Chapter 262: Lewis starts
When the halftime whistle blew, Li Kaiming and his teammates on the field high-fived one by one, and then walked directly to the players' tunnel.
Before leaving, Li Kaiming also glanced at the score on the big screen, and the Wizards trailed the 76ers by 14 points at 38-52!
In fact, 76 scored 52 points in the half, which is not an offensive explosion or a hot hand, which is basically the average of the 76ers, mainly because the performance of the Wizards is really rotten, the halftime score is the same as the single quarter score in the last game, and everyone else on the team is committing crimes except for Li Kaiming.
Li Kaiming's heart is also a little anxious, after losing three games in a row, the team's momentum of defeating strong opponents before seems to have dissipated directly, and the feeling of competing for the top spot last season has returned.
If you take a closer look at the old folks who were on the team last season, you'll know that the atmosphere in the team is exactly the same as last season's swooping picking.
So after halftime, Wizards head coach Sanders' face was also very gloomy, when he won the previous streak, he thought that he could make up for his previous regrets this season and win the best coach of the season, but the dream was not half done, and he was woken up by the cold reality!
A series of losses directly sobered up Sanders, the Wizards are just a rebuilding team that has been signed by the top pick, and it is not a team that can enter the playoffs steadily.
Originally, Sanders thought that when he and his players let go of their unrealistic illusions and dealt with the next opponent steadily, the Wizards could at least be better than last season if they couldn't win as much as before, and if they were lucky, they might be able to make the playoffs.
But God always likes to play tricks on people, and Sanders lowered his expectations, and instead of being satisfied, he got a more struggling performance of the team.
So when it came to the locker room, Sanders was a rare outburst!
"You're all giving me your attention on the pitch! You're in the game right now, you know? It's not playing with the other side! We've lost three games in a row, do you want to keep losing? Let those reporters who don't understand bullshit orchestrate us behind our backs, saying that we are all soft eggs? Sanders looked around and said in a stern tone.
The players in the locker room all lowered their heads, not daring to face Sanders's eyes, Li Kaiming sat in front of his wardrobe, wiping his sweat with a towel, while drinking the special drink provided by the stadium, he didn't want to lose, but now it was not his turn to motivate the team, he couldn't overstep the task of stealing Sanders.
Saunders also knows that criticism will not solve problems, and as a coach, his job is to tell his players what time and where they should be from the perspective of a third person off the pitch to help them move better on the pitch.
So after the initial tantrum session, Sanders turned around and took the tactics board from assistant coach Cassel and started to draw up the tactics for the players again.
"The inside line on the opposite side of the first half is too easy, Andre and Lee, in the second half, cheer up, if you can't do it, you can ask the outside players to help you defend, but put some opposite arc tops or 45-degree three-pointers appropriately to limit the efficiency of their two interior lines, especially Elton Brand, he scored too easily in the first half, and I don't want to see him shoot an empty space in the second half, understand?"
Li Kaiming and Blatch glanced at each other, and then nodded heavily, the two interior lines of the 76ers did play a little too comfortable in the first half, Brand scored 17 points in the half, only 1 point lower than Li Kaiming, and Hawes dominated the Wizards' restricted area and grabbed several frontcourt rebounds.
"Our biggest problem in the first half was that the offense was too bad, and the chances of passing after Li broke through were very good, but several of your people on the outside failed Li Kaiming's pass!" Sanders used a marker pen to draw a circle outside the three-point line of the tactical board.
After hearing this, Nick Young, Hinrich and Alsorton all lowered their heads, especially Alssoton, who had zero eggs in the first half, and was even more eager to bury his head in his chest, no matter how efficient others were, at least a few points, and he was not only inefficient, but he didn't even have the courage to shoot in the back......
Sanders was about to give Elsorton one more encouragement, but the pen he had drawn on the tactics board suddenly stopped, and he thought of something else.
The Wizards players were listening intently to the coach's guidance, but suddenly there was no follow-up, so they all looked up at Sanders.
After thinking for a while, Sanders seemed to have suddenly made up his mind, and pointed to Rashad Lewis, who was sitting in the outermost circle, "Rassad, you will start directly in place of Alssoton in the second half!" β
As soon as this sentence came out, the entire locker room was stunned!
Sanders is still a coach who doesn't like to make adjustments so much, and it would have been good to be able to take Elsorton, who firmly occupies the starting small forward position, in the second half, but I didn't expect Sanders to go directly to the place and boldly take the new signing Rashad Lewis!
Lewis has also participated in two tactical drills since he came to the team, but the results are not very good, after all, Lewis has not played under Sanders, and it will be difficult to integrate into the Wizards' system for a while.
So in the first half, Sanders didn't let the former play, even if the other people felt bad at home, they were afraid that Lewis would not be able to find where to run after he went up, and then maybe not only did not improve the offense, but the defensive communication was not in place, so that the opposite offense blossomed in an all-round way.
Lewis himself was stunned for a moment after hearing Sanders' words, and then stared at himself with wide eyes and pointed at himself, "Coach, do you mean to let me start in the second half?" β
"Yes," Sanders nodded, his tone full of non-condescension.
After experiencing the initial stunned, Lewis also reacted immediately, patting his chest and reassuring Sanders, "Don't worry, coach, I will do my best!" β
In this process, Li Kaiming is completely an outsider, although he is also surprised that Sanders can make such a change, but from the bottom of his heart, he still supports Sanders's adjustment of the lineup, after all, Lewis's three-point shot is his food guy, no matter how bad it is, it won't be like Alssoton who can't score a point in the half, right?
And in the Wizards' locker room, when Sanders made this bold change, at the same time, in one of Emelica's college dorms.
A lean black guy wearing earrings and ripped jeans clicked a few times in front of his computer, then opened a website, and when he looked closely, he found that the page displayed the real-time statistics of today's Wizards and 76ers games.
The black guy skillfully clicked the statistical table, and after a cursory glance at the scores of the two sides, his face immediately became excited!
"Wairegud! The Trash Wizards scored 38 points in the half? 14 points behind the 76ers? Hahaha! Looks like we're going to lose again tonight! β
After yelling happily, the black guy clicked on it and flipped through the data sheet, carefully examining the personal data of the players on both sides, and at the same time unconsciously read it out of his mouth.
"Andre Iguodala, 8 points at halftime, not bad, but the shooting percentage is not very high, Zhu Holiday 5 points...... Elton Brand, 17 points at halftime! 17 points at halftime! β
When he saw the 76ers' Brand score 17 points in the half, he immediately jumped up from his chair in surprise and repeatedly confirmed that he was not mistaken!
"Well done! Elton! Hahaha, blow up that yellow-skinned monkey! The black guy waved his arms excitedly on the spot, as if it wasn't Brand who scored 17 points under Li Kaiming's defense, but him.
After reading the statistics of the 76ers, the black guy couldn't wait to turn his attention to the players of the Wizards, and the first thing he looked at was naturally Li Kaiming, "Oh! ShItοΌ 18 points at halftime? 1 point higher than Brand? This yellow-skinned monkey is really good at brushing! It seems that the Internet said that this guy is really right when he doesn't defend and score! β
The guy cursed a few words in a low voice, and then looked at the other players, "3 out of 7, 2 out of 6, 0 out of 5, hahaha!" These guys are simply playing this surnamed Li! β
And after watching the real-time statistics of the game, the black guy immediately appeared on the largest basketball forum in Emerica, and at the same time opened Twitter on his mobile phone, it is worth mentioning that the avatars of this guy's two accounts are actually Arenas.
Not surprisingly, Koslov's profile picture is prominently on his watchlist, and it can be seen from the message displayed on the screen, which has just updated Twitter.
"I originally thought that the performance of Li Kaiming and the Wizards had bottomed out, but I didn't expect them to refresh my perception again, in this high-profile game, the Wizards trailed the 76ers by 14 points 38-52 at halftime, what was this doing? Could it be that all the souls of your Wizards were traded with Arenas?
And our great champion, I opened the stats and looked, and sure enough, you scored another 18 points after halftime, but what's the use of that? Your opponent scored 17 points on your head, where did your defense go?
Where are you when your teammates are not doing well? Oh, you're asking your teammates to wipe your butts on the defensive end, then turn around and take the ball yourself on the offensive end to score like crazy! I've never seen anyone so brazen! β
The black guy finished reading Koslov's "Asking for Li Weiwen" in one go, and then breathed a sigh of relief!
He poked his finger the screen, which was a thumbs up for Koslowov, but the latter just happened to be in his heart, and he liked it hard to show how strongly he agreed with Koslowov.
And just after he finished liking the like, there was a knock at his door, "Joel, are you inside?" β
Joel, a black guy, walked over and opened the door to the room, "Wayne, what's the matter with me?" β
Outside the door, Vane, a white man with colorful tattoos on his arms and a beard on his chin, looked very mature, he first glanced into Joel's room, and then asked with a smile, "What are you doing here?" Will you go to the xx club later? There are so many girls! β
As soon as Joel heard that he was going to the nightclub, a certain position on his body immediately became a little nervous, "I just glanced at tonight's NbA game, and I was more concerned about how the yellow-skinned monkey of the Wizards was embarrassed, hahaha." As for the night hi you said, of course I'm going, and there is no suspense in tonight's game anyway! β
Vane also smiled and nodded, "See you later!" β
After Wayne left, Joel first glanced at the score on the computer screen to confirm that the difference between the two sides was still 14 points, and then immediately packed up and left the dormitory.
If nothing else, the guy he hates the most will lose four games in a row and become a cancer brush in the mouths of all the fans, which makes Joel feel very beautiful tonight, if he can meet a punctual girl at the club later, it will definitely be a night he will remember for the rest of his life......