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Chapter 458 I Am Your Michael Jordan

On the 31st, the Kings team flew to Houston to challenge the Rockets away, and Su Yang started to improve the team simultaneously.

In three days, the ideas and methods for improvement have been formed, and we are preparing to moisten things silently, instead of making a big fanfare into a mobilization mode, so as to avoid causing too much pressure on the team members, and by the way, give the team members a sense of "I value you very much" Misplaced hints.

In the afternoon pre-match training, Su Yang called Vazquez to the sidelines, "In the last four games, you have been given special care on the offensive end. The opponent deliberately let you shoot three-pointers, and your three-point shooting percentage is relatively low. Do you think What caused it?"

Vazquez looked a little nervous: "My three-point shooting percentage has been low, and I am working hard..."

Su Yang nodded as he listened. Vazquez is a very pure traditional point guard. Like Lowry and Conley, he is a product of the Grizzlies draft. The three-pointer was not good in the past few seasons, but he can indeed practice it. , or cast better under certain conditions.

It is estimated that Morant will also follow the old path of his predecessors. The three-pointer starts to deviate, and slowly shoots a relatively high hit rate.

As for the Vazquez in front of him, he can also shoot a relatively high three-pointer, but Vazquez is not a player like Ray Allen or Redick who stops and catches the ball and rushes to shoot. He needs more fixed-point shots. In other words, more tactical leaning is required.

Before deciding to compete for the championship, Su Yang never thought of tilting his tactics towards Vazquez. He mainly regarded Vazquez as a pure point guard. After all, the king of assists in 12-13 reached 704 times, more than Paul 26 times, but the means of scoring are relatively scarce.

"I'm very happy that you took the initiative to practice shooting three-pointers. I also decided to design more tactical options around you. Starting from tonight's game, the second or first choice of some series of tactics will be that you shoot three-pointers. You must Be bold, don't be afraid to strike iron..."

It is difficult to make a decision to tilt the choice, but that is the key to raising the upper limit of the Kings, otherwise it will be difficult to beat the Spurs and other strong teams in the playoffs, but it is also troublesome to run in, because the tactical movement is more complicated. The main tactics of the previous starting lineup revolved around Cousin S-Millsap runs, and then circles around Antetokounmpo and Thornton to screen, and Vazquez makes a three-pointer, and the complexity is doubled.

Su Yang is also ready to sacrifice his record in the short term. It is the pain before everything becomes beautiful and must be experienced.

"Okay, I will work hard!" Vazquez nodded confidently, got up and returned to the court, and hit two or three points in a swish.

Su Yang also walked into the field and arranged some tactics according to the plan to allow Vazquez to shoot more and easily shoot three-pointers.

At eight o'clock in a blink of an eye, the game officially started.

Perhaps learning from the previous point guard’s lack of breakthrough and shooting, which made it very easy for the Kings to double-team Harden, McHale arranged for Jeremy Lin to be the starting point guard, but Jeremy Lin’s first attack was to receive a pass from Harden with 2 seconds left in the attack clock. A three-point shot.

The basketball was banging like iron, Su Yang watched and laughed on the spot, thinking that he had told Harden not to hold the ball for 20 seconds before giving it to his teammates, but he didn't listen.

The Kings of Yibian attacked, and Thornton ran without the ball. Taking advantage of Harden's distraction, he stopped to catch the ball and hit a three-pointer.

After a few minutes, the Kings took a six-point lead, McHale waved his hand, and the Rockets began to release Vazquez.

The king's pre-match training tactics then started, but it may be too nervous, and Vazquez made two consecutive shots.

The Rockets took the opportunity to catch up to only two points away. Su Yang didn't urge him, but clapped his hands and shouted to encourage Vazquez. The Rockets quickly returned to normal defensive mode.

After the first quarter, the Kings led by 5 points.

The Rockets' problem is still the same. It is difficult for Howard to get the ball. In 9 minutes of playing time, he only made one shot and scored zero points.

Entering the second quarter, Rockets coach McHale made a deadly move and arranged for Howard, Jeremy Lin, and Parsons to lead the team together.

With that lineup, Howard could get the ball instead and bully Gobert in the low post.Seeing this, Su Yang took advantage of the free throw to encourage Gobert to be more aggressive, don't be afraid of fouls, don't be afraid of confrontation, as long as you don't foul maliciously, anything else is fine.

Gobert made a change immediately. Although he still couldn't guard Howard, he grabbed a lot of rebounds, even grabbed three offensive rebounds, and then carried Howard to score a dunk, which directly detonated the morale of the team. The King quickly played a wave of 7-0 [-] offensive.

However, Howard, Jeremy Lin, and Parsons cooperated extremely smoothly. Gobert, Thomas Jr., and Gay played their best, but they could only be evenly matched. At the end of the half, the Kings only established a 6-point lead, and the change was not immediate.

Returning to the locker room during the intermission, Su Yang briefly analyzed and concluded, and then chatted with everyone about his New Year’s wishes. Cousins ​​said that he wanted to be an All-Star, and Gay bluntly said that he wanted a super big contract. They booed and said that they wanted a super big contract.

Finally, it was Su Yang's turn. After thinking for a moment, he used his speech skills to 'make everyone feel that they were looking at him'. He glanced at Brother Antetokounmpo, then at Cousins, and at Thomas Jr., "My New Year's resolution is to get A Michael Jordan!"

I almost didn't say a word and understood the applause!
Brother Antetokounmpo, Cousins, and Thomas Jr.'s eyes lit up immediately, and they all felt that Su Yang was hinting that he had to work hard.

That was a real surprise.

You must know that Su Yang is the coach of four consecutive championships, and he is extremely accurate. Since he said that, he must have Jordan's potential.

Su Yangda saw the expressions of the three people in his eyes, and thought that Riley's method of motivating Wade in 06 was really effective, Cousins' personality is estimated to have mediocre long-term effects, and Thomas Jr. and Antetokounmpo will definitely be greatly affected. Encouragement, become extra effort.

The third quarter started immediately, perhaps because of Su Yang's New Year's wish at halftime, Cousins ​​was full on both ends of the offense and defense, all kinds of high-quality screens, all kinds of communication and defense in advance, Antetokounmpo frantically swept the alliance Defense, fast break is always the first.

Thomas Jr. didn't play for the time being, but turned into the king's version of 'Thackeray', slowly cheering for everyone on the bench passionately.

The Rockets were full of confusion. They didn't know why they came back from the halftime break. The Kings were crazy like they were taking stimulants. Can only rely on Harden to score.

After all, Harden is at the MVP level. He no longer throws the pot away and goes it alone. He beat Thornton continuously, made breakthroughs and drew fouls. He personally scored 16 points and forcibly helped the Rockets to bite the score. But when the game entered the fourth quarter, Su Yang should give up. Vazquez went to defend Harden, personally forcing Harden, who had not yet made a big foul, to block Harden's passing route, allowing Harden to make 12 of 4 shots.

In addition to his strong organizational skills, Vazquez can also interfere with Harden's heavy shooting guards by virtue of his 198 height and 98 kg weight. Against Harden.

If you encounter shooting guards like Kobe, Ellis, or even Ginobili, it is easy to use Vazquez defense for nothing.

Harden's one-on-one heroism in the third quarter became a burden, and Howard and Parsons only had 3 shots combined.

At the end of the game, the Kings defeated the Rockets 110 to 97, successfully ending their four-game losing streak, and five players from the team scored in double figures.

Everyone flew back to Sacramento, and when they arrived at the airport to say goodbye, Su Yang left Brother Antetokounmpo alone, took out a piece of paper, and said seriously: "The last time I was a guest at Jordan's house, I got a copy of his training cheats from him. I think it should be handed over to you..."

Brother Antetokounmpo received the important task as if he was about to take over: "Coach, don't worry, I will try my best to be your Michael Jordan."

(End of this chapter)