Chapter 20 Media People from China
The Lakers' first away game in the new season is the Golden State Warriors, a long-time Western Conference weak team. In the past offseason, the Warriors began another round of reconstruction. The two biggest players in the team, Danpier and Van Exel, were sent away one after another. The Warriors now have no big-name players. The core of the team is dunk king Richardson and star second-generation Dunleavy Jr., who are both outside the second-tier figures in the league.
The only thing that deserves attention from Lakers fans is that the point guard of the Warriors is the man who has played for eight years with the Lakers and led Kobe to three championships.
Although it has been no competitiveness in the league for a long time, Oakland's football market has always been pretty good. Part of the reason is that the team's style advocates offense and is passionate. This is the same in this game. After the opening, the Warriors stabbed the Lakers through fast-paced attacks, and forced the Lakers to have a residual blood in the first half of the first quarter. The Warriors are more afraid of Spurs, mosaics, and teams that rely on the core attacks on the inside, and when they encounter teams like Lakers that also tend to be attacking, they may also gain an advantage with their rich experience in poking each other.
However, in the second quarter, after a brief test, the Lakers overtook the score. Tomjanovic took the initiative to make adjustments, changing the arrangement of playing against the opponent in the first quarter, improving the quality of defense, slowing down the pace of the game, and making more work through more cooperation in positional battles. Of course, it is inevitable to give Kobe a certain singles right. Whether it is Tomjanovic or Ke Yan, at this stage, he is still mainly used to match Kobe. At important moments of the game, make some special arrangements to ensure that Kobe can get good data without affecting the team's performance and locker room atmosphere.
This adjustment has achieved obvious results. Positional offense and defense are not what the Warriors are good at. They only scored 16 points in a single quarter, but were scored 31 points by the Lakers. The lead was not guaranteed, and the Lakers also overtaken. (49:60)
At the beginning of the third quarter, although the Warriors were struggling to move back, the score difference did not decrease, but instead showed a trend of getting bigger and bigger. Tom Janovic himself is still good at building a defensive system, especially for teams like the Warriors that do not have absolute offensive strengths and rely more on the running and bombing system. The Lakers can also cover their relatively ordinary defensive resources.
This is not to say that there is any problem with running and bombing style, but since Mulin, general manager of the Warriors, chose to shoot bombing, he should not sign a large sum of money to Fisher, a floor point guard with a low speed and passing ball. Without a brain-led approach to running and bombing style, it is just random bombing. Unless you can achieve firepower coverage, it is difficult to achieve ideal results.
After halftime, Kobe dribbled the ball, Odom brought the cover. After the pick-and-roll, Kobe sent the ball back to Odom. Facing Troy Murphy in front of him, Odom did not choose to play hard, but threw the ball to Butler on the other side. Dunleavy Jr. was directly knocked away by Butler's body. Butler broke into the basket from the wing and completed the dunk facing Fowler.
Troy Murphy is a big shooter with an average physical talent for confrontation. Fowler is a typical short and strong rebounder monster. He is good at defending and protecting rebounds. Assisting defense and filling in positions is not his strength. The Warriors' inside combination is really not suitable. It is said to be a reconstruction, but... it seems that the team has no new players worth cultivating.
The Lakers continued to expand their lead, and by the second half of the fourth quarter, the score difference had reached 20.
This difference can already allow Tom Janovic to send a substitute lineup with peace of mind.
94:110, the Lakers beat the Warriors away, and made a good start for the new season with two consecutive victories.
Kobe had a half-quarter break in the fourth quarter, played for 34 minutes, scored 28 points, 3 rebounds and 4 assists, and was still the player with the most points in the game. This season, he obviously had the idea of hitting the scoring champion.
Facing the Warriors, which are more open-minded, Odom played more comfortable in this game, making 6 of 11 shots, 4 of 4 free throws, scoring 16 points, 7 rebounds, 4 assists and 2 blocks, and performing well.
Butler continued to play 7 of 12 shots in this game, 3 of 4 free throws, and scored 17 points. However, he made 0 of 4 shots from outside the three-point line in the whole game, which disappointed Ke Yan, who attaches more importance to outside shooting.
In the coaching staff, Ke Yan is more supportive of Butler's mention. On the other hand, Butler's performance can also add points to Ke Yan's work in the team. In the same situation, Anderson is also the one who is also signed by the team. However, as a supplement to the team's basic salary, the Birds grabbed 8 rebounds in both games and had 2 blocks per game. The wonderful performance is here. Even if Divac returns now, it will not be easy to get back to the original main position.
Anderson's signing also increased the Lakers management's recognition of Ke Yan, making him look very much~
Compared with the media in the United States, including the Chinese community, who recognize Ke Yan's role in the Lakers, the Chinese media have some of them realized that they have not further reported and promoted Ke Yan. They have more energy to build momentum for Yao Ming with "big deals every day and championship every year", and their attitude towards Ke Yan is relatively vague.
To a certain extent, this is related to his lack of domestic experience. China's basketball coaches are either retired from athletes or studied under a famous coach. No matter how bad they are, they are slowly climbing up from the provincial team. Ke Yan went to Europe to study, study further, and interview in the United States, and applied for the job. In addition, he is now just an assistant coach, and no matter how good he is, he is still an assistant coach.
In this case, Xu Yi's application for an exclusive interview with Ke Yan at ESPN headquarters was officially approved. ESPN proposed an interview intention to the Lakers, and the team then informed Ke Yan and let him decide whether to accept this interview.
ESPN's proposal for interviews will certainly not refuse. After the mosaics selected Yao Ming, their profits in China were jealous. The boss Alexander was jealous of counting money, and the bosses of other teams were not jealous of it. If Ke Yan could expand the influence of the Lakers in China, it would be considered an unexpected surprise for the Lakers to hire him as an assistant coach.
Ke Yan received a call from Lisa (Lakes News Officer) at home, watching videos of the Suns' opponent in the next game, and was still studying how to deal with the Suns. When he heard the interview application, his first reaction was an accident. He did not expect that he had already gained popularity in China for exclusive interviews, but he returned to calm down after half a minute.
“I need to think about it before making a decision.”
It wasn't Ke Yan's fault, but it was really outrageous for people in the media industry. A well-known domestic sports media reporter once posted an exclusive interview with Portuguese superstar Louis Figo in Sports Weekly, including a photo of two people. It was later confirmed that the entire report, except for the photo of the group, was real, and the interview content of the entire page was compiled by himself, which shows how outrageous it was. What's even more outrageous is that after the incident was exposed, the reporter not only did not receive any sanctions, but instead became a big shot in the circle.
There were also things that happened to Ke Yan himself. Not long ago, domestic media reported that the relationship between him and Yao Ming was demonized. The words revealed between the lines that Yao Ming was very kind to him. Ke Yan didn't care much about it, but he was inevitably a little unhappy when he heard this. No one wanted to be considered to be obtained through relationships, right?
After obtaining the information of Xu Yi, the reporter who applied for the interview, Ke Yan studied some of her information on ESPN's official website, studied the reports she wrote, and after repeated confirmation, he informed Lisa the next day that he would accept this interview and arrange a specific interview time.
Chapter completed!