Chapter 530 Like-Minded

1:9, 2:8, 0:10...

The terrible scores made Coach Anxi a little bit unbearable to watch, but fortunately, it was not only this couple on the court that attracted his attention.

"Hurry up! Hurry up!" Payton spread his arms to defend in front of Rukawa.

The good health basketball in these few games, coupled with the stimulation of the finals and four consecutive championships, made Payton seem to have regained some youth. He was responsible for training Rukawa and Iguodala.

In addition to Lin Dong, the most effective weapon of the Supersonics on the offensive end is these two three-pointers from the outside.

Frankly speaking, these two guns are actually very strong. Whether it is Iguodala's confrontation shot or Rukawa's speed flow shot, this season and the previous three rounds of playoffs have experienced severe tests, which were also trained under the confrontation of the Supersonics' almost 'no cylinder rule'.

But... it's not enough!

Can the whistle in the regular season be compared with the playoffs?

How can the defensive strength of the teams that the Sonics had encountered before be compared with this Cavaliers?

Everyone knew that whether it was personal strength or defensive will and the determination to destroy the Sonics, this Cavaliers had reached the peak. Their defense would only be more aggressive than before, even stronger than Doug Christie who blocked Rukawa Kaede when he was in the Lakers!

Even without considering the unfairness of the league, the home whistle in the first two games and the Sonics' usual no-cylinder penalty were enough to make Rukawa Kaede and Iguodala's previous three-point level drop sharply.

Sakuragi Hanamichi had to adapt to O'Neal's weight and strength, and the two also needed to adapt to higher-intensity confrontations.

Ten days of training may not unlock a higher-level skill package for you, nor can it really improve your strength, but it can make you adapt!

Just adapt!

Swish!

The assistant coach passed the ball to Rukawa Kaede.

At this time, Payton's defense was only half a step away, requiring Rukawa Kaede to shoot as soon as he received the ball, and he had to make 50 shots before he could rest.

But to be honest... even if the elderly Payton is asked to defend, it is too harsh for Rukawa.

The half-step defense distance is designed to defend against shooting, and after limiting you to shooting, unless you can force the defender, you can only use fake moves to light up the opponent.

But who is Payton?

The most defensive and experienced DPOY among the active players in this league!

Want to light him up with fake moves? Even Lin Dong can hardly do it.

Rukawa didn't even consider fake moves. He can only rely on one word: fast!

Snap!

When the basketball arrived in his hand, before the slightly sideways body turned around, his legs had already burst out with full momentum, and suddenly kicked off the ground.

The hands that received the ball had already set the shooting posture before jumping up, and the waist and abdomen of the body completed the twisting process in the air to make himself face the basket, and when the arm was aimed at the basket, he almost didn't need to see it with his eyes, and he had already shot directly.

Everything was done extremely fast, even faster than Payton's defense, which was ready to go. The ball was thrown smoothly from Payton's finger when he jumped to block the shot, but...

Bang!

The basketball bounced off the rim and didn't go in again.

"You paid too much attention to my movements and didn't keep your rhythm!" Payton shouted at Rukawa: "You didn't keep up with the physical confrontation, and the angle of your turn was not enough. Your movements were deformed as soon as I blocked you..."

"Without confrontation, what's the use of being fast and accurate? You can be faster than my block, but you can't be faster than my physical confrontation! Your movements are deformed as soon as the intensity increases, can you still be accurate? You either separate the softness of your body and the softness of your touch! Make tough confrontation and soft shooting."

"Or, you have to find your softness in weightlessness! This is not training, this is a game! No one cares how standard your posture is, no one cares about "beautiful as a picture", what you need to do is to use the most non-standard, even the ugliest movements, to achieve the highest hit rate! Even if you lose your center of gravity, this is not something that can be achieved by training open skills, you have to find the trick! "

This is not only said to Rukawa Kaede, but also to Iguodala who was watching the game next to him. Not only playing against each other can be considered learning, but watching and exploring is also a kind of learning. It's just that Payton, this old bone, has to train these two energetic guys alone. He has been exhausted these two days.

Rukawa Kaede nodded thoughtfully, picked up the basketball and threw it back to the assistant coach.

"Come again!"

"How many have you scored?" Mitsui Shou, who flew back from Spain to watch the finals, asked next to him.

Coach Anzai glanced at the assistant coach's scoreboard over there, 4 of 27 shots...

"Haha!" Coach Anzai said with a smile: "It's still early."

"This defensive training is too abnormal. They are half a step away and don't allow people to break through... How can you shoot like this? It's unreasonable!"

"Haha!" Coach Anzai said with a smile: "No one will reason with you in the finals, Mitsui-san."

"That's right." Mitsui Shou also scratched the back of his head with a smile.

But to be honest, looking at the three-point training in front of him, he still couldn't help but get goose bumps all over his body. It was too harsh.

He is also a shooter. At the beginning, he specifically practiced confrontational escape and confrontational shooting at Lloyd. The intensity of Stephen's training at that time made Mitsui Shou feel a little nauseous when he recalled it now, but compared with Payton's defense against Rukawa Kaede now, it is completely in a different dimension.

Mitsui Shou curled his lips, but while watching the crazy training and excitement of these guys at the scene, he couldn't help but secretly complain.

The conditions for supersonic speed are better!

If they want a center to be a sparring partner, they can bring in Yao Ming, and if they want consecutive three-pointers, they can bring in Payton... What's even worse is that they can even bring in the coach! No, McMillan is chatting with Russell over there, asking the NBA King of the Rings about tactical arrangements!

There's no way, first come first, first served. Bill Russell has always lived in Seattle and has cared about Payton and the SuperSonics a long time ago. Payton was able to get that DPOY, and the King of the Rings also contributed, and the SuperSonics are now in this position. The relationship of helping others has always been quite good.

But...gosh, what kind of sparring group is this? Mobius, who has already begun to prosper, is instantly weak compared to him.

Mitsui Hisashi has been worrying about Moebius recently. The team's development this year is very good. Xu Yong, a young player from the Dragon Kingdom, averaged 9.2 points per game in the regular season in La Liga this season. You know, that guy just this year 16 years old... even younger than when Lin Dong and the others entered the NBA. Not only is the future promising, but for now, they are already the main players of Moebius.

Masashi Kawada switched to small forward and paired with Xu Yong in the main rotation. This season he also averaged 8.6 points and 5.2 rebounds per game, which can be regarded as an outstanding international player.

As for Shigehiro Mori, although that guy's physical fitness is only average in the NBA, he is considered top-notch in La Liga. In addition, he has been sent to the SuperSonics every offseason in the past few years, and he accepted Hanamichi Sakuragi. After a lot of training, he has now shown his All-Star potential in La Liga. This season, he averaged 9.5 rebounds and 14.9 points per game. He is the team's main rotation center and power forward.

Yes, Moebius's main center this year is not him, but someone else, Yi Jianlian from the Dragon Kingdom!

This guy was transferred from the Dragon Kingdom in the second half of the season, just before the transfer deadline. Not only Lin Dong has been mediating among them, running between the Sharks team and the Basketball Association, but finally Hisaka Mitsui The two owners, Lin Dong, also paid a large transfer fee for this.

The effect is immediate.

After two years of focused training in China, as well as Lin Dong's constant care, Lin Dong feels that Yi Jianlian is now fully capable of landing in the NBA, and is enough to be the main forward position of any mid-range team in the NBA. There is no problem in getting a starting position. .

However, it is not yet time for him to come to the NBA. The confrontation is a bit less. La Liga, as an intermediate game, is suitable for Yi Jianlian to be further improved to avoid the embarrassing situation that Yi Jianlian encountered after he went to the NBA in his previous life. .

After joining Moebius, Yi Jianlian only needed a dozen games to adapt this season. He averaged 17.6 rebounds per game and 22.6 points in the All-Star Game. He also made the best rookie team in La Liga this year. If it weren't for the season It came in the second half, otherwise Moebius would definitely have entered the La Liga playoffs this year.

In addition, the immortal way has gradually emerged.

Now serving as the main point guard of Moebius, he averaged 12.5 points and 7.8 assists per game this season. For La Liga, this is already a pretty good point guard data. However, the fisherman’s bad habits have not changed. In a key game some time ago, I went to participate in some fishing competition the day before yesterday and won a city silver medal. The next day I was yawning non-stop on the court...

Mitsui Hisashi was extremely depressed about this.

If this guy Sendao works harder and focuses more, he might have a chance to play in the NBA!

Hey, when the SuperSonics win the championship this season, they will have to bring the whole team over for training. If they only borrow Stephen every time, Moebius won't get any benefit at all.

Otherwise, on the pretext of taking McMillan and those trainers to travel to Spain, he will be deducted for two months... The SuperSonics are the home team, but Mobis is also your property, Lin Dong, on the palms of your hands and the backs of your hands. Meat, don’t favor one thing over another!

Thinking of Lin Dong, Mitsui Hisashi couldn't help but look towards another corner of the training hall.

I saw Lin Dong actually doing basic training on ball control in the corner.

In the past, when the SuperSonics trained, Hanamichi Sakuragi and Kaede Rukawa played two-on-one, or Payton and Iguodala were added in rotation to accompany Lin Dong in single training.

But now, everyone in the Sonics has their own problems to overcome and goals to surpass. The schedule is so full that Lin Dong suddenly has no one to practice with.

Who else can he look to for training? Except for Sakuragi Hanamichi and the others, ordinary trainers like the Supersonics are completely beaten up little shrimps to Lin Dong. Even Stephen can't bring any pressure to him. Lin Dong hardly trains with them. It will have any effect, and it may even turn out to be inferior in that kind of low-level confrontation...

Therefore, the biggest protagonist on the field, apart from the team's collective training, this kind of private time has become the most neglected one on the training field.

Bang bang bang bang...

Ten sets of powerful pendulum luck for each hand, including powerful pendulum dribbling with both hands in place, fast hip dribbling with left and right hands in place, fast behind-the-back dribbling with both hands, ultra-low under-crotch dribbling with left and right hands, and ultra-low figure-of-eight dribbling with both hands under the hips. …

Lin Dong hits the basketball very fast. When he bends down and dribbles the ball quickly with both hands, the ball bounces off the ground no more than 5 centimeters. Even the sound of the slap seems to have become one, and the basketball has faded away. The afterimage seems to be loaded with some high-tech new product such as high-frequency resonance...

He is already the god of basketball, but he is still willing to work hard and stick to such basic training every day. Mitsui Shou understands that this is the key reason why Lin Dong always makes people feel that he is one with the ball on the court and almost never makes mistakes.

It is really a pleasant training.

However, thinking about his destined opponent in this finals, Mitsui Shou feels worried again.

Dwyane Wade was hailed as the "Chicago Jordan" in the East last season, not because of the Chicago Bulls, but because that guy was born in Chicago.

His speed is not inferior to Jordan at the peak, and his change of direction is even praised as having surpassed Jordan! Perhaps the only thing he lacks compared to Jordan at the peak is the mentality of a king. After all, he has not won a championship yet, and there is always Lin Dong above his head who is suppressing him, so there is no such thing as an invincible mentality.

But there is no doubt that he is already one of the strongest shooting guards in the league, and his offensive strength is definitely not inferior to Kobe Bryant after his breakthrough.

And LeBron... the guy who has had an irreconcilable grudge with Lin Dong since high school. Some people once said that he was like the peak O'Neal in his youth, but after experiencing the Pistons War, this guy's natural leadership and desire for victory have left the once lazy O'Neal far behind.

His basic skills are quite good. Not only is his ball control skill proficient to the level of a guard, but his shooting is surprisingly accurate, coupled with his suffocating pressure defense... In the fourth game of the Pistons War, he not only almost shut out the Roaring Heavenly Lord, but also completed the feat of 13 of 14 shots, including 5 three-pointers!

This is no longer the shadow of playing purely by body at the Nike Summit. The dominance of the game even makes people feel that it is comparable to Lin Dong in the Olympic period.

Most of the people who praise the Cavaliers now focus on O'Neal, either praising the Cavaliers' defense or praising the James-Wade connection, as if these two people can only be qualified to compare O'Neal's role when they are connected.

But in fact, either of these two people has long been as strong as O'Neal!

Facing these two guys, being defended by them two-on-one, to be honest, Mitsui Shou just thought about it and felt a cold sweat for Lin Dong.

This... Is it okay to just practice the basics of ball control like playing every day?

As Mitsui Shou was thinking this, he saw the door of the gym being pushed open, and a guy wearing casual clothes with a travel bag appeared outside the door.

Sean Battier!

"Sean?!" Many people in the gym stopped what they were doing and looked over here in surprise.

Everyone in the Supersonics responded with great enthusiasm and goodwill to this former brother who was forced to leave the Supersonics by Nike. Lin Dong, who was still controlling the ball, also smiled and said, "Come back to pick up girls?"

"NONONO!" Battier smiled and said to Lin Dong, "Go home and take a look, and... I heard that you need a sparring partner?"

Lin Dong was slightly startled and laughed, "Hahaha, come on, one-on-one! Let's see how much your defense has improved!"

"I can't beat them alone, but..." Sean stepped aside, and three more people appeared in front of everyone.

Kobe Bryant! Doug Christie! Mito Yohei!

"We met in the parking lot." Battier explained with a smile.

"Hi, Lin." Kobe Bryant said with a smile: "I heard from Yao that you are very free these two days. Can't find a sparring partner? It just so happens that I am also very free. I am tired of seeing the early morning in Los Angeles, so I came to see you in Seattle."

Lin Dong opened his mouth, then laughed and stopped controlling the ball, straightened up: "Is your finger okay?"

"There is a miracle doctor!" Kobe laughed and patted Mito Yohei next to him. Under the conditioning of this guy, his finger had been completely healed a few days ago.

"Speaking of which, it's really unpleasant to lose to you in the semi-finals. This damn finger prevented me from giving my best."

"Come on, don't make excuses!" Lin Dong said with a smile.

"Let's forget about that damn semifinal." Kobe threw his travel bag to the ground with a smile, and took off his clothes directly, revealing the jersey inside, and then shook his finger at Lin Dong: "But now it has grown well. It's a rare opportunity to abuse you, and I will never miss it!"

Everyone in the stadium was stunned. Just now, they were worried that Lin Dong had no sparring partners, but look at this...

Kobe Bryant, this year's best defensive first team!

Doug Christie, last year's best defensive first team!

Sean Battier, this year's best defensive third team, and the reason why this guy is in the third team is really because the competition in the same position is too fierce. The pressure on him is Lin Dong and Artest, who are already the ceiling of the No. 3 defense.

It is said that the Supersonics is an Asian team and is a lonely alternative in this league.

It is also said that this year the league is determined to kill the Supersonics. All the teams and everyone will stand on the side of the Cavaliers. The Supersonics will fight against the entire league.

But...that doesn't mean that no one recognizes the Supersonics, and it doesn't mean that the Supersonics don't have like-minded friends here!

"What? Are you afraid of being abused?" Kobe said with a smile.

"I'm afraid you'll get hit again!" Lin Dong laughed and threw the basketball in his hand directly at him: "Then what nonsense are you talking about? Come on, brother!"