After that little interlude during halftime...

In the second half, relying on the strong performance of the Su-Yao duo, the final score of the game was 74 to 81, and the Chinese men's basketball team, playing at home in Shenzhen, won as they wished.

Yao, who had 22 points, 18 rebounds, 5 blocks, and 3 assists, was successfully named the MVP of this friendly match.

And if Su Feng remembered correctly, because the Chinese men's basketball team at this time was blindly pursuing height and size, Malaysia would create some trouble for the Chinese men's basketball team in this game.

But now, after joining the men's basketball team, plus Zhang Bin is also growing into a famous coach...

Smith's small and fast tactics were simply impossible to implement in front of this men's basketball team.

Before the game, at Su Feng's suggestion, Zhang Bin decisively put Wang Zhizhi and Battelle, the two major centers, on the bench.

The Chinese men's basketball team, led by Yao Ming, Su Feng, Hu Weidong, Li Xiaoyong, and Fan Bin, directly adopted a full-court press to counter the full-court press, using violence to control violence.

And with the sudden increase in the intensity of the game, the Malaysian players, whose physical confrontation ability was already generally weak, not only made frequent mistakes in the game, but also failed to find the accuracy to hit the basket throughout the game.

In addition, in order to enable Yao to maximize his role on both offense and defense, Su Feng, the NBA's best defensive player, also gave classic lessons to the future 3D players.

On defense, Su Feng focused on preventing drives and not allowing shots, actively boxing out to create excellent blocking and rebounding space for Yao.

And on offense, the men's basketball team directly adopted the shot-grabbing tactic at Su Feng's instruction.

In his previous life, the men's basketball team liked to drop to the low post and slowly grind against their opponents when playing against these Southeast Asian teams, but in fact, every time the men's basketball team widened the score, it relied on three-pointers.

To put it bluntly, in a basketball game, when you have an absolute height advantage and confrontation advantage, do you still need so many fancy things?

As the saying goes, one force can overcome ten skills. In the face of the Chinese men's basketball team's completely unreasonable style of play, even if the Malaysian interior players could pull Yao Ming's clothes with small moves, it was useless.

Because Yao Ming didn't even need to jump to easily grab offensive rebounds.

In the end, on the first day of the Asian Championship, the Chinese men's basketball team created a massacre.

135 to 46. At the end of the game, even the Japanese commentators sighed, "This is the strength of the strongest king in Asian basketball!"

In the game, Su Feng had 20 points, 7 rebounds, 7 steals, 3 blocks, and 4 assists.

And Yao contributed a terrifying "20+ triple-double" of 22 points, 19 rebounds, and 11 blocks.

At the scene, apart from a few scattered Japanese fans, the group of NBA scouts who had been following Yao Ming had been completely shocked by the talent displayed by this little giant.

A height of over 220 centimeters.

Excellent lateral movement and running ability.

Soft touch and coordination.

Apart from a slightly shorter wingspan and being too young...

In the eyes of these professionals, if Yao decided to enter the draft next year, those teams with high draft picks would go crazy for him.

However, Su Feng never expected that these scouts from the NBA would so easily fall at Yao's athletic shorts.

Because they didn't know that Su Feng was not at all satisfied with the data Yao had put up.

"Hey, why are you passing so many balls? Attack yourself!"

After the game against Malaysia, Su Feng found Yao and talked to him alone.

There was no way. Although Su Feng had built the staircase down to the sewers in front of Yao, unfortunately, due to his excessive size, Yao couldn't fit into the "turtle shell" to become a "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle."

And listening to Brother Feng's patient persuasion, the young Yao felt that what he learned from Su Feng was completely different from the basketball concepts he usually learned in the Shanghai team.

Because although the Shanghai team would also give the ball to Yao Ming when they couldn't open the situation, most of the time, Yao still played very much as a team.

For example, when he should set a screen for his teammates, he would never be ambiguous.

But...

Listening to Brother Feng asking him to take at least 20 shots in a game...

Yao really wanted to argue with Su Feng:

This is FIBA, not the NBA.

You know, in FIBA games, most teams take about 50 to 60 shots per game.

And when the Chinese men's basketball team is beating up on weaker teams, they take a maximum of 70 shots per game.

But...

Now he wants me to take 20 shots?

This...

There are so many senior players in the national team, shouldn't we let them play?

"Don't worry, I've already talked to the others. In this Asian Championship, just honestly give me a perfect performance."

After noticing Yao Ming's worries, Su Feng immediately laughed.

Because although this Yao is young, his emotional intelligence is obviously better than those arrogant guys like Kobe and Da Wang.

Su Feng knew very well that when playing against these weak Asian teams, even if you let Hu Weidong and the others put in more effort, they would easily slack off.

So in Su Feng's opinion, instead of everyone slacking off together, it's better to find a way to let Yao pad his stats more.

Therefore, as early as after the team arrived in Japan, Su Feng had communicated with the players in the national team one by one.

And the other players in the national team also felt that Su Feng's idea of focusing on training Yao this year with the goal of the Olympic Games next year made a lot of sense.

There's no way...

As the NBA's first overseas MVP and the youngest MVP in history, no one in this national team dared to doubt Su Feng's "professionalism," whether in terms of strength or reputation.

As for whether Su Feng's favoritism towards Yao would affect Wang Zhizhi and Battelle, the other two major centers?

Tsk...

You might not believe it if I told you, but the former is now focused on how to defeat Horry and become the Lakers' starting power forward.

And the latter is wondering what kind of fruit he should send to Su Feng after he lands in the NBA...

In short, in this Asian Championship, Su Feng has cleared all obstacles for Yao.

Just pad your stats!

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On the 29th, in the men's basketball team's game against Syria, the West Asian champion, the young Yao successfully stole the spotlight from everyone after this game.

With unreasonable shooters like Su Feng and Hu Weidong creating space for Yao;

And with desperate players like Su Feng and Zhang Jinsong driving the opponent's outside players in front of Yao;

Plus the men's basketball team's senior players desperately setting up opportunities for Yao, the 19-year-old Yao finally delivered a performance that Su Feng was relatively satisfied with on this night.

In the game, Yao not only scored a new career-high of 35 points for his national team, but also grabbed 20 rebounds and blocked 6 shots.

After the game, even the CCTV commentators directly called Yao Ming the "Mobile Great Wall"!

And after Su Feng pushed open the door to the NBA in '96, and reached the top of the NBA last season...

If you were to ask when the era that would be jokingly called the "Golden Age" by Chinese fans in the future began...

Then it would probably be now.

Unlike Japan, where the basketball market was sluggish, after Yao Ming put on a dominant performance in two consecutive games at the Asian Championship, TNT in the United States made a special report on Yao Ming, who was only 19 years old.

And in this special report called "The Little Giant from the East," Smith and some experts who were invited not only highly praised Yao Ming's performance, but these experts also made predictions for the first time about Yao Ming's future draft pick.

Among them, a total of 8 experts believed that Yao would be taken in the top five.

And 2 experts believed that Yao would enter the top three.

As for Smith, this guy firmly stated: "Believe me, this big guy will definitely become the number one pick!

Seriously, American basketball must be vigilant, because after Yao grows up, we will face an opponent on the world stage that is far more difficult to deal with than the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia back then!"

There is no doubt that in this life, because of Su Feng, the basketball exchange between China and the United States has increased a lot invisibly.

So, although he hasn't had that performance that shocked Tang Shuai at the Olympics in Su Feng's previous life, right now, this Yao's fame...

Is already a household name.

On the 30th, the men's basketball team had no game, and the whole team rested for a day.

And on the 31st, on the first day of the rematch, the Chinese men's basketball team easily defeated Kuwait 96-45.

On September 1st, after defeating Saudi Arabia 98-58, the Chinese men's basketball team successfully advanced to the top eight.

Looking back at the four games before the knockout stage, the Chinese men's basketball team played relatively relaxed, and Yao Ming, who played the best, also became the MVP of the game for four consecutive games.

However, starting from the top eight, the Chinese men's basketball team's difficulty in beating up on weaker teams has obviously increased a lot.

Because if the previous games were against opponents that the men's basketball team could easily beat to death, then the next games...

To be honest, the men's basketball team still has to be a little more "serious."

According to the knockout schedule, the Chinese men's basketball team's first opponent will be the host, Japan.

The trajectory of history has shifted once again.

Because in the original Fukuoka Asian Championship, the Japanese men's basketball team would successfully avoid the Chinese and Korean teams in the quarter-finals.

Although they were eventually taken away by Taiwan's Jordan, Zheng Zhilong...

But at least they completed their pre-match plan to avoid China and South Korea in the quarter-finals.

However, in this life, perhaps because the Chinese men's basketball team's strength was too strong, which hit the Japanese men's basketball team's determination to return to the Olympic Games as the host, they lost to Iran in the rematch stage and met the Chinese men's basketball team in the quarter-finals in advance.

"Although this is the final attack!

Although our opponents are as powerful as monsters!

Please bravely challenge the King of Asia and the God of War from the North!"

And it is worth mentioning that, compared to the game itself, what will be most talked about by Chinese fans twenty years from now is the Japanese commentary for this game...

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