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Chapter 715 The Village's Last Hope
Chapter 715 The Village's Last Hope
Nonsense thoughts flashed by.
How could it be possible for Curry to make an early appearance?
Popovich is not an idiot. Even if he can hit a three-pointer, the Spurs will definitely catch Curry on the offensive end. It’s okay if they can’t defend. Su Yang can't do that kind of thing.
"Still follow the normal recovery process..."
Su Yang made a final decision, discussed a few more arrangements for the future, and then left the arena and returned to the apartment.
On the same night, the Rockets also swept the Pelicans 4-0 to advance. Harden averaged 32 points and 10 assists per game in the series. Pelicans leader Anthony Davis left the field early without shaking hands, with an angry expression on his face and a message Say apply for a transaction.
In the East, the Cavaliers also officially swept the Wizards to advance, while the Raptors and Pacers tied 2-2, which was quite anxious.
Su Yang saw the news before going to bed, and thought that a team like the New Orleans Pelicans really had a bad fate, and winning the championship was harder than reaching the sky.
After a day off, the king resumed joint training.
At eight o'clock in the morning, the coaching staff and the scouting team had a meeting together. Su Yang said bluntly: "We play game after game, and we redesign our strategy every game, but there is one thing that needs to be insisted on all the time, that is, don't play reasonable with the Spurs. You’ve got to do something amazing to win.”
The Spurs are too strong this season, and the Kings lack three main players. At least the first two away games will be very difficult.
"Based on the current situation, we need to learn from the Thunder's style of play, choke three-pointers, attack the inside with all our strength, and try to play as fast as possible." Su Yang paused for a moment, "If we can succeed in the opening game, it may force the Spurs to make change…"
The king has no advantage in playing positional warfare. Only by switching a lot of offense and defense, giving full play to the impact advantages of Antetokounmpo, Tatum and LaVine, and making it difficult for the Spurs to use their defensive discussions, can it be possible to kill the older Spurs inside .
There is still half a sentence deliberately saved, that is, if the opening cannot be successful, the King will probably lose two games in a row.
Mike Brown answered: "Since learning the Thunder's style of play, who will be the one-on-one player at the critical moment? In our current lineup, there is no player of Durant's level. Based on my understanding of Popo, only Can't stop him at all..."
Su Yang nodded: "I understand what you mean, but this time we are either playing heads-up, or comparing the depth of the lineup, trying to run across the Spurs. No one can withstand Leonard's defense in a heads-up. Once the efficiency drops, it will It forms a vicious circle and can only be used when the confidence is particularly large, but Tatum is a variable, he is very powerful immediately, and we can make adjustments depending on the situation."
Make up your mind, and the corresponding training will follow.
With Antetokounmpo, Tatum and LaVine as the core, a lot of early offensive tactics are practiced, and whoever has the opportunity will take the ball to play, but it is still difficult to make a slight deduction. After all, Danny Green and Leonard are both Hopefully stalking a Kings player.
At the same time as the training, the outside world gave predictions for the two teams.
ESPN launched a voting statistics, which lasted 24 hours, and a total of 58391 people participated. More than 90% of them were more optimistic about the Spurs. The main reason was simple: the King’s three core players were injured and could not participate in the battle. Even if Curry and Brogdon returned in time, it would be difficult to resist Such a powerful Spurs, after all, have to find their form just after their comeback, unless they directly have the state of complete victory before the injury.
ESPN also convened 21 experts to make predictions, of which 16 were optimistic about the promotion of the Spurs, while the other 5 were optimistic about the promotion of the Kings, all of them advanced 4 to 3. It seems that they believe that Su Yang can use the home court advantage to create miracles.
Bill Simmons, a well-known commentator, tweeted: "The king will lose the series with the Spurs, but I'll be fair and just, that's just God hoping that Su Yang won't win alone, and don't make other teams lose their motivation to compete for the championship , Su Yang does everything he can, all his operations this season are full marks, any of which is the best general manager level."
Bulls star Pippen tweeted: "I want to say something fair for Su Yang in advance, he should be the best head coach this season, but because of his off-court affairs, he missed too many games and couldn't enter the selection. It wasn't his fault for the Spurs."
Stephen Smith tweeted: "I don't want to talk about the win or loss of the Kings vs. Spurs series. I just want to point out that Su Yang resolutely rejected the Kings player's trade application during the offseason and publicly promised to renew his contract with a maximum salary after Cousins was injured. And quickly traded to get Lopez, so that the king's regular season record ranked third, and also developed a role player like Payton II. If James Dolan can do one of those operations, the New York Knicks will not be like today Oops, it’s the same boss, but the gap between them is bigger than the gap between Michael Jordan and me, I hope Dolan will repeatedly study Su Yang’s various operations.”
Various commentators, those who used to like to question Su Yang, actually stood up and said good things, although it was only superficial.
Su Yang saw the comments by chance, and thought that when there were some threats in the past, no one was polite, but now the threats are relatively small, but they are polite, and strength is the last word. Just do whatever.
In a blink of an eye on the 28th, the first game of the Western Conference semifinals between the Kings and the Spurs started at the ATT Center in San Antonio.
The Kings started Payton Jr., LaVine, Tatum, Antetokounmpo, and Lopez to maximize their speed.
The Spurs started with Mills, Danny Green, Leonard, Aldridge, Gasol, and off the court sat George Hill, Rudy Gay, Kyle Anderson, Ginobili and Parker and other powerful substitutes. The depth of the lineup Didn't lose much to the king either.
Cheers erupted in the arena, and the Spurs won the jump ball.
The old routine of the first attack, the strong and weak shifted hands, Gasol and Aldridge both covered the three-point line consecutively. After clearing the paint, Leonard took the ball and rushed at the top of the arc, successfully attracting Lopez to double-team, and turned to score. With the ball at 45 degrees, Gasol received the ball and made a decisive three-pointer.
Basketball clangs like iron.
The arena cheered again.
But Su Yang was a little surprised. Popovich actually chose to let the two big men clear the space in the middle in order to avoid Leonard's shortcoming of being double-teamed and weak. The side will adopt a double-team strategy.
The key fast break didn't start, and the Spurs let the two big men pull out, just to give up offensive rebounds and ensure a return to defense.
While thinking about it, the king fell to the ground.
This side continued to cover, and the Spurs continued to change defenses, and suppressed the line and did not give easy running tactics. Finally, after some tossing, LaVine rushed to the short corner on the right with the ball and made an emergency stop, facing Danny Green and Gasol. , It's a pity that the basketball hits the basket and strikes iron.
The Spurs grabbed the rebound, but instead played a fast break, Adelaide took a long pass and hit Antetokounmpo with his back, and then turned around and shot a jumper.
Still hitting the iron, Rose got the rebound and made a long pass. Unfortunately, the Spurs returned to defense very quickly and were destroyed by Leonard.
Tatum caught the ball in a hurry and failed to catch it. The basketball rolled out of the baseline. The referee followed up with a whistle and whistled for a violation, signaling the transfer of possession.
Between the two teams coming and going, the king was defended to 7 of 1 shots. According to the plan, Su Yang instructed the whole team to strengthen the confrontation.
The effect was immediate, causing the Spurs to make mistakes consecutively, but Popovich asked Danny Green to defend Rose, Leonard to defend LaVine, and Mills to defend Tatum as he requested a timeout, and then continued the pick-and-roll breakthrough Hit inside.
That style of play puts a lot of pressure on the Kings.
Fortunately, the starting players are strong enough to not open up the points, but when they enter the rotation stage, the situation collapses directly.
The debut of Payton Jr. and Nance Jr. not only failed to provide impact, but because of poor ball control, they made three consecutive turnovers, allowing the Spurs to play a 14-2 attack wave, causing the Kings to end the first quarter behind 16-30 , the situation is bleak.
The second quarter started immediately.
Su Yang temporarily adjusted his strategy, let LaVine and Tatum play in the backcourt, let Covington and Jeff Green play in the frontcourt, and soon set off an 8-3 offensive, but Popovich was so old-fashioned that he quickly asked for a timeout. Leonard came on stage early and easily took over the situation.
After halftime, the Kings trailed by 20 points.
Antetokounmpo and others returned to the locker room first, and Su Yang stayed for an interview at midfield. When talking about why we lost so much, he said bluntly: "Most of our strategies were predicted in advance by the Spurs, which led to our plan not being implemented smoothly. They have Two temporary adjustments, but the Spurs also have two temporary adjustments to deal with, we will continue to defend well and try more strategies."
After finishing the interview and returning to the locker room, Su Yang faced the question directly: "We need to be more adventurous in the second half..."
Brother Antetokounmpo and others readily agreed, but they obviously didn't have the belief that it could be reversed, and the whole process was mainly handled.
Then the third quarter started.
According to Su Yang's instructions, the kings will grab more three-pointers, and Antetokounmpo, Tatum and Rose hit consecutively.
Seeing that chasing points is expected, Leonard and Ade each responded with a three-pointer, Green steals LaVine's fast break, and another busy day.
The Spurs withstood the King's three consecutive offensives.
With 2 minutes left in the fourth quarter of the game, the Kings were still behind by as many as 18 points. Su Yang replaced the main force and chose to admit defeat.
In the end, the Kings lost to the Spurs 102 to 118, and fell behind 0 to 1 in the Western Conference semifinals. Rose scored 26 points.
After the game, ESPN pointed out that the King's loss to the Spurs this time was Su Yang's first loss in G1 since he became the owner of the King.
At the press conference, when talking about the reasons for the loss, Su Yang said bluntly: "Honestly speaking, we played very well in tonight's game, but the Spurs played better than us. Next, we will try to improve our shooting efficiency and avoid any recurrence. 7 for 1 to start."
Back at the hotel, Su Yang couldn't help asking about Kaufman, knowing that Curry and Brogdon would be at least four days away.
We can only wait for the time being.
The next day, the Kings played against the Spurs again in an away game. Various preparations and on-the-spot strategies were used, but in the end they lost by 12 points.
With 0 to 2 behind, the Kings team flew back to Sacred City. Su Yang knew that the general situation was over, but the lineup was not as good as the Spurs.
Only Curry is the last hope.
Yesterday's chapter didn't seem like a good idea?
(End of this chapter)
Nonsense thoughts flashed by.
How could it be possible for Curry to make an early appearance?
Popovich is not an idiot. Even if he can hit a three-pointer, the Spurs will definitely catch Curry on the offensive end. It’s okay if they can’t defend. Su Yang can't do that kind of thing.
"Still follow the normal recovery process..."
Su Yang made a final decision, discussed a few more arrangements for the future, and then left the arena and returned to the apartment.
On the same night, the Rockets also swept the Pelicans 4-0 to advance. Harden averaged 32 points and 10 assists per game in the series. Pelicans leader Anthony Davis left the field early without shaking hands, with an angry expression on his face and a message Say apply for a transaction.
In the East, the Cavaliers also officially swept the Wizards to advance, while the Raptors and Pacers tied 2-2, which was quite anxious.
Su Yang saw the news before going to bed, and thought that a team like the New Orleans Pelicans really had a bad fate, and winning the championship was harder than reaching the sky.
After a day off, the king resumed joint training.
At eight o'clock in the morning, the coaching staff and the scouting team had a meeting together. Su Yang said bluntly: "We play game after game, and we redesign our strategy every game, but there is one thing that needs to be insisted on all the time, that is, don't play reasonable with the Spurs. You’ve got to do something amazing to win.”
The Spurs are too strong this season, and the Kings lack three main players. At least the first two away games will be very difficult.
"Based on the current situation, we need to learn from the Thunder's style of play, choke three-pointers, attack the inside with all our strength, and try to play as fast as possible." Su Yang paused for a moment, "If we can succeed in the opening game, it may force the Spurs to make change…"
The king has no advantage in playing positional warfare. Only by switching a lot of offense and defense, giving full play to the impact advantages of Antetokounmpo, Tatum and LaVine, and making it difficult for the Spurs to use their defensive discussions, can it be possible to kill the older Spurs inside .
There is still half a sentence deliberately saved, that is, if the opening cannot be successful, the King will probably lose two games in a row.
Mike Brown answered: "Since learning the Thunder's style of play, who will be the one-on-one player at the critical moment? In our current lineup, there is no player of Durant's level. Based on my understanding of Popo, only Can't stop him at all..."
Su Yang nodded: "I understand what you mean, but this time we are either playing heads-up, or comparing the depth of the lineup, trying to run across the Spurs. No one can withstand Leonard's defense in a heads-up. Once the efficiency drops, it will It forms a vicious circle and can only be used when the confidence is particularly large, but Tatum is a variable, he is very powerful immediately, and we can make adjustments depending on the situation."
Make up your mind, and the corresponding training will follow.
With Antetokounmpo, Tatum and LaVine as the core, a lot of early offensive tactics are practiced, and whoever has the opportunity will take the ball to play, but it is still difficult to make a slight deduction. After all, Danny Green and Leonard are both Hopefully stalking a Kings player.
At the same time as the training, the outside world gave predictions for the two teams.
ESPN launched a voting statistics, which lasted 24 hours, and a total of 58391 people participated. More than 90% of them were more optimistic about the Spurs. The main reason was simple: the King’s three core players were injured and could not participate in the battle. Even if Curry and Brogdon returned in time, it would be difficult to resist Such a powerful Spurs, after all, have to find their form just after their comeback, unless they directly have the state of complete victory before the injury.
ESPN also convened 21 experts to make predictions, of which 16 were optimistic about the promotion of the Spurs, while the other 5 were optimistic about the promotion of the Kings, all of them advanced 4 to 3. It seems that they believe that Su Yang can use the home court advantage to create miracles.
Bill Simmons, a well-known commentator, tweeted: "The king will lose the series with the Spurs, but I'll be fair and just, that's just God hoping that Su Yang won't win alone, and don't make other teams lose their motivation to compete for the championship , Su Yang does everything he can, all his operations this season are full marks, any of which is the best general manager level."
Bulls star Pippen tweeted: "I want to say something fair for Su Yang in advance, he should be the best head coach this season, but because of his off-court affairs, he missed too many games and couldn't enter the selection. It wasn't his fault for the Spurs."
Stephen Smith tweeted: "I don't want to talk about the win or loss of the Kings vs. Spurs series. I just want to point out that Su Yang resolutely rejected the Kings player's trade application during the offseason and publicly promised to renew his contract with a maximum salary after Cousins was injured. And quickly traded to get Lopez, so that the king's regular season record ranked third, and also developed a role player like Payton II. If James Dolan can do one of those operations, the New York Knicks will not be like today Oops, it’s the same boss, but the gap between them is bigger than the gap between Michael Jordan and me, I hope Dolan will repeatedly study Su Yang’s various operations.”
Various commentators, those who used to like to question Su Yang, actually stood up and said good things, although it was only superficial.
Su Yang saw the comments by chance, and thought that when there were some threats in the past, no one was polite, but now the threats are relatively small, but they are polite, and strength is the last word. Just do whatever.
In a blink of an eye on the 28th, the first game of the Western Conference semifinals between the Kings and the Spurs started at the ATT Center in San Antonio.
The Kings started Payton Jr., LaVine, Tatum, Antetokounmpo, and Lopez to maximize their speed.
The Spurs started with Mills, Danny Green, Leonard, Aldridge, Gasol, and off the court sat George Hill, Rudy Gay, Kyle Anderson, Ginobili and Parker and other powerful substitutes. The depth of the lineup Didn't lose much to the king either.
Cheers erupted in the arena, and the Spurs won the jump ball.
The old routine of the first attack, the strong and weak shifted hands, Gasol and Aldridge both covered the three-point line consecutively. After clearing the paint, Leonard took the ball and rushed at the top of the arc, successfully attracting Lopez to double-team, and turned to score. With the ball at 45 degrees, Gasol received the ball and made a decisive three-pointer.
Basketball clangs like iron.
The arena cheered again.
But Su Yang was a little surprised. Popovich actually chose to let the two big men clear the space in the middle in order to avoid Leonard's shortcoming of being double-teamed and weak. The side will adopt a double-team strategy.
The key fast break didn't start, and the Spurs let the two big men pull out, just to give up offensive rebounds and ensure a return to defense.
While thinking about it, the king fell to the ground.
This side continued to cover, and the Spurs continued to change defenses, and suppressed the line and did not give easy running tactics. Finally, after some tossing, LaVine rushed to the short corner on the right with the ball and made an emergency stop, facing Danny Green and Gasol. , It's a pity that the basketball hits the basket and strikes iron.
The Spurs grabbed the rebound, but instead played a fast break, Adelaide took a long pass and hit Antetokounmpo with his back, and then turned around and shot a jumper.
Still hitting the iron, Rose got the rebound and made a long pass. Unfortunately, the Spurs returned to defense very quickly and were destroyed by Leonard.
Tatum caught the ball in a hurry and failed to catch it. The basketball rolled out of the baseline. The referee followed up with a whistle and whistled for a violation, signaling the transfer of possession.
Between the two teams coming and going, the king was defended to 7 of 1 shots. According to the plan, Su Yang instructed the whole team to strengthen the confrontation.
The effect was immediate, causing the Spurs to make mistakes consecutively, but Popovich asked Danny Green to defend Rose, Leonard to defend LaVine, and Mills to defend Tatum as he requested a timeout, and then continued the pick-and-roll breakthrough Hit inside.
That style of play puts a lot of pressure on the Kings.
Fortunately, the starting players are strong enough to not open up the points, but when they enter the rotation stage, the situation collapses directly.
The debut of Payton Jr. and Nance Jr. not only failed to provide impact, but because of poor ball control, they made three consecutive turnovers, allowing the Spurs to play a 14-2 attack wave, causing the Kings to end the first quarter behind 16-30 , the situation is bleak.
The second quarter started immediately.
Su Yang temporarily adjusted his strategy, let LaVine and Tatum play in the backcourt, let Covington and Jeff Green play in the frontcourt, and soon set off an 8-3 offensive, but Popovich was so old-fashioned that he quickly asked for a timeout. Leonard came on stage early and easily took over the situation.
After halftime, the Kings trailed by 20 points.
Antetokounmpo and others returned to the locker room first, and Su Yang stayed for an interview at midfield. When talking about why we lost so much, he said bluntly: "Most of our strategies were predicted in advance by the Spurs, which led to our plan not being implemented smoothly. They have Two temporary adjustments, but the Spurs also have two temporary adjustments to deal with, we will continue to defend well and try more strategies."
After finishing the interview and returning to the locker room, Su Yang faced the question directly: "We need to be more adventurous in the second half..."
Brother Antetokounmpo and others readily agreed, but they obviously didn't have the belief that it could be reversed, and the whole process was mainly handled.
Then the third quarter started.
According to Su Yang's instructions, the kings will grab more three-pointers, and Antetokounmpo, Tatum and Rose hit consecutively.
Seeing that chasing points is expected, Leonard and Ade each responded with a three-pointer, Green steals LaVine's fast break, and another busy day.
The Spurs withstood the King's three consecutive offensives.
With 2 minutes left in the fourth quarter of the game, the Kings were still behind by as many as 18 points. Su Yang replaced the main force and chose to admit defeat.
In the end, the Kings lost to the Spurs 102 to 118, and fell behind 0 to 1 in the Western Conference semifinals. Rose scored 26 points.
After the game, ESPN pointed out that the King's loss to the Spurs this time was Su Yang's first loss in G1 since he became the owner of the King.
At the press conference, when talking about the reasons for the loss, Su Yang said bluntly: "Honestly speaking, we played very well in tonight's game, but the Spurs played better than us. Next, we will try to improve our shooting efficiency and avoid any recurrence. 7 for 1 to start."
Back at the hotel, Su Yang couldn't help asking about Kaufman, knowing that Curry and Brogdon would be at least four days away.
We can only wait for the time being.
The next day, the Kings played against the Spurs again in an away game. Various preparations and on-the-spot strategies were used, but in the end they lost by 12 points.
With 0 to 2 behind, the Kings team flew back to Sacred City. Su Yang knew that the general situation was over, but the lineup was not as good as the Spurs.
Only Curry is the last hope.
Yesterday's chapter didn't seem like a good idea?
(End of this chapter)
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