The Strongest Bishop in the NBA

While the NBA playoffs are in full swing, the CBA League Finals on the other side of the ocean are already over.

However, although the season ended earlier, not all CBA players were able to enter the holiday early.

The national team urgently convened all official members and reserve members of the national team to prepare for secret training.

It is now the end of April and the beginning of May, and there are only three months left before the official opening of the Rio Olympics in early August.

This year's Olympics, the China Basketball Association attaches great importance to it. In other words, Wang Xiao's remarks and the growth he has brought to the team in the past two years of coaching the China Men's Basketball Team have made the basketball association executives full of expectations for the results of the Olympics.

After all, if the Huaxia men's basketball team really has breakthrough results in the Olympics, and even wins the championship and gold as Wang Xiao said, then all the high-level positions in the Basketball Association will probably be promoted step by step!

In order to prepare for the Rio Olympics, the Basketball Association contacted the training venue in advance, arranged a warm-up match, and hired a team of professional trainers from the United States with high salaries according to Wang Xiao's request.

Only one week after the end of the CBA Finals, all members of the national team were called to start training.

Yi Jianlian, Cheng Jie, who missed the playoffs in the NBA, and Hao Peng, who was at Harvard University, have all returned to China in advance to prepare, and Wang Meng, who was eliminated in the first round, did not rest and boarded the plane non-stop to rush to the training place.

As the head coach of the national team, although Wang Xiao couldn't rush back to arrange the training plan immediately because of the NBA playoffs, he also worked out the training arrangement for the training camp with the assistant coaches of the national team through telephone and video.

After the playoffs are over, Wang Xiao will also return to China as soon as possible to devote himself to training.

The success or failure of the Rio Olympics will directly determine whether the upgrade of Wang Xiao's system can be completed. If he cannot win the championship, then the upgrade of Wang Xiao's system will have to wait until at least the 2019 Men's Basketball World Cup!

That would be too long, if calculated according to the reward of 200 victory points for every game won by the system, how much more victory points will Wang Xiao lose in the past three years? How much training bonus can you provide to your own players? Not to mention what kind of good things there are after the system upgrade has long made Wang Xiao curious.

In the game between the Nets and the Celtics, the Nets finally had the last laugh, with a total score of 4:3. The two sides fought for 7 games before the Nets won the game with great difficulty under Jeremy Lin's amazing performance.

After 7 games, Jeremy Lin averaged 29 points, 8.8 rebounds and 11 assists in a quasi-triple double. He also had 2.2 steals and 1.8 blocks per game, acting like an all-around superman.

Of course, the reason why he can play such a luxurious data is because of Jeremy Lin's own personal strength on the one hand, and on the other hand because the Celtics' defense at the point guard position is really dwarfed by comparison.

In terms of offense, Thomas Jr. can compete with most of the league's All-Star guards.

But once it comes to defense, it's over.

Thomas Jr., who is 1.75 meters tall, is at an absolute height disadvantage no matter who he faces at the point guard position. This makes it difficult for him to make a difference on the defensive end even if he has the speed and power not inferior to anyone.

Jeremy Lin's current height is similar to that of Jason Kidd, and there is a difference, 1.93 meters, and there is a gap of nearly 20 centimeters with Thomas Jr., which is almost the height gap between NBA outside players and inside players!

So when Jeremy Lin is facing off against Thomas Jr., even a relatively weak offense is full of lethality, as if he was competing with Curry, Westbrook and other offensive combo guards.

However, the good days of bullying Thomas Jr. have come to an end after the series.

The reason is simple. The Nets' opponent in the second round is Wang Xiao's Bucks, and the Bucks' starting point guard is Antetokounmpo, who is 2.11 meters tall.

Just after bullying Jr. Thomas, who is nearly 20 centimeters lower than him, he will soon face Antetokounmpo, who is nearly 20 centimeters taller than him. This is not a very good experience.

However, there is one thing to say, in Wang Xiao's view, among the point guards in the entire league, Jeremy Lin may be the best performer in a simple one-on-one contest without switching defenses.

Kidd in his old age can defend James one-on-one on the court, and Jeremy Lin can naturally limit Antetokounmpo who has not yet grown to his peak level.

Although he is at an absolute disadvantage in terms of height, weight and strength, Jeremy Lin is not a dead-headed player. He will find and use his own advantages in the match, such as speed, agility, etc...

Even Wang Xiao couldn't guess what it would be like when these two people really matched up.

During the regular season, the Bucks and the Nets had played against the two Eastern teams four times. The Bucks had a record of 3 wins and 1 loss, but three of these games were before the All-Star Weekend, that is, Dublin. Before Rand came to the Bucks, the Bucks still needed to reserve places for Oladipo and Middleton at that time, and Antetokounmpo was still a power forward.

In a match after the All-Star Game, Jeremy Lin was absent due to a sprained ankle, and the two also failed to play against each other.

...

On May 2, at the home court of the Bucks, the game between the Bucks VS Nets in the Eastern Conference semifinals officially began.

Jeremy Lin had a wry smile on his face as he watched Wang Xiao with his hands on his hips on the other side of the field watching the players warm up.

After entering the NBA as the No. 1 pick in 10 years, Jeremy Lin has spent 5 years in the league unknowingly. In the past five years, he can be regarded as a big name in the NBA. He has three assists and two steals. The best second team, the best third team, and the best defensive first team year after year.

In the summer of 2014, he renewed his contract with the Nets, and the Nets gave Jeremy Lin a five-year maximum salary contract without hesitation.

Jeremy Lin, who has won honors and money, still has something that doesn't go his way, and that is his performance in leading the team.

As the only star player of the Nets, Jeremy Lin has been carrying the Nets single-handedly over the years, and the only one who can help is Brook Lopez.

Under such circumstances, Jeremy Lin has basically been able to bring the Nets to the upper half of the Eastern Conference in the past few years and reach the semifinals of the playoffs, which is already very good.

However, in Jeremy Lin's view, this is not enough, far from enough!

As a professional athlete, the goal should be to win the final victory, which is the championship!

In college, under the coaching of Wang Xiao, Jeremy Lin experienced the joy of winning the final victory several times in a row.

But after arriving in the NBA, Jeremy Lin found that he was experiencing failure year after year, but the coach still enjoyed the victory every year, as if it was commonplace.