Chapter 576 Champions League Champion
To be honest, Real Madrid still has some strength.
On the surface, the individual abilities of the players seem to be only at the level of NBA substitute rotation, and the two star players are barely qualified to be NBA starters.
However, the enthusiasm and ferocity of the court fight are much better than that of the NBA regular season, but the average height of the team has exceeded 205 cm, and they have not lost their athletic ability. More importantly, European team basketball has always been their most proud point.
From the videos that Lin Dong has watched, Real Madrid is particularly good at high-post defense. Not only is the restriction on the outside line quite tough, but also relying on the overall average height, the lineup that shrinks the inside line at any time also has a very strong protection for the inside line.
It's a pity... tactics are just theories, and the game is ultimately about people.
When there is a person who is strong enough to destroy your overall defense and cross the red line of your team basketball, then the tactics will become a drag at this time. It will limit the players' self-awareness and reaction speed, and in turn make the players become restrained.
The tactics could not be implemented, but became a limitation. Let the individual ability of NBA substitutes and ordinary main players to fight against the basketball god like Lin Dong... The result is imaginable.
Real Madrid, regarded by Europeans as "the one who can educate the basketball god", has not had any chance since the first ball.
On the defensive end, Lin Dong was completely penetrated by himself. Either he performed various fancy performances, or even faced the basket of three or four Real Madrid players shrinking and smashed the basket, or let all the Real Madrid players shrink together as if facing a great enemy, and then threw the ball to a player waiting on the outside.
On the offensive end, due to the suppression of Lin Dong's momentum, Real Madrid was unable to play the strength it should have.
Not only Lin Dong's various steals, but also Yi Jianlian's full-strength explosion under the basket also caused great trouble to Real Madrid.
Mobis's defense is obviously not comparable to the Supersonics, but Real Madrid is obviously not as good as the Cavaliers and Lakers' offense.
With the key defense line formed by Lin Dong and Yi Jianlian, and the support point of Mobis, the shooting rate of the entire Real Madrid team was suppressed to below 35% throughout the game.
The game was just over halftime, and in 20 minutes, the score was 68:33, which completely killed the suspense of the game.
In the second half, Lin Dong went down to rest directly, and Sendo, Zebei Rongzhi and Da Da also went down, leaving only Yi Jianlian to lead the team with a full substitute lineup.
Power forward Masashi Kawata, small forward Xu Yong, shooting guard Jun Tsuchiya, point guard Chen Jianghua.
Except for Jun Tsuchiya who just came this year, the others are already old substitutes for Mobis. In terms of paper strength, they are the kind that do not have much resistance in front of the absolute main force of Real Madrid.
But... whether it was the confidence on Masashi Kawata's face, the excitement on Xu Yong's face, or the desire to perform on Chen Jianghua's face, or even the fear on Jun Tsuchiya's face who had just joined Mobis, everyone could feel that these substitutes who usually spent more time on the bench were in good shape.
The addition of Lin Dong brought not only the role of an ace and the improvement of the team's strength, but also a mental outlook and absolute confidence.
We have Lin Dong! Will we lose? So you are afraid of nothing, just make it up, even if you lose the advantage of more than 30 points, Lin Dong can still win!
Let's not talk about whether the strength is enough, but the attitude of daring to fight and fight must be grasped first, which makes the substitutes look like little calves who are just screaming with chicken blood.
Although the main players of Real Madrid did not leave, they were really confused by Lin Dong in the first half and were completely out of shape. Secondly, the desperate posture of these new forces when they came up was surprisingly full of impact.
Lin Dong watched quietly on the sidelines.
Yi Jianlian has completely suppressed the 215-centimeter center of Real Madrid under the basket. With Stephen's conditioning, Yi Jianlian's physical fitness has improved rapidly in the past two years in Mobis, and he seems to have the strength to play in the NBA. It seems that Yi Jianlian can be sent to the NBA to participate in the draft next year, and he can almost get a first-round lottery. A year of NBA adaptation will allow Yi Jianlian to burst out with more powerful and practical combat power when facing the US team in the 2008 Olympics.
Chen Jianghua's speed has also been really trained. In Lin Dong's opinion, if we only talk about speed, Chen Jianghua is no less than Parker, the GDP of the Spurs. And unlike his impetuousness and easy mistakes in another world, Mobis has the most advanced basic training and has always emphasized this point. He has been exposed to professional training earlier, which makes Chen Jianghua's ball control quite outstanding. Compared with the Asian lightning who lost the ball at any time in the 2008 Olympics in another world, Chen Jianghua is now a truly qualified point guard, and his height seems to be a little taller than in his previous life, reaching 190 cm.
He may not be suitable for the NBA, but the European league is a very suitable soil for him. His joining will surely make him an indispensable member of the Dragon Country Olympic Team and fill some tactical gaps.
And Kawata Masashi gave Lin Dong the feeling that he was just average, a power forward who was not faulty but had no personal characteristics. He knew a little bit of everything and was well trained. But when he played against the main power forward of Real Madrid, he could feel that he lacked both offensive means and defensive momentum like a stabilizing force. He was a little weak in confrontation and relatively weak in refined techniques. However, the advantage was that he had a high degree of coordination and a thorough understanding and execution of the team's tactics. Although he did not have much presence on the court, he would not become a loophole for the team and could complete the tactical closed loop when necessary.
As for Tsuchiya Jun, who had just arrived, he was relatively poor. After all, he had only been playing in the Japanese B League before. The overall environment level there was not at the same level as La Liga. He was at a disadvantage against Real Madrid's No. 2 position, but he had a positive attitude and it could be seen that there was a certain room for improvement. Lin Dong often contacted Coach Anzai, knowing his plan and the lack of excellent No. 2 substitutes in the Japanese national team.
After all, the strongest players in Japan are also the Olympic list in Anzai's mind. Sakuragi is the power forward, Sendoh Akira is the point guard, Mori Shigehiro is the center, Zebei Rongzhi is the small forward, and Rukawa is the second position.
Among them, Kawata Masashi can be a substitute for the power forward position, and the point guard position is likely to be replaced by Fujima who came to Mobis this time. There is no replacement for Mori Shigehiro's center position and Zebei Rongzhi's small forward position in Japan, but at least, Rukawa's second position must have a substitute space, that is, Tsuchiya Jun.
Bringing Tsuchiya Jun and Fujima to Mobis is the result of Coach Anzai's repeated requests.
In Lin Dong's view, this is just a matter of fate. The team will definitely give him some opportunities, but what level he can reach depends on Tsuchiya Jun himself.
However, in this game alone, although Jun Tsuchiya was at a disadvantage in the match, Real Madrid was really not in good shape. With Yi Jian and a group of substitutes, they actually fought back and forth with the five main players of Real Madrid in the third quarter, and were not at a disadvantage at all.
At the end of the first half, Lin Dong led the team to a 35-point lead. At the end of the half, the score between the two sides was fixed at 108:79. Mobis defeated Real Madrid with a 29-point advantage and won Lin Dong's first game after joining La Liga.
European media and fans were collectively silent.
It was thought that Lin Dong needed a period of adaptation after coming to the European League, but now it seems...
Adaptation still needs to be adapted, but it is not just Lin Dong who adapts to the European League, but all other teams in the European League need to adapt to Lin Dong's existence!
Perhaps, only after the players in the Champions League have adapted to Lin Dong's existence and his terrible strength, it is still possible to slowly play out the power that the original team basketball should have when facing him.
But before that...
Three consecutive wins, nine consecutive wins, fifteen consecutive wins, twenty-seven consecutive wins, thirty-eight consecutive wins!
In just over two months of La Liga schedule, Lin Dong led Mobisi to win the La Liga championship with a perfect record of 114 points and advance to the Champions League.
Lin Dong's existence is really too buggy. He is the type who is not only strong himself, but also selfless in ball possession and can drive the whole team. The team with him directly rises to a higher level.
What's more terrible is that because of his popularity and his aura, he can not only affect his teammates and fans at home and away, but can even directly suppress opponents, so that every team will bear extremely heavy psychological pressure when facing him.
His personal strength is enough to improve the team by one level, but his linkage improves the team by another level. A team that has improved by two levels is already terrible enough, but he has to give the opponent a DBUF and weaken you by one level...
How can this be played?
Some of Real Madrid's old rivals such as Serie A, Premier League, and Ligue 1 all watched the entire La Liga this year with a smile.
In previous years, La Liga has always been the leader in European basketball leagues, and even many media have regarded La Liga as the only basketball league in the world second only to the NBA, so that Serie A, Ligue 1, Premier League and other leagues are quite unhappy.
The La Liga guys are all too arrogant, and their tails are almost up to the sky. They even came up with a term called "La Liga Selection", which means that as long as the team comes out of La Liga, it is the chosen team, which is naturally higher than other teams.
We are all lower leagues in the Champions League, why is La Liga the only one?
So, watching Lin Dong lead Mobis to destroy whoever he sees in La Liga, all the other teams in other leagues were secretly happy in their hearts, so happy that they wanted to shout a few times across the screen for Lin Dong to drink more of them.
But... Mobis entered the Champions League.
It was great to watch them beat other La Liga teams, but now it's their turn to be beaten... Oh my God, this is a nightmare!
They say they are not convinced, but in fact all the Champions League teams still recognize the level of La Liga. Even if all the La Liga teams have been beaten and have no power to fight back, who would think they can do it?
Of course, it is impossible to give up.
The La Liga guys are just not used to Lin Dong's existence, and they are not used to this kind of individual heroism that suddenly emerged among a group of team athletes.
But it has been more than two months, and everyone has watched Lin Dong's games every day, and they have adapted to what they should understand and adapt to.
Research! Target!
He has strong personal ability, so play team basketball with him. You see those guys in La Liga always want to double-team Lin Dong, why do you double-team? Isn't it enough to do your own offense and compete with him? Anyway, Mobis' overall defensive ability is not very good.
This is just the most basic. For the Europeans with big brains, they can come up with 10,000 weird methods.
In the subsequent Champions League group stage and knockout stage, countless teams that wanted to defeat Mobis and become famous in one battle, with all kinds of strange and weird targeted tactics and all kinds of desperate beliefs, collectively sniped Mobis, even if they only won one game? ! Isn't that much better than being shaved bald in La Liga?
It's a pity that the idea is beautiful, but the reality is cruel.
Throughout the Champions League, from the group stage to the knockout stage to the finals, Mobis has no defeats.
Other teams are adapting to Lin Dong, as if they are slowly starting to play their own characteristics.
But they forgot that Mobis is also adapting to Lin Dong.
The Sonics once dominated the NBA with their small-ball space tactics, which Mobis gradually became familiar with.
Although Mobis is not as powerful as the Sonics, its rotation depth is much stronger than that of the Sonics.
With Yi Jianlian as the absolute core, the inside line supported by Wang Zhizhi, Kawata Masashi and Mori Shigehiro actually has some shadows of the Sonics' inside line.
They are all big men with fast movement speed, suitable for the offense and defense conversion of running and gunning. Although the rotation defense has never been practiced, there are still some shadows. With Lin Dong as a key plug-in, and the stable three-pointers of Sendo, Xu Yong and Chen Jianghua on the outside, Mobis's small-ball space tactics have about 70% to 80% of the skills of the peak Sonics.
Moreover, even if this still cannot solve the problem, there is still Lin Dong.
The result of this improvement is that no one can beat them in the Champions League, and everything seems to be a natural outcome...
After only a few months of joining here, Marbella and Mobis easily won the first Champions League title in the history of the team and the city.
A grand celebration ceremony was held throughout the city of Marbella, with passionate Spanish girls dancing samba in short skirts all over the streets. The carnival of the whole city was the same as when Seattle won the championship.
The resulting popularity of the city, basketball, and even the surrounding areas is also extremely crazy.
Of course, the impact on the world is indispensable.
The La Liga and the Champions League basketball leagues were not well-known in the world in previous years, and there was basically no foreign broadcast.
But this year, the broadcasting rights of Longguo and Japan were bought out, and ABC in the United States bought the broadcasting rights of some single games, which greatly increased the popularity of the Champions League.
Of course, it can't compare with the atmosphere in the United States at the beginning. It is obviously a bit exaggerated to want to overwhelm the popularity of football in Europe like it overwhelmed football in the United States.
But at least, the influence of the Champions League has greatly increased.
Downward, the transfer transactions connected to the CBA have allowed at least four or five European players to transfer to Longguo this year, and some Champions League teams that value the fan base of Longguo, such as La Liga, Serie A, Premier League, etc., have also absorbed some youth training players from Longguo.
On the other hand, the broadcasting rights in the United States have attracted some attention from fans across the United States, and also attracted more NBA scouts to the Champions League.
This summer's NBA draft is destined to have many more European faces.
This is a win-win situation for all parties. Lin Dong's transfer, which connects the upper and lower levels, seems to link the three leagues of NBA, Champions League and CBA together.
The only one who may suffer is the NBA. After all, this year's NBA ratings have dropped sharply due to Lin Dong's departure, and the ratings of the finals have been overwhelmed by the NFL again.
After all, this year's NBA finals not only lack the man who once created the invincible glory, but also lack the supersonics that American fans are already familiar with.