NBA backer king

Chapter 229
On May 5, the Suns arrived in Houston and entered the rhythm of the Western Conference Finals.

Wang Tiejun's agent, Lance Hawksman, also came to Houston. He still has some contracts in his hands, but they haven't finalized them yet.

This time I came here to cheer for Old Wang.The two made an appointment to have dinner at the restaurant, and Pharaoh treated them.

"Lance, help me find two trainers, first-class ones, I want to bring them back to China during the offseason," he said.

"Old K, I have already said that you really need to form a professional team. You must be equipped with sparring partners, trainers, nutritionists, and security guards. Don't worry, leave this matter to me, and I will find the best for you." Hawksman asked.

"This offseason, I want to improve my defense, single defense, assist defense, and rebounding. As for the trainer, you can find someone according to this requirement." He said.

"Are you going to keep gaining weight without a strength trainer? Or is that Mr. Zhang helping you?" Hawksman asked.

In fact, he has never understood how Wang Tiejun completed the weight training by himself. As far as he knows, Wang Tiejun did not hire a professional strength trainer.It's just that Wang Tiejun's weight gain effect is very good, so he doesn't understand it very well.

"He is also helping me, he understands this aspect of training. And I understand some of it myself, so I don't need a strength trainer. You can also see the effect. My weight gain effect is the best." He said.

Hawksman nodded, Old K's weight gain effect is indeed the best.

As far as he knows, after Jordan was defeated by the Pistons in the playoffs for three consecutive years, he gained weight to 97.5 kg, and then his athletic qualities such as jumping and moving speed declined to a certain extent.

And the old K has gained weight from 120 kg to the current 126 kg. The similar sports quality has not declined, but has improved, and some of them have improved a lot, which shows that his strength training is really good.

"Then you can be a strength trainer after you retire." He joked.

Old Wang laughed and said, "By the way, Lance, did you do what I asked you to do for me?"

"The video of the city? It's done. I put it in the hotel and I'll give it to you later." Hawksman nodded.

"Thank you." Lao Wang smiled.

Back at the hotel, he got the video file.

He watched it first. The content was very rich and lasted for more than five hours. It took more than an hour to finish the fast-forward.

These are some street scenes in the two big cities of Los Angeles and New York, from day to night, shooting incidents, racial discrimination, independence, safety in rich areas, chaos in slums, free and undisciplined schools under the so-called happy education, strict high-quality elite private schools, low-level public hospitals, high-efficiency but very expensive private hospitals, and some street interviews.

He even sent someone to go to Chinatown in Manhattan to take pictures of the sewer where he slept for five months. It was that experience that made him know that the United States is definitely not a paradise for the poor.

On the 23th, the Western Conference Finals G1 battle.

The Compaq Center was opened in 1975, and it has been 19 years. It is very old and far inferior to the Timberwolves' Target Center.

There are only more than 6000 seats, only 20 private rooms, and no special club seats.

The locker room is also small and run down, the owner of the gym hasn't renovated it in at least five years.

The Suns entered the visiting locker room.

Last year, the Suns did not meet the Mosaic team in the playoffs. This is the first time he has played this team in the playoffs.

He picked his own name on the closet and found that it was a Band-Aid. Damn, how stingy is this? Is it expensive to make a plastic name tag?
Can't help complaining to his teammates: "Look, the Mosaic team gave each of us a Band-Aid, is it because we are afraid that we don't have money to buy this stuff?"

"Ugly to death!"

"Too picky!"

"One of the worst arenas in the league."

The Suns players complained one after another.

At eight o'clock, the two teams announced their starting rosters.

Suns: Wang Tiejun, AC Green, Horry, Dan Marley, Kevin Johnson

Mosaic: Olajuwon, Eric Kleary, Barkley, Vernon Maxwell, Kenny Smith
The Western Conference Finals was broadcast live across the United States by ABC TV Station, and CCTV broadcast live in real time. Dozens of TV stations around the world purchased the satellite broadcast signals of the Western Conference Finals.

ABC's narrator is Bill Wharton, and his partner John Hanks.

Bill Walton took the starting rosters of the two teams and analyzed: "Their starting lineups are the main lineups of the regular season, and there is no change. This shows that both of them firmly believe that such a main lineup can win the opponent."

John Hanks said with a smile: "But maybe, they don't have a more suitable starting lineup than this, so whether they have the confidence to win their opponents has nothing to do with this lineup."

"Ha ha……"

Bill Walton laughed, and then said: "I have to admit, John, what you said makes sense. Now, John, who do you think has a better chance of reaching the finals?"

When it comes to this question, John Hanks stopped joking and said seriously: "The Mosaic team still insists on defending the old K with a meat shield, and let Barkley play the small forward. This is a kind of reinforcement for their outside offensive firepower, which makes their outside offensive ability not weaker than the Suns, and even stronger than the Suns."

Nodding, Bill Walton said: "But we have also said before that Barkley's position has moved outward, which has advantages, but the disadvantages are even greater. They have reduced the offensive and defensive quality of the low position."

John Hanks said: "But in fact, in the four regular season games, Mosaic won three games."

Bill Wharton was taken aback and nodded involuntarily.

At this time, in the CCTV live broadcast seat, Zhang Lili said: "Today's tactical play is very important, the Suns lineup is not as good as the opponent, and the only way to regain the disadvantage is tactically.

Comparing the lineups of the two coaching staffs, Tomjanovich is in his third coaching season, and Westphal is in his second. From the performance point of view, the latter is better, the championship and the best coach last season, but the coaching ability of the former should not be underestimated. "

"Director Zhang, aren't you optimistic about the Suns?" Su Qun asked in surprise.

Zhang Lili shook his head solemnly and said, "It doesn't matter whether I see it well or not. The important thing is that if the Suns want to win the game, they need to cooperate well in all aspects. But through analysis and comparison, they have very few advantages."

In the capital, the basketball court in the Tiejun training hall was still full of people.

Yu Feihong and his group from Nortel, those who had no filming or classes, many of them came to join in the fun.

Now they like this place the most, the weather is getting hotter, and the swimming pool here is the most attractive place for them. It doesn't cost money, and no one competes with them, so they can't wait to come every day.

There are also some relatives of Wang Tiejun and villagers with excellent connections.

These people were arranged to come to Fengshen Street to do business. There were more than a dozen of them, all of whom were young people. Basically, they used to work outside and stayed during the Chinese New Year. Liu Changfeng's two younger brothers were among them.

This group of people has two things in common. One is that they have all practiced martial arts and have practiced martial arts longer than Wang Tiejun. Wang Tiejun didn't practice much after entering junior high school, and this group of people has been practicing.

The second similarity is that they are very poor, and the more they practice martial arts, the poorer they become, and all their money is spent on martial arts training. They are poor in culture and rich in martial arts, and they have to spend a lot of money just to buy medicine.

Today, Wang Aiguo and Liu Damei specially asked them to come to watch their son's game, which can be regarded as cheering for their son from across the ocean.

Daya and Erya are not here, Erya is still in Xi'an, Daya is devoted to her studies and rarely comes back, in fact, it is Yu Feihong who comes here more often, and comes here when she has time.

"Less than, what Brother Zhang means is that Tiejun can't win?" Wang Aiguo asked after hearing Zhang Lili's rambling for a long time, but he didn't quite understand it.

Yu Feihong smiled and said, "Uncle Wang, the strength of the Suns team is indeed a bit weaker this year, but it doesn't mean they won't win."

"Oh."

Wang Aiguo nodded half-understood, and stopped asking, he just watched the fun.

……

In Chicago, in Jordan's luxurious villa, he also sat in front of the TV.

Similarly, Phil Jackson, Jerry Krause and others also sat in front of their TVs and tuned the channel to the ABC Sports Channel.

The Eastern Conference Finals will start tomorrow, but what the Bulls are most concerned about is not their Eastern Conference Finals opponent the Knicks, but the two teams in the Western Conference Finals.

Like them, the Knicks players and coaching staff at this time also turned on their TVs to watch the Western Conference Finals G1 game.

……

Compaq Center Arena, starting at [-]:[-].

"Hey, Charles, be careful tonight, don't get too close to me, I'm afraid I'll hurt you." Lao Wang yelled as soon as they met in the player tunnel.

Barkley said angrily: "You are too cruel, you hurt me last time, and I spent half a month on the injury."

Lao Wang laughed and said: "Then you have to be more careful this time, if you get injured for half a month, we will directly enter the finals."

"Hmph, dreaming!" Dameng said unhappily.

"Ruandanmeng, what are you humming?" Lao Wang gave Dameng a squinting look, and what he said almost blew up Dameng's temper.

Dameng is definitely not a good-tempered person. He is the worst-tempered person among the three super centers. He is an old hooligan like Jordan.

But when he heard Lao Wang's words, his fists were bleeding, so he gritted his teeth and endured it.

"After playing for ten years, I didn't even have an MVP. It's me who retired early." Old Wang said again.

"Boy, do you want to find something?"

Dameng's scalp was about to be pierced by blood, his face was blood red, he took a step forward and roared angrily.

"Hey, calm down, calm down, calm down!" Barkley hurriedly acted as a peacemaker, standing between the two of them, and pushed them away.

"Charles, don't block him, let him come over." Old Wang shouted.

"Get out of the way, Charles." Dameng said angrily.

"Besides, did I really get out of the way?" Barkley said angrily.

He is not a good tempered, his temper is even worse than Dameng, and he beats people a lot during the game, otherwise can he be called a villain?Being a peacemaker is actually not good at it. Fighting is actually what he is best at.

Lao Wang laughed straight, he didn't really want to fight, the match was about to start, talking a few trash words was just to stimulate the big dream, maybe it could affect this guy's state.

Dameng didn't speak anymore, the postman's body was so strong that he was almost maimed by the bastard K, how could he go up and beat him up?

At this time, the away team played and got wild boos from the home fans.

With the joining of Barkley, this year is the most promising year for the Mosaic team to win the championship, so the home fans hate all opponents who prevent the team from winning the championship.

Their boos, their momentum can be called overwhelming, turbulent waves, which immediately caused great psychological pressure on the visiting team. Under such great pressure, it is conceivable that the visiting team's players performed abnormally, and this is the so-called home court advantage.

After coming out with boos like a tsunami, Wang Tiejun looked around and felt the huge pressure like a real entity. It would be a lie to say that there was no pressure in his heart.

He observed his teammates. Fortunately, everyone was able to hold on. After all, they were not new to the world. They were the defending team. They had played the Finals at home to the scariest Bulls in this era. This place was not a big deal, and there was still a distance from the atmosphere of the United Center.

He repeatedly raised his hand and signaled his teammates to come over. Everyone gathered together with their heads in the middle, and he shouted loudly: "Brothers, the louder the opponent's booing, it shows our strength. We will kill them next, and only by killing them can we show our strength. Listen up, let us work together to kill Mosaic, and we will enter the finals!"

"Get rid of Mosaic, we will enter the finals!"

All the Suns players shouted in unison.

"Shh!"

Even louder boos sounded and squeezed towards the Suns. The home fans seemed to want to use this method to defeat their opponents.

Next, the home team played, and when the big dream of the finale appeared, the cheers of the scene roared like a tsunami, and the home fans seemed to be welcoming their king.

Lao Wang complained: "I don't know what you are shouting about, you are so supportive of him, why did you lose to David Robinson for two consecutive years in the All-Star voting?"

After the warm-up, the two sides returned to the bench, and the game was about to start.

Westphal stood at the front, with a few main players around and substitutes outside, listening to his tactics.

The Mosaic team has always been the strongest opponent of the Suns this season. The Bulls, who have studied the most and may be stronger, are not, because the Bulls are in the East. If the Suns want to enter the finals and meet the Bulls again, they must first settle the Mosaic team.

Therefore, the coaching staff has been studying the tactical play of the Western Conference Finals, and it has been determined long ago. Now it is a specific strategy.

The overall tactics are based on high-efficiency low-post offense as the pillar, supplemented by outside offense.

At 08:30, the game officially started.

For the jump ball, Wang Tiejun and Dameng stood facing each other. Both of them were highly focused and ready to take off.

At this time, the ball was thrown high, and when it reached the highest point, the two jumped almost at the same time, and their big hands moved towards the falling basketball.

In terms of bouncing, whether it is the height or the speed of the bounce, the monster-level dream is stronger. Although Lao Wang has improved, it is still a bit worse.

Dameng jumped at least [-] centimeters, half a head higher than Lao Wang, took the lead to push the ball away, and Mosaic attacked.

"Hey, Barkley's offensive position is low?" Bill Walton asked in surprise.

According to the arrangement of the Suns, Wang Tiejun defended Dameng, Green defended Riley the meat shield, and Horry defended Barkley.

According to the mosaic style of play in the four regular season games this season, Barkley played a small forward with a position outside, but at this time he ran to the low post on the right wing.

Dameng ran to the low position on the left wing, while Ellie, the meat shield, landed at the top of the arc.

There is no problem with Dameng's position, but the running and positioning of Eli and Barkley disrupted the arrangement of the Suns.

Robert Horry followed Barkley to the low post on the right wing, and AC Green followed Riley to the top of the arc.

"A pick-and-roll?" Pharaoh was a little puzzled.

At the top of the arc, Mosaic's point guard Kenny Smith used Riley's huge meat wall to break through, and went straight from the top of the arc to the paint area.

Kevin Johnson was blocked by the wall, and AC Green had to switch to Smith, but how could he keep up with the point guard's breakthrough?

Kenny Smith swayed extremely quickly, changed direction with back luck, passed AC Green, and burst down from the free throw line.

After this sudden break, Wang Tiejun and Horry chose to return to the basket at the same time, and Dameng and Barkley on the left and right low wings got the opportunity at the same time.

Smith went straight to the basket and squeezed Wang Tiejun and Horry under the basket. At this time, he made a concealed back pass and gave the ball to Dameng in the low post on the left wing. When Wang Tiejun reacted, it was too late to return to defend Dameng.

"brush!"

The left wing is low, on the left line of the paint area, Dameng made a nearly two-point open jumper and hit a goal.

Zhang Lili immediately analyzed: "Different from the four regular season games, Barkley returned to the low position on the offensive end, while the meat shield Riley took on the task of making the wall. This can be regarded as the best use of everything."

"Director Zhang, how will the Suns deal with this tactic?" Su Qun asked.

Zhang Lili said: "This is a high-position pick-and-roll tactic combined with the ball-handler's breakthrough and distribution tactic. Combining inside and outside, using outside breakthroughs to compress the Suns' defense, creates opportunities for Dameng and Barkley on the low wings."

On the field, the Suns advanced to the frontcourt, Wang Tiejun went straight to the basket, and Riley, the meat shield, came up to him and implemented a winding defense against him.

That is to say, use both hands and elbows, and use everything to defend, with one purpose, to interfere with his receiving the ball, and interfere with his shots after receiving the ball.

He turned around and stuck Riley, asked for the ball, and observed the situation on the field by the way.

Barkley stayed on the left wing on the defensive end. This is his position in the four regular season games.

On the right wing, Green moved on the three-point line, and Dameng also took a step, similar to Barkley, with the same intention of double-teaming.

At the top of the arc, Kenny Smith defended desperately to prevent Kevin Johnson from passing the ball into the basket.

His defense worked, and the ball didn't pass for a while. Wang Tiejun had to stay away from the basket for a while, and failed to get the ball at the basket for the first time.

Kevin Johnson, as the field commander, immediately dribbled back, opened the distance with Smith, and then made a tactical gesture.

On the two wings, Robert Horry and Green immediately ran, and without running in, they moved on the three-point line and made a catch action to attract the defensive attention of Barkley and Dameng.

Dan Marley ran to the top of the arc and made a pick-and-roll.

At this moment, the left wing was low, Wang Tiejun suddenly started, bypassed the meat shield Riley, and cut into the paint along the baseline.

Almost at the same time, with Dan Marley's pick-and-roll, Kevin Johnson passed the ball in, a scalpel-like straight line ball, and Wang Tiejun, who was cut into the paint, received the ball.

In the next instant, Lao Wang's figure exploded.

"boom!"

With a one-handed dunk, the ball went through the basket.

Barkley desperately chased in, but was still half a step short.The same is true for Dameng on the weak side of the opposite side, who didn't catch up.

"Beautiful! With Dameng and Barkley being pulled out, it's actually very simple for the Iron Army to play against Eric Riley in singles. As long as the ball can pass in, one hit is accurate." Zhang Lili laughed.

"Director Zhang, this style of playing with all the inside lines seems very novel?" Su Qun asked.

Zhang Lili nodded and said: "This kind of inside line that can be pulled out, even to the three-point line, is indeed relatively rare now. This kind of inside line can be called a space-type inside line. There are indeed very few such inside lines that can be pulled out, but the effect is very good.

This kind of space-based inside line has very high requirements, can participate in fast breaks, has a long shooting distance, can open up the opponent's space, is good at mobile offense, and has a large defensive area, etc.

This is how the Bulls played this year, leading the league with 72 wins.However, this style of play is not very mature yet, and there are not many tactical changes.

To deal with this style of play, the requirement for the return speed of the inside line will be quite high, and if it is slow, it will be blown up by the opponent's breakthrough. "

(End of this chapter)