The head coach's office next door to the meeting room.

In addition to trainer Moron Wiley and assistant coach Buckner, who were still watching the video with other players, Liu Mang and coach Kruger and assistant coach Mike Woodson all came over.

Coach Krueger wondered what Liu Mang called him over for, and he also wanted to finish the training arrangement early, let the training assistant Mike Woodson take the training and go back to sleep by himself, he didn't sleep all night doing training plans and research last night.

"Coach, what's the next tactic we're going to train?" Liu Mang asked cautiously.

"This?" Coach Krueger is still very puzzled, will he know if he has arranged it for a while? Still, he replied: "Our next training is to break the defense of the Pistons. ”

"What about defense?"

"We think our defense is enough."

Liu Mang just thinks it's wrong here!

He used to be very curious about the Nets going to the Finals twice in a row, so he deliberately watched some game footage that he could find, and he had an impression of the Nets defeating all Eastern Conference opponents along the way, sweeping the Celtics and Pistons in a row in the 02-03 season, and the Celtics 4-1 Pistons in the 01-02 season.

These can have the last laugh, relying on defense, although it can't be said that this is the law of winning, but it is a successful experience.

Of course, Liu Mang guessed Coach Kruger's idea, the Hawks' defense in the regular season is no worse than that of the Pistons, so if you want to break the Pistons' defense, and then rely on your own defense to limit the opponent, you have a great hope of winning.

Liu Mang felt that this strategy might also be successful, but the firepower of him, Rahim, and Jason Terry on his side was fierce enough, at least in the east.

Coach Krueger was still a college coach last year, and in college basketball, the main thing is to balance offense and defense, but in the NBA, offense and defense are balanced...... It's really not that good in the playoffs, and the Mavericks in the 05-07 two seasons have played the balance of offense and defense to the peak, but under the current rules, the offense will be greatly discounted in the playoffs.

The offensive tactics of the playoffs are still not as effective as the individual abilities of the stars these years.

Coach Kruger...... Maybe think of the playoffs as March Madness!

That's not the same thing as this one!

Liu Mang didn't know what to say in order not to stimulate the little heart of the coach, who had been busy all night, hesitated and said weakly: "Coach, I don't think what's right, we are going to play a series of 7 games and 4 wins, not a 1-game elimination system in Crazy March, no matter what kind of tactics it is, no matter how many tactics there are, it will be thoroughly studied in two games!" ”

Liu Mang really wants to say bluntly, it won't work by attacking in this era!

Unless it is a rule more than ten years later, it is difficult for college basketball to go far in the playoffs, before Coach Stevens of the Celtics, almost no college coaches have won the playoffs in the NBA, and it is because of this that the rules are not so friendly to offensive basketball, so Stern and Adam Silva will continue to change the rules to the outside to benefit and weaken the impact of defense.

Coach Krueger is not bad, but he has a very good set in college basketball, but he has coached the NCAA for so many years, and his thinking has long been ingrained, he is a head coach, and his idea, the idea of wanting to break the Pistons' defense and use his original good defense to limit the opponent, is not wrong, even Mike Woodson, an assistant coach who is the first in defense, does not feel wrong.

However, it's not the strategy that's wrong, it's the times that aren't right, and the playoffs in this era are very unkind to college coaches.

Coach Kruger did not answer Liu Mang immediately, but sat down and pondered.

It's a bit maddening!

That is to say, in advance offensive training, it is enough to have a clear tactical direction, and the specific still depends on on-the-spot command?

It's not the same as college basketball!

It's not at all!

Because college basketball is a one-win knockout game, there are relatively few on-the-spot commands, because there are not so many pauses, there are not even intervals, there is only one halftime, the time for an offense is 35 seconds, and there are a lot of tactical runs, so they are all pre-game preparations, crazy March is actually crazy until April 14th, more than a month, even if it is this year's NCAA champion Duke University, only 7 games have been played in 40 days, and the preparation time in the middle is very long, and the tactical maps of offensive tactics for each game are piled up and piled up, Plenty of time to train.

And now it is obviously impossible to prepare as many tactics as possible for a maximum of seven games.

That is, the tactics prepared before will always be seen through by the other party!

Coach Krueger sighed, the NBA is too hard!

"Ace, you go back first, let Moron put aside all the clips of the Pistons, and you guys study the opponent's defense first," Coach Kruger asked Liu Mang to go back first, and then said to Mike Woodson: "Mike, let's re-study ......"

Defensive training, of course, has to be handed over to professionals, the NBA's coaching staff is still very clear, offense has an offensive coach, defense has a defensive coach, the head coach is mainly on-the-spot command and general direction planning, even if it is Coach Kruger, it is just an offensive coach.

Liu Mang breathed a sigh of relief and went to Molong Willy as Coach Kruger instructed.

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Coach Mike Woodson has a good set of defense, in the 03-04 season, Larry Brown was able to lead the team to win the championship from the third place in the East, he contributed a lot, and was later invited back by the Hawks to be the head coach, although he did not have the life of being a head coach, he had no on-the-spot command ability, but as a defensive assistant coach, he was coaxed by various teams in the future, and the assistant coach salary of 5 million a year also set a record.

After watching the video...... Mike Woodson brought in a new round of footage from the improvised editor and continued to watch the footage.

This time the focus is different, it's against Stackhouse and ...... Joan Barry!

Stackhouse was the second in the scoring list last season, he can really average 30+ per game when he is given the ball, he is only 28 years old this year and has just reached his peak, if it weren't for Coach Carlisle, who doesn't like inefficient play, he should have gone further this year in terms of statistics alone, but the record may not be as good as it is now.

Regarding Joan Barry's defense, Liu Mang was a little surprised, isn't this a player who averages eight or nine points per game?

But after looking at Joan Barry's statistics in the regular season and the first round of the playoffs, Liu Mang found the clue.

Three-point shooting percentage in the regular season, 46.9 percent!

The 1st in the back of the bright red!

That is, the guy with the highest three-point shooting percentage in the regular season, averaging 1.9 three-pointers per game!

An efficient and prolific pitcher!

33-year-old Joan Barry has reached the pinnacle of her career as a goalscorer!

"This future bald coach has such a vicious vision!" Liu Mang doesn't know why, but he thinks that this big bald head in the future is so powerful!

Liu Mang remembered that Mike Woodson would have collapsed because of the next 02-03 season, the team's core Raheem's unintentional playing record collapsed, and he only got 35 wins and fell to tenth in the West, plus the original 76ers were eliminated in the first round of the playoffs this season, Coach Kruger was fired, and Mike Woodson was also fired, he was an assistant coach of the 76ers in the 00-01 season, and then was invited by Larry Brown to his assistant coaching team.

The 76ers' form has dropped dramatically this year, and it's hard to say that it has nothing to do with Mike Woodson's departure.

Liu Mang is admiring Mike Woodson here, and Mike Woodson is now looking at Liu Mang very pleasantly.

You know, at the beginning, Mike Woodson saw how this second-round pick looked so bad, he played too casually, he could come as he wanted, and there was no discipline at all.

But I slowly found out, hey, this kid's defense is okay!

The key improvement in the relationship between the two is the previous strategy against the Nets, which gave Mike Woodson a feeling of sympathy.

This time, Liu Mang hit the nail on the head and asked Coach Kruger to temporarily change the big strategy, and let Mike Woodson be the core of the team in this round of playoffs, which greatly improved his team status, so Mike Woodson's opinion of Liu Mang improved again.

However, the defensive assistant coach is the most unpleasant, and when it comes to the afternoon training, the high-intensity defensive confrontation training allows Liu Mang and Jason Terry to imitate the style of play of Stackhouse and Joan Barry, and the training of others to defend, which makes the players complain about Mike Woodson every time they intermittent training.

Then Liu Mang also complained together, pretending not to know that he proposed it from offensive training to targeted defensive training......