The Clippers left Los Angeles for an road trip. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 After a refurbishment in Los Angeles, the Clippers are now in high spirits, easily beating the Nets 116-102, bringing the Nets' record to the worst record in team history with 2 wins and 15 losses. Then they beat the Celtics 122-106 in Boston to Portland with a 13-4 record and a third-place finish in the West.

Located in the northwestern U.S. state of Oregon, near the Pacific Ocean, Portland is a port city also known as the 'City of Roses'. Even the home stadium of the Trail Blazers is called 'Rose Garden Arena'. The city is full of depression, romance and petty moods, and is one of the best cities in the United States for people to live in.

After arriving in this beautiful city, Tiger finally received a call about Jason, in which Andy told Tiger that Jason and his girlfriend Caitlin had a relationship problem, which led to the recent slump. This news made Tiger breathe a sigh of relief, Caitlin and Jason have been together since college, if there is a relationship problem, it is normal for Jason to be depressed, but he should be able to adjust quickly, after all, for most American teenagers, falling out of love is a normal thing.

After worrying about things for a long time, there was finally an answer, which calmed Tiger's mood and returned to normal, and quickly drew attention to the game that was about to start, and the opponent of the Clippers in the next game was the Western giants - the Portland Trail Blazers.

The owner of the Trail Blazers is Paul Allen, one of the founders of Microsoft, which means that the team is not short of money, and the team's head coach, Michael Dunleavy, is also a famous coach in the NBA, and the team's lineup center Avedas Sabonis, who is 2.21 meters tall. Power forward Rasheed Wallace, a well-balanced attacker and defender, a talented all-rounder, with a high level of tactical literacy and a great sense of teamwork, is the kind of player who can sacrifice stats for victory. Small forward Scott Pippen, Jordan's best helper, winner of 6 championship rings, all-round fighter. Shooting guard Steve Smith, playmaker was the 1996 Rookie of the Year, flying squirrel Damon Stoudemire. And then there's the team's sixth man, Brian Grant.

The Trail Blazers are lacking in everything, have an All-Star-caliber starting lineup, and the team has made the playoffs and even the Finals multiple times. But the most memorable thing is that they selected Sam Bowie with the roster in the 1984 draft, and gave up the basketball god Michael Jordan.

In the face of such a Trail Blazer, the Clippers can be said to have no chance of winning, and after thinking about it for a long time, Tiger finally knocked on the door of Coach Bill Fish. "Coach, I have some thoughts on the home game against the Trail Blazers that I need to discuss with you."

Bilfitch was very receptive to Tiger's idea, after all, this was not the first time, Bilfitch invited Tiger into the room and sat down, poured him a glass of water, and motioned him to speak slowly.

"Coach, the current lineup of the Trail Blazers, the inside line is stronger than the outside line, and our inside line happens to be relatively weak, and when we meet the Trail Blazers, we can say that there is no hope of winning. I thought about it for a long time, the biggest weakness of the Trail Blazers' interior line is Sabonis's height. Sabonis' 2.21m is his advantage, but his height affects his speed and agility, and we can arrange for Jermaine to try his way around the front and cut off his receiving lanes. "This method Tiger is too familiar with, and it all comes from watching a lot of Yao Ming's games with the Rockets in his previous life.

However, Coach Bilfitch listened to Tiger's opinion, frowned, picked up a tactical board, and began to demonstrate to Tiger. "You see, if Jermaine is in this position and defends Sabonis in front, then the ball can be moved to the side and put in Sabonis's hands again, and Jermaine will lose his defensive position in this way. This tactic has been tried before, but it didn't work well. ”

"Coach, what about defending around the front of this position on the side? And Jermaine's biggest advantage over other centers is his movement speed. If I defend around the front from the side, it will interfere even if I can't completely cut off the passing lane, which will buy Jermaine time to get out of his new position. You see, leaving one person in the high post and one person on either side can interfere with the Trail Blazers' passing line to the maximum. Tiger followed the memories of his previous life and explained to Bilfitch the idea of going around the front defense.

Bilfitch looked at the threads that Tiger drew on the tactical board, and a lot of inspiration appeared in his mind, and he grabbed Tiger's hand, and Bilfage said excitedly: "Tiger, your idea is simply genius." You've completely brought me a new way of thinking, and what about after that? ”

Tiger looked at the excited Bill Fish, touched the back of his neck embarrassedly, and said, "No, I only thought of this, and the specific needs to be arranged by the coach." Hey! ”

"Gone?" Bilfitch was a little disappointed, picked up the tactical board, Bilfitch looked at it seriously, and muttered to himself: "3-2 joint defense plus double winding forward inside and outside?" ”

Listening to Bill Fick's self-talk, Tiger finally understood that this was the legendary 3-2 defense! In the past, when watching live games, he often heard this professional term, but after entering the NBA, he found that he had not been exposed to the concept of joint defense at all. In fact, the NBA was not used in this period, and the NBA was more used in international basketball games, and the NBA only appeared after 2001.

Looking at Bilfitch, who was completely caught in his own thoughts, Tiger knew that the current Bilfitch had completely entered the deduction of this set of tactics, and everything he knew was finished, and it was useless to stay, so Tiger left quietly, so as not to disturb Bilfitch.

In the afternoon, the Clippers rented a temporary training hall in Portland, and Coach Bilfitch began to take the players to experiment with this tactic, which is rarely used in the NBA, and the joint defense has not yet appeared, so the players are not very comfortable at first, Bilfitch stood on the sidelines, kept shouting, reminding everyone of the position and precautions, after an afternoon of hard work, although there are still some problems, but can barely be used in the game.

During the whole training process, the best performer was Tiger, who was very familiar with this set of tactics, and had seen the effect of the game, and quickly grasped the key points of this set of tactics. Another player who performed very well was Jermaine O'Neal, whose basketball talent was really good, with excellent physical condition, flexible footwork, and a wide range of motion, which allowed him to adapt to this set of tactics very quickly.

After Jermaine O'Neal came to the Clippers, he was cleaned up by Rodman, but the person he was most grateful to in his heart was also Rodman, who had a lot of problems on the defensive end during his 3-year bench career with the Trail Blazers, and Rodman taught him a lot of things in the Clippers, especially the pace of movement on the inside, which is a stunt that a center relies on to survive, Jermaine O'Neal is not an idiot, who treats him well, he knows clearly, so the longer he gets along, the less arrogance and conceit he has, and the deeper his feelings for Rodman and the Clippers.