I'm a ball devil

Chapter 194 Who will be selected in the draft?Who does the free market sign?
The training camp is in full swing, and the national team will determine the final entry list through training and warm-up matches.

Only 12 people can enter the final list, so 18 people have to be eliminated out of 6 people.

So the competition is still fierce.

However, players like Dayao, Ye Hao, and Ah Lian will definitely be selected, unless there is any injury.

For many athletes, being able to represent their country in the Olympic Games once in their career is a great honor that they dream of.

Many people work hard for a lifetime and may not get a chance.

From this we can see how important the words that Dayao said to the Great Sage before, "keep you from participating in the Olympics" are so important.

The lineup of this year's national team is generally considered to be the strongest in history. Insiders include Dayao, Ah Lian, and Big Zhi, and outsiders include Ye Hao, Zhu Fangyu, Liu Wei, and Sun Dasheng.

Such a lineup is considered to be able to break records and achieve breakthroughs.

The best result achieved by the Huaxia men's basketball team in the Olympics is No.8, which was achieved in the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, and then won the eighth place again in the 2004 Athens Olympics.

Before Ye Hao's rise, the original goal of the men's basketball team was to keep the eighth and strive for the sixth.

But after having Ye Hao, the original goal was raised again, to keep the six and fight for the four.

Retaining the eighth place is no longer the completion of the goal, it is necessary to have a further breakthrough in the ranking.

This is the impact of having one more Ye Hao in the team.

Both goals, however, were proposed ahead of the Olympic competition groupings.

When the results of the group draw officially came out, the goals of the men's basketball national team in this Olympic Games were adjusted back again.

Because their luck in the lottery was really bad, and they got the group of death—Group B.

The teams in this group are: Angola, China, Spain, USA, Germany, Greece.

In this group, the "strongest in history" men's basketball team chose the most difficult start in history.

In Group B, the US team and the Spanish team are the favorites to win the championship. The Greek team was the runner-up of the last World Championships.

The overall strength of these three teams is considered to be above the Huaxia team, and it is difficult to beat.

If the Huaxia team wants to keep the eighth and enter the quarterfinals, they can only fight against the German and Angola teams and win two victories.

Germany and Angola are relatively weak in Group B.

There should be no problem for the Huaxia team to beat Angola, but it is not so easy for the German team.

This year, the German team was joined by the Clippers' All-Star center Kaman, coupled with their team core Dirk Nowitzki, the team has two NBA All-Star players, and the overall strength is still very strong.

So after sorting it out, it is already an extravagant hope to guarantee six and fight for four, and there may be a chance to guarantee eight and fight for six.

In external interviews, the person in charge of the men's basketball team no longer mentioned that they would fight for the sixth and the fourth.

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On the other hand, after the NBA Finals, the season has entered a long offseason.

The next thing that attracts the most attention from fans is the upcoming annual draft.

Before the draft, it was recognized that this year will be a big draft year, and many players with great potential will participate in the draft.

Among them, the three most popular rookies are Derek Rose of the University of Memphis, OJ Mayo of the University of Southern California, and Michael Beasley of Kansas State University.

No matter how the top three picks are arranged, they will be arranged in combination among them.

In addition, Kevin Love of the University of California, Los Angeles, Eric Gordon of Indiana University, the Lopez Brothers of Stanford University, Anthony Randolph of Louisiana State University and others are considered to be lottery picks. Top pick.

Just completed the team relocation, the Thunder, which was changed from the Sonics, has 3 first-round picks and 4 second-round picks this year.

These three first-round picks are the 3th pick from the Cavaliers, the 19nd pick from the Magic, and their original 22th pick.

4个次轮选秀权则是32顺位、46顺位、50顺位、56顺位。

There are rumors that they will package two first-round picks and some other assets, and trade with the Bobcats in exchange for the Bobcats' 9th overall first-round pick.
And then use the ninth pick to pick up sophomore Russell Westbrook from UCLA, who is expected to be a lottery pick among many draft picks.

Just why the Bobcats again?Is it because the Bobcats are more likely to be robbed?

There is also a gossip that some media reporters believe that the Thunder will use a relatively late first-round pick or a top second-round pick to pick off Patrick Ewing Jr., who is very physically fit.

Patrick Jr. is the son of the legendary center "Gorilla" Patrick Ewing of the New York Knicks. He inherited his father's explosive athletic talent. He can play both small forward and power forward positions on the court, which can just reinforce the Thunder weak link of the team.

Of course, some people think that the Thunder may choose a point guard player in the first round, Jerry Bayless from the University of Arizona, or George Hill from Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI). .

Both players could give the Thunder a boost at the point guard position.

Whether it is Westbrook, Bayless or Hill, these three are all players who can play the No. [-] position. This also sends a message that the Thunder are eager to improve their No. [-] position.

If they can't be replenished through the draft, they may complete the improvement through trade.

Except for Ye Hao and Durant who are not for sale, everyone else in their team may become bargaining chips.

In addition to trading, they will also start chasing in the free agent market.

And their number one target is Baron Davis, the head of the Warriors who has just announced that he has jumped out of the final year of the 1780 million contract, and the Clippers captain Elton Bran, who has jumped out of the final year of the contract of 1640 million US dollars to become a free agent. Germany.

Once they can sign one of these two stars, their strength will usher in a surge.

Next season they will be able to go further in the West.

It's just that gossip is always gossip, and there will always be all kinds of gossip and rumors flying around during the offseason. This is the best "story meeting" for fans to pass the boring time during the long offseason.

Before these news came true, they were just rumors, rumors, and after-dinner conversation.

However, we can also glimpse some of the team's willingness to change, which can make fans look forward to a future where the team will continue to grow stronger.

Before the start of the draft, the US men's basketball team also completed the training and recruitment of Olympic players.

Due to the tragic defeat of the Dream Six team at the Athens Olympics in 2004, they lost consecutively and only won one bronze medal in the end.

Prior to this, American basketball occupied an unshakable dominance in world basketball, almost sweeping everything.

As a result, the Dream Six team lost and only got a bronze medal.

You must know that there are 03 golden generation LeBron James, Carmelo Anthony, Dwyane Wade, Carlos Boozer, Tim Duncan, Allen Iverson in the Dream Six team , Richard Jefferson, Stephen Marbury, Shawn Marion, Lamar Odom, Emeka Okafor, Amare Stoudemire.

The strength on paper is still very strong, but they just lost to the Argentine team led by Ginobili, Oberto, Nocioni, Scola and others, and lost the gold medal.

The Argentine team also successfully climbed to the top of the Athens Olympics and won the gold medal.

This is simply a shame for the powerful US men's basketball team.

So this time they form a team, they want to rebuild their glory, build a strongest team, aiming at the Olympic gold medal in Yanbei.

It is worth mentioning that Durant, Ye Hao's Thunder teammate, was also successfully selected for the US training team.

After Durant was selected, he very excitedly sent a text message to Ye Hao, "I'm looking forward to playing against you in Yanbei, Ye! Then I will treat you to some of my hats, hahaha..."

To this, Ye Hao replied, "I'm waiting for your arrival in Yanbei, but let's talk about it if you really come."

As a result, Ye Hao's words came true. Durant was only selected for the training team, but he failed to enter the final list.

This result made Durant very disappointed.

He tweeted: "Disappointed not to be in the Olympic squad (2008).

I feel like I hit it all the way there.

I did well in training and I feel like I should be picked.

But I'm only 19 and I feel left out and not respected.

I'm annoyed at this, I'm not a member of the 'Redemption Team'.

I had a lot of fun playing with those guys in practice,
Even if I'm sitting on the bench, I want to be one of them.

I want to learn, I want to take energy from these guys.

And a very important point is that Ye was able to represent his country in the Olympics, but I was not selected.

Originally, I was looking forward to playing against Ye in the international arena. He represented his country and I represented mine.

It's all gone now, which makes me very unhappy!
I swear, I will never let such a thing happen again next time, and I will not lose the election again! "

When he was still tweeting, he deliberately @叶昊.

It’s just that Ye Hao would not pay attention to Durant at this time, because during the national team training process, Ye Hao basically would not read the news on these social networks.

Not to mention Durant, even female classmates such as Su Xue, Wu Chunlan, Lin Shiya, roommates and teammates such as He Xi, Deng Chenglong, Gao Lu, Lu Yiming, Tian Le, Yu Fan, Deng Heping, Li Zihao, etc. He didn't even read the comments on the website, so it was even more impossible for him to reply, so he had to concentrate on preparing for the battle.

These old friends and classmates all knew that he was training in Yanbei, so they left a message asking if he had time to get together, and whether they would like to go back to Yanda for a walk.

Of course, there are also some people who, in the name of getting together, actually want to get a few Olympic tickets through him.

You must know that the tickets for the popular competitions are all sold out, and the hot sports like basketball have been sold out long ago.

Some unpopular team matchups may occasionally leak a few tickets, but for the match between the Huaxia team and the US team, there must be no tickets at all, let alone one.

Zhang Ze is one of the representatives of such people.

Obviously, they would not get a reply from Ye Hao either.

What's weird is that their resentment towards Ye Hao will increase again. It seems that in their eyes, helping them is a must, not helping them is a mistake, or they shouldn't be and look down on them.

Frankly speaking, if Ye Hao knew about this, he would probably just smile and raise his middle finger, shaking his head in disdain.

What if I just look down on you guys?

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The final list of the Huaxia men's basketball national team was determined after the final warm-up match - the Diamond Cup basketball game hosted by the FIBA.

The Diamond Cup basketball game is attended by champion teams from five continents and the host national team, but FIBA ​​does not force them to participate.

The participating teams this time are the host team China, the African champion Angola, the Oceania champion Australia, the South American champion Argentina, the Asian champion Iran and the former world champion Serbia.

Except for Serbia, the other five participating teams are participating in the Olympic Games, so this game can be regarded as an important warm-up game before the Olympic Games for each team.

The game is divided into groups A and B.

Teams in each group play a round robin match to determine the group rankings.

Then the teams with the same ranking in the two groups will fight each other, and the first two groups will compete for the championship and runner-up of this competition.

The second team in the group competes for No.3, and the third team in the group will play against No.5 and No.6.

The teams in Group A are Angola, Australia and China;

The teams in Group B are Argentina, Iran and Serbia.

Because the Angola team and the Huaxia team were also placed in the same group in the Olympics, the confrontation in the Diamond Cup is also a good opportunity for them to find out about each other.

However, the Angola team wanted to find out the bottom line of the Huaxia team, but they were stunned by the opening wave of the Huaxia team.

This made the Angola players say that this Huaxia team is completely different from the Huaxia team they just defeated in a warm-up match not long ago.

They were able to compete with the previous Huaxia team, but now this Huaxia team makes them feel that they can't fight at all.

The biggest difference is that there is now more Ye Hao in Huaxia's match.

Ye Hao made five three-pointers in a row at the beginning of the game, directly hitting the Angola team.

Moreover, he also relied on Gomez to defend Angola's outside line and only scored 8 points in the game.

The pick-and-roll connection between him and Dayao made it impossible for the Angola team to defend.

As long as there is a pick-and-roll, Ye Hao encounters a double-team and passes the ball to Yao. With Yao's height, no matter who is defending alone, it is a misplacement. Moreover, Yao has a very soft mid-range shooting touch, which can kill opponents.

If the Angola team doesn't double-team Ye Hao after they split up, then wait for Ye Hao to explode. Who can defend against Ye Hao's breakthrough in single defense?
So in this game, the Huaxia team was 98 to 74 and bloodbathed the Angola team.

The next opponent of the Huaxia team is the Australian team.

The Australian team is not in the same group as the Huaxia team in the Olympics, so it is generally more difficult to meet each other.

But Ye Hao didn't plan to let the water out in the match against the Australian team, but planned to fight to the death, hard.

Why?

Because he doesn't like the Australian team, and he doesn't like the big-mouthed Bogut in the Australian team.

In the previous life, Ye Hao felt uncomfortable when he saw the report of Bogut spraying feces.

This meeting finally had a chance to teach him a lesson.

(End of this chapter)