Chapter 895 Establishment of Tactics

At the end of July, Li Liang arrived in the southern hemisphere, Brazil, Sao Paulo, the capital of the state of Sao Paulo, with the Chinese team.

Before heading to Rio, the Chinese team will have their final warm-up match here - the Brazil Super Challenge.

The participating teams are Australia, Lithuania, the host Brazil and the Chinese team.

Although it is located in the southern hemisphere, theoretically speaking, it should be winter in Brazil in July and August.

However, most of Brazil is located in the tropics, and the weather in July and August is cool and dry, which is a good time for sports.

São Paulo is the largest and most prosperous city in Brazil. Li Liang is well-informed and has been to many places, but this is the first time he has come to the country of Samba to experience the enthusiasm of the people here for sports.

I thought that in the country of football, Li Liang's arrival would not attract too much attention, but unexpectedly, Li Liang is still a well-known celebrity here.

Li Liang was very surprised by this. When shopping on the street, people would recognize him and ask for his autograph. Am I so famous?

In fact, in big South American countries like Argentina and Brazil, although the popularity of basketball is much lower than that of football, overall the influence is still very large.

Like Brazil, the most well-known football stars are of course football superstars like Pele and Ronaldo. Their status in the country is at the level of national heroes.

In the basketball world, Brazil has also produced many great players.

For example, Barbosa and Varejao, who play in the NBA, are both the main players of the NBA team.

In history, they also had a super scorer like Oscar Schmidt, the "Holy Hand" who averaged 42 points per game in the 1988 Seoul Olympics, with a total score of 1093 points in the Olympics and more than 49,000 points in his career.

If Li Liang wins only one championship, he will be well known among basketball fans.

When he won two championships, some sports fans who don't watch basketball very much will start to know him.

When he won three championships, people began to talk about him.

And when he won four championships, his advertisements began to spread all over the world.

Later, when Li Liang went to the street and found that Under Armour's advertisements were hung in several places, and his big profile picture appeared there, he finally understood why so many people knew him.

On the night of the 31st, at the Sao Paulo Stadium, the Chinese team ushered in the first opponent of the Brazilian Super Challenge, the Australian kangaroos.

In May of this year, the Chinese team played a warm-up match with the Australian team, and the Chinese team won.

But the so-called Australia is not the national team at all, but the so-called Australian professional team.

It's like the "American professional team" that China sometimes plays.

Find some strong players from the local league, piece them together, form a team, and then organize a warm-up with the national team.

The players of this kind of team are not capable personally, and they are put together improvised, with mediocre tactics and discipline.

The main reason for them to compete is to get money. They don't have any sense of collective honor, and they leave after the fight.

This kind of competition is similar to "beating foreigners in the arena". I don't know where to invite two foreign strongmen to compete with Chinese martial artists. After beating them hard, they won the applause of the Chinese people.

But in fact, tactical training is almost meaningless to improve the overall strength of the team. Pure exercise is really a warm-up match.

In the past two years, China has really played a lot of this kind of games.

After Yao Ming came to power, he will gradually put an end to such meaningless games, and allow the national team and players to engage in a higher level of confrontation.

And tonight's match against Australia is the genuine Australian national team.

They have powerful NBA players like Bogut, Baynes, Ingles, and Dellavedova, and their strength is quite strong.

Still the same sentence, without Li Liang, the current Chinese team will win if they lose within 10 points against any strong team.

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The first match of the Chinese team in the Olympic Games is scheduled for August 7, and the first opponent is the United States.

There is still a week before the official start of the Olympic Games, and the Chinese team is also taking the time to carry out the final warm-up integration.

After two rounds of "battle" with the US team, Gong Luming has clearly felt that if the Chinese team wants to achieve good results in the Olympics, they must closely unite around the team center centered on Li Liang.

It is necessary to implement the tactical play of one shot and four grabs in order to maximize strengths and avoid weaknesses, and compete with European and American teams.

In the game against Australia on the 31st, the Chinese team actually defeated the Australian team.

The important reason is that Gong Luming basically gave up the idea of ​​playing other tactics.

Anyway, the Chinese team didn't have any effective tactics.

Generally, the point guard holds the ball across half court, and then starts to perform meaningless lateral pours from the outside.

Generally, after two or three transmissions, the opponent's defense did not change, because they did not feel any threat, and began to try to pass the ball in.

If you can get in, hit one. If you can't get in, whoever has the ball on the outside line will try to shoot one.

If you rush in, the opponent shrinks, and when you pass out, you can shoot as soon as you can, and you can't shoot again.

If the opponent doesn't shrink, just throw one by yourself, and if you can't throw it in, grab it.

Anyway, it is such a set of very simple things.

It's not that Director Gong has nothing in his stomach, it's that the players can't play other things.

In the face of strong teams, the simpler the better.

Now there is an easier one, hand the ball to Li Liang to handle.

In the game against Australia, Li Liang fully demonstrated his cancer demeanor.

It's just floating outside and throwing three-pointers crazily. The extremely simple and rude shots are unreasonable.

In this game, Li Liang made an astonishing 19 three-pointers and hit 8 of them.

The hit rate reached 42%.

You know, none of these 19 three-point shots were open, and none of them were shots after receiving the ball.

It was all Li Liang who was outside, facing at least one player's defense, two steps away from the three-point line, and made a forced shot.

Except for the three-pointer, Li Liang gave up the mid-range, and all breakthroughs at the basket ended with emergency stop jump shots. His shots were extremely simple and efficient.

There is no way, Li Liang is a piece of good steel, and good steel must be used for the blade - scoring.

Li Liang scored another 40 points this time, helping the Chinese team beat Australia by 8 points, 97:89.

Then on August 2, against the host Brazil.

Li Liang still played the same way, just throwing three-pointers from the outside.

As long as your defensive number is less than or equal to two, he is likely to choose to throw outside by himself.

With such a large number of shots, it is still very scary to guarantee a 40% three-point shooting rate.

He not only provided enough points for the Chinese team, consumed enough ball rights, but also made it easier for his teammates to play.

Reduced mistakes in offense and allowed teammates to devote more energy to defense.

In this way, there is a clear division of labor between Li Liang and his teammates, I will attack and you will defend.

Then there is Yi Jianlian, who can help Li Liang to share when needed.

So in the game against Brazil, the Chinese team still played well. Although they fell behind in the start, in the third quarter Li Liang chased back the points with a wave of three-pointers.

In the fourth quarter, the Brazilian team was a bit confused, but the Chinese team played better and better.

In addition to Li Liangneng scoring goals, he also assisted his teammates to score consecutively.

At the critical moment of the fourth quarter, Zhao Jiwei's heart, when Li Liang was double-teamed by three people, caught the ball and hit a three-pointer!

This goal helped the Chinese team to establish the victory.

In the last game of the Super Challenge, Lithuania defeated the Australian team and won the third place in this challenge.

The Chinese team won the first place in the challenge.

So far, the Chinese national team has played all the warm-up matches before the start of the Olympic Games.

The tactics of the Chinese team have been readjusted and finalized in just two months.

Now, from the fans to the leaders in China, everyone has begun to place high hopes on this men's basketball team.

On August 3, the whole team will go to Rio to prepare for the Olympic Games which will start on August 7.

On August 7th, their first opponent was the most powerful American team.

The first two warm-ups were disastrous, and this is back to the main game, and the US team must be taught a lesson.