The True Colors of Youth Chapter 165: The group draws the lottery
Boss Du treated the players with kindness and power, and then went back to the bank to harvest the big boss who was familiar with them.
But what he never expected was that his every move had already been monitored.
This man is Wang Meng, the highly respected football king in the Qiandong region!
The Tomahawk Arena is the holy land of basketball in the hearts of Gandong people. Many of the basketball players Du Qiu has won over have been favored by Wang Meng, so any troubles in the local basketball circle cannot escape the eyes and ears of this "Gandong James".
Playing games has always been Tomahawk Arena's most profitable revenue business.
However, the Tomahawks' strength in the Qiandong region is outstanding. The field games they participate in are all high-end games between regions, and they never get involved in the bounty games at the spotlight stadium.
Wang Meng knew about Michael Du, the manager of the baseball game, but he "didn't like him".
Of course Du Qiu knew Wang Meng very well, but he couldn't reach him.
Over the years, the two of them have kept up with each other and made money in different subdivisions, with almost no overlap.
But this time it's different.
"Village Basketball" has become a national competition with an official background. It is a great opportunity for Tomahawk Arena to expand its influence, enhance the arena's people-friendly image, participate in culture to benefit the people, and increase daily reception.
Therefore, Wang Meng will never allow wild ball game managers like Du Qiu to interfere randomly and tarnish the popular entertainment event of "Village Basketball"!
In order not to alert others, he did not leak the news to anyone but reminded Long Xiaochuan to be careful and not to get injured in the group stage.
Long Xiaochuan has no doubt that he is there: "I will pay attention. If our opponents in the group stage are not strong, we will definitely advance."
Wang Meng has inexplicable confidence in him: "I believe in you, even if you can't qualify, you won't let me down, but please remember, don't show off and don't get hurt!"
Long Xiaochuan gave him a thumbs up.
He and his teammates have made up their mind to fight every game in the future as a battle of life and death. Even if they lose, they must lose with integrity. Only by exerting their tenacious fighting spirit can more people pay attention to themselves and pay attention to them. Thunder Town only has a small chance to become the host of the next competition.
Similar to the schedule of the county competition, the municipal competition also adopts a group round-robin format, with 16 teams divided into four groups each, with a total of four groups ABCD.
The first three days are group matches, with the top two teams in each group advancing to the second round.
After the group stage, there will be a day off, and then the 8 teams will compete in cross-match, and the winner will advance to the semi-finals.
There will also be a rest day before the semi-finals, and the four promoted teams will determine their rankings through cross-match competitions.
On the last day, the two teams decided on the championship and the runner-up, and also qualified to represent Qiandong City in the provincial competition.
Yu Yan was very lucky in the draw this time. The three opponents of the Thunder team in the same group were all teams from other counties and cities, namely the Zhuxi Town representative team of Lijiang County, the Beigu County Coal Mine representative team, and the Huaishan County Tea Team. Township representative team.
Everyone joked that her fortune turned out to be good and she got the "highest number".
Because these three teams ranked second in their local county competition, there are no particularly famous grassroots stars, and they have never had any outstanding results in previous games. According to Shi Lang's intelligence, their level is about the same as Shimen Town is almost the same.
The Thunder team had a hard time beating the Shimen team last time, but they won in the end. After their recent improvement in strength, beating them will be even easier.
Therefore, the whole team is very optimistic and relaxed. Pan Lei even made bold words to let them taste the power of "Mixian Barkley" and achieve a "double-double" record in double digits in rebounds and blocks.
Luo Gaozhan and Sun Changxing complained about him in a supportive manner: "I think it was a mistake. The number of strikes must be in the ten digits for a 'double-double' record!"
They joked casually, but they raised the competitive spirit of everyone on the team.
This is a city-wide competition. As long as you perform well enough, it's easy to earn a resounding nickname recognized by the city.
In this world of wild football, who doesn’t want to be like the great gods like Wang Meng, Long Zaiyuan, and Zhang Yan and get their own exclusive title?
Shi Lang, Xue Zhuang, and Gong Zhengyang are all searching for a nickname that suits them.
Yang Yaye looked at Long Xiaochuan flatteringly: "Brother, what do you want to be called?"
Long Xiaochuan was still looking down at his opponent, and was confused when he heard this: "What?"
"The nicknames are like Uncle Yuan's 'Gandong Lone Wolf', Wang Meng's 'Gandong James', and Zhang Yan's 'Gandong Antetokounmpo'. How handsome!"
"Oh, I didn't think about it."
Long Xiaochuan has always put his energy into leading the team to win, and has never cared about the false reputation of these individuals who have committed the second disease.
Yang Yaye turned to look at Pan Lei and others: "You haven't given him a nickname? For example, 'Gandong Paul' or 'Gandong Owen'?"
Luo Gaozhan teased: "You want to rebel? That's your brother-in-law, our Dragon Team. What's your nickname? Let's just call him Brother Chuan!"
Pan Lei even regarded Long Xiaochuan as his belief: "Yes, Brother Chuan does not need a nickname, 'Qiandong Long Xiaochuan' is the loudest golden sign!"
Long Xiaochuan waved his hands and smiled: "Stop being ridiculous, we are a whole, the Thunder Team, there is no need to do any personal image packaging. Study your opponents quickly, they can stand out from the whole county, they must have two brushes, be careful tomorrow Capsized in the gutter."
He didn't want to force himself into a desperate situation again because of losing to Wu Tao like in the county competition.
Thinking of the competition with Shimen Town for first place in the group in the county competition and the pressure of desperately chasing points in the last quarter, Shi Lang, Pan Lei and others also became serious.
They still divided their work to collect the opponent's game videos, hung folding books on the wall, carefully arranged offensive and defensive simulation drills before the game, and figured out the technical characteristics and tactical routines of the opponent's players.
What is different from the past is that this time everyone spends more time analyzing the opponent's game video. Everyone takes it seriously, predicts the opponent's next move, finds weaknesses, and finds faults, so as to improve the performance of their opponents. The players touched it clearly.
With this clearer and more accurate information, everyone will be more confident when simulating tomorrow's game process, and can add a lot of predictions.
Until this moment, no one really realized how important the golf business class of the previous two days was.
It’s hard to say that we haven’t cooperated on the offensive end, but with our current defensive awareness, we can at least save the team from conceding five goals!
However, defense alone does not guarantee victory.
Just as Long Xiaochuan worried, when it comes to municipal competitions, every team is no longer a fuel-saving lamp, and the teams next door are also carefully studying their technical and tactical play.
The Thunder's weird and eccentric tactics have long been studied thoroughly, such as Long Xiaochuan's breakthrough corridor, Yang Yaye's three-point shooting, Pan Lei's pick-and-roll, Shi Lang's face-mounted smash, Xue Zhuang's Everyone has special countermeasures for protecting the rim, etc., and even Luo Gaozhan's Lao Liu stealing the ball.
If Long Xiaochuan and the others still play the same old way, they are destined to suffer the bitter fruit of failure in this game.