"Thiago, the center of gravity is lowered, you can't get stuck and grab rebounds, do you still need to stay in the court, it's better to go back and ......"

“......”

Sitting on the sidelines, Li Yang smacked his tongue secretly, just now in the locker room, Popovich was still laughing with the players, but as soon as he came to the training ground, it was completely different, from the beginning of the team's training to the present, Li Yang has almost been hearing Popovich's scolding. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

From the trio of Duncan, Ginobili and Parker, to center Thiago Split and Frenchman Burres Dior, Popovich unceremoniously scolds anyone who does something bad.

In the past, I only heard reports from the outside world that Popovich likes to curse, but now Li Yang is officially seen, when he was in the Austin Bulls, Tyler Jenkins would also curse when the players performed badly, but obviously it can't be compared with Popovich.

In addition to the ruthlessness of the scolding people, the words "fuck" and "shit" that Popovich burst out at every turn made Li Yang dumbfounded, this old man, so angry!

Li Yang did not participate in the intra-team competition, and the ten people on the court at this time were the most commonly used players by the Spurs in the game, and the starters and substitutes were completely disrupted.

The white jersey is basically the team's starting lineup this season, point guard Tony Parker, point guard Danny Green, small forward Kawhi Leonard, power forward from Duncan to Beris Dior, center is Thiago Split, except for Duncan to the first team with the black jersey, the rest of the starters are on this team.

In the group wearing the black jersey, Duncan played as the center, and the interior partner DeJuan Blair, a short interior line who is only 2.01 meters tall and has excellent rebounding ability.

The small forward is Captain Stephen Jackson, a veteran who is in his 13th year in the NBA, having won the NBA championship with the Spurs in the 02-03 season, then moving to several teams before being traded back to the Spurs last season.

The shooting guard is Manu Ginobili in the Spurs troika, who is partnered with the task of organizing the offense in this lineup. The point guard is Parker's backup, Patrick Mills.

Nando De Colo and Corey Joseph remained in the Development League, and the only ones who didn't train with Li Yang at this time were backup power forward Matt Bonner and guard Gary Neil.

Matt Bonner, an outside-oriented power forward who spent more than six years with the Spurs, was one of the team's key rotation players in previous seasons and began to play a gradual diminishing role this season, with about 12 minutes per game.

Guard Gary Neal is also one of the team's key rotations, shooting great three-pointers, but his defense isn't too good.

Sitting on the sidelines, Li Yang carefully watched the running position of the Spurs players, the Spurs are a model of team basketball, their offensive tactics have become more and more changeable in the past two years, although Tyler Jenkins has explained some tactics to Li Yang when he was in Austin, but it is obvious that it will be more intuitive to watch it up close.

"Stephen, don't always think about your teammates handing over the ball to you, get moving, look at the way your feet are weak, even I can't outrun......" Popovich's scolding came again, this time scolding Stephen Jackson.

Ginobili wanted to pass the ball to Jackson after dribbling and breaking through on the court, but Jackson was entangled by Leonard and did not run out of position, Ginobili almost missed, and Popovich immediately opened his mouth to scold.

In fact, Jackson didn't move, but Leonard was indeed a little difficult, so when he heard Popovich's scolding, Jackson's face was not too good-looking.

The Black Jerseys' offense eventually relied on Duncan's strong hook to the other side, and Jackson seemed to want to get some court back, and when Leonard received the ball, he took the initiative to try to grab the ball directly, but Leonard turned and passed it.

Duncan added to Leonard's defense and freed up Split, who received a pass and dunked.

"Get down!"

After seeing Split's easy dunk, Popovich yelled again, although he did not name Stephen, but his finger pointed at Jackson, it was obvious that Jackson's performance in two rounds of attack and defense made the old man very angry.

Although he knew that Popovich liked to scold, and it was not the first time he had been scolded by Popovich, Jackson's face was extremely gloomy when he was shouted down by Popovich in front of the whole team.

However, Popovich didn't pay attention to how ugly Jackson's face was at this time, turned his head, his gaze swept over the three people on the sidelines, and finally fell on Li Yang.

"Yang, play. ”

Hearing Popovich's shout, Li Yang immediately stood up, and the others also looked at him, obviously, for Li Yang, who had not yet fought on the court, they were also a little curious about what kind of performance Li Yang would have.

The game on the court restarted, the black jersey team launched an attack, Li Yang did not rush to ask for the ball, although he also wanted to take the ball to try Leonard's defense again, and test the progress of the past month, but he still remembered Tyler Jenkins's advice, in the Spurs, he does not need to attack with the ball too much, at least when he first came here.

didn't ask for the ball, Li Yang didn't stand there stupidly, but started running, Jackson is still sitting on the sidelines with a depressed face, Li Yang doesn't want to be scolded so badly by Popovich.

Li Yang's running is very selective, he knows that his outside shooting is not good, and Leonard is also very aware of this, running to the outside line is hardly too meaningful, Li Yang began to keep looking for opportunities to cut to the basket.

However, what Li Yang needs to do is that he needs to integrate his running into the team's overall attack.

For example, at this moment, when Ginobili handed the ball to Duncan in the high post, he immediately stopped cutting to the basket and began to move to the sides to block Ginobili and Mills.

In the left mid-range, Li Yang made a high-quality screen that allowed Ginobili to completely shake off Danny Green.

Seeing that Ginobili was about to cut directly to the basket to score, Leonard immediately flashed out from Li Yang's side to keep up and took the initiative to change defenses.

Ginobili, who moved to the basket, found Leonard following closely and gave up the idea of attacking the basket directly, and Ginobili continued to go to the outside and took Leonard away from the inside.

Almost at the same time that Ginobili had just run out of the three-second zone, Li Yang, who was still standing, suddenly moved.

After Leonard chose to defend Ginobili, Danny Green switched to Li Yang's side, and he stood close to the left, because he was defending Ginobili from this direction just now.

Finding that Danny Green was not completely stuck behind him, Li Yang immediately realized that he had an opportunity, his right foot was the axis, and his body quickly turned to the right side, and his body, which was originally facing the basket as a cover, flashed behind Danny Green, and threw Green away while his body also completed a 180-degree rotation to face the basket.

Without the slightest pause, while completing the turn, Li Yang took a big step and rushed to the basket, at this time, no one in white had time to return to the basket to defend, as long as Duncan passed the ball over Li Yang could easily complete the attack.

Li Yang didn't make any gestures, but he believed that Duncan, who is the axis of the Spurs, would definitely find his opportunity to attack the basket.

Li Yang's idea was not wrong, and when he took the second step, he found that the basketball had already flown towards his head.

With the help of the momentum to jump, Li Yang at this time had to sigh at the place of Duncan's pass, when he jumped in the air, the basketball came to him, as if the two had cooperated countless times.

Taking the ball with both hands, Li Yang easily pressed the ball into the basket.

Li Yang scored his first goal in the AT&T Center Arena during team training.

"Great run!"

When Li Yang ran to the rear to retreat, to his surprise, Duncan took the initiative to reach out his hand and high-five himself, and said words of encouragement.

"Thanks, Tim, your pass was great. ”

While answering Duncan, Li Yang continued to retreat, and then followed closely behind the opponent when Leonard came to the half.

The white jerseys attacked, Parker possessed the ball across the halfcourt, and Split mentioned covering outside the three-point line at this time, and it was clear that they wanted to bring Duncan, a strong defender on the inside.

With Split's pick-and-roll, Parker broke through Mills' defense, and Duncan, who followed to the perimeter, was obviously unable to keep up with Parker's pace at this time, although Duncan also tried to stick to Parker, but was quickly slipped past Parker.

Watching Parker burst into the basket, DeJuan Blair quickly shrank to the basket to help defend, and Li Yang immediately shrank inward, ready to make up for Dio, who was vacated because of Blair's departure.

Parker passed, and sure enough, it was Dior, and when he saw this, Li Yang immediately sped up and rushed forward.

However, Dior, who received the ball, did not choose to shoot himself, and as soon as the ball arrived, he threw it towards Leonard outside the three-point line.

Seeing that there was still a little distance to rush to Dior, at this time, Li Yang suddenly found an orange shadow flying from the side, there will be something of such a color on the court Li Yang knew nothing more than what it was, almost subconsciously, Li Yang changed direction and took a small step to the side, and then waved his hand to sweep it.

"Huh!" The next moment, Li Yang felt the feeling of the basketball rubbing against his fingertips.

Li Yang's astonishing reaction speed was reflected at this time, although Dior's pass was not sudden, it was still swept by Li Yang.

The basketball that was touched by Li Yang also immediately changed its direction and then fell into the hands of Ginobili.

The Black Jersey team launched a fast attack, Ginobili and Duncan completed an excellent cooperation, and the two had a good tacit understanding to easily find the holes in the opponent's defense, and finally Duncan made a layup.

"Yang is adaptable. On the sidelines, seeing Li Yang contribute on both offensive and defensive ends as soon as he came on the court, Spurs' chief assistant coach Mike Budenholzer immediately spoke.

As the coach, Popovich nodded, but did not speak, but the members of the Spurs coaching staff knew that Popovich should be more satisfied with Li Yang's performance after he came on the court.

Popovich never did such a thing during a game, he would only praise his players to reporters after the game, and that was also when he was extremely satisfied.