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"Details of the first Chinese coach in the NBA", after the Lakers' media open day, Ke Yan first made a brief wave of presence on the American fan forum. Many of his comments were noticed by Chinese basketball people, including "

Su Junyang of "Basketball Pioneer" published an article about Ke Yan in the second weekly issue in September, "introducing" some information about Ke Yan in detail, and showing a large number of Ke Yan's media reports about the Lakers.

A photo taken during a visit on the same day. At the same time, he called on more domestic coaches to go out, learn advanced foreign basketball concepts, and learn from the foreigners to learn from them and use their skills to defeat the foreigners.

However, in this report, Su Junyang had a principled issue, that is, the principle of truth and pragmatism in media reports. In the article, Su Junyang said that Ke Yan is a member of Yao's team and is responsible for helping Yao Ming do tactical translation

To put it simply, he is doing work for Yao Ming. In fact, Ke Yan only became the assistant coach of the team after passing the interview of the Rockets. It cannot be said that he has nothing to do with Yao Ming, but it is not like Su Junyang in the article.

As mentioned in. There is an essential difference between the two.

Previously, whether in the Rockets or the Suns, Ke Yan's ranking among the coaching staff was not high. Even if he appeared next to Yao Ming from time to time in the Rockets, he was easily misunderstood. At this time, with the Lakers, he is nominally the third

Assistant coach, but on the media open day, he can be said to be in the limelight. He shined in the team training matches. His card has obviously improved a lot.

The first Chinese assistant coach is only 25 years old. Most players are still receiving rookie contracts at this age!

Because of Yao Ming's relationship, more and more people in China are paying attention to the NBA. Fans are looking forward to more Chinese people entering the NBA, including Yao Ming himself. He also personally appointed Yi Jianlian to be a player who will enter the NBA after him, but it didn't work out.

I think Yi Jianlian is still waiting for the right opportunity to participate in the draft, but Ke Yan is the first to show up, still as a coach.

Su Junyang's article attracted widespread attention from domestic basketball fans. Immediately, editors from other websites followed suit, searching for information about Ke Yan and publishing similar reports. For a time, Ke Yan became a celebrity in the domestic basketball world.

Popular figures.

However, what everyone searched everywhere turned out to be some untrue news, and there was a situation of "false rumors". One media deduced part of Ke Yan's experience based on the news of another media, and another media based on the jokes of this media.

Continuing with the processing, I created a Ke Yan that everyone imagined.

Xu Yi, the editor of ESPN China, was also keenly aware of this hot topic and felt that this project could be developed and discussed. He immediately applied to the management and went to the United States to conduct an interview with Ke Yan.

"Although I am just an assistant coach, it is really not easy for a Chinese face to appear on the NBA stage. Many reports surrounding Ke Yan are taken from the Internet. I feel that a lot of the information has not been confirmed by me.

Completing an exclusive interview in person can confirm many things, and through this hot news, we can further enhance our credibility!" When faced with his superiors questioning the necessity of "interviewing a teaching assistant," Xu Yi argued very strongly.

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Due to Yao Ming's relationship, the NBA's influence in China is increasing day by day, and news about the NBA has a high click-through rate. Xu Yi's argument finally received support from the top management, and then applied to the US headquarters...<

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"Seattle SuperSonics, Key Arena."

"NBA04-05 season, first game of preseason."

"Lakers vs. SuperSonics!"

As the voice of the on-site commentary fell, the fans in the Key Arena erupted into a tsunami-like wave.

Although this is only a preseason game, after all, it is the first game after several months of NBA hiatus, and the entire Key Arena, which can accommodate 19,476 people, is almost full.

Objectively speaking, the SuperSonics' performance in the past few years is really disappointing for the fans' support. After Payton left, the SuperSonics' reconstruction road is still going on hard and slowly. The team originally planned to use Ray Allen.

To reorganize the core. Sonics manager Sander, who wanted to renew Allen's contract, received a quote of 100 million for five years. This price far exceeded the expectations of the Sonics, and also brought the issue of contract renewal into question.

deadlock.

This season, the team's main point guard Brent Barry left for the Spurs. You must know that last season, Barry was the Sonics' assist leader and steal leader, and also had the highest three-point shooting percentage.

This is a big blow to the "weak" SuperSonics. The team can be said to have gained nothing in the summer transfer market. Except for the exchange of center Booth for the Mavericks' abandoned player Fordson, there was no transaction worthy of attention.

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However, for Ke Yan, he did not dare to underestimate the Sonics team at all. He still remembers that this year, the Sonics became the super dark horse in the league, with Ray Allen, Lewis, Radmanovic

, Daniels, Ridnour and others formed the "Unparalleled Arrow Formation", which was the first team in the league to use outside shooting as its main offensive method before the Warriors. One after another, the blood-spraying three-pointers were dizzying.

The team has also been ranked third in the Western Conference for a long time, and successfully broke through the strong enemy Kings in the first round of the playoffs and reached the Western Conference semifinals.

The reason for the final loss to the Spurs was also very frustrating. In this series, the Spurs killed Ray Allen and Lewis before passing with a big score of 4:2.

Leading this group of players who had been underestimated before to play a legendary season, McMillan, a legend in the history of the Sonics and the team's head coach, definitely deserves credit. He can be regarded as a "poor man's version" of Jerry Sloan, "

"Slow", "stubborn", "suppresses genius", emphasizes defense, fights for rebounds, likes a slow offensive pace, likes positional battles with tactics, and likes to call timeouts. And he can lead the SuperSonics to take off this season. Let's take a look at the specific reasons why the SuperSonics take off.

The Sonics players are well aware of their contracts. Ray Allen, Daniels, Jerome James, Radmanovic, and Ridnour have all entered the contract year. The combat effectiveness of NBA contract year players,

I understand everything!

The Lakers' lineup is basically the same as the main lineup of the previous training games. Anderson, who clearly suppressed Mimu in the training games, is still sitting on the bench. Tomjanovich also has his own considerations in this arrangement. After all, it is a game.

In training games, it is somewhat unnecessary to rush to adjust the lineup rotation that the team has planned before the season. It is still in the pre-season stage. We can continue to examine the performance of the players. With more sufficient game samples, we can make adjustments at that time.

The lineup is also more convincing.

The SuperSonics also fielded a planned lineup for the new season, including Ridnour, Ray Allen, Lewis, Radmanovic, and Jerome James.

The Lakers are eager to stabilize the fans' confidence after the drastic changes in the summer, and the SuperSonics are, after all, the team's first home show in the new season, and the Key Arena, which has always been a bad market, is rarely full. If they don't perform well,

, the boss didn’t even agree!

Jump ball from the center line. Jerome James won the jump ball and handed the ball to Ridnour, who dribbled the ball across half court. Ray Allen used the screen to come out to catch the ball. Kobe went around the screen to pursue the defense and completed the pick-and-roll.

Radmanovic ran down to the bottom corner. After receiving the ball, Ray Allen directly distributed the ball, creating an open shot opportunity for Radmanovic who got rid of Grant's defense. The latter raised his hand and hit a three-pointer.

Score!

For the Sonics, this is a very smooth outside cooperation. For the Lakers, the tacit understanding between Kobe and Grant on the defensive end obviously needs to be strengthened!