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Chapter 691 Keeping a business is more difficult than starting a business

At the beginning of August, Su Yang flew back to China, cooperated with Anta and Hupu to start a basketball training camp trip, and simultaneously recorded it as a variety show and played it on various platforms. He traveled to 24 cities across the country for a total of 48 days, and he was so tired that he lost a lot of weight .

After finishing the basketball basketball training camp, he went on to deal with various domestic investment matters. By the way, he paid attention to the training situation of the king's generals every day, and found that Cousins ​​​​had not lost his weight. very happy.

Given that Cousins ​​promised to cut his salary and renew his contract, Su Yang has some things to say that are not easy to say, mainly because he has to show full trust.

The other players are in good condition. Antetokounmpo trains the hardest. He completely sets the top ten standards in history for himself. He also followed Su Yang's suggestion very much. He didn't strengthen his muscles more and focused on ball control and shooting stability.

Tatum practiced with Kobe for a week, and he seemed to have a little more of the characteristics of liking strong shots, and he didn't learn the technique at all.

Su Yang is not in a hurry. After all, not all players can enter the low post just by watching the video of Dameng like Embiid. Tatum needs to cultivate his attitude towards the game most. It is best to learn from Kobe That kind of dogfight defense.

The dynamics of the former Kings players are also paid attention to.

After joining the Celtics for 8000 million in four years, Thomas Jr. soon became a frequent visitor to the local media in Boston because of his active personality. However, he often talked about "how about Su Yang", which attracted some local fans irritable.

George also boasted about Su Yang crazily. When he participated in Matt Barnes’ podcast, he took the initiative to talk about the difference between Su Yang and other head coaches, and then lamented with Matt Barnes how professional Su Yang’s usual tactics are. , which made 'Captain' Stephen Jackson, who also participated in the program, very envious, and the current program became a hot spot on social media, with as many as 3000 million views.

In the blink of an eye, at the end of September, Su Yang flew to the United States again, focusing on the company's operations first, and did not participate in the mini-training camp initiated by Curry in advance. It was not until October [-]st that he officially attended the media conference for the new season, took various photos, and Accept media interviews.

Talking about the goal of the new season, Su Yang said bluntly: "Of course it is to win the championship and strive to create the first four consecutive championships after owning the three-point line. I have registered the trademark in advance, but considering that our players have played for three consecutive seasons for a long time, The pressure on physical health is relatively high, our load management will be more stringent than in previous seasons, and some away games will not work 120% hard..."

Talking about the strongest opponent in the new season, Su Yang replied: "I think it is the Golden State Warriors, the San Antonio Spurs, the Houston Rockets, and the Cleveland Cavaliers. If there is another team to mention, then the Boston Celtics are half of them." Strong enemy..."

The reporter asked why it was half.

Su Yang said with a smile: "When the time comes, you will understand..."

After the press conference, the whole team had dinner to celebrate the start of the new season.

Because the league adjusts the game cycle and strives to reduce the schedule of seven consecutive away games or two back-to-back games within a week, the start of the new season will be about 10 days earlier than in previous years, and the corresponding training time will be shorter than before, which is a challenge.

Fortunately, the king's offensive and defensive system does not need to be changed. The core of Curry, Antetokounmpo and Cousins ​​​​is up and running. The newly joined Rose, Tatum, Jeff Green, Javonte Green, Nance Jr. Just remember the tactical moves.

On the [-]nd, the king held joint training for the first time.

Su Yang arranged for Tatum to start, and first pulled down the sidelines to speak: "If you play with Curry and other veterans, the defensive pressure you will receive will be greatly reduced. Use these opportunities to quickly adapt to NBA-level confrontation and learn to read the offense and defense of the game. Don't rush. Play well, your idol Kobe started as a substitute back then, your starting point is already much higher than him, don't worry..."

"Okay, I'll listen to your coach..."

Tatum nodded seriously, without the perfunctory attitude of "I will do whatever you want me to do", without any superstar airs, nor the impatience or arrogance of a high-ranking rookie, as if he could fly in the next second Jump into the audience to save the ball.

Training ensues.

Run various screens first, mainly around Rose and Nance Jr. Su Yang soon discovered that although Rose did not post many training tweets in the off-season, he shot a left-handed breakthrough to connect with his left-handed basket, and he practiced well. There is no need to rush the basket too much.

Rose no longer frequently connects various baskets with difficult pull-bar layups, and the MVP's adjustment ability is fully demonstrated.

Looking at the first half of the quarter, some of the tactics originally designed based on Curry and Thomas Jr. were inefficient after Rose ran out of space. Fine-tune tactics.

During the viewing interval, Mike Brown sighed: "Fans often say that FMVP may have parallel imports, but MVP must not have parallel imports."

Su Yang immediately thought of someone when he heard the words, and shrugged slightly: "That's not necessarily true, MVP also has a high level difference."

On the [-]rd of the next day, the Kings played against the Spurs in their first preseason game.

Su Yang arranged for Curry and other main players to play to satisfy the audience, and replaced them in 5 minutes, letting Rose and Brogdon take the lead, leading Tatum and Lance Jr. to fight for a long time, focusing on practicing tactical moves. Practice without thinking about winning or losing.

On the Spurs side, Popovich also chose the same.

The two teams played the whole game tacitly, and the Kings won 106 to 100. According to the schedule, they got four days to adjust.

In response to the problems exposed in the game, the Kings continued to train, focusing on reading and defending. Su Yang encouraged the players, whether starting or substituting, to think about how to play is the best choice, and let the players practice drawing tactics by themselves.

"The same set of four-outside formation with delayed positioning, if there are more teammates on the flanks, the ball holder can initiate a stagger ladder cover series of tactics, and players who rely on ladder screens to move can choose to rush to the arc according to the situation. Hand-to-hand, change to Chicago mode, or take advantage of the defender's overreaction, run back and rush to the basket directly, or choose to abandon the echelon screen according to the opponent's defensive communication situation, just one screen, and directly slip to open the attack basket in advance.

If the positioning is relatively even, then you can shift hands from strength to weakness, wait for the screen to be set, and look for low post or pick-and-roll instigation.

You have to play like that in quick offensive and defensive transitions, making it difficult for opponents to find patterns, and don’t be afraid of making mistakes, especially for those who are new to the team. The preseason is for practice, don’t care about winning or losing, don’t care about statistics, and don’t make comments in the unexpected world…”

With various reinforcements and encouragement, the mentality and behavior of Ross and others became more and more relaxed, and the four days of training passed quickly.

On the seventh, the King flew to San Antonio to challenge the Spurs.

The first three quarters were still tacitly practicing with each other, but never thought that in the fourth quarter, Dejounte Mori on the Spurs side suddenly played as a playoff game, and caught the undrafted two-way contract player representing the Kings to attack and defend , Forced a small victory over the king.

Su Yang didn't care about it. Instead, when he participated in the press conference after the game, he praised Murray as a piece of jade with great potential.

Anyway, boasting casually, it is best to stimulate Murray's idea of ​​​​fighting for the boss, and then mess around and make the Spurs uncomfortable.

The Kings flew to Los Angeles instead and played against the Lakers and Clippers for two consecutive days. They still focused on practicing tactical moves and lost a total of 8 points. The main players moved more independently and made more mistakes, especially in high positions. Nance Jr. who supports the ball.

The whole team flew back to Saskatchewan, Su Yang and Mike Brown finalized Nance Jr.'s style of play for the new season: he could only be a blue-collar, cover, eat cakes, grab rebounds, and hoped to practice spot-up three-pointers, but he didn't expect it at the beginning Nance Jr. could turn into another Cousins.

After three days of rest, the Kings played against the Warriors and Trail Blazers in two consecutive days, losing first by 11 points and then by 14 points.

Throughout the preseason, the Kings ended with 1 win and 5 losses.

Such a record is really surprising.

Bill Simmons tweeted: "We all know that the preseason record doesn't mean anything, but the Kings' record is significantly lower than in previous years. This should be a harbinger of the end of their dynasty. Let's see what happens ..."

Su Yang has no idea, the main reason is that the early renewal deadline of October No. 30 is approaching, and Grant has confirmed that he will not renew his contract with the Kings. Cousins ​​officially proposed a 5-year offer of 1.8 million U.S. dollars, and LaVine’s offer is 4 years 8000 million or trade.

There is really nothing to blame for Cousins' offer, because Cousins ​​meets the terms of the designated veteran and can sign a contract with a maximum of 5 million for 2.07 years. It is very cooperative to take the initiative to cut his salary by 2000 million, but he is still a little panicked if he really wants to give it out. .

LaVine was even more troubled. He thought nothing had happened, but he didn't know who came up with the idea and actually asked for a trade.

Looking at the quotation explanation emails of the two, Su Yang sat on the bench and fell into deep thought, thinking that it is more difficult to maintain a business than to start a business.

　Thanks to the veteran 'Blue Splash' for the reward.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)