the rest, only noise

Chapter 1457 Please wake me up

Liu Yuqing, who killed the game with a steal and a layup, looked extraordinarily serious under the support of his teammates, as if the Chinese team had lost.

"We still have a game to play." Liu Yuqing explained why he was not excited.

To reporters, Liu Yuqing came across as arrogant, and in an era when Americans rule the basketball court, reaching the finals is a winner in another sense.

The gold medal belongs to the dream team. No.2 is the ultimate glory for teams from other countries, not to mention the Chinese team that reached the Olympic men's basketball final this year.

As if they could win.

In the locker room, Qi Chengyan was crying bitterly. If he hadn't made a foul, the game would not have ended like this.

It was because of Qi Chengyan's foul problem that Jascovicius broke out.

That terrible Lithuanian almost blocked the Chinese team's way to the final by himself.

Louis had always admired the young man.

Moreover, he believes that Qi Chengyan will be the key man in the match between the Chinese team and the US team. His size and defense, as well as the style of modern basketball, are enough for him to ignore the gap between him and Kidd, Payton and other NBA superstars on the FIBA ​​stage, and have a real contest.

"Now you can cry as much as you want," Louie said. "After the final, I hope each of us can come back here smiling."

In fact, Louis also had unusual feelings about the Lithuanian game.

When the Lithuanians faced world-class problems on the sideline, they solved them in the same way as the men's basketball team in 2019.

That scene did make a lot of memories flash through Louie's mind.

Now, when he looks back at the men's basketball game against Lithuania, he will find that the Lithuanians used a slow-paced game that emphasized confrontation to keep the suspense until the end.

This was exactly the trick Louis was going to use against the Americans.

Lithuania almost succeeded, which gave Louis some confidence.

However, even with many routines prepared for the US team, Louis still needs off-court help.

September 9, the day before the Olympic men's basketball final.

Louis personally went to the airport to meet a guest from afar.

The opponent was none other than Zhao Yuanzheng, the deputy general manager of the Los Angeles Lakers. As Bass' confidant and military adviser, he could be said to be the shadow general manager of the team.

After Louis, West and others left the team one after another, the real power of the management has fallen to Bass Jr., and Bass Jr. attaches great importance to Zhao Yuanzheng's suggestion.Therefore, it doesn't matter whether the official general manager is Zhao Yuanzheng. He is the current actual helm of the Lakers.

Zhao Yuanzheng is a person who knows how to repay his kindness, and he knows very well who helped him to his current position little by little.

Little Bass' appreciation is of course one of them, but without Louis' six years of planning behind the scenes, he would not be able to get where he is today.

Therefore, when Louis asked him for help with the national team, he directly pushed the job at hand.

If this matter is small, it is to help a friend, and if it is big, it is to contribute to the national team. It is really incumbent.

"Old Road, everything you want is here." Zhao Yuanzheng handed the materials he carefully prepared to Louis in the restaurant. "I asked the team for three days off and will stay in Sydney until October [-]. I will go to the scene to watch the game then, don't lose."

The information provided by Zhao Yuanzheng is very critical.

This information contains a summary of the advantages and disadvantages of all the games that the US players have played so far in their careers, including their bad technical habits, good and bad game tendencies, all covered.

Louis remembers that in the 2008 BJ Olympics, the men's basketball team defeated Germany in the group stage, and the restrictions on Nowitzki benefited from the behind-the-scenes advice of Don Nelson's son, Nelson Jr.

The value of the information provided by Zhao Yuanzheng may be a hundred times that of Nelson's suggestion.

Because since Zhao Yuanzheng was engaged in the management of professional basketball, Louis deliberately let him lead the scouting work.Over the years, Zhao Yuanzheng has run around, made game plans, and made thousands of reports analyzing the strengths and weaknesses of the players of each team.He has a sophisticated database in his hand for analysis, and now, he is using his own database to make a summary report for all members of the US team.

In the final, Louie can use this report to make more targeted arrangements.

"If there is no you at the celebration banquet, I'm afraid no one will dare to move their chopsticks." Louis teased Zhao Yuanzheng.

Zhao Yuanzheng laughed out loud, and then had lunch with Louis, talking freely, and the atmosphere was very relaxed.

After the meal, Louis returned to the Olympic Village to organize today's training session.

At the end of the day's training, Louie asked everyone to write a short report after they went back.

The content of the report is: Why do we have to beat the US team?

"I don't want to write a long story, as long as you have your real thoughts, everyone should write it, and give it to me before tomorrow's game."

At this time, most of the competitions in the Sydney Olympic Games have ended, and the men's basketball final is not only the highlight of tomorrow, but also the most interesting event in the entire Olympic Games.

Louis and others in Australia did not know what kind of efforts the country was using to promote the game.

After the three major humiliations in the 90s, Chinese people generally do not have a good impression of the United States. In the World Championships the year before last, the men's basketball team had proved that they could challenge the US team. Now, the Sydney Olympics gave them another chance.

Space Yi was ridiculed by black fans for his remarks about carrying the expectations of 13 billion people, and the men's basketball team led by Louis did indeed carry the ambitions of 13 billion people. When the simple patriotism became fanatical, the whole country had a direct need from the heart, that is, to let the arrogant Americans fall on the world's largest stage.

Fortunately, this is not the age of social media, and the players in the Olympic Village do not feel the pressure.

It was the head coach Louis who had his most difficult night in the Olympic Village.

He tossed and turned, but couldn't sleep.

Lorraine and Wuxia were going to watch the match tomorrow, but they couldn't make the trip due to unforeseen circumstances. Wuxia could only stay at home and watch the live broadcast of the final on TV.

Louie became more anxious.

He struggled in bed until four o'clock in the morning before falling asleep lightly.

An hour and a half later, the alarm clock woke Louis.

Although he only slept for a short while, Louis didn't feel sleepy at all. He knew that there was no point in staying in bed, and he couldn't fall asleep.

Louis went to the bathroom, rinsed his face with cold water, and saw himself clearly in the mirror.

This is not much different from him when he was young.

He is 40 years old, but he looks like he is less than 30 years old. He can be called radiant. This is really thanks to Kobe's weight loss plan.

Louie took another shower of cold water.

But he still couldn't use the stimulation of cold water to dispel the distracting thoughts in his mind, and those strange thoughts were the reason for his insomnia.

Finally, Louis decided to face up to that distraction.

That might be the only way to dissipate it.

That distraction brought Louis to September 2019, 9, the night between China and Poland.

At that time, he was on vacation, so like an ordinary fan, he not only invited friends, but also invited the most famous local chef to cook at home.

Louis remembered that the person who came to watch the game with him was Chen Mo, who was his childhood friend.

From the beginning of the game, Chen Mo was attacking the referee. He didn't understand why the national basketball team at home didn't enjoy any home whistle.

If it weren't for the unbearable ending, the referee should have been the focus of discussion after the game.

They dared to let the main player of the Chinese team at home, Kong Tianyi, carry three fouls early, and let the core guard Guo Shao leave the court with full fouls before the end of the third quarter.

If you ignore the last minute, Zhou Qi's performance in this game is excellent, even the cornerstone of the team.Because Space Yi had three fouls early on, Li Ran could only let Zhou Qi play the entire first quarter, only rest for 1 minutes in the second quarter, and only replaced him in the last 2 minutes of the third quarter.

At that time, Louis felt that it was not good, because Zhou Qi's physical strength was not good enough to persist in such a high-intensity continuous rotation.

What made Louis even more uneasy was that after the fourth quarter, the cooperation between Kong Tianyi and Wang Zhelin was unexpectedly smooth, and the Chinese team always maintained the lead.Zhou Qi had a rare long rest.

As Zhou Qi rested for more than 5 minutes, Louis became more worried.

He knows Zhou Qi too well!
In addition to physical strength, Zhou Qi's biggest problem is that he does not have consistent focus on the game.Especially when he sits off the court for a long time and then changes, his competitive state may be completely different from before.

Therefore, when Li Ran replaced Zhou Qi who had rested for nearly 2 minutes in the last 10 minutes, Louis' heart was already in suspense.

Then, Zhou Qi was first called for an offensive foul when he got stuck at the basket, and then was called for a second offensive foul because of his excessive movement when he was in the low post. After that, it came to 12.5 seconds before the end of the game.

The men's basketball team served the sideline ball. After some planning, Li Ran decided to let Zhou Qi serve the ball.

Ironically, just before Zhou Qi served, Louis had a premonition that it would make a mistake.

As a result, the referee, who had been blind all night, finally blew the home whistle, and the referee saved Zhou Qi's first pass that was almost missed.

And when the daring Li Ran chose to let Zhou Qi continue to serve the second ball, Louis could no longer breathe.

Turns out you already know that.

Louie dragged himself back from that horrible memory again with cold water.

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That night, because of extreme anger, Louie's childhood friend Chen Mo changed Zhou Qi's nationality to Poland on the encyclopedia.

And Louis just drank a lot of wine, and finally lay half-drunk on his sofa to send novels: "If you wake up and find that what happened tonight is just a dream, remember to wake me up."

(End of this chapter)