42. The essence of basketball
At the beginning, Liu Ren didn't understand what the coaching staff discussed. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
He knows that the tactics can get the players out of the open space, but he doesn't know how to get it, he often needs to do a lot of off-ball pick-and-rolls in the tactics, there are a lot of pick-and-rolls that don't matter to the person who catches the ball, but he still has to do it, he knows that it will help the team get the ball to the person who wants to give it, but he really doesn't know what a lot of blocks are for.
Obviously, Gasol and Kobe Bryant have played for so many years, and they know a lot about tactics, and they have learned all the things that Liu Ren doesn't understand.
That's what superstars have to do, right? Mobilize your teammates' positions on the court to help yourself or help your teammates get shots.
Liu Ren quietly watched them discuss, trying hard to learn these things, I can't understand them now, I will learn them one day, I will understand, won't I?
Diligence can make up for clumsiness, maybe diligence can't change the upper limit of talent, this Liu Ren has determined in his previous life, genius is 99% sweat plus 1% talent, but without 1% talent, even if you have 200% sweat, it is useless.
However, if you are not diligent, even if you have talent, you should be even more diligent if you don't have talent, to achieve or even surpass your original talent.
He may not have the talent to be a coach, but he believes that he can learn to understand the tactical roadmap, understand the impact of each action of the players in the tactics and the purpose of doing so.
"Liu, what do you think is the essence of basketball?" Bryant suddenly asked Liu Ren.
"The nature of basketball?" Liu Ren was stunned for a moment, and after thinking for a few seconds, he said weakly: "Throw the ball into the basket?" ”
Well, that's what Liu Ren thinks on the court, throw the ball into the opponent's basket, and whoever scores more wins. By extension, it's the technology, and the honors.
"That's right, just throw the ball into the basket." Kobe Bryant seemed to be very satisfied with Liu Ren's answer.
After that, Kobe Bryant did not continue to talk to Liu Ren, but went to discuss with the coaching staff those tactical roadmaps that Liu Ren couldn't understand.
Until the end of the meeting, Liu Ren was still in the clouds, half because he basically didn't understand much, and the little bit he understood was the purpose of tactics to create scoring opportunities for him.
Liu Ren is very satisfied with this, and the team has regarded him as the team's first point of attack.
The other half is that Liu Ren didn't understand what Kobe Bryant meant when he asked him, could it be that he discussed with D'Antoni until he was bored and asked casually?
I don't know why, Liu Ren felt that Kobe was not very satisfied with D'Antoni, and he couldn't see that Kobe was unhappy on the surface, but as a hardcore Komi, he just felt that Kobe was a little dissatisfied.
Similarly, Liu Ren saw that Gasol's expression had not changed, and he also felt that something was wrong.
After the meeting, the coaches went about their own business, D'Antoni went to Kupchak, and Liu Ren went to the indoor court with Kobe and Gasol.
"Liu, what you just said is that the essence of basketball is to throw the ball into the basket, and that's right." Bryant suddenly said, "But that's only half the story." ”
"Half?"
"That's right, only half." Bryant paused for a moment and continued, "The other side is not to let the opponent shoot the ball into the basket!" That's the finished basketball! ”
"It's not okay to have only half of it, but now there is only the offensive half of the team's tactics, and the other half is abandoned, as you saw just now, we didn't discuss defensive tactics in our meeting." Gasol answered.
Liu Ren recalled it and found that from the beginning of the training camp to the present, he had never conducted defensive training!
The Lakers have ten games in the preseason plus the regular season, and there has never been a defensive arrangement! Every timeout is an offensive arrangement, and I have never heard such a thing as defending the opponent!
The Lakers' defense is above average because the team has a good lineup, they are all young and energetic players, and the offense plays well and the defense is naturally hard, including Nick Young, who will be excited to keep up with the opponent when he opens his heart to defense.
Coupled with Gasol's interference with the opponent's offense with his long arms inside, Liu Ren and Whiteside's penalty area blocking, the outside defense is all about fighting, without any defensive tactics, and it all depends on the teammates themselves.
Thinking of this, Liu Ren's face was full of worry, can this lame team system make much difference?
D'Antoni is good offensively, for most teams in the league, his offensive system is quite advanced, but there are also Popovich's Spurs that are more advanced! Not to mention Cole after that!
A team without defense, even if the Suns are as talented as the Suns in the three seasons of 04-07, still can't do much in the playoffs, let alone their group?
Liu Ren is not presumptuous, but self-knowledge is what he should have, their strength may be in the middle of the league, the victory over the Clippers and the Warriors two playoff teams can prove this very well, and there may be hope of winning a game against the top teams, but thinking about playing a series with the Spurs, he is a little worried that he will lose confidence in basketball.
Iron also needs to be hard! Liu Ren feels that he still has a lot of shortcomings, the offensive means are relatively simple, three points plus strong inside play, and it will be bad when he encounters a team like the Spurs.
If there is Kobe Bryant's ability to fire at any time at any time in the distance......
But this old man is now seriously injured, and even if his body recovers after he comes back, it is estimated that he will only have eighty percent of his strength before the injury.
Thinking of this, Liu Ren looked at Kobe Bryant with a look of resentment.
Kobe Bryant was looked at all over the body uncomfortable, thinking that Liu Ren was complaining about why he didn't tell D'Antoni about it, so he said: "Now Mike is our head coach, what we have to do is to play as many games as possible to play the games he is going to play, he has had a successful experience, proved that this style of play will work, now we have to win, last year lost too much." As for the playoffs, fighting defense...... Well, while my goal is still to compete for the championship, I also know that it's going to be difficult to do with the squad we have now. We don't have more options, we don't have many better coaches than Mike, we don't have a chance to get them at the moment, so instead of complaining, what you need to do is play hard and train hard. ”
Instead of complaining, play hard!
Liu Ren likes this sentence very much, thinking about it, it can only be like this, the player interferes with the team's choice of coach?
It seems that those who interfered in the selection of head coaches in the history of the NBA were scolded bloody, even if the player's judgment was proved to be correct, the head coach was really not good, and he was still scolded very badly.
Magic-Johnson and James, two of the top 10 superstars in history, have been hacked for interfering in the selection of head coaches, not to mention him Liu Ren?