On the night when she returned to Sass City from New York, Su Yang was at home and held a meeting with a teaching assistant team far away in Las Vegas.

The topic of the conference is how to use Jokic efficiently.

There is no need to say much about positioning, it must be a high-level axis support. Occasionally, a few three-pointers are made, and the center who is just as defensive as a low-level player, and then plays a double tower that connects high and low-level players with Cousins. The first choice for fast breaks and long passes, and a professional squatting and defensive player.

There is no way, Jokic is not perfect, and the slow sideways make it difficult for him to deal with pick-and-roll like many centers.

Fortunately, steals and blocks are OK, as long as you don’t encounter a mid-range shot/pass expert of Paul’s level, you can make do with it.

"He always reminds me of the Trail Blazers' former European center Sabonis, who are also omnipotent..." Assistant coach McMillan was very excited, "Su, you should come to Las Vegas to watch him play in the Summer League. We are so lucky to be able to choose him."

Su Yang nodded to McMillan on the other side of the video, clicked on the web page to view Xialian News, searched for the two keywords of Kings and Jokic, and suddenly saw a news title "Jokic Xialian's fastest triple-double Kings beat the Heat 20 points."

If you look at the article and report carefully, it mainly means that Jokic achieved a triple-double in just halftime, and his speed ranks first in the history of the Las Vegas Summer League. Although it is just a news gimmick, it does reflect Jokic's comprehensive ability.

Su Yang couldn't help but recall the fact that in order to get Jokic, he sent people to Serbia for nearly two months in advance. Jokic was already quite famous in Europe at that time, because of the Nike Youth Summit and other world competitions, some American scouts also have a position in the eyes of some famous centers such as Bill Walton, who often receive emails from scouts asking for help in analyzing and praising Jokic.

Speaking of which, the performance of the Great Devil Zhou Qi at the Nike Summit is much better than Jokic, and so is Wang Zhelin.

Of course, there are many teams who see Jokic's potential.

But there are very few teams that are truly willing to gamble.

Antetokounmpo and Gobert are the same cases.

"We may get the last center in the NBA who can be axle at a high position. This is our luck and our responsibility. I think he deserves to start the game. He has proved his self-discipline by losing weight **** and polished it very hard..."

Assistant coach Di Brown continued to swear Jokic,

"From Bill Russell and Wes Unseld to grab the rebound and launch a fast break, then to Bill Walton's perfect balance of support and low-post offense, Sabonis's omnipotence, and Divac acts as a lubricant for gorgeous offenses, such centers gradually become fewer, and now there are only two Gasol brothers Paul and Mark, and Jokic represents the final support center."

Su Yang was almost stunned.

I thought that Di Brown was the only thing that could be said by Bill Walton, who was the glory of the center.

But some of it is true.

At least for weight loss, Jokic can be the MV guest of Rocket Girls' "Burning My Calories".

The skills are polished yet cannot be seen.

At least it is difficult to prove the summer league level competition.

However, based on past experience, Jokic in the 2015-16 season could play the third offensive efficiency in the league and the true positive and negative values ​​of the historical level without specializing in tactics.

After all, polish and train for one year in advance.

Character has also changed.

It should only be stronger.

Assistant Teacher Mike Brown took over the topic and showed a screenshot of the email, which was the statistical results of the horizontal and vertical axis.

"He is indeed a unique existence. The day before yesterday, someone from Sportsda sent me an email. The simulated data showed that from the two coordinate systems of "digested ball rights" and "handball rights quality", Jokic is expected to become a historical center, namely Sabonis and Walton mentioned by Brown just now. He can be perfectly compatible with our system..."

Su Yang stared at the screenshot carefully and looked at it.

Jokic's "hand ball quality" is particularly outstanding, much awesome than Duncan, but his "digested ball number" is far inferior to Duncan, and he is not as good as O'Neal, but he is not too bad. He can pass and play, and is indeed close to the style of Walton and Sabonis.

Dee Brown chuckled: "I can see without data simulation. Those companies should ask me to be a special consultant."

McMillan also laughed: "I guess I want you to buy software, or ask you to tell Su, and then buy their software..."

“As long as the analysis is valuable, you can buy it…”

Su Yang turned to adjust the topic: "Now we have reached a consensus on Jokic's greatness. The key issues are here. We use some of Green's related tactics on the offensive end. How can we coordinate Jokic and Cousins ​​on the defensive end?"

It is not difficult to be compatible with Cousins ​​and Jokic’s offense, one high and one low, and it can even be interchanged. The defense is really painful.

Both of them were squatting, and it would definitely not be possible to let Antetokounmpo help defend alone, but it was really difficult for two people to guard against the pick-and-roll.

Su Yang had made some modifications to Cousins ​​before, which reduced the number of technical fouls and ordinary fouls by Cousins ​​a lot, but there was really no good way to defend against pick-and-roll. After all, the weight was there, and it was impossible to move sideways quickly. You could double-team, but it was difficult to get back to defend.

The same goes for Jokic.

In an era when pick-and-roll or screening are becoming more popular in the league, it is painful to not be able to defend the pick-and-roll or screen efficiently.

Green's departure had a great impact on the King's defense.

“…”

The three assistants were silent for a while.

McMillan said after a while: "I recommend using local three-defense and two, reducing the difficulty of Jokic and Cousins' defense through rotation, changing the focus of defense, and adopting formations such as three-two joint defense, and arranging Giannis to switch defenses in advance."

Su Yang nodded, it was a solution.

But the efficiency is still relatively low.

Antetokounmpo and Curry will be under great pressure.

Mike Brown continued: "I suggest a large number of double-teams, letting them both put pressure directly, and Giannis is responsible for making up for the players who cut the gap. Just get through the opening few minutes. After all, we have strong firepower on the offensive end. When the two of them rotate in a staggered manner, Covington and Turner can make up for it well, and they can even play more Grant, and Grant has good franchise protection.

Or just let Jokic be a fake starter so that he can better control the ball, but the starter is not as free as he wants."

Su Yang nodded again.

What Mayer Brown said is also a solution, and the problem is that Antetokounmpo will be under great pressure. If you encounter players and teams who are weak, you can win well, but if you encounter players like Harden and Spurs like you will be beaten to pieces.

"I suggest that the opponent cares too much about using screens and pick-and-rolls to target Jokic or Cousins, and arrange for two people to follow the small players and just block the interception and break through quickly. There are only a few masters in the league who scored three-pointers, one of them is in our Kings..."

Assistant coach Di Brown is optimistic.

Actually, it is also a solution strategy.

It's probably 'I'll admit it after three-pointer'.

Su Yang thought for a moment and decided not to make a summary, wait for the regular season to start and make adjustments based on the opponent's characteristics.

Those strategies are not the best, but there is no better way for the time being. Jokic and Cousins, a bit like Gasol and Bynum, defend pick-and-roll and screens, and are mostly in squats, mainly by forcing mid-range shots and controlling rebounds to defend.

A problem that Phil Jackson cannot completely solve from a tactical level, and Su Yang believes that he does not have the ability to solve it perfectly.

The topic immediately turned to offensive tactical design.

The three assistant coaches were very interested and quickly put forward many ideas. There were too many tactical references for the main center support.

Mainly Jokic can still shoot three points, making the design easier.

The next afternoon, he flew straight to Las Vegas and personally supervised the remaining summer league games of the Kings, striving to win three consecutive championships.

The opponent is the Timberwolves.

After the game, the Kings won 11 points, Jokic scored 18 points, 8 assists and 8 rebounds, and his data was close to No. 1 pick.

But the efficiency is better than Towns.

TNT's team reporter Maggio interviewed Su Yang on the sidelines and asked: "What do you think of Jokic?"

Su Yang was on a whim and decided to copy Bill Walton's evaluation of Jokic in advance, which was the peak of NBA praise.

"When you see someone like Nelson Mandela or Martin Luther King or Mahatma Gandhi, they predict the future earlier than others and know how to reach where they need to reach, and so is Nikola Jokic. The end of selfishness is the beginning of pleasure. In such a game where individuals usually spend many times, Jokic is a clear stream. And his imagination, watching him play is like watching Bob Dylan sing..."

Before he finished speaking, the Maggio people were stunned.
Chapter completed!