Chapter 141: Boring, Boring
In the Western Mountain League, the University of Utah is already good, but even they were slaughtered by 31 points by Colorado in the first game, which undoubtedly caused fear among other teams in the league.
However, fear is fear, with their strength, they really can't threaten Colorado State, and occasionally there are a few disgruntled head coaches who want to give them a beating, but in the end they all fail. Of course, sometimes Colorado State will inevitably be in poor shape, but this is when they show their defensive toughness.
Whether it's Palesio or Ford and Partick, they have all been trained by Chang Wei to be good offensive and defensive players, and even if Korver and West need to continue to improve their defensive ability, McKay can use the system to successfully hide them. And their defense is not so unbearable, especially West, don't look at him likes to shoot in the middle and long range, but in fact he is a tough guy, many times he does not hesitate to take fouls in order to defend, such an attitude is undoubtedly the basis for becoming a good defender.
However, the Western Mountain League is still a small league with little attention after all, and even if Colorado State has been able to dominate this league, there are no other reporters to interview them except for the local media, and everyone is more concerned about top giants such as Kentucky, North Carolina, and Duke. The players were a little unhappy, but McKay and Chang Wei both felt that this was a good thing, and the lack of much media exposure meant that the team had a good training environment, which was undesirable.
Although he lost a few games against strong teams in other leagues, McKay didn't take it to heart, because there were too many variables in a single game, and he might not be able to meet them in the national championship; Second, even if they lose, Colorado has fought until the last moment, basically not being beaten by their opponents, which is quite not easy for them.
Despite this, Chang Wei has not stopped training with West and Korver, and in his opinion, these two guys still have a lot of room for improvement, especially their defense. Chang Wei has always believed that defensive skills can be improved through training, but defensive attitude can only be attributed to talent, if a player is always active on the defensive end, then no matter how rubbish his current defense is, it is very likely to grow into an excellent defender in the future.
West is such a player, although the coach's playbook has a lot of offensive tactics with him at the core, and it has been determined that he will play the main defense of Ford on the inside, but he is always actively following the small men who break into the interior. So Chang Wei is not too worried about his performance on the defensive end, mainly because of Korver's problem.
In all fairness, Korver isn't the kind of player who can dunk, but he's a good height and a relatively strong body, and although he had a very average single defense in his previous life, he was a good defensive player in the system. In fact, in the previous games, Korver's overall defensive performance was still up to standard, but Chang Wei still hopes that he can work hard to improve his individual defense ability.
In his opinion, if all five of the team's five players have the ability to defend one-on-one, then the defense of the whole team is not much worse. In the event that a team's defensive system is broken, it can also collapse the opponent with one-on-one defense and full-court pressing, a good system can improve the players' defense, but a good defensive player can make the system more incomprehensible.
Chang Wei's training continues, and Colorado State is still making great progress. In the entire Western Mountain League, Colorado ranks first in points per game, second in points conceded per game, and is far ahead in three-point shooting and field attempts.
And the average points per game of Colorado State are the top in the entire NCAA, after all, the average points per game of NCAA teams is not high, and if you can get 7 or 80 points, you can be considered an offensive powerhouse, but Colorado State can average 93.1 points per game. Although many people sourly said that it was because of the weak light of their league to desperately score points, many teams are beginning to face up to this small team that could force Duke into overtime last season.
With Colorado State in good shape right now, Chang Wei basically has nothing to do every day except train the players. It's not that he doesn't want to accompany his girlfriend, but Harmon is no longer in Colorado, before she participated in the NBA draft, although she was not selected by any team, but she still got a contract with the New York Liberty, and now she has played in New York, and it is still difficult for the two sides to meet, so they can only make phone porridge every day.
Since Harmon recovered from injury, her name has disappeared from Chang Wei's system list. Chang Wei also specially asked the system, but the system chose to remain silent, and was annoyed by Chang Wei's question, so he coldly spit out a sentence: "This is just an exception." ”
This explanation made Chang Wei give it a middle finger in his heart, what is an exception? Does that mean it's just one time? But Chang Wei can't do anything, after all, many times the system looks more like an uncle than his host, since it is an exception, then he can't use the system to help Harmon gain a foothold in New York remotely.
Boredom, Chang Wei simply ran with West every day, and when he heard that he was going to run, Korver warmly invited him, but Chang Wei refused very decisively. A fool will play variable speed running with you, Chang Wei is just to pass the time, at most he has a purpose of exercising, to let him run with Korver's variable speed, so don't you cripple yourself? If you break down because of the speed change, you will really shoot yourself in the foot.
Even so, Chang Wei still felt bored, after all, the NCAA strictly controlled the training time of the players, and the special training for West and Korver was almost violated, and he didn't dare to take out more things. So "boring, boring" has become Chang Wei's mantra during this time, but when others asked him why he was bored, he laughed and didn't answer, because the reason for being bored because the team's record was too good was really a bit lacking.
However, after a training session, McKay suddenly stopped him and said very seriously: "Chang, are you interested in transformation?" I mean, no longer being an assistant coach who just focuses on the players' training. ”
Chang Wei didn't understand for a while, looking at his confused eyes, McKay coughed and explained: "I hope you can start learning team tactics and bring more help to me and Colorado State in this regard." ”