godfather in black

Chapter 132 134: Going to Phoenix
134: Go to Phoenix
The schedule for the Lakers and the Suns is out, and they are the first team in the league to start the second round. On May 5th, the Lakers will challenge the league's No. 13 Sun in Phoenix's American Air Corridor. This is considered by the media to be the most exciting confrontation in this round of competition.What kind of matchup will be staged between the two teams that survive on the offensive end?Everyone is looking forward to the start of these 7 matchups.

Since completing the "feat" of sweeping the Mavericks on May 5, the Lakers have had a whole week to rest. Everyone doubts whether they can maintain their state, but Qin Tao is not worried about this problem at all.The Lakers coaching staff not only made a detailed plan, but also relied on the controller to monitor the real-time status of the players. He would make subtle adjustments in daily training to ensure that everyone can have a better competitive state.

On May 5th, in the Lakers' plan, they will end their training in Los Angeles on this day and go to Phoenix to adapt to the venue in advance.Before the end of today's training, Qin Tao gathered all the players into the Lakers' video room to watch their last video in Los Angeles.

In the playback of the video, the most frequently seen figure is the figure of No. 13 with a touch of orange.His flowing long hair flutters freely while running, and his passes can always "float" into the hands of the most critical people at the most critical moments.He will never run tirelessly on the field, and he will always selflessly send shells for his teammates.Steve Nash, Phoenix Suns perpetual motion, motor, metronome.

"This man is the core of all the tactics of the Suns, so I don't need to repeat it!" Qin Tao's voice sounded as the recording ended.

The players all nodded in unison, "You should all know the pick-and-roll cooperation between him and Stoudemire! In the last period of the regular season, we beat them twice in a row. But I think you should be familiar with our opponents!"

"Boss, just say what you want! Don't miss the plane." Odom said.

"It's just that you talk a lot of bullshit. When you get to Phoenix, be careful and I will let you train more physically." Qin Tao scolded with a smile. His attitude towards Odom has changed a lot in the past few days.Although Odom doesn't like serious training and likes to play around, but after being taught a lesson, he trains very seriously every day, and he has meticulously completed the extra physical training that punished him, which makes Qin Tao very satisfied.At least in terms of attitude, Odom is much better than Vujacic. As for Kwame Brown, he always looks like that, and his attitude is the same as before.

"Boss, don't!" Odom raised his hands in a gesture of surrender, "The extra training I was punished for ended yesterday!"

"Okay, you sit down first." Qin Tao said seriously: "Uh...what did I say just now? It's all your fault for interrupting."

"Boss, you just said that we are familiar with our opponents." Weber reminded.

Qin Tao nodded and continued: "The Canadian is very fast and has good physical fitness. He usually chooses to break through by himself when the situation is difficult to open. And after the pick-and-roll, Stoudemire also likes to take the overlord very much. Step towards the inside. So in the game against them, we must always remember one point. Make offensive fouls, Derek, you can pass on your experience on this point."

"Also, Phoenix's counterattack is very fast. They have only one counterattack center, so sometimes their speed is faster than ours. Here I ask everyone to protect our offensive rebounds. Of course I Didn't say don't grab rebounds in the backcourt!"

"To sum up, the most important thing in our game against Phoenix is ​​to draw a foul, don't give the opponent a chance to counterattack easily, return to the defense quickly, and fight for every rebound. Last time, the one who draws the opponent's offensive foul in the game, I Personally reward him with $100. For every offensive rebound, I personally reward him with $20."

"Brothers, come on! The boss's money is not earned for nothing. It's time for revenge!" Odom took the lead in shouting again.

Butler also laughed and shouted: "Brothers, take revenge! Take revenge! No one should grab offensive rebounds from me during the game."

Odom and Butler made a fuss, and everyone present laughed.Qin Tao also laughed. After he came, Caron Butler was the one whose personality changed the most.He never communicated with people much before, and the gloomy childhood memories made him feel that everyone looked down on him, and he began to close himself.Ever since Qin Tao came, that game, that sentence of praise made Butler go out of his own world and start communicating with outsiders, and slowly he recovered his original personality.Cheerful, straightforward, and a little humorous.Qin Tao has always been very happy that Butler can make such a change.Everything is connected, and as Butler slowly stepped out of his own world, his game began to improve at a faster rate.

"Okay, okay...don't make a fuss, don't be late for the afternoon plane. Disband now." Qin Tao clapped his hands and shouted loudly.After yelling, he and Brown Shaw walked out of the video room. The rest of the time was the players' own time. The two head coaches really had no intention of continuing to mix.

In the afternoon, the Lakers got on the plane to Phoenix, and they arrived at the Phoenix airport in the evening.However, Qin Tao had just walked out of the corridor with the team, not only the media reporters who had been waiting for a long time, but also many local Phoenix Lakers fans.They held posters of the players, and the cheers never stopped.While maintaining order, the police officers at the scene complained, "These Los Angeles people are really annoying. It's okay for them to come, and they have caused us so much trouble."

"The Los Angeles Lakers are the best team in the world, and of course they have the most supporters." A young policeman said, his eyes were shining when he saw Kobe, it was obvious that he was a Lakers fan.

The police were distressed to maintain order, and the fans were chanting the names of their favorite players.When the players hear the fans calling their names, they will wave to them. Among these fans, there are only two people who shout the most enthusiastically, and there was only one before.

"Kobe-Kobe-Kobe-"

"Qin Tao - Qin Tao - Qin Tao -"

Feeling that he and Kobe received almost the same welcome, Qin Tao said with emotion: "This feeling is really good! This is the first time I have been so welcomed at the airport!" At the beginning of the playoffs, there were quite a few Everyone in the Lakers thought that the Lakers were only in the first round, but they showed superhuman strength in the first round, sweeping the Mavericks who are fifth in the West 4-0, which gave many Lakers fans hope.It took the Lakers only half a year from rebuilding to having the strength of a championship again. This is a miracle, even for Lakers fans who are used to seeing big scenes, so in Phoenix, the Lakers received such a grand welcome.

"When we come back to Los Angeles after the victory, the welcome will be even warmer," Brown-Shaw said.

"If there were no swarms of flies, I think this kind of reception would be perfect." Qin Tao said angrily, pointing to a group of reporters at the airport exit.

"Nothing is perfect, Qin." Brown-Shaw was also quite helpless.

"Okay! I'll attract them later, you take the players on the bus, and it's the same when you arrive at the hotel, understand?"

Brown-Shaw nodded and said, "Understood, we have cooperated a lot in this kind of thing."

When he walked to the exit of the airport, Qin Tao realized that the situation of the media today was a bit scary!Local sportswriters from Phoenix are there, as are reporters from everywhere else. "How can there be so many people? This world is really full of people!" He criticized in his heart.

In fact, the reason why there are so many reporters waiting here today is because of Qin Tao's compulsion.His so-called "retreat" closed training made the reporter not get any news from the Lakers for three days.And now they don't dare to go too far even if they write scribbles, so as not to offend Qin Tao, now Qin Tao is not the kind of small character who just spouts casually.He is the "famous commander" who created the "God's left hand" moment.In the future, any news about the Lakers will have to rely on Qin Tao. In the past, the media believed that Qin Tao needed to rely on the media to quickly rise to the top.Now that the relationship between the two parties has changed, the natural media's attitude towards Qin Tao will also change.

"Mr. Qin, may I ask how you will deal with Mike Don Anthony's running and bombing tactics?" The reporter started bombing Qin Tao.

"This is nonsense. Are we going to be the same as the Spurs?" Qin Tao gave the reporter a blank look.

"Mr. Qin, how is the Lakers' current preparations?" After a few days of cooling off, the questions asked by the media now revolve around the team's situation.

Qin Tao glanced at Brown-Shaw who was about to lead the players to the bus, and he sighed in his heart: "Oh! Brown, it's really hard for you."

When he came out, he kept a relatively long distance from the team, which also allowed him to attract the hatred of reporters and give the players time to get on the bus.

"Our situation is very good, my players are very hungry, they want to play, they want to win, they want to win titles."

"Why do you beat Phoenix? You must know that they are the regular season champions of this season." Another reporter asked.

"The only one who can defeat us is ourselves, no one else can." Qin Tao said and glanced at the situation of the team. On the way, some reporters stopped the players to ask some questions, but in the end they all entered the bus.

After seeing that the last player entered the team bus, Qin Tao also began to refuse all reporters' questions and walked towards the bus.After Qin Tao got on the bus, the Lakers' bus started slowly.Only then did the reporters see that it was a trap.Their dissatisfaction with Qin Tao was once again vented through newspapers and news, but Qin Tao himself was used to all of this.

(End of this chapter)