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Chapter 207 Arrangements for the National Team
On August 8, Du Zhe flew to New York to join the national team.

The Chinese men's basketball team is currently training at Columbia University in New York and has two warm-up games to play.

After the Las Vegas summer league ended, the Huaguo national team was not idle either. They first returned to China to participate in the annual Stankovic Cup.

As soon as the Stankovic Cup was mentioned, many Chinese fans hated it.

Before Yao was injured, he had to participate in this competition every year in the offseason, which made his already heavy body even worse.

But the point is that the Stankovic Cup is not such an important event, and the quality of the results has no impact on the quota for the World Series.

Many fans regard frequent participation in the Stankovic Cup as an important reason for Dayao's reimbursement.

This time, with Dayao’s lessons learned from the past, coupled with the great opinions of the fans and fierce public opinion, and more importantly, Du Zhe’s own status is much higher than that of Dayao. Due to multiple reasons, the national team will not be able to participate in this competition. Dare to recruit Du Zhe to participate.

In this year's Stankovic Cup, the Huaguo men's basketball team lost 63:64 to the Australian men's basketball team in the first game. The UAE played well in the game, scoring 17 points, 10 rebounds and 2 blocks.

The role center David Anderson from the Rockets completed the lore.

第二战，华国男篮以86:64大胜波斯男篮，王七砍下21分，阿联也有16分10板3帽入账。

The opponent in the third game was the European powerhouse Slovenia. The national team played very well in this game. Big Zhi scored 17 points and 4 rebounds. In the end, the Huaguo men's basketball team, which had the home court advantage, scored 71: 75 small negative opponents.

Slovenian star Goran Dragic, who played for the Suns, scored a triple-double of 15 points, 10 rebounds and 10 assists.

In the third and fourth place matches, the Huaguo men's basketball team was behind in the first half, led by the Arab League to complete a shocking reversal, and finally defeated Persia again with 76:58. The Arab League also scored 18 points and 11 rebounds in this game 3 caps.

Although the Huaguo national team only ranked third among the four teams in the end, judging from the state shown in the game, the Huaguo men's basketball team is still quite competitive, at least within Asia.

Although except for Du Zhe, the team's lineup has not improved much compared to last year, but after Deng Huade's training and integration, the national team is at least much stronger than last year in terms of cohesion and morale.

After the Stankovic Cup ended, the Chinese men's basketball team went overseas for training again.

North America was chosen as the training location this time, which also has some considerations to facilitate the reunion of Du Zhe and the national team.

However, the performance of the previous warm-up matches and the performance of the Huaguo men's basketball team were a bit difficult to satisfy the fans.

The opponent in the first game was the neighbor of the United States, the Maple Leaf Men's Basketball Team.

Maple Leaf Country is located in the north of the United States, and there is also an NBA team, the Toronto Raptors, in its territory.

However, at this time, the strength of Maple Leaf's men's basketball team is still far behind that of its neighbors. They failed to reach the main match in the last World Championships and Olympic Games.

Because in the Stankovic Cup, the Huaguo national team only lost 4 points to the European powerhouse Slovenia.

This also gave Huaguo fans an inexplicable sense of self-confidence, feeling that there is still a fight with Maple Leaf.

But the results were surprising.

In this battle, the Huaguo men's basketball team only scored 16 points in the first half, a record low in second half scoring, and ultimately defeated their opponent 62:86.

It can only be said that Slovenia is an old-fashioned strong team. In a game like the Sri Lankan Cup that doesn't have much gold content, they play with sophistication and ease.

This also makes the fans miss Du Zhe even more. After all, with Du Zhe here, it is impossible to score only 16 points in the half.

The opponent in the second game was the Samba men's basketball team from South America. Although Samba has always been famous for football, the strength of the country's men's basketball team should not be underestimated.

The Huaguo men's basketball team lost another game with 70:84, but this time the Arab League did not play because they attended the New York Basketball Carnival ceremony, which somewhat made the Huaguo fans feel better.

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This time Du Zhe arrived in New York by plane, Deng Huade did not come to meet the plane.

Because on the day he arrived, the Huaguo men's basketball team had a warm-up match with the US national team to play.

Deng Huade was busy arranging troops, so naturally he couldn't spare a hand to pick up the plane.

But this time the person who came to meet Du Zhe was replaced by another heavyweight - Dayao.

Although Dayao was injured and unable to play, he still participated as the team leader in this round of overseas training.

Due to Du Zhe's journey, this time Deng Huade only let him watch the game from the sidelines, and did not arrange for him to play.

Of course, worrying about Du Zhe's exhaustion is only one of his considerations.

Another reason is that the opponents in this warm-up match are really strong. Even if Du Zhe plays, it will be difficult to reverse the situation, and it will affect the morale of the national team.

Although the team lost in the first few games, morale was not too low.

The reason is that Du Zhe's biggest hole card has not been played yet, and everyone still has something to rely on in their hearts.

So facing this losing battle, Deng Huade decided to hide his hand first.

Du Zhe naturally had nothing to do.

In fact, even if Deng Huade arranged for him to play, he would not feel any pressure.

After all, in the NBA, he has to play back-to-back from time to time. After landing, he takes a break to play the game, which is nothing to him.

Of course, the coach has already made arrangements, so he himself is happy to be at leisure.

On August 8th, at Columbia University, the match between the Chinese men’s basketball team and the American national team is about to begin.

In this warm-up match, the Huaguo Men's Basketball Team has officially selected a 12-man roster for the World Championships.

Among them, the inside players are: Ah Lian, Dazhi, Zhang Zhaoxu, Su Wei and Ding Jinhui.

Small forward position: Du Zhe and Zhou Peng.

The back line is: Liu Wei, Sun Yue, Wang Qi, Guo Ailun and Yu Shulong.

The overall lineup this time is relatively young, and several veterans who entered the training list were not selected.

What surprised Du Zhe the most was Zhu Ba's loss, but after getting to know him, he realized that Zhu Ba voluntarily chose to withdraw from the national team because of an unhealed knee injury.

Zhu Ba also did this to recharge his energy and prepare for the next Asian Games.

After all, due to time conflicts, the three active NBA players Du Zhe, Dayao and Alian were unable to participate in the Asian Games.

At that time, the striker of the national team will have to point to him as the leader.

Since Du Zhe did not need to play, he did not warm up with other Chinese players.

Just sitting on the sidelines in a short-sleeved T-shirt and watching, and chatting with the head coach Deng Huade from time to time.

Just as the two were chatting happily, a dozen players wearing white jerseys filed in from the entrance, talking and laughing.

The opponent of today's game - the US national team enters the field.

(End of this chapter)