Chapter 265: National team coach Deng Huade
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Before returning to China, Lian Dao, DeMar DeRozan and Tai Gibson also went back to their alma mater, University of Southern California.
The three donated a batch of training equipment to the University of Southern California.
When we first arrived at the school gate, a group of students gathered around. They held a banner in their hands. Apart from "Welcome the Southern California Trident", the name of Lian Dao appeared the most.
DeRozan and Gibson looked at each other and smiled helplessly. As long as there is cheap rice, all the spotlights will always be unconsciously gathered on him.
What's more, in his rookie season, Lian Dao won the scoring champion, the best rookie, and even led the Knicks to the Eastern Conference finals. He is known as a man who is a superstar when he debuts.
Therefore, there is only envy in the hearts of the two of them, no jealousy, strength does not allow it!
In addition to visiting his alma mater, DeRozan came to USC this time to use the training facilities of USC for special summer training.
On this point, the new head coach of the team, Kevin O'Neal, is also very welcome. As the three who brought USC the first NCAA basketball championship, their status in USC is also very high.
The three of them were surrounded in the school, and they were dragged to sit down together and sign autographs for the students.
Soon, Nikola Vucevic also heard the news.
After signing the signatures and coming to the training hall, Lian Dao also started talking with Vucevic and the others.
Vucevic is much stronger than last year, and he has been supporting the basket in Southern California for a lot of this year.
If you continue to practice at this rate, when Vucevic enters the NBA, the time to adapt will definitely be greatly reduced.
After waiting for a while, the school leaders and media reporters also rushed over.
There is a sense of ritual in everything, and the three of them giving back to their alma mater is the best publicity point. This is definitely a perfect publicity point for the University of Southern California's enrollment this summer.
Lian Dao and the others also cooperated with the photo publicity.
After the three of them participated in the draft last year, the University of Southern California also returned to mediocrity in an instant, especially the temporary change of players in the summer, which caused the enrollment of the University of Southern California to not be well connected.
This year, only relying on Vucevic's performance alone, the University of Southern California did not even enter March Madness.
And due to the lack of exposure of Vucevic this year, he also decided to lead the Trojans to fight for another year.
After the delivery ceremony was over, the principal pulled them along and said another thing.
USC is preparing to retire the jerseys of all three in September.
In fact, this is also easy to understand. The University of Southern California and the University of Southern California belong to the Los Angeles area, but the two teams are far apart in terms of basketball honors, especially in terms of admissions. Some outstanding high school geniuses are generally the first choice.
In order to change this situation, the University of Southern California also regards the Southern California Trident of Lian Dao, DeRozan and Gibson as a treasure.
Especially Lian Dao, the hottest superstar in the NBA this year, this is the best recruiting brochure.
In fact, the first choice of the talented high school student Derek Williams was the University of Southern California, but Tim Floyd "voluntarily" resigned because of some illegal remarks, and Williams also submitted a letter of intent to withdraw , but he was quickly recruited by the University of Arizona.
If it weren't for Tim's illegal remarks, this year's Southern California may go further.
This is why, after Tim led the team to win the championship, he will still be forced to resign "voluntarily" by the school management. If he does not resign, the University of Southern California will be on the cusp at any time at that moment. Moreover, he did cross a lot of bottom lines in order to recruit students.
Everyone has to pay the price for their own words, deeds and actions, and it is not easy for Lian Dao to comment on this aspect.
After all, whether it is past life or present life, Tim is his guide on the NCAA road.
Therefore, the University of Southern California also hopes to use the three of their current reputations to restore the image of the University of Southern California!
The main reason is that Lian Dao's reputation is too great at present, and some high school students regard Lian Dao as their idol.
If the University of Southern California operates well, it is likely to attract some talented high school students.
Lian Dao is still very happy about this. If USC has the opportunity to enter March Madness in the future, the roles will be reversed and he will become a "famous alumnus".
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When we got off the plane, there was a large crowd of people coming to pick us up at the airport as expected.
And that scene, with huge crowds, was much more exaggerated than when he participated in the Asian Championships last year.
Even Kobe's trip to China is not as good as the current Lian Dao.
Lian Dao didn't stop signing this time, there were really too many people, and it is estimated that if all the signatures were signed, he would cancel them immediately.
However, the same thing as the Asian Championships at the scene is that the female fans who picked up the airport accounted for a large part of the points.
Many people came to pick him up at the airport. The head coach of the national team, Deng Huade, and assistant coach Guo Shiqiang also came to pick him up in person. Lian Dao did not ask his parents to pick him up from the airport.
Deng Huade is actually a standard American professional basketball coach. He also served as an assistant coach for the Charlotte Hornets and Cleveland Cavaliers, so some of his coaching methods are closer to the United States, and he is also the head coach of the Shanghai Maxxis Men's Basketball Team.
The birth of Deng Huade is largely due to his first season of coaching in Shanghai, because of Yao Ming's popularity, and because he magically transformed the team from a spectator in the playoffs to one of the top four. This is his first stop to make a name for himself in China.
Moreover, Deng Huade's coaching style is also very similar to that of an American basketball coach, with a bad temper. He dared to go forward and yell at the referee's unfair punishment.
Especially in the 10.12 China-Brazil men's basketball team brawl incident, he defended the players and had an attitude of fighting for reason. It is also a place that makes Lian Dao admire.
Moreover, although the performance of the men's basketball team coached by Deng Huade is not very satisfactory, the blood and unity of the players are very commendable.
Of course, there was also a famous scene in later generations in that match: Zhu Fangyu and Zhu Ba combined punches became famous in the first battle!
Zhu Fangyu probably didn't expect that after many years in the basketball world, the only thing that is remembered deeply is boxing.
Deng Huade is very happy for Lian Dao to join the national team. He has learned about Lian Dao's performance in the NBA this year. It can be said that in Deng Huade's heart, Lian Dao is the next Michael Jordan.
He is also very excited to be able to coach a player like Lian Dao as a head coach in this fortunate year.
Knowing the date of Lian Dao's return to China this time, he also invited assistant coach Guo Shiqiang to pick him up early.
Guo Shiqiang is also an old acquaintance. He was the head coach of the men's basketball team in the Asian Championships last year, and he is very close to Lian Dao.
With Guo Shiqiang in the middle of the matchmaking, Lian Dao also quickly became acquainted with Deng Huade.
The national team had already started closed training in Ningbo Beilun as early as early May, but Lian Dao was still playing in the playoffs at that time.
Considering that Lian Dao has just finished the playoffs and needs rest physically, Lian Dao can choose to participate in the Stankovic Cup in Liuzhou, Guangxi from July 28 to August 1.
However, there will be three warm-up matches between the national team and the Lithuanian national team from July 16th to 20th Lian Dao is going to participate, after all, Lithuania’s strength is quite good, in the history of 16 to 8 games , the Chinese team lost to Lithuania 67:78.
Moreover, it is also very miraculous that the Chinese team entered the top 16 this year in history. Although the Chinese team only achieved a record of 1 win and 5 losses in this World Championships, they still broke into the knockout stage. It's off the field.
The reason is that Côte d'Ivoire defeated Puerto Rico 88-79 in the final game of the group.
Even if the Chinese men's basketball team lost to Turkey in the end, the three teams of China, Côte d'Ivoire and Puerto Rico counted small points among each other, and the Chinese men's basketball team still qualified.
Although miraculously qualifying, the Chinese men's basketball team still encountered Lithuania, the leader of Group D, in the 1/8 finals and was eliminated by it.
Lian Dao agreed with the national team's arrangement for him.
In this case, he still has three days to rest, because the national team will return to BJ from Ningbo Beilun in four days.
He will be very busy these three days.
That day, Lian Dao went home first. The family knew that Lian Dao was going back to China, and the whole family of the seven aunts and eight aunts also gathered together to hold a reception banquet for Lian Dao. Sai, this is probably one of the few pleasant moments for Lian Dao after returning to China.
On the first day, I will attend the banquet held by China Telecom, PICC and China Overseas Real Estate. Fortunately, it is a banquet held by these three companies.
On the second day, Lian Dao will participate in the shooting of suits.
Then on the morning of the third day, I had to attend the fan meeting arranged by Anta, as well as the signing event.
On the fourth day, I participated in a charity event in the morning, and returned to BJ in the afternoon for a fan meeting.