Learning in the NBA can make you a god

Chapter 862 Defending the World Championships, the new season begins

NBA transactions are still in full swing, and the Men's Basketball World Championship in Spain has officially kicked off.

In the group stage, Yao Ming's playing time was strictly limited. He could only play in the first half and would never appear in the second half. Even so, he always won and won the first place in the group.

After a lot of competition in the knockout rounds, the Chinese team and the beautiful Chinese team met in the finals just like the previous one.

In this edition of the United States national team, league superstars such as Kobe, James, Anthony, and Wade are all absent from the national team.

The players on the team's roster are Curry, Thompson, Rose, DeRozan, Irving, Harden, Faried, Gay, Plumlee, Cousins, Davis, Drummond .

This is huge good news for the Kings. Two players in the team have been selected for the national team.

"I'm so happy, we finally became teammates!" Harden no longer knows how to describe his inner excitement.

When the Kings officially announced the signing of Li Tian, ​​if he had not already entered the national team training camp, he would have flown to Sacramento to have a nightclub party with Li Tian.

"But we are rivals now!" A somewhat awkward response.

"Hey, it's okay, it's okay. Let's wait until the game is over and we'll talk again." While speaking, he didn't forget to give his eldest nephew a look. After all, the two of them have been teammates for two years.

Curry watched Harden deflate. Just now, he wanted to go over and say hello, but in the end he had to give up. He didn't want to be criticized. They will still be opponents next season.

He smiled helplessly and turned around to prepare for the Men's Basketball World Championship finals.

This beautiful country's national team has all been defeated by Li Tian. They have all been defeated by Li Tian in the regular season, playoffs, Olympics, and World Championships. Everyone is holding back their energy and hope. Able to take revenge.

But they found that they were really wrong. Li Tian made Harden lose interest in basketball as soon as the game started.

A super long three-point shot hit, and the American players who were preparing to defend were dumbfounded. You play like this at the beginning, are you still a human being?

Even Curry, who likes to shoot three-pointers, can't help but doubt himself.

Amidst this suspicion, the American team lost its original sight. Although many of these players are stars or main players, their ability to withstand pressure is not on the same level as those real stars. .

In the first half, under the leadership of Li Tian and Yao Ming's powerful intimidation on the inside, the beautiful Chinese team, which had lost its touch on the outside, had no chance to resist.

At the end of the first half, the national team led the opponent by 57 points at 45:12. At the beginning of the second half, Yao Ming was still on the sidelines. The team's arrangement gave Yao Ming enough rest time to play his role at the critical moment.

As soon as the national team started the second half, they changed their offensive strategy from the positional battle in the first half to a fast break.

These players on the beautiful Chinese team are very familiar with fast breaks. All of them are extremely talented and can run and jump, but they are somewhat lacking in shooting ability.

The fast break started, but the hit rate was the biggest problem. At this moment, the beautiful country also discovered this problem, but they could no longer change everything, and the outcome was already doomed.

When the game ended, the beautiful Chinese team lowered their proud heads.

Three consecutive defeats in the world finals have severely damaged their reputation, just like it did back then.

Even before returning home, domestic fans have already begun to curse, some scolding the players, and others scolding those strong players who refuse to join the national team.

James and Durant were the first to bear the consequences and could only choose to endure it all silently.

Some fans left a message on Durant's social media, "The World Championship championship is one of the reasons why Li is eligible for the maximum salary, and what about you? You don't even dare to play in the World Championships because you are afraid of losing. How dare you get a high salary?" !”

Seeing such messages, Durant once again contributed to the performance of mobile phone manufacturers.

American basketball has once again been pushed to the forefront, and the popularity even surpassed the previous signings of Li Tian, ​​Kobe and others, as well as James' return to the Cavaliers and the Cavaliers' recent trade.

Half a month later, it's October, and the teams have begun to gather to prepare for the new season.

All the players of the Kings team have also been assembled.

Back line: Harden, Lillard, nephew, Seth Curry, Dinwiddie, Clarkson.

Harden and Lillard are stable starters, Big Nephew and Seth Curry are undrafted, and can also be said to be substitute role players. Dinwiddie and Clarkson are two rookies this year, and one is a first-rounder. One is the second round.

Forward: Li Tian, ​​Covington, Aaron Gordon, Dudley, Casspi.

Li Tian doesn’t need to go into too much detail. Covington was the rookie player selected by the team last season. Aaron Gordon was the No. [-] overall pick this year. Dudley was the player returned from the Middleton trade. Casspi Hugh Players signed during the season.

Casspi had many teams contact him during the offseason, but he chose to reject them all because he clearly felt that he had improved a lot when he was with the Lakers last season, and finally reached a deal with the Kings. 200 million per year contract.Casspi is a good substitute player. He performed well with the Lakers last season and is a good addition to the Kings bench.

Center: Cousins, Whiteside, Gobert.

Cousins ​​extended his contract in advance last season. With Harden's control of the ball, he was very happy playing in the Kings, so he chose to cut his salary by 500 million and complete a five-year, 5 million contract extension in advance.

Although Whiteside has not received compulsory education, he has Tyronn Lue's education, and his statistics in all aspects have improved a lot.

Gobert was a rookie player last season. After a season, he has already demonstrated his defensive talents.

Looking at such a lineup, Tyronn Lue has been waking up from dreams and laughing every time recently. There is no way, this lineup is really too rich.

If he really arranges a starting lineup, he feels that he can arrange two lineups that are not weaker than the starting lineups of other teams.

"Everyone, stop for a moment." He greeted the players who were training and asked them all to stop. Tyronn Lue wanted to determine the core of the team today. He wanted to tell everyone who is the boss of this team.

In fact, anyone with a discerning eye can see that before Harden came to the Kings, Cousins ​​was the future of the Kings; but after Harden came, after some competition, Harden gradually became the team leader.

But now that Li Tian is here, with such a lineup, the team boss will not have any problems, not to mention that a large part of Harden's current progress is still through Li Tian's guidance, otherwise it would be difficult for him to improve so quickly.

"Let us welcome Lee, as well as Gordon, Dudley, Casspi, Dinwiddie, Clarkson and other players!"

After the summer league, these rookie players flew to Lucheng as a group to train there.

Originally, Gordon was still dissatisfied, but he insisted on challenging him. He believed that his strength was not weaker than anyone else.

In the end, there was no result. Seeing Li Tian easily handling Kobe, he turned around and left. His weight now became more clear. He returned to the training place dejectedly. He was laughed at by his teammates without saying a word. , there is no longer any airs about looking for flowers.

"Boss (Hello, Boss) (Welcome, Boss)!"

Although it is not so neat, the names are roughly the same. All of them very much recognize Li Tian's status in the team. He does not need to establish his authority at all. Everyone has already recognized his status.

"Hello everyone, I know you all think the team is very strong, especially last season when we reached the tiebreaker with the Lakers in the Western Conference Finals. If you think this way, I can only tell you that ignorance is really sad. As for Why do you say that? After the regular season starts, you will get the correct answer.

The Kings have only one goal in the new season, and that is the championship. I am not just saying this, but I am taking it very seriously. The arena management has made it clear that as long as they fail to win the championship, it will be a failure of this season.

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Just like when they first joined the Knicks, the morale of the players needs to be boosted. This season the team's opponent is very clear, and that is the Cleveland Cavaliers.

The media will have no chance of looking down on the Kings. From the beginning of the season, they are the enemies of all teams.

All the Kings players know more or less what happened to Li Tian during his time with the Knicks and Lakers, but no one really dares to stab him in the training camp.

Because once pricked, it is easy to be sent away in your sleep.

Other teams in the league have long been eager to try this Kings team. Several seasons have proven that as long as Li Tian is on that team, any rookie player selected by any team can have a good record.

At the same time, the Kings' draft quality in the past two seasons has also been very high. Not to mention anything else, just the data produced by Lillard, Middleton, Covington, and Gobert have already shown that the Kings' management The top management has an almost ruthless vision when it comes to the selection of rookie players. Even at a premium, there are many rebuilding teams who want to get a rookie player from the Kings, who might have the opportunity to produce data that exceeds expectations.

Therefore, the Kings' rookies are still very popular.But if he is given up by the Kings, without Li Tian’s continuous education, it is unknown what his future achievements will be. Look at Thomas, who was traded away by the Knicks. You must know his performance that season, but he went for the Rookie of the Year. Now it is routine The performance in the game was okay, but the playoffs became a colander.

These rookies don't want to be given up. Of course they hope to learn more from Li Tian, ​​especially Aaron Gordon. After all, he is also a striker.

"It's great. The team has a lot of rookies this year. It's great not to have to carry a bag!" The happiest person was Cousins. After a period of training, he admired Li Tian very much.

With the addition of new players, his ball power is bound to decline. His Li Tian's strength has conquered every player on the Kings team.

"Why is this bag of yours so big?" Clarkson couldn't stand Cousins. This guy insisted on getting a bag of nearly two meters for him to carry.

He is quite tall, but carrying such a long bag is really troublesome.

"Rookie, remember, it is every rookie's duty to ask you to carry a backpack. Didn't you look at Gordon? Even if he is the No. [-] overall pick, doesn't he still carry a backpack?" Cousins ​​said with a smirk on his face.

Clarkson complained in his mind, "That's a backpack for Li. I would be willing to do it for me, but now it's for you, and that's a normal bag!"

Hearing the play between his teammates, Li Tian could only laugh it off. It was really hard for him to interfere in this matter.

(End of this chapter)