Chapter 55: Comrade Liang gave us a good start

The opposing coach quickly called and said to pause briefly.

Ka Lao Si immediately understood, they were being crushed too badly, and needed to review the replay to find the cause.

Then he also called everyone over to review the replay.

Actually, in this practice match, Ka Lao Si seriously watched only the first few minutes; after seeing their side had a huge advantage, he started slacking off.

So during this review he could only mention the problems that appeared in the first few minutes, most of which were minor lane details; as for macro issues, he shouldn't even point them out to others—Ka Lao Si didn't even understand them himself, so naturally he wouldn't bring them up.

Liang Yan understood and could see many problems in the team's macro coordination, but he couldn't speak up because the time wasn't right; Liang Yan was still in the stage of building rapport with teammates, and Ka Lao Si had no intention of delegating authority, so it would be inappropriate for Liang Yan to intervene.

After all, macro matters can't be cleared up in a sentence or two; once macro discussion starts, everyone must be willing to cooperate, from systematic replay review to targeted bans/picks to practical drills—this is a huge, long-term project.

Since Ka Lao Si doesn't understand these, it means Liang Yan would have to shoulder everything himself, but for now neither teammate trust nor the groundwork of knowledge is sufficient.

Exactly, laying the groundwork is important.

Some things can be started now.

In the review, Ka Lao Si emphasized the problem where, after Zven successfully escaped on the first card drop, he didn't return home and was caught from behind by Bu Long, but he didn't mention at all the incident where perkz was caught in the left river of mid lane; Liang Yan and Ka Lao Si seemingly hadn't even thought to bring this up, Liang Yan pondered it, then raised his hand.

Ka Lao Si immediately stopped speaking and looked over.

"Liang, do you have any suggestions?"

Before raising his hand, Liang Yan had already drafted his remarks in his mind:

"Yes, I have some personal opinions I'd like to share with everyone."

Ka Lao Si then sat down:

"Alright, go ahead."

Liang Yan pretended to think, stood up, and pointed to the large display dedicated to replay review beside Ka Lao Si:

"May I operate this?"

"Of course."

Ka Lao Si smiled, made space, swapped chairs, and sat to the side.

Under everyone's gaze, Liang Yan walked to the coach's seat that belonged to Ka Lao Si, he didn't sit, just pushed the chair back a bit, then bent over, took the mouse, and operated on the computer to pull the game replay to a certain time point.

After finishing, Liang Yan stepped aside so everyone could see the screen.

After everyone had clearly seen the image and recalled which time point it was, Liang Yan raised his hand, pointed to the Shah in the center of the screen, and looked at AP saying:

"Lu Ka, do you remember this wave?"

At that moment, among everyone present, only one person realized what Liang Yan was about to say—when Liang Yan dragged the timeline to this point, Tang Anna's pupils contracted sharply, her gaze at Liang Yan instantly changed, filled with intense shock.

AP, however, looked around cluelessly, then shrugged:

"I remember—we went together to gank top lane, and when we returned we stole their red buff; then I went back to mid lane and got caught by their jungle ambush……but it's not my fault, look at the minimap—there's no vision of us around here, and the blind monk was still top lane not long ago; how could I guess he'd come all the way over to gank me."

Liang Yan didn't interrupt AP's excuse, waited until he finished, then smiled:

"No, I'm not saying you have a problem."

"But do you remember, before you left, I actually reminded you?"

"Huh? You said that?"

"I did."

Liang Yan nodded seriously,

"I'm quite sensitive to vision; at the time I sensed their jungler might flank around to gank you, so I gave a heads‑up—but it's my fault, maybe I spoke too softly, so you didn't hear."

He really understood what the art of language is.

He pointed out AP's problem, yet took the blame onto himself.

Thus everyone felt that this AP catch was indeed not AP's fault, nor Liang Yan's—

—so whose responsibility was it, then?

At this point nobody would notice this detail.

Liang Yan straightened up and glanced at the team:

"I deliberately brought up this mistake not to analyze exactly how we should act to avoid being caught, but because I suddenly realized a problem—"

Liang Yan looked toward Ka Lao Si:

"Coach, I think our team has a very serious problem in communication—including myself."

Ka Lao Si opened his mouth, thought for a moment, then nodded solemnly:

"In fact I've emphasized many times that during matches we must pay attention to communication, promptly sharing new information we learn with teammates—including the strict rule forbidding Chinese in‑game, which was also established for this purpose—but……"

Ka Lao Si spread his hands, looking at Liang Yan,

"You've seen it too—the effect seems not very good, sigh……"

"No, you never truly realized it; otherwise you would have pointed out at the start of the review that AP didn't heed the warning."

Liang Yan obviously couldn't say those words; he returned silently to his seat and sat down. Ka Lao Si's gaze followed him over.

"Then what do you think we should do to solve this problem?"

"I don't know. I'm making mistakes myself."

Liang Yan said with a smile,

"But I believe that if we solve this problem, I think our team's strength will undergo a qualitative leap."

Liang Yan couldn't possibly not know.

He just didn't need to say it.

Solving communication problems is really simple—just cultivate a habit of timely communication.

Then how can we cultivate such a habit?

Just as Liang Yan did earlier—point out the communication problem, let everyone notice it, become aware of it, and form a deep impression in mind: communicate promptly.

If once isn't enough, then twice.

Two times not working, three times, four times...

Until communication issues no longer exist, good habits have been cultivated.

Exactly, this is brainwashing.

In fact, any means that uses cramming-style education to stuff knowledge into someone else's brain can be called brainwashing; this is not necessarily something very evil, but rather an inevitable and necessary means when implementing and popularizing correct theory.

After Liang Yan's interruption, Ka Lao Si suddenly realized something, turned to look at someone's workstation, and asked with a smile:

"Our respected analyst comrade, Liang comrade gave us a good start; do you also have any opinions you should share with everyone?"

Tang Anna opened her mouth.

Then she looked at Liang Yan:

"I... he said everything I wanted to say."

"……"

Everyone was stunned for a moment, then let out a light laugh.

Ka Lao Si laughed hahaha twice:

"Ok, then this debrief ends here; TSM should also finish its debrief soon; we…… training match continues!"

"But remember!"

"Communication!"

"Communication!!"

"Or fucking communication!!"

"Timely communication!!!"