0604 Famous after five years
On the 26th, the Kings and the Spurs' fifth game in the Western Conference Finals started at the Golden One Center Arena in Saskatchewan.
Popovich followed his previous strategy: let Leonard play the main attack, let Adrian play more center forward, and reduce Duncan's time to play.
Su Yang also followed his previous strategy and started off the inside, which allowed Ade to quickly get two fouls, and then defeated the Spurs' inside offense and defense system. By the way, Parker, who was full of anger but powerless, also suffered two fouls in the first quarter.
The Spurs collapsed both inside and outside, and Leonard was alone and could not defeat him. Despite all his strength in defense, he was still behind 12-30 in the first quarter.
In the second quarter, Thomas Jr. and Turner led the team, and the Kings continued to suppress the Spurs and led 55-31 at the end of the half.
After returning from the break at halftime, the Spurs did not give up, but they were unable to change the situation. The King finally won 113-99.
In the whole game, Curry made 14 of 28 shots, including 7 of 14 three-pointers, 2 of 3 free throws, and scored 37 points.
The results of the series were released. The Kings swept the Spurs 4-1, successfully advanced to the finals and fought for the championship.
Cousins led the Western Conference Championship trophy on behalf of the team and spoke proudly: "There are fewer flags above our stadium. This section championship flag can be hung, but soon, I promise you that we will use the championship flag just like the Los Angeles team, and can also be refined into a row over the stadium, and then put the section championship flags to eat dust..."
As the words came to an end, the audience cheered and celebrated.
After the game, fans and the media sparked heated discussions.
Arenas tweeted: "Coach Su Yang once again made me feel the new charm of the basketball game. His confrontation with Popovich is a historical classic. The King is like the Lakers at the beginning of the century. I can't imagine the scene where they failed to win three consecutive championships."
Stephen Smith tweeted: "Congratulations to the Kings in advance for winning the season championship! I don't underestimate the Cavaliers and LeBron. I like LeBron and Tyron Lou very much, but the dominance shown by the Kings is unless Wiggins is replaced with Jordan.
Otherwise, the knights will never be able to defeat the king. The next five years will be the era of the king. Please accept the arrangement of fate."
Bill Simmons tweeted: "Su Yang will become a cardinal, but fortunately Sa City is a small city."
All kinds of discussions were everywhere.
Su Yang rested for one night and started preparing for the Cavaliers early the next day, pulling the assistant team to have a meeting with the scout department to discuss.
"We first need to discuss what changes have happened to the Cavaliers on both offense and defense after Tyron Lue took over..."
Su Yang started the first topic for the meeting. This season's Cavaliers head coach changed from David Blatt to Tyron Lue. Compared with the data differences before and after, there must be a huge adjustment, and the Kings have not yet fought against the Cavaliers after changing the head coach.
"Tyron Lu is more inclined to attack..."
Scouting director Blachi said, "Compared to Blatt, Tyron Lue uses more offensive players. He talked in an interview that he highly praised the Spurs' style of playing in the 14th season, which is dynamic offense, with three-pointers as the main offense.
Therefore, after Tyronlu took over, he reused players such as Love, Fry, JR, and reduced the playing time of players such as Dravidov and Mozkov, and emphasized the offensive space. Love often received the ball at a high position, and the Cavaliers made a big three-pointer..."
In the words, Su Yang nodded frequently in response.
Tyron Lue's approach is very accurate, and focusing on offense is the mainstream of the league. Although he used to learn from the so-called defensive coach Rivers, he did not have the experience of being self-consistent or relying on it. Instead, he learned about Carlisle. After leaving the Pacers, he went directly to visit D'Anthony, spending every day in the Suns training camp, studying how to better play fast-paced offense and adapt to the development of the times.
"In terms of tactical arrangement, from our scouts' observation, he performed poorly, but his adjustment ability is strong. The most typical case is G1 in the first round. He defeated the Pistons so hard. After being ridiculed, he quickly adjusted the Cavaliers' offense..."
Between the words, several common tactics used by the Cavaliers began to be played on TV, mainly the horn series, the elbow series, and some adapted triangle offensive series, flex offensive series, and a large number of ISO single challenge techniques, all of which are classics.
Those tactical systems have one thing in common, which is that they need a super high-level ball holder, which is placed on the Cavaliers Natural LeBron.
Love can also be responsible for some support, but due to its breakthrough ability, the usage rate is definitely not as high as LeBron.
Su Yang continued to nod and responded.
Objectively speaking, Tyronlu's tactical arrangement ability is absolutely qualified and efficiently matches the characteristics of the Cavaliers' lineup.
Not to mention double-teaming Curry, forcing Curry to play against LeBron and other means to lead the league trend, as well as giving up serving in the frontcourt to make more space, allowing LeBron to sprint at full speed, and calling two consecutive timeouts to restore LeBron's strength and other on-the-spot responses.
Not to mention how awesome those on-the-spot responses are, they should at least be more effective and more appropriate than Kidd's 'hit me'.
Unfortunately, as a well-behaved coach, coaching two players, LeBron and Irving, is too easy to be ignored by fans.
In that case, it is particularly easy to amplify Tyron Lue's coaching advantages and disadvantages, a bit like the beggar's version of Phil Jackson.
"In terms of player relationship, Tyron Lu has no reservations about the players he trusts. A typical case is the game where Love is injured and absent, and the Cavaliers win wildly. After Love returns, the team loses the game, and the data has also been undercover for several consecutive games, which has made many fans and commentators laugh at it. However, Tyron Lu still insists on letting Love start, giving Love full adjustment time and re-adapt to the game confrontation..."
Su Yang nodded repeatedly when he heard this.
When it comes to trusting players, I am not as good as Tyron Lou, but I am the only way to love Fox to be able to insist on starting the game. The biggest role is to show other players, demonstrate absolute trust, and allow the team to better unite, even if you have to pay the heavy price of losing.
"In general, the Cavaliers have a better record than their 57 wins, and their lower limit is very low, but the upper limit will be very high."
After Blachi finished the overview, assistant coaches such as McMillan followed suit to analyze how to limit the Cavaliers' offense and how to attack.
Su Yang didn't worry too much,
The main focus is on cracking the Cavaliers' double-teaming against Curry. On the one hand, it is to find ways to better transmit and allow other Kings players to make good use of the space that the Cavaliers have appeared because of double-teaming Curry. On the other hand, it is to prepare to deal with the referee's potential indulgence and avoid the Cavaliers' team pulling Curry arbitrarily during the off-ball defense process, without having to take fouls. They must take the initiative and occupy the high ground.
Making up his mind, Su Yang arranged for the media department to upload the "Curry's video highlights that were fouled but not called" on social media such as Twitter, and then mt pushed it simultaneously to let viewers around the world see Curry's situation.
On the night of the meeting, the Cavaliers defeated the Raptors 4-1 and officially advanced to the finals to compete with the Kings for the championship.
The league's schedule is released, and the first finals will start on June 2nd, and there are nearly six days left to prepare.
The king arranged training as usual.
Focus on practicing how to cut the connection between LeBron and other Cavaliers players, disrupt the Cavaliers' tactical running, and let LeBron take the ball and attack more, or let Irving take the ball and attack. Anyway, don't let the Cavaliers make a smooth attack, but hold it down hard.
Espn's predictions were launched simultaneously. Among the 21 experts, 16 supported the King's win, but believed that Curry might not be able to get the MVP, because Tyron Lue had already suggested that he would focus on Curry in the finals, trying to curb the King's strongest engine.
Major casinos in Las Vegas have opened one after another, and they are unanimously looking at the Cavaliers. It is calculated that the probability of the Cavaliers winning the championship is only 3%.
On June 1st, there is only one day left before the finals.
Various attention and expectations reached their peak.
Su Yang released a video of Curry being fouled as planned, and then Buy the navy slowly rushed to the hot search, which sparked heated discussion.
It is a strategy to take early measures to deal with the Cavaliers' double-team Curry.
Anyway, the Knights cannot be allowed to succeed this time.
As for Tyron Lue, you will become famous in five years.
Chapter completed!