"Why play basketball? Because I love basketball, of course. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoThose of us who started playing basketball in the league probably didn't think about the accolades we would get for basketball in the future. Maybe after participating in the league, some people will choose to enter a professional basketball club, just like Li Zheng, Sima Shenji, and Song Liuming. However, most people will still enter the university after the college entrance examination to continue their studies. ”

"Me? I didn't have the potential to become a professional footballer, I knew that when I first joined at the age of sixteen. Taking the college entrance examination and going to college is the goal that his uncle and aunt set for Li Changgeng early. Personally, I love basketball, but not enough to give up my studies. ”

"Don't you think it's a pity? With the talent and quality you have shown in this World Junior Championship, you can definitely become a top player. It's not particularly difficult to get into the NBA and become a world superstar in the future. Our Chinese NBA superstar Yao Ming, as far as Li Changgeng knows, he was not as good as you are now at the age of sixteen. This sentence is not exactly an interview, it can be seen from Liu Yan's expression that this is completely her inner thoughts. Not only her, but Li Min, who was carrying the camera behind, also felt unimaginable. Is there anything more regrettable than such a Li Changgeng giving up basketball?

Li Changgeng, who was leaning on the back of the chair, didn't know when the pencil in his hand was gently rotated on his fingers, bypassing the index finger, middle finger, ring finger and little finger from the thumb in turn, and finally returned between the thumb and index finger with miraculous skills, and the two fingers clamped the pen barrel, which was the state of lifting the pen and writing. This process is just a little more effort in the blink of an eye, the end of the pencil is gently rubbing in the sideburns, Li Changgeng's faint expression seems to be slightly gloomy, and he still can't see the slightest gap in his faint tone: "Maybe it's a pity." But I really don't have the consciousness to become a professional footballer yet. What has sustained me until now is my hobby, playing basketball is my hobby, and if hobby becomes a profession, it may not be a good thing. I come from a wealthy family, and the attraction to be a superstar isn't that strong for me. If I choose to become a professional player, there's only one reason: I can't play basketball. Li Changgeng in the camera seems to have completely forgotten the interview at this time. The leisurely and natural expression, the unconscious small movements, coupled with his Li Changgeng Xiu's appearance, slender figure, and the soft lighting background behind the left and right, are definitely a pleasing picture.

"Do you think you can put down the basketball?"

"I don't know, I haven't tried how to know. The good news is that at least I don't have to make a choice yet. Hehe......"

"If you continue your studies, what university do you want to go to in the future?"

"I don't know, but I can do it like Harvard." Although Li Changgeng tried to be modest, he still couldn't hide his confidence between his words.

"It turns out that you are still an excellent student with excellent grades. If you choose to continue your studies in the end, Li Changgeng wishes you the best of luck in Harvard, which you dream of. ”

"Thank you!"

"Can you talk about your coach and teammates in the national youth team? For example, head coach Geng Xiangzhi and other teammates. ”

"Sima Shenji is my old friend, I was teammates with him in the National Basketball League for a while, Li Zheng and Song Liu Ming were my former opponents, and we knew each other at that time. I just didn't expect to be able to play on the same team now. I was a kid and now they're both professional footballers and I'm still a college student, which is a bit weird. Some time ago, I was a little brother, and now I am still a little brother in the national youth team, and my teammates are older than me, and everyone takes great care of Li and me...... Coach Geng also met some time ago, I didn't know that he was a basketball coach at that time, I called him an old man, he called me a genius, and we were friends at that time. Coach Geng is a very good coach......"

"I don't think anyone can doubt Coach Geng's coaching ability. Most fans should be more impressed by him by his eclectic selection of players in the formation and training of the national youth team. To this day, fans are still amazed by Coach Geng's sharp eyes and his surprisingly winning tactical arrangements. With the sixteen-year-old you as the tactical core, it is hailed as a stroke of genius. What are your thoughts on becoming the youngest player in the national youth team?

"Tactical core? Key players? Li Changgeng frowned, "I still don't know what position Li I am in the tactics guided by Geng. There may be a core player in Coach Geng's tactics, but it's definitely not me. Whether from the point of view of technical statistics or the actual role in the game, Li Zheng and Sima Shenji are the core of the team.

"I'm the little brother of the team, and in the game I'm actually playing under the care of my teammates. There is Li Zheng's covering pass on the outside, Sima Shenji on the inside to lead the opponent away, and Song Liuming and Li Zhenhua under the basket can give me strong support at any time. In this case, most of the time my task is to pass the basketball that is passed to me. My teammates are very strong players and it's not difficult for them to get the basketball into the opponent's basket. Passing, that's why I'm on the pitch. No matter which player has so many strong teammates around him, it is unlikely that he will perform badly. When Li Changgeng said this, the expression on his face was not the faint expression just now, his red eyes flashed, and his tone was not particularly sincere, but the expression on his face was enough to make people believe in the authenticity of his words. It's not just real, Huang Yan and Li Min can both feel the joy in the hearts of the young man opposite them. If this is acting, just a general polite humility, then he is definitely the best actor in the world. And the two of them, who felt Li Changgeng's joy firsthand, would rather die than believe that they were acting. This joy is a bit difficult for them to understand, but as long as they know the situation of Li Chang Gung at the University of California, Los Angeles, they can probably understand how happy it is for Li Chang Geng to have a group of strong teammates around him.

Liu Yan, who was infected by Li Changgeng's emotions, only remembered to continue asking questions after Li Changgeng's speech ended for a while. Coughing lightly, Liu Yan said: "The national youth team has entered the quarterfinals, can you predict the final ranking of the youth team in this World Youth Championships?" ”

"Each of the remaining seven teams in the quarterfinals is much better than us, at least the record over the years is much better than that of the Chinese team. We don't know for sure who we are, but I believe that no matter who the opponent is, we can beat the opponent. As long as we win one game, who can say we can't win the second one? We don't care about the final standings, for us we will give our all in every game from now on. This is a standard answer—the standard answer given by Sima Shenji. It seems that he expected that the press conference would interview Li Changgeng, and it seemed that he knew in advance that the reporter would ask this question, so Sima Shenji explained how he answered early, and even made up a standard answer for him word by word. When Liu Yan really asked this question, Li Changgeng blurted out this answer reflexively.

This is not the answer in Li Changgeng's heart. Even though he understands how strong the opponents he will face in the future, he still only has victory in his heart - winning every game, and winning the championship is the goal of every team, and the youth team should not be an exception.

"Can you predict the ranking of the youth team?" An hour ago, Sima Shenji asked tentatively.

"Champion, of course!" Li Changgeng replied very loudly.

And so it was. Sima Shenji groaned powerlessly in his heart, "Stupid! The book rolled up in his hand to make a microphone knocked heavily on Li Changgeng's head, pressed his head, and Sima Shenji told him the standard answer word by word.

Based on the strength of the youth team, it is modest and realistic, but it does not lose the high fighting spirit of challenging strong opponents. The standard answer given by Sima Shenji is really quite subtle. After two years in the league, Sima Shenji has too much experience in dealing with the media than Li Changgeng, a rookie. No matter how strong the desire to win is in the heart, in the face of such an interview, it can only give such an answer. Li Changgeng is not the only one who wants to defeat the Chinese team, Sima Shenji, Li Zheng, Song Liuming, these national youth players from the league, they don't have so much awe of the world's strong teams like Li Changgeng, and the championship is their goal. But when interviewed by reporters, their answers will be more or less the same.

In the face of the media, sometimes people who tell the truth are regarded as crazy people, crazy people. Li Changgeng still doesn't understand this for the time being, fortunately he has a big brother Sima Shenji who takes care of him everywhere, and even more fortunately, this big brother knows enough about him and gives him enough preventive shots in advance.

Very perfect answer, very perfect interview!

Liu Yan and Li Min put away the equipment with satisfaction and shook hands with Li Changgeng to say goodbye.

God doesn't seem to like perfect results, and accidents happen at this time.

"Excuse me, will you be interviewing the United States?"

"Yes! What's wrong! Liu Yan asked.

"Please tell me a few words, the win or defeat in the previous game doesn't mean anything, we wait for the second meeting with them and hope they don't lose the game before then."

Liu Yan is not a fool, the unique self-confidence of young people in Li Changgeng's tone and the "modest, realistic, but without losing the high fighting spirit of challenging strong enemies" just now are not the same tone at all, and there must be something strange in it. However, at this moment, Liu Yan didn't seem to have this consciousness at all, and replied with a smile: "I'll tell you." After saying that, he and Li Min walked out of the room.

Walking out of the room, Li Min asked urgently: "The last sentence just now is completely out of tune with his previous answer, didn't you hear it?" ”

"Of course I heard that."

"Then you ......"

"Don't you know which answer is more favorable to the boy? As long as it is not a mistake of principle, we reporters sometimes have to pretend to be confused. ”

Li Min was slightly stunned, the young man's fresh and hearty smile appeared in his mind, he paused, and hurriedly followed Liu Yan.

And the ignorant Li Changgeng didn't realize that he had shown his tail at all, and happily asked Sima Shenji for credit: "I did what you said." He really didn't know how lucky he was.

The interview with the national youth team was reported in various domestic media that night. Li Zheng and Sima Shenji have already been famous "stars" for a long time, and his performance in the group stage is remarkable, and there will naturally be no few reports on them. But the heaviest of these reports is the interview with Li Changgeng. Liu Yan's words were not fully fulfilled - the interview video, in fact, they did not do any editing at all, and it was directly broadcast on TV.

Previously, the media has carried out a series of burdensome reports on this year's national youth team. Geng Xiangzhi was in the purpose of protecting Li Changgeng, and he had been isolated from the media's interference with him before, which also shrouded Li Changgeng with a veil of mystery in fact. Fans are already full of curiosity about the youngest player in the World Youth Championship and the only amateur player in the Chinese youth team. Due to the previous media excavation, his relationship with Geng Xiangzhi, Sima Shenji, Li Zheng and others is no longer a secret, and most fans still have great doubts about the strength of this so-called "ball king".

However, when Li Changgeng's outstanding performance in the group stage and the Chinese youth team's miraculous history made history and reached the quarterfinals, all these doubts turned into surprises in an instant. When fans looked back at the report of the teenager Li Changgeng, they found that it was a small white. It was at the peak of fan curiosity that the media coverage was thrown out at this time.

Everything was just right!

Just like a well-planned news hype, the desire to promote and suppress it, coupled with Li Changgeng's excellent appearance, decent speech and demeanor, and calmness beyond his age but without losing the innocence of a young man, the whole plan was a great success. After the news report, teenager Li Changgeng and Li Changgeng quickly became a young hero in the hearts of thousands of Chinese fans. The slightest discerning journalist can tell that a new teenage idol has emerged and a dazzling sports star is rising.

Geng Xiangzhi would never have expected that all the blockades he had imposed on the media to protect Li Changgeng would become the most important part of this successful news hype. After a cursory glance at the World Youth Championships report on the domestic website, Geng Xiangzhi, who was far away on the other side of the world, smiled bitterly: "It's really unexpected!" ”

However, when Chang Geng's uncle and aunt want him to give up basketball in the future, I'm afraid he will have to consider the pressure of the media, right?

After the wry smile, Geng Xiangzhi's face flashed with a standard treacherous smile - the kind of smile that often appears on the face of profiteers: No matter what, I will not lose this deal!

In front of the powerful media, Li Changgeng's life experience is not a secret at all. As long as the public is interested, the media has always spared no effort.

The nephew showed his face on TV, and the uncle and aunt naturally had no reason to be upset. But what happened next was something they didn't expect - a horde of sports reporters with cameras and cameras surrounding them as they got out of their cars, and invitations to do programs on TV stations, which were also sports channels.

Being interviewed by reporters wasn't particularly new to them, but being surrounded by a group of sports reporters was something they never thought about. It was only at this moment that they had a first understanding of what their nephew's performance at the World Junior Championships meant. However, both of them are highly intelligent characters, and this scene is not enough to make them feel overwhelmed. Let the reporter enter the door with a smile, and the outstanding demeanor in front of the reporters is breathtaking. When the TV station was doing a show, the elegant and humorous conversation made the host embarrassed. After the show was broadcast, the fans finally knew where Li Changgeng's appearance and outstanding bearing came from-is it a family inheritance! With such a wonderful uncle and aunt, how can a nephew be bad?

After all this, the uncle and aunt's Juyuan Group did not spend a penny on advertising.

Amazing wisdom!

And the uncle and aunt of the two protagonists are not exactly as "laughing and bad belly" as others think, and with their wisdom, they naturally will not fail to see the hidden worries in the future.

Li Changgeng's alma mater is also the focus of media attention.

While the players of the basketball team were still rejoicing in the achievements of the captain of the team, Selena was slightly melancholy. Watching Li Changgeng talk eloquently on TV, she seemed to feel that her lover was getting farther and farther away from her. However, Li Changgeng didn't let her melancholy last long, and the affectionate voice on the phone made her understand how attached he was to her.

Returning to the national youth team on the other side of the world.

The day's break is quickly over, and the national youth team is about to welcome their first rematch opponent, the World Youth Championship champions from Turkey two years ago.

In an interview with reporters, in the "standard answer" given by Sima Shenji, "Every team in the top eight is a strong team much stronger than us" This cannot be regarded as humility, this is the most real situation at all.

The top eight teams in this World Youth Championship are: China, the United States, Croatia, Greece, Lithuania, Slovenia, Serbia and Montenegro and Argentina. Except for the U.S. team, the others are regulars in the quarterfinals of various World Basketball Series. Two-time world champion Serbia and Montenegregro, double Olympic and world champion Argentina, world basketball boss China, and other Lithuania, Slovenia, West Asia, and Croatia are all recognized as strong teams in the world competition. Although Australia's adult men's basketball team is not yet in the top clubs of the world, the strength of their youth team is unusually strong. Two years ago, they won the World Junior Championships in Greece, but also made history by beating their opponents by 186 points in the final.

And what about the Chinese team? Chinese fans know that they are a team of the same grade at all. Not only has the team never entered the top eight rankings, but the Chinese team has always been at the bottom of the technical statistics. After the 2016 Olympic Games, a famous foreign coach commented on the Chinese men's basketball team: In addition to shooting, everything else is very amateurish.

Therefore, after the Chinese youth team enters the quarterfinals, there will be such an exaggerated reaction in China!

But after the quarterfinals, everyone knows what kind of opponent the youth team will face. Two years ago, at the World Junior Championships, we were the champions, and we were the third-to-last. No matter how fanatical fans face up to this fact, there is no way to say confidently: Li Changgeng believes that the youth team will be able to win! According to an online poll, less than 10 percent of the fans believe that the Chinese team can win.

Is the gap in strength really that big? Is it really impossible for the youth team to win? The protagonists of the game, the members of the youth team, did not see it that way.

The ignorant are fearless, and the rookie Li Changgeng is the most relaxed one in the national youth team. Because he didn't know what it meant to play against Australia, he had only one opponent in the World Junior Championships, the United States. Before reuniting with the U.S. team, Li Changgeng never considered that the youth team would lose. Even if you know how powerful your opponent is, with his sluggishness, he will not be nervous in the slightest, but more likely to be elated.

Sima Shenji and Song Liuming were gearing up, preparing to give each other a dismount in the game. Although Li Zheng was silent, the coldness in his eyes when he squinted his eyes could not be concealed. Sima Shenji and Song Liuming, who were familiar with him, knew that it was a manifestation of his high morale. For those of them who are playing in international competitions for the first time, it is not so boring and psychologically burdensome to play against strong teams. Just like Sima Shenji's "standard answer", go all out in every game.

The rest of the players, they are also not lacking in the enthusiasm of young people. Some people may have thought about losing, but absolutely no one thought about giving up.

Geng Xiangzhi is naturally the one who knows the strength of the two sides best, and it may be possible for him to admit the difference in strength between the two sides, but he will definitely not think that his team will lose. There is anything that could be on the pitch, and there are many other things that determine the outcome of the game besides the strength of both sides. Otherwise, with the strength of Chinese basketball, why would it lose to other teams? There are too many examples of the weak defeating the strong on the field, the player's play, the tactics of each other, and the coach's on-the-spot command...... Many, many, at least in the confrontation between the two coaches, Geng Xiangzhi will definitely not think that he will lose.

We'll see what we'll find out in the game.

At two o'clock in the afternoon local time in the United States, the match between China and Australia officially began. Compared to other matches played at the same time, it is clear that this match is considered to be the most disparity in strength, and the audience is the least. But there were no fewer NBA scouts on the field than in other games. The previous outstanding performance of the youth team, especially Li Changgeng's outstanding performance, has greatly attracted the attention of these professionals. Naturally, more attention is focused on Australia, the other team in the game.

At the beginning of the game, to everyone's surprise, Geng Xiangzhi did not send the lineup for the first two games - he pressed Li Changgeng to the bench again.

Doesn't he want to win this game?

Regardless of what the fans thought, the game was played with a whistle from the referee.

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