basketball scientist

"I am very satisfied with the performance of the players. Winning the fifth game is indeed a big step forward for us on the road to promotion. But we should not be proud and complacent about this. The game is not over yet, everything It's still possible!" At the press conference after the game, Ke Yan suppressed his excitement and responded rationally.

Inspirational on the surface, in fact, Ke Yan's heart is already surging!

If G1 and G2 more or less enjoyed the tactical bonus, then after the Tianwangshan battle, Ke Yan believed for the first time that the team can really beat the Spurs and hit a higher level of honor!

It took a lot of energy to win this battle with Popovich through continuous fine-tuning, but the sense of accomplishment gained was also amazing.Ke Yan had a high opinion of himself in his heart, even if the team couldn't create a miracle, it would be an extraordinary honor to hit the final championship trophy in one go and knock down the championship in history!Even if others do not understand, at least it is an encouragement to himself.

And in the locker room of the team, the players including Odom, during the rest time of the next two days, honestly stayed at home to rest their overall strength, and there was no more messing around. A burning desire to beat the Spurs.

This may be the most centripetal preparation for the entire Lakers team this season!

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5月26日晚上09:30，湖人和马刺的G6在斯台普斯中心如期举行。

Facing the Spurs, the Lakers did not dare to relax at all, and adjusted their state to the best.In the last speech in the locker room, Ke Yan denied his "away dragon" attribute to the players, and repeatedly emphasized "don't bring the game to the seventh game"!

Ke Yan was impassionedly "pouring chicken soup" to the players, the door of the locker room was pushed open, and it was Hanbron who came in, his face was a little "panic".

"1, 2,3, [-], Herewego!" With Kobe at the center, everyone put their arms together and shouted loudly, and all the players walked out of the locker room.

Ke Yan came to Hanbron's side, only to hear the other party say: "Phil has also come to the scene."

"!!!" Ke Yan's pupils trembled, his face was filled with sullen anger, and then he cursed a little out of control, "This bastard!"

Although Ke Yan's departure from the team after the end of the season has not been announced to the outside world, but as a team insider + traveler, Ke Yan can conclude that Phil Jackson's return to the Lakers has been concluded, and even Jerry Buss has negotiated a contract with him. Just wait for yourself to give way!

There is no doubt that this is a great disrespect to Keyan!But Ke Yan has been enduring.

Kupchak ignored his trade proposals, the team's scouting reports on this year's draft were basically nothing but his hands, and the title of "acting head coach" was not taken off until the Western Conference semifinals. To illustrate one thing, no matter what results Ke Yan can lead the Lakers to achieve, he will not be the long-term answer to the position of the Lakers' head coach.

When he suggested to Wang Lifan that he might have a "long-distance relationship" next season, he had already decided to leave the team after the season. Elsewhere become an official head coach!

However, Jerry Buss didn't even give him such a decency, and even allowed Phil Jackson to come to the Staples Center in advance when the team's series was going well. What is this?Check out the players for next season in advance, or just come and demonstrate to yourself?

"boom!"

The broadcast shot was shown to Phil Jackson, and Zhang Lili, who claims to be a "Zen secret", joked cheerfully: "The Zen master also came to the scene today. He won more than one loss in the confrontation with Popovich, and he will definitely give Ke Yan Pass on some experience on how to deal with the Spurs!"

The camera was shown to Ke Yan whose hands were wrapped in gauze, uh, the eyes that wanted to kill people couldn't be hidden!

The Lakers, whose strength is obviously at a disadvantage, have won three wins and two losses in the past five conversations. In addition to some luck, there are at least four elements behind each victory: "The start of the trick works", "Kobe's open play ", "Ke Yan's god-like adjustment", "Stronger key ball ability"

Without any of these, the Lakers can't win!

In the G6 game, the appearance of Phil Jackson directly affected Ke Yan's mind. Without him on the sidelines, according to the real-time development of the game, the Spurs took advantage of the game at the beginning of the game, and went all out in the second quarter to close the gap. Pulled to 21 points.

Although the Lakers tried their best to adjust afterwards, the Spurs had completely gained the upper hand. Popovich used various means to wear down the Lakers' spirit, slowed down the Lakers' offensive edge, and helped the team beat the Lakers 113:97. The score was tied at 3:3.

In the history of the NBA, the two sides kept their home courts and reached the tie-break many times. It has never been seen that the two sides have blown up at the opponent's home court, let alone the two sides have blown up each other in three games.

A round of series that has never been done before and never since!

At the end of the game, Ke Yan directly refused to accept media interviews after the game. No matter how much the team press officer persuaded him, and even reminded him that he might face a fine from the league, he didn't care too much.

Isn't it just money?

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Maybe the appearance of Phil Jackson was not Jerry Buss' original intention. Even if he knew that the team would be greatly affected by this, and facing the Spurs, he would definitely come forward to stop Phil Jackson.

As everyone knows, this kind of "indifference in the bones" has really stimulated Keyan.Although there was no dispute, the delicate balance between the Lakers management and Keyan was broken because of the appearance of Phil Jackson, and the relationship between the two parties was completely broken!

Conspiracy theory is that screwing up the Lakers this season may be more in Phil Jackson's interest.A miracle-making Lakers team will definitely raise fans' expectations and put more pressure on Phil Jackson's coaching.Once the Lakers under Phil Jackson have ups and downs next season, fans will definitely miss Ke Yan.Just come up with a trick of "borrowing a knife to kill", Phil Jackson and Popovich, each takes what he needs!

"Hey, Roxanne." At night, Ke Yan called Xu Yi, who had interviewed him before, and asked her for help, "Please post a message for me, I will leave the Lakers after the season."

The release of this news is actually telling other teams that they can talk to Ke Yan about coaching.

Usually this kind of thing is done by the agent, but Ke Yan has not signed an agent, so he can only release the news through friends in the media.

This kind of exclusive revelation from myself is very newsworthy. Xu Yi, who just woke up not long ago, became energetic: "WOW~! This is no problem, do you have a team you want to go to?"

"I must have my own tendencies, but I'm still not sure which teams need me. Let's release the news that I'm leaving first~" Ke Yan wanted to say, "The management should not be too shameless, the city should be livable, Don’t go to places like Boston and Dallas where discrimination is serious”, etc., but these words are not easy to say clearly.

If only the Cavaliers invite him, even if Cleveland doesn't shit, he has to go, right?

"Okay, no problem!" Xu Yi readily agreed to a win-win situation, "Don't forget what you promised me, when you become the head coach, you must give me the first interview!"

"Of course! Wait until I return home in summer."

Xu Yi moved quickly, and the US time was still late at night. The news "Informed sources: Kimi is determined not to coach the Lakers next season" was on the homepage of ESPN's sports news section.

Roxanne Xu is not a very well-known media person.But her revelation is very credible.Because Ke Yan's only interview so far was done by her.Moreover, she is from China, so the probability of getting information from Ke Yan is much higher than that of other media people.

Other authoritative media have reproduced it one after another, and fans have exploded on the Internet. They don't know the long-term relationship between the Lakers and Ke Yan, but they also know the fact that the Lakers have never made Ke Yan a regular. The fans condemned on the Internet The management looks like a person and doesn't do anything about personnel. Such a good head coach can be forced to leave!

Some fans also scolded Ke Yan for "ignorance of the general situation", thinking that no matter what dissatisfaction there is, matters within the team should be resolved within the team.This kind of news broke out at this time, which greatly affected the morale of the team. This is a performance of disregarding the interests of the team!

There is some truth to what both sides said, but there is a cause and effect in everything, and we should pay attention to "the one who flirts first is cheap", and it can't always be that honest people deserve to suffer, right?

Talking about "sacrificing the small self to achieve the big self", then Keyan should quit his job in the United States now and return to China to be a teaching assistant for Yunus. This is called sublime!

Ke Yan is not that lofty, so one morning, he answered many calls, all of which invited him to be the head coach of the team.

The first person to call was Larry Sander, the general manager of the Eagles. As early as when Ke Yan was still an assistant coach, the Eagles had already followed Ke Yan. Team head coach.

After Ke Yan's last "attack" on the Lakers management in March, the Eagles contacted him again, hoping that he would take over the team next season.At that time, Ke Yan, even though he was already divorced, still respected the Lakers and directly rejected the opponent.

In this way, the Eagles are already "three visits to thatched cottage".

This time, Ke Yan did not explicitly refuse, and finally gave a positive response: "After I finished my last game with the Lakers, I will go to Atlanta to participate in the interview with the Eagles."

This is a very positive statement!

"You are the only coach we are interviewing!" Larry Sand excitedly said, as happy as "the goddess has been licked by a hanging silk".

The Orlando Magic, Portland Trail Blazers, and Milwaukee Bucks also received positive comments from "Goddess Ke".The Los Angeles Clippers and Cleveland Cavaliers were declined by Ke Yan for various reasons.

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At the press conference before the start of G7, the media naturally asked Ke Yan about his future.

"I hope this is not my last game with the Lakers!" Ke Yan's reply was tantamount to acquiescence.

"The team has a clear plan for the future. As a former member of the Lakers, I hope the Lakers can reproduce the dynasty under the leadership of the new head coach." Ke Yan's reply almost pointed out that the team's next head coach is Filipino. Jackson, the two sides have already contacted in advance.

"Will the off-court news affect the team? Of course not. Whether it is me, the coaching team around me, or my players, our goal is to win, and this will not change." Others I don't know whether the goal is to win or to destroy.

Everyone knows that Ke Yan is not an easy guy to deal with.During the game or training, Kobe only wanted to go up, how many times did Ke Yan shake his face; in the first round of the playoffs, he dared to ignore Kupchak's proposal of "making big things small and small things small" and forced the DNP team's second leader Two games with the main center.

But off the court, he is still polite to the team's management, and his personality is very "soft", which makes the management think that he is weak and tolerant like most Chinese Americans.

Facts have proved that Ke Yan is still "forbearing", but he is definitely not weak.If he wants to be ruthless, he will be very "barbaric", and he will point at the Lakers management's nose and scold between the lines.

Back to the locker room, the final preparations before the game, and then, the players debut!

In the G6 game, the main reason for the Lakers' loss was that Ke Yan was affected by Phil Jackson's "watching" and was restless and unable to make correct adjustments. As a result, he lost the game. Ke Yan has a considerable part of the responsibility.In this game, Ke Yan, without the "seal" of Phil Jackson, rejoined the game.

As soon as the game started, he frequently came to the sidelines to direct his players loudly, and he did not hesitate to get technical fouls, but he would also be suspicious and interfere with the performance of the Spurs players.

His operation really messed up the Spurs players, but for the Lakers, Kobe Bryant performed well in the first quarter of the game. He was not eager to attack. He made 6 of 4 shots in the first quarter, scored 8 points, sent 3 assists, and At the last moment, he assisted Finley to make a three-pointer and led the Lakers to lead by 10 points to end the first quarter (24:34).

In the second quarter of the game, the situation changed suddenly. Popovich let Ginobili and Parker, two breakthrough masters, lead the bench together, suppressing the Lakers' rotation players.Ke Yan targeted a small lineup, but still failed to prevent the Spurs from counterattacking.Ginobili switched to the "Argentine Jordan" mode and completed a series of fives on the offensive end, which made the Spurs fans at home rejoice.

Bryant re-appeared after only 4 minutes of rest, feeling terrible, attacking the iron for five consecutive rounds, and watched the Spurs lead the score in the second quarter. (58:50).

At the beginning of the second half, the "GDP combination" showed its power and played a wave of 14 to 3, continuing to widen the point difference.

Seeing that the point difference was about to reach 20 points, Kobe suddenly woke up, and directly opened Wushuanghang in the second half of the third quarter, hitting all 8 shots, including 3 three-pointers.The Lakers also narrowed the point difference to 21 points with a wave of 6:4 attacks, and the suspense was kept until the fourth quarter. (78:74)

At the beginning of the fourth quarter, Parker suddenly broke out again.Pick-and-roll breakthroughs in positional battles, one-on-one breakthroughs when counterattacking, scoring consecutively and attracting defensive assists Barry made a three-pointer.The Spurs broke through the Lakers' defense and played a wave of 13 to 2 to open the score again. (91:76)

The point difference came to 15 points, and the Lakers' life was hanging by a thread. Ke Yan changed the lineup directly, and once again replaced the "Delfino, Finley, Kobe, Butler, Odom" swingman formation, and Odom held the ball at the top of the arc , the other four pick and roll without the ball, interspersed with running positions.

The defensive end of the swing formation is very mobile, and the offensive players are very determined to shoot. For the shooter, the thinking is firm, and the shooting touch comes. The Lakers began to erode the lead of the Spurs.

At the critical moment, Duncan took up the banner of the Spurs' offense again, and succeeded in consecutive singles in the low post, suppressing the Lakers' counterattack!

Kobe wanted to rely on his own efforts to stabilize the situation, but his luck was not good. First, he broke into the basket and was interfered by Duncan for a forced layup.

This block finally sounded the death knell of the Lakers season!The final score was fixed at 108:99, and the Lakers narrowly lost to the Spurs by 9 points!

The Spurs made it through, and the Western Conference Finals will challenge the Suns, the regular season champions who defeated the Mavericks 4:2.

Ke Yan stood on the sidelines, standing very straight, with a relieved smile on his face, and all the fans at the scene applauded him.

Leading the underrated Lakers to push the league's strongest Spurs into desperation, Ke Yan's strength is beyond doubt.

If the two sides have considerable resources (lineup), if there is no Phil Qinhui Jackson to make Ke Yan's mentality, if Ke Yan has a few more years of experience and a calmer mentality, the result may not be certain?

Ke Yan hugged the players one by one, thanking them for their dedication throughout the season.

What he didn't know was that the live TV cameras were constantly switching around him, capturing his expressions and movements. His slightly tragic image of a lone brave man immediately appeared in front of countless fans all over the world.

After Popovich encouraged his players, he also walked up.

"Congratulations!" Ke Yan said with a bitter smile.

"Thank you!" Popovich shook hands with Ke Yan with both hands. He used this gesture to express his respect for this opponent.

"I can learn a lot playing against you, honestly," Popovich said. "See you next season!"

"See you in the next chapter!"

(PS: Up to now, the content of the first volume of "Basketball Scientist" is over. In the evening, I will post a "Remarks on the End of Sub-Volumes" (free chapters) to talk about the settings, ideas, adjustments, and Sorry. If you have any doubts, you can also leave a message in the comment area, and I will answer it in the testimonial if I can see it)