I just want to play healthy basketball

Chapter 278 Run-in period, new problem

“Although we won this game, it was very difficult.

Through this game, we must all have a clearer understanding of the flaws and shortcomings of the team.

However, now is not the time to say these words, let's enjoy the joy of winning the game first!

By the way, don't be late for the meeting tomorrow morning. "

After the game, George Karl gathered He Li and others together, and said these words with earnestness.

As George Karl said, through this game, the Bucks exposed many problems.

In front of a strong defensive team, the Bucks lack a second offensive strength with the ball besides He Li.

Although Reid is not bad at holding the ball, he is better at off the ball, but he is not as good off the ball as Ray Allen.

Reid's offensive threat can only be shown when He Li attracts the defense.

But when encountering an outside player like Kobe who is always on the defensive, Reed seems stretched in offense and lacks a real killer.

Let's talk about Payton.Payton came to the Bucks, and his training attitude was actually very good, but his physical condition inevitably declined with age.

Payton's situation in the Bucks is slightly worse than Reed's. Originally in the Sonics, Payton had a lot of tactical support, and many people played around him. Payton can play relatively comfortably.

Although after the Bucks came, Heli and Reid helped him share the offensive pressure and helped him open up space.

However, if Payton is really needed to attack with the ball and force the opponent to score, Payton is the weaker point.

In other words, with Payton's current offensive ability, the shooting percentage of ordinary guards alone is not enough to play top perimeter defensive players.

That being the case, instead of handing over this kind of difficult ball to Payton to attack, it is better to carry the team forward alone.

As for Karl Malone, his physical condition is still good.

But similar to Payton, he suddenly came to the Bucks without effective tactical support, so the level of performance is much worse than that of the Jazz before.

In addition, because the Bucks are still training Kwame Brown and Boozer, Karl Malone, who currently lacks the ball, can't find his own position in the Bucks.

Karl Malone was a little confused in the Bucks, and George Karl didn't master Karl Malone's manual.

This is also the fact that the Bucks have a luxurious lineup of F4, and they will fight the Lakers with real knives and guns, even if they are not the Lakers' opponents.

If it wasn't for He Li's hand feeling really good today, his condition is also very good.

At the last moment, he made a crucial lore three-pointer, otherwise the Bucks might really lose the game.

Having said that, the problems of the Bucks, in addition to the cooperation and running-in between the core F4, the cultivation of Kwame Brown, Boozer, and Wade is also a big problem.

The first two have been developing for a season, but their scoring ability is not yet at an elite level.

If they're a perimeter player, able to shoot threes.

Then, core players such as He Li are still willing to distribute the ball.

But it's just an inside player, so there's no need to hand over the ball at the risk of passing the ball into the inside and being cut off.

What the Bucks need Kwame Brown and Boozer to do is to defend, protect the frame, grab rebounds, and seize a small number of second-attack opportunities at the basket.

The remaining Wade is the top priority of the Bucks' training.

Seeing that Reid has been cultivated, but not fully cultivated, the Bucks continued to attack the third point with the ball.

After thinking about it, who else in the Bucks is more suitable than Wade?
Although Wade's shooting is unstable, the breakthrough is really easy.

In the specific situation where He Li and Reed are on the court at the same time, Wade breaks through with the ball and basically only meets one defensive player, and he is still biased towards inside players.

This gives Wade a great possibility to score the ball.

Even if he encounters a defensive superstar like Garnett like today, Wade can assess the situation and choose to break through for a layup or break through to score.

The Bucks have Kwame Brown and Karl Malone on the inside. One can rely on talent to catch the ball and force it into the basket to complete the score.

However, if Wade wants to be fully qualified for this job, it still needs continuous training and honing.

Wade's ball control level at this stage needs to be strengthened.

Wade dribbles and loses the ball if he breaks halfway with the ball, and it happens all the time.

Then the Bucks are not so urgent to consider making Wade the team's third offensive strength with the ball.

What the Bucks need is a helper who can provide stable output by He Li's side.

If Wade doesn't practice with the ball and makes frequent mistakes in dribbling, then he is not a helper, but a burden, which is a disservice.

The time soon came to the second day, and the Bucks held a video room meeting internally to unify the problems and opinions that everyone recognized.

During the meeting, Payton and Karl Malone also expressed the hope that George Karl would design some tactics specifically for them so that they could better integrate into the Bucks' offense.

In this regard, George Karl also said yes.And handed over this task to the chief assistant coach of the Bucks-Terry Stotts.

As for George Karl himself, it's not that he has nothing to do after dumping the pot.

This is not the case. While everyone recognized that the Bucks had problems on the offensive end, George Karl pointed out that the Bucks need to win the game in a more stable way, that is, defense.

Originally, the Bucks had a lot of strengths in holding the ball and offense. With the support of running and bombing tactics, the Bucks' overall upper limit is very high.

Because the Bucks can easily score 90 points in games where league teams average less than 120 points per game, so even if the opponent gets more than 100 points, don't care too much, as long as they can win the game.

But now, the Bucks can't be so proud, always look at opponents and problems with the eyes of the past.

Arrogance is not advisable. The Bucks need to solve the problem on the offensive end and also need to strengthen the work that needs to be done on the defensive end.

Because there are many aging veterans in the team, as well as rookies with insufficient tactical training.

In the past, the Bucks' zone defense system and lightning switch defense needed some adjustments.

And because He Li is too important to the Bucks, especially his contribution on the offensive end, He Li is an indescribable treasure for the Bucks.

In the previous two seasons, He Li could become the team's offensive core and defensive core at the same time, but not this season.

For the Bucks, every ounce of He Li's energy is precious.

Therefore, George Karl adjusted He Li's work on the defensive end, and He Li relieved a lot of defensive pressure.

And this part of the work and pressure will naturally be transferred to other people.

Fortunately, Malone's elbow is still deterrent, and Kwame Brown has grown up. Even Boozer, who is weak defensively, is constantly strengthening his defensive strength.

There are still not many stars who can stably shoot three-pointers from the outside these days. Most of a team's points are obtained from the inside and the penalty area.

The Bucks have good inside players, and strengthening the inside defense will greatly enhance the overall defensive strength of the Bucks.

At the same time, there is the experienced Payton on the outside to help. Although Payton is old and his feet are not flexible enough, his defense is still sufficient most of the time.

Ever since, the Bucks have re-entered a running-in period.

Because of the strength of the team, the schedule, and a small amount of luck, the Bucks achieved a pretty good record of 11 wins and 7 loss until the end of November after defeating the Lakers.

The only game he lost was to a strong opponent like the Mavericks.

The Mavericks in the new season are still playing and running, because the Mavericks maintain the original lineup and basically do not need to run in, that is, the combat power remains relatively complete and the state is quite good.

The Bucks lost to the Mavericks is also excusable.

The time soon came to December, and the Bucks should have almost run in, and they needed to enter the next stage.

But I don't want new problems to appear again.

Indeed, Payton and Karl Malone have gradually integrated into the Bucks, but Reid has new needs and new ideas.

A person's ambition grows with the growth of strength and status.

Reid this season is similar to Ray Allen last season, and both of them are plotting the starting position of the Eastern All-Star guard.

Reid thinks he has two championships in his hands, and now he has officially entered his peak period, which is stronger than Eastern All-Star guards Iverson, Carter, and Kidd.

If many of the All-Star starters are voted by fans, Reid is indeed expected to surpass the three of Iverson with the blessing of two championship rings.

But in fact, Reed has no superstar appearance, his style of play is not very good-looking, and he has no big personal hits, which cannot attract traffic. In addition, playing in a small ball market like the Bucks, Reed's idea is simply wishful thinking.

However, Reed himself is a fan of the authorities, and simply believes that the reason why fans voted for him less than the All-Star is that his statistics are not good enough.

As of today, Reid's averages per game this season are only 17.8 points, 2.4 rebounds and 3.3 assists.

This data is much worse than last season.

In fact, Reid's possession of the ball in the Bucks has not decreased this season.

The fundamental reason for the decline in his personal data is that Reid played the sixth man last season, and most of his opponents were second-team rotation players outside the league's 150 players.

To put it bluntly, the defensive pressure that Reid encounters when attacking is not as great as it is now, the offensive efficiency is naturally higher, and the data is naturally better.

Now Reid is the core player of the Bucks, the second strong point of holding the ball in the true sense.

With Payton and Karl Malone just entering the Bucks and not getting too much possession of the ball, what Reid encountered was the defensive strength of the team's second leader.

Of course, the data that Reid typed out is also the data of the second master.

Don't look at Reed's score has not broken 20, but the team's second-in-command score this year is usually only 15-18 points.

In some teams, the second to fifth leaders are all in the range of 10-15 points, and only the big leader has a scoring data of around 20 points.

Therefore, there is no dissatisfaction within the Bucks with the answers that Reed handed in this season.

In He Li's view, Reid certainly did not waste the previous offseason.

It is through hard training and progress that Reid can easily adapt to the gorgeous transition from the team's sixth man to the team's second man.

However, the Bucks and He Li are satisfied with Reed's changes, but Reed is not satisfied with the support the team gave him.

After becoming the second head of the team, Reid's desire to score further increased.

Although Reed is still very convinced of He Li, but to take a step back, if it is not that he does not have the ability of He Li, Reed actually wants to go further.

This can't be blamed on Reed. Reed won two championship rings at a young age and is an All-Star guard, but he only signed a maximum-salary contract.

Black players come to the NBA to play, who the hell isn't it for money?
There are also those who pursue their dreams, but when it comes to money, the vast majority of people say that they cannot afford less.

Those like Wade and Nowitzki who are willing to take the initiative to cut their salaries to sign up for the team are really rare, very few.

Therefore, it is understandable that Reid wants to have more ball rights and strive to renew the real maximum salary contract in advance a few years later.

Now that the league is voting for the All-Stars, Reed also wants to use more gorgeous statistics to conquer the fans, so that everyone can vote for him and help him become the starting guard of the All-Stars.

For this, He Li expressed his understanding, but He Li did not support him in doing so.

Because the Bucks have already allocated the ball rights, if someone uses their brains on the ball rights, it will be everyone's cheese.

This is likely to arouse public anger, destroy the unity of the Bucks locker room, and adversely affect the Bucks' subsequent games.

Recently, the Bucks only took 90 shots in a game.

He Li guarantees a minimum of 20 shots, because he needs to cultivate Wade's ball handling. Wade, like Reed, the team's second leader, has about 15 shots in a game.

With 40 shots remaining, Payton, Karl Malone, Kwame Brown, and Boozer have almost 30 shots.

In other words, the Bucks' other role players add up to only a poor 10 shots.

You must know that the shooting ability of Juan Dixon and Bobby Simmons is close to the level of outside starters.

The Bucks gave them the ball, and both of them have the ability to average 10 points per game.

It's just that the Bucks didn't play and run this season, so they couldn't make 10 more shots to replenish them, so the data of both of them has shrunk this season.

If the contract hadn't expired, if it wasn't for being able to play the championship ring in the Bucks, the two would have complained a long time ago.

In addition, Wade is not the only rookie selected by the Bucks this year. Center rookie Kendrick Perkins is also one of the Bucks' training goals.

Although Kendrick Perkins' role in the Bucks is only a blue-collar insider, but when he plays in garbage time, he doesn't give him a chance to make a phone call, so what's the word "training"?
Having said that, the Bucks' current distribution of ball rights is the result of considering various factors.

Reid wants to ask the management to ask He Li for more ball rights, but that is really not possible. He can only let He Li hand over part of the ball rights to the sheep.

In this way, the problem comes!
In the Bucks, who is the master?
The big player has the ability to score more efficiently and lead the team to victory. Although statistics are the product of winning, why should the ball be given to the second player in this case?
He Li naturally disagreed with Reed's additional request, but after Reed understood what He Li meant, he became emotional.

(End of this chapter)