After playing the Nets, the Trail Blazers get a day off

But after the game, the Kings had three days off and they were still fighting at home, so head coach McMillan decided to keep training.

When she got home in the evening, Su Yang chatted with Miss Jiang and accidentally revealed that she could not play against the Nets.

Miss Jiang did not comfort him, just said it was normal.

Su Yang thought about it carefully and found that it was quite normal. Personal expectations were very different from others and even collective expectations.

Just like Jeremy Lin played as well as the substitute in the Hornets, he helped the Hornets win three consecutive games in the playoffs. As a result, in the seventh game, head coach Clifford, who originally liked Jeremy Lin, suddenly refused to arrange ball rights for Jeremy Lin. The reason was to please Batum, who returned from injury, and wanted Batum to renew his contract, even if he was eliminated by the Heat.

Thinking of those things, Su Yang had only a little bit of entanglement left, and all of them drifted away with the wind. He decided to do a good job first, and fight for it if he could. If he could, he would not fight for it, he would find another way.

On the 20th, Su Yang rushed to the training base. Before he had time to watch the Kings game, he was knocked down by the Media Center to shoot videos and recruit All-Star votes for the Trail Blazers players.

This All-Star Weekend, Roy and Ad and others were selected. In theory, it is difficult to be selected for the All-Star Game, but it still has to be canvassed, after all, that will make players and fans happy.

With a professional smile, he read it according to the lines given by the public relations department, which was considered to be a completion of the task. Then Su Yang returned to the conference room and continued to watch the Kings game video.

McMillan and others arrived later, but they still pulled the trainers and scouts. A large group of people held a group meeting again to summarize the team's recent situation and discuss how to play against the Kings.

Su Yang finally got the opportunity to speak because other assistants talked too much and he didn't have much content to say. He just said that he should pay attention to Kevin Martin's foul to avoid getting into foul trouble.

Kevin Martin is a foul-making expert before Harden and Lloyd. He averaged 9.5 free throws per game in 2007-08. In an era when body hair whistles were not flooded, it was a very terrifying data. If you are not careful about being committed two fouls, the Trail Blazers' rotation will be greatly tested, especially when Martin directly faces Roy.

"I have checked the data. As of now, the Kings have averaged 22.7 free throws per game, ranking second in the league. It is recommended that people keep guarding and not double-teaming long shots..."

Following Kevin Martin, Su Yang introduced an overall defensive strategy, mainly learning from the famous defensive coach Larry Brown, but that strategy is completely opposite to Chief Assistant Monty.

McMillan bluntly stated that there was no need to pay so much attention. After all, Martin averaged 7.1 free throws per game in the last game. Just pay a little attention and will not change the overall defensive strategy.

Su Yang could not convince McMillan and others, but he was not confused. After the meeting, he ran to the training ground and asked McRoberts if he had learned anything from Kidd.

McRoberts replied that he had strictly analyzed how Kidd mobilized his team members according to Su Yang's requirements, and he could do it, but he could not learn Kidd's natural leadership style.

"What's the so-called natural leadership style..."

Su Yang smiled and said, "Kid was selected as the second pick. He was trained as the core at the beginning and fully demonstrated his strength. If you accumulate slowly, you will also have a leadership style."

McRoberts seemed to understand but not understand. Su Yang only said the arguments of kings, princes, generals and ministers. The two immediately began to discuss those famous big men who organized support players.

On the 23rd, the Trail Blazers face the Kings at home.

Su Yang still didn't get a place to play, and once again stayed in the locker room to watch the game through live broadcast. Instead, the assistant coach who accompanied him changed from Daimboros to Bill Baylor.

For the Trail Blazers, Fry continued to start, but made 0 of 2 shots in the first quarter, 0 rebounds, 1 foul and 1 turnover. The performance was particularly poor, because he had no ball rights, and both shots were all taken to catch the blame. The reason for the ball rights was that the coaching staff did not make special arrangements for Fry. Blake and Jack's point guards got crazy, and no one reminded him to find an opportunity to make a ball for Fry.

Fortunately, Aldridge performed very well. He made 6 of 8 shots in a single quarter, plus one free throw, scored 13 points, 4 rebounds and 1 block, and had 0 mistakes and 0 fouls.

The Trail Blazers entered the second quarter with one point behind, Jack played with four substitutes, and the Kings were also a rogue player. Both teams scored only 18 in a single quarter.

However, Ade was broken through by Martin through a pick-and-roll, causing two fouls, resulting in Ade only two shots in a single quarter, which was also very unfavorable to the subsequent games.

During the half-time break, the Trail Blazers returned to the locker room. After McMillan finished the summary, he asked five assistant coaches to speak.

Su Yang was the last to speak, suggesting that you can make more fouls in the second half, because the Kings' two scoring cores, Martin fouls with two fouls with his back, Artest fouls with his back, and the main defensive Mickey Moore also fouls with his back, as long as he makes good use of it, it can help the team win the game easily.

Assistants such as Monty opposed his suggestion because intentional fouls is a speculative strategy that can easily make players lazy and lose their ability to play key balls.

Su Yang agreed with Monty's rebuttal, saying that it was nothing to use occasionally, not to mention that the king especially liked to commit fouls, just pretended that he was the same as he did.

After arguing, the decision is still in the hands of McMillan, and the answers you get will depend on the situation.

When the half-time break ended, the Trail Blazers returned to the stadium, and Su Yang continued to stay in the locker room to watch the live broadcast.

In the third quarter, the two teams played hard to distinguish. Ade and Blake carried the Trail Blazers attack, Artest and Garcia carried the Kings attack.

Just like that, the Trail Blazers were three-pointers behind and entered the fourth quarter. McMillan hesitated for a long time and did not dare to replace Reeve Lafrenz.

The two teams played for three minutes, and the situation was still difficult to distinguish. The main player returned to the game, but Ade was fouled by Martin as soon as he appeared on the court.

Before Ade could react, after a few rounds, Martin made another foul of Ade, and directly made Ade's fouls cumulative 4 times, and was forced to leave the court for a temporary rest.

The Trail Blazers followed suit to adjust their defensive strategy, but they still underestimated the power of Martin's fouls, and Roy was created two more, causing the Trail Blazers to be in chaos in the offense.

The Kings gradually established a leading advantage with their free throw advantage. Fortunately, the Kings had a poor sports battle and did not lead by 6 points until they had two and a half minutes left in the game.

McMillan couldn't stand it. She awkwardly instructed the players during the timeout to consider the suggestions mentioned by Su Yang. Otero and others understood it in seconds.

Then, the Trail Blazers began to catch Martin and even if Martin changed defense in advance, he had to pull Martin out through pick-and-roll, allowing Martin to foul the situation continuously.

In the end, with 10 extra free throws in the fourth quarter, the Trail Blazers defeated the Kings 86-84 and won the victory with great difficulty.

Ade performed the best. Even though he didn't have much time in two quarters, he still made 12 of 15 shots, reaching 28 points, while Roy performed poorly, with only 13 points and 7 assists.

After the game, the players were not very happy. Otero said that winning the game was like eating a Xiangwei chocolate, and said bluntly that he should listen to Su Yang's advice.

But Su Yang later heard McRoberts' retelling of those words, and he did not stay in the locker room at that time.

At the post-match press conference, McMillan was asked by reporters: If there weren't so many free throws, would he still win the game, and he was being swayed.

Su Yang didn't care much, so he pulled Ade to train after taking a day off, hoping to focus on improving Ade's ability to take quick shots.

But he couldn't contact Ade, his phone number, Twitter or email address were not OK, and Ade seemed to have disappeared from the world.

He could only ask Ade's only good friend, Ultralo, to try it, but Ultralo couldn't contact him either, but he told Su Yang not to be anxious. Ade's situation was that he didn't want to contact his teammates.

Just when he was at a loss, he found that Ade's social media status was updated, with a few philosophical sentences written, which translated it probably means "to contribute more and less reputation".

Su Yang was confused when he saw that language, and then he found that Ade did not like the All-Star canvassing video released by the Trail Blazers, while other players all liked it.

"Is it difficult to compete for the C position?"

With a feeling of eating melons, Su Yang opened the video of the stock canvassing, and took a closer look at it and made a more certain guess.

In the canvassing video, Roy is the absolute protagonist, obviously the leader of the Trail Blazers, and Adr's status is the same as Webster, and Odengao has not been injured and reimbursed.

Thinking about the fact that since the start of the new season, Ade performed significantly well, even better than Roy, Ade felt unhappy, which was particularly logical.

"Coach Holzmann is really not bullying me. There is nothing difficult about tactics, the difficult thing is to deal with people..."

Su Yang sighed, "It is really difficult to bring up a team," he said.

Su Yang decided to come forward to solve the communication problems between Ade and Roy, and at the same time solve the problem of management focusing on Roy.

I had wanted to do it before, but because of various things, if I delayed it, it would be the same as the original history. Roy and Ade would not communicate smoothly until next season.
Chapter completed!