Chapter 61: space

　　 After leaving Washington, Leon chose to take a one-week vacation to return to Boston, and accompanied Khomeinis to Marshfield to take care of the children's training camp for Auerbach. The old man is a little weak now, and he has to fly from Washington to Boston and have to take a car to Marshfield to stare at a group of energetic stinky boys teaching them to play basketball, which really embarrassed him.
Now Auerbach training camp has been handed over to Leon to take charge. Compared with last year, the scale of the training camp has expanded a lot. Leon is an energetic guy. He will no longer just hire a few Celtics. The former old player came over to take the kids with him. In order to organize this training camp, he hired Don Grimes, the retired head coach of the Medwell High School basketball team, to be the chief coach of the training camp.
Compared with the retired players or coaches of professional teams, Grimes, who has been a high school coach, is obviously more suitable to be a mentor for those teenagers. His training ideas are more basic and detailed, and it is easier to interact with children. Mingle.
Another coach is Daniel Myers. He has been a coach at Auerbach training camp since the 1980s. Last year he was absent from the training camp due to family reasons. This time Leon brought him back. . Miles used to work as an assistant to Coach Thompson at Georgetown University. He has trained centers such as Ewing, Mourning and Mutombo.
In addition, there are basketball coach Donald Morris of Daniel Webster College, Floyd Butler, coach of the state high school championship school from Philadelphia, and Arik, the physical coach of Barnsbut High School. -Taylor and others. These people are well-known figures in the Massachusetts basketball world. Auerbach spent a lot of energy introducing Leon and their knowledge and contacts during the year. Of course, it was not just for them to train. The camp came to coach, but to give Leon more opportunities to learn, but also to allow Leon to inherit the bishop's connections in Massachusetts basketball.
　　 For Auerbach, Auerbach training camp is a small basketball gathering. As the age grows and the basketball career goes into ruin, the training camp is gradually abandoned and thrives again with the arrival of Leon. This year, the number of young players who signed up for the training camp was twice as many as last year. Khomeinis has made great efforts in publicity. She established an admissions homepage for Auerbach training camp on the Internet, and officially started online publicity and registration. The number of applicants increased greatly, and eventually a part of them had to be screened out to qualify.
The training camp location is still in the old gym in Marshfield, but Leon has discussed with Auerbach to move the training camp location to Smithfield, which is closer to Providence, to borrow from next year. There is a new training venue at Bryant University. Not only are there new venues there, but it is also closer to Fall River, Springfield, Hartford and other places, and the transportation is more convenient, which will attract more children to the training camp.
　　 Everything is moving in a good direction, just like the Celtics. In a week, Leon spent a lot of time applying the scouting knowledge and team management knowledge he learned from the Celtics. For example, he established a system for every young player. A small file of players, including the basic data of these young players, training camp performance and future development evaluation. Although most people get the evaluation that "will not embark on the path of professional players," his precise, simple and original comments still left a deep impression on the coaches.
Of course, there are still children who have received high praise. For example, Michael Carter Williams last year. This time he came to the training camp from Hamilton without hesitation. Compared with last year, he has grown a lot. More skilled, children older than him in the training camp are no longer his opponents at all, and his growth rate is amazing.
　　 Of course, all this is not the focus of Leon's work here. His real intention or mission is to learn in the training camp and really start learning basketball tactics.
During nearly a year of scouting work, Auerbach strictly forbids Leon to learn any tactics, does not allow him to read basketball tactics textbooks, does not allow him to learn tactical drills in team training, and does not allow him to watch videos to explore tactics. Routine, he is not allowed to ask himself questions about tactics.
　　 Leon once asked Auerbach this question, Auerbach only gave him one answer, "I don't want you to become a slave to tactics."
　　 Knowing Leon from the beginning, repeating Pitino's tactical speech verbatim in the office of the training hall, Auerbach knew that this guy was likely to be a tactical genius. His memory ability and way of thinking give him strong deduction ability, calculation ability and spatial imagination, which is very important for a basketball tactician.
However, tactics are only part of the work of the team's head coach. Auerbach is afraid that Leon will become a tactical obsessive who is obsessed with tactical drills and ignores the handling of player relations, team building and player discovery and training. In my impression, a coach like this is only suitable to be a full-time assistant coach for a certain item of the team. Once he becomes the head coach of the team, it is likely to be a disaster.
For example, Doug Collins, the head coach of the Bulls in the 1980s, one of the characteristics of coaching is to stand on the sidelines and shout tactics. Players should listen to the tactics shouted by the coach when attacking on the court, and then think back to how the tactics work. Finally make an offensive choice.
Auerbach commented on those coaches like this: "Look at the coaches who won the championship, is there any one who is known for XX tactics? Phil Jackson? Triangle offense? Ask Dennis Rodman, what is a triangle? Offense, give the ball to Jordan! And that thing is just a trick of old Winter. Adelman, I heard that he was playing Princeton for the Kings, I think he is useless. Jerry Sloan, what can I do for a lifetime in Salt Lake City? In the UCLA system, Jordan retired and he couldn’t win the championship. But Popovich’s kid, he won the championship with the twin towers! You see, like Pat Riley, Jack Ramsey, KC , And me, what tactics are known for? No, neither! Remember, tactics are for the team and for victory. Don’t be a slave to tactics. When you become a slave to tactics, then you may win Some false names, but you will miss the championship."
What a clever person Leon is, Auerbach only needs to say it once and he can remember it in his heart. So in this year's time, his biggest gain is the vision of people and the in-depth contact with the basketball circle. Know the rules of the sport. When the time comes, when you can start learning basketball tactics, everything will come naturally.
　　 In the training camp, Leon’s main teacher is Daniel Myers. From the appearance point of view, Daniel Michael and his former partner John Thompson are not like a basketball coach at all, but like a wrestler. His body is strong like a tin barrel.
　　 Miles is not known for tactics in the basketball circle. He is known for his strict team discipline and iron-blooded defense when he coaches at Springbrook High School in Maryland. Of course, like John Thompson, he is also good at training centers.
　　 Teaching Leon tactics was a painful thing for Miles, because he soon discovered that Leon’s ability to draw inferences from one another was too strong. For example, after he taught Leon the three basic pick-and-roll play styles, Leon quickly summed up nine derivative play styles based on his own experience watching the game. For another example, in the tactical routine of center low and weak side coordination, Miles pointed out two key points-one is the ability of low attackers to attract double-teams, and the other is the conversion speed of strong and weak sides~EbookFREE.me ~And Leon quickly said that he found several other key points-the depth of the low post, the shooting ability of the strong side players and the appropriateness of the player spacing.
After teaching Leon’s basic basketball tactics for three days, Miles chose to give up, because in the end he could not answer Leon’s questions, and he could teach those basic tactics and principles, anyway. You can learn it, there is no need to ask three questions and four questions at all, and there is no need to review and review. From the fourth day on, Leon can stand on the sidelines and guide the young players in basic tactics.
When Leon found Grimes and wanted him to do more guidance, Grimes said: "There is nothing you can learn here. We teach some basic tactics and principles. Before coming Mr. Auerbach called me and let me tell you not to touch those complicated and dazzling tactics. He asked you to digest those basic principles. He said that when you master these basic principles, those papers The tactics on the surface are just tools to use these basic principles. So... we really have nothing to teach, and we are better suited to teach those kids."
　　 Leon heard what Grimes said and began to summarize the basic principles of tactics he had learned in his mind. He thought for a whole day, summed up what he had learned in three days, and then wrote a word in his notebook: space.
The ultimate purpose of all offensive tactics is to create space for players to shoot. On the contrary, the purpose of all defensive strategies is naturally to block the space for opponents to shoot. Therefore, space is the source code and core of all tactics. Starting from this word, Leon will build his own tactical pyramid ~EbookFREE.me~Book friends are welcome to visit and read. The latest, fastest and hottest serial works are available at ~EbookFREE.me~ mobile phone users, please go to read.