Jim Bass Ambition

Chapter 317 Playing Ball Correctly

Although Jim can't compliment Larry Brown's character, there is no doubt about the professional ability of this stubborn old coach. His stubbornness now only pursues the present, and the record of leading the team is the first, and he will not pay attention to it. Management's "for greater and long-term interests".

The management asked him to cultivate a few talents that are visible to the naked eye, and the sky is the limit, but he refuses to let the immature rookies with average immediate combat power; , and he will not; the management needs him to take care of the emotions of the players, don't talk about it, it is even more impossible for him to obey.

Someone once said that Larry Brown enjoys the feeling of driving an ordinary car to overtake other cars instead of driving a supercar. He can make a team that lacks talent play a better record, but leading talented players, often There will be problems of one kind or another. Geniuses are often proud.

Everyone knows the basic offensive and defensive tactics. Larry Brown's tactical manual doesn't draw more flowers than Jeff Van Gundy.

Their basketball concept is very traditional. People in each position concentrate on doing what they should do. When attacking, they start with a 1-3-1 position. Cassel and Eddie Jones pick and roll in the high position. Eddie • Jones cuts out looking for an open spot, Cassell lobs to Brad Miller, and Reed cuts off Ben's screen looking for an open spot.

If it fails, Eddie Jones will use Big Ben to cover and make an air cut from the bottom line.

Before getting a chance, Cassell cuts 45 degrees to find a match with Reid, and Eddie Jones circles to the weak side to find an open.

If it doesn't work, leave it to Miller to force him inside, or Cassell will do it himself.

So and so, again and again, after a game, Jim almost wrote down the running route of the Pistons players.

And their defense is simpler and rougher, concentrating their forces to block the middle, driving the offensive players to the flanks, and then letting go of the furthest players. Others increase the pressure and cut off the passing line; A big delay, and then quickly return to the defensive position, with his hands open to interfere with the pass; the Lakers grab the rebound, and Cassell or Reid put pressure on the Lakers defender, and the others retreat quickly to prevent being counterattacked.

In training, Larry Brown will use a ruler to correct the stride size of each player's sliding step, and will mark on the floor the route of each rotation, the angle of running, the timing of defensive or double-teaming, Larry Brown is the best coach for less talented players who work hard and listen carefully. He will tell you everything you should do on the court.

For example, Eric Snow, as a point guard, he can be said to have no talent, step by step to control the ball across the half court, pass the ball to the captain, hit an open three-pointer, and then defend, relying on these, being caught in a hurry The medical officer took a fancy to it and got a 5-year contract worth 2800 million US dollars, far exceeding his own worth.

But for players with talent and character, playing under Larry Brown is not so enjoyable.

Like Stephon Marbury.

In the just-concluded Olympic Games, the American Dream Team 3 was defeated in Athens. They lost [-] games in one major competition, which is more than the total number of games lost by the previous Dream Team in the Olympic Games.

The contradiction between Marbury and Larry Brown is the main theme throughout. When the team was preparing for the first day, Larry Brown asked the players to talk about their goals.

With 12 people, the goal is to win the game. How many words can you say?
So when it was Marbury's turn to give a speech, he had nothing to say, so the old horse could only add, "Don't forget, everyone, we are here to enjoy the game."

Larry Brown didn't like Marbury's crazy personality and style of play, so he wanted to take this opportunity to show his power.

"What? It's nonsense! Did you hear that? He actually said that he wanted to enjoy the game? He still wants to play well with this attitude? No wonder you are a cancer everywhere."

In order to stay in the Dream Six team, Marbury endured it.

So Larry Brown began to perform his iron fist rule. He killed Jason Kidd's fast break desire, let him dribble across the half court like Eric Snow, and delivered shells to his teammates in positional battles. Let Marbury be like Eric Snow, squatting on the outside and waiting for an opportunity, or catch the ball. He put LeBron James, Carmelo Anthony and Dwyane Wade on the bench, The reason is that they are too young to support the team's offense and defense. "Play the right basketball" is Larry Brown's motto. Anyone who can't play the ball correctly according to his ideas should go home and take care of their children.

However, the current Pistons team does not have a rebellious genius like Stephon Marbury, and there are no young talents that need to be cultivated. Joe Dumars' team has only one goal, and that is to be better than before. Record, this highly coincides with Larry Brown's coaching philosophy.

Compared with Larry Brown, Jim's business level is simply incomparable, and it is impossible for him to use a ruler to measure the size of players' sliding steps, and to pick out every detail in training. What he can do is to pass on his ideas to The team, at the right time, puts the right players on the field and then gives the players more freedom.

Jim has always believed that what a talented player sees on the court is different from what ordinary people see. In the eyes of Eric Snow, the impenetrable defense may be seen by Steve Nash. The route to the pass; what George Lynch thought was a dead-end shot, what Kobe Bryant thought was an open shot.

For example, Dwyane Wade, in the eyes of the young Flash, it is a glorious thing to play for his country in the Olympics, but the trip to Athens was not the result he wanted at all. Facing the European and American powers who did not defend for three seconds, they lacked The projected Dream Six team was at a loss, and Larry Brown took all his anger on the players, especially a few young players, who played for only a few minutes, and had a lot of blame.

"Look at you rookies, you can't even make it to the field, and you've lost your lineup. Why don't you bring Snow here!"

Seeing Larry Brown, Wade thought of the hellish 38 days. Wade sometimes even thought that if he didn't love basketball deeply, he might be lost to the sport by Larry Brown's behavior. interest.

Facing the Pistons, Wade completely vented his grievances. The Pistons' screen-around strategy was not so effective against Wade's breakthrough master with both speed and skill. Jim was deeply impressed by the screen, so under the collective wisdom and efforts of the coaching staff, he designed several sets of exclusive assault tactics for Wade.

During the period when Ben Wallace was not on the court, facing Antonio McDyess's Pistons inside who had lost his explosive power, Wade took whatever he wanted and played a wave of 7-0 with his own strength.

(End of this chapter)