stadium ambition

Chapter 69 LeBron Support

After Su Yang finished speaking, several players on the White team laughed softly, and some of them turned their heads away and pretended not to hear, as if they felt that Su Yang's remarks were too embarrassing, while Harden stared at him with wide eyes. Looking at Su Yang, as if looking at a big fool.

The identity of the starter is very important, because the live announcer will highlight the starting players one by one before the game starts, and the detailed information will also be given on the live TV broadcast. In other words, it is an important way to build fan awareness.

When the game actually starts, most fans will only recognize the number, unless it is like the NBA, which often plays games three to four times a week, each team has a fixed number of fans, as long as they play, they can get familiar with each other.

But Su Yang really thinks it doesn't matter. Playing as a substitute and playing with Harden, the two of them form the backcourt together. At that time, there is basically no need to worry about not being able to receive the pass, and they can also play a super killer move like the "Dooku Pick and Roll". Absolutely no loss, maybe even a small profit.

"Hey, you heard that, he himself wants to be on the bench." Coach Coleman had a slight smile on his lips. "And I made such an arrangement because of a variety of considerations, not deliberately."

Harden nodded resentfully, and rolled his eyes at Su Yang again, as if to say 'you really make me speechless'.

Su Yang responded with a smile, feeling in his heart that Harden has nothing serious except for his poor kick-off style. The key is to help out this time, he must regard himself as a friend, and he must lend a helping hand when he has the opportunity in the future.

Seeing that the discussion stopped, Coach Coleman waved his hand, and his tone suddenly became severe: "Everyone is a star player, but now to form a team, we also need to win the game through tactical cooperation. Right now we are running out of time. To start training, in order to let everyone get familiar with it as soon as possible, we mainly focus on the UCLA system, so everyone should understand it, right?"

Gerald Bayless and others nodded to express their understanding that the UCLA system belongs to the basic skill level in the American basketball world, but every player who has played a regular game has more or less practiced it, which is a bit like a nine-nine multiplication table.

Just when Su Yang was wondering why he asked this question, Coleman actually stared at him and said, "If you don't understand, then I can only try to arrange singles tactics for him, but the playing time will definitely be affected, and it is by no means treated differently." .”

"Understood." Su Yang responded calmly, knowing that this is a rule first. Although this rule seems to be aimed at himself, it is also considered a unified standard, so it is acceptable, unless he deliberately finds faults and exaggerates minor problems.

Coleman showed a satisfied expression, and then waved for five starting players to come out, and then waved for Harden, and arranged six people to form a group, while Su Yang formed a group with five of them to practice tactical moves in turn.

As a shooting guard, Su Yang executes tactics, no matter the timing of the ball, the quality of the screen, or the speed of the air cut, everything is perfect.Coleman kept watching with a frown, and when the three rounds of tactics were over, he shook his head and looked away with regret.

After working for more than half an hour, he walked to the sidelines to rest, and saw that the red team had not started training at all. The young coach Stevens was chatting with the red team players with a smile, and hearty laughter came from time to time, as if special interesting.

It wasn't until the morning training was about to end that the red team did a symbolic run of high-post pick-and-roll tactics. In terms of professionalism and seriousness, it can be said that they lagged behind the white team in all aspects, and only the players were happier.

After lunch, everyone took a rest and gathered at two o'clock in the afternoon to take promotional photos. Then, according to Nike's arrangement, they attended a training camp with thousands of elementary school players, wearing Nike equipment and interacting with the young players.

In the evening, everyone came to Madison Square Garden to watch the Knicks play against the Cavaliers collectively.

It was the first time for Su Yang to watch a LeBron game live, and he was looking forward to the lore or the anxious moment, and then he saw the full-fire version of LeBron. Unfortunately, the Knicks are too weak. .

The game showed signs of being unfinished after only 6 minutes, but the Knicks fans were not surprised. Instead, when LeBron made a free throw, they deliberately shouted MVP loudly, and when the Knicks attacked, they booed to interfere.

The Knicks players were quite angry and showed their strongest posture, but after a wave of offensive and defensive failures, they accepted the facts like salted fish, and the gap between the points was getting bigger and bigger, and Cavaliers coach Mike Brown chose to let LeBron rest early .

I once thought that after LeBron left the court, the Cavaliers completely collapsed. Larry Hughes, Drew Gooden, and even Shannon Brown were all vulnerable. The Knicks recovered the situation quickly, and even faintly tied trend.

LeBron was forced to play for a long time. Although he scored 30+ triple-doubles at the end of the game, the Cavaliers only won the game with a slight advantage of five points. If you didn't watch the whole process, you might think that the two teams were evenly matched.

After the game, Su Yang and the others came to the sidelines to accept live interviews with TNT reporters.

Nike arranged Love and Mayo as representatives of the red and white teams. When asked how to evaluate LeBron’s performance in this game, Love believed that LeBron’s performance was perfect, as shocking as Michael Jordan, and he was eligible to run for this season’s MVP .

And Mayo believes that LeBron's performance does not need to be praised, because LeBron has always been so good.

Originally, after the two answered, the interview would end.

But the reporter at the scene suddenly received an instruction to ask Su Yang what he thinks about this game.

Su Yang thought for a moment and decided to tell the truth.

"The overall performance of the Cavaliers is very poor, and it all depends on LeBron alone. If this continues, when they enter the playoffs, they will have no way to fight back against a player with a strict defensive record like the Spurs and no shortcomings in the lineup. force."

When he said this, the reporter was startled, and so were the other players. Only the TV director happily asked for another question.

"So how do you think the Cavaliers should adjust?"

Su Yang organized his language slightly, slowed down his speech, and said in a deep voice: "The Cavaliers should build tactics around LeBron more deeply to maximize LeBron's personal ability, especially to improve LeBron's breakthrough and scoring, and then Other players hit three-pointers, otherwise LeBron could easily be double-teamed, especially against a team like the Spurs."

"OK, so who do you think the Cavaliers should trade?"

This question offended people too much, and it offended many people, so Su Yang stopped telling the truth.

"That's something the Cavaliers management considers, and it has nothing to do with me."

After speaking, he backed away amidst everyone's surprised eyes, and took the initiative to leave the interview environment.

Nike immediately organized the players to leave the arena and take a minibus back to the hotel.

...

Back at the hotel, Su Yang informed Zheng Xiang of today's itinerary, and Zheng Xiang posted it to the major media.

He guessed that the interview answer might cause heated discussions, so he logged on to Twitter and found that there were indeed a large number of fans arguing whether his statement was correct, and the news that he would play as a substitute also spread through this discussion.

Many fans feel that it is inappropriate and think that he should start the game, and many fans think that he should play off the bench, because his interview has exposed that he lacks understanding of basketball games, and even has a wrong understanding.

Just as many fans were arguing, LeBron updated his Twitter, clearly supporting Su Yang to start the game.

(End of this chapter)