NBA: The God of Basketball Begins with Precise Scoring

Chapter 37 How to limit Mitchell? Li Xingchen volunteers!

Finally, after the settlement of the mission rewards, Li Xingchen's total "score control elements" were summarized as follows.

Current scoring element:

1. A single game will inevitably score sixteen points.

2. The field goal percentage in a single game must be no less than 45%.

3. The three-point shooting percentage in a single game must be no less than 35%.

4. The free throw percentage in a single game must be no less than 80%.

5. A player is guaranteed to get two blocks in a single game.

(Additional effect: When guarding an opposing defender, the opponent's shooting percentage will inevitably be 3% lower than your season average shooting percentage.)

Looking at this basket of incredibly powerful "score-controlling elements," Li Xingchen felt a sense of relief.

All the hard work this week finally paid off.

At the same time, he also noticed a very interesting key point.

"Why are all these score control elements emphasized as being for a single game?"

"Could it be that in the future, there will be an ability to control the average points per game, or even the total points for the season?"

Li Xingchen smiled and shook his head. These abilities were already powerful enough; he shouldn't think about anything else for the time being.

At the same time, he also looked at the next task that the system had just updated.

"Reward settlement complete."

"A new mission is now available: Win a series with your team in the NBA playoffs to unlock or upgrade more point-handling elements!"

Oh wow, this time it's not a training mission, but a competition mission.

Is the system designed to alternate between training tasks and competition tasks?

Moreover, when the last competition task was completed, the system directly allowed him to choose the reward, without mentioning any distinction between "active" and "passive".

Li Xingchen guessed that only training missions would have so-called "passive" rewards, since those rewards could also be understood as the results of training.

The only task in the competition is probably the optional reward where you choose one of three options.

Li Xingchen himself couldn't say whether the competition mission or the training mission was better.

The competition is a highly unpredictable event, and it may also depend on the performance of teammates and opponents.

More importantly, if we fail, how long will it take to get the next chance?

Like now, we need to win the next playoff series.

If we lose this round, won't we have to wait until next year at the very least for the next chance?

As for training missions, although they are a bit tiring, the rewards are much more generous, and they are guaranteed to be completed; the only difference is the time it takes.

However, the week of intense training left Li Xingchen feeling quite exhausted. He estimated that he wouldn't be able to keep up if the training continued.

So, the competition is a good task.

Li Xingchen is now fully confident that with the Warriors' current roster, as long as he can use his abilities effectively, he will definitely be able to help the team defeat the Jazz and achieve a major comeback to advance!

The so-called competition task naturally fell apart on its own.

……

In the team's meeting room.

The big screen was playing a recording of last night's game, with head coach Steve Kerr and several other Warriors game and data analysts taking breaks to provide commentary from time to time.

Watching replays of previous matches is mainly to observe what shortcomings we still have, and to see if we can make some targeted changes to counter the opponent's lineup and tactics.

Unfortunately, this video analysis still didn't yield any useful information, because the Warriors' problems last night were clearly on the offensive end, and the offensive problems were obviously mainly due to Curry's poor shooting performance...

What problem does this solve?

All we can do is hope for Curry's ability to adjust as a superstar.

After the video analysis was finished, Cole pondered for a moment, seemingly making some important decision, before speaking:

"Starting from the next game, I will change the starting lineup."

"As everyone has seen, in this series, because of Gobert's presence, it's basically impossible for the center position to gain an advantage."

"We've tried using the twin-tower composition in previous matches, and as everyone can see, it wasn't very effective."

"To play against the Jazz, we have to play small ball and compete with them in shooting!"

Cole explained in detail these things that everyone already knew, seemingly to everyone, but actually mainly to Rooney.

After all, what he wanted was to take Rooney's starting position.

"So we have to start with five small players from the very beginning. Kevin can only fill in for some crucial minutes when Gobert is out. Kevin, I hope you can understand."

"And the player who will replace Kevin in our starting lineup next is..."

Cole paused for a moment when he said this.

Actually, the answer was already a foregone conclusion, but Poole, standing to the side, still couldn't help but breathe a little faster.

What if? What if Kerr's pause is due to some kind of reversal, and Kerr actually trusts him more because he has performed well in the second half of the season?

Unfortunately, things didn't go as he wished.

"Starry Sky Li".

"I hope you can maintain the excellent form you've shown in the previous games. Our team desperately needs your three-point shooting and defensive intensity, and in those two areas, you're doing just as well as Klay Thompson!"

Li Xingchen nodded solemnly: "Don't worry, Coach."

"I will try my best."

After finalizing the starting lineup, Kerr discussed some tactical details with the players.

The Warriors are, after all, a team with a superstar like Curry, so the coach has relatively less say, and Kerr needs to discuss many things with the players.

"We've pretty much finished discussing the offensive tactics. Now let's take a look at the defensive end and see if there's anything we can improve..."

"Donovan's performance in this year's playoffs has been really good. In his first game back, he scored 40 points on 24 shots. In the second game, although it wasn't as exaggerated, he still scored 28 points on 18 shots. His production and efficiency are terrifying."

"Andrew was quite effective at defending Donovan, but I feel that if we start with a small-ball lineup and keep playing mismatch defense like this, it's not a long-term solution. After all, every time Andrew is matched up against Donovan, all our positions except the point guard are much smaller than his, which puts us at a huge disadvantage in physical confrontations..."

"But if we don't let Andrew target him, we can't stop the others. Or should we adopt the same strategy as them and just let Donovan score as much as he wants, as long as we can shut down the rest of the Jazz?"

Kerr sought the players' opinions and wanted to hear their thoughts on how to deal with Mitchell, such a troublesome offensive threat.

However, at this moment, Li Xingchen suddenly raised his hand and spoke.

"coach."

"Let me guard Donovan in the next game!"