Superstar Athletes’ Black Tech Systems

If Mike Brown told Li Liang we're going to do XX defense in the past, Li Liang would usually figure out what was going on.

For example, the 2-3 zone defense, half-court man-marking, 2-2-1 zone defense, unlimited switch defense, etc. that ordinary fans can know.

If it is more advanced, the general commentators are not particularly clear, but senior fans also understand, such as 1-4 zone defense. (In fact, anyone who has watched Slam Dunk knows it.)

If it is more advanced, only professionals can understand it, including various changes and routines derived from man-to-man defense, as well as defensive strategies that combine man-to-man and zone defense, such as match-up zone defense.

Li Liang, as a person who has a deep understanding of various tactics and is already qualified to be a head coach, has learned tactics from various historical tactics masters in the system, this is the first time he has heard of this swarm defense, SWARM Defense.

Why haven't I heard of this defensive tactic? Li Liang asked while rubbing his chin.

This is a set of defensive tactical concepts designed by Coach Wayne Walters of Thaddeus Stevens Institute of Technology. I found it when I was flipping through my notes recently. I think his defensive concepts are consistent with our team's. The staffing fits together very well. Brown rubbed his eyes as he spoke, in order to find the most ideal defensive strategy, he really spent a lot of time.

Many fans think that the NBA has the most advanced basketball tactics and basketball concepts in the world.

In fact, it is not. As a commercial league, the NBA must have the best players, but its concepts are not necessarily the most advanced.

On the contrary, the NBA's basketball philosophy and tactics may be more conservative and backward.

For example, the tactics of star players playing one-on-one singles have always been the most important part of the NBA arena.

You said that this tactic is experimental and advanced, it is just easy to use.

Because NBA teams need records, practicality comes first.

Therefore, experimental tactical play is often first launched in colleges, and after being proven effective, it is gradually adopted by professional leagues such as the NBA.

In the history of basketball for more than 100 years, various tactics can be said to emerge in endlessly.

Although all changes remain the same, but combined with the rules and the situation of the players, each does have its own uniqueness.

Then, Mike Brown introduced to Li Liang the swarm defense system he was looking for.

The swarm defense was the invention of the Stevens Institute of Technology basketball coach.

This Stevens Institute of Technology is not an NCAA school, it is a two-year community college.

Many students in the United States want to enter the NCAA to play, get scholarships, and prepare for entering professional leagues in the future.

However, some students' grades are not up to standard, so they can only go to the next-level community schools. After two years of study, they have the opportunity to move up and enter schools that have joined the NCAA league.

These community colleges have formed an alliance called NJCAA, and Stevens Institute of Technology is one of the members of NJCAA.

Coach Wayne Walters is the head coach of the Stevens Institute of Technology basketball team. He was a middle school basketball coach before and has 30 years of basketball coaching experience.

Don't underestimate these unknown middle school and college basketball coaches, they are often the most innovative.

Some wonderful tactics are often developed by coaches of weak teams.

Because the quality of the players themselves is not good, tactics and discipline are needed to make up for it.

The same is true for this set of swarm defense, which is suitable for teams with poor athletic ability and poor individual defensive ability.

Every tactic has a basic idea, and the swarm defense is no exception. Its basic idea is:

The running speed is faster than sliding, so run as much as possible to drive the opponent's attack.

This concept seems very strange, because the offense has always driven the opponent's defense, and it has never been said that the defense drives the opponent's offense.

In fact, it is not impossible for defense to drive offense.

Some coaches who are good at making defensive traps will set up defensive traps after finding out the opponent's offensive ways and players' offensive habits, driving the ball holder to the set route, and finally fall into the encirclement, causing the opponent's mistake.

The idea of ​​swarm defense is the same.

The so-called running is faster than sliding, which means that when you passively defend, you use the sliding method of movement.

And sliding is always slower than normal running.

Therefore, he asked all players to use normal back and forth running to double-team nearby ball holders.

At the same time, this kind of double-teaming is not a high-intensity oppressive double-teaming in the traditional sense, but a delay similar to the bee philosopher. The function is not to force the opponent to make mistakes, but to disrupt the opponent's rhythm of holding the ball and make the opponent feel the pressure.

Once the opponent feels the pressure and hesitates in the choice of attack, the double-teamer will immediately retreat to chase his opponent's defender.

The general defense is to wait for the opponent to make a move, but the swarm defense is to make a move first to force the opponent to respond.

Each of the five players on one's own side is like a bee, stinging the opponent's ball holder, completely messing up the opponent's offense.

In the game coached by Walters, he averaged more than 30 turnovers per game.

Of course, this also has a lot to do with the opponent's skill level.

Li Liang is very smart. After Mike Brown said a little bit, he understood the meaning of this swarm defense.

In general, this is an offensive defense.

Since the players under him are relatively weak in single defense, it is better to take the initiative to attack than to sit and wait.

In some areas, a two-to-one advantage is formed in a short period of time.

Before the opponent transfers the ball, run back to the defense as soon as possible to disrupt the opponent's normal offensive rhythm.

Bee colony is indeed a good name.

But of course Li Liang had doubts, and said, Are you sure this kind of interference will be effective for an NBA-level point guard?

Because of the player's ability, some tactics are effective in the lower leagues.

But once you reach a high-level, high-level league, it's useless.

Because the player's ability has become stronger, a bee sting may not affect him at all.

And things like delaying the ball holder will also be found in general defense.

It's just used as a defensive habit, or a targeted strategy.

Take him as a strategic idea and the core idea of ​​​​tactical operation. Whether it can work or not, to be honest, no team has tried it.

Mike Brown said: I think there are two reasons why swarm defense can be used. First, this defensive method is not the kind of defensive strategy that can be effective immediately. When a bee stings an elephant, the elephant will hurt, but It won't die. But many bees sting one after another, and the elephant will always be stung to death. The effect of the swarm defense is more invisible and slower. What he destroys is the feeling of the opponent's entire attack, not just a few The touch of a player. Second, swarm defense requires stamina. I think D’Antoni’s offensive thinking really saves stamina. The extra stamina is just used for defense, not wasted. Especially when it comes to steals, Bruce, you should have the last say.

What Brown said in the first point is still very reasonable, and this is an idea. How to implement it, there must be many details and tactical routines, which can be slowly tested and improved.

The second point, D'Antoni probably wanted to get his bald head cleared when he heard it. I designed a labor-saving tactic just to make the defense more physically fit?

The third point is that Brown tried to gain recognition by flattering.

But Li Liang's stable two steals per game are skills obtained from the system!

Should I assign a skill to each team member? It's a pity that the system didn't give him this function, otherwise why would he spend so much effort designing tactics.

However, Brown's idea of ​​swarm defense really attracted Li Liang.

This kind of active defense, where the enemy advances and retreats, and the enemy is exhausted, has the style of a socialist guerrilla.

Maybe he can really build a base in the NBA.