start with scouting

Chapter 309 Quietly Surprise Everyone
In the early morning of NO.17, Su Yang rushed to the training base and, as usual, replayed the game against the Clippers with the assistants.

Looking at it for half an hour, I found that the reason why the Lakers won, apart from Goodlock's sudden explosion, was that the Clippers' bench was too stretched. Among them, led by Mo Williams and Solomon Jones, the defense can basically be zero.

If the defense is zero, it is acceptable to be able to score, but the Clippers' substitutes seem to have no chance with the basket and are always hitting iron.

"The Clippers' starting strength is strong enough to rank among the top five in the league..." Mike Brown laughed, "But their bench strength is estimated to be only among the bottom three in the league. This configuration will perform well in the regular season. It’s hard to get a good result.”

"Yeah, substitute strength is also very important..."

Su Yang fully agrees with what Mike Brown said. One of the reasons why the Clippers have failed to reach the Western Conference Finals for so many seasons is that there are too many substitutes. As a result, starters such as Paul and Griffin have to play for a long time, which greatly increases the risk of injury. .

Everyone chatted for a while, and the staff knocked on the door to inform that Jeremy Lin had arrived, and Su Yang immediately went out to say hello.

He didn't ask the teaching assistants to join him, but Snyder and Mike Brown walked spontaneously, and Darwin Hamm also became a tour guide.

"This is our head coach Su Yang, this is our chief assistant coach Quin Snyder, this is..."

After Darwin Hamm made an introduction, Jeremy Lin nodded excitedly and cautiously, and finally said: "It's a great honor to be here. I'm ready to receive guidance from everyone, and then become better and help the team win more games..."

After exchanging pleasantries, the three teaching assistants left tacitly, leaving only Su Yang and Jeremy Lin standing on the sidelines and continuing to chat in detail.

"Ahao, I chose to trade you here, which may make you lose the super hot chance, but I will pave the way for a smoother career path. You just follow my advice and don't worry about your performance. in trouble…"

Allowing Jeremy Lin to advance from New York to the Lakers can be regarded as changing Jeremy Lin's world line, and there will be no Hollywood movie-like story of "a substitute player who is about to be laid off, and the key battle suddenly breaks out against Biao Delong", and the reputation will be much smaller.

But for the same reason, other teams will naturally not deliberately target Jeremy Lin, so that the entire league will quickly discover his weaknesses.

As for what will happen in the long run, Su Yang doesn't know, the world line has changed drastically, and anything can happen.

"Okay, coach..."

Jeremy Lin nodded in confusion, obviously he didn't understand what Su Yang was talking about, so he just agreed first.

The two chatted for a while, Su Yang left the Lakers' tactics book, briefly introduced the offensive and defensive ideas, and asked to memorize it as soon as possible, and by the way used Rondo's case of memorizing the Eagles' hundreds of pages of tactics in the playoffs overnight as encouragement, hinting at himself Have high expectations.

At the end of the conversation, Su Yang said with a smile: "If you have time, we can play hack together and play DOTA2 or something."

Jeremy Lin was stunned on the spot, thinking that he could meet such a special coach in the league, so he nodded and agreed.

Why Popovich likes to tell cold jokes in interviews, Phil Jack wants to like to lead his players to meditate, Adelman is obsessed with maintaining exquisite hairstyles, he is already considered a special coach, but Su Yang actually likes to play e-sports games!

Seeing the surprised look, Su Yang didn't say much, just patted his shoulders to show encouragement, and went back to the office.

At noon, the Lakers held a welcome ceremony and media meeting for Jeremy Lin, and Su Yang attended as the head coach.

The scene was quite simple, there were only a dozen or so reporters, and it was the smallest of the Lakers media meeting, but the reporters still had their eyes shining, hoping to find something valuable for dissemination and discussion from Su Yang's mouth. Still.

ESPN reporter Lauren Ayer asked: "If Lin didn't perform amazingly, how would you pay for your paranoia?"

Su Yang chuckled, knowing that Lauren Ayer pre-set two language traps, one is that he thinks Jeremy Lin is strong, but he traded Jeremy Lin forcibly by himself. If you don’t pay attention to the distinction, it is very easy to fall into the trap of 'he will fight well' or 'not forcibly' '.

Anyway, it is easy to be taken out of context because of ignoring one of the presuppositions, which belongs to the routine operation of this type of reporter.

After thinking for a moment, he smiled and said, "Lin can definitely perform in line with his positioning, just wait until you write a report to brag about it."

Su Yang deliberately did not deny that he forcibly traded Jeremy Lin. Anyway, Doc Rivers can blatantly give his son Austin Rivers a big contract that is far beyond his strength, and he can have the cheek to let his son play for a long time regardless of whether the Clippers win or lose.

Why can't I help Jeremy Lin, the key is that there is no such thing as benefit transfer, how much ability can do what great things!

It just serves as an example to improve the disadvantages of Chinese people in the United States who like internal struggle and disunity, and learn from Asan to play more and grow together!
When the reporter Lauren Ayer asked the question, Jeremy Lin who was sitting next to him was quite nervous, but after Su Yang finished speaking, he had already become very motivated. He had a head coach who fully supported him, and why he was worried that his performance would not meet expectations. Just go ahead.

After the media meeting was over, because Jeremy Lin joined, the Lakers roster exceeded the 15-man cap. General manager Kupchak then announced that rookie Darius Morris was officially released to the NBDL's Los Angeles defenders for training and recuperation.

When the news was released, some people were ashamed that Su Yang used his privileges to help snatch Darius' playing time, and thought that Darius' so-called injury was just an excuse. Even though Darius himself tweeted to explain, those people still pretended not to see.

On the morning of NO.18, the Lakers resumed regular training, and Su Yang officially introduced Jeremy Lin's joining to the team.

Kobe Bryant and others just welcomed them lightly. In their view, it was just another rookie who would not stay too long. Artest also jokingly said: "We used to let Sun Yue be responsible for buying donuts and drinks. Now you Take that job."

The NBA has always had a tradition of tricking rookies, and Chris Paul also gave LeBron, Wade, and Anthony backpacks.

Su Yang did not intervene, and waited until the routine shooting training was over before manually dividing the players into two groups and starting the simulated battle.

He directly used his privileges, let Jeremy lead the bench lineup, and played against Fisher, focusing on pick-and-roll tactics.

In order to get a better effect, he also specially arranged for Mike Roberts to do pick-and-roll cooperation, hoping that the two high-ball players can cooperate well to give the starting lineup a strong impact, which happens to be not good at defending pick-and-rolls.

The simulated battle followed, and Jeremy Lin lived up to his hopes and scored easily with several pick-and-rolls in a row.

Fisher was basically unable to defend, his speed was too slow when he squeezed through the screen, and Bynum's size could only squat in the paint to make a breakthrough. Jeremy Lin made a few emergency stops on the right elbow to score and quickly helped the substitute Here the lead is established.

Many people underestimate Jeremy Lin's shooting ability in the right elbow area, but Su Yang knows that is where he is best at shooting. He has won the league's first shooting percentage in that area several times, and Chris Paul, who competes with it and Curry.

On the defensive end, Jeremy Lin's prediction is better, and according to Su Yang's request, he did not over-drawn and assisted defense.

After the 10-minute simulated battle, Jeremy Lin's performance won the approval of everyone in the audience, and Artest's eyes changed.

Kupchak watched the entire mock game, and at the end, exclaimed: "You're a scout who humiliates the entire league..."

Su Yang chuckled, knowing that Kupchak was praising his good eyesight.

But it’s actually not that exaggerated. Before Jeremy Lin was drafted, several scouts discovered his outstanding ability, but because of the general environment in the NBA that discriminates against Asian guards, those scout reports did not attract attention, and prejudice overshadowed professionalism.

That's normal, since even Curry has been underestimated.

"Just wait and see..." Su Yang replied, "This will be a performance that will quietly amaze everyone, and the Lakers will make a lot of money!"

(End of this chapter)