warrior godfather

Chapter 539 Chinese Characteristics
When the Warriors' main players were training hard, the substitute players did not waste precious time in the offseason.

In Tacoma, Washington State, Cabreson, Florida, and North Babylon, New York State, Thomas Jr., Parsons, Danny Green and others are sweating profusely in this hot summer, trying to improve themselves Strength.

But unlike previous offseasons, they all focused on offensive skill training.

Thomas Jr. and Parsons will be contract years next season. For them, there is nothing more important than performing well and signing a big contract.

However, it’s not that they don’t care about the team’s victory. In their view, the Warriors have already won two consecutive championships, and there are also defensive champions such as Chandler, Green, Leonard, and Clay in the main lineup. , the defense is strong enough.

What the substitute needs to do is to use offense to destroy the opponent. This is what they are good at and what they need most to sign a big contract.

Among the Warriors' substitutes, Yi Jianlian is the most special one.

After the finals, he took a short rest for a week. After participating in the Warriors' championship parade, he returned to China and came to the national team to participate in the training camp.

8月1日-8月11日，2013年亚洲男篮锦标赛将会在菲律宾的首都马尼拉举行。

Yi Jianlian, as the core of the national team after Yao Ming, is the mainstay of the Huaxia Men's Basketball Team in the Asian Championships. Although he is tired after the finals, he still has to play for the country.

This Asian Championship also has a little relationship with Zhang Yu. After Antetokounmpo's signing ceremony, he left the United States and returned to China.

He rested at home for more than half a month, and received an invitation from CCTV5, hoping that he could be a guest to explain the Huaxia men's basketball team in the Asian Championships.

Zhang Yu thought for a while and agreed.

He has been leading the Warriors in the NBA as a head coach, and has never served as a commentator, so he has a lot of interest in it.

Moreover, after getting used to the busy work of the head coach, he was not used to the long leisure vacation, and wanted to find something to do.

The most important thing is that CCTV5 promised that Zhang Yu will only be responsible for explaining the Huaxia Men's Basketball game, and there will be three commentators. As a guest, he does not need to undertake any substantive work, and he can say whatever he wants.

Of course, some words that are not conducive to unity cannot be said, and some words that are not conducive to the image of the Chinese men's basketball team, especially the image of a certain association, cannot be said.

But such conditions are already very loose, and Zhang Yu agreed very readily, treating it as a trip to the Philippines, and being able to watch the Huaxia Men's Basketball game from the VVVIP position, which kills two birds with one stone.

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In the early morning of July 7, Zhang Yu followed the broadcast team of CCTV29 and came to Manila, the capital of the Philippines, together with the Huaxia Men's Basketball Team.

As expected of CCTV's deep pockets, the broadcasting team's accommodation conditions are very good. They were arranged in a five-star hotel and received the same treatment as the men's basketball team.

However, this is not unrelated to the low prices in the Philippines. The standard room selected by the Huaxia Men’s Basketball Team is only 120 US dollars a day, and the single room is 160 US dollars a day, and the price includes three meals a day. The price is quite different from the five-star hotels in China. Far, and the food and gym conditions in the hotel are quite good.

The hotels that CCTV chose for the broadcast team were inferior and the prices were lower. If it was in China, perhaps only Zhang Yu, who was a guest commentator, could enjoy such treatment.

However, the side of the Philippines as a small country was quickly revealed.

Before the 31st, the Huaxia men's basketball team did not have a free arena to use, so they had to rent a arena for training on the 30th, and the commuting to and from the road had to be paid for by themselves.

The training venue costs 230 US dollars per hour, and the rental bus costs 80 US dollars per hour.The Huaxia men's basketball team rented the venue for two hours and rented the bus for four hours, so the total cost was 780 US dollars.

Of course, the Huaxia men's basketball team can afford this expense, but as an unplanned expense, it still seems a bit expensive.

After the training, CCTV5's broadcast team interviewed the players.

As a commentator Zhang Yu, CCTV did not arrange any work for him, but he had nothing to do in the hotel, so he followed.

So, he became the focus.

After the interviews, the players of the Huaxia Men's Basketball Team would come over to chat with him, and they all treated him with great respect, and many of the young players even seemed a little apprehensive.

Basketball players all over the world, as long as they are a little self-motivated, it is impossible not to watch the NBA, and it is impossible not to know the name of Coach Z.

For Huaxia players, Zhang Yu's name is even more popular. All the CBA coaches combined can't catch up with Zhang Yu's achievements. Even if they get a piece of advice from Zhang Yu, it is something they dream of.

Zhang Yu didn't put on airs either. He told a lot of NBA anecdotes to the Huaxia men's basketball players, and gave some pointers to young players such as Chen Jianghua, Guo Ailun, and Wang Zhelin, which benefited them a lot.

The newly appointed coach of the Huaxia Men's Basketball Team "Greek Tyrannosaurus" Iansky also had a good chat with Zhang Yu.

The "Greek Ball King", who was well-known in European basketball in the player era, led the team to win the European Championship in 2005 and the runner-up in the 2006 World Championship after serving as the head coach of the Greek national team.

In the semi-finals of the 2006 World Championships, the Greek team eliminated the American "Dream Team Seven" led by James, which was a classic battle in his coaching career.

But he has never coached an NBA team and knows how difficult it is for foreigners to succeed in the extremely exclusive circle of NBA coaches.

Of course, Zhang Yu seems to be an exception. He did not take the usual path and directly acquired the Warriors. This is a dimensionality reduction blow...

Yanarsky is very confident. He told Zhang Yu that the goal of the Huaxia Men's Basketball Team in this Asian Championship is to win the championship, even if they get the runner-up, it will be a failure.

Zhang Yu was noncommittal about this. In his previous life, he was also a fan of the Huaxia Men's Basketball Team, and he was not shocked by Yannaski's words.

The contract signed by Yanaski and a Chinese association is the first four-year non-guaranteed contract in the history of the Chinese men's basketball team. Whether to choose to continue signing depends on the record of the national team that year.

The goal set by a certain association for him is to win the Asian Championships this year, advance to the top 2014 in the 16 World Basketball Championships, win the Asian Championships in 2015, and strive to reach the quarterfinals in the 2016 Rio Olympics.

Such a request is not easy, but corresponding to it is an extremely generous salary.

In Zhang Yu's previous life, Yanarsky failed to meet the first requirement. The Huaxia Men's Basketball Team achieved the worst record of No.5 in this year's Asian Championships, and he also dismissed get out of class sadly after the game.

Yananaski's dismissal was not only due to his record, but also related to internal conflicts and struggles.

Yannakis is the most demanding coach in the history of the Chinese men's basketball team. In his eyes, no matter the old players or the young players, the training intensity is the same. The 6 hours of general physical training every day is a link that will never be missing.

In 2013, just two months after he took office, six players relapsed due to training. He had a classic saying: Are you tired?Being tired means that you are still alive, and you will not feel tired when you die.

In Zhang Yu's view, Yanarsky's training philosophy is correct. If he is given more time, the Huaxia men's basketball team will take on a new look.

But China is not Greece, and Yanarsky's method is not easy to use in this land.

The leader of a certain association doesn’t care whether you are a “Greek Tyrannosaurus” or not, and whether you have led the team to defeat the mighty American “American Dream Team”. There are often people inside the team who intervene in the team’s affairs. The selection and employment of the national team As well as court techniques and tactics, I also need to give some pointers, and I often hold small meetings with old players.

Yanarsky saw it in his eyes and was angry in his heart, but there was nothing he could do.

Maybe even he himself can't figure it out. It's obvious that a certain association paid a high price to hire him, but he dictates his coaching. Isn't this contradictory?
This is the characteristic of Huaxia that Yanarski doesn't understand. There are also different factions within a certain association. There are many people who don't want him to be the head coach of the Huaxia men's basketball team.

Under all kinds of off-court interference, many players were not convinced of Yanaski before going to Manila, and the generals were at odds. How can they achieve good results?
Faced with Zhang Yu, Jannaski was very confident, but he also felt guilty. If he did not win the championship, he would have to leave get out of class and say goodbye to this high-paying job.

So when they were about to part, Yanarski still showed his humble side and asked Zhang Yu if he had any good suggestions.

Looking at Jannaski's sincere eyes, Zhang Yu pondered for a while, and decided to persuade him with good words:

"To be honest, I am not optimistic about the results of the national team in the Asian Championships..."

Yanaski frowned, but did not refute. Zhang Yu observed his expression before continuing:
"I very much agree with your coaching philosophy and tactics, but you haven't been in office long enough. The national team's internal situation, um... is also very complicated. In such a short period of time, it is impossible for the national team's style of play to be reborn."

Yannaski frowned, and nodded again and again, showing the excited expression of "I'm finally recognized".

"However, the overall strength of Asian basketball is still weak. If the national team wants to achieve a good result, or even win the championship, it is not without a chance..."

"What should I do to create such an opportunity?" Yanarski asked eagerly.

Zhang Yu smiled slightly, tilted his head, looked at Yi Jianlian who was sitting on the sidelines looking at his mobile phone after training, and said:

"Yi! With a good Yi, the national team has the hope of winning any Asian team. He is not Yao, but I know Yi's strength very well. He is unsolvable in Asia. If you want to win, you have to take the ball. Leave it to him, let Wang play more transitions, try to stagger the time between him and Yi, put archers next to them, and then...resign yourself to fate."

"Fate?" Yanarsky, who was a little excited at first, looked at Zhang Yu in astonishment.

Zhang Yu spread out his hands:

"I don't know anything about the other players in the national team, and they are all playing domestically, with limited confrontation...I don't know what kind of performance they will play, so I can only resign myself to fate."

Jannaski nodded slightly. Zhang Yu said it very tactfully, but he heard Zhang Yu's distrust of the Huaxia men's basketball team's outside line in Zhang Yu's words.

In fact, he didn't have much hope for the CBA guards and strikers of the Huaxia Men's Basketball Team.

Yanarski doesn't like the ruffianism of the "veteran" of the national team. On the contrary, young players like Guo Ailun, Wang Zhelin, and Chen Jianghua are more favored by him.

However, in the past few months of coaching the Huaxia Men's Basketball Team, he has also begun to "do as the Romans do" and has to use these veteran players.

When they play games, they are submissive, but when they make troubles, they punch hard.

And Yanasky doesn't want to use them. He has no right to decide the roster of the Huaxia Men's Basketball team for the Asian Championships. This group of injured veterans.

Yanarski can only bite the bullet and take a group of players who are half-baked to his skills and tactics to compete in his first Asian-level tournament.

"Ronan, thank you very much for your advice. This is very useful to me. I will play around Yi Lai and use more young players. I hope, no, we will definitely win the championship!" Yanarsky said firmly .

Zhang Yu smiled and said:

"Of course, I believe that under your leadership, the national team will definitely achieve excellent results."

Although there are many difficulties, this year's Huaxia men's basketball team is very different from Zhang Yu's previous life. Zhang Yu believes that they will achieve better results.

Yi Jianlian did not return to China sadly, he has stayed in the NBA, and has experienced the baptism of the playoffs and finals, and his strength has become much stronger. It is nothing in the NBA, but in Asia, he is an unstoppable insider. Killer.

Moreover, Yi Jianlian is now playing with a small ball, which is an era ahead of Asian basketball. Not only can he score inside, but his long-range shooting ability has also been greatly improved. Ball ability has become even better.

The background of the Huaxia men's basketball team is still there. If Yanaski follows Zhang Yu's suggestion and makes good use of Yi Jianlian, it is not impossible to win the Asian Championships.

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The next day, the Huaxia men's basketball team trained for another day, and finally ushered in the match against the South Korean team.

This is the first match of the Huaxia men's basketball team in Group C. The other two opponents in Group C are Iran and Malaysia.

This grouping is very good for the Huaxia men's basketball team. Malaysia's strength is very poor, and it is not at the same level as the other three teams. It is definitely not a problem to qualify.

But if you want to achieve good results in the subsequent knockout stage, you must try to avoid encountering strong teams in advance. The Huaxia Men's Basketball Team must also do their best in the group stage.

On August 8, at 1:7 p.m., Zhang Yu sat on the sidelines, and together with Yu Jia and Yang Yi, explained the match between China Men's Basketball Team and South Korea.

Prior to this, Zhang Yu and Yang Yi had had several meals together and got to know each other well.

They faced Zhang Yu, not as casually as they treated domestic players and coaches, and their attitude was very good.

Especially Yang Yi, he complimented Zhang Yu in every possible way, his posture was very low, and he almost regarded himself as Zhang Yu's subordinate, which made Zhang Yu surprised and funny.

(End of this chapter)