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Chapter 1386 The best of the best
Chapter [-]: Best of the Best
A few days later, Louis came to China with the coaching staff formed in the United States through his contacts.

The leader is an old friend of the Chinese fans - Del Harris. Of course, this is a matter of a previous life.

Harris is definitely a foreign friend worthy of being remembered by Chinese fans. He coached the Chinese team without asking for money or a name. It was just because he couldn’t take time off and he loved basketball so much that he accepted a negligible salary and became the coach of the men’s basketball team.

When Louis invited Harris, the other party was very surprised, but he agreed on the phone with little hesitation.

He is the first candidate locked by Louis, and also the chief assistant of the new national basketball coaching staff.

Another person who accepted Louie's invitation was Jeff Van Gundy, who was out of work at home.

Since the end of his coaching work with the Clippers, Van Gundy has been ignored.

Which is odd, because Van Gundy's work with the Clippers has been, if not outstanding, at least excellent.

As a result, no team was willing to give him another chance.

Van Gundy is excited to be working with Louie again.

After all, he is still the coach of the Lu Department, as long as he keeps in touch with Lu Yi, there will be no chances in the future.

The arrival of Van Gundy not only added a young helper to Louis, but also solved the problem of defensive coaching.

Then came the video analyst, Louie chose to poach his own corner, calling in Mike Budenholzer from the Lakers.

Budenholzer is at the bottom of the coaching staff of the Lakers, and he is usually inconspicuous. The most praised video analysis is basically useless during the offseason. It can be said that he is very leisurely.

When he received Louis' invitation, he was very active and agreed without saying a word.

The coaching staff of the national team was very flat during the formation process.

It didn't even take Louie a few phone calls to fix the problem.

There is an assistant coach, a video analyst, Song Tao as an inside coach, and there is no good candidate for an outside coach. As for the physical trainer, Louis chose a man named Du Weiguo.

Du Weiguo came from the third period of the Luyuan Academy, which is full of talents. Unlike many students of the same level who entered the NBA or continued their careers overseas, Du Weiguo's basketball career got off to a bad start. He suffered consecutive serious injuries in high school, making his career prospects bleak.

He chose to transform during college, focusing on special technical training, physical recovery and post-match health maintenance.

Currently, he is in the unemployed stage, and Louis called him over.

Originally, Zhao Yuanzheng wanted to help, but Louis considered that he is now the assistant coach of the Lakers, director of the scouting department, assistant to the general manager, assistant to the president, consultant to the forum sales department, and all kinds of titles that are dizzying.

Therefore, Louis declined him.

In this way, a basic coaching team is formally formed.

Although not as comprehensive as the coaching staff of the Lakers, the sparrow has all the internal organs and needs. After that, it is necessary to establish the team system, future direction, and select a 12-man roster.

Louis remembers that the 1997 Asian Championships was the Waterloo of the men's basketball team.

With the efforts of the 94 and 96 generations, the men's basketball team reached the world's top eight in a row, making the national team look down on the Asian basketball scene, and was finally defeated by the Koreans in the semi-finals.

This was the case in the previous life, not to mention the present life.

Didn't Gong Xiaobin just say that the Koreans had to take a detour when they saw them, and they had to suppress it.

However, with what pressure?
In Asia, men's basketball is invincible.

When they can crush their opponents with talent, it really doesn't matter whether they treat their opponents as human beings or not.

With the current talent pool of the national basketball team, even if you look at people with your nostrils throughout the game, it may be difficult to lose.

On the first day when the coaching staff presided over the training, the first problem Van Gundy responded to Louis was that the team's training arrangements were unreasonable.

"Too dull, too tough, too harsh," Van Gundy said. "In the NBA, Pat Riley's training is known for being harsh, but compared to our current training, Coach Riley is simply an angel."

Louis smiled wryly, this is the case from three to one.

Starting from difficulty, strictness, and actual combat, and insisting on training with a large amount of exercise, this is the basic idea of ​​three obediences and one major.This concept was put forward in the 60s, and the results of the women's volleyball team rose rapidly, and finally achieved the five-time crown dynasty in the 80s.

It's just that there is no one concept that can be effective in all walks of life in the world.

What's more, after decades of development, a good policy will often become unsuitable for the trend of the times. If no changes are made, the best result will be stagnant, and the worst result will be unimaginable.

Louie said: "You arrange it and design training sessions according to 150% NBA standards."

Van Gundy went.

A few days later, the national basketball team led by Louis made its debut in front of the fans for the first time.

They played four warm-up matches against tourist teams from Europe.

In these four games, Louis used four completely different starting lineups.

Because the strength of the men's basketball team is not comparable to these tourist teams who come to eat and drink, the national basketball team easily won a complete victory, and Louis also began a formal layoff.

Zheng Bian, who was injured, and Ji Shangmin, who had poor athletic ability, left the national team.

The core of the team proposed by Louis is Wang Zhizhi, who is under 20 years old, instead of Yu Tiancan, who has won many awards in the NBA and is also regarded as the big brother in China.

However, Louis did not express this intention clearly.

Externally, the main match of the men's basketball team is Yu Tiancan and Wang Zhizhi with the twin towers.

Wang Zhizhi uses his mobility and range as far as the three-point line to act as a substantive fourth position on offense. On the defensive end, he and Yu Tiancan are both long men with good athletic ability, enough to set up a world-class barrier in the paint.

This is a variant of the Lakers' high and low post tactics.

In Louie's plan, Wang Zhizhi is the one who dominates the ball inside. Yu Tiancan mainly picks and rolls, eats cakes, and occasionally plays low post singles, while Wang Zhizhi can do what he wants to do in the high post like Garnett.The difference is that Garnett can hand over positions to Barkley at any time in the Lakers, but as long as Yu Tiancan is on the court, Wang Zhizhi has to stay in a high position.

This is to lead to a supporting system, a high-position dynamic attack with V-shaped pass and cut as the core.

Wang Zhizhi may be the insider with the best combination of personal offense and coping ability in the history of men's basketball. It is a pity that in Louis's previous life, fans did not have the opportunity to see Wang Zhizhi at his peak playing for the national team.When he returned in 2006, the center of the national team had completely shifted to the fat man who knew the ball well. All Wang Zhizhi could do was take Xiao Yi to win an Asian Games championship, and then left fans with an eternal question in the 2008 Olympic Games - (the group match against Spain) What would happen if Jonas left Wang Zhizhi on the court at the last minute?
Louis believes, no, is convinced that Wang Zhizhi and Chinese fans in this life will not have such regrets again.

However, for this style of play to be fully effective, Louis needs to find a core defender who can be trusted.

The most stable defender in the team is Li Xiaoyong, but he is always a top intercontinental player, not a world-class player.

Lin Junwu, who was hailed as a once-in-a-ten-year genius when he was young, can only be fast but not slow. He is not only not suitable for starting, but also not suitable for substituting.

Only a team that lacks discipline needs a rampant and unthinking guard on the bench to help the game change.

If it is an orderly team, such a defender can not only provide limited help, but also easily lead the rhythm off.

Moreover, Lin Junwu is a player who needs to hold the ball to play.

Louis is not the same as his predecessor palace guide.

Gong guides bureaucrats to be bureaucrats, but as long as he thinks you are a talent, he will want to train you, even if it is not suitable.

Louis doesn't do that, since it's not suitable, let's separate as soon as possible.

Therefore, Lin Junwu is the second batch of players to be laid off.

He left the national team with Butt.

Bart's exit has nothing to do with him personally, it is purely the reason for the expansion of the national basketball team's internal reserves.

Yu Tiancan and Wang Zhizhi are enough to support the inside line, and there are NBA-level inside line substitutes like Chu Nan and Wu Qi behind them.

The choice of chief point guard left Louie indecisive.

Another veteran acquaintance, Wu Qinglong, gave Louis a little surprise. This man is strong and courageous, with a big heart, and his shots are not soft at critical moments, but his style of play is more of a shooting guard than a point guard.

This is a bit embarrassing, because the shooting guard of the men's basketball team is also a position where talent overflows.

Hu Weidong, Liu Yuqing, and Wang Mukong are three NBA players here.

Louis worried about this for half a month.

If it wasn't for the fact that his son was too young, he would have wanted to call that brat to the national team for a try.

In early August, Louie's application for training in the United States was approved.

Before heading to the United States, the third batch of layoffs for the national team was also announced.

This time it was Wu Qinglong and Chu Nan who were laid off.

Wu Qinglong was fired for the same reason as Bart, not bad, but not good enough.Chu Nan’s style of play doesn’t suit the team. There is nothing wrong with a seven-footer who likes to shoot three-pointers. If the national basketball team has a big ball-handling core, he will pass the test without inspection.

After the three batches of layoffs, there are still 14 players left in the men's basketball roster. At the end of the American training session, Louis will select the final 12 players to participate in this year's Asian Championships in Riyadh.

(End of this chapter)