0037 The alliance has no underdogs
The first battle won the final victory, the Trail Blazers celebrated wildly, and Roy and others surrounded Ade.
Su Yang put down his raised hands, slowly calmed down his inner excitement, and applauded the team members.
In his opinion, if you can win the game, Ade must remember his first merit, because Ade made 13 of 20 shots in total, plus 5 free throws, and scored a career high of 31 points. He scored consecutively in the first quarter against Ginobili, and finally completed the final kill.
Roy's performance is also worthy of praise. He made 6 of 11 shots and sent 8 assists. With his personal breakthrough ability, he attracted the Spurs to focus on defense, and gave a lot of room for the rest of the Trail Blazers. He did not have the self-assertion of the boss and snatched the ball.
Jack and Webster scored a total of 28 points, and Otlow and Blake also withstood the situation in the substitute stage. Other players also performed their own duties, and the team worked in various ways. The temperament was like a championship team that had been running-in for a long time, not a youth army.
While the players celebrated, Popovich walked to the middle of the technical stand and shook hands with McMillan.
Popovich asked curiously: "Nate, where did you learn the last tactics? Tell me quickly..."
McMillan shrugged with a smile: "That was arranged by my assistant coach Su Yang. Are you interested in knowing him?"
"Of course, it's that Asian boy?" Popovich turned his head and looked at Su Yang.
McMilan nodded and shouted and waved to Su Yang. Su Yang saw it and walked over immediately.
"Hey, handsome guy, can you tell me about your last tactic?" Popovich smiled.
"I learned from a high school basketball team. I originally used the bottom line ball tactics, but I made temporary adjustments just now..."
Su Yang recalled briefly that tactic was spread when Doug Rivers coached the Celtics, and Doug Rivers knew that tactic because he went to the high school where Rivers Jr. to watch the game and steal the high school basketball coach.
The tactic itself is not difficult, it is to use peripheral shooting to attract defensive attention. The most powerful thing is counterintuition. After the player cuts out from the basket, there is too much space and opportunity to catch the ball, but the ending point is at the basket.
Although Rivers is often jokingly called Pig Head without tactics by fans, after he brought that tactic to the NBA, many coaches imitated and modified other versions, which is one of the reasons why Rivers is particularly popular in the league.
"So that's it. Next time we go to Portland, I'll ask you for a drink..." Popovich nodded with satisfaction and looked at McMillan again. "I think you should agree, right? We'll send Monty to you, don't forget."
"Kang Muang!" McMillan laughed, and everyone laughed, and the atmosphere became particularly interesting.
Su Yang also laughed, but he always felt that Popovich said that seemed to have a different meaning.
But no matter what the deep meaning was, he didn't think much about it. He sent Bobo and some people away, and then returned to the sidelines to interact with the players.
In a blink of an eye, the players celebrated, and the large army returned to the locker room first, and Ade stayed for an interview.
Instead of returning with the main force, Su Yang stayed on the sidelines and waited for Ade, ready to praise him a few words.
Since ESPN canceled the Trail Blazers' national live broadcast, the person in charge of interviewing Ade was a small TV reporter. The reporter was originally preparing to interview the defending champion Spurs, because the strength gap between the two teams was too large, the Spurs were more likely to win.
But the Trail Blazers won, making the originally prepared problems useless, so the reporter could only prepare a few questions in a hurry.
"First of all, let's talk about the 15-2 climax of the first quarter. How did you do it?"
"Coach Su Yang encouraged us not to be afraid of mistakes and ironwork. He also encouraged us to try various possibilities bravely. He said that through a large number of singles, we should weaken the Spurs' defensive linkage ability, thereby narrowing the gap between us and the Spurs..."
"OK, let's talk about your continuous personal scores, what happened at that time?"
"That was also Coach Su Yang's suggestion, but I only realized that it was his suggestion during the break. Jack asked me to play more balls at that time. Coach Su Yang thought I had an absolute advantage against Robert Horry and should take more moves."
"I understand, then why did you ask for three consecutive pauses at the last moment and deliberately confuse your opponent?"
"Uh... that was also Coach Su Yang's decision. According to him, our first two tactical arrangements were seen through by the Spurs. He thought we could not take risks and had to make the third arrangement. No matter what, we succeeded."
After Ade finished the interview, he walked to the sidelines and saw Su Yang waiting. He happily pulled him to take a photo to take a new high.
After the reporter helped take photos, the two returned to the locker room together and talked casually about how to defend Duncan.
The moment Ade walked into the locker room, he was poured with mineral water by Otero and others. Su Yang walked behind and wanted to hide, but was also found by McRoberts.
McMillan then summoned the entire team to speak, first praising Ade and other players, and then praising Su Yang's excellent suggestions.
Su Yang said that winning is the credit of the whole team, especially Monty reminded him to return to defense quickly, otherwise many of the Spurs' offenses can be easily successful, and there will be no final winning moment. It is also important for assistant coach Bill to help call the timeout in time.
The whole team celebrated and prepared to leave the ATT center. Su Yang went straight to the parking lot.
He didn't need to attend the locker room interview, and he was not qualified for the post-match press conference, so he simply went to wait first.
When he boarded the bus, he habitually took out his mobile phone, but there were few news updates, and the 3G era had not arrived yet.
"This is too boring, you have to find some fun..." Su Yang thought that the next few days will be all away trips. If he spends time studying tactics every day, he will have to vomit sooner or later, either learn from players to find women or do something else.
"Buy a PS3 to play, BioShock should be released, there are many game masterpieces this year..."
Su Yang made up his mind and turned on the mobile phone broadcast, cut to the ESPN Sports Channel, and listened to chat programs casually.
[Simon, I heard that the game between Portland and San Antonio was very exciting. Portland called three consecutive timeouts to arrange the final kill tactics, and it was not McMillan who arranged the tactics, but his assistant coach Su Yang. That was crazy.]
[Su Yang? I seem to remember that guy. Our TV station canceled the Trail Blazers' national live broadcast before. He tweeted that I would regret the performance of the Trail Blazers in the new season. So, he did it tonight?]
[It should be counted. I heard that Sheng'an East-West Local TV Station has reached a record high in viewership.]
[So we do underestimate Portland? But we have to look at the subsequent games. Many teams have performed very well at the beginning of the new season, but as the season deepens, they will gradually expose the problem. Moreover, in this league, there is no absolute strength gap, and on-the-spot performance may determine many things. The Spurs may just be a bit careless tonight.]
Listening to the radio chat, Su Yang held his mouth slightly, and knew that many teams were indeed suddenly running at the start of the game, even occupying the top of the league. However, because of the lengthening season, they were gradually caught up by other teams and finally fell to the end of the league.
Therefore, many people think that the Trail Blazers beat the Spurs in this game, but they are just lucky.
The next step for the Trail Blazers is to avoid similar problems. If they want to avoid similar problems, they must also build tactical qualities. It is impossible to win every night with their super-god status, and they must also learn to deal with adversity and dilemma.
As Su Yang thought about it, the rest of the team arrived and the whole team set off for the airport to prepare for a away game against the Hornets.
On the plane, the coaching staff held a meeting to warm up first. The first question was how to limit Chris Paul.
Chapter completed!