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Chapter 1559 The First Step

The Celtics haven't had a coach like this in a long time.

Louis is a man of one word, not only attaches great importance to the authority of the coach, but also is very strict with the stars.

He allows role players to make mistakes, but not stars.

Because a role player who makes mistakes can cost the team a game at most, and a star player who makes mistakes may ruin the team's entire season.

Many people's worries that Louis was partial to Lu Wuxia were also dispelled after the first day of training.

Judging from the way Louis treats Wish, it's not obvious that they are father and son at all.

After the confrontation, Louis continuously pointed out Wish's mistakes in the training session, and severely reprimanded him: "As the core of the team, you can't take the lead in making mistakes!"

Later, in the next day's match, because the rookie JJ Barea ignored Yao Yueban several times, he was stopped by Louis, and he first pointed out the Puerto Rican's problem.Then, after the match ended, Louis called Yao Yueban to his side and criticized him.

"You are our insider. If you are not comfortable playing, other people will have problems. I don't need you to be a nice guy on the team. If someone ignores you, you should shout it out loud. Don't pretend to be a nice guy!"

It can be said that Yao Yueban is the person who feels the changes in Louis the most.

Because he played for Louis when he was in the national team.

Louie was also authoritative at the time, but generally a mild-mannered coach.

In the words of the domestic media, Louis has a handsome style.

However, the current Louis is completely different from the road guide Yao Yueban knew.

"I don't want to make everyone unhappy because of a small matter." Yao Yueban expressed his concern.

Louis snorted softly: "It wasn't that you were ignored last season. I remember you were so angry that you threw a towel on the spot. Do you think it's useful? Whether it's enduring your teammates' mistakes, or being sulky by yourself, it's not the solution to the problem. How to solve the problem? It's very simple. Talk about things and go straight. This is not the country. You have to talk to them in a way that foreigners can understand!"

"Anyone who doesn't pass the ball to you, you can yell at him! Whoever has a problem with his game, you can point out the problem loudly! If someone knows his mistake and refuses to correct it, I will arrange a VIP seat for him on the bench. What you have to do is to establish the authority of the core players together with Wuxia!"

Louie was so domineering that it was hard to breathe.

This is how Yao Yueban's hard life began.

Louis doesn't ask much about his technical aspects, but he can be said to be very radical in his character transformation, or in other words, in his cultivation of domineering.

Louis hopes that Yao Yueban not only looks like the boss of the insider, but also in character.

Therefore, if Yao Yueban did something that did not fit his status as the boss, Louis would severely educate him.

This process was so extreme that if Yao Yueban could choose to dunk under the basket but played a layup, Louis would punish him for running a lap.

In less than three days, the imprints made by KC Jones, Chuck Daly, Isiah Thomas, Larry Bird and others for the Celtics disappeared.

Louis used his own way to let the Celtics glow with a new temperament.

Assistant coach Bill Lambir, who is very familiar with this, said to the players who were trained by Louis to death: "If you think this kind of life is too difficult, I would recommend you to read Isaiah's autobiography. Compared with his experience, the coach Lu you met is already a version transformed by angels."

Hearing what Lambiel said, many people in the Celtics bought Thomas's recently published autobiography "The Years I Played in the NBA".

Once Thomas' autobiography was released, it quickly rose to No. 1 on Amazon's autobiographical new book sales list, mainly because he disclosed a lot of inside stories about the NBA in his autobiography.

Among them, the most exciting inside story is his experience during the time he played under Louis.

Thomas vividly described Louis' violence, arbitrariness, and Wia, and presented readers with a series of PUAs that Louis made to him in detail.

Even, Thomas discusses whether Louie is racist in the book.

Thomas believes that Louis is indeed a racist, but what he discriminates against is the "rebel race", that is, disobedient groups. All those who do not accept his coaching will be discriminated against, which will cause him to attack and curse.

Thomas spent quite a long time describing Louis, successfully establishing the image of a tyrant and dictator in the hearts of some people who did not know Louis.

Some people who read Thomas' autobiography asked Lambiel: "Is everything in it true? Did you really say that word (starting with N) to Isiah?"

Lambiel was shocked when he heard the words. He didn't expect that dead dwarf to even mention such things in the book for the sake of gimmicks. Can this be said?
"Nonsense!" Lambiel didn't expect to recommend this bunch of bastards to read the book and see what happened. I knew he should read it before recommending it. "How could I say such a thing? If I said such a thing, how could I live in harmony with Isiah? How could I be his teaching assistant? This is a story he made up!"

People were skeptical, because the story Thomas wrote looked very real, and it did look like something a scum like Lambiel could do.

Louis heard about Thomas's autobiography, and also knew that this autobiography had caused heated discussions in the circle.

But he wasn't affected.

After all, if the stars want to attract the attention of the fans after retirement, they must either publish violent comments, or write autobiographical memories of the year, or make documentaries. Therefore, no matter what Thomas writes in his autobiography, he doesn't care.

After five days of training and running-in, Louis had a preliminary understanding of the team's overall strength, and the players also had a little understanding of his new coach's personality and hobbies.

It's just that Lu Wuxia was a little skeptical about life, because the loyal father suddenly seemed to disown his son. During the training, he almost never smiled at him once.

He originally thought that after his father came back, the Celtics would return to the happy basketball they used to be, and everyone was happy together, but his father used a suffocating pressure to let everyone understand that the goal of the team is to win the championship. Whoever dares to be happy before this goal is completed, he will train that person to be a happy.

On the sixth day of the training camp, Louis was uncharacteristically. Not only did he not play a duel match to warm everyone up like before, but he stopped today's duel match and had to use today's match time for a meeting in the video analysis room.

At the meeting, Louis showed everyone a new offensive system, which integrated the three major systems established by the Thomas era, and carried forward the new tactics by the Bird era.

Louis named this system SSOLTSOM (Seven seconds or less, twenty seconds or more/7 seconds or less, 20 seconds or more).

This new system designed by Louie combines the characteristics of folding zone offense, pick-and-cut offense and pick-and-roll offense, and gives him half of the sun running and bombing characteristics similar to the "SSOL" of the Nash era in his previous life.But unlike the Suns, Louie did not repeatedly emphasize the fast-paced game.

The characteristic of SSOLTSOM is to make the offense layered.After halftime, if the ball-holding core cannot quickly complete the positional battle through pick-and-roll tactics within seven seconds (7 seconds or less), they need to pass the ball and switch to the pick-and-cut system and flex zone offense (20 seconds or longer).

At this time, there is no longer a distinction between primary and secondary on the court. Running, transferring the ball, transition, screen, blocking and cutting are all indispensable. It takes nearly 10 seconds to complete such a complicated attack.

This series of changes has completely changed the Celtics' previous tactical style, but it also proves that Louis is indeed immortal in a sense.

When Bird saw SSOLTSOM's playbook in the general manager's office, he was very excited, just like seeing "beautiful basketball" for the first time.

As for the players, it is not so good.

The first half of the tactic is SSOL (7 seconds or less), during which time the ball is controlled by him and other ball-holding cores. If the offense cannot be completed within this period, it needs to be transferred to TSOM (20 seconds or longer). Considering the style and rhythm of today’s games, it is impossible to complete the offense in each round within 7 seconds. That is to say, Lu Wuxia must be prepared to run a lot of off-the-ball tactics.

Yao Yueban is no longer a pure offensive machine and basket protector. When the tactics enter the TSOM (20 seconds or longer) link, he needs to undertake part of the supporting tasks.In the same way, Gasol can no longer deal cards and shoot from a high position like in the past. Under the new system, he also needs to undertake part of the offensive tasks.
Almost everyone was driven out of their comfort zone by Louis, and everything they were used to before was overturned.

Rookie assistant coach Steve Kerr asked in surprise: "In the past three years, the Celtics have won the championship once and missed the conference finals twice. This shows that the inherent system is working. Is it necessary to do this?"

Louis glanced at Cole and said with a faint smile, "Yes, and this is just the first step of change."

(End of this chapter)