Starting with 2006

Chapter 496 Keen Stotts
Life requires a sense of ritual.

And now Stotts feels that he has a sense of ritual. Although the Bobcats are in a very difficult situation now, this does not mean that Stotts is as sad as last season. Life is difficult, and now he is compared with before , more is a kind of self-confidence.

It was a kind of indifference and calmness after experiencing a kind of storm. Last season's hard work was hard for him, but it also brought him great gains, consecutive successes and final failures. Let him get a real workout. If he used to be guilty when facing league coaches like Popovich, Carlisle, Rivers, and D'Antoni, now he really has the confidence to challenge them.

Because now he is not only the head coach of the most potential team in the league, but also his coaching ability and on-the-spot adaptability have been greatly improved last year. Although Shamao's tactical system is still poorly established, But he can deeply feel that when he stands on the sidelines, he will make a clearer and more accurate judgment on the situation on the court.

This kind of ability is something he didn't have before. In his past career, he was not a coach who was famous for his excellent on-the-spot response. His biggest feature is his familiarity and handiness with tactical theory, but whenever the team needs When changing, his reaction is always slow, more than one beat.

But now he deeply feels that he was too hesitant in the past. He wanted to be an excellent head coach, but in the NBA game where the opportunities are fleeting, he wanted to be an excellent head coach. Ability or leadership excellence, at least one of the two.

The reason why he was not favored in the past was because he didn't have any of the most important characteristics of these two excellent NBA coaches!

And now, maybe his leadership is not outstanding, but at least he has some experience in adaptability, maybe this season he will bring some different changes to the Bobcats!

Now the Bobcats are accepting the challenge of the Denver Nuggets from afar at home. the difference.

After sending away Iverson and trading for Billups, the Nuggets had three wins and two losses in the first five games. It is something that makes the fans extremely excited. In any case, they never thought that just Billups could bring a complete change to the team from the inside out.

Although only played five games, Billups did not complete a very tacit integration with the team, but even a layman fan can clearly see that the Nuggets players are completely different from last season. Excitement.

The changes that Billups' arrival brought to the Nuggets are not only the distribution of the ball, but also more reasonable, and the team's offense is smoother. All have benefited a lot.

Therefore, although the Nuggets players did not feel good in this game, under the steady command of Billups, they were still able to perform a precise positioning, and then slowly caught the Bobcats. Playing is also very boring, the Bobcats exposed too many weaknesses.

The Nuggets are a good offensive team, the Bobcats can have so many mistakes, then they can find these mistakes under the command of Billups, and then scored an offense.

This is really just a typical game where the Bobcats are about to fail. Even at the Bobcats’ venue, more than 1 die-hard fans feel that the game is really boring. For him, this kind of game is nothing but leisure. It's just entertainment at work.

But for this game, Stotts is extremely serious. He has never taken any game so seriously since the start of the game.

Such a dignified demeanor made the Bobcats assistants a little uncomfortable. They looked at the game, but they didn't find anything particularly worthy of attention. The Bobcats still have old problems on the defensive end. This is a problem that the Bobcats are difficult to solve at this stage. , they can only continuously improve.

In addition, the Bobcats wanted to play an offense, but they felt a little bit in training in this game, so this should be something to be happy about. At least the poor defense of the Nuggets in this game also allowed them to train. The results can be shown in some ways.

So Stotts, what's the worry?
Everyone didn't know what Stotts was thinking, and even they couldn't see the subtle changes in the Bobcats on the court at all. Now it is estimated that Gao Tian, ​​besides Stotts, understands what happened on the court.

The current Bobcats players are very strange. What is strange about them is not their tactical movement, but their sharp rhetoric. It seems that there are some big problems in the rotation defense among the few people who should have a close relationship.

These problems are not a problem of position selection, but that the communication between them, which was originally somewhat clear, has become blurred again, and the last ten words are difficult to understand, and there is a trace of fear that he saw the relationship between the few players on the field. The trace of doubt and hesitation that seemed to appear in the room.

Why should others help him to do what he should do himself?

Stotts is not a very experienced head coach, but he is very aware of the problems in the hearts of the players. Now they don't regard their teammates as real teammates, and they don't have the harmonious and warm feeling they used to have.

So in the end, Sun Yue's matter is still unresolved?

Stotts couldn't help looking at Gao Tian, ​​who was sitting on the court without any expression. Originally, he thought Gao Tian could solve this problem easily, because Gao Tian's status in the team and his prestige were enough to make him He easily resolved these contradictions that were not a big deal, how could Sun Yue choose to reject his proposal forcefully with his face?
Could it be that he felt wrong?

Or is it that he has too much confidence in Gao Tian, ​​Gao Tian has not solved this problem at all, and now this problem has affected the overall stability of Bobcats?
"Originally, after Zhan En was passed by Billups, Sun Yue should have assisted him in defense, but Sun Yue hesitated. Although it was only a short time, he did hesitate!"

This is something that shouldn't be done at all!

Stotts really feels a headache now, because the atmosphere of the locker room is a very mysterious thing. For a head coach, if he can stabilize the overall atmosphere of the locker room, then this will definitely be a great host. coach!
This sounds simple, but in fact it is very difficult, because for many college basketball tactical masters, the biggest problem that worries them most about entering the NBA is how to deal with the team's players. It's the relationship between superstars!

For the head coach, this is unimaginable, because in their college basketball tactics, the head coach is above all else, a head coach is a team, the real soul, he can determine the team everything.

But the status of the head coach in the NBA is very low, and only the superstars in the team are the highest. Therefore, for many NBA head coaches, they have been unable to achieve results in the NBA, not only because of their personal problems, Sometimes it's also because they can't handle the relationship with the team's superstar.

Just like the former 76ers, the head coach Larry Brown is the same as the 76ers superstar Allen Iverson. Brown is a typical defensive head coach. He hopes that Iverson can put down his figure and, as an ordinary player, Participate in defense, but Iverson is the most unique person. It is an insult to him to let him put down his body to do those dirty and tiring floor work!
In addition, Brown didn't like Iverson's maverick style of play at all, so the conflict between the two has been deep and deep, until it finally broke out one day, and they had to part ways. Of course, the 76ers chose to fire The team's head coach.

And now Stotts is also a head coach who is not good at handling the relationship between players, but this also does not mean that he is a fool. He can clearly see that the current Bobcats players, or to put it more clearly, is There are vague contradictions between Sun Yueyi Jianlian and Zhan En.

The extremely incomprehensible communication between them made the game a little bit worse. Although the audience didn't seem to have changed, the Bobcats were still the same, constantly stalking people, but Storrs knew very well that Sun Yue and Yi Jianlian, Including Zhan En, the three of them will not appear in the position where they should appear at a certain point in time.

And that position happened to be one of their players, because of the defensive loopholes caused by his own mistakes, this performance is too bad.

Because this is the fundamental problem that can shake the current foundation of the Bobcats, Stotts is not thinking about how to win this game. All his attention is now on the team's three super talents.

Although in these few 10 minutes, many ideas appeared in his mind, but the various plans that kept appearing were rejected by him one by one. It was not until the end of the game that Stotts realized that this might not be something he could solve. The problem.

At this time, Stotts looked at Gao Tian who had been sitting there staring at the field. He never understood what role Gao Tian played in this?
Is he for the Bobcats, or for himself?

Or, is he the one who caused the Bobcats to be in such a huge crisis now?

(End of this chapter)