After attending the press conference, the entire Thunder team took a bus to leave the stadium, and the atmosphere in the car was a bit low.

The main reason is that the loss is too nonsense, there are reasons for the foul trouble, and there are also reasons for the random beatings, not that the skills are inferior to others.

Su Yang did not force his encouragement, and used his mobile phone to send text messages to several assistants to communicate. After Snyder advised him to return to the hotel, he took the initiative to talk to Harden and use the method of carrots and sticks to avoid Harden from thinking too much and becoming timid.

Su Yang replied that it was through media messages, which not only reflected the full trust in Harden, but also played a deterrent role.

The reason why I do that is mainly because of playing psychological games, just like Phil Jackson sometimes says, "Bryant is weaker than Jordan", and sometimes says, "Bryant is stronger than Jordan", which is nothing more than stimulating Kobe in different directions through media messages.

In Su Yang's view, those psychological games are the important reason why Phil Jackson can lead superstars well. If you really want to discuss offensive and defensive tactical achievements, Phil Jackson may not even be ranked in the top 20 in NBA history, but the number of champions is the largest.

The key is that this kind of psychological game is not Larry? Brown's PUA-style brainwashing, and he catches the players when they make mistakes, and it is not Popovich's kind of hopes that the players will make sacrifices voluntarily and obey all orders, and it is not that Mike Brown's brainless licking...

Anyway, as a coach, just learn while respecting each other with ordinary players and even superstars!

The next morning, Su Yang got up early, and while practicing in the morning, he watched ESPN basketball news delivery.

Unexpectedly, the well-known commentator Stephen Smith criticized Harden's lack of professional qualities in the show and actually went to nightclubs during the playoffs, resulting in serious misperforming performance during the game, wasting the efforts of teammates and coaches, and suggested that the Thunder punish internally.

After squirting Harden, Stephen Smith continued to squirt Westbrook, saying that Westbrook ignored the head coach's command and forced to attack double-team, destroying the Thunder's momentum of chasing points with two offensive fouls. The error level was even more serious than Harden, similar to not obeying military orders on the battlefield.

After Stephen Smith said that, the other two guests also criticized Harden and Westbrook for not even talking about the basic routine of "some people support and some people oppose" in the show, making it seem like Harden and Westbrook should not play basketball and should retire directly.

Su Yang laughed out loud and knew that Stephen and the other two said that it was to create hot spots to attract traffic, but he picked up his phone and sent a tweet and wrote: "It's just a loss of a game. Don't make it look like the end of the world. We will win the series."

After posting Twitter, Su Yang called to invite Harden and his friends to have breakfast together, but he was still sleeping except Westbrook.

He did not force him to go downstairs to meet Westbrook in the restaurant, and Westbrook took the initiative to talk about things that were not obeying the command.

"When you shouted, I didn't react at all. I just thought that I would succeed in the first game, and did not consider the actual situation. I am very sorry for this. I may make such mistakes in the future. Can you understand?"

After Westbrook finished speaking, Su Yang suddenly felt a little strange. Does it mean, "I know I was wrong, but I just don't change it?"

After thinking about it again, it should be that Westbrook's defensive reading deviations are difficult to make a correct judgment very quickly, because in many cases, especially the rapid advancement of offense and defense conversion, it is how to play the muscle memory control, and waiting for the brain to make a correct judgment, most of the chances will be lost.

Su Yang replied: "John Stockton also often plays with intuition, you have to practice more and analyze more..."

After breakfast, Harden finally arrived. He was wearing a pair of big slippers, a big nightgown, and a big gold chain. He was a nouveau riche. But as soon as he sat down, he said guiltily: "Coach, I was wrong..."

Seeing Harden's funny appearance, Su Yang felt a whim and imitated the emoticon and asked back with a smile: "Where was the mistake?"

Harden hugged his head with his hands awkwardly: "I shouldn't have stayed up late to play for so long, mainly because of my brothers..."

Su Yang waved his hand and interrupted: "As an adult, how long does it take to stay up late to play is your freedom, but it should not affect the performance of the game. If you can do Michael Jordan, you still bet on Atlantic City until three in the morning on the eve of the finals, and you still beat the Knicks to lead the team to advance. There is no problem, but you didn't do that last night, do you understand?"

Harden was stunned, and Su Yang continued: "Your idol Kobe won't interfere with young players visiting bars during road trips, and sometimes even going together, but he will ask those young players to accompany him to train in the early morning. Do you understand what I mean?"

Harden nodded in all his thoughts, and Su Yang said: "If you can't do what Jordan does, then you have to rest carefully and ensure that you can perform normally in the game. Otherwise, I can only ban you from playing. This should be fair, right?"

If you have the strength to speak, you can smoke, drink, and fight, and if you don’t have the ability to eat egg-filled cakes, you will be sprayed.

Seeing that Harden understood the logic, Su Yang turned to the topic of local food in Phoenix and asked Harden to arrange an evening dinner. After all, Harden had been in college in Arizona for two years, and even if he didn't know a good place, he could ask someone to recommend it.

After chatting, when Su Yang returned to the room, he found that the Twitter he had posted had caused a lot of discussion. Some fans believed that he maintained the image of Harden and Westbrook, which was a normal operation, while others believed that he deliberately caused criticism and pretended to be a good person to attract attention.

Su Yang was too lazy to respond and did not arrange training for the players in the afternoon. Instead, he took the whole team to the cinema to watch the newly released Marvel blockbuster "Iron Man 2", intending that the players convey a belief that the series is under control.

When Scarlett Johnson made his debut in the movie, Durant applauded excitedly, and everyone despised him.

Wait until seven o'clock in the evening, the team had a dinner at the restaurant arranged by Harden and had tacos.

After everyone sat down, Su Yang invited the secretly invited guest - Harden High School head coach Scott Pera.

Harden was very happy and took the initiative to give speeches as a leader. The atmosphere of the dinner quickly became quite lively.

On the second day of the game, the whole team resumed training together, and the energy was quite sufficient, and Su Yang was very satisfied.

The game officially started at 7:00 pm. The Thunder and the Suns tacitly used their super defense and vowed to make the current game.

After playing for a few minutes in the first quarter, Ibaka was caused by Sir Jr., and Durant and Matthews also received fouls respectively. Fortunately, the Thunder team's defense is extremely oppressive, which made the Suns only hit 38% in the first quarter.

In the second quarter, Harden led the team to perform strongly, scoring eight points in a row, and also grabbing rebounds to assist, just like an MVP-level player, but unexpectedly, Fry, who was in a three-pointer for three games, made 3 of 4 shots, and even won once.

Just like that, the two teams ended the half-time draw, and the gap did not widen in the third quarter, and the game dragged into the fourth quarter.

The Suns defended like crazy, and the Thunder were also fouled in various ways, but Durant was unstoppable.

The two teams made various timeout adjustments. In the last 1.8 seconds, Fry assisted Richardson to hit a three-pointer, and the Suns overtook the Thunder with one point.

The West American Arena burst into cheers like thunder, and a large number of fans even shouted "tactical thief" at Su Yang. The Suns general manager boss Robert Savor clapped with a smile to show his support, hoping to shout loudly with him.

When Su Yang heard the shouts, he changed his mind temporarily and decided to use D'Antoni's classic tactics to try to kill the Sun.

With the booing of the whole field, he calmly began to arrange: "The next tactic is to play a ghost cover and Ram cover combination routine, the focus is to use the opponent's time to hesitate to change defenses to provide cover to the target player..."

The whistle sound of the pause ended immediately turned, and the players of the two teams returned to the stadium and each took their place.

According to Su Yang's arrangement, Green stood on the left sideline waiting for the serve, Chandler and Durant stood in the elbow area on the left and right sides respectively, while Harden stood at the top of the arc, Westbrook stood at 45 degrees from the right, and the four people in the field showed a parallelogram.

Beep! The referee whistle sounded.

Westbrook immediately rushed into the paint area from the start, and with the help of Chandler's cover, he rushed to the large open area on the left bottom corner to create a threat of receiving and shooting. The speed was extremely fast, which made Lopez hesitate about whether to switch to prevent delays.

Just as Lopez was hesitating, Harden rushed to the left elbow area and set up a wall to cover it.

Chandler took the opportunity to get rid of Lopez, strode to the right elbow area, and set up a wall to block Hill.

Durant instantly rushed from the right elbow area to the top of the arc, successfully raised his hand to receive the pass from Green, and Hill, who was responsible for defending him, was thrown away from him, and the entire free throw line area was squeezed into a group because of Harden's generous body, as well as Lopez and Richardson.

In the eyes of the Suns fans all over the field, Durant adjusted the rhythm in one step, rose up and raised his hand to three points.

The basketball was hollowed into the net, and the Thunder surpassed the Suns 109 to 107, and the whistle at the end of the game was played simultaneously.

The extremely professional ESPN commentator Jeff Van Gundy sighed: "Su Yang just used the classic tactics of coach Mike D'Anthony. This is his first time using coach Mike's tactics after nearly four games and defeating the Suns."
Chapter completed!