I just play ball

Chapter 337 The Triangle Offense
After defeating the Rockets, Li Yue and others took the bus back to the hotel, packed and packed their luggage according to the plan, took the bus again with the staff who had been prepared, and rushed to the airport singing and laughing all the way, preparing to fly back to Los Angeles overnight.

Before takeoff, Nick Young, as a team representative, read Twitter's hottest comments about the Lakers' advancement as usual.

"Let's see what Li Yue's super fan Stephen A. Smith said..." Nick Yang paused, coughing twice and replaced it with the announcer, "Compared to the first round, the Lakers won this round of the series even more. Easy, the main reason is not that they become stronger, but that the Rockets are too weak as opponents. Li Yue played perfectly, so he doesn't look that great. I sincerely hope that the Spurs or the Thunder can bring more challenges to the Western Conference Finals and promote Li Yue played more exciting performances."

As soon as the words fell, the generals of the Lakers either laughed or clapped, and the atmosphere in the plane was extremely cheerful.

"Also, and, listen up, Charlotte Bobcats team reporter Esek relayed Jordan's words." Nick Young shouted eagerly, waving his mobile phone high, "I just walked out of the gate of the Time Warner Online Arena, Michael agreed to let me relay to everyone what he said 3 minutes ago, he thinks Li Yue is the best player in the league today."

"Yeah!" Kobe took the lead in applauding, and Iguodala and others echoed. The whole team greeted Li Yue with eyes, as if congratulating him on getting Jordan's approval. Afterwards, many people must have expressed their opinions, and the battle for No. 1 in the league has increased a lot support.

Li Yue responded with a smile, and the whole team continued to listen to Nick Yang reading Twitter.

In a blink of an eye, the plane took off, traveled for about four hours, and landed at Los Angeles International Airport.

Li Yue woke up from a light sleep, dragged his luggage and got off the plane, waved goodbye to his teammates, and made an appointment for a dinner celebration tomorrow, then took the special car arranged by Taylor to pick him up from the airport, and went straight to Ramona's apartment.

On the way, Taylor called and informed that various publicity methods had been arranged, and with Jordan's god-level assists, he would be able to see the explosive routines of the entire social network at about noon, and his status as No.1 in the league would be firmly established.

Li Yue didn't pay too much attention to it. He went back to the apartment to take a shower and change clothes, and fell asleep happily.

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At nine o'clock in the morning, Li Yue got up to make breakfast, served it in front of the TV, and watched it while eating.

Just in time for the broadcast of ESPN's signature program "FISRT TAKE", the host Molly, together with the guests Stephen and Scape, discussed "whether Jordan's evaluation of Li Yue has the function of stamping and confirming".

Stephen was the first to speak, insisting that it had a stamping effect. The argument was that Jordan had reached the highest level in the basketball field, so Jordan's evaluation was the most authoritative, and Jordan didn't need to please anyone, and there was no commercial touting.

Scape continued to speak, insisting that it does not have the role of stamping. The argument is that Jordan is indeed very strong, but the subjective honor of No. 1 in the league should be obtained through statistics in the absence of absolute crushing.

Stephen retorted that statistics are not about electing a president, and due to various reasons, it is impossible to get all the data.

Skyp explained that according to the law of large numbers, as long as there are enough samples, a certain result is credible.

The two talked to each other, listed data and talked about history, competed against each other, and talked nonsense.

After 10 minutes, Molly read an ad, calling on everyone to continue to participate in the discussion on Twitter.

Li Yue also put down his chopsticks, and lamented that Americans really have a way of making shows. Although the views held by the guests may not even be believed by themselves, they performed with confidence and a strong sense of substitution. This is professionalism.

After washing the dishes, Li Yue went downstairs and jogged for 10 minutes, and then drove to the training base. He did not perform complicated training, but listened to the soft BGM, and simply shot shots to maintain his touch, occasionally stopping halfway to reply to messages.

At noon, what Taylor mentioned really happened, and "Sports Illustrated" took the lead in tweeting and boasting.

"There is no doubt that Li Yue is the greatest basketball player of our time. His greatest achievement is not achieving a five-double or multiple 60+ points, but proving to the world that as long as you pay enough for your dreams, everything is possible. "

This tweet was sent out about 5 minutes ago, and many [-]th-tier celebrities retweeted it one after another. Mark Wahlberg and other big-name Humi also joined in one after another.

By 12:58.15 pm, the topic of "Li Yue's League No. [-]" officially reached the top of the Twitter hot list, and related discussions had accumulated to [-]. In the voting statistics initiated by ESPN, Li Yue defeated LeBron with a support rate of [-]%. .

Such an effect caused the Heat's game against the Nets to attract a lot of extra attention. A large number of melon-eating fans wanted to see LeBron respond. Li Yue also sat on the sofa with half a jar of walnut kernels and quietly watched the game.

TNT broadcast the game live, and the four-person host team used this as the opening topic. O'Neill and Kenny supported Li Yue, Ernie did not express his opinion, and Barkley supported LeBron. The two-on-one debate was crushing.

During the opening ceremony, TNT broadcast a pre-match interview with LeBron.In the face of reporters' inquiries, LeBron said that the controversy about No.1 is not in his concern. The most important thing right now is to beat the Nets and complete the promotion. However, as a big brother, he is very happy to see Li Yue get more recognition. That is the charm of basketball, and I hope more people will participate.

Hearing this, Li Yue gave a thumbs up across the screen to express his appreciation, such a mind is really rare.

The game started in a blink of an eye, and Wade made a successful mid-range shot to open up the situation for the Heat. Then Chalmers stole the ball from Deron.

Seeing this situation, Li Yue slightly adjusted his lazy sitting posture, knowing that LeBron was very likely to fire with all his strength.

As expected, LeBron turned around and stole Pierce, successfully made up for his mistake, took the initiative to divide the ball and started a fast break, and finally received a pass from Chalmers and hit a three-pointer.

After the first quarter of the game, LeBron scored 12 points efficiently and had zero assists.

Taking advantage of the holiday break, Li Yue turned on his mobile phone to browse the news and found that a large number of fans believed that LeBron would respond.

In the second quarter of the game, LeBron still felt hot. He made 6 of 5 shots, scored 13 points with zero turnovers, and only had 1 assist. He was far from the mainstream style of play in the past. His desire to attack was so strong that it was visible to the naked eye.

At 25 points in the half, there was a heated discussion on Twitter, discussing LeBron's final statistics.

As many fans expected, after the third quarter, LeBron did not adjust his style of play. Although he was surrounded by the Nets, he still scored 15 points efficiently with zero turnovers and zero assists, as indestructible as a god of war.

All kinds of bragging on Twitter emerged one after another, and TNT tweeted that the ratings had reached a new high, which could be called the attention of the whole United States.

Taylor called and asked for a solution. Li Yue emphasized that there is no need to care about it. After all, this kind of "one game, one game" response will last for a long time, and there are still many opportunities in the future. Too many public relations methods are easy to be backlashed .

I thought, in the fourth quarter, the Nets resorted to crazy foul tactics.

LeBron reluctantly chose to focus on organization, but other Heat players felt as cold as a winter steel pipe. Even Ray Allen hit the iron three times in a row. The Nets once tied the score. The Heat could only keep LeBron on the court for a long time.

However, in the final stage, all members of the Nets lacked physical strength, and all kinds of shots were a little bit short, and they soon fell behind again.

最终，热火102比96击败篮网，勒布朗出战43分钟，狂砍49分2助攻6篮板。

It looks okay, but compared to Li Yue's triple-double, it's not as tasteful. He boasted that a large number of fans were hiding, and the focus of the whole network's discussion quickly shifted to the Spurs vs. Thunder game. Taylor expressed his gratitude to the Nets for the assist.

Li Yue stared at the comparison of the two teams' data on the TV screen, and always felt a little strange. After he browsed carefully, he found that the Heat had only 14 assists in the game, which was much less than their season average of 22 assists.

He immediately ordered the video and found that the Heat had zero assists in the third quarter. The Nets adopted a one-on-one defense strategy to cut off LeBron’s connection with other Heat players. Although LeBron scored a lot, the Nets took the lead in a single quarter. .

If it weren't for the lack of physical strength in the final quarter, the Nets are very likely to win the game.

This is obviously a good way to target the Heat. He sorted out his thoughts and transformed them into words, and sent them to the group to tell the whole team. Walton replied that the coaching staff would conduct research as soon as possible. Kobe said that he was with his daughter and would give him ideas tomorrow morning.

Putting down his phone, Li Yue switched to ESPN to watch the game between the Spurs and the Thunder.

Ibaka continued to play closed games in this game, obviously only for mental bonuses, and did not arrange important tasks on both ends of the offense and defense. Except for Durant, the other three played averagely, but the Thunder relied on the 8-0 disparity in free throws to win in a single quarter. 6 point advantage.

In the second quarter of the game, Durant showed his power, scored 7 points on 6-for-15 with 9 turnovers, and the Spurs felt cold. The Thunder took a [-]-point lead in a single quarter.

During the intermission, Li Yue glanced at Twitter and found that the fans thought there was nothing wrong with this matchup, because the Spurs were troubled by fouls and did not dare to defend with all their strength, and the Thunder were playing crazy singles, and the game perception was extremely poor.

In the next two quarters, the rhythm of the two teams remained the same, and the referee was bragging to find a balance.

Li Yue was bored watching, so he turned off the TV in advance, sat in front of the computer and chatted with Chenxi via video.

After chatting for a while, the team group information flashed, and I clicked to view it, and found that it was assistant coach Madsen who suggested that everyone take time to watch the analysis of the Thunder's video, because the Thunder has tied 2-2 and may become the Western Conference Finals opponent.

Li Yue replied that there is no need to think about it, because the Spurs have danced in shackles in the last two games, and Ibaka's personal condition has deteriorated sharply. As long as the referee whistles normally in the next game, the Spurs will surely win.

Iguodala agreed with this statement, while emphasizing that the analysis of Diaw should be increased, because the Spurs are gradually increasing the tasks that Diaw undertakes on both ends of the offense and defense, providing the Spurs with rich diversity options.

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Early the next morning, Li Yue drove to Irvine to attend Li Zhi's school entrance banquet.

It is said to be a banquet, but it is actually more like a party. The second uncle set up an oven in the yard and cooked the food himself. Most of the guests were Chinese neighbors, as well as Li Zhi's classmates and teachers at school, about [-] people.

Li Yue's appearance caused a sensation, and he took turns to take photos before he was free. He sat on the lawn and talked with Li Zhi about the university plan, and said that he would also take time to return to school to complete the courses, and advised not to waste too much time.

To express his congratulations, he presented Li Zhi with the basketball from the game against the Pacers last year, and then simply tried a few beef kebabs, then drove back to Los Angeles and went directly to the Lakers training base.

The team is on vacation, and the whole team spontaneously organizes joint training, with the Spurs as the imaginary enemy.

During the break, Kobe talked about how to limit the Heat, agreeing that "defending LeBron one-on-one and locking up other Heat players" is a better strategy.

Regarding Dior's problem, Li Yue believes that the conventional method is difficult to solve, especially under the strong system bonus of the Spurs, the best way is to divide and deal with it, and try to end the offense in a single-handed way, which can weaken Dior to the greatest extent. , and even Leonard's multi-position defensive ability, and the Lakers have such capital to execute.

Such an idea was quite bold, and no one responded for a while, and Kobe thought for a long time before speaking.

"Listen to you, it's actually a bit like the 98 Finals. The Bulls used many means to create a large number of singles opportunities for Michael Jordan, especially at critical moments, which disintegrated the Jazz's strong defense."

"That's the triangle offense." Iguodala immediately took over the topic. "This tactic is to create singles opportunities for superstars. We have two in our team. Paul is also very skilled and can try it out."

Li Yue nodded when he heard the words. Gasol was the offensive axis of the Lakers during the two consecutive championships. , Phil's triangle offensive system, the two-tower system that defeated Popovich many times, can be used as a reference for success.

"I'm perfectly fine," Gasol said. "But, should we call the coaching staff first?"

Everyone fell silent when they heard the words. D'Antoni often adopted Kobe or Li Yue's proposals, but most of them were small details. The only major reform was the decision to adopt a dynamic offensive system during the off-season. But at that time, he had several months to prepare. It will take up to a week for the Western Conference finals, and it seems a bit difficult to skillfully use the new tactical system.

"It's not as troublesome as everyone thinks, and it doesn't have to be so troublesome!" Li Yue got up and said, "The dynamic offensive system has a lot of references to the triangle offensive system. Our goal is to get more singles opportunities, and we can increase training for this. "

In his opinion, many tactics are only different in name. As long as they can achieve the same effect, there is no need to worry about it at all. As long as the name is canceled or the name is changed, the players will not be under pressure, and the coaching staff will not feel troublesome. beautiful.

(End of this chapter)