At the end of July, Li Liang arrived with the Chinese team in Sao Paulo, the capital of the state of São Paulo, Brazil.

Before heading to Rio, the Chinese team will play their final warm-up match, the Brazilian Super Challenge, here.

The participating teams include Australia, Lithuania, the host country Brazil and China.

Despite being located in the southern hemisphere, July and August should theoretically be winter in Brazil.

However, most of Brazil is in the tropics, and July and August are cool, dry months, making them a good time to exercise.

São Paulo is the largest and most prosperous city in Brazil, and Li Liang has been to many places with a lot of knowledge, but it is also the first time to come to the country of samba to experience the passion of the people here for sports.

thought that in the country of football, Li Liang's arrival would not attract too much attention, but I didn't expect that Li Liang was still a well-known celebrity here.

This made Li Liang very surprised, when shopping on the street, someone would recognize him and ask for an autograph, am I so famous?

In fact, in large South American countries such as Argentina and Brazil, although the popularity of basketball is much lower than that of football, the overall influence is still very large.

Like Brazil, the most well-known stars are of course football superstars such as Pele and Ronaldo, and their status in the country is at the level of national heroes.

And in the world of basketball, Brazil has also produced a lot of amazing players.

For example, Barbosa and Vallejo, who play in the NBA, are all players at the main level of NBA teams.

Historically, they have also had super-scorers like Oscar Schmidt, the "holy hand" who averaged 42 points per game at the 1988 Seoul Olympics, with a total of 1,093 Olympic points and a career total of more than 49,000 points.

If Li Liang only wins one championship, everyone will know it among basketball fans.

When he won two championships, some sports fans who don't watch basketball much will start to know about him.

When he won three championships, people started to talk about him.

And when he won four championships, his ads began to spread all over the world.

Later, when Li Liang went to the street and found that there were advertisements for Under Armour hanging in several places, and his big avatar appeared there, he understood why so many people knew him.

On the evening of the 31st, at the São Paulo Stadium, the Chinese team welcomed the first opponent of the Brazilian Super Challenge, the Australian Kangaroos.

In May of this year, the Chinese team and the Australian team played a warm-up match, and the Chinese team won.

However, the so-called Australia is not a national team at all, but a so-called Australian professional team.

It's like sometimes China plays some "American professional team".

Find some strong players from the local league, put them together to form a team, and then organize a warm-up with the national team.

The individual ability of the players in this kind of team is not good, and it is a temporary patchwork, and the tactics and discipline are average in all aspects.

The main meaning of their participation is to get money, and they have no sense of collective honor, and they leave after the fight.

This kind of competition is similar to "beating foreigners in the ring", I don't know where to invite two foreign strongmen to compete with Chinese martial artists, and after beating them, they won the applause of the Chinese people, and it seems that they have become strong since then.

But in fact, for the improvement of the overall strength of the team, tactical tempering has almost no meaning, and it is really a warm-up game to purely move the muscles and bones.

In the past two years, China has really played a lot of such games.

After Yao Ming came to power, he should begin to gradually put an end to this kind of meaningless competition, so that the national team and players can devote themselves to a higher level of confrontation.

And tonight's match against Australia is the real Australian national team.

They have NBA players like Bogut, Baines, Ingles, and Dellavedova, and they are quite strong.

is still the same sentence, without Li Liang, the current Chinese team, which is a strong team, will lose within 10 points to win.

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The first match of the Chinese team in the Olympics is scheduled for August 7, and the first opponent is the United States.

There is still a week to go before the official start of the Olympic Games, and the Chinese team is also seizing the time to carry out the final warm-up integration.

After two rounds of "big battle" with the American team, Gong Luming has clearly felt that if the Chinese team wants to achieve good results in the Olympic Games, it must closely unite around the center of the team centered on Li Liang.

It is necessary to implement the tactical play of one shot and four robs, so as to make full use of our strengths and avoid weaknesses and compete with European and American teams.

In the match against Australia on the 31st, the Chinese team actually defeated the Australian team.

One of the important reasons is that Gong Luming basically gave up the idea of playing other tactics.

Anyway, the Chinese team didn't have any tactics that could be used.

It's usually the point guard who holds the ball for half the court and then starts to make meaningless lateral flips on the outside.

After two or three passes, the opponent's defense did not change at all, because he did not feel any threat and began to try to put the ball inside.

If you can give it in, you can hit one, and if you can't get it in, whoever has the ball in your hand on the outside line will try to break one.

Burst in, the other party shrinks, passes out, can vote, can vote, can not cast again.

If the other party does not shrink, he throws one himself, and if he can't throw it, he grabs it.

It's such a very simple set of things anyway.

It's not that the palace director has no goods in his stomach, it's that the players can't play other things.

Against a strong team, the simpler the better.

Now there is a simpler one, hand over the ball to Li Liang to deal with.

In the game against Australia, Li Liang fully showed his cancerous demeanor.

is floating outside and throwing three-pointers wildly, playing extremely simple and rough and unreasonable.

In this game, Li Liang made an astonishing 19 three-point shots and hit 8 of them.

The hit rate reached 42 percent.

You know, none of these 19 three-point shots were open, and none of them were catch-and-catch.

It was all Li Liang outside, facing the defense of at least one player, two steps away from the three-point line, and forced a shot.

In addition to the three-point shot, Li Liang gave up the middle distance, and the breakthrough under the basket also ended with a stop-and-go jump shot, which was extremely simple and efficient.

There is no way, Li Liang is a good piece of steel, and good steel must be used on the blade - scoring.

Li Liang scored 40 points again this time, helping the Chinese team defeat Australia by 8 points at 97:89.

Then on August 2, they played against the host country, Brazil.

Li Liang still has the same style of play, and the outside line is to throw three points.

As long as you have less than or equal to two defenders, he is likely to choose to throw himself outside.

With such a large number of shots, it is still very scary to ensure a 40 percent three-point shooting rate.

Not only did he provide enough points for the Chinese team and consume enough possession, but he also made it easier for his teammates.

Fewer mistakes in offense, allowing teammates to devote more stamina to defense.

In this way, the division of labor between Li Liang and his teammates is clear, I will attack, and you will defend.

Then there is also Yi Jianlian, who can help Li Liang when needed.

So in this game against Brazil, the Chinese team still played vigorously, although the opening was behind, but in the third quarter, Li Liang chased back the score with a wave of three-point rain.

In the fourth quarter, the Brazilian team was a little chaotic, but the Chinese team played better and better.

In addition to Li Liangneng's goal, he also assisted his teammates to score in a row.

At the critical moment in the fourth quarter, Zhao Jiwei's heart, when Li Liang was surrounded by three people, received the ball and hit a three-point shot!

This goal helped the Chinese team to establish a victory.

In the final match of the Super Challenge, Lithuania defeated Australia and finished third.

The Chinese team won the first place in the challenge.

So far, all the warm-up matches of the Chinese national team before the start of the Olympic Games have been completed.

The tactics of the Chinese team have been readjusted and finalized in just two months.

Now, from fans to leaders in China, they have begun to have high hopes for this men's basketball team.

On August 3rd, the whole team will go to Rio to prepare for the Olympic Games, which will start on the 7th.

On August 7, their first opponent was the strongest team, the United States.

The first two warm-up games were fiasco, and this is back to the main game, and we must teach the American team a lesson.