Chapter 924: First win reward

After arriving in Phoenix on the 25th, the new Kings team received a lot of media attention.
In the afternoon, the team conducted public training, allowing reporters to conduct interviews and filming.
For Cousins ​​and other former kings and veterans, this month they deeply felt the gap in attention.
Before this season, the reports and analysis of the King were more of a routine.
The attention of the major media is more focused on Cousins' technical fouls and hot temper on the court.
As for the rest of the team, the fans are not particularly concerned.
By this season, open the NBA-related websites, magazines and newspapers to see the predictions, pre-match analysis, and player inventory related to the Kings, almost everywhere.
This is still in the United States, especially if it is in China, the home base of Li Liang fans.
Because Li Liang decided to stay with the King for a long time, the domestic influence of some of the King's players soared.
For example, Cousins ​​has begun to receive advertising endorsement invitations from domestic companies. It is said that it is a refreshing product of a health care product company.
For example, Gordon began to have domestic sneaker companies asking him to endorse sneaker products, including Gay.
Just as Yao Ming was familiar with a group of people who were not well-known in the NBA in the Rockets back then, there are more than one or two people with Li Liang's championship halo.
Slowly, the Kings players also began to get used to this basketball routine that was watched more closely.
After the public training ended on the 25th, on the 26th, the Kings finally ushered in the opener of the new season.
This game was eligible to be broadcast nationwide.
The Suns continue to be underestimated this season, and the goal has been set before the start of the season is to play bad.
With such an opponent as a hot hand at the beginning of the season, it shouldn't be better.
Before the start of the game, esn conducted an interview with Li Liang as a coach.
In the interview, Li Liang talked about some of his feelings and changes in thinking after becoming a coach.
"I think the best thing about being a coach, I can finally control my playing time."
Li Liang joked that now he really wants to go up and take a break when he wants to. If he wants to play a point guard, he will arrange a point guard for himself. If he wants to play a center forward, he will let Cousins ​​sit down and sit down.
As a ball tyrant, he can completely top the position of the coach. This should be the pinnacle of the ball tyrant.
If you want to go further, you have to buy the team and decide on the introduction and layoff of players like Cuban.
That will be the ultimate form of the ball tyrant.
"If there is anything wrong, I think my training time has become shorter and I have to spend a lot of time dealing with the team's affairs. Therefore, my personal ability improvement is limited this summer, in fact, I still have a lot of potential. Dig and talk about it later."
When talking about the bad side, Li Liang said that he still has room for improvement.
Indeed, apart from the dribble task this summer, Li Liang has no time to do any other tasks.
Gan Guoyang was stuck in the first battle of his high school career, and now he has no time to advance.
Li Liang did not have time to continue polishing some technical details.
But he keeps these in mind, once the Kings are on the right track, he can spend more time on himself.
For Li Liang, the first game of the new season is the first exam of his coaching career.
The previous preseason games were just quizzes, not counting, the regular season is the right track.
It was the Suns coach, El Watson, who gave him the test.
Watson became the interim head coach of the Suns in the middle of last season, in February of 2016.
Watson is only 36 years old this year. Before Li Liang became the head coach, he was the youngest head coach in the NBA.
Of course, Li Liang pushed down this youngest record by 10 years, and it is expected that no one will break this record in the future.
As an interim head coach, Watson faced the sun's mess.
After Nash's departure, the Suns fell into a strange circle of posing badly, winning high positions, and then going badly.
The last person who wandered in the strange circle was not someone else, but the king.
Fortunately, the king was favored and the reconstruction was completed when he got a superstar.
And the sun does not know when it will rise.
Facing the Kings, whose overall strength is stronger than his own, Watson really has no good way.
In a young team, it is not a good thing that the head coach is too young.
This will make young players lack the awe of the coach's authority, of course, except for a ball player like Li Liang.
Watson was a conscientious point guard as a player. He has a 13-year career, which shows that he has good work ability.
But he has never played for a strong team, never won a championship, and never played a tough game in the playoffs.
In general, he is better than most ordinary NBA players, but there is a gap between them and the real strength.
And in terms of appearance, Watson is really a bit ridiculous, lacking the aura that a good coach should have.
Like Phil Jackson, he didn't play well when he was a player, but he was tall and handsome.
There are also Riley, Carlisle, etc., who were not very good players, but they had a good face.
Although NBA does not rely on face to eat, but for coaches, having a majestic appearance will make your job a lot easier.
Think about it, if someone like Kassel is the head coach, when he is telling you about tactics, you stare at his face and want to laugh or vomit?
What's the command?
Appearance is a disadvantage for Watson.
For how to deal with the Kings in this game, to be honest, Watson really has no good ideas.
Change to a more comfortable position and lie flat so that the dead can look better.
Of course, you can also hope that the Kings have just taken shape and are unable to play.
That way, with the strength of the home court, the Suns have a chance to win.
At 7:30 in the evening, at the Talking Stick Resort Arena in Phoenix, the opener of the regular season between the two sides began.
Before that, this arena had been called the American Airlines Center.
There are three arenas named by American Airlines in the league, Phoenix, Dallas and Miami.
All three are famous tourist cities.
But this year, the title dealer of the Phoenix arena changed and became a resort hotel.
This name is really not good enough, because the Suns are too weak, and other teams are like coming to vacation.
Before the start of the game, the television footage was given to the coaches of both sides.
On the Suns coaching bench, Watson stood on the sidelines, looking quite nervous.
On the King’s coaching bench, Brown, Tylen Lue and D'Antoni huddled together and sat there, and then a seat was vacated next to Mike Brown for Li Liang.
At this time, their head coach is on the court, ready to start the game.
Li Liang is a little nervous, and his identity as a head coach puts him under a lot of pressure.
But when the game really started, the pressure disappeared without a trace.
Because the strength of the opponent Sun is indeed too bad.
Moreover, the effect of the Kings’
swarm defense
is surprisingly good.
The Suns' ball-handler discovered after playing for half a quarter that there are almost always two people in front of him.
This makes the young Suns players hesitate when dealing with the ball.
Once hesitated, mistakes began to increase.
In the first quarter, the Sun made 9 mistakes.
The Kings constantly used the Suns' mistakes to fight back.
In the first quarter, the Kings established a 35:20, 15-point lead.
The Suns were beaten up a bit.
The outstanding performance in the first quarter undoubtedly boosted the morale of the Kings team.
On the offensive end, the Kings played succinctly and quickly, constantly using the Suns' mistakes and backcourt rebounds to counterattack, while in a positional battle, using 14 positions for pass penetration.
The King’s positional offense was not smooth and tacit enough.
But Rondo and Li Liang's countermeasures made up for these problems to a large extent.
In the first half, Cousins ​​was Li Liang and Rondo. He scored 7 of 9 shots from the basket and scored 25 points in the half!
Cousins ​​has very few low post strong hits, almost all kinds of cakes, and straight down the basket after the pick and roll.
It's called a comfortable one.
If it weren't for the King's poor three-pointers from the outside in the first half, the lead would be even greater.
At halftime, the Kings 67:50, leading the Suns by 17 points.
With 15 turnovers in the Suns halftime, the Kings are really stinging.
With such a performance, Li Liang was quite happy.
The feeling of being a player and being a coach is different.
Being a coach is like an old father. I am really happy to see my teammates perform well.
Especially seeing mentally handicapped children like Cousins, UU reading www.uukanshu.com can play so well, Li Liang is still very happy.
After all, the Suns center Tyson Chandler is not a complete rookie, so bully.
By the second half, the completely relaxed Kings faced the Suns without fighting spirit, and the game lost suspense.
The Kings easily defeated the Suns with a huge advantage of 120:91 and 29 points in the away game and made a good start to the season.
At the end of the game, subtitles appeared in front of Li Liang’s eyes
Congratulations on your first victory in your coaching career and get a "Handful Rune". Please enter the system to view it.
It is not surprising that Li Liang has a reward. From the moment he signed the head coach contract, there was a "coaching achievement system" in the system. I don't know what is the difference with the previous achievement system.
But why is the reward the same as before, or "hand rune"?
Is there still room for improvement in my hand feel?