Chapter 15: The Final Four
"I lost, congratulations. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info" Long Tianzheng in the audience has returned to the appearance of a good student with good manners. He generously blessed Xiangbei to enter the national competition.
Ikebana Yang and others hugged him one after another. They are all in their third year of high school, and they will take the college entrance examination in a few months, and from then on, they don't know how many times they can see each other in this life.
The powerhouses in the audience were all talking.
"As expected, sure enough, Xiangbei entered the top four." Xiao Kan said.
However, this year's overall strength of Xiangbei is insufficient, and it is completely Liu Chuan's one-man team. The provincial championship will be affiliated with our Shonan University! Tian Changqing stroked his hair and said with a smile.
On the other side, Tsu 95 gave a completely different view.
"Although it seems that Liu Chuan shines alone, it can be seen that the other players in Xiangbei are also very solid." The baby-faced little man said: "Xiangbei deserves to be the top eight team in the country." ”
"As the legend goes, Xiangbei is really a good team." Coach Qi Boat is a handsome, he said with a smile.
"Seriously, I can't wait to fight Senior Liu Chuan right away, his ball skills are really amazing." Lian Dang's eyes were about to glow golden.
Captain Nan Xiangguang snorted dissatisfiedly, apparently jealous of this evaluation.
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Next, the organizers announced the schedule of the semi-finals: after each team rests for a day, the first game of the round-robin will be played, with Xiangbei facing Tianjin 95 and Shonan facing Miuradai. Each team plays a match every other day, and the opponent of Xiangbei in the second round is Miuradai, and the last round is against the affiliated party of Xiangnan.
"It seems that the organizers regarded our match with Shonan as the finale?" Li Li said with a smile.
"Just win 9 more games!" Hanamichi said suddenly.
"9 games? Isn't it 3 games? Yang Pingqi said.
"He must have included the national competition, which is a single-elimination system in the round of 64, and if you win 6 games, you can get the national championship, plus these three games are exactly 9 games." It was Mu Qingzi who took the words: "Is that right, Hanami?" ”
Hanamichi was stunned, this was the first time Harushi had spoken to him since he returned to the basketball team. He hesitated and replied, "Uh, yes, yes." I studied hard during this time, and my mind has become much better. Isn't math fast? ”
"Well, Hanamichi-kun has really improved a lot, and even his studies have improved." Qing Zi was generous and didn't twist like Hanamichi, "But I still think playing basketball is more suitable for you." ”
Ikebana's face turned red and he didn't answer.
The next day, the team arranged normal training, and I don't know if it was the reason for being praised by Qingzi, and the state of Hanamichi became more and more courageous, and the layup began to have a good shooting rate.
"Hanamichi is improving at an astonishing rate, and more than 90% of unmarked layups are hit." Harushi was also very pleasantly surprised by Hanamichi's performance, "Looking at it this way, maybe he can really return to his previous level in a few weeks." ”
Hanamichi squeezed open the leaf and forced a layup shot.
"Good ball, good ball." Yang Ping encouraged Hanamichi, but still pointed out the shortcomings: "Hanamichi, you set up an elbow when you broke through just now, and this collision may eat an offensive foul." Pay attention to your arm movements, you've had a bit of a lot of fouls in the first few games. ”
"Leave it to me! I'm the king of the dead - ikebana! Yang Ping spoke more tactfully, so this cheeky guy can still listen very well.
"It's worth studying hard for 2 years, and even people with an IQ like ikebana can use idioms!" Xiong Nan sighed.
With a thud, a large bag bulged out of his head and fell.
"It's okay, keep going." Hanamichi rubbed his fists together and instructed everyone to continue training as if nothing had happened.
"This kid...... In the past few days, the basic skills have improved a lot, but the rough and stinky personality has not changed at all. Coach Li Li wiped his sweat.
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The next day, the city gymnasium gathered a lot of spectators. CHBL's provincial semi-finals were much more influential than the previous knockout rounds, and the number of media outlets more than doubled from the previous one.
"Director Li, you actually came to our province to inspect the basketball seedlings, which really makes us shine!" Governor Zhao of HN Province said with a smile. The few people sitting next to him are all leading cadres at the provincial and ministerial level, and Zhang Yiming's father, Director Zhang, can't sit in it at all, so he can only be in the back row.
"The central leadership has given clear instructions that we cannot only rely on the reserves of various professional teams to cultivate talents, but must strengthen the cultivation of basketball talents in universities and middle schools. In particular, we should learn from basketball powers like the United States, and strive to develop CUBA into a world-class league like the NCAA (National Collegiate Athletic Association, usually referred to as the American College Basketball League). "Director Li is very tall, speaks sonorously and powerfully, and looks like he is in the prime of life, and he is very shrewd and capable." The quality of this generation of high school athletes is very good, and there is a saying of the golden generation in the fandom. Liu Chuan from Polaris High School is a representative of this golden generation, and I made a special trip to HN to watch such young players play. Over the years, HN Province has also cultivated a lot of talents for CUBA, and the leaders of the General Administration of Sports are very satisfied with your basketball construction. ”
"We actively responded to the call of the central government and invested a lot of money in the construction of basketball projects." Governor Zhao also took the opportunity to sell his belief, "I also hope that the leaders of the General Administration of Sports will support our work and strive to cultivate more good seedlings for the national team." ”
At this time, Director Zhang was secretly wiping his sweat. knew that even the big names in the central government were paying attention to Xiangbei, how dare he shout for the disbandment of the Xiangbei basketball team?
"I inherited my father's business and played basketball, but I was in charge of the CBA league a few years ago. For youth basketball, the country has only begun to pay close attention to it in recent years, and I am still a beginner in this field. Governor Zhao has so many successful experiences, please give me a lot of advice. Director Li said politely.
"How dare you." Governor Zhao secretly said in his heart, you Li Lutong is a big name in the basketball world, who can guide you?
Director Li Lutong is 51 years old this year, his father is Li Nan, a famous star of the Chinese men's basketball team at the beginning of the 21st century, and his mother is also a basketball player. He learned from his parents since he was a child, and he became famous at a young age and stepped into the field of professional basketball. It's a pity that his era is a downturn in Chinese basketball, and after the retirement of superstars such as Yao Ming, Wang Zhizhi, and Yi Jianlian, Chinese basketball has fallen into a trough. Although Li Lutong has a good skill, he is difficult to support alone, and his resume in the national team is not brilliant. After retiring, he entered the Basketball Association with his qualifications, and because of his excellent work, he has risen all the way to become a deputy director of the Basketball Association under the establishment of the General Administration of Sports of China.
After the Washington Conference, the major powers inexplicably engaged in basketball competition, and this sports construction in full swing was as fierce as the arms competition between the United States and the Soviet Union in those years. At this critical moment, Li Lutong was entrusted with the leadership of youth basketball, in charge of the two major leagues of CHBL and CUBA. He has done a solid job and made many fruitful reforms in the competition system and other aspects. But Li Lutong always felt that he still had to go deep into the grassroots and come to the front line of the arena to grasp the basic situation, so he chose HN Province as the first stop of the inspection.
The first game he inspected was the battle of Xiangbei and Tianjin 95!