Versatile Point Forward

Chapter 440 Departure
Walking out of the gate of Baiyun Airport, Ye Feng couldn't help but took a deep breath. He didn't have much impression of this land anymore.But when I saw my compatriots with the same black hair, black eyes, and yellow skin around me, who also spoke noisy but clear Mandarin in their ears, I felt a sense of intimacy spontaneously.

There are not many warm-up matches for the Chinese men's basketball team before the Olympics this year, and the lineup of preparations has shrunk a lot compared to previous years, but the quality of the warm-up games has been greatly improved.Deng Huade didn't ask Ye Feng to participate in the previous warm-up match. Instead, he asked him to rest in Los Angeles for a while and come directly to Guangzhou to participate in the Stankovic Cup.After the Sri Lankan Cup, the only warm-up match for the Chinese men's basketball team before the Olympic Games was against Poland on July 7.

In order to have a joint training with the national team teammates as soon as possible, Ye Feng did not delay. Accompanied by the Basketball Association officials who came to pick up the plane, he checked into the hotel where the national team stayed, and after a short rest, he drove to Tianhe Sports Center to meet with the national team. confluence.Although Ye Feng can be said to be the biggest star in the entire Chinese men's basketball team, he is not willing to leave a bad impression on the head coach and teammates, and it is more important to start running in as soon as possible.

Seeing Ye Feng coming to report, Deng Huade was very pleasantly surprised. Although there are more or less active NBA players in the teams participating in the Olympics, there are very few players as young as Ye Feng who have already won two championships and FMVP exist.Obviously the team must have Ye Feng as the core. Deng Huade doesn't want to talk about his qualifications to others. Ye Feng's honor is here. He firmly believes that if he wants to make a breakthrough, Ye Feng must be the tactical core of the team.

Of course, it is impossible for him to stubbornly ask everyone to obey Ye Feng's deployment from the very beginning. Although there are no thorns in the players selected for this national team, and they are also in awe of Ye Feng, if Ye Feng wants to win To get the right to speak, you still have to use your performance to conquer your teammates.

Deng Huade's method is very simple. After the team's training session, he asked the staff to clear the field, politely invited the reporters from the major media out of the field, and then arranged an intra-team confrontation, the main force vs. the substitute, but he deliberately They put Ye Feng on the substitute side and assigned him to handle the ball.

At the beginning, the cooperation of the substitute team was very rusty, and they lost ground in front of the main lineup headed by Yi Jianlian. In less than 2 minutes, they were beaten 11 to 2.But soon Ye Feng gradually figured out the way of his teammates, and began to organize the offense with ease. Under his instigation, the substitute team played a blood-stirring run and bomb.Ye Feng yelled at his teammates while controlling the ball, directing them to run to the correct position, the tactical system actually worked very well.

Soon the substitute team suppressed the main team in turn, and both offense and defense were remarkable.Since Deng Huade set the game for only 24 minutes, the halftime was only 12 minutes.But within 12 minutes, the substitute team actually took a 32-18 lead, and the rest of the coaching team was stunned.

After a short break, Deng Huade replaced Ye Feng with the main team, and let Zhu Fangyu, whose position overlapped with him, go to the substitute team.As a result, the main team played even more violently under the mobilization of Ye Feng. Yi Jianlian dunked three times in 4 minutes. In the 12 minutes of the second half, the main team scored a total of 41 points. This has never happened before, and more importantly Yes, as the No. 2 scorer in the NBA regular season last season, Ye Feng actually didn't take a single shot.

Now everyone was shocked, especially the players from the main team gathered around and asked this and that excitedly.No way, they played so well when Ye Feng organized the offense. If Ye Feng was not a rising star in the NBA, they even had the urge to ask the team owner to sign someone quickly.

With this training match as a base, after Deng Huade announced that Ye Feng would become the core of the team's tactics, there was almost no objection. Instead, everyone's eyes were shining, hoping that Ye Feng could continue to organize the offense.In Deng Huade's view, with Ye Feng on the court, two shooting guards can be deployed in the backcourt. Anyway, the stronger the team's firepower, the better. Only in this way can Ye Feng have more shots, and the team's offense It will go up a few notches.

After several days of joint training, the strong Chinese men's basketball team ushered in the remaining three teams participating in the Stankovic Cup in Guangzhou, namely Australia, Tunisia and Russia.Unfortunately, among these three teams, apart from Tunisia, Russia and Australia sent the second team. The team is filled with many rookie players. They must have come to see the world, but the Chinese men's basketball team did not underestimate their opponents. , but took out twelve points of strength to play well in this Stankovic Cup.

On their own territory, the Chinese men's basketball team showed a very high level. They beat their opponents in all three games in the group stage, with an average of 18.3 points per game. The confidence of the Chinese team helps a lot.In the championship and runner-up finals, China beat Australia 70-51 to win the championship. Yi Jianlian won the MVP by virtue of his average performance of 28.3 points, 13.2 rebounds and 2.1 blocks per game.

However, in the eyes of insiders, the MVP should be awarded to Ye Feng, who put on the national team jersey for the first time. Although he averaged "only" 12.3 points per game, he grabbed 8.5 rebounds and sent 13.1 assists. The bonus of the Chinese team is even greater than that of Yi Jianlian.In the post-match interview, Yi Jianlian also affirmed Ye Feng's status in the team and his strong strength, and said that if it wasn't for Ye Feng, it would be impossible for him to average nearly 30 points per game.

Ye Feng is not particularly eager for the MVP of the Stankovic Cup. This is the strategy he set for himself before joining the national team. Just be the last champion.

After playing the Stankovic Cup, the Chinese men's basketball team took a break and flew to Poland on July 7 for the last warm-up match before the Olympics.In this warm-up match, both sides played very relaxed, and the scene was quite harmonious. Ye Feng only played in 20 minutes and sent 20 points, 17 rebounds and 5 assists, helping the Chinese men's basketball team to win another warm-up match.Then it's time to set off for London.

This is the first Olympic trip in the post-Yao Ming era of the Chinese men's basketball team. Although they played well in the warm-up match, no one believed that they could reach the top eight again in the Olympics. Ye Feng scoffed at this statement , He knows the strength of the team he is in. If he plays well, he may be able to create an even more shocking miracle than in the past.

(End of this chapter)