After a quick break of less than 48 hours, the Kings and the Spurs started their fourth Western Conference semi-finals at the Att Center.

Parker continued to miss due to an ankle injury, and it was Dejunta Murray who served as the starting point guard. As a rookie, he was visible to the naked eye and frequently overreacted on the defensive end. Curry skillfully used it to cut three consecutive empty runs.

In that situation, Murray was stunned.

You should know that in the first game against the Kings, David Lee missed a defense, and Popovich called a timeout for criticism in 80 seconds.

But he thought too much.

Popovich did not ask for a pause to blame him, but instead smiled and encouraged him, and even smiled at Ginobili's mistakes.

Only when Leonard made a pass mistake due to double-teaming, Popovich gave a harsh reminder, which looked very fierce.

Perhaps because Leonard couldn't open the situation, the Spurs' offense would be unable to open, which would lead to defensive chaos.

After the first quarter, the Kings led 34 to 22, Curry and George scored a total of 8 assists, real team basketball.

The Spurs did not give up when they were behind 12 points.

Popovich once again sent out a five-square lineup, but the Kings' five-square lineup was even stronger, and all the data were completely exaggerated again.

Su Yang did not pretend to be a slightest. He had seen too many examples of Dayou leading the way and finally being turned over. He was unwilling to take such risks, and he was even more unwilling to be such a case in person. It would damage his name as a god-level coach and there was no need to be as famous as Rivers.

After halftime, the Kings led by 23 points.

During the break, major media began to review Popovich's coaching career, and it was a bit like Popovich's last coaching game. The Spurs were so anxious that they released news to clarify: "Popovich has not yet decided whether he will retire..."

There was no ups and downs in the third quarter.

Although Leonard made 5 of 7 shots in a single quarter and scored 11 points in 0 free throws, fully demonstrating the art of central shooting, it was only the same as LaVine's 11 points in a single quarter, causing the Kings to further expand their lead and enter the fourth quarter with a 29-point advantage, extinguishing hope.

Popovich replaced the third lineup early, what are Brinn? Forbes, Davis Bellstein, and Dejunta Murray, who had been overly nervous before, suddenly became calm and composed, and continued to direct the whole team to fight, which was vaguely a bit of a bossy style.

During the game, Mike Brown asked casually: "Do you think this Murray will be the future of the Spurs?"

Su Yang replied: "Defense is at the same level as the middle and upper level, offense is at the same level as the middle and lower level. The Spurs need to thank me for their future. Leonard is not injured. They can slowly form a team around them. At least they will be strong teams in the Western Conference before the contract ends."

"Thank u?"

Mike Brown was stunned when he heard this, and Su Yang was too lazy to explain. The game was over soon and the Kings won 125 to 104.

The team scored seven players in double digits, Curry scored the highest 30 points, and had 12 assists and 5 rebounds, which made the performance full.

Su Yang got up and walked to the technical station, shook hands with Popovich, and the two whispered for ten seconds. The photographer on the sidelines took photos, while many fans and commentators who watched through live broadcasts posted comments to praise him, which was the moment when the times were relayed.

After the game, reporters from all walks of life asked what Popovich said. Su Yang smiled and said, "He said the future is mine, but he still wants to give it a try to see if it can cause me some trouble. I like his persistent personality..."

The reporter asked the Rockets and the Warriors who they want to fight.

Su Yang pretended to think for two seconds and said seriously: "I personally want to play the Warriors, because Oakland is very close to Sacramento. We don't have to set out overnight, don't have to worry about not being used to food, let alone how to avoid Harden's foul..."

The interview content was compiled into a news release, which quickly sparked heated discussion.

Su Yang didn't care about it, and led the team to fly back to Sa City overnight. He woke up at noon the next day and took out his cell phone to check it out.

Not many fans are happy to discuss his bad jokes such as "close to home and delicious food".

Fan discussions mainly focus on topics related to Harden's fouls. Some believe that Harden has made many offenses. Although he has already broken through the defender and the difficulty of scoring is very low, he still actively creates physical contact and uses fouls to kill, forcing his opponent to lower his defense.

Some people also believe that since it is a rule, it is easy to worry about too many fouls, so they can defend in a different way.

Some people also say that a large number of foul calls are to weaken the defense, which is part of the league driving the rhythm of the game. They want to turn the game into a performance nature, break various previous records more, create more topics, and drive more attention and cleaning up.

Everyone has their own opinions, and Su Yang didn't care.

Someone tweeted that many stars in the league today were unable to become famous in the 1990s when they had strong defense, which made him suddenly think of the struggle performance of Harden, Lillard, Doncic, Trae Young and other players after the defensive standards were improved...

Some fans also believe that Rivers Jr. plays at least at All-Star level in 1980s and 1990s.

Anyway, there are a bunch of basketball evolution theories.

Those fans believed that in the 1980s and 1990s, the so-called tough defense was just a lot of malicious fouls, mainly because they did not understand the principle of illegal defense, and even believed that the offense in the 1980s and 1990s was weak, and they did not understand how strict the punishment for cover and wrist-turning were at that time.

In the evening, Su Yang and the Kings watched the Rockets and Warriors' matches together, and the result was tied 2-2.

But the whole team unanimously agreed that the Rockets' chances of advancing were higher, because the referee blew the whistle, and the Warriors center Pachuria narrowly won, because of the defense of Harden's three-pointer, and failed to make a foot pad. Instead, Harden's shot jumped and injured his knee, making it suspicious to play.

The next day, the coaching staff and scouting department met at the training base.

"From the past four games, the Rockets' unlimited defense replacement strategy has made the Warriors very uncomfortable. We started practicing the corresponding cracked short pick-and-roll strategies from the All-Stars. The next main task is to study how to better target Harden..."

Su Yang directly raised the core issues of the meeting, because as long as Harden averages score below 25, it will be easy to play. As of now, Harden has averaged 10.8 free throws per game, and his counterparts are averaging 3.7 fouls per game.

In short, Harden has a strong lethality in committing fouls.

"Harden's ability to make three-pointers quickly is average. Considering that he likes pick-and-roll very much, when facing pick-and-roll, it is best to bypass the screen and interception to prevent him from breaking through and tearing the defensive formation and cut off his possibility of cooperating with the pick-and-roll man..."

As the chief assistant coach of defense who is good at, Mike Brown first gave him his advice, and Su Yang nodded in agreement.

"We need to remind players to resist the temptation, especially when Harden makes an action that exposes the basketball. He is not sure not to try to cut the ball, because Harden's upper limbs and core strength are very terrifying, and it is easy to reverse pull to cause a real foul..."

Assistant coach Di Brown also gave suggestions, and Su Yang agreed with her smile that Harden's basketball is really not that easy to cut.

"In addition to layups and three-pointers, Harden's other main sports game scoring method is to stop and throw, which is not easy to defend. We cannot risk arranging too much assisted defense, so as to miss other Rockets shooters. Cousins ​​must improve defensive mobility..."

Assistant coach David West then gave a suggestion, and Su Yang also nodded in agreement. Harden's throwing was indeed OK.

Everyone spoke one after another.

Su Yang finally tapped the keyboard, and the conference screenshots were displayed on the large screen of the conference, as well as some encodings.

“We have had many fights with the Rockets led by Harden in the past few seasons, and we have gained a lot of experience…

Last night I had a sudden idea and planned to find answers from other angles. So I used the recently popular big data analysis. I first compiled the Rockets' victory games into 1, the Rockets' defeat games into -1, and picked the total scores of each game in the past four seasons. I also converted Harden's score, assists, rebounds and other data into the proportion of his data occupying the Rockets' team's data. Then I imported it for calculation, then normalized it, and used machine learning algorithms to classify various data, mainly using the kmeans algorithm. The final result is that it is easier to win by cutting off Harden's pass.

And this result is very close to the cutting of Harden and the pick-and-roll man mentioned by Mike Brown just now!”

After the words came, the conference room was silent for a while, and then there were warm and excited applause, and a few cheers.

"I didn't expect that you could still understand code!"

"Su, you're so awesome! Will we scouts and video analysts lay off employees? Our jobs have been replaced!"

"I have a question, where is Chris Paul? The Rockets also have an All-Star player Chris Paul."
Chapter completed!