After a while, Su Yang put down his cell phone, gave up the idea of ​​separating and attacking the heart, and decided to maintain a fearless and challenging mentality.

It is difficult to play the Suns, but it is also important to keep the game pure, and winning will be more motivating to the whole team.

With such a strong mentality, Su Yang walked back to the court and carefully observed the players' training of the joint defense tactics.

After several rounds of training, Chandler's central command importance is fully highlighted. Whether it is the cross-cover tactics in the elbow area, the thumb-up tactics, or even the double-cover flare tactics on the outside, Chandler needs to remind other players.

It is also more obvious that after the number of transmissions increases, Westbrook and his men's chances of making mistakes have increased significantly.

The minor problem of young, inexperienced and patient was very obvious to Westbrook and others. After several rounds of exercise, Westbrook took the initiative to look at Su Yang, shrugged his shoulders and spread his hands slightly, showing a more confusing expression on his face.

What are you doing?

Wouldn't it be over if you rush in, or pull up and throw one?

What's that complicated?

Su Yang responded with a smile, which was understandable. After all, the tactics of breaking the joint defense are more boring than other offensive tactics, and some problems can be solved through brute force. The key is that training cannot imitate the real environment of playing games.

During the training break, Westbrook ran to the sidelines to find Su Yang: "Coach, I think the Suns' joint defense is not that strong. The Denver Nuggets performed so badly, mainly because of Changxi? Billups is too old, and his breakthrough speed is very slow..."

Su Yang responded, knowing that Westbrook just said, "I just beat Nash at will, and I don't even need a pick-and-roll."

"Russell, I know very well that you have a great advantage against Steve Nash, but we need to win four games, each game needs to play 48 minutes. In addition, according to statistics, your scoring efficiency for each single is 0.75..."

"Stop talking, I understand..."

Westbrook turned around and walked away with a smile, while Su Yang was about to say, "Nash will calculate 20% more for you."

With objective data support, Westbrook finally put away his impatient mentality and practiced the tactics of breaking the joint defense in a straightforward manner.

Su Yang does not look down on Westbrook's singles ability, but Westbrook is focusing on other things and gains more. For example, when the offense and defense are quickly converted, using speed to destroy the Suns' defensive formation, and positional battles to sneak attack air attacks and attack baskets, which are more useful than singles.

Relatively speaking, Durant is more suitable for singles, and his nearly unsolvable shooting ability can directly destroy the Suns' defense.

In short, when the winning goal is absolutely unchanged, pursuing higher efficiency has become a priority.

The first day of training ended soon. Durant and his friends chose to practice for two hours, then stayed at the training base for dinner. Su Yang also joined in and watched the Mavericks and Jazz tiebreaker battle together, and also played games that bet on the other side to win.

Durant and his team chose the Jazz, believing that the Mavericks' backcourt players, especially Kidd, could not defend Deron at all because Deron was tall and strong, and they were not slow. They had too much advantage against the elderly Kidd and beat Kidd in each of the first six games.

Su Yang did not rush to bet. After carefully watching the Mavericks' defensive strategy and Kidd's state, he firmly supported the Mavericks' victory.

But at the end of the first half, the Jazz led by as much as 13 points. Deron hung Kidd up and beat him. In several rounds, he still had one-on-one single fights. Deron's coquettish body changed directions, and even the camera could deceive him, making Kidd turn his head.

Westbrook quipped: "Coach, I feel I've been deceived by you. Deron can play Kidd efficiently, and I can play Nash efficiently, and Nash's defense is much worse than Kidd, and the data cannot tell everything."

"Of course, you have a lot of abilities that cannot be reflected by data, but you can't simply compare it. The Mavericks have not started joint defense yet, and Delong's tactical positioning is also very different from you. Let's continue to watch the game and stay patient..."

Su Yang also wanted to say that Delong's breakthrough was more about skills. Westbrook could rely on his physical strength to make a breakthrough, but it was easier to be blocked by joint defense. However, if you think about it carefully, there is no need to say that, so let Westbrook maintain his breakthrough style.

Anyway, just don’t let Westbrook gain weight in the future, as it will cause Westbrook to lose the shooting rhythm and wear out the knees even more.

While chatting and laughing, the second half of the Mavericks and the Jazz started, and the Mavericks gradually set up joint defense in the positional battle.

Kidd began to stand in advance to intercept Delong, and handed over the left and right sides and behind the teammates more. The situation changed accordingly, Delong's breakthrough efficiency was visible to the naked eye. Even if the offense and defense were transformed quickly, it was difficult to gain advantage.

Deron's scoring efficiency decreased, which also reduced the Jazz's offensive efficiency, and the Mavericks slowly tied the score.

In the fourth quarter of the game, the Mavericks' positional joint defense power became more obvious. Both Deron and Boozer could only float in high positions and shoot long shots. The scoring efficiency was down, and the Jazz UCLA's high and low positions interspersed back and forth system was not useful.

In the end, the Mavericks defeated the Jazz and advanced to the second round, and Durant and others honestly paid for the money and gave in.

"It seems that I still underestimate the role of joint defense..." Westbrook complained and once again realized the importance of breaking joint defense tactics.

"It's okay, we still have a lot of time to practice..."

Su Yang patted Westbrook on the shoulder and encouraged Westbrook to know that it is normal for Westbrook to underestimate joint defense, because in the past many years, not only have the championship teams used almost zero joint defense, but even many ordinary teams have refused to defend, and they can only occasionally see it in the Cavaliers.

The NBA coaching circle has always had a tacit understanding: joint defense is something that European coaches and women's basketball can do.

Phil Jackson and Popovich are two representative coaches who refuse to join forces. They hate the team's defenses that tie the entire team's defense together, so often it is impossible to distinguish which player's defense is wrong, and it is difficult to make adjustments.

However, after the Spurs were not as awesome as the defensive configuration in the 20s, Popovich also said that the joint defense was really good.

The next morning, the Thunder Training continued.

Su Yang arranged for the players to engage in high-intensity confrontation to avoid a long quit, which made it difficult to enter the rhythm during the game.

ESPN's predictions for the results of the Thunder and Suns series were also released simultaneously. Among the 21 well-known commentators participating in the voting, 11 were optimistic about the Thunder's advance to the Western Conference Finals, while the other 10 were optimistic about the Suns, which was barely the beginning of the 55th.

But whether it supports the Thunder or the Suns, those commentators believe it will be a hard fight, with at least six games.

After the training at noon, Su Yang was interviewed on the sidelines.

The reporter asked: "Suns General Manager Steve Cole was interviewed by ESPN in the morning, claiming that Alvin Gentry should be the best coach of the year. He also thought that you were 95% of the Suns and Mavericks tactics. What do you want to respond?"

Su Yang was stunned when he heard this, thinking that he did not intend to point out that Cole was blind to several transactions, but was accused of plagiarism tactics.

The competition is indeed not about treating guests to dinner, it cannot be so elegant. In order to win, any means can be used.

Could it be that it is a provocation method that wants the team to give up those tactics and sharpen their guns in the face of the battle in order to avoid suspicion?

After thinking for a while, Su Yang smiled and said, "I do learn a lot from Coach D'Antoni or the Suns' tactics, because those tactics are too excellent and are very suitable for Suns players. If Sean Marion, Laga Bale, and Boris Dior are still with the Suns, it will be very difficult for us to play in this round because the Suns have strong offense and defense.

Fortunately, all of them were traded away. We will focus on the Suns wing in this round!"
Chapter completed!