Chapter 155: Defend against Defense

For Mackay, the stomach still has to be filled, after all, the final is on April 3, and tomorrow there is still one day to take a slow rest. Under Chang Wei's resentment, he still cheekily pulled all the members of the coaching staff out for a supper, the player, naturally, he was driven back to the room early to sleep, McKay never felt that there was anything wrong with double standards.

However, eating and eating, you can still chat and fart at the dinner table, and McKay also knows how to measure things, so while eating, he began to discuss with Chang Wei and them how to play in the final against Florida. It's clear that Florida's disadvantage right now is height, and although they later used Nelson to play the No. 1 position, it's also an indisputable fact that the interior height is too bad.

Originally, Chang Wei also wanted to give McKay a wake-up call, telling him that Bonner, who can run to the outside to shoot three-pointers and is 2.08 meters tall, is not a good stubble, but after thinking about it, West can now prevent three-point money, and the difference in height between the two is 2 centimeters, which is completely negligible, and when the time comes, let Westra go to the outside to defend. So it doesn't seem like there's a need to give McKaty advice, and people still have two brushes as a head coach.

After some gossip and discussion, the final set a tone, that is, to prevent defense. Aren't you great at Florida defensively? So let's play it out on the defensive end, just put you in a stalemate, and let one or two scorers sneak up for a few rounds, and the victory of the game is not enough?

It stands to reason that such a tactic is more shameless, after all, from the perspective of real strength, Colorado State is not much inferior, and such a style of play is a great harm to fans. Why did the ratings of the Spurs vs Pistons Finals plummet in the previous life? Largely because the pace of these two teams is very slow, and they played a defensive battle on the stage of the finals, the score is outrageously low, and the wonderful pictures are even more, so there are naturally fewer spectators.

However, Chang Wei did not object, although he also likes those teams with gorgeous style of play, and even did not hesitate to burst out the small-ball tactics and spatial No. 4 position in advance, but he is still a victorious in his bones. A great man once said that no matter whether it is a black cat or a white cat, a good cat is a good cat if it catches a mouse, which is also the basic concept that Chang Wei has always followed. Any tactic, any player, is in the service of the ultimate victory, and if you can beat your opponent with an ugly style of play, there is no need to choose a flashy style of play that is unpredictable.

And at present, Colorado State's defense is already very good, and it is only because they habitually show their super offensive firepower that most people think that they are a team that is strong in offense and weak in defense. But in fact, among the starting five, Partick is a full-time outside gate, West is quite tough on the inside, Palesio and Ford have greatly improved their defensive ability after Chang Wei's training, and the only single defense Kover still has unfathomable physical fitness, and McKay can also use tactics to hide him, one or two players can't affect the overall situation, so they basically have no weaknesses.

So the recovery session on the second day wasn't all about getting back in shape, McKay also took the opportunity to refamiliarize everyone with their various defensive systems. Even though everyone has been playing under these systems for a whole season, it is still necessary to sharpen the guns on the spot, at least not to panic when the opponent does not play according to the rules of the game.

The only depressed one in the team is undoubtedly Korver, he knows that his single defense ability is very average, and he can only rely on super endurance to defend the opponent, but it always looks like being walked by the opponent, and it is not too happy in his heart. However, after Chang Wei muttered a few words to him, his mood improved again, and he worked much harder than others in training.

Well, what Chang Wei said to him was very simple, that is, he revealed the team's tactical arrangement a little, but he designated the last person who relied on shooting to kill with one hit as Korver. Of course, McKay's tactics may not have been laid out that way, but as the team's most consistent full-time outside shooter right now, Korver has a much higher probability of executing the final shot than anyone else.

The players don't have any objections to the manager's tactical set-up, they want the title more than anyone else, and it's not in their scope to think about how to win the title, that's the manager's business, they just need to implement the tactics. While the defensive focus doesn't fit in well with the team's style of play this season, it's not like they've been used in a short period of time when they've faced strong opponents, so it doesn't matter if it's the last game of the season.

In order to ensure that everyone has enough energy to cope with the game, McKay deliberately issued a grounding order after the training session: he was not allowed to leave the hotel room after dinner, except for the gym, and he was not allowed to go out on the day of the game. In addition, he also imposed a sleeping time, and also said that he would go to the ward one by one, which made the team feel a lot of pressure.

Although the members of the coaching staff are not within the limit, Chang Wei still honestly stays in the room after eating and surfs the Internet, mainly to swipe the news about the NCAA on major websites, and to see the overall strength comparison of the two sides in the system. According to the system, the overall strength score of the two sides is almost the same, and at this time it is necessary to test the mentality and tactics, and Chang Wei is still very relieved of the team in these two aspects, so he slept very soundly throughout the night.

On the day of the competition, everyone eats, trains, takes naps, warms up, and tries to adjust their physical and mental condition to the best, after all, this competition is quite important for everyone, and no one wants to fall one step away from the championship. While they've made history whether they win or lose, no one remembers which season they finished as an NCAA runner-up, and for any team, a runner-up finish is a defeat, because people don't give you a silver medal like they do in the World Series.

But if you want to say that the least nervous person in the team, it must be Chang Wei, he even slept until almost 9 o'clock in the morning and didn't get up until almost 9 o'clock, and it looks like he didn't take the NCAA finals seriously at all. In fact, it was just because Chang Wei had confidence in the players he trained, even if there were three people in the Florida team, Miller, Haslem and Bonner, he didn't feel any threat.

Of course, the most important thing is that because he has already seen such a big scene, let a person who has already won the championship with the team once and then play the final with another team, it is estimated that this person is already familiar with the road.