It was close to three o'clock in the afternoon, and the air conditioner in the Pyramid Stadium was running wildly, releasing a large amount of cold air.

However, it wasn't cold at all, it was hot! It's all because of the enthusiasm of the four or five thousand fans on the scene!

In the enthusiastic cheers of the fans, the players of the Los Angeles Lakers and the Canadian men's basketball team, who had already warmed up, appeared on the court one after another, and then stood on the sidelines and waited for the game to officially start.

Unlike the Canadian men's basketball team, which all surrounds the coach and listens to the coach's tactics, the Lakers are clearly divided into two circles.

The smaller circle is centred around coach Kurt Lambis with only four players.

The larger circle revolves around Doon and Kupchak with point guard Jeniro Pago, point guard Karim Rush, small forward Luke Wharton, small forward Amy Udoka, power forward Stanislav Medvidenko, and center Jamal Sampson.

Summer league usually doesn't require a team's general manager to come out, and an assistant coach is done.

However, today, Lakers general manager Kupchak personally came to supervise the game, on the one hand, to represent the attitude of the old Bass, and on the other hand, because the Zen master is not good at developing rookies.

Zen masters are good at on-the-spot adaptation, personnel and tactical adjustments.

As well as building a championship system, it can make reasonable use of the leading players and stimulate the fighting spirit of the substitute players.

The other coaches are either feeding chicken soup or the main force.

Even if the star is tired, he still actively implements the tactic of handing the ball to the star player. At most, when the star is about to die of exhaustion, I will leave a few timeouts for you to rest.

The Zen master can say to Jordan, O'Neal, and Kobe Bryant domineeringly: "If you want to win the championship, you have to listen to me!" ”

In the future, Kerr, the four-time coach of the Warriors, inherited the coaching philosophy of the Zen master.

Appropriately suppress the leading stars, give the ball to the role players, and fully mobilize their enthusiasm.

Then find the right opportunity to let the star release the long-suppressed desire to attack and win the game with full firepower.

Then again, the current Lakers summer league coach is Kurt Rambis, and Rambis is the assistant coach of the Zen master.

Because Zen masters value seasoned veterans and are not so interested in rookies, the purpose of Lambis's summer league is not to develop rookies.

In fact, most of the old-school coaches who can lead the team to win championships don't like or are not good at developing rookies.

Popovich has the ability to develop rookies, but also because the Spurs have no money, they can only play hard to train rookies to make up for the vacancy.

Of course, Popovich also likes to recruit veterans, many of whom have been reborn under Popovich.

The reason why old-school coaches like veterans is actually very simple, because veterans are more experienced, and it is easier to understand the tactics they have laid out when they join the team, which makes their job easier.

Compared with rookies who don't know anything and are full of loopholes, it is naturally easier to use veterans and it is easier to produce results.

When it comes to employing people, Zen masters are essentially no different from Larry Brown.

The Lakers have so many CBA players, but it's not because the logo man and Kupchak didn't pick the right person.

Just look at the future Warriors, Kerr has not cultivated any decent rookies, and will only practice two-way players one by one.

This summer league, the Zen master also intended to ask Kurt Rambises to help test the quality of several veterans he selected from the free market.

However, because of the recent draft, the Lakers selected Doane and Wharton Jr.

The elder Bass wanted to prove his vision, so the summer league strategy had to be adjusted.

And because there were a few rookies who hadn't been trained in the first two years, they just put it together in the summer league to try.

It's a test to see if Doon really has the ability to lead the team!

After all, it is not so easy to become the future of NBA giants Los Angeles Lakers.

"Doon, the game is about to start, let's say a few words!" Kupchak encouraged.

Although Doon said that Old Bass took a fancy to him, after all, it was Kupchak himself who sold favors and traded from the logo man.

Once Doon doesn't play, the outside world will definitely scold Kupchak, the backstabber, instead of scolding old Bass for being blind.

So, Kupchak wants Doon to play more than anyone else.

It's best to be able to overshadow the top pick LeBron James!

"I'm going to lead the charge and lead you to win the game."

The Doon people don't talk much, and the purpose is very clear.

It is to be a ball bully, concentrate the ball and brush up a gorgeous data.

In summer league, it doesn't matter if you win or lose.

For Doon, it is more important to show "talent" and make old Buss and Lakers fans expect more from him.

The 17-year-old Bryant scored 100 points in four games in the Long Beach Summer League.

If Doon wants to have more say in the Lakers, he needs to use the summer league to play a performance that surpasses rookie Kobe.

"Don't worry, Doon, we'll take care of you." Genelo Pargo publicly expressed his loyalty.

Subsequently, like those who had already met Doon at Shaq Manor, Karim Rush, Medvidenko, and Sampson.

There are also two days ago in the training camp, and Wharton Jr. and Udoka, who have just met, also expressed their support for Doon one after another.

It can be said that long before Kupchak came forward, O'Neill had already helped Doon establish a certain prestige.

Therefore, even if Lambis had his own mission, under the suppression of Kupchak, he could not make any waves.

Soon, the two sides were starting, with the Lakers on Pargo, Doon, Wharton Jr., Medvidenko and Sampson.

The Canadian men's basketball team is a group of little-known chickens and dogs.

This year, the Canadian men's basketball team relied on Nash alone, and Nash couldn't have come to the summer league to play in the summer league.

At the beginning of the game, Doon was still a little jealous of the name of the Canadian men's basketball team.

However, seeing Canada take the ball in the low post and play back, but slowly hit outside the three-point line, Doon was not afraid at all.

I thought Embiid was already invincible in the world, but I didn't expect that there were people softer than him!

Realizing that Canada is afraid of confrontation on the inside strengthens Doon's belief that the inside line scores.

With the Canadian men's basketball team's first attack on iron, Doon immediately flew off the fast attack.

Prego was interested in making overtures to Doon, first pushing forward with the ball to attract the defence.

Immediately after throwing the basket high, Doon cooperated with the jump to eat the cake, and smoothly completed the air relay.

"Doon, Doon, Doon!"

I don't know if Nike hired a few To, or if Lakers fans spontaneously came here to watch Doon play.

In short, after Doon scored with the help of a conversion attack, there were immediately loud cheers from the fans, but there were not many of them.

Duang——

Not long after the Lakers scored points, the Canadian men's basketball team also tried to play fast break, taking advantage of the Lakers' lack of position, to grab a three-pointer, but it was iron.

Seeing this, Doon, who had just run back to the backcourt, immediately drove at full speed and quickly rushed to the frontcourt.

Pargo continued to pass the ball, but was intercepted halfway through the pass due to the obvious intention of the pass. Fortunately, it was a long pass, and the pass was not small, and finally the basketball was flipped out of bounds.

Re-sideline serve and play positional battles, Doon has already digested Terry's template, so he is naturally not afraid.

Doon quickly got the ball and motioned for Medvidenko to step forward and make a cover.

Medvidenko is a European power forward with a good mid-range hand and also knows how to play against defenders.

Doon broke down the left with the ball and blocked the Canadian defender behind Doon as Medvidenko stepped up to block it.

Doon, who has no pursuers behind him, only needs to solve the Canadian interior line that is made up in front of him.

Doon's speed is no problem playing a guard who doesn't move quickly in general, not to mention that the opponent is a soft and dumb interior player.

It's just an acceleration, Doon directly passes the person, and then faces the empty penalty area, which is directly a three-step one-handed violent buckle.

Doon quickly got off the basket and faced the help defense, but instead of stopping him, it was the Canadian interior who took the initiative to pick up the ball after he scored.

Doon couldn't help but bend his arms into a fist at him and roared angrily.

"I'm going to shackle you!"

How much Doon hopes that the Canadian interior player in front of him, like Ewing and Duncan, will be honest in defense and honestly act as a background board.

As a result, the special one actually coaxed halfway through the defense.

This is a good opportunity for Doon to dunk the big center and make the headlines.

Just look at the Griffin, the short hand clasp will look particularly violent when blocking the opponent.

If Doon can play the famous scene of death dunk center in his first summer league game, it will undoubtedly attract fans.

It's a pity that the opponent does not cooperate at all.

It's like when Curry was ready to dunk, there was only a bare floor......