At the end of July, Li Liang arrived in the southern hemisphere with the Chinese team, Sao Paulo, the capital of the State of São Paulo, Brazil.

Before heading to Rio, the Chinese team will play the final warm-up match here - the Brazilian Super Challenge.

The participating teams include Australia, Lithuania, host Brazil and China.

Although located in the southern hemisphere, in theory, Brazil should be winter in July and August.

However, most parts of Brazil are located in the tropical areas. In July and August, the weather is cool and dry, which is a good time for exercise.

Sao Paulo is the largest and most prosperous city in Brazil. Li Liang has been to many places with great knowledge, but it is also the first time he has come to Samba's country to experience the enthusiasm of the people here for sports.

I thought that in the country of football, Li Liang's arrival would not attract much attention, but unexpectedly, Li Liang is still a well-known celebrity here.

This surprised Li Liang very much. When shopping on the street, someone would recognize him and ask for an autograph. Am I so famous?

In fact, in a South American country like Argentina and Brazil, although basketball is much less popular, it has a very large influence overall.

Like Brazil, the most well-known stars are of course football superstars like Pele and Ronaldo, whose status in the country is at the level of national heroes.

In the basketball world, Brazil has also produced many amazing players.

For example, Barbosa and Valejo who play in NBA are both players at the main level of the NBA team.

In history, they also had super scorers like Oscar Schmidt, the "Holy Hand" who averaged 42 points per game at the 1988 Seoul Olympics, with a total score of 1,093 points in the Olympics and a total career score of more than 49,000 points.

If Li Liang only won one championship, he would be known to all basketball fans.

When he won two championships, some sports fans who don’t watch basketball will also begin to know him.

When he won three championships, people began to talk about him.

And when he won four championships, his advertisements began to spread all over the world.

Later, when Li Liang walked to the streets and found that Under Armour's advertisements were hanging in several places. When his big avatar appeared there, he understood why so many people knew him.

On the night of the 31st, at the São Paulo Stadium, the Chinese team welcomed the first opponent of the Brazilian Super Challenge, the Australian Kangaroos.

In May this year, the Chinese team and the Australian team played a warm-up match, and the Chinese team won.

However, the so-called Australia is not a national team at all, but a so-called Australian professional team.

Just like sometimes China plays a "American professional team".

Find some powerful players from the local league, piece them together, form a team, and then organize a warm-up with the national team.

This kind of team players have poor personal abilities, and they are temporarily pieced together, and their tactics and disciplines are average in all aspects.

The main purpose of their participation in the competition is to get money, and they have no sense of collective honor, so they leave after the match.

This kind of competition is similar to "fighting foreigners on the ring". I don't know where to invite two foreign strongmen to compete with Chinese martial artists, and after beating them up, they won applause from the Chinese people and seemed to have become stronger from then on.

But in fact, it has almost no meaning to improve the team's overall strength and tactical training. It is just a warm-up match.

In the past two years, China has really played a lot of games like this.

After Yao Ming came to power, he would start to gradually eliminate such meaningless games and allow the national team and players to devote themselves to a higher level of confrontation.

And Australia tonight is the authentic Australian national team.

They have NBA players like Bogut, Baynes, Ingles, and Delavidova, and their strength is quite strong.

The same thing is said, without Li Liang, the current Chinese team will win if they lose less than 10 points on any strong team.

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The first match of the Chinese team in the Olympics was scheduled on August 7, and its first opponent was the United States.

With one week left before the Olympics officially begins, the Chinese team is also hurrying to carry out the final warm-up integration.

After two rounds of "battle" with the US team, Gong Luming already clearly felt that if the Chinese team wants to achieve good results in the Olympics, they must closely unite around the center of the team center with Li Liang as the center.

We must implement the tactical strategy of one shot and four goals in order to play to our strengths and avoid our weaknesses and compete with strong European and American teams.

In the 31st game against Australia, the Chinese team actually defeated Australia.

The important reason is that Gong Luming basically gave up the idea of ​​fighting other tactics.

Anyway, the Chinese team didn't have any tactics to show off.

Generally, the point guards pass the ball through the half, and then start making meaningless horizontal reversals from the outside.

Generally, after two or three times, the opponent's defense did not change at all, because he did not feel any threat, so he began to try to give the ball in.

If you can get it in, just hit one. If you can't get it in, whoever has the ball on the outside line will try to break one.

When you break in, the opponent shrinks and passes out. If you can, you can. If you can, you can. If you can, you can do it, you can't make it.

If the other party does not shrink, he will throw one by himself, and if he cannot throw it in, he will grab it.

Anyway, it's just such a very simple thing.

It’s not that the coach Gong is out of stock, but that the players can’t play other things.

Facing a strong team, the simpler the better.

Now there is a simpler one, and hand over the ball to Li Liang to deal with.

In the game against Australia, Li Liang fully demonstrated his cancerous style.

He just drifted outside and threw three-pointers crazy, and the shot was extremely simple, rough and unreasonable.

In this game, Li Liang made an astonishing 19 three-pointers and hit 8 of them.

The hit rate reached 42%.

You should know that none of these 19 three-point shots are open, and none of them are shots after receiving the ball.

It was all Li Liang outside, facing the defense of at least one player, and forced a shot and hit the three-point line two steps away from the three-point line.

In addition to three-pointers, Li Liang gave up mid-range and ended with a quick stop jump shot, playing in a very simple and efficient manner.

There is no way, Li Liang is just a piece of good steel, and good steel must be used on the blade - scoring.

Li Liang scored 40 points again in this game, helping the Chinese team defeat Australia by 97:89 and 8 points.

Then on August 2, against the host Brazil team.

Li Liang still plays the same way, and throws three points from the outside.

As long as your defense is less than or equal to two people, he will likely choose to throw it outside.

With such a large number of shots, it is still very terrifying to ensure a 40% three-point shooting percentage.

He not only provided the Chinese team with enough scoring and consumed enough ball rights, but also made teammates play more easily.

Reduces mistakes in offense and allows teammates to devote more energy to defense.

In this way, the division of labor between Li Liang and his teammates is clear. I will attack and you will defend.

Then there is Yi Jianlian who can help Li Liang share the burden when needed.

So in this game against Brazil, the Chinese team was still playing well. Although they were behind in the beginning, Li Liang caught the score back with a three-pointer in the third quarter.

In the fourth quarter, the Brazilian team was a little confused, but the Chinese team played better and better.

In addition to Li Liangneng's goal, he also assisted his teammates in succession to score.

At the critical moment of the fourth quarter, Zhao Jiwei's heart was very hearted. When Li Liang was double-teamed by three people, he caught the ball and made a three-pointer!

This goal helped the Chinese team establish a victory.

In the last game of the Super Challenge, Lithuania defeated Australia and won the third place in this Challenge.

The Chinese team won the first place in the challenge.

At this point, all the warm-up matches of the Chinese national team before the start of the Olympics have been completed.

The Chinese team's tactics have been re-adjusted and set in just two months.

Now, from fans to leaders in China, everyone has begun to have high hopes for this men's basketball team.

On August 3, the whole team will go to Rio to prepare for the Olympics that will start on the 7th.

On August 7, their first opponent was the strongest team in the United States.
Chapter completed!