am i proud?

Chapter 286 Sword Points at Athens
Wang Dalin couldn't let go of leaving such an important deal to "Master Baylor" alone, so he stayed in Los Angeles for a few more days until the deal was settled before he boarded the plane back to his motherland.

Of course, the trade still had to be done, but the 76ers got another 2009 first-round pick for this... Of course, "Baylor" doesn't know what the 2009 first-round pick means, but he is very persuasive.

He didn't know that Wang Dalin was salivating over the 2009 rookie class.

No. [-] pick Blake Griffin can be ignored. Stephen Curry and James Harden alone are definitely super guards in NBA history. If there is a chance to win one of them, let alone Quentin Richardson, even half of the Clippers team is worth it!
Even if these two picks are too high to be selected, there are still many outstanding rookies with a slightly lower pick that year.

For example, Zhu Holiday with the 17th pick in the first round, Ty Lawson with the 18th pick, and Jeff Teague with the 19th pick are all pretty good point guards, as well as Patrick Beverly, Patrick Mills, Danny Green, Marcus Thornton in the second round...these are also famous in the league!
It’s really not kind to send away the hero Quentin Richardson just after winning the championship, but the NBA is like this, and it can be explained with a very famous saying-"It's all business!"

Just in the past few days, the Lakers completed the most important deal of this year's offseason... They sent away the "League's No. 2006 Center" Shaq O'Neal, and got Lamar Odom, Caron Butler, Brian Grant, the 2007 first-round pick and the [-] second-round pick from the Heat.

Fate is fate after all...O'Neal still came to Miami with a sunny beach bikini as in the original history, and Kobe became the only king of this team as in the original history.

And Karl Malone... This veteran returned to his home in Salt Lake City after losing in the Western Conference Finals. He didn't even answer his agent's calls. It seemed that he was really disheartened.

The Clippers still have a lot to do next. The contracts of several players on the team have expired, such as Kenyon Dooling, Melvin Eli, Wang Zhizhi and so on.

Whether these people should let go or stay should be carefully considered, but these are all things that "Lord Baylor" is worried about, and Wang Dalin didn't get involved anymore... He just mentioned the matter of Wang Zhizhi's contract renewal, and the others didn't care.

Now that Iguodala has been acquired through a trade, plus himself and Artest, the Clippers' main framework for the next few years has been successfully built. The other role players are just to complete the jigsaw puzzle of the winning lineup... With him, it's not too bad to change someone without him!

Wang Dalin has to return to China quickly, domestic affairs are obviously more important than this... The first is the engagement ceremony with Zhang Zilin, and the next is the national team's training camp and warm-up match.

Some people say that the training camp is a yarn?
Does Wang Dalin still need to participate in the training camp at such a level?
If it was an Asian-level competition, such as the Asian Championships or the Asian Games, Wang Dalin certainly didn't need to be so concerned. Anyway, he could easily win the championship by playing casually.

But now it's the Olympics!
Even though he, Wang Zhizhi, Yao Ming and Bartel are four NBA players in this Chinese men's basketball team, which is known as the strongest Chinese men's basketball team in history, isn't the opponent's strength not strong?

Not to mention the US team with a luxurious lineup, just say Spain, Lithuania, Argentina, Serbia and Montenegro...Which of these teams is a fuel-efficient lamp?

The goal set by the basketball management center for this Olympic Games is to reach the quarterfinals, but the goal Wang Dalin set for himself is not so low.

In time and space, the Chinese men's basketball team made it to the quarter-finals without their own. Now that they have themselves, how can they be in the quarter-finals?

This is too underestimating Lao Tzu, the new MVP and FMVP, right?

The goal Wang Dalin set for himself was to win at least one medal... If there is a chance, he would simply bring the gold medal back to the motherland!
And he also has a "small goal", which is to overthrow the US team no matter what... One of the leaders of the US men's basketball team this year is Allen Iverson. Maybe during this Olympic Games, he will be able to complete the promotion task of "Road to Superstar"!

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Only after returning to China did he realize that the engagement ceremony between himself and Zhang Zilin had been divided into two...one in Beijing and one in Chongqing.

This is also to fully take care of the relatives and friends of the two families, otherwise it would be too troublesome for so many people to travel back and forth between Chongqing and Beijing.

It was not easy to settle this matter, the time has come to mid-July, Wang Dalin had to say goodbye to his fiancée in a hurry, and got into the training base of the Chinese men's basketball team.

The 12 players in the Chinese men's basketball team are centers Yao Ming, Bateer and Wang Zhizhi, power forwards Wang Dalin, Yi Jianlian and Mo Ke, small forwards Zhang Jinsong and Du Feng, shooting guards Zhu Fangyu and Li Nan, point guards Liu Wei and Guo Shiqiang.

In the original history, Bateer did not participate in this Olympic Games, and Chen Ke and Zhang Yunsong, who participated in this Olympic Games in the original history, have no chance to be selected in this life.

This time, the Chinese men's basketball team has two head coaches, one is the former assistant coach of the Mavericks "Silver Fox" Del Harris, and the other is Jonas Kazlauskas, who is known as "Caesar" in Europe... The real caller of this Olympic Games is Harris.

Speaking of the silver-haired head coach Wang Dalin, he is no stranger at all, and they have dealt with each other many times in the NBA.

This man served as an assistant coach for the Rockets in the 1980-1981 season, led that Rockets team to the Finals, and later coached the Bucks and Lakers for many years... After getting out of class from the Lakers, he served as an assistant coach for the Mavericks for 7 years.

Although he has never been involved in the NBA championship, Harris was able to lead the Rockets with a regular season record of only 41 wins and 41 losses to the finals. His coaching level must be quite good.

In Wang Dalin's view, Harris can never be worse than the old man Larry Brown... Now this American men's basketball team has Duncan, Iverson, Marion, Lamar Odom and other stars. Larry Brown only won the bronze medal with them, and there is no one else!
Although due to the progress of world basketball, the advantage of the American men's basketball team is getting smaller and smaller, but the real reason for their loss is that their tactics are rigid and inflexible, and these NBA stars are too arrogant.

If Larry Brown can give a little authority to his assistant coaches, such as Popovich, won't they really be able to win the Olympic championship?

Maybe it can, maybe it can't... But from the perspective of a fan in Wang Dalin's previous life, Popovich can definitely do a better job than the old man Brown!
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The Chinese men's basketball team has a very strong lineup of assistant coaches this time, including professionals such as Adijiang, Min Lulei, Hu Weidong, Jiang Xingquan and Jr. Nelson. The training camp went quite smoothly.

8月中旬雅典奥运会就要开幕了，所以中国男篮在7月份安排了4场热身赛，分别是7月18日对澳大利亚、7月20日对立陶宛、7月22日对安哥拉、7月24日对希腊。

The warm-up opponents this time are all one of the 12 Olympic teams.

Of course, in order to avoid being found out by the opponent in advance, the Chinese men's basketball team did not choose Spain, Italy, Argentina, Serbia and Montenegro as warm-up opponents in Group A.

The four warm-up opponents are all in Group B. Even if they can meet in the Olympic Games, it will be a knockout match after advancing to the quarterfinals.

为了鼓舞士气，王大林在对阵澳大利亚的首场热身赛里打得非常卖力，他一个人就砍下了33分17篮板11助攻2抢断3盖帽。

But the game scene was not very good. The Chinese team almost lost the game... If the opponent didn't hold back at the last moment, they might have lost!
Yao Ming only scored 11 points, 7 rebounds, 2 assists and 1 block. His condition is obviously not very good...Of course, this is also normal. No player can guarantee that he is in good condition every game.

However, Yao Ming blamed himself very much. After the game, he took the initiative to apologize to everyone in the locker room and said that he would definitely play better in the next games.

Yao Ming really did what he said, scoring 27 points, 12 rebounds, 4 assists and 3 blocks in the game against Lithuania, becoming the second most important contributor to the Chinese team's victory.

排名第一的大功臣当然还是王大林……他全场17投11中，其中三分球6投4中，罚球8投8中，砍下34分15篮板7助攻2抢断2盖帽。

Although Wang Dalin did not score another large triple-double, it is very rare for him to score such a statistic even when Yao Ming broke out.

Moreover, being able to defeat the powerful Lithuanian team also greatly boosted the confidence of the young players of the Chinese team... You must know that the Lithuanian team was the champion of the Men's Basketball European Championship last year, and it is definitely the most powerful super team in Europe!

China's Group A also includes Spain, Italy, and Serbia and Montenegro. Their strengths cannot be underestimated, so the significance of this victory is even greater... At least the Chinese team will not be timid when facing these European teams during the Olympic group stage.

The match on July 7 was the easiest of all the warm-up matches. Although the Angola team is the African champion, their strength is obviously not enough to be world-class. If it weren't for the Chinese team's water in the fourth quarter, it is estimated that they would be able to kill them. More than 22 points.

On July 7, the opponent was the Greek team.

This team has a star defender like Vassilis Spanoulis. Since he started playing in the Greek League in 1999, he has been nicknamed "European Kobe" in just a few years, and his strength is very good.

He is a point guard with a height of 193cm and a weight of 86KG, but his style of play is more inclined to a shooting guard. He has very delicate skills and excellent physical fitness. He is strong in defense and sharp in offense.

In this game, Spanoulis brought a lot of trouble to the Chinese team, especially the four players in the Chinese team who played in the NBA are all inside players, and there are still some problems with the quality of outside defense.

Fortunately, the Chinese team also played their own advantage inside. Both Wang Dalin and Yao Ming scored 30+ points, and they jointly grabbed 31 rebounds, including 13 offensive rebounds alone!
As the saying goes-"If you control the rebound, you can control the game", so it is not surprising that the Chinese team can beat the Greek team in this game.

The Chinese men's basketball team ended the warm-up match with a record of four victories. This result made the leaders of the basketball management center very satisfied and made the fans all over the country smile.

Now more and more people are imagining that the Chinese men's basketball team will create unprecedented brilliance in the Olympics... With this strength, the quarter-finals are still nothing?Can't think too much about it, how about a medal?

This is not only because of the blind arrogance of the fans, even ESPN is particularly optimistic about this year's Chinese men's basketball team, ranking them fourth in the Olympic men's basketball strength list... The Chinese men's basketball team has never been treated like this before, and the highest can be ranked eighth or ninth.

After the warm-up match, the Chinese men's basketball team had a three-day vacation. The players could reunite with their families for a short time, and there will be no such free time in the future.

Of course, training is still necessary, mainly to participate in the mobilization meetings at all levels before the Olympics... These days, everyone understands!

Of course, Wang Dalin was very disgusted with such occasions, so he asked the coaching staff to help him take a few days off. For a superstar like him, the basketball management center naturally turned a blind eye.

Anyway, Wang Dalin just got engaged, the young couple hastily threw themselves into the training camp before they had time to warm up for a few days, now he wants to spend more time with his fiancée, this is also human nature!
In the past few days, Wang Dalin took Zhang Zilin to the theater of Deyun Club all day long, laughing until his stomach cramped every day.

He invested 600 million in the Deyun Club at the beginning, and now seeing that the cross talk group is getting better and better, Yu Qian has even resigned from his permanent job in the art troupe and officially joined the Deyun Club.

Fortunately, the Internet media is far less developed than later generations, so Wang Dalin and Zhang Zilin's frequent appearances in Deyun Club have not been exposed by the media, and they are naturally happy.

Just in the past few days, Wang Dalin also took time to shoot his own "Reaper Olympic Special" commercial. This pair of basketball shoes combines all the latest technologies of "Li Ning Company".

Since signing the contract with "Li-Ning Company", Wang Dalin has proposed to them a lot of ideas for future generations of advanced technology. Although he doesn't know much about these, there are professionals in "Li-Ning Company" after all...Sometimes just by giving a research direction, they can make many future technologies appear in advance!

For example, the design to prevent sprained feet... Many people think that wearing high-top basketball shoes can effectively prevent sprained feet, but this is actually a fallacy!
In fact, preventing sprained feet mainly depends on the support of the sole and upper, and has little to do with high and low tops.

There is also an air cushion to increase cushioning... This technology is of course the secret of "Nike", but many domestic basketball shoes in later generations have used this technology, and it is not as tall as everyone imagined.

Wang Dalin's pair of "Reaper Olympic Special" basketball shoes are top-notch in wrapping and support. Although the shock absorption is not as good as the "Nike" with air cushion, it is already quite good... All in all, this is definitely a pair of basketball shoes that cross the era, even compared with the latest "Nike" at the moment!

According to the colors of the Chinese men’s basketball jerseys, the “Reaper Olympic Special Edition” only has two main colors: red and white. Wang Dalin himself particularly likes the red one, because it looks so cool...so he gave a pair to each of his teammates from the national team, including the coaching staff.

On the afternoon of August 8th, all the members of the Chinese men's basketball team finally boarded the plane to Athens. After arriving, they will directly check into the Olympic Village, and then take a good rest of the jet lag, and then participate in the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games on the evening of August 10th.

It is a great honor for Wang Dalin to be elected as the standard bearer of this year's Chinese Olympic delegation... There is nothing he can do about being handsome, even if he wants to keep a low profile!
When the plane took off, Wang Dalin was extremely excited... After so many years, let me turn a new page for the Chinese men's basketball team!

At this moment, the Chinese men's basketball team is pointing at Athens...

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