The Chinese women's volleyball team was frustrated by the Tokyo Olympic Games, not only the panicked performance of the players made the fans quite dissatisfied, but also the head coach Lang Ping was also questioned. Among these doubts, Lang Ping's stubborn use of the "Seven Fairies" starting lineup is the most puzzling for fans. This is not only because this lineup can still start after consecutive defeats, but also because stubbornness is not in line with Lang Ping's consistent style, but also because Lang Ping is not irreplaceable in his hands, at least at that time, Li Yingying has fully possessed the strength to start. However, even so, Li Yingying has been pressed on the bench and has not been able to start until the trend has gone, and she has been fortunate to be in the starting lineup.
After Li Yingying got the starting opportunity, the fans' doubts about Lang Ping not only did not decrease, but the voice of doubt was even louder. Because after Li Yingying, Yao Di and Wang Yuanyuan entered the starting lineup, the team swept away the haze of three consecutive defeats, winning consecutive victories over Italy and Argentina, and preserving the last bit of face for the Chinese women's volleyball team. Such a record and Li Yingying's outstanding performance make fans more reasonable to believe that if Lang Ping reuses Li Yingying earlier, the ending of the Chinese women's volleyball team may be completely different. Under such circumstances, the reason for the defeat of the Chinese women's volleyball team directly pointed to Lang Ping's failure to reuse Li Yingying. However, the reasons for this situation are complex and not caused by a single reason, the most important of which should be two.
01 Trust the "Seven Fairies" lineup too much
The "Seven Fairies" lineup was created by Lang Ping himself for the Tokyo Olympic Games, and the seven players were also personally discovered and cultivated by Lang Ping, each of whom regarded them as his own, and naturally knew them well and loved them. Even if someone plays a worse performance than Li Yingying, she will not be publicly named and criticized like Li Yingying, but will do her best to create opportunities for her to find her state. Therefore, the entire Tokyo Olympic cycle "Seven Fairies" are the main lineup of iron hits that cannot be inserted into the needle. Not only is it difficult for other players to get the opportunity to run into the "Seven Fairies" in actual combat, but even if Li Yingying has grown into a second only to Zhu Ting, it is difficult to join the "Seven Fairies" lineup and get the opportunity to start, Lang Ping's doting and trust in the "Seven Fairies" lineup can be seen. In such a situation, it is not surprising that Lang Ping stubbornly uses the "Seven Fairies" lineup to start.
02 Ding Xia passed on Li Yingying badly
In addition to Li Yingying's extreme trust in the "Seven Fairies" lineup, there is also the reason why Ding Xia has always been bad at Li Yingying. Although Lang Ping has been secretive about this, fans can see that Ding Xia passed Zhang Changning the best, Zhu Ting second, and Li Yingying the worst. Among them, although there are reasons why Ding Xia is a left-handed player, there are also problems that Ding Xia and Li Yingying have less cooperation, but these two points are not the root cause. As a world-class second passer, Ding Xia should have reached the realm where she can "feed the ball" to the attacker, but after four years of running-in, she can't even "pass" the ball to Li Yingying, and the reason is really puzzling.
Some people may think that Yao Di can replace Ding Xia, who can't pass Li Yingying, but this matter is not so simple, because there is another very important player Yan Ni involved here. Yan Ni and Ding Xia are both teammates of the national team and sisters of the local team, and under the long-term cooperation, they are full of tacit understanding, and the fast attack is even more tiger and tiger, which is obviously incomparable to Yao Di. And Yan Ni is one of the two pillar players in Lang Ping's tactics, let Yao Di replace Ding Xia, although it can pass Li Yingying well, but it will also weaken Yan Ni's attack power, such a situation is obviously a dilemma for Lang Ping.
Not reusing Li Yingying was not Lang Ping's intention
Although the above two reasons are the reasons that affect Li Yingying's reuse, ding Xia's failure to pass on Li Yingying is the most important. If Ding Xia's ball to Li Yingying can also be as handy as it was passed to Zhang Changning, so that Li Yingying can play her full attack power, Lang Ping may have already replaced Zhu Ting, who had a recurrence of old injuries, with Li Yingying. This is in line with Lang Ping's flexible and changeable command style and vigorous style. Therefore, Lang Ping's failure to reuse Li Yingying should not be Lang Ping's original intention, but the situation caused by Ding Xia's bad rumors about Li Yingying.