NBA Old Age Star System

Su Tian led the substitute lineup through the second half of the quarter.

In the middle, Su Tian also tried to cooperate with Cousins ​​​​for a few times. Cousins ​​​​'s performance was okay, but his efficiency was not high.

However, he is originally a substitute center and cannot be asked to do too much.

With the addition of Su Tian's passing, Cousins' shooting rate can be considered a threat.

Soon the first quarter ended, the score reached 36-28, and the Lakers led by 8 points.

In the second quarter, George came on to lead the team, but the Warriors were still firmly suppressed, with no possibility of a comeback.

Halfway through the second quarter, the point difference was stretched to double digits, and Su Tian came on the court again.

As for the Warriors, Cole has sat firmly on the bench except for substitution adjustments and inter-section breaks.

At the end of the first half, the score difference had reached 15 points.

Against such a remnant Warriors, the Lakers basically have no pressure.

During the halftime break, Walton didn't make any special arrangements. He just emphasized to several main players not to get injured.

The intermission ended quickly and the third quarter began with players from both sides starting to take the field.

In the third quarter, it was still a battle between the starting lineup. Su Tian's side faced Poole's defense and succeeded continuously. Cole thought about it and let Poole off the game and went to the substitute lineup.

Although Poole went down, the one who came up was still not a famous character, and Su Tian could still handle it easily.

Halfway through the third quarter, the point difference had reached 20 points. Walton thought for a moment and only one Brunson was retained in the starting lineup.

However, Nunn and Kuzma on the bench are not bad, and they are even good enough to start for weak teams, so the strength of the Lakers' bench is not bad.

Su Tian sat off the court and watched the performance of his teammates, and suddenly said with thick eyebrows on the side.

"Su, can we win the championship this season?"

Su Tian didn't know if Nong Mei was affected by it, and he actually had some doubts, so Su Tian turned to comfort Nong Mei.

"Don't worry Anthony, no one is our Lakers opponent this season, the championship must be ours."

Seeing Su Tian's firm eyes, thick eyebrows felt a little relieved.

In fact, in a long season, there will always be times when you will doubt yourself and be unsure about your choices. This is a normal phenomenon.

At this time, the third quarter of the game was coming to an end, and the point difference was still controlled at about 20 points.

"It seems that there should be no surprises in this game." Walton said to himself on the sidelines.

In the fourth quarter, Walton once again sent Su Tian and George to lead the team.

As a result, not long after Su Tian and George came on the court, the Warriors called a timeout, replaced the entire starting lineup, and replaced them with the bench lineup.

Seeing the Warriors surrendering with substitutions, the Lakers also replaced their main players and took them to the bench.

In the end, the game ended uneventfully, and the Lakers won the game steadily.

Su Tian and others did not play for a long time, so the data was not outstanding.

Brunson has the best statistics for the Lakers. He scored 31 points, 8 assists, 4 rebounds and 1 steal. He is the highest scorer for the Lakers in this game.

As for the Warriors, Russell, as the Warriors' first scoring and ball-handling point, has just over 20 points. The gap between him and Brunson is not obvious, at least visible to the naked eye.

A game against the Warriors also allowed Walton and the Lakers management to see clearly the Warriors' layout for this season, so they directly ranked the Warriors among their competitors.

After the back-to-back games against the Warriors, the Lakers finally had time to take a break, not only for their teammates, but also for the Lakers coaching staff.

Walton has been working overtime for three consecutive days. The main purpose is to allow Cousins ​​to integrate into the team faster and maximize the player's strength through tactics.

In the next two games, Walton began to experiment with his lineup and tactics. Fortunately, the opponents were not very strong, and the Lakers also defeated the Kings and Hawks one after another.

On November 11, the Lakers faced the Thunder at home.

Today's Thunder team is different from the previous Thunder team. Westbrook and Paul have completed the exchange, and Paul leads a group of young people in the Thunder.

Under such circumstances, naturally no one is optimistic about the Thunder's strength and competitiveness.

However, Su Tian knew that it was precisely because Paul came to the Thunder that he proved himself and had a new life in the Suns.

The Lakers' starting lineup is the same as always.

The Suns' starting lineup, in addition to Paul, is Alexander, Ferguson, Gallinari, and Adams.

Regarding the Thunder, Walton naturally agreed that he didn't take it to heart. Although Su Tian didn't think the Thunder could cause any trouble to the Lakers, he still wanted to remind Walton.

"Coach, I think the Thunder are in good shape. We should be more careful."

Wharton was stunned for a moment when he heard what Su Tian said, and then said: "Don't worry, Su, there's nothing wrong with it, but since you said it, I will pay attention."

Soon both sides took the field and the game began.

The Lakers got the right to attack first, and Brunson came to the frontcourt with the ball and passed the ball directly to Su Tian.

Although Paul is old, his current defensive strength is still there, and he can still deal with a young Brunson.

Su Tian got the ball and faced Alexander. He broke out directly, passed Alexander's defense in one step, and then made an emergency jumper.

Swah——

Hit steadily.

Alexander alone will definitely not be able to guard against Su Tian. If the Thunder want to win, they must find other ways.

The possession of the ball was changed, and it was the Thunder's turn to attack.

Paul came to the frontcourt with the ball. Instead of rushing to attack, he first observed the formation and then called Adams to cooperate with the pick-and-roll.

Using the pick-and-roll Paul to break through, Brunson quickly bypassed the pick-and-roll to pursue, but it was obviously a bit slow.

Near the free throw line, Paul shot.

Swah——

Paul made a solid mid-range shot.

2-2
The Lakers attacked again, and this time Su Tian successfully broke through again, which indeed attracted a double-team from the Thunder, so Su Tian took the opportunity to pass the ball to George.

George caught the ball and made a three-pointer directly.

Swah——

With the support of Su Tian's pass, George made a steady three-pointer.

In the next few rounds, there were no surprises in the overall development of the game, and the Thunder did not show too much combat effectiveness.

By the end of the first half, the Thunder had trailed the Lakers by 15 points.

This result did not exceed Walton's expectations. The Thunder's performance was within Walton's expectations.

So after the starting lineup played for a few minutes in the third quarter, Walton began to change to the substitute lineup, experimenting with lineups and tactics while detecting changes in the overall strength of the players.

In the last few minutes of the third quarter, the Thunder seemed to be in form. With Paul's help, they made consecutive hits and chased the point difference to 10 points.

"This Thunder is actually so resilient."

"I have to say that Paul's experience has brought a lot of positive effects to the young people of the Thunder."

"This is the magic of Paul. Even if it is a brand new young team, Paul can lead the team to achieve good results."

"Paul has indeed raised the team's lower limit. But correspondingly, Paul can't do more to improve the team's upper limit. Paul needs a teammate with super scoring ability."

"Super scoring ability? Are you talking about James Harden?" "I think he is talking about Su."

"Don't say it, don't say it. If Paul can really go to the Lakers, it's not impossible."

"Stop making trouble, the Lakers still think there are not enough stars! Brunson will be an All-Star this season soon!"

Although three quarters passed and the score difference was chased to 10 points, Wharton was not anxious at all, because in the fourth quarter Wharton trusted Su Tian more than he trusted himself.

Soon, the intermission ended and the fourth quarter began.

Su Tian led the thick eyebrows and substitute lineup as usual.

Su Tian got the ball and advanced to the frontcourt with the ball.

After arriving at the front court, Su Tian winked at Nongmei. Nongmei nodded after seeing it. The two of them didn't need any more words at all.

After the two made eye contact, the thick eyebrow quickly stepped forward and made a pick-and-roll gesture. As soon as Adams reacted, the thick eyebrow immediately turned around and ran towards the basket.

At the same time, Su Tian directly threw the ball high.

The thick eyebrow caught the basketball in the air and slammed it directly into the basket.

boom--

"Beautiful! I knew it! The two of them will definitely give wonderful performances as soon as they come on stage!" Barkley said excitedly.

As soon as Buckley finished speaking, the footage of Su Tian and Nongmei winking just now was replayed on the big screen, and the audience once again fell into cheers.

At this time, Barkley naturally noticed it and couldn't help but smile and said: "These two people really have such a tacit understanding!"

"I really don't know how these two people know each other's thoughts. It's amazing!"

"It's like the two of them can read each other's minds."

The fourth quarter was opened by the wonderful cooperation between the two. Paul on the Thunder side also wanted to pass a wonderful assist, but Su Tian accurately predicted it.

So Su Tian directly stole the ball and immediately turned around to break quickly.

In the fourth quarter, almost no one could keep up with Su Tian's speed, and Su Tian scored easily.

One attack and one defense directly demonstrated Su Tian's overall strength.

Taking advantage of this morale, the Lakers hit several more shots one after another, widening the point difference again.

There were several times in the middle that Paul tried to control the situation, but failed.

At the end of the game, the Lakers defeated the Thunder 121-105.

After the game, Paul and Su Tian hugged and greeted each other.

"Su, you won this one, but don't be too happy. Our battle is not over yet."

"Of course, but I will still win. I will never show mercy."

"I don't need your charity, nor do I need your mercy or your best efforts, if you are a man."

"Don't worry Chris, I will satisfy you!"

After saying that, the two smiled at each other and turned to leave.

The reason why the two said this was precisely because the next game between the two teams was still against each other, but at a different home court.

On November 11, the Lakers came to Oklahoma to play against the Thunder.

Before the game, Paul was full of confidence and was determined to teach the Lakers a lesson.

But after the game started, Paul found that the Lakers' main force was fully exerted at the beginning of the game, not giving the Thunder a single chance, and directly strangled them to death.

As a result, the second meeting between the two teams ended earlier than the first meeting, and the Lakers once again won the game steadily.

In fact, the reason for all this is still because of Wharton.

After the last game, with Su Tian's reminder, Walton also realized that something was wrong with the Thunder, but he couldn't tell what was wrong.

So, Wharton thought to himself, if he couldn't figure it out, he would stop thinking about it and just do it to death.

It is with this mentality that before this game, Walton asked everyone to use their full strength and win quickly.

As for the reason, Walton took a game off as an excuse.

So this happened in this scene.

After the game, Paul glanced at Su Tian resentfully, said nothing, and turned to leave.

Su Tian didn't know what Paul thought, and didn't care what he thought.

On November 11, the Lakers played back-to-back away games against the Grizzlies.

As mentioned before, all the main players were rested by Walton.

The starting lineup given by the Lakers is: Dort, Nunn, Keldon Johnson, Dunro, Cousins.

The Grizzlies are naturally led by Morant.

Before the Lakers announced their lineup, Morant was obviously not in good spirits, but after the Lakers' lineup was announced, Morant instantly became energetic.

"Lakers? The Lakers will still fight!"

After the game started, Morant seemed very energetic, constantly holding the ball and breaking into the basket to cause damage. Cousins ​​was already on the verge of breaking out.

After Walton noticed it, he immediately called a timeout.

Taking advantage of the timeout, Walton replaced Cousins ​​and brought on Boucher.

Cousins ​​​​sat on the bench with a depressed look on his face. Seeing this, he quickly came to Cousins ​​​​side with thick eyebrows. The two of them were muttering something. After a while, Su Tian noticed that Cousins ​​​​'s face softened. .

After Cousins ​​came off the court, the situation on the court did not change much. The Lakers lacked strong scoring points. Nunn was already the main scoring point, but he happened to be entangled by Dillon and could not display his full strength.

At the end of the first half, the Grizzlies led the Lakers by 9 points.

"The Grizzlies look pretty good! They can actually compete with the Lakers like this!"

"??? This is the Lakers' third lineup! Can this be called that?"

"Give him some time. Morant has great potential. I believe he can perform well."

"It's already great to have Morant in a place like the Grizzlies. Do you still expect him to come out with Su?"

"It's not impossible if we trade Morant for Su!"

"You're kidding, unless the entire Lakers management team is blind!!!"

The intermission ended quickly and the third quarter began.

Walton is naturally well aware of the current situation of the Lakers. It is normal that the Lakers' lineup cannot beat the Grizzlies, but it is not wrong to say that they are no match for the Grizzlies.

In the end, it all depends on the individual performance of the players.

The main purpose of Walton resting the main players and letting the substitutes start is to cultivate the responsibility of these young players and their ability to handle such crisis situations.

This kind of training method may not necessarily produce qualified stars, but it can certainly screen out players with this potential.

In the third quarter, the Lakers were still in the starting lineup. Walton stood on the sidelines and carefully observed the performance of every player.

(End of this chapter)