A total of 16 teams participated in this World Championship. The group stage was divided into four groups to compete, and the top two teams in each group qualified.

The Chinese men's basketball team's lineup this time is the most luxurious in team history, and half of them are members of the Bayi team that just won the Club World Cup.

However, the grouping is still unfavorable to the Chinese team, and the Chinese men's basketball team was unexpectedly placed in the group of death. The opponents in the same group are the United States, Spain, and Cote d'Ivoire.

Of these three opponents, only Côte d'Ivoire is participating in the World Championships for the first time, and the team's strength is limited. The other two are considered favorites to win the championship.

Wu Jie was not surprised at all, especially since he was in the same group as the American team. The original position has almost become a tradition for the Chinese team.

He also felt very strange about this matter. Originally, the Chinese team was placed in the same group with the US team almost every time in the World Championships and Olympic Games.

But in Wu Jie's view, the Chinese team this time is not afraid of these two opponents at all.

The Spaniards are strong in positional battles, and their inside players are all traditional European players who are tall, powerful, and have solid skills at the basket.

However, their outside attack ability is insufficient, their inside movement is slow, and their physical fitness is not very good. In fact, they are afraid of the small and agile style unique to the Chinese team in this era.

The U.S. team is still composed of college star players, and it still gives priority to selecting white players, which makes it difficult to improve its overall strength.

In fact, there are many future Hall of Fame superstars in the NCAA at this time. Jordan, Olajuwon, Barkley, Stockton and others who are still in their freshman year and have not yet become famous are not included. But Drexler,

Ralph Sampson and others are also future Hall of Fame players.

If the American team selects all these black college stars into the national team, the strength of the entire team will inevitably be greatly improved.

But it is a pity that the last players to join the American team were players like Stipanovic, Doc Rivers, and Byron Scott.

So in the first round of the group stage, Spain defeated the United States 109-99.

The Chinese team also defeated the Cote d'Ivoire men's basketball team by 85.

Ruda's performance in this game once again shocked the world, but not because he performed a death dunk or scored a high score that surprised the world, but because he sent an astonishing 24 assists in a single game.

In this battle, the Chinese team faced the Ivorian players who had speed and height, and used their excellent confrontation, technology, physical fitness, discipline, and cooperation to completely defeat their opponents.

This sounds a bit incredible. Chinese players actually have advantages in confrontation and physical fitness?

This is true. Wu Jie spent two years training the physical fitness of the national football team to a world-class level. Luda was not idle either. He also used advanced training methods to improve the physical fitness and lower body strength of the male basketball players.

This is not difficult to understand. The training intensity of the Chinese team in the original plane was not bad, and even the amount of training was a bit excessive. However, the training method was not scientific enough, and the nutrition could not keep up. The most important thing was that the direction was wrong.

The effect is naturally not good.

But in the past two years, the food for the three major teams has been raised as Wu Jie and others made money, and there was even enough money left to purchase a batch of training equipment.

At this time, coupled with everyone's life-threatening attitude and correct training methods, I can really improve a lot in two years.

Wu Jie secretly improved the talents of this group of men's basketball players three months ago. Now the abilities of this group of men's basketball players are much better than their original level (the Chinese team's lineup is included in the author's notes).

If you look at the data alone, except for Luda, most of these Chinese players are at the level of NBA substitute players later.

But you must know that the level of NBA stars in the 1970s is not very different from that of the 21st century, but the overall level of mid-level and bottom-level players is quite different from that after the 21st century.

Therefore, in this era, the ability value of those in their early 70s is enough to play the first half of the main force in the middle and lower reaches of the NBA. Huang Yunlong and Li Yaguang are at least role players with enough playing time even if they go to the strong NBA teams.

With the current Chinese team including Ruda, there won't be much of a problem even if they are put into the NBA playoffs.

Now facing the American college star team, their paper strength will only be stronger, not worse.

Americans are also very afraid of the Chinese team, because the situation of the Chinese men's basketball team and the Chinese men's football team is similar. It is obviously stronger than the third level, but because it has participated in too few international competitions and its results in the previous two years were not very good, this will

The world ranking is still only 19th.

Therefore, Group C they are in has also become a recognized group of death. Now many people are waiting to see the Americans and Spaniards follow the unlucky England and France, expecting that one of their groups will be eliminated.

Initially, everyone thought that this unlucky guy would probably be Spain, but they didn't expect that they would win the first battle against the United States.

Then the second match between China and the United States is very important. If the Americans overturn again, they will be directly gg!

On September 14th, the focus battle between the Chinese team and the American team is about to begin.

"The US team's inside line is much worse than expected, but its outside line is pretty good. Today we played more inside, gave the ball to Ruda more, opened up the outside line to respond, and used the 'chasing and grading' tactic whenever we had the opportunity.

Crush them!"

Qian Chenghai was making final arrangements on the sidelines. Yesterday, they had studied the video of the game between Spain and the United States, and came to the conclusion that the American team's inside strength was much worse than expected. Ruda could completely defeat the opponent on his own.

At that time all tactics came into play.

"The coach is right, the focus today is on the inside."

Ruda knew even more clearly that the three white insiders of the US team did not have enough confrontation ability, but the outside players were of good quality.

But as long as the opponent's inside line is destroyed, the US team's outside line will not be able to make too big a splash, because the Chinese team's outside line is not bad either!

However, unlike Wu Jie who completely eliminated the head coach in the national football team, Qian Chenghai has a very high status in the men's basketball team.

The "full-court press" and "chasing grading" prepared by the Chinese team today (the civilized name for the butt-chasing tactic and the prototype of the bombardment tactic) were both invented by Qian Chenghai.

In addition, this world-famous coach also has three exclusive skills among his attributes, namely: [Father of Turnaround Jump Shot], [Father of Butt-Chasing], and [Father of Full-court Press].

Wu Jie was shocked when he saw the coach's special ability. He was even more surprised when he read the detailed introduction.

[Father of the turn jump shot]: Exclusive ability, can be taught, increases the learning speed of coached players by 50%, can be taught up to five stars, and improves the hit rate of coach players' turn jump shots.

[The Father of Butt-Chasing]: Exclusive ability to increase the fast-break shooting percentage of coached players, improve the stability of fast-break shooting for all players, reduce fast-break physical consumption, complete the attack and score within 10 seconds, which can improve the morale of the whole team.

[The Father of Full-court Press]: Exclusive ability. When coaching a team to use full-court press defense, it increases the chance of stealing the ball, reduces the chance of fouling, reduces physical consumption, and additionally reduces the opponent's physical fitness.

After Wu Jie saw Qian Chenghai's attributes, he couldn't believe that he was so impressive. He was probably a legendary coach at the level of Auerbach, Pat Riley, and Mark Vitch.

However, the Chinese men's basketball team once had such a legendary coach, but it still failed to reach the quarterfinals of the World Championships and the Olympic Games. It can only be said that the strength of this group of players is not very good, or there are shortcomings that are difficult to make up for.

This shortcoming is physical confrontation and physical fitness. After all, basketball is a competitive sport with fierce competition. If the body is not good and the physical fitness is too poor, no matter how good the technology is and how tacit cooperation is, it will still be difficult to perform well.

Now he has greatly improved the shortcomings in this area, and the level of the entire team has immediately improved by more than one level. This is also the confidence that the Chinese team dares to covet the championship.

At 8 p.m. local time in Colombia and 9 a.m. Beijing time, this China-US basketball confrontation, which will be broadcast live in China, is about to begin.

Song Shixiong is already announcing the starting lineups of the two teams. The substitute players of both teams have left the field, and the game is about to start.

China’s starting lineup;

Center: Ruda (93): 2.06 meters, 18 years old.

Power forward: Huang Yunlong (80): 2.00 meters, 22 years old.

Small forward: Zhang Yongjun (75): 1.93 meters, 21 years old.

Shooting guard: Li Yaguang (79): 1.90 meters, 24 years old.

Point guard: Sun Fengwu (73): 1.83 meters, 20 years old.

This is a very young lineup, even younger than the average age of the American college team.

Team USA starting lineup:

Center: Steve Stipanovich (78): 2.10 meters, 22 years old.

Power forward: Tim McCormick (75): 2.08 meters, 20 years old.

Small forward: Randy Whitman (75): 1.98 meters, 23 years old.

Shooting guard: Byron Scott (78): 1.91 meters, 21 years old.

Point guard: Doc Rivers (77): 1.93 meters, 21 years old.

The lineups of the two teams are not much different on the outside, but they are really far apart on the inside.

With Ruda's ability in this world championship, no one is at the same level as him. The Soviet guy hasn't made his debut yet.

In addition, even Huang Yunlong's level is much better than McCormick's, which should be something the American team never expected.

With a jump ball in the opening game, Ruda made next year's No. 2 pick, white center Stepanovic, think he was powerless.

Luda's jump was too high and too fast, and their jumping abilities were completely different from each other.

But this was just the beginning of the crushing victory. After the Chinese team got the ball, they immediately advanced quickly and launched a fast break chasing the U.S. team.

This is the first real match between the American team and the Chinese team. Although I have heard that the Chinese team's fast break is very sharp, I did not expect it to be so fast.

Sun Fengwu is a little less capable than Rivers, but his characteristic is that he is short, strong and fast. He may suffer from height when defending, but with his calf-like stature and excellent ball control ability, college stars like Rivers can

There is no real threat to him yet.

Ruda easily received the pass during the cut. At this time, facing Stipanovic, who he regarded as tall, thin and soft, he simply held the basketball high and pushed towards the basket without using any skills, and actually pushed it.

McCormick, who was assisting in defense, also flew away and delivered a hugely profitable two-handed dunk at the beginning!

The coach of the U.S. team was very distressed. The two insiders were easily knocked around by Ruda as if they were keeping pins. How can college players defend against such hugely profitable insiders?

The American audience in front of the TV also had the same idea. Ruda was much stronger than the two of them in terms of body shape. His muscles alone were like a body of steel. On the other hand, their two insiders didn't even have fat.

Just like two white clothes poles, wouldn't they fall over if they collide?

"Hell, this guy should be guarded by Ma Hong and Malone!"

"We can no longer send college students to compete. After 1954, we didn't even win a world championship, but we won a lot of fourth and fifth places."

"If this continues, we may not even be able to get fourth or fifth place!"

"Damn International Blue, I think they are just making things difficult for us!"
Chapter completed!