"Larry Brown really doesn't treat me as an outsider."

The US Olympic selection team is not the last 12-man roster in the Olympics. Since the Dream Four team, Zhuang Fei broke the unspoken rules for the selection of American Olympic players, the players participating in the US team are no longer decided by the player selection committee, or the general managers of each team, but are decided by the head coach. Compared with the general managers of each team, the coach is more cautious in selecting players.

In addition to Zhuang Fei's final 12 players at one time, Pat Riley later created a selection team. At the 2004 Olympics, the selection team had 18 players, and finally cut six people before signing up for the Olympic list. Obviously, Larry Brown inherited Pat Riley's invention and planned to hold a major selection team training before the Olympics. However, even so, the number of this large American team should not be too large.

After all, players who can enter the Olympic selection team are the strongest star players in the league. There are not many first-class players who can be selected. The Olympics are not the World Championships. Unless a special event occurs in the Olympics, the United States will definitely send first-class NBA players to participate. The World Championships doesn't matter, either second-rate or third-rate. After all, first-class players are not so respectful. Anyway, as long as you can win, it's fine.

It’s just obvious that although the Olympics are an event that many top-class players in the United States want to participate in, it is obvious that not all first-class or top-class players want to participate in. For example, O’Neal, who participated in Dream Three, rejected Pat Riley’s invitation in the last Olympics, such as Kobe, who also rejected the invitation in the last Olympics.

For them, they have won the Olympic championship, so there is no need to give up the good holiday and join in the fun. Moreover, if a player goes more, it will actually reduce the number of other players who want to go but cannot. In many cases, basically everyone has some tacit understanding, but when he encounters a rigorous head coach like Larry Brown, he doesn't want to have any accidents in the Olympics.

In this case, if you can invite super players who don’t want to go, you can only start from your own line. For example, his assistant coach at this year’s Olympics and the head coach of the next Olympics, his apprentice Povich’s Spurs. When Larry Brown was Pat Riley’s assistant coach in the last session, in order to support his teacher, Povich sent Kidd and Duncan to the United States team, and the Spurs contributed Duncan and Kidd.

You know, Duncan participated twice before that, and he participated in three Olympics in 2004, but he went there again because of his favor. For him, he has no interest in going to the Olympics now, but because he is a direct descendant, he probably has to go this year.

So, from Larry Brown's five people were drawn from Zhuang Fei at once, he just didn't regard Zhuang Fei as an outsider, or he thought Zhuang Fei, his good friend, was his direct descendant, and hoped that Zhuang Fei could convince O'Neal, who loved Miami Beach more than in the international competition, to come out again, but the difficulty of this matter can be imagined. O'Neal rejected Pat Riley, who had a good relationship with him at the beginning, and in addition, the head coach of the American team was not Zhuang Fei, so what did Zhuang Fei use to convince him?

"I heard that in recent times, the head coach of the US team has become more and more cautious after a round of Europe. Especially in recent times, he has been talking about the threat of the Chinese team in the media. I am afraid that he will lose in the international arena, especially the inside line of the US. Now, he can no longer suppress the inside line of the international basketball world that is almost born for international competitions, so he took O'Neal's idea. I'm afraid he doesn't care much about the other outside players."

Seeing Zhuang Fei like this, Kupchek also said with a smile, and Zhuang Fei nodded. Of course, he knew Larry Brown's dynamics in recent times, or Larry Brown's concerns were correct. In the last Olympics, in the semi-finals of the Olympics, the United States and China team fought. If Patrick had not used a strategy of boiling frogs to use his team's bench advantages and outside line, especially the suppression of the ball control point, it is really hard to say who will win and lose in the end of that game.

What's more, in the 2008 Olympics, Yao Ming was 28 years old, Wang Zhizhi was 31 years old, and Yi Jianlian was 24 years old. These three people, especially Yao Ming and Yi Jianlian, would not be as immature as they were four years ago. Now they can block these three inside players who are powerful this season. Without O'Neal and Duncan's team, Larry Brown felt guilty. After all, these three people are able to contribute 552,812 per game this season, and these three people are more terrifying than these insiders in the United States, and they can complement each other.

"But I can't make the decision about this. I still need to see Shaq's own thoughts." In the end, Zhuang Fei also sighed. It doesn't matter whether O'Neal goes to the Olympics or not. If he doesn't want to go, Zhuang Fei will not force it. Of course, since Larry Brown regards Zhuang Fei as his direct friend, Zhuang Fei naturally needs some help. Obviously, Larry Brown must have contacted O'Neal before and must be defeated. This is also the tradition of the US team selection. The coach needs to communicate with the players in advance. Zhuang Fei is also a person who cannot even invite Pat Riley, and Larry Brown cannot invite him either.

Of course, Kupchek could understand Zhuang Fei's idea, so after Zhuang Fei finished speaking, he retreated and went to the team's training ground to call O'Neal to Zhuang Fei's office. In the end, just as Zhuang Fei imagined, O'Neal looked ugly when he heard Larry Brown's name. Although Zhuang Fei persuaded him repeatedly, the player in the Manhattan Challenger was still not interested in the end.

"I'm already thirty-six years old, and I'm thirty-seven next year. I'm going to the Olympics? It's not that there are no one in NBA, Stoudemire, Kwame Brown, don't Howard have many?" After finally leaving such a sentence, Zhuang Fei asked O'Neal to retreat, and then told the final result that Larry Brown, who did not think he was an outsider. Of course, after getting Zhuang Fei's result, Zhuang Fei could hear from the phone that Larry Brown was not disappointed, just a little disappointed, and it was obvious that he could guess the result.

Although there were some regrets that he did not help his friend, there was no way. Soon, almost the next day, almost all the focus of the United States was on the release of the roster of the US Olympic teams, and even the attention of the basketball world in the world was on this. After this list came out, Zhuang Fei did not have many surprises. It was reasonable for some players to be absent, and it was reasonable for some players to still be there.

"Kwame Brown, Howard, Duncan, Stoudemire, Randolph, James, Iguodala, Durant, Anthony, Prince, Roy, Jason Williams, Magety, Dwyane Wade, Jay Williams, Deron Williams, Chris Paul, Derek Rose, Michael Beasley"

In the head coach's office of the Manhattan Challenger, Zhuang Fei nodded a little when he looked at the 19-man roster. Although McGrady, Kobe, Carter, Iverson and others did not participate again this time, Larry Brown was not very good enough to not invite them, but selecting 12 of the 19 people to participate in the Olympics is also of absolute strength. In addition, Duncan, Paul, James, Wade and Anthony, five players who participated in the last Olympics, were on the team. The problem of this team is actually not very big. Even without O'Neal, I'm afraid that Green's Chinese team may not be able to defeat this American team. Of course, it is not so easy for the American team to easily strangle Green's Chinese team. In recent competitions, it is not so easy for the Chinese team and the United States to confront each other.

Of course, after Larry Brown announced the roster of the US selection team, almost all media in the United States were already imagining the performance of the team in the Beijing Olympics in half a year later. Similarly, what made Zhuang Fei a little sad was that after the US team announced the roster, Zhuang Fei's trouble also came.

Li Yuanwei, a guy who has recently been promoted to the position of deputy director of basketball at the General Administration of Sports, has urged Zhuang Fei to take over the Chinese team again. However, Zhuang Fei still said the same thing this time. It is not possible to negotiate before the end of this season. In this case, it is estimated that Li Yuanwei is in China at this time, the Manhattan Challenger who is eager for Zhuang Fei to enter the playoffs.

Although Deputy Director Li went further before his retirement age, from a department level to a deputy minister level, and his retirement age was delayed by five years again. He was even hinted by the head that as long as the Beijing Olympic basketball event can create history, he would take charge of the new General Administration of Sports after the Olympics. However, even so, this upstart in the Chinese sports industry did not dare to put on airs in front of Zhuang Fei. Although his level is the same as Zhuang Fei, the deputy director in front of Zhuang Fei was still a little weak and had no way to deal with Zhuang Fei.

Because the US team announced the Olympic team's roster, the teams participating in the Olympics in the basketball world have already started to take action at this time. However, for the NBA, what should we do after this trend? For example, the Manhattan Challengers must welcome their next opponent, the New York Knicks on March 16. This is also the third New York derby for the two teams, but this time it is on the road.

Of course, for the Manhattan Challengers, this game against the New York Knicks doesn't matter whether it's home or away. After all, they are all in Manhattan and just changed the court, especially for the Manhattan Challengers players who have experienced the home and away games last season.
Chapter completed!