super small forward

Chapter 168.
At five o'clock in the afternoon, the Eastern and Western All-Stars warmed up in the away and home training rooms of the Pelicans' home stadium in New Orleans.

The head coach of the Western All-Stars is Popovich. Liu Ren, Kobe, Duncan, Harden, Durant, and Paul gathered around Popovich to discuss tonight's game with Popovich.

Liu Ren, Kobe, Harden, Durant, and Paul, these five people are basically the protagonists of this year's Western Conference All-Stars. Since Kobe has spoken, others still have to give Big Brother's face, so others are planning to help Liu Ren gets an MVP.

Especially Durant, who had a pretty good relationship with Liu Ren, patted his chest and promised Liu Ren to help him get the MVP.

"Greg, what strategy do you want to arrange for Liu so that he can play to his advantage?" Kobe asked Popovich.

Kobe and Popovich have always been good friends. Popovich wants to try coaching a guard with explosive scoring ability like Kobe. Kobe also wants to try Popovich's team basketball, but both of them know that. It is impossible.

"It's really strange, Kobe, you really don't want to win the MVP?" Popovich asked in surprise, he thought Kobe's rhetoric in the media was a scene.

"Haha, I've taken this thing 4 times. It doesn't appeal to me. It's better to let that kid have fun." Kobe laughed.

"So that's it, help Liu formulate tactics? Let's play according to your Lakers' style of play. Mike is not to mention other things. His offensive coaching ability is no worse than mine. The tactics he formulated for Liu must be the most suitable for Liu. .” Popovich didn’t know if he really thought that, or if he didn’t want Kobe, who might be their biggest opponent in the playoffs, to learn something new.

Kobe curled his lips, he knew it would be the answer.

Kobe didn't really expect Popovich to improve Liu Ren's tactics. He just wanted to set a tone for the Western All-Star team and let other people know about this game except for the four top superstars in their respective positions. Who is the protagonist of the game.

Paul and Griffin are both players of the Los Angeles team, and they met with the Lakers. They knew that Liu Ren was going for the MVP, so they were embarrassed not to give it.

Durant is much less attractive because he won it. This time Westbrook did not perform well enough due to too many injuries this season, so he was not selected as an All-Star. As for Harden, it seems that he does not really want to win the MVP. , Durant originally wanted to help the third brother get the MVP, but Harden didn't seem to want it, so Durant went ahead and sold Liu Ren a favor. His contract will expire in two years. The Lakers The current situation of the team is so good that nothing can be said for sure.

Except for these people, most of the other All-Stars are not qualified enough and don't have much right to speak.

Thackeray can ignore it, he was able to enter the All-Stars because of the blessings of eighteen generations of ancestors.

Lillard was able to show off his might in the first two days of the Rookie Challenge, but in the All-Star Game he was just a small supporting role. He also knew this very well. Dissatisfaction was dissatisfaction, but he still knew his position very well.

Nowitzki and Duncan didn't care about these things at first, and the old friend Kobe said that and just fought like that.

Aldridge and Curry are strong enough, but they don’t have much right to speak for the time being. Aldridge has always kept a low profile. Curry won’t start to have enough right to speak in the league until he won the MVP in the 14-15 season. The two still had to follow Kobe and Durant, the two leading superstars in the West.

"Kevin, I'm going to trouble you to help me attract the defense today. Most of the guys on the opposite side have good defense." Liu Ren expressed his gratitude to Durant. He is not such a rookie.

"Haha, I heard that guy Kyrie came to provoke you, and I heard from John that the East seems to be ready to help Kyrie deal with you and compete for the title of the best player in the 2011 class. John knows that he is always unhappy Yes." Durant laughed.

John?It's Wall!Liu Ren thought it was no wonder. Irving was a Cavaliers player. If he wanted to win an MVP, he would definitely go back to ask James, the former superstar of the team, for help. James still felt a little guilty about the Cavaliers.

In this way, Wall, who entered the NBA only one year earlier than Irving, but was selected as an All-Star for the first time one year later than Irving, must be unhappy.

"Liu, don't you thank me? I want to help you get the mvp too! Thank me, thank me!" Harden suddenly appeared from the side, grinning and showing a row of neat big white teeth. The spike on the top is broken, and it was broken in college, which looks quite happy.

In particular, Liu Ren remembered that the photo of Harden University before he had a beard and Jike Junyi had the same hair, so he almost couldn't help but not laugh.

"Yeah, James, I'm very curious. Your Rockets center was squeezed out of the All-Star by our Lakers center. Why do you still help me? Shouldn't you get the MVP yourself and help that guy vent his anger?" Liu Ren asked curiously.

Harden was at a loss for words when he heard this. He thought to himself, is he going to tell you that Howard is a narrow-minded and hard-to-serve person?Originally, Howard was upset because he didn't make the All-Star team and another member of the team made the All-Star team. Harden was that other person, because Howard thought he was the number one player on the team, but this year Harden has surpassed him. stronger.

Harden is the same way, if he becomes the All-Star MVP, and Howard never got it, if he wins the All-Star MVP on the team in front of Howard, he thinks this guy will find an excuse not to play well again.

"That, that, that... yes, that Kyrie wants to compete for the MVP with our Los Angeles players, how can he succeed! Don't worry, brother, I will help you!" Harden said nonsense, pretending to be a senior by the way , although he only entered the league two years earlier than Liu Ren.

"That kid Kyrie definitely wants to take advantage of the hot free market this summer. We can't let him do it so easily. Although we don't mind having another strong team in the East, I don't want to let us become a stepping stone. So we're going to kick their asses hard!" Kobe came over to answer the conversation, didn't get anything useful from Popovich, he was a little weird, and decided to make the Eastern Conference look good in the night's game.

As for the problem of tactical cooperation, Kobe is not worried at all. The biggest difference between superstars and ordinary players is not the gap in strength. The ordinary players have much better skills, but they can’t perform well. This does not mean that he is strong. No, but will not find their own position according to tactics.

The biggest feature of superstars is that they can easily find their own position in a tactical system. If it is an open offensive system like D'Antoni's, let alone, as long as they are stars, they can probably play.

(End of this chapter)