21. About the pick-and-roll
When Liu Mang came to the training ground, he found that Muhammad had arrived and was practicing free throws.
"Nazre, you're too early!" Liu Mang asked in surprise, and then felt a little guilty, obviously it was someone else he had made an appointment, and he actually came later.
"Haha, I don't have the shooting talent of Ace, I have to practice more, so that my free throws are not so bad, and I won't be defeated by the shark slashing tactic!" Muhammad laughed, not caring if he came first.
It is worthy of being an inspirational player who has progressed from playing less than 5 minutes in his rookie season to now sitting firmly as the main power forward with a big contract!
Liu Mang remembers that the team had the lowest free-throw shooting percentage, and was the only team on the team with a free-throw shooting percentage of less than 50 percent.
Thinking of this, Liu Mang was a little embarrassed, Muhammad was already the main force with a high salary, and he was still working so hard, but after he got the system, he thought about how to rely on the system all day long.
The system also made it clear before that because this body is too thin, many of the abilities of the system items cannot be 100% played, even if it is impossible to practice shooting in the current season, but at least I have to work hard to make my body a little stronger, so that my physical strength is a little more abundant, although there is no playing time now, there is no problem with going up and going all out to play for a few minutes, but Salted Fish also has a dream to turn over, right.
After self-criticism, Liu Mang went to change into training clothes and warmed up with the help of the team's trainer.
The team was also sad when they trained, and they had to come to work early in the morning after the holidays, and it was said that Kobe's trainer was even more desperate...... But the team paid the money, and the salary was still so high......
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Although Muhammad is not a big forward, he is only two meters and eight meters tall, but he has always been known for his toughness, his style of play is fierce, and he has no outside shooting at all, and he has made 4 three-pointers for more than three years, two of which were forced to be thrown in the last few seconds of the single quarter, one is a 24-second fast illegal pick-up, and one is actually received a whistle-blowing ball, of course, no success in the kill.
He basically doesn't shoot at medium and long distance, his shooting range is inside and outside the three-second zone, and the shooting rate is not high, and most of the points actually come from free throws after the opponent's foul caused by rushing to grab rebounds, because he is very good at making baskets directly when rushing to grab rebounds.
In terms of pick-and-roll, Muhammad is very good, physically strong, solid in blocking, athletic ability, and fast in the basket.
According to Liu Mang's observation when he was sitting on the cold bench, the strength of the Eagles can only be regarded as good, and the best one to block and dismantle is Muhammad, and practicing blocking and dismantling with him is probably the best choice.
"Ace, look, I'll help you block the opponent like this, the opponent only has three options, the first situation is that the opponent changes defenses, so I immediately take the opponent's small man to the basket, you can play small, you can break through or shamelessly make fouls...... Ahem, it's not that Ace is shameless, this is your advantage, you must use it more! ”
"The second situation is that the other party spares me, it may be squeezed in front of me, it may be bypassed from behind, and the big man intercepts in the back, so that you don't have to completely block and dismantle, you can face the opponent's big man directly from the front of my block, I will help you block the small man who spared me and want to go back again, you can single the opposite big forward."
"The third situation is that they step back and defend, so you can shoot three points directly, our two offensive threats are not big, it belongs to the opponent who looks down on the summary, the opponent can't use three people to defend us......"
Muhammad is very enthusiastic, and he also has a very straight personality, what do you say, and then you find that you are wrong, hehe, hey, you smirk twice, Liu Mang feels congested, sometimes don't always tell the truth!
However, people with a straight temperament have a good advantage of thinking about everything very simply and simplifying many things.
For example, Muhammad, he wants to succeed, and then the goal is to play to his energy advantage first, rushing for rebounds, making up baskets, doing a good job of defense, and not thinking too much about anything else.
Pick-and-roll is so simple in Mohammed's worldview that there's really no way to give the ball to Jason Terry or Rahim, so why bother thinking about it so much.
Although Liu Mang may only have one or two offensive opportunities with the ball in a game, and there may be one or two times in a game where he needs to hold the ball to block and dismantle or even once, Liu Mang is still very serious in contact, and Muhammad also accompanies Liu Mang to practice very seriously.
Blocking and dismantling seems simple, but it depends on talent, whether it is the ball carrier or the dismantling person, like the future super center Howard, from rookie to peak to decline, he will never learn to block and dismantle, and Muhammad is far less talented than Howard, but the blocking and dismantling is done very well.
And whether the ball carrier can borrow and pick and roll well is also a talent, and it requires a good grasp of timing, this kind of thing can be learned, but it is difficult, and the best thing in NBA history is Stockton.
Liu Mang's sense of blocking and dismantling...... Sincerely, it's a bit difficult to completely create a pick-and-roll opportunity, even if it's two trainers defending, he may not be able to make a good pass with the pick-and-roll.
The speed is barely okay, the speed of 84 is really average in the NBA point guard, and a big forward like Garnett is about the same speed.
The most important thing is confrontation, the strength is too weak, Liu Mang asked about his strength is only 53 points, no wonder even Iverson can knock himself away.
Directly from a fan to a living person playing on the court, Liu Mang finally felt how fierce the confrontation in the NBA is, his strength may be enough in college, and playing amateur players can even crush many people, but in the NBA, it is so bad that he can't even squeeze out a trainer, although the trainer is a little fat......
"Whew...... Exhausted. ”
After practicing three or four groups, almost two hours have passed, and it is almost lunch time, Liu Mang and Muhammad are ready to take a break and go to the canteen to eat nutritious meals, that thing is unpalatable and unpalatable, but no money! And the nutrition is absolutely top-notch!
Seeing Liu Mang like a puddle of mud, Muhammad laughed and said: "Haha, Ace, your physical fitness is too poor, you have to train your muscles in the summer, don't use it now, so as not to lose your feel, how about it, continue or rest in the afternoon?" ”
"Go on, I won't believe it! I won't be able to shake off this old man Moron! Liu Mang clearly heard the ridicule.
"Hmm...... Call...... Although I, Moron Willy, am an old man, I still have no problem dealing with Ace, a rookie! The fat trainer said as he gasped.
Moron Wiley, who is not a famous figure in the NBA, is just a very small role in the 80s and 90s, and even a whole career of seven or eight years, and the money he earns is not as big as Liu Mang's rookie contract combined, but he can be in the NBA for so long in the second round, and he still has two brushes, even if he retires for five or six years and becomes fat, he is also a flexible fat man.
Because the two years when Moron Willy was able to get 5 points and 3 assists in his "peak" were spent on the bench with the Hawks, he found a job with the Hawks after retiring as a trainer and was responsible for guiding the players' training.
In the ridicule of Muhammad and Moron Wiley, Liu Mang and the two plus another professional trainer went to take a shower to wash off the sweat, then went to lunch, and continued training in the afternoon after a rest.
Of course, last year's first-round pick from the Hawks, DeMar Johnson...... Muhammad also mentioned him, saying that he had been asked to train, but in the end he did not come.
Seeing that even Muhammad, a good old man, was a little unhappy with Demar Johnson releasing pigeons, Liu Mang felt that he should pay more attention to the emotions of his teammates, and he couldn't be too selfish, he was a post-80s generation! It's not the post-90s generation from the previous world! Can't be capricious!
Actually, the main thing is ...... I don't have the capital to be capricious, at least now, I don't have the qualifications to be capricious...... If he becomes a superstar one day, Liu Mang said that he will be willful from morning to night!