One Thousand Six Hundred and Fifty-Two. When My Sons Grow Up...

From July 2 to July 8, the 7-day 5-station promotional event exhausted Zu E, but he found that Sun Ce seemed to never get tired. He would go to the hotel gym to exercise for two hours every day after the promotional event.

Originally, Zu E heard that Sun Ce had ordered the team to have a hotel with an independent gym, and thought that Sun Ce wanted a high-end hotel, because hotels with independent gyms are basically high-end hotels.

Now I know that Sun Ce went there just to book the gym!

Finally, I returned to Zu E's home in Tianjin. As usual, Zu E gave the room to Sun Ce and slept on the sofa.

Not for anything else, although the bed was a little small for Sun Ce, it was at least a normal 1.5-meter-wide bed. Sun Ce really couldn't sleep on the sofa.

After two days of rest, I listened to crosstalk and watched a drama. Leisure time always passes quickly. On August 11, Zu Ge accompanied her mother to travel, while Sun Ce came to Beijing. He first went to the Basketball Management Center to report back to the team, and then went to the designated venue in Qingdao to meet the new national team teammates.

Sun Ce remembered that originally this World Cup did not have Yao Ming, and did not even make it to the qualifiers. As for why he could not play in the World Cup without the qualifiers, it was because he did not get the first place in Asia, let alone the first place, and he did not even make it into the top four in the original time and space.

In this time and space, if Yi Jianlian had not developed the three-pointer and was blocked under the basket in the game against Taiwan, he would have pulled out to shoot three-pointers, and made 9 three-pointers in a single game to break the record of the Basketball Asian Championships and help the Chinese men's basketball team narrowly beat Taiwan. He almost did not make it into the top three, but even if he made it into the top three, he would only be third and was beaten in the semifinals.

But the third place cannot enter the World Cup. Although there are champions of the last World Championships, Asia still has only 2.5 places. The third place needs to be fought for, but the Asian regional qualifying tournament also lost from beginning to end. This time, Yi Jianlian was not sent to participate, which is even more miserable.

The old generation of players who have not retired are also old. Only Zhu Fangyu can play, and the young players are useless.

Fortunately, their Chinese team is the defending champion, and there is a fixed place without fighting.

However, Sun Ce thinks that the Chinese men's basketball team did a good job in last year's Asian Championships. All the young and talented players were sent out, allowing them to feel what the gap is. They don't ask them to understand the gap between them and the European and American teams, but let them feel the gap with the older generation.

Not to mention Yi Jianlian, the old Wang Zhizhi played better than all other young inside players.

This is embarrassing, but the Chinese men's basketball team has really reached the point of breaking through and building up. Otherwise, even with him and Yi Jianlian, they will not go far in the international arena. The German team had Nowitzki and Kaman, the twin towers who were selected for the NBA All-Stars, and a bunch of excellent players from the Bundesliga, but they couldn't even qualify in the group stage.

It's not that Sun Ce is self-deprecating and thinks that CBA players are so bad, but no matter how arrogant he is, he will not think that the overall level of the CBA league is higher than the Bundesliga.

When it came to the training camp, Sun Ce met Yao Ming, and Yao Ming's first sentence was: "Little Overlord, you have to be mentally prepared."

Sun Ce didn't understand at first, but then he understood.

This time, even Wang Shipeng and Wang Zhizhi did not participate in the first Basketball World Cup. Although Wang Zhizhi is still playing for Bayi, he has decided to retire after the new season. This time he joined the national team as an assistant coach.

Other players have no basic skills, no physique... but they should be good at fighting. The basketball in Guangdong and Guangxi is still very strong compared to other parts of the country. Nearly half of the national team members come from these places.

After Sun Ce met his new national teammate, the first thing he did was not to greet and get to know each other, but to introduce himself to each other and ask for autographs.

Then they practiced together. When Sun Ce squeezed out 18-year-old inside player Zhou Qi to dunk, Wang Shipeng, who was refereeing this joint practice, felt that there was no need to practice.

Obviously, Sun Ce is in good shape. After the season, Sun Ce said he wanted to learn skills from Jordan, and the national team agreed. Now it seems to be true, and the shape is well maintained.

As for cooperation... this World Cup is very simple,

Give the ball to Sun Ce or Yi Jianlian, and others will pull away to receive the ball. If the shot is made, it counts, and if it is not made, forget it.

As Wang Zhizhi, who has seen the golden age of Chinese men's basketball in the 1990s and the golden age of Sun, Yao and Yi, he never dreamed that one day the national team would be so weak. It would be better for him to wear the jersey himself.

But after the new head coach Gong Luming discussed with Yao Ming, they decided to let the young players see the world, and Wang Zhizhi also supported it, because the current domestic players are too narrow-minded.

However, we can't let Sun Ce, a member of our team, beat his teammates to lose confidence.

As for Sun Ce, after only a few rounds of joint training, he curiously went to Wang Zhizhi to ask for Zhou Qi's information. This was a talented center of the Liaoning Provincial Team in the past few years. He signed with the Xinjiang Team in January this year. He has not played in the CBA. He was selected to participate in the World Cup purely because of his height of 217 cm and excellent mobility at the same height.

Then there was nothing more, there was no extra information, and Sun Ce was not curious about these information, but the weight...

79 kg!

217cm tall, 229cm wingspan, 291cm reach. Except for the height, the other data are better than Yao Ming. His static physical fitness is indeed high, but his running, jumping and speed are not as good as Yi Jianlian. Yi Jianlian's running and jumping abilities are not matched by any inside player, but his vertical jump reaches 80cm, which is 3cm higher than Yi Jianlian's draft physical test.

But the weight... Yi Jianlian weighed more than 100 kilograms when he entered the NBA, and Zhou Qi weighed 79 kilograms!

When Sun Ce saw a group of unfamiliar players in the national team before, he thought that was what Yao Ming said about being mentally prepared. Only now did he know what that meant.

Thinking back to the Chinese men's basketball team back then, every player could really call out their names, but now, except for Yi Jianlian and Zhu Fangyu, even teammate Sun Ce doesn't want to ask their names.

Sun Ce feels that some of these people may be very good people, but as a basketball player, this is probably their only advantage.

After chatting with Yao Ming, Sun Ce changed his previous plan and still practiced on his own. He practiced what he should practice. He strengthened the hook shot on the right baseline, consolidated the shot on the right side of the three-second zone, and strengthened the 45-degree angle on the right side to 30 degrees. Three-pointers from the corner, consolidation of shots from other positions, and the most important point - strengthening free throws.

In order to help Sun Ce practice three-pointers and free throws, Yao Ming specially helped Sun Ce arrange an NBA-standard court.

Unlike renting a gym for training, Sun Ce’s training this time is often surrounded by teammates.

Sun Ce and Yao Ming don't know how many young players can feel what real hard work is through this approach, but doing it is better than not doing it at all.

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Time passed by, and on August 19, Sun Ce went to Madrid, Spain with the national team to start preparations.

Madrid, Barcelona, ​​Sevilla, Bilbao, Granada, Las Palmas, six cities and six arenas, Sun Ce went to experience them all with the national team.

In the group draw in April, the Chinese team was placed in Group D. The grouping was very simple. Spain Group A, Greece Group B, the United States Group C, and China Group D. The four seed teams were deliberately placed in four groups to avoid These four popular teams meet in advance.

Soon on August 29th, after the opening ceremony, on August 30th, the Chinese team played its first game against the South Korean team at the Bilbao Forest Park Arena.

131 to 60, Sun Ce easily scored 44 points, 17 rebounds, 4 assists and 8 blocks, and Yi Jianlian scored 25 points and 11 rebounds. The two led the team to win this easy game.

But on August 31, the Chinese team met the Lithuanian team and lost 71 to 77.

On September 1st, they met Slovenia and lost 97 to 106.

Finally on September 3rd, the Chinese team broke out. They played against Australia, which had permanently lost Bogut. The Chinese team narrowly defeated 103 to 101. This time, Yi Jianlian scored 29 points, 17 rebounds, 2 assists and 3 blocks. Sun Ce scored 25 points and 7 blocks. 11 boards, 5 blocks and 11 assists.

Dante Exum, who was touted as Australia's Kobe Bryant before the draft, blocked 5 shots less than Sun Ce and Yi Jianlian, and became the two's cap-charging cash machine.

The match against Mexico on September 5th was quite easy, 98 to 83, and the Chinese team won easily.

In the group stage, Sun Ce scored at least 20 points in all 5 games, including 40+ points twice. He averaged 31 minutes per game, scoring 31.6 points, 14.4 rebounds, 6.7 assists, 5.2 blocks and 2.4 steals. His shooting percentage was not very good, 4%. 12. Yi Jianlian averaged 11 of 26 shots per game, but among the players in the team who took more than 10 shots in total, Yi Jianlian had a higher shooting percentage than him; Yi Jianlian scored 20+1 times 4 times and 18 points, averaging 22.2 points, 10.4 rebounds and 2.6 points per game. Assists, 1.6 blocks, 0.4 steals.

Sun Ce just followed what Gong Luming said, just hold the ball and play by himself. Indeed, he was able to get a record of 3 wins and 2 losses in the group stage and advance as the third place in the group, relying on Sun Ce's 30+10+5+ 5 and Yi Jianlian’s 20+10 performance.

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With 3 wins and 2 losses, the Chinese men’s basketball team advanced to the top 16 as the third place in Group D.

This record greatly exceeded the expectations of the European and American basketball powers. Looking at the performance of Sun Ce and Yi Jianlian, they thought that the Chinese team had won all 5 games. But looking at the performance of the Chinese team's other players except Sun Ce and Yi Jianlian... it seemed like Yao Ming's group After people retire, the Chinese men's basketball team is easy to bully!

On September 6th, the defending champion Chinese Men’s Basketball Team and the Turkish Men’s Basketball Team started a defensive battle. In this game, Sun Ce scored 24 points, 16 rebounds, 4 assists, 4 blocks and 1 steal. Yi Jianlian scored 18 points, 15 rebounds and 3 blocks. , led the team to a difficult defeat of the Turkish team 71-65 and advanced to the top 8.

But they met the Serbian men's basketball team in the quarterfinals...I thought the Serbian men's basketball team was easy to bully. They had 2 wins and 3 losses in the group stage and only finished fourth in Group A.

However, the Chinese team suffered a disastrous defeat 64 to 89 and was unable to fight back... and stopped in the quarterfinals.

In the end, the Chinese men's basketball team lost to the Brazilian team in the ranking match on September 7, and the final ranking was fixed at eighth in the Western Conference.

Sun Ce was not without gains. In 8 games, he averaged 30.4 points, 14 rebounds, 6.3 assists, 5 blocks, and 2.3 steals per game. He won the scoring, rebounding, and blocks titles of this World Championship. The steals title was lost to Spanish point guard Ricky- Rubio won, and the assists title went to French point guard Tony Parker.

And the team that won the data king failed to reach the semi-finals.

Later, when he saw the Serbian team rubbing the Lithuanian team, which had defeated Spain and Greece 90-68, on the ground in the semi-finals, Sun Ce realized that the opponent was really powerful!

But in the final, Serbia was easily defeated by the United States team, losing by more than 30 points 91 to 126.

In the end, Irving won the MVP of this world championship.

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The national team career has come to an end. Sun Ce did not expect his teammates to be so bad. If he and Yi Jianlian were not the inside and outside players, ensuring that the national team has the ability to be in the top ten in the world, it would be really difficult to enter the quarterfinals.

But the quarterfinals are over.

Sun Ce had prepared himself mentally before, but he was still not very happy when he really encountered such a situation.

But he also understood that glory will always pass. He and Yao Ming, Yi Jianlian, Wang Zhizhi, Wang Shipeng, Zhu Fangyu... That golden age suddenly appeared in 2010 and 2012, but it also came to an abrupt end at the peak due to the age of many teammates.

Sun Ce can only comfort himself: wait a little longer, be patient, wait for 20 years, wait for my sons to grow up, and I will take them to conquer the world!

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Fortunately, he was prepared to lose early. Sun Ce thought that entering the knockout round would be the end of the matter, but he still entered the quarterfinals. He was a little unwilling at the time, but he didn't care too much afterwards.

In the next few world championships, it is estimated that he will accompany the group of prince-type players to train.

In fact, there are also hard-working players in the national team, such as Han Shuo of the Bayi team, but they are not talented enough.

Those who seem to be talented enough seem to only treat basketball as a very profitable job, such as Zhou Qi.

Sun Ce learned from Zhu Fangyu, the big mouth, that Zhou Qi plays basketball because his parents said that playing basketball can make money without studying...

Sun Ce placed his hopes for the national team on Yao Ming, hoping that he can do something. If there is anything he needs help with, he will try his best to help.

Of course, first of all, Yao Ming must be elected to the Blue Association next year. Sun Ce thinks this is not a big problem, just look at the next operation.

On September 11, Sun Ce returned to Memphis with Zu Ge, who had been traveling with his mother for a month.

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After returning home to rest for three days, on September 15, Sun Ce came to the stadium. This year, the team will gather on September 21, the training camp announced by BA, which is 10 days earlier than before, and the time has been extended from 7 days to 14 days!

The preseason will start on October 5th and will be shortened to 5 games. The start time of the regular season will be advanced to October 14th to 16th, and each team will play the opening game.

Since the league's revenue has been growing in recent years, probably because of Sun Ce, and the salary cap will soar by 25 million in the summer of 2016, all teams unanimously passed the proposal to extend the season forward!

Playing basketball is a happy thing. For example, students go to the playground to play basketball after school, and they must be happy. If playing basketball is an unhappy thing, no one would be willing to do it.

Looking at the current national team, compared with the previous national teams, Sun Ce feels bad.

But seeing the club's lineup, Sun Ce is excited! ()