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Chapter 141 The Point Guard
In the farewell sound of the home fans, the Spurs walked through the player channel under the leadership of Popovich and returned to the locker room in an orderly manner.And Yang Ke came to Parker's side immediately, and the two had an in-depth exchange on how to play a good point guard.

"Yang, you can learn and imitate Rondo's pass selection, offensive organization and other skills. But, you have to remember that Rondo's style of play is not suitable for you."

From communication and off-court observations, Parker knew that Yang Ke was frantically learning Rondo's technical advantages like a sponge through direct matchups.This is a good thing, but he had to emphasize it.

"It doesn't fit there anymore?"

Yang Ke was taken aback, and looked at Parker in puzzlement. He felt that Rondo's style of play was very suitable for him, as the commander on the field.Take tactics as the core, take organization as your responsibility, and send the ball where it should go.

After thinking about it, Parker raised four fingers, and without directly answering Yang Ke's question, he slowly explained the types of point guards: "Currently, in the league, there are mainly four types of point guards: core Point guard, traditional point guard, offensive point guard, and functional point guard."

Pulling out a chair and sitting next to Parker, Yang Ke nodded thoughtfully and listened carefully to what he said.

"In the league, the core point guards are undoubtedly represented by Nash and Kidd. They have complete possession of the ball in the team. It can be said that the entire team relies on them alone for support. If they are injured, then The team's performance this season is definitely not ideal."

"The representative of the traditional point guard is Rondo, who focuses on the organization and supplements his own offense. This type of point guard must have outstanding ball intelligence, extraordinary tactical understanding and ability to read the enemy's tactics. Execution in the game to achieve organizational goals."

"Offensive point guard, you should know very well, that is the route I and Westbrook take. Use your own excellent offensive firepower to attract the opposing defensive double-team and open up the situation for the team. Of course, a point guard like me , I mainly focus on my own offense, supplemented by organizing assists, so my assists are much less than Rondo's."

"As for the final role-functional point guard, you can refer to the Heat's Mario Chalmers, just control the ball, and then play according to the role player."

He said a lot in a crackling manner, which made Parker's mouth dry. He quickly twisted away the drink in his hand, raised his head and gulped it down.

Slightly frowning, Yang Ke touched his chin with his hands, and fell into deep thought.After Parker's detailed explanation, he somewhat understood why he was not suitable for the path of traditional point guard.

Yang Ke is different from Rondo. Although both of them have high golf quotients, his soft touch is much higher than that of Rondo. It would be a waste of offensive talent to simply follow the traditional point guard.

After thinking for a while, Yang Ke asked: "Then should I take the path of an offensive defender?"

"No, Yang, you'd better not make a choice for the time being. Your technical characteristics have not yet been finalized. It is not good for you to make a choice in advance."

Before Parker could speak, Ginobili shook his head and stepped in. In his opinion, Yang Ke was different from other rookies in the league.

Since he has only been a point guard for less than a year, although he has made rapid progress, his talent has not yet been fully revealed. If the future path is determined in advance, it will easily cause bad influence.

Because of this, in the previous one-on-one training, Ginobili never told Yang Ke about this aspect.

"Then how should I play the next game? If I'm not sure about the path I'm going to take, it will be difficult to make significant progress."

Yang Ke scratched his hair in distress. He already clearly felt that he had encountered a bottleneck recently. No matter how much he practiced, his progress was almost zero.

"Just do what you do now."

At this moment, Popovich walked up to Yang Ke with a tactical drawing board, and said lightly, "What you lack now is the accumulation of the game. Learn what you need to learn and practice what you need to practice. As long as you don't deliberately Choose, you will still make progress in technology and experience."

Parker put down the towel to wipe the corners of his mouth. He could see that Yang Ke had become a little impatient in this regard, and he immediately persuaded him: "The coach is right, you are already a leader among your peers, don't be too eager for quick success. That's it, just accumulate and settle slowly."

"I understand."

Yang Ke suddenly woke up, when did he want to improve in such a hurry, basketball is different from other things, if you want to improve your level, you have to be steady and train hard, and rushing for success will make things go wrong.

"Ah."

Nodding, Popovich then retracted his gaze, looked up at the time, picked up the tactical drawing board, and talked about the arrangement for the second half, "Leonard, in the next game, if the Celtics play It's the main lineup, you switch defenses with Green, and you go to mark Ray Allen."

"Ok."

Green and Leonard stopped their actions one after another, nodded at Popovich, and had no objection to this decision.

In the first half, the immature Leonard couldn't guard Pierce at all, so Popovich decided to let him guard Ray Allen, who had relatively simple offensive methods.No matter what, you can rely on the obvious advantage of the length of your arms to interfere with Ray Allen's shooting.

After a while, the second half of the game began. Because the first half was almost full, when the game restarted, Duncan, Yang Ke and Ginobili did not play but sat on the bench.

At this moment, the Spurs' lineup on the field has Parker and Leonard as the core of offense and defense, and Green is the tactical point, facing the Celtics who have replaced a pure substitute lineup.Unexpectedly, Parker began to explode, and the Green Army's backup point guard Kenyon Dooling succeeded in consecutive singles.

On the defensive end, with the tight blockade of Leonard and Green, the two defensive champions, the offense of the Green Army's substitutes was completely misfired. For a while, the point difference between the two teams tended to widen.

Seeing that the situation was gradually becoming unfavorable to the team, Rivers had no choice but to replace Rondo and Bradley, who had not rested for a long time, and the effect of this substitution was immediate.

With Rondo's debut, under his control, the Celtics' offense instantly became orderly.Although Bradley is young, his defense is already good, effectively restricting Parker.

In this way, in the third quarter, even though both sides gradually changed to the main lineup, the score was still very anxious, and the suspense of the game was brought to the fourth quarter.

(End of this chapter)