Chapter 68: The World of Geniuses
When they met for the third time, they were already in the national youth team, and the triumph after the conspiracy succeeded made Li Changgeng hate it. Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info At this time, he was already Li Changgeng's coach, but the image in Li Changgeng's heart was still that of a raunchy middle-aged uncle with a bad smile on the corner of his mouth forever.
The coach should be steady and serious, not a wise white-haired old man, but also a dignified middle-aged man. Of course, Coach Tao Ran's "big stick in hand, Li Changgeng is the authority" is somewhat exaggerated. But you can't be a bad middle-aged person!
When the national youth team saw Li Zheng again, compared with Geng Xiangzhi and Li Changgeng's sigh more than once: How can there be such an uncoordinated father and son in the world, did God turn their father-son relationship upside down when he created things? It may be even more credible if Li Zheng is the coach!
Due to injury and suspension, Li Changgeng did not have time to make friends. Outside of Sima Shenji, he does not have a deep affection that can be called a friend. But for this bad middle-aged uncle who had only met three times before, he was so kind that he seemed to be an old friend.
To this day, Geng Xiangzhi's image of a bad middle-aged man is still firmly standing. But after today, Sima Shenji has collapsed everything, and Li Changgeng saw the other side of the old man for the first time, and also felt Geng Xiangzhi's meticulous care for him for the first time.
At this moment, while Li Changgeng's heart was churning, his nose was sour.
I don't know when, he finally realized that it was late. Closing his eyes and mobilizing the true qi in his body to operate, Zhou Tian soon let out a soft snoring sound like Sima Shenji.
The next morning, the youth team was stationed.
In the training ground of the national youth team, the players are doing light recovery training under the leadership of the team's assistant coach. Tonight, the youth team will welcome Slovenia for the second rematch.
Geng Xiangzhi, who left the work to the assistant coach, sat on the chair on the sidelines, comfortably crossed Erlang's legs, and was not ashamed of his lazy behavior at all.
Li Changgeng, who was holding a basketball, appeared in front of him, and Geng Xiangzhi raised his head with a smile: "What's the matter?" ”
"Seeing that you are very idle, come and train with Li Changgeng!"
Geng Xiangzhi glared and said, "Chang Geng, you seem to have forgotten that Li Chang Geng is a coach!" ”
The basketball was thrown to Geng Xiangzhi head-on and said, "Please come and train with Li Changgeng, coach!" Is that okay? Although honorifics were used, Li Changgeng squeezed his eyebrows and eyes, and there was no sense of awe on his face.
Geng Xiangzhi knew that it was unlikely that he would see the same awe as others on the face of Chang Geng in front of him, and grabbed the basketball stupidly: "Let's go!" ”
Geng Xiangzhi's reaction seemed to confirm something for Li Changgeng, he immediately changed his eyebrows and smiled, and walked in front of Geng Xiangzhi.
Sima Shenji, who was stretching his limbs in the stadium, saw this scene, and a smile flashed in his eyes.
At 7 o'clock in the evening local time in China, the match between the youth team and Slovenia at the stadium of our World Youth Championship is about to begin. After slashing Australia to the horse, the junior team has become the biggest dark horse in this World Youth Championships. The other teams in the quarter-finals who are likely to face the youth team will have to face up to the threat of the youth team. In this game, except for the Australian team, which has already played against the Chinese youth team, other teams have sent people to observe.
In the stands, overseas Chinese accounted for a large proportion. The continuous magical performance of the Chinese youth team greatly encouraged them, and it is the choice of many Chinese to cheer for the motherland team on the spot after work. At this time, domestic fans were already waiting in front of the TV early. The youth team has surprised fans again and again, and no one will expect the youth team to continue to win in this game, but it is not that no one expects the youth team to continue to create miracles.
All the people were waiting for the game to start.
When the players of the youth team appeared on the court, the enthusiastic cheers of the scene resounded throughout the stadium, and the spectators with oriental faces waved the five-star red flag vigorously.
On the court, the young and middle-aged players looked up at the court, such a warm scene was really unexpected for them, and it was even more surprising to be able to see so many familiar faces in a foreign country.
Li Changgeng looked at Sima Shenji's enthusiasm waving to the stands, and asked in wonder, "Is there anyone you know in the audience?" ”
"No, anyway, others don't know who Li Changgeng is waving to."
Damn, Li Changgeng suddenly felt like he had fainted.
The Slovenian team also played after the youth team. Like the Australian team in the last match, Slovenia's squad is all white. However, they are the real European team. Two years ago, the junior team lost to them 78-87, completely ending their hopes of reaching the quarterfinals. Many of the players in this youth squad can still recognize a few familiar faces from the opposing lineup.
Judging from the record of the last champion, they are obviously not as good as the previous champions Australia, but they are obviously much better than the bottom third of the junior team. In this World Youth Championships, like the Chinese youth team, they also entered the quarterfinals with two wins and one loss. They have already lost to European champions Lithuania in their opening game and will have to win this game if they are to keep their hopes of qualifying.
Although the Chinese youth team has triumphed all the way and even defeated the previous champion, whether it is fans or celebrities in the basketball world, they still think that the Slovenian team is still slightly better than the Chinese youth team in terms of strength. However, the youth team has just beaten the previous champions and is in high spirits, and they are also determined to win this game. All things considered, the final consensus of fans and media was that the two sides would win and lose.
The youth team can't pay attention to other people's opinions, and winning the game in front of them is more important than anything else.
lineup, Geng Xiangzhi sent Sima Shenji, Li Zheng, Song Liuming, Li Zhenhua and Deng Yu, and Li Changgeng was still sitting on the bench.
Slovenia are known for their accurate outside shots, and their previous wins have been beats by perverted three-point shooting. The defeat to Lithuania was also due to the sudden failure of their outside crosshairs. China's old rivals in Asia, South Korea, are also known for their three-point shots from the perimeter, but they are obviously much inferior to Slovenia. Not only is there no perverted opponent in the hit rate, but the strength of the inside line is even more difficult to compare with the opponent. Although Slovenia is an outside team, they also have tall players who stand out on the inside.
After the referee's whistle, the game really began.
As Li Changgeng, the core figure of the tactics, sat off the field, the Chinese youth team gave up the rapid and wild attack and adopted traditional tactics to play steadily and steadily. It was still Li Zheng who controlled the rhythm of the game on the court, and after receiving Song Liuming's jump ball, Li Zheng controlled the rhythm of the game and steadily advanced the ball to the opponent's half.
Song Liuming and Li Zhenhua on the inside line are in important positions, and occasionally go to the outside line to cover their teammates, and Sima Shenji, who is free from the inside and outside lines, is still the team's offensive focus, and he is always ready to receive passes from teammates and send the ball to the basket. Although the backcourt composed of Deng Yu and Li Zheng lacks Li Changgeng's aura, it is calm enough to ensure that the ball is safely delivered to the frontcourt.
Li Zhenhua, who cooperated with the pass and the inside line several times, missed the basket from outside the box and was grabbed by the opponent to rebound, and the first attack of the Chinese youth team ended in failure.
Offensive and defensive shifts, Slovenia's crisp three-pointer from the outside gave the youth team a glimpse of their outside strength.
0:3。 Such a score seems to foreshadow a bad start for the youth team. "Bump!" Sima Shenji's shot fell to the basket, "Touch!" Song Liuming's hook arc was too straight, and he flew directly to the rebound and popped back, "Bump!" It was Sima Shenji's shooting again, this time the basketball bounced off the basket and "dripped" on the basket after spinning on the basket for a long time.
Slovenia, on the other hand, said, "Whew! "Three-point shot," smack, smack! The center on the inside hit the board and scored the basket, and "hey" was another three-pointer.
The opening minute and a half, the score was 0:11, a bad start.
Four guards who are good at passing, fast speed, and accurate three-point shooting, plus a center with strong interior strength, such a combination is definitely a perverted combination. It's also definitely a very headache for the defending side. The situation on the pitch speaks for itself. After Slovenia's back-to-back baskets from the outside were basketed, the youth team was forced to expand their defensive area and pull out to mark the defense. In the face of the outside marking defense of the youth team, Slovenia's skillful dismantling and covering can pass the ball to the inside without forming a gap for shooting. The youth team is heavily defended on the periphery, and the inside line is naturally small, and when the ball is passed to the inside line, it almost forms a one-on-one singles situation. Close to the basket singles, two people of equal strength on the offensive side occupy an absolute advantage. In one minute, Slovenia hit three of four three-pointers and scored eleven points in the blink of an eye.
On the other hand, the Chinese youth team's own offense seems to have suddenly lost the crosshairs of shooting, long-range shots, mid-range shots, hook hands under the basket, and none of the four shots must be added to a passing error of their own.
Such a start is impossible for any fan of the youth team not to worry about it. Everyone's eyes on the court were on Geng Xiangzhi on the sidelines, and the TV camera was also aimed at Geng Xiangzhi at this time.
At this time, you should pause to stop the opponent's momentum, and even if you don't pause, you should replace Li Changgeng. Even the most amateur can see that the gap cannot be allowed to widen any longer.
As if hearing everyone's voices, Geng Xiangzhi called a pause, and after the pause, he was replaced. It was not Deng Yu who could be replaced, and it was not Li Changgeng who was replaced.
Sima Shenji is down, and Ge Tianbao is on.
Ge Tianbao? Who is Ge Tianbao? The audience looked at each other, could he be more powerful than Li Changgeng?
The Slovenian coach looked down at the investigation data of the youth team at hand: Ge Tianbao, played fifteen minutes in four games and scored six points! That's it? That's it.
Compared with the ignorance of foreign audiences, domestic fans still know a little about Ge Tianbao: Ge Tianbao, a scoring guard who was selected for the last national youth team, is an excellent three-point shooter.
That's all?
That's all!
What about more specific data? Maybe only Geng Xiangzhi has it in his heart.
When Geng Xiangzhi selected the members of this year's national youth team, due to tactical reasons, the overall requirements for technology were very strict. I can't wait for everyone to be an all-round fighter who can break through, pass the ball, shoot baskets, have the ability to play alone, have impact, can grab rebounds, can score and organize offense. Such a requirement is naturally too harsh, but the comprehensive requirements of his team's skills can be seen from this. The players who were finally selected were indeed as technically comprehensive as he expected. But there is one person who is an exception - Ge Tianbao!
In the position of defender, Ge Tianbao is not fast enough, jumps high enough, is not as good as Li Changgeng in ball control, and is not as good as Li Zheng in passing awareness, not to mention his personal singles ability. But in the end, Geng Xiangzhi put him on the list of the last sixteen official players of the national youth team. Why?
Because he really is a very good pitcher. Ge Tianbao's characteristics are very obvious and very prominent, that is, he shoots three-point shots. In terms of shooting three-point shots alone, even Li Changgeng is slightly inferior to him. His psychological quality is very stable (it can also be said to be very dull), there are no big ups and downs in his state like ordinary people, and most of the time he will not lose his touch.
With such an excellent three-point shooter, why did Geng Xiangzhi press him to the bench before? Is it for the so-called surprise soldiers?
No, Geng Xiangzhi is not the kind of master who presses his trump card on the bench to watch others be arrogant. Pressing Li Changgeng on the bench against the Chinese team has made him very depressed, how can he do such a thing a second time?
Just like his strengths, Ge Tianbao's shortcomings are also very obvious and prominent-except for shooting baskets, his other skills are very ordinary. He is the kind of player who is responsible for shooting when the opportunity comes out and the ball passes to him, but in Geng Xiangzhi's tactics, the player in the scoring guard position should be Li Changgeng, a player who can organize the offense or score by himself. Even if it is not, Li Changgeng should be as good at passing the ball as Deng Yu and creating gaps for his teammates.
It can be said that Ge Tianbao's entire tactics and Geng Xiangzhi's tactics cannot be integrated at all. But as I said before, Geng Xiangzhi is not a coach who is stubborn about tactics, and changing tactics at the right time may be able to achieve miraculous results.
Just like now.
Ge Tianbao is on the field.
Li Zheng passed, Li Zhenhua came out of the line, dismantled as a cover, and the ball passed to Ge Tianbao - there was no one in front of him to defend. "Smack!" The basketball that fell on the basket bounced high, Song Liuming jumped and grabbed the basketball with both hands, and immediately waved the ball to the three-point field, where Deng Yu received the ball, and the ball was handed over to Ge Tianbao again. Catch the ball, raise your hand, shoot the basket, "Whew! "Crisp sound into the net, ball in!
Just like Geng Xiangzhi saw, Ge Tianbao has a fairly stable shooting rate, and an average of two shots like this can score one.
Fifty percent, that's enough!
Can Slovenia's three-point shooting rate stay at 50 percent? He didn't believe Geng Xiangzhi when he killed him.
After the substitution, the youth team scored quickly, and the situation on the field began to change as Geng Xiangzhi expected. Slovenia could not have maintained such a terrible hit rate all the time. Once the shot misses, the youth team with the advantage on the inside can basically guarantee defensive rebounds. The youth team that grabbed the rebound was not in a hurry to attack, and the ball was passed to Li Zheng to stabilize the rhythm.
When it was the turn of the youth team to attack, the youth team clearly sacrificed the tactics of Ge Tianbao as the offensive core, and passed the ball to Ge Tianbao after dismantling the cover, every time at this time Ge Tianbao was always facing an unguarded basket, and the three-point maniac would not be soft at this time. "Whew, Wow" pierced Slovenia's basket twice in a row from outside the three-point line. After two times in a row, Slovenia finally stopped eating this set for the third time, and when the outside line was once again used as a cover, Slovenia finally had an inside defender come out to fill in the position to help the defense. But at this time, the basketball in Li Zheng's hand was passed to Song Liuming's hands under the basket, and the basket singled the opponent, "Boom!" With a one-handed dunk, Song Liuming let out a vicious breath.
11:, the gap in the score was pulled to five points.
This is the effect that Geng Xiangzhi needs, mobilizing the opponent's defense with the same outside three-pointers, and then sending the ball to the basket with the same inside attack. Such a combination of inside and outside lines seems to be the same as the opponent's tactics, but in fact, there are too many loopholes on the side of the Chinese youth team.
It doesn't matter if there are loopholes, Geng Xiangzhi only needs to hit the opponent by surprise in a short period of time to chase the score back. When the game reached the eighth minute of the first half, the score was 17:23, and the Slovenian team, which had seen through Geng Xiangzhi's tricks, was ready to take the opportunity to counterattack. Also on the field at the same time as Sima Shenji was Li Changgeng - it was naturally Deng Yu who was replaced by him.
At this point, Geng Xiangzhi's tactical goal in the first stage has been completely achieved -- controlling the score and winning the opportunity for Li Changgeng to play.
After Li Changgeng came on the field, the Chinese youth team quickly resumed its rapid and wild attack. Li Changgeng interspersed with fast break passes inside and outside, and the other players dismantled as a cover and moved quickly to involve the opponent's defense. The basketball moved quickly in the hands of the youth team, and the Slovenian players were struggling to make up for the left and right defenses.
On the court, Sima Shenji and Li Changgeng are the most eye-catching pair. Li Changgeng's just right passes again and again can always allow Sima Shenji to receive the ball in the most comfortable position and at the most appropriate time, and at this time Sima Shenji will not be soft, he just felt bad and then returned to the court after he seemed to have found the crosshairs, outside long shots, inside shots, layups and dunks near the penalty area, and the scoring skills that the forward players should master were vividly displayed in him.
The other players naturally couldn't see that Sima Shenji's hands were hot at this time, and they didn't need Geng Xiangzhi on the sidelines to remind him that whenever Sima Shenji appeared in the second gear of shooting, the basketballs in the hands of other players ran to him.
In this way, the Chinese youth team quickly changed the situation on the court with Li Changgeng as the tactical core and Sima Shenji as the offensive focus, and the gap in the score quickly narrowed, and even overtook at the end of the first quarter.
The Slovenian coach naturally will not let the youth team change the situation of the game like this, but he can't stop the counterattack of the youth team by changing his defensive tactics continuously. Moreover, once the team with shooting as the main offensive means is disrupted by the opponent, the sharp drop in shooting percentage is almost predictable. The Slovenian coach tried his best to maintain the momentum of his attack, so as not to be further widened by the youth team.
Like a strategist, Geng Xiangzhi, who was sitting on the sidelines, firmly controlled the situation of the game. Ge Tianbao's play can be called a miracle soldier, and after Li Changgeng and Sima Shenji returned to the field, the tactics of the Chinese youth team were dignified and upright. After the continuous games of the Chinese youth team, Geng Xiangzhi's new tactics are no secret, I believe that the Slovenian coach must have watched the videos of the previous games of the Chinese youth team before, and studied the strategy of cracking Geng Xiangzhi's tactics. However, the first quarter of the game was clear and clear to all: the situation of the game will not change because of this.
The dignified tactics are in front of you, which is to destroy your defense, which is to send the basketball into your hoop!
This is the proof of strength!
Just like in war, if you don't have the strength, you can honestly carry out guerrilla warfare, and only when you have saved enough money can you fight a large-scale corps operation.
The current youth team has saved enough money to fight with the world's strongest teams.
Geng Xiangzhi has never believed that the shooting level of Chinese players is worse than that of foreign players, but it is an indisputable fact that Chinese players "cannot" shoot on the world stage. A large part of the reason for this is that Chinese players have been ingrained in the psychology of "we are underdogs" for too long.
And now, the players of the Chinese youth team have finally had the confidence to challenge world basketball.
In the second quarter of the game, Slovenia replaced a guard and added a tall center inside. After the personnel adjustment, the Slovenian team hopes to curb the speed of the youth team with height by stabilizing the inside line. In fact, with their original lineup, although there are four defenders, their size is not lower than that of the average striker. With an average height of nearly two meters, Li Changgeng on the side of the youth team has almost become a dwarf.
The Slovenian coach changed his tactics, and Geng Xiangzhi here naturally did not make any moves. Just like playing chess, you first have one hand and Li Changgeng and then one hand, and the chess pieces are all in front of you, and the competition is who is more powerful than the person who plays chess.
The Slovenian coach changed his tactics, and Geng Xiangzhi here naturally did not make any moves. Just like playing chess, you first have one hand and Li Changgeng and then one hand, and the chess pieces are all in front of you, and the competition is who is more powerful than the person who plays chess.
The strength of the inside line of the youth team was not weak, Geng Xiangzhi did not make any personnel adjustments, but only adjusted the offensive routine, and at the same time asked Li Changgeng to increase the number of shots.
The tactics are arranged, and the rest depends on the performance of the players on the pitch. In fact, the performance of the players on both sides was very good, and the two sides went back and forth throughout the second quarter, and the left and right baskets were pierced by the basketball again and again. By the end of the second quarter, the gap in scores had not widened or narrowed. The three-point deficit lasted until the end of the first half.