Although it was only a friendly match for teenagers, it also attracted a large number of spectators, most of whom were high school students of the same age as the athletes, and of course there were quite a few fans who watched Nanyang play little by little from the district-level group stage, Nanyang is an absolute hegemon in the basketball world of Shanghai high school, counting this year's fifth time defending the championship of Shanghai.

The audience obviously has more support for Nanyang, who has just won the Shanghai High School League championship, and at the same time, compared with the professional Sharks youth team, there is also an element of pity for the weak, which has the appearance of turning the stadium into Nanyang's home stadium.

The Sharks youth team is by no means a fuel-efficient lamp in the professional team of the same age, and the team also has a number of players with good potential, such as the 208cm center forward: Feng Yunming, who is only 16 years old. 198cm power forward Hu Wenyang, and point guard Li Yiwei. Both are only 17 years old.

In China, there is a world of difference between professional teams and amateur teams, the purpose of professional teams is to train and train every day, teenagers who have been selected into professional teams from the age of teens live a different life from ordinary teenagers, since the day they join the team, they are prepared to become professional basketball players, most of them will sooner or later enter the club team to participate in the professional league, and at the age of 16 or 7 this trend is almost a foregone conclusion, because the unqualified people have been eliminated before.

In addition to completing the necessary physical training and shooting training every day, there are also professional coaches to train technical and tactical play, and the two-hour group competition in the afternoon is a compulsory course. Then in the spring and autumn there are nationwide youth leagues to participate in, and they are also divided into A, B, C and three according to the level like a professional adult team, the Sharks are the only professional team in Shanghai with the top level in the country, and its youth team is naturally in the ranks of the first division, and this year's spring league is the top three ranks, and the strength is quite good. As your own youth army, it is also indispensable to pay attention to the growth of the little brothers from time to time, and in the visiting competition, although the senior team will not do its best, it is a wealth to be able to compete with the senior professional team of the first division. And all of this,

Being an amateur high school team is completely unenjoyable. The players on the team are all students of the school, and they have to bear a heavy burden of schoolwork; Generally, the coach of the school basketball team is the school's physical education teacher, and only some traditional basketball schools, such as Nanyang and Guangming, will hire some professional basketball coaches to coach, and the training conditions are only some ordinary running laps in the gymnasium after school several times a week, and the shooting is only a three-on-three game training.

How to evaluate the difference between the strength of the professional junior team and the amateur junior team? Si Yuan High School has its own personal experience, two years ago when Si Yuan achieved the city's top 8 results, as a reward for the basketball team, the school specially invited the Zhejiang Green Dragon Professional Team of the junior team to visit the school, the Green Dragon team is by no means a strong team, in the country to participate in only the C level of the game, the final result is that the Green Dragon team won by 108:* 44 points. Although the strength of Nanyang as the champion is above Siyuan, it is probably the level of the Green Dragon team at most, this is Xia Jun, Zhuo Yifan's idea of staying in the Siyuan basketball team, with the strength of a C-level team to compete against the top A-class team, the result should be conceivable.

Several teenagers in Zhuo Yifan's home definitely foresaw that this friendly match Nanyang would end in failure.

The Sharks soon had to recover a goal from the highest Feng Yunming in the game, Zhang Qiyi organized an attack again, facing Li Yiwei, who had been wary of himself, relying on his own speed to quickly pass the half, but just after the half, he was intercepted by the Sharks small forward Liu Yingkai, and Li Yiwei behind the two formed a sandwich situation, at the junction of the sideline and the middle line, Zhang Qiyi was forced into a desperate situation, Zhang Qiyi as long as he couldn't stand the pressure to take a step to the left is out of bounds, and a step back is a return violation. Pressing like this from the very beginning is rarely seen in a normal game.

"I'm stuck in the bag, I don't know how he's going to get out of it, or if he's going to make a mistake." Li Xin looked at the game and unconsciously talked to herself, and several other people glanced at him, but when she saw Li Xin, who was paying attention to the game so intently, she was about to say something, but finally took it back.

Zhang Qiyi didn't get rid of the bag defense, but just threw the ball from above, and the ball was picked up by the unmarked Xu Zhenyu after drawing a beautiful curve, Xu Zhenyu brought the ball back to the three-point line and added two more points to the Nanyang team with a long-distance mid-range shot away from the fiercely contested penalty area defense.

"It's really not simple, obviously my vision is blocked, and I am caught by two people, I can actually pass such an accurate pass." Li Xin sighed continuously after reading it.

"It's really dangerous to get the ball so high, it's very easy to be tackled by the opponent." Xia Jun also entered the play.

"As a good point guard, you have to be very clear about where your teammates are on the court."

"Moreover, it must be clear what the state is. And Zhang Qiyi can clearly see all this, even when he is trapped. ”

"The small forward is also good, he shoots accurately, he has the quality of a shooting guard, he must be a well-rounded player."

Zhuo Yifan, Chi Shengwei, and Ouyang Chi were all shocked by the degree of their involvement in the play, and the three of them had to admit that their love and understanding of basketball were indeed above themselves.

The opening period of the Nanyang team was a surprise, originally just to see the strength of the strongest team in Shanghai high school, but now several people are more willing to enjoy the fun of watching the game.

The next game is in a stalemate, the scores of the two teams alternately rise, Nanyang is not as vulnerable as imagined, and the Sharks Youth Army is not without loopholes to drill, relying on Li Yiwei's two three-pointers before the end of the first half, the Sharks Youth Team led 44:39 into the second half, but the focus of the first half of the game was not the Sharks, but Zhang Qiyi of the Nanyang team, 12 points, 8 assists, 4 interceptions and 7 rebounds is his halftime result.

In the second half, the game became more intense, and the stadium actually shouted the slogan of "Nanyang", in addition to the name of "Zhang Qiyi", such as:

"Zhang Qiyi, good job!"

"Zhang Qiyi, MVP!"

There is also "Qi Yi, Qi Yi I love you, you are the most handsome on the court!" Support you, follow you, tomorrow's star is you! ”。

The crowd's overwhelming support for Nanyang also put the Sharks in a tough battle, and the head coach of the Sharks, who had not foreseen such a tough game before the game, called his team's last timeout five minutes before the break. At this time, the score was 68:62, and Nanyang overtook by 6 points.

"Remember, we're a professional team and we're third in this spring's competition, and we can't absolutely, definitely not lose to an amateur team." The coach scolded, especially accentuating the word "absolutely" and repeating it twice.

"Nowadays, our biggest advantage is height, play more inside offense, Feng Yunming is the main scorer, everyone has to pass the ball to him as much as possible, and expand the defense area when defending, because the amateur team's perimeter shooting rate will never be high." The coach who has already broken the kettle actually said that his biggest advantage is his height, not the skill, patience and skillful cooperation of the professional team. What is even more tragic is that he has always regarded Nanyang as an amateur team, and the actual game proved him completely wrong, and the strength of Nanyang team is completely comparable to any first-class professional junior team.

The final result of the game was that Nanyang won 82:70 with 12 points, and the 17-year-old Zhang Qiyi scored 26 points, 13 assists, 1 three-pointer, 5 steals, and 10 rebounds, not only playing a "triple-double" that NBA stars are difficult to do, but also leading the team to victory over the professional team.

Zhuo Yifan and the others clearly saw how ugly the coach of the Sharks was when he left the field, and every member of the Sharks team was drooping their heads, as if this defeat was a blow to them better than not winning the championship of the First Division. And Li Xin's mood couldn't be calm for a long time after the game, although in the "Siyuan Summer Cup" competition, he faced Ling Junxiao and Han Chongyu, who were also ranked among the first-class players in high school, and did not show much of a level behind them, but seeing Zhang Qiyi's performance, he was completely stunned, can I reach his level after a year, this question kept recalling in Li Xin's mind?

The next day, the news of the Nanyang team's victory over the Sharks Junior Team appeared in the sports pages of major newspapers, and it was even listed as a front-page headline in the sports section of the "Youth Daily", with a photo of Zhang Qiyi breaking through the opponent's defense. Within a few days, Zhang Qiyi became a well-known figure in various high schools, and the Shark Club, which lost to the Nanyang team, decided to contact Nanyang Middle School and decided to recruit Zhang Qiyi to join the Shark Junior Team, but in the end, Zhang Qiyi refused the invitation of the Shark Club on the grounds that his greatest wish was to lead his school team to win the national league championship.