All-round Athlete

Chapter 780 The growth of young people

In recent years, the Turkish men's basketball team has risen rapidly. In the last World Championships, the Turkish men's basketball team only made it to the second team, but overcame all obstacles and got the sixth place. This gave the Turkish nationals a big surprise. . At the same time, it also made the Turks realize that without the head player Okur, Turkey can still achieve a good result.

Since the end of the 2006 World Championships, Turkey began to prepare for the 2010 Men's Basketball World Championships. As the host, Turkey certainly hopes that its national team can achieve good results, at least not worse than the previous one.

Turkey's strength in the three major balls is mainly due to Turkey's domestic sports atmosphere and first-class professional leagues. Although Turkey's football leagues are not comparable to the major leagues in Europe and the United States, they are far stronger than the Asian leagues; except Besides the NBA, Turkey's basketball league ranks second only to Spain and Greece, and is stronger than many European basketball leagues, so many European players play in Turkey's basketball league; Turkey's volleyball league is even more world-class , bringing together many top volleyball players in the world.

When Turkey increased its investment in pulling the ball for the World Championships, it also achieved excellent results. A group of excellent basketball players also appeared in Turkey, and a few of them even thrived in the NBA. .

In order to prepare for the World Championships, Turkey and the famous coach Bogdan Tanjevic renewed their contract. Bogdan Tanjevic is a Bosnian and a top basketball coach in Europe. He once coached the Italian national team and led the team to win European club championships many times. In the World Championships in Japan four years ago, it was Bogdan Tanjevic who led the Turkish team to finish sixth.

In the current Turkish team, there are also many players who have played in the NBA. For example, Turkoglu, their core player on the front line, is undoubtedly the main scoring point of the Turkish team; Ilyasso, who has just returned to the NBA Watts, in Turkey's front line alongside Turkoglu, is enough to cause trouble for any team.

Appearing at the center position of the Turkish team is Asik, who is very familiar to Rockets fans. He can provide the most solid barrier for the Turkish team's basket. In addition, the center Semi Eldon, who was selected by the Celtics, will take on the heavy responsibility of a backup center and can share great pressure for Asik. Asik and Eldon, one as a starter and the other as a substitute, allowed Turkey to gain world-class strength in the center position.

At the same time, there are two players in Turkey that cannot be ignored. One is defender Onan. Playing the role of Wang Shipeng in China, but in terms of personal ability, Onan is better than Wang Shipeng, and the stability is also higher.

The other is Toncheri, the core point guard of the Turkish team and the number one point guard in Turkey. He has a nickname of "Devil" and has won the assist king in the Turkish domestic league. When he was young, Tuncheri was very imaginative in penetrating, and he was quite like Nash. Now, although he is old and his passing is not as spiritual as when he was young, he has richer experience and a better state. Stablize. It can be said that it is precisely because of his existence that other Turkish players can play to their respective levels.

In this World Championships, Türkiye qualified first in the group. As the hosts, they were placed in Group C, with Greece, Russia and Australia in the same group. However, they advanced to the knockout round with a record of victory. Even the mighty Greece lost to Turkey in the end.

In the first round of the knockout round, Turkey defeated the French team by 95 to 77, with an advantage of nearly 20 points.

You must know that this year's French team is not weak. Although the first brother of the French team, Parker, did not participate in the World Championships, the French team still has three NBA players, Batum, Dior, and Pietrus, as well as De Cole. Luo, a future NBA player, is also top-notch in Europe. In the game, the French team fell behind, and Turkey established a 15-point lead in the first half. After the start of the second half, a 10-0 attack wave once allowed Turkey's lead to 25 points, and this also extinguished the French team's hope of winning.

In the Okur era, the Turkish team was known for being good at playing against the wind. As long as the game goes well, even the US team will not be persuaded, and if the game is not going well, they are often bullied by weak teams. Today's Turkish team is stronger, and the tailwind is even stronger. What's more, this is Turkey's home court. Even the US team needs to be cautious when facing Turkey.

The Chinese team knows that Turkey is not easy to play at home. Maybe the Turkish team is not the strongest opponent, but this game must be the most difficult game, because the Turkish team playing at home will definitely fight the Chinese team to the end , will not give up even at the last second.

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The stadium in Istanbul was full of seats. Because it was the host game, the seats at the scene were already filled by Turkish fans, and the cheers were louder and louder.

The veterans of the national team don't care about this. They have all seen big scenes, and their psychological quality is good enough, and they can be relatively calm when facing the devil away. Zhang Guan's game experience is extremely rich. The tension and excitement that the 100-meter sprint can bring is much greater than that of basketball. Therefore, facing the crazy Turkish fans, Zhang Guan's mentality is still very peaceful.

On the contrary, the young athletes of the national team seemed a little anxious. They were obviously not used to this home atmosphere, and they all showed a nervous feeling in terms of speech, behavior and behavior.

The more team sports, the greater the impact of the home and away games. For example, today, there was a crazy tsunami of Turkish spectators. While the 12 Turkish players on the scene were excited, it also weakened the morale of the 12 Chinese players. The influence of this kind of home court instantly offset the effect of Deng Huade's "beating chicken blood".

Seeing the expressions of several young players, Zhang Guan sighed helplessly. He knew that he could not count on these young players for today's game.

In Zhang Guan's memory, in this World Championships, the Chinese team was originally in the same group as Turkey. In the group stage, China lost 8 points against Greece, 9 points against Russia, and 8 points against Puerto Rico, but judging from the point difference, China, which is dominated by young people, is still remarkable. of. But when facing Turkey, they lost a full 47 points, and China didn't even get half of Turkey's points. This is obviously not a manifestation of the normal strength of the two sides. A more reasonable explanation is that facing the atmosphere at home in Turkey, Chinese athletes generally perform abnormally.

You need to learn when you are young, and you always have to pay tuition fees for learning. Now China is paying tuition fees. For every young player, this is the only way to go. Only slowly accumulate game experience , Slowly adapt.

Fortunately, the five starting players of the Chinese team are all old players. Their presence gives young players more buffer time to adapt to the game and the home atmosphere.

"Young people still don't grow up fast enough!" Zhang Guanchang sighed. He knows the current situation, the best way to help these young people grow is to take the lead as much as possible, let those young players realize that the opponent's home court is nothing more than that, and they can still lead in the opponent's home court until they are no longer nervous Yes, even if it has initially crossed this threshold.

At the beginning of the game, Turkey took the lead. Turkoglu completed the first attack. He felt very good. He scored a three-pointer and made a good start for the Turkish team.

Not to be outdone by the Chinese team, the first offense was played by Yao singles, a best hook, and the ball was thrown into the basket steadily.

Facing Turkey, Yao, who had not played much in the previous games, took up the banner of offense again, and the national team also returned to the era of "Yao Core" two years ago. Several veterans on the field Even more handy. After all, this is the style of play they have played for ten years, and it is also the style of play they are most familiar with.

Asik, the center of the Turkish team, obviously couldn't stop Dayao's offense. Even if Dayao hadn't returned to his peak state, Asik could not handle both offensive and defensive ends alone.

As a seven-footer, Asik has average athletic talent, but his height and strength are sufficient for general blue-collar jobs. His excellent wingspan makes him better at protecting rebounds, and his active running position and good Pick-and-roll ability is also a big factor for him to gain a foothold in the NBA. Of course, Asik has not yet entered the NBA, and his ability is still at the level of the Turkish League.

As a defensive insider, Asik has both size, mobility and consciousness. However, these advantages are not considered advantages at all when facing Dayao's offense. Asik, who has relatively average athletic talent, Unable to prevent Dayao's attack.

And when the Turkish team attacked, Asik was even more useless.

Asik is the kind of player who can only score at the basket. His best scoring method is to break through to the basket with the ball after the pick-and-roll, and then complete a dunk. He has no shooting ability at all, and even free throws are at the level of the five scumbags. He can't play singles with his back, which shows his rough skills.

Therefore, Asik's offense can basically be ignored. If he meets other teams, Asik can still use his size to score a few points at the basket, but when facing Dayao, his size is useless and he can only It is very difficult for Asik, who relies on dunks to score, to get a point. To deal with a person who can't shoot, you don't have to chase out when defending, you just need to guard the basket. Anyway, let Asik shoot, he can't make it.

Today's Asik is doomed to be only a blue-collar grabbing rebounds, and Turkey's offense does not rely on Asik, Turkoglu and Ilyasova are their main scoring points.

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Dayao faced Asik and succeeded in three consecutive attacks. Asik was obviously at a loss when facing Dayao. However, China did not take the lead, and Turkoglu's touch was also very good. He scored two three-pointers in the first three offenses, and also swept the first six points of the Turkish team.

This stalemate lasted until the 10-10 tie. Turkish team coach Bogdan took the lead in making substitutions. He thought Asik was the most useless player on the field. Nothing came of it, so he replaced Asik with backup center Eldon.

Elden will also land in the NBA next season. His defense is not as good as Asik, but he can shoot, and the shooting touch is still very soft. Coach Bogdan thinks that since he can’t guard Yao, it’s better to replace him with another For players who can score, increase the output of firepower.

At the same time, Zhang Guan also began to put pressure on "Turkey's No. 1 point guard" Toncheri.

Faced with the pressure of Zhang Guan's full strength, Toncheri made two consecutive mistakes, one was intercepted and the other was dribbled to the sideline.

In desperation, Tuncheri could only hand over the task of organizing the attack to Turkoglu.

Turkoglu is the core of this Turkish team. He represented the Turkish national team in 1999, but he was once called the "tumor" of the Turkish team because he accounted for a large number of shots in the Turkish team. Opportunities, but the hit rate is not as good as expected. Especially in Okur's era, Turkoglu took up too many of Okur's shots, but he couldn't reach Okur's shooting percentage. In addition, his defensive level was average, so Turkoglu became an efficient player. He was even expelled from the Turkish national team for a time due to his low statistics.

However, in the last two seasons of the Magic, Turkoglu played the highest level of his career, averaging 19.5 points per game, allowing him to be recruited by the Turkish team again, and his 40% three-point shooting rate made him a The new leader of the Turkish team. In the first round of the knockout round against the French team, Turkoglu faced "French Pippen" Batum and also handed in 20 points, 4 rebounds and 3 assists.

Turkoglu has to undertake the task of organizing the offense, which has shared some of his energy. On the other end, Dayao is still wreaking havoc on the inside of the Turkish team. Today he is in very good condition and feels hot. So at the end of the first quarter, China took a two-point lead 21-19, and Dayao alone contributed 13 points.

This score calmed down the nervousness of the young players of the Chinese team a lot. They felt that although the Turkish home fans were cheering, the Turkish men's basketball team was not a terrible existence. At least in the starting matchup, the Chinese team also won In order to take the lead, Dayao single-handedly overthrew the two Turkish centers, which boosted the morale of the young players.

When the Chinese team's substitute young players came on the field, they didn't seem panicked. Although they still haven't played at the level of "chicken blood", they can be regarded as normal performances. For young players, they can perform normally in this atmosphere. A very good thing.

Sitting on the bench, Zhang Guan looked at the energetic young players on the field, and sighed involuntarily: "The young people have grown up!"

"That's right, they are the future hope of the national team!" Dayao showed a relieved smile.

This is the case with basketball, and there is nothing better than participating in a high-level game to allow players to grow, especially for young people. Looking at the water dispenser in the NBA, you will gain more and grow faster than playing a starter in the CBA.

These young people in the national team are still very far away from the NBA, and it can even be said that it is difficult to touch the threshold of the NBA in their entire lives, so the World Championships have become the most important event they can participate in.

After five group matches and one knockout match, they played against many teams, especially the victory over Slovenia, which gave the young players a lot of experience. Before the World Championships, they might only be at the level of the CBA League, but now , After the baptism of the game, they already have the ability to stand on the international arena, and they play more and more easily.

The five starters of the Chinese team are all resting off the court, and there are five substitute players on the court. The energy they show is not possessed by the starters. Not losing ground, the score was still tightly bitten, and the point difference between China and Turkey has never been widened.

In the first half of the game, the two sides tied at 41. For the home fans, this is a very disappointing score. Turkey has played so smoothly along the way, and it has been devastating against Greece and France. This makes Turkish fans feel that facing China should also win easily.

The head coach of the Turkish team, Bogdan, couldn't sit still at this time.