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Chapter 438 The Most Expensive Substitute in History

At eight o'clock in the morning, Su Yang drove to the king's training base.

Thomas Jr. is shooting for shooting training and is already sweating. Xavier Henry is sitting on the sidelines against the wall, drinking water after a while. Millsap is changing his training clothes. Covington and other players are warming up by themselves. The atmosphere is quite hot .

"Good morning…"

Su Yang waved and greeted frequently, walked all the way into the coach's office, and greeted the three new assistant coaches Collis Williams, Ryan Bowen, and Di Brown, and then pulled Snyder and McMillan, and the six began to discuss tactics together system.

The training camp hadn't been held before, and the six of them had already discussed how to fight many times through group chats and video conferences.

Thomas Jr. shot around the screen with one hand, and broke through the screen. He is about to enter his peak state and must play a pick-and-roll.

Cousins ​​can be inside or outside. After a high pick-and-roll, he must either cut inside to attack the basket or shoot outside. He must play a pick-and-roll.

Millsap grew up in the Jazz coached by Sloan. He is quite familiar with pick-and-rolls and passes. There is no reason why the Kings don't play pick-and-rolls.

As for rookies, Antetokounmpo has nothing to say about rushing to the rim with a screen. Gobert is a natural pick-and-roll player. Covington can make a three-pointer with an emergency stop around the screen, and he has a strong free throw line. Also establish the awareness of anti-running and air cutting.

In view of the technical characteristics of the main players such as Cousins, Thomas Jr., and Millsap, as well as the physical conditions and technical foundations of Gobert, Antetokounmpo, Covington, etc., the pick-and-roll-based passing and cutting system has naturally become the best in the new season. good choice.

As for the defensive end, because of the existence of Thomas Jr., there will be a lot of early defense changes and double-teams, and even partial three-defense and two-defense, and will definitely use a lot of contraction and containment, especially against the Grizzlies' extremely weak three-pointer. The team and defense are also essential.

"In the morning, Snyder will talk about offense, and in the afternoon, Mike will talk about defense. We need to start from the most basic place to guide and gradually build up the team's tactical awareness and quality. It will take a long-term process, and we need to maintain enough patience..."

In Su Yang's view, the current Kings team, because the two head coaches in front of the Kings, Westphal, and Keith Smart, have not done much, which has led to players such as Cousins, Jason Thompson and Thomas Jr. Deviation, that's why Cousins ​​got angry at the whole team, "Are we playing offense?", but he didn't know where the problem was, and he was incompetent and furious.

Players such as Antetokounmpo and Gobert are rookies, so in this king's team, only Millsap and Vazquez have relatively strong tactical literacy, and they must be trained from scratch, as if the whole team is James Wiseman, Teach how to block and how to dismantle first.

Assistant coach Di Brown joked: "Aren't you afraid of being joked that you can only pick and roll? That is much easier than before."

"whatever…"

Su Yang shrugged and chuckled, and suddenly thought of many fans who scolded Raptors coach Sam Mitchell for only picking and rolling tactics.

The meeting ended quickly, and all the coaching staff moved to the court. Snyder convened the whole team and began to explain the offensive concept for the new season.

Compared with the triangle offense that many people can’t explain clearly, and many people think that the Suns’ running and bombing is a seven-second offense, and Princeton’s back-running and air cutting at every turn, the King’s players quickly understand what is a pick-and-roll-based passing system , too basic.

Anyway, look for an advantage.

Either one-on-zero, open to deal with the offense.

Either fast or slow, grab the time to deal with the offense.

Either match up in a misplaced matchup and use physical advantages to deal with the offense.

Either many vs. few, using the advantage of numbers to deal with the offense.

Even if you don't understand it for the time being, you also know that there will be a lot of pick-and-rolls and off-ball screens, so who wouldn't?You can stand wherever you want!
Snyder quickly finished speaking, and several colleagues in charge of video editing took over the microphone and began to explain several basic offensive positions, such as 1-4 high position, 1-4 low position, box position, FLOPPY, double stack, five-out And diamond placement and so on.

"We're not college students!"

In the interval between the explanations, Cousins ​​took the lead in making troubles, thinking that talking about those basic common senses is a bit contemptuous of the king's generals' tactical level.

Several colleagues who edited the video were quite embarrassed, Su Yang continued: "I made the arrangement, are you not convinced?"

"I don't agree! I knew these placements in middle school!"

"That's fine, you can tell everyone about the five-out position, how to quickly execute an early attack between offense and defense..."

"Uh...I...I don't know!"

"Then listen carefully and study hard!"

Everyone laughed at the words, and Cousins ​​patted the back of his head stupidly, as if nothing happened, and turned his head to continue listening.

After talking about one, practice one, and then divide them into two groups, such as running 5 outside positions and floppy positions, and then extend the two most commonly used cover routines for positions, that is, down screen + ladder screen, and Cross screen + back screen.

The whole team practiced step by step, and in the blink of an eye, during the break, Su Yang invited Guy to the office for a detailed discussion as planned.

In order to reduce the estrangement, I deliberately did not sit opposite Guy, but sat parallel to each other, and then went straight to the topic of the conversation.

"I've had a text chat with you before, and I'm looking for you for an interview today to finalize things, and before we start talking, I need to reiterate that for now, you are not our priority for long-term plans, but I definitely don't will fuck you."

Gay sighed slightly: "I understand that I performed poorly in the past season and I need to prove myself again."

Su Yang nodded: "Okay, let's talk about your goals here, including possession of the ball or statistics..."

"Honestly speaking, I don't consider the Kings as a long-term plan priority. My contract expires in one year. I pursue better data, and at the same time want higher efficiency, so that I can enter the free market to sign a contract next season... "

"Then I will let you be a substitute in regular time, a starter or a fake substitute at certain times, and become a player of Ginobili's type, because with your technical characteristics, if you put it in the starting lineup, your personal and team efficiency will be high. pull down..."

Gay was called McGrady when he first entered the league, and his physical condition is very good. However, his personal offensive skills are much worse than McGrady's, and his defensive and organizational skills are even farther behind. McGrady is evenly divided.

In Su Yang's view, Gay's starting offensive role has little effect, because he must hold the ball to skillfully score, while Cousins ​​and Millsap's starting positions are unshakable, and the scoring efficiency with the ball is much higher than Gay. I better not start stealing the ball.

In addition, Thomas Jr., who handles the ball, also needs to express himself, and Gay is very likely to become the fifth choice of the inner team.

Relatively speaking, choosing Covington or Antetokounmpo as the starting small forward will benefit the Kings as a whole.

Moreover, with Gay on the bench, it is difficult to meet players who are more suitable for chaotic battles than him, and his defensive weaknesses will not be so conspicuous.

While thinking about it, Guy nodded seriously: "I am willing to be a substitute, but I hope not to explain to the fans and the media."

"You can rest assured..."

Su Yang knew that the truth that Guy was worried about would easily lead to the collapse of the character design, so there was no need to let the fans and the media chat nonsense.

After all, Gay's salary in the new season is as high as 17888932 US dollars, ranking 14th in the league, which is a bit outrageous. If he serves as a substitute because his functions are covered, it will really damage his image, even if there will be no substitute with a higher salary ranking than him in the future.

The two chatted for a few more words before leaving the office. Guy continued to train, and Su Yang continued to think about pick-and-roll tactics.

The king's team practice is slowly advancing, and in a blink of an eye, on October 13th, the NBA14-[-] preseason game will start, with the first game against the Lakers.

　I have a headache today, and the deacon will postpone it.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)