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Chapter 263 Learn to Be Yourself

"You don't need to worry at all. Leaders are different from ordinary players. Leaders only need to be themselves, while ordinary players need to play around the leader and change their playing style in due course."

Ginobili has been a leader for more than ten years. He understands how to be a good leader, and he also knows that what Yang Ke is worried about does not exist, at least for now.

Yang Ke frowned, with a puzzled look on his face, his right hand was naturally stretched out and his palm was completely spread out, but he said, "I don't understand."

"Forehead"

Ginobili paused, then remembered that this was just Yang Ke's rookie season. Although he had personally experienced many things, he didn't know what was involved.

This kind of experience can either be slowly accumulated by Yang Ke himself, step by step from ignorance to eye-catching; or let others give him advice and instill concepts in him like a shortcut.Ginobili naturally has this qualification, but now the time and place are not suitable, so I have to let it go first.

Thinking of this, Ginobili stood up from his seat, took a step closer to Yang Ke, then put his right hand on Yang Ke's shoulder, and then said: "You will understand later, now you just need to tell me, your last Like, the most comfortable way to play, you don’t have to worry about the rest.”

My favorite and most comfortable way to play?
Supporting his chin with his right hand, rubbing his index finger back and forth.Yang Ke bowed his head and fell into deep thought.

After thinking about it for a few minutes, Yang Ke raised his head flat, his expression was full of nostalgia, his brows gradually relaxed, he opened his mouth, and said softly, "Play like a shooting guard."

Slowly lowering his arms, Ginobili looked at Yang Ke in surprise, and asked, "Are you sure?"

"I'm sure."

Yang Ke nodded solemnly, his eyes were extremely firm, the answer came from his heart.

Seeing this, Ginobili didn't say anything else, patted Yang Ke on the shoulder, and said, "OK! You go out first, I'll think about tactics here for a while."

"clear."

Yang Ke didn't think much, turned around directly, stretched out his hand to open the door, walked out in a few steps, and at the same time, he didn't forget to close the door with his backhand.

Looking at the re-closed door, Ginobili scratched his head in confusion: "He actually wants to be a shooting guard, and I don't usually see him wanting to score so much..."

"This is normal."

There was a sound of footsteps, and Borrego came out from another door with a document in his arms, and said as he walked, "According to information, when Yang Ke first came into contact with basketball, the league was at the heyday of the four major shooting guards. It has been affected a lot.”

After walking a few steps in front of Ginobili, Borrego stopped, tilted his head to look at him, and asked curiously, "Manu, what do you think? Why did you ask Yang Ke to use Duncan's locker?"

Ginobili looked sideways at Borrego, and was not surprised by his arrival and inquiry. After all, Popovich was not there, so he needed to find out clearly about this matter.

Ginobili said: "Although the old man has established Yang Ke's tactical core position, he is only a rookie after all. If the team really wants to revolve around him, he needs to establish his position among the players, and I just provide Just an opportunity."

Borrego nodded thoughtfully. He knew very well that the Spurs are a team, but the coaches and players are two groups.To become a team leader requires not only the support of the coach, but also the approval of the players.

For the playoffs, Borrego is very supportive of the idea of ​​establishing a temporary leader for the team, but he has reservations about the choice of Popovich and Ginobili.

Borrego then asked: "Can he do it well? I mean, is the pressure a little too much for him?"

"It's really stressful."

Ginobili does not deny this. There are only a handful of players in the history of the league who can be the team leader in their rookie season.

That's because a lot of super rookies are really up to par, but they don't have the level of resilience to match it.You must know that leaders need to carry the pressure at critical moments and lead the team to continue.

Shrugging his shoulders casually, Ginobili continued: "But for us, it doesn't matter whether Yang Ke succeeds or fails."

Borrego fell silent when he heard this.

Only then did he realize that if Yang Ke failed to be a good interim leader, leaving aside those unscrupulous media, people in the industry would not say much about it, and no one would blame him.

On the other hand, even if the Spurs finally achieve good results under Yang Ke's leadership, it is impossible for him to be the leader again.After all, the team's troika has not yet retired, and the status of the GDP trio cannot be shaken.

After estimating the time, Ginobili realized that it was time to arrange tactics.Immediately, he walked to the door, reached out to hold the doorknob, and remembered something when he was about to pull the door.

He stopped and looked back at Borrego: "Coach, where did you collect the information you just mentioned? Why do I feel that there is a problem?"

Out of his trust in the scouts, Borrego didn't think there was any problem with it, and said, "This is the information Harman collected when he went to Huaguo before, and it was sorted out just now. All the information comes from his classmates, such as Said Li Zhi, who had been his classmate for ten years."

……()…

After the intermission, the second half began.In view of the obvious score advantage, and in order to let the Big Three rest for a while, the Knicks sent a substitute lineup.

They are: point guard Baron Davis, shooting guard JR Smith, small forward Steve Novak, power forward Landry Fields, center Jerome Jordan.

The Spurs, under the command of Ginobili, only made slight adjustments to the lineup.Dior and Splitter on the inside, Green, Ke Yang and Mills on the outside.

Looking at the Spurs who quickly entered the defensive state, Kenny Smith had some surprises, but he did not forget to analyze into the microphone: "Replace Leonard, replace with another outside player to increase the team's offensive ability, This is indeed a good choice for chasing points. But why is Mills replaced? Could it be that the Spurs want to play two guards?"

Barkley tilted his head and thought about it, and then put forward his own opinion: "Maybe it is to let Yang play shooting guard? To relieve the organizational pressure on him so that he can focus more on offense?"

Just as the two on-site commentators were analyzing, the Knicks completed their first attack in the second half.Relying on the attraction of Baron Davis' breakthrough, Landry Fields gained space for his shot. After receiving Davis's point, he directly made a spot jumper.

Are you behind by 20 points?
Looking up at the scoreboard, Yang Ke felt a little heavy, then lowered his head, opened his mouth and took a deep breath, trying to release some pressure.

(End of this chapter)