Basketball injuries only make me stronger

Chapter 115 Change History
In the first game, the Hua Guo team defeated Italy 88-75, which surprised everyone. It was not because of the huge gap in strength between the two sides, but because Italy's pre-match deployment was aimed at Yao Ming, and Lian Feng's sudden performance in this game completely disrupted their layout.

After the game, many media reported the grand occasion of this game.

"A Lian Feng, how can the national team play a completely new performance?"

This is the question that many people linger in their minds. Could it be that Lian Feng's strength is already so strong?

In this regard, some well-known football critics expressed their views.

"Actually, although Lian Feng's strength is strong, he still can't raise the strength of the Huaguo team to several levels by himself. However, what he brings is a change in the structure of the Huaguo team."

"You know, the Hua Guo team is definitely not weak! With Yao Ming, facing any team, even a strong team like the US team or the Spanish team, they can gain an advantage in the paint."

"We must look at this national team dialectically and objectively. This national team does have many weaknesses, but they definitely don't include weakness inside! Their real problem before was that they relied too much on Yao Ming. Once the opponent made arrangements for this point and cut off the connection between Yao Ming and the backcourt players, or when Yao Ming was exhausted, the team would fall into a situation where there was nothing to do."

"However, when Lian Feng joined the extremely powerful Hua Guo team, everything changed! They showed the world a new possibility, that is, they turned the opponent's target against Yao Ming into a weakness."

"This sentence may be a bit of a mouthful, but it is true. In the past, they have always been against Yao Ming, but in a team with a forward, continuing this style of play will give the forward more space!"

After the first game, Lian Feng himself was surprised that he was able to play the best performance of the team.

Yao Ming seemed to be overshadowed by him.

But if you think about it carefully, it's actually quite reasonable.

"Dayao's strength is so strong that every team is very afraid. He is so strong that he can't stop him normally, and he has to use specific routines to target him. Therefore, they naturally relaxed a lot of restrictions on other points."

"Especially against the third position. I also played very easily in this game. The Italian team put too much attention on Dayao, and the blockade of the outside line was also very good! Only...they restricted me, it was too weak."

That's right, what Huaguo has been lacking all along is a player with the ability to score in singles from the wing!

"Although it seems that Dayao's performance is not so outstanding, my performance relies on Dayao's deterrent power! It can be said that as long as Dayao is on the court, even if he does nothing, as long as he sinks inside, he can bring oppression to the opponent. At this time, as long as the striker has a certain degree of individual singles ability, it is easy to tear the hole!"

But Lian Feng also understands that in the past, the national team lacked such a role.After I came here, even if my personal ability is still far behind the unsolvable singles like Kobe and Jordan, the effect is the same in the face of lax defense!

The victory of the first game made the entire Huaxia fans extremely excited.

Ordinary people who don't understand football see the Hua Guo team winning.

Just be happy if you win!This is something engraved in the bones of this nation, the collective sense of honor of this nation!
Senior fans and professional football critics saw more things.They saw the infinite possibilities of this national team!Yao Ming is strong enough, but it is easy to be restricted, very easy to be restricted!The arrival of Lian Feng has become the most perfect jigsaw puzzle for this national team. As long as Lian Feng and Lian Feng are on the court at the same time, this team is a world-class team!

Fans gave Yao Ming and Lian Feng a popular nickname: "Crazy combination!"

For a time, "Crazy combination" resounded in the headlines of all major sports sectors.

"Go crazy! How far can this national team go?"

"Two NBA stars are going crazy in Japan!"

Obviously, the victory in the first game also brought confidence to the entire national team and boosted morale.

The second game was against the US team. Although they lost the game by 120 to 110 points, instead of being hit by it, everyone was even more excited!
Because everyone suddenly realized that the gap between the national team and the US team is not that big!

However, this game also exposed many problems, which Lian Feng repeatedly emphasized: "If you don't think about how to give Yao Ming more rest time, the fourth quarter will definitely collapse!"

That's right, the U.S. team had no tactics at all in this game, and was even suppressed by the national team in the first two quarters.But their lineup is too deep, constantly rotating, and then pressing the whole court, which seriously consumes the physical strength of Huaguo players.

Yao Ming, in particular, obviously lost his dominance in the second half, and was literally pierced by the US team's fast break.

Even though Lian Feng tried his best to score 28 points, and even gave Paul two big hot pots in the second quarter as a meeting gift for his future teammate, he still lost the game.

After the game, Paul and Lian Feng embraced warmly, "You played well bro!"

Lian Feng laughed loudly: "It was still won by you!"

"Please, don't pay attention to this kind of thing! I am more concerned about the beginning of the season."

"On the contrary, I am more concerned about winning the World Championships... Actually, I hate losing, every game!"

"Man, I love how you approach winning. We're on the same page! I'm liking you more and more."

"Ha ha……"

After this game, Jonas finally agreed to try Lianfeng’s suggestion. In the second quarter, the second half of the third quarter and the first half of the fourth quarter, let Ah Lian and Da Zhi take turns to replace Yao Ming, so as to ensure that Yao was full of energy in the crucial first quarter, the first half of the third quarter and the second half of the last quarter.

Lian Feng felt gratified. For this national team, what is guaranteed is the offensive power at critical moments, but the more far-reaching impact is that Yao Ming's playing time will be shortened to around 20 minutes.Don't underestimate the difference in playing time of more than ten or twenty minutes. With more than ten minutes of playing time, Yao Ming will be overdrawn in every game, and the loss will accumulate, which will become a big hidden danger.

Such a low intensity greatly reduces Yao Ming's risk of injury!
In the past, the national team could not play like this, because once Yao Ming was off the court, both offensive and defensive ends would be suppressed, and the score would be drawn quickly. When Yao Ming played again, the pressure would be even greater and the loss would be even greater.

But now with Lian Feng, he can guarantee that he will not be suppressed without Yao Ming.

In the third group match, the national team began to adopt this style of play.

After Yao Ming went to rest, he relied on Dazhi, Ah Lian, and Zhang Songtao to hold up the inside defensive gate.

Originally, Lian Feng's attention was on Da Zhi and A Lian, but he didn't expect Zhang Songtao to bring a surprise.

As one of the Five Tigers of Aushen, Zhang Songtao is 213cm tall and 130kg but moves extremely fast. He hit a few brilliant goals in defense and fast break!
And Big Zhi has rich experience, Ah Lian is young and can run and jump. They guard the basket and drive opponents out of the penalty area.

Originally, this area was the weak point of the national team's defense.Because the big center moves out to defend, it will accelerate the consumption of energy, but if the big center does not come out, it will not be able to limit opponents with a certain speed and hit rate.

Lian Feng perfectly complements the defense in this area!
In terms of speed, in this World Championships, except for the US team, there is no team whose forwards can take advantage of the forwards.

Lian Feng's projectile speed and insight skills allow him to effectively limit opponents' mid-range breakthroughs and jump shots.

Obviously, the Huaguo team played very comfortably in this game.

To sum it up, there are two things: physical strength and division of labor.

The point is, even if Yao Ming is not on the court, under the leadership of Lian Feng, the offensive efficiency of the national team has not dropped much.

Without Yao Ming, the general low-post footsteps, Ah Lian's explosive bullet speed, and Zhang Songtao's fast break speed can also cooperate with Lian Feng to achieve good results.

There is not much advantage established, but it ensures that the national team does not lag behind, and even leads occasionally.

In the last quarter, the energetic Yao Ming returned and directly dominated the game.

In the third game, Lian Feng only scored 19 points, but the team scored in double figures with 4 players, and finally defeated Puerto Rico 95-87.

However, everyone noticed one thing, that is, everyone has a rotation, except Lian Feng, who played almost the entire game.

Now, everyone's original worry about Yao Ming has become a worry about Lian Feng.

"Is Lian Feng being overused?"

Lian Feng didn't care about this, even in the third game, because the assistant coach asked Lian Feng to leave the field, he even spoke back a few words.

That is to say, a thigh like Lian Feng has this confidence.

Lian Feng knew very well that he was as important as Yao Ming on the field.At least one is guaranteed to be on the field!
If Yao Ming rests by himself when he is on the court, the national team will turn into a situation where all the pressure falls on Yao Ming alone.

But if he is on the field, he can effectively play the role of threading the needle and transmitting the pressure to several other insiders.

Therefore, even if Lian Feng played the whole game, he was not as tired as Yao Ming.Everyone knows this, so they didn't force the strikers to rest.

This is the difference.

And... Lian Feng did not forget that only when he is physically weak can he be close to injury!

"Because of the serious injury last time, my physical strength has improved a lot. In fact, it is not very difficult to play the whole game."

In this regard, Lian Feng was also a little helpless.

Injuries are getting harder and harder.

Of course, if you continue to use counter layups, fancy dunks, pull-up jump shots, etc. to trigger the effect of skills that consume extra stamina, you can still quickly reduce your stamina.

But this is not the NBA, the kind of game that pursues spectatorship.

On the national team field, Lian Feng didn't dare to play like that.

After a few games, the outside world found that Lian Feng, who played 40 minutes in each game, was still in good condition.

Originally in history, Yao Ming was in a state of injury after the second game, but because of the existence of Lian Feng, his state has always been very good.Lian Feng knew that he had changed history, and even changed Yao Ming's career inadvertently!

In the end, the national team advanced to the round of 4 with 2 wins and 16 losses, ranking second in the group.

The only regret is that in the game against Slovenia, the national team won by a score of 94 to 87. In history, Wang Shipeng's life-long lore has no chance to reappear.

After the game, Lian Feng patted Wang Shipeng on the shoulder with ill intentions: "I'm sorry bro, haha."

Wang Shipeng looked confused: "Huh?"

"hey-hey……"

After qualifying, the national team did not relax, because they all knew that the next game would be the real tough battle!

In history, in the world men's basketball competition, the Hua Guo team's best result is the top 8.

In this World Championships, the national team only ranked 15th.

However, history has officially changed because of the arrival of Lian Feng!
Next, it will be a 16-to-8 match!

(End of this chapter)