NBA: I'm really the Chosen One

Chapter 159 Learning Team

"Off the ball in the front field is great, look, there is always a lot of tactical movement here, you choose to receive the ball on the strong side, you need the defender's contact and create space to shoot. The rewards of training, you can hit shots like this, keep working, keep working, and a lot of people say that shot is lost, but that’s the reward for the hard work, take that hard work to heart.”

The Blazers team listened carefully to Li Zheng's speech. What Li was analyzing was the video of Fernandez's game. He not only analyzed Fernandez's technical style from the perspective of God, but most especially he analyzed a lot of Fernandez's thoughts when handling the ball. .

Wearing black-rimmed glasses, Fernandez listened intently to Li Zheng's analysis, and nodded in agreement when he heard Li Zheng analyze his thoughts on facing defenders. This is the current learning atmosphere of the Blazers. Li is maintaining training Under the premise of limited quantity, he took another two hours to analyze the videos of his teammates. Although there are assistants to help, for Li Zheng, these tasks are a huge workload.

"You need to dribble the ball down. When you are in the low position, you must continue to push the ball to the low position, so that when the opponent double-teams, look here, the distance here is too far, and teammates can run here. It's the space, they don't have enough time to return to their original defensive positions." Li Zheng kept pausing the video, patiently explaining the game clips, and analyzing the advantages and disadvantages of each ball based on his own experience and experience.

"I finally understand what Amare said about training with Lee and growing up." Aldridge said earnestly. Whether it is offense or defense, inside or outside, Li Zheng's perspective is very unique. He not only He can accurately analyze the thoughts of his teammates and always make extremely pertinent suggestions.

Randolph Aldridge's technical movements and positioning problems on the defensive side, Roy's problem with getting the ball on the offensive end, Fernandez and Outlaw's shooting skills and tactical understanding Almighty people, some people said at the beginning of the season that the Blazers should choose Oden because they lack a center. Now they will say that even if they lack a center, they must choose Li Zheng, and then let Li Zheng play the center.

"I feel like I have become stronger." Fernandez said with a long sigh of relief and a smile. Li Zheng's analysis is like a sharp razor, removing the messy distractions from the chaotic scene, and putting the essence of the basketball game in front of them most directly. .

McMillan's tactics are there, but the effect of each person's execution is quite different. They now have a new understanding of team tactics and teamwork, and the most terrifying thing is their strong learning spirit.

There is no shortage of players who are good at learning in the NBA, but it is rare for a team like the Trail Blazers to be full of strong motivation to learn and become stronger. As a rookie, Li Zheng can teach so many old players, which makes McMillan very impressed. Surprised, he was surprised to find that Li Zheng's tactical reserves and theoretical knowledge can make him an excellent coach after a few days of battle, and the Blazers' game showed a new look after a short period of pain.

Most of the time in the current league, the head player takes the ball, and the role of other players will become more or less fixed-point shooters. Off-ball cuts and off-ball screens are not normal tactics, except for the Suns, an alternative team. In addition to a large number of off-ball screens, most teams rely more on positional offense.

The biggest change for the Blazers is that the role players perform screens and air cuts more frequently. Li Zheng and Roy took over the most difficult attack and tactical failure, in exchange for their more active running and more skilled With tactical cooperation, they don't need to worry about tactical failure, and they don't need to receive hot potatoes when time is running out.

On the defensive end, Li Zheng provides them with more ideas, including the way of reading the game and knowing the opponent's habits in advance through video recordings. The defensive ability depends on hard work and patience, but it is more about talent. He can't give it to others, he can't make Blake jump as high as himself, and he can't make Randolph run as fast as himself, but watching more videos, understanding opponents more fully, and focusing more on the game is Definitely can improve the level of defense.

Throughout March, the Blazers' points loss dropped from 3 to 98.1, and their scoring increased from 96.3 to 103.2. McMillan lamented that Li Zheng was born for basketball.

ESPN sorted out the video of Li Zheng analyzing Fernandez, and made these analyzes into a special program after seeking the consent of the Blazers. Many players have said that compared to Li Zheng's skills, his understanding and cognition of basketball is more admirable.

The best player of March was naturally won by Li Zheng. Li Zheng defeated Yao Ming in the MVP list and maintained the first place in March, and won three weekly best players. The terrifying data of +28 barely took away the best of the week from Li Zheng, and Paul also came to the third position in the Western Conference with his winning streak after the All-Star, biting the tail of the Blazers tightly.

The Blazers only lost one game in March and it was quite controversial. Under the luxurious record, the Blazers are getting stronger and stronger. Li Zheng's special training is slowly showing its power. This regular season strong team seems to be gradually changing. Especially in the coming days of the playoffs, their game rhythm is becoming more and more suffocating. Even Popovich chose to praise and kill, saying that the team with the most championship appearance this year is the Trail Blazers.

In the away game against the Phoenix Suns, Li Zheng and Stoudemire both scored 50+. After the double overtime, Nash hit the winning goal and led by 2 points. In the final lore, Li Zheng was destroyed by a foul by Stoudemire. After winning the lore, he regretted losing the game. The referee did not blow his whistle. After the game, Stoudemire admitted that he did make a thug foul.

"This is the game." Li Zheng was a little displeased, but the game had already been lost, no matter how angry he was, it would not help, and no matter how incompetent and furious he was, he could not turn back time, "I will try my best to make the team feel better next time. Stay ahead so the referee's mistakes don't affect anything."

David Stern called Li Zheng immediately after the game. Li Zheng smiled and comforted the suspicious old man. He is not such an impulsive person unless he meets LeBron James.

"The referee team is rotten to the core, and I will give you an explanation." David Stern's words made Ern Teren, who was listening, shudder. He knew that this little old man was going to go crazy, and some guys were going to be unlucky.

(End of this chapter)