The plane arrived in Portland at 1:00 a.m., and the team moved into the Sheraton Hotel next to the airport.

At 10:30 in the morning, Su Yang got up and pulled the coaching staff to have a meeting, intending to figure out the reasons for the Trail Blazers' five-game winning streak.

The scouting department provides an analysis report of up to twelve pages, with a word count of nearly 30,000. From Trail Blazers’ trades and injuries absent, to where the opponents did not do well in the first five games, it can be said that each of the reasons that led to the Trail Blazers’ five consecutive wins.

The most important reason is that the Trail Blazers clearly use Aldridge as the tactical core, and the entire team attacks around him.

Roy's playing style of playing as the core of tactics has become a past tense for the Trail Blazers, which is sad but helpless.

The reason why the Trail Blazers made changes was that in the second half of last season, Aldridge carried the Trail Blazers on both sides of the offense and defense to enter the playoffs, allowing the Trail Blazers from management to coaching staff to admit that they were enough to be the boss.

The scout report also mentioned: Last season, Trail Blazers boss Roy once complained that there was too little ball rights, but head coach McMillan believed that Roy was in poor form and firmly allowed Roydo to play without the ball. All the outside offenses were initiated by Andre Miller.

McMillan adheres to the principle of winning first, whoever is in good condition will play more, and whoever has the ability will be responsible for commanding.

"The current Trail Blazers are especially like the Mavericks last season. All offenses are centered around Nowitzki. The focus of our defense at night is to destroy the pace of the Trail Blazers' attacks around Aldridge, so that they don't play so comfortably..."

Su Yang made a decision to determine the general direction of defense. As a former Trail Blazers assistant coach, he knew very well how to defend Ade.

Other small directions, such as paying attention to the concealment and decisiveness of passing, are all left to several assistant coaches to arrange.

At five o'clock in the afternoon, the Thunder team took a bus to the Rose Garden Arena and conducted pre-match training as usual.

Su Yang was interviewed by an old acquaintance and reporter of the Trail Blazers official website at the Media Center: "Su, how do you evaluate our performance last season? Do you have any suggestions for us this season? I will tell the management."

Su Yang thought after hearing this, thinking that Kevin Prichard, the general manager of the Trail Blazers scout, had been fired. The current general manager of the Trail Blazers is the former assistant to the general manager of the Clippers. Neil Ossi, who once rejected him, had no need to say too much.

I don’t know what Ossi would think, what if others think it’s a question of their professional level?

"Last season, I knew the Trail Blazers were suffering from serious injuries, Roy missed 17 games, Fernandez missed 20 games, Batum missed 45 games, Oden missed 61 games, and Puerzbila missed 52 games...

But the Trail Blazers eventually made it to the playoffs with 50 wins, and the players performed very well and were very tough.

I think Nate McMillan coach and coaching staff have provided great help, the system he has built…”

Su Yang sincerely praised McMillan because if it were other coaches, they encountered the injury situation of the Trail Blazers last season. Not to mention falling apart, at least the whole team lost their fighting spirit, but McMillan could make the Trail Blazers enter the playoffs in the difficult Western Conference.

That could be a miracle.

That is McMillan's strongest skill - the team coached will have a high lower limit, and the lineup will be slightly better and you can win 40 games.

But the upper limit of McMillan coaching the team is not much higher, because he is conservative in style and suppresses genius creativity. He has been the team with the lowest pace in the league in the past two seasons, but those complex running and covers have increased player injuries.

Of course, the Trail Blazers themselves are poor in Feng Shui. No matter who is the coach or who is the team doctor, they will have to be seriously injured every season.

"I wish the Trail Blazers all the best in this match..."

After the interview, Su Yang returned to the locker room and checked the preparations for the starting players and other games with several assistant coaches.

The game is broadcast on espn live, and the pre-match discussion program between the two teams is being played on the TV on the wall.

"Sorry, I'm inserting a burst message..."

Host Molly suddenly interrupted the discussion between the two guests, "Just just now, the Trail Blazers substitute center or power forward Fabricio Oberto announced that his palpitations caused by poor heart surgery recovery have officially retired from the NBA..."

Su Yang was confused on the spot, why did he bless the Trail Blazers with his front foot? Some Trail Blazers players retired due to injuries.

Before he recovered, host Molly continued: "The Trail Blazers officially announced that their No. 22 rookie Elliot Williams will undergo knee surgery and is expected to miss all the next games this season..."

Su Yang was completely stunned. Could it be that the Trail Blazers officially announced that he did not want to repeatedly stimulate the fragile nerves of the fans.

"We seemed to have discussed choosing this rookie. He is a left-handed player like James Harden. He has a good shooting touch, strong scoring ability, excellent defense, and very motivated..." said assistant coach Brian.

When Su Yang heard this, he immediately recalled that if it still developed according to the original situation, this rookie named Elliot Williams would suffer from a left shoulder joint dislocation injury shortly after he recovered from injury and would be reimbursed again for the season.

The reason why Su Yang remembers so clearly is because Elliott Williams is very talented, but potential injuries have made many teams afraid to make up their minds to train them. They have been signing a contract with a 10-day short contract, and even if they have signed for one year, they will be quickly cut.

"In the lob court in Rose Center, you may need to ask a Feng Shui master to see if there is any conflict..."

Su Yang deeply felt sorry for the Trail Blazers. They always chose players with potential, but they were always difficult to fulfill. Suddenly, they thought of the future Datong Arena, which seemed to have poor Feng Shui. After the Warriors moved over, there were always players who were inexplicably injured.

At about seven o'clock, the pre-match ceremony ended.

The lights in the audience were bright and the dynamic BGM sounded. Ade and Roy walked to the technical station respectively to ask Su Yang to high-fives.

Seeing Roy turning around and walking towards the Trail Blazers bench, Su Yang wanted to shout and say something, but he didn't know what to say.

When the preseason started, Roy, who was recovering from the injury, returned to participate in the game in advance in order to solve the swelling caused by insufficient blood circulation in his knees and took the initiative to ask the doctor to remove the remaining meniscus, which was really nothing left.

There is no need for a choice like that, and the key pioneer management actually agreed directly, a typical short-sighted strategy.

Before the injury comes again, there is no guarantee that there will be problems. After all, Wade's meniscus is removed early. Except for one season, his appearance rate and competitive state are still OK in other seasons. Roy and the management must have a lucky mentality.

But the physical constitution of people cannot be generalized.

Just like some people have a ruptured Achilles tendon and they are still in a sharp state after returning from injury, while some people have a sharp state in competitive state.

Amid the cheers of the whole audience, the referee blew a whistle to remind the game that the game was about to start, and the starting players of the two teams entered the field.

On the Trail Blazers, Andre Miller, Roy, Batum, Aldridge, Marcus Camby.
Chapter completed!