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Chapter 154 The Heart of a Champion Fearless of Challenges
Chapter 154 The Heart of a Champion Fearless of Challenges
As the NBA entered the new century, the most typical case of picking an opponent was that the Kings deliberately dropped to sixth in 05 to challenge the dark horse Supersonics of that season. As a result, they were swept away by the Supersonics 4-1, and Adelman's reputation was discredited.
Another time, the Jazz deliberately lost and fell to fifth place. They would rather give up their home court advantage and play against the Rockets who were injured and reimbursed by Yao Ming. In the end, they succeeded in advancing, but they were easily eliminated by the Lakers 4-2 in the second round, which was not decisive. .
As for the Mavericks’ first-round black eight, it’s not about picking opponents, it’s more about letting old Nelson make it to the playoffs, but I didn’t expect old Nelson to lead the Warriors and a group of gangsters on a rampage, and he is quite familiar with Nowitzki’s offensive and defensive ends shortcoming.
"I also think the Blazers are better to deal with." Assistant coach Brooks continued, "In addition, letting the Spurs consume the Lakers or Mavericks in the first round will be more beneficial to our subsequent schedule, especially to observe the Lakers' offensive and defensive strategies."
After Brooks finished speaking, assistant coach Mark also nodded: "Don't worry about the media ridicule, the result is the most important."
Obviously, compared to the experienced Spurs without too many shortcomings, the Blazers' relatively partial lineup will be easier to deal with, and the Spurs' record this season is mainly due to Parker's absence of 26 games, and his style of play has also changed significantly. .
Everyone talks about the three major illusions in Texas-the Spurs are too old, but few teams are willing to play against the Spurs in the first round.
There is no way, the Spurs are too experienced, even if they defeat the Spurs in the end, they will have to pay a relatively high price.
Seeing that three of the four assistant coaches were inclined to play against the Trail Blazers in the first round, Su Yang looked at Snyder and expressed his opinion with his eyes.
Snyder pondered for a while: "I also support controlling the ranking of [-] and picking the Blazers as the opponent in the first round, but I know you don't care about the media's opinion. Are you worried about the lack of tempering of the players in the first round?"
Su Yang thought that Snyder knew him well. Legendary coaches like Adelman and Sloan would choose their opponents. He would not worry about what the media would say.
"I want to establish a mentality for the players. Even if we face the Lakers in the strongest state, we can win." Su Yang made up his mind, "When facing the Lakers, the players instinctively feel that it is not easy to play. Our goal is to Win the championship."
The four teaching assistants silently nodded in agreement. When it came to that, talking about other options was useless.
The topic then shifted to the last few games, how to implement the established plan, so that the players can experience the playoffs in advance.
After the discussion, Su Yang took the initiative to contact the official website reporter Nick Garneau, and described in detail the process of the coaching team's decision to give up control of the rankings. He hoped that Nick would organize it into a news report and post it on the official website and Twitter to announce his determination to win the championship to Thunder fans.
With a mentality that is not afraid of challenges, the Thunder team flew to Salt Lake City to challenge the Jazz away.
Maybe they wanted to rank sixth and avoid playing against the Thunder or the Lakers in the first round of the playoffs. The Jazz played very hard at the beginning, especially Deron, who dragged a relatively large weight and chased Westbrook like tirelessly. Find confrontation.
However, the Thunder responded with ease, and Su Yang also deliberately let Westbrook suppress the rhythm and experience the challenge patiently.
After the first quarter of the game, the Jazz led by three points with more offensive rebounds, and also paid more fouls.
But in the second quarter, Harden quickly led the team to tie and overtook the Jazz by five points.
After the halftime break, the tough Jazz frantically searched for physical confrontation, and the referee also relaxed the scale, while Su Yang encouraged the Thunder to fight against each other, fully experiencing the large number of positional battles and rapid offensive and defensive transitions in the playoffs, especially the attitude of every ball must be contested .
The two teams come and go, and the Thunder are obviously at a disadvantage. Fortunately, Durant resisted the pressure and regained his touch.
The game dragged on to the last eight seconds of the fourth quarter. Su Yang set up a tactic with Jeff Green hitting a three-pointer to tie the game. Then he arranged an exquisite defense, allowing the Jazz to make consecutive shots. He successfully put the game into overtime, and then temporarily adjusted his strategy around Harbin Deng Da.
The offensive and defensive tactics change frequently, and the young Thunder can always execute them efficiently with the accumulation of two seasons.
At the last moment of overtime, Harden asked Durant to do a pick-and-roll, broke through the emergency stop and made a throw, and narrowly beat the Jazz by one point.
In the whole game, Durant scored 45 points, which was another high-intensity match and successfully resisted the pressure.
ESPN then tweeted, declaring that the Thunder had a record of 65 wins and 12 losses this season, breaking the record for the best regular season wins in team history including the Supersonics.
That night, the entire Thunder team flew to the Denver plateau overnight to challenge the Nuggets back-to-back away games.
Considering that he has locked in the first place in the league and was exhausted before, Su Yang found a reason to let Durant and Chandler truce, simulated the main players in the playoffs being troubled by fouls, reduced Westbrook's playing time, and let Ha Deng led the team to play.
After the game, Harden scored 33 points and 11 assists, but unfortunately lost to the Nuggets by four points.
After a day off, the Thunder played against the Suns at home.
Because they want to compete with the Mavericks for the third place in the Western Conference, the Suns went all out at the beginning, which can be regarded as playing in the playoffs.
It's a pity that the Suns couldn't retreat quickly because of the strict implementation of the V-shaped offensive system. The Thunder frequently relied on Westbrook and Harden to push and counterattack.
Coming back from the half-time break, the Thunder also maintained a suppressed rhythm, and Stoudemire couldn't reverse it after playing for 12 consecutive minutes.
After the whole game, Westbrook won 106 to 96. Westbrook efficiently got a large triple-double, which was so strong that it exploded.
On April NO.11, the Thunder flew to Oakland to play against the Warriors. Su Yang rewarded the players to play casually and relax their nerves.
Harden took a challenging mentality to compete with Maggette for a foul, but ended up leaving the field with six fouls, which was still too young.Fortunately, Durant scored 40 points, Westbrook scored 20 points and 10 assists, and easily led Harden to win.
After playing the Warriors, the Thunder flew to Portland overnight to play back-to-back against the Trail Blazers, and finally lost by three points.
Su Yang really didn't let it go, mainly because the Blazers didn't want to face the Thunder in the first round of the playoffs. They played very aggressively. McMillan also boldly used Fernandez as the starting shooting guard, and rotated 8 players in the game, fighting like a shopping mall. .
That kind of play was used at the beginning of the game. Durant and other main players underestimated the enemy and were not ready, making too many mistakes and digging too many holes.
On the plane back to Oklahoma, Su Yang first self-reviewed, saying that he did not remind everyone, which caused everyone to not get out of the state of playing casually against the Warriors, and then criticized Durant and the others for not underestimating their opponents, but Durant and several people promised not to commit another crime.
In the final game of the season, the Thunder took on the Grizzlies at the Ford Center, coming off the bench most of the time and narrowly winning by six points.
On the same night, the Jazz, Trail Blazers, and Spurs all lost, and the rankings of the three teams remained unchanged.
The top five in the Western Conference will also be released, with the Thunder first, the Lakers second, the Mavericks third, the Suns fourth, and the Nuggets fifth.
The first round matchup in the Western Conference is confirmed, and the gaming company offers relevant odds, and they are very optimistic about the Spurs Black Eight Thunder.
Many media retweeted and expressed their agreement, mainly because the two teams played against each other in the regular season, and the Spurs won more than they lost. The situation is a bit like the Mavericks 0-3 the Warriors in the regular season, and they were targeted by the Warriors in the playoffs, not to mention that the Spurs are not at the eighth level. .
In addition to the results of the regular season matchup, many media also pointed out another factor: the Thunder's serious lack of experience in the playoffs.
(End of this chapter)
As the NBA entered the new century, the most typical case of picking an opponent was that the Kings deliberately dropped to sixth in 05 to challenge the dark horse Supersonics of that season. As a result, they were swept away by the Supersonics 4-1, and Adelman's reputation was discredited.
Another time, the Jazz deliberately lost and fell to fifth place. They would rather give up their home court advantage and play against the Rockets who were injured and reimbursed by Yao Ming. In the end, they succeeded in advancing, but they were easily eliminated by the Lakers 4-2 in the second round, which was not decisive. .
As for the Mavericks’ first-round black eight, it’s not about picking opponents, it’s more about letting old Nelson make it to the playoffs, but I didn’t expect old Nelson to lead the Warriors and a group of gangsters on a rampage, and he is quite familiar with Nowitzki’s offensive and defensive ends shortcoming.
"I also think the Blazers are better to deal with." Assistant coach Brooks continued, "In addition, letting the Spurs consume the Lakers or Mavericks in the first round will be more beneficial to our subsequent schedule, especially to observe the Lakers' offensive and defensive strategies."
After Brooks finished speaking, assistant coach Mark also nodded: "Don't worry about the media ridicule, the result is the most important."
Obviously, compared to the experienced Spurs without too many shortcomings, the Blazers' relatively partial lineup will be easier to deal with, and the Spurs' record this season is mainly due to Parker's absence of 26 games, and his style of play has also changed significantly. .
Everyone talks about the three major illusions in Texas-the Spurs are too old, but few teams are willing to play against the Spurs in the first round.
There is no way, the Spurs are too experienced, even if they defeat the Spurs in the end, they will have to pay a relatively high price.
Seeing that three of the four assistant coaches were inclined to play against the Trail Blazers in the first round, Su Yang looked at Snyder and expressed his opinion with his eyes.
Snyder pondered for a while: "I also support controlling the ranking of [-] and picking the Blazers as the opponent in the first round, but I know you don't care about the media's opinion. Are you worried about the lack of tempering of the players in the first round?"
Su Yang thought that Snyder knew him well. Legendary coaches like Adelman and Sloan would choose their opponents. He would not worry about what the media would say.
"I want to establish a mentality for the players. Even if we face the Lakers in the strongest state, we can win." Su Yang made up his mind, "When facing the Lakers, the players instinctively feel that it is not easy to play. Our goal is to Win the championship."
The four teaching assistants silently nodded in agreement. When it came to that, talking about other options was useless.
The topic then shifted to the last few games, how to implement the established plan, so that the players can experience the playoffs in advance.
After the discussion, Su Yang took the initiative to contact the official website reporter Nick Garneau, and described in detail the process of the coaching team's decision to give up control of the rankings. He hoped that Nick would organize it into a news report and post it on the official website and Twitter to announce his determination to win the championship to Thunder fans.
With a mentality that is not afraid of challenges, the Thunder team flew to Salt Lake City to challenge the Jazz away.
Maybe they wanted to rank sixth and avoid playing against the Thunder or the Lakers in the first round of the playoffs. The Jazz played very hard at the beginning, especially Deron, who dragged a relatively large weight and chased Westbrook like tirelessly. Find confrontation.
However, the Thunder responded with ease, and Su Yang also deliberately let Westbrook suppress the rhythm and experience the challenge patiently.
After the first quarter of the game, the Jazz led by three points with more offensive rebounds, and also paid more fouls.
But in the second quarter, Harden quickly led the team to tie and overtook the Jazz by five points.
After the halftime break, the tough Jazz frantically searched for physical confrontation, and the referee also relaxed the scale, while Su Yang encouraged the Thunder to fight against each other, fully experiencing the large number of positional battles and rapid offensive and defensive transitions in the playoffs, especially the attitude of every ball must be contested .
The two teams come and go, and the Thunder are obviously at a disadvantage. Fortunately, Durant resisted the pressure and regained his touch.
The game dragged on to the last eight seconds of the fourth quarter. Su Yang set up a tactic with Jeff Green hitting a three-pointer to tie the game. Then he arranged an exquisite defense, allowing the Jazz to make consecutive shots. He successfully put the game into overtime, and then temporarily adjusted his strategy around Harbin Deng Da.
The offensive and defensive tactics change frequently, and the young Thunder can always execute them efficiently with the accumulation of two seasons.
At the last moment of overtime, Harden asked Durant to do a pick-and-roll, broke through the emergency stop and made a throw, and narrowly beat the Jazz by one point.
In the whole game, Durant scored 45 points, which was another high-intensity match and successfully resisted the pressure.
ESPN then tweeted, declaring that the Thunder had a record of 65 wins and 12 losses this season, breaking the record for the best regular season wins in team history including the Supersonics.
That night, the entire Thunder team flew to the Denver plateau overnight to challenge the Nuggets back-to-back away games.
Considering that he has locked in the first place in the league and was exhausted before, Su Yang found a reason to let Durant and Chandler truce, simulated the main players in the playoffs being troubled by fouls, reduced Westbrook's playing time, and let Ha Deng led the team to play.
After the game, Harden scored 33 points and 11 assists, but unfortunately lost to the Nuggets by four points.
After a day off, the Thunder played against the Suns at home.
Because they want to compete with the Mavericks for the third place in the Western Conference, the Suns went all out at the beginning, which can be regarded as playing in the playoffs.
It's a pity that the Suns couldn't retreat quickly because of the strict implementation of the V-shaped offensive system. The Thunder frequently relied on Westbrook and Harden to push and counterattack.
Coming back from the half-time break, the Thunder also maintained a suppressed rhythm, and Stoudemire couldn't reverse it after playing for 12 consecutive minutes.
After the whole game, Westbrook won 106 to 96. Westbrook efficiently got a large triple-double, which was so strong that it exploded.
On April NO.11, the Thunder flew to Oakland to play against the Warriors. Su Yang rewarded the players to play casually and relax their nerves.
Harden took a challenging mentality to compete with Maggette for a foul, but ended up leaving the field with six fouls, which was still too young.Fortunately, Durant scored 40 points, Westbrook scored 20 points and 10 assists, and easily led Harden to win.
After playing the Warriors, the Thunder flew to Portland overnight to play back-to-back against the Trail Blazers, and finally lost by three points.
Su Yang really didn't let it go, mainly because the Blazers didn't want to face the Thunder in the first round of the playoffs. They played very aggressively. McMillan also boldly used Fernandez as the starting shooting guard, and rotated 8 players in the game, fighting like a shopping mall. .
That kind of play was used at the beginning of the game. Durant and other main players underestimated the enemy and were not ready, making too many mistakes and digging too many holes.
On the plane back to Oklahoma, Su Yang first self-reviewed, saying that he did not remind everyone, which caused everyone to not get out of the state of playing casually against the Warriors, and then criticized Durant and the others for not underestimating their opponents, but Durant and several people promised not to commit another crime.
In the final game of the season, the Thunder took on the Grizzlies at the Ford Center, coming off the bench most of the time and narrowly winning by six points.
On the same night, the Jazz, Trail Blazers, and Spurs all lost, and the rankings of the three teams remained unchanged.
The top five in the Western Conference will also be released, with the Thunder first, the Lakers second, the Mavericks third, the Suns fourth, and the Nuggets fifth.
The first round matchup in the Western Conference is confirmed, and the gaming company offers relevant odds, and they are very optimistic about the Spurs Black Eight Thunder.
Many media retweeted and expressed their agreement, mainly because the two teams played against each other in the regular season, and the Spurs won more than they lost. The situation is a bit like the Mavericks 0-3 the Warriors in the regular season, and they were targeted by the Warriors in the playoffs, not to mention that the Spurs are not at the eighth level. .
In addition to the results of the regular season matchup, many media also pointed out another factor: the Thunder's serious lack of experience in the playoffs.
(End of this chapter)
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