Chapter 361 359. The NBA Question Is Too Difficult! (Ask for a Monthly Ticket~)

The head coach's office next to the conference room.

In addition to the trainer Mauron Wiley and assistant coach Buckner who brought other players to watch the video, Liu Mang, coach Kruger and assistant coach Mike Woodson all came.

Coach Kruger wondered why Liu Mang called him over, and he also wanted to finish the training arrangement early, let the rigorously trained assistant coach Mike Woodson lead the training, go back to sleep by himself, and make training plans and research last night did not sleep.

"Coach, what tactics are we going to train next?" Liu Mang asked cautiously.

"This?" Coach Kruger was still puzzled. Will he know after a while? But he still replied: "Our next training is to conduct defensive tactical training for the Pistons' defense."

"The defense?"

"Our defense I think is good enough."

Liu Mang just felt that something was wrong here!

He was very curious about the Nets' two consecutive finals, so he watched some game videos that he could find, and beat all the opponents in the East with the Nets, and swept the Celtics and Pistons in a row in the 02-03 season. In the 2001-02 season, the Celtics played 4-1 Pistons in these series.

Those who can have the last laugh rely on defense. Although it cannot be said that this is the law of winning, it is a successful experience.

Of course, Liu Mang guessed what Coach Kruger was thinking. The Eagles' defense in the regular season was no worse than that of the Pistons, so if they wanted to break the Pistons' defense and rely on their own defense to limit their opponents, they would have a great chance of winning.

Liu Mang felt that this strategy might also be successful, but the firepower of him, Raheem, and Jason Terry on his own side was already fierce enough, at least in the East.

Coach Kruger was a college coach last year. In college basketball, the offense and defense balance is more important, but in the NBA, the offense and defense balance is really not so good in the playoffs. The offensive and defensive balance has reached its peak, but under the current rules, the offense will be greatly discounted in the playoffs.

Offensive tactics in the playoffs are still not as effective as the personal abilities of the stars these years.

Coach Kruger... probably thinks the playoffs are March Madness!

That thing is different from this one!

Liu Mang didn't know what to say so as not to irritate the little heart of the coach who had been busy all night, he hesitated for a while and said weakly: "Coach, I don't think something is right, we are going to play a series of 7 rounds and 4 wins, It's not the one-match elimination system of March Madness, no matter what kind of tactics, no matter how many tactics there are, they will be thoroughly studied after two matches!"

Liu Mang really wanted to say it straight, in this day and age relying on offense won't work!

Unless it is a rule more than ten years later, it is difficult for college basketball to go far in the playoffs. Before Stevens of the Celtics, there were almost no college coaches in the NBA. Victory is because of this. The current rules are not so friendly to offensive basketball, so Stern and Adam Silva will continue to change the rules to benefit the perimeter and weaken the impact of defense.

Coach Kruger is not bad. On the contrary, he is very good in college basketball. It’s just that he has coached the NCAA for so many years, and his thinking has long been ingrained. He is also the head coach, and his idea is to use himself to break the Pistons’ defense. There is nothing wrong with the original good defense to limit the opponent's idea. Even the defensive first assistant Mike Woodson didn't think it was wrong.

However, what is wrong is not the strategy, but the wrong era. The playoffs in this era are very unfriendly to college coaches.

Coach Kruger didn't answer Liu Mang right away, but sat down and meditated.

Kind of maddening!

That is to say, for offensive training in advance, it is enough to have a clear tactical direction, and the specifics still depend on on-the-spot command?

It's not like college basketball!

totally different!

Because college basketball is a one-win knockout game, there are relatively few on-the-spot commands, because there are not so many timeouts, and there is no intermission. There is only one intermission. The time for an attack is 35 seconds, and there are many tactical moves. , so it’s all pre-match preparations. March Madness will actually be crazy until April 14th. Even this year’s NCAA champion Duke University has only played 7 games in 40 days. The preparation time in the middle It is very long, and the tactical maps of offensive tactics for each game are piled up pile after pile, and there is enough time for training.

And now it is obviously impossible to prepare so many tactics that may have up to seven games.

That is to say, the tactics prepared before will always be seen through by the opponent!

Coach Kruger sighed, the NBA is too difficult!

"Ace, you go back first, let Moron put aside all the clips of the Pistons, and study the opponent's defense first." Coach Kruger asked Liu Mang to go back first, and then said to Mike Woodson: "Mike , let's study again..."

Defensive training, of course, must be handed over to professionals. The division of coaching staff in the NBA is still very clear. There are offensive coaches for offense, and defensive coaches for defense. The head coach is mainly on-the-spot command and general direction planning. It's just a part-time offensive coach.

Liu Mang breathed a sigh of relief, and followed Coach Kruger's instructions to find Moron Willie.

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Coach Mike Woodson is very good at defense. In the 03-04 season, Larry Brown was able to lead his team from the third place in the Eastern Conference to win the championship. Well, he is not destined to be a head coach, and he has no on-the-spot command ability, but as a defensive assistant, he will be robbed by various teams in the future, and his annual assistant salary of 5 million is also a record.

After watching the video...Mike Woodson brought a new round of video that was temporarily called by the editor, and continued to watch the video.

This time the focus is different, it's on Stackhouse and...Jon Barry!

Stackhouse was the second on the scoring list last season. Give him the ball and he can really average 30+ per game. He is only 28 years old this year and has just reached his peak. He should have gone further this year in terms of statistics alone, but his record may not be as good as it is now.

Liu Mang was a little surprised by Joan Barry's defense. Isn't this just a player who averages eight or nine points per game?

But after reading the statistics of Joan Barry in the regular season and the first round of the playoffs, Liu Mang found clues.

The three-point shooting percentage in the regular season was 46.9 percent!

The bright red 1st in the back!

That is, the guy with the highest three-point shooting rate in the regular season, averaging 1.9 three-pointers per game!

Efficient and productive pitcher!

The 33-year-old Joan Barry has reached the pinnacle of his shooter career!

"This future bald coach has such vicious eyes!" Liu Mang didn't know why, but he just felt that the future bald head was very powerful!

Liu Mang remembered that Mike Woodson would have collapsed because of the team's core Rahim's unintentional playing record in the next 02-03 season. He only won 35 wins and fell to tenth in the Western Conference. The 76ers were eliminated in the first round of the game, coach Kruger was fired, and Mike Woodson was also fired. He was an assistant coach for the 76ers in the 00-01 season, and then Larry Brown invited him to his assistant coaching team.

The state of the 76ers has declined sharply this year, and it is hard to say that it has nothing to do with Mike Woodson's departure.

Liu Mang is admiring Mike Woodson, and Mike Woodson now looks at Liu Mang very pleasingly.

You know, at the beginning, Mike Woodson saw how uncomfortable this second-round pick was. He played too casually, and he could do whatever he wanted, with no discipline at all.

But slowly found out, hey, this kid can defend well!

The key to the improvement of the relationship between the two is the previous strategy against the Nets, which gave Mike Woodson a feeling of sympathy.

This time Liu Mang hit the nail on the head and asked Coach Kruger to temporarily change the big strategy and let Mike Woodson be the core figure of the team in this round of playoffs, which greatly improved his team status, so Mike Woodson The opinion of Liu Mang has improved again.

But, the defensive assistants are the most unpleasant. In the afternoon training, the high-intensity defensive confrontation training made Liu Mang and Jason Terry imitate the play of Stackhouse and Joan Barry. The training of law and other people to defend made the players complain, and they complained about Mike Woodson every time between training.

Then Liu Mang also complained together, pretending not to know that he proposed to change from offensive training to targeted defensive training...

I woke up before 6:00 in the morning to write, I didn’t finish the plot last night and got up early to make up~ I still took the trouble to ask for a monthly ticket~ I can go further, why not, right? thank you all!

daily jokes~

There is a person called Zhenshuo, who married a wife and told you to take care of him, and gave birth to a son called trouble. One day the trouble is gone! The couple went to report the case. The policeman asked Dad: What is your name, this man? Dad said: It's really awkward. The policeman was very angry, and then he asked the mother's name. Mom said: I want you to take care of it. The policeman was very angry and said: What are you doing? The couple said: Looking for trouble.