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Chapter 164 Ask for the account, assist the new king [First update, please subscribe]

Last season, when Oakley was with the Raptors.

Tyrone Hill, who was playing for the Philadelphia 76ers at the time, followed the team to a game in Toronto.

Without any warning, when the two teams practiced, Oakley went straight to the 76ers player Tyrone Hill and slapped the other side.

Afterwards, Oakley explained the reason: "He never pays back the money he owes me, so I have to remind him."

please!This is the scene of the game televised.

The Raptors' youth experience with Oakley wasn't a pleasant one either.

At one point he fumed that Carter was an unmotivated jerk, and that McGrady was given a few sips of hard liquor by Oakley when he was under drinking age.

But the strange thing is that he likes Lu Yu very much.

Maybe it's because Lu Yu, like him, has a kind of stingy temperament.

Since Tyrone Hill was slapped by Oakley, he has cut off any contact with Oakley. Naturally, he has no plans to pay back the money. The last time he was attacked by Oakley, if Oakley dared to come to him this time. By his side, he will never let Oakley win easily - even if he loses, he won't make headlines for being unable to fight back.

Today's home court for the Lakers is very lively. Although they have been losing away games recently, their home record has been good. At least they have one win and one loss. They have won a Pacers game and lost a Knicks game. Fans are looking forward to today. How the team will perform.

Of course, the expectations may not be high.

The 76ers were the Eastern Conference champions last season, and the OK group, which was still in full swing, won a victory in the finals.

But if you look closely at the Eastern Conference standings, the 76ers are actually last, having lost all of their first five games at the start of the season.

In such a comparison, the Bulls with one win and four losses are a little bit stronger.

The reason why the 76ers keep losing has a lot to do with head coach Larry Brown.

"Play the right way", fans familiar with the NBA must not be unfamiliar, it has almost become Larryism.

So, what is the "right way"?
"I don't know where I learned that, but I always tell my players, 'Play hard, play smart, remember teamwork, enjoy basketball, and try to defend,'" Brown said. "

During Brown's more than two decades of coaching, he has stuck to those principles.

But, his principles haven't changed, the NBA's rules have changed...and he's starting to play zone defense.

This made Brown messy. The 76ers were able to succeed last season, thanks to Brown letting Iverson switch to shooting guard, and then using Snow as the point guard to deliver cannonballs to Iverson. Ferson takes personal heroism to the extreme.

Now that the rules have changed, individual heroism doesn't work anymore.

How to do?
change!
But here comes the problem, Iverson is reluctant to change his style of play.

No matter how much Larry Brown can "turn the rot into the magic", he can't beat the "answer" that goes his own way.

In the end, the personal relationship with the team's number one star Iverson was incompatible, which showed that Old Brown's incomplete grasp of the players' psychology.

Old Brown always adheres to the principle of self, and when designing tactics for the team according to the characteristics of the players, it seems to lack some compromise concepts.

When the team's record is good, these contradictions may not surface; but once the performance declines, when people with ulterior motives make a big fuss about it, it will cause varying degrees of harm to the team, players and coaches at the same time.

These are probably due to the inherent stubbornness and uncompromising nature of academic coaches.

Lakers assistant coach Winters once commented on Brown's work: "When Brown controlled Iverson's personality performance, the 76 team was very close to the championship; when Iverson was out of 'Brown's Law', he and His team is nothing."

That's the difference between Brown and Zen and Popovich.

Popovich and Phil Jackson are also one of the few coaches with thousands of wins in the league, who are better at 'manipulating players'.

After losing five games in a row, Iverson even refused to participate in the team's training.

In the locker room, Larry Brown was in a bad mood, he said loudly: "Everyone cheer up, the season has just begun, we just need a win to rebuild confidence, the Bulls' record is equally bad, we tonight We have to work hard to win the game, and I believe we can reach the finals again this year, just like last year!"

The players gained a little confidence and applauded together.

Before the applause fell, there was a knock on the door of the locker room. Snow, who was sitting beside the door, opened the door and saw a player wearing a Bulls jacket standing outside the door.

Everyone in the room was stunned, and Iverson took the lead: "Hey, I said, is there something?"

"Hello, Allen, I'm Lu Yu, this year's rookie."

Lu Yu was very polite: "One thing is that the debt owed to Charles by your team's Tyrone Hill has not been repaid. Charles asked for it once, and he did it, but he still didn't get it. I can't help it when I'm on the court and it affects the game, so I want to come to see Mr. Hill first, and hope that he will pay back the money he owes first, so as to avoid unpleasant things happening on the court."

Allen Iverson frowned. To be honest, he also hated people like Tyrone Hill.

He looked inside, and Larry Brown pretended not to hear.

The tall and thin Tyrone Hill was still afraid of Lu Yu, a rookie. He stood up and said arrogantly: "If you have the ability, let Charles come to me. You are not qualified for this rookie."

"is it?"

Lu Yu raised his brows.

Then look at 76ers head coach Larry Brown: "Coach Brown, I'm sorry to meet you in this way, but I think I should give you a piece of advice, don't let Mr. Hill play at the end of the game. , otherwise I'm not sure which hospital bed in Chicago he'll be in tonight."

"Hi..." All the 76ers players in the room were speechless.

However, none of them meant to stand up and speak for Hill, because this person's character was really bad.

"Of course, you'd better let him fly out of Chicago now, or I'm not sure if I'll throw him in some ghetto in Chicago after the game."

"I don't have any cash on me. I owe it first and pay it back next time." Although Hill felt that Lu Yu was bragging, he couldn't guarantee that there would be any emergency. After all, Chicago's typewriters are famous in the United States.

Lu Yu shrugged: "There is no money you can borrow from your teammates, Iverson, Snow, Mutombo, they are all rich..."

Speaking of this, Mutombo glared at Lu Yu: "I didn't bring any money."

Then he glared at Hill again: "You shouldn't owe money to others, especially Oakley's money. Now that Oakley's younger brother has come to the door, don't implicate me."

He thought Lu Yu was Oakley's younger brother.

In fact, this is indeed the case. In life, Lu Yu is Oakley's younger brother, whether in terms of age or status in the locker room, but in the team's tactical system, Lu Yu is the team's... future boss.

What else did Hill want to say, Iverson said: "I have $3000 here, and I paid him the bill."

He took out three thousand dollars and handed it to Lu Yu.

Lu Yu took the three thousand dollars and nodded with a smile: "Well, thank you!"

Turning his head, he was about to leave.

At this moment, the members of the Bulls had arrived one after another. They thought that Lu Yu was joking when he said that he wanted the account, but they didn't expect that Lu Yu really came to ask for the account.

When they saw Lu Yu holding a thick stack of banknotes in his hand.

All stunned.

Especially Oakley, he's not short of $3000, he's just a breath away.

When Lu Yu said in the locker room that he wanted to help him with the bill, although he was moved, he knew that this was just Lu Yu's talk. Team's locker room.

He quickly rushed over with his teammates.

Artest turned Lu Yu left and right.

"How is it? Lu? They didn't bully you, did they?"

Chandler was also worried: "Lu, are you all right?"

Oakley came closer and looked at Lu Yu. If Lu Yu had a little wound on his body, he would definitely smash the 76ers locker room.

But obviously Lu Yu showed no sign of having a hand with anyone.

Lu Yu just smiled and handed the money to Oakley: "Charles, what I promised you, the money will be back for you."

Oakley's heart warmed slightly, and for some reason, a touch of emotion flooded his heart.

To be honest, Jordan called him a few days ago, and now the Wizards are really short of manpower. Jordan hopes that Oakley can come and help him. Oakley is still hesitating these days, but Lu Yu’s move made him dispel it. this idea.

Perhaps, assisting a new king to ascend to the throne is also a good choice!

After the warm-up, the game begins.

Bulls starting: Lu Yu, Hoiberg, Artest, Fezel, Miller.

76ers Starters: Eric Snow, Allen Iverson, Matt Halprin, Derek Coleman, DiCambe Mutombo.

When encountering Mutombo, Brad Miller didn't have to struggle to jump the ball, he couldn't jump anyway, so he just let it go.

However, the interior of the 76ers has certain flaws. After helping the 76ers reach the finals last season, Mutombo signed a four-year, $4 million contract with the 6500ers, but everyone knows that he has 76 years old, at this age, the status of each year is an unknown.

What's more, he's a good rim protector, but definitely not a good offensive player.

The other big guy is Derek Coleman.

Maybe Derrick Coleman could be one of the best power forwards in the world if he didn't have a bad temper.

When he first debuted, Derek's talent shocked everyone; people described him as the next Karl Malone or Charles Barkley.

"Sports Illustrated" even made this prediction: "Derrick will be the best power forward."

However, Derek did not cherish his talent. He trained to be lazy, drink alcohol, fight and get into trouble again and again.

The talented power forward ended up making only two All-Star appearances and quickly became a third-rate player.

More importantly, he is also 34 years old this year.

The combined age of the two insiders is almost 70. In the entire Bulls team, only Oakley is older than the two of them, but Oakley is only a substitute, but the two of them are real starters.

It can be seen from this that the 76ers really do not have suitable rookie players in the interior.

However, Coach Brown's idea is also very simple, as long as the two insiders are responsible for protecting the rebounds and interfering with the opponent's offensive inside, as for the score, leave it to Iverson.

This method worked last season, but this season has been hit repeatedly.

The reason is very simple, because of the zone defense, although Iverson's scoring average has not dropped much, his offensive efficiency has dropped significantly.

But today I encountered the Bulls. The Bulls and the 76ers have a similar problem, that is, there are not many players who can attack. As long as the limited points on the field that can be scored are choked, the victory of this game will not be lost. Not difficult.

Iverson changed direction twice and threw off Lu Yu's defense, then accelerated and threw off Miller with one step, and made a comeback, 2-0
The two teams were directly dislocated to defend, with Lu Yu defending Iverson and Snow defending Lu Yu.

In fact, in this way, Lu Yu's pressure is even greater. After all, he has to do two jobs by himself, but Floyd has no intention of adjusting. He is actually a little dissatisfied with Klaus' meddling in the affairs of the team coach.

Lu Yu passed the ball to the bottom corner Artest, Artest did not live up to Lu Yu's assists, hit a three-pointer, 2 to 3
The 76ers attacked, two inside lines were pulled out to Iverson to pick and roll, Iverson saw the opportunity to pass the ball, Snow hit a three-pointer from the left bottom corner, answer ball, 5-3
This ball is definitely a mystery, you must know that Snow's three-point shooting rate may not even be [-]%.

Brad Miller, you have no problem with him offense, he's shooting pretty well in the high post, but he's slow moving, and once he's switched with guards, he hates chasing out defensive backs' shots.

I have to admit that Brown has his own set of skills to become a coach of Qiansheng.

It's not easy for the Bulls to win over the 76ers.

　Yeah, yesterday was the Dragon Boat Festival?Forgot, forgot, I wish everyone a healthy Dragon Boat Festival... It's not too late, right?

　　
　
(End of this chapter)