Healing Basketball

Chapter 728 728. The Growth of the Coach

It was night, after the Pistons players returned to the hotel, they found Philip Saunders, who was working overtime to study the video, and had a small meeting after the game.

Everyone watched the first 5 rounds of the game together.

Everyone was silent, Philip Sanders leaned back in the chair, rubbing the thumb and index finger of his right hand against the tiger's mouth of his left hand, the players felt a lot of pressure.

Ben Wallace, who usually talks the least, spoke first: "Actually, our defense is better than them."

Billups shook his head: "But our offense is not their opponent. They have a stronger offense and better continuity than us. Their substitutes are too strong."

"The coach controls the rhythm well, and we don't necessarily lose." Ben Wallace retorted.

"But they have a warden, he is terrible... Yao, I heard that the warden thinks he is not good enough in the mid-range shot. It's just an urban legend, I didn't expect it to be true."

Yao Ming was named, and smiled wryly: "Yeah, after watching him play against the Spurs in the Western Conference Finals, I thought he became even better, but I didn't expect him to be so good."

"Hey, I thought the first quarter would be our dominant period. Their performance in the first quarter has been poor. As a result, the warden turned the first quarter into the Blazers' advantage period alone, and the victory was sealed." Lupus was depressed.

The teammates sighed in unison.

After reviewing the game, they determined that they were 4-12 behind at the start, and the game was basically over, and the subsequent points chasing was all futile.

After the players finished complaining, Philip Saunders said: "This is a very troublesome thing. The warden is too strong, but we have determined the reason for the loss in G1, that is, we did not guard against the warden at the beginning. Let's find a way together. We will have a meeting at 2 o'clock tomorrow afternoon. We will discuss how to deal with the Warden's opening attack. We just lost an away game. Don't worry too much. If we can win G[-], we may make them unable to return. Portland... well, the meeting is over."

The coach spoke, and the players all said goodbye obediently and went back to their rooms.

It has been almost a season of cooperation, and the Pistons players are still not used to it.

This coach looks like the kind of guy who would sink them into the Detroit River if they didn't agree with each other.

But when he spoke, he was not very fierce, and he was very considerate of the players, worried that the players would be under too much pressure... The Pistons players felt unreasonable!
This person shouldn't look like this!Didn't it mean that Garnett, that bastard villain, regarded him as a godfather?
...

The Pistons players wanted to swear and were under a lot of pressure after losing, but the atmosphere of the Trail Blazers was much more relaxed.

By the afternoon of the second day, the Trail Blazers coaching staff held a preparation meeting.

The vice president took the lead to speak: "We won the game yesterday very smoothly, and there were a lot of benefits. Last night they changed their formations all over the court. We can clearly see their strength on both ends of the offense and defense, but we just chose to hold on steadily. Advantages, not too much contingency, although they are very strong, stronger than the Spurs, but we still have an advantage, what is that word... late strike, yes, late strike."

"Yes, we have the advantage of change," the coach took over the words: "In our next game, we must not be careless in every detail and every small stage. Everyone saw yesterday's game. The warden started with 12 After the match was 4, we established the victory. The opponent tried his best and couldn't come back. There are little giants and flying people on the opposite side.

If we accidentally lose tomorrow, as long as we win one of our three away games, we can come back to play at home..."

At first, the vice president was surprised at how the coach was speaking so seriously today, and was a little moved. The coach finally grew up... Then, he wanted to strangle this guy to death.

Just won the game and said such depressing words!
However, such a coach is in line with the cognition of the players, and some people can't hold back their laughter.

Liu Xiu guessed that the coach's idea should be to understand that the players' confidence will not be damaged because of these two sentences, and he has taken precautions in advance. In case of a loss in G2, there will be an away game. Go for an away win...

Compared with last year's finals, the current coach makes Liu Xiu feel more trustworthy.

The coach was serious first, then activated the atmosphere, and then continued to talk about business: "The warden's deterrence has already been played out. Last night he made 5 of 5 shots in the opening game, but he was strictly guarded from behind. He only made 17 of 5 shots, but Even if his shooting performance drops to 22 of 10, he breaks through the pick-and-roll and the Pistons are still double-teamed, and we have to take advantage of this..."

Mentioning this, Liu Xiu was a little excited.

As far as the coach is concerned, he can also feel that his super deterrent power has already taken shape!

It's just that, he was quite confused about one thing. The Pistons' legendary No. [-] point guard in the playoffs didn't seem to be that powerful?
...

After the meeting, the Trail Blazers made targeted preparations for the Pistons' G1 tactical changes.

The one-day break passed quickly, and on June 6, the match day for the second round of the finals arrived.

Liu Xiu's performance in G1 made people feel amazing.

During the publicity period before the start of the finals, the media's evaluation of Liu Xiu has already raised the fans' expectations for his performance, but he can still surprise the fans.

Compared with Wade's struggling performance when he encountered Billups, Carter, and Prince's perimeter combination plus the twin towers of Little Giants and Big Ben, Liu Xiu's performance in the finals was as good as it was at the beginning of the finals.

Stars who rely on impact to play are easy to be deflated when they meet the Pistons. Just look at Artest's tragedy, but people don't care about the difference in the style of play between Wade and Liu Xiu. That's not what fans should say. To understand, what they saw was that Wade, a supernova who was blown up in the first and second rounds, met the Pistons with a shooting percentage of less than 12%, and Liu Xiu scored [-] points in the beginning to destroy the Pistons...

In addition to Liu Xiu, Yao Ming continued his dominance in the Eastern Conference finals in the finals. He was no longer as tepid as the first and second rounds, which also surprised the fans.

At this time, the fans knew that Yao Ming only played 30 minutes in the first and second rounds, or even less than 30 minutes, for now!
Billups and Kwame Brown have sympathy from fans.

After all, these two were the second-defense bosses selected by the coaches. As a result, one met the warden and the other met the little giant, and they were beaten to death...

During the World Cup, Chinese sports fans' enthusiasm for watching the NBA Finals has greatly increased, because G1, Liu Xiu and Yao Ming are the main Cs of their respective teams!

(End of this chapter)