"Times have changed."

There are still 25 hours left until the finals start.

Gu Yu's room.

"Back in the day, when I first started playing basketball, basketball was a giant sport. Space is important, but it's also unimportant. The important spatial components are height, width, and speed, which are not so important. ”

Faced with the question of his lover, Phil Jackson fell into memories: "In those days, as long as there was a super inside lineman, a super big man in the team, he controlled the penalty area. So what the outside players have to do is to pass the ball to the front court safely, and then find a way to give the ball to the big man and let the big man finish the game. ”

"Starting with McCann, to Chamberlain, to Russell, and later to Abdul-Jabbar, it was all the same. At that time, basketball was exchanging height for advantage and space for penalty area dominance. Although the role of the outside line is increasing, it is still who can control the basket that really determines the outcome of the game. ”

Phil Jackson said, "Among them, Russell is an outlier. His offense isn't very strong, and his defense is the best in history, but basketball is the sport that scores more points than anyone else. No matter how strong the defense is, it can only protect the basket, and whether the front court scores or not is the key. How did he change the times? Dozens of meters away, under his own basket, he played the first real team basketball in history with defense and quick passing, and with the way he led the whole team. ”

Gu Yu nodded slightly when he heard this, recalling the old videos he had watched, and was full of emotion.

In that era of basketball, superstars were everything. The gap between the geniuses who transcended the times and the rest of the mortals was too big, as long as they were one-on-one, they would definitely crush the situation.

But Russell took a different path, he used his own basketball concept to win thousands of miles away, and told the world for the first time that being able to dominate the basket can indeed dominate the game, but what you need to dominate is not necessarily the opponent's basket.

As long as your teammates are alert enough and their tactical system is ahead of their game to dominate their own baskets, they can still dominate the whole court.

"After that, the era of black and white hegemony has arrived." Phil Jackson continued: "After so many years of Giants' rule, how many outside stars, even with horrific statistics, still failed most of the time. Oscar Robinson, Iceman Greevin, and your old friend Bernard King, including your cousin, are all victims of the age of giants, but they are also all martyrs of the whirlwind of basketball in the new era. ”

Gu Yu nodded, although Bernard King is now a calm old man, when he followed him to learn basketball skills, Gu Yu could still clearly feel that deep in the heart of this old man, there was always a part of his blood, which was not annihilated by the torrent of the times.

That's the outside scorers, unwilling to fate.

"What did the magician do? He brought the league an entertaining basketball storm and let people know that even if the dominant big man is not in shape, or simply leaves the team, he can still win a championship and dominate the world with an outside commander who dominates the whole court. ”

Phil Jackson said, "What did Larry do again?" He tells the world that basketball doesn't have to be a sport for black people who can run and jump well — a prejudice that was built up by their pioneers, Russell and others — even if you're a white man who can't run fast or jump high, you can still play the world with your terrifying basketball IQ and near-perfect basketball skills. ”

There are more videos of the black and white bear era that have survived, and Gu Yu has seen not a ton of them, but also a basket, and he is also a treasure of the stars and classic games at that time.

Basketball evolved to that era, and for the first time, the overall strategy began to tilt towards the outside. The great black and white bear, for the first time, made people realize that basketball can still be played like this.

And this wave of tactics tilting towards the outside line has just blown, and four challengers immediately appeared, wanting to use muscle and strength to regain the glory that belongs to the inside line.

"Four centers." Phil Jackson's words took the players all the way through every point in the history of basketball, wandering in the ocean of time: "Four great talents, in the same era, at the same time entered their own peak. They wanted to get back everything that belonged to the inside, but alas, I showed up. ”

"Ahh Gu Yu's joke caused everyone to laugh out loud.

"Haha, indeed!" Phil Jackson was also happy and said with a smile: "Michael, I and I have once again proved that the trend of basketball tactics tilting to the outside is irreversible. Even if we don't have a super center in charge, we can still rely on speed, determination, skill, and talent to beat these four big guys. ”

"Don't think that this trend I'm talking about is just my imagination, it's theoretical. With the progress of the times, the gap between role players and superstars today is much smaller than it was in ancient times. A superstar is still a superstar, and he can still dominate the game. But if there is a small character on the opposite side who suddenly explodes and plays a single performance comparable to a superstar, it is definitely not a strange thing. ”

Phil Jackson continued: "With the continuous evolution of everyone's body and technology, the difference in strength caused by the height gap has been invisibly narrowed. There are more and more people who can run and jump, the speed of the court is getting faster and faster, the shooting skills are becoming more and more exquisite, and the basketball court has become bigger than ever. ”

The huge basketball court makes it useless for you to dominate only one area. Smaller players can rely on speed to win, move around a wide range of movements, and make their own contribution in each area. And the speed disadvantage of the big men has become their Achilles' heel.

Not being able to reach every area of the course as fast as possible makes it increasingly embarrassing for the giants. Unless they follow the times and exercise their offensive and defensive capabilities that can cover the whole field, they will only be greeted by the word elimination.

"Later, human beings have also evolved." Phil Jackson said: "Just like Pat said, more and more monsters between 200 and 208 centimeters tall, with the ability to move on the outside, and with a quasi-inside body, and at the same time have a full range of skills. LeBron, Chen, and Durant are all monsters of the new era, and they are all aliens that will inevitably appear in the development of basketball. ”

"These xenomorphs will only increase in the future, they can do anything, they can do everything well. Once again, they have changed the whole picture of the game of basketball, and this era is the era of all-round superstars, and this sentence is not wrong at all. ”

"Do you mean that in the future, basketball will really become a war between 'clones'?" Gu Yu asked.

"By and large, yes." Phil Jackson nodded, "But there are exceptions. ”

"What exceptions?" Gu Yu asked.

"Genius."

Phil Jackson laughed, "In one respect, the genius is far ahead of his time." As long as there is such a guy, the basketball court will continue to be changed at any time. If you want to give an example, such as the little man next to Chen now, Stephen, if his shooting skills continue to develop, and one day he can shoot at the LOGO position and shoot 40% of the shots, then the basketball game will be changed. ”

"This ...... Impossible, right?? Wei Shao was a little surprised.

"Who knows." Phil Jackson shook his head and said, "After all, there is such a genius by your side." ”

Everyone's eyes were focused on Gu Yu.

This one-on-one invincible, stable scoring under the bag, three-person bag can also break through with the ball, and four-person or even five-person bag is not necessarily limited.

Isn't it changing the sport?

"It's a cycle, and it's an evolutionary history with a sense of Zen." Phil Jackson continued: "Basketball goes from the box to the wing, from the wing to the outside, from the outside to the three-point line. Next, it will continue to return, back to the flanks. Until one day. When there is another Chamberlain, basketball will be back in the box. ”

Saying that, Phil Jackson looked at Gu Yu and said, "Why do I always insist on triangle attack, and why do I still insist on a seemingly inefficient mid-range style of play when the times have changed dramatically?" That's because I firmly believe that the core of basketball is still in the middle distance, and it will always be above the middle distance. No matter how the times develop and how the position of the ball is concentrated, all of this has always swung back and forth around the middle distance, and has never completely belonged to a certain range. Even Chamberlain was a master of half-volleys and step-back jumpers, and you should know that. ”

"I know." Gu Yu nodded, in those black-and-white videos, Chamberlain's mid-range leaning back was indeed accurate.

"Everyone is saying that now is the era of the magic ball, the middle distance is the least efficient, the most difficult, and is about to be eliminated by the times." Phil Jackson continued: "People say that singles are the most efficient means of attack, and that simple cooperation can make efficiency rise dramatically, and singles should be thrown into the wastebasket. ”

"But I think that's because people haven't understood the essence of basketball and haven't experienced that bit of Zen. To win, you have to play a good offense, while containing the opponent's best offensive means and forcing the opponent to play the game with offensive means that you are not good at. In this situation, both sides are engaged in similar tactical games, and both are forcing the other side to solve the problem from a medium distance. So when a team has an inexplicable mid-distance singles and the other side has a slightly inferior singles, who is the winner? ”

In an instant, Gu Yu seemed to understand a lot of things.

"The outcome of a basketball game has never had anything to do with whether you are all-round or not. At the end of the day, it's all about who scores more points in a basketball game. Phil Jackson looked at Gu Yu with satisfaction: "So, in the middle distance, kill Chen Mu." In my system, you can play as many singles as you like, and the more singles you play, the closer we are to victory......! ”