"Giannis, this is your first game since you came back, you don't have to be under too much pressure, just let it go. It doesn't matter how good or bad the performance of the pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info, you need to find the feeling in this arena first. I'm not going to ask you to play at the level you were before you in the first game, so keep a good mentality. ”

In the competitive arena, strength is important, but mentality often determines the height of a person's life. And Chu Xuan's cultivation of young people has always been based on mentality, he hopes that the players who go out from under him can have terrible psychological qualities, so that they can maintain a very strong competitiveness in this league, and then achieve extraordinary.

Reggie and Green are good examples, and they have maintained a very strong self-confidence after being baptized by the championship, which has allowed them to quickly become stars on their respective teams after leaving the Lakers. Today, Green is one of the Pelicans' trident, while Reggie is the backcourt commander of the Pistons, with an irreplaceable left and right.

Although it was a little regrettable that the two of them left, their growth did make Chu Xuan quite gratified. After all, Green was cultivated by him, and Reggie was further polished by the Lakers to shine like a pearl. It is worth mentioning that the two have been in contact with Chu Xuan since they left the Lakers, and their relationship is very good.

This is the reason for Chu Xuan's way of dealing with the world, just like he maintains a relationship of mentor and friend with his current Lakers players.

"Coach, I know. You've already told me once, don't worry, I'm not going to mess up this ball. Antetokounmpo laughed.

"Huh? Did I say that? Chu Xuan couldn't help but be stunned: "Okay, it seems that I'm about to become an old man, so long-winded, hehe." ”

Hearing Chu Xuan's quip, the Lakers players around him suddenly burst into laughter.

After the All-Star, the atmosphere of the Lakers was quite good, only Whiteside was a little lost and kept silent. Chu Xuan understood Whiteside's reaction, but now he didn't want to communicate with Whiteside about this matter, he needed this big man to get out of the predicament by himself.

Patting Whiteside, who was sitting in a daze on the chair, Chu Xuan sighed slightly, and then said loudly to everyone: "Okay, it's ready to play." Keep up the tempo......"

Whiteside put the drink in his hand on the ground, then got up and followed Kobe Bryant and the others on the court.

Chu Xuan looked at his back and just shook his head slightly. Sometimes, if you want to get what you want, how can you easily get it without going through some ups and downs.

"Chu, Hassan has been a little wrong all this time, aren't you going to enlighten him?" Assistant Nash came from the side and asked Chu Xuan with some puzzlement.

Enlighten? It's not the best way to do it.

And that can't force him to put that thought down, otherwise, maybe this guy will forget the promises he made when he first joined the Lakers.

"Let's wait and see, I'll talk to him in a while." Chu Xuan thought for a moment and continued: "However, if it is possible, you do his work first and let him not think so much. ”

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Antetokounmpo is an all-around small forward who is one of the best in the league in terms of physical fitness. Even if Durant compares to it, it is much worse. That's not an exaggeration, because Antetokounmpo is the kind of player who can get really strong, which gives him more potential than Durant.

Of course, compared to Durant, Antetokounmpo is really weak in offensive touch. And sometimes that offensive feeling is innate, not acquired. Therefore, if Antetokounmpo really grows up, he will not become Durant, but will become the all-round Antetokounmpo.

Chu Xuan's hopes for Antetokounmpo were no less than those of Raven and Noor. Compared with Green, Antetokounmpo's potential is much better in all aspects, which is why Chu Xuan agreed to send Green away in the first place. After all, the positions of the two people overlapped, and the No. 4 position was overcrowded, and there was no place for Green at all.

Sending Green away must be to vigorously cultivate Antetokounmpo. According to Chu Xuan's plan, he wants to fully stimulate Antetokounmpo's potential in all aspects, become a strengthened version of Iguodala, and become the absolute main force on the Lakers' front line. Since he has such a thought, the growth space that Chu Xuan provides to Antetokounmpo is definitely very generous.

Therefore, Antetokounmpo returned from injury, and Chu Xuan immediately changed the original lineup and returned to the regular lineup of "twin towers + double guards + Antetokounmpo".

In this game, the Lakers' opponent is the Houston Rockets. At the No. 3 position, the Rockets have a star-caliber small forward like Parsons, who is also tall and a good opponent for Antetokounmpo to practice.

Antetokounmpo didn't immediately show an urge to attack at the start of the game, and he kept trying to defend Parsons. This approach immediately won the approval of the coaching staff. You know, although the core of the Rockets is the Morden combination, Parsons, a wing scorer who can contribute 16.8 points per game, is definitely the biggest threat. According to the analysis, his role is not something that the data can show alone, he is the most important factor in the Rockets' win. Therefore, it is quite crucial to defend against Parsons' threat on the flank.

Parsons has an advantage in size, but against Antetokounmpo, his advantage is undoubtedly a disadvantage. Moreover, Antetokounmpo's athleticism is quite amazing, and he caused Parsons a lot of problems, leaving him with little performance on the offensive end. The offensive core performance of the Lakers' side was quite powerful, but the Rockets played together under the tactics of McHale's blind play, and the Rockets played with the Lakers in the first quarter, and the two sides ended the first quarter with 34:31.

In the next two quarters, both sides strengthened their defense, and the offensive efficiency of the players was much less as the offensive touch cooled. Chu Xuan tried to let Kobe Bryant and the Twin Towers play, but the Rockets' positions were strong points after all, so Chu Xuan's plan did not come true.

The more intense the game, the more it can bring out the potential of the players, and there will often be very exciting goals. Midway through the third quarter, Antetokounmpo scored his first field goal of the game, breaking through Parsons' defense, facing Asik and Howard's defense on the inside, and dunking the ball into the basket with the advantage of his height and arm strength. This is considered to be the best offensive shot in the game, after all, this is a dunk that directly abused the Rockets Twin Towers, and it has a very big impact on the morale of both sides.

In these two quarters of the game, LaVine maintained a stable performance, which made people look up to him again, sharp offense, strong physical fitness, accurate shooting, more and more people began to be fascinated by the Lakers No. 8, and more and more people saw Kobe's shadow from him.

At the end of the third quarter, the two sides stood at 78:73, and the Lakers led by five points.

I have to say that the state of the Rockets in the first three quarters of this game is really amazing, and it is absolutely unimaginable that Harden and Howard can play on a par with the Lakers through the full team's performance. You know, the Rockets relied on the core influence of the Morden combination, and now, being able to fight with the Lakers to this point is obviously McHale's blind play tactics have come into play.

Under McHale's tactics, the biggest benefit is naturally the role players, like Isaiah Kanan, this small guard has exploded this season, averaging 15.5 points and 4.8 assists per game, and the offensive efficiency is quite amazing, which also allows him to sit firmly in the position of the Rockets' point guard.

In this game, he still maintains a very strong desire to attack, which allows him to have eye-catching goals from time to time. However, Kanan's play is also a greater indication of McHale's tactical ambiguity, and he has no idea how to make a team more competitive.

In the final quarter, Harden was still very sluggish under the defense of LaVine and Kobe, and he seemed to have lost his offensive feeling. And in addition, Kobe and LaVine have always been wary of Harden's touching, which makes Harden completely unthreatening. Throughout the fourth quarter of the game, Harden was still in the same slump as in the first three quarters of the game, and he was completely unable to help the Rockets, which made the situation of the game more and more biased in favor of the Lakers.

Under the strong and orderly defense of the Lakers, the Rockets finally collapsed in the final quarter of the game, the Lakers were full of energy, LaVine once scored 11 points in a row, and under his leadership, the Lakers played a score of 36:23 in the final quarter of the game, and finally the Lakers were able to defeat the Rockets 114-96 and achieve the first victory after the All-Star.

LaVine scored a game-high 26 points to be the best player. Bryant contributed 18 points, 11 assists and seven boards. On the Rockets' side, Harden was completely sluggish under the Lakers' defense, with 12 points, 7 assists and 7 turnovers, and his performance was quite bad.

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A victory brings a carnival, of course.

Throughout Los Angeles, the festivities went on for quite some time.

When Chu Xuan was driving home in the car, a news was broadcast on the NBA, which made him a little surprised.

According to official news from the Los Angeles Lakers, the Lakers and the Mavericks are sure to reach a deal, and the Lakers are interested in sending Keith Applelin and a first-round pick from the New Orleans Pelicans in '16 to get Tracy McGrady from the Mavericks in this deal. Maddy's arrival has undoubtedly given the Lakers more depth to the bench! ”

Keith Iplin, a 14-year 58th pick, is averaging 1.5 points and 1.0 assists per game so far.

Maddy, who signed a veteran contract with the Mavericks in the middle of the '13 season. In the 13~14 season, Maddy averaged 3.2 points, 2.8 rebounds and 2.7 assists per game, and this season, Maddy contributed 9.5 points, 3.3 points and 2.4 rebounds per game for the Mavericks, with a shooting rate of 45.2%...... (To be continued.) )