Chapter 63: The Interview
He scored 36 points, had 17 assists, "picked" 16 rebounds, and added five steals in the two games. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 infoThis is what can be seen in the data about the contribution of Li Chang Gung in the two games. The 36-point score is far lower than the 50 points and 48 points of Sima Shenji and Song Liuming, but he only played 56 minutes in the two games, and the number of shots was only 29 times, such an efficiency can only be described as amazing!
As the core player in Geng Xiangzhi's tactics, Li Changgeng has more roles that cannot be seen from these data.
Amazing efficiency, amazing performance, amazing Li Chang Geng!
No matter from which point of view, Li Changgeng is the brightest star of the youth team; No matter which way you look at it, Chinese fans have enough reason to believe that he is definitely the top Li Chang Geng, and he can definitely become a world-class defender.
Naturally, the focus of the fans' eyes should be on the media, and sports journalists are not too slow to wait until after the tournament to conduct their interviews, and when the match against Angola is over, the youth team's premises are packed with reporters with cameras.
Inside the bus, Li Changgeng curiously poked his head out of the window, "click, click......" The high-held cameras flashed at the same time, so frightened that he quickly shrank his head into the window.
"What's going on?" Li Changgeng asked in horror.
There was a soft laugh inside the bus.
In the national youth team, everyone knows that Sima Shenji is Li Changgeng's big brother, and while laughing, many people turned their eyes to Sima Shenji next to Li Changgeng.
Shame on the guy! Sima Shenji groaned in his heart, and at the same time, a shudder hit the guy who was also embarrassed by himself: "Have you never been interviewed by reporters?" ”
Journalist interviews? Li Changgeng thought of Selena's brother Tom, of course he had been interviewed by a reporter, but what does it have to do with the situation in front of him?
Suddenly, the scene of the star appearance seen on TV flashed in his mind, and Li Changgeng's heart suddenly brightened, and he asked, "Are these all reporters interviewing us?" ”
"You're not too stupid after all!" Sima Shenji said.
Li Changgeng didn't care about the strong mockery in Sima Shenji's words, turned his head and peeked out of the window through the gap in the curtain, his heart suddenly beat faster, he couldn't help but swallow a mouthful of saliva, and said nervously: "There are so many people!" ”
"Cut, a guy who has never seen the world!" Laughter rang out next to him.
Looking back at the person who spoke, Sima Shenji looked like he was sitting upright and not squinting, but his slightly trembling fingers still did not escape Li Changgeng's eyes, "Hahaha, it turns out that you are also nervous!" ”
Yes, so many people! There were not hundreds, but dozens of reporters blocking the window. Such a big formation, even Sima Shenji and Li Zheng were seeing it for the first time. The players who participated in the U19 World Youth Championship have some experience, but two years ago they definitely did not have such a formation.
The outstanding performance of the youth team in this World Youth Championships has increased the enthusiasm of the Chinese media.
Not only in China, but also in the crowd of onlookers, there were reporters from major Chinese media outlets and scouts from NBA teams. Entering the quarterfinals, the United States broke a big upset. And the process has broken through many people's glasses. After losing to the United States by 25 points, it was followed by a neat two-game winning streak. The disparity in scores even inferiority was inferiority even for the U.S. team. "Cunning Chinese!" This is the definition given to the head coach of the Chinese youth team by the American sports media after looking back at the schedule of the Chinese youth team. Naturally, the sharp-eyed Americans will not fail to see Li Changgeng, who has performed well in the two games. "A very good guy with the potential to be the best basketball player in the world!" More than one basketball legend has given such an assessment. NBA scouts heard the news, sixteen years old, although not yet the age of the NBA, but who can guarantee that he will not be in the NBA draft in a few years?
Inside the bus.
Of course, Sima Shenji wanted to refute Chang Geng's shameful smile, but the feeling of dry mouth made him not say half a sentence in the end. The rest of the team in the carriage was surprisingly not laughing - the bus stopped!
The car door opened, and the first to come out was head coach Geng Xiangzhi. Looking at the crowded group of reporters, Geng Xiangzhi sighed secretly, knowing that he couldn't avoid it as before this time. In fact, it is quite a miracle that we have been able to block media interviews to this day. Victorious, in the quarterfinals, there is no longer any reason to stop the reporter's interview. Moreover, after completing the task of the quarterfinals, he will definitely join the national team, and even Geng Xiangzhi has to think about how to build a good relationship with reporters and media. In the eyes of everyone, Geng Xiangzhi announced: "A press conference will be held later, and reporters are invited to wait at the venue!" ”
With the help of the hotel staff, the youth team finally returned to the hotel after overcoming many encirclements. The camera's focus pointed at Li Changgeng's calm and watery expression made the reporters very surprised. God knows that the calm expression on his face is completely supported by the Shaolin internal power operating in his body. Although Li Changgeng has practiced kung fu in a mess, he can still barely maintain a calm mind.
Press conference.
Geng Xiangzhi, the head coach of the Chinese youth team, appeared on the podium for the first time at the press conference. As a rule, no team members attended this kind of press conference, but the reporters still protested in disappointment because they did not see Li Changgeng and other middle-aged and young players.
No matter how disappointed they were, the reporters who led the national youth team to achieve such excellent results still showed great enthusiasm. After an enthusiastic chant, the reporters began to ask questions.
"After the two joyful victories, the youth team has entered the quarterfinals in a historic way. Coach Geng, what do you think of the performance of the players in the game? Have they performed up to your expectations? It seems to be a very nonsense question, but there is a mystery hidden in it, if Geng Xiangzhi answers a little carelessly, the questions will follow.
"It's not just the two victories, our players have been very positive and hard working in the whole group stage, and Li Changgeng is quite satisfied with the performance of the players." Geng Xiangzhi's answer was watertight.
"The previous closed training and no warm-up training of the Chinese youth team, may I ask if Coach Geng intends to surprise the opponent suddenly in the game?"
"Sudden surprise? Hehe, I like to say that. Geng Xiangzhi smiled, "But that's not the real reason." A month to build a new team is actually very cramped. Fortunately, a month of closed training still pays off, doesn't it? ”
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"In the first game against the Chinese team, you hid Li Changgeng. Did you deliberately abandon that game? Finally, a reporter brought it up. All eyes were on Geng Xiangzhi in an instant.
Geng Xiangzhi looked very indignant and said: "It is very unfair to say that you will give up the game. Although the youth team did not send Li Changgeng to play in the first game against China, I don't think the youth team deliberately gave up the game. Every one of our players is very good, and you can all see how hard our players worked in the game against the Chinese team, and the final defeat was really a gap in strength. As for not letting Li Changgeng play in that game, it was because of his physical strength. Don't forget that he's only 16 years old, and three high-intensity games in a row is unthinkable for a 16-year-old. There are three games in the group stage, can anyone tell me what makes more sense? ”
There was a burst of soft laughter in the venue, and the reporter who asked the question quickly lowered his head.
Zao and the next reporter seized the time to stand up and asked: "In the past three games, Song Liu Ming and Li Changgeng have performed very well. This is enough to prove that you are a great Bole. As far as we know, Song Liu Ming did not have a particularly good performance in the previous league, and Li Chang Geng is only a college student, how did you find them and conclude that they can be qualified for the position of the main player of the national youth team? ”
Geng Xiangzhi said: "No one can judge in advance. It was they who proved themselves during the training camp. As for their ability to get into the training camp, it can be seen as a little luck and a little bit of professionalism. Geng Xiangzhi pointed the finger of his right hand at his eyes.
"In the past two games, the 16-year-old Li Changgeng has performed well for all to see. But some fans are worried that such a leap to participate in the youth competition will be a seedling boost, and in the end, it will not be conducive to his growth? What do you think about this? ”
"Participated in the World Youth Championships at the age of sixteen, Li Changgeng is not the most prominent at this age, and Yi Jianlian joined the national team at the age of sixteen, how can anyone ever question it? Moreover, his performance in the game has proved that he has the absolute quality to be up to the task entrusted to him by the national youth team. And if it weren't for the lack of guard talent in Chinese basketball, why would he need a 16-year-old college student to save the court. Li Chang Geng is indeed an outstanding Li Chang Geng player, but we should see that we have too many problems in cultivating small players...... "Geng Xiangzhi took advantage of the situation to change the topic and talked eloquently about the cultivation of defender players.
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"Now that domestic fans are very concerned about the players of the national youth team, there is a day of rest before the next game, can Director Geng arrange an interview with the players?"
Geng Xiangzhi said: "Do you want so many people to flock to our station together?" Hehe, our players have never seen such a formation! ”
The reporters saw that Geng Xiangzhi's tone seemed to be loose, and their eager eyes quickly focused on him.
Shrugging his shoulders, Geng Xiangzhi spread his hands and said, "If there are only four or five reporters, I think an hour of interview time should be enough!" With so many of you, Li Changgeng was worried about whether it would frighten our team members. ”
"Hehe......" There were bursts of soft laughter at the scene, and all the reporters were overjoyed, and they were very surprised that Geng Xiangzhi was so good at speaking today. Geng Xiangzhi also knows that it is impossible for so many people to pour in together, but as long as there is a slight opportunity, the vast number of powerful reporters will not worry about not being able to get the news they want to know.
The player's dormitory, inside Li Changgeng's room. The computer on the desk was turned on, and Li Changgeng was working hard in front of the desk, burying his head in calculations. The course in the second year of high school was not too difficult for him, but it was not as simple as most people imagined. Leaving it behind for too long and picking it up again is not a simple thing for anyone. The top three in the final exam, whenever Li Changgeng thought of this requirement, his scalp was numb, and he couldn't lie down and rest.
After the conversation with Smith that day, the temptation to play ball had completely captured Li Changgeng to play basketball in China and challenge Chinese basketball. Although he did not personally understand the wisdom of his opponent in the game against the Chinese team in the World Youth Championships, he also deeply appreciated the wisdom of his opponent when he watched the game from the sidelines. The disparity of 25 points is the result of the opponent not really playing his strength! Moreover, although this Chinese national youth team claims to concentrate all the Li Changgeng players in their age group, Li Changgeng knows that this is not the case. At least he knew that James, the "little emperor" of the NBA, was only twenty years old at the time, but he did not appear in the lineup of the Chinese team. That's a Li Changgeng who is known as enough to inherit Jordan's mantle!
If you go to China, if you go to play, you can challenge these masters, you can coach Chinese basketball, and there is nothing more attractive to Li Changgeng.
But he knows better that the only thing he can convince his uncle and aunt to agree with is his own grades. Only by convincing uncles and aunts that playing ball does not affect their studies can they agree.
The top three, that's a must-achieve. With this in mind, he studied his homework more diligently than ever.
Aside from the surprise and nervousness when he got off the bus, he didn't realize that the hordes of reporters had much to do with him. Especially now, when his attention was so focused on the exercises, he still didn't notice when there were two more people in the room - one carrying a camera and the other holding a microphone.
Yes! The exercises are solved. Concise, precise, and flawless answers.
"What a genius I'm in!" Li Changgeng couldn't help but admire himself. Leaning back, leaning comfortably on the back of the chair, "Touch!" Erlang's legs were very indecently on the desk, the pencil on his right hand was quickly exchanged between the five fingers, and the magic hovered like a magic could not be separated from the grasp of the five fingers, "I am really a genius, I am really a genius...... accompanied by all this is a strange tune humming in Li Changgeng's mouth.
"Excuse me......" A voice in his ear sounded hesitantly. Li Changgeng turned his head, and two faces full of surprise and forbearance Li Changgeng couldn't help but look in his eyes. Take a look at their gear, cameras, microphones!
"Journalists?"
"Hmm!" The two nodded in affirmation.
I couldn't hum anymore, and the expression on my face suddenly stiffened.
Li Changgeng, who maintained a sneering expression, had a small white mind in his head, and the sound of the "bang......" pencil falling on the ground finally woke him up, and the feet of the "bang......bang" on the table quickly retracted, and in a hurry, the chair that leaned back fell out, and the figure on the chair fell to the ground on all fours.
"Giggle......" and "Hehehe......" The two reporters finally laughed out loud, and the different laughter declared their gender at the same time - a man and a woman, the man carrying the camera, and the one holding the microphone was a beautiful female reporter.
"Bang bang......" After a period of chaos, the figure on the ground finally got up from the ground, Li Changgeng's face was flushed, and he covered the back of his head when he fell to the ground!
It's big! Li Changgeng only wished that a crack appeared on the ground at this moment for him to drill down.
The two reporters finally realized the embarrassment of the interviewee, and the laughter gradually stopped, and the female reporter coughed a few times and barely recovered her serious expression, and stretched out her right hand: "Hello, we are Liu Yan, a reporter from CCTV Sports Channel......"
Li Changgeng held the female reporter's hand, and he didn't recover from the panic just now, and he didn't know to let go, but asked hesitantly: "When did you come in?" ”
Now it was the turn of the reporter to blush in embarrassment -- Li Changgeng didn't know how to let go, and she couldn't withdraw her hand several times. The female reporter can be sure that the beautiful big boy in front of her definitely didn't mean to eat his own tofu, but it will always be a little embarrassing to be held by the other party like this, no matter who it is. But her blush was not entirely due to embarrassment, but the warm feeling of the other party's slender hand was the main reason for her blushing. She is not the first day to be a reporter, usually such a situation can always be skillfully circumscribed, but at this moment, she was grabbed by this young man who was a lot younger than herself, and her face was as hot as a cardamom girl, and the deer in her heart was so flustered that she couldn't help herself.
Another man present, the cameraman carrying the camera, saw the embarrassment of the scene, and was secretly funny in his heart, but he also did not forget to relieve his partner, the camera was on his shoulder, and his right hand was handed to Li Changgeng: "Li Changgeng is the cameraman Li Min!" ”
Li Changgeng finally knew how to let go of the beautiful female reporter's hand, Li Changgeng held the other party's hand and said, "Hello! The retracted hand touched the back of his head, and the fingers of his left hand hesitantly pointed at the camera in the other party's hand, and said, "You, you didn't have a camera just now, right?" He had a very nervous look on his face as he spoke.
"Hahaha......" Li Min laughed loudly, and Liu Yan, whose red tide had not yet faded on her face, couldn't help but "flutter!" A laugh broke out. Li Min unscrewed the lid of the camera, gestured to Li Changgeng and said with a smile: "The cover on the lens hasn't been removed just now!" ”
Li Changgeng let out a long sigh, and suddenly felt a lot more relaxed as if he had put down a big stone in his heart, and hurriedly beckoned the two of them to sit down.
For the two reporters, Li Changgeng's words and deeds are fresh, natural and unpretentious, and the expression on his face is a manifestation of his psychology, and they have really not encountered many such interview subjects. From hilarious to embarrassing, to the final endurance Li Changgeng couldn't help it, and in less than two minutes after meeting, Li Changgeng had already made the emotions of the two of them rise and fall like a roller coaster. It's just that the two of them don't reject this feeling, on the contrary, the two of them have a heartfelt affection for the fresh and innocent teenager in front of them. From joining the University of California, Los Angeles for the first time to the current national youth team, no matter how much the age gap is, Li Changgeng can always be quickly accepted by his teammates. Whether he is leading the University of California at Los Angeles as the leader of the team or now joining the national youth team at the youngest age, he has always inadvertently become the center of attention and the center of everyone's attention. Among them, in addition to his really outstanding skills, it is also due to his unparalleled affinity. Every word and deed, a smile, and even that kind of funny just now can always give people a particularly intimate feeling.
Li Min set up the camera, and the microphone in Liu Yan's hand was held in front of him. And their interview subject didn't seem to be fully in the situation, touching the back of his head, which was still slightly painful, and asked stupidly, "This is the beginning of the interview?" ”
"Hmm."
Of course, this is an interview, but Li Changgeng always feels a little unaccustomed. In the previous interviews, it was not Coach Meigello who was waiting with a big stick on the side, but also teammates who were gagging on the side. Looking at the camera and facing the two reporters who met for the first time, he always felt a little astringent in his throat. Looking around, he asked, "Can't you go and interview Sima Shenji and them?" ”
Li Changgeng's nervousness was written on his face, and the two reporters naturally would not fail to see it. Liu Yan smiled and said, "Don't be nervous, just treat it as a conversation between friends." Even though it's an interview, you just have to answer the questions. If you don't want to answer, just skip it, and it will be re-edited when it is actually broadcast. ”
There will be no cameras when friends are talking, Li Changgeng muttered in his heart. But Li Changgeng is Li Changgeng after all, at this time, he has not forgotten that he has the magic weapon to quickly recover his composure, and the true qi in his body is running quickly, calming down!
Liu Yan and Li Min were surprised to find that after the young man in front of him closed his eyes and sighed, the tension on his face had disappeared after he reopened his eyes, his expression was calm and indifferent, and his dark eyes were like bottomless pools without the slightest ripple. His eyes were still so warm and peaceful, but Liu Yan felt that she could no longer see any information in his heart from these eyes.
It's amazing, I regained my composure so quickly. Among the subjects of his interview, he is definitely the only one who can have this kind of self-control. Looking at the young man in front of her, Liu Yan suddenly felt that she didn't know Li Changgeng at all. But after all, she is an outstanding reporter, and she quickly discarded the chaotic thoughts in her head, and after a brief opening statement by pointing at the camera, she quickly introduced Li Changgeng's thoughts into the interview.
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"It is naturally a great thing to be able to join the national youth team, and representing the country is the highest honor of a basketball player, and Li Changgeng is naturally no exception. was selected for the national youth team as a college student, in fact, Li Changgeng is not the only one. In the U17 national youth team, we have 10 university students on the training list. They are all very good, and Li Changgeng absolutely believes that in the U19 World Youth Championship two years later, there will definitely be a place for them in the youth team. ”