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0763 Now step forward from the beginning

After a day off, early on the 17th, the King boarded the plane and started his first three-game journey in the new season.

Everyone sat down, and McGee suddenly sighed: "It's so crazy! Vince Carter started for Atlanta last night for 24 minutes and scored 12 points. If he hadn't been troubled by fouls, he would have played for more time. He is 41 years old!"

Antetokounmpo was full of envy: "gosh, this is his 20th season, right? I really hope I can play for that long."

Curry chuckled: "He and my father were teammates from the Raptors. When I was a child, I went to Canada and played 1v1 with him many times. I really want to dunk now. Part of the reason is that it is influenced by him and learned from him that he needs to take quick shots."

Tatum showed a little surprise: "This is my second season. 20 seasons seem too exaggerated. Kobe has also played for 20 seasons. How can they maintain their enthusiasm for basketball for so long and have to take so many planes and buses."

“Only if you really love basketball can you do it…”

Su Yang also sighed that players like Carter have long been financially free. Although they have not won the championship, they never seemed to think of winning the championship with their thighs. They just like to play football in a pure way. The 25,000th point in their career was through dunks.

"Yes, only if you really love basketball..."

As the oldest player in the team, Curry seemed to have invisibly get Su Yang's sigh, and the two looked at each other and smiled.

Everyone ended up feeling and started playing cards, playing games, and reading magazines on a regular basis. Su Yang turned to discuss with the coaching staff.

The topic is very simple, just two points.

The first is how to improve the focus of veteran players on the game. Considering that the team's core has won four consecutive championships, it is really difficult for them to stay focused on every game. After all, as long as the regular season record is not as big as the impact is not so big.

Su Yang made a decision directly: "Turn away from it. When Curry makes a three-pointer, let him slap it, especially in games with little impact. Antetokounmpo's defense doesn't matter if he is not so active. Sometimes losing will bring more help."

The second is how to allocate the time for rookies and veterans to play.

The injury wave last season caused the Kings to suffer heavy losses. This season will only lead to greater risks. Load management must be done in advance, so naturally, it will allow rookie players to play more time, but playing too much may lead to losing the game.

Assistant coach Jenkins suggested: "When playing with weak teams or back-to-back, letting rookie players play more..."

Assistant coach Mike Brown suggested: "More mixed-playing, such as Sabonis occasionally serves as the starting lineup, responsible for center position organization, playing with Giannis, and allowing Mikal to serve as the starting shooting guard and Tatum."

Both assistant coaches’ suggestions are quite applicable. Su Yang nodded and said it was feasible, that is, he often changed the starter and needed more work-in-one.

Determine the general direction, and the next step is to execute the details.

Su Yang first set the tone of the main body for Curry's rotation, 10 minutes in the first quarter, 6 minutes in the second quarter, 10 minutes in the third quarter, and 6 minutes in the fourth quarter, striving to control to reach an average of 32 minutes per game, and occasionally adjusting according to the number of on-the-spot fouls and other situations.

As for back-to-back games, unless it is home court, Bay Area or New York that has special significance to Curry, you will directly announce a truce in advance. On the one hand, it is to carry out load management, and on the other hand, it is not to waste energy because you want to see Curry.

Let the assistants discuss other details first, and there is no rush.

The plane turned to land in New Orleans.

The whole team took a bus to the hotel, put down their luggage, took a simple rest, and arrived at the Pelicans home court at 4 pm.

The players trained regularly, and Su Yang pulled the coaching team to discuss countermeasures, mainly how to target Mirotic. That guy is 208 tall and can shoot three points, helping Damei open up space in the inside line, so that Damei avoids being trapped in endless double-teams.

"The Pelicans have no real center. Let McGee follow Mirotic and switch defenses directly with the screen. Don't let Mirotic catch the ball easily. As for the ad, Giannis is responsible for the whole process, and our defenders can shrink more..."

The Pelicans introduced Elfrid Payton in the new season, a player whose template was "Rondo". So far, his career has only 28.9% three-point shooting percentage, which is closer to Rondo's style. Another Pelicans defender "Brother Zhu" Holiday, had a three-point shooting percentage of only 33.7% last season. The Kings' backcourt can boldly shrink and defend around screens.

After the strategy was decided, Su Yang rushed to the media center for a pre-match interview. He first talked about the evaluation of Ad, saying that Ad performed very well, but he could not always serve as the leader of the group killer, and implyed that Ad needed more helpers and had a plan to disagree.

He also talked about the deceased Pelicans owner Benson, saying that Benson is a good person and hopes that it will not affect the Pelicans.

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

The Pelicans won the jump ball, and the thick eyebrows caused a foul when they attacked in the first attack. They were very trivial. Antetokounmpo put his hands on his hips and shook his head straight.

The Kings attacked, and the strong and weak started, and brought Davis and Zhu to the left, focusing on the left to attack the Pelicans Itovan Moore, Elfrid Payton and Mirotic. After covering the run, Dunro assisted McGee to cut and dunk to score.

Between you and I, the Pelicans have various high pick-and-rolls, Zhu Ge and Thick-Brow pick-and-rolls, Payton and Miro pick-and-rolls, Zhu Ge and Miro pick-and-rolls, Payton and Thick-Brow pick-and-rolls, Moore is purely a tool man, with the lowest tactical lows, and most of the time they can only catch the ball and rush to shoot.

After the first quarter, the Kings led the Pelicans 43-40.

Su Yang was interviewed during the festival and talked about why he got a high score of 43, and answered irresponsible questions and said that the Pelicans were doing a good job in the offense.

The main thing is that I don’t want to tell the truth. The Pelicans’ defense is too bad, and they don’t want to tell lies or scenes. I simply praise the Pelicans for their good offense. After all, Gentry is the head coach. His entire coaching career has been the most affected by D'Antoni, and his offense is really powerful.

Of course, the king didn't have all his strength to defend himself.

On the one hand, he was called a foul at the beginning, and on the other hand, this game had a small impact on the King and had not reached the winning and losing stage.

The second quarter started immediately, and Su Yang sent Bridges Brogden, Covington, Sabonis, Zhou Qi's five-man team. The defensive quality was so good that the Pelicans signed in the summer that Randall screamed, and the bulls were useless to rush.

The main strategy is to put Randall in hesitation.

Just Randall's football dealer, he was confused as soon as he thought about it.

After the half-time game, the Kings' lead expanded to 14 points.

After returning from the middle of the break, the Kings strengthened a wave of defense and used double-teams to make Davis only score 2 points in a single quarter, while the Kings expanded their lead to 22 points, setting the tone for the game early. Su Yang gave Dunro and Bridges the main game in the fourth quarter.

In the end, the Kings defeated the Pelicans 138-119.

The Kings scored nine players in double digits, while the Pelicans, Davis scored 18 points in the first half and only 6 points in the second half.

After a night off, the king flew to Oscar to challenge the Thunder.

The Thunder trade officially entered the reconstruction stage during the offseason. Russell Ingram Grant's combination actually achieved miraculous results. In the previous two games, they won big and narrowly against the Clippers and Warriors respectively. Some commentators said they were watching college basketball.

Su Yang led the Kings coaching staff to do a brief study and found that the Thunder is really Donovan's best college basketball style: he valued the guard, played the main players in short rotation, and the ball rights were also concentrated in the trio, Adams and others were all functional roles.

As for where to get two garbage contracts from the Lakers, Donovan basically doesn't need them, and Roll Deng didn't play in the preseason.

Such a strategy will make the Thunder beaten pretty well.

The three young people are physically strong, they are tireless when they rush, and their tactics are simple and they don’t need to run too much. They do things indiscriminately.

The game starts at 7:30.

The first half played normally, the Kings led by 12 points. In the third quarter, Su Yang ordered to boldly shrink and block the inside line, and did not allow the Thunder to easily rush the basket. Grant then made five consecutive shots in three-pointers, and Russell made three consecutive shots...

Ingram made a three-pointer, but he got two fouls and two mistakes, which was also considered useless.

In the end, the Kings defeated the Pelicans 131-107 to win three consecutive games. Brogden, who came on as a substitute, scored the best 22 points, 10 assists and 4 rebounds. The team scored another eight more points in double-digit points, and Bridges contributed the most 3 steals and 2 cuts.

After the game, he attended a press conference and talked about his former favorite Grant's 3 of 12 shots in the game. Su Yang smiled and said, "We are so familiar with him. It will help us with our offense and defense, but that is not his true level. He will improve quickly."

Grant is the best substitute.

Having a body advantage and shooting feel, but having a basic skill deviation, it will be difficult to perform normally when faced with high-intensity defense. It can maximize its role in a champion team or a strong team in a playoffs, and being the core or second-in-law in a weak team is almost awesome.

After the press conference, the team flew to Denver overnight. After a day off, they adjusted their offseason to get the Nuggets of Minor Nuggets.

There was no fluctuation throughout the game, and the Kings suppressed it with a strong force. The foundation was laid in the third quarter, and the final victory was 14 points.

Deng Luo performed the best, scoring 20 points with a super high efficiency of 9 of 11 shots, and he didn't suffer much in the defensive end.

The whole team flew back to Sa City overnight to face the Grizzlies back to back.

The Grizzlies don't have too many off-season weak, and they only use the middle class to sign "Time Lord" Kyle Anderson, mainly through Conley and Gasol Jr., but Gasol Jr. has obviously aged and no longer has the ability to support the Grizzlies' defense back then.

McGee grabbed three offensive rebounds at the beginning, helping the Kings start 11-0, directly establishing the game trend.

The Kings beat 107 to 92 in the whole game. Curry and Antetokounmpo both checked in in three quarters, and Tatum scored the highest score.

The five-game winning streak made the King a hot topic of discussion.

The time just approached the deadline for early renewal, and many commentators tweeted that "the king will not renew Brogdon because the king does not want to pay luxury taxes, giving up early is just an excuse to delay." Su Yang tweeted and refuted after seeing it.

"I didn't want to respond anymore. Now I promise those fans who like Brogdon that we will renew Brogdon next year. Please forward these guys' tweets again at that time and remind other fans that their revelations are not credible."

With one trick to remove the firewood from the cauldron, many commentators deleted their tweets, and some complained that Su Yang was too stingy and actually ended up in person.

Su Yang replied: I am an ordinary person. When faced with unnecessary criticism, I occasionally pretend to be indifferent, but I also occasionally criticize others.

Such tweets attracted many people to retweet him, praising him as the most down-to-earth billionaire, comparable to an internet celebrity.

Su Yangxin said that I was learning from Musk, endorsing myself and saving promotion costs. A Chinese poem attracted 1.27 million reposts and likes from Twitter, which attracted heated discussion among Chinese netizens. It was better than those companies that advertised hard.

The main thing in the past, those billionaires either pretended to be life mentors or lived in simplicity and did not go deep into the masses.

The next day on the 26th, the Kings faced the Wizards at home.

After the pre-match ceremony was completed, the audience stood up and cheered. Su Yang appeared for Jeff Green to make the championship ring last season. Congratulations to Green for the tens of millions of dollars in the long term, and the central large screen played Green's wonderful performance in the Kings last season at the same time.

The game starts at 7 o'clock.

Su Yang instructed the starter to defend Wall and Bill, and the substitute to defend Ubre. The ball rights of bullying the Wizards were particularly concentrated, but lacked high-quality cover. He successfully made Bill make 3 of 11 three-pointers, Wall makes 1 of 6 three-pointers, and Oubre makes 1 of 5 three-pointers.

After the game, the Kings beat the Wizards 116 to 97. Sabonis, who started, scored 26 points and 12 rebounds.

After the game, he attended a press conference. The reporter asked about Cousins' recovery from injury. Su Yang replied: "He has resumed regular training for a while. He has successfully lost weight in the offseason. He will gradually resume confrontational training. If everything goes well, he will return in mid-November. We have formulated relevant plans and will notify all fans at least five days in advance..."

Take a day off and the king prepares for the Raptors.

The Raptors did not have much lineup changes in the offseason, and General Manager Ujeri was unable to do anything. In the broken place in Canada, unless there is an unexpected opportunity or a long-term training, it will be difficult for big-name players. Bosh and Carter both ran away one after another.

However, Valanciunas's three-pointer and the new coach Nick Nass's takeover brought the Raptors a glimmer of hope.

Su Yang rushed to the Golden No. 1 Center at 3 pm and studied countermeasures with the coaching team as usual, but found that there was no need to pay attention.

The Raptors, with DeRozan and Lowry as the core, really don’t have any special skills. Coach Nass likes the main players of the dead grass, but has a record of 6 wins and 4 losses since the start of the game. Compared with the Raptors during the coaching period of Casey, it can be said that there is no change.

The game starts at 7 o'clock.

In the first half, the Kings pursued the "Friendship First" and played back and forth with the Raptors, but after halftime, he followed the "This is my horse" in the third quarter. With a tough defense, Lowry and DeRozan made a total of 3 of 10 shots, and finally defeated the Raptors by 9 points.

After attending the press conference after the game, talking about how to evaluate Nas, Su Yang said: "I admire his persistence in the coaching path. He looks young, but he is an old-school and experienced coach. He will lead the Dragon Raptors to achieve new results."

Nas likes to read tactical videos of veteran coaches such as Hubby Brown. The biggest advantage is that he has his own coaching methodology and can consciously win games through proactive means. The best representative is to target Curry with one-on-one goal.

Love learning and dare to try, two points are enough to achieve success.

After Su Yang held the press conference, the Raptors continued. After Nas came on stage, he asked the reporter about his feelings and smiled: "Although I spent two hours studying the king every day in the past summer, I still felt that I couldn't understand it today..."

After a day off, the king started the four consecutive guests in the eastern region.

After everyone boarded the plane again, they each took their seats, McGee said: "The Cavaliers lost last night. We are now the only team in the league that remains unbeaten at the start of the game. Many fans are discussing how strong we are and why we always win?"

After the words came to an end, the king and the generals looked at Su Yang instinctively.

Seeing the situation, Su Yang smiled and said, "Because we have a heart that never stops, we are not proud and lazy because of our past achievements. The road to the pass is as iron as iron. Now we are stepping forward and we will take down all the four consecutive guests first!"
Chapter completed!
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