NBA Legends Manager

Chapter 42
Presti sat in the office and watched his Twitter. The number of fans increased by 10,000+ after yesterday's battle.

The Thunder will experience four consecutive away games, and today the Thunder will play away against the Trail Blazers. Presti asked for leave due to illness and did not go to Portland with the team.

If fans know that Presti, who is the head coach, is actually watching his Twitter in the office, they don't know how to feel.

"It should be a game soon." After Presti finished speaking, he turned on the live broadcast channel. In fact, the reason why he didn't go was to see what kind of game the players could play when he was not around.

If the fight is good, then I will go together next time to prevent the victory, if the fight is not good, I will ask for leave next time.

Presti touched his chin habitually, it is also a kind of learning to play badly.

Come to your senses, the game has begun!
The assistant coach is obviously adjusting the lineup according to Presti's thinking, and puts the rookie on the bench as always, but the opponent has already watched the Thunder's previous preseason and yesterday's regular season.

Therefore, as soon as the Thunder came up, they were caught off guard by the opponent, and the Blazers led by 5 points in the first quarter.

After the Thunder's substitute came on in the second quarter, the opponent kept Aldridge on the court and brought Oden up!

Aldridge turned a blind eye to Jeff Green's defense, and played back singles with no solution!Oden even suppressed Jordan, causing the Thunder's team's rebounds to plummet, unable to push up the fast break, and lost again by 11 points in the second quarter.

But in the second half, Baron Davis directly turned on the superstar singles mode. Either he threw the ball before halftime, or he took the ball and went inside without thinking. As soon as he was put down, the opponent would either end it with a long pass or push a fast break.

After being replaced, after using Westbrook as the main control, the same brainless breakthrough, brainless emergency stop mid-range shot,

The sound of two people striking iron can be heard endlessly,

After Dragic held the ball, he couldn't get through it directly and couldn't pose a threat. The Blazers' upper-limit double-team holder really made this group of rookies miserable. In the end, the Portland Trail Blazers defeated the Thunder.

At this time, Presti couldn't help laughing, nodding his head constantly, and muttering to himself: "These two assistant coaches have a future."

Not surprisingly, the news of the Thunder's defeat hit the headlines. Because Presti didn't play, there was no direct criticism of him, but a lot of space was used to criticize this year's rookies, especially Westbrook and Jordan.

Westbrook will only go it alone without thinking and shoot poorly!The shooting selection is also poor. Jordan showed his original shape and had no independent offensive ability. He was completely crushed when he encountered a stronger center.

Presti didn't pay attention to these news when he saw the news, because in the previous life, Westbrook and Jordan Jr. were under no less pressure than they are now. At that time, they were able to bear the pressure and move forward, and they will definitely move forward now.

After the thunderous defeat, the Thunder didn't have time to be sad. They simply cleaned up and flew to the next city, San Antonio.

Before the game, many media had already prepared the draft for the Thunder's loss. After the big defeat to Portland, almost no one thought that the Spurs with Duncan, Parker and Ginobili could win without Presti.

Sure enough, the Thunder fell into a passive position at the beginning of the game. Although they had a slight advantage in the positions of small forward and point guard, the Spurs relied on the defensive system established by Popovich to stun the Thunder's shooting percentage.

And the inside line was completely shattered by Duncan, and Jordan was beaten by Duncan with 6 fouls and left the field.

In the rotation lineup, it was a complete defeat. Ginobili really taught Dragic a vivid lesson.

The Thunder lost again to the San Antonio Spurs.

After the game, the reporter rushed out to interview the Thunder players. Of course, Westbrook, who had been criticized all the time, was the first to be interviewed.

"Russell, may I ask why you lost consecutively to the Portland Trail Blazers and San Antonio Spurs after winning against such a strong opponent as the Los Angeles Lakers?" A reporter stared at Westbrook after asking, expecting his answer

"Did you watch the game?" Westbrook questioned.

"Well, look, I'm on the sidelines," the reporter replied immediately.

"Oh, then since you watched the game, you must know why." Westbrook's enlightened expression made the reporter look embarrassed.

The reporter was speechless for a moment, not knowing what to say, but Westbrook said again: "Tell me the reason, so we can correct it."

The reporter's heart was broken, and he couldn't turn around to interview others.

"DeAndre, may I ask why you performed so well against the top three when you played against the Lakers, but you did so well against the Trail Blazers and Spurs who are not as good as the Lakers inside..." The reporter didn't say anything later, but everyone knew that what he didn't say later was nothing more than poor performance, poor performance,

Little Jordan's face turned red when he was asked, and he didn't say a word. In fact, the insider was thinking: "Head coach, come and save me."

Finally, with the Thunder team in a sad state, the reporter finished the interview. Don't think about it, the next day, the Thunder will be bloody again on various websites.

After finishing the interview, Thunder once again boarded the plane to the Los Angeles Clippers. At this time, everyone breathed a sigh of relief. They finally played the lottery team. Now they can win.

As a result, on the day of the game, the Thunder did beat the Los Angeles Clippers, but the process of winning was extremely difficult.

The Thunder's weak fourth position was blown up again. Since Presti wasn't there, Raheem couldn't play at all. Mbah a Moute and Jeff Green, who played directly against Zach Randolph, both defensively and offensively, shook their heads frequently.

And Jordan was undoubtedly taught to be a man by Marcus Camby again.

Fortunately, Durant and Westbrook broke out at the same time, constantly clenching the score, and the normal Baron Davis made a key goal at the last moment to seal the victory.

Although the game was tough, they won the game anyway. Everyone thought that the media would stop for a while, but the next day, the Thunder narrowly beat the bottom lottery team and once again made headlines on various sports websites.

At this time, the media that had never criticized Presti finally targeted him this time, "After leading the team for a summer, the tactical quality is still so poor",
"The selected rookies are embarrassing and can only be short-lived",
"A rookie whose debut is the pinnacle has no room for improvement",
……

Presti just laughed at this, these people can't hold their breath, don't they still have an away game to lose?

The players of the Thunder did not disappoint Presti's expectations. The last game of the four-game streak was against the Denver Nuggets.
The most stable point of the Thunder is that Durant was undoubtedly blown away by Anthony at the peak. Similarly, Westbrook faced Iverson, and Dragic faced Billups and was completely taught to be a man.
Of course, our little Jordan faced Nene, who was at his peak, and was fouled off again by 6 fouls.

What was surprising this time was that the news on the second day after the game no longer publicized the news of Thunder's defeat, but just wrote "Thunder Clown" in an inconspicuous corner.

Presti laughed after seeing it. The team should have arrived at the arena at this point, and went to see these young players. Thinking of this, Presti got up and went to the arena.

(End of this chapter)