super small forward

Chapter 43 43. The Rising Eagle
"OK, I'm going to practice shooting, together with Paul? How about you, Scumbag?" Liu Ren regretted it when he asked this sentence, it was a "nickname" that came out of his mouth!

"Scumbag?" Kobe repeated spelling several times, as if calling him, but he didn't remember that he had this nickname!

"Uh, this is the nickname given to you by our Chinese fans. Next time you go to our country to do publicity, and introduce yourself as a scumbag, they will go crazy." Liu Ren thought about it and said nonsense.

"Really?" Kobe asked.

"Really, follow me, Slacker..."

"Zarco..."

"Good, it's Zha Ke..."

"To be honest, I don't know why I have so many Chinese fans. Every time I go to your country, I feel amazing. You don't seem to have any discrimination of skin color. It's a great place. I'm very grateful every time everything."

Color discrimination?Liu Ren thought about it carefully, it seems that there is really no such thing as racial discrimination in China!

Except that people didn't see many foreigners a long time ago, and coming to a foreigner is like watching a rare animal. There seems to be no such thing as skin color discrimination.

After the economy developed, Chinese people became richer, and after seeing more foreigners, even the strange idea disappeared.

Liu Ren has to say and sigh for the inclusiveness of our great China! 56 nationalities!
Liu Ren felt that if the territory of the motherland was as big as Russia, and many places were undeveloped, according to the urgency of the Chinese people, they would probably accept people from places in Africa and South America where there are many people and no livelihood. regions, and then use the powerful ethnic integration ability of the Han nationality to swallow up those people and turn them all into Chinese.

This has been done not once or twice in Chinese history.

An inexplicable sense of pride.

"Of course, our country is the most inclusive country." Liu Ren said proudly.

"Indeed, we are not as good as you." Kobe shrugged, his tone somewhat helpless.

This topic is a bit heavy for black people in the United States. Seeing this, Liu Ren did not continue this topic. After chatting for a while, Kobe went home to recuperate, and stayed with his wife. His wife was angry for a long time during the one hundred mistresses incident two years ago. , have to be coaxed.

Liu Ren and Gasol continued to train.

The next day, the game between the Lakers and the Hawks kicked off at the Staples Center.

Hawks head coach Budenholzer praised Liu Ren before the game, and said it was a pity that Liu Ren did not go to Atlanta.

Liu Ren expressed his gratitude for this, and then said that he had no intention of leaving Los Angeles.

The Lakers' starting lineup has not changed, Bazemore, Wesley Johnson, Liu Ren, Gasol, Green.

In fact, there is no way to make any changes. To ensure that there is enough firepower on the bench, it is impossible to add an outside shooter to the starting lineup.

The Eagles started, and almost everyone was a marginal All-Star, Teague, Korver, Carroll, Millsap, Horford.

This starting strength is really average!Liu Ren remembered that the Eagles had four All-Stars next season, and Carroll, the only one who did not make it, also got a contract close to the maximum salary in the summer of 15, a proper super starter.

The Eastern Spurs are not just talking about it, they are really strong.

Today, Liu Ren is facing Carol, a small forward who is very similar in height and weight.

However, the current Carroll does not have the strength that Liu Ren remembered. Carroll only started to explode after he came to the Hawks. Before that, he was a wandering player. What's more, he is just a qualified starter who has been in the league for many years.

Liu Ren observed the opponent's lineup. Unlike the Lakers with Pau Gasol as a high center, the Eagles' lineup is relatively short. The tallest Al Horford is only 1.8 meters. The shooting guard to the small forward are all the same height as him, [-] meters. Third, the point guard is the shortest, [-] meters eight.

The Lakers have a great advantage in terms of height, and the Lakers also grasped this point. After winning the jump ball in the opening game, Gasol went down to catch the ball and hit the ball high and put it into the basket.

Gasol's move this time is very different from the Lakers' opening play in the previous games this year, and he caught the Eagles by surprise.

To say that the Eagles are strong, but they will not be regarded as a championship level, the reason is very simple, Budenholzer's ability is not enough.

Budenholzer is the kind of academic coach who pays attention to playing according to the established tactics. To put it bluntly, he has poor adaptability.

Perhaps Budenholzer's pre-match arrangements are even more powerful than Popovich, so that most teams can't find a way to deal with them throughout the game, but their on-the-spot adaptability is far worse. Once the tactics are used by the opponent Restraint, basically finished.

Just like this ball, they watched the first three games of the Lakers before the game, and decided to defend Liu Ren quickly. When Liu Ren accelerated and slipped into the opponent's interior, there were three people around him, and Gasol caught him off guard.

It was the Eagles' turn to attack, and the Eagles' running position was very good. They didn't have that kind of singles ability in their lineup, and everything was played according to tactics.

The Lakers kept up with the opponent for the first breakthrough pass, the second pick-and-roll pass, and finally the third pick-and-roll plus breakthrough. There was only a crisp "swish" from the Nets, and they didn't even touch the basket.

It's just a beep!

The Eagles, like the Spurs, are a team that can maximize the strength of role players. Before coming to the Eagles, Korver was just an excellent substitute, with a stable fixed-point three-pointer.

Since coming to the Eagles last year, Korver has started to flourish and has become the most stable three-pointer in the history of competing with Ray Allen. This year, this competition seems to continue.

"Hurry up, run, don't fall into the position..." D'Antoni shouted loudly from the sidelines.

The Lakers' defense just now obviously had a big problem. The opponent got an open opportunity with only three passes, but D'Antoni obviously didn't care about this.

Therefore, after the Spurs scored, the Lakers still launched a fast break. Green made a long pass to Gasol who ran to the center line, and Gasol made a long pass to Liu Ren who was fast down.

The Eagles returned to defense quickly, and the three most important points in their defensive arrangement were returning to defense, shrinking the inside line, and defending Liu Ren from the outside line.

This is what the Eagles copied after watching the last Spurs game against the Lakers.

Liu Ren got the ball and went inside the free throw line to face the basket. Millsap and Carroll leaped high under the basket, stretching their arms upward and taking off vertically. This is what other teams in the league learned from Pacers black Yao Ming Gao Yuanyuan Yes, as long as the offensive player bumps into it, nine out of ten will be fouled by the offensive.

But Liu Ren directly threw the ball into the sky...

(End of this chapter)