Chapter 72: Old Winter's little trick

Tex Winter’s basketball life experience is as complicated as his triangle offense. He made his debut at the University of Southern California and worked as a basketball coach after graduating from college. In the following decades, his coaching footprint has spread throughout Kansas and California. , Washington, Texas, and Michigan. Of course, his most famous is the triangle offense that accompanied the Chicago Bulls to six championships, and now he continues to follow Phil Jackson in the Lakers, moving towards another three-game winning streak.
Just three days ago, he was invited by Bill Sharman to teach offensive tactics at the University of Southern California. From Sharman’s mouth, he learned about Fox Leon, a person who has become famous in the scout circle in recent years. However, as a player-coaching background, Winter was quite disdainful when he heard that Leon was going to be a coach after being a scout for a year. He said that Leon would have to work as a scout for at least another ten years before he could reach the coach. Door.
　　 Bill Sharman couldn't comment on this, but he took him to the Memorial Stadium early in the morning and met Leon at the door. He knows Leon, a famous assistant coach like Winter, but he just heard about Leon and never saw the problem. So when he saw Leon with curly hair like an artist on the streets of Los Angeles Some people can’t believe that this is a basketball worker. Not only did they teach: "If you want to be a basketball coach, first learn to manage your hair, not like Pat Riley or Chuck Daley. , At least a little bit."
　　 It looks different from Sharman. Winter is not so polite and likes Leon. Leon doesn't care. He smiled and nodded, and then went into the gym. A day’s training starts with the training plan. As an assistant coach, Leon is responsible for a week’s training plan schedule. Although his memory does not require paper forms at all, he still carefully made a clear and concise plan. In the training before the start of the training, he will give everyone a form, and then briefly explain today's training plan.
"Today is Friday, and there will be a day off tomorrow, so today is the tactical training day, and the physical and strength will be put into next week. Of course, I don’t object to your training after the training. We will watch it for half an hour in the morning. The video and content of the game against Oklahoma State in the first round last year. Starting at ten o'clock, there will be five-corner passes, four-corner passes, three-on-two fast break, three-on-three side offense and full-line offense. This will last for two hours. Get ready for the team and do it together. After the team training is over, you will start individual technical exercises. I have written down everyone’s item classification on the form. You are optimistic. The afternoon will be confrontation training, five-on-five full-court confrontation, rapid offensive and defensive conversion exercises, positional offensive change exercises, and today we will practice the counter defense cracking tactics. This is the main content of today’s training, prepare yourself Guys, put your clothes in order and prepare to watch your performance last year." Leon stood in front of the team and smoothly finished today’s tactical arrangements. He didn’t even look at the schedule, and he spoke in a familiar tone as if he was here. Worked for twenty years.
"This kid has a terrible memory. We all call him'Copier Leon'." Bibby said to Winter and Sharman who were watching, and Winter's impression of Leon has also changed. At least he was arranging a training program just now. He was still a coach at the time. It's just that compared with the traditional American coach, he is a little less passionate and a little more calm. He seems very reluctant to yell at the players like those college coaches. In Leon's words, he doesn't think the size of the sound decibel can determine the effectiveness of information transmission. At the same time, for the players on the field, a calm coach is more stable than an excited coach.
Winter began to look forward to what Leon will perform in the next tactical training. He heard Sharman say that this kid has excellent memory and math abilities, and he can remember all the tactical content as long as he wants. Auerbach never agreed with his learning and memory tactics.
　　 After half an hour of video viewing and analysis and warm-up exercises, the morning tactical training began. The training starts with the passing practice. The simplest four-corner pass. The players are divided into four groups, standing on the four corners of the half court, and then performing a cycle of diagonal passing and running. The most basic practice for ball accuracy and catch prediction ability. These players have been doing this simple exercise since elementary school. It can be said that they can't be more familiar with them. This can be regarded as a warm-up part of tactical training.
Originally, Winter was not interested in this part, but he soon found Leon standing aside and repeating some words, such as "The step is bigger, Buck, your pass is too hard, and Farmar is slower." Slow down appropriately." Leon gave advice to the players like a fine-tuner, and soon Winter discovered that Leon did not talk casually, because as the training progressed, the players passed faster and faster. More and more fluid, almost reaching the ball to the person. But when Leon stopped reminding, the pass obviously slowed down.
After the four-corner pass training, Leon said to the players: "I can't remind you of the essentials of passing the ball on the court, so I hope everyone will also pay attention to the most basic training in the future. Okay, let's start next. Let’s take a break for the content of the festival."
"Fantastic boy, the observation is really terrible, it seems I want to change his evaluation. But if he can only do this, then he will be a very good trainer or offensive assistant coach, but not He is an excellent head coach." Winter said to Sharman sitting in the audience.
　　 "Is it like you, Tex?" Sharman smiled and joked to Winter.
"Hahaha, maybe, like me, I can only be a college and high school coach, NBA, no. You know, until I met Phil, I didn’t really understand people like me, and NBA coaches, especially great What kind of gap does the NBA coach have. I think you know better than me, Bill."
　　 "This is just a small stage, and it can't fully show the energy of this kid. You know, I have been following him for a long time. No one is more like Arnold than him, but he is completely different from Arnold."
"I don't know, I don't understand red heads. Not everyone likes you in Los Angeles and Boston. Let's watch the confrontation training in the afternoon. Let Bibby give him some command. If this kid is good, I will work hard. Share what I know and learn with him. If he is not suitable for this path, then you'd better go back and persuade the red head to let him give up." As the assistant coach of the Lakers, Winter is not so friendly to Auerbach. , He came to help Leon purely for Sharman's face.
　　 In the afternoon match, Bibby divided the team into groups. The freshman has not yet joined the team, and the team is just enough to be divided into two complete teams. Bibby divided the team into two evenly matched groups, but at this time Winter raised an objection. He said: "Leon has no coaching experience at all. It would be unfair to let him and you lead a well-matched team. In this way, it is divided into a main group and a substitute group. Leon takes the main group and Bibby, you take the bench. This is interesting. "
Winter actually came up with a "bad idea". Of course, he did it intentionally. Although the strength of the main team is definitely better than the bench, the coach of the bench is the team's head coach Bibby~EbookFREE.me~ Not to mention. How much Bibby knows about these players, from an emotional point of view, the bench team will definitely do their best to fight the main team. Under the leadership of a temporary coach, the main team might just be lazy and capsized in the gutter. Winter saw this situation a lot when he was a coach.
　　 Winter felt that he had dug a hole for Leon, but he didn't notice the helpless expression on Bibby's face. Soon after the match started, Winter discovered that everything was completely different from what he had imagined. As the coach of the main team, Leon did not make any tactical arrangements before the start of the game. He simply asked everyone to play hard and relax. After that, he sat down on the court without any movement, as if an old monk entered the game.
The game also showed a one-sided situation. The main team played the bench from beginning to end. Although Bibby tried to boost the morale of the team and arrange some tactics through timeouts, there was no effect at all. The 20-minute short game was the main force. The team scored 57 points on the bench, and the bench scored only 31 points. The 26-point difference left Winter dumbfounded.
Sharman, who was sitting next to Winter, also laughed. He said: "You don't even know that Leon has been here for only a week, but he has won the respect and awe of all the players. You did not see the first day. How did he teach those hairy boys when he came here. Since you let him command the main team, he doesn’t have to do anything is the best command, let them relax and play freely. And the substitute team, what do they have? What about the determination and conviction to win? Come on, old Winter, don’t set any test, hand in what you know, this kid is a material for coaching~EbookFREE.me~Book friends are welcome to visit and read, The latest, fastest and hottest serial works are all at ~EbookFREE.me~ mobile phone users, please go to read.