Without making everyone wait too long, the training match began soon, and for Jiang Hao and his foursome, Popovich chose to rotate.
Jiang Hao got the opportunity to play after ten minutes of training. The coaching staff only asked him to stay on the outside and be ready to shoot 3-pointers at any time.
Compared with the competition, the intensity of the training matches was too low after all. Therefore, Jiang Hao became the most handsome boy in the game with his precise three-pointers.
After the entire training match, he even scored more than 30 points relying on three-pointers.
However, on the defensive end, many players, including Jiang Hao, were scolded by Popovich.
This old man is really cool. He is in his 70s. Standing on the sidelines, whenever someone makes a mistake, he will directly curse, no matter who you are. In one round, he even cursed Parker, a veteran of many years.
"Jiang, you have a certain defensive awareness, but I really can't compliment your defensive experience. You will get a chance to play in the next game against the Wizards. In addition to continuing to be a threat at the three-point line, you must do something on the defensive end.
Make more changes”
After the training game, assistant coach Chip Englander, who has been with Popovich for many years and is one of the Spurs' basketball builders, unexpectedly found Jiang Hao.
Jiang Hao respects Chip Englund very much, because he learned from Messina some time ago that it was Chip Englund who urged the Spurs to draft him with the second round pick. However, he has been with the Spurs for so long.
Didn't get a chance to talk to Chip Englund.
"Senior, I have to thank you"
Jiang Hao said to Englander sincerely.
"Young man, there's no need to thank me. That's my job. Just like now, I hope you can correct your ball-holding posture."
"what do you mean?"
Jiang Hao was a little confused.
"Don't you think your posture when holding the ball is awkward? It's obvious that you always let your palm touch the basketball."
Jiang Hao was stunned by England's words. Is this the reason why his ability to hold the ball has always been poor?
Jiang Hao's intuition told him that even if it was not the reason, it must be related to this factor.
As far as he knew, England in front of him was particularly good at ball-holding posture and shooting training. There were rumors that Leonard's shooting posture was corrected under his guidance.
So why did England find himself at this time?
Jiang Hao more or less understood in his heart that this should be the reason why he was arranged to play in that training match just now.
Just like Messina told him at noon, try your best to display all your abilities in training matches. The purpose of this is to let the coaching staff understand you as much as possible.
"Jiang, correcting your ball-holding posture cannot be accomplished overnight. You have to be mentally prepared."
After saying this, England turned around and left.
"Again, just asking questions without taking direct action?"
Looking at England's leaving figure, Jiang Hao frowned. He didn't understand what the coaching staff meant by doing this. Messina was like this before, saying that he had defensive problems, but after saying that, there was nothing more to say.
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The next day, at six o'clock in the afternoon, the first match between the Spurs and the Wizards this season began at the Verizon Center, home of the Washington Wizards.
This season's Wizards, led by John Wall and Bradley Beal, have achieved very good results so far. They are ranked third in the Eastern Conference. Before this game with the Spurs, they had won five consecutive home games.
A brilliant record of victory.
Therefore, for the Spurs, who just ended their losing streak at home with difficulty, you can imagine how difficult it will be to win this game tonight.
Judging from Gregg Popovich's posture before the game, he wants to win this game. Except for Leonard, who is still absent, all 14 other players on the roster will play in this game.
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Perhaps Popovich's greatest confidence in this game comes from the fact that the Wizards are currently one of the teams in the league that dislike shooting 3-pointers. This seems to be the same as the Spurs.
"I hate three-pointers"
That's why he made such a "naughty" statement before the game.
In fact, when the game started, it was Spurs player Rudy Gay who took the lead in hitting a 3-pointer from outside.
Wizards head coach Scott Brooks looked at Popovich in confusion. This bad old man is so bad that he can't even make a punctuation mark.
However, Scott Brooks can only worry. The team's leader Wall is probably the most traditional point guard in the league. He never compromises on the three-point line. Of course, another way of saying it is that Wall does not have the three-point line at all.
His ability to distribute the ball cannot be compared with Chris Paul, who is also a traditional point guard. Regardless of whether he is "Saint Paul" or "Dirty Paul", at least he has a three-pointer.
Of course, Wall, who always looks like he hasn't woken up, is really unstoppable when he breaks through and dunks. As a dunk contest champion, when he rushes up, he seems to be unstoppable. At this time, the wave
Povich misses Dedmon from last season very much. If Dedmon was there, Wall would at least think twice before dunking.
But what now?
Pau Gasol is 37 years old, and physical confrontation itself is not his strong point.
As for Aldridge, who is becoming more and more mellow, no matter how you look at it, it seems to be the masterpiece of Popovich.
Oh, God.
It's really unbearable.
Popovich waved his hand, and Jiang Hao quickly appeared on the court.
"Shoot them to death with a 3-pointer."
Jiang Hao's face was full of dark lines, and the old man was really irritable, but this seemed to be quite satisfying.
Jiang Hao is not a soft-hearted player. He hit a three-pointer against Bradley Beal as soon as he came up. Just kidding, my brother is still holding a two-way contract. Why don't you go all out?
Yellow face?
How can I bear this?
Bradley Beal waved his hand and got everyone out of the way. Labor and management will make this Asian monkey get out of the NBA in disgrace.
However, at the end of the first half, Jiang Hao came off the bench for 8 minutes and made 3 of 4 3-pointers, plus a breakthrough layup, scoring a total of 11 points.
Bradley Beal played 18 minutes, but made 1 of 5 3-pointers and only scored 9 points in total.
56:46!
The Spurs, playing away from home, already hold a 10-point lead.
Mudd, this yellow face, during the halftime break, Bradley Beal was holding the halftime data sheet in his hand and yelled angrily in the locker room.
On the other side, Jiang Hao was receiving ice therapy and eating donuts.
Chapter completed!