Chapter 7: Intra-Team Competition
At 9 a.m., Coach Bill Fitch showed up at the training ground on time, and today was the first day of the team's assembly. The Pen & Fun www.biquge.info let the players do some simple training on their own in the morning, and arranged a practice match in the afternoon.
In the game, Coach Fitch arranged for Tiger and Birubs to take Wright, Wang Zhizhi, and Bowen as the red team, and Rodman to take O'Neal Jr., Jackson, Ginobili, and Ragabel as the blue team. It's a way for Coach Fitch to get them familiar with each other faster, and it's not divided by the main bench.
At the beginning of the game, Coach Fitch arranged for an assistant coach to be the referee, and Wright and O'Neal Jr. stood on the halfway line to jump the ball. O'Neal Jr. got the ball first for the blue team, and Ginobili acted as a point guard and started the offense. The red team had Bowen defending Ginobili, while Tiger followed Jackson, Wang Zhizhi struggled to get Rodman, and Birubs naturally played against Ragabel.
Although Rodman is not young, he has completely abused the rookie Wang Zhizhi, whether it is strength, card position, or experience, Wang Zhizhi can compare. "Boy, haven't you eaten? Defend me like you? Rodman scored an easy goal and sprayed directly at Wang Zhizhi in front of him, you must know that trash talk is also the most important part of the NBA. Wang Zhizhi, who was already lacking in confidence, had an even more ugly expression on his face.
Tiger walked over, patted Wang Zhizhi's ass and said, "Wang, don't fight with him, use your advantage to fight him, you pay attention to blocking and dismantling, I will pass the ball to you." ”
Birubs took the baseline ball sent by Wright, dribbled over half the court, Jackson clinged to Tiger tightly, not giving him a chance to catch the ball, Wang Zhizhi actively came out to block and dismantle, Tiger ran back, received Birubs' pass, dribbled to the basket to break through, Rodman came over to help defend, Tiger passed the ball behind a hidden back, Wang Zhizhi was in the position of the three-point line, received the ball and shot, a large two-point hit. If you want to say that the Clippers know Wang Zhizhi's characteristics best, it must be Tiger, with a super high basketball IQ and a soft touch, which is Wang Zhizhi's advantage from other interior lines.
Wang Zhizhi's big two points surprised Coach Fitch and Rodman, Coach Fitch quickly recorded with a pen, Rodman and Wang Zhizhi faced each other under the basket again, and the big worm bullied Wang Zhizhi with his strength again. "Boy, see it! What an interior player needs is power, and shooting from the outside like you do is what the girls do. Wang Zhizhi still didn't answer, but tried hard to defend, the unique introverted personality of the Chinese, so he didn't know how to respond to Rodman's trash talk, which he needed to adapt to slowly.
When Rodman educated rookie Wang Zhizhi, O'Neal Jr. scored a goal for the blue team, switching offense and defense, Rodman consciously looked at Wang Zhizhi's position, not giving the other party a chance to shoot comfortably, Tiger attracted the bag this time, passed the ball to the left side, Bowen received the ball at a zero degree angle, and raised his hand to shoot a three-pointer. O'Neal Jr. shouted twice dissatisfied with Ginobili's defense, the blue team attacked again, O'Neal Jr. began to raise his hand to ask for the ball, and entered singles mode, Tiger let go of Jackson to wrap O'Neal Jr., O'Neal Jr. did not pass the ball, but chose to play strongly, and the blue team's offense began to have problems.
O'Neal Jr.'s non-passing made the blue team's many offenses problematic after that, but the red team's Tiger found the feeling of playing in college, blocking, breaking, and splitting the ball, Birumps and Wang Zhizhi's basketball IQ and running outside and shooting ability were fully displayed, and the score began to be slowly pulled away. A few rounds later, Rodman flew and yelled at O'Neal Jr. The score was behind, Xiao Ao was not in a good mood, and now he was yelled at by Rodman, and he stopped doing the same wild dragging, and the two of them had their heads together, and their mouths began to be unclean.
The coach and the players hurriedly hugged and separated the two, Coach Fitch came over, and there was no majority, and he made a direct substitution, this kind of thing the old coach has experienced too much, and the two players are also honest in front of Coach Fitch. Coach Fitch replaced Rodman with Skinner, and the game continued, with the blue team playing even more chaotic. Coach Fitch came to Rodman and sat down, pointed to the game on the field and said, "How do you feel about watching the red team's cooperation?" ”
Rodman is not in a very good mood now, but he still gives face to the old handsome and looks at the field. "The red team's style of play is very similar to the Jazz's pick-and-roll tactics, with enough space, reasonable movement, good shooting touch, and everyone's role is obvious."
"There are some differences between this and the Jazz's pick-and-roll, I watched the video of Tiger in Wake Forest some time ago, and the current red team uses Wake Forest's blocking and pick-and-roll tactics, but their interior line is not up to the strength of Wake Forest's interior line, so the power and change are much smaller.
"Wake Forest University? I've heard of them, but I haven't seen them play. Tiger and Spurs' Tim. Duncan is a player from Wake Forest. Rodman began to take a closer look at the game on the field.
"I'm going to use this tactic with the Clippers, what do you think?"
"Aren't I the same guy as Carl?" Rodman glared.
Coach Fitch gave Rodman a blank look, and while recording the performance of the players on the court, he said: "The current Clippers can't do the combination of the Jazz's inside and outside, do you really think you're still a young man?" Our focus will be on the perimeter. You teach Jermaine more lessons when you train in the future, this guy's personality is too arrogant and needs to be cleaned up. As for the king, you give me honesty, don't bully people to be introverted. ”
"Cut! I was bullying him, I was teaching him how to be an inside player, and he played too soft. ”
"He's too skinny and he's too fat, and it's going to take a process to change, but he's got really good shooting touch and a good basketball IQ, so if he can grow up quickly, it will help the team a lot." Coach Fitch and Rodman have been discussing the performance of the players on the sidelines since then.
The game ended after only 20 minutes, and the red team emerged victorious, much to O'Neal Jr.'s unconvinced and blackened his face. Jackson was also unhappy and a little dissatisfied with O'Neal Jr. Tiger and Birumps were both pleased with each other's performances, and the two sat together to discuss the game, and Coach Fitch left the training ground after the game. Rodman took the initiative to find O'Neal Jr. for a heads-up, and the other players also gathered around to watch.
O'Neal Jr.'s defense has a big problem, he is inexperienced, he eats feints very much, and he often flies at one point, Rodman didn't make too much effort, and completely used experience to tease the other party, and several big players next to him watched Rodman's performance seriously, and now what they lack most is experience.