Chapter 150: Preparing for the Spurs
Classic photos are often taken by chance, and now the faces of the 18 Kings players are full of natural smiles, which is not the effect that posing can achieve, this kind of opportunity is hard to come by, so Divac shouted to stop for the time being.
"OK, it's done" Divac looked at his phone with satisfaction, and handed him to the assistant next to him, "Go and tweet, attach this photo, text?" Write about the king ready to go". With the photos done, Divac motioned for the staff to continue.
"3,2,1" the staff member counted down loudly.
18 people rushed out in an instant, and the momentum was like the earth shaking the mountains. There was no gap in the first few meters, but after half time Zhang Feng took the lead, Bogdan followed, unexpectedly, in third place was Justin Jackson, in everyone's subconscious, it should be a guard a little faster, Justin as a small forward has this speed is impressive.
Randolph was the slowest runner, and by the time he reached the baseline, Zhang Feng and Bogdan had already turned back to near the three-point line. Randolph simply played tricks, turned back directly, ran with the crowd, and the crowd ran back.
"Report to the coach, Randolph is cheating," Justin shouted.
Funnily enough, Randolph didn't reach the bottom line and still ran last, and Carter and Hill put their shoulders around and laughed. David also smiled, watching these players being brought together by Zhang Feng, he felt that this season would be very memorable.
The Kings have changed frequently in recent years, and among the existing lineups, the longest stay is Willie Cauley-Stein, but it has only been three years, and when they first arrived at the arena today, many of the players were not familiar with each other, but fortunately, the duel between Zhang Feng and Bogdan, and the final switchback run broke the embarrassment between the players, and they began to talk and laugh.
The last 5 people mentioned by David before to practice free throws were naturally a joke, after the switchback run, the players scattered to warm up, preparing for the next actual confrontation, after half an hour, David once again signaled the players to get together.
"Tomorrow, our first pre-season game, we're at home to the Spurs, are you ready?"
"Ready," a few sparse voices rang out in the arena.
"I didn't hear that!" David pretended to be dissatisfied, Zhang Feng had an idea, sank into the dantian, and yelled, "Ready."
This sound was like the roar of a lion in Hedong, and some people covered their ears, "What's the situation with you?" Randolph looked at Zhang Feng with the eyes of a monster, Zhang Feng laughed, waved his hand and said, "It's okay, don't be nervous, boost everyone's morale."
Zhang Feng's roar worked very well, David didn't need to follow the routine of roaring all the people, he continued: "Let's practice tactics today."
"Coach, what are our tactics?" Justin asked silently.
"It's simple, just hand the ball to Zhang Feng after half time," Randolph began to talk nonsense.
"Zhang Feng is a point guard?" Justin questioned.
"Oh yes, that's easier, we'll just wait for Zhang Feng to pass the ball" Randolph felt that he was very witty.
"......" Justin was momentarily speechless.
"Okay, there are a lot of tactics, but there are so many newcomers, we still need to experiment, so let's practice according to the tactics of our coaching staff first."
Speaking of grouping, the Kings players automatically gathered together, this group is likely to be the regular rotation after that, although 17 people have contracts, but except for Carter, Randolph, Hill three veterans, everyone else wants to fight for more playing time, even Zhang Feng is excited to wait for his task.
"Group A, Zhang Feng, Bogdan, Justin, Giles, Papayannis, Frank, Buddy, Skal, Jack, and the rest of the people Group B, A tactics Zhang Feng self-determined, Group B focuses on blocking and dismantling, understand?" David made arrangements, but there were nine people in each group, and he didn't specify who would start and who would come off the bench.
In the end, the players discussed, Zhang Feng and Bogdan in Group A were the starters, with Justin, Giles and Papa playing first, and the rest were swapped depending on the situation, and Group B was the three veterans led by Carter plus Galatt and Stan.
It can be seen from this grouping that David wants to see the combat power of the rookies, the people in A are all players who are less than 2 years old, and Group B is to concentrate all the veterans of the king and let Zhang Feng specify tactics, obviously to strengthen Zhang Feng's organizational ability to the greatest extent.
Because it was internal training, Group A served directly, Zhang Feng walked to the front court with the ball, and at the same time was thinking about what tactics to play later. Since it's all young people, let's play fast attack.
When it came to the three-point line, in the face of Hill's defense, Zhang Feng directly faked the right side and then turned around and dribbled to the left.
Seeing Zhang Feng rushing in, Lando smiled with a thief on his face, he still remembered the last time he was hit by Zhang Feng and exploded during community service, and he decided to take Zhang Feng as a good one.
Zhang Feng jumped, and Randolph also jumped and slapped him, but unfortunately, Zhang Feng played a Jordan-style layup, he dodged Randolph's block with a lever in the air, and gently picked the ball and sent it into the hoop.
Bogdan watched this scene and sighed in his heart: It's amazing, my physical fitness is too explosive, I was too impulsive before, and I challenged it without understanding the situation, it was like death, but fortunately, Zhang Feng was generous.
It's a tough ball, with both strong physicality and an absolute big heart, and quick changes in the face of a strong defense.
"I haven't seen you for a month, why are you so good?" Randolph asked.
"We have an old saying in China, a learned person, if you don't see him for three days, you should give up your previous impression of him, this sentence is used on the player meaning, a great player, if you haven't seen him for a long time, when you see him again, don't think that he is just the previous skills" Zhang Feng said with a smile.
After hearing this, Randolph nodded in contemplation, then shook his head and said, "I don't understand very much."
Zhang Feng: "......".
In the next confrontation training, Zhang Feng and Bogdan unexpectedly cooperated very well, Zhang Feng broke through and was caught and passed the ball to Bogdan, Bogdan's hit rate was super high, and he did not dare to wrap Zhang Feng again in Group B.
When Zhang Feng didn't break through, Bogdan always relied on his speed to open Galette's sticker defense, find a vacancy, receive Zhang Feng's pass, and either shoot or pass back to Zhang Feng who cut inside.
The two worked closely together to directly beat Group B without fighting back, and in the end they could only rely on a few beautiful dunks from Carter to regain some momentum, but in the end, after 40 minutes of training confrontation, Group A won Group B by 20 points.
After the training, the players left one after another, Zhang Feng also planned to leave, An Jiali called and said that he had learned to cook Chinese food, and he was anxious to go back to taste it, but Justin, Malachi, and Matt Jones were still practicing, and it seemed that they were going to practice.
"What, is it a lot of pressure to defend Kawaii Leonard tomorrow?" Zhang Feng walked up to Justin and said.