Chapter 157: The One Who Wins Is the Strong
"In my 32 years and 165 days of coaching, I have experienced a total of 3,045 games of all sizes and divisions, some people say that I am a pervert who only knows what I do, but I don't think it's accurate, on average, I have to experience 92.2727 games a year in my career, which is actually not a lot, in the NBA, there are at least four meritorious coaches who have more statistics than mine, so it shows that I am not such a perverted workaholic."
"Of the 3,045 games, I won 1,742 of them and lost 1,303 of them, with a win rate of 57 percent, which is relatively close to the average statistical prediction of professional games, in fact, the outcome of a basketball game is like a coin toss, when the number of games reaches a certain level, the win-loss ratio will be infinitely close to 1 to 1, and my winning rate has reached 57 percent, and more than 7 percent shows my coaching ability."
"Although throughout the history of basketball in the world, there are many coaches with a career win rate of more than 60%, but fortunately, my work has some effect, allowing me to have a more stable job than many other peers."
"Of all the more than 1,300 matches I've lost, the most impressive game for me was the first time I played that real pervert, I'm sorry, please allow me to put the name that many people have given me on that person's head, of course, my apologies are for his countless supporters, I am talking about this pervert is a compliment, a compliment to his unparalleled talent and ability, and as for whether he himself is dissatisfied with me calling him a pervert, I believe he will not, he is an open-minded person, yes, open-minded."
"The loss in that game made me realize my shortcomings, and I am proud that data analysis is not a panacea, and I also realized that basketball is not simply a reflection of data, and there are some things that cannot be reflected in data at all."
"Recognising the shortcomings, I thought I should find someone to learn from, and there was a good match in front of me, and he led a group of students who were not as good as the young players in my team in all aspects to beat me, which made me very curious about his team and himself, even if I only lost to him by three points in that game, I always wanted to find a reason for those two points."
"After three years, when I realized that there were things I couldn't learn other than his tactical thinking, I left, of course, I always have to thank him, and in the three years I have been with him, I have learned a lot of things that have influenced me, my coaching style, and I have to be thankful for that defeat, if it wasn't for that defeat, I would have lost a very good friend and someone to learn from."
Many years later, after Gao Ming retired, he wrote about that game in his memoirs, and although there was not much, readers who read this can still feel Gao Ming's style and his feelings for that man between the lines.
Back in the game that changed Gao Ming's later career, with the last 38 seconds left before the end of the game, the ball was in the hands of the Frontier Youth Team, and the two teams played the Nth draw of the game.
In Robert? After Li scored a very wonderful equalizing goal, Wang Lei did not call a timeout, and the players of the Frontier Youth Team were not panicked and overwhelmed, he served the ball from the bottom line as usual, which made the opponent a little overwhelmed, some players in the North American youth team wanted to press all over the court, while some began to retreat immediately, and even looked at the referee, they thought that the Frontier Youth Team would definitely call a timeout.
Turgun received the baseline serve and changed direction to get rid of the pressing player, he did not rashly launch a fast attack, this ball is not suitable for a fast attack, he has to press down the time and try to consume the remaining time.
After advancing to the frontcourt, the players on both sides began to settle down, and Turgun looked like I was going to do it alone, which also made the North American youth team players feel a little relieved, after all, the opponent's fast attack coordination is indeed very sharp.
As the clock ticked by, the Frontier youth players almost all sank to near the baseline, completely opening up space for Turgon.
With ten seconds left in the attacking clock, Turgun moved and picked up the tempo of his dribble, while everyone in the Frontier youth team players who had sunk near the baseline also moved.
Zhu Guoqing almost pounced on this terrible point guard as soon as Turgun moved, and Turgon's three-point and ball-handling ability made Zhu Guoqing very admired, and he thought that this was a real genius.
Cai Aihong mentioned that he was covering for Turgun in a high position, and Hawul followed closely behind, and the entire frontier youth team looked like he was going to play a supporting role for Turgun.
Zhu Guoqing and his teammates did not have an effect on Turgon's bagging, Cai Aihong and Hawul continued to cover Turgun to give Turgun a good space to move. Lee didn't dare to go too far from Turgun, and the opponent's three points were truly memorable.
Turgun took the opportunity to speed up the inside line, and the North American youth team's defense immediately retreated.
With four seconds left before the end of the offensive time, everyone in the North American youth team thought that Turgun was going to go it alone, and he had to complete the quasi-shutout against the North American youth team alone.
However, just after Turgun took three steps and stepped up, the layup was made and Robert? After Li Du blocked, Turgun's outstretched right hand flicked the ball to the back of his head with great subtlety, which was a pure embodiment of ball feeling, and without perfect control of the basketball, it was impossible to do this kind of flexible movement of the fingertips.
Two seconds, Cai Aihong, who had been in the high post and did not move, received this very clever pass from Turgun when he was empty to defend, he was so well prepared, as if he knew in advance that Turgun would pass to him, Cai Aihong even deliberately retreated outside the three-point line before calmly shooting.
The red light came on, the time for the offense was up, the basketball was spinning in the air, and everyone was holding their breath.
"Brush—"
The basketball drilled through the Nets and swung the net, this is a quasi-lore in the standard sense, there are eight seconds left in the game time, but the initiative is no longer in the hands of Gao Ming and his team, eight seconds, three points difference, the Frontier Youth Team even needs to receive one foul to end the game, because after they foul the North American Youth Team will send the North American Youth Team to the free throw line, but the ball will fall into the hands of the Frontier Youth Team.
Almost everyone in the Frontier youth team who completed the attack jumped on the pitch with excitement, and Gao Ming could only use the last long timeout, even though he and his players had lost confidence.