball is that as long as you have an NBA-level player, even a marginal player in the NBA like Kong Tianyi, you can change the situation.

Joining Wei Xia's Chinese team, sweeping Asia is not a problem.

What Wei Xia is thinking about is the World Series. The quarter-finals or semi-finals cannot satisfy him. He can either win the championship or be the runner-up. If he is not the number one winner, he will become the number one loser.

But with the current personnel reserve of the Chinese team, if this group of people can be brought to the finals of world-class competitions, Chinese fans may be able to blow Wei Xia into the No. 1 universe.

Wei Xia didn't want to be Ah Qing's wife, and worrying all day long was not the solution to the problem. In September, when the men's basketball national team participated in the Yao Foundation Charity Tournament organized by Yao Ming, they got a few days of rest.He took this opportunity to issue an announcement in his own name to hold a basketball training camp during the National Day. The purpose of the training camp is to audition children born between 1997 and 2000 and provide them with the most professional training and guidance.

If there are really gifted child prodigies, Wei Xia has to find a way to keep these people's talents from being buried.

The consequence of doing so is that he will miss the entire preseason training camp of the 2015-16 season.

Wei Xia didn't hesitate. He realized the shortage of talents in the Chinese team. If we don't let go of it now and put these problems in the future, then the problem will only become more serious.

(End of this chapter)