Chapter Eighty-Five: The Journey (Part II)

Since it was the first time to participate in such a distant away game, and the opponent was the powerful Lingbei youth team, Wang Lei and the border province youth team came here four days in advance for adaptive training.

Although compared with football games, basketball games do not have such high requirements for the adaptability of the venue, but a group of young people suddenly came to a land that they were not familiar with, and at the same time came to a court that they had not been to, no matter who they were, no matter who would have a sense of strangeness, so Wang Lei could only take the players to Vladivostok in advance to see if they could practice more at other people's home stadiums.

But maybe the opponent really doesn't pay attention to the youth team of the border province, they don't have any refusal to Wang Lei's request, maybe in the other party's opinion, since the away team is not the opponent, then why bother to make trouble in these small details, it is better to be generous, so that winning the game also convinces the other party.

Coming to the huge Vladivostok People's Stadium, Wang Lei's players were somewhat surprised, this was the first time they entered this kind of stadium that can accommodate tens of thousands of spectators to watch the game.

"I'm rubbing, this is really big, I feel like it can be divided into several stadiums in our training base."

Although he is a native of the Northeast, Wang Zhaohui, the captain of the provincial youth team, has never been to Lingbei, although the people south of the Xing'an Mountains claim to be from the Northeast, but in the eyes of the real residents of Lingbei, these people are all southerners, and they are not as atmospheric as them.

In the face of the brand new equipment in the stadium and the visiting team dressing room, the players of the provincial youth team are more or less looking forward to the start of the game, they are not afraid of the opponent, and they think more that although we are not in good condition, we are definitely better than you.

Vladivostok is now the largest port in Northeast Asia, and thanks to its excellent geographical conditions, it is also the location of the North Sea Fleet of the Republic, so Vladivostok's economic development is quite good, which makes them have the conditions to build more infrastructure.

Although Vladivostok has warmed up in April, the average temperature is only about four degrees, but fortunately, Wang Lei's players have adapted to life in the border province, and they have nothing to worry about the weather and temperature.

After two days of trials, the players gradually adapted to the venue, and I have to say that the condition of this stadium built in 2006 is indeed very good, with all kinds of facilities, at least Wang Lei feels that the condition of this stadium is not lower than some stadiums in the capital.

On April 18, the qualifiers for the men's basketball youth group of the National Games will be fully opened, and more than 60 teams from the four divisions will fight against each other, and 16 teams will finally be determined to participate in the final stage of the competition.

This year's National Games will open at the end of September, which is the time period when the weather conditions are relatively best in the country, so every National Games will be held during this time period.

The first Summer Olympics of this time and space was held in 1897, and the World Cup was even the first officially held after the end of World War II, so in this time and space, the odd-numbered year is the big year, and the even-numbered year is generally a large and medium-sized event in China or on the continent.

When Wang Lei and his players walked into the Vladivostok People's Stadium again, the stadium was already full of people at this time, although this was only a qualifier for the youth group, and the away team did not seem to be a strong team at all, but the enthusiastic Lingbei fans still filled the entire stadium.

"I won't say much about the way we played, play as we trained before, you have to pick up the speed at the beginning of the game, don't be afraid of mistakes, don't worry about physical problems, we have the next game in a week, so there is plenty of time, the most important thing now is that everyone should be excited, but Turgon, you don't get too excited, you can shoot more from the outside, but you must pay attention to the timing of your shots, don't always think about shooting through the defenders, you can be confident, but you can't be overconfident."

After the final warm-up, Wang Lei made the final arrangements for the players, and the game was naturally very important for the provincial youth team, but compared to the initial warm-up game a year ago, now these players have matured, and they have grown up very quickly under the care of Wang Lei's training and special abilities.

The ancients said, Maxima often has and Bole does not often have, this sentence is actually very reasonable, not all grassroots coaches have the ability of Wang Lei, the initial selection of athletes is actually based on the principle of casting a wide net, and then eliminated layer by layer, and finally the rest are high-quality products, but Wang Lei's conditions at that time did not have the possibility of casting a wide net, but fortunately, his golden finger is still powerful, although now these players do not seem to be very good, but in fact, they all have their own very distinctive characteristics, and they are also very suitable for Wang Lei's tactics.

The Lingbei youth team is very relaxed, two-thirds of the players in their team are members of the youth team of the professional team, they can be regarded as standard professional players, and the remaining players are also the core players of the major college teams in Vladivostok, the lineup can be called luxurious, among which their core inner line Zhang Yongdong is even a member of the national youth team, he also participated in the World Youth Championships last year, although he is not the main inner line of the national youth team, but the absolute height of two meters and one six is not something that the border provincial youth team can afford to defend.

Sheng Tianhuai, the head coach of the Lingbei Youth Team, is also a well-known figure in the domestic basketball world, the forty-two-year-old Sheng Tianhuai was one of the members of the national team, he himself is a Lingbei person, is a Chinese-Russian mixture, and also served as an assistant coach in the national team before retiring, the Lingbei Youth Team is his first time in charge of the team, and he is quite familiar with Wang Lei Sheng Tianhuai, after all, he is an insider, but he doesn't know anything about the Frontier Province Youth Team, but he is not worried about anything, in Sheng Tianhuai's view, The Frontier Provincial Youth Team, which is only a little over two meters high on the inside, is basically unable to pose any threat to the Lingbei Youth Team.

The middle circle jump ball, the player of the Frontier University jump ball opened the eyes of the Lingbei youth team, a player with a height of less than two meters jumped the ball, which is absolutely rare in the official basketball game of the Republic.

Zhang Yongdong looked down at the unruly Uyghur young man opposite, although he looked quite strong, Zhang Yongdong didn't feel that the opponent was worthy of a fight.

As the referee tosses the ball high, the game officially begins.

Lingbei center Zhang Yongdong didn't even have the desire to jump, he just shook his feet, and then tried to rely on his height and arm length advantage to dial the ball to his teammates.