Chapter 473

Mike Woodson wants to go out and try to see what it feels like to be a head coach. When an assistant coach is always so helpless.

The head coach does not necessarily adopt the designated tactics. Once the defense collapses, he will feel guilty. Although he does not have to take the blame, it is just that he does not need to take the blame in the public opinion of the media and fans. In the coaching and management circles, his reputation will decline. , because these people really understand the team, understand the structure of a team, a good defensive assistant is incomparably important to a team. Will not change.

For example, the Jazz defensive assistant Jeff Wells has worked for the Jazz for more than 30 years. He was still a 30-year-old man in 1985, and he worked until he retired at the age of 62 in 2017. His salary is higher than that of many team coaches. are high.

However, defensive assistants are also the most likely to lose their jobs. They may be fired in which season the defense declines.

For example, although Mike Woodson now has a salary of 2 million dollars, the salary of some team coaches is not as high as him, but he has been carefully studying the defense needed for each game and working hard to build a defensive system.

In addition to this aspect, there is also power. The power of an assistant coach is very low, very low. Like now, he is used to handing the tactical board to Liu Mang.

Therefore, Mike Woodson really wants to try to be a head coach.

However, just like old actors have a drama addiction and old smokers have a cigarette addiction, as an excellent top defensive assistant, Mike Woodson has an addiction to study every defense.

When Mike Woodson saw Liu Mang's messy defensive position map and defense switch route, he immediately put aside the idea of ​​changing teams and couldn't help but grab the tactical board.

Mike Woodson didn't have much interest in Liu Mang's offensive tactics, he was not good at them, mainly defensive tactics!

It's not that Liu Mang's tactics drawn this time are so ingenious, it's mainly because of their novelty! Never seen it!

The main reason is that the defensive map drawn by Liu Mang is very interesting. Although it is a bit messy, it is very characteristic. It is so characteristic that Mike Woodson is very interested, but he keeps complaining.

"Ace, there is a problem with this. It should be like this here. Andre's coverage area can cover this area. It's good for Tyson to guard the basket. Paul, who is Tyson's substitute, doesn't have such a good defensive coverage area. We have to consider the continuity of the defense, and here, Sean and Richard don't have to worry about it so much, we only need to worry about the loopholes of Tony and Gilbert..."

This professional is different. Sometimes the defensive system is mainly based on imagination, then rationality, and finally the player lineup.

Although Liu Mang has a lot of impressive systems, but he can't say something specific, he is not a professional, so he can only draw tactics like this, and rely on his impressions.

But with Mike Woodson as a professional, it’s different. Just like the Eagles’ defense, every time Liu Mang has a brain hole, Mike Woodson can wipe his ass clean. This time Mike Woodson Come to help Liu Mang check for omissions and fill in vacancies.

Not to mention, just like the 2002 rookies can form a championship team in a few years, the 2001 rookies also have the same meaning. They have offense and defense. Even if Liu Mang is left behind, these nine players will be fine. Is it a future quasi-All-Star lineup, or are the eight players all quasi-All-Stars or even All-Stars and higher.

A group of people watched Liu Mang and Mike Woodson continue to improve the defensive system, and their jaws almost dropped.

The most powerful guy in the same class, not only is he good at playing, not only can formulate some magical offensive tactics as rumored, but he can also build a defensive system!

It's like some hairline-less, unearthed-looking number 23 who learned to play the accordion in high school!

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The simple version of the defensive system structure was completed, and Mike Woodson asked eight teammates to quickly memorize the practice. There are still four hours before the game will start.

Eight players, no more, no less, exactly the number of players in an NBA team's main rotation.

Generally, a team has 12 active rosters. In the era of Spurs role players, it has been increased to 13 active rosters. But to be honest, even if it is the future Spurs, the main rotation is only 8 people, the ninth and the tenth. They don't have much playing time, and the remaining three are surprise soldiers when they really can't start the situation.

These days, in general teams, seven-man rotations are very common, and eight-man rotations are routine, so in the rookie game, in order for everyone to have a chance to perform, a team has only nine players.

If Liu Mang didn't fight, there were only eight people left, which just formed a main rotation lineup.

Those who can play in the NBA, not to mention how much they love basketball, but at least they are basketball fans. Facing the novel defensive system, they are very motivated. Unknowingly, the fighting spirit of the second grade has been raised, and they all want to compete in the rookie game. Go ahead and brighten the dog's eyes of the other party.

Mike Woodson looks at these players doing well, look at the second-year lineup, Battier, Kirilenko, Chandler, Richard Jefferson, a defensive center, three strikers Defensive gate, this lineup is too perfect to play defense, coupled with Gasol who is not bad on the inside defense, the big and the four small have unlimited rotations, don't be too strong!

But this also made Mike Woodson very worried. This young man in our family has a good brain, but this kind of good thing is just taken out and used casually. If we have brains, can our own team use it?

Mike Woodson felt that he needed to remind Liu Mang, and whispered to Liu Mang next to him: "Ace, from now on, we can use this tactic ourselves, and don't let the opponent's core players learn it."

Liu Mang said why Mike Woodson's brows became tighter and tighter. It turned out that he was worried about this. Liu Mang said with a smile: "Mike, don't worry so much. Look, Sean, Andre, Richard, these three A defensive iron gate, the strongest Andre, I estimate that he will compete for the best defensive player in a few years, this system is only suitable for this lineup, can other teams eat so many defensive gates?"

Liu Mang is not worried that there will be teams learning this defensive system in this era when there is no grouping at this stage, because it is not practical! Without a striker combination like Wade and James, or in the era when 3D players are prevalent in the future, this defensive system will not be available.

Like the Jazz that will use this system in the future, it took four years for the former Spurs defensive assistant coach Quinn Snyder to leave Popovich to join the Jazz and form a suitable lineup to get enough defense. The Titans finally started to take off by winning a No. 13 pick by accident.

These days, a Bowen and a Kirilenko are hot and sweet, want to poach people? Impossible, because the Jazz is about to collapse, and some teams want to dig Kirilenko, and the offer is fifth overall, but the Jazz didn't agree.

Mike Woodson looked at the lineup on the field, and this is indeed the reason! All of a sudden, the surprise of discovering the new continent dissipated a lot, and he was a little depressed. He also planned to use this newly discovered defensive system as a foundation, study it carefully, and make an extension, and use it when he becomes the head coach in the future.

Although Mike Woodson's goal at this stage is to help the Eagles win the championship, an assistant who doesn't want to be a head coach is not a good head coach. Everyone has their own ideals.

Listening to what Liu Mang said now, Mike Woodson is a little frustrated. Although he has a good defensive concept, it is a bit difficult to implement.

"What's the matter, Mike, why are you so depressed." Liu Mang could clearly see Mike Woodson's frustration.

"It's okay. I originally wanted to integrate this system into our team, but found it impossible. We couldn't get so many players." Mike Woodson responded half-truthfully.

"Mike, don't lie to me. You want to create a system, and then go to apply for a head coach! Then you find that this system cannot be completed quickly, and it may even be impossible to complete. It is very frustrating." Liu Mang smiled, he It wasn't until Mike Woodson would later seek to be a head coach everywhere, and succeeded, and finally coached the super old lineup of Anthony, Stoudemire and Billups in New York.

Mike Woodson was stunned, how could he be seen?

"It's okay, Mike, all coaches want to be the head coach, right? We are colleagues, and I will be happy if you have better development in the future," Liu Mang said with a smile, "However, let's win the championship together now! If we If you can win the championship, you will be more convincing when you go out to promote your system to others in the future, because you have won the championship with your own defensive system. We need you, and you also need us to win the championship to prove ourselves. Isn't it? We need to trust the process, whether it's you or our team."

Liu Mang said this because he knew that because of the collapse of the Eagles this season, Mike Woodson left the Eagles, followed Larry Brown to the Pistons, and helped Larry Brown create a defensive system suitable for the Pistons. , and then became a hit, and finally succeeded in getting a head coach contract in the summer of 2004.

Now the Eagles need Mike Woodson very much, until Mike Woodson was a little distracted because of the success of the Eagles' defensive system he built in the past two years, so he took the initiative to appease him.

However, what Liu Mang said about being happy for Mike Woodson's success in the future is not a lie. He has been working with him for two years and is even close to a comrade-in-arms. He is also willing to plan for Mike Woodson. A group of coaching staff members, teammates who won the championship for the first time, and management are the most emotional.

And the second half of Liu Mang's words made the reality cruel.

Just like today's young people don't want to go to college and want to enter the NBA directly, NBA teams don't have the kind of willingness to spend several years slowly accumulating talent and slowly planning for a championship. They all want to achieve it overnight.

Just like ten years later, the 76ers general manager Hinkie, who followed the process and wanted to spend three or four years forming the perfect talent lineup, was under tremendous pressure and was finally fired when it was about to blossom.

It wasn't until it really blossomed and bear fruit that people discovered that the process can be trusted!

But Hinkie couldn't enjoy the joy of success after four years of hard work.

Mike Woodson looked at Liu Mang and felt more and more that this young man had a leadership quality that no one else on the team had!

Jason Terry has no leadership ability. Raheem has ability but no leadership qualities. Muhammad can maintain the locker room environment, but he is also not capable enough. Boozer and Prince are too young. The attitude of being on good terms with everyone but keeping a distance doesn't seem like a leader.

On the contrary, this guy who never seems to be reliable is the most like a leader!

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