Chapter 108: Promotion and Attention (Part II)
In late June, Wang Lei's team ushered in the seventh round of their qualifiers, and the seventh round of the game is crucial for the Frontier Youth Team, which has won six consecutive victories, because as long as they win this game, they will qualify for the finals two rounds in advance, and the opponent of the Frontier Youth Team will be the very strong Shanjin Provincial Youth Team.
The importance of the game is self-evident, since the victory over the capital youth team, Wang Lei's team has been strongly supported by the Frontier Sports Management Center, and this game is a home game, it can be said that the Frontier Provincial Sports Management Center is now really treating this game as a major event.
Tickets for this game were sold out three days in advance, after all, the sports management center has promoted the game to the entire border province through the border province TV and online media, although it is only a youth team game, but this is indeed a major breakthrough in border basketball.
With the more and more popularity of the qualifiers, many fans in the frontier have begun to pay attention to their own teams, and no one thought that a group of college players who have no professional players at all can actually play such results, and many fans in the frontier and even the whole country are also attracted by Wang Lei's team's sharp style of play.
The game is still scheduled to be held at the People's Stadium, which carries the memory of the city and now awaits new glory.
Wang Lei's main job during this period is still to relieve pressure and adjust the state of players, his ability may not be able to directly help his players grow as soon as possible, but it is still very good to adjust the state and mentality of players, and through data measurement, Wang Lei can also detect whether the player's training has been completed seriously, so under his supervision, these college players who have not received much professional training at all have grown up very fast.
The opponent of the frontier youth team also attaches great importance to this game, the Shanjin provincial youth team has achieved five wins and one loss in the first six rounds of the game, second only to the frontier youth team with six consecutive wins, but the capital youth team that also achieved five wins and one loss is also very tight, so the Shanjin provincial youth team does not dare to have the slightest carelessness, every game is very important for them, no one can guarantee that the next two rounds of qualifiers will not have accidents, to be honest, this qualifier can be said to be very unpopular, If you want to make the cut, you have to do your best to win every game.
The Shanjin Provincial Youth Team is still worried about the Frontier Youth Team playing at home, and six consecutive wins are not something that ordinary teams can do, which actually shows the strength of this team composed of college players, and the Frontier Youth Team's style of play is very different, and the Shan Jin Provincial Youth Team does not dare to have any sloppiness.
The match officially started with the enthusiastic cheers of the Wushi fans, and the Son Jin Provincial Youth Team launched a defensive posture from the beginning of the game, and they tried to end the winning streak of the Frontier Youth Team through a tight and iron-blooded defense.
In order to ensure the defensive intensity of the outside line, the Shanjin Provincial Youth Team even made a great adjustment to the consistent starting lineup in this game, and their very strong center Xu Bo did not start, after all, Xu Bo's weight is too big and his speed is too disadvantaged, while the inside line of the Frontier Youth Team is dominated by speed and outside projection attack, so the Shanjin Provincial Youth Team has put on a defensive lineup that is also not tall, but not slow.
However, the head coach of Shanjin Province was a little too conservative, and he did believe that the offensive ability of the Frontier Youth Team was very strong, but he ignored that this kind of toughness is not simply fast.
At the beginning of the game, Turgun fired first from the outside, and two unreasonable three-pointers in a row embarrassed the defense of the Shanjin Provincial Youth Team.
The defense of Shanjin Province has indeed expanded a lot, but it is still a man-to-man defensive strategy, and their point guard does consciously get close to Turgon, but no one would have thought that Turgun would be so bold, and the opening game was two projections more than a meter away from the three-point line.
These two three-pointers disrupted the arrangement of the youth team of Shanjin Province at once, and as soon as the score fell behind, the players would involuntarily want to strengthen the offense, even if the coach had made many instructions before the game, but you must know that the execution ability of young players is still lacking.
The defense was not in place, the attack was not smooth, and the youth team of Shan Jin Province fell into a panic from the beginning.
Turgun has shown his potential more and more through these six games, he is keenly aware of the panic of the Shan Jin Provincial Youth Team, and led his teammates to speed up the transition between attack and defense, and the rhythm of the Shan Jin Provincial Youth Team was completely disrupted.
Less than five minutes into the game, the head coach of the youth team of Shanjin Province had to replace the center Xu Bo in advance, because the team was already behind by almost seven points, and there was no guarantee that the offense would not be able to play at all.
As soon as Xu Bo came up, the attack of the Shanjin Provincial Youth Team opened up the situation, but their defense had problems again.
Wang Lei made gestures on the sidelines, and the frontier youth team began to frequently chase and counterattack, that is, to play Xu Bo's slow speed, Cai Aihong pulled to the outside to shoot three points or mid-range shots, Hawule was replaced, and Sun Dexun came on the court to ensure the team's speed.
By the end of the first quarter, the Frontiers youth team had stretched the margin to double digits.
In the second quarter of the game, the Shanjin Provincial Youth Team took advantage of several mistakes by the Frontier Youth Team to narrow the point difference to single digits, Xu Bo repeatedly played two plus one, and Wang Lei replaced Turgun in advance.
The youth team of Shanjin Province tried to contain Turgon, but Turgon, who came on the field early, played without the ball, and Wang Zhaohui took over the possession and played as a point forward.
Shanjin Province simply couldn't defend against Wang Lei's team's changeable tactics, and they were pulled away again at half-time.
Entering the third quarter with a thirteen-point advantage, the Shanjin Provincial Youth Team, which made adjustments at halftime, also tried to catch up with the score, but Wang Lei's team played a wave of climax, Turgun used the cover to shoot three points again, and Cai Aihong also helped the team further expand the difference by shooting from the mid-range.
After the third quarter of the game, the difference between the two teams has been stretched to 21 points, and the general trend of the Shanjin Provincial Youth Team has gone.
I have to say that the lineup of the Shanjin Provincial Youth Team may play against other teams, but against Wang Lei's team, it will be defeated, and the changeable tactical style is not something that can be prevented by blind defense, and the frontier youth team that has opened up the situation does have a very strong offensive ability.
In the end, the Frontier Youth Team defeated the Son Jin Provincial Youth Team with a score of 103-81, and they also qualified for the finals two rounds in advance.