Mike Woodson wants to go out and give it a try to see how good he is as a head coach. Being an assistant coach always makes him feel helpless.

The designated tactics may not be adopted by the head coach. Once the defense collapses, he will still feel guilty. Although he does not have to take the blame, it is only in the public opinion of the media and fans that he does not have to take the blame. In the coaching and management circles, his reputation will decline.

, because these people are the ones who really understand the team and the structure of a team. A good defensive assistant is of unparalleled importance to a team. Some teams have even changed their head coaches and the defensive assistants have changed.

Won't change it.

For example, Jazz defensive assistant Jeff Wells worked for the Jazz for more than 30 years. He worked from 1985 when he was still a 30-year-old man until he retired in 2017 at the age of 62. His salary is higher than that of many team head coaches.

All high.

However, defensive assistant coaches are also the most likely to lose their jobs. They may be fired in any season when their defense declines.

For example, although Mike Woodson currently earns a salary of US$2 million, and some team head coaches are not paid as much as him, he has been carefully studying the defense required in each game and working hard to build a defensive system.

In addition to this aspect, there is also power. The assistant coach's power is very low, very low. Now, he is used to handing the tactical board to Liu Mang.

Therefore, Mike Woodson really wants to try being a head coach.

However, just like an old actor has an addiction to acting and an old smoker has an addiction to smoking, as an outstanding top defensive assistant, Mike Woodson has an addiction to studying every defense.

When Mike Woodson saw the messy defensive positioning diagram and defensive switching routes drawn by Liu Mang, he immediately put aside the idea of ​​changing teams and couldn't help but grab the tactical board.

Mike Woodson is not very interested in the offensive tactics specified by Liu Mang. He is not good at them. He is mainly defensive tactics!

It’s not that the tactics Liu Mang drew this time are so clever, it’s mainly because they’re novel! I’ve never seen them before!

The main reason is that the defensive diagram drawn by Liu Mang is very interesting. Although it is a bit messy, it is very distinctive. It is distinctive enough that Mike Woodson is very interested in it, but he keeps complaining about it.

"Ace, there's a problem with this. It should be like this here. Andre's coverage area can cover this area. Tyson can just stay under the basket. Paul, Tyson's substitute, doesn't have such a good defensive coverage area.

We have to consider the continuity of defense, and here, Sean and Richard don’t have to worry so much, they only need to worry about Tony and Gilbert’s loopholes..."

This professional thing is different. Sometimes the defensive system mainly depends on imagination, then rationality, and finally the player lineup.

Although Liu Mang has many impressionable systems, there is no way for him to say something specific. He is not a professional. He can only draw tactics in this way and rely on impressions.

But it's different with Mike Woodson, a professional. Just like the Eagles' defense, every time Liu Mang comes up with an idea, Mike Woodson can wipe his butt clean. This time Mike Woodson is again

Come and help Liu Mang check and fill in the gaps.

Not to mention, just like the 2002 rookies can form a championship team in a few years, the 2001 rookies also have that intention, with offense and defense. Even if Liu Mang is left behind, these nine players will be fine.

Is it a future quasi-All-Star lineup, or is it eight players who are all quasi-All-Stars or even All-Stars or higher.

A group of people watched Liu Mang and Mike Woodson continue to improve their defensive system, and their jaws almost dropped.

The strongest player in his generation is not only a great player, but also can formulate some magical offensive tactics as rumored, and can actually build a defensive system!

This is like a certain No. 23 who has no hairline and looks like an unearthed cultural relic but learned to play the accordion in high school!

…

The simple version of the defensive system structure was completed, and Mike Woodson asked his eight teammates to quickly memorize the practice. In four hours, the game was about to start.

Eight players, no more, no less, exactly the number of people an NBA team needs to rotate.

Generally, a team has an active roster of twelve players. In the era of Spurs role players, it has been increased to 13 active rosters. But really speaking, even for the future Spurs, the main rotation will only have 8 players, the ninth and the tenth.

They don't have much playing time, and the remaining three are used as surprise soldiers when they really can't open up the situation.

These days, in general teams, seven-man rotations are common, and eight-man rotations are routine. Therefore, in order to give everyone a chance to perform in the rookie game, a team only has nine players.

Liu Mang stopped playing, and there were only eight people left, which just formed a main rotation lineup.

Those who can play in the NBA don't say how much they love basketball, but they are at least a basketball enthusiast. They are very motivated when facing novel defensive systems. Unknowingly, the fighting spirit of the second graders has risen, and they all want to compete in the rookie game.

Go ahead and blind the opponent's eyes.

Mike Woodson watched these players practice very well. Look at the second-year lineup, Battier, Kirilenko, Chandler, Richard Jefferson, a defensive pillar center, and three forwards.

Defensively, this lineup is perfect for defense. Paired with Gasol, who is pretty good at interior defense, the senior and fourth players can rotate endlessly. Don’t be too strong!

But this also makes Mike Woodson very worried. This young man in our family has a good brain, but such a good thing is just taken out and used casually. Can our own team use it if he has a brain?

Mike Woodson felt that he needed to remind Liu Mang, and whispered to Liu Mang next to him: "Ace, from now on, we can use this tactic ourselves, and don't let the opponent's core players learn from it."

Liu Mang asked why Mike Woodson's brows were getting tighter and tighter. It turned out that he was worried about this. Liu Mang smiled and said: "Mike, don't worry so much. Look, Sean, Andre, and Richard, these three

There are two defensive gates, and Andre is the strongest. I estimate that he will compete for the best defensive player in a few years. This system is only suitable for this lineup. Can other teams absorb so many defensive gates?"

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Liu Mang is not worried that in this era without a team at this stage, some teams will learn this defensive system, because it is not practical! Without Wade,

This kind of defensive system cannot be used with a forward combination like James, or in the future when 3D players will be prevalent.

For example, the Jazz will use this system in the future. It took four years before former Spurs defensive assistant coach Quin Snyder left Popovich to join the Jazz to form a suitable lineup.

The Titan finally started to take off by accidentally getting the No. 13 pick.

Nowadays, both Bowen and Kirilenko are in demand. Want to poach them? Impossible, because the Jazz are about to collapse. If a team wants to poach Kirilenko, they will offer the fifth overall pick.

Well, the Jazz didn't even agree.

Mike Woodson looked at the lineup on the field, and it was indeed the truth! Suddenly, the surprise of discovering a new world dissipated a lot, and he was a little depressed. He also planned to use this newly discovered defensive system as the basis, so he

Research, make an extension, and use it when you become a head coach in the future.

Although Mike Woodson's current goal is to help the Hawks win the championship, an assistant who doesn't want to be a head coach is not a good head coach. Everyone has their own ideals.

Now listening to Liu Mang's words, Mike Woodson is a little frustrated. Although he has a good defensive concept, it is a bit difficult to implement it.

"What's wrong, Mike, why are you downcast?" Liu Mang could clearly see Mike Woodson's frustration.

"It's okay. I originally wanted to integrate this system into our team, but found it impossible. We couldn't get so many players." Mike Woodson responded half-seriously.

"Mike, don't lie to me. You want to create a system and then apply for a head coach! Then you find that this system cannot be completed quickly, and it may even be impossible to complete. It's very frustrating, isn't it?" Liu Mang said with a smile.

It wasn't until Mike Woodson later sought to be a head coach, and succeeded, that he eventually coached Anthony, Stoudemire, and Billups' super aging lineup in New York.

Mike Woodson had a sudden thought, how could he be seen out?

"It doesn't matter, Mike, all coaches want to be head coaches, don't they? We are colleagues. If you have better development in the future, I will also be happy," Liu Mang said with a smile, "But let's win the championship together now! If we

If you can win the championship, you will be more convincing when you go out to promote your system to others in the future, because you have won the championship with your own defensive system. We need you, and you also need us to prove ourselves by winning the championship.

Isn't it? We need to trust the process, whether it's you or our team."

Liu Mang said this because he knew that because of the collapse of the Hawks this season, Mike Woodson left the Hawks and followed Larry Brown to the Pistons, helping Larry Brown create a defensive system suitable for the Pistons' five tigers.

, and then became an instant hit, and finally succeeded in getting a head coaching contract in the summer of 2004.

Now the Eagles need Mike Woodson very much, and Liu Mang took the initiative to appease Mike Woodson until Mike Woodson was a little distraught because of the success of the Eagles' defensive system he built in the past two years.

However, Liu Mang's statement that he is happy for Mike Woodson's future success is not a lie. He has worked together for two years and is even close to a comrade-in-arms. He is also willing to make plans for Mike Woodson. After all, the first group of teammates, the third

The members of the coaching staff, the teammates and management who won the championship for the first time are all the most emotional.

The second half of Liu Mang's words described the reality as cruel.

Just like today's young people don't want to go to college and want to enter the NBA directly, NBA teams are no longer willing to spend several years slowly accumulating talent and planning for a championship as they were in the past. They all want to achieve it overnight.

Just like Hinkie, the general manager of the 76ers who followed the process ten years later and wanted to spend three or four years to form a perfect talented lineup, he was under tremendous pressure and was finally fired when it was about to bear fruit.

It wasn’t until it actually blossomed and bore fruit that people discovered that the process could be trusted!

But Hinkie could not enjoy the joy of success after four years of hard work.

Mike Woodson looked at Liu Mang and felt more and more that this young man had a leadership quality that no one else in the team had!

Jason Terry has no leadership skills. Raheem has the ability but no leadership qualities. Muhammad can maintain the locker room environment, but he also lacks the ability. Boozer and Prince are too young. Ratliff is too young.

He has a good relationship with everyone but maintains a distance. He doesn't look like a leader.
Chapter completed!