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Chapter 219 Best Defensive Player Plan

The post-match interview followed.

Ramona Shelburne, an old acquaintance of the Los Angeles Times and who just joined ESPN in the new season, asked: "In the unique home court of the Clippers, in the YouTube center named by you, to win the longest 33-game winning streak in NBA history, what do you want? say what?"

Su Yang smiled and said: "I want to thank all the fans who came to support, I also want to thank every worker who has contributed to the decoration of the arena, and I also want to thank the celebrity friends who came to the scene tonight, this may be for you It is relatively unfamiliar, but you will soon fall in love with the feeling of enjoying winning here. The 33-game winning streak is just our starting point. We will also win the championship, or even three consecutive championships. We will create many historical moments together. To create a new legend belonging to Los Angeles..."

Before the voice fell, the audience cheered.

After the interview was over, Su Yang walked to the sidelines, high-fived Kanye, Leonardo, Kim Kardashian, Scarlett and other stars who came here specially, and took a group photo with everyone, promising on the spot to come back in three days Look at the impact of 34 consecutive victories, all expenses are covered.

While celebrating, related discussions erupted.

ESPN commentator Kevin Pelton said in the post-game commentary program: "I think tonight's game made Su Yang officially surpass Kobe to become the second shooting guard in history. He led the Clippers to tie the Lakers' winning streak. , He completely locked Kobe through continuous single defense at the last moment of the game. This is a symbolic event, just like when Jordan defeated the magician..."

The well-known columnist Bill Simmons wrote in his blog: "Kobe's willfulness ruined the Lakers' efforts throughout the night. I think Phil Jackson deliberately did not call a timeout at the last moment. He wants to use this game as a case to let Kobe Fully understand that singles can't win the game, let Kobe realize that the Lakers still have Garnett, let the Lakers get a leap forward again.

I insist that the Lakers will be the Clippers' strongest opponent in the West, and the awakened Kobe will bring the Clippers a lot of trouble. "

TNT commentator Barkley said in a telephone interview: "I don't think there is a problem with Kobe's continuous singles in the end. He just met Su Yang, who is super strong in defense. If he is replaced by other defenders, Kobe will succeed in consecutive singles. End game.

All in all, in my opinion, Su Yang is a strong contender for the best defensive player of the year. This is an iconic game. "

The basketball forum hoops launched a poll. Within an hour, 11278 fans believed that Kobe still had a higher historical status than Su Yang, but 23119 fans believed that Su Yang's historical status had surpassed Kobe and continued to expand.

In the early morning of the next day, Su Yang rushed to the company, communicated with Calvin about the situation after the launch of Twitter, and found that the data was average.

The main reason is that smartphones have not yet appeared on a large scale. Tweets are either sent on a computer or sent via SMS. The former has competition from Facebook and various social networking sites, while the latter is cumbersome to edit and browse, and the user experience is relatively poor. .

After the meeting, Calvin suddenly put away his smile and said seriously: "Su, we need to hire a technical expert and form a team to specialize in the research and development of Twitter-related functions. My personal technical strength is limited, and it is difficult for me to do a good job with a large amount of data at the same time. Distribution and storage, there have been several site crashes these days, and I can't be dragged down by private possessiveness...”

During the conversation, Calvin suggested inviting Greg Pass, the technical director of AOL America Online, to join the team, because the other party entered AOL in 97 and participated in the development of the "offline message" function, which provided functions for various subsequent blogs and podcast websites Support, and now because of the rise of YouTube and Apple’s IPOD’s entry into the podcasting field, the decline of various podcasting and blogging sites is an inevitable result. It’s just a matter of poaching technical experts like Greg Pass to the company and developing them together.

Strictly speaking, one of the main functions of Twitter is 'offline messaging', which can be said to be a very suitable talent.

After hearing what Calvin said, Su Yang thought for a moment, then shook his head slightly: "There is no need to worry for now, whether it is Twitter or Facebook, the real popularity will only become popular after the smartphones I mentioned to you before become popular. We are now It is more to seize the market and let users get familiar with us in advance. Before we can really exert our strength, we can slowly recruit talents..."

There is really no need to bring in a technical expert in advance. It doesn't matter if the help is small, and the shares must be much more.

After the chat, I called Irene to inform Irene that I was going to find a headhunting company to recruit people to expand the technical team. I will give priority to recruiting Chinese and overseas Chinese. While developing products, I will also form a faction in the Internet field in the United States, laying the foundation for the future China Gang.

Anyway, it won't be squeezed out by the Indian gang.

By the way, I met a few film shooting teams looking for investment, and found no low-cost masterpieces. Then I chatted with the old Hicks about the streetball team. I ran out of time in the morning, and received a call from Ivanka in the afternoon, saying The land purchase has been done.

Su Yang immediately asked the chief financial officer to prepare the remittance. When he returned to the villa at night, he felt dizzy and busy. He took the opportunity to chat with Alba about Xiying and participate in the management of the company. Anyway, there were no good films to shoot, and he wanted to make films at his own expense in the future.

After thinking for a long time, Alba agreed, then turned down the Fantastic Four 2 film appointment, and joked that after going to work, it would definitely be difficult to keep fit.Su Yang patted his chest on the spot and said that Jue Shi's face is beautiful no matter what, and he is willing to bear the merciless changes of time.

Hearing the conversation between the two, Yanxi smiled and said that there was nothing she could do to help. In the future, apart from singing and filming, she would be responsible for logistics.

On the tenth of the next day, the Clippers played against the Magic at home.

Before the game, watch the video and listen to the scout report as usual.

The Magic gambled heavily on Livingston in the off-season, but the effect was obviously mediocre. In addition, using the first round traded Su Yang and choosing an unnamed European player also failed to produce results, so the record since the start of the game is not too big. promote.

There are more and more rumors about the incompatibility between McGrady and Howard, and the Magic are fortunate not to renew McGrady in advance.

"Tracey McGrady's contract will end in the 06-07 season. He may also choose to jump out of the contract to test the free market after the end of this season. His whereabouts may lead to a new super team. Rumors will yes…"

Scott, the scouting director, talked nonsense and mentioned that McGrady might go to Boston to join Pierce because Rivers once coached McGrady.Su Yang bluntly said that he is not optimistic, it is just another combination of twin stars, and it still needs super strong inside defense support.

On the contrary, there is some hope for teaming up with the Mavericks. The main reason is that Cuban has a lot of money and is willing to pay the luxury tax for recruiting superstars.

At 06:30 in a blink of an eye, the game started.

Iguodala specifically went to stare at McGrady, making McGrady miserable. In the interior, Milicic and Varejao took turns fighting against the juvenile Howard. The quarter led the Magic 36 to 22.

At the start of the second quarter, Su Yang and Iguodala switched positions, grabbed McGrady and interfered wildly, and made three steals in a single quarter.

After the third quarter, the Clippers basically laid the foundation for victory, and Barnes and Wilkins came on stage to practice.

Su Yang smiled and prepared to celebrate his 34 consecutive victories, but he never thought that Ray Allen broke through for a dunk on a whim and got injured when his palm hit the net. Seeing that the bleeding was serious, he went back to the locker room for a checkup on the spot. There is no atmosphere of celebration.

In the end, the Clippers defeated the Magic 102 to 83 and won 34 consecutive victories, becoming the team with the most consecutive victories in NBA history.

After a night's rest, Su Yang got up and received a message from Olshey, saying that after the MRI examination, Ray Allen had torn the tendon sheath on the back of his right hand and needed repair surgery. He was initially expected to be absent for eight weeks, but he could make it to the postseason The game, but the biggest problem is that after the injury recovers, it will take a while to find the shooting touch. I don't know how much impact it will have.

"Fine!"

Su Yang felt quite speechless, thinking that this was the luck of the team overdrafted by the 34-game winning streak. Before, he always enjoyed the absence of the main players of other teams. Now it is the Clippers' turn. The defensive system has no effect, but the offense will become worse. Rather embarrassing.

The absence of Ray Allen is not as simple as losing a scorer who averaged 20 per game, but that opponents can double-team and assist defense more recklessly, because Hill himself is also absent, and there is no one on the bench who can stand up. Wilkins and Ba Ernes's three-pointers are average.

The game is going to be tough.

The Clippers need to make adjustments during Ray Allen's absence for eight weeks, preferably from an offensive team to a defensive team.

After thinking for a while, Su Yang drove to the base and discussed with Spoelstra, Hornacek and other coaches how to deal with it.

"We could lean more towards defense..."

During the conversation, Su Yang pointed out that Wilkins and Barnes are both high-quality defensive players. Now that Ray Allen is injured, he should mention Wilkins as the starting shooting guard and let Varejao go to the bench. , with Bass as the starting power forward.

"If it is adjusted in that way, Wilkins, Iguodala, Bass, and Milicic will form the starting lineup. I will cooperate with the offense and defense for 10 minutes and rest for [-] minutes. , Excessive time, dominated by Payton and Milicic, wait until I debut in the second quarter, leading the lineup of Kaman + Varejao + Barnes + whoever...

I'm going to average 42+ minutes per game, on par with players like LeBron and Iverson, with no pressure. "

There is no way, the team is short of people, so I can only give up the management by myself, and focus on both offensive and defensive ends to ensure the record.

Fortunately, they have already won 34 consecutive victories, and the pressure to be number one in the league is much less, as long as they win all subsequent easy-to-win games.

"I think it works."

Spoelstra thought for a long time, but couldn't think of a better way, and coaches such as Hornacek were the same.

On the second day NO.16, the Clippers played against the Mavericks at home.

The shameful memory of being swept 4-0 in the playoffs is still lingering in the minds of everyone in the Mavericks. The opening game was full of offensive and defensive power. Terry and Adrian Griffin frantically double-teamed Su Yang. Start double-teaming.

In the case of a big change in the lineup, Su Yang was able to pass the ball, but Wilkins and Bass handled it too poorly.

After the first quarter, the Clippers trailed 21 to 37.

Su Yang made a hasty appearance in the second quarter, but on the side of the Mavericks, coach Avery Johnson arranged for Stackhouse and Devin Harris to double-team, and the situation was the same as in the first quarter. Joe was able to make a little but no basket.

After halftime, the Clippers trailed 39 to 63.

Back in the locker room, seeing Wilkins and Bass looking nervous, Su Yang raised his hand and patted their shoulders: "Don't panic, we enjoyed so much good luck before, now it's our turn to go through hardships, what we have to do It’s about practicing and continuing to improve.”

Wilkins and Bass nodded in relief.

The second half of the game followed closely.

The Mavericks still double-teamed wildly, but after Wilkins and Bass stabilized their mentality, they handled the ball a little better. After the third quarter, the Clippers narrowed to only 16 points. The audience suggested that Su Young could try to go wild for a full quarter.

Su Yang shook his head decisively and declined.

The current focus of the Clippers is to make the new lineup run in as soon as possible. One game is irrelevant. Even if they win the game, they have to start all over again. It may be no problem to win one game, but the probability of winning a few more games will be very low. , You have to play the team.

The fourth quarter will continue as usual.

The Mavericks double-teamed fiercely, and the Clippers finally lost 87 to 107. The winning streak stayed at 34 games, and Su Yang only had 23 points.

But Su Yang was full on the defensive end. After defending Terry and Josh Howard, he scored 5 steals and 3 blocks.

After a day of adjustment, the Clippers will play against the Jazz at home.

The Clippers took the lead in the first three quarters, but the Jazz suddenly double-teamed wildly in the fourth quarter. Wilkins and Varejao were also inefficient in handling the ball. They were abruptly dragged into overtime. Singles, while locking up Deron to win.

Throughout the game, Su Yang got 6 steals and 4 blocks, and also caused three offensive fouls by big center Okur.

The next day he played against the Suns again, but Stoudemire still did not come back.

Su Yang guarded Nash all over the game, and finally led the team to narrowly beat the Suns by 2 points, and allowed Nash to only send 4 assists, while Nash averaged 11.6 assists per game, which was much lower than the average. average.

TNT Kenny praised Su Yang's defense as a textbook.

"Su Yang is not as good as Artest in defending heavy forwards, not as good as Moncrief in defending fast guards, and not as good as Da Ben in defending inside, but he can defend all three types, and they are all at the top level. As long as he persists, he will be the best defense. player..."

(End of this chapter)