Start coaching the Thunder, starting with Westbrook

Chapter 156
When he returned to training the next day, Li Sheng felt that some people seemed to relax too much, such as Reggie, maybe because of his good performance in the last game, he rewarded himself a few more shots?
Fortunately, the game is tomorrow night, and they still have two days to make adjustments, and today they will not arrange intensive practice, so they will adapt to each other and get back to their state.

Li Sheng let the trainers watch here, and he led the coaching staff to hold a small meeting, mainly to watch the video and analyze it, and then discuss the shortcomings that can be made up in the future.

The position of the team's video analyst is also used at this time. Everyone knows that if you want to improve, you need to constantly summarize the past experience and lessons. The mistakes you have made can be accumulated as experience and remembered as lessons, and you will not make them again in the future, or try to avoid them. Only then can you gradually tend to the correct choice.

When you play more games, you will gradually be able to get used to this way.

Although no one can always be right, at least one must know how to do it right, and it's another matter if you don't do it well.

The past two games were still very important to the Thunder. Playing against playoff teams like the Clippers and Warriors, it is better to find their problems.

"I think we still have a problem with the pick-and-roll defense. I think Lee's delay strategy is well arranged, but the actual effect is not good. There should be something else to do."

The Warriors later liked to use big delays to ensure their defense when dealing with the opponent's pick-and-roll dislocation, which was also a tacit understanding formed after a long run-in.

Thunder can't do it for the time being, so it doesn't seem to be very effective.

But in the same way, some changes can also be added. After all, in a five-person game, you can find a way to get all five people to participate.

Messina laughed and said, "For example, let the players on the other side come forward to interfere?"

Gentry continued: "This way the opponent can pass the ball directly..."

"But it can be set up as a trap!" Li Sheng snapped his fingers and said with a smile: "Isn't our defense just to let the opponent pass the ball to a point that is even more uncertain, so that they can forcefully shoot or even fail to shoot under bad opportunities."

After thinking about it, everyone laughed.

Although defense is not as clear as offense, and there are a lot of direct data support, in fact, if you watch top teams confront each other, their offensive and defensive confrontation will also be a kind of enjoyment.

While using defense to deal with offense, at the same time use offense to dismantle defense.

In terms of defensive strategy, preparing some defensive traps for the opponent is a relatively advanced method, such as releasing a player on the three-point line who is not good at three-pointers, such as deliberately leaving a little position when following up the defense to induce the opponent to pass the ball and then directly intercept the passing route, or let the opponent break through and then draw a foul.

This not only requires the defensive arrangement of the coaching staff, but also requires the players to be able to execute in place, and the execution on the defensive end is actually more important than the offense sometimes.

If the player's defensive awareness is not good, or he likes to be lazy on the defensive end and refuses to do the dirty work, it will be difficult to perfectly implement the team's strategy.

And because the defense is really not that eye-catching, there are always some people who like to give up defense and invest more in the offensive end. Such people can be called brushes.

After all, if you really work hard and you really can't defend well, it can be said that you are doing your best and have some sympathy points, but if you don't even want to do it, it is too much. It means that the team directly loses a defender, which will have a chain reaction in the game. It may make the opponent's offensive momentum, and it will also affect the morale of your own side.

On the contrary, if the core is also willing to do the dirty work together, it can play a leading role in setting an example, and others will not dare to be lazy.

When the coaching staff's meeting was over and they returned to the court, they found that everyone was crowding around and watching some excitement. Li Sheng and the others followed suit, only to realize that it was Westbrook who was fighting Reggie one-on-one.

Li Sheng frowned first, then relaxed, and then went to ask what was going on.

Durant said: "Russell said he wanted to play, Reggie agreed, and that's it."

that's it?
Li Sheng didn't believe it was so simple, it was obvious that the two had a bit of a fight this time.

Westbrook may not be targeting Reggie himself, but because Reggie performed well in the game the day before yesterday, and his style of play looks very similar to Westbrook, especially the one that broke through the dunk and became the top five shots of the day.

Many people said that Reggie became the one who had the bottom line in this game. If it weren't for his outburst, the Thunder would have survived to the end, and there would be no Durant's free throw lore.

Since there are discussions and attention, there will be traffic and profits, so naturally, the media began to praise him with rhythm.

Although none of Li Sheng and Li Sheng revealed anything at the post-match press conference, and now Reggie has no confidence to challenge Westbrook, but whether the parties say it or not will not affect the rhythm of the media, this is their talent and instinct.

And Westbrook is a person who is easily influenced by outside public opinion. Although he said he doesn't care on the surface, everyone knows that he cares a lot. This is another reason why the media wants to make trouble. As long as Westbrook explodes, they will have a good show.

As for Thunder's results, they didn't care.

So naturally, Westbrook just listened to the instigation of the media, and Li Sheng has been suppressing him to play. Now his substitute seems to be coming out. He has a sense of crisis, so he found Reggie.

And Reggie is not afraid, a boy in his early twenties, young and energetic, who are you, I must let you go?
Just compare, I also want to see if you are my rich version.

Just when the coaches were all discussing their work in the video room, they started a heads-up, and it was an American-style heads-up.

When Li Sheng and the others came over, the two had already picked a few balls, and Westbrook is currently leading for the time being.

This is quite normal. First of all, Westbrook is indeed stronger than Reggie now, and as long as he plays, he is energetic. There is no such thing as playing. Among so many stars participating in the All-Star Game in the next ten years, Westbrook and Antetokounmpo are the two who will go all out as soon as they play.

Then the All-Stars were dissatisfied with the fans because the entertainment bureau was too relaxed, and the fans were dissatisfied, but the two serious players scolded them for being too competitive, saying that the All-Stars should be entertaining, it was almost neurotic.

Secondly, Reggie is a substitute and a junior. In fact, he is a bit imitating Westbrook's style of play. This imitator must be easy to show timidity in front of the genuine ones. In addition, he may have relaxed too much last night and now he has not regained his form. Then he was suppressed.

Li Sheng didn't intend to stop after watching the two goals, and wait until they finish the match.

Because the smell of gunpowder is not too heavy, it is just a normal one-on-one, but under the attention of so many teammates and the coaches who came later, Reggie didn't want to lose, so he started to increase a little confrontation.

It should be said or not, because Li Sheng has been pressing Westbrook to play directly, and even these teammates are not very clear about Westbrook's injury, so Reggie was a little bit defensive at the beginning, and he didn't dare to use force. This is also the reason why Westbrook played relatively easily.

But now he refuses to admit defeat, and seeing that Westbrook is not so fragile, it turned out that the next move really made him directly break Westbrook's ball.

(End of this chapter)