Basketball starts with breathing

It is said that the quiet before the storm is the most terrifying.

Has anyone experienced the calm after a storm?
Bulls general manager Jerry Krause is going through it right now, and he never thought he would one day change owners, or that he just offended the team's top star before he changed owners.

Now he has not met the new boss. He doesn't know if the new boss will have the same idea as the previous boss, but it can be seen from the other party's big purchase of the Bulls that he is a good owner.

Any boss with good money will definitely keep Lu Yu.

And he just did the stupidest thing, offending Lu Yu from the inside out.

Originally, he had his former boss as a backer.

But now Reinsdorf has a direct clearance sale, which makes his situation extremely embarrassing.

What worries him most is that the new boss doesn't seem to want to see him either.

The entire NBA was shaken by the change of the Bulls' owner, like a storm, but after the storm, there was no news of the new owner of the Bulls.

Neither proposed to renew Lu Yu's contract, but expressed his attitude.

Nor did he express any opinion on Krause's previous approach.

As if nothing happened.

No one knows that the reason for the calm is just because Lu Yu has already flown to Athens and has no time to deal with this matter.

On August 8, the Athens Olympic Games opened.

On August 8, the Chinese Olympic delegation flew to Athens in batches. The men's and women's basketball players and several other athletes were in the same cabin.

The head coach of the women's basketball team is Gong Luming. The goal of the women's basketball team this time is to maintain six and compete for three, which is a little lower than the goal of the men's basketball team. This time, the goal of the Chinese men's basketball team is to win a medal.

When the plane flew into the blue sky, Lu Yu and Yao Ming also chatted with each other. There were other members of the men's basketball team nearby. The original men's basketball training list was 14 people, but they were removed from the final list. The names of Chen Ke and Zhang Yunsong.

The twelve players of the Chinese men's basketball team are:

Centers: Yao Ming, Battle, Moco

Forwards: Wang Zhizhi, Du Feng, Yi Jianlian, Zhu Fangyu, Li Nan

Defenders: Zhang Jinsong, Guo Shiqiang, Liu Wei, Lu Yu.

After discussing with Lu Yu, Harris and Lu Yu decided to let Lu Yu play the role of guard.

The main reason is that the Chinese men's basketball team has good strength on the front line and inside line. There are Yao Ming in the inside line, Wang Zhizhi, Yi Jianlian and Zhu Fangyu in the strike line, and at least there are NBA-level players.

If Lu Yu plays a small forward, he will directly fill the front line.

But Harris can't do this. He knows that the back line is the weakest link of the Chinese men's basketball team, otherwise it may be difficult to pass halftime.

Of course, Lu Yu's play on the front line is also one of the tactics of the Chinese men's basketball team this time.

Lu Yu had a backache on the plane. He was tired from sitting and lying down. The main reason was that the flight time was too long. It took him [-] hours to fly from the capital to Munich.

Mainly because Munich is a Schengen visa, you can enter directly.

The plane arrived at Munich Airport in Germany, where they will transfer to Athens. Lu Yu's impression of Munich is limited to the Bayern team, but he prefers watching the Premier League and La Liga than the Bundesliga.

Men's basketball players are waiting at the airport for a transfer.

"Lu Yu, look over there!" Zhu Fangyu slipped behind Lu Yu at some point and whispered, pointing to another team of athletes wearing Chinese Olympic sports uniforms not far away.

Lu Yu raised his head and glanced, "What's wrong?"

"Look at that, isn't the girl in the middle pretty?" Zhu Fangyu's face, which was even filled with vanishing cream, showed a rare blush.

"The gymnastics team?" Lu Yu hesitated, "What do you want?"

"I want her phone number."

"Then you go."

"Do I dare to go and find you?"

"..." Lu Yu.

Lu Yu walked over helplessly, and the girl in the group gym obviously saw him too.

"Hi, hello." Lu Yu greeted with a smile.

The girl from the gymnastics team also greeted with a blushing face: "Hello...you are that...Lu...Lu..."

"Lu Yu." Lu Yu reported to his home, lest he wouldn't come out for a long time.

"Yes, yes, Lu Yu, wow, you are so tall!"

"Nonsense, can people play basketball well?"

"He looks pretty handsome, he's more handsome than on TV."

Lu Yu suddenly felt a little head-scratching. He couldn't bear the chatter of such a group of girls, and he couldn't help but regret that he shouldn't have come here for Zhu Fangyu.

"That...I want to ask something..." Lu Yu hurriedly interrupted their conversation and said, "It's just that I have a teammate who I want to get to know...well, this girl."

Lu Yu smiled at the girl Zhu Fangyu mentioned.

"Your teammate? Could it be you?"

"It must be him, but I'm embarrassed to say, Hu Mei, come here, Lu... Lu Yu, her name is Hu Mei, and she's the beauty of our gymnastics team."

Hu Mei smiled slightly.

Lu Yu smiled and said helplessly: "It's really my teammate. If you don't believe me, I call him... Zhu..."

Just as he was about to call Zhu Fangyu's name, when he looked back, he couldn't even see a figure.

"Look, there are no teammates at all, just himself."

"Look, the handsome guy is blushing."

Lu Yu was speechless, but obviously it was not appropriate to run away directly at this time. The key point was that there were so many people surrounding him that he couldn't escape, so he could only bite the bullet and say, "Your name is Hu Mei? Can you give me a contact number? The teammate mentioned is called Zhu Fangyu, you can get to know each other later."

Hu Mei smiled: "Zhu Fangyu, right? Then I'll give you the number and remember it."

Lu Yu wrote down the number and turned to leave.

To tell the truth, the beauties of the gymnastics team are quite beautiful.

But for Lu Yu, who often eats meat, he is generally not interested in vegetarian dishes.

The plane finally came, and the Olympic delegation boarded the plane to Athens. Zhu Fangyu held the phone and chatted happily all the way.

Lu Yu thought about it all the way, and finally remembered who Hu Mei was. Hu Mei was later Zhu Fangyu's... um, his ex-wife.

He couldn't remember this kind of gossip at all. If he remembered who Hu Mei was at first, he wouldn't say anything to ask for this phone number... But it was a matter between husband and wife, and Lu Yu didn't bother. have a finger in the pie.

After arriving in Athens, the group took the bus arranged for them by the organizing committee to the Olympic Village. Under the hazy night, the peaceful Athens became even more mysterious.

Since the delegation was generally very tired after a day's flight, they all went back to their rooms to sleep immediately after being welcomed by the athletes who arrived earlier.

Lu Yu and Yi Jianlian and Zhu Fangyu lived in the same room.

Yi Jianlian didn't talk much, not like Zhu Fangyu was endless. During the training session, Lu Yu could see that Yi Jianlian had made great progress, especially in terms of confrontation.

Of course, Wang Zhizhi also pulled back.

You must know that the current Wang Zhizhi is not the introverted player of Lu Yu's previous life. He has already played with confidence. After the season, he has entrusted Snoopy to help him test the waters in the free market.

The three of them lay on the bed after taking a bath and couldn't sleep. Zhu Fangyu got up, sat on the head of Lu Yu's bed and asked, "Brother Lu, is the atmosphere of American basketball good?"

Lu Yu has a high position in the hearts of young Chinese players, especially in Zhu Fangyu's heart, he is simply his idol and the target of catching up.

Just like Yi Jianlian worshipped Lu Yu back then.

"The basketball atmosphere in the United States must be very good. I have the opportunity to take you to practice games." Lu Yu said with a smile.

"Really?" Zhu Fangyu asked.

Yi Jianlian coughed lightly: "Brother Yu, I advise you to reconsider."

Yi Jianlian knew the amount of training Lu Yu had, and most people couldn't handle it.

"..." Lu Yu.

Zhu Fangyu didn't hear what Yi Jianlian meant, gave Yi Jianlian a sidelong glance and said, "Why, when you enter the NBA, you think I can't get in? I still insist that Lu Yu take me to practice, and sooner or later I will also enter the NBA to show you this kid. …”

"You can definitely make it." Lu Yu said with a smile: "Actually, your physical fitness is very good. As long as you train hard, you will definitely have a chance to play in the NBA, especially in an international competition like the Olympics. If you play hard, there will naturally be scouts looking for it. you."

Zhu Fangyu came to the spirit and said quickly: "Is there really a scout looking for me?"

"If a scout finds me, what should I tell him?"

"Is the scout a foreigner? What if I don't speak English?"

"I……"

Lu Yu wondered if he was talking too much: "If you don't talk so much, I think there should be."

"What do you mean, do I talk too much? It's definitely not much, right? Ah Lian, what do you mean by looking at me like this? You're talkative...hey, don't leave..."

Yi Jianlian and Lu Yu just pretended to be leaving, and the three of them went to bed after arguing for a while.

The moonlight outside the window was dim, and the ground was silver.

"I heard that the United States is very physically confrontational, and there are often fights..." Zhu Fangyu continued chatting with Lu Yu in a low voice.

Lu Yu was a little sleepy and said in a daze: "Just hit me, whoever is afraid... sleepy, sleep, sleep, and get up early tomorrow..."

Yi Jianlian smiled. His character is calm and not talkative, that is, he is willing to chat more when he is with Lu Yu. Domestic coaches usually tell players to learn restraint when encountering court conflicts, but he contacts Lu Yu. After a lot, I found out that in fact, playing in the United States is to be a little harder.

If you think about it, it's right. Lu Yu also had many conflicts with his opponents in the NCAA and NBA, and he was not the same type as domestic players at all.

Zhu Fangyu didn't fall asleep either, he thought to himself, since Lu Yu said so, it must be right!
But this night was destined to be a sleepless night.

There are so many mosquitoes in Athens, there is no hot water for bathing, and the room is like a small hotel in the underpass of a domestic railway station.

How to sleep?
Even the Olympic Village in Athens now looks like an unfinished construction site, with sand and cement piled up all over the venue, and some roads are not even paved with asphalt.

The bathroom door of the dormitory where the Chinese delegation lived was not even installed in time. For Harris, who lived in the United States, this place was like a refugee camp.

I heard that the Greek Olympic Organizing Committee was forced to do nothing, and has hired a group of workers from China to meet the deadline.

On August 8, all the members of the Chinese delegation arrived and held a flag-raising ceremony. Compared with the judo and track and field delegations that came later, the men's basketball team was obviously used to the embarrassment of the Athens Olympic Village.

The Olympic Village is basically Western food, with enough calories, and the beef and mutton can be cooked well, but many foods are indeed not to the taste of Chinese athletes.

Chinese athletes are not squeamish, but if they eat incorrectly, their appetite will definitely decrease, which will inevitably affect the quality of training and competition.

Seriously, it's not like he's picking noses and eyes on the host, and he's also working hard... Forget it, he's just like this rotten chicken, and it takes a lot of effort.

However, poor eating will definitely affect the performance of athletes, especially weightlifting, which relies on strength to eat. It is even more difficult for athletes to come to the Olympic Village for two weeks to find out that they are hungry and thin. Those who could have participated in the heavyweight division will return to the competition. , went straight to lightweight.

This is it!

The men's basketball team immediately told the weightlifting team's judo team about the method they had recently figured out.

When they were in China, Lu Yu and the others thought about the issue of diet. Eating is a small matter and a big deal, and they were not sloppy at all, so they brought a lot of food from China in advance, including instant noodles, mustard greens, canned meat, and so on.Of course, these packaged frozen foods are not enough to make up for the physical energy they consume, and some foods are not too fresh after long-distance consignment, and they have to purchase a little locally as a supplement.

You must not buy locally made food. Because you are not used to eating, you can only buy some raw materials. When buying things, try to be cheap and high-quality. For example, chicken is nutritious, Chinese people love it, and the price is cheap. The fragrance fills the house, which not only supplements heat but also relieves hunger.

This is the experience that the Chinese men's basketball team has been hungry for these days.

Many people in the Chinese delegation are master cooks, and they cook a few delicate and delicious assorted dishes, such as scooping things. Following the example, "Chinese food craze" has become a unique landscape of the Olympic Village.

Originally, other delegations were already envious of the Chinese delegation.

Who knew that within two days, a bus drove into the Olympic Village. After the people in the bus got off, they started to set up tents and took out boxes and boxes of items from the car.

A lot of people are wondering what's going on here?

Lu Yu was very puzzled, until Snoopy trotted all the way to Lu Yu's side, and reported loudly: "My sister-in-law said that she was afraid that you would not eat well, so she specially dispatched a chef from Lu Ji Restaurant, and also airlifted a truckload of ingredients. If the delegation wants to eat, they can come to us at any time and provide it for everyone for free!"

Yuan Weimin, head of the Chinese delegation, came to the men's basketball team to thank Lu Yu for this.

It doesn't matter to Lu Yu, the food doesn't cost much, but he is very puzzled by a question, which sister-in-law is Snoopy talking about?
Jessica?
Late at night, Snoopy came to Lu Yu's room, only then did Lu Yu know that it was not Jessica, but Anne Hathaway.

When Snoopy left, he suddenly asked, "By the way, Lu, Jessica asked me to ask you, when are you going to let Klaus go?"