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Chapter 270 What to do when the losing streak comes

Chapter 270 What to do when the losing streak comes

One of the biggest advantages of young players is their vigor. They have plenty of energy and good physical fitness. Sometimes it is no problem to play four or 10 minutes in a game, but there is a premise for all of this, that is, they have to have fun.

Once their efforts do not get feedback for a long time, their original high emotions will soon fall quickly, and they will suddenly disappear everywhere on the court. It is difficult to find him on the offensive and defensive ends. The old players are different. Even if they are temporarily frustrated, they can quickly find their own position on the court and use other methods to help the team. This is not something that players will do suddenly. Experience, only a very small percentage of people will spend only a small amount of time or they just play the game and know what to do.

Bobcats record in the preseason is [-] win and [-] losses, creating the worst record in the history of the team. Although the team has only been established for three years, the record in this preseason is really bad. Although the preseason Can't really decide anything but it can feed back some problems, and it's clear from the preseason that the Bobcats have too many problems.

Facing a strong team, they couldn't get in on the offensive end, and basically all positions on the defensive end were blown up, especially their starting lineup, it was a disaster. The five players in their starting lineup were all except Gao Tian They have been educated severely. Zhan En is okay, at least he can respond on the offensive end, but the three rookies are not so good. In the preseason, almost everyone is targeting them, so we have to Not to mention that they played extremely badly, even Stotts couldn't stand it anymore.

If it weren't for Gao Tian's insistence on keeping the three rookies on the court all the time, then Stotts would have taken them off the starting lineup and replaced them with the substitute lineup. This really left Stotts with nothing to do, and there was even a voice within the team to replace him. If Gao Tian hadn't publicly expressed his support for him in the media, Stotts would probably become the first class in NBA history. The fastest head coach.

In fact, it is understandable to lose the game against some strong teams like the Magic, Cavaliers, and Celtics, but against the Sonics and Timberwolves who are downright weak, they simply lost the game and replaced them. Fans of every family are also frying pans. Whenever Stotts insists on playing singles, how can there be a coach who plays games like this?

Therefore, Stotts has always been under a lot of pressure. Fortunately, Gao Tian's attitude towards the head coach is very firm, and the Bobcats management dare not go against Gao Tian's opinion. They all spoke for this sloppy man, and they naturally didn't have any opinions. After all, everyone saw that Gao Tian hardly played in the preseason. Otherwise, the Bobcats wouldn't lose so badly. If Gao Tian fights seriously, then Shanmao may really lose all hope.

But is there any hope now?

In the final analysis, basketball is still a sport of five people. No matter how strong Gao Tian is, he can't carry the Bobcats on his shoulders every game to move forward!

So the Bobcats must have someone stand up, but after the preseason, look at the Bobcats lineup. Zhan En, who rushed to the basket with a reckless head, Sun Yue, who shot poorly and made many pass turnovers, and Yi, who can only shoot open shots. Jianlian, the little Gasol who can't do anything, and those two veterans who play every game for 10 minutes, how can such a Bobcat expect someone to stand up, the huge pit can't describe the current situation of the Bobcats, only Being able to use the tiankeng is in line with the evaluation of many expert coaches on the current Bobcats.

Looking at the dejected players in the locker room, he feels lucky now, because if there are too many rookies in a team, something will definitely go wrong. The most important point is morale. They always only write their emotions on their faces , Once you are unhappy, it may affect the morale of the entire team. This is why many teams like to put a veteran in the locker room. Even if you can't play, as long as you can control the atmosphere in the locker room, it is a victory.

And he is fortunate that not only Hill and Webber are two experienced veterans in the team, he is even more fortunate that these young players have become accustomed to setbacks and blows during the summer training and subsequent training games , if they are directly pulled over from three months ago, it is likely to collapse directly, and the players' confidence will be irreversibly damaged. They are used to playing like shit for six consecutive games.

In fact, if we put aside some outside voices and look at it fairly, they have actually reached the qualifying line for rookies. At least they dare to make moves on the court and dare to take the initiative to seek confrontation with their opponents. This is a very good signal. Many Rookies, even after their rookie season, can't take the initiative to challenge those seemingly fierce and invincible opponents.

And this is not a bad thing, at least everyone has lowered their expectations. If the start of the regular season is not smooth or even extremely poor, the pressure from public opinion will not suddenly be so great, so I can only comfort myself like this Stotts looked at Gao Tian, ​​who was high-fiving his teammates one by one to encourage them, and he pursed his lips. Anyway, they had Gao Tian, ​​and if they really lost badly, they would hand over the game to him.

Although he has lost so many games and is under so much pressure, Stotts still chooses to give these young players more opportunities, even in the regular season, even if he is likely to lose the game and he will Facing a lot of pressure, he must insist on giving these talented young people enough playing time, because what he sees in their eyes is not all frustration and loss, even if they play badly, they will not lose in their eyes. Confidence, they intend to persevere even if the hope is slim, they are willing to believe in themselves, so Stotts chose to believe in them!

If you don’t see it with your own eyes, no one would believe that a team can have such a good dressing room atmosphere when they have been experiencing failures and being ridiculed and satirized by public opinion. It seems difficult to understand, but that’s it, The Bobcats players are confident that a short-term failure will not defeat them at all. They are all men who have struggled in the quagmire of failure for several months. How can they talk about failure lightly?

"The regular season is about to start next week, how do we play?"

Stotts asked this serious and difficult question to the silent but silent locker room, whether to stick to the unfavorable preseason style of play or to decide to change the lineup and take out the team's real strength. Strength.

It was a difficult choice, and Stotts decided to listen to the players. He wanted to know how they felt about the starting lineup going forward.

Sun Yue, Yi Jianlian, and Gasol all looked at each other, and then they all said in unison: "We are substitutes!"

"Hahaha"

Stotts' hearty laughter echoed in the locker room. The three of them were stunned when they saw all the teammates smiling at them. Seeing the undisguised smile on Stotts' face, they seemed to understand something that had never happened before. Something I didn't think about.

Not being proud or discouraged is the real ideal state of a player. He is very fortunate that he has such excellent players. This is his greatest luck!

(End of this chapter)