plumnovel Chapter 216 Strength Soars
Chapter 216 Strength Soars
Chapter 216 Strength Soars
After WOJ announced the news, the entire NBA circle was overwhelmingly discussing this trade.
Will Cousins join the Lakers, will it have an impact on the existing mobile offensive system?
Cousins teamed up with Tianyang, the poor version of the OK combination reappeared?The Lakers go further in the playoffs?
Can Cousins' character problem be completely improved in the Lakers?Will he accept Tianyang's leadership?
Every point of view has been refuted in various ways, but everyone agrees that the Lakers are trading blood.
ESPN expert Mark issued an article claiming that the specific chips sent by the Lakers were Clarkson Garnans, as well as the first round of 21 years and the first round obtained from the Rockets.In this way, the Lakers sent out all the first rounds of 17/19/21. It seems that the loss is exploding, but the lineup of Tianyang, Ingram, Randall, and Cousins can compete for the championship!
The TNT round table said that the two first rounds are irrelevant. With the current record of the Lakers, let alone 4 years later, even 5 years later, the value of the first round is not high. Jim Buss has handled the draft and trade issues properly.
Cousins himself also updated Twitter as soon as possible, expressing his gratitude to Sacramento and his excitement for joining the Lakers. On Twitter, Aite Tianyang and other Lakers players said they would arrive in Los Angeles soon.
Tianyang and Ingram saw the tweet, bid farewell to Kuzma, and set off for Los Angeles.
On the way, some fans said that the two were too cold-blooded. Lu Wei, Clarkson, and Nance left. He said nothing at all. He actually went to Stanford to watch the game, and he didn't have any friendship with his teammates.
Neither of them responded to wild guesses from some fans, and the players didn't just connect on Twitter.
At 7:[-] p.m., the two returned to Los Angeles and went straight to Malibu Beach. Together with Randall, Nick Young and McGee, the two hosted a farewell banquet at NOBU, the most expensive Japanese grocery store here, to send off Lu Wei, Clarkson and Nance three people.
During the dinner, Tianyang made an exception and drank a little wine to show respect.
The entire dinner cost a total of 1 US dollars, and Tianyang paid for it alone.
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On the 22nd, the Lakers performed physical examinations for Cousins, Casspi, and Brewer.
On the 23rd, the three physical examinations were completely passed, and the deal was completely concluded.
At 24 a.m. on the 10th, the Lakers held a welcome ceremony for the three of Cousins. Kupchak and Walton attended the ceremony and visited dozens of media. After a brief speech, the scene entered the questioning session.
TNT team reporter Maggio first asked Cousins, "What role do you want to play with the Lakers?"
Cousins didn't hesitate, "Tianyang is the boss of the team. He is responsible for leading the team. I share scoring and defense tasks. In the locker room, I will follow his rhythm."
In just one sentence, Cousins emphasized Tianyang's status twice, and any fool would understand what it meant.
ESPN reporter Julie was the second to ask Brewer, "What kind of expectations do you have for serving as Tianyang's substitute? Do you have any experience to pass on to him?"
Brewer took the microphone and shook his head before answering, "Tianyang is already a superstar. I don't have any experience to pass on to him, but I am very much looking forward to helping him share the scoring pressure."
Julie's question was meaningless, and Brewer's answer was not interesting. CBS reporter Pittman quickly got up: "Coach Walton, now that three new players have joined, will the team make any changes in the offensive system?"
Wharton sat up straight and took the microphone, "Of course there will be changes. The specific plan is still being explored, and we will gradually experiment in subsequent games."
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At 24 pm on the [-]th, the Lakers practiced together for the first time after the trade.
The new 15-man roster is center Cousins, Tarek, McGee, Zubac; power forward Randall, Thomas Robinson; small forward Ingram, Metta World Peace, Nick Young, Casspi; Shooting guard Li Tianyang, Brewer, Anthony Brown; point guard Calderon, Marcelo Huertas.
The point guard is already weak, and the loss of Clarkson will make things worse. Fortunately, the team currently has 4 forwards and guards who can flexibly make up for the lack of lineup.
To this end, Wharton made adjustments, let Tianyang serve as a fixed point guard, Brewer and Nick Young competed for the post at shooting guard, and Cousins was naturally the starting center. Together with Randall, they formed a new starting lineup.
In addition, Calderon, Brewer, Casspi, Thomas, and McGee were temporarily formed as backup lineups to practice with.
After confirming the lineup, Wharton didn't arrange any tactics, and started training directly, planning to prescribe medicine according to the problem.
Because it is a training game, the jump ball is omitted, and the substitute team takes the lead in attacking.
Calderon dribbled the ball to the top of the arc, and McGee stepped forward to do a pick-and-roll.
Cousins changed defense, McGee turned around and slid to the basket, Tianyang followed up, but Calderon did not pass the ball, but continued to go to the right, at the 45-degree position, with the help of Thomas' second pick-and-roll, the ball was stuck in the bottom corner Spee.
Ingram raised his hands to interfere, Casspi passed back to Calderon, and Randall and Cousins immediately surrounded him.
Successful steal!Randall was about to sprint, and Wharton signaled to slow down.
The purpose of training is not to score, but to find problems in advance.
Randall nodded and delivered the ball, Tianyang took it and slowly brought it forward.
After crossing the center line, Tianyang slowed down again and raised his hands to ask them to take their positions.
Randall stands at the top of the arc, Cousins stands at the left elbow, Ingram stands on the left wing, and Nick Young waits at the short corner on the right.
Seeing that the positioning was completed, Tianyang started immediately, passed the ball to Randall, and ran to the short corner on the right by himself.
In the past, it was Clarkson or Calderon who did this. The purpose was to provide an off-ball screen for Nick Young, but Tianyang's ability to attack independently was too strong, so he continued to slide to the basket after the screen.
Randall slammed the ball and directly stuffed the ball under the basket. Tianyang caught the ball and scored a layup.
Wharton's eyes lit up, and he had the feeling of coaching the 73-win Warriors in a trance.
McGee was about to serve, he quickly called a stop, asked the players to resume their previous positions and attack a few more times, and asked the substitute team to try to intercept Tianyang's pass and slip the baseline in advance.
After falling again, Calderon turned sideways to block Tianyang's pass in advance, and Thomas also circled around the top of the arc to block Randall.
Tianyang took his time and made eye contact with Nick Young, who immediately slipped to the outside to catch the pass.
At the same time, Cousins moved laterally from the left elbow, received a pass from Nick Young on the right elbow, and singled McGee with his back.
Strong top, turn back, one step to the basket, low hand layup.
McGee shook his head helplessly. It was still a bit difficult for him to defend against Cousins alone.
Wharton smiled and beckoned for a third time.
This time, Calderon, Thomas, Brewer, and McGee blocked ahead of time, but Ingram ran back to get rid of Casspi, rushed into the paint, received a long pass from the ocean, and dunked easily.
Walton couldn't help laughing. This lineup is really strong. Four of the five players have the ability to attack with the ball, and their awareness of running without the ball is so strong that they may not lose to the Warriors in terms of offense alone.
But this lineup will definitely not be able to play from the beginning to the end of the game. After replacing the substitute players, the offensive firepower will inevitably drop. Tianyang may be surrounded by various wild double-teams. How to insert substitute players becomes the main problem.
In any case, the team's strength has indeed risen to a higher level, and if it doesn't work, they can play against each other.
After knowing the bottom line, Walton began to try to match the four main substitutes Brewer, Calderon, Casspi, and McGee with the starters.
It wasn't until 8 pm that the first joint practice after the transaction ended, and the Lakers had a game the next day. The opponent was the Thunder team led by Westbrook, who was in the MVP battle with Tianyang.
(End of this chapter)