Chapter 922: Guerrilla

If Mike Brown told Li Liang in the past, "We want to perform XX defense," Li Liang can figure out what's going on under normal circumstances.
For example, 2-3 defenses, half-time man-to-man, 2-2-1 defenses, unlimited defenses, etc. can be known by ordinary fans.
More advanced, even the general commentators are not very clear, but senior fans also understand, such as 1-4 zone defense.
More advanced, only professionals can understand, including the 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 math-upzonedefene.
As a person who has a deep understanding of various tactics and is already qualified to be a head coach, he has learned tactics from various historical tactical masters in the system. This is the first time he has heard of this "swarm defense", "SWARMDefense". ."
"Why haven't I heard of this defensive strategy?" Li Liang asked, touching his chin.
"This is a set of defensive tactics 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 philosophy and our team’s The staffing is very consistent." Brown rubbed his eyes while talking. 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 business league, the NBA must have the best players, but the concept is 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 stars opening one-on-one singles have always been the most important link in the NBA.
You said that this kind of tactics is experimental and advanced. It is just easy to use.
Because NBA teams need records, practicality comes first.
Therefore, experimental tactics often start from the university, and then are proven effective, and then slowly adopted by professional leagues such as NBA.
In the history of basketball for more than 100 years, various tactics can be said to be endless.
Although the changes are inseparable, but combined with the rules and the player's situation, each does have its own uniqueness.
Then, Mike Brown introduced to Li Liang the "swarm defense" system he fancyed.
The swarm defense is an invention of the coach of the Stevens Institute of Technology basketball team.
This Stevens Institute of Technology is not an NCAA league school, it is a two-year community college.
Many students in the United States want to enter the NCAA and get scholarships to prepare for the future to enter the professional league.
However, some students do not meet the standard, so they can only go to the next-level community school. After two years of study, they will have the opportunity to go up and enter the NCAA league.
These community colleges have formed an alliance of themselves, 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 used to be a middle school basketball coach 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 some weak team coaches.
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 less athletic ability and poor individual defense ability.
Each tactic has a basic concept, and swarm defense is no exception. Its basic concept is:
The speed of running is faster than sliding, so run as much as possible to drive the opponent's offense.
This concept seems very strange, because offense has always driven the opponent's defense, and I have never seen that defense drives the opponent's offense.
In fact, it is not impossible for defense to drive offense.
Some coaches who are good at creating defensive traps will set up defensive traps after figuring out the opponent’s offensive approach and the players’ offensive habits. The ball holder will rush to the set route, and eventually fall into the encirclement, causing the opponent’s attack. Mistakes.
The idea of ​​swarm defense is the same.
The so-called running faster than sliding means that when you are passively defending, you use a sliding movement.
Sliding steps are always slower than normal running.
Therefore, he asked all players to use normal running back and forth to double-team the nearby ball holders.
At the same time, this double-teaming is not a high-intensity double-teaming in the traditional sense, but a delay similar to a bee philosopher. The function is not to force the opponent to make mistakes, but to disrupt the opponent's holding rhythm and make the opponent feel pressure.
Once the opponent feels the pressure and the offensive choice hesitates, the double-teamer will immediately retreat to chase the defender.
The general defense is to wait for the opponent to make a move, and the swarm defense is to make a test first to force the opponent to respond.
Each of the five people on his side is like a bee, stinging the opponent's ball holder, making the opponent's offense completely messy.
In the games coached by coach Walters, he averaged more than 30 turnovers per game.
Of course, this has a lot to do with the opponent's level.
Li Liang is very smart. Mike Brown said a little bit and he understood the meaning of this swarm defense.
In general, this is an offensive defense.
Since the players' single defense ability is relatively weak, it is better to take the initiative to attack instead of waiting to die.
In some areas, a two-to-one advantage is formed in a short time.
Before the opponent transfers the ball, run back to defense as soon as possible to disrupt the opponent's normal attack rhythm.
The name "Swarm" is indeed very good.
But Li Liang certainly had questions, saying: "Are you sure this interference will be effective for NBA-level point guards?"
Because of player abilities, some tactics are effective in low-level leagues.
But once you get to 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-bearer are also common in defense.
It's just used as a defensive habit or a targeted strategy.
Regarding him as the core idea of ​​strategic thinking and tactical operation, can it work? To be honest, no team has tried.
Mike Brown said: "I think there are two reasons why swarm defense can be used. First, this defense method is not an immediate defensive strategy that can be effective immediately. A bee stings an elephant, and the elephant will hurt, but It won’t die. But many bees keep stinging one after another, and the elephant will always be stung. The effect of swarm defense is more invisible and slower. What he destroys is the opponent’s entire offensive feeling, not a few. The feel of a player. Second, the swarm defense requires physical strength. I think D'Antoni’s offensive thinking really saves physical strength. The extra physical strength can be used for defense. UU reading www.uukanshu.com does not waste. Third, I think that in making mistakes, especially steals, Bruce, you should have the last say."
Brown's first point is still very reasonable, and this is an idea, how to implement it, there must be many details and tactics, which can be slowly tested and improved.
The second point, D'Antoni heard that he wanted to get his bald head through. Lao Tzu designed the effort-saving tactics to give the defense a boost?
Third, Brown tried to gain recognition by flattering.
But Li Liang's two steady steals per game are skills obtained from the system!
Do I have a skill for each team member? It's a pity that the system didn't give him this function, otherwise he would use such a laborious design strategy.
However, Brown's "swarm defense" mentality is indeed very attractive to Li Liang.
This kind of active defense in which the enemy advances and we retreat, and the enemy is tired and disturbed by us, is quite the style of a socialist guerrilla.
Maybe it can really make a base in the NBA.