First in scoring

Chapter 431 430. Changes in Competition Concepts

The little bitch is walking against the wall again today...

Emma Roberts had been thinking that she would have a few days off after finishing her work, and then she could go to Miami with Zhang Yang, and wear a swimsuit to play with Zhang Yang... Although the beach was a bit cold in the winter, with only a dozen degrees, the room was okay, and there was air conditioning if that didn't work.

But after waking up this morning, she decided to go back to school in New York to rest for a few days.

In fact, last night Zhang Yang had been planning to book another room for her after seeing that the bedding had been changed to new ones, and she was the one who took the initiative to ask for it...but the more proactive she was last night, the more her legs were shaking today.

She knew that if she went to Miami with Zhang Yang to watch the game, she would definitely not be able to control herself and would take the initiative to attack. Although Zhang Yang was unexpectedly considerate, he could not resist her temptation, so she stayed away from him for the time being. Anyway, Zhang Yang would go to New York for an away game soon.

So, Zhang San woke up at noon and found that the little bitch had pulled up her pants and left again.

"The world is changing and people's hearts are no longer the same as they used to be..."

Zhang Yang sighed, got up, showered, packed his things, had lunch with his teammates, and then flew to Miami with the team.

Towards the evening, Wade called Felton and invited him to dinner.

The three of them discussed it and decided to go.

In the evening, the three of them got on the car sent by Wade and went to a manor on the seaside as agreed.

Wade warmly entertained Zhang Yang and his two Olympic teammates.

Wade and Zhang Yang were initially linked together because they both wore the No. 3 jersey. However, Wade, who was competing for the championship with O'Neal at the time, did not take Zhang Yang seriously. He began to notice Zhang Yang because of the competition for the All-Star starting position.

In the second year, Zhang Yang broke James' record, averaging 18+ points per game at the age of 20. Wade began to take the then youngest player in the league seriously. After Zhang Yang fought back and won the championship in the playoffs, Wade began to truly regard Zhang Yang as an opponent.

It was not until last season's All-Star Game that Wade's affection for Zhang Yang doubled after the two of them worked together. After they faced off in the Olympics, the two, who each won a game and were both scoring champions of their respective teams, developed a mutual admiration for each other.

Unlike some players who took the initiative to make friends with Zhang Yang, Wade didn't have any purpose. Zhang Yang just came to play away games, and there happened to be a party today, so he called Zhang Yang over, and also called Felton and Okafor.

Wearing the same number, winning the FMVP early on, and being the same scorer, Wade had no intention of hooking up with Zhang Yang to play in the South Coast. He just wanted to beat Zhang Yang on the court.

Led by Wade, after greeting everyone present, both known and unknown, the third young master found a place with few people to sit and have a drink.

The temperature was 17 degrees, it was open air, there were heaters, female models, and a pool party... When these elements were combined together, the third young player felt the style of the American South Coast, and also felt the differences between the players.

Felton: "Jack, Emeka, do you think we are living too poorly?"

Zhang Yang: "I like my lifestyle. It's okay to experience this kind of party occasionally, but if it's like this every day, I feel tired just thinking about it."

Okafor echoed: "It's not just tiring, it's degrading."

Felton: "But isn't the reason we make money to live a better life?"

Okafor shook his head: "We don't want to live the same life because we envy others, but we want to have money to decide how to live our own lives."

The two most educated master's students on the team said so, and Felton's heart, which had been agitated by the surrounding environment, gradually calmed down.

After the high feeling faded away, Felton also felt that this party was no big deal. Although his salary was not as high as Wade's, he could still hold such a party if he wanted.

But if he had the free time, he thought it would be better to practice step-back three-pointers. This season, the team relied more on his singles scoring. He actually had a hard time playing. He was not as free as Zhang Yang, and his strength was still not strong enough.

The three of them ate and drank, chatted with people they knew, and played cards for a while. At around 8 o'clock in the evening, the three of them said goodbye and left, without participating in the subsequent colorful programs.

Zhang Yang has always felt that Boss Qiao lives a life of extravagance and decadence, but compared with the guys from Banana Boat, Boss Qiao is a serious man who even dares to hire a photography company to record his party.

My brother Dong is a gangster who hangs out with gangsters all the time and has more fun than Wade. My classmate King is even more outrageous. He often holds parties where electronic devices are not allowed.

In comparison, Xiao Pao is an outlier among the Banana Boat members. She only likes the Kardashians with big butts...

...

The next day, on the 13th, the Bobcats came to the American Airlines Arena to challenge the Heat away.

So far, the Heat have played 23 games and have 11 wins and 12 losses.

Zhang Yang thinks Wade is very pitiful. This year is the first time that Wade has led a team alone... In the first three years of his career, he had teammates like Odom and O'Neal. He started to get injured in the fourth year. His injury worsened last season and was so serious that he needed to have his meniscus removed.

This year he finally led the team as the leader in good health, but one of his two highly anticipated teammates wilted and the other did not perform as expected.

That would be fine, Wade also happened to encounter a "joint promotion" between the Bucks and the Celtics!
With the help of these two teams, the Hawks rose, the Nets recovered, the Cavaliers topped the Eastern Conference, and the Celtics also played well after optimizing their lineup structure. In addition, the Magic, Bobcats, and Bulls...

With this record, the Heat would have been a solid Eastern Conference playoff team in the past two seasons, but now they can only compete with the 76ers, Pacers and Raptors for the eighth spot.

晚上7点比赛开打，经过2小时20分钟比赛后，以106比100险胜热火队。

The score difference was not big, but the Bobcats won the whole game relatively smoothly.

But the difficulty was only for Wade, who scored a game-high 41 points and 11 assists. In addition to Wade, only Marion scored in double digits for the Heat, scoring 13 points and 5 rebounds on 14 of 5 shots, while Beasley and Haslem, the third and fourth highest scorers, only scored 9 points each.

Wade led the team in launching offensives several times and played well, but as long as he was replaced or tired and needed to take a break, the Bobcats' three young players could lead the team to regain the advantage.

Moreover, the Heat couldn't defend the Bobcats' big three on offense tonight. Even when Wade went on a 40+10 run, they still held him back.

张杨今晚17投9中，其中三分球5中3，加上7中7的罚球，拿到28分3板8助攻2抢断2盖帽。

Okafor had 20 points and 11 rebounds, and Felton had 16 points and 6 assists.

Zhang Yang played happily in this game. When Wade defended Felton, he attacked. When Wade defended Felton, he passed the ball... The only thing that made him sad was that his 6-game streak of 30+ points was interrupted. His average points per game dropped from 30.3 points to 30.2 points, while Wade's average points per game increased from 30.6 points to 31 points...

After two consecutive away games, the Bobcats got two days of rest.

At noon on the 14th, the Bobcats returned to Charlotte. The players had the afternoon off, and the coaching staff, led by Carlisle, held a meeting to prepare for tomorrow's training.

During the meeting, Carlisle took the lead in complaining about the rest time during the season. When it is dry, there is too much rest time, and when it is wet, there is too much rest time. There were 10 games in the previous 6 days, but only two games in this wave of 8 days.

But the 'hard times' are over, and the 'good times' are coming. The Bobcats have plenty of time to correct the problems found in the previous adjustment period of 10 days and 6 games.

Over the past period of time, their system adjustments have been very effective.

There has not been much progress in tactical coordination. One of the reasons why Carlisle made the decision to make adjustments is that the progress of strengthening tactical coordination has reached a bottleneck period, and it needs to be slowly polished through training and competition. This cannot be rushed. It doesn't matter if it's a little slow, but it can't be "almost".

The progress is reflected in the players' game philosophy - the transition from 'taking advantage when I am on the field' to 'serving the ultimate victory'.

The process went more smoothly than Carlisle had expected.

He had done it with the Pistons and the Pacers. Things went relatively smoothly when he coached the Pistons, but not so smoothly when he coached the Pacers, which had many famous stars. He even had conflicts with the Pacers players at one point and their relationship became very strained. What's more important is that although he completed both adjustments smoothly and built a perfect system, his relationship with the players gradually drifted away.

This time Carlisle was well prepared and mentally prepared... Unexpectedly, in more than half a month, no, it should be earlier, after that wave of 10 games in 6 days, the players' game concepts had almost completed the transition.

All his preparations were in vain!

After analyzing it, he concluded that it was related to the professional experience of the players in the team.

The guys on the Pistons, Big Ben, Flounder, and Masked Man, are not good-tempered guys. They didn't have a good time in their early years, and after becoming core players, they all care about their own "pie in the sky". The situation on the Pacers is even more complicated.

The core players of the two teams were initially unwilling to be at a disadvantage when they were leading the team. Although they compromised later and felt the benefits after the compromise, they were still full of complaints about Kato who "forced" them.

The group of young players he is coaching now seem unruly, and most of them have strong personalities, but the core cohesion is very strong. They all gather around Zhang...Felton. Felton takes the lead in playing like that and is the first to make "sacrifices", so everyone naturally chooses to follow suit.

The reason why the duo is so different from the core players of those two teams is that they established themselves in the first year of entering the NBA, performed well, were recognized, and won the championship in the second year. They were successful, so they can be so free and easy in these "little things".

The same thing happened to the Pistons, too. In the two seasons after winning the championship, they actually played better than before the championship. It was just a pity that they encountered the peak Spurs, the Cheeks and the Shaqs, and then they were forced to disband the team due to salary issues...

This adjustment gave Carlisle a better understanding of Van Gundy's preference for veteran coaching style - players with experience, especially those with successful experience, will cause less trouble when used.

However, he will not learn the coaching style of Jeff Van Gundy, as that would reduce many possibilities.

After two days of rest, on December 12, the Bobcats faced the Jazz at home.

In the first quarter... the two teams' strategies clashed with each other. They were both focusing on defense and playing a war of attrition, resulting in an 18-18 score in the quarter.

Carlisle and Sloan both looked as if they had eaten something dirty. Neither of them wanted to see this situation.

Carlisle wants to play both offense and defense, not just defense.

After two years of failure in the playoffs, Sloan once again began to actively follow the trend this season and adjusted his pick-and-roll system... After coaching in the NBA for more than 20 years, he is still firmly among the top coaches. Although he does not have the ability of a fortune teller to lead the trend and usher in a new era, he has never fallen behind.

The Jazz's average points per game this season has increased to 104.4 points. Correspondingly, their defense has declined a bit, with the average points allowed per game reaching 99.6 points, which is a big change.

Adjustment is bound to be painful. The Jazz have played 23 games so far, with 13 wins and 10 losses, ranking eighth in the Western Conference, but they have received good reviews, and the media and experts are optimistic about their future.

The Lakers, Bobcats, Spurs and Mavericks are all increasing their offensive efforts, and the strong teams are moving in the same general direction.

Entering the intermission, both head coaches emphasized offense, but in the second quarter, the score was 15 to 16... At the end of the first half, the Bobcats trailed the Jazz by 33 point, 34 to 1, and entered the halftime break.

Katowice and Sloane: Destroy it!
But by the third quarter, Sloan was the only one who felt uncomfortable.

中投5中3，上篮1中1，接球三分2中1、追身三分2中1，张杨10投6中、其中三分球4中2，加上2中2的罚球，单节打满，拿到16分，率领山猫队在第三节拿到27分！
As for the Jazz, no one stood out in the third quarter and they only scored 16 points.

60 to 50, the Bobcats entered the final quarter with a 10-point advantage. Although Zhang Yang's scoring spurt in the first quarter faded in the final quarter, the Bobcats only scored 18 points in the final quarter. However, the Jazz, who fought back desperately, only scored 23 points in the final quarter.

29分8板2助攻2抢断，张杨率领山猫队以78比73力克爵士队！
After 3 consecutive wins, the Bobcats' record is 17 wins and 6 losses. The fans of the Bobcats are very excited. The Magic lost to the Lakers and Bulls the day before yesterday and today, and their record is 18 wins and 6 losses. They are only half a win away from the second place in the Eastern Conference!
What a coincidence! The next game for the Bobcats is against the Magic! The only pity for the Bobcats fans is that they will play against the Magic away from home on the 18th, and they will not be able to see their team avenge its last defeat...

(End of this chapter)