After the draft, Su Yang deliberately stayed in New York for one more day to recruit players to participate in the Xia Lian.

Perhaps because he announced the recruitment information in advance, when he checked his email address, he found that as many as 58 people applied.

Some of them are players like Anthony Moro who are out of the box, and some are players like Sean Livingston who need to prove themselves again. They all believe that if they can play under Su Yang's guidance, they will get the best and best display opportunity.

Su Yang didn't think much about it. After recruiting Morrow and Livingston, he forwarded their resumes to Presti, emphasizing that they could sign the two with a basic salary depending on the situation, but Presti was so busy that he only replied that he would take time to understand.

On the 29th, Su Yang flew directly from New York to Orlando according to the team's arrangement.

Durant and Green arrived in Orlando at the same time. Westbrook did not even hold a media conference in Seattle, and he also took a special plane to Orlando. Regarding such behavior, the team explained to the outside world that they would participate in Orlando Summer United.

As for explanations, fans and media know that the critical moment of whether the supersonics are relocated head-on.

Su Yang didn't worry about the relocation at all, and just took the first generation of Thunder Third Young Master to practice tactical running.

The whole process is quite boring. Those exquisite tactics, because there is no corresponding strength defense, are like waving their fists in the air. Westbrook repeatedly hinted that it would be unnecessary to do so, and a single pull can solve the problem.

Durant didn't understand it very much, and even took the initiative to mention the tactics in the rookie challenge, saying that was enough.

Su Yang patiently explained at first that the team did not have a big organization like Horford for the time being, and was working hard to train Green to become that kind of role, so it will be a little more trouble now, and later it gradually became a little irritable, so he changed his hands and asked Snyder to sing a bad face.

But he sat down and looked at Westbrook and his men's confused expressions, and he suddenly felt amused.

"I didn't expect that one day, I would become the puzzled look of McMillan. I also want to suppress the nature of the players. The reason is that I want to do it for them. It doesn't matter if they don't understand, just practice first..."

After calmly thinking, Su Yang cheered up again and patiently explained to Westbrook and others why he wanted to go far, because the team's goals were very lofty, so don't give up because of some slight benefits in front of him, and innovate the training methods.

He worked together with the video department, worked overtime and stayed up late, and selected some cases in NBA history where the situation was reversed or won directly due to excellent tactics. Before each training starts, he will first give it to the players and then imitate it.

There are practical tactical applications, and the passionate background of assistant coach Brooks, Durant and Westbrook's understanding of the importance of tactics has deepened a little, but they still believe that a pick-and-roll can solve many problems.

Su Yang did not object, and only said that one game would have to play 48 minutes and 82 games a season. If you want to win the championship, you have to win 16 games in the playoffs. If you want to win two consecutive championships or three consecutive championships, then using tactical scoring will become more and more important.

Snyder and other assistant coaches went to Su Yang for discussion in private, feeling that it was too dependent on the players' temperament and it was impossible to do so for a long time.

Su Yang admitted that it was right, but emphasized that he should first sow the seeds of tactical importance in the hearts of young players and try to make progress step by step. It is now in the reconstruction period, and if you have time, opportunities and environment, it will only be more laborious to adjust later.

Anyway, Durant, a group of young people with extremely talented talents, must not be allowed to be greatly limited in scoring ability due to lack of offensive tactics on the finals stage, and it is even more impossible for that situation to last for nearly ten years.

After eight days of practice, Su Yang and others were exhausted after finishing the initial training and just wanted to go to bed early every night.

Fortunately, the training effect is visible to the naked eye. Durant and his men can already run many tactics smoothly, especially the European pick-and-roll attack that is mainly practiced. There are fewer chaos in running without the ball, which is quite good.

The Orlando Summer League starts, with Durant three playing against the New Jersey Nets.

The game was held at the RDV Arena, the Magic Training Base. The live announcer called Durant and the three supersonic players, but Durant and the three wore black background and white jerseys. The team name was NBA and the team address was Okrama.

Because the negotiations between the Clayton consortium and the Seattle city government broke down, Supersonics owner Clayton has decided to move the team to his hometown of Okrama, but has not announced the new team name to the public for the time being, nor has the new jersey been confirmed.

Several announcers on the scene joked that the supersonics would be renamed Pili Cat, but they might encounter copyright troubles.

When the game was going on, Su Yang stood on the sidelines and watched, and the team was handed over to Snyder for command, and he didn't worry too much.

According to the initial idea, every time Westbrook dribbled the ball, Snyder did not speak out to command any tactics to play, but Westbrook's reading of defense was relatively poor, and he did not organize it several times. Snyder was so angry that he stomped his feet, but he didn't say anything.

It was not until the suspension or the holidays were suspended that Snyder caught Westbrook and others and explained how to fight.

Su Yang stood beside him, occasionally giving Westbrook and others a look of "I know it's amazing."

However, Snyder was angry again and after the game started, he still asked Westbrook and others to handle it themselves.

Just like that, after the game, he lost to the Nets by as many as 20 points and made one more mistake.

Su Yang pulled the whole team to watch the video and review it. Westbrook slapped his forehead many times and said it was better to hit it.

In the next three days, the team lost to the Pacers, Magic and Heat again, and did not show the strength of the Durant trio at all, but they lost fewer points each time. They were still fouled because Durant's final kill.

The competition has not been made public, and even the media rarely gets interview opportunities, which is an internal training.

But there were still media who secretly announced the news that Durant and the three lost four games in a row to social media such as Twitter, which soon caused many fans to laugh at him, believing that choosing Westbrook was a wrong decision and that Su Yang's true level was completely exposed.

On the last day of the Orlando League, the organizer announced that it would be made public and many media were present to shoot.

The Durant trio also ushered in the final battle, and finally beat the Bulls by 27 points, and the whole game was beaten.

After media news reports came out, many fans were surprised that the Durant trio could actually run such a smooth tactic, but they also believed that the reason for their victory was mainly because the Bulls' absolute main player Ross was absent, which was to bully the rookie.

After the Orlando Summer League was over, Presti issued a notice and the team entered the offseason.

The time to regroup is still necessary to see Okrama's preparation progress, and it is not yet certain.

Su Yang originally wanted to apply to lead the team to Las Vegas to participate in the Summer United side, but the team's management personnel changed drastically and there was no time to prepare. The NBA official also chose to refuse because he had not yet confirmed the team name and jersey.

The trip to Las Vegas was ruined, Durant and Green were preparing to return to campus to continue their studies, Westbrook returned to Los Angeles, and Morrow, Livingston and others chose to leave because they wanted to seek more opportunities, and the team scattered.

Inspired by Durant's return to school, Su Yang asked Presti to apply for a funding, and then asked domestic programmers to outsource it. In a few days, a team's own website was created for uploading, downloading and statistics.

He uploaded all the videos he had edited, both tactics and techniques, to the website.

He set goals for several main players, requiring that the summer must watch those videos, but did not tell them that the number and duration of the backend would be counted. If the player did not watch it, or was perfunctory, the training camp would increase the amount of training after the training camp was opened.

He also asked several main players to upload practice videos and communicate more with Phil Handy and other trainers.

Sometimes, he feels that he will become a training maniac like Pat Riley, who wants to drain the potential of the player.

But he did not set the standards too high, mainly to keep several main players in training and not play with fat.

After everything was done, he took the opportunity to return to China in late July and started his visit and vacation trip.
Chapter completed!