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Chapter 99 Nirvana copy of the Lakers facade

In August, IBM released the first personal computer, the IBM Model 8.

Priced at $1450, it was expensive, but Louie got his hands on it right away.

Although there is a big gap between operation and future notebooks, computers are definitely better than humans when it comes to calculating various data.

This first personal computer was limited, and if you were going for entertainment, you would lose money buying it, but the Louie was for work, and it was handy.

Auerbach was not used to Louie's reliance on tools to generate data.

Louie had no intention of convincing a hard-nosed Tory of his kind to embrace high technology and actuarial statistics.

Although data cannot tell the whole story, they can explain individual questions.For example, the efficiency value can reflect the player's style of play, the victory contribution value can reflect the overall value of the player in the team, and the defensive victory contribution value can find out the defensive shortcomings of the team. By analogy, once such data is complete, it can be used Data to find the opponent's main shortcomings.

Two teams with similar strengths are going to play a game, and what determines the outcome is which side has the greatest impact on each other due to its absolute shortcomings.

In the Eastern Conference finals last season, the absolute shortcoming of the Celtics was that the athletic ability of the wings was far inferior to that of the 76ers.However, the 76ers adopted turbulent defense, using a unique flank and inside defense to use suffocation defense, forcing a large number of counterattacks to increase the rhythm of the game, thereby covering up their shortcomings of insufficient offensive ability in positional warfare.

In November, the Celtics once again had the league's first record.

Although Louis' system was overthrown, the Celtics' book strength was too strong.

Even if a person who can only call a timeout is coached, and the wind direction of the game is determined by the players themselves, the result will not be worse than it is now.

Louie no longer helps Fitch.

In order to force him to do things for him, Fitch sent him out to scout other teams.

Louis readily accepted, explained some things to Sampson and left the team.

Throughout December, Louie seemed to be traveling around the United States.

The focus is on the Lakers.

Since the start of the new season, the Lakers have not been going well.

The Lakers lost the semifinals in the first round of last season due to the magician's three non-sticks, and Paul Westhead's tactical problems were thus covered up.

At that time, the magician had just returned, and Westhead did not insist on the Showtime style of play in order to let him integrate into the team as soon as possible.

The Lakers' game has become a dull, slow-paced offense.

This style of play has caused a lot of complaints within them, and no one likes it except Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.Because of this system, Abdul-Jabbar gets the ball no matter what.

The Magic's big contract further tore this team apart.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was almost traded to the Knicks, his teammates were jealous of his big contract, the head coach was stubborn, and the Magic hated this kind of "jealousy".

Westhead's slow-paced offensive system, the most influential person is the magician.

He can no longer handle the ball as he pleases, can no longer push the fast break, and has to give the ball to the low post for Kareem Abdul-Jabbar to create every time he passes half court.

Louie watched two Lakers games at the Forum.

"Not angry."

"No high fives between players."

The magician has almost zero communication with his teammates, and no one is willing to cooperate with him except Michael Cooper.

Louie couldn't believe that this team could still dominate the 80s.

Because in his opinion, the magician is facing a dead end, his teammates don't like him, and the coach responds to the background of the big era, is stubborn, and completely ignores the rationality of the system.

Louis has watched many teams recently, and he found that not only the Celtics, other teams have also increased their assistants.

Ironically, it may be Louie himself who drives this trend.

The decision made in the Eastern Conference finals last season made Louie famous at the coaching level.At the championship celebration, Auerbach pushed him out again, officially confirming his contribution.

By Game [-], the Celtics were on the verge of being wiped out.

As a result, at the beginning of the fifth game, they changed their strategy and pulled back three games in a row. Louie's directing shots in the game can be found anywhere.

An assistant coach can play such a big effect, which makes other teams choose to expand their coaching staff.

A large number of academic assistants have poured into the league, bringing a strict defensive system and offensive tactics.

What happens in the end?The defensive system of each team has been upgraded in an all-round way. The NBA has moved from a monotonous man-to-man and a brutal pattern of arranging a large number of personnel in the paint area to superimpose and grind confrontation, into an "orderly defensive formation, well-designed local traps and orderly A New Era of Defensive Response.

This is tantamount to giving a bunch of hooligans a culture.

The NBA has thus become a jump shot league.

Well, the viewing pleasure has been reduced.

Louis, who has come from 2020, has a deep understanding of how enjoyable the shooting game is.

Hey hey hey, when will Bird and Magic save the league?

In the case of a large increase in NBA assistant coaches, the authority of the head coach has also been improved.The playoffs of last season were rare and full of coaching art.

The Kings and Rockets in the west used the correct strategy to help the team win one after another. Fitch in the east, in the impression of the general public, had exhausted his tricks, and the fifth game began to change and start a great counterattack-this led to the 1981-82 season. Weird phenomenon.

NBA coaches are suddenly as dominant as college coaches.

With the help of academic assistants, as soon as they enter the timeout, they frantically draw the players' half-understood tactics, like staying up all night poring over game tapes, talking about sports, self-righteous TV stars.

There are two famous TV star coaches in the East, one is Bill Fitch, and the other is Knicks coach Hubie Brown.

Brown relished the spotlight in New York, and when Louie watched the Knicks, he found that Brown was at times more of a show than a coach.

Whenever he's on camera, he'll put on a "come and see me" air, then explain tactics with exaggerated facial expressions and speech speeds that the Knicks don't know much about.

Coaches' self-awareness skyrocketed, and the problem was that players weren't just kids at school anymore, and their self-awareness grew with age.

These era backgrounds allow Louis to understand and accept the stories that happened in Los Angeles.

Westhead is playing with fire, Magic suffers silently, and no other Lakers player dares to stand up and openly violate the rule of the former.

The young magician was not as patient as Louie imagined.

At the end of the month, he clashed with Westhead during the game and then publicly exited.

He bumped into reporters and expressed his anger that he wasn't happy at all with the Lakers.

"I want to be traded."

"Are you serious, Erwin?"

"Yes, you can put that sentence in the news."

The day after the Magic's statement, Jerry Buss fired Paul Westhead for lame reasons and promoted assistant Pat Riley to head coach, with Jerry West on offense.

At the time of the incident, Louie was in New York watching "Fucking" Brown's monkey show.

The most interesting story happened. In his rookie season, he played the sixth game of the finals handed down. He was elected FMVP and became the darling of Los Angeles. In the second season, he was plagued by injuries. Because he got too close to the boss, he was alienated by his teammates. In the playoffs Ruin the season with a three-pointer.

During the offseason, the boss directly offered him a big contract that shocked the sports world. He became the target of public criticism again. The big brother was so angry that he applied for a trade. talk to him.

In the new season, the team's locker room naturally had problems. The head coach had no idea of ​​improving the problem. He insisted on being the owner of the team, and detonated the young man loved by the boss step by step.He offered to be traded, and the boss fired the head coach.

In this way, this 22-year-old genius who has walked into heaven, fell into hell, and was thrown into eighteen layers of hell by public opinion during the season, was called the guy who saved the NBA by later generations. The greedy, willful, hateful, evil-minded, "will never make great achievements in the future", and "will make Bath lose everything" devil youth in the American population.

"Does every face of the Lakers have to make a copy of 'Nirvana'?" Louis couldn't help complaining.

Louis was on a business trip for several months, and when he returned to Boston, it was early February 1982.

During this period, his reconnaissance report was sent to Fitch by fax.

He sent back the basic information, and some additional discoveries, small details, he kept.

Fitch could get a detailed scouting report, but he wouldn't get much more from that report than he'd seen on video.

Louis chose to scout for himself. He ran around and watched almost every team's game.

Just about to return to the team to continue fishing, and to see how Sampson has progressed in the past few months, but got an unexpected situation.

Something happened to Wu Sansheng.

(End of this chapter)