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Chapter 772



Chapter 772

According to the schedule, the first round of the second round of the playoffs between the Kings and the Jazz will start on the 28th. The Jazz only have two days to prepare, but the Kings have already used the Jazz as an imaginary opponent, and they have practiced four days in advance. This time it is finally determined, just continue as usual .

Early the next morning, Su Yang got up to check his phone and found that Gobert hadn't replied. He thought to himself: This kid must have had a good time. After all, he beat the proud Lakers. The sense of accomplishment is worth celebrating, and there is no need to fly back Salt Lake City.

I never thought about it, and I checked Twitter casually, and found that Gobert was still discussing with Xiangyou how to defend Curry in the early morning, and among the objects of discussion with him, in addition to ordinary fans and commentators, there were actually Beverly and His teammate Claude.

Beverly had the largest number of replies, probably because the Clippers were swept by the Kings before and allowed Curry to average 35 points per game. Beverly, who is known for his defense, was a little embarrassed. He wanted to put his unfulfilled wish, Leave it to Sir.

"Anti-Curry, first of all, you should remember the first rule, which must be obeyed at all times, that is, to keep consuming him at all times, both physically and mentally, some actions can be bolder, you should understand the meaning, don't talk trash It's too dirty, it's better to be aggressive trash talk, for example, I bet you can't make this three-pointer, even if he hits it, it doesn't matter, the important thing is to disrupt his personal rhythm, and the overall rhythm of the Kings, but you Remember to communicate with your teammates first, let them not panic."

"The second is to try to let Curry shoot from the mid-range. His mid-range shooting rate is pretty good, but that is his least efficient way of scoring, which makes him hesitate. The core principle is actually to disrupt his personal rhythm. He can't perfect his muscle memory."

"Also, if you are forced to foul, try to be as aggressive as possible on the premise of not making a bad foul, which will also disrupt his personal rhythm. As for your specific D&C strategy, whether it is a big delay in the attack, or continue to switch defenses without the ball, it depends on you. own preference."

Beverly has a lot of long-winded, the core strategy is to destroy Curry's personal rhythm, so that Curry can not form a perfect muscle memory, in fact, with Tyronn Lue's double-team, Nas' BOX1, Donovan's being beaten Killing is not double-teaming, the principle is the same.

Either don't let Curry score, or let Curry single-handedly score, don't engage in the kind of Curry running, running, catching and shooting to score, that neither prevents Curry nor restricts the rest of the king, so many years After the game, the whole league understands.

"Thank you! Thank you for your advice!"

Gobert put his hands together three times in a row, and Claude also forwarded and liked it. The last time was 37:[-] in the morning.

"I saw you discussing it!"

Su Yang forwarded it casually, and seconded the funny smiley expression, "I will make adjustments as soon as possible to make your strategy obsolete."

After all, adjustments are unwilling to adjust. The Kings lost to the Jazz before, one because of Cousins' absence, one because of Curry's rotation, and another because of experiments. It seems that there are a lot of losses, but there are Very reasonable reasons, not hard power.

It took only a few minutes to repost, and the number of fans' comments and likes exploded. ESPN and other media and some commentators reposted to join in the fun. Few people thought that in order to win the game, Gobert took the initiative to discuss how to defend Curry on social networks in the early hours of the morning.

At noon, 21 commentators under ESPN released their predictions for the Kings and Jazz series. A total of 19 people were optimistic about the Kings, and only 2 people were optimistic about the Jazz. .

Commentators such as Stephen Smith have emphasized one thing: the game at the Salt Lake City Plateau is difficult to play. With the Jazz's strong defensive ability, although they cannot guarantee advancement, they can win a game at the Energy Center no matter what. It is too difficult to sweep.

Seeing that many commentators put forward such opinions, Su Yang quite agrees, but he does not value the Jazz's defense, but understands that with the pissing nature of the league, there is no need to take such a big risk even if it can be swept. Risk group recklessly.

Just as I was about to put down my phone, I saw Gobert tweeting again. I took a closer look: I noticed that everyone was wondering why I was discussing defensive strategies in the early hours of the morning, because Coach Su Yang sent me a text message last night saying that he would sweep 4-0 We, I can't help it, I know he rarely talks nonsense, in order to win this series, I have to work harder, we are the challengers.

Gobert's tweets quickly attracted a lot of retweets and discussions. Only then did fans know that there was such a thing. Su Yang responded to Gobert again as soon as possible.

Su Yang smiled and reposted: "I have seen a movie called "Young and Dangerous" before, and I have to be honest when I say it. Since I said 4 to 0, it is 4 to 0..." Continue the psychological warfare, and turn around. The king sent a message in the group chat, telling the whole team not to think too much.

It took only 10 minutes for the tweet to be released, and related discussions soared to [-], directly becoming a hot topic on Twitter.

Su Yang didn't bother to watch what the fans said, so he went back to the office and continued to study how to better hit the inside line.

In a blink of an eye, on the 28th, the first game of the second round of the playoffs between the Kings and the Jazz will be played at the Gold No. [-] Center in Saskatchewan.

Su Yang set up tea and invited Snyder, and Mike Brown and Gobert were present at the same time. During the conversation, the two head coaches emphasized not to make the game so intense. Looking at Su Yang anxiously, he thought to himself: "During training yesterday, Quinn said that he would give 120% of his energy. Why did he become so friendly now? Did I get it wrong?"

After drinking tea at three o'clock, Su Yang rushed to the ballpark, arranged the warm-up content, and then went to the media center to accept reporters.

There were twenty or so media present. According to past practice, ESPN team reporter Lindsay first asked the question: "In the regular season, the Kings and the Jazz have played against each other four times. Your Kings are at a disadvantage in terms of wins. That will be an additional benefit to you. affect?
For example, in the 06-07 season, the Warriors defeated the Mavericks three times in the regular season, and also won the black eight in the playoffs. "

Su Yang smiled and shook his head: "The conditions of the regular season and the playoffs are different, and the mentality and goals are also different. It has almost no effect. As for the Mavericks and Warriors you mentioned back then, I can also list how much they lost in the regular season. The case for winning the playoffs…”

While talking, I thought of the 14-15 season, the Eagles 3-1 the Cavaliers in the regular season, and their heads were shaved in the playoffs.

The press conference was finished soon, and Su Yang returned to the venue. According to the plan in advance, he took a group photo with the township inspection team from China and chatted, preparing to start labor importation. Before Christmas, he promised to build a warehouse to recruit workers, but the labor costs in the United States were too high, and the mix most.

At 07:30, the game officially started.

More than 2 fans at the scene chanted in unison, King, come on, and the domestic Internet celebrities who flew here to catch the heat frantically scratched their heads and made poses.

The Kings started, Curry, Brogdon, Tatum, Antetokounmpo, Cousins, specially arranged for Brogdon to start, mainly to limit Mitchell, and by the way prevent the Jazz from double-teaming Curry at the beginning of the game. Can get the ball to the paint better.

The Jazz started, Rubio, Mitchell, Ingles, Favors, Gobert, all full of fighting spirit.

In the ESPN live broadcast seat, the host Brin first gave a brief introduction to the Jazz's regular season statistics: "The Jazz can rank fifth in the Western Conference, mainly relying on their fourth-lowest points per game in the league and the third-most points per game in the league. Blocks and 4th backcourt rebounds per game, and the reason why they failed to go further is due to excessive turnovers, averaging 3 times per game, ranking 5th in the league, coupled with low offensive efficiency, averaging only 14.8 points per game, ranking 4th in the league In the 111.7th, they had a lot of zero points in 18 minutes..."

The on-court game starts.

There were cheers everywhere, the Jazz won the jump ball, the cheers suddenly turned into defensive shouts, and Ingles slowly dribbled the ball forward.

I don't know how Snyder arranged it, but the Jazz actually started with a five-out formation.Ingles dribbled the ball to the right wing and cooperated hand-in-hand with Mitchell who was oncoming from the bottom corner. He handed the ball too fast in a hurry, Mitchell grabbed it firmly, and the basketball rolled out of bounds to trigger a violation.

Su Yang was confused on the spot, and subconsciously turned his head to look at the Jazz bench, thinking what kind of tactic this was.

The offensive and defensive transition on the field, the king's horn formation started, Cousins ​​took the ball with his right elbow to support, and Curry cut in after passing the ball, rushed to his left elbow to cover for Brog on the wall, Brogdon took the opportunity to get rid of Mitchell, Rushing to Cousins' side, the thugs handed over the pick-and-roll.

One hits the basket and one runs down.

However, Gobert retreated early, Mitchell bypassed the interception early, and in a hurry, Brogdon didn't dare to hit the shot.

But the basketball was passed back to the top of the arc. Curry caught the ball and faced Rubio, who was on the single defense. He took a tentative step and easily broke through into the paint. And Cousins ​​took off at the same time and received a dunk in the air.

Cheers erupted in the arena, and Van Gundy commented on the live broadcast: "The Jazz's defense has no problem, but the King has two consecutive screens and an internal and external linkage. The Jazz's defensive formation cannot shrink. Rubio can't predict that situation..."

Jackson nodded: "The basketball was passed back to the top of the arc, and Rubio had to return to the defense immediately, causing Curry to break through easily."

Offensive and defensive transitions on the court, the Jazz took the ball again with Ingles.

Seeing that kind of operation, Su Yang had some clues, thinking that Snyder planned to make a strange move, so he was caught off guard.After figuring out the joints, he immediately stood up and shouted at the kings and generals on the field: "press the line, prevent the ball from catching, and prevent them from catching the ball..."

The kings on the court immediately followed suit. Ingles failed to pass Mitchell first, and then failed to pass Favors. He had no choice but to hoist the ball to Gobert at the top of the arc, then turned around and rushed to the right corner to give the ball to Gobert. Mitchell made a screen, and finally played a Chicago routine in which Mitchell received Gobert's hand-off pass, but I never thought that Mitchell dribbled the ball and hit his foot, and the basketball was forced to roll to the backcourt.

Brogdon rushed to the center line immediately, chased all the way to the bottom line of the frontcourt to pick up the basketball, and jumped with Mitchell on his back to release the basket.

Perhaps because of his own mistakes, Mitchell stretched out his hand and pushed Brogdon, and hurriedly wanted to stop the action, but it was too late, the basketball rebounded into the net, and the referee whistled at the same time. Give an additional penalty.

Mitchell was angry and ruthless, and walked to the sidelines with his head in his hands, and Snyder got up anxiously and paced back and forth to vent his emotions.

During the live broadcast, Van Gundy said with a smile: "Su Yang's psychological warfare has played a role. He said that he will sweep 4-0, which made the entire Jazz team very nervous. They recover as quickly as possible."

Jackson shook his head and sighed: "It's hard to imagine what kind of psychological activities there will be when fighting with Su Yang like this..."

Amidst the cheers of the audience, Brogden made a free throw.

The Jazz changed sides to attack, and finally changed to Rubio dribbling the ball across half court. Rubio raised his hand and made a long pass from the center line, and rushed to the 45-degree three-point line on the left. The ball observes Mitchell, forming a double screen.

The Kings went directly to Cousins ​​to double-team. Mitchell hurriedly passed the ball to Ingles who came out to meet him. , Brogdon picked up a rebound that rebounded and fell.

Cheers erupted in the arena, and the Kings team launched a counterattack. Curry made an emergency stop at the top of the arc and retreated to fly Rubio, making a three-pointer.

The basketball clanged like iron, and the sound of sighs resounded through the arena. There was a BUFF of 'hit rate +50%', and it was Curry who made the shot, but unexpectedly failed to hit the three-pointer.Curry himself was also quite depressed, and hurriedly turned back to defend, but the Jazz was in no hurry.

Another five-out formation started, Gobert set up a wall at the top of the arc to cover, Ingles broke through with the ball, attracted Antetokounmpo in the left corner to double-team, and then passed to Favors who was waiting in the pit, but Favors The three-pointer still hit the iron, but Gobert grabbed an offensive rebound.

Favors rushed to the basket, received a low pass from Gobert, jumped high and dunked successfully, finally giving the Jazz a sigh of relief.

But before he took a second breath, Curry ran to catch the ball, broke through Rubio's blockade, and resorted to his signature emergency stop and high throw to hit the board.

The basketball bounced back into the net smoothly. Rubio obviously didn't suffer from his height and shape, but he really couldn't prevent Curry from breaking through.

The Jazz attacked again, and Mitchell used Gobert to back cover in advance, circled to the free throw line, and made an emergency stop to grab a shot.

But the goal is a goal, the difficulty is quite high, the king turned around, Curry broke through to attract shrinkage, assisted Brogdon to easily hit a three-pointer, followed by Tatum stealing Ingles, assisting Antetokounmpo The next dunk was successful, a wave of 5 to 0.

Between you and me, the Kings started 12 to 4, but the Jazz couldn't make a three-pointer for a long time. Snyder chose to give up the double high inside and replaced Favors with Crowder, but the Jazz repeatedly Starting from five outside, it was difficult to hit the inside line, so he could only shoot three-pointers from the outside under pressure. Except for one hit by Claude, Rubio, Mitchell, and Ingles hit the iron three times in a row.

Mitchell's emergency stop mid-range shot also became difficult, and Snyder replaced Mitchell with Royce O'Neal, but the Jazz's outside firepower became worse.The Kings just defended normally, and when the first quarter was over, they led 39 to 19 by 20 points.

During the pause between the quarters, Su Yang made a brief analysis, and he was quite surprised. The King's strategy of temporarily pressing the line broke the Jazz.

After the second quarter of the game, the Jazz reduced the use of five-outside shooting formations, and their offensive efficiency improved slightly. However, facing the ultra-high mobility rotation lineup led by Covington + Bridges + McGee, the Jazz's shooting rate is still low. Low and can only rely on offensive rebounds.

At the end of the half, the Kings had a 71-44 lead. Back in the third quarter, the Jazz still had no solution.

The Jazz did a good job defensively, allowing the Kings to score only 25 points in the third quarter, but the Jazz themselves only scored 20 points.

Entering the fourth quarter, the Jazz did not give up, but the point difference was too big to chase, and they had no choice but to surrender with 3 minutes left.

最终,国王121比99击败爵士,系列赛大分1比0,库里轻取32分10助攻。

After the game, the fans discussed heatedly.

"Gobert discussed defensive strategies in the early morning, and the Jazz actually arranged for Rubio to defend Curry alone. What the hell was he thinking?"

"This may be just a test by Snyder. If a large number of five-out formations can't achieve results, then change to other modes. The Jazz certainly didn't expect to beat the Kings to advance. For them, training meets a strong team. Response is more important."

"Their strategy of taking multiple three-pointers at the beginning is obviously wrong. They should make changes in the next game. Let's wait and see."

Amidst the various discussions, two days passed in a blink of an eye.

The king fights the Jazz again.

Sure enough, the Jazz did not use the five-out strategy a lot, and they were not in a hurry to grab three-pointers at the beginning, but the rhythm slowed down, and the scoring efficiency was not as good as that of the Kings. They lost 15 points in the half game. Lost by 32 points.

With a 2-0 lead, Su Yang and the kings will fly to Salt Lake City to take time to watch the game between the Warriors and the Spurs.

(End of this chapter)


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