After the Spurs defeated the Lakers to advance to the Finals, Brown barely slept that night. Of course, he is not afraid of losing to the little assistant coach he brought back then, in fact, Popovich is now considered a better head coach in the league, and it is not surprising to lose the game, but no one will be ready to lose at the beginning, otherwise what would he do in the game?

Tossing and turning in bed, Brown has been pondering the question, how on earth can we solve the Spurs' interior line?

Even if it has entered the 21st century, the concept of "those who have the inside line win the world" in the league still has a broad market, and almost every team hopes that they can get one or two first-class inside lines in the league, even if they are outdated, no matter how bad they are, they must cultivate one by themselves. That's why the Raptors will trade for Olajuwon, the Pacers will start to develop O'Neal Jr., and the Spurs, Lakers and Kings, which are already known for their tough inside, treat the big guys as baby bumps.

In other words, the top teams in the league now have very strong interior configurations, and they insist that this is necessary to win the championship. But the 76ers are obviously an exception, and their interior mix is not bad, Lewis is averaging 12.1 points, 4.5 rebounds and 1.2 steals per game this season, shooting 39.6% from three-point range, which is an important scoring point from the outside; And the main center Durham Porter averaged a double-double in his rookie season - 10.3 points and 12.1 rebounds per game, while he also averaged 2.1 blocks per game that is ninth in the league, which is a good configuration.

But if you compare it, you will find that the 76ers' interior strength is far from enough, at least their Finals opponent Spurs can easily crush them on the inside. Lewis is essentially a shooter who often floats outside the three-point line, and his interior dominance doesn't have much to do with him. Ballam Porter, on the other hand, is a pure blue-collar center, and while he has a good mid-range shot, his role on the team is to grab rebounds and protect the basket, and he is clearly more of a role on the defensive end.

And the Spurs are not to mention Robinson, who is already in the twilight but can still achieve an average of 17+8 per game against the Lakers, and Duncan alone is not something that the 76ers' interior players can handle. The 1997 No. 1 pick has grown into one of the league's top interior stars, and he is also the kind of player who has made a huge contribution to the Spurs both offensively and defensively, and wants to limit his play? O'Neal can't do it, so why can the 76ers' interior line do it?

So Brown struggled all night, and the final result was - no solution! Of course, this doesn't mean that he is going to surrender immediately, it's just that he doesn't plan to fight the Spurs on the inside, and it's definitely worth the loss to touch the stone with the egg, so why not try to gain an advantage in other areas? Give up if you give up!

However, when he spoke his mind to the coaching staff meeting the next day, he was immediately opposed by most of the assistant coaches. That is, Brown usually encourages everyone to speak freely, change to a head coach with authoritarian psychology, and not directly give them small shoes to wear? But the opposition raised by the vast majority of people also made Brown very uncomfortable.

No way, most coaches haven't come out of the trap of the inside line being king, and they only think about how to kill the opposite inside player under the basket, and the matter of finding another way will not appear in their minds at all. Of course, even if it appears in their minds, they can't think of any good way, after all, the brain hole is still too small.

Brown can be stubborn at times, but also open-minded at times, and he clearly won't take himself upon the Spurs' top interior team, but the problem now is that no one supports his idea. Brown shook his head in disappointment, glancing slightly frustrated at all the teaching assistants who had come to the meeting, hoping to see someone support his claim.

This really made him see a silent teaching assistant with his head down, and his unusual short black hair proved the identity of this guy. Brown knocked on the table and said in a deep voice, "Chang, what do you think about the finals?" ”

However, Chang Wei didn't move, and it wasn't until Halt next to him pushed him hard that he raised his head sleepily, and subconsciously wiped the corners of his mouth with his sleeve. The faces of the people who saw this scene were twitching, especially Brown, he thought that Chang Wei was seriously thinking about countermeasures, but he didn't expect this guy to sleep openly at the coaching staff meeting!

But before he could get mad, Hart whispered the whole story to Chang Wei next to him. Under the attention of everyone, Chang Wei yawned very unvividly, and said lazily: "Since the inside line can't be compared, then don't compare, we can try to use other methods to minimize their advantage on the inside......"

Chang Wei's first sentence made Brown feel the urge to punch someone, but his subsequent words made Brown calm down - isn't that similar to what I just said? Doesn't that mean that Chang Wei, this kid, still approves of me? However, when he thought that Chang Wei was still sleeping just now, Brown was angry, and he didn't care whether Chang Wei was his ally or not, and said loudly with an expressionless face: "Since you think we can have other ways to recover the disadvantage, then please talk about it specifically, is it okay?" ”

Originally, Brown thought that Chang Wei would stand in place and be dumbfounded, but he didn't expect him to sit in his position and talk eloquently after sorting out his thoughts a little: "Obviously, with our team's current interior configuration, there is no need to try to kill the Spurs, the twin towers of Duncan and Robinson are difficult to solve in front of any team in the league, and Samuel and Rashad are not their opponents at all." But we can think about it from another angle, what if we can make their defense useless? ”

Looking at everyone's blank expressions, Chang Wei smiled helplessly, and continued: "Since no matter how hard the inside line is, it will be blown up, so let's just give up the inside line, my idea is to let Rashad play the fifth position, and then George play the fourth position, and the other three positions are still with the original configuration, and we will compete with them on the outside to compete with them in offensive firepower!" ”

Someone hesitantly asked, "What about our rebounds?" You can't give it all to your opponent, right? ”

Chang Wei shrugged: "When we grab rebounds, we can only go up to all five people to fight, so we also have to give up offensive rebounds, in fact, as long as we can maintain the shooting rate, it doesn't matter if there are offensive rebounds or not." If you want to beat the league's best interior combination, you're going to have to come up with something different, what do you think of my advice? ”