The names diamond and horn are unfamiliar to most basketball fans, but they are more or less familiar to fans who have studied techniques and tactics.

Compared with the era when playing stalks was the king more than ten years later, diamonds and horns have not yet been played into stalks, so many people still only exist in the field of technology and tactics for the cognition of these two terms.

Lu Fei sometimes thinks about it, it's ridiculous, when something becomes a stalk, he loses the opportunity to defend himself.

Fortunately, it's 2002, and you don't have to see this tactic, all that flashes in your mind is all kinds of negative news about the men's basketball team from all walks of life, WeChat and Weibo accounts, and Wutai Central Station.

Restore the essence, everything has nothing to do with anything other than tactics.

In fact, the diamond and horn tactics are not complicated, in the final analysis, playing basketball is not to build rockets, and 22 people participate, with the front, middle and back three fronts of football, the 5V5 basketball game is already very simple.

Diamond and horn tactics both involve two basic concepts: center forward and cover.

The center, known as center in English, as the name suggests, is the center axis on the field and the center of the team. On the basketball court, where air supremacy is paramount, the center is the tallest and strongest player, and its tactical position is self-evident.

Lu Fei's brows furrowed, and he looked at Gao Wei, the No. 19 center of Qiantang Normal University in the video, and sighed.

Gao Wei is definitely a qualified center forward who can be used as a center at the tactical core.

Not only can he finish the basket, but he can also use his vision to command offense and defense, and he can also use his size advantage to cover his teammates - blocking their defenders to create space for his teammates to attack.

On the basketball court, blocking, dismantling and covering are the most basic and difficult offensive methods on the basketball court.

And the reason that Lu Fei feels that this Gao Wei can be used as the core of the tactics is Gao Wei's grasp of the space on the court, or it may also be the coach of Qiantang Normal University who grasps the space of players on the field.

On the basketball court, where is the center of the positional offense?

The answer – the free throw line.

Gao Wei is the tallest person in Qiantang Normal University, and naturally has the best vision, once he catches the ball in the free throw line area, it is like a tiger returning to the mountain and diving into the sea. You can jump shots directly, you can attack the frame with the ball, you can pass the ball to the sides and under the basket, and you can also do hand-to-hand coverage with your outside teammates.

Whether in the NBA or on the international stage, it is very common for interior players to hold the ball in the free-throw line area.

Of course, all this is premised on having a good center.

And Gao Wei is such a center.

Lu Fei's eyes were staring at the videotape tightly, in this round of offense, Gao Wei of Qiantang Division received the ball at the top of the free throw line, and the two guards pulled away from the three-point line, and the other forward used his tall body as a cover against Gao Wei at the moment when he received the ball, and prepared to receive the ball at the right waist position, while the forward player on the left made a no-ball cover for the guard outside the three-point line, and the guard slipped to the bottom line. And after the end of the off-ball screen, the striker suddenly accelerated and cut in.

At this time, Lu Fei pressed the pause.

Everyone's eyes looked at Lu Fei in surprise, not understanding why he was pausing here, Guo Qiang turned around, and when he saw the picture on the court at this time, his eyes were stunned.

At this time, Gao Wei of Qiantang Division is at the free throw line, the two forwards are on both sides of the waist, and the guard at the bottom is just under the basket.

The four of them form a diamond-like stand.

Lu Fei sighed, this is the diamond tactic!

Because Gao Wei has a range threat, his defenders don't dare to let him go to guard the basket, so that a diamond-shaped vacuum is formed, and the next second, whether it is Gao Wei's projection, or passing to the empty cutting line, and even if the opponent's guard does not keep up, he can directly stuff the ball directly into the hands of his own guard under the basket.

Strictly speaking, diamonds are not tactics, they are just offensive starters.

The reason why some are used well and some are not used well, one is the center's projection and passing ability, the second is the other player's ability to cut and run without the ball, and the third is the player's finishing ability.

No matter how good the tactics are, it will be useless if you can't shoot.

Seeing that some teammates still didn't understand, Lu Fei glanced at Guo Qiang, and Guo Qiang nodded and motioned for him to come.

Lu Fei coughed lightly: "You can take a look at the picture of this round of attack, I believe everyone has seen this tactic, but like Qiantang Division University has done so well, I guess you haven't encountered it yet, I want to tell you that Qiantang Division University is a team with extremely high tactical literacy, this kind of tactical literacy is either initiated by the opponent's center player, or because of the opponent's coach, and the most worrying thing is the latter." ”

In a situation where the per capita level of the college league is not much different, a good coach can build a group of shrimp soldiers and crabs into a division of kings.

What's more, they also have a good player like Gao Wei.

"Could it be a coincidence?" Liu Zhuang asked suspiciously.

Lu Fei smiled, adjusted the progress of the video, adjusted it to another offensive picture, and said, "If it was a coincidence, then maybe it shouldn't be this time." ”

Liu Zhuang looked at the video.

In the picture, the coach of Yangcheng University of Technology is obviously aware of Gao Wei's threat, and asks the players to guard strictly and not give the opponent a chance to cut empty.

But in the next round, the Qiantang division changed its formation.

Is a center standing at the free-throw line too thin? It doesn't matter, this time the center and the power forward, both inside lines are pulled out, standing at each end of the free throw line - which is commonly known as the horn position.

It not only increases offensive options, but also pulls out interior space, and can also improve the quality of coverage with double screens to create more offensive space.

As a result, the double inside line stood at both ends of the free throw line, and the horn tactics came naturally.

The horns and diamonds are just starting shots, and the changes behind are ever-changing, such as D'Antoni's V-shaped blocking, such as Popovich's twin tower tactics, but everything is the same, and even Da Yao and Dazhi of the national men's basketball team often use these two tactics.

The main reason why it was played as a stalk later was because the basic skills of the men's basketball team were too poor later, and when you were no longer a threat, who cared if you were a horn or a diamond.

When the guard's three-point shot is not accurate inside, how is this team going to play?

To put it bluntly, I still can't vote.

When a team is faced with this kind of problem, no matter how earth-shattering the coach's cry of "horn diamond" next to him is, it sounds more like a desperate struggle before the building collapses.

Even if you are lucky enough to avoid the "timeout for the lead" and the "sideline ball error", you can't ignore this fundamental problem.

One cannot force the elephant in the house to be ignored.

That's the most fundamental problem in basketball: getting the ball into the basket.

Liu Zhuang was silent after watching this video, Huang Nan lowered his head and frowned, and Guo Qiang couldn't help but light a cigarette in front of all the team members.

He also used to smoke.

But at least you don't smoke in such public places.

Whether it is the reason for Gao Wei, No. 19 of Qiantang Normal University, or because the opponent has a strong coach, this battle is full of difficulties.

Lu Fei smiled faintly, "Actually, the problem is not so serious. ”

Everyone was stunned when they heard this, and even Guo Qiang forgot to flick off the cigarette ash.

"Just let them not be able to vote."

Lu Fei's voice said it lightly, but it made the brows of everyone in the room furrow even tighter, isn't this the same as not saying it?

Who doesn't know that the opponent won't be able to shoot accurately, but the problem is that the hit rate is the final say?

Lu Fei did not continue.

He knew that some things were easy to say, but it wasn't a good thing to tell them before they figured it out.

In fact, there is another way,

He didn't say,

That is, it is okay to score more points than the opponent.

There was silence in the house, Lu Fei took out his mobile phone, the phone kept vibrating just now, and he didn't answer it when he watched the video, then he opened it and looked,

Well?

Gu Tang?