Coach: Coaching the Grizzlies at the beginning, playing the bantam

Chapter 18 Stubborn Bantam!New season western pattern!

After the group confrontation, the general manager Wallace walked to the sidelines and said kindly to Lu Yong: "Lu, you have done a good job, and you will maintain this level in the new season. I believe the team will definitely become better with your help. "

"Thank you, I will." Lu Yong replied with a smile.

This group fight against him has gained a lot. Not only has he gained the respect of the main players such as Mike Miller, but now even the management has recognized his coaching level.

Some people even think that he leads the team better than Fratello, which is obviously a good start.

Only when the management recognizes his ability to work, can he have more say in the regular season, instead of watching Frattello drag the Grizzlies into the abyss like a puppet.

This is very important to Lu Yong, the stubborn Fratello doesn't know how to attack at all.

If the Grizzlies will only use Pau Gasol in the new season and ignore the offensive potential of other players, Lu Yong will definitely faint in the toilet.

In the next few days, the Grizzlies started training before the start of the new season.

The main practice is passing and receiving the ball and running without the ball in positional warfare, and it has improved significantly under Lu Yong's on-the-spot command.

Lu Yong's headache is that this team has no long-range shooting ability inside. The players are used to breaking through and hitting the basket, and almost every attack will consume 24 seconds.

Gasol, Swift, and Warrick are the starting strikers that Fratello has planned. This lineup has been strongly opposed by Lu Yong. He hopes that Warrick can play as a substitute and let the three-point shooting Eddie Jones, Gay or Ariza served as starters, but coach Fratello objected.

Stubborn Fratello doesn't like players to shoot too many three-pointers. If it weren't for Mike Miller's outstanding performance in the group confrontation, Fratello would want him to continue to serve as the sixth man in the new season.

Players like Swift and Warrick who are physically strong and like to drive to the basket with the ball are his favorites.

Almost all veteran coaches who have been coaching since the 80s have made this mistake, emphasizing defense, confrontation, and looking down on players who float outside and shoot three-pointers.

Believe that defense and toughness are the key to winning the championship. In the group confrontation, the "Five of Death" that Lu Yong tried in the group confrontation took a lot of three-pointers from beyond the three-point line. The Hall of Elegance.

It’s hard for people to understand the stubborn old man’s thoughts. It’s like getting used to the elderly phone. You suddenly give him a smart phone with more functions. Not only will this product not praise the fine workmanship, but it will complain that the smart phone is too complicated. Lu Yong felt helpless.

In the end, Fratello still insisted on playing his ideal tactics, with Pau Gasol launching a single attack inside, and other players using the screen to find a second attack opportunity.

The only difference from last season is that Mike Miller became the starting shooting guard.

His outstanding scoring performance in the confrontation game gave him more tactical status, and he will become the team's main outside attack point in the new season.

Point guard Amare Stoudemire is responsible for organizing the pass, pulling away and waiting for an opportunity to shoot or pick and roll and break through to attack the basket.

Warrick and Swift are still the same, cutting in space at any time in positional battles, taking advantage of their physical fitness and hitting the basket.

Eddie Jones was sent to the second team with a substitute, leading a group of rookies to ensure the offensive firepower in the second quarter.

Looking at the team's starting roster for the preseason, Lu Yong rubbed his forehead helplessly.

The rookies he co-authored in the summer league were not reused, and the role of the new season turned out to be to expand the lineup rotation.

In the end, Fratello still played the same style of play as last season, and he was easily unwilling to make changes.

The good news is that Lu Yong used this time to get acquainted with the players.

The young players regard him as a role model, and the veterans regard him as a buddy. Anyway, the age difference is not too big, and he speaks freely, which is much easier than communicating with that old urchin in Fratello.

At noon, Lu Yong ate with the players in the cafeteria of the arena.

He intends to build a good relationship with Gasol and the main players first, and then wait for Fratello to have a bad nose in the regular season before pulling up and fundamentally changing the Grizzlies' offense.

Now Fratello can't listen to his opinion at all, and thinks the new season is too good.

Lu Yong didn't intend to make fun of himself, after he had suffered, he would naturally take the initiative to find him.

The league has been very lively in recent days, but the focus of the topic is not the Grizzlies, but the giant Los Angeles Lakers who were eliminated by the Suns in the first round of the playoffs last year.

This season has not yet started, the Lakers have received bad news. First, the second head Lamar Odom sprained the meniscus of his left knee during training, and then the main center Kwame Brown temporarily underwent finger surgery. It is expected that the defect will last for two weeks , Cast a shadow over the prospect of the Lakers hitting the playoffs.

The Lakers tried to strengthen through trades during the offseason, bringing Kobe more helpers to the championship.

However, due to the lack of chips in his hand, he couldn't get back a star after asking for a long time. In the end, he only bought Maurice Evans, Radmanovich, and Shamond William who was on the verge of retirement from the free market. James these rags.

Among them, Morris and Williams played for the Pistons and Hornets respectively last season. They averaged only 5 points and 4.8 points per game.

Radmanovich is the biggest fish signed by the Lakers in this year's free market. He played for the Seattle Supersonics and the Los Angeles Clippers last season, averaging 9.8 points, 4.6 rebounds and 1.8 assists per game. It can be regarded as a striker.

It is a pity that Radmanovich can play the role of sixth man at most, and it is not enough for him to join Kobe in the championship.

The strength lies there, otherwise the Clippers who are also in Los Angeles will not let him go for nothing this summer, and they are not even willing to match the annual salary of 500 million US dollars.

To make matters worse, although Brian Grant did not report to the Lakers due to injury in the new season, his annual salary of up to $1485 million is included in the Lakers' salary space.

Not playing a game is higher than the 1300 million salary of second-in-command Lamar Odom, which seriously affects the reinforcement of the Lakers.

As the top shooting guard in the active league, he averaged 35.4 points per game last season, and Kobe, who won the scoring title, has an annual salary of only 1800 million.

Grant's contract is more poisonous than poison. He almost locked up the salary space of the Lakers by himself.

As a time traveler, Lu Yong felt that the operations of the Lakers management in the past two years were too confusing. Before getting Pau Gasol from the Grizzlies, the management methods were completely messed up.

On paper, the Lakers are a team that was kicked out of the playoffs.

But only Lu Yong knows that the strength and toughness of this Lakers team cannot be underestimated. The new season will definitely become a spoiler in the Western Conference. No matter who they meet in the playoffs, they will be skinned.

In addition to the Phoenix Suns, who used the run-and-gun tactics to the extreme, the biggest opponents of the Grizzlies in the conference finals are the Mavericks, Spurs, and the old-fashioned Utah Jazz.

In the past two years, it has been far more difficult for teams in the Western Conference to enter the playoffs than in the Eastern Conference. It was not easy for the Grizzlies, who ranked fifth in the Western Conference last season, to lock in the playoffs. They are destined to waste a lot of energy in fierce fighting.

(End of this chapter)