On the 19th, the Lakers team flew to Detroit to challenge the Pistons away, and the starting lineup has not been confirmed for a long time.

The main reason is that the starting point guard is difficult to determine. Su Yang is confused about Fisher's defense and wants to take Jeremy Lin as the starting lineup to relieve Kobe's defensive pressure, but he is worried that the pace of promoting Jeremy Lin is too fast, which will easily lead to unnecessary thoughts from the players.

Several assistants learned about his entanglement and said that no matter how they make a decision, they would definitely support them.

After much thought, he finally decided to let Fisher continue to start, worried about convinced and even more worried about winning or losing the game.

The game started at 7 p.m., and Pistons head coach Frank boldly arranged for rookie player Brandon Knight to start.

Seeing Brandon Knight standing on the court to participate in the jump ball, Snyder smiled and said, "It seems that someone is much more confident than you..."

Su Yang knew it was a joke, but still explained: "Los Angeles is different from Detroit. We have received too much media attention and any behavior will be amplified. The key is that Lin has never trained with the starter, especially with the two big men, who have not had that high understanding. When directly mentioning the starting position, it may not be able to get such good results, which is more likely to lead to losing..."

In Su Yang's opinion, if Jeremy Lin wants to perform in a crazy way, he must have full pick-and-roll cooperation from the center or forward. However, unlike Chandler, Bynum is not as effective as pick-and-roll cooperation, and Gasol does not have that many empty cuts, so the effect is not good.

While talking, the Pistons won the jump ball and launched an attack.

The floppy tactical formation started with Rodney Starkey, and took advantage of the cover to transfer widely, and the left wing successfully received the ball.

The Lakers will tighten the inside line according to Su Yang's arrangement. Starki got a lot of operating space on the outside. Suddenly, he was confident and beat Kobe alone. He couldn't shake it no matter how hard he shook it. Finally, he stopped suddenly and turned around and forced himself to jump backwards, and shot with a bang.

The Lakers grabbed rebounds and counterattacked, and according to Su Yang's arrangement, he gave priority to attacking the inside. Gasol assisted Bynum to score easily dunk.

There is no way, the power forward is Jason Mark Hill, who is a short and strong player, and has gained a foothold in the NBA with his muscles. However, when facing Gasol's opponent who is tall and ball maker, he is hard to exert his brute force and is extremely restrained.

The Pistons' other inside line, center Greg Monroe, is famous for his ability to pass the ball. Unfortunately, his height and weight are at a disadvantage compared to Bynum, and his speed is not much faster than Bynum. His ability to fight is much worse, and it is difficult to withstand a strong attack at low posts.

Soon, the Lakers established a leading advantage with the inside double towers, maintained around six or seven points, and firmly controlled the situation.

In the last minute of the first quarter, Su Yang arranged for Goodlock to appear and replace Fisher according to his previous rotation strategy.

The Pistons also replaced Jason Mark Hill with Jonas Jereko, and the two teams gradually entered the substitute stage.

But the Pistons' main player Stucky Starkey made the stage early, and paired with the drawling shooter Ben Gordon, he tied the score with one attack.

Goodlock couldn't defend himself at all, and he suffered from his height and speed, and the inside line did not have the frame protection like Bynum to help delay.

What's worse is that because Goodlock is not good at pick-and-roll, Su Yang observed for a moment and asked McGrady to control the ball on the spot, but Prince and Jerebko took turns to defend, and sometimes even double-teamed together. McGrady was difficult to break through, and the Lakers were still constipated in offense.

Su Yang asked McRoberts to support him at a high position, but the Lakers ran out of open positions on the offensive end, but their three-point shooting percentage was extremely low.

After more than four minutes, the Lakers scored two points due to a mistake and a foul due to a blacksmith.

Su Yang could only adjust the rotation and let Kobe and Gasol play in advance, and finally broke the scoring drought and made the offense and defense return to normal.

After the half-time game, the Lakers were behind 41 to 45.

Interview with tv5 reporters, talking about why Jeremy Lin was not given even one second of playing time, and said bluntly: "Because Steve Blake is injured, we are trying different rotation strategies, and we will see it in the second half..."

The halftime break ends and the game continues.

Bynum and Gasol dominate the inside line, and Kobe also activated firepower support on the offensive end. In addition, the whole team was very hard to defend. The Lakers played an 11-0 attack wave, and then kept the situation and led by 7 points to enter the substitute stage.

Su Yang arranged for Jeremy Lin to appear on the stage at the same time, and specially patted his shoulder to remind him: "Let go and fight, don't suppress yourself."

Shuhao nodded nervously and excitedly. After appearing, he first cooperated with McRoberts in a pick-and-roll, and threw Knight away, quickly hit the right side of the free throw line. Facing Big Ben Wallace, who was standing motionless in the paint area, he decisively jumped out to shoot.

The basketball crashed into the basket and rebounded and was caught.

The Pistons didn't take it seriously, but turned around and Jeremy Lin scored easily in the same way.

"Lin's first step is very fast. He is also very strong. He uses the pick-and-roll to launch a breakthrough, which is very lethal..." Assistant Snyder sighed, "With this move alone, he is worth a second round pick. Fortunately, you find his ability so that he will not be buried."

Su Yang smiled and replied, "You have a very accurate summary, but no one has noticed his weakness yet."

On the Pistons, head coach Lawrence Frank was unhappy with Jeremy Lin's continuous scoring and instructed him to strengthen his defense.

The Pistons player took the order and came back from the attack. Seeing that Jeremy Lin used the early cover to attack, he hurriedly surrounded him.

Brandon Knight tried hard to squeeze through the cover to chase, and Jerebko blocked the basket in advance, while Jerebko rushed to the top of the free throw coil and did not dare to take action. He stopped in some mistakes and tried to find someone. In the blink of an eye, he fell into the huge encirclement of the Pistons.

Fortunately, the Pistons' defensive continuity was deviated and the siege quickly dispersed. Jeremy Lin saw the opportunity and quickly turned around and leaned back.

Basketball is hollow to the net, but the situation is in danger. If it is a team that has better defense, it will probably make mistakes.

"In this situation just now, Lin's best choice was to stop and jump and throw, but his throwing skills were very low." Assistant Snyder said, "We have to find a shooting trainer to help him. Such a quick first step should not be wasted."

Su Yang nodded: "He has his own private shooting trainer, but he shouldn't have targeted training yet. If not enough, we can dig Phil Handy from the Thunder. The day before yesterday he told me that the Russian City side tightened all kinds of expenses, you know..."

The two didn't care much about the game and chatted in a mess. The main reason was that Jeremy Lin played well with the substitute lineup.

While talking, the Lakers grabbed the rebound and launched a fast break. Jeremy Lin passed the free throw line to McGrady, attracting the Pistons to double-team, while McGrady tacitly hit the back and passed back. Then Jeremy Lin took the ball and jumped with the situation, carrying the defense and forced the basket.

The referee blew the whistle and blew the defensive foul at the same time, giving him a free throw opportunity. The Lakers will get up and applaud Jeremy Lin.

The substitute matchup between the two teams ended in a blink of an eye, with the Lakers leading by up to 18 points, and Su Yang boldly allowed Lin to stay on the court.

Fisher was not at all dissatisfied. Main Lin's wonderful performance was obvious to all. It was a routine operation to continue to beat the hot touch.

After the whole game, the Lakers beat the Pistons 105-88.

Jeremy Lin scored 18 points and 8 assists. Although he made 3 mistakes, he was also considered an excellent performance for the substitute.

However, Bynum made 14 of 18 shots and scored 36 points with free throws, which attracted media reports, advocating that Bynum would truly become the third giant of the Lakers, resulting in almost no English media paying attention to Jeremy Lin's outstanding performance except for the Chinese media.

Su Yang publicly praised and played well in the locker room, encouraged him to continue, and privately comforted Goodlock not to be discouraged.

The whole team flew to Washington overnight to challenge the Wizards back to back.

According to the load management plan formulated at the beginning of the season, in order to ensure health, Su Yang asked Kobe and other main players to play less.

If the extra time is temporarily redistributed.

Considering that the Wizards are a double-gun lineup in the backcourt, starting shooting guard Jordan Crawford is only 193 cm tall, with monotonous offensive methods and average defensive ability. Su Yang arranged the extra time for the shooting guard position to Goodlock and Barnes.

At the point guard position, Su Yang asked Fisher to play fake starters and replaced Jeremy Lin as the main controller in five minutes.

In that way, Jeremy Lin, as the undrafted draft pick, almost equaled the No. 1 pick Wall, who had another step to break through and dunk.

After the game, the Lakers defeated the Wizards 111-104, and Jeremy Lin scored 23 points, 10 assists and 4 rebounds.

In contrast, John Wall has 29 points, 6 assists and 1 rebound, which can be said to be at a disadvantage in the matchup.

In that comparison, the media found the highlights, and praised Jeremy Lin for playing well, lamented that he shouldn't have lost the election at the beginning, mocked the Knicks for losing a powerful player almost in vain, praised Su Yang for his good vision, and said that he could always believe the player Su Yang was interested in.

Kupchek called Su Yang to congratulate him and specifically emphasized that if there are still players he likes, he will definitely cooperate with him with all his strength.

Those reports and Kupchek promised that Su Yang was very happy, but what he was even happier was that Goodlock also scored 7 of 12 shots against the Wizards and scored 20 points in the game. It was very effective to bully the weak team with Jeremy Lin.

Anyway, this wave is a win-win situation.
Chapter completed!