Chapter 1278 National Team Report

After watching the talent show, Li Ba saw that the weather was very cool today, so he took his second child, Li Yi, to the dam behind the house for a walk. He took a plastic bag and prepared to get a watermelon to eat. But after walking for a while, it suddenly rained heavily, and he hurried back.

After running a few steps, the rain was a bit heavy, and the two-month-old Li Yi started crying loudly. He quickly put the little guy into the plastic bag and took off his T-shirt to cover it. The little thing stopped crying.

When Li Ba went home with the bag, the family was waiting at the door. They saw him carrying the child out and the child was gone when he came back. They were all dumbfounded.

"Husband, where is the first brother?" The girl was anxious.

"Where is the second brother?" Li Dacheng's eyes widened.

Not seeing Li Yi, Zhou Yuehe and Liu Xiaoli also became anxious.

"I know, Dad hates my younger brother and threw him away." Guoguo shouted in a shrill voice.

"Nonsense!"

Li Ba stared at Guo Guo with a smile, took off the T-shirt in his hand, waved the plastic bag in front of several people, and shouted: "Isn't this it?"

Several people went up to take a look, and there was a little thing inside staring at them with big eyes.

It was July, and Li Ba was going to report to the national team.

The family had lived in their hometown for a full ten months, and this time the girl was also going to Beijing with them.

However, Guo Guo was in kindergarten, and the little girl was almost five years old. In another year or two, she could go to elementary school, so this time she was not going to take her there, and let her continue to go to kindergarten at home, and her grandparents would take care of her at home.

Now Guo Guo made a fuss, and the little girl knew that her friends in the village could not see their parents all year round, and she insisted on not being a left-behind child and wanted to go to Beijing with them.

"Woo, I knew that you guys don't like me anymore now that you have two younger brothers. I knew that you don't want me anymore. I knew that, woo!"

The first time Li Ba saw Guoguo crying and rolling on the ground, he felt so distressed. Now he understood how his cousin Li Fei and the others didn't want to go out to work anymore.

Seeing his precious daughter's sad look, the girl also started crying.

The two decided immediately that the girl would stay and Li Ba would go to Beijing alone.

Before leaving, the two discussed and decided to take Guoguo with them when they went to the United States. They would talk about it in two years. It wouldn't be too late for her to go to elementary school at the age of seven or eight.

Anyway, Guoguo would go into sports in the future, and now was the time for formal training. It wouldn't be a big problem if he started school a little later. Besides, he could hire a tutor.

On July 5, Li Ba arrived in Beijing at noon and reported to the Basketball Management Center in the afternoon.

Li Jinshen personally took him to the Beijing base for the men's basketball training, the training hall of Tsinghua University.

"The centers are you, Yao Ming, and Da Zhi, the forwards are A Lian, Zhu Fangyu, Zhou Peng, and Yi Li, and the guards are Liu Wei, Wang Shipeng, Sun Le, Guo Airen, and Chen Jianghua. These twelve people have been decided. What do you think?" Li Jinshen asked on the way.

"I'm not familiar with them, so I don't have any opinions." Li Ba said.

Li Jinshen suddenly sighed: "This year, Yao Ming and Da Zhi's condition has declined. They have suffered a lot of injuries. They can still play in this Olympics, but not in the next one."

Li Ba smiled and said: "Director Li, I have been running training camps for so many years, with an investment of 20 to 30 million every year. Can you tell me if there are any good seedlings?"

Speaking of this, Li Jinshen said happily: "You know, there are some good little guys. But they just can't keep up with the times. The oldest batch is only 15 or 16 years old. It will take at least seven or eight years to use them."

Li Ba smiled and said: "Seven or eight years is too little, ten years. Look at Chen Jianghua selected in the last session. Without the training of the professional league, he can't be used at all. It's a case of forcing growth. Look at the American team again. When James and Wade participated in the Olympics for the first time, we beat them down. What's the use?"

Li Jinshen nodded and said: "The goal of the Sports Federation this time, I don't need to tell you, you know it must be the championship, and you also know the external publicity goal, I don't need to tell you."

Li Ba nodded, indicating that he knew.

The goal of the Sports General Association's publicity is to be in the top three. We have won two consecutive Olympic Games. The pressure of three consecutive Olympic Games is too great. In addition to two World Championships, this time it is five consecutive championships. The pressure is so great that the Sports General Association dare not even mention the goal of championship outside, for fear that if we fail to win, we will be scolded by the Chinese people.

Li Jinshen suddenly laughed and said, "Fortunately, you made a monster moth of injury and withdrawal, so that the Chinese people don't have such high expectations for this Olympics. Otherwise, we will be under greater pressure. It can be said that there are mistakes in the wrong."

Li Ba laughed and boasted by the way: "I planned this, how can it be a monster moth?"

"Just brag!" Li Jinshen said unhappily.

"Hey, you kid finally came?"

"Brother Iron Hammer."

When they arrived at the training hall, they saw Li Ba coming, and Yao Ming and A Lian came over immediately.

"How are your injuries?" Li Ba asked.

"It's okay. I have been recovering for a long time. Now I am just moving around. I haven't increased my strength." Yao Ming said.

At this time, Li Jinshen introduced a middle-aged white man: "Iron Hammer, this is the head coach, Mr. Bob Dunward."

"Hello, Coach Dunward."

"Hello, Iron Hammer."

Facing Li Ba, Dunward did not put on airs and introduced himself: "I used to work as a scout and assistant manager for the Nets, mainly in college basketball, and later went to the British basketball league..."

"I hope we can have a pleasant cooperation." Li Ba smiled.

"Of course." Dunward smiled.

"Do you know the lineup of the US team?" Li Ba suddenly asked.

"Of course I know."

Deng Huade shrugged and smiled: "At the end of last year, our general manager said something to the media. He said that the 1992 US men's basketball team was the greatest dream team, and now there is no dream team.

This sentence stimulated the NBA superstars, so this year's US team has a lot of superstars registered. And Mr. Stern also supports the behavior of superstars. Of course, he also supports it because of Mr. General Manager's words. But no matter what, there are a lot of superstars this year."

"Who are they?" Li Ba asked.

"The head coach is still Coach K, and you are also familiar with the team leader, Jerry Colangelo. The players include Kobe, James, Durant, Paul, Anthony, Tyson Chandler, Kevin Love, Harden, Westbrook, Anthony Davis, Big Z, and Deron Williams."

Deng Huade read out the 12-man roster of the US team like a treasure, and added: "You are familiar with the others. Many of them are said to be your juniors. Only Anthony Davis may not be known to you. He is the No. 1 pick in this year's draft, and his model is exactly you. According to media evaluation, his ceiling is a weakened version of you."