Chapter 76: Advance to the Finals
Interesting anecdotes of celebrities are always popular, and according to Sima Shenji's description of Li Changgeng's troubles in the report, close-up cartoons have quickly circulated on the Internet. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ο½iqugeγ info One of the little children with his hands on his hips looked up to the sky and laughed wildly, "Look, Li Changgeng is really Li Changgeng!" It has become the image representative of the young emperor.
On this day, all shopping malls sold youth jerseys. Basketball courts in the streets and alleys can be seen galloping and jumping everywhere. A lot of people are wearing the same number jersey - number 24!
No. 24, that's Li Chang Geng's number!
Many of these little kids have to excitedly pose for POSS and shout after every goal they score: "Look, Li Changgeng is really Li Changgeng!" β
At the Los Angeles Basketball Stadium of Li Changgeng's alma mater, Mozart waved the newspaper and said excitedly: "Look, the boss is in the newspaper again, the youth team has won again, and the boss is the best in the game!" β
"Young Emperor, did you see the title in the newspaper, Young Emperor!"
"Really, really the Young Emperor!"
"Is our captain really that powerful?" A recent first-year player asked timidly.
Mozart's eyes widened: "Nonsense, if the boss is not powerful, how can he be called 'Little Emperor Li Changgeng'?" In the blink of an eye, Mozart made up a new title for Li Changgeng.
Paul held the newspaper and said thoughtfully: "The boss is the emperor, so aren't we his left and right ministers, then Li Changgeng should at least be a prince or something, right?" β
"Idiot, you still want to be a prince, Li Changgeng sees that you are the eunuch next to the boss!" Mozart scoffed.
The arena burst into laughter.
Leonard, who has never participated in this kind of unnutritious dialogue, also said in a rare way today: "Everyone doesn't know what kind of official Li Changgeng is, but there is one person who definitely knows!" β
"Who?"
Leonard smiled and pointed to the man sitting on the sidelines, and all eyes looked at him in unisonβSelena!
"Queen!" Everyone spoke in unison.
Selena's face flushed, and she ran out of the gymnasium with a low snort.
Behind him, the gymnasium erupted in laughter.
At the same time, the training camp of the U17 national youth team at the Chinese basketball training base has gradually come to an end.
"Damn!" Yang Shao scolded and threw the magazine in his hand to the bedside.
Nongguang next to him raised his head: "What's wrong?" β
"The leader of the new golden generation, these reporters seem to have forgotten that guy should be from our generation, and the new golden generation should be us, right?"
Nong Guang smiled and said: "Don't worry, when we participate in the World Youth Championships, Li Changgeng thinks that these reporters should come up with a better name." Well, how about the Super Platinum Generation? β
Yang Shao nodded and said, "That's right, when the time comes, we must be more beautiful than them." Li Changgeng hopes that these don't win the championship, so that when we win the championship, we will be even better! β
Lu Feng shouted: "Shut up quickly, let the reporters hear that you will be a traitor tomorrow!" β
Yang Shao shrugged his shoulders and looked indifferent, but he couldn't help but sneak a peek at the door. Nong Guang and Lu Feng laughed dumbly.
They are three of the six players in the final official Under-17 list.
Nong Guang said: "But Yang Shao is good at saying one thing, when the time comes, our session must be better than theirs." Especially Yang Shao, you are the only genius who can be compared to Li Changgeng. β
"Li Changgeng?" Yang Shao smiled bitterly, "After watching yesterday's game, I don't believe that I can compare to that guy at all!" It's only been a little over a month since that guy left us, but his current strength is completely like two people. β
Nong Guang patted Yang Shao's shoulder and said, "Even if you don't believe in yourself, you should believe in Coach Geng's vision." Li Changgeng was already the best player in the league some time ago, and he started three times earlier than you Li Changgeng. Given a little more time, won't you be able to reach the heights he is today? β
"Absolutely! I'll be even better than he is now! Yang Shao said firmly.
The result of the Sino-Arab battle directly determined the semi-final opponent of the Chinese team, and the Chinese on the other side of the world are also very concerned about this match. The result of the match caused an uproar in the Chinese sports circles: Did the Chinese team win? Their opponent is the Argentine team, China's biggest opponent to win the championship!
After a brief shock and loss of voice, the Chinese quickly looked back and carefully examined the whole process of the game. When the morning report came out the next day, the most eye-catching position of each newspaper was the report on the Sino-Arab war, and the columns of these newspapers all coincidentally focused on the dark horse of the Chinese youth team, which has repeatedly created miracles.
ββ¦β¦ In a wonderful and fierce game, the Chinese team further deepened the color of their dark horse with a victory.
"The Argentine team is undoubtedly strong and his performance fully shows their strong strength, but the winner of the game is the Chinese team (the youth team) because they are even better! Now no one can say for sure where the dark horse of the Chinese team will end up. The Chinese team must now face up to the threat from the Chinese team. Although the Chinese team won the previous competition, everyone should see that it is not a real Chinese team. With that No.24, they transformed into a completely different team, a strong team that could knock Argentina over.
"In this U21 Chinese national youth team, No. 24 player Li Changgeng is their core soul. Li Chang Geng player Li Chang Geng, his performance made people completely disbelieve that his age was only 16 years old. Scoring 41 points and 14 assists, this is a total superstar show! And when the game came to the final critical moment, it was this teenager Li Changgeng who killed the Argentine's final hope of victory......
"The first meeting between China and the United States can prove that the Chinese team is still at a certain level of strength from the Chinese players except for the No. 24 player. But with only one more player, the Chinese team became strong overnight. Looking back at the miracle created by this Chinese team, we can conclude that their miracle comes from their tactical core, and their strength is due to their magical tactics.
"There is only one core of the Chinese team, which is their No. 24 Li Changgeng, and all the other players of the Chinese youth team are centered on this teenager who is four or five years younger than him, and they are closely united into a strong whole. It is this overall tactic that makes the Chinese team create miracles in a row......
"The coach of the Chinese team who created this tactic is definitely a coach Li Changgeng, who made the most of the weight in his hand and maximized the potential of the team. The Chinese players who implement such tactics are definitely a group of excellent players, because they are wise to stand in their own positions to make such tactics smoothly implemented; And the core player of this tactic, this sixteen-year-old boy must be the best Li Changgeng in the history of Chinese basketball, because his play is so strong in the current Chinese team.
"If the Chinese team meets this Chinese team in the final, the first thing they have to think about is how to contain their core player, the 16-year-old Li Changgeng. Otherwise, what happened to the Argentine team in the Sino-Arab battle will be repeated against the Chinese team. β
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This flurry of reports quickly set off a whirlwind in China, and Lee Chang Gung's reputation quickly spread in the country of basketball. Chinese who follow this World Youth Championship know from these reports: There is a 16-year-old Li Changgeng in the Chinese team participating in this World Youth Championship, and his name is Li Changgeng!
And all this, the owner of the name did not feel the slightest - our Li Changgeng was still asleep at this time, and the corners of his mouth were still drooling very indecently.
The next day, our Li Changgeng woke up from a deep sleep, stretched his waist and rubbed his eyes, the world was still that world, and Li Changgeng didn't feel any difference.
After the two rapid dribbles, the figure holding the ball suddenly accelerated, stopped sharply, changed direction, and the basketball returned to his hand with the ball at the same time to break into the inside line of the defensive side, flashing and moving, and the slender figure suddenly jumped up, holding the basketball figure in his right hand and slid lightly across the bottom of the basket, "Boom!" In the shaking of the basket, the basketball in the figure was dunked into the basket.
Haidilao Moon, upside down!
The figure of the dunk fell lightly, and the picture of the camera pulled in, look at his jersey number - No. 24, Li Changgeng!
"Boom......" The cheers of the mountains and tsunami in the stadium suddenly sounded. Li Changgeng! Li Changgeng! Tens of thousands of spectators in the stadium shouted this name at the same time, Chinese and Chinese were cheering this name at the same time, and the standard and non-standard names did not affect the audience's love for this sixteen-year-old boy.
In front of us is the semi-finals of the World Youth Championship, with the youth team facing the Spanish youth team. The fourth quarter of the game had just begun, and the score was 78:61, and the youth team led by 17 points. After the slam dunk just now, Li Changgeng scored 20 points in this game.
Sima Shenji, Li Zheng, Song Liuming and Li Zhenhua The four main players were all resting off the field, and the Chinese youth team on the court was led by Li Changgeng with four substitutes to play. Geng Xiangzhi's sixth-man tactics are now very familiar to fans and audiences, and no fans or spectators wonder if Geng Xiangzhi's head is funny.
Just as Sima Shenji expected, Li Changgeng returned to his best condition after waking up in the morning, and the game in front of him also proved that Li Changgeng was in the best condition today.
Song Liu Ming asked strangely, "What's wrong with Li Changgeng today?" It's as if he's taking a strong drug, and this is his sixth dunk today. Is there any member of the Spanish team who has a grudge against him? β
Six dunks, that is to say, 60% of the 20 points he scored were obtained by dunks, which is indeed very different from Li Changgeng's playing style in the past.
Sima Shenji is the person who knows Chang Gung the most in the national youth team, and at this moment he smiled slightly and said lightly: "After defeating the Spanish team, our next opponent may be the United States team." Chang Gung is demonstrating to the American team! As he spoke, his eyes were raised, and a man in the stands was watching the game on the field intently. The Chinese team is no stranger to the sportswear on them, it was the jersey of the American team that beat them in the first game!
That's right, it was Team USA in the stands. If they beat Argentina to reach the final, the winner of the match now will surely meet them in the final. The U.S. team, which is determined to win the championship, is watching the final opponent come.
As if to verify Sima's words, after the dunk on the court, Li Changgeng raised his index finger high, and the direction of his finger was the Chinese team.
The meaning of the challenge could not be more obvious: I am waiting for you in the final!
There was an uproar in the stadium, and then the audience on the east side of the scene burst into more enthusiastic cheers.
"Click, click......" The reporters hurriedly captured a picture, which is another news material!
However, there was a roar from the bench on the side of the Chinese youth team, and the players on the bench stood up and waved the towels in their hands.
It was the high morale and excitement that the basketball went out of bounds, and the youth team was immediately replaced!
Sima Shenji, Song Liuming, Li Zheng and Li Zhenhua, the four main players on the bench played at the same time.
The four players who came on the pitch proudly threw a glance at the stands of the Chinese team at the same time.
The final battle of the game was played ahead of schedule.
"Huh!" Three-point shot, it was Li Zheng who shot the basket!
Splitting, covering, blank appearing, basketball passing, catching, raising hands to shoot, "Whew! The ball was scored, and Li Zhenhua put in his 10th point of the game.
Standing on the line of the penalty area, Li Changgeng's ball passed, sideways, and hooked with his right hand, "Huh! "Song Liu Ming's ball!
The ball outside the three-point line was thrown high, and a figure under the basket was strung high, hitting and catching the ball and smashing the basketball into the basket - Sima Shenji hit a relay dunk!
Left flash, right protrusion, flash and move, the basketball in the crowd flew high, hit a high arc and fell steadily, "Huh! "The basketball goes straight through the hoop and falls - high throw basket!
It was Li Changgeng who scored the goal!
The mercury is pervasive, the divine soldiers are invincible, and the youth team on the field is performing a perfect attack.
The gap in the score quickly widened, and the Spanish team quickly called a timeout.
Although the Spanish team is also a strong team in Europe, they are still some way behind the Argentine team. After the victory over the Argentine team, the Chinese youth team is at the peak of its momentum at this time, how can the Spanish team be able to stop it at this time?
At the end of the pause, Geng Xiangzhi waved his hand: "Go on the field, go and give them a fatal blow!" "Geng didn't make any tactical adjustments to them during the timeout. Geng Xiangzhi deeply believes that the current youth team is completely not something that Spain can resist.
It's time to think about the final final!
The youth team continued to attack, and the rushing attacks tore apart the Spanish team's defense again and again, and the Spanish team's fighting will quickly died out in the indiscriminate bombardment of the Chinese youth team.
When the whistle blew, the score was fixed at 117:80, and the youth team advanced to the final with an indisputable victory.
The other team in the final was produced in the match between the United States and Argentina.
After the victory, the youth team was jubilant, and Li Changgeng did not join the cheering crowd from beginning to end. After taking a deep look at the Chinese team in the audience, he took the lead in saluting and walked out of the court after Geng Xiangzhi. That look, one word is "cool", and three words are "cool!" From time to time, in the stands and in front of the TV, there were little girls screaming.
Chinese reporters followed the team back to the hotel.
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That night, the other semi-final was played. All the players of the youth team watched the game in their hotel rooms through the live broadcast of local television. The game was very intense and exciting at the beginning, the young and middle-aged players in front of the TV were calm, and the room was only the occasional admiration of the players in addition to the sound of the TV. However, when two oriental faces appeared behind the TV screen, there was a sudden commotion in each room, and then the doors of each room were pushed open at the same time, and a figure rushed out, gathering in the corridor and quickly rushing to the door of a room. "Bang!" The door was pushed open, and the TV was on in the room, but the two people who were supposed to be inside were nowhere to be seen.
Li Changgeng and Sima Shenji!
It was these two people who just appeared on the TV screen.
The team members looked at each other head-on, and ran over in a hurry, and after seeing the situation in the room clearly, Tie Qing roared angrily: "Two bastards! β
On the TV screen, the "two bastards" are wearing casual tracksuit baseball caps covering half of their faces, seemingly confident in their makeup effects, or perhaps too focused on the game in progress. The two men looked solemn, pointed to the players in the game on the field, and whispered as if something was flowing in the dormitory. The two of them in the audience were completely unaware that they had been captured in the live camera footage.
There was a commotion in the stadium, and many spectators were already turning their heads to look for the two men who appeared on the big screen in the center of the stadium. A number of sharp-eyed people were already quietly approaching the direction of the two, and many of them were reporters with cameras on them.
Li Changgeng, the Chinese youth emperor, and Sima Shenji, the ace striker of the Chinese youth team, have been reported by domestic and foreign media a lot these days, and domestic fans and Chinese audiences have long been very familiar with their faces. Especially Li Changgeng, the photos of sleeping have been circulated on the Internet, and he is now turning into ashes to be able not to be recognized.
Wearing a hat and hat in another pair thinks that they are invisible, these two fools are not ordinary teasers.
The TV camera cuts back to the game, but the young players in the room are not relieved. Imagining the scene of the two being besieged and intercepted by reporters, many people couldn't help but feel a chill down their backs.
Geng Xiangzhi was the only person in the room who could still calm down, and when the TV cut back to the arena, he had quickly picked up the phone in the room. At this time, the players sounded: Li Changgeng is with him!
The phone was connected, and Geng Xiangzhi's roaring voice quickly spread to the audience in the stadium through the radio waves. The two men in the audience looked nervously and quickly shifted, quickly disappearing before the reporters arrived.
Are they back?
No!
Change positions and continue watching the game. After a burst of flattery from Li Changgeng's hippie smile here, Geng Xiangzhi asked them to stay there and not move around, on the grounds that leaving the scene at this time was too eye-catching.
Watching a game live and watching a game in front of the TV are two absolutely different feelings. And if you want to really observe the opponent, it is absolutely not enough to rely on live TV. Therefore, Li Changgeng and Sima Shenji violated the team rules and went to the scene to watch the game.
And how can these Geng Xiangzhi not know? So although he was in a state of rage, he still pushed the boat to fulfill their wishes.
The game on the pitch will not be affected by the fact that there are two more people in the stands. Both sides of the game are working hard to win this crucial match. Team USA, the first favorite to win the championship; Argentina has always been regarded as the biggest opponent of the United States team to win the championship. When these two teams meet, it's impossible to play without a tight game. Although this encounter was not in the final final, the match did not reduce the attention of the audience to this match in any way. In the eyes of everyone, this is the contest between the two strongest teams in the World Youth Championships, and this is the collision between Mars and Earth in the World Youth Championships.
The Chinese reporters at the scene and the Chinese fans in front of the TV all stood on the side of the Argentine team at this time, because if they advance, then Chinese basketball is likely to win the first world championship.
After all, we just beat them, didn't we?
Both sides of the match on the pitch showed quality worthy of their reputation, and the intensity of the game was indeed as one might expect.
The Argentine team is still strong, and the defensive power in the competition with the Chinese youth team is finally showing at this time. The U.S. team was certainly strong in attack, but their offensive means seemed to be stretched thin against the Argentine team's defense.
The same is true for both teams.
Compared with the American team that the youth team met in the first game, the American team in front of him made the two people in the audience can't believe that it is the same team. The difference is in their defense, which is that the U.S. team is no less defensively than Argentina, which is known for its defense. When the offense and defense were in a different position, Argentina's attack was also stretched down against their defence.
In this World Youth Championships, it is not only the Chinese youth team that has made great progress, but the United States team has also honed its own lineup in the game.
When both sides defended extremely well, the goal will never be easy and the score will never rise quickly.
Compared with the wonderful confrontation in the battle between China and Argentina, the excitement of the game in front of us is too inferior. At the end of the first half, the score on the field was 44:44, and the two sides were tied. Forty-four points, which is almost the score of the two sides in the Sino-Arab war.
However, this did not affect the cheers in the stadium, the enthusiastic audience, the warm atmosphere, as the spectators of the spectators, Sima Shenji and Li Changgeng for the first time saw the patriotic enthusiasm of the Americans not inferior to the Chinese. When their eyes met, a trace of worry flashed in their eyes at the same time. When they meet the U.S. team in the final, the frenzied cheers from the crowd may have caused the youth team to lose the championship before the game is played. No one can ignore the pressure from the crowd on a pitch like this, and if they can't be ruled out, the players simply won't be able to perform properly.
It's a loss to get the scene to start the game! Li Changgeng secretly rejoiced in his heart.