Guoshu basketball

Chapter 212 Kidd-style leader

When the Zen master came to Li Du's home, Li Du was practicing boxing. No matter how troubled he was on the court, his habit of boxing practice every morning would not change.

"Honey, Mr. Jackson is here." Preti's voice made Li Du stop.

Turning around and seeing Zen Master, Li Du immediately walked over to invite Zen Master into the room, "Teacher, why are you here?"

The Zen Master smiled and said, "Lee, Kobe is injured, he wants you to lead the Lakers during his recuperation period, you know this?"

Li Du nodded, and asked the Zen master to sit down while talking, "Boss told me."

The Zen master continued to ask: "So, what are you going to do?"

Shaking his head, Li Du sighed, "Coach, to be honest, I'm worried about this matter! I don't have the absolute strength like the boss, and I don't have enough prestige in the team. I'm afraid it will be difficult to lead the team!"

The Zen master didn't answer, took the tea from Priti, and waited quietly for what Li Du would say next.

Seeing that the Zen master was silent, Li Du had no choice but to say honestly: "Coach, I can't lead the team like the boss, but if the team needs me to control the ball, I think we should strengthen mutual cooperation in offense and cooperate with each other in defense. , In addition to matchup defense, zone defense is also critical!"

Zen master hummed, and continued to ask: "What about the players? Do you have any ideas?"

Li Du hesitated for a while, and then said: "We have actually exposed some problems last season. First of all, Derek has a big heart in the 1st position, but he is relatively weak in normal offense and defense. We need to strengthen No. 1. In addition, I actually found that Pau Gasol is a very comprehensive and excellent big man, and he is also very smart. I think we can think more about playing around him.”

Master Zen nodded. As a player who has just entered the NBA for two seasons, Li Du is already pretty good considering these things.Moreover, although Li Du studied under Kobe, he does not have the character of Kobe who controls the team by himself. Instead, he pays more attention to the team. This is what Zen Master or every coach likes very much.

So the Zen master reminded Li Dudao: "Li, it's good that you can think of these things, but the Lakers still have to take you as the core for the time being. I remember that you stole Jason Kidd in the first season. You can watch him more." In this competition, I believe you will gain a lot!"

After the Zen master left, Li Du immediately asked Pelinka to find all the videos of Kidd's very good games for him, and then locked himself at home, studying and analyzing how Kidd led the team every day.

Through careful observation, Li Du found that Kidd seems to be leading the team by passing the ball, but in fact his own offensive power is quite strong, and Kidd's footsteps and choices in many breakthroughs are unbelievable. Not too fancy, but in fact, it can always shake the opponent's center of gravity, allowing him to break through or find shooting space.

In addition, Kidd's passing actually has a special rhythm and rotation, which makes the teammates very comfortable to shoot after receiving the ball, so that the teammates can play a stronger offensive power than usual.

Then on the defensive end, Kidd's strength is actually very strong. He often goes against the opponent's tall insiders when switching defenses!Under Kidd's defense, except for O'Neal, Yao Ming and other dominant insiders, other insiders have little to do against Kidd!
"Should I go directly to defend the opponent's inside line?" Seeing that Kidd often got triple-doubles with his excellent strength and judgment on rebound placement, Li Du began to think about it.

In terms of physical talent, Li Du is much better than Kidd. Due to his position in the first two seasons, he basically didn't grab rebounds very much, but this does not mean that he can't. On the contrary, due to his long-term cultivation The habit of judging the opponent's movements in advance, and the judgment of rebounds, Li Du is not weaker than Gasol and other excellent insiders.What's more, he is better than Kidd in that Kidd's rebounding is more based on judging the placement, while Li Du can directly compete with inside players for rebounds with his excellent physical talent!
After the defender takes the rebound by himself, he has a great advantage in the offense and can directly launch a fast break!Many of Kidd's beautiful passes and scores were done in fast breaks.

"It turns out that this is what the coach wants me to do!" Seeing Kidd grabbing rebounds again and again and directly launching fast breaks to score, Li Du began to understand why the Zen master asked him to learn from Kidd.

Li Du has a physical talent far superior to that of Kidd, as well as Kidd's sense of basketball and sensitivity to the game. He can definitely do better than Kidd!With Kidd's way, Li Du can still lead the Lakers to victory!
Since the Lakers traded this year's and next year's picks with the Grizzlies in order to get Gasol last season, the Lakers didn't have any gains in the draft.However, Li Du thinks this is better. For him, who has just been forced by Kobe to be the temporary leader of the team, maintaining almost the same lineup as last season will make it easier for him to quickly familiarize himself with and master the team.

For this purpose, Li Du played almost according to the playing time of the regular season in the preseason.But the effect is not great, because apart from him, the other starting players can play at most 20 minutes a game, and the preseason is mainly a platform for examining substitute players.

The only good thing is that through the preseason, Li Du has gradually mastered Kidd's offensive method of directly launching a fast break after grabbing a rebound, and his mastery of passing rhythm and rotation has also improved a lot.

Throughout the preseason, Li Du even averaged 39.6 points, 8.7 rebounds and 9.5 assists per game, leading the Lakers to an excellent record of 7 wins and 1 loss!In the losing game, it was because Li Du didn't play. The Zen master was afraid that Li Du would explode too early and consume too much energy, so he forced Li Du to take a rest.In the games they won, the Lakers outscored their opponents by an average of 15.3 points per game, which can be described as terrifying!
Li Du's performance began to make the media exclaim that the Lakers who lost Kobe did not become weaker, but seemed to be stronger!Under the leadership of Li Du, the Lakers have almost reached the level that the Bulls could not surpass!

So some people began to say that the existence of Kobe actually suppressed Li Du's performance to a large extent. Li Du was originally a comprehensive and fast-growing person. With his strength, Li Du should be the real leader of the Lakers!
That is, the second day after this statement appeared, Li Du received a call from Kobe: "Li, you have played well recently!"

Li Du was also paying attention to the news from the outside world, so he hurriedly said to Kobe: "Boss, you don't believe those big-mouthed reporters from the outside world who write indiscriminately?"

(End of this chapter)