After beating the Warriors with a defensive strangulation, the Clippers were given a valuable 3-day break.

The five-day, four-game game was as exhausting as the rotational Clippers, who often struggled with the schedule because they shared the Stamp Center with the Lakers.

Away back-to-back, back-to-back, and long-distance road trips at every turn.

After all, there is only one arena, which is shared by several professional teams in Los Angeles, and there are boxing matches, concerts, and various events, so it's pretty good to be able to schedule it, which is a technical job.

In this case, the Clippers' new Huawei Center is particularly important and valuable, and once the center is completed, the Clippers will have their own independent competition venue.

The schedule can be more relaxed, giving the players more even time to rest and adjust, and not to play wildly for a while, and then rest for a few days in between.

However, for Mike Malone, these three days are a great opportunity to spend a large chunk of time in team training and tactical research.

The Clippers' roster potential has kept Mike Malone, a workaholic who locks himself in a video analysis room in the training center, pondering the Clippers' games this season, especially the details of his players' defense.

If offense is based on talent, imagination, spur of the moment and skill, then defense is about finding the devil in the details.

In a high-speed basketball game like the NBA, 0.1 seconds of twinkle in defense can cause you to lose your defense, unable to keep up with the opponent's offensive pace, and then cause the entire defense line to collapse.

Therefore, excellent offensive coaches are often wild and uninhibited, and their personalities are more extroverted.

And a good defensive coach is mostly obsessive-compulsive and has a strong obsession with details.

Larry Brown, a defensive maniac, is even more critical of the distance and movement of players on the court, measured by a ruler.

Mike Malone also has this habit of pursuing details, and he uses video footage to find out the team's defensive problems and record them.

In just two days, Mike Malone has written two full notebooks, edited more than a dozen hours of footage, and then handed it to Tyronn Lue to see.

Tyronn Lue looked at it briefly, didn't say anything, and said directly: "The team's defense will be handed over to you, and I will squeeze out enough training session time for you." ”

Coach Lu is well versed in Min Congda's management, and professional things are left to professional people to do!

As the head coach of the team, he mainly plays a role in stabilizing the morale of the army and coordinating the distribution.

Kerr is gone, and Malone is coming again, one to build the offense and the other to defend it.

And I, Tyronn Lue, am the team's mental pump!

Mr. Smart is really far-sighted, arranged everything properly, seamlessly, and deserves to be the best general manager in the league and the god of NBA management!

Tyronn Lue has already praised Min Congda in his heart, and Min Congda doesn't know that further evolution is going on inside the Clippers.

Instead, he pays more attention to the situation of other teams, such as the Cleveland Cavaliers, such as the Miami Heat.

After Kerr went to the Cavaliers, unlike Malone who came to the Clippers, his role in the Cavaliers was immediate.

In a short period of time, the combat effectiveness of the Cavaliers was immediately liberated, and the team style of the Cavaliers also shifted from the previous defensive to offensive.

And the biggest change came from LeBron James, who finally accepted to be the starting No. 4 for the Cavaliers after Kerr tortured him by playing the No. 5 position in a row.

He reduced his offense with the ball, changing from a setter with the ball to a setter + finisher.

Such a transition is certainly painful, and it has been 10 years since James entered the league in '03.

He didn't go through college basketball, because his physical fitness is too good, and with his excellent vision, he has always played with the ball and a passer.

As soon as he entered the league, the Cavaliers held him in the palm of his hand, let him play the No. 1 position, and with him as the absolute core, the ball was handed over to him to play.

The advantage of playing like this is that James has risen quickly in the field he is good at, and his experience and skills have improved rapidly.

The moment he broke through to the basket with the ball, he was the top in the entire history of the NBA, and the success rate was extremely high.

The disadvantage is that in those areas that he is not very good at, there is almost no progress, and it is better to stand still, maybe there will be regression.

Although you can do one trick in the NBA, if you want to win a championship and become the best in history, you have to be different from ordinary players and have higher requirements.

Steve Kerr demanded more from James, and he was a little unconvinced at first, but Kerr was a tough man with a skill.

He's not Mike Brown, he's just going to get used to James and let him play in his comfort zone.

And Cole also has a very tough backstage, that is, Min Congda.

During the month of December, James would call Min Congda from time to time to complain.

said that after Cole came, he played much harder, and he always had to do something that he was not good at.

Not to mention the waste of physical energy, the stats will decline, the shooting percentage will drop, and even the high-level stats that he has been dominating the league will begin to decline.

Min Congda asked him at the time, do you want data, or do you want championships?

James hesitated for a moment and said he wanted both.

Min Cong angrily scolded James on the phone.

This scolding, coupled with the Cavaliers' record getting better and better, James slowly accepted this setting.

Steve Kerr also uses several methods at the same time, and wants him to play the number four position, don't you want to? Then you can just play the number five position.

The number five position is more strenuous than the number four position, so playing the number four position is much more comfortable.

Usually Steve Kerr compares Jordan to James at every turn.

said that when Phil Jackson came to the Bulls, he also asked Jordan to do the same.

Let Jordan hold the ball less and learn to share the ball with his teammates more.

James said I shared the ball, I have a lot of assists per game.

Kerr retorted that sharing the ball and assisting are two different things.

In short, mentioning Jordan still works.

Because James has had his eyes on Jordan since he entered the league.

Not only is he staring at Jordan, but the company behind him is also staring at Jordan.

Nike very, very hopefully has a second Michael Jordan to continue the Nike legacy.

As Kerr gradually took the initiative in the Cavaliers and readjusted his tactics and playing style according to his own ideas, the Cavaliers played a very beautiful record in December and January, soaring from the previous fourth and fifth positions in the East to the second place in the East.

The first place in the East is currently firmly controlled by the star-studded Miami Heat.

The South Coast Galactic Battleship was not in the same state at the beginning of the season as people thought, and it was directly devastating, and the league was invincible.

They lost a few games, especially to some mid-table teams, which dimmed the Heat's star a lot.

It can also be seen from the performance of the Heat that superstar huddles are never easy to succeed.

At the beginning, the Lakers' F4 success was a failure, Payton did not integrate into the team from beginning to end, and Malone's injury had a huge impact.

The Celtic triumvirate has been an unprecedented success because the three are so well matched and the Celtics have a very well structured tactical system.

A little further afield, Barkley joined the Rockets, and although he failed to win the championship, he mainly lost to injuries.

In the 1996-1997 season, before Charles Barkley was absent due to injury, the Houston Rockets had a 21-2 record in the first two months, which can be said to have swept the league.

The problems faced by the Heat may be more complex than those faced by the Lakers and the Rockets.

Nash and Howard are two players who are too special, one only plays offense and can't defend, and the other is very strong and lame offensively.

Fortunately, Nash is the point guard, Howard is the center, the point guard defense is not good, and others can make up for it; The center attack is not good, and it is harmless in this era.

At the same time, Nash and Howard, one is older, the other is suffering from back injuries and weight loss, and the Heat's Galaxy Battleship is far from being as luxurious as it seems, but rather full of holes, and it is up to the coach to put these flawed but talented parts back together.

There has been an expectation that Pat Riley will return to the coaching whip and use his seniority, iron blood and intelligence to put together a star-studded roster as he did in the 2006 season.

But after playing for two months this season, Riley has never had any moves and ideas in this regard, on the contrary, he stood up for Spolskola several times when the Heat had a poor record at the beginning of the season.

Of course, the pressure on Spolskola's shoulders is very, very high, and Riley's support for him is both a support and a spur, and he has to find a way out for this Heat team.

And Spolskola, as one of the fans of NBA-Batman, has silently absorbed a lot of nutrients from NBA-Batman's blog during this time.

Probably because the composition of the Heat Galaxy Battleship attracted a large part of the public opinion flow, and in November and December, there were many articles about the Heat on the blog.

A professional coach like Spo basically doesn't read some analytical reviews on the Internet, after all, the level is not very good, only NBA-Batman is a must-see.

In fact, not only Spo, but also coaches across the league, but anyone who is younger and still studying and improving hard, there is no one who does not read the NBA-Batman commentary column.

Previously, NBA-Batman started by sending messages in advance and posting all kinds of gossip, which attracted many ordinary fans.

It was only later that people realized that the football review blogs associated with it were the essence, and each one had very in-depth insights.

These insights are not the kind of superficial comments, or just an analysis of the player's performance, and the same as not reading it.

These articles will accurately poke at some of the team's key issues, and put forward some very thoughtful ideas, and even some epoch-setting thinking.

Some people say that the two articles on NBA-Batman opened the era of offensive blocking and dismantling in the NBA, and the overall idea of the league is to reform and play around "space-ball possession".

There are even more opinions about the people behind NBA-Batman, and most of them agree that NBA-Batman is actually a team behind it.

It is likely to be a sports think tank, with a group of relevant experts, video analysts, and data analysts to conduct relevant research and influence the direction of the entire league.

The investigation team cooperated by the alliance and the FBI has also been investigating, but unfortunately it has never been seen and has gradually been forgotten.

Spo continued to draw nourishment from these articles, find inspiration, and then experiment in the game, and finally found a system that suits the current heat.

A dual-core system with Wade Howard as the defensive core and Nash + Bosh as the offensive core.

The specific tactics are numerous and complex, but the basic idea is a few points:

First, to weaken Howard's role in offense.

This was the biggest and most important decision Spo made after studying, practicing, and consulting with the coaching staff and Riley.

A star like Howard is hell-bent on establishing himself as a low-post monster in order to earn a place in the all-time supercenter rankings.

It's a pity, whether from the perspective of personal ability or the current trend, letting Howard eat alone in the low post is a harmful approach to the offense.

Spo withstood the pressure and worked with Riley to convince Howard to put all his energy into defense, and in the offense, he was only responsible for piecemeal, eating cakes, grabbing frontcourt rebounds, and doing a good job of blocking and pick-and-roll.

Second, the combination of Nash and Bosh's high blocking and pick-and-roll will be designed as the team's core tactics to further enhance Bosh's tactical status.

Third, Wade has gradually shifted from the positioning of the offensive and defensive core to the positioning of the all-rounder, and the positioning of the attacker at critical moments weakens his ball possession.

Fourth, Ray Allen is no longer a simple substitute sixth man, but the team's key outside three-point tactical point, and many offensive tactics are designed around Ray Allen.

Fifth, give up the high-energy-consuming extreme outside pressing defense, make good use of Howard's basket protection deterrence, reduce the pressure on the outside defenders, and make the team's defense more balanced inside and outside.

A series of integrations and changes to the team have brought the Heat to life, and starting in December, when the Clippers ended their undefeated streak, the Heat began their winning streak.

In 15 games in December, the Miami Heat went 14-1, including a wave of 10 consecutive wins, replacing the Clippers, making the whole league tremble, and it felt unbeatable for a while.

Spo was naturally relieved to see the team's record getting better and better, and the system gradually stabilized, but he also knew that this season had just begun.

The NBA regular season is too long, and November and December are just appetizers, just over a third of the way.

In 13 years, the season is gradually entering the middle stage, and various tests will follow, especially the injury problem, which is the fatal injury of many superstar huddle teams.

Spo had to balance his record and injuries at this time, and the Heat were already a team that trained hard and was a big physical test for the players.

To this end, Spo took the initiative to leave a message on the NBA-Batman blog, hoping to get some guidance, and even if the other party is a person, he would like to invite this person to the Heat as an assistant coach.

Spo wasn't the first to do so, and he won't be the last, and he won't be the only one who hasn't received a response.

Because where will they know that behind NBA-Batman is Clippers general manager Min Congda?

(End of chapter)