The previous defeat in the World Championships made Du En realize that if he wanted to achieve results in the World Championships, he had to need the help of a group of reliable teammates.
If Duen alone leads the team, it will not be a big problem to lead the men's basketball team out of the group stage.
However, if you want to go further in a knockout match that determines victory or defeat, you need to have absolutely strong strength.
Instead of just relying on Du En's personal touch to explode into a game, he led the team to victory with a wonderful performance of 40+ and 50+.
After all, Doon's goal is to win a medal, which requires winning at least three games in the knockout rounds.
The way to advance to the knockout rounds depends not only on strength, but also on a little bit of luck.
There are times when the Dream Team stumbles, and it is undoubtedly more difficult for the men's basketball team to win medals than it is for the Dream Team.
However, for Duen, he has to consider whether this Olympics is his only chance to win a medal in the world championships in his career.
Two years ago, Duan could blame his defeat in the World Championships on the lack of help around him, as his teammates were all CBA.
However, in the past two years, the men's basketball team has continued to send young players to the NBA. Most of the current men's basketball team members are NBA players.
Even if they haven't fully adapted to the NBA, after practicing for a year or two, they will at least be better than competing for supremacy in the CBA fish pond.
Moreover, time waits for no one. Yao Ming has suffered constant injuries due to weight gain and constant participation in various national team events in the summer.
Even though Du En helped Yao Ming relieve some of the pressure, in Du En's view, it is already remarkable that Yao Ming can continue to play in the NBA for three to five years.
There is no way, a big man who lacks endurance attributes just cannot fight for a long time in the NBA.
Not to mention that Yao Ming has a reason to play in the summer and works harder than most NBA players.
If Du En wants to achieve results in the men's basketball team, he must seize Yao Ming's peak period, take advantage of the period when Yao Ming can still play in a relatively healthy state, give it a try, and try to lead the men's basketball team to win medals.
For this reason, Du En had to return to China early on the third day after the championship parade to join other members of the men's basketball team for training as soon as possible.
But even so, the time has already reached the beginning of July, and there is only more than a month left before the Olympic group stage.
It is worth mentioning that the men's basketball team has been gaining momentum recently.
Due to the arrangement of warm-up matches, the opponents are relatively weak. The men's basketball team now has many NBA players, and the overall strength is pretty good. Before Duan returned to China, the men's basketball team had won four consecutive warm-up matches.
Relying on the warm-up games, the men's basketball team has cultivated the confidence to win. Next, it depends on whether the three NBA veterans, Du En, Yao Ming, and Wang Zhizhi, can quickly integrate into the men's basketball team and help the men's basketball team make further progress.
For Duan, preparing for the World Championships this year is easier than two years ago.
Men's basketball teammates all know Du En's strength and recognize Du En's ability.
Coupled with the experience of playing together in the World Championships, everyone will subconsciously play with Du En instead of playing the way they used to.
Even in terms of life, those who originally loved to play wildball also calmed down after Du En returned to the team and practiced hard with Du En honestly.
Of course, the nightclub incident that happened has had some impact on the men's basketball team.
After Du En returned to the team, he was even chased by reporters asking questions about his personal life.
In order to avoid the disturbance from the outside world, Du En shut down his communication tools, and lived a very regular life between the arena and the hotel.
It wasn't until July 17, when the Stankovic Intercontinental Basketball Champions Cup started, that Dunn appeared in public with other men's basketball teammates.
"Win the championship? We are definitely confident.
However, as we respect our opponents, we will not speak too highly.
Everyone, please try to pay attention to the game. In two days, you will be able to see the results of our training camp. "
On the first day of the Stankovic Intercontinental Basketball Champions Cup, media from all over the country gathered in Lin'an.
Although most of the official media were present, there were also many media that paid more attention to sexy news and off-site information.
Duen knows that the pressure of public opinion will have some impact on the mentality of young players, and Yi Jianlian will also play a heavier role in the next Olympics.
For this reason, Du En does not want Yi Jianlian to be affected, but hopes that public opinion will let him go for the time being.
So I directly brought up the topic of winning the championship to attract everyone's attention.
Speaking of which, the four participating teams in this year's Stankovic Intercontinental Basketball Champions Cup, in addition to the host men's basketball team, are the Serbian men's basketball team, the Angola men's basketball team and the Russian men's basketball team.
Among them, the Serbian team and the Russian team sent the second team, and obviously did not pay much attention to this Stankovic Intercontinental Basketball Champions Cup.
The Basketball Management Center communicated with Du En, Yao Ming, and Wang Zhizhi in advance, hoping that the three of Du En can play in the Stankovic Intercontinental Basketball Champions Cup in order to win the championship and build a certain degree of confidence for domestic fans.
Although Du En wanted to complain about this, this year is indeed the most promising year for the Olympic men's basketball team, so he did not refuse.
However, in this Stankovic Intercontinental Basketball Champions Cup, Duan is not going to play too much. He will play for more than ten minutes in each game and cooperate with other teammates to find a feeling.
Another person who has similar thoughts to Du En is Yao Ming.
As for Wang Zhizhi, even if he has an idea, he can only shelve it because he is not at a high level.
The rest, Yi Jianlian, Sun Yue, Zhu Fangyu, who entered the NBA through the draft, as well as Wang Shipeng, Liu Wei, and Chen Jianghua who played a few games in the NBA through trial training, can only play the entire game honestly.
It is also because the men's basketball team is bound to win. For a warm-up match with a low gold content such as the Stankovic Intercontinental Basketball Champions Cup, a lot of energy has been invested early, and even the referee has arranged it. It is difficult for the men's basketball team not to win the championship.
On July 17, the men’s basketball team easily defeated the Serbian second team 99-62.
On July 19, the men’s basketball team continued to defeat the Angola team 79-72.
Although Du En and Yao Ming did not give their full strength, they also showed the true level of the men's basketball team after this battle.
After winning this game, Stankovic's Intercontinental Basketball Champions Cup basically fell into the hands of the men's basketball team.
On July 20, there was no upset.
As early as the first half, the men's basketball team took a 15-point lead 41-26 against the Russian second team.
At the end of the second half, the score on the court reached 78-50.
When the men's basketball team plays other teams' second teams, it's easier to win.
In some respects, the men's basketball team is somewhat defeated.
In a warm-up game like the Stankovic Intercontinental Basketball Champions Cup, Duan and Yao Ming are both deployed. How can other teams compete with the men's basketball team for the championship?
By the way, after the men's basketball team got their wish and won the Stankovic Intercontinental Basketball Champions Cup, they soon moved to Jinling.
Before the start of the Olympic group stage, the men's basketball team has one more "warm-up match", which is the Diamond Cup with a higher gold content.
The quality of the opponents in the Diamond Cup is much higher than that in the Stankovic Intercontinental Basketball Champions Cup. In addition to the host of the men's basketball team, the remaining five teams are the Serbian team, Angola, Iran, Australia and Argentina.
On July 29, the men’s basketball team played Angola again in the Diamond Cup and won with a score of 92 to 75.
Then on July 30, with Duane playing the entire game, the men's basketball team defeated the Australian team 72-67.
On August 1, the men's basketball team advanced to the finals and faced Argentina. It tied 85-85 and entered overtime.
Then relying on Duan to lock down Ginobili, Wang Shipeng hit a key three-pointer, and Yi Jianlian finally protected the rebound. The men's basketball team won the Diamond Cup 92-91.
Although, winning the Diamond Cup was a bit disgraceful and the referee took advantage of it.
However, the fans' morale is very high as they watch the men's basketball team win consecutive championships.
The men's basketball team is also thriving inside.
(End of chapter)
