The world's best combo guard

Chapter 8 [Excellent Performance]

7 outstanding performance
"Friends from the audience, we are now interrupting a piece of news. Just now, our reporter Luo Tao sent back a message from Athens, Greece. 19:71 narrowly defeated the Serbian team, breaking into the finals of this World Youth Championship without precedent, the following is a detailed report, let us pass the camera to Luo Tao who is far away..."

On June 6th, at the Olympic Center Arena in Athens, Greece, the match between the Chinese National Youth Team and the Serbian National Youth Team had just ended. At this time, there were not many fans in the stands. Fans of the Chinese flag are outside.

On the side of the stadium, Luo Tao, a special reporter from CCTV Sports, is interviewing Jiang Xingming, the head coach of the National Youth Team who has just led the team to make history and advance to the final.

"First of all, congratulations, Director Jiang, you have created the best result of the Chinese men's basketball team in the World Series. This is really not easy." Luo Tao, an intellectual and generous female reporter in formal attire, took the lead in congratulating Jiang Xingming.

"As you said, it is really not easy to achieve such a result, especially in the game of eight goals and four games against Argentina in the first two days. To be honest, no one was optimistic that we could beat Argentina, but I want to say , none of our boys gave up. We won a victory with hard work and not giving up. Today is the same. Although everyone is very tired, the result is good. I think maybe this is the charm of competitive sports. Facing the camera, Jiang Xingming affirmed the performance of the National Youth boys, especially mentioning the importance of hard work and not giving up.

"Then Director Jiang, what do you think of Li Hao, who dominated the game last game and led the Chinese team to an upset victory over Argentina, scoring 29 points?"

As expected of a front-line CCTV sports reporter, he didn't waste interview time on those boring chicken soup for the soul, but asked a question that could represent the voice of the fans.

"About Li Hao, I think his performance has always been very stable whether it was the last game or the previous group matches. As the leader of this national youth team, Li Hao took responsibility and was able to stand up at critical moments , he was our best player"

Jiang Xingming gave Li Hao a high evaluation, which also surprised Luo Tao. In her impression, Jiang Xingming, a tough old-school Chinese basketball player, rarely praised a player so directly in front of the media.

"The last question, Director Jiang, do you have anything to say about the Australian team in the final two days later?" Luo Tao handed the microphone to Jiang Xingming.

"There is not much to say. We all know that Australia is a traditional strong team and the biggest favorite to win the World Youth Championship. Therefore, for us, it is to fight with all our strength and fight for a new history."

As for the opponents of the Chinese team in the final, indeed, as Jiang Xingming said, the opponent is very strong and is the biggest favorite to win the championship. It will be very difficult for the Chinese team to face them, but it is not that there is no chance at all. Go all out , might be able to spell out a champion.

Jiang Xingming is a representative of the hardline Chinese basketball style. Therefore, he admires the rule of the army with an iron fist. The team under his rule is strictly disciplined. Under normal circumstances, like this kind of history-making game, the players will accept it. The media interviewed, but this is not the case for this national youth team. Whether it is Li Hao, Yi Jianlian, or other players, they left the scene quickly after the game. Only Jiang Xingming stayed to deal with the media.

It's not that Jiang Xingming is unkind, it's just that there is a tough battle to be fought two days later, and he doesn't want to distract the players.

Jiang Xingming has been doing this all the time. Even in the previous games, he only gave each team member a chance to be interviewed.

It is also true that Laughlin, who came all the way from Los Angeles and secretly witnessed Li Hao leading the Chinese team all the way to the finals and making history, had no chance to meet Li Hao.

Li Hao played very well in this World Youth Championship, leading the Chinese team to make a historic entry into the finals.

This made the people in the country very excited. However, if you want to say the most excited, I am afraid it has to be Laughlin who has witnessed all this.

She came to the scene in the first match of the Chinese team's group stage. In the 3 group matches and the 2 knockout matches that just ended, there are a total of 5 games. She watched Li Hao averaged 22.4 points and 5.1 assists per game. She even witnessed with her own eyes that in the 8-for-4 game against Argentina, Li Hao scored 11 points in the second half when the Chinese team trailed by 29 points at halftime. Leading the team to reverse the upset beat the crazy performance of Argentina, who is also the favorite to win the championship.

Laughlin's current mood is both excited and apprehensive, which puts her in a contradictory situation.

The reason why she was excited was that the better Li Hao performed, the more it proved that her intuition was correct at the beginning, and it also gave her more confidence to go all out to choose such an outstanding young talent for the Lakers.

The reason why she is worried is that Li Hao is so eye-catching. So far, he has even performed as well as Andrew Bogut, the absolute core of the most popular team from Australia. This week, Laughlin has seen it in the stands. Many of her friends have the same profession as her, many of whom are from the NBA, such as international scout Simon of the Houston Rockets and senior scout Pritchard of the San Antonio Spurs.

These people are all old foxes with sharp eyesight, it is impossible for them not to notice Li Hao.

Thinking of this, Laughlin was very angry. The bastard Old Bass hadn't called her to mention Li Hao yet.

Laughlin was very afraid that Li Hao would be taken first by others. If she watched the cooked duck fly away, then she might regret it for a long time.

"Perhaps the bastard old Buss will regret it more." Laughlin left the arena in a hurry, and she had to go back to the hotel. Not to mention, from a professional point of view, Laughlin also felt that he had to try again.

"Old ghost, regarding that Chinese defender, I must ask you to think carefully again. He is really different. He is an out-and-out genius. He is different from other Chinese defenders. You must give him enough respect." The first time she got back to the hotel, Laughlin didn't even change her shoes, and angrily called Old Bath.

However, there was no movement at all on the other end of the phone.

"Damn it, are you listening?" Laughlin waved his arms angrily.

"Calm down, Bonnie, I'll be in front of you in 5 minutes at most"

Laughlin was shocked for a moment, hung up the phone in a hurry, his face was ecstatic!
(End of this chapter)