Chapter Eighty-Eight: Celtic Tactics

The five-member live broadcast of "Cooking Wine on Heroes" finally selected such a lineup, if these 5 people can be put together in a team, will they definitely win the championship?

This conjecture set off a discussion on the Internet like a 15-point player game, Zhang Feng and others turned off the live broadcast and happily enjoyed Kobe's dinner, the reason why Kobe Bryant was a treat was because many young Kings players deliberately let Kobe Bryant in the 2K game, Kobe naturally found their "intention", but he was originally going to invite everyone to dinner, so he didn't care.

After returning to the hotel after dinner, David and Turner routinely called everyone for a meeting to briefly explain the tactics of tomorrow's matchup. The Kings will play against the Celtics tomorrow, as the opponent of the summer league 8-in-4, David felt the need to carefully formulate a tactical response, after a heated discussion, the Kings players all dispersed, although the discussion process was not very smooth, but in the end everyone was full of confidence in the victory over the Celtics.

The Celtics also held an impromptu kick-off meeting, but only the coaching team. The Celtics acquired Hayward this summer, which is undoubtedly the icing on the cake for them who reached the Eastern Conference finals last season. The entire Celtics in the summer league are ready to get a good result, but the most important thing is that their No. 3 pick, Jayson Tatum, needs to adapt quickly to the NBA-level game, and it would be better if we could see last season's Jaylen Brown and Tatum work together.

"The Kings are very powerful, don't look at them losing a game, but that game Zhang Feng deliberately did not play and chose to let his substitute Frank Mason play, this player has a solid technical foundation, rich strategy, decisive tactical execution, and often has a flash of inspiration, but the weakness of the Kings team is also on Zhang Feng, as long as he is prevented, the whole King will not be able to run well" In front of the TV, Celtics Major Marshal Brad. Stevens pointed to the video of the Kings game and said that several other coaches were seriously thinking about and analyzing how to prevent Zhang Feng as Stevens said.

Stevens is also a legendary coach, who has changed from an NCAA minor coach to an NBA giant bishop, and his ability can be seen. At this moment, he frowned and spit out a sentence: "I have never seen a player as difficult to handle as Zhang Feng, who shoots accurately, shoots far, has no dead ends, and has good passing skills with one hand, comparable to Nash and white chocolate, the speed is fast, the strength is not bad, and the dribbling skills seem simple but very stable."

The Celtics assistant coaching team was surprised to hear Stevens' evaluation of Zhang Feng, in their impression, the last person who was evaluated by Stevens was LeBron James, can a No. 5 pick be comparable to James?

Stevens patted his head, didn't wait for the assistant team to speak, and said excitedly: "Popovich is such a genius, the choice he made in the face of the same situation is really amazing."

Facing the curious eyes of the assistant coaches, Stevens said proudly and firmly: "Since we can't guard against Zhang Feng, then we can just guard against other Kings players, Popovich did this when he played against the Heat in the 14 Finals, if he can't prevent LeBron, then he can't prevent it, and the rest of the Heat team can also win."

I have to say that Stevens "learned" this tactic from Popovich is very powerful. In the 14 Finals, LeBron played perfectly in every game, and even hit more than 50% three-point shooting, but his teammates were always unable to give more support, and in the end, the Heat lost and was easily taken away by the Spurs 4:1.

The core of this tactic is that no matter how powerful a person is, he can't be powerful for 48 minutes, his physical strength will always decline, his shooting rate will always decrease, and once he can't open it, he will be pulled away by a lot of points, just think about the fifth game of the 14 finals, the Heat and the Spurs fought for a long time, and they also took a large lead, but in the end they were taken away by a wave.

Stevens made up his mind and decided to use this tactic inherited from the Spurs to deal with Zhang Feng, who he saw as undefensible.

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The 8-in-4 game attracted a lot of attention from fans, probably because of the Celtics, a team with a long history of the NBA, which attracted an objective number of fans from all over the world, and naturally more fans were willing to pay to come to Las Vegas to watch their games.

Kobe Bryant took the Kings bus to Cox Arena together, and Kobe was very satisfied with this free ride, after all, he relived the feeling of going to the court.

As soon as Bryant got out of the car, he was surrounded by enthusiastic fans and professional reporters.

"HI, KOKE, I'M A SPORTS COLUMNIST FOR THE LOS ANGELES TIMES, ARE YOU HERE TO SUPPORT THE LAKERS' GAME TODAY" TODAY'S 8-4 LAKERS ALSO HAVE A GAME, AND WHEN THIS REPORTER SAW KOBE, A LAKERS LEGEND, HE NATURALLY THOUGHT HE WAS HERE TO SUPPORT THE LAKERS' GAME.

Kobe Bryant helped his sunglasses, then touched his bald head, and said embarrassedly: "I hope the Lakers can achieve good results in this summer league, but today I came to see my little brother Zhang Feng play."

"Wow, it's incredible, you think the Lakers are going to win, right?" The reporter asked again.

Kobe Bryant went down this "step" and said: "Yes, the Lakers will win"

"Then who do you think, Zhang Feng or Lonzo Bauer" The reporter suddenly threw a bomb question.

But Kobe Bryant is an old man, he has never seen what kind of reporter or such a problem for so many years, and he smiled and showed his big white teeth and said:

"I'm a shooting guard, and I don't know much about point guards."

The reporter also wanted to ask, and Kobe Bryant chased the King's army into the arena with an apology.

As soon as Zhang Feng and Kobe Bryant entered the stadium, in less than three seconds, there was a burst of cheers, these voices were naturally the voices of welcoming Kobe, although most of the Celtics fans here, but these were also NBA fans and basketball fans, so they cheered for the legendary Kobe Bryant.

"Wow, Shaq, who's coming?" In the TNT studio, Kenny speaks to O'Neill, who is "reciting" the teleprompter.

O'Neal was interrupted for a moment, looked back at the live game screen, reacted for a second and said: "I said a long time ago, my brother Kobe Bryant and I are very optimistic that Zhang Feng will become a legendary superstar, you see that he doesn't even watch the Lakers game but comes to support Zhang Feng."

"Maybe I'm just here as a business partner," Kenny asked.

"Then you win, take a closer look at whether Kobe Bryant is teaching Zhang Feng to practice back play," O'Neal said proudly.

Before the game started, Kobe Bryant discussed with Zhang Feng about the back play technique, and the last time in the BIG3 League, he singled out Zhang Feng to show off a back play performance like Olajuwon's possession, Kobe felt that Zhang Feng should use more back play, which could prolong his career.