Chapter 789: Grand Slam and James' Hatred!

"Rose is really a good player."

On the morning of January 11, 2009, after finishing the team's routine training in the morning, Zhu Fangyu sighed from the bottom of his heart.

And Wang Shipeng beside him nodded silently.

Coming to the NBA is a temptation that people can't refuse.

For any player, it is a huge temptation. Even Zhu Fangyu, who had always rejected the Rockets before, has thought about coming to the NBA.

But he knows very well that if he can't make a name for himself in the NBA, coming here will basically have no meaning.

He is no longer a young player with unlimited potential. His starting position in the national team has been replaced by Zhou Peng.

Because in the new national team with Yes as the core, his future potential and plasticity are not enough to grow with Yes.

Just like when Yao Ming was the core, they were the ones who were selected to grow with Yao Ming.

Whether they have grown to the level of matching Yao Ming, that is not to be discussed first.

Their potential has been exhausted in the process of growing with Yao Ming, and they do not have the plasticity to adapt to Yes's style.

At their age, it is more important not to come to the NBA to pursue their dreams but actually sit on the bench. Now they need to play games and maintain their physical and competitive conditions. Although they are not the players that Yes needs in regular time, as long as they can still maintain their strength and as long as the national team has not seen players to replace them, they can always use their characteristics to find a suitable position in the national team.

And this is also the reason why he has always refused the Rockets. For the 2008 Olympics, he could not sit on the bench in the Rockets, and then for the 2010 World Championships, he could not sit on the bench in the Rockets.

Now every player of the Chinese men's basketball national team has a dream, that is, to become the first Grand Slam team in international basketball to win the three major world cups.

Olympics!

World Championships!

FIBA Diamond Cup!

These three major events are the three major world events of FIBA.

Now the Chinese men's basketball team is the champion of the 2008 Olympics and the 2008 Diamond Cup, and only one World Championship is missing.

The teams closest to the Grand Slam before were the United States and Argentina.

The United States and Argentina are both champions of the Olympics and the World Championships, but they are both short of the Diamond Cup.

The United States disdains to participate in the Diamond Cup and does not recognize the Diamond Cup, while Argentina attaches great importance to the Diamond Cup, but it always fails to win the championship. Every time it participates, it is either second or third.

Now the Diamond Cup has been cancelled because the United States never sends people.

In other words, in the history of world basketball, if you want to win the Grand Slam of the World Series, only the three Diamond Cup champion teams, China, Australia and Serbia and Montenegro, can win the Grand Slam. Serbia and Montenegro have now become Montenegro and Serbia, so only these four teams have the opportunity to win the three Grand Slams.

But Australia, Seville and Montenegro are short of the Olympic championship and the World Championship. When can they win the Olympic championship and the World Championship?

The Chinese team is different. The Chinese team is only short of the World Championship!

In the United States and the NBA, no one cares about whether there is a Grand Slam or not.

But internationally, in China, the Grand Slam of a project is highly valued.

The highest personal achievement of China's national table tennis players is to see whether they have won the Grand Slam.

Chinese men's basketball players have the potential to become Grand Slam winners of international basketball events, which was unimaginable before.

This is a historic opportunity.

No one wants to fall in front of this historic opportunity, and no one wants to miss such a historic opportunity.

Especially for men's basketball players like him and Wang Shipeng who have already won the Diamond Cup and the Olympics.

Not to mention Zhu Fangyu, even Wang Zhizhi, who is extremely eager to return to the NBA to prove himself, has reluctantly rejected many invitations, and finally chose to stay in the Bayi team, train hard, try to maintain the game state, try to keep his position in the national team, try to get on the stage of the 2010 World Championships, and try to realize the highest dream as a basketball player.

This is the choice of these national team veterans, and the game and state are the first.

And young people like Chen Jianghua, Zhou Peng, and Ding Jinhui are working hard in the CBA according to the guidance they got from Yes in the national team, and they are working hard to adapt to the needs of the NBA in the CBA, and are ready to enter the NBA and improve in the NBA at any time.

After all, the 2010 World Championships will be a completely different competition from the 2008 Olympics. They are the champions of the 2008 Olympics, but their championship was completely brought by Yes, Yao Ming, Yi Jianlian, Sun Yue and others. They also want to leave their own names in history.

This is a normal idea for young people. For example, Chen Jianghua now has the idea and courage to pull Sun Yue out of the starting position.

This is the vitality of young people. They are not afraid of anyone except Yes. In order to be teammates with Yes in the starting lineup, they can even think about pulling Sun Yue and Yi Jianlian down.

But these veterans don’t have such great ambitions. What NBA dream is of course important, but it is definitely not comparable to the World Championships or the Grand Slam of the three major cups!

Although they are reluctant to admit it, they are indeed dead bones in the grave. The older people are, the more conservative they are. Wang Zhizhi chose the dream of the national team between the two dreams.

And they just have a choice that has the best of both worlds.

Coming to the Bulls is a very tempting choice, and it is also a choice that may be sweet or poisonous.

Looking at the Bulls' NBA career of almost half a season, Zhu Fangyu and Wang Shipeng both feel that this choice is sweet, not poisonous.

In this half season, although they are not the starting players of the Bulls, their status in the team is very special.

They are the confidants of the team's head coach Scott Brooks, and they are also the Yes teammates respected by Rose and Rose's mentors.

It is precisely because of his identity as Yes's teammate that even if the team's boss Ben Wallace dislikes them, he dare not bully them, at most he will exclude them.

Similarly, NBA veterans such as Antoine Walker, Ricky Davis, Mark Blount, etc. dare not bully them. After all, they are Yes's teammates, and they are not former teammates, but current national team teammates!

There are more than 10 to 20 minutes of playing time in the game every day. During the normal time, they can teach Rose, who is eager to learn and respect them, how to shoot, and teach Rose, who is very interested in Chinese, to speak Chinese.

This is simply the most perfect NBA life.

Not only can they maintain the state of the game, but because the trainers in the NBA are really strong and their team status is very high, the trainers have to treat them as the core and develop special training plans for them. This is much better than the CBA. In the CBA, they are also the core, but can the training level of the CBA be compared with that of the NBA?

So their physical condition has also been very well strengthened, and the originally good confrontation has become even more outstanding.

In addition to thanking the national team assistant coach Scott Brooks and the current Bulls player Rose, we have to thank Xiao Ye for such a perfect NBA life.

In the past, when they were in China and in the national team, they really didn't expect Xiao Ye's influence in the NBA to be so great.

It's okay if you say that those young people in the NBA are afraid of Xiao Ye.

Ben Wallace, Antoine Walker, Ricky Davis, Mark Blount, these people are afraid of Xiao Ye's influence!

Especially Ben Wallace, they could clearly feel the immense hatred from Ben Wallace, but they dared not to do anything to them!

It was incredible to let Ben Wallace admit his defeat.

And Ricky Davis, who originally hated them very much, changed his attitude towards them from being very disgusted to being willing to talk and laugh with them after Little Leaf scored 100 points in front of James in this year's Christmas game.

"I must find a chance to thank Little Leaf tonight."

"It's time to thank Little Leaf."

Wang Shipeng nodded.

He felt that not only he and Wang Shipeng needed to thank Little Leaf, but every Chinese player in the current NBA should thank Little Leaf, and every player who enters the NBA in the future should also thank Little Leaf.

The reason why the Chinese team and Chinese basketball have become so prosperous and look better and better now is not because of the appearance of Yao Ming. After so many years of Yao Ming's appearance, Chinese basketball still has only one Yao Ming, and at most one more Yi Jianlian. Don't even think about letting a hundred flowers bloom.

But after Yes appeared, the whole Chinese basketball really showed a flourishing posture, whether it was journalists and experts or ordinary players without talent, everyone benefited.

Even things like the International Basketball Grand Slam dared to imagine.

No, not dare to imagine, but dare to pursue!

On January 11, 2009, the Seattle Supersonics started another away trip to the East after two consecutive losses to the Rockets and Timberwolves. The first away opponent was the Chicago Bulls, who are now ranked seventh in the East with 16 wins and 20 losses.

Now the record of the Supersonics is 23 wins and 14 losses. After the Timberwolves defeated the Bucks on January 10, the Seattle Supersonics' current record has dropped to the eighth place in the West, and is not far from the ninth place in the West, the Houston Rockets, who are now 22 wins and 16 losses.

Although after this trip to the East, the Seattle Supersonics' schedule is relatively easy, but being threatened by the Rockets to fall out of the top eight is a completely different concept from being dropped out of the top eight by the Timberwolves.

When the Timberwolves threatened to drop out of the top eight, although they were nervous, most people were willing to believe that the Timberwolves could not threaten the Supersonics. After all, the Timberwolves had always been a weak team and a bottom team.

But the Rockets are different. The Rockets were the first team in the regular season with 73 wins and 9 losses last season, and the first team in the league's hard power history!

Even if this team really has many problems now, no one will believe that they will always be in problems.

The Rockets will rise sooner or later, and the Seattle Supersonics seem to be more like the team that has always been in problems before Durant did not pay.

Therefore, in the eyes of many people, the Supersonics will be squeezed out of the top eight by the Rockets sooner or later, either in the recent few games or in a game in the near future.

In fact, it is not only Coconut Powder and the Coconut Powder media who have such concerns. In fact, even the Sonics players themselves have such concerns. Their one and a half wins ahead of the Rockets are really not safe!

They feel that leading the Timberwolves by one win is very safe, but they feel that leading the Rockets by one and a half or even two or three wins is not safe.

In fact, this season the Timberwolves are much stronger than the Rockets.

At the United Center in Chicago, when Yes and the Seattle Supersonics players came out, they were greeted by Chicago fans with applause.

"Chicago fans are thanking Yes and the Supersonics for avenging them in the Christmas game!"

"According to a survey by the Chicago Tribune, Yes temporarily surpassed Jordan to become the most popular NBA player in Chicago during this year's Christmas game!"

Damn, the most popular player in Chicago now!

Bully Joe, is he unable to hold a knife now or what?

Looking at the young Sonics No. 9 on TV, and then looking down at his beer belly.

Jordan was depressed.

Recently, he has been dreaming about being an opponent with Yes, and what kind of picture that would be.

Unfortunately...

I was born before you were born, and you were born when I was already old...

Recently, he even envied Kobe and James in his dreams...

"Yes, the Bulls fans are too enthusiastic, aren't they?"

"Yeah, I'm a little uncomfortable."

The Sonics players were surprised and delighted by the Chicago fans' welcome when they came out, and Yes was also a little surprised.

"Quintuitive!"

"Quintuitive!"

"Quintuitive!"

Listening to the strange cheers of the Bulls fans, Yes certainly knew what these Bulls fans meant.

In this year's Christmas game, he played 104+10+5+7+8 against James.

This is a 5X5 data, and 5x5 is also called a small quintuple-double.

And the 5x5 that Yes played in the Christmas game can be said to be the largest 5X5 in NBA history.

It's just that the largest 5X5 is not a real quintuple-double.

Chicago fans hope that he can play a big quintuple-double in front of James, a real quintuple-double.

Listening to the cheers of the Chicago Bulls fans, Yes was surprised but didn't feel anything.

And James in front of the TV had a dark face.

Although he has come out of the shadows and regained his spirits because of Wade's friendship and selflessness, he has been trying to find out the shortcomings and strive to push his basketball career to the limit in the next match between the Supersonics and the Heat, that is, to truly reach the extreme of this career and become the real him in 2016, rather than the him in 2016 who was still flawed and imperfect in the last game.

Wade told him that it didn't matter if this career didn't work, at most we could change a career, and our team could support his change of course.

But he was unwilling!

He had been on the basketball career for so many years, and he changed it just like that, and he was defeated by Yes to change it, he was unwilling!

Five-double!

Five-double is indeed a good way to wash away the shame of 100 points!

James clenched his hands, bit his lips, and his eyes flickered.