The Whip of the God of Basketball

　　 Leon’s worry is not superfluous.

　　 On January 4, the Celtics, who ushered in the second guest of the Miami Heat in the Southeast, suffered a terrible defeat at home. At 69:91, the Celtics didn't even score more than 70 points. The Heat's strangulation defense made the Celtics completely lose sight. The team suffered the most painful defeat of the season.

After the game, head coach Carroll said at a press conference: "The team is in a very bad state. I can understand that there will always be one or two games every season. You will feel that the team is so bad that you don’t deserve to play. NBA, but the focus is on how we should play in the future and how to learn from our failures."

　　 Leon sat next to Carol during the press conference and said nothing. After the game with the Magic, the team continued to practice passing and two fast breaks. On the surface, the training effect was still fruitful. But in the game, the players seemed to have entered a period of tactical transformation. The attacking rhythm of the team was messed up throughout the game. It seemed that everyone was hesitating to see how far away they were from their teammates and how far they should stand when counterattacking quickly. In what position.

　　 What's bad is that Leon and the Celtics didn't have much time to adjust. The day after the game ended, the whole team had to go to New York for a back-to-back game. On the bus to the away game, all the players were closing their eyes and resting. The back-to-back game would be a huge drain on physical strength, and the fiasco last night made everyone feel unhappy.

Leon’s spirit is okay. He is sitting in the front row, holding the tactical manual in his hand, thinking about tactics. Next to him is the team’s video editor Jimmy Young. He is listening to music while wearing big headphones. Sleep well.

　　 Since O'Brien resigned, Vogel resigned with O'Brien, so Jimmy Young became the team's only video editor. Jimmy Young has short blond hair, is tall and thin, and looks a little funny, looking like a typical Irishman.

　　 The car was a bit bumpy on the road. In fact, the team can take a regional plane to New York. Although the distance between the two cities is not too far, since the 911 incident, anyone taking a plane to New York has to be weighed.

　　 So the Celtics also decided to take a car to New York like in the 1960s, so Yang was woken up while Zhengxiang was sleeping. He rubbed his eyes, took off his headphones, looked at his watch, and found that there was still a short distance from New York. He couldn't sleep anymore, and turned to look at Leon next to him, and found that he was still reading the tactical manual.

"Don't look at Fox, won't you get motion sickness?" Yang looked at Leon's serious look. Sometimes he still didn't understand. A tall, handsome and strong person like him would not go to Bubble Girl to participate. At the party, I just stared at a few tactical manuals and massive videos every day. Yang is a very good video editor, but he doesn't have much love for basketball itself. He just edits and collects the pictures the team needs based on his experience. This is the biggest difference for Vogel.

　　 Hearing what Jimmy said, Leon shifted his gaze away from the tactical manual, fell on the backrest and closed his eyes to rest. He said, "I don't get motion sickness now, I'm sick of the ball."

　　 Leon’s "ball-sickness" made Jimmy amused. He found that Leon was cold and serious on the surface, and sometimes he was quite humorous. After he laughed, he said to Leon: "Don't worry too much, everything has a process. Although I don't know much about tactics, the guy Vogel understands, but I know I need a group of guys to change their style of play and adapt to a new one. How difficult it is to play, especially in the middle of the season. It's like turning a straight man into a corner, the sooner the better."

　　 Leon didn't bother to pay attention to Jimmy's messy metaphor. He knew Jimmy's words made sense, but it didn't help solve the problem. The most useful thing Leon has learned from Auerbach is straight line thinking. When a problem arises, it will solve the problem at all costs. Thinking is a straight line connecting these two points. As for the other objective difficulties and subjective interferences that go around, they all need to be broken through straight thinking.

　　 "Why don't you discuss it if you have any questions? It's not a good habit to be alone behind closed doors." Carol, the coach sitting on the other side of the aisle, said to Leon. Since the beginning of the new year, Carroll has given the team's offensive training full responsibility to Leon, and he himself put more energy on the player's personal development and on-the-spot command, as well as all other complicated tasks that the head coach has to face. .

"I think it is the right choice for the team to focus on the second fast break, but in the formation, I think there are some minor problems. I adjusted the traditional second fast break formation to shorten the distance between the players. , Reducing the wing three-point threat, the intention is to reduce the passing probability of the players and increase the chances of their own choice in the offense. But... I always feel that there are still some problems, but I can't tell where the problem lies." Leon He is proficient in almost all tactical boards and running positions. At first, when two different types of tactics need to be combined, his lack of practical experience is exposed.

　　 The second fast attack emphasizes that the opponent has returned to defense, but the defensive formation has not yet formed, and the fast attack is used to directly and efficiently score points. The second fast attack often complements the first fast attack. In the case of an unsuccessful first fast attack, use rapid tactical coordination to beat the opponents while they are still looking for defensive targets and forming a defensive line.

Fast break and second fast break are the most common tactical scoring methods for any team, but few teams have raised it to the height of the team's tactical strategy, just like Pitino increased the pressure on the whole court. The basic defensive strategy of the Celtics team is the same. Leon sees the current Celtics' excessive talent in the backcourt, but does not have the status quo of a distribution master. Such a rapid second fast break is theoretically very suitable for the current Celtics.

The formation Leon just mentioned refers to the most commonly used offensive formation in the second fast break. Four players are arranged on both sides of the bottom corner and two 45-degree three-point lines, with one big man on one side. The low position. The core of this tactic is that the big inside cut must penetrate the enemy's heart zone as a containment force as quickly as possible, and then the other four players must open their formations on the outside to give each player enough offensive space. The starting style of the tactics is often that a player in the bottom corner uses a big man to cut into the other side, while the ball is transferred on the outer line, and complete a strong-to-weak side transition with the cut-in player. After that, it is necessary to consider the next choice based on the opponent's defense and the position of the own player.

　　 Generally speaking, the offense will be completed without passing the ball more than three times, because even if there is not enough space, a single player can be directly played.

Leon’s transformation of this basic tactic is to pull the position of the weak-side corner player inward, and the position of the weak-side 45-degree player is also retracted, so that the original four players outside the three-point line become Two three-pointers were left and two were near the three-pointers. The advantage of this is that it shortens the distance between the inside coordinator and the weak side player. Once the opponent doubles, the possibility of large-scale transfer of the ball will be reduced. And Leon doesn't think the team needs to ambush four three-pointers on the outside. Appropriate internal pressure can enhance the team's impact on the inside and make up for the shortcomings of the team's serious lack of offensive ability inside.

The idea is good, but there will always be various accidents in practice. At least from the perspective of the Celtics’ second fast break in the current two games, it is still more dependent on the players’ individual performance. Leon emphasized the two This principle and the new offensive formation did not exert enough power.

Carol listened to Leon’s words, licked his lips and nodded, then shook his head, and then squeezed his mouth vigorously, saying with difficulty: "Your idea is very good, but... to be honest, I will give No comment..." Carol’s words made Jimmy, who was listening attentively, smile all of a sudden~www.NovelMTL.com~ After laughing, he put on the headphones and listened to music. In fact, what Leon said He doesn't understand either.

Carol is certainly not a idiot, but Leon’s description is too abstract and vague in a few words. Only people who have super abstract imagination and remember all tactical maps and tactical changes in their minds can interact with Leon communicates. Carroll's strength lies in the discovery of players' individual technical capabilities, rather than studying tactics.

　　 Seeing Carol saying this, Leon looked at Dick Hart on the other side, and the old man fell asleep with his eyes closed, not wanting to participate in the topic at all. He consciously couldn't talk to Leon about tactics without a tactical board and video tapes. He was so old that he still had such a strong abstract imagination. Not to mention Leon's quick thinking, Hart can't keep up.

At this time, Leon missed Vogel a little. Although he and Leon had never dealt with each other, he was also Pitino and O'Brien, but he has always been unique in tactical study. Leon had a good deduction.

"But I know someone who can definitely discuss this with you. If you have the opportunity, you can ask him for advice. Let me see the schedule... In a few days, his team will be a guest in Boston. Then you can study it carefully." Carroll looked at the schedule and said to Leon.

"Yes, I know who he is! Ask him well, he won't mind." Hart, who pretended to be asleep, heard Carol's words and immediately bounced and said. He looked at the schedule as if I also know who Carol is talking about~www.NovelMTL.com~ Book friends are welcome to visit and read. The latest, fastest and hottest serial works are all at ~www.NovelMTL.com~ mobile phone users, please go to read.