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Chapter 167 Competition is not a dinner treat
After a while, Su Yang put down his phone, gave up the idea of ​​alienation and attack, and decided to maintain a fearless attitude of challenge.

The Suns are hard to beat and hard to beat, but it is also important to maintain the purity of the game, so that winning will motivate the whole team even more.

With such a strong mentality, Su Yang walked back to the court and carefully observed the players' training to break the zone defense tactics.

After several rounds of training, the importance of Chandler's central command is fully highlighted. Regardless of the elbow cross-screen tactics, thumbs-up tactics, or even outside double screen + flare tactics, Chandler needs to remind other players.

It is also more obvious that after the number of transmissions increases, the probability of mistakes by Westbrook and the others increases greatly.

The minor problems of young people who lack experience and patience are very obvious in Wei Shao and the others. After several rounds of rehearsals were frustrated, Wei Shao took the initiative to look at Su Yang, shrugged slightly and spread his hands, showing some puzzled expressions.

What are you doing passing it around?
If you rush in with your head down, or pull it up and cast one, isn't it the end of the matter?
Why so complicated?
Su Yang responded with a smile, which is understandable. After all, the zone-breaking tactics are more boring than other offensive tactics, and some problems can indeed be solved by brute force. The key is because training cannot imitate the real environment of playing games.

During the training break, Westbrook ran to the sidelines to find Su Yang: "Coach, I don't think the Suns defense is that strong. The Denver Nuggets performed so poorly. The main reason is that Chauncey Billups is too old and his breakthrough speed is very slow. ..."

Su Yang hummed in response, knowing that Westbrook was only short of saying, 'I'll blow up Nash casually, and I don't even need a pick-and-roll'.

"Russell, I'm very clear that you have a big advantage against Steve Nash, but we need to win four games, play 48 minutes in each game, and from the statistics, you score every single The efficiency is 0.75…”

"Stop talking, I understand..."

Westbrook turned around with a smile and walked away, but Su Yang was about to say, 'You will count 20% more against Nash'.

Supported by objective data, Westbrook finally put away his impatience and practiced the defense-breaking tactics one by one.

Su Yang is not looking down on Westbrook's singles ability, but Westbrook's focus on other things is more beneficial, such as fast offensive and defensive transitions, using speed to destroy the Suns' defensive formation, and positional warfare sneak attack air cuts to attack the basket, all of which are better than singles it works.

Relatively speaking, Durant is more suitable for singles, and his almost unsolvable shooting ability can directly destroy the Suns' defense.

In short, when the goal of winning is absolutely unchanged, the pursuit of higher efficiency has become a priority.

The first day of training ended quickly. Durant and his team chose to practice for two hours, and then stayed at the training base for dinner. win the game.

Durant chose the Jazz unanimously, thinking that the Mavericks' backcourt players, especially Kidd, could not defend Deron at all, because Deron is tall, strong, and not slow, and he has too much advantage against the aging Kidd , Kidd was blown up in each of the first six games.

Su Yang didn't rush to place a bet. After carefully watching the Mavericks' defensive strategy and Kidd's state, he firmly supported the Mavericks to win.

But at the end of the first half, the Jazz led by as many as 13 points. Deron hung Kidd up to play. Several rounds were one-on-one. , shaking Kidd's head.

Westbrook joked: "Coach, I feel cheated by you. Deron can single-handedly play Kidd efficiently, and I can play single-handedly Nash efficiently, and Nash's defense is much worse than Kidd. Statistics can't explain everything."

"Of course, you have many abilities that cannot be reflected by the data, but you can't make a simple analogy like this. The Mavericks haven't started zone defense yet, and Deron's tactical positioning is also very different from yours. Let's continue to watch the game and be patient. ..."

Su Yang also wanted to say that Deron's breakthrough is more skillful. Westbrook can take advantage of his physical fitness to make a breakthrough, but he is more likely to be intercepted by the defense. But after thinking about it carefully, there is no need to say that, let Westbrook maintain a breakthrough sudden style.

Anyway, just don't let Westbrook gain weight in the future, that will cause Westbrook to lose his shooting rhythm and wear his knees more.

Between talking and laughing, the Mavericks and the Jazz started the second half of the game, and the Mavericks gradually put up a zone defense in the positional battle.

Kidd began to stand in advance to intercept Deron, and gave more defense to his teammates on the left and right sides and behind him, and the situation changed accordingly. Deron's breakthrough efficiency decreased visibly to the naked eye. .

Deron's scoring efficiency decreased, and the Jazz team's offensive efficiency was lowered, and the Mavericks slowly tied the score.

In the fourth quarter of the game, the power of the Mavericks' positional defense became more obvious. Both Deron and Boozer could only make long-range shots from high positions, and their scoring efficiency dropped steadily. It doesn't work either.

In the end, the Mavericks beat the Jazz to advance to the second round, and Durant and the others honestly surrendered.

"It seems that I still underestimate the role of zone defense..." Westbrook complained to himself, and once again realized the importance of breaking zone defense tactics.

"It's okay, we still have a lot of time to practice..."

Su Yang patted Westbrook on the shoulder to encourage Westbrook, knowing that it is normal for Westbrook to despise zone defense, because in the past many years, not only championship teams have almost zero zone defense, but even many ordinary teams refuse zone defense, which can only be seen occasionally in the Cavaliers .

There has always been a tacit understanding in NBA coaching circles: zone defense is a matter for European coaches and women's basketball talents.

Phil Jackson and Popovich are two representative coaches who refuse zone defense. They hate zone defense for tying the team's defense together, so that it is often impossible to distinguish which player made a defensive mistake, and it is difficult to make adjustments.

However, after the Spurs didn't have such a great defensive configuration in the [-]s, Popovich also said that the zone defense was really good.

Early the next morning, Thunder training continued.

Su Yang arranged for the players to engage in high-intensity confrontation to avoid a long truce, which made it difficult to enter the rhythm of the game.

ESPN's predictions for the results of the Thunder and Suns series were also released simultaneously. Among the 21 well-known commentators who participated in the voting, 11 were optimistic about the Thunder's advancement to the Western Conference Finals, while the other 10 were optimistic about the Suns.

But regardless of whether they support the Thunder or the Suns, those commentators believe that it will be a tough battle, at least six games.

After training at noon, Su Yang was interviewed on the sidelines.

The reporter asked: "Suns general manager Steve Kerr accepted ESPN's telephone interview in the morning, claiming that Alvin Gentry should be the best head coach of the year, and at the same time thinks that you borrow 95% of the tactics of the Suns and the Mavericks. What do you want? Response?"

Su Yang was stunned when he heard the words, thinking that he didn't intend to point out Cole's blind deals, but was accused of plagiarizing tactics.

The competition is really not a dinner party, it cannot be so elegant, in order to win, any means can be used.

Is it possible that it is the aggressive method, wanting to avoid suspicion, deliberately let the team give up those tactics, and sharpen their guns in front of the battle?

After thinking for a while, Su Yang said with a smile: "I did learn a lot from coach D'Antoni or the tactics of the Suns, because those tactics are too good and very suitable for Suns players. For the Suns, our game will be very difficult this round, because the Suns are very strong offensively and defensively.

Fortunately, several of them have been traded away, and we will focus on the Suns in this round! "

　I always want to write some contradictions, but I don't know if everyone likes this routine.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)