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Chapter 678 Nothing Can Be Given For Free

The Kings team flew back to Saskatchewan and got three days of rest according to the schedule.

Su Yang woke up at noon and looked at Weibo and other social media casually. He found that many fans were complaining about the penalty. He felt a little better psychologically, but he also recalled the mistakes he made during the game, and thought over and over again that it was necessary to make adjustments. .

The main reason is that they failed to match the offensive intensity. Throughout the fourth game, the Cavaliers played desperately. After the King suffered an unfair penalty in the first quarter, even Su Yang himself was a little bit in the next three quarters. man's negative strategy.

With that kind of strategy, the king was still unable to narrow the point difference. It was a wrong idea, and he chose to leave the victory to the referee.

In fact, only 16 points behind in the first quarter, the Kings can fight, even if they can't beat, even if they continue to encounter side calls.

After making up his mind, Su Yang temporarily put aside thinking about how to deal with it, and took time out to play "Overwatch" with Jiang Rulan at home for half a day. Anyway, no matter how busy he is at work, he still needs to spend some time with his family. It is another way to rest, and the benefits are far beyond crazy work overtime.

The next morning, the Kings team resumed joint training, and formally convened a meeting with the scouts and coaching staff to discuss coping strategies.

"We haven't played in the next three quarters. The main reason is that the Cavaliers chose to short Giannis and the high-post Cousins ​​and win the game by gambling. In terms of fouls alone, the Cavaliers have 4 more times than us in the next three quarters. We must solve the problem. ..."

Su Yang raised the topic, and Mike Brown and other assistant coaches and Brac and other scouts spoke one after another. From the way of positioning to the strategy of receiving the ball, it is obvious that they have already thought about how to deal with the Cavaliers' gambling strategy, and soon gave their own opinions from various aspects. idea.

After listening to everyone's thoughts, Su Yang also expressed his own thoughts, worked together to deduce without faults, and finally decided to conclude.

"The first strategy is to let Cousins ​​roll in the pick-and-roll, and Giannis is responsible for cutting and rushing to the basket. The duties of the two can be interchanged, making full use of the mobility of the two, and avoiding the Cavaliers. Simultaneously deal with the Cavaliers' double-teaming of the ball holder, the risk is that it will be more difficult for the ball holder to get out of the ball, because the purpose is easy to judge, it is best not to use it continuously..."

"The second strategy is to stagger the playing time of the two, and replace Giannis and Cousins ​​soon after the start, with Covington, who has better shooting ability, to avoid the Cavaliers from the source to use gambling strategies for partial defense. I am more inclined to let Cousins ​​​​be a fake starter. He can better match with Thomas and others in the over-rotation stage to create damage..."

"The third strategy is to continue to take open shots. Perhaps at home, Giannis and Cousins ​​can return to normal shooting levels without being called off the whistle. In short, the three strategies depend on the situation. The first one The safest..."

The strategy is established, and the training corresponding to the king will start accordingly.

In order to pursue a realistic effect, Su Yang deliberately let Jason Thompson and Brogdon double-team Curry, giving more small pulling movements, imitating the situation where the referee turned a blind eye to the foul, and by the way, arranged for Grant to drag and interfere with Antetokounmpo's air cut.

In addition to dealing with the Cavaliers' defense,

The coaching staff also studied the Cavaliers' offense and found that they underestimated the Cavaliers' off-the-ball tactics in Game [-]. The main reason is that Irving suddenly became enlightened and became willing to run a lot to catch the ball and initiate offense instead of directly holding the ball. Take cover high.

In other words, Irving is playing a bit like Curry.

It is really hard to defend when moving, and it also improves LeBron's ball-handling power, and at the same time creates more opportunities for the rest of the Cavaliers. Irving has never used that style of play before, and the King was caught in the idea of ​​​​the referee blowing the whistle. Inadvertently ignored.

It's easy to deal with it, changing defenses and delaying in advance.

But it is not that simple to win the fifth game easily. Even if the king wins the championship 4-1, it will take a lot of energy, not as many fans and the media think. It is all due to the crushing of the lineup. as much.

The training was intense.

Su Yang was interviewed by CCTV at the same time. He talked about the basketball training camp plan for the summer and when Zhou Qi would appear in the finals. Suddenly, he recalled that Zhou Qi had not been arranged to appear in the regular time. He hadn’t activated it before. list.

After finishing the interview, he immediately instructed West to activate Zhou Qi, and informed him to prepare in advance, and may arrange to appear in the first quarter.

If there is no accident, Zhou Qi should be allowed to play when Cousins ​​is off the court, but he will not play for too long to avoid becoming a breakthrough for the Cavaliers. Mostly it can only be missed.

The muscle building and technical training arranged for Zhou Qi are carried out simultaneously, and sooner or later he will be able to play at normal time and implement normal tactics.

Assistant coach West asked a little hesitantly after a while, "Then who do we want to remove from the roster?"

There are only 13 players on the roster activated for each game. The total number of starters + main substitutes is 15, while the team has a total of [-] players. There are always two players who cannot play.Su Yang thought about it for a while: "Galloway and Wood can't provide much for the time being, so it's just the two of them..."

That choice is mainly because of knowing that there is a high probability that the two will not be able to stay in the off-season, and whether they play or not will have little effect.

Back in the office, Su Yang received the celebrity invitation plan submitted by the planning department. The purpose is to increase the topic and attention of the upcoming championship parade. help.

In the twinkling of an eye, NO.12, the fifth game day of the Kings and Cavaliers finals, the two teams gathered at the Golden One Center in Saskatchewan.

Su Yang rushed to the arena at [-]:[-] p.m., arranged the pre-match training content, and went to the media center to accept reporters' interviews as usual.

Talking about how to evaluate the penalties in the fourth game, Su Yang said calmly: "I think the whistle-blowing standards of some penalties in the first quarter are a bit strict for our Kings, but overall there are not many problems with the whistle-blowing. The referees tried their best get the job done..."

Anyway, there is a great hope of winning at home, so I don't bother to care about the referee calling the penalty in the fourth game, so don't make the referees have a rebellious mentality.

Talking about why he said goodbye to Cleveland fans next year, Su Yang smiled and said: "You must think that what I imply means that the game will not return to Cleveland, but the real meaning is that I want to play against Cleveland in the finals next year..."

At 58:[-] in a blink of an eye, the opening ceremony ended.

The lights were turned on, the whistle was played, the players of the two teams made final preparations, and the soundtrack "Imperial March" of "Star Wars" was played, and more than 8000 fans cheered in unison, and the king's team flag was everywhere waving.

The two teams start to enter the field.

The Cavaliers still started JR, and the Kings slightly adjusted the lineup, with LaVine replacing Brogdon in the starting lineup.

The announcer yelled for the jump ball, and the referee pushed the ball up. TT took the first step to touch the ball and swung it back vigorously.

The Cavaliers won the jump ball, and the audience shouted for defense in unison. The referee suddenly whistled and called LaVine for a defensive foul.

The shouts suddenly turned into boos. Su Yang looked up at the big screen in surprise. The replay showed that when LaVine was chasing Owen, he sensed the running direction with his hands. Ball Curry dozens of times.

Putting aside the double-whistleblower standard, Irving played off the ball at the beginning, obviously prepared, and deserves the King's attention.

The Cavaliers kicked off again and the game continued.

Between the two teams, the score was difficult to open, but the Cavaliers suddenly stole the serve twice in a row and successfully led by 4 points.

The two steals were purely due to a lack of concentration, probably already thinking about how to celebrate, Su Yang called a timeout on the spot, caught Curry and George shouting angrily, the king's generals finally put down their minds and played with all their strength, and Zhou Qi followed suit Replace Cousins.

After the first quarter, they lost those 4 points.

During the timeout between quarters, Su Yang glanced at the statistics and found that there were a lot of mistakes, 7 of 2 three-pointers. The situation was similar to before. The Cavaliers were still frantically double-teaming and desperately pinching three-pointers. The key point was that the Cavaliers ran without the ball. Still doing pretty well, hard to beat.

The game reached the main return stage in the second quarter. With Irving assisted Thompson for a layup, the Kings were still 4 points behind.

The Cavaliers are accumulating momentum, and there is no hidden danger of lack of physical strength in the second half due to crazy singles like before.

"It won't work like this, we have to change..."

Su Yang decided to implement a more risky, but more profitable plan, but also to play gambling, trying to disrupt the knights.

(End of this chapter)