Chapter 71 Blue and White Competition
"Guys, we're here. I heard that you've met each other in Demon's Horn yesterday. This is great, but today you have to meet on the court. Having a training game is the best way to welcome." D'Antoni clapped his palms and greeted the trainees to come together, preparing to have a 5V5 first to see the characteristics between new players and old players.
However, the 20-minute training is not divided into new players and old players, but the starting team (blue team) and the substitute team (white team).
The blue teams are Fatton, Landry Fields, Anthony, Sean Williams, and Stadmeier.
On the other side, Lin Yang naturally joined the substitute team and formed the White team's defender combination with Douglas, while Brewer and Bill Walker were on the front line, and Mozkov was on the center line.
Brewer, Bill Walker, Anthony, and Sean Williams are obviously small forwards, and the first two are even more obvious forwards. There are only a few teams who can really play inside.
After the team was struggling to split, D'Antoni shook his head and had to make some trades. Some inside players with strong athletic ability similar to those of the Suns Marion who had 3, 4, and 3-pointers. However, after looking at the team's crooked fouls, the phone call may be hung up as soon as he called Cuban and said the first word.
The Blue Team kicked the ball first and gave Fei Dun. Douglas was originally defending him, but Lin Yang chose to play Fei Dun this time.
It is obvious that Feidun is the core of the Blue Team's organization. The defender holds the ball. Lin Yang wants to train his defense, so there is no problem starting with his teammate. Although Feidun is beaten up in the game every day, it refers to his defense. He has always been a very stable link in the offensive end.
Fei Dun happened to want to show it, but he no longer thought about using his strength to bully Lin Yang. In the last match of Lin Yang's physical confrontation against Joe Johnson, there was probably no difference between himself.
He did not come up and asked for a pick-and-roll, but planned to make a breakthrough by himself. After a change of direction, he wanted to squeeze over with Lin Yang.
Lin Yang felt that he was insulted. At least we have played together for so long. You have seen me break through many times. Now you plan to break through me like this?
After Lin Yang lowered Fei Dun's speed in the moment of his body confrontation, he raised his left arm and directly forced the ball protected by Fei Dun.
The players watching the show below exclaimed that Fei Dun's offensive performance this year was said to be the top ten point guards in the league, and it was indeed surprising that Lin Yang had a complete break from his life.
"When did his defense evolve?"
D'Antoni is not a defensive coach, but does not mean that he doesn't want his players to defend well.
Even when they were in the Suns, the team had good defensive players like Marion and Laga Bale, but their entire team had no choice but to face some tall insides. After all, the center was 208cm and might still have to be a little moisture.
But now the Knicks are really not a person who can defend themselves.
D'Antoni never thought that Lin Yang would become the team's outside defense core. When facing the Nuggets, he still regretted it and left Lin Yang on the field at the last moment, but ended up giving out 31. When he played against the Hawks in the last game, Lin Yang was unable to solve the problem of Joe Johnson on the defensive end. He was chased and scored three-pointers several times in the counterattack.
However, he seemed to have forgotten that Anthony is the scoring champion and Joe Johnson is also the leader of the Hawks. If it is so easy to be locked by Lin Yang, wouldn’t Lin Yang be a super giant with both offense and defense?
Hayes scratched his head: "Lin has always made great progress in personal defense. His question is how to find out his position in the entire team and where he should appear when the opponent starts running tactics."
Just after he finished speaking, Lin Yang on the other side had already completed a light layup to help the White team win the first point. This counterattack goal after steals has always been a sure thing for Lin Yang.
"Raymond, after playing this training game, I went to me to practice and make breakthroughs. I don't dare to say that you and I are teammates in the same team."
During the training match, you can’t stop talking about trash. This is already the instinct of Lin Yang when playing basketball.
However, Fei Dun was not affected at all. Just kidding, they had been fighting together for several months. The ones who should be used to it had been used to it. Instead, he smiled and said, "No problem, Lin, remember to invite me to have a drink after practicing. Of course, I can pay for your milk."
...This guy is in the same team as himself, and he has not learned much in breakthroughs, but his trash talk ability has grown rapidly. Isn't this a typical example of good things and bad things?
This time, Fei Dun, who returned to the offensive end, had no intention of competing with Lin Yang again, but honestly played a pick and roll with Stoudemier. Stoudemier hit the middle distance after receiving the ball.
After all, the Blue Team is still the main team. It would be so embarrassing if it really lost to the White Team in the end. Moreover, there are two superstars Stoudemire and Anthony in the Blue Team. Can Felton still be a ball dominant? Not to mention anything else, everyone knows what the purpose of this training game is, look at Anthony's level.
After several rounds of friendly exchanges between the two sides, the Blues began to take the initiative to hit the ball in Anthony's hands, and Bill Walker was defending him.
The strong-looking forward guard swinger was directly pushed to the edge by Anthony and watched him complete a jump shot, scoring a single goal like a textbook.
The first half of the 10-minute period ended soon. The Blues deserved to be the main lineup. Basically, except for Lin Yang having an advantage in the matchup and Douglas is not a disadvantage in facing Landry Fields, the gap between the forward and the inside is huge.
The Blue Team also led by 12 points with 28:16. In fact, if the Blue Team had not reduced the offensive rhythm in the last few minutes, this 12 point might not be enough to reflect the difference between the two teams.
Stoudemire and Anthony both completed their personal scores in double digits in these 10 minutes.
But this is normal. If a player like Anthony plays Bill Walker, he will not be worthy of being paid for the maximum salary if he can't get a request.
Lin Yang's performance is pretty good, and it doesn't matter if he loses this training game, but the key is that there is Stoudemire on the opposite side. He is about to think of the scene where Stoudemire will lift his tail to the sky in front of him after the training game.
Shaking his head and quickly scattered this terrible scene out of his mind. Recently, I have no interest in being a baby-raising master.
Chapter completed!