King of shooting guards

Chapter 230 The world of genius

When they met for the third time, they were already in the National Youth Team, and Li Changgeng was itching with hatred because he was so triumphant after the plot succeeded.At this time, he was already Li Changgeng's coach, but the image in Li Changgeng's heart was still that of a bad middle-aged uncle with a slovenly face and always a naughty smile.

The coach should be steady and serious, not a wise old man with white hair but also a majestic middle-aged man.Of course, Coach Tao Ran's "Li Changgeng is the authority with the big stick in his hand" is somewhat exaggerated.But no matter what, you can't be a bad middle-aged man!

When the national youth team saw Li Zheng again, compared with Geng Xiangzhi Li Changgeng sighed more than once: How can there be such an uncoordinated father and son in the world? Did God reverse their father-son relationship when they created things?It may be more believable if Li Zheng is the coach!

Due to his absence from school due to injury, Li Changgeng didn't have time to make friends.Apart from Sima Shenji, he doesn't have anyone with deep feelings that can be called a friend.But to this unscrupulous middle-aged uncle who had only met three times before, he was as kind as an old friend.

To this day, Geng Xiangzhi's image of a bad middle-aged man is still firmly standing.But after today, Sima Shenji has brought everything down. For the first time, Li Changgeng saw the other side of the old man, and also felt Geng Xiangzhi's meticulous care for him for the first time.

At this moment, while Li Changgeng's heart was churning, his nose was always sour.

At some point, he finally realized that it was very late.Close your eyes, mobilize the zhenqi in your body to circulate, and soon after that, you will snore softly like Sima Shenji.

The next morning, the Chinese youth team was stationed.

In the training ground of the National Youth Team, the players are doing light recovery training under the leadership of the team's assistant coach.Tonight, the China Youth Team will usher in their second rematch opponent, Slovenia.

Geng Xiangzhi, who left the job to the assistant coach, sat on a chair beside the field, crossing his legs comfortably, and didn't feel ashamed of his lazy behavior at all.

Li Changgeng, holding a basketball, appeared in front of him, and Geng Xiangzhi raised his head with a smile: "What's the matter?"

"Seeing how idle you are, come and train with Li Changgeng!"

Geng Xiangzhi stared and said, "Chang Geng, you seem to have forgotten that Li Changgeng is the coach!"

Throwing the basketball to Geng Xiangzhi head-on, he said, "Please come and train with Li Changgeng, coach! Is this okay?" Although Li Changgeng used honorifics, Li Changgeng winked without showing any sense of awe.

Geng Xiangzhi knew that it was impossible to see the same awe as others from Chang Geng's face in front of him, so he grabbed the basketball resentfully: "Let's go!"

Geng Xiangzhi's reaction seemed to make Li Changgeng confirm something, he immediately put on a wide-eyed smile, and walked in front of Geng Xiangzhi.

Sima Shenji, who was stretching his body in the stadium, saw this scene, and a smile flashed in his eyes.

At [-]:[-] p.m. local time in China, the match between China Youth Team and Slovenia at the World Youth Championship stadium is about to begin.After defeating Australia, the China Youth Team has become the biggest dark horse in this World Youth Championship.The other teams in the quarterfinals that may encounter the China Youth Team have to face up to the threat of the China Youth Team.In this game, apart from the Australian team, which had already played against the Chinese youth team, other teams sent people to observe.

Chinese and overseas Chinese accounted for a huge proportion of the audience in the stands.The continuous miraculous performance of the Chinese youth team greatly encouraged them. It is the choice of many Chinese after get off work to cheer for the motherland team.At this time, domestic fans are already waiting in front of the TV.During the continuous creation period, the China Youth Team has surprised the fans again and again. No one will demand that the China Youth Team can continue to win this game, but it is not that no one expects the China Youth Team to continue to create miracles.

Everyone is waiting for the game to start.

When the middle youth team members appeared on the stadium, warm applause resounded throughout the stadium, and audiences with oriental faces waved the five-star red flag vigorously.

The young and middle-aged players on the court looked up and looked around the court. Such a lively scene was beyond their expectations, and what was even more surprising was that they could see so many familiar faces in a foreign country.

Li Changgeng looked at Sima Shenji's enthusiastic waving to the stands, and asked wonderingly, "Is there anyone you know in the audience?"

"No, no one else knows who Li Changgeng is waving to anyway."

Damn, Li Changgeng suddenly felt fainted.

Slovenia's team also played after the Chinese youth team.Like the Australian team in the previous match, Slovenia's team members are all white players.However, they are the real European team.In the World Youth Championship two years ago, the China Youth Team lost to them 78:87, which completely shattered the hope of entering the quarterfinals.Nowadays, many players in this Chinese youth team can still recognize a few familiar faces from the opponent's lineup.

Judging from the record of the previous champions, they are obviously not as good as the last champion Australia, but they are obviously much stronger than the last No.3 of the China Youth Team.In this year's World Youth Championship, like the Chinese youth team, they also entered the quarterfinals with two wins and one loss.They have already lost to the European champion Lithuania in the first game of the rematch. They must win this game if they want to retain their hope of advancing.

Although the Chinese youth team has been a dark horse and has been triumphant all the way and even defeated the previous champion, but both fans and basketball legends still think that the Slovenian team is still slightly better than the Chinese youth team in terms of strength.However, the Chinese youth team has just defeated the previous champion and has high morale, and it is also determined to win this game.Considering various factors, the final consensus of the fans and the media is that both sides will win and lose.

The Chinese youth team can't care about other people's opinions. Winning the game before us is more important than anything else.

For the lineup, Geng Xiangzhi sent Sima Shenji, Li Zheng, Song Liuming, Li Zhenhua and Deng Yu, and Li Changgeng was still sitting on the bench.

The Slovenian team is known for its accurate outside shots, and their previous victories in the past few games have been defeated by abnormal three-point shooting.The loss to Lithuania was also due to the sudden failure of their outside sights.The Chinese team's old rivals in Asia, South Korea, are also famous for their outside three-point shooting, but they are obviously much inferior to Slovenia.Not only is the hit rate not as abnormal as the opponent, but the strength of the inside line is even more difficult to compare with the opponent.Although Slovenia is an outside team, they also have tall players with outstanding strength inside.

After the referee blows the whistle, the game really begins.

Because Li Changgeng, the core figure of the tactics, sat on the sidelines, the China Youth Team gave up the fast and furious attack and adopted the traditional tactics of steady and steady.Li Zheng still controls the rhythm of the game on the court. After receiving the jump ball from Song Liuming, Li Zheng controlled the rhythm of the game and steadily pushed the ball into the opponent's half.

Song Liuming and Li Zhenhua on the inside play important positions on the inside, and occasionally go outside to cover for their teammates. Sima Shenji, who is free on the inside and outside, is still the team's offensive focus. He is always ready to receive the pass from his teammates and send the ball into the basket.Although the backcourt formed by Deng Yu and Li Zheng lacked the aura of Li Changgeng, it was stable enough to ensure that the ball was safely delivered to the frontcourt.

Li Zhenhua, who cooperated with the pass and the inside line several times, missed the basket with a shot from outside the penalty area and was rebounded by the opponent. The first attack of the China Youth Team ended in failure.

Offensive and defensive changes, Slovenia's neat three-pointer from the outside made the Chinese youth team see their outside strength.

0:3.Such a score seems to herald a bad start for the China Youth Team. "Touch!" Sima Shenji's shot landed on the basket, "Touch!" Song Liuming's hook arc was too straight, and it flew directly to the backboard and bounced back, "Touch!" It was Sima Shenji's shot again, this time After the basketball bounced off the rim and spun on the rim for a long time, it still popped out of the rim.

On the other hand, Slovenia, "Shua!" made a three-pointer, "Shua, Shua!" The inside center hit the basket, and "Shua" was another three-pointer.

One and a half minutes into the start, the score was 0:11, a start that couldn't have been worse.

Four guards who are good at passing, fast, and extremely accurate three-pointers, plus a center with strong inside strength, this combination is definitely an abnormal combination.For the defensive side, this is definitely a very headache opponent.The situation on the pitch clearly illustrates this point.After Slovenia's continuous shots from the outside line into the frame, the China Youth Team was forced to expand the defensive area and pull out to mark the defense.Facing the outside marking defense of the China Youth Team, Slovenia's skillful dismantling of the screen can pass the ball to the inside without forming a gap for shooting.The Chinese youth team defended heavily on the outside, and the inside line was naturally weak. When the ball was passed to the inside line, it almost formed a one-on-one singles situation.In singles close to the basket, the offensive side of two players with equal strength has an absolute advantage. Within 1 minute, Slovenia made three of four three-pointers, and scored eleven points in a blink of an eye after adding a rebound under the basket.

On the other hand, the CY team's own offense seems to have suddenly lost the sight of shooting, long-range shots, mid-range shots, and hooks at the basket. They have not made one of the four shots, and they have one of their own pass errors.

It is impossible for any Chinese youth team fan to watch such an opening without worrying.All eyes on the court were cast on Geng Xiangzhi on the sidelines, and the camera of the TV broadcast was also aimed at Geng Xiangzhi at this time.

At this time, we should pause to stop the opponent's momentum. Even if we don't pause, we should replace Li Changgeng.Even the most amateur can see that the gap can no longer be allowed to widen.

Geng Xiangzhi seemed to have heard the voices of the crowd, called a timeout, and changed players after the timeout.But it wasn't Deng Yu who was replaced, and it wasn't Li Changgeng who was replaced.

Sima's magic machine is off, and Ge Tianbao is on.

Ge Tianbao?Who is Ge Tianbao?The audience looked at each other, is he stronger than Li Changgeng?

The Slovenian coach looked down at the survey data of the China Youth Team: Ge Tianbao played 15 minutes in four games and scored six points!That's it?That's it.

Compared with the ignorance of foreign audiences, domestic fans still know a little about Ge Tianbao: Ge Tianbao, a shooting guard who was selected for the last National Youth Team, is an excellent three-point shooter.

that is all?

that is all!

What about more specific data?Maybe only Geng Xiangzhi has it in his heart.

When Geng Xiangzhi selected this year's national youth players, due to tactical reasons, he had very strict overall technical requirements.I can't wait for everyone to be an all-round fighter who can break through, pass, shoot, singles, impact, rebound, score and organize offense.Such a requirement is naturally too harsh, but this shows the overall technical requirements of his players.The final selected players are indeed as he expected, and they are relatively comprehensive technically.But there is one exception - Ge Tianbao!

In the position of guard, Ge Tianbao is not fast enough, jumps high enough, is not as good as Li Changgeng in ball control, and not as good as Li Zheng in passing, let alone his singles ability.But in the end, Geng Xiangzhi still put him in the list of the last sixteen official players of the National Youth Team.Why?
Because he is indeed a very good pitcher.Ge Tianbao's characteristic is very obvious and prominent, that is, shooting three-pointers.In terms of shooting three-pointers alone, even Li Changgeng is slightly inferior to him.His psychological quality is very stable (or very slow), without the big ups and downs of ordinary people, and most of the time he will not lose his touch.

With such an excellent three-point shooter, why did Geng Xiangzhi put him on the bench before?Could it be for the so-called surprise soldiers again?

No, Geng Xiangzhi is not the kind of person who puts his trump card on the bench and watches other people's arrogance.Having Li Changgeng on the bench against the Chinese team already made him very depressed. How could he do such a thing a second time?
Just like his strengths, Ge Tianbao's shortcomings are also very obvious and very prominent-except for shooting, his other skills are very ordinary.He is the kind of player who takes the opportunity to pass the ball to him and he is responsible for shooting. However, in Geng Xiangzhi's tactics, the player at the shooting guard position should be a player like Li Changgeng who can organize offenses and score by himself.Even if there is no Li Changgeng, he should be as good at passing the ball as Deng Yu and creating gaps for his teammates.

It can be said that Ge Tianbao and Geng Xiangzhi's tactics are completely incompatible.But as I said before, Geng Xiangzhi is not a coach who is obsessed with tactics, and changing tactics at the right time may be able to achieve miraculous results.

like now.

Ge Tianbao came on stage.

Li Zheng passed the ball, Li Zhenhua came out to the outside line, used it as a screen, and the ball was passed to Ge Tianbao - no one was defending in front. "Crack!" The basketball that landed on the basket bounced high and high. Song Liuming caught the basketball with both hands and waved the ball to the three-pointer. Deng Yu caught the ball and handed it to Ge Tianbao again. hands.Catch the ball, raise your hand, shoot the basket, "Shua!" The crisp sound of entering the net, the ball is scored!

As Geng Xiangzhi saw, Ge Tianbao has a fairly stable shooting percentage, and he can score one out of two shots like this.

50.00%, enough!

Can Slovenia consistently hit 50.00% of their [-]-point shots?Even if Geng Xiangzhi was killed, he would not believe it.

After the substitution, the China Youth Team scored quickly, and the situation on the field began to change as Geng Xiangzhi expected.It is impossible for Slovenia to maintain such a terrifying hit rate all the time.Once the shot is missed, the Zhongqing team, which has an advantage inside, can basically guarantee defensive rebounds.The Zhongqing team, which caught the rebound, was not in a hurry to attack, and passed the ball to Li Zheng to stabilize the rhythm.

When it was the turn of the China Youth Team to attack, the China Youth Team took a clear-cut tactic with Ge Tianbao as the core of the offense, dismantling the cover and passing the ball to Ge Tianbao. Every time Ge Tianbao faced no one at this time Defensive basket, the three-point maniac will not be soft at this time. "Shua, Shua" pierced Slovenia's basket twice in a row from outside the three-point line.After doing this twice in a row, for the third time, Slovenia finally gave up on this trick. When the outside line once again made a stance as a cover, Slovenia finally had an inside defender come out to help defend.But at this time, the basketball in Li Zheng's hand was passed to Song Liuming's under the basket, and he hit the opponent single-handedly under the basket, "Boom!" When he dunked with one hand, Song Liuming let out a bad breath.

11:, the score gap narrowed to five points.

This is the effect Geng Xiangzhi needs, mobilizing the opponent's defense with the same outside three-pointer, and then sending the ball into the basket with the same inside attack.Such a combination of inside and outside lines seems to be the same as the opponent's tactics, but in fact there are too many loopholes in the China Youth Team.

It doesn't matter if there are loopholes, Geng Xiangzhi only needs to catch the opponent by surprise in a short period of time to recover the score.In the 8th minute of the first half, the score was 17:23. The Slovenian team, who saw through Geng Xiangzhi’s tricks, was ready to take the opportunity to counterattack. At this time, the China Youth Team adjusted their tactics again. Ge Tianbao, who had completed his mission, was replaced by Sima Shenji.Sima Shenji was also on the stage at the same time as Li Changgeng--the one who was replaced by him was naturally Deng Yu.

So far, Geng Xiangzhi's tactical goal in the first stage has been fully achieved - to control the score and win the opportunity for Li Changgeng to play.

After Li Changgeng came on the field, the Zhongqing team quickly resumed their fast and furious attack.Li Changgeng interspersed with the fast breakthrough pass inside and outside, and the other players used the cover to quickly move to involve the opponent's defense.The basketball moved quickly in the hands of the Chinese youth team, and the Slovenian players were exhausted from left and right to help defend and fill positions.

Sima Shenji and Li Changgeng were the most eye-catching pair on the court.Li Changgeng's just-right pass time after time always allows Sima Shenji to receive the ball at the most comfortable position and at the most appropriate time. At this time, Sima Shenji will not be soft, and he just returned to the court after feeling poor. He seems to have found the crosshairs all at once, long shots from the outside, mid-range shots from the inside, layups and dunks near the penalty area, and the scoring skills that forward players should master are vividly displayed on him.

Naturally, the other players couldn't fail to see that Sima Shenji's hands were hot at this time, and there was no need for Geng Xiangzhi on the sidelines to remind him.

In this way, the China Youth Team took Li Changgeng as the core of their tactics and Sima Shenji as the center of attack, quickly changing the situation on the court, and the gap in the score quickly narrowed, and even overtook them at the end of the first quarter.

Naturally, the Slovenian coach would not allow the China Youth Team to change the situation of the game just like this, but his continuous changes in defensive tactics could not stop the China Youth Team from counterattacking.Moreover, once a team that uses shooting as its main offensive method is disrupted by the opponent, it is almost predictable that the shooting percentage will drop sharply.The Slovenian coach has tried his best to maintain his offensive momentum so that the gap in the score will not be further widened by the China Youth Team.

Like a strategic strategist, Geng Xiangzhi sitting on the sidelines firmly controlled the situation of the game.Ge Tianbao's playing can be called a surprise soldier, and the tactics of the China Youth Team after Li Changgeng and Sima Shenji returned to the court are dignified and upright soldiers.After the China Youth Team's consecutive games, Geng Xiangzhi's new tactics are no longer a secret. I believe that the Slovenian coach must have watched the videos of the China Youth Team's previous games and studied the strategy to crack Geng Xiangzhi's tactics.However, the game in the first quarter clearly told everyone: the situation of the game will not change because of this.

The upright tactics are in front of you, to destroy your defense, and to send the basketball into your basket!

This is the proof of strength!

Just like war, if you don't have the strength, you can honestly carry out guerrilla warfare, and you can only fight on a large scale if you save enough capital.

The current Chinese youth team has already saved enough capital to compete head-on with the world's top teams.

Geng Xiangzhi has never believed that the shooting level of Chinese players is worse than that of foreign players, but it is an indisputable fact that Chinese players "can't" shoot in the world arena.A large part of the reason is that Chinese players have ingrained the concept of "we are a weak team" in their psychology for too long.

And now, the members of the China Youth Team with consecutive victories finally have the confidence to challenge the world basketball.

In the second quarter of the game, the Slovenian team replaced a defender and added a tall center forward inside.After adjusting the personnel, the Slovenian team hopes to curb the speed of the Chinese youth team by stabilizing the inside line.In fact, with their original lineup on the field, although there are four guards, their stature is not lower than that of the average forward.With an average height of nearly two meters, Li Changgeng on the China Youth Team almost became a dwarf.

The Slovenian coach changed his tactics, and Geng Xiangzhi here will naturally not do nothing.Just like playing chess, you move first to Li Changgeng and then the other, with all the chess pieces in front of you, the competition is to see who is better at chess.

The Slovenian coach changed his tactics, and Geng Xiangzhi here will naturally not do nothing.Just like playing chess, you move first to Li Changgeng and then the other, with all the chess pieces in front of you, the competition is to see who is better at chess.

The strength of the inside line of the China Youth Team was not weak. Geng Xiangzhi did not make any personnel adjustments, but only adjusted the offensive routine, and at the same time let Li Changgeng increase the number of shots.

The tactics are arranged, and the rest depends on the performance of the players on the court.In fact, the performance of the players on both sides was very good. Throughout the second quarter, the two sides came and went, and the left and right baskets were pierced by basketballs again and again.By the end of the second quarter, the gap in points had neither widened nor narrowed.The three-point gap was maintained until the end of the first half.

(End of this chapter)