After watching the video of four games for more than ten times, Su Yang and Snyder and other assistant coaches concluded that other teams are not afraid of the king, but also regard the king as the target of bullying in the past, which leads to contempt and falling behind a lot, and they are not afraid of falling behind.

Snyder complained: "Those teams are not afraid of us, they are quite confident in handling offenses and can easily perform at super level, so we played against the Trail Blazers and the Clippers, led the lead in Osaka, and then almost tied, and it was difficult to widen the gap against the Hawks and Warriors."

The psychological advantage is quite mysterious, but it does exist.

Just like Jazz Deron, who beats Paul the Hornets while eating and sleeping, has a total record of 12 wins and 4 losses, and he will be beaten up every time he meets.

Since the first round of the playoffs in 2006, the Kings have not made it to the playoffs for seven years. The image of a weak team has been deeply rooted in the league, but it is not like the Clippers. It has the point guard God Paul and the White Warcraft Griffin, which is quite intimidating.

"We should give the players some fierce nicknames..." Assistant coach Dee Brown quipped, "What cousins ​​cousins, Antetokounmpo, and Gay Guy, sounds a bit friendly, like a Friends TV series..."

Everyone smiled when they heard this. It is difficult to solve the problem of the team without momentum in a short period of time, because people's evaluation of things often lag behind, just like Paul George was able to win the best defense team last season, but this season it was really the winner.

"In addition to the impression we give people is that we are weak teams, there is another objective problem that our starting defense in the backcourt is indeed poor..."

Su Yang briefly analyzed that the Kings started two in the backcourt, and Thomas Jr. had no need to say much about his defense level, and his height was too disadvantaged. The other starter, Marcus Thorton, was 193 cm tall. He also suffered a loss when he encountered a standard player in the same position. The key was that Thorton was quite strong, which was very consistent with his nickname Bucket Barrel, but his ability to move sideways was really bad, and he was easily at a disadvantage in terms of speed.

Anyway, the Kings have poor defense in the backcourt.

After the analysis was completed, McMillan said: "I suggest Isaiah Thomas fights as a substitute, so that the benefits are the highest."

“You can consider…”

Su Yang nodded in agreement and understood the logic, but decided not to hurry. After all, he had not renewed his contract with Thomas in advance before. Now if he hurriedly removed the starting lineup for no reason, although he had not made any promises, it would easily cause unnecessary speculation.

"First find a way to win a few more games, kill a few strong teams, and slowly announce our strong rise to the entire league."

After three days off, on November 8, the king faced the Nuggets.

ESPN live broadcast across the United States, the Sleep Train Arena was finally filled with fans. Su Yang made a special speech before the game and expressed his gratitude to the fans.

The Nuggets won the opening jump ball, Lawson led the half all the way, got rid of it with the help of cover, and shot three-pointers against Thomas Jr.

The basketball thrust into the net, and Lawson turned around and returned to defense to make a pistol move, his face full of confidence, and did not take Thomas' defense seriously at all. He took the initiative to lead Thomas Jr., and seemed to finally catch a player shorter than him, and was very excited.

The other Nuggets were preparing for joint defense and double-teaming at the same time. Joel Carl wanted to defeat Su Yang's king in his heart. He saw that Lawson, Randy Fery, Anthony Randolph, JJ Hickson, McGee and others were not good at single defense, especially single defense and running without the ball.

With McGina's habit of watching the game but not the people, if Cousins ​​is arranged to defend, the Kings' inside scoring efficiency will be greatly improved.

The Kings were looking at the Nuggets' joint defense, but they didn't do much. Marcus Thorton used Cousins ​​to block the crossover to catch the ball, facing Randy Fery and Lawson to save a three-pointer, and the basketball slammed the iron, while the Nuggets jumper man Anthony Randolph grabbed the rebound.

The Nuggets took the opportunity to launch a fast break. In a flash, Thomas Jr. stole Lawson, passed Antetokounmpo backhand for a long pass, and scored a dunk.

The two teams quickly entered the rhythm of going back and forth, and it was difficult to widen the gap. After the first quarter, the Kings led the Nuggets three points.

As the game entered the second quarter, the Kings and the players arranged various screenings to help Guy get many good scoring opportunities. They either shoot empty shots or Guy is good at getting the ball. However, Guy performed with a span and his scoring efficiency was extremely low.

"It's probably because of the two games in the past 6 days and the rest time is too sufficient, which leads to the failure to keep up..." Su Yang complained about Guy's performance, but he also understood that if Guy can maintain stable performance for a long time, it would be really a peak-level GB level and it's too difficult.

After the half-time game, the Kings only led by 3 points, and the main three-pointer failed to make a large-scale shot, with a total of 3 of 11 shots.

After returning to the locker room during the intermission, Su Yang temporarily explained some tricks to break the joint defense, mainly including cross-stop running, chin cover, thumb support, and asked Cousins ​​to be responsible for the central command and dispatch, which made Cousins ​​scratch his face and face on the spot.

"Coach, I don't know much..."

"If you can't do it, practice. Middle school students understand it. You will definitely do it."

Su Yang insisted on rushing the ducks to put them on the shelves, taking advantage of the regular season to improve Cousins' command level and cultivate his leadership ability in all aspects.

The second half of the game started immediately. The Kings generals broke through the joint defense in a bumpy manner under Cousins' command, with an average effect. The Nuggets were limited by the low threat of inside offense and the difficulty of internal and external links, too many simple attacks, and failed to score efficiently.

After the game ended in the last twenty seconds, Cousins ​​made a single layup, Guy followed up and scored a score of 2 points, and the Kings led by two points.

The Nuggets hurriedly requested a timeout and came back to arrange a three-point tactic. Su Yang saw through it on the spot and directed Cousins ​​to run to the left corner position without the Nuggets players in advance, successfully interfering with Nuggets player Evan Fournier's emergency stop to receive the ball and win a narrow victory.

After the game, he attended a press conference and asked about the final defense by reporters, Cousins ​​returned with shock and said, "At the beginning, I thought Coach Su Yang was not in the left and right. There was obviously no Nuggets player on the left corner, so why did he need to go to the position in advance? It was not until Fournier ran to me that I realized that the person who was stupid was myself. Coach Su Yang predicted the Nuggets' final victory run in advance..."

In a few minutes, a fan made a gif animation of Su Yang commanding Cousins ​​to stand in an unmanned position, vividly showing Su Yang's wisdom and decisiveness, Cousins' initial skepticism and small resistance, and the crazy joy at the end.

Media such as espn forwarded gifs, and fans such as LeBron gave likes, and big baby Davis emphasized that Rondo would do it.

Amidst many praises, the Kings flew to Portland overnight and challenged the Trail Blazers back to back away. Su Yang woke up early in the morning to review the game against the Nuggets and found that Thomas Jr. had only 9 shots in the game, with high scoring efficiency and defensive efficiency.

The Kings have five starters, Cousins ​​has 89 defensive efficiency, Antetokounmpo 87, Millsap 92, Thorton 102, Thomas Jr. 103, which has led to the failure of Thomas Jr.'s offensive value being fully reflected, which is a waste of resource allocation and needs to be improved.

At 6 p.m., the King Trail Blazers started fighting.

Due to the lack of physical strength in continuous combat and too many points lost in the backcourt defense, the Kings fought hard for four quarters and finally lost to the Trail Blazers 97-104, and the five consecutive wins were over. Cousins ​​scored 35 points, while Millsap and others had only 13 points at the highest.

The whole team flew back to Sacramento and prepared to face the visiting Brooklyn Nets, the legendary Big Five, according to the schedule.
Chapter completed!