Harris sat in his room, smoking a cigarette as he sat on a table with a video recorder on the table in front of him, and the screen was full of cut-out videos of the U.S. men's basketball team.

In fact, he was familiar with the characteristics of each player, but the game was so difficult that he had to watch the footage over and over again, trying to find a way to beat the opponent.

The U.S. team is different from European and American teams, European and American teams are better at teamwork, and the Chinese men's basketball team can snipe the opponent in advance through tactical arrangements, just like China's victory over Spain, but the U.S. team has no tactics at all, their tactics are the individual abilities of the players.

So how to defend the opposing player's singles became a key issue.

Everyone knows that this U.S. team is weaker than the previous U.S. team, especially after losing two games in the group stage, and the two games lost were the two games with the lowest singles efficiency in them, but the skinny camel is bigger than the horse, coupled with the weak individual defensive ability of the Chinese players, especially the defensive ability of the flanks, it may not be so easy to reduce the singles efficiency of the American players.

Thinking of this, Harris took another deep puff of his cigarette.

The importance of this game is self-evident, if you win, everyone will be happy, and you may even win a medal in this Olympic Games, and the worst thing you can do if you don't get a medal is also the semi-finals, but if you lose, then the wrong decision to win against Serbia and Montenegro will become a fatal problem.

"Knock knock!"

There was a knock on the door to the room.

"Come in ......"

Harris raised his head and found that it was Lu Fei who opened the door, "Why haven't you slept so late, tomorrow is the game, you have to ensure your energy, if there is nothing important, please go back and rest as soon as possible." ”

Harris said solemnly.

Lu Fei glanced at the video on the screen and the scratch paper on Harris's desk with various tactical lines drawn, he pulled over the stool next to him and sat down: "There is something I want to communicate with you." ”

"What's the matter?" Harris asked.

Lu Fei smiled: "In the next game, I want to play as a playmaker." ”

"What?" Harris was stunned, and his brows immediately furrowed: "What position you play is something I consider, I need to arrange it according to the situation, it's not that you can play whatever position you want, you are a professional player, I think you should know better than me about the division of responsibilities." ”

What a stubborn old man.

Lu Fei coughed lightly, the smell of smoke in the room made him feel a little uncomfortable, "It is precisely because this is your duty that I came to discuss with you, I think you know better than me where the opponent's attack point is tomorrow, their two guards Allen Iverson and Stephen Marbury have more offensive occupancy than everyone in the team, and Liu Wei will have a hard time facing their defense." ”

"I can arrange for you to switch defenses, that's not a reason for you to play playmaking." Harris mercilessly refused.

"Their coach is Larry Brown!" Lu Fei said: "Liu Wei fights the organization, I'm afraid I won't even be able to pass half the game." ”

“……”

Harris understands what Lu Fei means, Larry Brown is a coach known for his defense, according to his experience, as long as he has watched the video of the Chinese men's basketball game, he will definitely press the defense on the guard line, Liu Wei wants to organize the offense under Iverson and Marbury, I am afraid he must also consider whether he can dribble the ball first.

"You go on......" Harris said.

Lu Fei knew that Harris was moved by him, so he stood up and took the paper and pen on Harris's desk, and wrote down a line of words with a brush.

"This is the record of the U.S. men's basketball team in this group stage, they played five games, three wins and two losses, the last of which was a big win against Angola, and Angola lost the game by losing the guard line and was broken by the U.S. team."

Harris nodded, he watched this game, and it was indeed as Lu Fei said.

"Then look at the other two games won by the American team, one won Greece 77:71, only won by six points, and the other won Australia 89:79 won ten points, the point difference is not big, and although the strength of Australia and Greece is not weak, but according to the previous games, it will definitely not only lose to the United States team with such a small number of points, there is only one reason, this year's American team has a problem."

Harris said coldly: "Everyone knows that the American team has problems, but no team dares to take them lightly. ”

"I didn't despise them." Lu Fei smiled: "On the contrary, I attach great importance to them, because in my opinion, they are much more difficult to play than Spain, because what the Chinese team is most afraid of is this kind of team with strong individual strength, this is the principle of mutual restraint, our shortcomings are just what they are good at, but the game is like this, if you want to win, you have to find a solution, isn't it?" ”

"Do you have a solution?" Harris asked.

"Yes!" Lu Fei replied seriously.

Harris glanced at the score written on the paper by Lu Fei, he has studied countless games in these games, and he has never thought of a way for the Chinese team to break the game, just like Lu Fei said, the biggest shortcoming of the Chinese team is precisely what the American team is best at.

"Go on." He snuffed out the cigarette that had burned to the end in his hand in the ashtray.

"Okay, then let's move on to the two games that the U.S. team lost." Lu Fei took out a blank piece of paper again and drew on it: "The first loss to Puerto Rico, Arroyo scored 24 points, many people say that Puerto Rico caught the American team off guard, and some people say that it was because of the arrogance of the American team that they lost the game, but in fact, there was only one reason why they lost the game, and their offensive and defensive run-in went wrong." ”

Lu Fei paused and continued: "The coach of the American team is Larry Brown, and he is best at defense, but look at this group of players, Iverson, Marbury, Stoudemire, Duncan, Jefferson, none of them are players with excellent defense, and the only one with good defense is Marion, so this group of American players Larry Brown can't be used, his defensive concept is not good for these players, no one can do it well, and the United States also knows that the players called up are better at offense, so they invited D'Antoni, But this became the key to their loss! ”

"Oh?" Harris came interested.

"Is D'Antoni good at attacking? Very good at it! However, his offense is not suitable for Marbury and Iverson, not to mention Larry Brown and D'Antoni, two completely different coaches to adjust a team, you can imagine what kind of contradictions will arise, just like you and Younas, if it weren't for you and Younas to give in to each other, I think the Chinese team is probably a mess now. ”

"Then how do you think the two of them won't give in to each other?"

"What would be the record of making concessions to each other?" Lu Fei said with a smile: "They didn't give in to each other, it can be seen from the way they attacked, and the two people on the defensive end did not have a unified arrangement, their defense relied on their excellent physical fitness...... We can take another look at their loss to Lithuania, 90:94, lost by four points, and Salunas Jasikevičius scored 28 points to lead Lithuania to victory, I don't know if you can see that? ”

Harris frowned, trying to see something from the four games that Lu Fei had analysed, and he had been analysing the opponent's tactical footage, never expecting to be able to put the four games together.

Suddenly, his eyes lit up.

"You mean ......"

Lu Fei nodded: "That's right, the game won by the U.S. men's basketball team relied on the attack of the guard combination to penetrate the opponent's defense, and the U.S. men's basketball team lost the game, Iverson and Marbury were almost blown up......"

"And if we want to win, we start by beating them."