whirlwind basketball

Chapter 196 Youth Competition (11)

Different people pass the ball in different ways.Some people can seize the opportunity to pass a great line, but they can't grasp the strength well, in other words, they don't know enough about the receiver, so even the best awareness is in vain.However, Li Yifan's passing always made his teammates feel very comfortable. The angle and position were all just right.

Therefore, it is so easy and natural for Zhang Shaolong to catch the ball in the air and shoot.

A burst of warm applause and cheers erupted in the gymnasium as the basketball was wiped and hit the net.

"It's so beautiful!" Ma Feifei shouted.

"Coach Wang, do you want to see how well Li Yifan is playing point guard?" the assistant coach asked.

"He has a natural sense for passing the ball," Wang Tao said, nodding. The first is that I want to see his understanding of point guards; the second is to give him an experience and exercise."

The assistant coach said: "However, I think Li Yifan's most suitable position is shooting guard. You may not know that his scoring ability is far beyond what we have seen, but his desire for offense is not strong."

"So let's use our strengths and avoid weaknesses!" Wang Tao said with a smile, "The United States pays attention to magnifying advantages and avoiding disadvantages. Maybe Li Yifan's scoring ability is very strong, but since he doesn't have a strong desire in this regard and is willing to read the game and help his teammates attack, then it's better to release it." His ability to assist..."

Wang Tao looked at Li Yifan on the court and said: "We can guide a player's training technically, but on the spiritual level and the level of consciousness, such as whether he is inclined to attack, defend or organize, it is first his personal understanding of the game, followed by tactical arrangements. .

"So give them more opportunities to understand and learn by themselves on the court," Wang Tao continued. and tactical responses."

"Teach! Teach!" The assistant coach said again and again, "It's really unheard of!"

Over there, although the Angola team was not to be outdone, shooting guard Luo Rui forcibly broke through Jiang Dongyu to pick baskets in the interior to attack, but it did not convert into points.The backboard was grabbed by Fatty Zhang.

Angola immediately returned to defense. Their defensive awareness is very good and they will not be too impulsive to grab the ball in the frontcourt.The few strong teams that Li Yifan has encountered now basically have good defensive awareness.This is also the difference between a strong team and a weak team.

There is also a big difference between Long Xun and Li Yifan.

As soon as Long Xun got the ball, he charged wildly and directly pulled up a fast break.Li Yifan, on the other hand, dribbled the ball in a calm manner to give the opponent enough time to set up the formation. He seemed to be thinking about something while dribbling.

Just after halftime, Kakia, who was facing up, stepped forward to support Li Yifan's waist with one hand and was ready to steal the ball at any time.

Li Yifan showed good basic skills of ball control at this time.He bent his body and patted the basketball with his right hand very close to the ground. His dribbling rate was very fast and extremely stable.Just as Kakia turned his body to the side and wanted to break the basketball in his hand, Li Yifan's right hand suddenly pulled the basketball back and obediently jumped obediently!
Then Li Yifan's right hand pushed forward again at the moment when Kakia lost his center of gravity, and the whole person easily passed Kakia's side, and his eyes suddenly opened up!
Zhang Shaolong made a counter-run to throw away the opponent's power forward Sloan, and first made a fake shot.With his height and strong body, Sloan did not follow Zhang Shaolong's tricks.Taking advantage of the momentum, Zhang Shaolong rushed forward two steps and wanted to jump and shoot again.But Sloan still followed closely!

Zhang Shaolong immediately lost the best position and had to turn around and pass the ball to Long Xun who ran back.

Facing Snowden, who was nearly half a head taller, Long Xun changed hands and dribbled the ball without fear, and then displayed that lightning-fast shot.The basketball hit the net and once again set off a round of applause!The audience especially shouted vigorously.

The 4:[-] advantage didn't last long and was soon broken by Snowden and Lowry's pick-and-roll.

With the ball and Snowden's wall cooperation, Lowry scored a long shot and chased the score to 2:4.

Li Yifan soon discovered that the Angola team is a relatively balanced team, which happens to be the opposite of Brazil.Their athletic ability is not outstanding, but everyone is strong. It seems that they are all veterans who have been on the basketball court for several years and know how to cooperate and understand the basic pick-and-roll.This also means that the opponent is by no means a weakling.

If you give them the floor, these veteran guys will take their chances and score.

Therefore, the first essence of the game is not to give them any chance to score easily.Although the methods of full-court pressing and fast break can put a lot of pressure on the opponent, once there is a point breakthrough and missing people, it will directly lose points.This is not worth the candle.Therefore, Li Yifan insisted on conducting positional warfare.

Even so, Li Yifan found that he still underestimated the team in front of him.

Li Yifan dribbled the ball across half court and handed it to Jiang Dongyu.Jiang Dongyu's lack of dribbling breakthrough and singles ability was passed directly to Zhang Shaolong.Zhang Shaolong seemed to have lost his previous fierce breakthrough momentum, tried the attack and passed it to Long Xun after he failed.

Long Xun seemed quite confident in facing Snowden.He performed a quick change of hands again, bypassing Snowden's body with one stride, and slid in quite nimbly.But before I ran two steps, I yelled "Ah" and the basketball fell!
"Thug!" Long Xun immediately turned to the referee and shouted.

Rory quickly grabbed the basketball and rushed forward with the ball.Although his speed is relatively fast, it is still not as fast as Zhang Shaolong, Li Yifan and others' return to defense.Luo Rui stepped into the frontcourt in three or two steps, and as soon as he encountered Li Yifan's defense, he immediately gave up his intention of fast attack, stabilized his figure, and quietly waited for his teammates to take their positions.

It's really old fritters.Li Yifan thought to himself.They seemed very composed and in no rush to score.

The referee on Long Xun's side ignored it at all.The fouls he didn't see naturally wouldn't call.To blame can only be blamed on the other party's small movements being too subtle.These guys are really not fuel-efficient lamps.Even veterans like Long Xun have followed their lead.

Rory passed the ball when Snowden was in position.At this time, Snowden hit Long Xun with his back.

Although Long Xun's defensive ability is good, this is already a position where the opponent can score directly and can only interfere at most.Snowden was very cunning. He never dribbled the ball, and from time to time he glanced at his teammates who were moving around, so that Long Xun had no chance to steal the ball, and it was difficult for others to come to help defend.

Two seconds later, Snowden suddenly turned around and stood up!

Long Xun was too short and could only watch Snowden score two points very steadily!

"No way." The assistant coach shook his head, "Long Xun is completely unsuited to playing small forward, and he has a huge flaw in defense. Maybe the opponent will seize this point and play. Now I can only hope that Zhang Shaolong can play offensively."

"Prepare to replace," Wang Tao said, "Let Wang Siyang replace Long Xun."

Change so quickly!The assistant coach murmured inwardly.Do you treat such an important game as a child's play?Obviously, the strength of the Angola team is not bad, and Wang Tao, who is not so easy to win, doesn't care at all.

Then Zhang Shaolong's inside attack caused Snowden's foul.So Wang Siyang replaced Long Xun.

This was probably the first time since the youth training team was formed that Long Xun was off the court during the first quarter. He looked very depressed and sat on the bench with his head down, wiping his sweat, without saying a word.Wang Tao didn't intend to communicate with him either. He just stared at Wang Siyang who had just played.

Li Yifan's dribbling was beyond everyone's imagination. Kakia, who was facing up, couldn't stop it at all. On the contrary, Li Yifan was able to break through frequently by taking advantage of his height and large strides.As a result, Angola had to change its man-to-man approach, and Rory also followed up to help defend.There was an immediate hole in their defense.

Li Yifan will not let go of this opportunity. Zhang Shaolong quickly built a wall for Li Yifan to pass over directly.The change in Angola was also quick. Sloan strode forward and once again blocked Li Yifan's breakthrough route.At this moment, Li Yifan suddenly jumped out of Sloan's crotch with a short body!
An orange-red figure flashed past Wang Siyang, came in directly from the outside line, took the basketball and flew into the air!

Center Harris jumped into the air without hesitation and raised his hands to stop this ignorant skinny boy!
Although Wang Siyang does not have the ability to slam dunk and change hands in the air, his assist consciousness can also be ranked among the top three in the youth training team.He retracted his abdomen and waist in the air to collect the ball and started the basketball around Harris' waist!

Fatty Zhang patted the basketball and made a backhand layup!
"Strike!" The arena became lively again, and the smooth cooperation this time was really pleasing to the eye.This is the real basketball game. The key to individual skills and teamwork lies in the fact that playing is very civilized. Even fouls are very skillful little moves.Both sides are such teams, you come and I go, the audience is hooked!

But as the game progressed, the youth training team gradually fell into a disadvantage.

It is indeed beyond the expectations of many people that the youth training team gradually fell into a weak position in this kind of competition.

What I didn't expect was that the game between the two sides started so smoothly and fell into a strange rhythm shortly after the start of the second quarter.Zhang Shaolong's singles scored 8 points in the first quarter, but at the beginning of the second quarter, Wang Siyang, who made mistakes even became the king of mistakes, was frequently intercepted and shot by the opponent.

Although Li Yifan's many good shots were still amazing, they failed to be converted into points in the end.

Similarly, the Angola team failed to continue the smooth attack in the first quarter.They also didn't shoot very well against the tight defense of the academy team.But Li Yifan discovered a situation that the opponent is still slowly improving the score while the youth training team is stagnant.

Halfway through the second quarter, the youth training team, which had always been in the lead, gradually fell behind.The strange thing is that the opponent didn't play a small climax, and the distance gradually widened towards this kind of backwardness.Li Yifan couldn't help being surprised when he looked back and saw 24:32 on the scoreboard.

The half court offense led by Li Yifan came to a standstill.It is very difficult to run like an old machine.

The assistant coach was a little anxious when he saw that the score was 8 points behind.He didn't want to completely lose his qualifications if he lost this game.He turned around and wanted to ask Wang Tao's opinion to call a timeout and then put the players with normal configuration on it.But looking back, the assistant coach found that Wang Tao was sitting next to Long Xun with the board (probably a tactical board).

"pause!"

"Come on!" Wang Tao beckoned kindly for the youth training team to gather around.

"Isn't this a tactical board?" Zhang Shaolong couldn't help but said when he saw what was in Wang Tao's hand.

王涛笑道：“没错简单好用的战术板。你们看这上面有五枚棋子各自有标号一般而言1代表控卫2代表分卫3代表小前4代表大前5代表中锋但是也可能完全混着排序这就是你们在场上的一种标识。我现在要移动这些棋子你们看好了——”

他把2、3、4、5号棋子滑到了半场两分线的两侧形成矩形而1号棋子放在顶弧的正中间。这个阵型看起来非常简单没有什么玄妙之处。

The assistant coach's heart beat a small drum: Could it be that Wang Tao is going to start talking about tactics?God, the pause time is so short, usually so much time without talking about tactics, how come it's time to talk about it, how can this group of kids who have never been exposed to tactics digest it?Isn't this a joke!
王涛的手指迅移动起来而执笔的右手也在战术板上跟着画起来。1号沉底4号出弧顶2号和3号分别拉向两侧边线5号稍稍内移。

Wang Tao paused and glanced around the youth team.Almost all the children looked blank, their eyes were filled with hunger and thirst, they knew that this was some kind of basketball tactic, just like playing chess, but they almost didn't know what was going on.Only Li Yifan's eyes were deep and he couldn't tell what he was thinking.

Wang Tao smiled slightly and moved No. 2 inside, No. 1 withdrew to the sideline, No. 4 sank to the bottom, and No. 5 pulled to a high position.He kept drawing simple straight lines "swish swish swish" to connect the pieces and at the same time erased them constantly.

Long Xun bit his lower lip, and the youth training team were also silent.

"What I demonstrated just now is the most basic half-court tactic. You must know that every straight line points to a scoring opportunity. A tactic is not to run all the runs, but to seize any one of them and score decisively!" Wang Tao glanced at them and finally landed on Li Yifan's face.

Li Yifan stared at the tactical board, then raised his head and gradually smiled.

It was an enlightening, heartfelt smile.

As if he came from the dark world and suddenly saw the light!
Don't you understand!The assistant coach saw Li Yifan's expression and was so shocked that he couldn't speak.Although this is a basic tactic, Wang Tao didn't give any explanation and just moved a few pieces quickly, how could amateur players understand it in such a short period of time!

"Beep—" The referee blew his whistle to signal the players to continue playing.

Wang Tao stood up and said, "It doesn't matter whether you can score goals by running the complete tactics on the court. The key is to understand what I just demonstrated." He smiled slightly at Li Yifan, "Li Yifan, you are No. 1!"

Li Yifan pulled up his sleeves and seemed to be thinking about something.

"What happened just now?" Jiang Dongyu ran over and asked in a low voice. "I'm asked to run tactics, but how do I run?"

"Didn't you understand?" Li Yifan asked back.

Jiang Dongyu blushed, "I just moved a few chess pieces so fast that I didn't see clearly..."

"I didn't understand either..." Zhang Shaolong shook his head slowly with a sullen face.

Wang Siyang sneered and said, "What the hell, just flick back and forth twice and let us run tactics?"

In Li Yifan's mind, however, he clearly remembered the positions of the chess pieces that Wang Tao placed just now.No, he didn't memorize this tactic by memorizing the position. He clearly saw the most essential part of this basic tactic, sinking to the bottom, pick and roll, and pulling out of space. Scenes of phantoms flashed magically in Li Yifan's head...

"Everyone, look at my hint." Li Yifan said with a slight smile.

"Okay!" The other four brothers nodded immediately.The youth training team has accumulated a certain degree of tacit understanding in the usual training. Li Yifan even uses certain eyes and gestures to express simple meanings.Since Li Yifan is so confident, the brothers have nothing to worry about.

Li Yifan dribbled the ball into his mouth and said: "Fatty Zhang, Jiang Dongyu, you go to the penalty area, Zhang Shaolong, Wang Siyang, you should stay a little outside and don't care how the opponent sets up."

Soon Fatty Zhang and Jiang Dongyu ran to both sides of the penalty area, while Zhang Shaolong and Wang Siyang also stood in parallel positions.They shrunk in the frontcourt like this, and the Angola team immediately shrunk their defense, leaving only Kakia in front of Li Yifan.Kakia knew it was difficult to guard the point guard, so he carefully kept a distance.

Li Yifan dribbled the ball with one hand, waved his left hand and shouted, "Jiang Dongyu!"

Jiang Dongyu was taken aback, thinking that Li Yifan was going to pick and roll and immediately ran to the top of the arc where Li Yifan was.At the same time, Li Yifan suddenly flew the basketball with his right hand towards Zhang Shaolong who saw the gesture just now and pulled it to the right side of the half court!
While passing the ball, Li Yifan immediately inserted into the penalty area diagonally from the left!

Pawn No. 1 sinks to the bottom. The No. 3 pawn pulls the edge. The top arc of the No. 4 pawn.

The movements of these three positions are completed almost instantaneously without any lagging behind each other.Although Jiang Dongyu thought he was going to set up a pick-and-roll for Li Yifan, when he ran to the top of the arc, he found that Li Yifan had already circled to the position where he was just now.

It was not only the players of the youth training team who were confused, but also the opponents.

Although Zhang Shaolong didn't know how to run when he received the ball, the situation on the court was clear at a glance: in front of him was Rory Zhang Fatty was next to Harris and Sloan Li Yifan had already run to Sloan's side Tang Shao was also chasing Li Yifan Wang Siyang on the side has not yet run, and Snowden is defending.

A chess piece shone brightly on the top arc—Jiang Dongyu!

Zhang Shaolong passed it on without hesitation, and at this moment Wang Tao smiled slightly!And the faces of the Angola team all changed, whether it was the players on the field, the bench players or the coach, their hearts suddenly thumped.They didn't understand how this player suddenly pulled out such a big gap!
Jiang Dongyu subconsciously accepted Zhang Shaolong's pass, but his head still didn't react and he was still thinking about doing a pick-and-roll for Li Yifan.It was too late, then the opportunity was fleeting, Sloan rushed over, and at the same time, Li Yifan's voice came: "Cast!"

Jiang Dongyu immediately took off to shoot, but Sloan also jumped up, which had a huge impact on the pitcher.

The basketball hit the hoop with a not-so-perfect arc and went to one side!Fatty Zhang probably didn't expect that Jiang Dongyu's shooting and rebounding in this place would be snatched by Harris smoothly!

"Go!" Kakia took the ball from Harris and Angola pushed forward!
"This ball is such a pity!" The assistant coach couldn't help sighing, "It's completely open, but Jiang Dongyu hesitated!"

Long Xun stared blankly.Wang Tao smiled and sat next to Long Xun as if he was talking to Long Xun but seemed to be responding to what the assistant coach said. "You can't ask the players to understand it all at once. Next time, even though Jiang Dongyu doesn't understand this tactic, he won't hesitate the next time he receives the ball."

"But" Long Xun said, "the other party will also notice this movement and they will pay more attention to it."

"It doesn't matter." Wang Tao smiled kindly, "Tactics need to be slowly understood in actual combat. The first time you can move and quickly find the shooting point, you have done a good job."

After hearing this, their eyes fell on Li Yifan.This young man who is a genius in heaven has such a strong comprehension ability. Under his instigation, he can succeed in the first tactical move!Long Xun couldn't help feeling jealous.When it comes to playing basketball, Li Yifan is the latest to contact him, but now he is ahead of many basketball veterans.

The Angola team got a chance to hit Wang Siyang by virtue of Snowden's strong hit, but they missed.

In this way, the two sides started to attack and defend again. Li Yifan dribbled the ball unhurriedly.This time, Jiang Dongyu cheered up completely and kept paying attention to Li Yifan's eyes and gestures.If there is another vacant seat like just now, he will not hesitate no matter what.

However, while the youth training team is learning, the opponent is also pondering.

Li Yifan waved his hand and Jiang Dongyu immediately pulled towards the top arc, but the ball passed to Zhang Shaolong's hands.It's exactly the same as before but Sloan has learned his lesson and followed Jiang Dongyu step by step.But this time the defense was not so smooth.

Li Yifan and Jiang Dongyu's reverse run just blocked Sloan's follow-up.Sloan caught up a moment after Jiang Dongyu caught the ball a beat later.Jiang Dongyu wanted to jump up and shoot immediately. Seeing that Sloan was so tight, he had to turn around to protect the ball.

At the same time, after Li Yifan reached the left side of the penalty area, he suddenly ran back with Wang Siyang, which caught Kakia who followed him off guard.Wang Siyang's awareness was good. Seeing Li Yifan running over, he immediately reversed into the penalty area and pulled Snowden away with him.

When Jiang Dongyu hesitated, he suddenly heard Li Yifan's voice: "This way!"

He turned his head and saw Li Yifan standing in a completely unguarded position!

The Angola team once again missed the situation, and the audience of the youth training team applauded, although no one understood what was going on.The assistant coach is quite basketball literacy, and soon realized that this time's running position is actually the same as the first time, except that one time is on the left and the other time is on the right, which is exactly the opposite.

(End of this chapter)