Fan Chen's analysis and assertion made Min Congda stop thinking about tossing.

As for Li Liang, the spy placed in the team's locker room, let him be a "dead room", anyway, he doesn't care about the two-year contract, and the Clippers have no shortage of people to play.

After the Clippers defeated the Nets, they still maintained a relaxed state in the regular season, preparing and facing every game in a stable manner, they are a mature team.

Not only does the team have a bunch of talented young players, but they also have a nanny-like coaching staff, a medical and training team that has been brought in at a great expense (thanks to Ball), a very strong and well-serviced security and logistics organization, a brand-new, well-equipped training field, and a canteen where they can eat whatever they want, which allows the players to focus on basketball without being distracted by anything else.

Of course, it's hard to avoid getting distracted when you're famous in Los Angeles, because there are so many temptations here.

Beauty, celebrities, business endorsements, all kinds of social activities.

Compared with the Lakers, whose stars are dim without Kobe, the rising Clippers star has become the new favorite of Hollywood.

Curry won Nike's big endorsement contract and became the new favorite of Hooks, and their signature sneakers in red and blue colors for Curry immediately sold well in the United States.

Compared to James, who has never won a championship, Nike intends to invest more resources in Curry and make Curry the Michael Jordan of their new era.

Harden was a frequent presence at parties, nightclubs, and became a social sensation in Los Angeles.

However, because of the existence of his mother, Harden is still relatively restrained, and he is very serious in training and games.

Leonard and George both have new sneaker endorsement contracts, and they often appear in some commercials.

Nike is already planning to launch signature sneakers for the duo — and while their rating doesn't seem like that's enough, it's possible that they'll be All-Star together this year.

Marc Gasol starred in a film shot by a Spanish director, in which he made a cameo role, and although there were only a few shots and two lines, it was a special experience for him, and from then on Marc Gasol became interested in cinema.

Jimmy Butler is currently less popular and doesn't have much commercial activity, but there are also TV stations that invite him to participate in the show to talk about his inspirational experience of growing up.

All this should have started when the Clippers won their first championship, after all, in competitive sports, everyone's eyes are on the championship, and the winner takes all.

When the Clippers won two consecutive championships, there was naturally more interest in the team, and this group of youngsters received more attention.

Especially this season, after these young people have been fully trained, everyone has begun to show their strength and temperament.

Harden Magic is well-rounded, Leonard is mechanically cold defensively, George is known as Maddy, Tower commander Gasol Jr., and Curry is already in the MVP race.

The Clippers' promotional machine is in full swing for the Clippers, who not only sell tickets at home, but also climb to the top of the league in box office appeal on the road.

Because of the color scheme of the red and blue jerseys, some people also jokingly call the Clippers the "West Coast Circus", and Curry is the number one clown on the team.

Like the circus, they always attract a large number of children to watch and follow everywhere they go, and the influence of the Clippers among young fans is really huge.

But the last team to earn a similar nickname was the Philadelphia 76ers led by Dr. J in 1977, who eventually lost to the unpretentious Portland Trail Blazers in the Finals.

In this lively and colorful daily team life, the Clippers still maintain a relatively stable state, and the team can still win some games very beautifully, and then lose some games that should not be lost.

And Curry continues to pursue his MVP path in statistics, but his performance does not seem to be very convincing, he lags behind Kevin Durant in the MVP rankings, although the Nets' record has fluctuated in November and December, and is not as stable as the Clippers, but Kobe Bryant is rejuvenating his third spring with his refreshing style of play and performance.

LeBron James, the darling of the media, was gradually forgotten in the corner, although the Cavaliers had a good record and had one more win than the Nets before the Christmas game in December, but the media and fans gradually got tired of James's failure to win the championship in his adult years.

This is the 11th season of his career, and even Hakiem Olajuwon, the controversial ball black hole in the early stage of his career, ushered in the spring in his 10th season, winning the Grand Slam of individual and team honors, and in the 11th season with a legendary playoff to establish himself as a superstar in history and a personal charisma comparable to Jordan.

And James, the experience of two Finals failures has always disappointed people's expectations of him, and this year the Cavaliers don't look very good.

Quality forwards like Battier and Miller have aged further, and Kerr's tactical experiment of letting James play the No. 5 position has failed, and he has returned to the small forward position and started to handle the ball heavily.

In fact, if James had calmed down a few years earlier, honed his skills and tactics at the third and fourth positions, or found a top coach in college two years ago to study the basics of off-ball and tactics, the Cavaliers should have won the championship in 12 years.

At that time, although the Clippers were full of talent, they were very young as a whole, with many loopholes and flaws, and finally overturned the Cavaliers completely in one breath.

The defeat in the Finals in '12 was quite fatal for James, and in the '13 season they lost to the Heat, who had been preparing for it all again, and by this year James' Cavaliers career was already at the end of the crossbow.

Of course, James' personal performance is still beyond reproach, with data of 27+7+8, which is still the first gear in the league.

The Cavaliers' record is also in the top two in the East, but this kind of performance can no longer bring more surprises to the media and fans, and everyone is already aesthetically fatigued.

What's worse is that there are some signs and signs of discord within the Cavaliers, James feels like this is going to be his last season with the Cavaliers, head coach Steve Kerr is gradually losing control of the team, and in the locker room, Kyrie Irving is more difficult to manage than people think, and has his own special ideas.

In short, the Cavaliers are more of a team in danger than a united, slack Clippers who are on a three-peat, three-peat, championship team — even if they don't have a single championship.

Of course, for James, a pain hidden in his heart that made him unbearable was that he and Min Congda had a complete falling out, or that James unilaterally cut off father and son... No, I broke off my friendship.

In the summers of the previous two seasons, James would humbly ask Min Congda for advice on various issues related to team building, helped the Cavaliers build a pretty good roster, and also sent an excellent head coach to the Cavaliers.

Unfortunately, the fortune is not on James and the Cavaliers' side, and more importantly, the Clippers have assembled a more terrifying lineup, making the Cavaliers and James even less likely to see a chance.

James sighed and regretted in his heart more than once, if he chooses to join the Heat in 10 years, then the 11-year championship should be in hand, and then the Heat will be the championship for several years in a row, and the Clippers and Lakers will not be opponents.

The more he thought about it, the more James hated Min Congda in his heart, thinking that he stopped himself in the first place just to let the Clippers win the championship and prevent him from going to the South Coast to build a super battleship.

Seeing the Clippers have two championships in hand, and they are still saying that they will take 5 or 6 at the celebration parade, the more tormented James's heart becomes, so much so that he forgets how much Min Congda has helped him.

During the Cavaliers' visit to Los Angeles against the Clippers in December, James ignored Min Congda's friendly greetings during the pre-game warm-up and did not respond.

This made Min Congda a little sad, TM's was really a big mistake, and the father and son turned against each other.

And Min Congda has also changed his normal during this time, jumping up and down from the past, exhausting himself, and becoming calm and stable.

He still doesn't care much about the team's affairs, the Clippers are running smoothly, as long as they don't toss around, they are still the strongest contenders for the championship.

In his spare time outside of work (mainly watching football), Min Congda mainly does two things: the first thing is to devote his limited intelligence to the study of infinite basketball skills and tactics.

Although Fan Chen said that the Clippers could win the game if they wanted unlimited singles, after thinking about it for three days and three nights, Min Congda understood that this Tm was Fan Chen's perfunctory self.

For the Clippers, they can certainly rely on their strong individual ability to win the game, and even win a championship this year.

But what about the future? Will they continue to grow in the future? When they all reach 27, 28, and 30 years old, when they come to the real Dacheng, can they still fight like this?

If the Clippers can adapt to the trend of the times and build an open, advanced system, then they will remain strong for many years to come.

This would be a great achievement for Min Congda and the best fulfillment of his belated basketball talent.

Once a person finds his hobbies and goals, he is actually very lucky and happy to devote his energy to them.

It took Min Congda four years to understand that basketball was his true hobby and a career suitable for him, but he kept running in the opposite direction, which was really tricky... No, the system makes people.

Of course, as for why the team is getting better and better in the opposite direction, Min Congda can't figure it out.

The second thing Min Congda did was to really start playing basketball.

California is arguably the best basketball region in the country, home to all of the nation's basketball talents, with two NBA teams, a large number of amateur leagues, street games, a large number of high school and college basketball teams, and countless basketball games going on every day.

Min Congda, with his status as the general manager of the Clippers, participated in a club in the AAU amateur league, and played with some amateur players who were not at a high level.

To be honest, Min Congda's behavior once again attracted great attention from the media, and the general manager of a championship team with a national reputation actually went down to play in person.

This made AAU's exposure increase a lot again, and the audience who came to watch the game was crowded with the already small stadium for a while.

Many people came to see the game to see how Min Congda was ugly, to see how embarrassed this Chinese, who was less than 180 tall, scolded Fang Xiao off the field, and how embarrassed he would be on the field.

Many media also predicted how long Min Congda could hold out on the AAU arena without being killed.

As a result, Min Congda disappointed these people and the media.

He persevered and started competing in December, twice a week.

He played a role as a backup point guard on the team, scoring 0 points, 1 rebound, 1 assist, 3 fouls and cursing the referee 25 times in his first game.

Just when people thought that he would make a lot of fun and make a traffic and just forget it, in the second game, Min Congda came off the bench and hit the first three-pointer in the official game of his basketball career.

In this game, he came off the bench for 11 minutes, scored five points, two rebounds, handed out two assists, plus two fouls, no turnovers, and cursed the referee 50 times.

The team won their first win with his help, and Min Congda spoke after the game, saying that the team's goal is to move on to the next level.

As the largest amateur sports league in the United States, AAU has a long history in the organization of basketball leagues, and many NBA superstars played AAU games when they were in school, and of course, they played in high-level leagues with their talents.

For example, in the 90s, AAU had a young team, the starting lineup Kobe Bryant, Vince Carter, Richard Hamilton, Tim Thomas and Kevin Freeman, called New Jersey's great Patterson, if this lineup is transferred to the NBA, although the lineup is unreasonable, but the backcourt combination of Kobe and Carter must be quite explosive, at that time Kobe Bryant was the point guard in the team, they were known as the strongest in history, won two consecutive championships, and swept the opponent by forty or fifty points.

With Min Congda's level, he can't join a team of this level, and can only live in a low-level gangster, but he has an idea and wants to take this low-level team to play high.

When the game reached 14 years, Min Congda was already the team's main backup point guard, playing 15 minutes per game, scoring a few points, picking up one or two rebounds, and at the same time combing and directing the team's offense.

He has more prestige than the head coach in the team, often directing games on his behalf, but compared to his fierce and ferocious style in the NBA, he came to AAU to be much more conservative and gentle.

Because I have played on the court, I know that basketball is sometimes not as simple as it seems, and many of his ideas can be realized because the Clippers are very rebellious, and your tactic is that the ball is to the people, and they can really do the ball to the people.

In a low-level league like AAU, players don't have this ability, which makes Min Congda more tolerant and gives him a deeper understanding of basketball tactics.

After the game, when he returned home with nothing else to do, Min Congda would immerse himself in the study of the tactical system, read books, watch videos, or simply play games to simulate.

He stopped many social activities, stopped fishing, stopped drinking parties, and turned down parties, in short, he stayed at home and devoted himself to research, combining theory and practice.

His basketball theories have gotten higher, and in January, the Clippers suffered a three-game losing streak because Curry kept scoring high, but the team's overall offense didn't improve.

The coaching staff is very distressed about this, why Curry's efficiency is obviously quite high, but the team's offense will be affected, is Curry destined to have an MVP, isn't he a superstar who can win the MVP and support the team's offensive scoring?

For a while, theories about Curry's "cancer" were rampant, and Curry was hit hard, and once thought that his idea of winning the MVP was too selfish and should not have done so.

So he found Min Congda to pour out his troubles and asked Min Congda what he should do, Min Congda did not give him a useless chicken soup rap, but made a sharp adjustment in tactics: Curry should stop playing ball-holding blocking.

When the league's blocking and pick-and-roll offense is on the rise, Min Congda proposed to let Curry play less blocking and pick-and-roll, and Curry and the Clippers coaching staff are a little incomprehensible.

However, they still did so, and in the tactical arrangement of the next game, they reduced Curry's tactics of holding the ball and Gasol Jr., Randolph, Milicic and other one-on-one covers, and further increased Curry's off-ball covers, air cuts, and appropriately increased Curry's one-on-one singles with the ball.

At the same time, Min Congda asked for a further increase in Gasol Jr.'s organizational role.

The change paid off in the run-up to February's All-Star Game.

The Clippers went on a shocking 19-game winning streak before the All-Star break in late January and February.

Obviously, after adjusting Curry's offensive role, the Clippers ushered in a new metamorphosis, and their metamorphosis has never stopped.

The benefit of reducing Curry's pick-and-roll offense with the ball is to maximize Curry's defensive appeal when he is off the ball and on his own.

Because in fact, Curry's passing and playmaking level after blocking and dismantling are relatively average among top stars, and his tactical threat of splitting the ball after blocking and dismantling is sometimes not as big as him not taking the ball back and forth on the wing.

Without reducing Curry's shots, reducing Curry's time with the ball can maximize the role of the ball and allow Gasol Jr. and Harden to be more involved in the distribution of the ball.

To put it simply, without reducing Curry's tactical role, further tap his strategic power, and the team's offensive potential can be further stimulated.

This wave of 19 consecutive wins made the whole league tremble, especially the Clippers slashed the Spurs, Cavaliers, Thunder and Lakers in a row, and for a while, no one in the league could match.

After Min Congda instructed this tactical change throughout the process, he continued to devote himself to research, playing games every week by the way, and constantly releasing his enthusiasm for basketball.

Correspondingly, the league seemed a little deserted for a while, and Adam Silva did not receive a notice to punish Min Congda for two months, which made it difficult to get used to it.

Even the Referees Association made a joking statement during the All-Star Game, "Mr. Smart is welcome to supervise our blowing." ”

As a result, during the 2014 New Orleans All-Star Weekend, Min Congda participated in the All-Star Weekend Masters on February 15 and teamed up against a group of legendary stars.

Min proved that his talent was really delayed, slashing six points in the game, dishing out three assists, plus six fouls, and being sent out of the game.

The referee on duty helped the referees association to take revenge on Min Congda, and then in the home game against the Spurs on February 18, Min Congda angrily sprayed the referee 58 times, and was fined $200,000 by the league after the game - in this game, the Clippers beat the Spurs by 17 points and won 20 consecutive wins.

In this game, Curry scored 41 points in a single game, and Curry didn't shoot many three-pointers this time, but stabbed the Spurs with a large number of mid-range jumpers.

The Spurs' team is actually in very good shape this year, but because there is no one in the forward position, the new tactical system has been set up, but it is difficult for a clever woman to cook without rice, and it is still necessary for the three old men of GDP to carry the banner.

Since being blacked out by the Clippers in 11 years, Popovich and Duncan's black and white team has been a bit sluggish, playing well in the regular season, and when it comes to the playoffs, they can't bear to pull their hips.

Lack of talented young fresh blood, no matter how subtle Popovich's tactics are, Duncan is no matter how great he is, he can't bear the power of young people, San Antonio people urgently need the arrival of the next Tim Duncan, but such good luck is already very lucky, and it is so easy to do it again?

That victory, combined with Curry's stellar performance, allowed him to surpass Kobe Bryant in the MVP race – the Nets really started to run out in the second half of the game, which is inevitable for older teams, and of course the Nets are also saving for the playoffs.

Now, the only one standing in front of Curry is Thunder forward Kevin Durant.

Durant's performance this year is indeed very good, also as Nike's No. 1 brand, in the case of Westbrook's major injury last year and reduced playing time in the regular season this season, Durant tried to play a big package and played the best performance of his career.

Durant's desire for a championship has also reached a peak, seeing that Curry in '09 has worn two rings, and Harden, who was the third oldest in the Thunder, has won two championships, and he still has nothing.

Even James, who has always been regarded as a thorn in Durant's side, can it be said that he has three MVPs and two overall runners-up, right? It's an honor anyway, he only has the scoring title in his hand now.

If the scoring champion doesn't get a double-digit like Jordan or the unattainable record like Chamberlain, one or two doesn't mean much to a superstar, Maddie has both.

This year is Kevin Durant's seventh season, and many superstars are almost maturing and reaping the fruits of their seventh season, and Durant thinks he has reached this stage too.

On February 23, the Clippers will take on the Thunder on the road, and the two sides will usher in a regular season matchup like Mars hitting Earth, which is considered likely to determine the current MVP ranking.

But on the same day, NBA-Batman, a famous basketball gossip tweeter that hasn't been updated for a long time, posted an article on his blog titled: "Pick-and-roll, air cut, and change defense - the art of dislocation and infinity in contemporary basketball."

This article did not attract much attention from ordinary fans and the media, after all, everyone just wanted to see NBA-Batman break the news and gossip, but now he seems to be concentrating on basketball tactics, and this way has gone astray.

But for many basketball professionals who follow NBA-Batman, it has become a habit to read his post-game reviews, ball reviews and tactical analysis.

Many years ago, the article "The Victory of Space and Ball" has become a clarion call and program for basketball to enter a new era, and many coaches have found coaching inspiration through this article.

After two and a half years, another very short but absolutely heavyweight article has come out, and coaches across the league are discussing: is the wind direction of the league about to change again.

This version is updated too quickly, right?

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