The world's best combo guard

Chapter 46 [Challenge of Triangle Offense]

Duan Feng's interview with Li Hao lasted for 20 minutes. Facing the live interview of CCTV Sports, Li Hao was very relaxed. In addition to thanking the fans who supported him as always, Li Hao also said that he would find a way as soon as possible. Integrate into the NBA.

This made the people in the country who followed him on the other side of the ocean let go of their hearts hanging in the air.

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The next day, the Lakers officially opened the training camp mode. Except for the ok combination and Karl Malone, all the players of the team arrived at the training hall, including several trial players. These players will follow the team to participate in the preseason. The Lakers management will also decide whether to offer them a contract based on their performance during this period.

No team will train with the ball at the beginning of the new season's training camp. Everyone will start with physical training. After all, during the offseason, many players' bodies are more or less out of shape. Use this time to at least recover your body physical fitness.

For example, at the beginning of each season's training camp, each team will conduct physical tests on players.

There are a total of ten or twenty players. In the end, only Gary Payton, Li Hao, Brian Cook and those players who have not yet contracted can all meet the physical test data.

Veteran players like Devin George and Rick Fox have more or less problems with their physical test data. For example, Derek Fisher, his weight soared by 8 in an offseason. Phil Jackson saw This data, very angry, directly gave Fisher a death order, and if he could not return to the weight of last season before the preseason, Fisher would not play in the new season for the time being. When will he lose weight? play.

In the Lakers, the head coach Phil Jackson has a high authority, even the rebellious ok combination does not dare to be too presumptuous, so Fisher can only devote himself to the weight loss plan in despair.

Li Hao is very satisfied with the results he has made in the past two months. The physical test data is realistic. His body fat rate has dropped from 11.3% to 8.5%. Besides, his muscle lines look more obvious now.

The improvement of physical fitness made Li Hao feel relieved to shift the focus of training to training with the ball. Therefore, in addition to completing physical training with the big team every day, he will devote time to training with the ball.

At the beginning, Li Hao was a little uncomfortable, even a little scared. The improvement of his physical fitness, especially the increase in muscle mass, made him very stiff when he was doing some dribbling and shooting movements, especially shooting. The hit rate is almost appalling.

Fortunately, this situation did not last long before it gradually disappeared. After all, his physical flexibility was there, coupled with the strengthening of his physical balance, both visible and invisible, he quickly returned to the familiar rhythm.

Five days before the preseason, Phil Jackson called everyone together and announced that the next training with the ball, that is, tactical training.

Especially for the new faces of the team like Li Hao, the following tactical training is very important. To a certain extent, this determines whether they can integrate into the team in the new season.

The team's offensive coach Judy Brucher found Li Hao, because Li Hao was at a loss at the moment.

Before he entered the NBA, he had heard about the "triangle offense" advocated by Phil Jackson.

Many people say that the triangle offensive tactic advocated by Phil Jackson is very powerful. The Bulls Dynasty and the Lakers have benefited from this tactic. However, some people say that the triangle offensive has very strict requirements on players, and ordinary players can’t understand it at all. It is difficult to integrate the essence of this tactic.

The current Li Hao obviously belongs to the latter. Whether he is on the defensive side or on the offensive side, Li Hao is struggling a bit, either failing to pass the ball or losing his defensive position. For three consecutive days, he has been out of the system.

It is worth noting that the same situation as Li Hao turned out to be Gary Payton, a former superstar and a top point guard who is still very good. On the offensive end, he does not call almost all players.

However, on the defensive end, he is still very good. As a point guard who has been selected to the first team for 9 consecutive seasons in the past, he is still very powerful on the defensive end.

It was difficult for Gary Payton to integrate with the triangle offense. Phil Jackson was a little annoyed, because he did not expect this to be the case. He made it clear that Gary Payton was not suitable for triangle tactics, but Phil Jackson didn't think so at all at the time. He felt that Old Winter was talking nonsense, and Gary Payton would definitely be able to integrate into triangle offense.

But judging from the current situation, it seems that this is not the case. It is really like what the old Winter said, it seems that Gary Payton and the triangle tactics are completely irrelevant.

Phil Jackson was a little anxious, and was teased by the outside world that it was a trivial matter for him not to listen to old Winter's advice. Once Gary Payton really couldn't play the triangle offense, he would be in big trouble. After all, in his heart, Gary Payton is his new season rush The crown is a very important part.

As for Li Hao's inability to quickly understand the triangle offense, Phil Jackson was very calm, as if this was what he expected, but he still sent offensive coach Judy Brucher, hoping to help Li Hao .

"Lee, don't be depressed, you know it's normal, you haven't been exposed to the triangle offense before, and you haven't played with these guys, so it's normal to have this situation at first" Judy Brucher Er patted Li Hao who looked depressed.

"Lee, first of all, you have to be clear that whether it is the Princeton system or the triangle offense, they are all derived from the pick-and-roll tactics. Secondly, for a defender, if you want to understand the triangle offense, you must be good at playing off the ball. preparation"

Judy Brucher's last words made Li Hao secretly cry.

Play off the ball?
Now he really doesn't have that confidence.

From childhood to adulthood, whether in the club or the national team, he has always dominated the ball. In other words, he has always been a player who relies on the ball to perform brilliantly.

Now suddenly asking him to play without the ball is undoubtedly asking an artilleryman to fight the enemy with bayonets, and naturally it will not be effective.

"Lee, the new season hasn't started yet. Even if the new season starts, it's okay. The team will give you enough time to adapt to all of this. As a first-year rookie, you don't need to have too much burden. This is the third consecutive championship. You can learn something from some of our wonderful game videos during the period." Judy Brucher seemed to know what Li Hao was thinking, and took out some video tapes to teach Li Hao, turned around, shook her head and left.

Judy Brucher knew that it was a bit difficult for Li Hao, but there was nothing he could do. As far as the current team lineup was concerned, Li Hao could only rely on Li Hao himself. Could it be possible to let the ok team cooperate with Li Hao?Or let Phil Jackson ditch the triangle offense?
This is impossible. First of all, the head coach is Phil Jackson. Judy Brucher is very clear about his obsession with the triangle offense. Secondly, the current Lakers are not a bad rebuilding team, and Li Hao is not a team. Listed as the reconstruction core, but a championship team composed of multiple superstars or former superstars.

In this case, Li Hao really can only rely on himself.

(End of this chapter)