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Chapter 289 Chicken feathers all over the floor
On December [-]st, Su Yang resumed his daily life of going back and forth between the training base and the apartment.

Although the official training camp has not yet been held, many Lakers players have also rushed to the base for training.Compared with the fact that no players expressed their welcome publicly or privately when he first took office, this time, all the Lakers paid respect to Su Yang.

There is no way, Su Yang helped solve the lockout and made the players not suffer much, that is a great credit.

As the chairman of the players union, Fisher, the old fish, delivered a speech as a player representative, thanking Su Yang for his contribution, and expressed another meaning in his words: that is, everything about basketball in the future must be absolutely obeyed by Su Yang's leadership.

After Lao Yu spoke, Kobe followed up and said that he believed that Su Yang could bring new changes to the Lakers, and he 100% supported it.

The two bosses of the Lakers expressed their opinions off and on the court, and other players naturally followed. Only Odom has not yet gathered at the base because of filming the reality show of the Kardashian family. Make a mistake.

The issue of leadership was resolved. Su Yang led the coaching staff to design offensive and defensive tactics from scratch, drawing and writing one by one.

Considering that after the opening of the free market on the 9th, the Lakers lineup will undergo great changes, mainly around Bynum, and the focus is on how to make Bynum easily receive the ball and prevent Bynum from being severely attacked if he launches an offense. Great energy consumption.

In the era of Phil Jackson, Bynum took the ball mainly through the common triangle offense, but he used it too much, which made the dynamic offense of the triangle offense feel like a routine offense. Other teams are very good against.

Therefore, although Bynum holds the title of Big Three and Twin Towers, in the Lakers playoffs from 08 to 11, even if he was not absent due to injuries or was not troubled by fouls, he did not play a worthy name. data performance.

"The point is to hide Bynum's intentions with the ball, or to delay the opponent's intention to detect Bynum's coming and going..."

Su Yang gave an overall plan for tactical design, but he also knew that it was difficult to do, because Bynum's mid-range shooting ability was too poor, and his movement speed was average. Basically, he could only rely on the card position + pass mode. Transfer must become the core of tactics.

After two days of work, Su Yang thought that he had exhausted his thinking before he could barely devise a few tactics for Bynum.

The most painful thing is that Bynum's basketball IQ is average, his pick-and-roll effect is average, and his cooperation with other players is average.When the tactical design was blocked, Su Yang occasionally missed the benefits of Tyson Chandler, and even vaguely thought of trading Bynum.

In Su Yang's view, the most traditional center like Bynum is no longer suitable for the current version of the NBA. Thinking that Bynum will ask for more earth rights after the start of the new season, his brain is twitching, and there will be trouble at that time Not happy.

"No matter what, we still need to let Andrew Bynum get the ball more, and let him become the opponent's key defensive target..."

Su Yang gritted his teeth and told the coaching staff his final positioning for Bynum, because firstly, he wanted to reduce the offensive burden of Kobe and Gasol, secondly, he wanted to ensure the stability of the team, and thirdly, he had a long-term idea, that is, to increase Bynum's offensive burden. Nam transaction value.

Of course, if Bynum performs well and the Lakers management finally decides to stay, it can be considered a long-term investment.

After Bynum, the tactical design progress has been advanced to the combination of Kobe + Gasol, as well as Artest and the old fisher Fisher.

But after design and design, there is always a big problem that cannot be bypassed, that is, the Lakers' extreme lack of three-point shooting ability.

Without the three-point ability, it is impossible to stretch the space efficiently, and many tactics can only find continuous screens or singles.

That would still guarantee scoring, but the scoring efficiency would be relatively low, and the players' physical energy would be exhausted very quickly.

"Is this low three-point shooting rate a Lakers tradition?"

Su Yang was very speechless. He used to coach the Thunder, and every time he happily took advantage of the Lakers' low three-point shooting rate. Now it's his turn to coach, so he realizes how painful it is. He can't help but sigh: "I have never played such a The battle of poverty..."

Tactical design is full of difficulties, and in a blink of an eye, it will be December 12th, when the free market for the new NBA season officially begins.

Su Yang was still sleeping in the morning when he was woken up by a call from Mike Brown: "Coach! We got Chris Paul! The richness of our offensive and defensive tactical design has been improved by at least two levels! I can't wait to get to work, I'm so happy !"

"You're too happy..."

Su Yang didn't explain to Mike Brown, but just hung up the phone and continued to sleep, waiting for the news to reverse.

As he expected, when they met at the base in the afternoon, Mike Brown asked curiously face to face: "How do you know you will fail?"

Su Yang said with a smile: "If you succeed, you will be damned!"

As he knew, Cavaliers owner Gilbert took the lead in writing to Stern asking the league to veto the Paul deal.

Stern was really rejected, and then Paul sued the league in court, but anyone with a discerning eye could see that the deal was useless.

The main reason for the failure of the transaction was that the Lakers were too ruthless.

Not only get Paul, but also send away Gasol and Odom, directly save 2000 million US dollars in expenses in the next three seasons, and 2100 million US dollars in luxury taxes, and the 2100 million US dollars in luxury taxes should be distributed to other players who do not have The teams that pay the luxury tax are equivalent to letting those teams lose a fortune in vain, without paying any draft picks.

If the transaction is completed, the Lakers will get rid of the salary burden directly, and complete the reconstruction + determine the core for the next ten years.

Compared with the Lakers getting Gasol in a robbery trade in 08, Paul in this trade can be said to regard the league as an RBQ.

How can other teams bear it? The Lakers will take advantage of all the benefits of cooperation, and they don't have to pay any price.

Your little Bass family ranks in the bottom of all NBA boss groups in terms of assets, why are you so arrogant?
The key point is that the Hornets happen to be in the league's trusteeship state, and the bosses will not let the Lakers reach a deal due to emotion and reason.

"What a pity!" Mike Brown sighed, "It also caused a major blow to our team's chemistry..."

Su Yang nodded silently, not being able to see the backcourt combination of Paul + Kobe with extremely high basketball IQ and full offense and defense is a great regret for many fans, but for himself and the Lakers, the biggest problem is Gasol and Odom mental state.

The team decides not to let you go, of course you will be a little bit disappointed, after all, this is the place where you once struggled to win the championship.

But the embarrassing thing is that the team didn't completely send you out, and you had to stay and continue playing. It hurts to think about it.

The key to this matter is that there is another player who was not mentioned in the transaction but was affected, and that is the starting point guard Fisher. The Lakers traded Paul to make it clear that Paul would start instead. Definitely not feeling well.

"People's hearts are scattered, it's hard to lead the team..." Su Yang complained in his heart, and went into the office to continue designing tactics.

On the 12th, on the third day of the training camp, the atmosphere of the Lakers team is still chaotic, and the management team headed by Kupchak has not given up, and once again proposed the plan of Gasol + Odom + a future first-round draft pick, hoping that the league will approve it Trade Paul.

Su Yang couldn't stand it anymore, so he went directly to Kupchak to discuss the failure reasons in detail, intending to stop the bleeding to the greatest extent.

It is acceptable to send away Odom and the strength of the bench lineup will be greatly reduced. Don't sign players like Troy Murphy and Jason Kapono, otherwise the bench will only rely on rookies, which will make Kobe play less The plan simply failed.

Not to mention any plan to trade Howard.

(End of this chapter)