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Chapter 442 I Haven't Used My Strength Yet
Amidst the cheers of the crowd, Cousins ​​made a free throw, and the first quarter of the game was quickly finished, with the Kings leading by 13 points.

The scene entered a timeout between quarters, and the five Kings returned to the bench. Su Yang gave high-fives one by one, and then picked up the tactical board.

"The Trail Blazers almost collapsed on both offense and defense at the end of the first quarter. In the next few minutes, we will continue to use that point. We will play more fast breaks to disrupt their offensive and defensive rhythm. They do not have Matthews and Lopez in their lineup. It's going to be messy defensively..."

Simple analysis, Su Yang will make personnel adjustments, let Covington come on to replace Cousins, Vazquez come on to replace Thomas Jr., let Jason Thompson change to the center position, and let Gay change to the power forward position, to maximize the Speed ​​up, and keep defending.

The whistle at the end of the timeout sounded, and the rotation of the Blazers was also announced. Meyers Leonard replaced Ade as power forward, Mo Williams Jr. switched to shooting guard, Will Barton switched to small forward, and Leigh Barton switched to small forward. Ladd came on as point guard.

"The Blazers lineup is basically free?"

Su Yang couldn't guess what Terry Stotts was thinking at the moment. The Blazers' lineup had neither offense nor defense on the inside, but the offense on the outside was okay, but overall it was short. It will also be very difficult to handle the ball.

The key is that the king's lineup has height and speed!

Before the game started, Su Yang grabbed the five Kings and whispered: "As long as the Blazers play pick-and-roll outside, they will double-team, if they dare to break through, they will surround them, block their passing routes, force them, and make more shots more efficient." Low mid-range shot…”

The referee's whistle sounded immediately.

The King kicked off from the bottom line in the backcourt, Vazquez dribbled the ball forward, and the four players in the frontcourt simultaneously formed a bullhorn formation and attacked to the right.

Jason Thompson first tried to cooperate with Xavier as a screen, but he ran back and cut and failed to create a chance. Seeing this, Vazquez immediately started and rushed to the short corner on the right, as if to play a low post for Thompson. Left back screen.

Gay took the opportunity to get rid of Meyers Leonard and strode to the basket, and Vazquez raised his hand to the ground for a pass at almost the same time.

With a bang, Gay dunked with both hands and scored. Meyers, who was in charge of defending him, was still in a daze at the elbow.

Losing points like that is a low-level mistake. Rao Blazers head coach Terry Stotts has a good self-restraint, and he paced back and forth anxiously.

But Stotts also knows that Meyers is 213 tall and forced to play the fourth position, and Guy is 203 tall and plays the fourth position. There is a natural difference in speed between the two. The key to cooperate with Meyers is Mo Williams, the delay was useless.

The two teams switched offense and defense. Xiao Mo ran across the center line with the ball. Seeing that Vazquez was defending, he suddenly rose up and slammed hard.

Vazquez lay down and slid back very cooperatively, and the referee immediately whistled for an offensive foul and converted the ball.

Su Yang looked at the circle on the spot, thinking what kind of operation Xiao Mo was doing. Was it just to show that he had a stronger impact? No wonder he refused to recruit LeBron and Wade during the off-season, gave up joining the Heat and switched to the Trail Blazers. After all, the Heat have too many Rush against tough players...

Stotts was even more confused, but thinking about Xiao Mo's tricks in the past few seasons, this is quite normal.

Offensive and defensive transitions on the field, the Kings 1 high and 4 low, waited until Vazquez reached the top of the arc, and then switched to a floppy formation.

Xavier crossed the paint with the help of a screen, moved from left to right in a wide range, and finally got the ball at the 45-degree three-point line on the right.

The basketball rebounded and flew to the right waist immediately after hitting the ground. Gay held the ball with his back against Meyers, turned around and started to break through facing the basket.

There is no sudden stop to pull the ball under the crotch to change direction, no sudden stop to turn around and take off, and no sudden sudden pull-up and throw. Anyway, there is no complicated technical movement, just the simplest dribble breakthrough, easily throwing away Meyers , Take off steadily and put the basket to score.

The Kings led by 17 points, the Blazers urgently requested a short timeout, and the Sleep Train Arena suddenly burst into cheers.

Su Yang looked up at the replay and found that Meyers' lateral movement speed was too slow compared to Gay, but he never expected that the Blazers would arrange for Meyers to appear on the field and form a double center/double power forward combination with Joel. I thought it would definitely be Gobert.

As a result, the Kings speeded up in an all-round way and missed Gobert.

"These two attacks are a bit of a lucky factor. Don't rush to be happy. The opponent will definitely make adjustments again. We need..."

Between words, the timeout ended, and the announcer announced loudly: Blazers Thomas Robinson replaced Meyers Leonard.

Su Yang subconsciously glanced at the big screen again, and immediately understood why Stotts would use Meyers. Apart from guarding against Gobert, there may be another reason because the Blazers have no strikers. There were already fewer players.

Anyway, the Trail Blazers have just started the season and have already injured CJ McCollum and Dorrell White. The city of tearing is not a nonsense.

The referee blows his whistle and the game continues.

Xiao Mo ran across the center line with the ball, changed hands twice, and then passed the ball to Will Patton who came out with the screen.

I thought it was a tactic, but Barton took the ball and immediately passed it back, and ran away with the cover of the ghost, wasting offensive time in vain.

But Lillard went around the sideline again, received the ball from the left wing position, took advantage of Thomas' cover, and burst into the upper line area.

The action was fierce, and the pace was fast.

But Vazquez and Gay resolutely followed Su Yang's arrangement to team up to double-team, ignoring Thomas, who had a poor shot.

In a hurry, Lillard had no choice but to pull the ball back to avoid double-teaming, raised his hand and threw the ball to the left short corner.

Thomas hesitated to take the ball. Facing Gay's quick return to defense, he suddenly raised his hands and passed the ball to the right. The action was too obvious.

Seeing this, Covington flew to steal, took advantage of the situation and dashed forward, killing to the center line in two seconds, Xavier and Vazquez followed up simultaneously.

The Kings played three-for-two in the front court, Covington passed the ball from the left sideline to the center, Xavier received the ball and passed it to the right, and Vazquez received the ball openly, making a three-step layup to attract the defense, but passed the ball back to the left On the way, Covington caught the ball and took off, and it was a dunk.

The basketball blasted into the net, and the Kings led by 19 points. Saskatchewan Mayor Kevin Johnson, who was on the left side of the court, clenched his fist and cheered.

In the transition between offense and defense on the court, Mo Williams dribbled the ball all the way to the left wing of the frontcourt, protected the ball sideways and waited for a while, then used Joel's positioning to cover, accelerated to get rid of Xavier's entanglement, and broke through the 45-degree three-point line area, while the Kings As usual, grab the double-team.

In the blink of an eye, Xiao Mo hit the ground hard and split the ball, while Joel, who opened the inside cut, received the ball openly and raised his hand to score two points.

when!Basketball hits the basket and hits the iron.

Jason Thompson jumped high and caught the rebound, landed and turned around and threw it to Vazquez. The Kings made a fast break and counterattacked again.

The audience cheered and cheered loudly, and Vazquez rushed to the left side of the frontcourt at 45 degrees, pretending to pass, but actually rushed to shoot a three-pointer.

"It's not a good shot selection..."

Su Yang raised his eyebrows on the spot, thinking that Vazquez is not good at chasing and rushing to shoot, so that choice is probably too high and out of control.

when!The basketball hit the basket and hit the iron, rebounded and flew straight to the left corner, and it would fly out of the sideline no matter what, Xiao Mo chose to watch it on the spot.

But he never expected that Xavier flew to save the ball, volleyed out of bounds to forcefully save the ball, and rushed to the player tunnel with his whole body.

On the court, Covington received the basketball, raised his hand and pretended to shoot for Barton, strode to the waist, and made an emergency stop to throw the shot.

The basketball slammed into the net, and the Kings led by 21 points. The Sleep Train Arena resounded with cheers, and the mayor stood up to lead the cheers.

Su Yang stood up and applauded, thinking that with the hard work of the generals, the opening game of the regular season has already been won.

Unless Lillard goes directly to the state after eight years,
Cousins, who was sitting next to him, didn't know whether he was happy or complaining, and said with some surprise: "I won before I tried hard!"

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