From today on is the king

Chapter 566 565. This team is unreliable!

"Wow, Ace, are these your new shoes?" Rasheed Wallace watched enviously as Liu Mang took out a pair of Nike basketball shoes that were still mainly red in color from the unopened shoe box.

Liu Mang's Ace II this time has two types of high-top and low-top sneakers like the first generation. Liu Mang chose low-top sneakers for himself.

The advantage of low-top sneakers is that it will not affect the flexibility in disguise. The disadvantage is that there is no protection for the ankle like high-top sneakers.

However, defenders are more suitable for low-top sneakers, high-top or low-top sneakers. For ordinary people, high-top sneakers may have a better effect on ankle protection, but for professional athletes, it is mainly the usual training. If the ankle is strong enough, the chance of injury is small.

"Yes, the second generation of Ace, it will be sold in the store opposite the arena on the 29th. This is for me to wear during the opening game. I wear it during training first, so as not to get used to it when I get used to it. This signature shoe is good. Look, this workmanship, this design, this... oh I was wrong, Rashid, don't kick my ass... murder..."

Liu Mang was hunted down habitually, and his teammates were no strangers to it.

Especially old teammates such as Jason Terry and Raheem, who laughed and lamented at the same time, did not expect that the best mixed player in the team was actually that unremarkable second-round pick back then, it was unreasonable, and he deserved to be beaten.

This is also why they are not envious. Although Raheem signed a five-year endorsement contract of 5 million in the past summer, as well as the reward clauses of the All-Star and the best team, but he does not have a signature shoe. The sneakers he endorsed are all ordinary sneakers.

The major sneaker brands not only sell signed shoes, but also sell more non-signature shoes, and the endorsement of these sneakers is given to relatively less popular stars to endorse. The Eagles, except for Liu Mang, have sneakers to endorse, and this is also the case.

Liu Mang saw that Rasheed Wallace had also learned badly from those nasty teammates, and felt that the world is so cold and people's hearts are not old...

Just after the preseason, the Eagles had a day off on the 25th, and on the 26th, when the sneakers began to prepare for the final training for the regular season, Nike sent over the sneakers that Liu Mang had seen the design a month ago.

The regular season is just an appetizer after a long rough period.

After watching the preseason with mediocre confrontation and desire to win, people's desire for the regular season has become more urgent.

And the players' desire for the real game is becoming more and more urgent. First of all, playing basketball is a happy thing. If you put aside those grievances and honor competitions, you will be even happier.

Of course, those who don't feel joyful in grievances and honor competitions are generally losers.

In addition, the start of the regular season means that there is another salary to receive. For the three rookies of the Eagles and players like Barnes who spend as much as they want, they will finally start to get rich again.

After the players had a fight, coach Kruger came with the coaching staff, and first called everyone to the team conference room.

This is the practice after the preseason of each season.

First, let the players memorize a lot of tactics during the training camp, and then practice them, play confrontation games within the team, and delete those that are relatively inapplicable, but it is not enough. When it comes to the preseason, try each tactic again, see which ones are easily targeted, and which ones are not effective in the official game, and then continue to delete...

Finally, the performance of the preseason players and the problems that were exposed were included as much as possible. The coaching staff conducted the final tactical discussion, and finally chose one or several tactics to implement the team's style of play, which became the team's established tactical system. Every game was played around this system.

Like last season, the Eagles played an offensive system based on pick-and-roll offense, defensive counterattack, and individual singles, which is quite simple.

But this time, after Coach Kruger announced the offensive system for the new season, the old Eagles players were fine. Last season's system was already enough. Although this time... it was a little bit more exaggerated, but with Liu Mang, a guy who makes a mess from time to time, it's not a problem.

But the newly arrived players, especially Stockton, looked at Coach Kruger's serious face and couldn't tell. This coach is such a bold coach!
In the previous training camp, Stockton saw dozens of tactics prepared by coach Kruger. Stockton still felt that the tactics were too many and too troublesome. Up to now, he would rather troublesome. Now the tactics can no longer be described as simple, but simple and rude!Moreover, some do not quite understand!
But seeing that all the old players of the Eagles thought it was normal, and Stockton was not easy to rely on his old age, but felt that he had entered a den of thieves. Looking at Liu Mang and others, they seemed to think this tactic was normal, including the newcomer Rasheed Wallace.
Stockton felt that the Eagles seemed... unreliable!
It's a pity that it was discovered too late. Stockton had no idea that this team would be so unreliable due to the rigorous screening tactics in the previous training camp and preseason.

Fortunately, the defensive end is quite reliable, giving Stockton a little comfort...

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When Chip Engelland took other assistant coaches to train the players on the established team system, coach Kruger and Mike Woodson stayed in the office. Before the offensive and defensive system for the new season was announced just now, both of them were very nervous, but after the announcement, the two were relieved, but they still had some worries.

"Lang, can our system for the new season work?" Mike Woodson was still a little worried.

"Mike, you just need to do a good job in defense. That's our foundation. If there are problems on the offensive end, we can adjust it, but if there are no problems on the defensive end, I'll leave it to you!" Coach Kruger finished speaking and took a sip of coffee.

After staying up for most of the night last night, he was hesitating about the tactical system. After a few seconds of silence, coach Kruger continued: "Every successful offensive system, before it succeeds, no one would have thought it would be successful, right? Perhaps the temporary mixed play we were forced to use last year has become the key to our success."

The Eagles' simple offensive style last season was simply forced to be helpless after a lot of tossing by the big dogs, so they used such a simple tactical system, mainly handing over the ball to the players themselves. I didn't expect the effect to be so good. The players got used to it.

This year, Coach Kruger and the rest of the coaching staff felt that this could not be the case, so in the summer, they studied more than 50 tactical systems. The results were good. After the training camp and the preseason, they found that last season's offensive system based on the triangle offense and Princeton, as well as cavalry tactics and Mike Woodson's defensive counterattack system, still seems to be the most suitable for this lineup.

Mike Woodson was a little worried at first, but when Coach Kruger said this, he was really looking forward to it!
Just like Coach Kruger said, before each system is successful, those who designed or chose the system may not necessarily think that the system will be successful, but once it succeeds, they will become famous and become the spokesperson of a well-known tactical system.

For example, Pat Riley's iron-blooded defense system, Adelman's Princeton system, Phil Jackson's triangle offense, D'Antoni's running and bombing in the future, Popovich's Spurs system, and so on.

Both Mike Woodson and coach Kruger were stuck in a dream.

On the other hand, Stockton, who was going to the training ground to practice, called Rasheed Wallace, the best player among the new recruits, aside during the warm-up.

"John, what's the matter?" Rasheed Wallace and Stockton are considered 'old friends' and have played against each other a lot.

"Rashid, I want to ask, do you understand what our team's tactical system is?" Stockton was very curious about Rasheed Wallace's suddenly realized expression just now. Apart from understanding how to play defensively, Stockton only had one feeling on the offensive end, which was too simple.

"Understood!" Rasheed Wallace thought that Stockton was testing him, and nodded decisively.

"Do you understand? What does our offensive system mean?" Stockton became more curious, and asked quickly. He, a veteran in his 40s, didn't understand what this system was going to play.

"Defend, grab the ball, give it to Ace!"

"..."

Stockton stared at the ceiling speechlessly, he finally understood what was unreliable, not only the tactical system was unreliable, even his teammates were unreliable!This is called enlightenment?be it...

Stockton felt that the end of his career was so bleak!
(End of this chapter)