On the second day of the U17 World Youth Championship, the Chinese team played against the Australian team.
Due to yesterday's victory, the players of the Chinese National Youth Team were extremely excited. They were all gearing up during the opening warm-up, as if they were eager to try.
The only one without a smile on his face was Tang Qian.
Because he knew that this game would end in a disastrous defeat for the Chinese National Youth Team, and they would lose by as much as 37 points.
But he couldn't say this to anyone. Of course, under the current situation, even if he said it, no one would believe it.
There is no suspense. Tang Qian was sitting at the end of the bench just like he did against the Egyptian team in the previous game. Looking at this, Li Qiuping had completely forgotten about the high school MVP of this "amateur league".
Chinese team starting lineup: Zhao Jiwei, Heng Yifeng, Liu Delong, Zhou Qi, Liu Bo.
Compared with the previous game, only one member of the starting five, Xu Ziyang, changed.
This is a substitution made by Li Qiuping based on the characteristics of the Australian team, because compared to Xu Ziyang, Liu Delong is taller, and the latter's independent offensive ability is better than the former. To deal with the tall Australians,
, sending Liu Delong as the starter is undoubtedly more threatening.
However, although Li Qiuping's consideration was good, Tang Qian knew that this specific substitution did not achieve the expected results.
Beep~~~
At the beginning of the first quarter, the Chinese team's tactics did not change. Zhao Jiwei lobbed the ball to Zhou Qi, who quickly found an opening and scored two points. However, the Australian team was not the weak Egyptian team. Facing Zhou Qi, their inside line was completely useless.
Not showing any weakness, they used their own Australian strength to defeat Zhou Qi three times in a row. After doing this, the Chinese team, which seemed to have the inside advantage, was instantly stunned, because although Zhou Qi was high, in terms of strength alone, he was far inferior.
These big Australian guys.
Seeing this, Li Qiuping quickly commanded from the sidelines: "Launch an attack from the outside and use breakthroughs to tear apart their defense!"
After receiving Li Qiuping's instructions, Zhao Jiwei, who was in possession of the ball, immediately changed his appearance, and then took advantage of his unpreparedness to go straight to the inside and score two points with a one-handed layup. However, Zhao Jiwei's two points did not help the Chinese team reverse the situation at all.
, instead stimulated the ferocity of the Australians. In the next four minutes, the Chinese team did not score a single point, but the Australian team played vigorously and continuously scored points on the Chinese team's basket.
A small climax of 11 to 0.
This situation forced Li Qiuping to call for a short pause.
"Don't panic, follow the training tactics. Although they are powerful, we also have the advantage of height, so we don't need to be too afraid of each other."
"The next ball passed through the top of the arc with Zhao Jiwei, and then Liu Delong went to the line for a pick-and-roll. After breaking in, he passed the ball to the inside. We scored two points first and stabilized the situation."
The members of the Chinese National Youth Team nodded one after another, because at this moment, they felt that the Australian team was strong. Compared with their previous opponent Egypt, they were not at the same level at all.
When the whistle blew, Li Qiuping's tactics worked. Through the cooperation of Zhao Jiwei and Liu Delong, Zhou Qi got an opportunity to score easily under the basket. The latter licked the basket and put the ball into the Australian team's basket.
Then, throughout the second half of the quarter, the Chinese team failed to score another point.
At the end of the first quarter, it was ten to thirty, directly behind by twenty points.
A heavy atmosphere began to quietly spread among the Chinese National Youth Team.
At the beginning of the second quarter, Zhao Jiwei forced a breakthrough and used the opponent's thugs to foul and score two free throws. However, just ten seconds later, he was pushed back by the Australian defender and made a quick counterattack. The two hard-earned points were instantly wiped out.
Then Zhou Qi exerted his strength and hit two in a row, intending to narrow the score difference. However, the Australians did not give the Chinese team any chance to breathe. They combined internal and external play several times in a row, immediately filling up Zhou Qi's score, and the more they hit, the smoother the score was. Another wave came.
A small climax suddenly appeared.
The score was 16 to 48, and the Chinese team was 32 points behind.
This wave of offensive climax of the Australian team completely destroyed the will of the Chinese players. In the following time, the Chinese team's offense was repeatedly blocked. It was not until more than ten seconds before the end of the half that the Chinese team made a difficult three-pointer.
At halftime, the score was 19 to 53. In the entire second quarter, the Chinese National Youth Team only scored a measly nine points. After halftime, they only scored a mere 19 points.
With a huge score difference of 34 points, the Chinese National Youth Team returned to the locker room.
Li Qiuping saw everyone's problem. He wanted to restore the morale of the team members by cheering, but with little success. After all, these people were just children. Even if they changed their ages, they were still less than twenty. So.
Once the mentality and morale are frustrated, it is even more difficult to adjust and recover.
Li Qiuping secretly shook his head. He knew that in a basketball game, there was not much a coach could do, because after all, it was the players who played the game, not the coach.
This is hard to win.
Li Qiuping said in his heart.
Sure enough, in the third quarter, the Chinese team's offensive end still showed no improvement. Although they took advantage of the opponent's slack and hit a small climax of 15 to 6, with the return of Australia's main force, the Chinese team, which had just recovered a little, immediately fell into a deadlock again.
.After four consecutive attacks with no results, the final whistle of the third quarter also sounded at the right time.
Thirty-four versus sixty-six, there is still a score difference of more than thirty points.
In the fourth quarter, time flew by. After a full five minutes, Li Qiuping saw that there was no hope of a comeback, so he began to slowly withdraw the main players.
"Xiao Tang, you warm up and then go on the field." Li Qiuping glanced at Tang Qian and said casually.
It's garbage time anyway, so asking him to go up and practice can be regarded as an explanation to Cheng Jianguo.
Beep beep~~~
At the end of the game with four minutes and thirty seconds left, Tang Qian came on the stage.
Since the World Youth Championship implements FIBA rules, each quarter is only ten minutes long.
Tang Qian moved his arms slightly and thought:
Is it finally your turn?
Four minutes and thirty seconds left.
Just make a big fuss!
At this moment, the Australian team also changed to a full substitute lineup. The substitute center opposite Tang Qian was named Alex, who was 2.08 meters tall and weighed 100 kilograms.
"Hey, you finally got a stronger one? That guy just now was so thin that he couldn't help but hit me!" Alex spat at Tang Qian.
Tang Qian glanced at him and said calmly: "Believe me, brother, you will end soon."
"The end result?" Alex laughed loudly and said, "Is it just up to you?"
Snapped.
As Alex was talking, Tang Qian received the pass. The latter didn't bother to talk nonsense with him. Before Alex could react, he turned around neatly and made a layup.
"Damn it, Chinaman, you actually attacked me?" Alex said in anger when Tang Qian scored.
Tang Qian ignored him and quickly returned to defense after completing the attack.
"Damn it, you actually look down on me? Rudy, pass the ball to me and watch me kill this Chinese guy!"
After seeing Alex in position, the opponent's point guard Rudy quickly pushed the ball over, hit the ground, and the ball landed firmly in Alex's hands.
"Chinaman, watch out, my ball is going to go in through your head!"
After saying that, Alex relied on his strength to become stronger. In his opinion, the Chinese team's inside line was good for nothing but height.
However, just when he was about to take the shot, a big palm suddenly appeared and slapped his shot away without saying a word.
"Quick attack."
As soon as he landed, Tang Qian shouted loudly. At the same time, he ran like an arrow and rushed to the opponent's three-point line in the blink of an eye.
"Pass the ball."
Tang Qian waved and requested. Seeing this, point guard Xu Ziyang subconsciously made a long pass.
Boom!!!
There was a loud bang, and Tang Qian dunked hard with both arms. The terrifying brute force seemed to knock the basketball stand over.
The scene was extremely shocking.
Center on fast break?
This athletic ability...
Li Qiuping began to pay attention to the big boy on the starting field again.
"This dunk is beautiful!" Xu Ziyang couldn't help but said when he returned to defense.
However, Tang Qian didn't pay attention to these words. Instead, he turned around and asked, "How is your COSCO shot?"
"Okay, okay, it's not bad when no one is defending." Xu Ziyang was stunned and replied.
"Okay, hit me a few more later, and then the opponent will definitely come to double-team me. At this time, you can shoot from the outside and try to hit three-pointers." Tang Qian continued.
"Okay, okay." Xu Ziyang nodded.
only……
Although the idea is good, is he capable of doing it?
If you want to be double-teamed by your opponent, you must score consecutive goals. Otherwise, if there is no threat, who will double-team you?
Let’s give it a try. Anyway, we are already so many points behind. No matter how bad it is, it won’t be much worse.
Xu Ziyang thought.
It has to be said that Xu Ziyang's passing ability is quite good. Although he is only 1.88 meters tall, his wingspan reaches 1.96 meters. In this way, whether he is controlling the ball or protecting the ball, he is safe.
As a center, Tang Qian must rely on his teammates to feed the ball, otherwise he would not be able to do one-stop things like outside players.
Seeing Tang Qian stuck in position, Xu Ziyang decisively passed the ball in his hand. Then Tang Qian lived up to expectations and turned around, completely shaking the defender Alex. Needless to say, Australia's paint area
The door was wide open. How could Tang Qian let this opportunity pass? He grabbed the basketball with both hands and made another violent slam dunk.
Australia's substitute center Alex seemed to be stunned by Tang Qian's dunk. In the next round, he couldn't even hold the ball firmly, so he just gave the ball back to the Chinese team with a buttery hand.
Seeing that Alex's morale was low, Tang Qian took advantage of the victory to pursue the victory. After receiving Xu Ziyang's pass, he made a beautiful little hook and the basketball "swiped" and rushed into the net.
Beep beep~~~
The Australian team made a substitution, with main center Sanguez replacing Alex.
According to the coach of the Australian team, this change of formation is enough to curb the rising momentum of the Chinese team.
"Chinaman, you did a good job, you were able to beat Alex like that! But your luck ends here, because I, Sanges, will block all your shots, so that you can't even get another shot.
one cent!"
Sanges blocked Tang Qiandao from behind.
"I know you, what you are good at is power balls, right?" Tang Qian said without being affected at all.
"Hey? I'm satisfied with my intelligence work, but it's a pity that even if you know my technical characteristics, you still can't beat me, because you Chinese guys are all skinny monkeys, and your strength is as ridiculous as our Australian ladies!
"Sanges mocked Tang Qiandao.
"That's it." Tang Qian said while asking for the ball, "Then let's compare our strength."
"What? A competition of strength? Your brain is simply burned out! With your Chinese guys' bodies, what can you do..." Before Sanges could finish speaking, Tang Qian hit the ball with his shoulders and exerted force on his shoulders.
He directly knocked the opponent back a few steps.
Then he hooked easily and the basketball hit the net.
"Is this the power you are proud of?" Tang Qian said in Sanges's ear when he returned to defense.
"Shit! Bastard! I just didn't pay attention!"
"Really?" Tang Qian deliberately provoked: "Then next round, I will give you a chance to win back a victory."
"Shi.t! Damn Chinaman! Just wait for me!" Sanges cursed and asked Rudy for the ball. He had already decided that he would give this Chinese boy a good look later!
Sanges started to hit Tang Qian from behind, but what surprised him was that he couldn't resist the opponent at all.
How can this be?
It was easy for him to hit the main center from behind just now, so how could he not be able to hit the substitute center?
Damn it! There must be a mistake!
Sanges's brain was filled with blood for a moment, and he turned around and strengthened himself without pushing Tang Qian away. Of course, Tang Qian could only accept this kind of feast generously, and slapped his right hand with a loud hotpot.
Gave it to the other party.
"Quick attack."
Tang Qian was still the fastest one, taking advantage of the Australian team's unsteady footing to score a layup.
"Shit, Sanges, what are you doing? Don't fight with that Chinese! Pass the ball and rely on your teammates to score!" the Australian head coach yelled angrily from the sidelines.
"MD, I'll let you go first, and I'll ravage you later!" Sanges didn't dare not listen to the head coach's words, so even though he was angry, he could only suppress it and no longer have one-on-one with Tang Qian.
However, it is obvious that the long period of not scoring has affected the Australian team's outside touch. Through transmission, they did not make a shot when they had a wide open opportunity in the bottom corner.
good chance.
Tang Qian jumped up, raised his arm to pick off the backboard, and handed the ball to Xu Ziyang. Then, exactly as before, he blocked Sanges and directly asked for the ball for a single.
It's 45 degrees in the three-second zone again? You want to hit me at this position again?
Dream on you!
This time, Sanges mustered up all his strength, lowered his back and bent his knees, as if he was determined to prevent Tang Qian's ball.
"Hey, Dahuangmao, you know what?" Tang Qian said softly after catching the ball: "Your so-called strength is really too weak."
After saying that, Tang Qian started to dribble and hit from behind, once, twice, three times... He pushed forward in Australia's inside line in an almost humiliating way.
Sanges was so surprised, so horrified, so horrified...
He suddenly felt that the person he was guarding was not a person, but a cow.
A bull.
A bullfighting bull.
Then, under the astonished eyes of everyone, Tang Qian turned around and started to force himself.
Not caring about Sanguez's appearance at all, he turned around and kicked off the ground. Then with a "bang", the Australian basket exploded.
Under the stunned face of the Australian head coach, Tang Qian dunked.
At this time, Sanges was like a broken toy bear, knocked over by Tang Qian's strength.