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Chapter 1493 Yao's past life and present life

The day after the Celtics season ended, Louie convened the coaching staff and invited Reed Auerbach to the Waltham training base for a meeting.

Auerbach still possessed keen professional instincts, although many of his views on basketball were outdated.

Under normal circumstances, Auerbach would not participate in this kind of meeting, because at his age, he no longer likes to make troubles. It is very hard to fly from Washington to Boston and back.

But Louis invited, he had to give the president face.

When I came to the meeting place, there were so many people in Auerbach's meeting.

Louie, Chris Wallace, Joe Dumars, Ralph Sampson, Isiah Thomas, Bill Lambiel, John Long, Jeff Van Gundy, Mike Budenholzer , Jim O'Brien, Andy Greer can be said to have done their best.

"It seems that everyone is here."

Louis spoke first, "Let's get started."

After all, Louis gave Dumas a look.

Dumars immediately got up and said: "Although we stopped in the first round of the playoffs this year, compared with previous years, we have made great progress in performance, and the young players have also demonstrated their own value. It can be said that our future is bright." bright."

Once the good things are said, it's time to say the bad things.

Dumas went on to say: "However, we can't just focus on the beauty in front of us but ignore the hidden dangers in the future. The biggest problem on the table is that our tactical system is not helpful to young players and lacks adaptability to the game itself. , the game is constantly evolving and our current tactical system is seriously outdated."

As soon as Dumars finished speaking, Thomas said: "The four-corner offense is not outdated, and the University of North Carolina is still using this style of play."

At this time, the scouting director Greer refuted Thomas's words, "No, the University of North Carolina's four-corner offense is completely different from our four-corner offense except for the four-corner position. Over the years, North Carolina has been improving itself. Offensive system to adapt to the changes in the game of basketball, but our offensive system stayed at 20 years ago."

Thomas glared at the scouting director, "Andy, I think you should know that we once swept the league with four-corner offense!"

"Yes, you were still young at that time." If Louis didn't speak, Thomas would not know whose idea it was to change the existing system. "Now you have retired. Reasonably, it should all retire together with you. The game concept is constantly evolving. 20 years ago, we advocated defense, so offensive tactics can be simple. Now, affected by technical and tactical changes, those teams that can win the championship are often able to take into account both offensive and defensive tactics at the same time. The four-corner offense has been seriously out of touch with the times."

Thomas could be peddled to other people, but not to Louie.

"Then what are you going to fight?" He asked bluntly.

Louis said with a smile: "That's the purpose of inviting everyone here, to brainstorm and share your ideas."

As the chief assistant coach, Lambiel made a key point: "Before discussing what style of play to change in the new season, we must first confirm who is our first core."

That's right to the point.

Leaving aside the absolute core chat system is empty talk.

No matter how much you say, if it doesn't match the team's core ability, it's meaningless.

After a season of testing, there is only one answer to this question.

Van Gundy said: "Obviously, Yao is our number one core."

Whether it is the draft pick or the performance of his rookie season, Yao Yueban deserves it all.

"If the core is Yao. I think New York's high-post dynamic offense is worth learning from."

Dumas asked suspiciously: "Yao's body and physical fitness should not be able to run a lot like Patrick Ewing?"

"This thing can be done by Paul." Lambiel said, "I'm talking about high-post dynamic offense, not what we see now. It's high-post dynamic offense when Benj was in New York. The Knicks at that time would always be in On the offensive end, Benj has a low-post offense, and his priority in the low post is even higher than Patrick. We can let Yao play the role of low-post attackers, and then let Paul and Andre take over Patrick's sweeping defense work."

Lambiel came up with a trendy and practical solution.

When everyone was discussing heatedly, Van Gundy raised his voice and poured cold water on him: "With Yao's current low-post lethality, if we use him as the core of low-post offense, I'm afraid it won't get good results."

Van Gundy took out the data prepared early, "The data shows that Yao's overall shooting percentage in low singles does not exceed 46%, which is related to his core strength. The influence of the opponent, unable to stabilize the core and make a smooth shot. To be honest, any low-post offensive player who cannot disintegrate the opponent's defense before the shot will be affected by this interference, the only exception is Shaquille O'Neal."

"He has the ultimate combination of strength, explosiveness and weight that we've never seen before, and every defender collapses before he finishes the offense." Standard, so if he wants to improve his low post threat, the first thing to add is weight. Compared to his current weight (120KG), he needs to add at least 44 pounds (20KG) of weight."

Thomas nodded secretly, Van Gundy's words are definitely good words.

If Yao Yueban wants to become a reliable low-post core, he must increase his weight significantly.

Just when he was about to agree, promote the resolution, and rearrange Yao Yueban's training plan, he heard Louis from the conference center say, "I don't agree."

If Yao Yueban wants to develop into the ultimate form, he needs to gain weight.

Of course Louis knew about it.

That's how Yao Yueban in his previous life came here.

Louis believes that Yao Yueban, who has only played in the NBA for less than 10 years, has definitely touched his upper limit.Through a lot of weight gain, he may have been the league's No. 2005 center for a month or two in the 06-[-] season, and then the injury found it.

His body can't bear this weight, or in other words, no giant over 2 meters tall can survive the long NBA season with a weight of nearly 2 catties.

Out of personal feelings, Louis did not want Yao Yueban to experience such a career again.

Then, out of the team's championship needs, he also had to deny this plan.

Putting aside the filters and preferences of the Chinese people for Yao Yueban, is the healthy peak Yao Yueban a core player at the championship level?
In a highly competitive league, even Yao Yueban, who is at the peak with full blood, needs a better outside core than McGrady to think about winning the championship.

After confirming these two things, making Yao Yueban gain weight is an unnecessary plan in Louis' view.

Although Yao Yueban who gained weight could reach the upper limit of his personal ability, he could only flash by like a shooting star.

Is the first-line level in just a few years really worth exchanging for the quasi-first-line level in more than ten years?

Louis thought that if Yao Yueban maintained the level of 2005 (averaging 18+8 per game) until 2015, when Embiid, Jokic, Alphabet and others were still young, there were all the inside superstars of the Pan-96 generation. In the evening, when the league's chief insider is dominated by Xiaojia, Noah, and Jordan in turn, what will he do?
In this life, Yao Yueban, who has undergone NCAA experience, has stronger immediate combat power and more skills. Louis can see many possibilities in him, and he has never thought of gaining weight.

He now weighs 120KG, and in the future he will gain at most 5KG-10KG. Moreover, once an injury occurs, he must lose weight, and at the same time start load management to reduce the wear and tear of the regular season. Only in this way can he be given a period of life that is far longer than his previous life. career.

Now, everyone looked at Louis, wondering why the president refused to let Yao Yueban gain weight.

"There are a few reasons," Louie said. "The days of dominating the game in the post by dominating the post are over. As I said, the four-corner offense is old, and so is the idea of ​​dominating the game by dominating the post. 70s style of play."

"Ahem." Auerbach finally said, "Be more serious, it's the style of play in the late 40s and early 50s. Since the McCann era, the only insider who dominated the game by dominating the low post is Kareem."

"Yes." Louis glanced at the old man gratefully, and it was indeed useful to bring him here, "We didn't give up the four-corner attack to introduce an even more outdated concept."

(End of this chapter)