In September, as the players began to return to form, Davis began to shift his training content to tactics.

The first is defensive tactics, after all, defense was a central topic around the whole '90s.

At this time, the NBA did not allow regional defense, but in fact, "pseudo-defense" has begun to be widely used by teams.

In Su Feng's previous life, the Bulls and Jazz had a two-year imperial city PK, and the two teams restricted each other through the reasonable use of rules and the referee's blind eye.

The reason why Jordan used a lot of turnaround jumpers and mid-range shots to finish the offense in the last three consecutive was not only related to his declining physical fitness......

The main reason is that these strong teams in the NBA have played "pseudo joint defense" to the extreme.

Coupled with the HC rules, the NBA restricted area at this time is the "Blood Pool Meat Forest".

Because when defending, the strong team here will follow the opponent's movement to shrink the penalty area.

If the opponent's team has a player with ranged strikes, the player in charge of marking him will interfere with his shooting percentage by going up to his body.

Cooperate with the HC rules that are extremely lethal to outside players......

You could even say that as an outside player, you could finish the offense with a 45 percent or more shooting percentage in the '90s......

Then how much physical strength you have, the coach dares you to throw as much as you want.

Davis's defensive tactics are very close to Su Feng's imagination, probably the same set that was common to all teams in the 90s.

It looks like it's a person-to-man, but it's actually a pseudo-joint defense.

It's just that as a defensive expert, Su Feng has a hunch that if the 76ers really play like this......

Those 76 people are definitely pills.

Because of the pseudo-joint defense, your team lacks tacit understanding, and you can't play at all.

Reality is not fiction, and no matter how good the tactics are, they need to be run-in.

When players complement each other, when they switch defenses, and even how far they slide, chemistry needs to be created first.

So the giants of the 90s will not easily change their roster framework.

Davis's defensive tactics clearly lacked protection for Iverson.

Su Feng, who knows Iverson's defensive ability, knows very well that as long as Iverson is targeted by the opponent, it can only become a mutual explosion situation at most.

Of course, the current Su Feng is just a mediocre rookie, and as a professional usurper, Su Feng knows very well where he is now.

"Well-behaved and sensible" is the team personality that Su Feng should set up now.

And after explaining the defensive tactics, on the offensive end, Davis is even less creative.

The only good thing is that, as Su Feng remembers, this product does not restrict the players from shooting three points.

This has something to do with the short three-point line of the NBA in '96/97......

It also has to do with Davis' belief that with a player like Iverson, the team "should" be able to create a lot of scoring opportunities.

It is worth mentioning that the summer has been trained by Frazier......

During training, although Su Feng's running and standing positions are still far behind those experienced NBA players, his overall performance has made the 76ers coaching staff very satisfied.

Especially in Davis's view, Su Feng's "not noisy or noisy" character is simply the greatest support for him as a tool man.

"Sue, I'm planning to put you off the bench in the preseason and play 25 minutes per game."

On this day, after the training, Davis took the initiative to find Su Feng and chat privately.

Su Feng nodded "obediently".

"Don't worry, I'll give you some low-post singles tactics and some running tactics to let you play your talents as much as possible."

Su Feng's "sensibility" made Davis's favorability towards him continue to rise, so he ......

Davis continued: "You've got good mid-range shooting, and I'm not against you shooting threes, but I want you to increase your mid-range shots. ”

Su Feng continued to nod "obediently".

Su Feng knew that Davis was deliberately cultivating himself as the second offensive point of the 76ers.

Although there is still a long way to go to get the "unlimited iron right", the "reasonable iron right" is also excellent in Su Feng's opinion.

……

Time flies, and in a blink of an eye, it is the 26th.

On this day, Su Feng accepted an exclusive interview with NBC TV.

The person in charge of interviewing Su Feng was John Williams, the host of NBC TV's basketball show.

When greeting Su Feng, Williams smiled and said a slang phrase from the rice grains, which translates to "good wine needs to be brewed for a long time".

I have to say that to be the host of an NBC basketball show, Williams' emotional intelligence and way of speaking are different from those tabloid reporters who can only pick thorns.

Williams's words have the meaning of praising Su Feng, and at the same time, he is also hinting at Su Feng:

It's not what we want to push back and forth, it's because you're playing so well.

After the interview began, Williams asked with a smile: "Su, as the first Chinese player to enter the NBA, do you think this status will put pressure on you?" ”

Clearly, Williams did his homework before he came.

As the hope of the whole village rabbit, do you say that the pressure is great?

I saw Su Feng first calmly answer with the English version of "If you want to wear a crown, you must bear its weight", and then added: "Actually, I once thought about giving up. ”

"Oh?" Williams felt that the explosion was coming, and looked at Su Feng with a curious expression.

"Thankfully, I met Kobe Bryant just when I wanted to give up.

At Raul Melion, the early days of me and Kobe Bryant, those days of staying up late and working hard, when we felt like you couldn't stand up anymore because you were tired......

I think what keeps me going is the power of dreams. ”

"If it's easy to make history, why bother with it?" Su Feng looked at Williams and said with a "sincere" face.

And I don't know why, as a host who has interviewed countless basketball stars, Williams feels the fire in his chest at this moment......

was ignited.

No way, in the 90s, Chicken Soup for the Soul was so powerful.

And what's more, this is the "Mamba Brand Chicken Soup" that has inspired countless people in the future?

"Are you scared of boos during the game?" Williams asked, after a long silence.

"My best friend Kobe Bryant told me, shhhh Su Feng replied.

"We all know that you have a good relationship with Aaron.

He even said in an interview that the team chose him to help you, and he also called you 'The.King'.

Do you feel that your current strength matches such a nickname? Williams asked again.

"It was just Aaron's joke, in fact he gave me the nickname 'The Flash' in the first place." Su Feng smiled and played Tai Chi.

"What is the reason for you to skip college and play in the NBA?"

Williams felt that Su Feng's answer was too "oily", was this really just an 18-year-old child?

"I want to play Michael Jordan." Su Feng replied calmly.

Hearing Su Feng's answer, Williamston's eyes lit up.

Oh, let your kid be like a ghost, you have to drink my footwater, young man, you still can't bear it......

"It's rare to see a young man as confident as you." Williams laughed.

"Of course, because the best player is now recognized as Michael Jordan.

So as a basketball player, I don't want to play with him, what's the difference between it and salted fish? Su Feng replied.

Williams: "......"

You have a point, I can't argue with it.

Dreams are priceless!

Williams knew that this question not only did not stump Su Feng, but made himself ......

Inexplicably......

A kind of admiration developed for him.

Because Su Feng's compulsion at this time was too high.

"Do you think you can help the 76ers turn their record around?" After asking a few more questions, Williams asked his last question before the interview ended.

"If you can or can't only be revealed after the start of the season, I never make promises that don't make sense.

But I can tell you that I get up at 4 a.m. every day to practice, not to be able to score a ball on the court, not to make a block.

I love basketball and that's it. Su Feng replied.

Williams was silent.

As a basketball host on NBC TV, he felt that he was not interviewing an 18-year-old at all.

He is mature and sophisticated, and every time he answers, it will make you feel that he has said it after careful consideration.

"Is this 'The.king'?"

Looking at Su Feng's handsome face, Williams joked after the interview: "If I want to find someone to do business in the future, then you will definitely be my partner's first choice." ”

Although Williams's compliment always felt strange to Su Feng, since it was a compliment, Su Feng didn't take it to heart.

An 18-year-old genius high school student with a mature and sophisticated personality who will definitely become a shrewd businessman even if he doesn't play basketball......

After interviewing Su Feng, this is Su Feng's biggest feeling to Williams.

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Su Feng's interview will not be broadcast for a while, in September, after happily eating and sleeping Jerry, the arrival of October also means that the NBA season of 96/97 is about to kick off.

The 76ers' first preseason game will start on the 7th against the Bucks.

At this time in '96, the preseason was not broadcast, and after nearly a month of running-in and layoffs of several temporary sparring partners, the 76ers coaching staff preliminarily set the team's roster for the new season.

The 76ers' preseason roster for the 96/97 season is as follows:

Centre-forwards: Scott Williams, Hendrickson, Mark Blanco.

Power forwards: Witherspoon, Michael Cage, Ben Wallace.

Small forwards: Don Maclen, Mark Davis, Su Feng.

Shooting guards: Stackhouse, Rex Waters, Rousios Harris.

Point guards: Iverson, Frank King, Doug O'Everton.

Overall, this is a roster that even a long-time NBA fan who has watched for more than 20 years will never know.

Big Ben was given a power forward position when he signed up, on the grounds that his explosive head wasn't enough to convince everyone that he had 206 centimeters.

And Su Feng's registration position is a small forward, because his height is the most "real".

When taking a family photo of the whole team, Su Feng's size is about the same as the three big forwards of the 76ers......

Take Cage as an example, this product is 206 centimeters tall, but in fact, he is only 203 centimeters at most when he wears shoes.

The most fortunate thing for Su Feng now is that he met Big Ben by chance in the summer, otherwise looking at the 76ers' forward, he might really be pulled to play a cameo role as a power forward.

Of course, not everyone has moisture in their height.

For example, Don Mackleen, the injury-stricken striker, is a real 208cm tall.

In the second season of his career, the then high-spirited Markren averaged 18 points per game on 50% shooting.

Unfortunately, Marklen doesn't have that in his attributes, and he has missed a total of 69 games in the last two seasons.

In Su Feng's memory, in the 96/97 season, this product was not long played, and he was an out-and-out glass man.

In Su Feng's previous life, there were always people who said that Iverson was not durable enough.

But in reality, Iverson is quite durable compared to most people.

It is worth mentioning that before the start of the new season, Davis also expressed his hope that the team's results can exceed last season's expectations.

Davis didn't have time to shout the slogan of making the playoffs.

Because in the power rankings for the new season, the 76ers are currently ranked 25th.

If Davis shouts the slogan of making the playoffs, the players will send him to a mental hospital as soon as possible.

What kind of international joke, just a bad team like us, you want me to take the lead to compete with the eastern giants?

At this moment, the alliance is still a pattern of strong east and weak west.

In the '96/97 season, the Washington Bullets, who finished eighth in the East, played 44 wins, while in the West, the threshold for making the playoffs was much lower......

A bad team like the Clippers made the playoffs with 36 wins.

There are many strong civil wars in the East, and after reading the schedule, Su Feng feels that every game is a hard battle for the current 76ers.

……

On the 7th, the 76ers played the Bucks for the first time in the preseason.

Su Feng saw Lei Allen again......

and his big brothers.

The Bucks, who have Glenn Robinson and Wenbeck, belong to the kind of team that looks good with a lineup, but actually plays, and each just wants to brush up the data.

Ray Allen's reasonable style of play is simply an outlier for this team.

Fortunately, Robinson is not interested in brushing up on preseason stats, and Winbeck is also not working.

In the case of the bigwigs paddling one after another, Ray Allen got a lot of performance opportunities.

This period of Ray Allen is not the future of Ray Allen.

It's a Ray Allen loaded with Speed.Boost, and if you dare to let him go, he'll surprise you.

In this game, the 76ers sent the starting five of Williams, Witherspoon, Macron, Starkhouse, and Iverson.

After the start of the game, Iverson used his speed to constantly pound the Bucks' interior.

And the Bucks' starting guard Sherman Douglas quickly found a way to deal after being hit by Iverson's successive assaults.

He, in turn, formed a situation with Iverson to blow up each other.

Neither Markren nor Stackhouse had any desire to bolster Iverson.

The former is moving too slowly, and the latter thinks that since Su Feng is not there, he should be the main point of attack.

Su Feng, who was sitting on the bench, found that his teammates on the field had already complained about Iverson's style of play.

Although Witherspoon wanted to work hard, but it was almost half a quarter into the game, and he only touched the ball 4 times......

If he continues to play like this, Witherspoon feels that his stats for the new season must be terrible.

Davis, who has always been a young tool, called two timeouts and found that the players were playing on the court at all not the tactics he had set out before the game.

As one of the builders of the Bulls' first dynasty, Williams is okay to protect backcourt rebounds, but he is crazy about the outside of the team......

Looking at the rebounding data, Williams can only regret that he doesn't have the rebounding talent of Rodman.

"It's strange that Allen didn't play so alone in the Summer League......"

On the bench, assistant coaches Jason and Rick were a little puzzled.

In fact, Iverson didn't play alone, but he and his teammates didn't call at all.

Starhouse was hell-bent on proving himself in singles;

Maklen is very intimidated by physical confrontation after multiple major injuries;

Witherspoon had something else on his mind;

There is not even a player who can block and dismantle with Iverson in this game, so in the eyes of the scrappy Iverson, what else can he do except break through himself?

And today the Bucks' side Ray Allen played quite well in the case of the two big brothers' paddling, this kind of 96 lotto show civil war, who doesn't want to crush the other party?

In this way, with 4 minutes left in the first quarter, the 76ers were already 14-25 behind.

"Sue, you go and replace Don (Maclen) after a dead ball for a while."

Davis is out of line, so if he can't do it, let's run in while fighting......

On the side, hearing the head coach call him, Su Feng walked to the technical table "obediently".

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