The head coach's office is next to the conference room.

In addition to trainer Moron Willie and assistant coach Buckner, who were still watching the video with other players, Liu Mang, coach Kruger, and assistant coach Mike Woodson all came over.

Coach Kruger wondered why Liu Mang called him here. He also wanted to finish the training arrangements early and let Mike Woodson, the strict assistant coach, lead the training. Then he went back to sleep and made training plans and research all night last night.

Didn't sleep.

"Coach, what tactics are we going to train next?" Liu Mang asked cautiously.

"This?" Coach Kruger was still puzzled. Won't he know it after he arranged it? But he still replied: "Our next training is to conduct defense-breaking tactics training based on the Pistons' defense."

"What about defense?"

"I think our defense was adequate."

Liu Mang just felt that something was wrong here!

He was once very curious about the Nets reaching the finals twice in a row, so he specifically watched some game videos that he could find. He and the Nets defeated all Eastern Conference opponents, and continuously swept the Celtics and Pistons in the 2002-03 season.

In the 2001-02 season, he was impressed by the Celtics' 4-1 victory over the Pistons in these series.

Those who have the last laugh rely on defense. Although this cannot be said to be the law of winning, it is an experience that has been successful.

Of course, Liu Mang guessed what Coach Kruger was thinking. The Eagles' defense in the regular season was no worse than the Pistons, so if they wanted to break the Pistons' defense and rely on their own defense to limit their opponents, they would have a great chance of winning.

Liu Mang thinks this strategy may be successful, but the firepower of him, Raheem, and Jason Terry on his side is already fierce enough, at least for the Eastern Conference.

Coach Kruger was a college coach last year. In college basketball, the main thing is a balance of offense and defense, but in the NBA, a balance of offense and defense... it's really not that easy in the playoffs. The Mavericks in the 2005-07 seasons were considered to be

The balance of offense and defense has reached its peak, but under the current rules, the offense will be greatly discounted in the playoffs.

Offensive tactics in the playoffs these days are still no match for the effectiveness of the stars' personal abilities.

Coach Kruger...probably treats the playoffs as March Madness!

That thing is different from this!

Liu Mang didn't know what to say without irritating the coach's heart after working all night. He hesitated and said weakly: "Coach, I think something is wrong. We are going to play a best-of-seven series.

It’s not the 1-game elimination system of March Madness. No matter what kind of tactics, no matter how many tactics, they will be thoroughly studied in two games!”

Liu Mang really wanted to say it bluntly, relying on offense in this era won't work!

Unless the rules are adopted more than ten years later, it will be difficult for college basketball to go far in the playoffs. Before Coach Stevens of the Celtics, almost no college coach had achieved playoff success in the NBA.

Victory, it is because of this that the current rules are not so friendly to offensive basketball, so Stern and Adam Silva will continue to change the rules to benefit the outside and weaken the impact of defense.

Coach Kruger is not bad, but he is very good in the college basketball world. It's just that he has coached in the NCAA for so many years, and his thinking has long been ingrained. He is also the head coach, and his idea is to break down the Pistons' defense and then use himself.

There is nothing wrong with the idea of ​​using good defense to limit opponents. Even defense-first assistant coach Mike Woodson doesn't think it is wrong.

However, what is wrong is not the strategy, but the times. The playoffs of this era are very unfriendly to college coaches.

Coach Kruger did not answer Liu Mang immediately, but sat down and pondered.

It’s a bit crazy!

That is to say, it is enough to have a clear tactical direction for offensive training in advance, but does it still have to rely on on-the-spot command?

This is not the same as college basketball!

totally different!

Because college basketball is a one-win knockout game, there is relatively little on-the-spot command, because there are not so many timeouts, and there is not even a break between periods. There is only one intermission, an attack lasts 35 seconds, and there are a lot of tactical moves.

, so it’s all pre-game preparations. March Madness will actually last until April 14th. In more than a month, even this year’s NCAA champion Duke University only played 7 games in 40 days. The preparation time in between

It's very long, and there are piles and piles of tactical diagrams of offensive tactics for each game, giving you enough time to train.

But now it is obviously impossible to prepare so many tactics for up to seven games.

That is to say, the tactics prepared before will always be seen through by the opponent!

Coach Kruger sighed, the NBA is too difficult!

"Ace, you go back first, ask Moron to put aside all the clips of the Pistons, and study the opponent's defense yourself first," Coach Kruger asked Liu Mang to go back first, and then said to Mike Woodson: "Mike

, let’s study it again…”

Defensive training, of course, must be left to professionals. The breakdown of the NBA's coaching staff is still very clear. There are offensive coaches for offense and defensive coaches for defense. The head coach is mainly responsible for on-the-spot command and general direction planning. Even Coach Kruger,

They all just serve as offensive coaches part-time.

Liu Mang breathed a sigh of relief and followed Coach Kruger's instructions to find Moron Willy.

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Coach Mike Woodson is very good at defense. In the 2003-04 season, Larry Brown was able to lead the team from the third place in the Eastern Conference to the championship. He played an important role. Later, he was invited back by the Eagles as the head coach. Although

Well, he is not destined to be a head coach and has no on-the-spot command ability, but as a defensive assistant coach, he will be robbed by various teams in the future, and his assistant salary of 5 million a year is also a record.

After watching the video... Mike Woodson brought in a new round of video that the editor had temporarily produced and continued to watch the video.

This time the focus is different, it is aimed at Stackhouse and...Joan Barry!

This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Stackhouse was second in the scoring list last season. If you give him the ball, he can really average 30 points per game. He is only 28 years old this year and has just reached his peak. If not

Encountered coach Carlisle who doesn't like low-efficiency play. Based on statistics alone, he should have made further progress this year, but his record may not be as good as it is now.

Regarding Joan Barry's defense, Liu Mang was a little surprised. Isn't this a player who averages eight or nine points per game?

But after looking at Joan Barry's statistics during the regular season and the first round of the playoffs, Liu Mang discovered the clues.

Regular season three-point shooting percentage, 46.9%!

The bright red 1st at the back!

That is, the guy with the highest three-point shooting percentage in the regular season, averaging 1.9 three-pointers per game!

An efficient and productive pitcher!

33-year-old Joan Barry has reached the peak of his shooting career!

"This future bald coach has such a vicious vision!" Liu Mang didn't know why, but he just felt that this future bald man was so awesome!

Liu Mang remembered that Mike Woodson's record would have collapsed due to the team's core player Raheem not wanting to play in the next 2002-03 season. He only won 35 games and fell to tenth place in the Western Conference. In addition, the original postseason this season

The 76ers were eliminated in the first round of the game, coach Kruger was fired, and Mike Woodson was also fired. He was the 76ers' assistant coach in the 2000-01 season, and was then invited by Larry Brown to join his assistant coaching staff.

The 76ers' form has declined significantly this year, and it's hard to say it has nothing to do with Mike Woodson's departure.

Liu Mang is admiring Mike Woodson, and Mike Woodson is now very pleased with Liu Mang.

You know, at first, Mike Woodson was unhappy when he saw this second-round pick. He played too casually, doing whatever he wanted, without any discipline.

But slowly I realized, hey, this guy’s defense is pretty good!

The key to the progress of the relationship between the two is that the previous strategy against the Nets gave Mike Woodson a feeling of sympathy for each other.

This time Liu Mang hit the nail on the head and asked Coach Kruger to temporarily change the big strategy and let Mike Woodson be the core figure of the team in this round of playoffs, which greatly improved his team status, so Mike Woodson

His opinion of Liu Mang improved again.

However, the defensive assistant coach is the most unpleasant. During the afternoon training, high-intensity defensive confrontation training required Liu Mang and Jason Terry to imitate the play of Stackhouse and Joan Barry.

Law, other people came to defend the training, which made the players complain endlessly, complaining about Mike Woodson during every training interval.
Chapter completed!