"Hassan, you have to block the defender completely and then cut inside, you have to know that you don't get the offensive opportunity because you get inside, it's because I attract the defender and you get the right time to get under the basket and get my pass. Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info"

"If you're not able to block the perimeter defenders, the big man won't be able to get out of the position, and that will affect your cut-in catch. ”

In the North Shore Garden Arena, Li Yang said to Whiteside while playing the video.

In the past few games, although Whiteside has also had a good performance, it has also exposed a lot of problems, such as when blocking and dismantling, Whiteside likes to go as soon as he stops, and always wants to cut into the interior to get offensive opportunities, and the quality of blocking and dismantling is often not high.

It stands to reason that the assistant coach should tell Whiteside about these things, but Li Yang, as the boss of the team, has a good relationship with Whiteside, and happens to be free, so he began to guide Whiteside.

Whiteside is a talented man who was a favorite in the 2010 draft, but he fell to the second round due to his personality and ADHD, and he hasn't played since, but there's no doubt that Whiteside has the physical talent of a top-tier interior player.

Now the Celtics have a good record under the leadership of Li Yang, but Li Yang knows that if the team wants to improve its competitiveness, it needs others to step up.

Whether it's from the perspective of a friend or from the perspective of the team, Li Yang is willing to help Whiteside grow.

"Yang, what you say makes sense. Whiteside was indeed very convinced of Li Yang, if someone else told him like this, he might not be able to listen to it, and when Li Yang talked to him like this, he kept nodding his head, thinking that what Li Yang said was very reasonable.

"You can look at Tim Duncan's pick-and-roll. Li Yang said, switching the video, and the screen appeared with Duncan blocking Parker and Ginobili.

Almost all NBA teams will have some videos of other teams to study tactics, and Li Yang doesn't have to bother to find the videos of the Spurs if he wants to see them, the team has them directly.

"Thiem's pick-and-rolls are all about completely blocking the perimeter defenders and then choosing to move, and his pick-and-rolls are very high-quality. ”

As a member of the Spurs, Li Yang has a deep understanding of the high quality of Duncan's blocking, so when pointing out Whiteside's blocking, Li Yang immediately thought of Duncan.

Whiteside listened to Li Yang's words while watching the video carefully, and Li Yang continued to explain some blocking and dismantling skills to Whiteside at this time.

Although Li Yang is not a big man and does not have much time to block and dismantle for others, he is an excellent outside defender and an excellent offensive player with the ball, he knows how to make the ball carrier better get a breakthrough opportunity, and with Duncan's standard blocking and dismantling tactics video to explain, Whiteside can naturally understand.

After Li Yang's guidance, Whiteside was constantly correcting his lack of strict blocking and dismantling in the subsequent team training and two games, and he always wanted to cut into the inside line, and the quality of blocking and dismantling really improved.

Of course, one of the important reasons why Whiteside can change so quickly is that Li Yang consciously guided, when his blocking quality was high, Li Yang passed the ball more to Whiteside to attack the basket, so that Whiteside thought that the high quality of the blocking and picking would be able to get more opportunities.

In fact, Whiteside has excellent physical confrontation and movement ability, although the shooting ability is lacking, but as long as those shortcomings are corrected on the court, with Li Yang's passing, it does have good lethality.

Seeing that Whiteside seemed to be doing better and better, at this time, another problem in Whiteside was exposed, that is, ADHD, which had been bothering him.

Because he has ADHD since he was a child, Whiteside has always been unable to concentrate when doing things, which is also one of the important reasons why his career has not been smooth.

But even so, in the game, Li Yang is often asked to keep reminding him, otherwise he will often have distractions, such as passing the ball in time after grabbing the rebound, and not grabbing the ball in time after blocking.

At first, because the playing time was only under 25 minutes, he was still able to stay focused most of the time on the court, although the efficiency dropped later, but no one paid attention to it for a while.

But as he played more games, it became apparent that he was able to play top-notch interior play when he first came on, and as the game went on, his focus and efficiency began to plummet.

After realizing this, Stevens was very hesitant to add Whiteside to the starting lineup, and after asking the team doctor and assistant coach about the way to do it, Stevens and Li Yang expressed their concerns, and he hoped that Li Yang, who had a good relationship with Whiteside, could have a good talk with Whiteside.

"Yang, I know what you're talking about, but I'm also helpless, this damn ADHD has been bothering me, and now I'm a lot better than before, but keeping me focused throughout the game, it's so difficult, as long as I play on the court for a while, I start to lose focus for some reason. ”

Li Yang found Whiteside, and when he heard that Li Yang wanted to talk about ADHD peacefully, Whiteside suddenly looked bitter.

Li Yang also felt a headache when he heard Whiteside, he did see Whiteside's recent efforts, such as the progress of training and competition, he knew that Whiteside would never deliberately not focus in the game, but even Whitecold himself couldn't control it, how good is this.

"Have you been to the doctor?"

Li Yang asked, Whiteside nodded, then spread his hands and said, "I have tried all the methods the doctor said, but it didn't work." ”

Li Yang rubbed his head and asked with curiosity on his face: "Then, Hassan, don't you not get distracted when you don't do anything?"

"Sleep ......" Seeing Li Yang's idiot eyes, Whiteside immediately picked up and said, "It shouldn't be counted, right?"

"Then I'll have to think about it. Whiteside frowned, thinking very hard, and after a while, he patted his thigh and said, "Yes, play 2K games, if it is a 2K game, I won't get distracted." ”

"Dude, let's go!" Li Yang's eyes lit up after listening, "Let's go play 2K." ”

"Let's go, man, I'm telling you, I'm a 2K master!" As soon as he heard Li Yang say that he was going to play 2K games, Whiteside immediately stood up happily, and the previous conversation was completely forgotten by him.