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Chapter 259 The opponent of the World Championships 【Subscription】

Annie and Charlize went to apply for their visas first, while Lu Yu "reported" to Snoopy about his return to China.

Snoopy is now the director of Lu Yu's brokerage company. He needs to arrange his travel including security, food and lodging, and after all, with Annie and Charlize this time, Snoopy sometimes needs to cover himself.

Before leaving, Lu Yu went to see Jessica and spent a day with Jessica. When talking about returning to China, she agreed. After all, the national team will start training in a few days. It is understandable for Lu Yu to go back at this time. .

When the visa was completed, a piece of news came from the NBA trading market.

The Bulls acquired Richard Hamilton in a trade.

And the price is young offensive Marcus Fezer, Ron Mercer and veteran Charles Oakley.

In Lu Yu's previous life, the Wizards traded Hamilton for the Pistons' wave pitcher Stackhouse.

But the premise of this deal is that the Bulls have traded Oakley to the Wizards before, and this time the Wizards are focusing on Oakley first.

Jordan named Oakley.

His gold medal hitter!

It seems that Fetzel and Mercer are more like additions, but they are not. Before Lu Yu came, Fetzel and Mercer were the Bulls' first and second scorers in the Bulls' lineup. hand.

So the Wizards feel that this deal is not a loss.

After this trade appeared, the Bulls obtained such an excellent immediate combat power as Hamilton, but a serious vacancy appeared in the interior all of a sudden.

So the next step for the Bulls is to fill the position of the power forward.

It's just that there is no suitable power forward in the trading market. Even if there is a suitable power forward, the asking price is ridiculously high. The Bulls simply can't come up with a matching player trade.

But the Bulls have the advantage of having enough cap space.

They set their sights on Blazers power forward Rasheed Wallace in free agency.

The contract between Rasheed Wallace and the Blazers expires this summer, and the two sides are discussing the issue of the contract amount. However, although the Blazers rookie Randolph performed mediocrely last season, Wallace has been injured and let him Became the team's most consistent rotation player.

Because of the injury, Wallace is a bit difficult to get a big contract.

In the end, the Bulls acquired Rasheed Wallace on a four-year, $4 million contract.

Lu Yu couldn't help but feel a little sloppy. The Pistons had five tigers, but two of them were won by the Bulls. How would the Pistons play in the future?
However, these two are indeed the most affordable and most powerful ones in the current player market.

It's just that no one has seen it yet. The Bulls also chose to give Wallace a big contract because they had no choice but to win Hamilton. As long as there is a capable power forward in the team, they probably won't give Wallace. such a high price.

But in Lu Yu's view, this contract is simply profitable, right?

Rasheed Wallace, nicknamed Roaring God, averaged 19.3 points and 8.2 rebounds per game last season. He can shoot three-pointers and rebound. The price is a bit expensive, but it's worth the money.

Hamilton also averaged 20+ scorers last season.

This makes the Bulls' paper strength look unprecedentedly strong.

The Bulls have become the absolute protagonists of the offseason, but it is a pity that the Bulls did not win the championship last season. If they win the championship, it is estimated that these offseason transactions will be rushed, and many veterans will want to join the Bulls.

Everyone is watching, as long as the Bulls can win the championship next season, there will definitely be people who want to come in.

For example, Payton and Malone are still on the sidelines.

If Lu Yu knew that the two of them wanted to come, he would probably start to worry that the Lakers' F4 formation would fail next year. If the Lakers F4 formation failed, would O'Neal still travel east?

Can Kobe still be the boss?
Lu Yu decided to come back after the World Championships and throw a grand farewell party for Oakley. After all, Oakley took care of himself a lot in his first season with the Bulls.

Well, it's a serious party.

Definitely not the kind that Artest did.

And Lu Yu did not attend the press conference where the new teammates joined, but flew back to China from Chicago with Annie and Charlize, and started a seven-day trip to China.

It's definitely not appropriate to wear a hat and a mask in summer, so Lu Yu just wore sunglasses to cover it up.

Fortunately, when he walked out of the airport, he was not recognized by the fans.

Lu Yu suddenly felt extremely relaxed and could go on an ordinary trip.

In seven days, they went to the Jiangnan Garden in Wu County, and also to the ancient capital of the Six Dynasties in Jinling, and finally climbed Mount Tai together. When they came down, Annie complained that Lu Yu would ask her to climb the mountain again, and she would break up with Lu Yu!
Mount Tai is so high that in order to watch the sunrise, they started climbing at ten o'clock at night.

As a result, we climbed to the top of the mountain until three in the morning. When we reached the top of the mountain, we found that the top of the mountain was cold, so a few people rented military coats and squatted at the corner of the top of the mountain.

Seeing someone eating instant noodles around, the aroma made Annie and Charlize drool.

In the end, Lu Yu asked his assistant to buy a few boxes of instant noodles, and several people solved the first breakfast on the top of the mountain. The top of the mountain was dark, and no one noticed who Lu Yu was.

However, Lu Yu was very surprised. The instant noodles on the top of the mountain cost eight yuan a barrel?
It's too lucrative, isn't it?
They also heard that someone rented a military coat from the bottom of the mountain, paid a deposit of 200 yuan, and then carried it from the bottom of the mountain to the top of the mountain. It is estimated that they will have to carry the military coat back to the bottom of the mountain. There is a high probability that they will not find it when they get to the bottom of the mountain. People who rented their military coats.

After getting off Mount Tai, Lu Yu couldn't wait to find a hotel to sleep in.

It's a pity that Annie shares a room with Charlize and doesn't sleep with Lu Yu.

It would have been better if I had known that I had brought one, but wouldn't I have had a mental illness if I had brought two?
Sleeping alone is such a lonely thing.

After the trip, Lu Yu arranged for them to fly back to the United States, while he drove to the training center in the capital.

After arriving at the training center and meeting with their teammates, several veteran players felt a little uncomfortable because they felt that they had squeezed out a few young people.

But when they heard that Lu Yu had arranged an NBA training camp for several young people, they thanked Lu Yu for a hug.

After the training started, they played a few more warm-up games.

I played a game with the Nigerian national team, and finally won over Nigeria by more than 20 points. This was something I didn't even dare to think about in the past. According to the previous strength, the Chinese men's basketball team is weaker than Nigeria, let alone win the opponent by 20 points. Too many points.

And this time Nigeria heard that the Chinese men's basketball team has four NBA players in the lineup, and sent their absolute main lineup.

This was also won by the Chinese men's basketball team by 20 points.

The second game was against the Yugoslav men's basketball team. This time the Chinese men's basketball team won again, but there is no reference value, because the Yugoslav men's basketball team only sent their second team.

The opponent in the third warm-up match was the German team. Wang Zhizhi met his teammate Dirk Nowitzki. This time the Chinese men's basketball team lost, and Dirk Nowitzki killed the game with a three-pointer at the last moment.

After three warm-up games, all teams in the world have seen the strength of the Chinese men's basketball team.

On August 8, the Chinese men's basketball team flew to the United States.

The NBA's website has such a voting system: If you don't count the United States, which country will win the championship?
The answer is so exciting: China ranks third with 15.6% of the vote, behind only Yugoslavia and Canada.

For a time, the voices of entering the top eight to win medals came one after another, one wave after another.

But Lu Yu knew that in this World Championships, the United States is a piece of shit!
The American Dream Team only achieved No.6.

In Lu Yu's previous life, at this year's World Championships, the United States fought at home for the first time, with a 58-game winning streak aiming to defend the title.

As a result, they were first defeated by Argentina in the group stage, then eliminated by Yugoslavia in the quarter-finals, and lost to Spain in the final five or six battles.

Not to mention that there is now the variable of the Chinese team.

In the previous life, the potential rookie point guard Hu Xuefeng who performed outstandingly in the warm-up game was seriously injured, which may jeopardize his career, and then Da Zhi, who played for the Mavericks, was absent due to communication problems with the Basketball Association. Liu Yudong, the god of war who was recovering at home, was temporarily suspended Call up to the team.

In this way, a young and aging Chinese team full of hope and potential, but also scarred, set off to Indianapolis!
But now it's different. The Chinese men's basketball team has four NBA players, Lu Yu, Wang Zhizhi, Battelle and Yao Ming, as well as Yi Jianlian, the star of the top NCAA team. The team also has Liu Yudong, Gong Xiaobin, Hu Weidong, Li Nan, Zhu Fangyu, Guo Shiqiang and Liu Wei, the most powerful players in the CBA.

Even Liu Yudong's injury was much lighter than in Lu Yu's previous life.

This Chinese men's basketball team is all about winning.

And the US men's basketball team is still those people. There are Big Ben, O'Neal Jr. and Brand on the inside, and Pierce, the bearded Davis, and spiritual leaders like Reggie Miller are sitting on the outside.

The so-called spiritual leader can only be fooled mentally.

This group of people is not enough for Lu Yu to see in the NBA. None of the really big stars have come, so it's no wonder that they don't lose!
The most pitiful thing is that there is actually Lu Yu's old opponent in this team, that is Jay Williams, who was just selected by the Rockets this year. Jay, who has never played in the NBA, was actually selected. The Dream Team, one can imagine how outrageous it is.

There is even more outrageous, Nick - Collison only entered the NBA in 2003, he was still in college in 2002, the US men's basketball team also recruited him to the national team.

Also, LaFrentz is a role player who was traded three times in the 01-02 season and was selected to the USA Basketball.

Anyway, it's outrageous fucking open the door for outrageous, outrageous home.

If you change to another team, this group of players may be very good, like Yao Ming, and Jay Williams are both rookies this year, but Yao Ming is the best player in China, and there are only 4 players in China. into the NBA.

The US team is different. The players here are not the best players in the country at all.

To call this team the Dream Team is an insult to the Dream Team name.

More worthy of Lu Yu's attention are Yugoslavia and Argentina. Yugoslavia has Peja. Although the Bulls and the King did not play in the playoffs, Peja's strength is absolutely unquestionable.

When Yao Ming and Wang Zhizhi talked about the Yugoslav team, they both looked at each other awkwardly.

Lu Yu was stunned for a moment.

"What's wrong?" he asked.

Yao Ming thought for a while before saying, "Yugoslavia is really strong. We lost [-] points to them in the Universiade last year!"

Lu Yu remembered that last year's Chinese men's basketball team won the US men's basketball team in the Universiade, but lost to Yugoslavia in the final, and achieved the second place.

From the current point of view, the qualifications of the 12 players representing China are controversial. In fact, Yao Ming and Wang Zhizhi are in line with the rules to participate in the Universiade. They all have temporary jobs in sports schools and have relevant student status. can participate.

The real requirement of the Universiade is age, which must be between 17-28 years old. Therefore, people like Liu Yudong, Hu Weidong and Gong Xiaobin were not in the lineup that time.

The reason why Lu Yu remembered this game is because his college teammate, Dan Dickau, participated in this Universiade.

The U.S. men's basketball team made it easy all the way, outscoring opponents by 39.8 points per game.

But they met the Chinese men's basketball team in the semi-finals. With the cheers of the audience at the Tsinghua University Gymnasium, the Chinese men's basketball team challenged their opponents time and time again.

The final attack of the whole game was controlled by the United States.

At this time, the Chinese men's basketball team leads by one point.

Dixon, who scored a game-high 28 points, started quickly, successfully got rid of the defense and entered the penalty area. He jumped up and shot. At the critical moment, Yao Ming appeared in the defensive position and stretched out his huge palm to interfere with the shot.

In the end, the Chinese team won the US team, entered the finals, and met their opponent in the finals, Yugoslavia.

In this game, it can be said that the Chinese team is unlucky, and it can also be said that Yugoslavia is indeed very strong.

In the first half, Wang Zhizhi injured his calf and Yao Ming sprained his ankle in the third quarter, but even though everyone thought they would lose, they never thought they would lose [-] points in the end.

Forty points difference!

Such a sap made both Yao Ming and coach Wang Fei absent from the award ceremony after the game.

"I found a reason for spraining my foot and didn't go to receive the award. In fact, I didn't want to go." Yao Ming said helplessly.

Even if Yao Ming and Wang Zhizhi played the entire game, they couldn't make up for the [-]-point hole.

And in that Yugoslav team, there are many players from the current Yugoslav team.

They are really strong.

In Lu Yu's previous life, this Yugoslav team was the champion of this World Championship, so Lu Yu also directly locked the final opponent on them.

Since it is here, the goal must be the championship.

It's hard to say if you can get it, but the goal must be set a little bigger.

Just like Lu Yu, who just entered the NBA last year, when he was interviewed, he said that his goal was the championship. Although the Bulls did not win the championship in the end, the Bulls entered the finals.

For the World Championships, Lu Yu has the same attitude.

What's the point of not rushing to the championship?
Of course, this was what Lu Yu had in mind. He didn't tell his teammates. He was afraid that his honest teammates wouldn't be able to accept it for a while.

After all, in their eyes, it is already very good to be able to enter the quarterfinals.

　Thanks to the most handsome chubby in history for the reward!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)