During the five-game losing streak, Brown was dissatisfied with Fox’s continuous mistakes and low-level mistakes. He directly confronted the coach for the disagreement. After the five-game losing streak, the Kings locker room was in discord. Brown lost the trust of the players and management, and the players lost cohesion and confidence. , the king is about to explode.
When Christie took over the Browns, he made two important adjustments.
First, relax the mental pressure on players, give up some of Brown’s insistence on training and weighting, and give players more room for communication and adjustment.
Kings players have accumulated too much pressure to lose, and there are also strict training requirements from Brown. There is a lack of communication with each other, and there is no life, training, competition, and spiritual communication. Christie has re-united the players’ centripetal force and playing energy through releasing pressure, communicating, and delegating power. .
Second, adjust the rotation and put the third-year guard Ellis and the first-year rookie guard Carter into the rotation. These two young guards are full of explosiveness and speed. They play miracles from the sky. They have the characteristics of young players to change the game and make up for the outstanding performance. Walter’s misalignment on the outside, making up for Fox’s injury absence, also allowed Murray to make up for the downturn of this year’s season.
As usual, Shabonis pulled rebounds and attacked the penalty area, showing his offensive and defensive dominance. He also scored three-pointers. DeRozan became more and more like a killer as he played. Fox’s concentration and spirit were brought back to the game, and he frequently played key value.
The same lineup, the same talent, but the players are more willing to work together and bear more communication. The Kings rotate deeper, and functional players play confident and key roles. The Kings have achieved the greatest breakthroughs and improvements on both ends of the offense and defense.
Christie caters to the players, corrects their mentality, changes the team culture, and brings the Kings back to the winning road and rhythm. It is worth looking forward to whether this wave of winning streak can subvert the Western Conference ecology and make the Kings lineup more dreamy and the games more exciting.
