Pick Westbrook

Chapter 139

In the last 6 seconds, Rondo held the ball all the way, and shot from outside the three-point line, and the result was unsurprising.

competition is over.

The Bucks quasi-lore the Celtics and won the No.11 winning streak in the new season!

In the post-match interview, Rivers looked down. He was very dissatisfied with the result of tonight's game.

"The Celtics are the most successful team in defending the Bucks in the league. We have limited their points to 106. Originally, the victory in this game should also belong to the Celtics, but Li Lai Good luck with the Bucks."

"Of course, the rookie named Curry is also very lucky."

But dissatisfaction is dissatisfaction. After the game, there is a very difficult problem hanging above Rivers.

That's how to further limit the Bucks' offense.

After all, the Bucks are also an Eastern Conference team, and sooner or later they will meet in the playoffs. If Rivers does not find a good solution to the Bucks, then the opponent is likely to become the most powerful team on their way to compete. an opponent of .

The regular season continues.

The two opponents behind the Bucks are both underdogs in the league, one is the Washington Wizards and the other is the New Jersey Nets.

The ups and downs of geniuses are all because of the general.

Using these eight words to describe the Wizards may not be more appropriate.

Arenas finally returned from injury this season, but there is another huge problem facing the Wizards, that is, has the general really recovered?
If it is, then the strength of the Wizards is naturally unquestionable. Although the general Arenas is not the top four in the league, he is also someone who can compete with Kobe. Arenas, the Wizards basically have a ticket to the playoffs.

But if the answer is the opposite, then the Wizards may not escape the bad luck of the league for many years.

In short, the fate of the entire Wizards team largely depends on the core player Arenas.

The good news is that Arenas has averaged 23 points, 4 rebounds and 6 assists per game so far, and he seems to be gradually recovering his peak strength.

And the Wizards management is not idle, they brought the famous coach Sanders under their command with a salary of 4 million in four years.

Although Sandersner is not good at flexibility, his coaching experience is not bad at all. It is better to have him in the lineup than the temporary rookie coach Tapscott last season.

In addition, the Wizards won the marksman Mike Miller during the off-season and signed the old Argentine center Oberto at the same time. The depth of the Wizards' lineup has been further improved. This season they are determined to score playoffs.

The current record of the Wizards is 6 wins and 6 losses, which seems to prove this point.

This is an 8th record in the Eastern Conference.

The other team, the Nets, is much more poignant in comparison.

They currently rank last in the East with 3 wins and 7 losses.

This season, the Nets lost their biggest leg, half-human, half-god Carter, and the team's strength has declined seriously. At present, the leading scorer in their team is the sophomore Lopez, averaging 18 points and 9 rebounds per game.

The entire Nets team has only 4 players averaging double figures per game.

Such an overall team strength can only rank last in the Eastern Conference.

With these two opponents, the whole world seems to be waiting for the Bucks to defeat them to win 13 consecutive victories and continue to attack the team's historical winning streak.

But what is unexpected is that the Bucks have lost two games in a row!

"Curry has been feeling cold since the end of the game with the Celtics. Even if he made a key lore in that game, it seems that he still hasn't gotten out of the shadow of consecutive missed shots."

Tylen Lu said with some concern.

The reason why the Bucks have such a good record this season, apart from the fact that the Bucks already have a strong foundation, Curry's joining is another very important factor.

According to Li Lai, the Bucks' possession of Curry is equivalent to finding the most important and unsolvable link in their tactics.

But the problem now is that the most unsolvable part lost his power because of consecutive missed shots. Then the Bucks will no longer be the Bucks team that dares to compete with the entire league.

This is also the reason why the Bucks lost to two underdog teams one after another.

Curry, who can't shoot, has become a burden on the court because he is not good at defense.

Li Lai shook his head and said, "It's not terrible to miss a shot. The most terrible thing is that Curry doesn't dare to shoot again."

"I'd rather see Curry miss 20 shots in a game than Curry not shoot [-]s at all."

After all, the feeling of shooting can be regained, and the shooting sight can also be practiced, but if a player dares not shoot again, then his shooting skill package will never be recovered.

And this player is still Curry.

After the game with the Nets, Curry did not return to the locker room immediately, because this was a home game and he did not need to go back to the team, so he chose to continue to practice on the court.

To Curry's surprise, there was Westbrook besides him on the court, and the opponent seemed to be used to staying on the court for training at this time.

Curry took a breath.

He knew that Artest was the recognized leader of the Bucks team, because the opponent completely gave up his offensive performance for the Bucks' defense, and every time he became the most reliable inside and outside defense of the Bucks. A player, dirty work, tiring work, he is doing it alone.

Artest wiped Westbrook's ass, wiped Yi Jianlian, wiped Villanueva, and wiped Curry.

Therefore, no one on the Bucks team dared to be dissatisfied with Artest. After all, Artest was the first to stand up for his teammates even after conflicts with opponents on the court.

Curry also recognized that Artest is the leader of the Bucks. Of course, in addition to the above reasons, Artest's fists are very hard. Curry was often bullied by Artest with his fists raised.

"But everyone knows that Westbrook is the strongest player in the Bucks right now."

The big core of holding the ball, defense, passing, explosive tomahawk dunks, and the Bucks' regular tactics are the core.

And now, is it that such a player who is already so good will choose to continue to practice on the court after the game?

What Curry didn't know was that since last season's rookie season, with the help of Li Lai, Westbrook has developed the habit of extra training during this time period.

Westbrook was practicing three-pointers on the other side of the court, making a breakthrough around the chair. After seeing Curry watching him, he patted the ball and walked over.

"Want to train together, Stephen?"

Curry nodded and said with a silly smile, "Okay, we can practice three-pointers."

Westbrook heard a black line, practice Nima three points, how can I practice with you?Are you looking for abuse?
So the veterans on the team are right, the little bastard Curry is really too flat.

Curry made a solid three-pointer.

Westbrook said: "Your three-pointers are so accurate, why have you been hitting iron in these two games, and your shots are much less."

Curry was stunned, once again caught in the memories of this year's March Madness.

It took him a long time to say: "I don't want the team to lose again, and I don't want to lose because of me.

Davidson College originally set a goal of reaching the NCAA Final Four this year. I personally destroyed this dream. I missed that damn lore three-pointer. "

Westbrook understands Curry's sudden emotion.

When you have dreams and see glory extremely lofty, if there are a group of like-minded brothers around you, who have even fought for each other, then such emotions will naturally arise.

"But in the end, the Bucks lost the game instead."

Westbrook said directly: "The coach is very optimistic about you from the beginning. He thinks you are the most important part of the team."

"Honestly, I didn't agree at first, because you're just a rookie, and I think I can be the most important part of the team."

"But I obey the coach, and I will do what he says. Besides my mother and Bals, the coach is the person I respect most in the world!"

"But our [-]-game winning streak makes me believe that you can really make us better."

"Stephen, I'm sure you are the one we need very much. The coach must also hope that you can cheer up as soon as possible at this time."

After speaking, Westbrook pointed to a lighted room above the arena.

"Me, I will train here after almost every home game, sometimes Yi Jianlian will be here, George Hill will find time to come over to accompany me, and Dragic will also run on the court when my uncle comes. run."

"But, whenever we're here, that light in that room is always on."

Curry turned around and asked curiously, "Whose room is that?"

Westbrook didn't answer, but just smiled and said, "Go up and have a look and you'll know?"

Curry frowned, then worked up his courage and walked up, and knocked lightly on the door. After hearing a familiar voice asking to come in, Curry said in surprise: "It's the coach."

Li Lai was also surprised to see Curry behind him, because in the past, it was either Westbrook or Yi Jianlian who knocked on his door, and of course Holloway, and this was the first time for Curry.

Curry looked at the densely packed notes on Li Lai's desk, and the countless offensive and defensive tactics hanging on the surrounding walls, including eagle screen, triangle offense, iron barrel formation, Princeton system, and run-and-bomb tactics.
Curry was even more shocked. He never thought that Li Lai would work so hard. In his eyes, the tactics of the Bucks to restrain their opponents were all studied by Li Lai over and over again every night.

Curry pointed to the only two incomprehensible tactics on the wall and said, "Coach, what is that tactics with X**LT written on it?"

Li Lai explained: "Well, this is a tactic of putting the enemy to death and then reviving. Killing one thousand enemies will destroy eight hundred. It must not be used unless it is absolutely necessary."

Curry raised his eyebrows, and then looked at the other picture, "Then what kind of tactic is this one with 48 tactics written on it?"

Li Lai explained this tactic in detail. After all, the alien conquered the entire league in 18, making all the fans shout: I have never seen how Jordan became a god, but at this moment I saw an emperor , he performed the greatest playoff individual performance in NBA history.

Li Lai said: "This is called a 48-minute non-rest tactic."

"Note, this tactic will not be used in the regular season, and it is not just a playoff game without a rest for 48 minutes, let alone a round of playoffs without a rest for 48 minutes, but the entire playoffs! 48 minutes! All No rest!"

Curry looked at Li Lai with wide eyes, thinking you are a devil, playing 48 minutes in the entire playoffs?help!This coach is toxic!
Li looked at Curry suddenly and asked curiously: "By the way, what do you want to see me for?"

Curry hesitated and finally said: "Coach, these two games."

Li Lai interrupted the other party in advance and said: "I know you are hesitant, but it's fine, I'm very satisfied with you."

"This is your rookie season. I can allow any rookie to make mistakes in the first season, but you can't be so hesitant next season."

Curry shook his head and said, "Coach, I think this will be the case this season!"

Li Lai smiled in satisfaction, touched the elementary school student's head, and then took out the densely packed notebooks in front of him.

It read: Curry, the strength of the upper body is not enough, the core strength of the body is not enough, it is very easy to lose the hit rate due to the consumption of energy under the high-intensity defense, and there is an urgent need to improve the body strength.

Curry muttered in surprise, he didn't expect that Li Lai was so busy thinking about how to improve his shooting stability!
To be honest, the last game against the Celtics had a big blow to Curry's self-confidence, because this team is so good at defending, even if Ray Allen, who is the least good at defending in their team, It has always brought Curry a lot of physical confrontation, which also caused Curry to consume a lot of energy on the court.

In the fourth quarter, he failed to make consecutive shots at critical moments because of his lack of physical strength.

And Curry, who just entered the NBA from the NCAA, couldn't adapt to such a strong defense at all, so his sudden miss of shooting was not accidental.

"coach."

Curry's voice choked, and he finally understood Westbrook's words at this time: I obey the coach.

At this time, he also accepted, because this is a head coach who wholeheartedly cares about the players and the team.

Li Lai continued: "I know your three-pointer is very good, you will become a very great shooter, and you may even surpass Reggie Miller and Ray Allen in this field."

"But if you're all about shooting the [-], you're only going to be a shooter."

"Stephen, I don't want you to be just a shooter. You should have other means of scoring, and you should be more dominant on the court."

"A shooter can never guarantee that he will score the next goal."

"Just like the whole league now knows that you can shoot, even the Wizards and the Nets are desperately blocking your three-pointers. You should try more offensive methods after the three-pointers are restricted."

Curry paused. He thought Lee was very reasonable, because his father, an NBA player, said the same thing.

It's just the same as at the time, Curry still doesn't know what offense he can practice without shooting three-pointers, so at this time he subconsciously said: "Coach, how about I practice dunks? Just like Russell, then The burst dunk is beautiful."

"Practice Nima!"

Li Lai held his forehead and felt dizzy for a while.

How much does this bastard like to dunk, the last time he was dunked by the basket on the court when he was playing against the Mavericks, Li Lai still still remembers it.

"Artest and Rasheed Wallace are right, this little brat is really bad."

Li Lai said seriously: "The combination of man and ball, breakthrough, throwing, vision, and dribbling offense of teammates."

"Steve, you have to know that with your three-point threat, whether you have the ball or not, as long as you are outside the three-point line, you can attract a lot of defensive attention from the opponent. Maybe you will have very few assists per game. , but you will never create fewer chances for your teammates than those top passers in the NBA."

"So, you have to learn to use your three-pointer advantage to make yourself and your teammates' offenses better. Not every time you only need to score three-pointers to help the team, you can do a lot more."

This passage made Curry suddenly realize that he suddenly seemed to see the direction of his entire career improvement.

Curry is very sure that if he can really meet these requirements put forward by Li Lai, he will definitely become a star at the same level as Westbrook.

At this time, Holloway knocked on the door with a cup of tea and came in. She knocked on the watch on her right wrist and said with a dissatisfied mouth, "It's time to rest! Even if you are an iron man, I should get off work."

"You can't let the secretary do everything."

(End of this chapter)