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Chapter 137 Back to the Top
After beating the Lakers, the Thunder team flew to Boston overnight to challenge the Celtics back to back.

Fatigued, coupled with the high-intensity battle against the Lakers, the Thunder's generals were seriously lacking in physical strength. They fell behind by 10 points in the first quarter. It was all thanks to Durant's 7 of 5 shots and Green's two three-pointers to keep the situation from collapsing.

In the next two quarters, Harden and Westbrook took turns to stand up, but they still failed to achieve a comprehensive attack.

In the fourth quarter of the game, Su Yang simply withdrew the main force, leaving all the time for the substitutes to train and admit defeat in advance.

After the game, the whole team started a three-day Christmas holiday.

Su Yang flew directly from Boston to San Francisco for Christmas, and met with the Sequoia Capital delegation again.

After more than half a year of promotion and version update, the MT application has already had tens of thousands of registered users, and even started to make profits. Compared with the previous one, the future potential has been greatly improved, and the valuation has reached 8 million US dollars. Various investment teams have been investing in the company all day. Call up.

The Sequoia Capital delegation expressed their desire to invest US$5200 million in one lump sum and take away 18% of the equity.

Su Yang was very tempted, but he knew very well that the estimated value of MT was far more than 8 million U.S. dollars. What's more, LeBron was 19 years old and could reject Reebok's 5200 million U.S. dollar check, and he himself refused [-] million U.S. dollars in investment. What can't be done?
Rejection is refusal, he still staged a good show, saying that he needs to continue to wait and see the development trend of smartphones.

After the decision was made, several key members of the company were quite puzzled, and only Jiang Ruolan expressed his support for him.

The two had in-depth communication and decided to wait until the application of 3G technology was fully rolled out before considering financing.

When Christmas was over, he flew back to Oklahoma to lead the team to practice many new tactics as planned.

On the 26th, the Thunder played against the Bobcats at home.

After more than a season of coaching by coach Larry Brown, the Bobcats' defense is already in shape.

However, the Bobcats' defensive resources are biased, mainly relying on the strict implementation of basic strategies such as "reducing offensive rebounds and quickly retreating + fast double-teaming and switching defenses", forcing opponents to play positions, and vigorously interfering with passing, forcing opponents to play more one-on-one.

Such a routine is quite effective against many teams. The Bobcats' defensive efficiency once ranked first in the league.

It's a pity that most Thunder players can play singles with the ball. Although they are not at Kobe's level, they are enough to deal with the Bobcats.

Su Yang instructed the whole team to go one-on-one, and when the game was over, seven members of the team scored in double figures and easily defeated the Bobcats.

After a day off, the Thunder flew to New York and New Jersey for an away game against the Nets, which is being rebuilt.

In the video conference before the game, Su Yang assigned Westbrook a task, asking to focus on limiting Harris's fast speed.

That was a routine defensive strategy, but Westbrook heard his fighting spirit, as if vowing to compete with Harris.

Su Yang saw it and found that it had unintentionally played a motivating role, so he simply asked Westbrook to try to lock Harris.

After the game started, Westbrook tried his best to defend Harris, which directly caused Harris to make two mistakes.

In addition to turnovers, Harris' passing and breakthroughs are also severely limited, even if Lopez is called to play a pick-and-roll.

On the offensive end, Westbrook is quite patient, wanting to prove that his organizational skills are higher than Harris, and frequently sends out assists.

After the whole game, Westbrook sent 16 assists, reaching a career high, leading the team to a big victory of 18 points.

That night, the whole team flew to Washington overnight, preparing to challenge the Wizards in back-to-back away games.

On the plane, the coaching staff resumed the game. Su Yang recalled the matter of letting Westbrook lock Harris before the game, and then recalling the matter of letting Westbrook fight for a triple-double before, he couldn't help guessing whether Westbrook liked to have a specific game Target?
Against the Wizards the next day, with a mentality of trying, he arranged for Westbrook to limit Arenas to no more than five three-pointers.

The reason for the arrangement is that Arenas likes to shoot three-pointers, but it is only determined as a specific number.

Westbrook decisively accepted the challenge. After his debut, he defended Arenas closely. Even when defending Arenas without the ball, he intentionally reduced the number of times he looked at the ball holder, focused on limiting three-pointers, and gave up some opportunities for steals and rebounds. .

In that way, Arenas only made three three-pointers at halftime, making a total of one.

Without the three-point pressure from Arenas, the Wizards couldn't open the paint even more. Jamison and Haywood's shooting percentages were quite low.

In the end, the Thunder defeated the Wizards 110 to 94, winning three consecutive victories, only two wins away from the Lakers.

On the plane flying back to Oklahoma, Su Yang told several teaching assistants about his new discovery: "I may have found Russell's instruction manual. He likes to challenge specific goals. He communicated with UCLA before, and his college coaches also suggested it. and."

Snyder and other teaching assistants felt that it was feasible, and also suggested that it is best to use it frequently, and it is best to use it at critical moments.

Su Yang agreed, knowing that the challenge goal can't be like a low-reward game routine, as it will quickly lose motivation.

On December 31, the Thunder played against the Jazz at home.

Su Yang made an opening speech before the game, thanking the fans for their support throughout the year, and hoping to continue to travel together in the coming year.

The Jazz also learned from the Cavaliers to adopt a tough confrontation strategy, but it is a pity that the Thunder have already completed the tactical upgrade.

Durant scored three goals in a row in the opening game and broke through with the ball to score 2+1. The Jazz were caught off guard.

After entering the stage of the bench match, Harden led the team to blast again, and Matthews made three of three shots and hit the Jazz to timeout.

At the end of the game, Durant led the team with 31 points to take the Jazz lightly, and the Thunder caught up with the Lakers with 4 consecutive victories and were only 1 win away from the Lakers.

At the post-match press conference, Su Yang specifically praised Matthews for his excellent performance. It was a great pity that he lost the election. The league should not be age-biased and stereotyped that older players cannot provide help. Think about Pippen and Rodman.

The report was transferred to the Internet. Some fans thought that Su Yang seemed to be speaking for Matthews, but in fact he wanted to show off his correct positioning of Matthews.Neither Sefolosha nor Matthews is a traditional shooting guard. The former was dropped because of the low potential of an older rookie, and the latter was traded because of his low shooting percentage. However, Su Yang gave full play to their strengths and let them only shoot three-pointers and defense.

In short, Su Yang completely beat Frosa and Matthews, as if he had found their instruction manual.

On the plane to Milwaukee, assistant coach Brian talked about the fans' comments and said with a smile that Su Yang had created a new position.

Su Yang was a little surprised when he heard the words, and after thinking about it again, it seemed that the promotion of the concept of 3D players was speeding up virtually.

On January 97nd, the Thunder ushered in the first game of the new year. They played an away game against the Bucks and lost 103 to [-] after overtime.

The team's offense was fine, mainly because Chandler and Jordan received 5 fouls on the inside, and the reason for the foul was that Bogut's actions were insidious, and the two of them couldn't control their anger. , was brutally caught by the referee.

And after entering the overtime period, Durant, Westbrook and Harden also encountered foul troubles.

Throughout the game, it seemed that the referee deliberately wanted the Thunder to lose, and the whistle scale was completely different.

After a day off, the Thunder challenged the Bulls in an away game, and the Bulls grabbed 25 offensive rebounds. They had five more turnovers and five more fouls than the Bulls, but they easily beat the Bulls 98 to 85, making the data meaningless .

The Bulls grab so many offensive rebounds, but the scoring efficiency of the second offense is extremely low. The head coach Vinidnagro will never use the five-tiger lineup of 'Noah + Gibson + Luol Deng + Hinrich + Rose'. To play fast to grab points.

After beating the Bulls, the Thunder flew back to Oklahoma, ready to face the precarious Hornets.

Because of the previous away game, Su Yang finally won the best coach of the Western Conference in December, and the fans cheered for him.

In the end, the Thunder narrowly won by five points, tying the Lakers, who lost the same night, with a record of 28 wins and 7 losses.

But because the two teams played against each other three times, the Thunder had a 2-1 advantage and successfully returned to the top of the league according to the rules.

(End of this chapter)