The older superstars of the NBA

"Men's Basketball World Cup?"

Xin Guotao's invitation is undoubtedly a very important thing for Zhao Feiyang.When he was playing for the Sharks before, he always wanted to play for the national team. Unfortunately, he was too humble at that time, and he didn't even have the chance to enter the national team preliminaries.

Now that he has finally become famous and has been invited by high-level figures from the Basketball Association, it seems that his expectations are about to come true.

"Let's do this! I'll give you the answer after the season is over. Now I want to focus on the next game...Playing for the country is my long-standing expectation..."

Zhao Feiyang didn't agree directly, and Xin Guotao didn't urge him. Instead, he advised Zhao Feiyang to let him prepare for the competition.

When the phone was hung up, Zhao Feiyang's memories gradually became clear.

Although he has not played in the national team before, there are not people in the team who have not tried the national team. Some teammates will tell some things as anecdotes in the training chats on weekdays. From these aspects During the communication, Zhao Feiyang knew a lot about Xin Guotao.

Xin Guotao is an old man of the Basketball Association and has worked in the Basketball Association for many years.

It wasn't him who was in charge of the Basketball Association back then, but another one.

The level of the head is not bad, at least he holds a scientific concept, and he also follows the rules of professionalism in the development of the league. However, the head retired later, and it was this opportunity that Xin Guotao was selected. The upper rank became the head of the Basketball Association.

From the perspective of God, his appointment is not a good thing for the Basketball Association.

At the beginning of his tenure, he was eager to prove his ability and wanted to prove his leadership through the performance of the national team in international competitions. For this reason, he did not hesitate to reduce the number of domestic league games and let the domestic league make way for the national team. National team match service.

Such a move has led to a significant reduction in the league schedule, and it has also left those young players who were not selected for the national team without the ball to play for most of the year.

In addition, he is also relatively conservative in the training of young players.

At a certain Asian Championships, a certain foreign coach invited by Huaxia realized that Huaxia basketball had reached the stage where the old and the new were replaced, so he selected a large number of young rookies and tried to train them through international competitions, so as to prepare for future successors. lay the foundation.

As a result, at the last critical moment, Xin Guotao, who had no long-term vision or cared about the long-term results, strongly urged Yang Shuai to lead a group of veterans to the battle.

Among the participating teams that year, the Huaxia Men's Basketball Team was one of the oldest teams.

Although they succeeded in winning the championship in the end, it also caused that group of young players to lack training, and they were defeated in the subsequent Olympic games.

Treating players like this, treating the team's head coach is even more impatient.

At first, Xin Guotao was crazily superstitious about domestic coaches, and then he pushed a domestic veteran with insufficient qualifications to sit in the coaching position of the Huaxia men's basketball team. As a result, the men's basketball team's record was disastrous.

So Xin Guotao made a 180-degree turn and continued to spend a lot of money to hire famous foreign coaches to coach the Huaxia Men's Basketball Team.There is nothing wrong with choosing a famous coach, but Xin Guotao really has no patience. In less than five years, the Huaxia Men's Basketball Team has changed four head coaches.

At first I learned from Europe, then I learned from America, and then I didn’t know what to learn. The chaotic style and system made the Huaxia men’s basketball team constantly lost. Not only did they lose their own style, but they also led to so many defeats in succession.

Of course, what attracted the most attention was not only that, but the problem between him and Wang Zhizhi.

When Wang Zhizhi first went to play in the NBA, Xin Guotao was in charge of the Basketball Association.

Conservative, he is very "unfeeling" in dealing with some issues. He doesn't care about the individual thoughts of the players, but pays more attention to getting the players to obey the arrangements of the national team. To "stab the head" means to "disobey discipline".

At that time, Wang Zhizhi communicated with Xin Guotao after the end of the season, hoping to temporarily stay in the United States to play in the summer league, so as to win a contract for himself.

Wang Zhizhi did not say that he would not return to China to play games, but admitted that some games such as the Stankovic Cup would not come back!The Stankovic Cup is completely a warm-up game, and it is not necessary for a player of his level.

The NBA game is so big, and after a season, you have to come back to play big and small games. If you also play the warm-up match, how many players can withstand such intensity?

Isn't Yao Ming's subsequent retirement a hidden danger of injury caused by too much competition?

Let alone him, even if LeBron James is allowed to play so many games every year, I am afraid that LeBron James' iron-like body may be scrapped in advance.

There was no problem with Wang Zhizhi's communication at first, and Xin Guotao also agreed, but who would have thought that under the random hype of the media, Wang Zhizhi's problem suddenly became serious.

Xin Guotao not only did not support Wang Zhizhi under such circumstances, but also stood up and expelled Wang Zhizhi from the national team, instantly making Wang Zhizhi a "traitor".

Also because of Wang Zhizhi's problem, the nba team did not want any unpleasant things to happen with the China Basketball Association, so no team dared to sign a contract with Wang Zhizhi, so Wang Zhizhi could only return home lonely in the end.

Later, it was Xin Guotao who resigned temporarily and another leader came to power, which resolved the "grievance" problem between Wang Zhizhi and the Basketball Association, and made Wang Zhizhi return to the Huaxia Men's Basketball Team.

Now that head has left the Basketball Association, Xin Guotao took office again.It also coincided with this time that players of the older generation, such as Yao Ming and Wang Zhizhi, all retired.

It can be said that the Huaxia men's basketball team at this time has entered the post-Yao Ming era.

Xin Guotao's appointment was naturally based on performance.His philosophy has always been relatively conservative, and he will not pay too much attention to the future of the men's basketball team, but is too obsessed with the present.

Such thinking is not surprising.

For some people, they don't care so much about the development of a certain sport.After all, they will not stay in this position for a lifetime.

However, as long as their butts are still sitting on that chair, they will continue to think of ways to tap all possible potentials, even if they exhaust all their talents in advance, they will not hesitate to achieve the best results during their tenure.

Results are closely related to me, but basketball is not, and neither are the players.

This is why Zhao Feiyang didn't agree immediately.

There are still several months before the Men's Basketball World Cup. At this time, Zhao Feiyang is not too worried about the future.

The next day came quickly.

The New Orleans arena was crowded with people, Zhao Feiyang entered the locker room early, where he saw LeBron James and others.

It was only when he took the initiative to greet other players that he realized that the atmosphere in the locker room was a bit strange.

LeBron James pulled him aside, "Man, these guys are hard to deal with... Even though you won the MVP of the rookie game and the three-point shooting championship, there are still people here who think you robbed the rightful Their location...."