December 20, 2010, Staples Center, Clippers vs. Timberwolves game.

After a summer of various maneuvers, the Timberwolves traded from the Jazz to get Kouvers and other players to send Al Jefferson away.

Then in the new season, he continued to walk on the road to compete for the next year's No. 1 pick, and rode the dust in the West.

The result of 6 wins and 22 losses made Min Congda envious.

If the system hadn't agreed, Min Congda would have resigned himself and let the Timberwolves' Kahn come over as the general manager of the Clippers.

In this year's draft and signings, Min Congda has tried his best to follow in the footsteps of the Timberwolves.

But now in the season, he feels like he still can't see the taillights of the Timberwolves management.

The gap is too big, and sure enough, it is not just a simple imitation, but the essence of rotten must be understood.

Min Congda thought that he had not understood enough of this essence, so he had to use the time-consuming and laborious strategy of "teaching players to play".

In this game, in the first three quarters, the Timberwolves were beaten to no end.

Hassim Thabit has proven to be a completely useless insider.

The Timberwolves are already considering trading him away to see if any team that wants to scratch the lottery is willing to take over and get it back.

And the inside line composed of Coovers and Lefu lacks offensive power and is weak in front of the two heroes.

Lefu is a good hand at brushing rebounds, but rebounds can't be converted into points, and it's just a number.

After three quarters, the Clippers led the Timberwolves by as many as 20 points, basically turning the fourth quarter into garbage time.

During the break in the third and fourth quarters, Mike Dunleavy said to the players: "Later, in the fourth quarter, the big guy will play a dozen passing and cutting systems and hone in on it." Mark, do you know how high you can hold the ball? ”

Marc Gasol was confused and asked, "Chuan Che?" What is the passing cut? ”

Dunleavy said: "It's just a multi-high strategy, play the air cut, and pass the ball inside." ”

Mark Gasol said: "Why? We're all over 20 points ahead, and we're still going to play like that? ”

Dunleavy said to everyone: "From today onwards, we have to play more cross-cutting attacks, which is Mr. Smart's tactical requirement. ”

Everyone went back to look at the audience, Min Congda sat in the back and nodded, and at the same time slandered in his heart, Lao Deng still likes to shake the pot.

Whenever there is any request, I always have to catch up with what "Mr. Smart" said, for fear of being complained about by the players, this bad old man is very bad.

Moreover, this kind of tactic requires you not to say it during training on weekdays, and suddenly talk to the players in the middle of the game, and everyone will be confused.

Like the high-post strategy and pass-cutting cooperation, the Clippers have daily drills, but not much, mainly the high-low cooperation of Randolph and Gasol Jr.

There are even fewer air cuts and reverse runs, and when Gordon was here last season, he would run back into the air cuts, and his awareness was quite good.

Gordon wasn't there, Ricky Davis wouldn't, Baron Davis couldn't run, so he gave birth to Bledsoe to run.

But Bledsoe's height, if he runs to the basket, he may be capped, and he usually doesn't practice this routine.

When the fourth quarter began, the Clippers, who were leading by 20 points, looked dazed.

Gasol Jr. will respond to the high position, as a European insider, he will do this training since he was a child.

Unless there is really no talent in this area, the European interior line has more or less the ability to play the ball in a high position.

But it's useless for him to just do it, other people haven't practiced much, how can this be beaten?

Xiaojia can only get a few people together and discuss it briefly.

"Stand 1-4 later, pull away and go inside."

"What is a 1-4 position?"

"Who's going inside?"

"How can I fight if I can't get a chance?"

"Why did Mr. Smart suddenly ask us to play the pass?"

"He's got his point, but how to do it."

"Could it be that he knows that we are gossiping about him behind our backs, and that he will take revenge on us?"

"There's a possibility, Mark, your mouth is the most broken, so let you dominate the ball."

"How can you blame me for this! You're all having a great time listening! ”

The TV camera turned to the Clippers players, thinking they were gathered around to discuss tactics.

In fact, everyone is very confused, but fortunately the lead is more than 20 points, and basically you can win by playing casually.

On the bench, Min Congda asked Dunleavy, "Mike, why did you suddenly tell the players to play the pass during the game?" You should inform them in advance, and it's good to practice the routine. ”

Dunleavy said: "Because someone is also in the middle of the season and suddenly tells me to change the tactics, I can only suddenly tell the players in the game that we have to play a new tactical system. ”

Lao Deng still has a temper, no matter whether what Min Congda said and did before was correct or not, he had his own ideas.

This time Min Congda was really choked back, Lao Deng was right, when the team had a good momentum, changing the tactics halfway, or the reverse version of the tactics was really speechless.

But the more this happened, the more Min Congda realized that he had made the right decision.

Dunleavy added: "If the team starts losing because of this, I don't take that responsibility. ”

Min Congda hurriedly said: "No! It's definitely not your responsibility, it's all mine! ”

Curry on the side asked puzzledly, "Mr. Smart, why do you have to play the pass?" Our tactics were good. ”

Min Congda patted Curry on the shoulder and said, "Silly boy, I'm here for you, I don't want your ability to run without the ball to be wasted." ”

"But..."

"Don't do it, you can study and study when you have time, make up for the class, don't come back when you can't keep up."

Curry nodded, thinking to himself, is Mr. Smart really for me? I owe him so much.

Min Congda made it up blindly, and he took it seriously.

At this time, the situation on the field suddenly became very strange.

The Clippers, who had been playing smoothly in the first three quarters and pinning the Timberwolves to the ground, suddenly didn't seem to be able to play.

Gasol Jr. hesitated with the ball, and Ricky Davis didn't know how to run in the bottom corner, and collided with Randolph.

On the weak side, Baran Davis stood there in a daze, and Bledsoe circled around Gasol Jr., but couldn't catch the ball.

The Timberwolves players also find it strange that the Clippers players are engaging in some kind of performance art.

Everyone is doing their own thing, just like a person, the left foot is going forward, the right foot is deflecting to the left, the left hand is swinging, the right hand is picking the nose, and the head is still looking back, what kind of ability is this to fight left and right?

For several rounds in a row, the Clippers didn't even complete a decent offense, either by a mistake or by Marc Gasol holding the ball and rushing to the basket.

Fortunately, the Timberwolves' offense was really not good, and they didn't seize the opportunity to play a wave of super counterattacks, and the difference between the two sides was too big to catch up in the first quarter of the game.

The Clippers, who scored 91 points at the end of the third quarter, scored only 12 points in the fourth quarter.

In the end, they won 103-95, an eight-point advantage over the Timberwolves.

If the Timberwolves work harder, or for a little longer, the Clippers may lose.

At the end of the game, Dunleavy shook his head and said to Min Congda: "How about it, Smart, this is the effect of the pass." ”

Min Congda sighed and said, "It's late, it's late!" ”

"What, you still think it's too late?"

"yes, such a good tactic, if only it had been used earlier."

Dunleavy listened to Min Congda's words and felt more and more unable to understand him.

(End of chapter)