"Rudy, I want to discuss something with you. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info"

"If you and I are polite, I will fully support you."

"Dawson told me that there are players who want to leave our team because they have played too little and don't have enough opportunities to perform. I would like to alleviate this problem with a tactical arrangement. You see that there are only 240 minutes a ball in five positions, which is something we can't change, but the number of rounds can still be controlled. ”

"The number of rounds? You mean......"

"Switch the tempo and play a new tactic. Please lend me one assistant and five substitutes, I want to try this new tactic on the bench. ”

***

In the early morning of November 6, the Rockets came to the training ground to prepare for a day of training. Tang Shuai developed a new training model for them.

"The theme of today's training is the intra-team simulation match. Hakim couldn't participate, so there were six people left in each team, with me and Jason leading one team each. Team B trained with Jason in the morning and officially started in the afternoon. ”

"The players on the B team are, Memet. Oku, Gerald. Wallace, Richard. Jefferson, Michael. Reed, Tony. Parker and Terry. Brown. Yuanfei announced.

The players of the B team were dumbfounded, isn't this the main player who plays on the bench? The B team will play a starting line-up except for Jefferson, and the rest are pure substitutes, especially since Brown has not played a minute this season.

"The people in Group A often play together, and they are all very proficient, so it's good to train as usual."

"Coach, what do you mean? There is a big gap between the strength of this B team and us, right? "Kenny. Thomas couldn't help but ask.

"Just talk about you, Kenny." Olajuwon, who was doing basic recovery training on the sidelines, criticized: "Then I'll introduce you to my buddy, another Kenny (Kenny. Smith, a former Rockets player who retired from playing at TNT Sports), let you go with him to do the commentary, you're nagging anyway. ”

"Don't, don't, boss, I'll shut up." Thomaston relented. In this team, Tang Shuai is a loving father, and Da Meng plays the role of a strict elder brother.

The players of Team B were also confused, and it was not until Yuanfei gave a lot of theoretical explanations and the assistant coach also gave a brief explanation of the tactical settings that they slowly understood.

***

In the afternoon, the team simulation match officially began, and the game only played a quarter of 6 minutes in each half. Team A's Magloyl sat on the bench, and Tang Shuai lined up the lineup of Yao Ming, Thomas, Turkoglou, Maddie and Billups. Team B was as expected, with Brown on the bench and the other five on the pitch.

Jumping the ball, Team A Yao Ming was the first to touch the ball and dialed it to Maddie. Maddie didn't hand it to Billups but pushed straight on his own, and in the face of Reed's defense, he scored 2 points on a jumper.

Gerrard. Wallace immediately picked up the ball and handed it to Parker, who pushed forward at high speed and hit the three-point line before Yao Ming and Turkoglu could return to defense. Maddie and Billups hurried to get a grip on Parker, who was pushing in, only to see the ball go to the corner where it should have been unoccupied.

Reed had been ambushed at some point. Maddie was taken aback, could it be that he ran straight to this corner just now after being scored head-on?

Reed naturally wouldn't let go of this unguarded opportunity, took aim and made a three-point shot.

Maddy singled Reed again and scored a layup to give the team a 4-3a lead.

Parker pushed forward at high speed again, and this time Team A was a little prepared to prevent Reed and Parker's connection. But Oku ran directly to the other bottom corner, and Yao Ming hesitated for a moment and did not follow. Oku made a three-point shot, and the ball turned around the frame 2 times before it went in.

"Yao, follow him and stop him." Thomas yelled, "There's me on the inside." ”

Maddie breaks through Reed and passes Yao Ming. Yao Ming turned and dunked, and Oku couldn't defend the offense. 6 to 6 draw.

Team B repeated the old trick, and Yao Ming followed Oku out of the three-second zone. Wallace stepped forward to block Billups, and Parker easily broke through to the three-second zone. And Maddie on this side did not dare to step forward to help defend Reed in the bottom corner in order to guard against it. Parker scored a pick-up against Thomas, who was clearly unable to keep up.

The next simulation match was like Team B's tactical training match, although Team B only had a simple fast attack, Team A had a hard time coping with it. Wallace blocked and dunked, Jefferson dunked quickly, Maddie stepped forward to help Reed run an open three-pointer, Parker shook off his own mid-range shot, Team A obviously had the advantage of strength, but it didn't take advantage of anything, and basically only relied on Maddy's super personal ability to score. The final result was that Team A narrowly defeated Team B 32-31.

"Great!" Tang Shuai clapped vigorously and praised the players loudly: "Team B played fantastic, this is the bench tactic I want to see." Jason, you're doing so well. ”

"It seems to be working pretty well. There are two days left until the next game, and I want to use Kenny and Chauncey to use this tactic to hone in on these two days. "Yuanfei is also very satisfied.

***

On Nov. 9, the Rockets hosted the Warriors.

"The average Warriors are 24.4 years old, which is close to us. It's a young team. Yuanfei made a pre-game introduction as usual: "Unlike the warriors of previous years, don't think that they are still that bad team." Now they are numbered 0 Gilbert. Arenas, No. 33 Antoine. Jamison and No. 23 Jason. Richardson is the core and plays very fast. They currently have the second fastest pace behind the Kings and the second fastest in the league. ”

"No matter how fast it is, it shouldn't be as fast as Team B......" The honest Margloyl couldn't help but complain, it seems that the memory of being taught by Team B in the past few days is more painful.

"In addition to their center Eric . Dampier also has a certain strength, as well as this year's Tanhua show Dunleavy. Of course, this team is not mature compared to us. Although their combat effectiveness has improved a lot compared to last year, they are not yet a strong team. They have a lot of talent and potential, and they could be a tough opponent for us in the next few years. Yuan Fei continued: "It's just that today, we are in our own stadium, and we have to kill them. ”

"I'm going to kill you." A few minutes later, Billups listened to Arenas whispering something similar to Jason's in his ear, and his heart was full of mockery.

"Girls only talk about cannons, use strength to speak, young man." The calm wise general Chauncy replied.

"You can keep up with us and blow again." Arenas didn't show any weakness, but after a few rounds he froze, as if the Rockets had a lot of experience dealing with fast breaks. Billups always found the right position to deal with him and Dampier's pick-and-roll, and Jamison and Richardson, who were running back and forth, were completely blocked by Thomas and Maddie. The Warriors' tactics are often reduced to positional battles, and the offensive end is completely suppressed by the Rockets, but fortunately, the Rockets are not very good today, and the point difference has not been widened.

Warriors head coach Musselman saw that the momentum was not good, and hurriedly called a timeout, and then sent his troops to replace Dunleavy, who shot accurately. Looking back at the Rockets, all the Warriors were stunned, and the Rockets changed four people at once, except for Maddy, the other four starters were all gone.

The French sports car on the stage immediately started, Parker sent assists one after another, Maddie dunked, Jefferson dunked, and the Warriors, who had average rim protection ability, were beaten back by the Rockets' fast break.

"This is our team's first run.and.gun tactic...... The rockets actually played so slippery. Musselman muttered to himself.

(Quick fact: The run-and-gun tactic originated in 1988 and was invented by Don Brown, the "mad scientist" who was known for his innovative spirit as the head coach of the Warriors at the time. Nelson. In 2002, Nelson was the Mavericks head coach)

In this season, the Warriors can be regarded as a team with a sharp offense and a fast pace (third in the offensive league and bottom in the defensive league in history), but when the Warriors players meet the Rockets, a fast horse B team, some of them can't play. Parker abused fellow Arenas, and then Kenny. Thomas also showed off his new technique, and the pick-and-roll or split-ball after the pick-and-roll with Parker made it difficult for the poorly defended Warriors to guard against.

At 104:127, the Rockets beat their opponents. Parker had 27 points and five assists, and Kenny. Thomas played an astonishing 20+10+6, Maddy also contributed 31 points, and Magloyer had 9 points and 12 rebounds. If you have to say that the only person who has a poor performance is Yao Ming, who is too big to keep up with the rhythm, he only played 7 minutes and got 3 points and 2 rebounds.

As Wang Yuanfei expected, the run-and-bomb tactics alleviated the Rockets' players' complaints about the lack of playing time to a certain extent. The pace is fast, the physical exertion is high, and the players can basically feel the signal that they are fully active. In addition, due to the more rounds played, the players can also play better statistics in a relatively short playing time, which is enough to satisfy the vanity and commercial needs of young players (young players who cannot play good statistics are difficult to renew).

The run-and-bomb tactics also have obvious shortcomings, one is that a tall center like Yao Ming obviously can't keep up with the rhythm, but the Rockets play the rhythm on the bench, which does not affect Yao Ming's positional battle commanded by Billups after he appears; The second is the huge physical consumption of running and shooting, which leads to the lack of physical fitness of players or lax defense. And no matter how kind Tang Shuai is, he will never allow players to be lazy on the defensive end due to the high consumption on the offensive end. Rebounding and rebounding is where the fast break begins, and the players have understood this over the course of a few days of simulations, so they can still stay focused on the defensive end. Coupled with the Rockets' solid bench depth, they can easily guarantee an 11-man rotation, so there is no big problem with the tactical execution.

If there are still dissatisfaction with the current Rockets, the most prominent thing is that Yao Ming's performance is not satisfactory. Da Yao was also very dissatisfied with his performance and worked harder in training. These were all seen by Tang Shuai.

After a two-day break and a better familiarization with the new tactics, the Rockets' next opponent, the Trail Blazers, arrived. This time Yao Ming faced Sabonis and Rashid. Wallace's strong interior line, with a good stat of 7+4+2 in 15 minutes of playing time. Kenny. Thomas also had another eye-catching performance, scoring 12+9+2, and Wallace scored just 9 points on 2-of-14 shooting. At 86:103, the Rockets ushered in another big victory.