Pick Westbrook

Chapter 27 The Shark's Respect
At this time, Xiao Mo was already thinking about how to fulfill his obligations as a veteran after the start of the regular season and bully Westbrook well.

Let him know that the first thing he wants to gain a foothold in the NBA is to learn to respect veterans!

In this preseason game, Xiao Mo was not scheduled to start, but this was in line with his wishes.

None of the team bosses will start the preseason game, and if they want to play, it must be the last preseason game.

Coupled with the fact that the Bucks have only put up his huge poster in Bradley Arena in recent days, this makes Xiaomo more confident.

After all, Li Lai finally understood who was the strongest player on this team.

"So I'm the boss of this Bucks team!"

First quarter.

The Bucks caught the Suns' mistakes and missed shots consecutively, and counterattacked frantically.

Facts have proved that the strength of these Suns players on the court is indeed lower.

And behind the Bucks' crazy counterattack, it also means that the point difference on the field is huge.

30: 20.

With a 10-point difference in a single quarter, even if this is just a preseason game, Gentry's face is really dull.

"Li Lai, this is what you want to play like this!"

In the second quarter, Gentry took on the team's main players Nash, Stoudemire and O'Neal at the same time.

Kenny Smith took a deep breath and said, "The Suns have brought out the core three in the preseason. It seems that they want to give the Bucks some color."

Barkley nodded again and again.

No matter how you make the Bucks, compared with the Suns in terms of hard surface strength, it is more than a star and a half behind.

Li Lai watched in amazement from the sidelines, so he didn't care about these things.

"Shaquille O'Neal finally played."

Since the Suns hired D'Antoni as the head coach in the 03-04 season, this team has become famous in the league with a wave of fast-playing whirlwind.

They were No. 04 in the league in the 05-05 season, D'Antoni was elected the best coach of the year, Nash was the MVP for two consecutive years in 06 and [-], and the bully Stoudemire was selected to the best team three times.

It's just that they hold high the banner of offense and dominate the regular season record, but they are weak in the playoffs and have not made it out of the West every year.

Even the Suns stopped in the first round of the playoffs last season.

That's why the Suns' management will fire D'Antoni this season and help Gentry.

But what Li Lai wants to say is that this decision may be destined to disappoint the Suns management even more.

Because Gentry, who studied under Larry Brown, did not learn the core concept implemented by his teacher-playing in the correct way, nor did he steal the opponent's famous stunt.

Therefore, after Gentry coached the Suns, the team's record did not rise but fell, but it was not as powerful as the Suns during D'Antoni's coaching period.

Before the team management completely dismissed D'Antoni, they had learned from the painful experience and completely abandoned the opponent's bombardment tactics, and introduced the former No. [-] center in the league, Shaquille O'Neal.

"Shaquille O'Neal rejuvenated his second career in the Suns, but his arrival made the Suns' offensive space too crowded.

As a result, the bully Stoudemire lost his flexible ability to attack the frame and the unsolvable pick-and-roll with Nash. "

on the field.

The second game.

The Suns' first round.

Nash attacked with the ball, Stoudemire was involved on the weak side, and O'Neal slowly came to his favorite right waist.

Gentry looks forward to the picture in front of him off the court.

"O'Neal can still play the power of the peak, which will completely determine how far the Suns can go in the new season."

And this tactic was specially tailored by Gentry for O'Neal. He hoped that under this tactic, the opponent could comfortably receive the ball and play on the strong side like in the peak season.

At this time, the inside players of the Bucks are Crohill and Elson.

Both of them belong to the veterans of the league, without flexible defense, and compared with the 147KG O'Neal in terms of tonnage, they are far behind.

O'Neal turned his back in a low position and raised his hand to catch the ball.

Just when all Phoenix City fans were eagerly looking around, wanting to see the prestige of the former No.1 player in the league.

beep!beep!
The referee blows the whistle.

Crohill took the initiative to defend the foul.

The big shark on the court was stunned, looking around in place.

"You gave me the whole shark-slaying tactic in the preseason game?!"

Gentry opened his mouth slightly, and spread his hands on the sidelines extremely speechless.

What about the good practice tactics?You can't afford it?
Barkley laughed up and down on the commentary stage. He had never seen such a comedy scene in his life.

"I bet that the scene just now will be the headlines of tomorrow's news."

On the coaching bench of the Bucks, Li Lai stretched out his hands and raised his thumbs up to O'Neal with a smile.

He was killing sharks!

After seeing this scene, O'Neill nodded and smiled like a child, "Okay, you chopped me up, and it's time to see how I deal with you."

Of course, Crohill's foul was intentionally arranged by Li Lai.

In addition to wanting to kill the shark to win this game, what Li Lai wanted was to give O'Neill, a veteran in the league, the last bit of dignity.

Li Lai yelled towards the court: "Shaq, I will defend you like you were at your peak!"

Hearing this sentence, O'Neill, who was almost 37 years old, turned his head, his eyes were full of shock.

He hasn't enjoyed the defensive treatment he's had at his peak since being swept away by the Lakers.

This farewell is a full five years.

Thinking of this, O'Neal's eyes turned red and he said, "Then come on."

The Suns continued to attack after serving the sideline ball, and O'Neal made a strong position in the penalty area on the right side.

He slammed back hard, and Crozier was pushed back two steps.

This veteran still has gas in the tank!

Nash saw the timing and passed the ball steadily.

The moment O'Neal received the ball, Elson went around the front to defend and formed a double-team with Croshire.

"The quality of this double-team is very good!" Barkley said excitedly.

It's also a double-team tactic, and what Crohill and Elson played on the court is obviously much more efficient than those young players in this summer league.

That's what veterans do.

What surprised Barkley even more was that Li Lai was able to use these two veterans who had almost been abandoned by the entire league so well.

In Barkley's entire career, he has never encountered a coach who is so good at using civilian players.

Among the coaches I know who can do this step are famous coaches like Larry Brown, Jeff Van Gundy and Old Nelson.

"Of course, this is likely to be a mistake." Kenny Smith explained from the side.

At this time, the game on the field was already a bit tense.

O'Neal dreamed of returning to his youth, strong against Croshire and Elson, and the big shark dunked and scored.

Turning around, the Bucks launched a quick counterattack, just to bully you, O'Neal's slow pace!

Dragic broke through and scored a layup.

The second quarter is over.

随着奥尼尔一波高效的7投5中，罚球6中2，单节得到12分，太阳队以48:52仅仅落后4分。

In the second half of the game, Westbrook, who was eager to try, could no longer suppress his urge to play, and took off his coat early.

But Li Lai told him that he would not play next.

"Coach, why don't you let me play, we are going to win this preseason game, that's what you said."

Westbrook said sternly.

Li Lai signaled Westbrook to calm down first, then looked at Xiao Mo, who had been sitting on the bench, and said, "Morris, you can score 40 points in the team training game. I wonder if you can do it in the preseason?"

(End of this chapter)