Leon is actually still very nervous in his heart, because this set of defensive tactics has been in a state of experimentation and running-in. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

A few days spent in coaching camp in the summer inspired Leon, and after confirming that Carlisle would join the team as the Celtics' chief offensive assistant, Leon decided to shift some of his focus to defense to fill the void left by Hart Sr.'s departure.

As he mentioned on the first day of training camp, he was interested in how to combine amoeba defense with one-on-one defense, for which he did a lot of theoretical work and math calculations. He tried to use the membership function to generalize the changes in the defensive formation, and categorized the 19 defensive categories that he had previously envisioned. Recognizing that players might not be able to accept so many categories, he went on to cut them down further, making mistakes and theoretically categorizing defensive postures into five.

The so-called five postures are not based on the opponent's offensive system to determine their own formation, but require players on the field to be able to comprehensively judge the current defensive posture of the team according to their position, ball path and the ability of the opposing player, and decide which defense they want to use and how they will cooperate with their teammates according to the defensive posture.

When Leon first came up with the idea, he first discussed it with Carlisle, Cowens, and Sigfried, who said that the model was too complicated, and that even if it were to memorize the rules, it would be too difficult for the ever-changing basketball court. They believe that players rely on inertia, experience, chemistry and talent on the defensive end, and that this kind of patterned defense can throw the team into chaos.

Later, Leon communicated his idea to Dick Hart, but was unexpectedly highly praised by Hart, and believed that Leon's idea is likely to change the entire NBA's defensive history and may really have an impact on the NBA's rules.

Hart's assessment may be a bit exaggerated, but there is no doubt that Hart sees a new way of thinking about the future of defense in Leon's mind - in basketball, defense is inherently passive, which cannot be changed in a sport where it is a competition to score more points. Leon's idea is to shrink this passive infinitely and make it infinitely close to the active.

In the NBA, even the best defensive players can't lock up a super scorer. Even if you watch his offensive moves 10,000 times on video, when he feints during the game, when he shakes, turns, changes direction, the defender still can't make the right choice most of the time.

The same is true as a team, most of the time when the opponent cooperates, even if they remind each other 10,000 times in the video and pre-match preparation, it is still difficult for a single or two players to understand the opponent's intentions.

This is the difference between passive and active, as well as inertia and subconscious force, and the attacking side has a natural advantage after all.

Leon believes that the way to crack this natural advantage is to judge the opponent's possible offensive intentions as far in advance as possible, and then make the choice that hinders the opponent's success rate with the highest chance.

In fact, in one-on-one defense and small-scale defense, many players and coaches have begun to apply this idea since the 80s, constantly studying the selection of offensive players through videos, deriving his habitual choices, and then defending against his habits. For example, if a player is accustomed to breaking through with his right hand, then focus on his right side and give up the left side appropriately, so that he will not be judged on the spot and his left and right side will not be able to find the north. In football, the same is true for goalkeepers who bet on one side.

However, it is too difficult for the whole team to find the offensive habits of the opponent, and each team's offense does have its own routines, but there are too many routines and too many variations, and even if you can summarize the rules, there is no way to determine which rules will apply to that offense.

Therefore, Leon simply came up with an exhaustive method, listed all the offensive routines he could think of, and then analyzed the situation faced by the defender at this time, and then continued to simplify, so as to get five situations. Combined with these situations, and then tell the players how to adjust the defensive formation and local defensive coordination, as for some of the loopholes that will inevitably arise, it will take the players' experience and tacit understanding to make up.

If this kind of defense is played to the extreme, then any so-called tactics of the NBA will have nothing to hide, and all tactics that run out of empty positions and misalignments will be ineffective, because their purpose will be recognized. Effective tactics will only be one-on-one singles and fast breaks, but sharp packs and rotations will also greatly reduce the efficiency of singles tactics, and fast breaks alone will not win a match.

It can be said that such a defense will be the "ultimate defense" that Gurdridge dreams of, and it will change the misalignment between offense and defense to the greatest extent. However, if this level of defense is achieved, then the team must have reached an unattainable tacit understanding, and each player will become a master tactician and not just a pawn in the hands of the coach.

Leon knows that such an ultimate defense will never appear, but that doesn't stop him from leading the team to the ultimate toward this goal.

Now, with only three minutes on the court, the Celtics have used defense to make the Timberwolves, who have been smooth sailing, unable to find north. It's not just a sudden discomfort brought about by defensive changes, but because the Celtics have grasped the opponent's soft underbelly several times in defense, and the ever-changing defensive pattern has made it impossible for the wolves to speak.

"Smart, these guys are really smart." At the timeout, this was Leon's evaluation of the five defenders on the court, Bale, Posey, Reed, Garnett, Brown, the last three Leon could predict, and the first two guys performed more than Leon expected.

Originally, Leon thought that Ange had signed Posey only to be a backup for Pierce, but now he found that this is an excellent small forward who can take charge of himself, fierce and intelligent defensively, and is very good at using his body. As for the other guard, Bale, Leon has been thinking about how to use him before, the backcourt Reed, Arenas, and Alston are actually enough to rotate in three ways, and Bale's attacking power often makes him not enough to be a backup point guard.

Tonight, Bale's defense made Leon's eyes shine, in fact, in training, he found that this guy with thick eyebrows and big eyes is decisive in defense, has excellent judgment of footwork, and is not the kind of player who ******** to pinch, which is quite important for defending the opponent's core defender. Mad dog bites can certainly work wonders for a while, and truly restricting the opponent on the ball is the best defense.

Leon then reinstated his regular lineup during a timeout, replacing Bell with Pierce and Arenas for Reed, which is a situation of fighting for frontcourt rebounds with forward height.

The new defensive mode is still being experimented, and the effect has reached his satisfaction, so he will switch to the traditional scoring lineup and use the offense to recover the lost points.

One guard and four forwards, chasing points like the wind.

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Sanders feels like his head is getting bigger, and now he's wondering what defensive strategy the Celtics are using against him. Man-to-man is not like man-to-man, joint defense is not like joint defense, a bit like amoeba, but the position of the striker is obviously different, as if two parts are disconnected from each other. But as soon as the ball was passed to the inside, the inside and outside immediately combined, and it seemed that the Timberwolves players' tactical movement was expected step by step.

Sanders explained tactics to his teammates during the timeout, and at one point fell into a state of confusion, and the pen in his hand was fixed on the tactical board and he didn't know what to say; The Timberwolves players were also a little blind, and wanted to listen carefully to how the coach analyzed and solved the problems that happened on the court just now, but found that the coach was also blind.

"Anyway...... We're going to play our character, we're still in the lead, and the next goal will be very important...... "Sanders is really not good at cheering, he's frustrated when he says that.

When the game restarted, the Celtics' previous few minutes of lost defense suddenly disappeared, and they were replaced by a one-guard and four-forward lineup of chasing points, chasing the Timberwolves for a while, and by the end of the third quarter, the Celtics had overtaken the score. The situation was turned around all at once. (To be continued.) )