Chapter 201: Brazilian Lightning! (2/3)
I am looking forward to this new season. This could be his last year in charge. All these years of coaching have left Jackson very tired. Not physically, but more spiritually.
Bass and Phil chatted several times before the season. The Zen master was also a little puzzled, not knowing what he meant. Later, I learned that the Lakers wanted to sign a contract with the Zen master for another few years.
Last season, Jackson wanted to move to the Nuggets, hoping to get a management position. Before he made a clear decision, Jackson would go back to his secluded house for a vacation.
Maybe it's a year, maybe it's two years, and think about what you're going to do next. Zen masters have been trying to improve the Lakers almost every season in the past few years!
If he can make the Los Angeles Lakers win another three consecutive championships like the Bulls, then his fame is estimated to rise a lot! It shouldn't be difficult to apply for a position in the management of a team with such qualifications, right?
Vujasic's layup misses! Stoudemire got the basketball and immediately passed the ball to Barbosa! The latter suddenly rushed to the front court in the defense of the Lakers' three, and made a decisive three-point shot in the last less than 3 seconds into the net!! 30:28! The Suns overtook the Lakers after hitting a three-point shot!
The fans at the scene were close to frenzy at this time! Today's attendance is over 50%! However, compared to the regular season, the attendance of the Ristaples Arena is still much less.
But last season, the Suns didn't forget about the Lakers' 4-2 elimination, so the players played extremely hard in the preseason! D'Antoni calmly watched the game.
It doesn't matter to him whether he wins or loses, this game is really a so-called win-lose downplay. But almost every round the Phoenix coach watched it seriously. He kept thinking about the role that each player might play in the regular season!
Nash in hand! The Suns don't worry about making the playoffs at all. So the key is how to quickly run in the team more effectively in the regular season?! Although it was eliminated by the Lakers who were in the limelight in the West last season. But they were also the regular season champions at the time!
"What?!" At this time, the Zen master thought that he had misheard.
"I heard that Zhou Yang is running a class in the team now~" Vincent immediately covered his mouth and laughed after he finished speaking again~
"This kid ~ him...... Wait a minute," the Zen master stopped chatting as soon as he saw the players coming back one after another.
After Kobe and Zhou Yang returned from the hospital, Mime and Odom went to a ward together. They're watching their team's preseason game live with the Suns!
Odom is active on Twitter at this stage...... Soon his number of fans will exceed 300,000! And Kobe Bryant's number of fans at this time has exceeded 720,000......
It was supposed to be him Odom who started playing on Twitter, okay?! Why did Kobe Bryant's fans surpass him on the first day?! Thinking about it, I feel that Kobe's influence is too great.
"This year's sun...... I didn't see how good Stoudmire was last season, did I? Odom scratched his head and looked at the live stream strangely.
"This game is that the two of us didn't go up, if the two of us go up, it is estimated that the Suns will not score 30 points in the first quarter!" Mime said angrily. When he's healed, he'll practice three points!
In the second quarter, the Lakers replaced Zhou Yang with Brown. The game continues. There wasn't much movement on the Suns' side.
"What did you just say?" The Zen master glanced back at Zhou Yang and continued to talk to Vincent.
'I also listen to the players and the players listen to Mime. And Mime has been in class for a week."
"What do you teach? Chinese? Jackson also continued to ask with some curiosity.
"No, it's basketball-related. I heard that he has a more avant-garde understanding of the current basketball system! Have you ever heard of a center shooting three-pointers? Vincent laughed to himself as soon as he finished speaking. A three-point shot from a center? That's a bit of, isn't it?
"This kid doesn't know what he's thinking, even though he is on and off the court. But he can always be a big help for the Lakers! Let's hope it's the same this time."
Mime seemed to be listening quite hard. It is said that he can't wait to continue listening to Zhou Yang's classes now~ can't help but be able to become a coach for our Zhou Yang? ”
'He's fit to be on the pitch. Walton is a player who is fit to be a coach and I'm not surprised to even come to my position one day. And Zhou Yang's words, although he still looks so unexpected now, his behavior, language and his rhythm on the field...... But the potential of this player is still huge! ”
"This season, it is estimated that the ability of many players will improve to a certain extent."
"Vincent, you're right, I think so. After the baptism of the finals, whether you win or not, some players may have a lot of improvement in their future experience or personal ability! ”
Now Vujacic is playing well in the game, and Wharton, who is in his fourth year in the NBA, is becoming more and more calm in the game! Last season, they had the impression that they were frizzy in the game, that they were better in the regular season, and that was especially true in the playoffs.
The big ups and downs in the score are very obvious. But last season's Lakers were like a big camel. It's still a little thin, but it's still standing tall among the horses! Very eye-catching!
It's not easy for a team to reach the finals. Especially since they are still in the highly competitive West! At this time, the media has already begun to make various predictions! Among them, there is a lot of debate about who will make it to the Finals between the Spurs and the Lakers.
This year is another odd-numbered year, and the Spurs team is now winning the championship in an odd-numbered year, which has caused heated discussions among netizens~ Even several media think that the Spurs should win the championship again this year.
If it weren't for the fact that the Heat were too aggressive on whether O'Neal would stay, or if they simply gave up O'Neal at that time, then perhaps Gasol Jr., the younger brother of Pau Gasol of the current Grizzlies, would have come to the Lakers.
However, the Miami Heat sent him directly to the Development League after acquiring Gasol Jr...... The official version of this is that Mark still needs to exercise more. In this year's Summer League and intra-team matchups, Gasol Jr. did not meet the requirements of the Heat.
It feels like Mark doesn't play as well as his brother Pau Gasol. Although Mark, who has just arrived in the NBA, did not get the treatment he wanted. But he still has faith in himself! My brother is playing in Memphis right now! He is the leader of the team!
He can go to any team in the future, but he really wants to be a leader in that team! The current Heat team is lacking such a thing, but what he doesn't understand is why he was let down so quickly by the Heat.
Watching the game between the Lakers and Suns in the training room of the Sioux Falls Sky Power team was very uncomfortable. It was reported in the media that if the Lakers didn't hand over a draft pick to Miami at the time, then he might have replaced the Lakers in the preseason game now!
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The Lakers paid the price to keep O'Neal on the team! Draft picks were traded out for several years in a row...... If you want to get a rookie team in the future, you have to get draft picks in a trade with other teams. The players who have come to the team so far have all been traded, or they have found that they are good from the game and some data, and they will contact him to try out with the team in the future.
Barbosa, who was a rookie last season, is going to be one of the core of the team this season! When a team like theirs is full of basketball at every turn, it is the players who need athletic talent!
Nash even felt that he could have such a teammate in his play, and that there were a lot of maybe risky passes that could be used as an experiment with him! The team will be faster! It will make the opponent feel like they can't start on the defensive end!
Zhou Yang looked at the Suns strangely, as for it? 30 points in one quarter! The Lakers' current bench players are getting a little rough in their hearts. In a fast-rising team, your own value may be able to rise immediately!
The current Los Angeles Lakers have Wharton and Zhou Yang on the pass! There are players like Odom and Kobe Bryant in the score, and the big sharks and Mime on the defensive end are all good! That is to say, no matter which direction you work from, you will get a certain harvest!
Kobe Bryant has changed more obviously in such a lineup, and he is sometimes not so strict and scolding in practice, which makes many Lakers teammates uncomfortable. Kobe: Did you get stimulated by anything?
Now that many aspects of the team have been perfected, Kobe Bryant will not fight so the offensive end of the court! He will devote more energy to analysing the game and cooperating with his team-mates. Strive to execute the "triangular offensive" laid out by Phil Jackson. The goal is simple, to win the championship this season!
Compared to last season, the Black Mamba has become more consistent this season! With a big contract in hand, I can play steadily for a few years with the Lakers. Jackson is still on the team and his teammates are good. He can concentrate more on how to win the game instead of blindly attacking.
So now the question arises. In what direction should they, the Lakers' benches, work in? Many people have heard about Zhou Yang's class......
Mime's attitude towards Zhou Yang at this time made his teammates feel incredible. Especially "you are a center, you need to practice more three-pointers", which makes the players feel like Zhou Yang is looking for fun with Mime~
Looking at the current league, even if the Hot team didn't get O'Neal last time, they are still chasing him at this time! The league is still looking for big guys who are heavy, have a lot of power, and have a dominant power under the basket to play center.
A three-point shot from a center? Too little, okay. For Mime, who is still hospitalized at this time, everyone is waiting for him to laugh after he returns to the team~ The most thing Zhou Yang does now is to be in a daze, whether it is the intra-team confrontation some time ago or the current preseason at the beginning of the season, he feels very good~
It's a good feeling to sweat it out on the field! The team didn't give him a special psychiatrist like Kobe Bryant and O'Neal, but Zhou Yang would still ask the team players and staff when they started to come back.
After chatting with the doctor, I learned that my psychological problems are very light in comparison with many players. And before him, Vujacic also contacted the team's psychologist and consulted on the phone.
It's a normal thing. The main concern for a player like Vujacic is whether the team will fire him this season or something. And Zhou Yang's problem is to be able to meet the Pistons in the finals. Can they Lakers get this far.
At this time, he is looking forward to the regular season. But he wasn't in such a hurry and he enjoyed the pre-season. Of course, his goal this season is not to be forgotten. That is, this season has made a lot of my technical skills more mature.
Kobe Bryant has been following Zhou Yang, and from time to time he shows him some details. How can we reduce some mistakes on the basis of his existing foundation. How to play better and so on have been discussed to a certain extent.
For Zhou Yang, the player, Black Mamba thinks it's okay to take out some of it first. Giving experience to a player may not be able to absorb it right away. When you know a few experiences, let him feel them in the game, and even make a few more mistakes to understand and comprehend better.
I want to win the championship! Kobe Bryant feels that the two players on the team, O'Neal and Odom, are indispensable! On the bench side, Zhou Yang, Fisher and Wharton, the three of them are also very important!
Nash was a little more at ease in his movements. After Balbosa got his ball, he went straight past the two Lakers players and threw it directly to score points when he was a certain distance behind O'Neal!
In such a competitive state, it is difficult for young Barbosa not to be famous! Nash felt that his 10 assists in this game should not be a problem. And the Brazilian player who quickly stood out in the team, he felt that 20 points in this game could not stop him!