Chapter 226: Facing the World Champion (Part II)
In order to make the Chinese team more combative, Li Cheng must do more. It is obviously impossible for him to improve his scoring ability, but improving his organizational ability can help the Chinese team improve some combat effectiveness.
In the current situation, the attribute points he obtains must be increased in the most cost-effective way. Therefore, the intelligence attribute is the most cost-effective attribute point for him so far.
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At 4 p.m. on August 12, the Wukesong Stadium was once again packed with fans.
In 45 minutes, the match between China and Spain will begin.
The match between the Chinese team and the United States team has made fans across the country see the strength of the Chinese team today.
But even so, there are media in a certain stick country that say that the 89-95 battle between China and the United States is just good luck.
It was because the dream team did not take the Chinese team seriously, because they underestimated the enemy, and the Chinese team was only able to lose by 6 points.
It is still the media of a certain stick country, saying that the United States did not win too hard in order to give the host a little face.
In some countries, they always have a strong and perverted national self-esteem, but the Chinese people have now adopted an automatic shielding mode for people in these countries, and what they say is just like some flies, insects, dogs, and animals making noises.
Although those media have come up with so-called "evidence", although these evidence are still well-founded and methodical, the great Chinese people will absolutely not pay attention to them.
But it's one thing to ignore them, it's another to swatt those buzzing green-headed flies to death on the wall.
For this annoying creature, there are countless fans who hope that the Chinese team can prove their strength again in the match against Spain. Then they used the soles of their shoes to slap the flies, insects, dogs, and animals to death on the wall.
Whether it is to prove themselves, or to appear in a better environment, or to fight against flies, insects, dogs and animals in a certain stick country, in short, fans hope that the Chinese team can play a beautiful game and win this game!
This time, the atmosphere of the Chinese team is no longer as relaxed as the last time against the United States. The atmosphere in their dressing room was a little dignified.
Because of the expectations of the fans, all the players have a sense of purpose.
But this dignified point is not nervous, it's just a sense of mission to repay the fans.
For many years, almost every time they have disappointed the fans who loved them, but this time, they are stronger than any previous ones, and they don't want to disappoint the fans again.
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Staff knocked on the locker room door to remind players that they could go to the aisle and line up for entry.
After the staff left, all the players stood up and they formed a circle with Lee as the center.
The players hugged each other. Li Cheng said calmly and firmly: "We are only 6 points away from the American team, in fact, we have every hope of winning, which shows that our strength is already very strong." Spain are strong, but they may still be more than six points away from Dream Eight, so we ...... today."
"Victory!"
"Victory!"
"Victory!"
The other teammates shouted firmly, and the shouts revealed a powerful self-confidence.
With only six points separating them from the Dream Team, there's no reason why they can't have confidence in beating Spain. And after the match against the United States, the cohesion within the team has obviously been raised to another notch.
Spain, as the last world champion. They are stronger now than they were back then, but the Chinese team today expressed a belief that they must win.
This belief was completely impossible before Li Cheng joined, but after Li Cheng joined, the Chinese team had the strength to fight a battle. And there is also the possibility of defeating the Matador legion.
The players streamed out of the tunnel and the audience was reminded of the enduring applause and cheers. This cheer that soared into the sky made all the Chinese fans cheer.
Subsequently, Yao Ming took the victory while jumping the ball. The Chinese team won the ball for the first attack. As Liu Wei controlled the ball and walked through the half, the scene sounded the song of "singing the motherland".
Perhaps many foreign media do not understand why everyone will collectively "sing the motherland" on China's home turf. But for Chinese who have been educated by the Celestial Empire since childhood, when this song sounds, a strange feeling often surrounds their hearts.
This kind of emotion may be the "national pride" that has been precipitated for 5,000 years, but in any case, this kind of emotion will greatly enhance the excitement of the players and allow them to play a stronger fighting force in the game.
Liu Wei felt his heart tremble, he wanted to come by himself for the first time this time.
Li Cheng naturally saw Liu Wei's thoughts, and he naturally pulled to the right to give Liu Wei a chance.
Li Cheng is like a black hole, as long as he is on the field, he will invisibly attract the attention of the opposing players.
Navarro followed Li Cheng inch by inch, Pau Gasol's eyes also turned to Li Cheng, and Fernandez also kept an eye on Li Cheng's movements.
A successful star player who can help the team pull the opposing lineup just by being on the field. What's more, Li Chengke is a master of running without the ball, and he is more dangerous without the ball than when he has the ball.
Yao Ming pulled to the outside line to block Liu Wei, and Liu Wei slipped in all of a sudden. Then he made a feint to pass the ball to Li Cheng, which made Rubio, who was defending him, look in the direction of Li Cheng. Seizing this gap, Liu Wei jumped up, and with a flick of his wrist, the basketball had already flown to the basket.
A ball hit, and Liu Wei excitedly swung his fist towards it.
Spain's head coach Garcia was on the pitch loudly reminding his players not to slip through and to concentrate.
At this point, Garcia's brow furrowed tightly.
Originally, Garcia's idea was to use the "double Gasol" tactic to look at Yao Ming, and at the same time use his physical advantage to press the outside pitchers of the Chinese team. But now his idea is obviously going bankrupt, because Li Cheng's sudden addition makes Garcia dare not continue to let the two "Gasol" defend Yao Ming.
Pau Gasol's defensive zone must be expanded, otherwise Li Cheng's off-ball run will cause great distress and damage to Spain.
But even so, it did not solve the threat of Li Cheng's point at all, and Li Cheng still needed the bag of outside players. Otherwise, Navarro will definitely be blown up by Li Cheng, and Fernandez is a player who is heavy on offense and light on defense, if Spain's outside line is blown up by Li Cheng, then they will have no chance.
So Garcia immediately gave up the defensive plan he had formulated before, and instead took a decisive joint defense, which was to force Li Cheng and reduce Li Cheng's range of movement.
But Li Cheng's influence on the field is really huge, and the attention of the Spanish players has always moved with the No. 4 jersey of the Chinese team, which has affected the play of the joint defense.
Garcia reminded his players while also thinking about some on-the-spot commanding countermeasures.
In the next Spanish attack, the brother partner of Gasol and Pau is not a soft persimmon to be slaughtered. The two of them played a brilliant "inside pass" combination, and Pau Gasol hit a hook under the basket to level the score.
Spain's squad is certainly luxurious, but the Chinese team is not afraid, and they have long stopped putting themselves in the position of weakness.
That's how strange people are about the mentality, when you feel like you're on the same level as your opponent, you tend to be able to exert more powerful attacks.
After the first test between the Chinese team and Spain, they immediately entered the stage of hand-to-hand combat, and the rhythm of the game was instantly raised.
Liu Wei handed over the team's attack to Li Cheng, and the Chinese team immediately started the most powerful attack mode at this stage.
Younas has been thinking a lot lately about how to make the most of Li Cheng's off-ball running, and if you coach a player like Li Cheng and don't think about how to use his off-ball running, it's definitely a waste.
In yesterday's training, Younas had already put his ideas into training, but he was not prepared to let the Chinese team use that kind of tactic at this stage. This tactic will be used as the secret weapon of the Chinese team in the knockout stage.
With the current strength of the Chinese team, qualifying is no longer a matter of worry. If there is no Li Cheng, the Chinese team may still have to worry about how to break through from the group of death, but with Li Cheng, the Chinese team is like an invincible spear, and this spear will become a sharp weapon for the Chinese team to break out of the encirclement.
Now the Chinese team is still implementing Li Cheng's tactics of organizing attacks, and there are many changes in this set of tactics, and there is no need to worry about the team's inability to play combat effectiveness in the game at this stage.
Li Cheng took the ball, and his dribbling caused Navarro a lot of trouble.
A lot of times, what you see on video is definitely two different things from what you experience in person.
Navarro's first contact with Li Cheng's dazzling dribble suddenly made him feel dizzy, and at the same time, his defensive position was leaky.
Li Cheng seized the loophole and passed Navarro directly, although Navarro was still tightly blocking Li Cheng by his side, he was already half a step away from Li Cheng.
Spain's defence worked quite well, with Fernandes coming in and Pau Gasol coming up to block the position and ready to help.
Li Cheng observed the position of the players on the court, he made a sharp stop, then turned around and made a move to shoot.
Navarro's attention was focused on how to defend Li Cheng's shot, but Li Cheng bent down and smashed the ball to the ground.
The basketball went through Pau Gasol and went directly to Yi Jianlian.
The unguarded Yi Jianlian directly dunked, and there was another violent cheer at the scene...... (To be continued......)