NBA head coaching is not an easy job, and their average tenure with a team is only two and a half years, according to statistics.

There are a lot of people who have only been in the head coach position for a season or two, and because they can't handle the pressure, they end up retiring to assistant coaching or other positions.

As for Tyronn Lue, he has been the head coach of the Clippers for almost three years and has won two championship trophies, which can be said to be quite impressive.

But Coach Lu never thinks that being a head coach is a very hard job, and even sometimes he plays with the team, which he thinks is quite simple.

It doesn't seem to be much different from when he was a substitute with the Lakers, anyway, most of the time he sat on the bench.

The players are smart, and the coaching staff always has a very capable assistant, plus a few loyal and business-savvy veterans.

At critical moments, there is a general manager who takes action, and he only needs to do a good job in the emotional management of the players and interpersonal communication.

In that sense, Tyronn Lue is more of a team leader than a manager, and he's happy with his role.

He never complained, believing that he should be given more power as a manager to dictate to the players.

The vast majority of excellent basketball head coaches are control freaks, especially in college basketball, none of those well-known coaches have a good temper.

This is no way to do it, you have to take a dozen black guys with hormones, low education, and strong heroism to carry out fierce high-confrontation sports, if you don't have a little temper to suppress people, the hearts of this team will be scattered in minutes.

However, as NBA stars get bigger and bigger, salaries get higher and higher, and influence grows, that kind of old-school stinky temper coach is becoming more and more unbearable in the league.

Once many head coaches clash with the top names in the team, whether it is a difference in philosophy or a different personality, it must be the head coach who leaves in the end.

After all, fans pay to watch the game in the stadium, and they watch the team's superstars, not your head coach from the sidelines.

Therefore, as batch after batch of old-school coaches retire at age, many of the new coaches who are rising in the league are nanny-type chicken soup coaches.

They can also tactic, they can train, but they can also manage, they can handle the interpersonal relationship with the players, and they can get the support of the players.

Tyronn Lue is the best of them, and the tactical level of this product is really not good, but the relationship with the players is really in place.

However, this kind of coach has a common and obvious flaw, which is often criticized by fans and experts on the field, that is, the poor ability to adjust on the spot.

If a head coach has poor on-the-spot adjustment, most people will think that the coach is not skilled, tactically unskilled, and his brain is not flexible enough and too rigid.

But in fact, the more important reason is that the coach has poor control over the players, you can't fully control the players, and naturally you can't make precise adjustments.

Therefore, at this time, most coaches can only fine-tune to encourage and cheer up the players emotionally, or rotate personnel, which is the best effect.

In the current NBA, there are very few coaches who can achieve precise control, and most coaches still have to leave the fate of the court to the players.

The Thunder's situation is not much different from that of the Clippers, and Brooks is similar to Tyronn Lue in terms of style, both are good at delegating power, can have a good relationship with players, and let his players use their energy to take the initiative on the court.

The difference, though, is that Brooks did a lot of preparation before this game, making a tight arrangement in terms of rotation, tactical goals, and strategic intent.

Obviously, the Thunder are eager to win this game, and tactically it is very important to boost the morale of the Thunder and prove the effectiveness of their tactics.

Strategically, winning this game would allow them to climb to the top of the West and dominate the head-to-head record between the two sides, which is important for home-and-away advantage in the playoffs.

In high-level playoff matchups, sometimes a home game can make the difference between winning and losing.

Sometimes looking back at the whole process of a season, often the victory or defeat of a certain game is likely to play an important role in the ownership of the championship.

This year, the Thunder want to make a big difference, so from the first game, the whole team has been carefully planned, and this game is clearly in their planning.

Their ferocious firepower at the beginning is the best proof of this.

After the official timeout, the two sides returned to the game, and the Thunder basically abandoned Perkins on the inside.

Before playing the Clippers, Perkins was stared at by the Clippers at this point, and the lesson was too profound.

The Thunder also began to experiment with small lineups, involving Durant in interior defense, opening up space on the offensive end and increasing the number of three-point shots.

Four seasons ago, in 2009-2010, when Brooks first took over the Thunder, they were one of the league's fewest three-point attempts, averaging just 15 shots per game, the lowest in the league.

By the 2013-2014 season, they had averaged 22 three-point attempts per game, placing them in the middle of the league.

In terms of lineup, they did not add any three-point masters, and the increase in the number of three-point points is also in line with the development trend of the times.

In the counterattack, Durant picked up the ball and threw it directly for three points! Hit!

His height is taller than when he first entered the league, his arms are longer, and his strong shots outside the three-point line mainly depend on his feel, as long as your defense is not close to your body, it is basically useless.

And the Clippers, driven by the Thunder, also let go of their hands and feet to attack the Thunder, anyway, the coach didn't say anything during the timeout, and he didn't let him defend well, so let's attack desperately!

Curry catches the ball from the outside, feints to shake off defenders, breaks through to the basket, and hits a high throw.

The Thunder served quickly in the backcourt, Durant also had no ball, and a feint on the bottom line cut into the basket to catch the ball and then dunk it with one hand!

The Clippers players were not annoyed either, Gasol Jr. served in the backcourt, and a super long-distance pass throughout the court was given to the frontcourt, and Leonard received the ball, which was a bit big.

But Leonard's big hand still caught it, and then just as he was about to go out of the line, a pass was thrown to George in the bottom corner.

George passed again to Curry at 45 degrees, Curry feintmed, broke through and gave the ball to Randolph on the wing, and Randolph hit a mid-range jumper.

The Clippers' teamwork and chemistry were so pleasing to the eye, and Westbrook immediately blew up the arena with his strong burst to the basket from the middle.

The two sides launched a frantic offensive battle in the first quarter, and the coaches on both sides had no intention of stepping on the brakes at all.

For those who play basketball, offense is instinctive, while defense requires push.

Give five people a ball, and everybody will figure out how to get the ball into the basket, which is something that anybody who plays would do.

But without the ball in your hand, with your back to the basket, you have to defend the opponent, if there is no spur, without team cooperation, slackness is inevitable.

The Detroit Pistons, known as the Iron Army of Defense back then, were also whipped under Larry Brown's madness and paranoia to maintain a super defense for two seasons.

By the time Philip Saunders took over, the Pistons naturally transformed into a team with a fluid offense and a better record in the regular season, but they also naturally withdrew from the championship race.

The Clippers' offense was similarly fast, with Curry playing the entire first quarter, running tirelessly around the court, drawing defenders, catching breakaways, and catching three-pointers.

In the face of Curry's "off-ball single", the Thunder's response was to let Westbrook do it alone, try not to assist in defense and wrap up, and put more energy on defending the rest of the Clippers.

Don't end up with Curry not being able to prevent it, and neither can anyone else.

In the face of a team with top stars, the defender has always chosen one of two glasses of poisoned wine, and they will die anyway, and the death will not be so miserable.

The Clippers' defensive options are similar, except that they have more defensive resources, and they will have a wheel battle against Durant to see who can wear it out to whom.

In the first quarter of the game, Curry scored 16 points, and the Clippers scored 35 points in a single quarter, which is quite a high score in a single quarter.

But on the Thunder's side, Durant scored 21 points in a single quarter, and the Thunder scored 39 points in a single quarter! He was only 1 point short of scoring 40 points in a single quarter.

This scoring efficiency is really amazing, and it seems that the Thunder are determined to fight with the Clippers and pull the defending champion off the horse in a frantic offense.

Brooks set the tone before the game, so tonight's Thunder rotation was particularly tight to keep the players in shape.

It's playing the regular season as if it were a playoffs.

After the start of the second quarter, because Harden was absent from this game, the Clippers lost a super sixth man who could pull the offense.

Although Dragic is also very capable and Livingston is unique, neither is a top player who can lead an attack alone.

The Thunder have Eric Gordon, who also suffered injuries last year, and is recovering well this year, and his offensive skills are becoming more and more mature.

Moreover, at Gordon's point, there is really no one on the Clippers side who can play with him one-on-one.

Leonard, George, and Butler are all small forwards, and defending Gordon is a bit high, and Gordon will dribble under his hip in a row and then bulge his head in.

If Della or Livingston defended, Gordon would take advantage of his body, pouting his ass and arching inward, forcing a layup after hitting the basket.

In this era of declining interior lines, a heavy guard like Gordon can be used as a big forward, just as a frigate is comparable to a destroyer today.

In the second quarter, the Thunder gradually widened the point difference and established a lead, and the Clippers offense was also good, but the problem was that the Thunder's offense tonight was really thunderous and unstoppable.

By the time the main players of the two sides reappeared, the Thunder had a 7-point lead over the Clippers at 55:48, and they were gradually extending their advantage in the hope of turning the advantage into a victory in the second half.

The Clippers players certainly weren't going to sit back and watch the Thunder achieve their tactical, strategic goals, and Mike Malone finally came to his senses a little in the second quarter and stopped thinking about the article.

He adjusted his team's defensive strategy at the timeout, asking his players to push the tempo down a bit, allowing Randolph and Gasol Jr. to play a few more in the low post.

However, Brooks expected the Clippers' strategy to change, and in the middle of the second quarter, Brooks sent Perkins and let Perkins and Ibaka guard the interior.

Perkins now plays the Clippers, playing for a while at the beginning of the first quarter, a little in the middle of the second quarter, and the rest of the court sitting on the sidelines to watch his teammates run around the court.

But for a short period of time, the role is to prevent the Clippers from trying to be stable.

Steady? Steady the yarn, then attack each other, and speed up for me!

Brooks is going to speed up this time, and in defense, Perkins is about to fight with Randolph, but he just doesn't let him easily catch the ball and shoot easily.

Rather than fouling Randolph to the free throw line, making one of two free throws, Westbrook took the backcourt rebound and ran to the frontcourt, and one of the hooks accelerated to the basket.

Even though he suffered a major injury last season and had knee surgery, Westbrook's speed and explosiveness are still quite amazing, and I have to say that this product is really good in body, which is in stark contrast to the brain.

Westbrook hit the basket, the Clippers didn't want him to dunk, Butler fouled and pulled him down, and the two sides almost clashed and sprayed each other under the basket.

But the referee's first reaction when he saw the players on both sides spraying each other was not to step forward to dissuade him, but to turn his head and look behind the Clippers bench to see what Min Congda's reaction was, and whether this guy rushed down from the stands.

Seeing Min Congda holding his chest with his hands and crossing Erlang's legs without the momentum of the tiger going down the mountain, the referee was not in a hurry to mediate the contradictions between the two sides, and he couldn't fight anyway.

Min Congda watched the two sides play vigorously on the court, so lively, but he couldn't be happy in his heart, it was obvious that the preparation of the Clippers in this game was not as full as the Thunder, and the Thunder was very targeted tonight.

Of course, this is normal, it has always been the king who is targeted, how can there be a king who targets others every day, and the real enemy of the Clippers is only themselves.

The Thunder are using a crazy fast-paced offense tonight, hoping to drag the game into a scoring contest, using the scoring potential of Durant, Westbrook, Gordon and others to completely suppress the Clippers.

In the face of such a fast pace and such a good offensive touch of the Thunder tonight, the team must have knelt down at halftime, and the weaker ones are now more than 15 points behind, and then the Thunder began to stop and slowly stalemate, and took the opponent away in the second half.

Only a team with strong individual ability like the Clippers can withstand the Thunder's crazy offense and contribute an offense with similar efficiency to bite the score.

But I don't know why, there was obviously a problem with the adjustment of the Clippers coaching staff tonight, and the transition between the first and second quarters did not do a good job of defense, which allowed Gordon to open up, and the situation fell into passivity.

The balance of power gradually turned into a headwind.

With Westbrook hitting two free throws, the Thunder's lead came to eight points.

This score advantage was also maintained until the end of the first half, with the Thunder 73-65 Clippers.

At half-time, Min Congda was clearly dissatisfied with the team, and he left his seat to go to the dressing room to check on the situation.

(End of chapter)