Tianjin women's volleyball team main attacker Li Yingying won the best main attacker in the just-concluded Women's Volleyball Club World Cup, but the controversy around Li Yingying has never stopped. My sister seems to have been born with a black physique, and many people question that Li Yingying's data in the league is not as good as before, indicating that Li Yingying's level has declined. In fact, on the contrary, let's first review my sister's growth process.
In the 2017-2018 season, the 18-year-old Li Yingying was born, shocking the Chinese volleyball world and setting a number of records.
In the 2017-2018 season, the head coach of the Tianjin women's volleyball team was served by Chen Youquan, Chen Youquan faced many difficulties when he took over the Tianjin women's volleyball team, only Wang Yuanyuan was selected into the national training team in 2017, but he was also a marginal personnel, and the other players were average at the domestic level.
Let's take a look at the lineup of the Shanghai team, which was the favorite to win the championship that year: national players Ma Yunwen, Zhang Lei, Yang Jie, South Korean foreign aid Jin Ruanjing, and Zeng Chunlei, the main player of the national team who transferred to the national team for the second time (the best receiver in the league that year).
Almost everyone thinks that the champion is Shanghai, but they didn't expect Tianjin head coach Chen Youquan to use the most simple and crude tactics - a little attack. Li Yingying does not receive a pass, is not responsible for defense, only responsible for smashing the ball, a little offensive tactics in the Tianjin team to play a huge power, just debuted Li Yingying beat the national team stupid, this left-handed little girl, although the bounce is not as high as Zhu Ting, but the left-handed whipping smash technique is too special, no team can prevent it.
Tianjin team is responsible for security, Li Yingying's offense played the greatest power, and the Shanghai team in the final of the 7 battle Li Yingying scored 43 points, Tianjin women's volleyball team won 3:2, so as to win the championship with a total score of 4:3, Li Yingying scored a total of 804 points that season, becoming the first person in China to score more than 800 points in a single season. And in the 10th round of the season with the Shanghai team, he scored 45 points in a single game, creating a career-high score, breaking the previous league record of 43 points in a single game held by Zhu Ting. These records have not been broken to this day.
Li Yingying's highlight performance in 2018 caused a sensation across the country at that time, and everyone felt that China had another genius after Zhu Ting, and Zhu Ting had the best helper, and even many fans felt that Zhu Ting could not compare to Li Yingying. The calls for Li Yingying to enter the national team have been rising higher and higher. At this time, you have to admire the vision and judgment of the head coach of the national team, Lang Ping. Lang Ping has many years of experience in overseas coaching and has an in-depth understanding of the advanced technology of modern volleyball.
Lang Ping's opinion was different from that of others at that time, she did not agree with everyone's opinion of Li Yingying, because Lang usually coached abroad all the year round and knew the skills and tactics of the world's advanced volleyball.
Lang Ping's concept at that time was that the main attack without receiving a pass was unqualified. At that time, many people disagreed with this point of view, because Chen Zhonghe's favorite general Wang Yimei did not receive a pass, and Wang Yimei's violent smash was the big killer of the Chinese team, so there was no problem for Li Yingying not to receive a pass. Facts have proved how forward-looking Lang Ping is, the skills and tactics of modern volleyball are the main attacker of serving and chasing, and the current world-class main attack is able to receive 6 rounds of one pass, and the main attack is the basic skill of self-receiving and self-deduction. If you don't improve, you can't adapt to the development of modern volleyball, and you will be eliminated.
At that time, after Li Yingying entered the national team, the offense was indeed very distinctive, but under the tactics of the opponent's serve for the main attack, the problems of passing and defense were infinitely magnified, and mistakes were frequent. For a while, the verbal and written criticism almost drowned the 18-year-old girl. Or Lang Ping's guidance is far-sighted, let Li Yingying practice a pass, the little girl is also competitive, and she has never received a pass to be able to receive 6 rounds of a pass, and only she knows the hardships. Li Yingying has now become a world-class main attacker, and I really have to thank Coach Lang Ping for his persistence at that time.
Therefore, it is not objective to simply use data to measure the level of an attacker, and now Li Yingying has become the absolute core of the Tianjin team, in the words of coach Wang Baoquan, Li Yingying is more down-to-earth on the field, this is the role of the core player, and now Li Ying is more in the team when facing difficulties, and resolutely hand over the second setter to Li Yingying on the key ball. That's what stars do, it's a reflection of volleyball as a whole, so it's normal for the stats to slip. If Li Yingying wants to further improve in the next step, she must go out and go to a higher level of league to experience.