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Chapter 652



Chapter 652

At seven o'clock in the evening, the game is about to start.

There was a lot of people in the Golden One Center, and more than 8000 fans wore the custom T-shirts of "Towards the Best with the Kings", excitedly waving the Kings team flag, photos of Cousins ​​and other players, and various self-made posters. Don't forget to shake the horn bell.

Su Yang made a pre-match speech on behalf of the team, and the mayor of Saskatchewan and other celebrities listened attentively. TNT live broadcast gave him the title of "real king". Many fans who watched the live broadcast took screenshots and posted on Weibo. Top search list.

"Thank you for coming!"

"Tonight, our Kings officially start their three-peat playoff journey. I believe that everyone, like me, has great confidence in defending the title. What I want to say is that I promise that as long as I win the three-peat, I will Keep the current lineup!"

"Even if the luxury tax exceeds [-] million US dollars, I will not hesitate. Our goal is to hit four consecutive championships!"

The voice fell, and the cheers burst.

The Mayor of Saskatchewan, Kevin Johnson, stood up first, and other fans followed suit, applauding Su Yang in unison.

The king's bench players are also very excited.

Su Yang's promise means that George can stay for at least one more season, and the price he needs to pay is the exponential luxury tax penalty after the Antetokounmpo contract takes effect. On-cap operations are possible.

But that will also lock up the signing space in the free market. If the Kings leave, they can only sign players with a basic salary to supplement.

In the TNT live broadcast, Kevin Harlan and Reggie Miller took advantage of the cheers and discussed the reasons for Su Yang's promise.

"I believe that the king's profit can bear the luxury tax of nearly [-] million US dollars, but I still admire Su Yang's choice. In fact, the king's current lineup, even if there is one less superstar, still has the opportunity to continue to hit the championship. He has made a public decision now. Commitment, giving Paul George and Cousins ​​a complete peace of mind, is something that many other team owners in the league can't do."

"Recently, there has been a very popular argument that Su Yang has been successful in coaching, but he has never been able to leave the super defender, and has lost the strength to develop new tactics. The game basically relies on three or four superstars to crush and win. , can’t do what Adelman, Larry Brown, Don Nelson and other coaches do, even the civilian lineup can play results.”

"I saw that tweet. I personally don't agree with it. Su Yang's ability to arrange suitable tactics for the players can be said to be the strongest in the league, and there is no one. He can't innovate tactics, but he doesn't need them. Can't take that as a counterargument..."

During the conversation, the long whistle sounded.

The two teams start to enter the field.

Su Yang found five players from the Trail Blazers, Lillard, McCollum, Turner, Harkless, and Feng Lai.

Meyers Leonard and Mason Plumlee, who were the first starters before, switched to substitutes, and the latter has been sent to the Nuggets for Nurkic and the first-round pick. The Blazers management is aware of the inside mobility. and the importance of providing space.

But the ultimate problem for the Blazers still hasn't been solved. Lillard is afraid of double-teaming and has poor defense, but he is the core of holding the ball.

"Lillard is a man..."

Su Yang praised Lillard's choice of one person, one city in his heart, and knew that Lillard was the upper limit of the Blazers.

Amidst the cheers of the audience, the king won the jump ball.

The first attack starts with a five-out formation, first shifts strength from the three-point line, and runs tactics on both sides at the same time. However, the communication of the Blazers is very timely, the pursuit is very tight, and the entanglement is also very large. There is basically no room for manipulation. The referee still Selectively ignore.

The offense failed, and the king turned to defense, decisively adopting the same standard of confrontation. Unexpectedly, the referee blew his whistle.

George got a foul, the Blazers reorganized the offense, Lillard caused Curry to foul again, boos burst in the arena.

Su Yang was quite speechless. If he really wanted to follow the relatively vague penalty standard, it would indeed be a foul. The problem is that the standards of the two teams are different. The referee is obviously more strict about the king's whistle, as if he came with a mission and forcibly gave it to him. The game creates suspense.

The kings of Yibian attacked, maybe because they felt that they were blowing too hard, or they felt that they really needed to blow. The referee blew his whistle again and called Lillard for a foul. , seems to be trying to find a balance.

"This is a classic routine. It deliberately made misjudgments on both sides. First suppress one side, and then try to find a way to make up for the other side, sending us a signal, implying that we accept the script arrangement?" Assistant coach David West complained, and the coaching staff Everyone was silent.

Su Yang thought for a moment when he heard the words, and said with a smile: "It's okay, wait until the final quarter to use some tactics that the pioneers are not familiar with..."

As a two-time winning team, the Kings haven't changed much in terms of team system and tactics. Other teams must have studied it many times. The Blazers are familiar with the Kings' many tactical moves, and those pulling defenses can play a limiting role.

In fact, the foul is not the key.

The key is that those pulls will cause more mistakes by the Kings players. Between words, Curry passed the ball away.

After listening to Su Yang's explanation, the teaching assistants nodded in agreement one after another, and continued to follow the progress of the game with confidence.

In the blink of an eye, both Curry and George got their second foul, and the Blazers also got 4 fouls.

But although it is clear that the last two teams committed 4 fouls in a single quarter, the results are completely different. Curry and George need to rest. The Blazers' 4 fouls were distributed to four different players, and the impact on the rotation is completely different. The king was brutally suppressed.

Su Yang casually asked for a timeout, arranged for Curry and George to leave the field, and then let Thomas Jr. and LaVine enter the field without rushing.

After the first quarter, the Kings still relied on 15 rebounds to take a 4-point lead.

It's a pity that a total of 7 fouls and 7 turnovers were made, and the lead was sent back in the second quarter. The main defensive action was small. Lillard and McCollum played smoothly. The two scored 24 points in a single quarter. points, helping the Blazers to tie at halftime.

After returning from the halftime break, the Kings first strictly guarded against testing the waters, and found that the referee's scale had not changed, so they could only continue to relax their defense.

The Blazers continued to defend toughly. Although they also got fouls, they had little impact on the overall situation of the game.

The two teams drew to enter the fourth quarter, and the game quickly reached 5 minutes left. Su Yang got up and asked for a timeout to arrange a decisive battle.

The generals of the king stood in a circle, and Su Yang held the tactical board in the middle, and compared the tactics that had been drawn, he said: "The focus of our attack is counter-intuitive or misleading. We can focus on the Chicago series, cooperate with the KEEP routine, and create a large number of Corner cut opportunities, and ghost exit series of tactics, or flank double screens followed by double screen pick-and-rolls.

I usually execute these tactics less often, but don’t worry about making mistakes, and operate boldly..."

Between the conversations, discussions related to social networking took off.

If the name of the king does not match, once the defensive strength is improved, the level will drop sharply, as if the previous two consecutive championships were given away for nothing.

What kind of king depends on the referee to take care of it. Now the referee whistles normally and the original shape is revealed. It's just that the league needed a star-making movement before.

What else Su Yang promised to pay a luxury tax of [-] million U.S. dollars before the game is to imply that the league can continue to take care of it, and there is a protection fee.

The whistle for the end of the pause followed.

The game continues.

LaVine came on to replace Mbah a Moute, and together with Curry, George, Antetokounmpo, and Cousins, formed the final battle lineup.

The Blazers also switched back to the starting lineup.

The referee whistled, and the King kicked off from the backcourt baseline.

Curry received the ball and advanced, raised his hand to signal the five-out formation to start, and then called for double screens on the wings to connect with double pick-and-rolls.

Let’s start with a simple one with a relatively high success rate. The core of the tactics is to pretend to be RAM to mislead, and induce the Blazers to choose to switch defenses because they have no time to communicate.

As soon as the gesture was made, Cousins ​​at the top of the arc and Antetokounmpo on the right turned around to the bottom corner on the right. The two formed a continuous cover. George took the opportunity to get rid of Turner and went straight to Curry where the LOGO was. It's all like a RAM routine cover.

The moment George was in place, Curry started simultaneously and rushed 45 degrees to the right. How could the Blazers dare to let go, and Feng Lai hurriedly switched defenses.

But Cousins ​​disassembled and turned inside, and was left unattended for a while, while Turner, the closest Blazers player, didn't know whether to chase George or follow Cousins ​​into the inside, and finally chose to chase George in a hurry, hoping TAG supplementary defense on the weak side.

But Turner didn't know that the weak side, that is, LaVine in the left corner, had already moved across the paint to the right corner.

That kind of movement caused neither Harkless nor McCollum to give up their own people to defend Cousins.

I saw Curry throwing the ball to the paint area casually, Cousins ​​took the ball and kicked the ground to take off, aiming at the basket was a split dunk.

The basketball slammed into the net with a bang, and cheers were everywhere.

The Trail Blazers coaching staff was suddenly confused. The King just used a tactic that seemed to have never been used before. They did not let Lillard and others train how to defend. wonderful.

During the TNT live broadcast, Miller said with a smile: "In order for Su Yang to always bring us new tricks, don't stop asking questions!"

On the king's bench, Su Yang raised his hand to signal: According to the plan, Lillard will be double-teamed next, trying to make mistakes.

(End of this chapter)


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