After the game, the Trail Blazers boarded a plane to Portland in despair. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 Info sat in his own exclusive seat, no one spoke, no one ate, no one listened to music, they all just sat there quietly, the atmosphere was as oppressive as a giant tomb.

McMillan didn't plan to start talking directly on the plane, and it was better to let these boys think carefully about their mistakes, otherwise it would be in vain to say it themselves. The second game was indeed a shame for them, originally they were the only ones who got a lot of media and expert attention in the first game, but the second game was immediately beaten back to its original shape, and the nearly 30-point defeat was also one of the few in the history of the NBA playoffs, which made everyone think that the Trail Blazers' victory was just a fluke. Now, as long as you open the website, all you see is a sound of schadenfreude.

For professional players, psychological quality can never be ignored, and if the mentality is not good, you will not be able to play at a normal level in the game. They didn't have much time to rest, April 22 was the third game of the series, and the first home of the Trail Blazers, McMillan didn't want to lose this game, if this one was lost, the team's morale would be gone, and a loss of morale could directly lose the entire series.

After returning to Portland, the team was disbanded, and the most important thing now is to let the players go back to rest and recuperate. McMillan didn't plan for the next day's training, but asked everyone to come to the arena for an intra-squad meeting the next night, which was also to give them a buffer time not to be discouraged by a defeat in one game. If you want to boost the morale of the team, first of all, the players themselves must not lose confidence, and if anyone really despairs for the next few games, McMillan will definitely not hesitate to demote him to the bench and let the player who wants to win play.

Ye Feng couldn't sleep while lying on the bed, still thinking about the game that had just ended. The Suns are arguably the league's top offensive powerhouse, and when Nash's role is fully realized, it may be difficult for any team to stop their firepower. However, their defense is still as poor as ever, and there are still a lot of shooting opportunities, so it is completely possible to play against them and see who can score more. The defeat in this game was largely due to the fact that the teammates themselves were not very attentive to the game, and when they should have been nervous in the second half, they couldn't get nervous, so they collapsed directly.

So what about the next game? Maybe everyone will learn their lesson, right? Every season, there are strong teams that capsize in the gutter, and now the Suns are the strong team, and the Trail Blazers are only the weak side, and looking down on the opponent can only be self-inflicted. The reason why there was such a mentality in the second game was largely because of the boasting of the major media on their platforms after winning the first game, which made everyone's confidence begin to burst, and the Suns, who were third in the West, were not taken seriously, which led to a fiasco. Thinking of this, Ye Feng snorted coldly: Those media are really annoying guys, they blow desperately when they win, and they step on them desperately when they lose, and they don't have any discipline at all.

However, how to play the third game depends on the coach, although Ye Feng has a high status in the tactical system, but he can't decide the team's style of play, he can only use his own way to implement it after the head coach determines the general direction. Since there is going to be an intra-team meeting, it is obvious that the coach wants to knock everyone up, hoping that the whole team will face the first home court of this round of playoffs with a confident but not arrogant, serious but not nervous attitude.

Sure enough, as Ye Feng expected, this intra-team meeting did not talk about the tactics of the third game, but just showed everyone the highlights of the mistakes in the second game. Yes, it's the turnovers, it's all the credit of assistant coach Monty Williams, who didn't sleep for a day and a night after he returned to Portland, and only cut out the mistakes or things that didn't do well according to every player on the team who played, which was a huge project, but Monty didn't feel tired, and he looked good when he sat next to McMillan. For him, the team's interests are above all else, and in large part because he has a feeling for the Young Guards, hoping that the lads will come together to help the team win another championship.

McMillan was not polite, he clicked on everyone's mistake "highlights" in a row, and sneered at the players as he played. It's a risky move, and if you start to rebel, then the third game is basically hopeless. However, McMillan didn't care, the young people in the team were the majority, and gentle tactics did not help, only to harshly torture them and make them realize what a serious mistake they had made in the last game. Fortunately, there are no supergiants in the Trail Blazers, and superstars are temperamental, and they will definitely not accept such an extreme way.

Originally, everyone was still a little unhappy, but when they saw that Ye Feng, the only one who played normally in the last game, did not escape the reprimand of the head coach, everyone was honest. In their opinion, it is impossible for anyone to be ridiculed Ye Feng, to a certain extent, he was the only one who was playing hard in the last game, and even if he was much behind, he did not give up hope of equalizing. But McMillan unceremoniously taught Ye Feng a lesson, so that everyone else had to obediently accept the same "treatment", after all, their performance was much worse than Ye Feng's.

Ye Feng didn't feel anything uncomfortable, from the mistakes cut out by the assistant coach, he found that he really played poorly in the last game, the reason why it looked good was just that the short man pulled the general, compared to other Trail Blazers players, it was really good, but in fact he still performed poorly.

After training everyone, McMillan said in a deep voice: "No one thinks they can easily win a game now, does they?" I don't want to make Monty do the same thing after the next fight, and then I'll watch the video and scold you again. It's time for us to wake up, they're the stronger side, and if anyone hasn't changed their mindset yet, you can tell me after the meeting and I'll let you sit on the bench for 48 minutes and wave a towel for the others. I don't need to say much about the importance of this game, if you win, you will have a chance to reach the second round, and if you lose, you can go back to fishing! ”