Versatile Point Forward

Chapter 216 Big Change of Mentality
After the game, the Trail Blazers boarded a special plane to Portland with their heads down.Sitting in their own exclusive seats, no one spoke, no one ate, and no one listened to music. They just sat there quietly, and the atmosphere was oppressive like a huge tomb.

McMillan didn't intend to start lecturing directly on the plane. It's better for these boys to think about their mistakes now, otherwise it would be useless to say it.The second game was indeed a shame for them. Originally, they were the only ones to win the first game, which attracted a lot of attention from the media and experts, but they were immediately beaten back to their original form in the second game. The nearly 30-point defeat in the NBA playoffs It is also counted in history, which makes everyone think that the Blazers' victory is just a fluke.Now as long as you open the website, all you see is absolutely gloating.

For professional players, psychological quality must not be ignored. If the mentality is not good, they will not be able to perform at a normal level in the game.Next, they don't have much rest time. April 4 is the third game of this round of the series and the first home game for the Blazers. McMillan doesn't want to lose this game, if he loses , The morale of the team is gone, and a loss of morale may directly lose the entire series.

After returning to Portland, the team disbanded directly. The most important thing now is to let the players go back to rest and recharge their spirits.McMillan did not arrange a training plan for the next day, but asked everyone to hold a team meeting in the arena on the second night. This was also to give them a buffer time so that they would not be discouraged by a loss in a game.In order to boost the morale of the team, first of all, the players themselves must not lose confidence. If someone is really desperate for the next few games, McMillan will definitely demote him to the bench without hesitation, so that those who are determined to win Players play.

Ye Feng lay on the bed and couldn't fall asleep, he was still thinking about the game that just ended.The Suns deserve to be the top offensive team in the league. When Nash's role is fully exerted, it may be difficult for any team to block their firepower.However, their defense is still as bad as ever, and there are still a lot of shooting opportunities. It is completely possible to play against them and see who can score more.The loss of this game was largely due to the fact that the teammates themselves didn't pay much attention to the game, and they couldn't get nervous when they should be nervous in the second half, so they collapsed directly.

So what about the next game?Maybe everyone will learn their lesson?Every season, there are strong teams capsized in the gutter, and now the Suns are the strong team, and the Trail Blazers are just the weak side. Looking down on the opponent can only be asking for trouble.The reason why there was such a mentality in the second game is largely due to the bragging of the major media on their platforms after the first game, which made everyone's confidence burst, and the Suns, who are the third in the West Looking at it, this led to a fiasco.Thinking of this, Ye Feng snorted coldly: Those media are also really annoying guys, they brag like crazy when they win, and stomp like hell when they lose, they have no morals at all.

But how to play the third game depends on the coach. Although Ye Feng has a high status in the tactical system, he cannot decide the team's style of play. He can only use it after the head coach determines the general direction. own way to perform.Since the team meeting is going to be held, it is obvious that the coach wants to beat everyone, hoping that the whole team will face the first home court of this round of playoffs with a confident but not arrogant, serious but not nervous attitude.

Sure enough, as Ye Feng expected, this team meeting didn't talk about the tactics for the third game, but just showed everyone the mistakes made in the second game.Yes, turnover highlights, and these are the credits of assistant coach Monty Williams, who didn't sleep all day and night after returning to Portland, before making mistakes or not doing enough according to every player on the team who played the game. It's a huge project to cut out the good parts, but Monty doesn't feel tired, sitting next to McMillan, he looks radiant.For him, the interests of the team are above all else, and it is largely because he has feelings for this group of young guards. He hopes that the boys can work together to help the team win another championship trophy.

McMillan was not polite. He clicked on the "collection" of everyone's mistakes one after another, and sneered at the players while playing.This is a risky move. If everyone starts to have a reverse psychology, then the third game is basically hopeless.However, McMillan didn't care. The young people in the team accounted for the majority, and gentle means would be useless. He could only humiliate them severely with harsh words to make them realize that they made a mistake in the last game. What a serious mistake.Fortunately, there are no superstars in the Trail Blazers. Superstars have a temper, and they will definitely not accept such an extreme method.

Everyone was a little upset at first, but when they saw that Ye Feng, the only one who played normally in the last game, did not escape the head coach's reprimand, everyone became honest.In their view, Ye Feng, who was ridiculed, could not be ridiculed. To some extent, he was the only one who played hard in the last game. Even though he fell behind a lot, he did not give up hope of equalizing the score.But McMillan unceremoniously taught Ye Feng a lesson, so that everyone else had to obediently accept the same "treatment", after all their performance was much worse than Ye Feng's.

Ye Feng didn't feel uncomfortable at all. From the mistakes made by the assistant coach, he found that he really played poorly in the last game. The reason why he looked good was just a general among dwarfs. Compared with other Blazers players Not bad in terms of performance, but in practice it still performs poorly.

After training everyone, McMillan said in a deep voice: "Now no one thinks they can easily win the game, right? I don't want to ask Monty to do the same thing after the next game, and then I I will scold you again while watching the video. Now we should wake up, they are the stronger side, if anyone has not changed their mentality, you can tell me after the meeting, I will let you 48 minutes They all sat on the bench and waved the towel for others. I don’t need to say more about the importance of this game. If you win, you still have a chance to enter the second round. If you lose, just go back and go fishing!”

(End of this chapter)