After their fourth win of the series at Arco Arena, the Lakers advanced to the divisional semifinals.

That night, the Lakers returned to Los Angeles to await the next round of the series.

On the morning of the 30th, the players rested, and in the afternoon, Chu Xuan organized a meeting to summarize the first round and arrange the playing style and strategy against the next opponent.

In the conference room, groups of data are listed on a large screen, and video editors sit on the sidelines to prepare.

Obviously, in this afternoon's meeting, Chu Xuan will give the players an analysis of their shortcomings in the first round and what they need to pay attention to next.

"First of all, congratulations to everyone, we have successfully qualified, we are one step closer to our goal."

Chu Xuan smiled and said slowly.

"But that's not the time to celebrate, and we still have a lot of work to do. Okay, long story short, now for today's meeting. ”

As Chu Xuan's voice fell, the team's new video editor Robles immediately started to operate, and the data situation soon appeared on the big screen.

All eyes turned out to be the first round of six games, the alignment of players from both sides.

Center Position:

Cousins, 21.2 points, 12.7 rebounds, 2.7 assists, 2.2 steals and 1.2 blocks, shot 55.1% from the field and 80.8% from the free throw line.

Whiteside, 17.2 points, 10.3 rebounds and 2.0 blocks, shooting 51.2% from the field.

"Hassan and Cousins are in the opposite position, although your stats are not as good as his, but you play a role in the game that is not inferior to his, and I hope that in the next round you can continue to be aggressive and score more in the box."

In fact, Chu Xuan was extremely satisfied with Whiteside's performance in the face of Cousins. You know, Cousins is one of the best interior players in the league, after all, and you can't expect Whiteside to have the upper hand against him. In fact, in this round of the series, Cousins's data is a little watery, and Whiteside's performance is no worse than him.

For this reason, in the playoffs so far, ESPN has ranked Whiteside first on the list of high-performance players with a base salary. No one thinks it's the wrong thing for the Lakers to give Whiteside a million-year-year salary. Obviously, Whiteside will definitely be able to get a big contract after this contract ends.

Of course, the big contract won't come that soon, after all, Whiteside only had the player option in the summer of 2016.

In other words, Whiteside needs to be a high-performance player with a base salary for another 2 seasons.

Power Forward Position:

Landry, 13.2 points, 7.7 rebounds and 0.8 blocks while shooting 40.6 percent.

Noll had 15.7 points, 6.3 rebounds, 2.5 assists, 1.8 steals and 2.8 blocks, shooting 50% from the field and 73.7% from the free throw line.

"Norris, you've done a really good job on the offensive end and on the defensive end, but in this upcoming series, I want you to be able to improve your rebounding protection, and that's what matters."

According to the arrangement before Chu Xuan's series, Noel's role is very clear, in fact, he can be regarded as replacing Gasol's role, to be able to attack, be able to defend, and be able to respond. And judging from Noor's six games, he is still a lot worse than Gasol in many aspects. However, Chu Xuan values Noll's potential and the defense he can provide in the playoffs.

Especially in the next round, Noel is about to face Ibaka, which will be a big challenge for him. Therefore, Chu Xuan is very concerned about the No. 4 position, so he also put forward targeted requirements for Noor. Of course, in the future, there will be specific content and strategies to teach Knoll.

And then there's the small forward position:

Salmons: 9.7 points, 3.3 rebounds, 2.7 assists, shooting 30.4% from the field, 28.6% from three-point range, and 68.2% from the free throw line.

Bryant: 18.0 points, 4.3 rebounds and 4.0 assists, shooting 42.5% from the field, 33.4% from three-point range, and 90.3% from the free throw line.

"Kobe Bryant's point is still solid, but in the next series, Kobe Bryant needs to get back to the No. 2 position."

In the first round of the series, the reason why Chu Xuan dared to place Kobe Bryant in the No. 3 position was entirely because the Kings were very weak in the No. 3 position. And now, in the next series, he is about to face the Thunder, Durant is at his peak, how could Chu Xuan be stupid enough to let Kobe Bryant go directly to Durant.

Therefore, what he decided to do was to change the tactical arrangement of the series in the second round.

Shooting guard position:

Marcus Thornton: 18.0 points, 2.0 rebounds, 2.5 assists, shooting 42.6% from the field and 35.7% from three-point range.

Reggie Jackson: 9.8 points, 4.3 rebounds, 3.5 assists and 1.1 steals, shooting 43.4% from the field, 36.8% from three-point range, 75.0% from the free throw line.

'I need to give credit to Reggie here, he was very successful defensively against Marcus Thornton, which made the attacking pressure on us a lot.

Chu Xuan looked at Jackson with a smile, he was very satisfied with this guy's defense. Moreover, in the subsequent series, Chu Xuan still decided to give Jackson an important role.

Position:

Greg Wazquez: 16.8 points, 5.5 rebounds, 9.7 assists, 40.9% three-pointers.

Steve Nash: 12.5 points, 3.3 rebounds and 9.7 assists while shooting 60.5% from the field, 72.7% from three-point range and 95.5% from the free throw line.

Throughout the first round, the alignment of the No. 1 position was the biggest surprise for the fans.

No one expected that the 40-year-old Nash and Vazquez would both break out, and the confrontation between the two was very exciting. As Steve Nash has praised throughout the series, Wazquez is a great player who is both offensive and defensive, and he is seriously underrated.

Chu Xuan also agrees with this point of view. As a number one, Vazquez has excellent passing and good attacking options. He had a chance to become a first-class point guard, but it was just a chance and bad luck that he didn't make it to a star in the end.

And in this round of the series, Vazquez broke out, and Chu Xuan was not surprised.

However, Chu Xuan also made a mistake, that is, he only focused on the Kings' scorer Thorton and the interior pillar Cousins, ignoring Wazquez, otherwise, this big man would not have been able to play such a star-level performance.

Of course, his outburst this time also gave him a little more possibility of success in the future, after all, he was only 27 years old.

"Steve is the spiritual leader of our team and his organization is still indispensable. However, Westbrook was too fast, so I decided to move Steve to the bench. ”

After analyzing the alignment of the players in the first round, Chu Xuan announced the first change, that is, to let Nash go to the bench.

Chu Xuan's change was a surprise to everyone. You know, although Nash is old, he still has his own excellence compared to Westbrook.

"It's hard to limit Russell and my intention is to slow him down, so there's got to be a young guy to take on that."

As Chu Xuan spoke, he swept his gaze to one place. (To be continued.) )