After hearing Nick Young's request, Sanders simply went with the flow and directly replaced him and Al Thornton on the bench, and then put Sun Yue and Hudson into the starting lineup.
Elsoton:?
I didn't do anything the hell!
Even if he is not happy, he has to listen to the coach's arrangements. He is a role player and has no right to decide where he is.
Arenas on the side couldn't help but stick out his tongue after seeing the miserable Nick Young!
This guy Li Kaiming is really not easy to mess with!
After secretly classifying Li Kaiming as "not easy to mess with", Arenas was ready to pass the ball to Li Kaiming.
If he doesn't pass the ball, with this guy's temper, he may lead Nick Young to double-team him next time!
Arenas will never allow this to happen to him. After all, he is still the boss of this Wizards team.
Boss, don’t you want to lose face?
This is also the brilliance of Li Kaiming. Although Arenas was also the one who united not to pass the ball to him before, he would not take advantage of the latter.
If you choose an insignificant role player, it will not serve as a warning to the monkeys, so you can only choose Nick Young!
And it just so happens that Nick Young is more adventurous at this moment. If you don’t choose him, who will you choose?
Of course, Sanders didn't move Nick Young to the substitute lineup just for the sake of Nick Young. Although Nick Young is a good player, he is not yet at the level where he can command the coach.
Sanders just wanted to take the opportunity to try out some more lineups and see if the addition of a few new players could make the tactics more versatile!
Li Kaiming's fast break ability has surprised him. If he can find other ways of playing, his confidence in this season will greatly increase!
The second half of the training match started quickly. Nick Young, who was on the bench, didn't care about anything else. He asked for the ball when he got to the frontcourt, and then directly picked up the ball from the right three-point line against the defense and threw it!
It was Hudson who was guarding him. When Nick Young got the ball, he pounced on him, and the latter made a three-pointer under his defense.
The rebound was grabbed by center Blatche and gave the ball to Arenas.
The substitute lineup retreated as quickly as possible to prevent Li Kaiming from playing fast break.
After falling into a positional battle, Arenas tried to break through. As soon as he took a step forward, he was blocked back by the defenders on the other side.
In desperation, he had no choice but to hand the ball to Li Kaiming, who was in a position inside.
This is the first time Li Kaiming has received an active pass from someone else in a positional attack.
Facing Yi Jianlian's defense, Li Kaiming arched his back and easily opened up the space, then changed his back to face the basket with a deft hook!
After all, he has a good relationship with Yi Jianlian, so he is not suitable for such violent goals, so just a simple hook will be enough.
With his current level of throwing hooks in the penalty area, few in the entire league can defend him, and Yi Jianlian is naturally not on this list.
Seeing Li Kaiming easily score two points, Sanders nodded in admiration and said, "The inside skills are very solid and the basic skills are good!"
Cassel on the side agreed, "Yeah, this guy relied on inside singles and fast breaks when he was in the NCAA, averaging 30 points per game! Everyone knows how he scores, but they just can't guard him! hehe."
If Li Kaiming's inside skills were as expected by Sanders, then what he showed next made the latter directly fall into ecstasy!
The bench continued to hand the ball to Nick Young, who made a fancy dribble and then hit a mid-range fadeaway jumper from the baseline!
In the starting offense, Arenas played a pick-and-roll with Li Kaiming this time. The substitute lineup chose to double-team Arenas because Li Kaiming actually chose to roll out!
In their impression, Li Kaiming can only have three-point ability, but it is only there!
When the hand feels good, he may be able to score a few, but in most cases, even Li Kaiming himself will not take a large number of three-pointers.
What does it mean, he is not confident in his three-point shooting!
This is indeed the case. Arenas returned the ball to Li Kaiming on the outside during a double team. Yi Jianlian was immediately in place. When his front foot had just reached Li Kaiming, Li Kaiming suddenly pushed the ball in!
Arenas' breakthrough not only caused the two people guarding the pick-and-roll to shrink inward, but also made McGee, who was protecting the inside frame, feel threatened, and then took a slight step up!
But it was this step that allowed Li Kaiming to find an opportunity!
His through ball was very fast, crossing the arms of Yi Jianlian and McGee, and then passed to the hands of Brac!
At this time, Brac was completely unguarded under the basket!
He picked it up and made a two-handed dunk!
Sanders on the sidelines sounded a little surprised, "Nice pass! But this passing path is actually very dangerous!"
Cassel next to him smiled noncommittally and did not answer.
But as the coach of the summer league, he has naturally seen Li Kaiming pass a pass even more chic than this!
This will surprise you, the fun is yet to come! Cassel thought.
Soon, Sanders saw it.
In the next attack, after Li Kaiming took the ball with his back inside, the vindictive Nick Young directly let go of Hudson in the other corner, and then quietly wrapped it up from behind Li Kaiming!
Sanders shook his head helplessly. There were quite a few shady guys in this team. It seemed that Li Kaiming had to pay tuition this time!
Even Nick Young thought so. He sneaked in from behind. Unless Li Kaiming had an eye in the back of his head, he would definitely lose the ball. At worst, it would be a scrum!
But the next moment he realized that he was wrong, and he was so wrong!
Li Kaiming seemed to have an eye in the back of his head. When Nick Young was still one step away from Li Kaiming, Li Kaiming directly hooked the ball with his left hand!
The basketball flew directly over Nick Young's head, not too far or too close, just out of the latter's reach!
The end point of the basketball flying towards was Hudson who was emptied from the bottom corner on the other side!
As a teammate who played five games with Li Kaiming in the summer league, Hudson also had a little tacit understanding with the latter.
So when Nick Young left him open to double-team Li Kaiming, he didn't move where Li Kaiming could see him.
Because he knows that this guy always knows where the person in the open position is!
So after receiving the pass from Li Kaiming, Hudson was not surprised at all. Instead, like dozens of times before, he shot on the spot without hesitation!
The basketball drew a beautiful parabola and fell into the basket accurately!
The expression on Nick Young's face was also frozen instantly!
How can this be!
There are very few people in the entire NBA who can find themselves double-teaming sneak attacks, and even fewer teammates who can instantly find the open space at such a moment!
But this rookie not only did both of these, he also sent the ball directly to the teammate with the best opportunity!
With such an overall view and passing skills, only a handful of people in the entire league can surpass him!
But the most surprised person in the entire stadium was not Nick Young, the person involved, but Sanders, the head coach who was watching the game from the sidelines!
When Li Kaiming sent the ball to Hudson, Sanders felt a huge wave of shock and joy in his heart!
He was on the sidelines and could see the entire passing process more clearly from God's perspective!
That's why he is so excited!
His tone was trembling, and he stared at Cassel beside him, "Sam, can he pass the ball like this in the Summer League?"
Although Cassell had known it for a long time, he still sighed at this time, "Yes, we seem to have really found a treasure!"
The excitement welling up in Sanders' heart almost made him faint, but then he heard Cassel again.
"And the most important thing is, this guy couldn't pass this kind of ball when he was in the NCAA..."
