"Hey, Luke, what's wrong with you today?" Larry called Luke over and asked. "I don't seem to be in a state today."

"Sorry, coach, I didn't sleep well last night, and I came here early in the morning today, and I couldn't bear it." Luke said apologetically.

"No, with your physique, there shouldn't be such a problem." Larry was a little incredulous.

"Alright, Larry, don't embarrass Luke, he came back with Alyssa yesterday." Then Allen gave Larry a "you know" look.

"Okay," he said, looking at Luke's panting appearance. "In that case, you can go over there and do some recovery training."

"Thank you, Coach." Luke said.

"But young people, it's good to have a girlfriend," Larry said, "but to be modest!" ”

"I'm really not the one who got to where I got here!" Luke shouted in his heart. But he didn't dare to say it, and no one believed him when he said it.

When Luke went to resume training with the sparring partners, Larry stopped the others' training.

"Now let's start training against each other!" Larry announced.

Everyone is very accustomed to Larry's training mode, training for a while, then fighting, and then training for the losing group.

Rashid also knew it was an opportunity, an opportunity to integrate into the group and improve the status of the team. He should cherish it.

The grouping was quickly divided. The 76ers are now divided into a group of starting lineups excluding Luke. That is, Aaron, Snow. Tony. Kukoc, Tyrone Hill, Big Ben were grouped together. And among the rest of the group, Reed, McGee, Jumani. Jones, Rasheed Wallace and Nazr Mohammed were in the other group.

Not being assigned to the starting team did make Rashid a little angry, but he quickly became angry, knowing that he was now an outsider to this team and was not cooperating with his teammates. Having him on the second team will help improve the balance between the two teams. Enhance the strength of the second team, and more importantly, reflect your own strength. Rashid saw this as an opportunity. An opportunity to integrate himself into this team is very rare, and in an instant Rashid forgot what Larry had embarrassed him just now. The rest is all gratitude.

The grouping was quickly divided. The first pair of Aaron and others put on red training uniforms. Rashid and the others wore white training uniforms.

"Game on!" The assistant coach, who acts as a referee on a temporary basis, signals the start of the game. Both sides start jumping balls.

No doubt. Nazr Mohammed's bounce and power could not be compared to Big Ben's, and the jump ball was directly picked up by Big Ben.

Snow caught Big Ben's jumping basketball steadily, and carefully dribbled across the halfcourt. Staring at Reed who was defending him on the other side. Now Reed has started to learn from Aaron and Luke. From time to time, he wants to make a steal or something, and under his hands, the basketball is just a gadget that can be snatched away at any time.

Reid is now also gradually identifying his own style. It's no longer the pure shooter of the past, it's an all-round player. Under the influence of Luke and Allen and Larry, he gradually determined his true template, a legendary player who resembles him - Gary Payton.

This was forced by circumstances.

With Allen in the starting line-up and Luke on the pitch, Reid was a solid substitute.

In the second team, in the backcourt position, Aaron McGee is the most powerful, he has strong scoring ability and strong defensive ability, which makes the opponent's bench and even the starter miserable. But he also has his biggest shortcomings. Yes, there is no denying that McGee is a strong attacker, he can have his own quality to make the team win, but he will never make the players around him better, which means that he is not very playmaking, he can score on his own, but he can't help his teammates score, which is why McGee can only be relegated to the second team in the 76ers. He knows it himself.

So the task of organizing the second team fell to Reed.

Reed originally wanted to be a shooter like Ray Allen, but after the 76ers, Reed's desire changed and he wanted to be a scorer like Allen. But now his situation has changed again, and he wants to be a playmaker. It's not an easy thing to do.

There are two most basic requirements to be a playmaker, first of all, you have to be good at playmaking. This is very simple, there are many people who pass the ball well in the team, first of all, an unpretentious pass like Snow, which can be directly handed over to a teammate to play alone; Then there's Luke's pass, which can be handed to teammates for singles or for himself to put on a show. Finally, there was Allen's pass. To be honest, Allen's passing is the most gorgeous and comfortable of the three, not much worse than Chris Paul and Steve Nash and Jason Kidd, which stems from the skills he practiced when he played quarterback, no matter where the wide receiver and running forward are, Allen can easily find him, and then hand the ball to him steadily, Allen's long pass is very good. Short passes are not bad either, and Allen often performs tricks of passing the ball behind his head and behind the back, dazzling his opponent and losing his defensive direction. It's just because Allen is a shooting guard, and he was framed by House Starks early in his career, and in the end, due to the lack of help from his teammates, the boss was too picky. Let everyone think that Aaron is a person who fights "independence".

Reed neutralized the three of them from the way they passed the ball and created a passing method that was unique to him.

So you can often see Reed's wonderful pass in the game, and his passing is already a little hot.

But then the rest is a little bit tricky.

Organizing a guard is the second thing a point guard does – defense.

It's hard to get to the top of a point guard with poor defense, except for one person – Steve Nash.

Nash had very good luck. In a team with very good medical care, meeting a coach who is very good to him, coupled with a tactical system that suits him well, coupled with his own talent and hard work, finally made a name for himself. But his success is not imitative. So, for point guards, defense is still very important.

But the current center guards in the league are transforming into two-way guards, such as Allen, such as Marbury, all of them. There are a few old players who are still sticking to their traditions. Reid didn't know who he was supposed to learn.

"Learn from Gary Payton." Reed recalled, Luke said. "You match his height and strength, so it's best for you to learn from him." That's what Luke suggested when Reed was bothered. Let Reed begin to understand where he is headed.

Reid began to study hard for Gary Payton, watching live games and showing game tapes. Go live to watch it (at the time of the All-Star Game). Reid studied hard. Although he learned a lot, it was still not enough, and Reed could not find the essence.

"There's something you can't find in the game footage!" Once, just as Reed was puzzled, Luke spoke again.

"Why?" Reid asked.

"If you can learn the video completely, then everyone can watch Jordan's video, why can't so many people reach Jordan's height?" Luke asked a rhetorical question. Another thing Luke didn't say, if everyone can learn everything from the video, then how will Abdul-Jabbar and Olajuwon make money later? Of course, "Big Dream" is still a professional player, and has not yet established its own "Big Dream" training class.

"Seems so." Reed said as he touched his chin.

"This kind of thing can only be realized when you go to the playing field to understand the truth, and watching videos here can only learn its appearance, not its connotation. So, Reed, come to bullfighting, I'll teach you! Luke said.

"Is that good?" Reed turned off the video.

"Practice makes sense! This is a saying from a great power in the East, believe me! Luke said.

"Okay."

From then on, Reed went back to accept Luke's devastation when he had time, and finally Aaron, McGee, Tony. Kukoc and others also joined in, constantly attacking Reed together, leaving Reed devastated.

Although it was very hard, Reed's defensive ability continued to improve rapidly, so much so that now Snow is a little scared.

"Don't be afraid, Eric, come on, pass the ball, I'll give you a chance." Reed said with a hippie smile.

"Okay," Snow thought, too, that this was an intra-team training match, and there was no need to take it so seriously. Simply passed the ball to Allen.

"This is the time!" A black shadow sprang out and robbed the basketball. (To be continued......)