Chapter 15 Summer League

Tactics are dead, athletes are alive, a rigorous tactical system needs to be implemented by supporting players, if you forcibly use tactical rules and regulations to encircle athletes, it is often counterproductive, not only can not play tactical coordination, and even the player's own level is difficult to play. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Because Wang Zhuo knows these truths well, he did not fight wits and courage with Wharton in tactics, and left the players to run and play tactics on their own according to their own characteristics and understanding of their teammates.

Although the basketball players of Duke University do not have the professionalism of NBA players, the level of competition is absolutely first-class, not to mention the guidance of a famous coach like Lao K, there is a tacit cooperation between them, what Wang Zhuo has to do is just to make the team's inherent chemistry present, only need to do some targeted defense according to Wharton's tactics when necessary.

Wharton, on the other hand, may be able to achieve short-term results by applying NBA tactical thinking to coaching a college basketball team, such as using a five-small lineup in the first half to stretch the margin to about 10 points, which shows that the player's talent and tactical execution are very high, and they can read the tactics in a short period of time and make relatively perfect combinations.

But when Wang Zhuo made a targeted defense and cracked the five-small lineup, Wharton rushed ducks to the shelves in the second half and forcibly implemented the triangle attack, which the players could not digest for a while, not only the power of the triangle attack could not be reflected, but even the tactical coordination of the players themselves had problems, Wang Zhuo seized such an opportunity to respond to all changes without changing and won the first victory as a coach in his life.

In fact, the five-small lineup is not to strangle the conductive power forward, the success of a tactic is through thousands or even tens of thousands of training sessions and the practice of the game, Wharton naturally knows the five-small lineup well, but it is used in a group of brand-new players, even if it can show part of the power of the tactics, but it must be greatly discounted, and it is needless to say that it can also achieve unexpected results with targeted defense to deal with a greatly discounted tactics.

When Wang Zhuo stepped off the plane, he turned on his mobile phone and dialed Lin Yao's phone, Lin Yao had been waiting at the exit of the airport for a long time, in fact, during the 10 days at Duke University, Wang Zhuo and Lin Yao had been in touch, and when the two talked on the phone the day before the end of study, Lin Yao offered to go to the airport to pick up Wang Zhuo, and Wang Zhuo did not refuse.

Lin Yao is dressed in casual clothes today, showing a youthful and beautiful atmosphere, because she has to drive, she is not wearing high heels, but this does not affect her sense of standing out from the crowd.

Wang Zhuo saw Lin Yao at a glance, Lin Yao also saw him, and greeted him, the two looked at each other and smiled, without words, everything was in silence, the two were not lovers, but they did not have the slightest sense of disobedience when they stood together.

Wang Zhuo put the luggage in the trunk, opened the door and sat in the driver's seat, Lin Yao sat in the co-pilot, since Wang Zhuo's driver's license was in hand, as long as the two went out together, Lin Yao must let Wang Zhuo drive, it seems that Wang Zhuo's driver's license is to be a free driver for her.

"Wang Zhuo, how is Duke University?"

"It's alright, what about you?"

"I'm fine, but I'm not used to it!"

Xiao Biesheng is newly married, Wang Zhuo and Lin Yao have not confirmed the relationship between lovers, but Lin Yao's initiative seems to make this relationship only break the last layer of window paper, so when they meet again, Lin Yao will inevitably have the shyness that girls should have, so the conversation between the two seems to be rambling, and the atmosphere is slightly awkward.

"Actually, it's not, it's just that you were used to living alone before, and after you moved in, you became unaccustomed to it, and then you left, making this unaccustomed even more unaccustomed!"

Lin Yao faded the shyness on her face, returned to her former nature, and said in a joking tone as if she was reciting a tongue twister, which eased the atmosphere a lot.

"Oh!" Wang Zhuo replied without being salty, stopped talking, stayed focused, and continued to drive.

Back at the residence, at dinner, Lin Yao took Anne to Wang Zhuo's house for dinner, when Anne saw Wang Zhuo again, her expression was slightly embarrassed, and Wang Zhuo looked casual, as if nothing had happened before, although the three of them knew it.

"Chinese food is so delicious! Lin Yao, I only think you're right now! ”

At dinner, Wang Zhuo cooked by himself, which made Anne, who tasted his craft for the first time, full of praise, but the latter sentence seemed to be quite meaningful, but Wang Zhuo didn't care.

After Lin Yao and Anne left, Wang Zhuo received a text message from the Zen master, asking him to rest for a day and then go to the training camp of the Las Vegas Summer League as the head coach of the New York Knicks Summer League to select players for the 15-man roster of the Knicks squad next season.

Summer League is not an official NBA organization, but a number of games organized by new and upcoming NBA players and some free agents through the matchmaking of certain teams, the more famous ones are the Orlando Summer League, the Atlanta Summer League and the Las Vegas Summer League.

The whole process lasted less than two weeks, each participating team played a minimum of 5 games, a maximum of 6 games, including 3 qualifying games, the rest of the games were knockout games, and the rules of the game were almost the same as the rules of the NBA except for the increase in the number of fouls in a single game from 6 to 10, so the summer league is a stage for those rookies who want to work on themselves and free agents who want to regain the favor of the team and get a contract to prove themselves. Of course, there are also returning veterans who play in Summer League in order to quickly adjust to the intensity of the NBA game.

Therefore, there are no superstars in the summer league, most of them are fringe players, and even the players don't know each other, and even the coaches are mostly assistant coaches of various teams, which shows that the spectacle of the game is not the same as that of the NBA, but it is also a great opportunity to show the ability of coaching to condense such a group of scattered individual players into a strong group in a short period of time and play a wonderful game.

When Wang Zhuo rushed to the training camp of the Las Vegas Summer League, he briefly looked at the list of players on the Knicks. Grant and veteran Jose? Calderon, the rest of them are unknown players and undrafted players, and the schedule shows that the three opponents in the qualifying games are the Spurs, Lakers and 76ers.

Wang Zhuo walked into the players' locker room, and was greeted by an extremely chaotic scene, the players were lying on the ground, their uniforms were thrown all over the ground, and some players were listening to music with headphones hanging on their ears, grinning and jumping with their hands and feet, and they didn't care about the arrival of Wang Zhuo, a rookie coach, and they were completely undisciplined.

Porzingis, a foreign player who first arrived in the United States, seemed relatively rusty, doing leg pressing exercises in the corner of the locker room in a regular manner, while Calderon was wrapping his injured calf with a bandage, and smiled at Wang Zhuo implicitly when he saw him.

"Start training an hour early tomorrow morning!" Wang Zhuo suppressed the anger that suddenly rose in his chest, did not let it explode immediately, knocked lightly on the door of the locker room, and when all the players' eyes were on him, he dropped a sentence and turned to leave.