"Hey, Luke, you come to sparring."
Karl Malone waved and shouted to the side, and a white forward quickly came over.
Luke Walton was selected with the third overall pick in the second round by the Lakers this year and serves as a forward. He played as a power forward in the NCAA, but in the NBA, he could only serve as a small forward at a height of 2.03cm. His father is the famous Boston legend Bill Walton, so he has a family background.
Luke Walton has little chance in the Lakers. He is also a second-round pick. He plays very little time every night. He mostly imitates the opponent's forward in the training camp and serves as a training partner for the starting and rotation players.
But now, the person he wants to train with is Su Feng, a defender who was four spots lower than him in the draft.
Luke Walton was in a very calm mood. He had heard about Su Feng, and he was not jealous or resentful because Su Feng was born lower than him and now has a higher status than him.
A white elite like him who comes from a wealthy class is very emotionally stable. Moreover, with such a great father, what could he not accept as a 'tiger father and dog son'? He has long been accustomed to and fully understands that everyone in this world has different talents.
Luke Walton came to Su Feng's side, and he couldn't help but feel astonished. He was originally called an NBA handsome guy and also had a certain reputation in Hollywood. But when he saw Su Feng, he couldn't help but feel ashamed. This is a real handsome guy.
Karl Malone asked the shooting coach to throw the ball casually outside, and then directed Su Feng and Luke Walton to grab rebounds.
Luke Walton plays power forward in the NCAA and often gets double-doubles. He was very confident in himself. He thought that no matter how outstanding Su Feng was, he was only a defender. How could a defender grab rebounds with a forward?
I'm the professional.
However, when Su Fengka came to the position, he immediately felt a strong force coming.
He actually couldn't afford it.
Suddenly he lost half a step.
boom!
When the basketball hit the ground, Luke Walton immediately made a smart turn and he was going to compete for the rebound.
Unexpectedly, Su Feng stretched out his hand to fend him off slightly. Without even taking off, he easily collected the basketball and quickly put the ball together. He put his hands on each other in a very authentic posture to protect the ball.
When Karl Malone saw it, his eyes lit up and he was shocked.
As an expert knows, the moment when Su Feng pushed away Luke Walton, picked up the rebound and quickly set up to protect the ball... was of great practical significance, and was exactly the same as Malone.
Ma Long originally thought that Su Feng's learning ability was just a fake, but when he saw Su Feng use this trick, he instantly felt extremely protective of Su Feng.
Scottie Pippen is familiar.
Because he was like that at the beginning, and so was Larry Bird.
When you see a student use only a few minutes to perfectly execute the most proud and most essential moves of your career, you can't help but admire him from the bottom of your heart.
Malone quickly asked the assistant coach to continue shooting and continue to work hard.
He was fully immersed in it. He watched Su Feng grab rebounds in Luke Walton's position.
Su Feng completely calmed the players and staff.
Because Luke Walton is no match for him at all, and his ability to understand rebounds has improved visibly...even a layman can see it.
At the beginning, Su Feng could grab 7 out of 10 rebounds.
After 20 minutes, Luke Walton could barely grab a rebound.
Phil Jackson was also stunned. He didn't expect Su Feng's defensive rebounding ability to improve so rapidly.
He couldn't help but think, since Tony's learning ability is so strong, why don't I let Dennis Rodman teach him? His rebounding ability is much better than Karl Malone.
If Karl Malone is only good at defensive rebounding in the backcourt, then Dennis Rodman has reached the full level in offensive rebounding. He is much shorter than his competitors, but he has won the rebounding title many times.
If Tony Su had the rebounding ability of Malone and Rodman.
Then my triangle offense will be more complete.
Eh... No, I didn't trade Su Feng for his rebounding ability?
This guy really gave me a brand new surprise.
In fact, Su Feng's joy was also increasing rapidly.
Because his rebounding skills were improving rapidly, from 59 to 82 in a short time. This feeling of rapid evolution caused a powerful endophenolphthalein in his heart, and a refreshing feeling went straight to his scalp.
Then, Karl Malone faced off against Su Feng in person.
The two practiced another 20 rebounds.
Karl Malone grabbed 14 and Su Feng got 6.
This is with Karl Malone going all out, even though Malone is no longer in his prime.
However, a guard who can achieve a rebound rate of 30% when Malone is absolutely serious is worthy of the title of 'rebound master'.
After 20 goals, Su Feng's super rebounding skills reached 85.
Among defenders, he is definitely rare.
Unless there are a few amazing talents, few guards can beat Su Feng in the field of pure rebounding.
After stopping training, Karl Malone couldn't help but give Su Feng a warm hug. He said: "Good guy, your learning ability is the strongest I have ever seen. How about it? Do you want to learn Iron Elbow? My Iron Elbow Looking at the entire league, they are unique..."
As soon as he said this, Phil Jackson came over and interrupted him: "Karl, let's let this unique skill of yours disappear from the NBA."
Karl Malone is one of the most brutal offenders in the NBA. His iron elbow has left countless people with bloody heads and fallen to the ground. Among the famous players, Isiah Thomas received more than 40 stitches due to his iron elbow, Admiral Robinson was beaten to shock by him, Olajuwon's ribs were broken by him, O'Neal lost his teeth...
It would be better for such a pair of iron elbows with a bad record to disappear from the world.
Even if Karl Malone wanted to teach, Su Feng didn't want to learn. He is a commercial star, and he does not want to label himself a villain.
Moreover, deliberately hurting people is not Su Feng's style. Conquering opponents with basketball is Su Feng's pursuit.
O'Neal took advantage of the situation and punched Karl Malone. He said: You guy is about to retire and you still want to harm the league. Tony is a Nike spokesperson and his fans are all over the world. Do you want him to become a notorious basketball gangster?
Ma Long smiled awkwardly and said: It’s okay not to learn.
Phil Jackson asked the players to train, and he kept Su Feng.
He took out his notepad and said, "Tony, I didn't expect you to have such a high talent in rebounding. You gave me a new surprise. I don't even know where to put you."
Su Feng was a little shy when he was praised. He said: "I'm just learning, and I'm not very proficient yet."
"..."
Phil Jackson was blocked by this sentence. He felt that he was being shown off: This is all under the defense of Karl Malone, and he got a 30% rebound rate. Isn't he proficient enough? Looking at the entire league, how many defenders can do that?
He adjusted his breathing slightly.
Then he took out his notebook and explained the logic and principles of the triangle offense to Su Feng.
The triangle offense is essentially a set of tactics that serve superstars. Its core is to establish a tactic for superstars to fight one-on-one. During the Bulls dynasty, the most important thing was the transition between Pippen and Jordan. In the Lakers OK dynasty, it was the transition between inside and outside.
However, since neither O'Neal nor Kobe Bryant is convinced by the other, Kobe is very reluctant to pass the ball to O'Neal. In addition, the ability of the Lakers substitute players to seize opportunities has weakened, and they cannot provide better singles opportunities for the two superstars.
Therefore, Phil Jackson, who was guarding against potential threats, traded Su Feng, whom he was very optimistic about, from Chicago at this time.
He hopes that Su Feng will become the Lakers' third point.
This point is not only responsible for the firepower output... Since the strong and weak side conversion is performed with Kobe, it is also necessary to perform the internal and external line conversion with O'Neal: it is like a universal plug, O'Neal can also receive electricity, and Kobe can also receive electricity.
At the same time, he must also help connect other players, including Malone, Payton, Fisher and other role players.
The work tasks are very heavy.
It can be said to be the shadow core of this system.
After Phil Jackson analyzed this paragraph, he couldn't help but said: "This task is indeed a bit difficult for players of your age. But I think looking at the entire league, you are the only one who has this kind of basketball wisdom."
Phil Jackson is very good at attacking people's hearts. He can manage the thorns like Rodman's back then.
He is very good at putting high hats on players inadvertently, leaving them unaware of what is going on.
Su Feng smiled and said calmly: "I think I can still do some work here."
Su Feng moved his finger from the weak side to the baseline: "Karl can go out and shoot jumpers. I can attract firepower here and can run to the bottom corner at any time... My ability to move without the ball is pretty good."
Phil Jackson was shocked: This guy didn't wear a top hat. Shouldn't he be complacent?
Is this 19 years old?
Then, there was a second surprise: Yes, if he goes to the penalty area, the tactics will change even more. He can become O'Neal's wing, and his passing ability, rebounding ability, running ability... can be a trinity here.
What a genius!
Phil Jackson was extremely happy.
However, he suddenly didn't know how to praise Su Feng. Because Su Feng's mind is too mature, if he still uses the same method of 'praising' Rodman, he will appear to be too naive.
Phil Jackson has some sweet troubles. He calls himself a master of regulating people's hearts and the NBA's generation king.
But Su Feng... he seemed to be more aggressive, and he was vaguely pretending to be aggressive. It was hard to guard against this kind of aggression, and he would accidentally get it on his face.
Phil Jackson quickly gathered the players and he arranged for a full-court training.
He wanted to see if Su Feng could work on paper, so he placed Su Feng in the small forward position in the starting lineup, forming a yellow jacket starting lineup with Gary Payton, Kobe Bryant, Karl Malone, and Shaquille O'Neal.
When the game started, Gary Payton dribbled the ball to the top of the arc and immediately passed the basketball to Su Feng. Unexpectedly, Su Feng didn't catch the ball at all. The moment he reached out and touched the basketball, he threw it directly into the penalty area. The basketball Change trajectory and quickly enter the restricted area.
When O'Neal received the basketball, he didn't even expect how the basketball came in, but he was absolutely open and exploded on the spot... Boom!
O'Neal violently attacked the basket. The basket buzzed as he smashed it, and he even bent down and surrendered.
O'Neal let go of the basket and jumped down. He ran to Su Feng and couldn't help but ask: "How did you do that? Tony! This ball was passed so well!!"
Su Feng smiled and said, "Just use your heart."
This metaphysics confused O'Neal: Is it enough to use your heart?
Phil Jackson stood on the sidelines, and he had a clear view. He was horrified by Su Feng's processing speed. This is indeed Larry Bird's ability...Larry Bird's quick passing level in the position ranks first in history. He seems to pass the basketball reflexively without thinking at all. , sometimes even teammates don’t react, let alone opponents.
Su Feng's ball was directly redirected and diverted. Who would have thought that he didn't even make a move to connect the ball, but directly passed it to the secondary ball.
The substitute hit the ground running.
Su Feng and Kobe were at odds with each other again, and Payton passed the basketball to Kobe at the top of the arc. Kobe played in isolation, attracting a double attack. He quickly passed the ball to Su Feng on the weak side. Su Feng quickly rushed inward with the ball. The defender quickly let go of Kobe to pursue. Unexpectedly, Su Feng threw the basketball back again, and Kobe caught it. The ball...shua!
hit.
Kobe gave Su Feng a thumbs up.
Two attacks, two assists, conquering two picky bosses.
No, it should be three.
At this time, Gary Payton and Phil Jackson had the same idea: If Su Feng is playing like this, I might as well play as the sixth man.
Payton himself is a bit incompatible with the triangle offense. He plays a big-core ball-sticking style. Although he knows that he is here to hold the thigh now, he has some restraint, but once a person's subconscious mind is formed, it is difficult to change.
However, the Lakers also need his defense very much. He can withstand the first wave of fierce attacks from the opponent's defender at the top of the arc.
Although the 'gloves' are old, they are not so riddled with holes that they are leaking everywhere.
In comparison, Su Feng's defense was ordinary.
He played in the Eastern Conference before, and the defensive requirements in the Eastern Conference are generally not high.
As for the Western Conference, every top eight team is full of ghosts. They don't defend well and are easy to get into trouble.
The first training session lasted 40 minutes, which was a very long training session.
The Lakers aim to integrate Su Feng into the lineup faster.
Su Feng's integration was faster than expected, although sometimes he would stumble, and sometimes he would even suddenly fall into stagnation.
However, Su Feng also has many wonderful ideas.
Overall, the flaws outweigh the flaws.
Phil Jackson and the coaching staff are very satisfied.
They are increasingly looking forward to Su Feng's performance in Los Angeles.
This is why after today's training session, Phil Jackson said in an interview with reporters accompanying the team: "Tony Su is very strong. He is not an ordinary rookie. His IQ and EQ are perfectly adapted to the Los Angeles Lakers. He will become an important guarantee for the Lakers to win the championship. !”
This sentence is rated very highly.
Phil Jackson rarely praises people so publicly in the media, and he rarely praises rookies.
The whole world knows that Phil Jackson doesn't like to use rookies, he likes to use established superstars, and he has no interest in cultivating rookies.
But now, he made an exception for everything.
Because Su Feng is indeed no ordinary rookie. Moreover, there seems to be no use in praising him in private, so just go to the media to praise him.
Phil Jackson thought to himself: I don't believe this trick can't make you happy.
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