After advancing to the quarterfinals, the Huaxia Men's Basketball Team successfully faced its next opponent. This time the opponent is none other than the Lebanese Men’s Basketball Team, the host of the Asian Cup qualifiers.
The strength of the Lebanese men's basketball team has always been at the top level in Asia. It is the strongest team in Asia except the Chinese men's basketball team and the Iranian men's basketball team.
Of course, this is without the Australian and New Zealand teams.
Since the start of the group stage, the Lebanese men's basketball team has had a pretty good record. Except for losing one game in the group stage, they have successfully won all other games.
In order to achieve good results in this Asian Cup qualifier, they also specially naturalized two foreign players.
The two foreign players are Ryan Babbitt and Luke Vichy.
The two have been playing in the European League before, and they are also the main lineup players of wealthy clubs. Although they are certainly not as dazzling as Zhao Feiyang in the NBA, they are still somewhat famous in the European League.
More importantly, both of them are defenders.
One is responsible for organizing the offense, and the other is the scorer. This configuration is undoubtedly a fatal blow to the Chinese men's basketball team, which is not strong in the backcourt.
Although this characteristic of the opponent means that the Huaxia Men's Basketball Team does not have to worry about inside problems for the time being, the opponent's dual core defenders still make the Huaxia Men's Basketball Team feel the pressure.
Before the game officially started, the Huaxia Men's Basketball Team held an internal meeting. Head coach Xu Lei took out the opponent's game video and continued to observe and analyze the opponent's style and the playing methods of the two foreign players with the players.
In the conference room.
"This game is not a big problem. Although the Lebanese team is very strong, our performance this time was better..."
"We have to win them. As long as we beat them, we can reach the final..."
Coach Xu Lei said.
The players all nodded.
"Coach, Xin Yong is injured now, who should take the No. 1 position?"
Zhao Feiyang asked a key question.
Head coach Xu Lei glanced around the crowd, turned his attention to his nephew Xu Haoran, and also glanced at Guo Ailun who was sitting beside him.
After a moment of unnoticeable confusion, head coach Xu Lei pointed to his nephew, "Let Xu Haoran take over! His organizational skills are also pretty good!"
"I object."
The person who said this was none other than Zhao Feiyang.
"Xu Haoran's ability is fine, but he is not good at organizing attacks. It would not be a good idea to let him organize attacks..."
As soon as Zhao Feiyang said this, the atmosphere in the conference room suddenly became weird.
The players looked at each other and kept looking at Zhao Feiyang and Xu Haoran. Xu Haoran's face, which was sitting on the chair, was also gloomy and uncertain, including that of head coach Xu Lei.
"I think I can!"
Xu Haoran stood up and retorted, "I have indeed been playing shooting guard before, but my organizational skills are not bad. Besides, I was the main player from the beginning. Why can't I replace Xin Yong at the number one position?"
"I think I'm more than capable of playing this position."
After Xu Haoran finished speaking, he deliberately glanced at Zhao Feiyang. It seemed that he was very dissatisfied with Zhao Feiyang's rebuttal. If the two of them had some disagreements in private before, then this time Zhao Feiyang was very rude in his rebuttal in front of everyone.
This is not only dissatisfaction with him, but also an expression of resistance to the choice of head coach Xu Lei.
"I disagree."
"I think Guo Ailun is better. He is fully qualified to be the team's starting point guard. He is a first-class point guard in the league. He has also performed very well in the National Youth Team. He has proven himself on the field... ..."
"If I can only choose one person, then I will definitely support him..."
Zhao Feiyang's words were clear, and his decision to support Guo Ailun also made the already tense atmosphere in the conference room even more tense.
The other players all watched this scene without saying a word, and head coach Xu Lei did not dare to speak easily.
The only person who was more surprised was Guo Ailun. He didn't expect that Zhao Feiyang would trust him so much and actually stand up and express his stance so resolutely in this situation.
For a moment, Guo Ailun looked at Zhao Feiyang with eyes filled with admiration.
The conference room fell into silence. As the head coach, Xu Lei can be said to be in trouble on both sides. Just when he felt embarrassed, Zhao Feiyang took the initiative to help him out.
"Coach, since it's hard to make a decision, why don't you all vote!"
"Whoever gets more votes will be the starter, okay?"
It was difficult for coach Xu Lei to make a choice. When Zhao Feiyang said this, he immediately asked the players to vote as he said.
After he finished speaking, the players' reactions varied.
"Raise your hands to support Xu Haoran playing the starting No. 1 position!"
After the words fell, all the young people who were starting the starting lineup with Xu Haoran raised their hands. Coach Xu Lei took a glance and found that there were 4 votes in total.
"Raise your hands to support Guo Ailun playing the starting No. 1 position!"
Ding Yan Yuhang and Zhao Feiyang quickly raised their hands, and two substitutes also expressed their opinions.
As a result, voting is in an embarrassing situation.
There are a total of 12 players on the roster. Leaving aside Yi Jianlian and Xin Yong, there are still 10 players here. Of these 10 players, leaving aside Xu Haoran and Guo Ailun who participated in the competition, there were only 4 players left on both sides.
It just so happens that these four people are all partners in their respective camps!
This resulted in a 4-4 tie!
“Count the assistants in mind too!”
Zhao Feiyang reminded again.
Coach Xu Lei nodded when he saw this.
He thought that all the assistant coaches were his, but what he didn't expect was that in the subsequent show of hands voting session, two of the three assistant coaches chose to vote for Guo Ailun!
In this way, the result is in, unless he personally votes for his nephew!
But in that case, his intention is really too obvious!
"well!"
Coach Xu Lei sighed quietly, and it took a while before he announced his decision.
"Now that the vote results are out, well... then let Guo..."
Before coach Xu Lei finished speaking, Xu Haoran on the side saw that the momentum was not right, and immediately threw the tactical board he was playing with on the table.
A loud "bang" shocked everyone. The next second, Xu Haoran looked unhappy and shouted, "In this case, you can play whatever you want, I won't accompany you..."
After saying that, Xu Haoran turned around and walked out of the conference room.
Coach Xu Lei kept calling his name from behind, but Xu Haoran didn't seem to hear him at all and walked out without even looking back.
"Meeting dismissed."
Head coach Xu Lei was also unhappy and hurried out of the meeting room without even announcing the result.
As soon as he left, the conference room suddenly became chaotic.
