Chapter 817 816. Got Tricked by the Gangster Again!

"Tracy, you and Tyshawn's double attack should be more fierce. Ace, you should shrink faster and interfere better with Greg's catch. Josh, your internal and external defensive movements should be faster. ...Josh, come down first and learn the timing of expansion and contraction with Rashid..."

Mike Woodson is coaching the new defensive movement. The two assistants and trainers Stockton and Malone have become part of the training. Together with the recalled Tony Allen and Ariza, they will serve as the 12-man team. The players on the list were trained, and even Ostertag was invited to be a sparring partner, which was regarded as a job opportunity for Ostertag.

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Two defensive training sessions, 40 minutes each, plus a 20-minute break, exactly 100 minutes. After the training, Mike Woodson came to Coach Kruger's office.

"Mike, how's the progress?" Coach Kruger has drawn hundreds of tactical drawings on his desk, most of them are crossed out, and only a few are neatly placed in the folder next to them.

"I think it's going to go well." Mike Woodson laughed.

"That's good. Our time is too tight. Let's use the last few games of this month to experiment. If it doesn't succeed, there will still be room for adjustment later." Coach Kruger nodded.

The defensive end is left to Mike Woodson. Coach Kruger has no worries at all. Coach Kruger put the offensive tactics and movement training diagram of small ball play as perfect as possible last night and this morning, and feels that it is relatively perfect. After getting a few training pictures, I communicated with Mike Woodson about the connection between grabbing defensive rebounds and pressing the defense and then counterattacking, and then went to ask the players to practice offense.

Switching to a small-ball style of play, the offensive end is not a problem for the Eagles, but the defense is more troublesome.

For Liu Mang, Prince, Rasheed Wallace, Kwame Brown, Muhammad, Jason Terry and others, playing small ball is a very familiar thing.

The Eagles have a common tactic called the cavalry tactic. This tactic is somewhat similar to the run-and-gun tactic, but it's also different. It's not the same as small ball. It's not a team offensive tactic, but it has the same purpose. It's all a lineup. On the small side.

The biggest problem is that the Eagles used to play cavalry tactics, and their defense was traditional defense, with at most outside pressure. But now, except when facing teams with super inside players, they need to use traditional play to beat most teams. Everyone must try fast-paced defensive changes, and the connection between fast-paced defensive changes and fast offense is what needs to be strengthened most now.

The offensive tactics are summarized very quickly. Another reason is that although the Suns are still regarded as an alternative among fans. There are too few live broadcasts in the United States and not many people understand the charm of that kind of basketball. However, in the coaching world, they are already very popular. It shocked traditional coaches.

As for the Suns' running and gunning, Coach Kruger has already paid attention to the Suns' running and gunning after playing 20 days into the season.

After the Pistons' record became 9 wins and 1 loss, the Suns ranked first in the league with a record of 10 wins and 1 loss, and also refreshed the Suns' best record in team history created by Barkley in the 1992-93 season. Start.

With such a strong performance, other teams will definitely pay attention.

But Coach Kruger, including Coach Kruger, is not optimistic about the Suns' mini lineup of Nash, Quentin Richardson, Joe Johnson, Marion, and Stoudemire.

The lineup is too small. The tallest Stoudemire is only 2.08 meters tall, and the two forwards are both 2.01 meters tall. That means there is basically no interior defense, and the rebounding is also extremely poor.

The rebounding difference does not mean that the Suns have fewer rebounds. They rank first in the league with 45.1 rebounds per game, which is more than the Bulls' 44.3 rebounds per game and the Hawks' 43.6 rebounds per game. However, the Suns average 45.1 rebounds per game. Conceded 47 rebounds, last in the league.

Their strength is that they have many shooters. The team's average three-point shooting percentage per game reaches 41%. They rely on fast-paced offensive and defensive transitions to achieve a super high shooting percentage. The overall average field goal percentage reaches 100%. Forty-eight points were scored, second only to the Hawks' overall shooting percentage of 48.3 percent.

If the Hawks were to play purely run-and-gun like the Suns, Coach Kruger would strangle Liu Mang to death, but if he added defense and tried to produce some changes, Coach Kruger felt that he could still give it a try.

The key reason for Coach Kruger to try to change is that the Eagles don't have any big advantages inside this season! After the start of this season, the Eagles' dominance was not as good as last season because the inside advantage was weakened.

The defense is okay. The interior defense composed of Rasheed Wallace, Kwame Brown, Muhammad and two rookie interiors is still very good, but the interior offense has become much weaker. Boozer and Rashe Tom's departure has caused the Hawks' inside offense to plummet. It's not that there are fewer points, but that the inside's independent offense is basically gone. Only Liu Mang and Tracy McGrady have the ability to score independently under the basket. It seems that the Hawks' inside scoring has not dropped much. Mainly It relies on the outside containment of Liu Mang and McGrady.

Last season, Boozer and Raheem posed a great inside threat. Boozer went to the Jazz this season. The Jazz made a move for Bordelon Williams. Boozer became a big data brusher. He started averaging 22 points and 11.5 rebounds per game. He looked like one of the most skilled power forwards in the league. To be able to achieve such data, his inside scoring ability should not be underestimated.

Raheem has also started this season averaging 24 points, 8 rebounds and 3 assists per game.

After playing ten games so far, there are as many as 34 players who average more than 20 points per game this season, which is more than twice the same period last season.

Because of the loss of these two forwards who have the ability to score 20+ points per game, the Hawks have been focusing on triangle offense more this season to make up for the lack of independent scoring ability in the interior. Liu Mang, McGrady and Kwame Brown have more cooperation, and Kwame Brown has become the team's top scorer in the interior.

However, the triangle offense cannot fully play the advantages of the Hawks' athletic ability in the interior, and can only rely on Liu Mang, McGrady, Jason Terry and Calderon to create opportunities for the interior, which puts a burden on the outside players. When the outside players can't shoot accurately, they will encounter the situation in the second game against the Trail Blazers. The athletic ability of the interior cannot become an advantage in the interior, but instead becomes a drag on the offensive end.

So Coach Kruger has been considering changes, but the traditional style of play that is deeply rooted in the NBA and even the NCAA makes it difficult for Coach Kruger to find the clues of change. This is also the general state of the NBA. Not many teams are willing to play run-and-gun and give up defense, because pure run-and-gun is too easy to be restricted in the playoffs. Old Nelson let the Mavericks play run-and-gun in the playoffs, which led to the Spurs and Kings successively being tyrannized in the playoffs, and then he had a conflict with Cuban and resigned.

And this deep-rooted concept also made the rules that favor run-and-gun appear 10 years later, and Steve Kerr found a balance from it... Mainly because the Warriors were miserable for more than 20 or 30 years, and then the luck turned. Curry got "child labor wages", the favorite for the best defensive player was a second-round pick with a minimum salary, and Klay Thompson was still in the last year of his rookie contract, so the Warriors had a large number of high-quality role players in the 14-15 season, and then saw the signs of collapse after being overturned 3-1 in the 15-16 season finals, and the league salary cap rose sharply again, so Durant could be signed naked. It can be said that the character accumulated for 30 years exploded in one day.

The Warriors' success model cannot be replicated, similar to the fact that all Larry Bird's successors are scumbags.

But the Hawks are different, they have Liu Mang! At least before Liu Mang retires, they don't have to worry about role players. Every season, there are underestimated rookies who fall to the end of the first round or the second round. These college players are underestimated because they did not perform well in college or were affected by injuries. They will not be overestimated because of Liu Mang's appearance, at least most of them will not, so the Hawks can enjoy the rookie bonus of substitutes for a long time, and have the opportunity to replicate or even be stronger than the Universe.

Liu Mang discussed the unlimited switching with Mike Woodson two seasons ago. This is Liu Mang's memory. The integration of what Luke Walton, the assistant coach of the Universe, learned from the Warriors and the Spurs, is very efficient. He led the rotten Lakers to play the top three defense in the league. Liu Mang only roughly understood the concept, but Mike Woodson is a defensive master. After hearing the concept Liu Mang said, he was immediately fascinated by the advanced defensive concept and has been studying it, wanting to use it when he becomes the head coach in the future.

Mike Woodson will not leave the Hawks for now. Who will give up the chance to defend the title? The Hawks' lineups in the previous two seasons were very traditional, with a defensive center, a shooting power forward, a powerful small forward, a 3D shooting guard and a wave point guard. This also allowed the Hawks to continue to maintain the style of play in the previous two seasons at the beginning of this season, but the ability to score independently in the interior is really too poor. Now Coach Kruger is trying to change the team's offensive structure. Mike Woodson has always wanted to experiment with his own defense that integrates the small ball concept brought to him by Liu Mang, and it can finally start!

The main training is to strengthen the pressure of defense, speed up the frequency of expansion and contraction of defense, and force the opponent's rhythm to speed up and make mistakes. This defensive concept is very different from the traditional NBA defensive concept. Traditional NBA defensive teams are eager to slow down the defensive rhythm as much as possible, consume the opponent's patience, and make the opponent make mistakes in choice because of anxiety. The goal of the Hawks' training now is to make the opponent make decisions quickly and make the opponent make mistakes in judgment in a fast rhythm.

The purpose of the two types of defense is the same, both of which are to make the opponent make shooting or passing mistakes, but if the rhythm is fast, it will be very beneficial for defensive counterattacks.

This is the aspect that Mike Woodson needs to help the team train.

Coach Kruger and Stockton, who are mainly responsible for offense, need to make the cavalry tactics "bigger", let everyone participate, and make full use of the current athletic ability of the team's inside line. In the past, with Boozer and Ratliff, as long as either of them was on the court, they could not play the team's fast break, both of them were slow, but now it is different, the team's offensive style is possible.

And because of the foundation of cavalry tactics, the offensive training is much easier than the defensive end.

During the offensive training, a group of players who can run and jump run very happily, and they are also very active when they are in position according to the tactics, but when training defense, they complain bitterly. This kind of small ball defense is too tiring and consumes a lot of physical energy. Fortunately, the lineup is deep enough, and everyone practices for a while, and the consumption is not too large, which will not affect the game in the evening.

But when Coach Kruger came to train the offense, the whole team was happy and ran happily.

And new tactics always make young players feel interesting, especially the play style that may be similar to the legendary Suns team where everyone can score, which makes players who usually don’t have many opportunities to perform excited to participate in training. Although they complain, they are very active during training and want to show that they can do it.

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"Ace, make sure it’s over. Once you take this step, there’s no turning back!" McGrady is still so indecisive.

"Okay, Tracy, go tell the coach that you don’t want to play small ball. Tell him you are joking with him." Liu Mang made a very challenging suggestion.

McGrady rolled his eyes at Liu Mang and ignored him. He now understood that he was fooled again!

Although he didn’t know what Liu Mang was thinking and why he always had so many weird ideas, McGrady knew that he was fooled.

How long has he been in the Hawks? He has been fooled countless times.

McGrady thought about Coach Kruger not sleeping all night and his eyes were bloodshot during the morning training. He was like an angry eagle during the training. Now when Coach Kruger was catching up on his sleep, he told him that yesterday was a joke. McGrady felt that he was courting death.

Yesterday, after Liu Mang and Coach Kruger left home, Coach Kruger called Mike Woodson first, and then called McGrady. For such a thing, the other core player must agree.

McGrady couldn't resist the temptation of the assist king at that time and agreed. Now McGrady began to regret it again.

Wrongly boarded the pirate ship!

This is McGrady's current mood.

At this point, McGrady can only choose to look more at the offensive running routes and the defensive double-teaming tactical running. Other teammates who have the opportunity to play are also studying their new positions.

In the morning, there was an offensive training of the new tactics and two defensive training classes. There was no training in the afternoon, so that the players could rest and prepare for the evening game.

The players of the Hawks, especially the role players, now have a clearer position. After the tactical system changes, they are closer to the role players of later generations. Each player has his own clear position on the offensive end.

This is difficult to do for other teams before the post-90s generation enters the NBA in large numbers and the average strength of role players has not increased significantly. However, the role players of the Hawks are all talented role players that Liu Mang picked up with his eyes wide open. Tony Allen and Ariza can only level up in the Development League, which is not a problem. Let the three rookies and Korver focus on one aspect of ability first, and their progress will even become faster. After all, it is faster to master one aspect than to learn all.

The Hawks' small ball tactics are still named cavalry tactics. The name of the "the whole team will run you to death" tactic proposed by Liu Mang was once again rejected, which made Liu Mang very sad.

This group of people don't understand romance at all!

Liu Mang will first demonstrate the new version of the "cavalry tactics", the ball-controlling core's play, which is a good thing for McGrady. He has no doubt that Liu Mang will play well in this aspect. There were cavalry tactics in the past.

Playing against the Rockets tonight is undoubtedly a good experimental target. The opponent's point guard is too bad and basically has no ability to control the rhythm. The rhythm of the Rockets is controlled by Yao Ming, the center!

Although this has trained Yao Ming's ability, the limitations are too great, so the Rockets are the best experimental target.

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McGrady is sad, and the role players led by Jason Terry are all very excited. Rasheed Wallace doesn't care about the data, winning is enough. As a romantic literary and artistic lover, Rasheed Wallace has reduced his salary by nearly 10 million per year and renewed his contract with the Hawks. How can he care about the data?

Of course, Rasheed Wallace did not cut his salary because he came to the Hawks. He would choose to cut his salary when he went to any team that had a chance to win the championship. In the past, when he went to the Pistons, his salary dropped from more than 17 million in the 03-04 season to 10 million in the 04-05 season with a six-year contract. It was just that when he came to the Hawks, his salary dropped by more than one million.

Jason Terry can run and play, which will make him play more exciting. Kwame Brown, Josh Smith and others are the biggest beneficiaries. The physical fitness of the two is great, especially Kwame Brown. He was originally the player who benefited the most from the Hawks' inside line this season. Now speeding up the pace will benefit more for physical offensive players like him.

As for the outside players, Prince doesn't care about these, but the role players do!

After the rhythm becomes faster, those who were originally only fixed-point shooters have more opportunities to perform. Seizing the opportunity may get more playing time, which is much better than the fixed playing time of a few minutes before.

It is much better to fight for opportunities to show your strength than to wait for opportunities. This is also the key reason for the Suns' rampage this year. Because of Nash's selfless passing, anyone on the Suns has a chance to score as long as they are on the court. It all depends on their own efforts. When the efforts are sure to be rewarded, everyone will become very hardworking...

The Hawks' training this morning went smoothly. It was because the players understood this that they became very hardworking and supported the team's new decision.

After a break in the afternoon, the role players spontaneously found Liu Mang and McGrady, wanting to practice more offensive running. This is their opportunity, and they naturally have to seize it.

McGrady saw that this group of teammates were all "poisoned" by Liu Mang, and felt that he was not far from being poisoned...

The next chapter will be updated before nine o'clock~ I did some anaerobic exercises in the afternoon and fell asleep as soon as I got back from my sleep due to exhaustion.