The Road to Stardom: Start as a Slam Dunk Master.

Chapter 247 America’s starting five

On the evening of July 7th, with the last qualifying game completed, everyone has set their sights on the final game tomorrow.

U19 World Championship Finals: USA VS Dragon Country!

Frankly speaking, the Dragon Country media has never covered a youth event with such intensity.

CCTV5 has started to continuously announce various live broadcast times a few days ago, and various sports news and newspapers have also increased their coverage of the U19 National Youth League overnight.

If sports fans across the country had previously focused on major events such as the Yao Yao draft and the Olympic bid, and were completely unaware of the existence of the U19 event, now it is truly nationally famous.

Winning against South Korea, Serbia and Montenegro, France, and defeating Spain twice, the National Youth Team's invincible attitude has simply subverted domestic sports fans' understanding of basketball.

In China in 01, the Internet was far less developed than later generations, but Internet cafes had become a new trend. The domestic portals of the Three Musketeers, Sina, Sohu, and NetEase, although their stock prices in the United States plummeted due to the bursting of the financial bubble, they were Although it is in trouble, the domestic portal website is still doing quite well, with a lot of users browsing, and those domestic netizens who are keen to comment on various current affairs are gradually taking shape.

With the attention and enthusiastic comments of these people, this U19 and Lin Dong have benefited from a wave of early Internet dividends, and their fame has greatly increased. The speed of its spread is much faster than that of Yao Ming in the CBA step by step. The speed at which the footprints go out.

The computer screen in the entertainment room of the hotel was flashing with light. Although I was in Japan, I was browsing the website of Dragon Kingdom.

——Fire Tongs Liu Ming, is our basketball so strong?

——I remember it seemed that it was very difficult to reach the top eight before...

——Be more confident and remove the word 'like', it's just very difficult!

——The football player next door is hiding in bed crying, not knowing when he will be able to break out of Asia...

——Lin Dong? Isn’t this my junior high school classmate? Oh my god, doesn’t he practice boxing? I remember he was very good at boxing, but I didn’t expect him to be even better at basketball?

——Have you never watched the NBA? Isn’t it normal for boxers to bring a basketball? This is the best talent!

——We must win!

——It seems difficult. It’s better not to have too high expectations. After all, the opponent is the number one in the world. I watched their previous games. The guy named LeBron is so good, and Dwyane. , Anthony, they all seem to be very powerful.

——What are you afraid of? That LeBron is Lin Dong's loser. As for Dwyane's opponent, it seems to be Guangdong Hongyuan's Zhu Fangyu, right? What about professional players?

——Professionals are useless. You don’t know how big the gap is between American basketball and Dragon Country basketball. I heard that their high school team can even abuse our national team.

——Fart, the national team can beat their shit! Come on, young men of the Dragon State Youth League, you must win and give us the people of the Dragon State a voice! Let these foreign-loving people take a good look!

——Okay, okay, stop putting pressure on the boys. Facing the number one player in the world, they must be very nervous now. They are heroes in winning or losing.

——You can’t lose to the Americans...

"Huh..." Zhu Fangyu couldn't help but let out a long breath and clicked an × in the upper right corner of the web page.

I originally wanted to relax my nervousness before sneaking into the Internet, but after reading it, I felt even more nervous...

Frankly speaking, the sudden increase in domestic attention to the U19 is not a bad thing for the National Youth League.

More attention means that everyone will have better development in the future, but at the same time, excessive expectations will also bring greater pressure to the National Youth League.

After all, the opponent is the United States team, which stands at the top of basketball on this planet and is absolutely the only king. Even though the team has Lin Dong, a nearly invincible master, even though it has already defeated strong teams such as Spain and Serbia and Montenegro before. After all the experiences, everyone was shouting that they wanted to win the championship.

But when they really get to this point, when they really face this U.S. national youth team that is the strongest in history in every position, when domestic expectations for them are also raised...

Zhu Fangyu stood up, and then realized that Lin Dong was sitting opposite and surfing the Internet, with a look of concentration on his face.

This is really strange. Could it be that Old Lin is as nervous as himself? Are you also looking at domestic web pages?

Tsk, after all, the opponent is Lao America, and now that the country is paying so much attention, Lao Lin, as the captain, is actually under the greatest pressure...

Seeing that he was watching intently, Zhu Fangyu couldn't help but tiptoe around, and then peeked behind him to take a look.

But there was only a QQ chat box hanging on the screen.

——Lin, what are you having for dinner tonight?

——The hotel's buffet, their food is pretty good, tamagoyaki, octopus balls, tempura, ah, by the way, their noodles are also pretty good.

——Hate, you made me hungry because the better Asian restaurants in Seattle are too expensive.

——Do it yourself.

——I don’t want to do it alone. When you come to Seattle, I will do it for you! I'll feed it to you below!

——Chinese has improved, but speaking like this can easily cause ambiguity.

--ah? What ambiguity? Ah...haha, Lin, you've learned so badly!

——You are a good teacher, I am just good at learning.

——I miss you... When will you come to enroll?

——After playing the game, I have to go back to China first, maybe I won’t go to the United States until the end of the month.

"Hmm..." Lin Dong suddenly realized something, then subconsciously reached out to cover the screen and turned his head to take a look.

He saw Zhu Fangyu standing behind him with his mouth wide open, staring at his computer screen with a dumbfounded look on his face.

Lin Dong was also a little dumbfounded: "What are you looking at?"

"I thought..." Zhu Fangyu's mind was a little confused. He thought Lin Dong was nervously watching various domestic reports here, but he didn't expect that he was actually flirting with a woman...

"It's not a good habit to peek at people chatting." Lin Dong closed QQ.

Zhu Fangyu suddenly felt embarrassed. He really didn't mean to do this, but he seemed to have seen something extraordinary, so he had to change the topic: "No, Lao Lin, aren't you nervous?"

"Why are you nervous?" Lin Dong smiled and asked him: "Are you nervous?"

"I'm almost nervous to death!" Zhu Fangyu regained his scowl: "I'm not you. My opponent is Dwyane. I saw it at the last Nike summit. I feel a little unsure."

"Why do you have to force yourself to get him? You are not LeBron, and you don't have a 9000 million contract to sign."

Zhu Fangyu was stunned.

"So you don't have to face anything alone. Remember, we are a whole." Lin Dong smiled and patted him on the shoulder: "Don't worry, I will take care of everything." Frankly speaking, Zhu Fangyu had thought about Lin Dong It was possible to give him various analyzes and guidance, but I really didn’t expect it to be such a simple and crude way.

I have everything?

If someone else had said this, even if Dayao said this when facing the United States, Zhu Fangyu might have had to curse in his heart.

But Lin Dong?

For some reason, Zhu Fangyu suddenly felt very at ease.

Only then did he suddenly realize that in his mind, the sense of security that Lin Dong brought to the team had exceeded that of Dayao?

"Let's go, go get some rest early, or do you want to have a late-night snack to reminisce?"

"Uh..." Zhu Fangyu was stunned for a moment, and then said in a dumbfounded voice: "Why should we have a late-night snack? Your words are enough to fill my stomach... By the way, I have to copy and paste your words quickly and share them with everyone. Let’s talk to the team, no, no, no, it’s better for you to say it!”

"Knock on the door one by one, then stand at the door and pat them on the shoulder, saying that I have everything?" Lin Dong laughed loudly: "That's too stupid. Don't worry, when I came out, that guy Sun Yue was holding me Wang Shipeng, Zhang Qingpeng and Chen Jianghua were hiding in the room playing cards, while Tang Zhengdong and Mo Ke seemed to have taken Yi Jianlian out shopping to buy sneakers, as it is not easy to buy large-sized shoes in China."

"Everyone has their own way of relieving stress, and everyone is working hard to adjust their emotions and mentality. They actually know what they are facing." Lin Dong said with a smile: "This American team is It’s very strong, but I still believe that we will definitely be the winner in tomorrow’s game!”

Zhu Fangyu couldn't help but open his mouth. Is he the most nervous in the whole team?

It shouldn't be... The clown who has been causing trouble for a long time is actually the one who has seen the most worldly things?

MD: Are they too naive or am I too cowardly?

He shook his head dumbfounded, and then gritted his teeth: "These guys didn't call me when they were playing cards? Let's go and play cards!"

………………

March 7, 5 a.m.

The ratings of the CCTV5 live broadcast room actually soared to 0.7% this morning.

You know, this is the CCTV of the Dragon Kingdom... It is no better than Japan's ratings of more than 15%. With a huge population base, this 0.7% rating already represents millions of people online, which has exceeded 01 NBA's highest ratings of the year.

"The achievements of this national youth team in the international arena are beyond our imagination. For viewers who know football, they all understand what a miracle this is!" Sun Zhengping, a famous commentator on CCTV, said in the live broadcast room Li Zheng said with a smile: "It makes me feel like a young dragon-slaying boy who, without being favored by everyone, carried a sword all the way through the level and killed the dragon's lair. None of us can predict the outcome of the game, but We can see that the dragon has awakened, and the war is about to begin!"

"Players from both sides are starting to enter!"

The camera turned and came to the Tokyo Stadium from the live broadcast room. At this time, the stadium was already full of seats.

Although it is not a match for Japan’s national youth team, Lin Dong is on the field!

The boy from Dragon Kingdom who set off a basketball storm in Japan will never lack audiences as long as he is around.

"Lin Dong! Lin Dong! Lin Dong!"

"Haha, Lin Dong once dominated the Japanese high school league, winning the summer league and winter selection championships in one fell swoop." Sun Zhengping explained with a smile: "This made Lin Dong quite popular in Japan. What's interesting is that they also He gave Lin Dong many interesting nicknames, including the strongest man in 46 billion and the Empire Destruction Dragon..."

"What we see now is the American team. This young American team has..."

While Sun Zhengping was speaking, there was already a roar of cheers from the audience in the background.

"Hahaha, LeBron, we have the best doctors in Asia. When are you going to get injured?"

"The King of Exit! The King of Injury!"

"I can't guard against Lin Dong!"

"Boohoo!"

The sudden taunts and whistles from the stands, most of which were shouted in English, made the American team, who had just entered the stadium, look a little pale.

Although Chuck Daly still kept a smile on his face, to be honest, a fire of ignorant karma was still burning in his heart.

Moreover, this fire has been burning for almost half a month!

Since the last time he was upstaged by the Dragon Country team in front of the hotel, he has been asking the team to score as high as possible, hoping to shut up everyone around him and restore the respect and fear that American basketball should have. .

The sad thing is that it doesn't work.

Not only the Japanese fans at the scene, but also those on the Internet, and even reporters from various media who followed the boo, and even reporters in the United States!

The annoying Asians are after their strong men, but the annoying reporters are after their news. They are afraid that the world will not be chaotic, and they are always fanning the flames! Even as an American, he does not hesitate to push the United States to the forefront!

The best way to respond to them is undoubtedly to defeat the opponents on the field today!

He stopped Anthony and others from trying to challenge them in the stands, and said coldly: "Beating them on the court is the best way to respond!"

"I can't afford to lose this game, and neither can you! So stop thinking about being in the limelight. No one in our team can stop that guy alone. What I want is to win!"

Chuck Daly turned to look at LeBron. This guy was actually the main culprit that caused the U.S. team to be disliked and put under tremendous pressure today.

If today had been predicted earlier, Chuck Daly would not have wanted this small forward. The NCAA and NSAA have never lacked outstanding scorers.

But the problem is, he is already here, and he has already stood on the ship of the American team. No matter how much he dislikes him, before he gets off the ship, he is a member of the American team, and he will share the glory and the loss with everyone!

LeBron's heart trembled slightly.

He knew very well that Chuck Daly was talking about him.

The last phone call from Nike executives was an ultimatum. Without the coordination and pressure from Nike executives, if he dares to pursue personal data like the Nike Summit and doesn't care about the team's victory or defeat, then this Chuck Daly The old fox will definitely replace himself, and then everything will really be over.

Today is my own redemption day, and also my calamity day...

LeBron said nothing.

"As for tactics, I have talked about them many times." Chuck Daly continued to say coldly: "The NBA has Jordan's Law. Let them see Lin Dong's Law today. Remember what I taught you, and give it well." They look at the colors and see that the championship can only belong to us!"

All the starters and substitutes put their hands together at this time.

Not only LeBron, the future super giants who have always been arrogant and arrogant have always been held in the palm of the hands of basketball people in the United States, the holy land of basketball. Never have they been criticized verbally and on the court every day like this half month. ridicule?

Everyone is holding fire in their hearts, and they are also holding back a lot of energy. The so-called bloodbath of this and that before? That's just routine operation.

The real anger is waiting to be vented in this arena! I want to smash the dragon country's green army into thousands of pieces!

"Destroy them! America will win!"

"Come on!"

The starting five of the US team are LeBron James, Dwyane Wade, Chris Kaman, Chris Bosh, and TJ Ford!

　The war begins tomorrow!

　　

　

(End of this chapter)