NBA: This flower path is a bit strong.

Pete Carril, most basketball fans may not know who this person is when they first hear this name.

But when it comes to his tactical thinking, I guess everyone knows it.

That’s right, this is the veteran coach Pete Carril who looks like Einstein and was the consultant and assistant coach of the Kings at the time.

It was he who created the famous Princeton system!

在1967到1996年的这29年时间里，皮特·卡里尔曾用这种战术打法率领普林斯顿大学这样一所没有一名学生享受体育奖学金的学校在NCAA获得525胜273负，胜率为恐怖的65.8%的成绩。

During this period, they won 13 Ivy League championships and set a record of 14 NCAA minimum points allowed.

At this point, Pete Carril himself was known as the college head coach who could win 500 games without relying on stars.

This tactic is also named the Princeton tactic.

And just last summer (1996), Pete Carril, who was "tired of playing" in college, finally decided to bring his tactics to the broader NBA platform.

According to normal historical time, the Kings will return to the playoffs around the 1998-99 season.

The Kings reached their peak until the 2002 Western Conference Finals, when they lost to the Lakers in seven games.

(If the referee hadn't cheated in the crucial Game 6, forcing the Lakers to take a terrifying 27 free throws in the fourth quarter, maybe the Kings would have made it to the Finals that year instead of the Lakers. Of course, all of this was the official NBA script!)

PS: The referee at that time was named Dick Bavetta. Afterwards, he not only admitted that he was the "officially authorized executor", but also admitted that the league assigned him to referee Game 6 in order to ensure that the series entered a decisive Game 7!

Another referee, Tim Donaghy, even boldly published a book, "Personal Foul: A First-Person Account of the Scandal that Rocked the NBA."

The book records in detail the fake matches and deliberately arranged illusions that he had called when he was an NBA referee from 1994 to 2007, including the one that arranged for the Kings to lose to the Lakers in 02.

The NBA officially launched an investigation into this in 2010, confirming Donaghy's words and vindicating the Kings during their peak period.

Of course, it was later said that the referee was sentenced!

However, this also indirectly reflects the strength of the Kings and Princeton system at that time.

It almost caused the OK combination to capsize, how could it not be amazing!

Princeton tactics can be explained in one sentence:

Let the smarter one defeat the stronger one!

He is a typical team tactical system.

He has extremely high requirements for players' basketball IQ, especially inside players.

Let's compare horizontally:

The triangle offense is based on the low post with the back to the basket as the axis, while the Princeton offense is based on the high post with the face to the basket as the axis.

The triangle offense emphasizes singles first, while the Princeton offense emphasizes passing first.

The ultimate goal of the triangle offense is to create a 1v1 duel between the star player and the opponent.

The Princeton tactic is to create open space for its players to face a 1v0 situation.

In the triangle offense, the inside players usually actively defend the rebounds and play the second offense after the star player misses a shot.

In the Princeton tactics, no matter how to create open space or pass the ball, the player who acts as the axis in the interior will generally be the first offensive choice.

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All in all, this Princeton offense is different from Phil Jackson's triangle offense because they have opposite focuses.

So the instruction manual for using post players is exactly the opposite.

This does not mean that one tactic is necessarily better than another, or that one tactic is necessarily more complicated than another.

But for the current stage of flower arrangement, he dares to say:

There is no one in the league who is more adaptable to this tactic than him!

Imagine the 214cm tall Hanamichi holding the ball with one hand in a high position, sitting at the center, observing the situation on the court with his back turned.

The remaining four people were running and cutting in a frantic and orderly manner.

Or a cool pass to the basket;

Or suddenly turn around and slam dunk!

This is the perfect interpretation of the saying "pass the ball when there is an opportunity, and play one-on-one in the paint when there is no opportunity."

This tactic, which tests the inside players' "space, rotation, and passing timing" to the extreme, is the essence of Princeton.

And flower arrangement is to Princeton like a product that is exempt from inspection, a seamless connection!

The strength of Princeton's tactics lies in his pleasing offense:

The gorgeousness is as unstoppable as mercury pouring down the ground!

(In the 1998-99 season, under the coaching of Rick Adelman and Pete Carril, the Kings became the only team in the league to average more than 100 points per game, a full 7 points more than the previous season!)

In short, this tactic is based on the offensive players' good vision and ability to read the game (understand the defensive players' intentions) so as to choose the correct offensive method.

Princeton tactics have been proven to be able to offset the strong individual abilities of opposing players in the future.

"In this play, the big guy always has to get the ball from the small guy, but remember, the best passes come from the big guy."

The main reason why the Raptors dared to use this tactic at the critical moment of the Eastern Conference Finals lies in Hanamichi's personal ability!

Coach Brandon Malone has lost count of how many times he has marveled at Hanamichi's growth rate in the past two years!

Hanamichi's dribbling, passing, and offensive methods are all cross-stage growth.

With the inspection-free product of Huadao, Coach Lao Deng has consciously trained this tactic in daily training this season.

Needless to say, the team's Das and Doug Christie can shoot, break through and pass the ball, which perfectly fits the Princeton system.

Small forward Walter Williams shot 45.5% from three-point range last season and is also a player with a basket.

Before Ben had surgery on his hands and nerves, he was still accurate in the penalty area and his passing was also above average.

So, the Princeton system is alive!