On the 31st, the Kings flew to Houston and challenged the Rockets away. Su Yang began to transform and improve the team at the same time.

In three days, the improvement ideas and methods have been formed. We are ready to mobilize things silently, rather than making a big fan into a mobilization mode to avoid putting too much pressure on the team members, and by the way, we give the team members a misalignment hint of "I value you very much".

In the afternoon before the game training, Su Yang called Wazquez to the sidelines, "In the last four games, you have been taken special care on the offensive end. The opponent intends to let you take three-pointers, and your three-point shooting percentage is relatively low. What do you think is the reason?"

Vazquez looked a little nervous: "My three-point shooting percentage has been low and I am practicing hard..."

Su Yang nodded while listening. Wazquez is a very pure traditional organizational defender. Like Lowry and Conley, he is a Grizzlies draft. His three-pointers were not very good in the first few seasons, but he can do it, or he can shoot better under certain conditions.

Morant is probably going to follow the old path of his predecessors, with three-pointers deviating at the beginning and slowly making a relatively high hit rate.

As for Vazquez in front of you, you can also shoot a relatively high three-point shooting percentage, but Vazquez is not a player like Ray Allen or Redick who stops and catches the ball. He needs more fixed points to get out his phone, in other words, more tactical inclination.

Before deciding to compete for the championship, Su Yang did not think of tilting the tactics towards Vazquez, mainly treating Vazquez as a pure point guard. After all, the king of assists of 12-13 was as high as 704 times, 26 more times than Paul, but his scoring methods were relatively lacking.

"I'm very happy that you take the initiative to practice shooting three points. I also decided to design more tactical choices around you. Starting from tonight's game, some series of tactics will have to take three points. You must be bold and don't be afraid of hitting iron..."

It is difficult to make a decision to make a tilt choice, but that is the key to improving the Kings' ceiling. Otherwise, it will be difficult to defeat strong teams such as the Spurs in the playoffs, but running-in is also troublesome, because the tactical running is more complicated. The previous starting lineup's main tactics revolve around Cousins ​​Millsap, and then around Antetokounmpo's empty cut and Thorton cover, with more three-pointers from Wazquez, which doubled the complexity.

Su Yang is also ready to sacrifice his record in the short term. That is the pain before everything becomes wonderful and must be experienced.

"Okay, I will definitely work hard!" Vazquez nodded confidently and promised, got up and returned to the field, hitting two or three points.

Su Yang also walked into the court and arranged some tactics that allowed Vazquez to make more and easy three-pointers according to the plan.

At 8 o'clock in the blink of an eye, the game officially started.

Perhaps it was because of the lack of breakthroughs and shooting of the point guards before, which led to the Kings' experience of double-teaming Harden, and McHale arranged for Jeremy Lin to serve as the starting point guard, but Jeremy Lin's first attack was when he received Harden's pass and scored a three-pointer with 2 seconds left in the offensive time.

The basketball slammed and the iron was shattered. Su Yang laughed at the spot, thinking that he had told Harden not to control the ball for 20 seconds before giving it to his teammates, but he didn't listen.

The Kings of Changes attacked, and Sauton ran without the ball. While Harden was not focused, he stopped to catch the ball and made a three-pointer.

After a few minutes of the game, the Kings took a six-point lead. McHale waved his hand and the Rockets began to release Vazquez.

The Kings' pre-match training tactics were activated, but it may be too nervous, and Vazquez made two consecutive shots.

The Rockets took the opportunity to catch up with only two points. Su Yang did not urge him, and clapped his hands on the sidelines and shouted to encourage Vazquez. After playing a few more rounds, Vazquez finally found his form and made two consecutive three-pointers, which scared the Rockets so much that they quickly returned to their normal defensive mode.

After the first quarter, the Kings led by 5 points.

The Rockets' problem is still the same. Howard has difficulty getting the ball. He has played for 9 minutes and only has one shot, and he scored zero points.

Entering the second quarter, Rockets head coach Mike Hale made a desperate move and arranged for Howard, Jeremy Lin and Parsons to lead the team together.

In that lineup, Howard could get the ball and bully Gobert in a low position. Seeing this, Su Yang took advantage of the free throw to encourage Gobert to play a murderer, don’t be afraid of fouls, don’t be afraid of confrontation, as long as you don’t commit malicious fouls, anything else is fine.

Gobert made changes immediately. Although he still couldn't defend Howard, he grabbed a lot of rebounds, even grabbed three frontcourt rebounds, and then carried Howard to dunk, which directly ignited the morale of the whole team. The Kings quickly launched a 7-0 offensive.

However, Howard, Jeremy Lin and Parsons cooperated extremely smoothly. Gobert, Thomas Jr. and Guy played all the best, and they could only compete evenly. At the end of the half-time game, the Kings only established a 6-point lead, and the change did not come immediately.

After halftime, Su Yang returned to the locker room, briefly analyzed and summarized it, and then chatted with everyone about the New Year's wishes. Cousins ​​said he wanted to be an All-Star. Guy bluntly said he wanted a super big contract, and then made Thomas and others clamor for a super big contract.

Finally, it was Su Yang's turn to think for a moment, and use his speech skills to 'make everyone feel like they are looking at him', and glanced at Antetokounmpo, then glanced at Cousins, and then looked at Thomas Jordan, "My New Year's wish is to get a Michael Jordan!"

I just didn't understand the applause!

Antetokounmpo, Cousins, and Thomas, their eyes glowed, and they all felt that Su Yang was hinting that he wanted to work hard.

That was really a surprise.

You should know that Su Yang is a coach with four consecutive championships, and he is extremely accurate in terms of people. Since that's what he said, he must have Jordan's potential.

Su Yang dad looked at the expressions of the three of them, thinking that Riley's method of motivating Wade in 2006 was really useful, Cousins' personality was probably average in the long term. Everyone, Thomas and Antetokounmpo will definitely be very encouraged and work harder.

The third quarter started, perhaps because of Su Yang's New Year wish in the midfield, Cousins ​​directly pulled up both ends of offense and defense, with various high-quality covers, and various early communication and defense. Antetokounmpo frantically swept and assisted defense, and always ranked first in the fast attack.

Thomas Jr. did not play for the time being, but turned into the King's version of "Thackera", and slowly cheered everyone on the bench.

The Rockets were confused. I don't know why they came back from the break at halftime. The Kings were crazy like they were taking stimulants. The offense was completely unstoppable and they were also very uncomfortable by the defense. Howard suffered two fouls early and could only rely on Harden to score.

Harden is at the MVP level, no longer blames all kinds of people alone, and continues to force Thoton to commit fouls, break through and creates fouls, and scores 16 points in person, forcibly helping the Rockets to bite the score. However, in the fourth quarter of the game, Su Yang should let Vazquez defend Harden, and force Harden, who has not yet achieved great success in his personal foul, join forces with the inside to block Harden's passing route, allowing Harden to make 4 of 12 shots.

In addition to his super organizational ability, Vazquez can also interfere with Harden's heavy shooting guard with his height of 198 and 98 kilograms. He perfectly takes advantage of Harden's lack of running ball tactics to make up for his own speed disadvantage, but he can only defend Harden.

If you encounter shooting guards like Kobe, Ellis, and even Ginobili, using Wazquez to prevent them will be easy.

Harden's heroic spirit of one-on-one challenge in the third quarter turned into a burden, which made Howard and Parsons only make three shots together.

After the game, the Kings defeated the Rockets 110-97, successfully ending their four-game losing streak, and 5 players in the team scored in double digits.

Everyone flew back to Sacramento and when they arrived at the airport, Su Yang left Antetokounmpo alone, took out a piece of paper, and said seriously: "Last time I went to Jordan's house to be a guest, I got a copy of his training secret from that year from him, and I think it should be handed over to you..."

Antetokounmpo received the important task: "Coach, don't worry, I will try my best to be your Michael Jordan."
Chapter completed!