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Chapter 42 42. The Essence of Basketball

Liu Ren didn't understand anything discussed by the coaching staff at the beginning.

He knows that tactics can make players run out of space, but he doesn't understand how to get them out. He often needs to do a lot of off-ball pick-and-rolls in his tactics. It doesn't matter if there are many pick-and-rolls and people who catch the ball, but still have Do it, he knows it will help the team get the ball to the people who want to give it, but he really doesn't know what it is for many pick-and-rolls.

Obviously, Gasol and Kobe have played for so many years, and they have a good understanding of tactics. They have learned the things that Liu Ren doesn't understand.

This is the necessary ability of superstars, right?Mobilize teammates' running positions on the field, help yourself or help teammates get shooting opportunities.

Liu Ren watched them discussing quietly, and tried hard to learn these things. Now he can't understand, but one day he will learn, will he understand?
Diligence can make up for one's weakness, maybe hard work can't change the upper limit of talent, this point has been confirmed by Liu Ren in his previous life, genius is 90.00% sweat plus [-]% talent, but if you don't have [-]% talent, even if you have [-]% Hundreds of sweat are useless.

However, if you are not diligent, even if you have talent, you should be even more diligent, to achieve or even surpass your original talent.

Maybe I don't have the talent to be a coach, but Liu Ren believes that he can learn to understand the tactical roadmap, understand the impact of each action of the players in the tactics and the purpose of doing so.

"Liu, what do you think is the essence of basketball?" Kobe suddenly asked Liu Ren.

"The essence of basketball?" Liu Ren was stunned for a moment, and after thinking for a few seconds, he said weakly: "Throw the ball into the basket?"

Well, this is Liu Ren's thinking on the field, throw the ball into the opponent's basket, whoever scores more wins.What is extended is technology, and those honors.

"That's right, just throw the ball into the basket." Kobe seemed satisfied with Liu Ren's answer.

After that, Kobe did not continue to talk to Liu Ren, but went with Gasol to discuss with the coaching staff the tactical roadmap that Liu Ren could not understand.

Until the end of the meeting, Liu Ren was still in the fog, partly because he basically didn't understand much, and what he understood was that the purpose of the tactics was to create scoring opportunities for him.

Liu Ren is very satisfied with this, and the team has already regarded him as the team's first offensive point.

The other half is that Liu Ren didn't understand what Kobe meant when he asked him. Could it be that he was discussing with D'Antoni and asked casually?
For some reason, Liu Ren felt that Kobe was not very satisfied with D'Antoni, and he couldn't see that Kobe was unhappy on the surface, but as a hardcore Kobe, he just felt that Kobe was a little dissatisfied.

Similarly, Liu Ren also felt a little uncomfortable when he saw that Gasol's expression had not changed.

After the meeting, the coaches each went to their own business. D'Antoni went to find Kupchak, and Liu Ren went to the indoor court with Kobe and Gasol.

"Liu, what you said just now is that the essence of basketball is to throw the ball into the basket. That's true." Kobe said suddenly, "But that's only half of it."

"half?"

"Yes, it's only half." Kobe continued after a pause. "The other side is not letting the opponent throw the ball in the basket! This is the finished basketball!"

"Only half is not enough, but now the team only has the offensive half of the tactics, and the other half has been abandoned. You saw it just now. We didn't discuss defensive tactics in the meeting." Gasol continued.

Liu Ren recalled it, and found that he had never had any defensive training since the beginning of the training camp!

The Lakers have ten games in the preseason plus the regular season, and there has never been a defensive arrangement!Every timeout is an offensive arrangement, and I have never heard such words as defending an opponent!
The reason why the Lakers' defense is above average is because the team has a good lineup. They are all young and energetic players. They play well on offense and defend hard, including Nick Young. He will be very excited to defend when he opens his heart. On the opponent's footsteps.

Coupled with the interference of Gasol's long arms inside the opponent's offense, Liu Ren and Whiteside's restricted area blocks, the outside defense all depends on hard work, without any defensive tactics, it all depends on the teammates themselves.

Thinking of the worry on Liu Ren's face, can this lame team system do much?

D'Antoni's offense is good. Against most teams in the league, his offensive system is fairly advanced, but there are also more advanced ones like Popovich's Spurs!Not to mention Cole later!
A team without defense, even if it is as talented as the Suns in the three seasons of 04-07, still can't do much in the playoffs, let alone this group of people?

Liu Ren is not self-deprecating, but self-knowledge should be there. Their strength may be above the average in the league. The victory over the two playoff teams of the Clippers and the Warriors is a good proof of this, and they may play a game with a top team. There is also hope of winning, but thinking about playing a series with the Spurs, he is a little worried that he will be beaten and lose confidence in basketball.

It takes hard work to strike iron!Liu Ren feels that he still has a lot of shortcomings. The offensive methods are relatively simple, three-pointers and strong inside shots. It will be bad to meet a team like the Spurs.

If there is Kobe's ability to fire at any time from a distance...

But this old man is currently seriously injured, and even if he returns to full health, he may only have [-]% of his strength before the injury.

Thinking of this, Liu Ren looked at Kobe with resentment.

Kobe was seen feeling uncomfortable, thinking that Liu Ren was complaining why he didn't tell D'Antoni about it, so he said: "Now Mike is our head coach, what we have to do is to beat him as much as possible." He has had success in the games he played and proved that this style of play can work. Now we have to win. We lost too much last year. As for the defense in the playoffs...well, although my goal is still Compete for the championship, but I also know that it is difficult to do it with our current lineup. We don't have more options, there are not many coaches better than Mike, and we don't have a chance to get them. Instead of complaining, you need to do It’s about playing hard and training hard.”

Instead of complaining, play hard!

Liu Ren likes this sentence very much. Thinking about it, this is the only way. Players interfere with the team's choice of coaches?

It seems that those who interfered with the selection of head coaches in the history of the NBA were scolded bloody. Even if the player's judgment was proved to be correct, the head coach was really not good, and he was still scolded miserably.

Magician Johnson and James, two of the top ten superstars in history, have been hacked for interfering in the head coach candidate, let alone Liu Ren?
(End of this chapter)