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Since this entrepreneur is the founder of a sports brand, Stephen’s photo with him was also blocked by the staff sent by Wick to assist him with personal affairs, on the grounds that he was worried that the other party would use this photo to do something.

Stephen is not worried about this. What is the purpose of raising a huge team of lawyers? It is used to sue others. It’s okay if he doesn’t do this. Really holding this kind of thinking, Stephen can see from his eyes that the other party doesn't have so many thoughts.

Stephen is a little dissatisfied with this. Is Wake Company treating a gentleman with a villain's heart, and even if the other party is the owner of a sports brand, it is his own freedom to contact him, even if his image is used , That is also my own business, and has nothing to do with Wake Company.

It cannot be said that because you have signed a contract with me, you can interfere with my freedom. Stephen agrees, and immediately drives back the two beauty-level staff sent by Wake Company, although the two are older All of them have a nine-point posture, but Stephen has just entered the national team, and he is too embarrassed to be too out of line. Seeing them always dangling in front of him and not being able to eat, it is better not to see them.

Although they won all three games, defeating an American college basketball team, and it was still the second team, did not explain any problems, and if the competition was not strong enough, it would not be enough to expose deep-seated problems, so Stephen and Jonas has given this task to a new opponent, the Croatian national basketball team.

It's not like the University of Memphis basketball team is just a second team. Although the Croatian national basketball team doesn't have all the members coming to China, except for their main center Carson who will be injured due to injury, basically the main players are there. The warm-up match does not pursue victory. , mainly for running-in the lineup and inspecting the players. The inside lineup has basically been determined, and now it depends on who cooperates better with Stephen.

Croatia was originally a member of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. After being separated from Yugoslavia, Croatia has successively won the silver medal in the Olympic Games and the bronze medal in the World Championships. It is the same as Serbia and Slovenia, which were all split from Yugoslavia. , All belong to the strong teams in European basketball.

The biggest star from Croatia is Kukoc, who once helped Jordan win the second three consecutive championships. However, in recent years, with the revival of basketball in other European countries, the strength of Croatia has declined. It's no longer what it used to be.

This time it actually fell to the need to play the qualifying match to get into the Olympic Games. The reason why they came to participate in this warm-up match was to prepare for the qualifying match. But it is much higher than them, and at the same time they come here to play warm-up matches, the Chinese side will pay a large amount of expenses, which can reduce their financial burden.

Although the Croatian team doesn't have big insiders like Yao Ming and Yi Jianlian, they are generally taller. Among the main players, only one is under two meters tall, and most of them are over two meters tall.

Because they have a long tradition of basketball, their skills are relatively skilled, and their basic skills are better than those of Western European teams, but they also have the common characteristics of European teams, that is, the team's internal and external strength is balanced. , Pay attention to the characteristics of physical confrontation, balance of offense and defense, fast ball running speed and strong overall combat ability.

Choosing an opponent like Croatia is also to improve adaptation to European basketball. After all, in the Olympics, most of China's opponents are European teams.

The biggest player in Croatia now is Zoran Planinic, who once played for the New Jersey Nets. He entered the league as the 22nd in the first round of [-], but his performance was not very good, and he was unable to adapt The league game was given up by the Nets the year before last, and after returning to Europe, he helped the team win two championships.

One of his strange characteristics is that he has a height of [-] meters, but he does not play the position of a swingman, but swings between a point guard and a small forward. This is a very strange place.

But in today's game, Croatia's point guard is Jukic, who is also an excellent new star that Croatia has emerged in recent years, and their veteran Vujacic played instead of their center Mario Carson. Vujacic in the Slovenian team has the same surname, but they have different positions. The power forward is Damir Makota, and the shooting guard is Marko Thomas.

Due to the discomfort of Yao Ming and Xu after the long-distance travel, this game will not be played. The national team still sent Wang Zhizhi and Yi Jianlian's inside combination, while the outside line is Stephen and Wang Shipeng playing, holding the ball The defender was replaced by Chen Jianghua.

Yunus intends to take advantage of Chen Jianghua's speed to push forward quickly, and then Stephen took over early, and caught the opponent by surprise. He knew that although Chen Jianghua was fast, he was not strong enough to fight, and he lost if he was slightly forced by the opponent. The center of gravity, it wasn't Stephen who came to respond, he almost lost the ball, and Yunus frowned from below.

Chen Jianghua is a very young player. He has just played in the World Youth Championship. When Jonas called him into the national team, he was questioned by many media. It is not that Chen Jianghua is not strong enough to enter, but I think it is a bit counterproductive to call him into the national team to play such an important game as the Olympics at such a young age.

His speed is indeed very fast, and his dribbling speed is at the league level, but physical confrontation is not. After Stephen took over the ball, Croatia also wanted to use this move. It's not that they don't know Stephen's name, but Relying on fame is not enough to scare people, they still want to try it for themselves.

However, under the pressure of Jukic and Damir Makota, Stephen still moved forward steadily. His speed was not fast, but he was very steady. Stephen knew where his technical shortcomings were. My own strengths, but if I want to rely on these two guys to snatch the ball from my hands, they don't have that ability yet.

Yukic and Damir Makota felt that all their actions had no effect, Stephen didn't panic at all, unlike the little guy just now, he hadn't passed yet, he could see it from his eyes There was a panic, how could the ball not be conceded in this situation.

As soon as Stephen passed the midfield, he made an emergency stop and then suddenly accelerated to get rid of Damir Makota. Only Yukic kept up with Stephen's footsteps, but it was useless. European-style layups. At the same time, in international basketball, it is difficult to break through to the basket under normal circumstances because there are no body-hair-level foul whistles.

But for Stephen, he is not afraid of physical confrontation. Instead, he prefers to rely on hard movements. Therefore, no matter who Croatia sends to fight against him, Stephen has no fear, just so hard to the basket. squeeze.

Yijianlian came over to meet Stephen. Taking advantage of this fleeting opportunity, Stephen suddenly jumped up, raised his hand and sent the ball into the basket. At the same time, he caused a foul by Zoran Planinic, which is nothing more than that in the international arena. , his own good show can still be staged, and when he landed, Stephen showed a charming smile on his face.

"This is a smile full of confidence." Zhong Yang TV made an exception to broadcast the warm-up match, and Jiang Wei, who was the commentator, immediately gave an explanation after seeing this smile.

Stephen clapped the ball in his hands, and the feel was still as bad as ever. When he came to the national team, due to enough mental preparation, Stephen was able to adapt to many gaps. Needless to say, the facilities and atmosphere of the stadium, the low level of teammates is also unnecessary Having said that, basic necessities of life are not very satisfying.

But Stephen can adapt to all of these. What makes him most uncomfortable is the feel of the ball. As the controller of the team, he often controls the ball in his hands, so he can't stand the feel of the ball. Sometimes he even missed the synthetic fiber balls that the league had changed.

The year before last, league president David Stern personally made a decision to replace the decades-old leather balls with synthetic fiber balls. He thought this decision was extremely wise, and he consulted several people in advance. As soon as the ball was played, it immediately aroused the opposition of most players, especially many big-name players who objected in unison. It was not known whether it was the problem of the ball or the psychological problems of the players, which caused a sharp drop in shooting percentage and increased turnovers. En had no choice but to eat his own words and change back.

Stephen is also very fond of the synthetic fiber balls, but the balls used here don’t even feel as good as the synthetic fiber balls. I don’t know if it’s a problem with the ball or a psychological problem. Anyway, it’s very uncomfortable, but even so, Stephen's free throw is still no problem.

Croatia started to attack, and the ball was passed very quickly. It can be seen that this is a tactic, but it is also a habit. Their tactic lacks elements such as pick-and-rolls and screens. It is simply running and passing the ball, and then A shot by Marco Thomas from beyond the three-point line.

Stephen didn't pay attention to Croatia at the beginning. A team whose ranking is not even as good as the Chinese national team, and not all the main players have come. He didn't expect what it would be like. Although the Chinese national team Driven by him, the team played vigorously, but the score fell behind the opponent.

Croatia made six three-pointers in the first quarter, Marko Thomas alone made three three-pointers, Stephen made three three-pointers from beyond the line, and only hit one. A guy with such an accurate three-pointer.

In the second quarter, Croatia replaced all the starters at once and replaced them with a set of substitutes. What Stephen didn't expect was that this group of substitutes also shot very well. During the festival, the score not only did not shrink, it was expanded.