Chapter 149: Advance to the finals
The Chinese national youth team successfully reached the semifinals of the World Youth Championships, which is the best record achieved by the Chinese national men's basketball team in the world competition, and the domestic media have also turned their attention to these young people in Latvia.
Mainstream media reports such as CCTV Sports Channel and Sports Weekly have gathered a lot of popularity for this young team.
On the day of the game, the tall and strong mobile phone was inundated with all kinds of information, including college classmates, teammates of the Shanghai youth team, friends in Changsha, buddies in Shanghai, well-known reporter Yang Yi, famous basketball commentator Zhu Yanshuo, and coach Liu Qing of the Hunan University basketball team who taught tall and strong to play, Aaron McCarthy of the former Changsha Parkin basketball team, Coach O'Connor of the training camp, and Coach Panagio and Coach Todd of the Shanghai Sharks basketball team.
Of course, there is also the summer in Changsha and Yang Ling, who is rushing to Latvia, especially Yang Ling, she first took the plane to Latvia, saying that she wanted to witness the miracle moment of tall and strong, and Gao Dazhuang obviously had no way to stop the wayward behavior of this "rich girl".
After reading all the information and feeling the encouragement of friends, brothers, and teachers, Gao Dazhuang entered the game of "Basketball Miracle":
Character "Amazing" level 4
37 points, 9 rebounds, 6 assists, 4 steals, 4 blocks, 2 turnovers
Result: Victory
The event level coefficient is 3
Score over 30: +10%
The overall score is 191 points
The total number of points reached 1259
Unconsciously, the points of the tall and strong in the "Basketball Miracle" game have reached the conditions for upgrading, and the tall and strong who have reached the semi-finals naturally hopes that his strength can be improved again, so that he can better lead the national youth team to move forward.
"Upgrading will cost 800 points, is it going to be upgraded?"
"Yes"
A mechanical sound of "ding" sounded in the ears of Gao Dazhuang, and the character "amazing" in the game on his mobile phone screen changed to level 5.
At this time, not only is there a blank copy bar again, but four skill points have reappeared: in addition to the ability to choose to strengthen the five aspects of strength, speed, bounce, hit, and physical fitness, a new enhancement item "Vision" has been added.
"Vision? Observation? Although he didn't know much about this reinforcement program, Gao Dazhuang still chose this new reinforcement project first, and comprehensiveness is also an aspect of Gao Dazhuang's pursuit.
A mechanical sound sounded in the ears of the tall man: "Vision gain 10% bonus".
"The rest of the choice of speed, power, and hit" Hit is always the most important thing for Tall Strong, because it can be converted into direct combat power, if it is not for the halving of the effect, Tall and Strong is eager to use all the enhanced skill points to improve the hit rate.
"Ding, Ding, Ding" mechanical sounds again: "Speed is 5% enhanced", "Strength is 5% enhanced, and Hit is 3% enhanced".
Once the upgrade is complete, the entire Basketball Miracle game screen shows:
Character "Amazing" Level 5:
Duplicate Box (Han Chao), Duplicate Box (Qin Hansheng), Duplicate Box (Philip Champion Hot Sauce), Duplicate Box (KyrieAndrewIrving), Copy Box (Blank)
+15% Strength, +15% Speed, +10% Jump, +18% Hit, +10% Stamina, +10% Vision
The total number of points is 459 points
Just when Gao Dazhuang was fiddling with his mobile phone, Zhang Yunsong, the assistant coach of the national youth team, excitedly summoned everyone to the conference room of the resident hotel.
After everyone arrived, Coach Wang Huaiyu took a sip of water and said slowly, "Our semi-final opponent came out, and in the other quarter-final that just ended, the Serbian youth team defeated the champion of Group E, the Brazilian youth team."
"Hiss" suddenly the conference room was full of discussions, obviously this result was beyond everyone's expectations, the Brazilian youth team is a top team that can compete with the United States.
"Ahem" Coach Wang Huaiyu coughed twice to signal everyone to be quiet: "In terms of card strength, the strength of the Brazilian youth team is indeed stronger, and the elimination of the Brazilian youth team does sound like good news, but the Serbian youth team can defeat the powerful Brazilian youth team, we can't help but pay attention to it, although we have defeated them."
Coach Wang Huaiyu looked around at the players around him and said word by word: "Of course, our task now is to defeat them again."
The game is played to this point, that is, the coach does not mobilize, and the players have enough mental motivation to strive for victory, and now the players of the national youth team are creating the history of Chinese basketball every time they play a game.
In anticipation of fans across the country, the Chinese national youth team met the European powerhouse Serbian youth team again in the semifinals.
Although the Chinese national youth team is ready to fight hard, in fact, the process of the game is far easier than the Chinese national youth team imagined.
Perhaps because the match with the American powerhouse Brazil consumed too much strength of the Serbian youth team, Serbia obviously looked much weaker in the face of the Chinese national youth team.
After the start of the game, the Chinese national youth team took the lead in entering the state.
At the beginning of the game, the Serbian youth team adopted the trap tactics of Gao Dazhuang, the core of the Chinese youth team, but Gao Dazhuang frequently sent exquisite passes in the opponent's bag to help his teammates score consecutive points.
"After opening the vision enhancement, the whole passing route is clearer," Gao Dazhuang silently admired, obviously a good pass makes Gao Dazhuang have more great lethality.
More than 5 minutes into the game, Gao Dazhuang broke through to the inside line to attract three defenders of the opponent and passed the ball to Wang Zhelin under the basket.
And when the Serbian youth team slightly relaxed the team's tall and strong bag because of the multi-point flowering of the Chinese national youth team, the tall and strong frequently hit the opponent's interior line and got many free throw opportunities in a row.
With 1 minute left in the first quarter, the tall and strong received Guo Allen's pass and hit a jumper from outside the three-point line, bringing the atmosphere of the whole court to a new climax.
At 22:12, the Chinese national youth team took a 10-point lead in the first quarter.
Less than 1 minute into the second quarter of the game, Guo Allen and Xing Zhiqiang of the Chinese national youth team received consecutive assists from tall and strong and hit three points.
Although soon the center of the Latvian youth team, Marganovic, played a 2+1.
But soon the tall and strong rushed into the penalty area and also created a 2+1, continuing to maintain their own lead.
After that, the two sides alternated points in the game, but it was clear that the Chinese national youth team played more easily and reasonably.
The Serbian youth team relied on the individual ability of the core player Marganovic to support it.
45:33
The 12-point advantage allowed the Chinese national youth team to enter the second half with a relatively relaxed mentality.
At the start of the second half, the Serbian youth team suddenly started to exert force, and they played a 5-0 as soon as they came up.
However, Coach Wang Huaiyu hurriedly called a timeout, and after the timeout, Gao Dazhuang immediately used the cover of his teammates to hit three points on the outside line to stabilize the situation.
Although the Serbian youth team has strengthened the intensity at both ends of the offensive and defensive ends, the tall and strong breakthrough is extremely sharp and the passing is quite accurate, and the Serbian youth team has never been able to close the score gap.
With the tall and strong whistle shooting of the Chinese national youth team, at the end of the third quarter, the Chinese national youth team had a 15-point lead over the Serbian youth team at 65:50.
And the high intensity of the defense also took a big toll on Serbia, with Serbia's youth team scoring guard Devidas Pulis and small forward Sakukas scoring five consecutive fouls.
And in the fourth quarter, the physical fitness of the Serbian youth team also had problems, on the other hand, on the side of the Chinese national youth team, Coach Wang Huaiyu has begun to change the rotation lineup.
With 5 minutes left in the game, Gao Dazhuang rushed into the basket again to score 2+1, and after hitting the free throw, he basically locked up the victory for the Chinese national youth team.
Immediately the tall and strong were also substituted, and the game went into garbage time.
In the end, in this uneventful semi-final, the Chinese national youth team defeated the Serbian youth team 81:72 and took the lead in the final of this World Youth Championship.
In this game, the starting five Tigers of the Chinese national youth team all scored double-doubles, of which Gao Dazhuang scored a game-high 22 points, 14 assists and 6 rebounds.
The players of the Chinese national youth team, who successfully qualified, suppressed the excitement in their bodies, and all watched the other semi-final of the United States youth team against the Lithuanian youth team on the sidelines.
The battle between the American champions and the European champions is much more intense than the match between the Chinese youth team and the Serbian youth team just now.
Lithuania's youth center Jonas Valanciunas fully demonstrated his strength as the top 5 NBA pick and single-handedly exploded on the inside of the U.S. youth team.
However, the Lithuanian youth team still did not withstand the outside storm of the American youth team, and the American youth team's backcourt "double guns" Tim Hardaway and Jermie Lamb combined to score 60 points.
91:88
In the end, the U.S. youth team narrowly defeated the Lithuanian youth team by three points to reach the final, where they will meet the Chinese youth team, the opponent of the first match of this World Youth Championship.