0757 I love this game
After three days off, on October 5, the Kings faced the visiting Lakers at home, and Su Yang officially resumed coaching.
During the appearance ceremony, the announcer made a loud noise, and the fans of the audience cheered and greeted each other. Su Yang felt his heart surging and smiled instinctively to respond, confirming that he was still full of motivation for winning the championship, but not to surpass Zen Master or Auerbach.
I just like to play games, I like to work hard to win the championship with a group of people, want to win, and feel the cheers of the audience.
It's like Westbrook said: I'm just playing basketball.
Like Leonard said: I am not playing games for the fans, nor for teammates and data, but for winning.
Like what Jordan said:i love this game!
The game followed closely, and the Lakers sent Westbrook, George Bagley's combination. His head coach Walton was standing on the sidelines and frequently directed how to play, but Westbrook was completely unlucky Walton, and he was quickly shot, looking for pick-and-roll and rushing directly.
What is embarrassing is that Westbrook only cares about the style of playing, but it plays better than Walton's tactical running position. Especially after Westbrook got out, the Lakers' substitute point guard led the team to play according to Walton's command, and the backward quickly changed from 7 points to 16 points.
Su Yang didn't make any special arrangements, mainly to observe Bridges' NBA adaptation, to observe whether Tatum's ball holding level has improved, and to see if Duncan Robinson can start with Curry, after all, the starter is well defended.
When they came back to their senses, the Kings had already led by 22 points. Fortunately, it didn't matter to the preseason, and neither side was too touched.
The only embarrassing thing is that Tatum complained to the referee several times that he did not call a foul. Su Yang Ji was ready to point it out.
Back to the locker room after halftime.
Su Yang publicly called Tatum, "When you take the ball and attack, don't think about looking for fouls, especially after you fail, don't spread your hands and stinking your face at the referee. Such complaints will not bring benefits, and will even affect the team's retreat. You have to learn from your idol Kobe and play with the mentality of winning without the help of the referee. When you see you complain in the future, I will replace you."
Direct public criticism.
As soon as he finished speaking, the atmosphere in the locker room suddenly became a little nervous, and Curry and others looked a little surprised.
Why did the head coach suddenly become so strict when he returned from vacation? He would definitely talk about similar situations in the past and talk about them carefully.
Tatum was even more confused on the spot, sitting in a hurry, and standing in a hurry, and finally bowed his head and dared not look directly at Su Yang's gaze.
"Do you think I'm going to talk about a small thing? Do you think it's unnecessary? Are you dissatisfied?"
Tatum dared not say anything, and shook his head repeatedly.
Su Yang continued: "I have such strict requirements, of course because I hope you can reach Kobe's level. You will become the boss of the team one day. Every time you spread your hands and face and complain about the punishment, it will only dampen the morale of your teammates.
Your idol Kobe was fouled by Laga Bell, and he also smiled. You must gradually develop such an invincible mentality, otherwise when you are in trouble, you will easily find reasons to escape. What is obviously a foul but not hype...
Or your teammate Stephen Curry rarely gets fouls, but have you seen him complain frequently?”
Tatum nodded quickly, "I understand, I understand, I will actively change my mindset and learn from them."
Curry and others applauded and made the atmosphere. The whole team turned back to the stadium, and the third quarter started.
Tatum turned on Westbrook's rushing mode, without complaining about the referee's call at all, leading the team scored 12 points in a row, including a one-on-one match between George and 21, completely breaking the Lakers, while Su Yang called a timeout and replaced him, enjoying the cheers of the audience.
In the end, the Kings beat the Lakers 128-101, and Duncan Robinson hit 6 three-pointers again, performing stably.
A brief review after the game.
Assistant coach Mike Brown said excitedly: "Dunro is doing the craziest training in the offseason. I can see him every time I come to the training base. And Phil Handy told me that Dunro uses the beat dawkins training every day, and uses 10 wins as the standard. Perhaps it is because your three-pointer is better than Curry at the same time, which is extremely motivated."
Su Yang smiled and nodded.
A random praise is so effective.
The so-called beat dawkins training is to set yourself an air opponent, johnny dawkins. He scores 1 point for each shot, and shot a blackshot. Dawkins scores three-pointers, who scores 21 points first to win.
As long as you train seriously, you will be extremely stressful.
It is of great help to shoot stability and continuity, because if you want to win, you will make at least 21 of 28 shots, which means that the shooting percentage needs to reach more than 75%, which looks average. After all, many people train more than 80%, but it is particularly challenging to have a mentality.
Deng Luo can persist in winning 10 times a day, which is super ruthless!
Jenkins added: "He also referred to the training advice you wrote to Giannis. Every time you shoot, you change the position and increase the difficulty, and run it in a running way, rather than taking the ball in place, saying that it is to adapt to the team's tactical system better and faster..."
"Okay, I remember..."
Su Yang made up his mind and decided to try to start with Dunro with Curry in the future, with Antetokounmpo and McGee sweeping and wandering to support the overall defensive system. He may be easily beaten when encountering an impact guard like Westbrook, but the substitute lineup has a super defense.
Just imagine Brogden point guard, Bridges point guard, Covington, Sabonis, and Zhou Qi, who is standing and guarding the frame, will definitely beat many lineups in the league, and it will be an important way to win the new season, which can be said to kill two birds with one stone.
When Cousins returns and McGee enters the substitute lineup, the defensive pressure and fast break will be stronger, and it is a super weapon.
The next afternoon, the Kings flew to Oakland and played away against the Golden State Warriors, who had almost never changed their teams during the offseason.
Su Yang sent Curry and Deng Luo to start the backcourt.
In just half a quarter, Dunro directly let Clay beat him, but Clay also put in a lot of energy to defend Dunro.
The two teams tied at the end of the midfield. Su Yang started the main attack mode in the inside in the third quarter, allowing Antetokounmpo and Sabonis to play at the same time, one standing at a high position and the other standing at a low position, which made Green and Looney at a loss, making the Warriors scream and gradually lead.
In the fourth quarter, the training time was kept, and Su Yang arranged for Zhou Qi to fight more. He was mainly unsure of how Cousins performed after his return. Zhou Qi might need to play for a long time. Taking advantage of the light task now, he would give him more time. Anyway, he had two years of special training and was already a little strong.
Zhou Qi performed well, obviously prepared well, and caught Bangbang twice, making Jordan Bell hug her head.
The Kings finally defeated the Warriors 112-10, achieving three consecutive preseason wins, and Dunro scored another 5 three-pointers.
After three days of rest, the Kings faced the Haifa team in the Israeli League at home, directly allowing Zhou Qi to start. Zhou Qi scored 22 points, 10 rebounds and 7 blocks, Deng Luo made 6 three-pointers, and Nunn also scored 18 points and 10 assists, including 4 dunks.
The Kings followed up with the Jazz and the Trail Blazers, ending the preseason with a record of 6 wins, and announced strongly.
But espn reporter Schmitz released the league's team's combat power rankings in the new season, only ranking fifth in the Kings.
Su Yang reposted the espn tweet and wrote: "This ranking will not have a negative impact on us. I am happy to slap your predictions in the face, help the players and have fun for the fans. We will soon show the real victory assassin."
After posting Twitter, Su Yang rushed to the video center and took the assistant coaches to study the video of the Spurs' preseason game.
The main first match of the new season starts on the 16th, and the Kings' opponent is the Spurs, so it is necessary to make a good start.
Chapter completed!