Chapter 34
Next, the head coach Paul Westphal began to practice tactics. He first scratched on the tactical cardboard and explained the tactics.

"Old K, you enter the low post, it is best to enter the basket, use your containment force to compress the opponent's defense, and create opportunities and space for the outside line."

"Kevin, old K will upload it as soon as he stops."

"Charles, you're on the weak side, and if the defender puts a weak-side help, you'll get open and K will pass you the ball."

"Kevin, you can also pass it to Charles."

"Old K, if the ball is passed to you, play it if you have a singles opportunity, and if you don't, immediately distribute the ball to an open teammate. You must pay attention to the openness of your teammates."

"Dan Marley, you are on the same side as K, use your long-range shooting ability to open up space for him, and wait for his ball."

"Others actively move according to tactics and pull the defense..."

The tactics are not complicated, it is the traditional center tactics, find the center first, if the center cannot play, then split out.

In the past, the Suns did not have such a strong center like Wang Tiejun, and several blue-collar centers could not play this kind of tactics at all. The inside line was dominated by Barkley. Barkley could indeed fly in the paint, but he was not tall enough to be the pillar of the Suns' low post.

And now with Wang Tiejun, although he lacks offensive ability, he has a low-post back-up with a horizontal push and a violent grind.

After the tactics were explained, the actual operation began.

Oliver Miller served as a substitute, facing Wang Tiejun at the fifth position.

This guy signed a two-year $110 million contract with the Suns. He ate heavily when he had money. He couldn’t control his weight. When he entered the league, he weighed 127 kilograms, but now he has reached 130 kilograms, an increase of 3 kilograms in two months. Looking at this momentum, he has to climb up.

If he gains weight, his mobility will decrease, and what he gains is not muscle. If he loses fat and gains muscle like Wang Tiejun, he can also increase his strength, but he has gained fat, so his weight gain is simply an increase in tonnage. His strength is not increased, and his movements are more sluggish.

Lao Wang asked for the ball in the low position on the left wing, the ball came in, he caught the ball in his hand, and immediately started playing back.

The first time I tried to fight, it was the same as the last time I fought Barkley. It was completely close to the body, but with all my strength, it was necessary to loosen the opponent's center of gravity, and then continue to use force to rely on the fight until it completely destroyed the opponent's center of gravity.

"Oh!"

"Oh!"

In the first close-to-body attack, Miller's center of gravity was as loose as Barkley just now, but he relied on his huge tonnage to hold the second attack, but in the third attack that followed, he could no longer hold it, staggered back, and completely lost his center of gravity.

Wang Tiejun was about to take advantage of the momentum to attack the basket and dunk. At this time, the substitute team made a weak-side defense. Substitute power forward Jerrod Mustaf rushed over. Barkley was empty.

The substitute team was switching defenses, but Barkley's vacancy was not filled in time. He immediately made an open jumper after receiving the ball and hit a goal.

"Just play like this. Old K must pay attention to the weak side defense from behind, and don't make mistakes when playing back."

"Dan Marley, you can try to cut inside on the strong side when the old K is playing back, and attract the defense for the old K. At the same time, old K, if you don't have time to attack, you can also distribute the ball to Dan Marche."

Head coach Paul Westphal kept calling out loud reminders.

At five o'clock in the afternoon, after finishing the training and having a free dinner at the training base, Wang Tiejun rode his car to buy wood.

He has already inquired that there are several wood processing factories in the eastern suburbs, and round logs should be available there.

After riding for more than half an hour, I found a processing factory quite smoothly, and luckily, I bought a section of the best wood.

What he bought was desert ironwood, a large piece of wood measuring [-] meters long and [-] centimeters in diameter, weighing hundreds of kilograms.

The factory owner is a fan of the Suns. He knew him. After paying the money, he promised to send someone to deliver the goods to his door tomorrow.

At 10 o'clock the next morning, a truck delivered the piece of wood to the door. With the help of the driver, he stood the wood in the deep hole dug yesterday.

After it was fixed, he began to remove the burrs on the wood with gauze. This thing was much thicker, harder and heavier than the wooden stakes he used in his old home. The wooden stakes he used before were ordinary elm or jujube wood. He broke a lot of them when they reached [-] centimeters to the sky.

The stakes are ready, but the training of Tieshanguo cannot be carried out yet, because there is no medicinal oil yet.

This kind of boxing, if there is no medicinal oil to rub the muscles and bones after training, it will definitely be injured.

But he was a little itchy, because he hadn't done this training for a long time, not since he was imprisoned.

Using his left shoulder and chest to get close to the huge wooden stake, leaving a foot of space, he paused, twisted his waist and abdomen, and the six forces instantly merged into one and burst out.

"Oh!"

There was a dull impact sound, the huge wooden stake remained motionless, but he was hit by the reaction force and his center of gravity floated, and the horse gait under his feet was almost chaotic.

"Tsk tsk, the stake is under a lot of force, it's too much force, I'm a gnat shaking a tree!"

After patting the stake, he smacked his lips and said to himself, "I can loosen this big guy one day, and I believe that the realm of Iron Mountain can go further."

"Boom bang bang..."

Next, he tried more than [-] times, then stopped, not daring to try again, for fear of getting hurt.

That night, the Suns played against the Mavericks, the bad team in the West, at home.

The Mavericks are deceiving everyone. The wins in the past two seasons have hovered between one and twenty wins. They have just been ravaged by Jordan, and their morale is declining.

Wang Tiejun's opponent is Sean Lukes, a black man, known as the desert fathead fish, from the University of Arizona, which is the university where Zhang Lili's former sister-in-law studied, in Tucson, more than 100 kilometers away from Phoenix.

He is the No. 3 pick in the second round of this year. He is 208 cm long and weighs 113 kg. He has good pace around the basket and good confrontation ability, but his shooting skills are average, his wingspan is average, and his athletic ability is average like Wang Tiejun. In addition, the inside players in this year's draft are too luxurious, so he fell to the second round, and the pick is not high.

According to his conditions, if Wang Tiejun participates in the draft, he might be able to get a first-round pick, because Lao Wang's static talent is the top, and his wingspan and confrontation ability are better and stronger than Fathead Fish.

However, Lukes is still capable. In the first game of the season against the Jazz, against Black and White, he played as the starting center. He made 11 of 7 shots and 10 of 6 free throws. He scored 20 points and 4 rebounds in his debut.

(End of this chapter)

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