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Chapter 179 Run, Proud Boy



Chapter 179 Run, Proud Boy

In the intensive training, six days passed quietly,

On the NO.17 race day in May, Su Yang drove from the apartment to the Ford Center at [-]:[-] pm.

In a ten-minute drive, many billboards on both sides of the road highlighted the words "Come on Thunder", and some individual businesses hung blue flags representing Thunder at the entrances, and several Hummers were speeding side by side with the spray paint patterns of the three Thunder...

The whole city of Oklahoma is excitedly looking forward to the start of the game. The local fans have given all support to the Thunder, the only team in the four major sports leagues, and their love is hundreds of times higher than when the Hornets were a temporary guest.

When crossing the road and waiting for the red light, Su Yang rolled down the window and greeted those Hummer owners.

Several car owners cheered in surprise, and a strong bearded man even wanted to jump out of the car to take a photo, but Su Yang hurriedly said no.

All the way to the Ford Center, many fans have waited patiently in the square outside the arena as usual, or set up tents to lie down and sleep, or get together in twos and threes to play card games, or serve as volunteers to help distribute drinks.

He deliberately got out of the car and ran over to say hello, then took a group photo and posted it on Twitter to show cohesion.

At 02:30 in the afternoon, all the Durants arrived, and the pre-match training began, mainly to review the rotation of the defense positions.

Su Yang stood watching from the sidelines, while general manager Presti and owner Clayton stood on the left and right.

During the chat between the three, Clayton sighed: "To be honest, I didn't expect that I would be able to compete with the Lakers for the finals so soon. No matter what the final result of this round of the series is, I will find a way to raise your salary." , please don't reject me."

The corner of Su Yang's mouth turned up slightly: "Let's talk about the salary increase, let's upgrade the team's various logistical benefits first."

Presti answered: "I also agree with upgrading various logistical benefits, such as hiring more chefs of cuisines."

Clayton nodded: "Since you all think it's necessary, then I'll do it, I'm not like Robert Savoy..."

Su Yang chuckled, raised his head and continued to observe Durant and others taking turns running, occasionally interjecting a few words to express their attitude.

The Thunder mainly practiced 212 zone defense. Chandler stood in the center to observe the free throw line, and made supplementary defense or assisted defense according to the actual situation, giving full play to the advantage of being able to sweep the restricted area, and limiting the Lakers' breakthrough routes and wide-range passing routes.

Compared with the 23-zone defense that also restricts the inside line, Chandler is less worried about three-second violations, and he is not afraid of Bynum or Gasol mentioning free throw line support. After all, Westbrook and Sefolosha can stand up Can run and is not afraid of high-quality screens.

However, the 212 zone defense is good or bad, but the timing of execution is more difficult to grasp, and it may be easy to steal three points.

For this reason, Su Yang made an appointment with the Thunder generals in advance, and tried to remember to glance at the direction of the coaching staff when retreating.

He will watch the scene to decide whether to play 212 zone defense, and assistant coach Snyder will also help with gesture reminders.

Training ends at [-]:[-], and the team returns to the locker room.

Su Yang was the last to walk in the door, picked up the marker as usual, and wrote the number 8 on the whiteboard.

"Everyone, we are still 8 games away from winning the championship. Tonight we have to change this number to 7. It will be difficult, but it is just a relatively big stumbling block. We will spend some effort to get over it. OK..."

"By the way, I have already asked the boss to promise to improve various logistics standards. As soon as next Wednesday, we will have more chefs, better training equipment, better video analysis systems, and may have luxury theaters with their own theaters. airplane…"

After the words fell, the Thunder generals cheered and applauded, and Durant was especially excited, saying that he could finally change to other flavors.

Su Yang explained a few more words, then walked out of the locker room and rushed to the media center to accept pre-match interviews from various reporters.

The TNT reporter first asked a question: "What do you think of Lakers coach Phil Jackson saying that Kevin Durant's many starts with the ball are walking violations, which are exactly the same as LeBron James, just to take care of the fans, and often deliberately ignore them."

Su Yang said with a smile: "Then he will go to the referee. He can dominate the referee. He used to do that often. For example, after he accused Kevin Durant of taking too many free throws for no reason, the referees were forced by him to ignore many opponents. Kevin Durant's foul, so he didn't join in the challenge that many of our coaches were involved in because he had more power than the referees."

Su Yang is quite familiar with Phil Jackson's little tricks. After all, before the Lakers played against the Suns, Phil Jackson said eccentrically: "Nash is unstoppable because he turns his wrist every time he dribbles, like running with a basketball. "

It is nothing more than putting pressure on the referee and inducing the referee to whistle more harshly, which in turn affects the opponent's state.

Su Yang backhandedly said that Phil Jackson dominates the referees, and whoever is afraid of who fights poison with poison, so let's start a public opinion war.

After the interview, Su Yang went straight to the arena and found that more than 9000 fans had already taken their seats. Almost all of them were wearing blue T-shirts representing the Thunder and white towels. Most of them were holding Beat There were small banners with the words La and Thunder Up, and the fans in the stand area of ​​the ball frame on both sides raised their hands high and slammed the yellow strips.

Su Yang walked to the technical stage, first checked the list of players with the staff, and then greeted TNT commentator Reggie Miller.

The opening ceremony was held immediately, and Durant and others ran out with the cheers of the audience, and the sound waves were compelling.

The performance of the national anthem ended soon, and Su Yang called the whole team to surround him, and once again told the Thunder generals to take advantage of their youth and run.

In a blink of an eye, the starting players of the two teams entered the field and stood still, and the fans gradually got up and shouted Beat La.

For the Thunder, Sefolosha returned to the starting lineup, while the other four remained as they were.

Lakers side, Fisher, Bryant, Artest, Gasol, Bynum.

Amidst the cheers of the audience, the referee Joe Crawford held the ball and walked to the middle circle, raised his hands to accumulate energy, and suddenly pushed up.

Snapped!Bynum touched the ball first, then moved back, the basketball flew straight to the Lakers half court, and Gasol stepped in to catch it.

Fisher stepped forward to catch the ball and slowly pushed forward. The fans at the scene turned to shouting to the enemy fans in unison.

In the blink of an eye, Fisher crossed the center line, turned to the right at will, raised his hand and pushed the ball towards Kobe, at a slightly slower rate.

Snapped!Westbrook made a flying save, stole the ball right in front of Kobe's eyes, and rushed forward.

Sefoloza stepped down at the same time, cheers erupted in the arena, and the two rushed into the three-point line of the frontcourt.Seeing Fisher defending alone, Westbrook raised his hand and threw the ball to the basket, while Sefolosha raised his hand to catch it and put the ball firmly into the basket.

The Thunder scored two points at the start, and the fans at the scene waved white towels in unison, cheering wave after wave.

"Good, Viry Good!" Su Yang applauded along with him, gesticulating to remind him to prepare for the 212 defense formation.

The Lakers immediately launched a counterattack, and the fans on the scene seemed to have an automatic program, and shouted in unison to the enemy fans
Kobe pretended to receive the ball from the right wing to launch an attack, but in fact ran back and cut into the inside line, and moved to the left elbow in a wide range. Gasol, who was originally standing in the left elbow, also used Bynum to cover, taking it easy shifted to the right waist.

Seeing this, Fisher tried to raise his hand to pass, but Westbrook stepped back boldly, suppressing the space for Gasol to receive the ball.

Seeing that the Lakers' offense was about to stagnate, Artest used Bynum's oblique screen to stride up to the top of the arc to catch the ball.Artest took the ball and quickly turned around to face the left waist, ready to pass it to Bynum, who was stuck in the position, but was interfered by Chandler.

The offensive time passed quickly, Kobe decisively returned to the top of the arc and set up a wall as a cover, and Artest took a quick three-pointer.

The basketball almost brushed Sefoloza's fingertips into the air, crashed into the net with a bang, and was so lucky that it exploded.

Su Yang raised his eyebrows suddenly, wondering why the Lakers didn't play the triangle offense, but instead used the Princeton routine first?
While thinking about it, Westbrook dribbled the ball and stopped on the left wing, while Durant started running from the short corner on the left, first made an Iverson-style crosscut, circled to the short corner on the right in a wide range, then twisted his hips and turned to rush upwards. The screen reaches the top of the arc, and the pass is raised.

Artest bypassed many obstacles and chased to the top of the arc, but in order to pursue speed, his body's center of gravity was too high.

Durant immediately sank his shoulders and lowered his center of gravity, dribbled the ball with his left hand and crossed it, and rushed to the left waist in two big strides, ignoring Bynum and Gasol's potential block threats, and jumped directly on the ground, holding it high like The roc spreads its wings and clatters.

The basketball blasted into the net, and the Lakers followed up with a fast break.

Su Yang waved his hand to signal to stay away from the zone defense for the time being, the Thunder generals hurriedly marked their positions, and Fisher passed the ball directly from the center line.

Bryant used the cover of Bynum to go around and catch the ball, but failed to get rid of Sefolosha's pursuit, and hurriedly stopped the brakes.

Bynum took the opportunity to go down to the left waist, bent his knees and backed Chandler, and lowered his hands to signal a pass to the ground.

Kobe immediately bent over and made a pass, but suddenly pulled low and swept to change direction, breaking through Sefolosha and rushing to the free throw line in an instant.Chandler hastily moved laterally to help, but Kobe really hit the ground this time, and Bynum, who was cutting down, picked it up and dunked with both hands.

"Run! Run!" Su Yang waved his hand to remind him, wondering that the Lakers didn't play triangle offense again.

Westbrook quickly ran forward with the ball, and the Thunder's five-way team delayed the start, and Durant stopped first in the left corner.

Amidst the cheers, Westbrook rushed to the left wing of the frontcourt and threw the ball to the top of the arc, while Chandler caught the ball and turned to the right, and then passed to Sefolosha in the right elbow.At the same time, Durant took advantage of Ibaka's screen and started straight to the short corner on the right.

Artest chased after him closely, with the greatest speed and strong inertia, making it difficult to brake for a short time to take off.

Durant saw that point, caught the ball and turned back directly, imitating Nowitz's fund chicken independence, making a difficult backward mid-range shot.

when!The basketball bounced off the hoop.

Bynum took off on the spot to catch it, but Ibaka rose up as if stepping on a spring, and caught the dunk with both hands.

Boom!The basketball exploded into the net.

Cheers suddenly resounded through the Ford Center, Su Yang smiled and waved his hands and shouted: "Run, get back to defense..."

(End of this chapter)


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