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Most of the focus of national attention now is football. CCTV still has not purchased the live broadcast rights this season, but has bought the delayed broadcast rights of the three leagues.

This is enough happiness for domestic audiences. CCTV is already preparing to set up a sports channel before the Olympic Games. It is said that most of the expenses will come from the sponsorship of the "China Sports Foundation".

This is ten years earlier than the original plane, and the main reason is naturally the rise of football and basketball.

Now that the three major balls have clearly become world-class, CCTV cannot always use comprehensive channels to broadcast sports games, and can only establish a professional sports TV channel that mainly broadcasts sports events and sports reports as soon as possible.

And in September, the Chinese men's basketball team finally had a chance to show themselves in front of the people of the whole country.

CCTV has decided to broadcast live this men's basketball World Championships. At that time, Chinese fans will be able to watch the Chinese men's basketball team compete with the world's top teams for the first time.

Wu Jie attaches great importance to this competition, because he has long been given a main task related to it - "Uncover the mystery!"

"Task requirements (1): Please help the Chinese men's basketball team enter the quarterfinals!"

"Mission reward: [-] Olympic coins, any diamond card!"

"Task requirements (2): Please help the Chinese men's basketball team enter the semi-finals!"

"Mission reward: [-] Olympic coins, any four-star physical talent, any four-star special talent!"

"Task requirement (3): Please help the Chinese men's basketball team win the championship!"

"Mission reward: [-] Olympic coins, any legendary card!"

Although this kind of task reward is worse than the football World Cup, it is also an income not to be missed.

"We only got 11th last time. This is definitely not a ranking that matches our strength. This time we hope to show our best side to the world!"

After leading the team to Colombia, Ruda made a very high-profile announcement in an interview-"We are not here to travel"!

Chapter 2 Legendary Coach + Legendary Insider

There are a total of 16 teams participating in this World Championships. The group stage is divided into four groups for competition, and the top two in each group qualify.

The lineup of the Chinese men's basketball team this time is the most luxurious in team history, and most of them are members of the Bayi team that just won the Club World Cup.

But the grouping is still unfavorable to the Chinese team, and the Chinese men's basketball team was also unexpectedly divided into the death group. The opponents in the same group are the US team, the Spanish team, and the Côte d'Ivoire team.

Among the three opponents, only Côte d'Ivoire is participating in the World Championships for the first time. The team's strength is limited, and the other two are considered to be the favorites to win the championship.

Wu Jie was not surprised by this at all, especially in the group with the US team, the original plane has almost become the tradition of the Chinese team.

He also felt very strange about this matter. The Chinese team on the original plane would be in the same group with the US team almost every time in the World Championships and Olympics.

But in Wu Jie's view, this time the Chinese team is not afraid of these two opponents at all.

The Spaniard is strong in positional warfare, and the inside players are all tall and powerful traditional European players with solid skills at the basket.

However, their ability to attack from the outside is insufficient, the inside moves slowly, and their physical fitness is not very good. In fact, they are afraid of the unique fast style of the Chinese team in this era.

The U.S. team is still composed of college star teams, and white players are still given priority, which makes it difficult to improve the overall strength.

In fact, there are many future Hall of Fame superstars in the NCAA at this time. Jordan, Olajuwon, Barkley, Stockton and others who are still not famous in their freshman year are not counted, but Drexler, Ralph Sampson and others are also future Hall of Famers.

If the U.S. team selects all these black college stars into the national team, the strength of the entire team will inevitably be greatly improved.

But it's a pity that players like Stipanovic, Doc Rivers, and Byron Scott joined the US team in the end.

So in the first round of the group stage, Spain defeated the US team 109-99.

The Chinese team also defeated the Côte d'Ivoire men's basketball team 114:85.

Ruda's performance in this game once again shocked the world, but it was not because he performed a death dunk, nor did he score a high score that surprised the world, but sent a staggering 24 assists in a single game.

In this battle, the Chinese team faced the Ivorian players with speed and height in the air, and used their excellent confrontation, technology, physical fitness, discipline, and cooperation to completely defeat their opponents.

This sounds unbelievable. Chinese players actually have confrontation and physical advantages?

This is really true. Wu Jie spent two years training the physical fitness of the national football team to a world-class level. Lu Da is not idle here. He also uses advanced training methods to improve the physical fitness and lower body strength of male basketball players.

This is not difficult to understand. The training intensity of the Chinese team in the original plane is not bad, even the amount of training is a bit excessive, but the training method is not scientific enough, and the nutrition cannot keep up. The most important thing is that the direction is wrong. The effect is naturally not good.

But in the past two years, the food for the three major players has already been brought up with the money made by Wu Jie and others, and there is even spare money to buy a batch of training equipment.

At this time, combined with everyone's desperate attitude and correct training methods, two years can really improve a lot.

Wu Jie secretly improved the talents of this group of men's basketball players three months ago, and now the abilities of these men's basketball players are much stronger than the original plane (the list of the Chinese team's lineup is put in the author's statement).

If you look at the data alone, except for Ruda, most of these Chinese players are at the level of later NBA substitute players.

But we must know that the level of NBA stars in the eighties and 90s is not much different from that in the 21st century, but the overall level of middle and bottom players is quite different from that after the 21st century.

Therefore, the ability value in the early 70s of this era is enough to play the top half of the NBA's mid-lower teams. Even if the level of Huang Yunlong and Li Yaguang goes to the NBA's strong teams, they are at least role players with enough playing time.

Such a Chinese team plus Ruda, even if it is put in the NBA to play in the playoffs, there is no big problem.

Facing the American college star team at this moment, their strength on paper will only be stronger, not worse.

The Americans are also very afraid of the Chinese team, because the situation of the Chinese men's basketball team is similar to that of the Chinese men's football team. It is obviously beyond the third tier, but because they have participated in too few international competitions and their results in the past two years have not been very good, this will make them feel like they are not good enough. The world ranking is still only 19th.

Therefore, their group C has also become a recognized group of death. Now many people are waiting to see the Americans and Spaniards follow the unlucky England and France, expecting that one of their groups will be eliminated.

Everyone thought that this unlucky guy would probably be Spain, but they didn't expect that they won the first battle against the United States.

Then the match between China and the United States in the second game is very important. If the Americans overturn again, they will directly GG!

On September 9th, the focus of the Chinese team VS US team is about to start.

"The inside line of this American team is much worse than expected, but the outside line is not bad. We played more inside today, gave more balls to Ruda, opened up the outside line, and used the 'chasing and grading' tactics whenever we had the opportunity. Break them down!"

Qian Chenghai is making the final deployment on the sidelines. Yesterday they studied the video of the match between Spain and the United States, and they came to the conclusion that the internal strength of the American team is much worse than expected. At that time, all tactics will be activated.

"The coach is right, today's focus is on the inside."

Ruda knew better that the three white insiders of the American team simply didn't have enough confrontation ability, but the outside players were of good quality.

But as long as the opponent's inside line is destroyed, the US team's outside line will not be able to make too much trouble, because the Chinese team's outside line is not bad!

However, unlike Wu Jie who completely emptied the head coach in the national football team, Qian Chenghai has a high status in the men's basketball team.

The "full-court pressing" and "chasing and grading" prepared by the Chinese team today (the civilized name for the ass chasing tactic, the prototype of the bombardment tactic) were both invented by Qian Chenghai.

In addition, there are three exclusive skills in the attributes of this world famous coach, namely: [Father of turnaround jump shot], [Father of chasing ass], [Father of full-court pressing].

Wu Jie was taken aback when he saw the coach's special ability at the beginning, and he was even more surprised when he saw the detailed introduction.

[Father of turn jump shot]: Exclusive ability, can be taught, increase the learning speed of the coached players by 50%, can be taught up to five stars, and improve the hit rate of the coached players turn jump shots.

[Father of Chasing Ass]: Exclusive ability, increase the fast-break shooting percentage of the coached players, improve the stability of fast-break shooting for all players, reduce fast-break physical consumption, complete the attack and score within 10 seconds, and improve team morale.

[Father of full-court press]: Exclusive ability, when the coaching team uses full-court press defense, it increases the chance of stealing the ball, reduces the chance of fouling, reduces physical exertion, and additionally reduces the opponent's physical fitness.

After seeing Qian Chenghai's attributes, Wu Jie couldn't believe it. He might be a legendary coach at the level of Auerbach, Pat Riley, and Popovich.

However, the Chinese men's basketball team used to have such a legendary coach, but he still failed to reach the top eight of the World Championships and the Olympics. It can only be said that the strength of these players is not very good, or that they have irreparable shortcomings.

The shortcoming is physical confrontation and physical fitness. Basketball is a competitive sport with fierce confrontation after all. If you are not physically fit and your physical fitness is too poor, no matter how good your skills are and how well you cooperate, it is still difficult to perform well.

Now he has greatly improved the shortcomings in this area, and the level of the entire team has been improved by more than one level immediately. This is also the confidence for the Chinese team to dare to covet the championship.

At 8:9 p.m. local time in Colombia and [-]:[-] a.m. BJ time, this China-US basketball confrontation, which will be broadcast live in China, is about to begin.

Song Shixiong was already broadcasting the starting lineups of the two teams. The substitute players of the two teams had already left, and the game was about to start.

The starting lineup of the Chinese team;

Center: Ruda (93): 2.06 meters, 18 years old.

Power forward: Huang Yunlong (80): 2.00 meters, 22 years old.

Small forward: Zhang Yongjun (75): 1.93 meters, 21 years old.

Shooting guard: Li Yaguang (79): 1.90 meters, 24 years old.

Point guard: Sun Fengwu (73): 1.83 meters, 20 years old.

This is a very young lineup, even younger than the average age of the NCAA.

Team USA starting lineup:

Center: Steve Stipanovic (78): 2.10 meters, 22 years old.

Power forward: Tim McCormick (75): 2.08 meters, 20 years old.

Small forward: Randy Whitman (75): 1.98 meters, 23 years old.

Shooting guard: Byron Scott (78): 1.91 meters, 21 years old.

Point guard: Doc Rivers (77): 1.93 meters, 21 years old.

There is not much difference between the lineups of the two teams on the outside, but they are indeed far behind on the inside.

Ruda's ability value is placed in this World Championships, and no one is at the same level as him. The Soviet Union has not made his debut yet.

In addition, even Huang Yunlong's level is much better than McCormick's, which should be unexpected for the US team.

With the opening jump ball, Ruda gave next year's No. [-] pick, the white center Stipanovic the idea of ​​being powerless.

Ruda's jump was too high and too fast, and the jumping abilities of the two were not at the same level at all.

But this was just the beginning of the crushing. After the Chinese team got the ball, they immediately advanced quickly and launched a fast break after chasing the American team's ass.

This is the first real confrontation between the US team and the Chinese team. Although I have heard that the fast break of the Chinese team is very sharp, I did not expect it to be so fast.

Sun Fengwu's ability is a little worse than Rivers, but he is characterized by being short, strong and fast, and may suffer from height when defending, but with a calf-like figure and excellent ball-handling ability, a college star like Rivers There is no real threat to him yet.

Ruda easily received the pass on the way to the cut. At this time, facing the tall, thin and soft Stipanovic in his eyes, he didn't need any skills at all. He held the basketball high and launched a flat push towards the basket. McCormick, who was assisting in the defense, also crashed into the air together, and dedicated a huge profiteering dunk with both hands at the beginning!

The coach of the U.S. team watched it very painfully. Their two insiders were easily bumped by Ruda like keeping pins. How can college players defend against such a hugely profitable insider?

The American viewers in front of the TV also had the same idea. Luda was a lot stronger than these two in terms of body size. His muscles were like a man of steel. On the other hand, their two insiders didn't even have fat. It's like two white clothes rails, wouldn't they fall down when they hit each other?

"Hell, this guy should be guarded by Mahon and Malone!"

"We can no longer send the university team to the competition. After 1954, we didn't even win a world championship, but we won a lot of fourths and fifths."

"If this continues, we may not even get fourth and fifth!"

"Damn the International Blue Federation, I think they are making things difficult for us!"

The American fans could tell from the first attack that their inside line was going to be blown up again today.

Chapter 2 Take advantage of your weakness and kill you!

It is not that the US team did not make targeted arrangements for Ruda, but in the face of absolute strength, any targeting became a joke, and the US team's inside defense was useless in front of Ruda.

Only 2 minutes into the first half, the U.S. team had to ask for a timeout, because Ruda had already scored 8 points in a row in the paint. Not only did he not repeat his tactics once, but the U.S. team's two inside paints each received a foul.

Based on his game experience, Ruda is almost a 40-year-old veteran, and he is still the kind of veteran who plays more than a hundred games a year.

His current ability value is only 93, which is completely hindered by his physical fitness.

But playing a few American college students who only have NCAA experience today is really handy, and you can play whatever you want!

He only used three offenses for these 8 points, because he scored 2+1 twice, which made the American players a little bit broken when they came up!

Ruda has rarely shown his full strength in recent games, but today he must make the Americans make a big fool of himself.

The reason, of course, is that being a college student is too boring!

He wants the US team to suffer an unforgettable defeat, so as to force the dream team out in advance.

Although FIBA ​​has been targeting American professional basketball this time, the latter did not respond much, not because FIBA ​​cannot be dealt with, but because there is no need for it.

But if they were defeated by the Soviet Union and China one after another, and they couldn't even qualify for the World Championships group, then they would have to find a way for NBA players to save face, at least send real college stars to the World Championships and the Olympics.

After the game resumed, Ruda also did not give the American players the opportunity to score points in the interior defense, forcing the latter to shoot from the outside.

However, the perimeter defense has always been the advantage of the Chinese team, especially after improving their confrontation ability and physical fitness, their double-team defense quality is not inferior to European teams.

After Byron Scott hit an iron, the rebound was easily picked up by Ruda, and the US team couldn't grab a favorable position inside.

Luda took the basketball and immediately threw it to the frontcourt.

Sun Fengwu took two steps, and immediately hit the ground forward to pass the ball.

Li Yaguang rushed to the ball, and after receiving the ball, he used his body to hold Rivers firmly on the side, and rushed to the basket to complete the layup.

"5 seconds!"

This attack took only 5 seconds from when Luda got the rebound and passed it to the frontcourt, then when Sun Fengwu hit the ground and passed the ball to Li Yaguang, and finally the desperate Saburo scored a layup.

The two insiders of the U.S. team hadn't run past the midfield. Only Rivers in the U.S. team desperately returned to the defense. As a result, he didn't gain any physical advantage when defending, and was carried by someone to complete the layup.