super small forward

Chapter 278 278. Hallucinations?
Today it is the Lakers' turn to drill D'Antoni's offensive tactics. This is too easy for the Lakers. Almost the entire team from last season. Even the newcomer Jeremy Lin has integrated into it at once, which is suitable for D'Antoni. Offensively, he's like a duck to water.

But D'Antoni has really changed. Even Mark Madsen, who was surprised because D'Antoni was not fired, kept nodding. D'Antoni kept supervising the defensive players while practicing offense. bit.

The Lakers are well manned. In addition to Clarkson and LaVine still memorizing the tactical line, there are still two point guards Nash and Jeremy Lin who are suitable for the D'Antoni system, so they are divided into McCollum, Liu Ren, and Adetto led by Nash. Kumbo, the Green team, and the Nick Young, Bazemore, Gasol, Whiteside team led by Jeremy Lin.

The way of training is to attack one round at a time. It was the same way before. At that time, Marshall and Nash led the team.

However, D'Antoni's training has changed this year. He requires the non-offensive side to use the defensive system trained by Bickerstaff to defend the offensive side.

As for Thackeray, because his shooting ability has improved significantly in the summer, the mid-range is looking good. Except for Gasol, who has a reliable mid-range shot, the others, including Green, who has outside talent, are temporarily unavailable. Not very good shooting ability yet, so Thackeray has become the team's baby!
Basketball has progressed to the present, and space-based insiders are becoming more and more popular. The Lakers lost to the Spurs last season. There is no small factor because there is no insider that can open up space, otherwise Duncan's inside dominance will be greatly reduced.

Thackeray was pulled aside by Mark Jackson to practice shooting. Thackeray has been playing the role of standing out from the bench to single the opponent's inside late last season. Tactics really have nothing to do with him. His role is to Raiders.

Kobe and Henry are practicing offense. The coaching staff gave Kobe the role of a full-time scorer, and Henry is the same. They only need to play singles to the end.

Kobe naturally needless to say, that kind of role fits his ideas too much. The task assigned to him by D'Antoni is to teach Henry that Henry's left-handed offense can sometimes play a role of surprise.

The training went quite smoothly, and the content of the training seemed to have some real meaning of the game. Due to the continuous repetition of the whole week last week, these talented players really have some feeling of being integrated into the defensive system. There is a lot of pressure on that side, and when there is pressure, there is motivation. Jeremy Lin and Nash, as well as Green and Gasol on the inside, are all excited, constantly looking for loopholes in the opponent's defense to attack.

Then the defensive side couldn't prevent it, and then switched positions more actively, and then the training became smoother and smoother, which even D'Antoni himself did not expect.

Since everyone thought it was an offensive training, they had a lot of fun. Last week’s boring positioning and defensive rotation exercises really made these young people feel uncomfortable. Although they have to practice defense today, they can play offensively. Their mood It's all different.

Positivity is also very important!

However, one person was in a bad state today, causing Nash to be beaten by Jeremy Lin, which made D'Antoni very puzzled. That person should be the most active in training!
At four o'clock in the afternoon, the last training session ended, and D'Antoni found Liu Ren who had been distracted all day.

"Liu, are you feeling unwell? Why have you been distracted?" D'Antoni asked Liu Ren who was walking towards him. .

But Liu Ren acted as if he didn't hear him, and murmured: "Marriage proposal, marriage proposal, how do you propose? Ah... it's the coach! Mike, what can you do?"

Liu Ren almost bumped his head against D'Antoni. Speaking of which, D'Antoni is a little bit worse than Liu Ren, after all, he used to be a basketball player.

"Marriage proposal? What proposal?" D'Antoni asked suspiciously.

"Ah...it's nothing, Mike, what do you want from me?" Liu Ren quickly covered up.

"Oh, it's nothing, it's just that you were a little distracted in training today, and you missed too many people on the defensive end! In three training sessions today, Kenta scored 15 goals when you were distracted. This is really inappropriate! Next time Be careful!" D'Antoni replied.

"Sorry, I understand. I will definitely not be distracted tomorrow." Liu Ren said embarrassedly.

"En." D'Antoni responded and returned to the office. In order to adapt to the team's extra defense, he still has a lot of work to do, and his offensive tactics need some improvement.

Just like Bickerstaff had to modify some details of the defense in order to match D'Antoni's offense, D'Antoni is also working hard for his own work!

"Today is a bit bad! My head is full of how to coax Nini, and the training has been left behind. This is not good... Wait! What did Mike say just now!" Liu Ren suddenly woke up, "Mike didn't mean me The problem on the offensive end, but blame me for not doing a good job in defense! Oh my god! Is it because I am too nervous about Nini that I have hallucinations?"

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On the other side, in D'Antoni's office.

"Mike, I really didn't expect you to ask me to discuss the team system with you. I thought you would hate me because your brother was fired and put my job aside! Didn't expect a whole week last week. You've been watching me train them all week," Bickerstaff sighed.

"I understand what the management wants you to come back to. They want me to resign myself, but I won't, at least not before I win the championship! I think it will be difficult for me to get such a group of outstanding talents to coach in the future. For the chance of a player, such an opportunity has never been seen once in decades, and I am willing to make sacrifices for the championship." D'Antoni said calmly.

"I see. Last week, you asked me to train alone for a week. You wanted to see if I was really capable, right? It seems that you also understand that without defense, you will not get to the end."

"That's right, but you are worthy of being a defensive expert as famous as Larry Brown back then. Your system is very good. I let you train them alone. The most important purpose is to observe your defensive system. Some changes."

"That's why you called me over to work overtime with you, right? Really, I have to work overtime with you, I don't know if I have a chance to sleep tonight."

"Hahaha, I think Bernie you want to win the championship too? I heard that Mitch sent a very talented coach to study with Popovich. We don't have much time, do you understand? ?”

"Of course, I don't want our efforts to be snatched away by others before we can reap the rewards..."

(End of this chapter)