Chapter 97: Tactical change

　　 Carlisle was rarely late for the team’s pre-match training the next morning. He was sent back to the hotel by Leon after a mess last night. As a former professional player, Carlisle is 6 feet 5 tall, half a head taller than Leon, which can make Leon take a lot of effort to get him back, has not disturbed the Pistons players and staff.
The game will start at 7 o'clock in the evening. When the players warmed up before the game, Carlisle still had obvious tiredness on his face, and the headache after drunk was tormenting him, he secretly regretted how to drink so much alcohol in his heart. Knowing that there is still a game to play against the Celtics the next day. Although it is only a regular season, the Detroit Pistons are currently ranked seventh in the Eastern Conference, and may fall outside the top eight at any time. The Celtics are a competitor in the Eastern Conference. The result of this game is still quite critical. Carlisle even wondered if Angie deliberately got him drunk and left the Pistons with no one, so that he could deal with the game more easily.
Thinking of Auerbach’s ubiquitous means when he was in the Celtics back then, Carlisle felt more and more reckless in accepting the invitation yesterday and should resist the temptation to spend the night in the hotel. Even if you want to drink, you have to wait until the end of the game.
"Rick must feel that he was deceived, but who made him drink so... so stupid, and now he must think in his mind if we unite to play tricks on him, so that he can't command well today." In the Celtics On the bench, coach Carroll said to Hart. Neither of them drank much last night, only seeing Carlisle pouring himself glass after glass, because Angie kept toasting him. They have all worked with Carlisle for a long time, knowing that Carlisle is not a good drinker, but people are really straightforward and can't stop alcohol. Although the United States does not have a culture of persuading wine, it will not refuse other people's toasts.
"I think Rick is really not very good today. I guess he won't drink with us next time I come to Boston." Hart sat on the bench and sorted out the player data sheets. Hart liked to read the data sheets before the game. Set the expected data for this game, especially in suppressing the opponent's scoring and shooting percentage. If the score is less than 100 or the shooting percentage is low, he will be very happy. On the contrary, the Celtics players know that. Father Hart is going to be angry today.
"Where is Leon? I have a question to ask him." Hart looked at the data sheet and asked Carol. He had some small questions about the team's defensive statistics. This kind of data-related questions asked Leon. It's the best, because he can give you the answer just by looking at it.
　　Carroll pointed to the court and said, "Still discussing tactical details with the players."
　　 After having a drink last night, Carlisle’s words seem to have inspired Leon a lot. Many things are like this. Compared with knowledge and experience, experience is often decisive. One or two sentences from an experienced person can reveal a lot of confusion and mystery, although it is just a small turn in thinking, the changes are often unexpectedly large.
"Is he still instilling his inside offensive and screen theories into those kids? Do you think this kid's idea will be effective?" Hart then asked, as an old-school basketball coach, a little bit of Leon." Hart still has reservations about the tactical concept of deviant.
"I don't know, but his tactical training plan has convinced me. I don't know why O'Brien didn't adopt his ideas at the time. Although it was a little crazy, it was justified and well-organized. The content of our training recently is not It's part of his plan." It seems that as the team's head coach, Carroll still has a more holistic vision. This is also the reason why the tactical construction and training are delegated to Leon. He knows that the position under his will be this guy one day.
　　 Starting from the morning training, Leon began to modify the tactical formation based on some points raised by Carlisle. The key point is to adjust the active position of the inside line support players from the bottom line to the free throw end line, to the ribs low to the penalty circle. Such adjustments seem small, but the impact on the formation is huge. First of all, the cut line of the corner three-point line player changed from passing in front of the screen player to passing behind the screen player. This change makes it more difficult for the cut player to directly receive the outside line and pass the ball to the basket and the upper basket, because A screener was blocked between the receiver and the passer. The second point of change is that the route of the outside ball holder directly breaking through the attacking inside line was blocked by the screener. If the ball holder wants to directly reach the basket, he needs to bypass the assault from the side.
From these two points of view, the introduction of the inside screener seems to hinder the team's rapid offensive development. For the fast, tall and strong NBA game rhythm, a one-second delay and a dozen centimeters of space congestion will Lead to the failure of an offense. So although there are tactical routines for the inside screeners in the second fast break, they are all follow-up changes, basically letting the screeners stand in a higher position without a start.
　　 However, Carlisle's drunk remarks reminded Leon last night that he mentioned the two concepts of "pull" and "squeeze", giving Leon a brand new insight into his ideal tactical routine. Generally speaking, the core purpose of basketball tactics is to create space for players, and the main means of creating space are divided into two types, one is a "pull type", both through irregular offensive formations and players constantly covering and running positions. , For players to win zero defensive offensive opportunities, such as Princeton tactics, UCLA tactics belong to this type of system. A major feature of this type of system at the start is to launch the offense through the 1-4 position, and the 1-4 position is a very flat offensive formation, in order to stretch the opponent's defensive formation. , To make room for the court and create opportunities for players to move and cut air.
The other type belongs to the "squeeze type". The representatives of the squeeze type are Inside-out and triangle offense. Players of this type of offensive formation are often in a regular position. Personal offense attracts double-teaming, or forms a favorable offensive posture in a small area through screens, moves, and passes. This tactical formation is not a special pursuit of zero defensive offensive opportunities, but by squeezing and deforming, looking for defensive gaps to force and quickly launch the offense. Anyway, someone who scores a goal defensively and undefensively gets the same score. .
For the Celtics, lacking a passing master, it is almost difficult for them to find tactical opportunities through formation pulls, because they find that the ball can’t pass; that’s the case, why bother to pursue an empty cut in the second fast break Basket and open three points? Think of the second fast break as a positional attack, just to complete the attack as quickly as possible, so the significance of raising the screener is to add a transfer station for the upper line and the bottom line.
　　 If you decide to attack directly on the line, the screener can quickly provide cover. If you decide to pass once and create opportunities for the bottom line, then this transfer station, as the common point of the two triangles, can undertake the task of distributing the ball. If the transit point is ready to attack directly, it will be the best offensive starting point near the free throw line.
For this reason, from the beginning of the morning training, Leon has been pulling Antoine Walker, Anderson, Tony Barty and Dalembert to talk endlessly. In his heart, every inside player in the team should have it. Such awareness. Perhaps the team does not necessarily follow this routine every time they attack, but Leon is clearly instilling the concept of "walking out of the three-second zone and the bottom line" into the team's young big men.
　　 The game started at 7 o'clock in the evening. The Celtics still sent Batty, Walker, Pierce, Reid and Arenas in the starting lineup. This set of shooting ability is extremely strong, defense is average, and the pass is poor. Faced with the Pistons Ben Wallace, Cliff Robinson, Jerry Stackhouse, Atkins and Michael Curry lineup, this set of obvious personal offensive power is insufficient, only Star Kerhouse is a strong point of attack, putting defensive players on both the center and shooting guard.
The game started in a favorable direction for the Celtics, because the Pistons’ inside line got into foul trouble early~EbookFREE.me~ It seems that they lacked enough preparation before coming to North Shore Garden. After all, their The coaches are all drunk.
The tactics used by Leon in training began to take shape in the game. After the whole situation went smoothly, Arenas and Walker started to raise the rhythm frantically. Their offense was basically completed within three passes. This makes the piston extremely uncomfortable. And the biggest benefit of Tony Batty's screen is not that Leon wanted to make the team's quick offense more organized, but it gave Arenas and Walker countless times to pass over the three-point line, and then Opportunity to catch the ball and throw it directly.
Fortunately, their hands feel hot tonight. It seems that the ball they missed in the last game against the Spurs was made up for in this game. The two threw a total of 14 three-pointers on the outside and scored 8. This may be It is a tactical windfall. Let the screener make a pass and then give a screen. The outside player picks it up and throws it. It is simple and rude, but once it feels good, the effect is incredible.
　　As a rookie, Arenas's performance outside the three-point line is still quite unstable, often with a 0-for-point performance. But with Walker taking the lead and the coaching staff's permission, the Celtics are quite tolerant of players' throwing three-pointers, so once you feel it, Arenas does have an amazing performance.
The game was completely beaten up like this, and Rick Carlisle’s on-the-spot command felt like he was always half a beat, and his headaches afflicted him. In the end, he no longer thought about how to direct the team to reverse, but hope. The game is over soon so I can go back to rest.
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