The True Colors of Youth Chapter 191 It’s time to pack your bags and go home
Long Xiaochuan was too optimistic.
This is a common problem among young people. They are always blindly optimistic and confident, thinking that they can reach out and touch the sky if they work hard.
In fact, there are many great talents in the world. In city-level competitions alone, there are opponents like the Longjiao team that are difficult to defeat. In the provincial trials, there are even more powerful teams. Every opponent is a mountain that they cannot overcome.
The Thunder's previous games were inspiring and high-profile. Many network anchors used their games as material to edit videos. Their technical and tactical characteristics have long been thoroughly studied by the outside world.
Whether it is Internet celebrities, basketball celebrities or ordinary viewers, they all think that they are a weak team that relies on luck to advance all the way. In the face of absolute strength, they will be ripped off the fig leaf and beaten by any team.
This prediction hurt morale, and Yu Zhengyi took the initiative to provoke public opinion confrontation.
He himself is not very bright, but with his good qualities of being righteous, he has made friends with and won over a large number of network anchors.
Everyone brainstormed how to build the image of the Thunder Team. Some came up with ideas, some wrote scripts, some provided video materials, and some were good at editing and making videos. A series of short videos were quickly produced - "We,
I’ve never been favored by anyone!》
The video is beautifully done, reviewing the journey, declaring determination to win, and packaging these farmers and small town youths into superheroes who can turn the tide.
However, reality soon hit him in the face.
The Thunder team made a lot of preparations for the first game. Liu Bo took everyone to study the opponent's game videos, familiarize themselves with the technical and tactical characteristics of the opposing players, simulated and practiced offensive and defensive routines, and assigned tasks from the main players to the substitutes. The arrangements were better than what Long Xiaochuan had done before.
It needs to be more detailed.
There were also many highlights during the game. Long Xiaochuan strictly implemented Liu Bo's tactics and focused on organizing the offense. Everyone on the team actively ran and cooperated with each other. Xue Zhuang, Shi Lang, and Du Gangnan on the inside also had exciting dunks and put-back dunks.
Performance.
The scores of both sides increased alternately in the first two quarters, and the balance of victory always remained balanced. However, as the game passed halfway, the physical strength and condition of the Thunder team members declined, and the decline gradually became apparent.
The turning point occurred during a careless pass. After Xue Zhuang grabbed the defensive rebound and raised the ball high to protect it, seeing that most of his opponents took the initiative to retreat, he took it for granted and handed it to Long Xiaochuan to organize.
Unexpectedly, there was a "Sixth" on the opposite side ambushing behind him, suddenly attacked to steal the ball and attacked the basket.
Xue Zhuang panicked and jumped to block the shot, giving his opponent a "two plus one".
After the point difference suddenly widened to 5 points, the Thunder team was eager to chase the points. Gao Fu's baseline serve was intercepted by the "old six" again.
The man attacked the basket again. Although the ball was kicked out of bounds by an angry Xue Zhuang, the ball was still in the hands of the opponent. They reorganized the attack and scored the ball.
Such continuous gifting broke the balance of the stalemate score and made the players mentally impatient. They made another passing error during the offense and the basketball was directly knocked out of bounds.
Liu Bo quickly called a timeout, scolded Xue Zhuang and Gao Fu with a high-decibel roar, and asked them to come off the field and reflect. He replaced Gong Zhengyang and Luo Gaozhan.
The game resumed, and the Thunder players held back their energy and pursued tenaciously, but every player on the opposite side was taller, faster, and more accurate than them. They also knew how to cut air, responded well, and cooperated. Once the point difference widened.
It will be difficult to catch up again.
After the final four quarters of the game, the score between the two sides was 58:64, and the Thunder lost.
At that time, Liu Bo also comforted everyone: "This game was well played. You are all tenacious fighters... This is your first time to participate in a high-level event in the province. It will be good if you can overcome the psychological pressure. Everyone still needs to learn how to do it."
Competition, learning how to play against strong teams, learning how to compete under high-intensity competition.”
He was very pertinent. After the game, he encouraged Xue Zhuang and Gao Fu alone and apologized for his previous angry gaffe.
Everyone quickly gathered their spirits and prepared for tomorrow's game. They made full preparations and just wanted to go all out and leave no regrets.
However, life will be unsatisfactory nine times out of ten, and it is the most difficult to not leave any regrets.
They thought of all the conventional playing methods, but they didn't expect that the opponent was strong and shameless. Knowing that the offensive and defensive fulcrum of the Thunder team was Xue Zhuang, the main center, they actually used the "Tian Ji Horse Racing" strategy at the beginning of the game.
Flagrant foul tactics.
They played a substitute player and deliberately gave Xue Zhuang an elbow while fighting for rebounds.
The corner of Xue Zhuang's eye burst and blood spilled on the spot.
Shi Lang and Xue Zhuang, who were brothers in love, immediately lost their minds, cursed and rushed forward to get entangled with the player.
The referee, team leaders, coaches, and players rushed to maintain order and stop the conflict. In the end, Xue Zhuang was rushed to the hospital to have his wounds stitched, and Shi Lang and the instigator on the opposite side were both expelled.
Liu Bo was furious and had no choice but to let Gong Zhengyang and Pan Lei play at the same time to replace Xue Zhuang and Shi Lang.
These two have obvious height disadvantages, and they can be used occasionally to great effect, but they are difficult to occupy the main position, and they are continuously targeted after they come on the field.
Pan Lei was tricked into "removing the stool" and fell to his knees, causing the whole audience to burst into laughter and losing face.
Gong Zhengyang was blocked so many times that he lost the courage to take a shot even when he got the ball under the basket.
Without the inside fulcrum, the Thunder team's recent main training of steady inside attack tactics cannot be used normally. The whole team is thrown back to its original shape, relying only on unstable outside shooting to try to open up the situation.
Good shooters are made through time and training. What these Thunder players lack is long-term systematic training. The average long-range shooting rate of 1 out of 5 is completely giving up victory to the opponent.
As the point difference widened to 20 points in the third quarter, the opposing team's coach was in a happy mood and made a five-for-five adjustment, using an all-substitute lineup to compete with the Thunder.
What a shame!
Long Xiaochuan was so angry that he no longer ignored Liu Bo's tactical arrangements and used his personal ability to make strong breakthroughs and shots, once narrowing the point difference to 10 points.
However, without Shi Lang and Xue Zhuang, the Thunder team's defensive shortcomings were too obvious. After the opponent's main lineup returned to the field, they once again lost the ability to chase points.
In the end, the Thunder lost their second consecutive game with a score of 67:79.
The atmosphere in the Thunder locker room was dull and scary, and everyone was like a powder keg ready to explode.
This game was a frustrating game. If Xue Zhuang had not been injured and if Shi Lang had not been expelled, based on the performance of the entire Thunder team, they would have had a chance to win the game!
The biggest regret in life is not "I can't", but "I could have"!
Now, what everyone is facing is not losing a game, but two consecutive losses and being eliminated from the group early. Even winning the last game is useless.
What's more, their next opponent is the favorite to win the championship in the province, a super strong team that is comparable to professional teams!
Luo Gaozhan, who always boasts of being "sober in the world," said dejectedly: "I see, we can pack our bags and get ready to go home."