Mike Woodson wants to go out and try and see how he feels like being a head coach, and there's always a bit of frustration when he is an assistant coach.

The designated tactical head coach does not necessarily adopt, once the defense collapses, he will feel guilty, although the pot does not have to be carried by himself, but it is only in the media and the public opinion of the fans do not have to bear the blame, in the coaching world, the management world, the reputation will decline, because these people are the ones who really understand the team, understand the structure of a team, a good defensive assistant coach, the importance of a team is incomparable, and even some team coaches have changed, and the defensive assistant coach will not change.

For example, Jazz defensive assistant coach Jeff Wells has worked in the Jazz for more than 30 years, from 1985 when he was still a 30-year-old in the prime of life, until he retired in 2017 at the age of 62, with a higher salary than many team head coaches.

However, defensive assistant coaches are also the most likely to lose their jobs, and they may be fired after a defensive decline in a season.

For example, although Mike Woodson is now paid $2 million, and the salary of some team managers is not as high as his, he has always carefully studied the defense needed for each game and worked hard to build a defensive system.

In addition to this, there is also power, the power of the assistant coach is very low, very low, like now, he handed the tactical board to Liu Mang, and he is used to it.

So, Mike Woodson would love to try his hand at being a head coach.

But just as old actors have a play addiction and old smokers have a smoking addiction, Mike Woodson, a great super-top defensive assistant, has an addiction to studying every type of defense.

When Mike Woodson saw Liu Mang's messy defensive position map and defensive change route, he instantly put aside the idea of wanting to change teams and couldn't help but grab the tactical board.

Liu Mang's designated offensive tactics, Mike Woodson is not much interested, he is not good at it, mainly defensive tactics!

It's not that the tactics drawn by Liu Mang this time are wonderful, the main thing is novelty! Haven't seen it!

The main thing is that the defensive map drawn by Liu Mang is very interesting, although it is a bit messy, but it is very distinctive, and it is so characteristic that Mike Woodson is very interested, but he keeps complaining.

"Ace, there is a problem with this, it should be like this here, Andre's coverage area can cover this area, Tyson just stays under the basket, Tyson's substitute Paul, Paul doesn't have such a good defensive coverage area, we have to consider the continuity of defense, and here, Sean and Richard don't care so much, just need to care about Tony and Gilbert's loopholes......"

This professional is different, sometimes the defensive system mainly depends on the brain, then the rationality, and finally the player lineup.

Although Liu Mang has a lot of impression systems, if he wants him to say something specific, there is no way to say, he is not a professional, he can only draw tactics like this, or rely on impressions.

But with Mike Woodson's major, it's different, just like the usual Hawks defense, every time Liu Mang has a brain hole, Mike Woodson can wipe his ass clean, and this time Mike Woodson came to help Liu Mang check and fill in the gaps.

Not to mention, just like the 2002 rookies can form a championship team in a few years, the 2001 rookies also have that meaning, there is offense and defense, even if these nine players put Liu Mang aside, they are still a future quasi-All-Star lineup, or all eight players are quasi-All-Stars or even All-Stars and higher.

A group of people watched Liu Mang and Mike Woodson continue to improve their defensive system, and their jaws were about to drop.

The most powerful guy in the same class not only plays well, but not only formulates some magical offensive tactics as rumored, but also builds a defensive system!

It's like a number 23 with no hairline, who looks like an artifact, but learned to play the accordion in high school!

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With a simple version of the defensive system in place, Mike Woodson told his eight teammates to memorize the practice, and with four hours to go, the game was about to begin.

Eight players, no more, no less, is exactly the number of players in the main rotation of an NBA team.

Generally, a team has a twelve-player activation list, and in the era of Spurs role players, it has been increased to 13 activatable lists, but if you really want to say that even if it is a future Spurs, the main rotation is only 8 people, the ninth and tenth people don't have much playing time, and the remaining three are when they really can't open the situation.

In these days, the seven-man rotation is common for the average team, and the eight-man rotation is regular, so in the rookie game, in order to give everyone a chance to perform, there are only nine people on a team.

Liu Mang didn't play, and there were only eight people left, just forming a main rotation lineup.

can play in the NBA, not to mention how much he loves basketball, but at least he is a basketball lover, and he is very motivated in the face of a novel defensive system.

Mike Woodson watched these players practice very well, look at the sophomore lineup, Battier, Kirilenko, Chandler, Richard Jefferson, a defensive iron post center, three forward defensive gates, this lineup is too perfect to play defense, with Gasol who has a good interior defense, one big and four small infinite rotation, don't be too strong!

But this also makes Mike Woodson very worried, our young family has a good brain, but this kind of good thing is actually taken out and used casually, can't our own team use it with a brain hole?

Mike Woodson felt that he needed to remind Liu Mang, and whispered to Liu Mang next to him: "Ace, in the future, we can use this tactic ourselves, don't be learned by the opponent's core players." ”

Liu Mang said why Mike Woodson's brows were getting tighter and tighter, it turned out that he was worried about this, Liu Mang smiled: "Mike, don't worry so much, you see, Sean, Andre, Richard, these three defensive iron gates, the strongest Andre, I estimate that he can compete for the best defensive player in a few years, such a system is only suitable for this lineup, can other teams eat so many defensive gates?" ”

Liu Mang is not worried that in this kind of era when there is no group at this stage, there will be teams to learn this kind of defensive system, because it is not practical! Without a forward combination like Wade and James, or in the future era of 3-and-D players, this kind of defensive system will not be used.

For example, the Jazz who will use this system in the future, from the former Spurs defensive assistant coach Coach Quinn Snyder leaving Popovich to join the Jazz, to forming a suitable lineup, it took four years to get enough defensive giants, and finally relied on an unexpected No. 13 pick to start taking off.

In these years, a Bowen and a Kirilenko are all fragrant and sweet, and they want to dig people? It's impossible, because the Jazz team is about to collapse, and there are teams that want to poach Kirilenko, and the offers are all fifth in pick, and the Jazz team has not agreed.

Mike Woodson looked at the lineup on the field, and it was indeed this reason! All of a sudden, the surprise of discovering a new continent dissipated a lot, and he planned to use this newly discovered defensive system as a foundation, study it well, make an extension, and use it when he became a head coach in the future.

Although Mike Woodson's goal at this stage is to help the Eagles win a championship, an assistant coach who doesn't want to be a head coach is not a good head coach, and everyone has their own ideals.

Listening to Liu Mang now, Mike Woodson is a little frustrated, although he has a good defensive concept, it is a bit difficult to execute.

"What's the matter, Mike, why are you so depressed?" Liu Mang could clearly see Mike Woodson's frustration.

'It's okay, I wanted to integrate the system into our team, but I found it unlikely, we couldn't get that many players. Mike Woodson answered with a half-truth.

"Mike, don't lie to me, you want to get a system and then apply for a head coach! And then I find that this system can't be completed quickly, and maybe even can't be completed, and I'm very frustrated, right? Liu Mang laughed that he was a super-aging squad that Mike Woodson would later seek to be a head coach everywhere and succeeded, and finally coached Anthony and Stoudemire and Billups in New York.

Mike Woodson's heart was sudden, how could he be seen?

"It's okay, Mike, all coaches want to be head coaches, don't they? We are colleagues, and I will be happy if you have better development in the future," Liu Mang said with a smile, "However, let's win the championship together now!" If we can win the championship, it will be more convincing when you go out and promote your system to others, because you have won the championship with your own defensive system, we need you, and you need us to win the championship to prove ourselves, right? We need to trust the process, whether it's you or our team. ”

Liu Mang said this because he knew that because of the collapse of the Hawks this season, Mike Woodson left the Hawks, followed Larry Brown to the Pistons, helped Larry Brown create a defensive system suitable for the Pistons Five Tigers, and then became an instant hit, and finally succeeded in getting a head coach contract in the summer of 04.

Now the Hawks need Mike Woodson very much, and Liu Mang until Mike Woodson is a little distracted by the success of the Hawks' defensive system he has built in the past two years, so he took the initiative to appease him.

However, Liu Mang said that he is happy that Mike Woodson can succeed in the future, and it is not a lie, he is willing to plan for Mike Woodson after two years of the same thing, even close to comradeship, after all, the first group of teammates, the first group of coaching staff members, the first team of teammates and management who won the championship for the first time are the most emotional.

And the second half of Liu Mang's words said the reality very cruelly.

Just as young people don't want to go to college and want to go directly to the NBA, NBA teams don't have the kind of people who are willing to spend years slowly accumulating talent and slowly planning championships, and they all want to achieve it overnight.

Just like Xinki, the 76ers general manager who followed the process and wanted to spend three or four years building a perfectly talented roster ten years later, was under tremendous pressure and was finally fired just as it was about to blossom.

It wasn't until it really blossomed and bore fruit that people found out that the process could be believed!

But Sinki couldn't enjoy the joy of success after four years of hard work.

Mike Woodson looked at Liu Mang, and felt more and more that this young man had a leadership temperament that no one else in the team had!

Jason Terry, no leader, Rahim has the ability but no leadership temperament, Mohammed can maintain the locker room environment, but is also incompetent, Boozer, Prince is too young, Ratliff's attitude of having a good relationship with everyone but keeping a distance is not like a leader.

On the contrary, this guy who seems to be never reliable is most like a leader!