Zhiba NBA

Chapter 21 (Twenty) New Tactics
"Rudy, I want to discuss something with you."

"Why are you and I being polite, I will fully support it."

"Dawson told me that some players want to leave our team due to too little playing time and insufficient opportunities to perform. I want to alleviate this problem through tactical arrangements. If you look at 5 positions, there are only 240 minutes per game. This is something we cannot change, but the number of rounds can still be controlled."

"Number of rounds? You mean..."

"Change the rhythm and play a new tactic. Please lend me an assistant coach and five substitutes. I want to try this new tactic on the bench."

***
In the early morning of November 11, the Rockets came to the training ground to prepare for a day of training.Tang Shuai developed a new training model for them.

"The theme of today's training is the simulated competition within the team. Hakeem can't participate, and there are 6 people in each team, and Jason and I will each lead a team. Team B will train with Jason in the morning, and the game will officially start in the afternoon."

"The players of Team B are Mehmet Okur, Gerald Wallace, Richard Jefferson, Michael Reed, Tony Parker and Terry Brown." Yuan Fei announced.

The players of Team B were dumbfounded. Isn't this just playing the main force from the bench? Except for Jefferson, the B team will also start, and the rest are pure substitutes, especially Brown has not played a minute this season.

"The players in Group A often play together, and they are all proficient. Just train as usual."

"Coach, what exactly do you mean? Is there a big gap between Team B and ours?" Kenny Thomas couldn't help asking.

"You talk too much, Kenny." Olajuwon, who was doing basic recovery training on the sidelines, criticized: "If I do this again, I will introduce you to my buddy, another Kenny (Kenny Smith, a former Rockets player, who worked for TNT Sports after retiring), and let you do the commentary with him, anyway, you are so nagging."

"Don't stop, boss, I'll shut up." Thomas immediately relented.In this team, Tang Shuai is a loving father, while Dameng plays the role of a stern elder brother.

The players of team B were also at a loss. They didn't understand until Yuan Fei gave a lot of theoretical explanations and the assistant coach gave a simple explanation of the tactical settings.

***
In the afternoon, the team's simulated confrontation match officially started, and the game only played a 6-minute quarter in the second half. Team A Magloir sat on the bench, and Tang Shuai lined up Yao Ming, Thomas, Turkoglu, Tracy McGrady and Billups. Team B, as everyone expected, Brown came off the bench, and the other 5 players came on the stage.

On the jump ball, Yao Ming of Team A touched the ball first and passed it to McGrady.McGrady did not hand it over to Billups but advanced directly. Facing Reid's defense, he took a jumper and took 2 points.

Gerald Wallace immediately picked up the ball and handed it to Parker. Parker advanced at a high speed, and Yao Ming and Turkoglu hadn't returned to the defense when he got inside the three-point line.Tracy McGrady and Billups arrived in a hurry and were about to double-team the advancing Parker, but they saw the ball was passed to the bottom corner where no one should have been.

Reed had already ambushed here at some point.McGrady was taken aback. Did he just run to this corner after being scored head-on?

Naturally, Reid would not let go of this unguarded opportunity, took aim and shot, and scored a three-pointer.

McGrady once again singled Reed and succeeded in a breakthrough layup, leading the 4:3A team.

Parker advanced again at high speed. This time Team A was slightly prepared and prevented the connection between Reid and Parker.But Okur ran directly to the other corner, Yao Ming hesitated and did not keep up.Okur made a three-pointer, and the ball went in after 2 laps on the hoop.

"Yao, follow up and guard against him." Thomas shouted, "I'm still inside."

McGrady broke through Reed and made a wonderful pass to Yao Ming.Yao Ming turned around and dunked. Okur couldn't defend the attack. 6 to 6 tie.

Team B repeated the old trick, and Yao Ming followed Okur out of the three-second zone.Wallace stepped up to the pick-and-roll to block Billups, and Parker easily broke into the three-second zone.And McGrady on this side dared not step forward to help defend in order to guard against Reed in the bottom corner.Parker succeeded in picking the basket against Thomas, who was obviously unable to keep up with the speed.

The imitation match that follows is like a tactical training match for team B. Although team B only has a simple fast break, team A is struggling to deal with it.Wallace dunked after the pick-and-roll, Jefferson dunked fast, McGrady stepped forward to help Reid run an open three-pointer, Parker swayed the mid-range shot himself, and Team A obviously had the upper hand, but they didn't take advantage of it.In the end, Team A narrowly beat Team B 32 to 31.

"Great!" Tang Shuai clapped his hands vigorously and praised the players loudly: "Team B played really well. This is the bench tactic I want to see. Jason, you did a great job."

"It seems that the effect is not bad. There are two days before the next game, and the tactical training will continue in these two days. I want to use Kenny and Chauncey in this tactic." Yuan Fei is also very satisfied.

***
On November 11, the Rockets ushered in the Warriors at home.

"The average age of the Warriors is 24.4 years old, which is close to ours. This is a young team." Yuan Fei made a pre-match introduction as usual: "Different from the Warriors in previous years, don't think they are still that bad team. Now they have No. 0 Gilbert Arenas, No. 33 Antawn Jamison and No. 23 Jason Richardson as the core, and they play very fast. At present, their tempo is second only to the Kings and the second fastest in the league."

"No matter how fast it is, it shouldn't be as fast as Team B..." The simple and honest Magloire couldn't help complaining. It seems that the memory of being taught by Team B these days is quite painful.

"In addition, their center Eric Dampier also has certain strength, and this year's No. [-] pick Dunleavy. Of course, this team is immature compared with ours. Although their combat effectiveness has improved a lot compared to last year, they are not yet a strong team. They are quite talented and have great potential. They may become our strong enemy in the next few years." Yuan Fei continued: "It's just that today, we are in our own arena and must kill them."

"I'm going to kill you." A few minutes later, Billups was full of mockery when he heard Arenas whispering something similar to Jason in his ear.

"Girls only talk about words, let's talk about strength, young man." The calm wise general Chauncey replied.

"You can keep up with our speed." Arenas showed no sign of weakness, but he froze after a few rounds, as if the Rockets had a lot of experience in dealing with fast breaks.Billups can always find a suitable position to deal with him and Dampier's pick-and-roll, and Jamison and Richardson, who are involved in running back and forth, are completely blocked by Thomas and McGrady.The Warriors' tactics are often reduced to singles in positional battles, and the offensive end is completely suppressed by the Rockets. Fortunately, the Rockets didn't feel good today, so the point difference was not widened.

Warriors head coach Musselman saw that the momentum was not good, so he hurriedly called a timeout, and then dispatched troops to replace Dunleavy, who had an accurate shot.Looking back at the Rockets, all the Warriors were stunned. The Rockets changed four players at once, and all four starters except McGrady were off the field.

The small French sports car on the stage started immediately, Parker sent out assists again and again, Tracy McGrady dunked, Jefferson dunked, and the Warriors with average ability to protect the frame were defeated by the Rockets' fast break.

"This is our team's first run.and.gun tactic... The Rockets are actually playing it like this." Musselman murmured.

(Small knowledge: The run-and-gun tactics originated in 1988, and the inventor was the head coach of the Warriors at the time—the "mad scientist" Don Nelson, who was famous for his innovative spirit. In 2002 in the article, Nelson was the head coach of the Mavericks)

In this season, the Warriors can also be regarded as a team with a sharp offensive rhythm and a fast pace (the third offensive league in history, and the bottom defensive league), but when the Warriors players met the Rockets, the fast horse B team, they actually couldn't play.Parker abused his fellow player Arenas, and Kenny Thomas, who played later, also showed his new technology. After coordinating with Parker in the pick-and-roll, the slid or split the ball made it difficult for the poor defensive Warriors to guard against.

104:127，火箭大胜对手。帕克得到了27分5助攻，肯尼.托马斯则打出了惊人的20+10+6，麦迪也贡献了31分，马格洛伊尔9分12篮板。如果非要说表现不佳的只有身材过于庞大跟不上节奏的姚明了，他只打了7分钟得到3分2篮板。

As Wang Yuanfei expected, the run-and-bomb tactics alleviated the Rockets players' complaints about the lack of playing time to a certain extent.The pace is fast and the physical energy is consumed a lot. The players can basically feel the signal of sufficient physical activity.In addition, due to more rounds played, players can also play better data in a relatively short playing time, which is enough to meet the vanity of young players and the needs of commercial factors (young players can't play good data and it is difficult to renew their contracts).

The run-and-gun tactics also have obvious disadvantages. First, a tall center like Yao Ming obviously can't keep up with the rhythm, but the Rockets play the rhythm on the bench, which does not affect Yao Ming's appearance, and Billups will command the positional battle.And no matter how kind Tang Shuai is, he will never allow players to be lazy on the defensive end because of the high consumption of the offensive end.The guarantee of retreat and defensive rebounds is the beginning of the fast break. The players have also deeply understood this point in the simulation game for a few days, so they can still guarantee their concentration on the defensive end.Coupled with the Rockets' solid bench depth, they can easily guarantee an 11-man rotation, so there is no big problem in tactical execution.

If there is still something unsatisfactory about the Rockets, the most prominent one is Yao Ming's unsatisfactory performance.Dayao was also very dissatisfied with his performance and worked harder in training.All these were seen by Tang Shuai.

休息两天，进一步熟悉了新战术后，火箭队的下一个对手开拓者赶到了。这一次姚明面对萨博尼斯和拉希德.华莱士的强大内线，在15分钟的出场时间内得到了7+4+2的不错数据。肯尼.托马斯也再次有抢眼表现，得到了12+9+2，还防得华莱士仅有14投2中得到9分。86:103，火箭再次迎来一场大胜。

　The sentence asking for a monthly ticket at the beginning of the chapter was automatically added by the system, not written by me.However, I still hope that everyone will vote for recommendation.It takes a lot of time to write this topic and go to the English website to check the information. Golfers who have studied the NBA carefully should feel it.I'm new to Meng, and I chose a difficult subject, but I don't want to deal with it like some authors do.I checked every detail carefully to prevent any bugs, it was really time consuming.

　　
　
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