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Chapter 40 From Riding a Horse to Flying an Airplane



Chapter 40 From Riding a Horse to Flying an Airplane
Eight p.m., Toyota Center.

The Rockets returned to Houston with two consecutive victories away from home, and started the first home game of the new season strongly, which made the Rockets fans full of energy.The whole arena was full of jubilation, and the arena that usually needs to wait until the middle of the first quarter to fill up was full early this time.

Rocket Bear waved the team flag and ran back and forth on the sidelines. After a few laps, he suddenly stopped in front of Su Yang, stared at Su Yang with his hands on his hips, as if he was interrogating a prisoner, and suddenly raised his hand and shook his head, as if saying: "You Wrong!"

The large screen in the center of the stadium simultaneously displayed a sentence: "Su Yang, you don't understand anything..."

The audience burst into laughter, all kinds of cheers and shouts, and the camera on the central big screen immediately pointed at Su Yang.

Su Yang glanced at the Rocket Bear, and flipped through the tactical notes by himself, without any fluctuations in his heart, and even felt a little embarrassed.

Perhaps because Su Yang was pretending too much, the Rockets fans behind the bench started yelling loudly, trying to make him break the defense.

"I know you say that because you want to be famous, you want attention, you made it!"

"You're lucky! You're not a genius, you're just stealing McMillan's work!"

"The people of Houston hate you, we're driving you back to Portland tonight, prepare to cry!"

Su Yang turned a deaf ear to it, the Rocket Bear made fun of it, turned around and walked away resentfully, and continued to run around the field.

In the ESPN commentary booth, former Rockets head coach Jeff Van Gundy sat side by side with former Rockets player Mark Jackson. Between the two was ace commentator Mike Breen.

"Jeff, do you think what Su Yang said makes sense?" Brin asked with a smile.

Van Gundy chuckled slightly: "To be honest, I agree with his words to a certain extent. For example, the management has not recruited big-name players in the free market, but that is just the result, not the reason. Houston itself is a small ball market..."

After Van Gundy explained for a while, Brin summed it up, and asked again: "What do you think of his three tactics at the last moment against the Spurs? I heard some coaches and scouts talking about him, and he thought his last two tactics were genius level."

"That tactic made me feel novel, and I believe many coaches will imitate the design in the future."

Van Gundy smiled with regret: "He is indeed a genius, if he is my assistant..."

"Don't pretend..."

Mark Jackson laughed: "You won't let him arrange lore tactics at the last moment like Nate McMillan, and you will still think his ideas are too stupid. I have studied the Blazers' first two games, which can be said to be very Alternative."

"So, do you think Su Yang is the reason for the change in the Blazers?" Brin asked seriously.

Jackson nodded: "It has already spread inside the Trail Blazers. Since Su Yang led the bench to win the first game..."

In the arena, the long whistle sounded, and the game will start.

The Blazers starting players were about to enter the field, Su Yang got up and walked to the sidelines, and interacted with Roy and others with high fives.

The starting players of the Rockets are also ready to enter the field simultaneously, and the large central screen shows the lineup comparison of the two teams.

For the Blazers, Jack, Roy, Webster, Alder, Frye.

Rockets side, Alston, Battier, McGrady, Hayes, Yao Ming.

The referee then entered the field, and the two teams held a jump ball. Amidst the cheers of the audience, Frye turned the ball to the Blazers half.

Roy ran across the center line with the ball, hand-in-hand screens with Jack, and exchanged positions, while Adelaide pretended to raise the pick-and-roll, but turned around and walked to the waist in advance. The rhythm was very fast, but Jack passed the ball slowly, which made Haye Si got a chance to return to defense.

Ade didn't panic when he took the ball, and easily hit a jumper with a turnaround. Hayes didn't even touch his arm.

Su Yang stood up and applauded, leading everyone on the Blazers bench to cheer together, filling Adelaide with a sense of honor.

Yibian Rockets attack, Yao Ming took the ball in the right elbow, failed to pass, and held the ball high for basketball observation.

It looked like he was going to play a high-post support role, but McGrady, another strong point of the Rockets, stood still in the right corner. Battier on the left could only use Hayes to cover, come out from the baseline to catch the ball, and then turned around to use the ball. Hayes screens the dribble.

Roy was very tight in pursuit and defense, Battier had no ability to make an emergency stop, and Hayes did not threaten when he rushed to the waist.

After hesitating for a while, the basketball was passed back to the top of the arc, and the attack time was running out. Yao Ming caught the ball and made a two-point shot.

The basketball hit the basket and hit the iron, and flew out of bounds during the two teams' scramble. The referee whistled and whistled for the ball in the backcourt.

Jack took the ball to the three-point line in the frontcourt, passed it to Frye at the top of the arc, and strode down.Frye took the ball and passed it to the other side, also striding down, and the two formed continuous screens invisibly.Roy took the opportunity to start from the sideline, AI-style crosscut.

When Battier caught up with Roy again, Roy had already received the basketball and was in a three-threat position.

Su Yangqiang told Roy before the game that Battier is a classical defensive player who knows everything about footwork, wingspan, and judgment. It is best not to play too closely with Battier. , not giving too many chances.

Perhaps Su Yang's guidance took effect, Roy made a cross step to get rid of Battier, and made a mid-range shot from the free throw line.

Battier resorted to his signature eye-covering action, but it was of no use. The basketball crashed into the net with a bang.

The Rockets changed sides to attack, and Yao Ming took a position at the right elbow, as if he was going to play a Princeton tactic.

The Blazers players instinctively put their defensive attention on the right elbow area, but the Rockets passed the ball to the left. On the left side, McGrady used Hayes to cover from the low post, but McGrady took the ball and didn't hit it. Instead, return the top of the arc.

Seeing this situation, Su Yang sensed the rocket's true intentions, and hurriedly shouted: "Defend against Yao Ming, defend against..."

Before the words fell, the basketball flew from the top of the arc to the left bottom corner, and Yao Ming stood lightly on the left waist at the same time.

Battier caught the ball from the bottom corner and immediately held up the ball for a lob pass, while Yao Ming didn't do anything when he caught the ball, he just turned around and shot.

Frye tried his best to take off to block the shot, but it was useless. The arc of the basketball's flight was too high, and it went into the net with a bang.

"This tactic is powerful. Try to pass the ball to Yao Ming on the strong side first, and start the 2V2 on the weak side if it fails. Once the defense is slack, go to Yao Ming immediately, which greatly helps Yao Ming to reduce the difficulty of getting stuck." Su Yang recalled the Rockets rotation and praised him in his heart.

On the court, the Blazers followed suit with the first attack tactic, and Adelaide took the ball at the waist again, turned around and hit a hook.

Hayes had nothing to do, and Adelaide did not make any physical confrontation at all, leaving him with nowhere to put his strength.

Turning to the Rockets to attack, Alston quickly brought the ball to the top of the arc, and raised his hand straight to the left corner.

Shane Battier held the ball high and passed it to the left waist, but when Yao Ming received the ball, Adelaide rushed straight from the baseline.

A double-team suddenly formed, and Yao Ming turned around in a hurry to get rid of it, raising his hand and throwing the ball towards the top of the arc, the movement was obvious.

Roy leaped forward, intercepted the pass, and went straight to the frontcourt as if the gas pedal was pressed to the bottom.

Battier tried to catch up for a moment, but the distance got farther and farther, and he could only watch Roy gliding and dunking.

8 to 2, the Blazers had a very strong opening performance, and they were not tired of back-to-back battles at all.

In the transition between offense and defense, Alston dribbled the ball to the left wing, hit the ground and passed it to Yao Ming on the left elbow, and went straight to the bottom corner.

At the same time, Battier started running from the bottom corner, rushed to Yao Ming with the cover of Alstom, received the hand-to-hand pass, and turned sideways to the inside. Forced to stop the ball.

McGrady hurried out from the sideline to prepare to respond, but the referee whistled and whistled Battier for a walking violation.

Battier stomped slightly annoyed. He was pushed too fast by Roy and accidentally made a low-level mistake.

In the transition between offense and defense, Jack ran to the top of the arc with the ball, scanned the half-court position, and beckoned for AI CUT tactics.

The so-called AI CUT tactic is the continuous use of cover cross-cut tactic designed by the assistant coach of the Philadelphia 76ers for Iverson. Later, many teams rushed to imitate it, and then formed a consensus within the NBA, so it was named after Iverson.

The moment Jack's gesture fell, Webster started along the baseline, and with the help of Adelaide and Frye's cover, he moved to the left corner in a wide range, stood still and turned around to catch the pass from Jack, facing the flying McGrady, and raised his hand That's three points.

bass!The basketball is hollow into the net.

The Blazers led 11 to 2, and the whole process was as easy as cutting melons and vegetables, perfectly presenting Su Yang's prediction.

The referee's whistle sounded simultaneously, and the Rockets requested a timeout.

In the ESPN commentary booth, the three commentators looked surprised.

Van Gundy said: "Unbelievable! The Blazers designed a three-pointer tactic specifically for Martell Webbers. Their overall offense seems to have been upgraded from a primitive society to the third industrial revolution, from riding a horse directly to flying a plane!"

Jackson nodded: "As far as I know, it was Su Yang who proposed to design a three-point tactic for Martel..."

(End of this chapter)


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