Just as Lu Yu was about to run upcourt, Artest subconsciously passed the ball to him.
Floyd shouted on the sidelines: "Lu, you are a shooting guard now, don't control the ball, remember that shooting as a shooting guard is your first choice!"
"oh."
Lu Yu quickly handed the ball to Drew. As Silly Tai ran past Lu Yu, he secretly made a face to him: "I'm sorry for causing you to get scolded."
"It's nothing, I just forgot about it." Lu Yu smiled back.
Floyd then sat down. He hoped that his players would listen to his arrangements. Since he asked Drew to play point guard, all the players must obey the orders. Even if Lu Yu's organizational level is much higher than Drew,
He doesn't want the team to fight for the ball on the court after Krause trades for a capable point guard in the future.
Let Lu Yu play shooting guard and he will play shooting guard honestly. If Lu Yu also chooses to control the rhythm of the game when he gets the ball, it will easily delay the opportunity.
Lu Yu helplessly watched Drew rushing back and forth, unable to break through Nash's defense. He thought: "Nash's defense is bad enough. If it were me, I would just change direction and go in."
Just as he was thinking that Drew could only pass the ball to Lu Yu after seeing that he had repeatedly failed, Lu Yu took two steps past Howard Isley who was guarding him after receiving the ball. This is also because Isley was nervous. Seeing Lu Yu
He took the ball and hit it directly. I didn't expect Lu Yu to be so fast.
Finley wanted to cut off Lu Yu's ball from one side. He saw it accurately and thought there would be no problem in cutting off the ball, but he soon discovered that he was wrong.
Cut out.
Lu Yu's hand, which was originally hidden in his right hand, was transferred to his left hand, and he rushed past Finley's defensive line in two strides.
"It's so easy to think, but you still have to ask me if I agree!"
Nowitzki was ready to jump at any time to block Lu Yu's layup.
Lu Yu saw him preparing to block the shot, and a smile appeared on his lips: "If you want to block me, then try it!"
He didn't make any fake moves, he jumped up and shot a layup in the air, but when he went up, his left hand added a little spin under the basketball.
Nowitzki also jumped up, and found that his hand was just a little bit away from the basketball, but it was obvious that Lu Yu's layup was in the wrong direction, and the basketball could not hit the board and hit the frame.
Is it an air pick-up?
He looked back at Oakley. Oakley didn't have such a good bounce. You must know that Lu Yu's ball hit the board very high, and he might not be able to catch it himself!
At this time, he suddenly heard the cheers of the fans in the audience, and his heart suddenly went cold.
Looking up at the basketball, I discovered that the rotated basketball, after rubbing against the backboard, changed its trajectory at a weird angle and fell directly toward the basket.
The fans in the audience had never seen such a cool layup before, and they couldn't stop applauding and screaming.
If Lu Yu was in the national team, which team would dare to underestimate the back line of the Chinese men's basketball team!
Nowitzki was also stunned. This ball...don't they usually do layups like this when they have nothing to do under the basket? Who dares to use it like this in a game?
But Lu Yu dared to do so.
It’s still progressing!
…
Freud was satisfied.
The reason why he chose to give Drew the ball in the China game was not only to confuse his opponents, but also to make Lu Yu perform well.
After all, only scoring can excite fans the most.
Lu Yu performed well and did not disappoint him.
There is also Tyson Chandler, who can also use this time to practice. When Lu Yu plays shooting guard and does not give him an alley-oop opportunity, he can adapt to the rhythm of the game.
As a result, Tyson Chandler was fooled by Wang Zhizhi's footsteps as soon as he switched offense. After Wang Zhizhi caught the ball, he stepped under the basket. Chandler flew directly up, trying to block Wang Zhizhi, but he didn't expect that Wang Zhizhi was just faking it.
The action is to turn around and put the ball into the basket with a hook.
The fans in the audience immediately burst into applause.
Lu Yu had to admit that Wang Zhizhi might not be able to do anything against a player like Brad Miller who couldn't jump, but facing a guy like Chandler who can't jump, there were so many methods.
Don Nelson's eyes suddenly lit up: "Yes, it seems that what I just said has made Wang change his playing style."
Yes, the credit is his.
Chandler looked downcast and looked at Lu Yu eagerly.
Lu Yu shrugged: "I can't help it. I'm not a point guard. I can't help you get revenge."
Even if you can help, you can't help him fight Wang Zhizhi.
This game may be Wang Zhizhi's best chance to gain a firm foothold.
…
Lu Yu turned around and accelerated one step past Isley, but Finley defended him very well. Lu Yu had no chance to take a direct shot and could only throw the ball to Artest, who was already in the open space.
Artest didn't waste the opportunity and hit a three-pointer.
Chandler looked at Lu Yu with even more resentment.
…
Catching the ball, breaking through, rushing inside, scoring or passing the ball, Lu Yu's offensive routine is basically like this. He plays very happily, and his teammates are also very excited.
Only Floyd on the sidelines and Chandler on the court were left sighing.
Chandler sighed because Lu Yu's pass was not his fault, and Floyd sighed because: "What is Lu Yu doing? Does he know that he is playing a shooting guard now?"
He looked at Bryce Drew funny, always asking for the ball from him, but when he got on the court, he couldn't control the rhythm of the game at all, and even received an assist from Lu Yu for a layup.
"Lu Yu's behavior has left Drew with nothing to do."
Cartwright said with a smile: "But Drew is indeed much weaker than Lu Yu."
Drew's ability as a point guard is average, he has no threat in passing, and his scoring ability is too low. If the Bulls didn't have anyone last season, they wouldn't have let him start.
But Lu Yu's performance caused Floyd to fall into silence.
He quickly replaced Lu Yu and Artest after the start of the second quarter. Artest was still chattering when he walked off the court.
"The ball you passed just now was a little high. If it had been a little lower, I can guarantee that I would have missed the three-pointer."
"..."
Lu Yu didn't say anything. Before Drew came up, he guessed what coach Floyd meant - because Cartwright called him.
He showed with his actions that even if he plays shooting guard, he still has to control the ball.
Cartwright supports this.
Because in his eyes, core players are core players. If the core players don't have the ball, it's nothing!
If a team determines that Lu Yu is the core, it must build the team around Lu Yu instead of using Lu Yu as a team puzzle. Even the largest piece of the puzzle is not enough to complete the broken picture.
.
In Freud's eyes, Lu Yu was the biggest piece of the puzzle.
He can arrange Lu Yu to play any position as long as he wants. Now the team needs Lu Yu to play point guard to ensure the team's performance. When a qualified point guard is traded in the future, Lu Yu will be asked to play shooting guard to ensure the team's performance.
upper limit.
Lu Yu wants to serve this team, and he is the general who directs these players to fight on the court.
But Cartwright doesn't think so. He believes that even if the team recruits point guards in the future, they will only serve Lu Yu. As long as Lu Yu is here, this team must be Lu Yu's team.
What is right and what is wrong cannot be generalized.
For Lu Yu, of course he likes Cartwright's argument because this approach is most beneficial to him.
But there are many teams in the league who want to build a team like Floyd, such as...the San Antonio Spurs.
Of course, Lu Yu knew better that if he wanted to build a team like the Spurs, there was a prerequisite, but Floyd couldn't do it.
Because, Floyd is not Popovich!
This game was Lu Yu's first appearance in front of Chinese fans, and Floyd couldn't say much, not to mention that he led the Bulls to a big lead during this period.
He first nodded to Lu Yu, and then couldn't help but said: "Lu, when you play shooting guard, you need to strengthen your offense."
The game was very dull and mostly of a performance nature. Wang Zhizhi actually got two full quarters of playing time in this game. In the two quarters, he scored 13 points and 6 rebounds.
Anyway, the audience was very satisfied with it.
Nelson is also very satisfied with Wang Zhizhi's performance. He seems to have figured out some ways to use Wang Zhizhi.
Lu Yu appeared as a point guard again in the second half of the third quarter. At this time, Floyd no longer had to remind Lu Yu not to steal the ball, because he was now a point guard and the ball was his.
distribute.
Lu Yu played more smoothly than in the first half, and Chandler also got an alley-oop opportunity after Wang Zhizhi came off the field.
He felt like he fell in love with Lu Yu again.
At the end of the third quarter, 76:69, the Bulls led by seven points.
Drew only relied on Lu Yu's passing to score four points, and the rest of the statistics were all zero.
In the fourth quarter, Lu Yu played as a shooting guard again. Floyd could not break his promise to Drew... The game ended quickly, and the Bulls won the game 98:86.
Lu Yu scored 29 points and 13 assists in the game. Head coach Floyd was basically satisfied with his performance, except that as a shooting guard, Lu Yu couldn't recognize his position, which gave him a headache.
Brad Miller didn't have any dissatisfaction because Lu Yu's statistics were better than his, because he could see that the reason why Lu Yu scored so many points was entirely because he was forced by the coach.
However, Lu Yu was not satisfied at all. After the game, he found that the progress bar of the breathing method had not moved much.
Sure enough, it was an exhibition match. Even if there was a smell of gunpowder, it was still a collision between insiders.
I’m so envious of their insiders!
Lu Yu thought that if he could grow taller, he would go inside and stir things up so that he could improve his breathing skills.
After the game, the media interviewed Lu Yu and Wang Zhizhi. Although the Mavericks lost the game, Wang Zhizhi performed well, letting everyone know that Wang Zhizhi has been able to gain a foothold in the NBA.
However, even Wang Zhizhi told the media: "In terms of strength, Lu Yu has already surpassed our group of domestic players by a level."
Only then did many Chinese media realize that Lu Yu's strength might really be beyond everyone's imagination.
The second overall pick and the first Asian guard to land in the NBA.
He is still the starting player of the Bulls, and he is the best performer among the Bulls' starting players.
So, the media have already thought about what tomorrow's headline will be.
"Asia's No. 1 Defender!"
Well, it’s called Yayiwei.
Lu Yu wouldn't like this title anyway, because in his memory, the person who got this title, in addition to the title of Yiwei, also had an embarrassing nickname... Yifen.
At night, Cartwright knocked on the door of Lu Yu's room and showed a worried expression after seeing that Artest and Chandler were not there.
"You, I'm telling you so that you don't go against Floyd's intention. Floyd asked you to play shooting guard, why do you still pass the ball..."
"Believe me, if you get through this time, it won't be the same next time. If it's still the same in the next game, you must attack with all your strength to satisfy Floyd. He has a strong desire for control. If you don't want to be routine,
If the game is frozen before it even starts."
"Okay, no problem."
Lu Yu sighed secretly, not knowing when he would be able to get Floyd away...
