When the tennis team practiced the next day, Yi Jianlian drank some Yili yogurt first, which tasted very ordinary, but his confidence was expanding, and he felt the strength of youth, as if the fairy sister was about to smile at him. Then he chewed a piece of Green Arrow to take it easy and go to head coach Lawrence? Frank spoke.

The third year is especially important for a rookie player, especially one who hasn't fully proven himself. Yi Jianlian has been on the back foot for two consecutive seasons, and next season will be his most important year, he must use his performance to earn status, and he can't be shy anymore.

When Yi Jianlian spoke his mind, Frank felt the sun come out of the west.

Frank promised at the beginning of the season that he would give young players plenty of room to grow, but in fact, except for the underrated Brooke in the draft? López, the others didn't get enough opportunities. In terms of tactical thinking, Frank advertises DDM (DribbleDriveMotion), which is a break-based tactic. The content is that the ball handler directly breaks through the individual offense, or after the breakthrough, the ball is distributed to teammates on the block and the gap, and they shoot.

This seemingly esoteric style of play, which is actually not much different from no tactics, can still confuse opponents at the beginning of the season, after all, there are two major breakthrough players in the team, Harris and Carter. But as the season progressed, after the teams studied the Nets' style of play, this simple set of tactics did not work, which is one of the reasons why the Nets performed so poorly in the second half of the season.

Frank also knows that his tactics are monotonous, and he can't do it if he doesn't change it. He was about to let Anderson try to play the starting game after returning from injury, Yi Jianlian asked for a back single, and it was just what he wanted to do as a substitute to grab points, and in training, he agreed to let Yi Jianlian and Lopes play against each other.

Yi Jianlian is a master of training, there is no doubt about that. In the training camp every season, Yi Jianlian's performance can always bring surprises, such as "Space Yi", "Devil Muscle Man" and other titles are not water injection, nor is it that the media loves to exaggerate, but because Yi Jianlian's training level has indeed reached a standard that meets the requirements of the NBA. His trainer Thorpe has always insisted that Yi Jianlian is definitely a star embryo, because there are few seven-foot big people who can combine Yi Jianlian's athleticism, shooting skills, and explosiveness.

It's a pity that Yi Jianlian can't fully translate these potentials he embodies into contributions on the field. It seems that as soon as he arrived on the field, Yi Jianlian lost his confidence in training, coupled with the fact that he was not dominant in the confrontation and did not have enough judgment on the scene, which caused him to always struggle.

Frank is ready to try him as the core of the second quarter and attack around him, after all, Yi Jianlian will not suffer against Lopez in training.

After the training, Yi Jianlian called Zhou Xuan and said that the coach agreed to let him be the core in the second quarter.

"Congratulations, this is just the beginning, it's up to you whether you can do it or not. I suggest you don't think too much about it, think of the Nets as if they were the Guangdong team, and tell yourself that you are the boss of the team and the team needs you to score. You can fight as you want in Guangdong. ”

"Okay, I'll see you in the evening."

In the evening, the Nets fielded a small lineup, with Simmons making a cameo appearance as a power forward, and the big man leaving only one Lopez. This does limit the Warriors' running and bombing to a certain extent. Harris and Ellis were still slightly better than half the race, and the Warriors' counterattack plummeted.

After the first quarter, the Warriors led by just four points.

In the second quarter, Yi Jianlian came on the court and performed better than before. After he talked to Zhou Xuan, he remembered Villanueva. "No Eyebrow" is even worse defensively than him, and he knows how to play singles and shoot. As a result, he scored more points last season, and this season's stats have improved to 16. 2 points 6. 6 rebounds, and it's likely to be signed to a big contract after the season.

Yi Jianlian felt that as long as he attacked with all his might, at least he should not be worse than Villanueva. If Zhou Xuan knew what Yi Jianlian was thinking, he would definitely complain. There are so many templates such as Bosh and Aldridge, he just wants to be with Villanueva, too uncompetitive, even with Kostic is better than Villanueva.

In Zhou Xuan's optimism, Yi Jianlian's talent is already very powerful as long as he does three actions, and he doesn't need to practice anything else. The first is to break through with the ball after receiving the ball in the high position, pull the ball and jump to the basket. He's got big steps, and two steps are definitely to the basket. The second is to be like Yao Ming, who swayed with his back and turned around to shoot, and Lopez became a starter by relying on this. The third is to ensure the jump shooting rate after blocking and dismantling, he has a height advantage and is difficult to be blocked.

Yi Jianlian really fought hard, and in the second quarter, he made 7 shots and hit 3 goals in 5 minutes on the court. The shooting percentage is not high, but at least he dares to play, and he also has a dunk that breaks through the baseline with his back to Turyaf. On the defensive end, he is still not very good at blocking and dismantling, knowing that the Warriors will not shoot on the inside line, and he still hesitates to change guards.

Relying on the excellent play of the bench, the Warriors pulled the score away. The Nets have no one to stop Margeti and Azubuuk. In the second half, Zhou Xuan and Randolph blocked and cooperated, Marion withdrew from the inside, and Jackson and Azubuke on the perimeter both hit three-pointers, playing a wave of 13-0 attacks, locking up the victory in one fell swoop.

127-101, the Warriors continued to run wildly.

Zhou Xuan played 30 minutes and scored 11 points and 10 assists. Yi Jianlian only played 21 minutes, scored 8 points and 7 rebounds, and his performance was average. When the starters returned to the field, he reverted to his true nature of not daring to play. A person's personality cannot be reversed simply after a few conversations.

On the 14th, the Warriors defeated the underrepresented Mavericks at home and won six in a row. They have become the hottest team in the league in the second half of the season because they have the strongest attacking power. Since the elder Nelson returned to coach the Warriors, this is the third year in a row that they have topped the scoring charts per game, overshadowing the Suns in offensive power.

This season, the Warriors reached a pinnacle of Nelson's career as a senior Nelson, averaging 115 per game. 3 points. Although 125 away from the Philadelphia 76ers in the 1966-1967 season. There is still a gap of 1 point in the historical record, but that is too long. Since the beginning of the 21st century, the Warriors have been the most attacking team.

If you don't score more than 110 points in a game, people think that they are attacking too badly and playing poorly.

Moreover, the rise of the Warriors has led many teams across the league to start picking up speed.

When the Warriors stomped on the corpses of their opponents and won the applause of the whole house, the worship of the offense had turned into awe. And this is just a microcosm of the retro style of the alliance, a beginning. The number of teams scoring over 100 has reached 15, marking the NBA's entry into a scoring boom, a return and a new beginning.

Every team's ultimate goal is a championship trophy, and the phrase "winning on defense" is definitely not unfounded. The Lakers dynasty, the Spurs won 4 championships in 9 years, the Heat and Pistons led the rise of the East, and the king's demeanor highlighted the arrival of the defensive era.

In the 1992-1993 season, the NBA had a scoring boom, with a total of 25 teams scoring over 100, and by the 1995-1996 season, the number of teams scoring over 100 had dropped to just 13. In the new century, defense has become a necessary condition for winning the championship, and in the 2003-2004 season, there were only 2 teams with an average of more than 100 points per game! In the 2005-2006 season, there were only five.

The slow-paced dullness and decline in spectacle have finally changed, and although the number of scores over 100 is far less frequent than in the early 90s, the rebound has become a new starting point, and the NBA is no longer dull!

Advocating offense is tantamount to digging one's own grave? That didn't work out this season. The Warriors are already the favourites to win the championship this year, and even the Celtics can't say they can overwhelm them.

It's inevitable that the NBA will enter a scoring boom. Among the teams that have averaged more than 100 points per game this season, there are fish belly such as the Knicks, Kings, and Raptors, whose offense cannot change the record, but it can guarantee the box office, and in today's small-ball style, this method will be imitated by more and more teams. Even the Rockets began to play fast-paced small-ball tactics after Yao Ming's injury.

NBA Headquarters, New York. David Stern read the news and said to Vice President Stu: "Zhou Xuan did a very good job and increased the publicity of the Warriors to the Finals. ”

Vice President Stu? Jackson asked, "David, we've been promoting '23vs24' (James vs. Kobe), isn't that more interesting?" ”

Stern smiled: "It's true that the competition between the two stars is very interesting, but now that the economy is in crisis, one or two stars can't make fans buy it, and they can't get the corresponding financial returns." Attacking has to be encouraged and the fans have to come and watch the game. Now 30 teams are averaging a 15-year high in points per game, which is a good start. James and Kobe, I don't think they can both make the playoffs, the Cavaliers are too poor, and the Lakers may not be able to win against the current Warriors. ”

This season, 30 teams in the league are averaging 100 points per game. 4 points, which is the highest value in the league in 15 years. The last time he averaged over 100 points per game was in the 1994-1995 season, when he averaged 101 points per game across the league. 4 points, 16 teams with an average of more than 100 points per game appeared when there were only 27 teams in the league.

Such a result is inseparable from the NBA management led by Stern to push forward the offense. Over the past decade or so, defensive teams have tended to have good results, and established defensive teams such as the Spurs and Pistons have managed to reach the top several times. Stern believes that this is not conducive to the promotion and development of the NBA, and began to make small reforms in refereeing and other aspects to encourage teams to attack.

Stern once bluntly said that his Finals matchup is "Lakers vs. Lakers", because this kind of team that values offense and has stars can bring more benefits to the league. If there are no stars like the Pistons back then, and they don't like to attack, they can only make Stern frown.

In an interview during this season's All-Star Weekend, Stern said that the NBA is expected to suffer a loss of $300 million this season. It is for this reason that the new conditions for collective bargaining are more stringent.

Stu, who was in charge of publicity, was instructed. The popularity of the Warriors is not inferior to that of the Lakers, Zhou Xuan represents international players, and it is China, and he has amazing performances in his rookie season, which is also a big gimmick. Of course, Stern is also optimistic about Kobe, who was simply Stern's own son before the Eagle County incident. But Kobe Bryant is also aging, and has not been able to win a championship since leaving O'Neal.

Even if the Lakers win another championship, Kobe Bryant won't be able to be brilliant for many years, and a potential newcomer who competes with James is what the league needs most. Durant is one, but the Thunder's record is too bad, and Zhou Xuan is also one now.