The specific negotiation and transaction matters are left to Kupchek to operate. As an assistant coach, Ke Yan's main task is to do a good job of Tomjanovic's assistance and do what an assistant coach should do.

However, the trade candidate he proposed has been directly included in the plan by Kupchek, which has shown that his position in the team has improved.

In name, he is now the third assistant coach. In fact, whether in the team's publicity or his right to speak in the team, he has surpassed the scope of the responsibilities of an assistant coach, and frequently arranged tactics with tactical boards in his hands during the game. Chinese fans have taken a new term for his current position, "executive deputy coach"!

In response, the original chief assistant coach Hamberlon did not show any obvious resistance and cooperated with Ke Yan's work. Brian Shaw, he had no say in resisting anything.

After all, the ranking is fake, but strength is real.

At night, the Staples Center was still full, and the Lakers welcomed their lifelong rivals, the Celtics. The historical wish between the two teams was here, and there was no need to mobilize. Whether it was the fans or the players on both sides, they were fighting and sharpening their swords!

After warming up, Tomjanovic called the player to his side and explained the tactics in detail before sitting down.

On the card, the Celtics are slightly stronger than the Lakers. In a deal at the beginning of the season, Payton and Atkins exchanged their clubs. Considering that Payton and Kobe's partnering are average, it's hard to say how much the Lakers lost. Anyway, the Celtics made a lot of money. After Payton came to the Celtics, he returned to the offensive, organization, and defense. All the data improved a lot compared to last season. More importantly, under the connection of his organization, the team's three main firepower points Pierce, Antoine Walker and Ricky Davis all fully utilized their strength.

But the Celtics' shortcomings are also obvious. There is no suitable blue-collar player. The power forward position is Antoine Walker, who plays a small forward, is keen on three-pointers. The center position is a kite-shaped Lafrenz. One data that doesn't know how to evaluate is that the most inaccurate three-pointers in the Celtics lineup is Gary Payton.

In short, the Celtics have both advantages and disadvantages, but Ke Yan's psychological feeling is that he wins and loses 50% and the Celtics are really not weak.

After the warm-up, the players stood on the court, and Anderson returned to the lineup on the Lakers side. There was no other change. The main substitute players of the Lakers really did not have a counterattack and started. The last game chose to use Mim instead of Anderson, which was just aimed at Howard's lower limb strength. Let Mim carry it, and the effect was indeed good at the beginning of the game.

Celtics lineup: Payton, Ricky Davis, Pierce, Walker, Lafrenz.

"Lafrenz and Walker are both kite men, and their inside defense is very unreliable. Lamar, if you want to cooperate with Kobe and Caron to increase the impact on the opponent's inside, we must reduce the fight with them on the outside, and use pick-and-roll and quickly killing. This is the correct way to win." The following sentence, Ke Yan said to Kobe, who is not very keen on pick-and-roll.

Payton, Walker, Pierce, and Lafrenz have all been All-Stars, Ricky Davis has been the boss of the Cavaliers and is the only big brother in James' career. The Celtics are very strong, Kobe has this perception, and then nods to express his approval.

If it was the beginning of the season, Kobe would definitely not want to listen to Ke Yan. It was because he had been working together for so long and had more recognition of him, so he agreed to play the pick-and-roll.

Anderson and Lafrenz jumped the ball, with a much stronger jumping power, and they transferred the ball to Odom. The latter grabbed the ball and advanced to the frontcourt as soon as possible. Walker blocked the breakthrough line. Then he immediately protected the basketball sideways and made a fake move to wait for his teammates to land on the positional battle. He deceived Walker. Suddenly, he turned around and cut into the Celtics' inside and forced a layup, and was blocked by Walker for a foul.

In preparation for the game, Rivers had already warned his players to be careful of the Lakers' sudden fast attack, especially Odom, who was in the fourth position, the speed of the third position, and the dribble in the first position, and was very flexible on the field. As a result, Walker was still not focused and was stolen by Odom. Rivers's face on the sidelines was not good-looking.

Odom made one of two free throws, and the Lakers took the lead at the start.

The Celtics attacked, the player pulled away, Walker ran to the right bottom corner and stood still, Ricky Davis was 70 degrees on the right, Payton took the ball from the middle to organize the attack, and Lafrenz gave Pierce no-ball cover on the left.

Lafrenz blocked Butler, Pierce took the ball and singled Anderson, and a fake move with the ball down and then swayed Anderson and then made a jump shot.

The Lakers attacked, Kobe and Odom played pick-and-roll, Pierce faced Kobe, and Kobe retreated to dribble, opened up space to call Pierce one-on-one singles, and a sudden and dramatic change of direction was rushing into the basket, attracting Lafrenz to make up for defense, and passed the ball to Anderson in a very timely manner. The latter took decisive action and scored at the basket.

Payton organized the Celtics' offense, Lafrenz came to the side again to cover, Pierce ran up the line, made a 70-degree jump shot, Anderson changed defense very promptly, but Pierce was able to make it! (3:4)

Lafrenz, a kite man, has a very good tactical qualities. He cooperates with Pierce with a ball pick-and-roll. The quality of the pick-and-roll is also very high. He firmly blocks Butler. The final step of dismantling to the outside line is also very critical. He firmly nails Butler to death and prevents the latter from assisting in defense.

However, the more tactical he plays on the offensive end, the more likely he is to be targeted by the Lakers. For the Lakers, Kobe constrained the Celtics' defense and distributed the ball to Butler. After breaking through Walker's defense, the latter rushed straight to the basket and scored a layup against Lafrenz's defense.

After the opening, both teams had a good offensive feel. In comparison, the Lakers' lineup was more balanced. The Celtics' outside defense was okay, but Lafrenz and Walker in the inside were a bit too soft. The Lakers only had to break through the first layer of the outside defense, either score or make fouls.

26 to 25, the two sides were evenly matched in the first quarter, mainly relying on the stars to score.

In the second quarter, Odom was responsible for holding the ball at the high position, and gave his teammates no ball cover on both sides of the inside to seek misalignment opportunities. Facing the old owner, Atkins exploded in combat power on the outside, first receiving the ball with a three-pointer from the running position; then he cut the ball from the left to catch the ball over the Celtics substitute Mark Blunt to score a layup; then he forced a layup in the counterattack, and also caused a foul by Celtics substitute point guard Deronti West. After making a free throw, he completed 2 1.

On the Celtics, the offensive end suddenly couldn't find their state. After Payton got out, the team lost their brains. Ricky Davis and Al Jefferson both had the attributes of ball-right black holes in the substitute lineup, and there were some problems with defense. The former had poor defensive habits, while the latter also relied on the offensive end to gain the attention of the league. They bounced normally and moved slowly, and the Celtics couldn't do a good job in defense, and lacked cooperation on the offensive end. They were more likely to be targeted by the Nets by relying solely on pieces of personal abilities.

Rivers was as rigid as ever on the scene. He watched the Lakers widen the score difference to double digits before he stopped the point and replaced the main player. It is no wonder that he could be reversed 3:1.

It's three times!
Chapter completed!