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Chapter 275 275. Jeremy Lin

"Hey, boss, you really came so early."

This rough voice, this awkward accent, this unaccustomed feeling, this kind of Chinese, Liu Ren knew who was coming before he even turned around.

"Hey, Jeremy, your Chinese is pretty good! You came quite early, I just arrived and started warming up." Liu Ren turned around and greeted Jeremy Lin.

As to why the young teammates collectively began to call themselves BOSS this year, which means boss and boss, Liu Ren was a little confused at first, but he readily accepted their name.

Kobe also acquiesced to this point. He very much agrees with Liu Ren and regards Liu Ren as his successor and future team boss.

"Haha, I have been learning Chinese with my father for the past two years, but he also immigrated to the United States early, and his Chinese is not good enough. In summer, I went back to China to learn Chinese for two months. How is it? Is it okay?" Jeremy Lin Said proudly.

"That's right, it's very cool." To be honest, Liu Ren admires Jeremy Lin. In basketball, Jeremy Lin has an advantage in other aspects except for his speed. However, he still has a firm foothold in the NBA. easy!
And as a Chinese who was born in the United States and almost never learned Chinese since he was a child, it is really admirable that he can learn Chinese to communicate fluently in two or three years when he is in his 20s!
Although, Liu Ren has to be very careful to understand what Jeremy Lin said, after all, this accent is really uncomfortable!
"Jeremy, how does it feel to come to the Lakers? If you play under Mike, I think you will have a lot of opportunities!" For another Chinese who gained a firm foothold in the NBA and became his teammate, Liu Ren said I am very happy. This proves that Chinese people with relatively average talent can also play in the NBA, which makes him very confident in the future of the Chinese national team. There are 14 million people in China, how can it be impossible to gather an NBA-level country? Team?

This summer Liu Ren was sadly not able to participate in the World Cup, but according to the news Chen Hanni got from the familiar domestic media when she returned to China to visit her relatives, the chairman of the Basketball Association seemed to be impeached and was about to step down. This time he did not enter the World Series, it is said that Yao Ming is preparing to run for the next chairman of the Basketball Association, and the voice is very loud!
Liu Ren feels very excited about this!

"I have never played in such a strong team. I feel that the championship is very close to me, but I don't know if I can be the main player. The team has too many point guards!" Jeremy Lin felt a little lonely.

Liu Ren understands Jeremy Lin very well. In the past two or three years, Jeremy Lin has experienced the peak and won a big contract, but fell to the bottom during the big contract period. He was even robbed of his starting position last season, and he didn't even have the chance to play occasionally.

"Don't worry, there are not many point guards in the team, but there are really no breakthroughs like yours. Don't think too much, come to practice! Our team has a new defensive assistant, and this year I think it will be very tiring. It's..."

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D'Antoni's mood is very complicated and contradictory now.

Dan D'Antoni, the brother of the head coach D'Antoni, was fired by the management for a simple reason. As the chief assistant, Dan D'Antoni has little ability and average vision. During the offseason, he suggested that Kupchak use Liu Ren went to sign with the Knicks first and then trade Anthony.

So Kupchak followed suit and fired Dan D'Antoni.

After this incident happened, D'Antoni was very angry, and wanted to be a big brother in anger, and wanted to resign in anger.

Usually, the head coach of a team has the right to decide the members of his assistant team. Generally speaking, the management will not interfere. Just like the first two years of D'Antoni's coaching, the management has seen that Dan D'Antoni did not Coaching is even the ability to assist in coaching NBA teams, but for D'Antoni's sake he didn't take care of these things.

Now the management obviously wants to weaken D'Antoni's influence on the team. The management has decided on the candidate for the chief assistant, and it is D'Antoni's least favorite defensive coach.

However, D'Antoni still did not resign after thinking about it, because his dream championship is only one step away from him!And the team also brought in Jeremy Lin, one of his favorite point guards. Obviously, the team gave him some comfort after depriving him of some power.

Seeing a group of players surrounded by Bickerstaff, D'Antoni's mood is very complicated. After losing to Popovich four times, he now knows that Bickerstaff may really be needed to win the championship. set.

Kobe called the players together two weeks in advance, just to cooperate with Bickerstaff to run-in the defensive system. Last season, the Lakers players explored on their own. Since the team is mostly composed of young players, they are energetic and have defensive talents. , has an above-average defense, but is still some way from the top.

Defense depends on attitude. The Lakers players have a good defensive attitude. After all, with Kobe on their heads and such a good record, everyone is having fun and everyone is willing to defend.

So what the Lakers lack most now is a defensive system. The defensive system may seem complicated, but it is actually very simple. It only needs to do three things well.

The most important thing is the defensive attitude!

The Lakers already have this point, and the rest is defensive positioning and defensive rotation strategies.

When the opponent breaks through and picks and rolls, where the pitcher who opens up the space is, how the defensive player should stand, who should help defend, and how to stand and defend if there is no help defense task, these are what Bickerstaff needs to teach. Something for these young players.

"Nick, when the other side breaks through the line, you should go to the edge of the three-second zone instead of blocking it directly. There are Paul and Hassan intercepting in the middle. Your task is to keep an eye on the shooters in the bottom corner and defend the loopholes under the basket! Just now Speaking of Nick, Zach, how can you make this kind of mistake, shrinking the basket is Kenta's task..."

"Drummond and Paul did a good job, Steve, you just need to follow Lin, you don't need to defend..."

Bickerstaff had some headaches. Although the training camp was two weeks earlier, the defensive habits of this group of players are too bad, and it is not easy to change quickly.

"NO, Bernie, why can the boss defend anywhere!" Nick Young shouted dissatisfied.

Nick Young played very happily last season, with good statistics, and even entered the top five in the best sixth man voting, so he is very active on the defensive end, and he wants to defend when he sees who gets the ball.

But sometimes position is very important, the opponent's pass must be passed to the open player, if there is a player standing there not far in front of the open player, he can defend it at any time, and the passing player will naturally be different. concern.

(End of this chapter)