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Chapter 136 Chapter 134: Coaching Questions

On Christmas Day, the first game day of the shortened season, the NBA's schedule undoubtedly gave fans a lot of fun.

The Heat and the Mavericks fought Dallas again and won, which undoubtedly gave a sigh of relief to the Miami people who had been aggrieved throughout the offseason.

In the Clippers game against the Warriors, Billups proved the possibility between him and Griffin.The two scored 43 points together, allowing the Warriors to swallow the bitter pill.

The game between the Bulls and the Lakers was also very exciting. The gimmick of the youngest MVP against the Black Mamba made this game the game with the highest ratings on the first day of the new season.

In the end, the youngest MVP lived up to expectations and beat the Lakers in the last 4.8 seconds, making Staples' proud viper shake his head.

In another game, the Knicks narrowly beat the Celtics by 2 points and successfully avenged last season's playoffs.The Thunder won the Magic lightly. Since the Orlando Magic were eliminated in the first round by the Pacers last season, they seem to have withdrawn from the ranks of strong teams.

But the game with the biggest margin of difference on Christmas Day came in Indianapolis.

With Chris Paul joining the Pacers, with a terrifying point difference of 31 points, it announced the rise of a new force in the entire league!
If we say that the Pacers last season were just a spoiler, an inexperienced youth army.So this season, after introducing Paul and West and increasing the thickness of the inside line, the Indiana Pacers have become an out-and-out Eastern powerhouse!
This big-scoring victory naturally made Henson's pre-match phrase "I'm thinking about how many points I win" popular on the Internet.But of course, this sentence seems to only be heard by local fans in Indianapolis, while fans of other teams think that this young Chinese coach is a little carried away.

"I have to say that the Detroit Pistons are not a particularly strong team. This game, which the Pacers should have won, can't explain anything."

"Henson must still be complacent because he robbed Paul at the last moment, but Paul is not a panacea. If having Paul can solve the problem, the Hornets would have won the championship long ago."

"Coach Henson seems to be getting more and more outrageous. No one would say that before the game. But I don't care what the clown said, I only care about my own team."

Even Tom Thibodeau, Henson's old enemy, couldn't help but complain.

In this regard, Reggie Miller has a different view: "Doesn't Coach Henson's remarks remind you of anyone? That's right, it is the current Pacers president Larry Bird. I think this may be a kind of inheritance. This may be the style of Indianapolis."

In any case, Henson once again pulled the hatred "from the mouth".Now, the head coaches of many teams in the East must be eager to kill him.But Henson didn't care. He knew one thing from the day he became an assistant coach.

The essence of professional sports is winning.

As long as you can win, it doesn't matter if you are more aggressive than Larry Bird.

So after winning the game against the Pistons, Henson didn't let the players sit idle.Now the Pacers still have a lot of training every day, because there is no summer league and too long pre-season training time, Henson can only find a way to make up for these wasted time day by day.

But what is easier for Henson now is that Chris Paul has shared part of the work of supervising the players to train.Paul is definitely a very competitive guy, so he also hopes that his teammates can take the game seriously.This point is quite similar to a certain paranoid in Los Angeles.

Fortunately, Paul did not join the Lakers, otherwise the rest of the Lakers would have been tortured to death by these two guards.

Without having to stand on the sidelines all the time, Henson has more time to develop and improve the training plan.

"Slightly reduce the proportion of George's shooting training and let him put more effort into dribbling training." When Henson handed over this training plan to Vogel to execute, Vogel was still a little dazed.

"George is 2 meters, you want him to practice dribbling?"

"What's wrong with 2 meters? He's a forward player. Maybe there will be a coach in the future who will let the center forward learn to dribble. George's dribbling is a bit too eye-catching. Look at him, the center of gravity is too high, and he can't break through effectively."

Henson has very strict requirements on George, because in his heart, George is not just a player who is only responsible for shooting. The George he expected is an offensive kaleidoscope.

In fact, after careful observation, it can be seen that even Durant has made great progress in dribbling in recent seasons.And this has also brought Durant closer and closer to the ranks of top stars.It can even be said that he is already a top star.

"Okay, what else has changed?" Vogel didn't refute anymore, because there were almost no mistakes in Henson's training plan.His control of the development direction of the players has always been extremely precise.

"There is another problem. It seems that our shooting coaches are not enough." Henson looked at the players who were practicing shooting through the floor-to-ceiling windows of the office.

Shooting is a problem that Henson attaches great importance to.Stephenson, Jimmy Butler and Leonard are all "hardest hit areas" in terms of shooting.The task of shooting coaches is very heavy, and it is not so easy to train the two "iron kings" of Jimmy Butler and Leonard.

"what do you mean?"

"I think we may need an extremely experienced shooting coach to instruct them separately. Now we have one coach to teach three people, and I feel a little busy." Henson knows that although he has the badge of increasing his improvement speed, it must also work if his own training plan works.

So after training in the afternoon, Henson found the person who made the decision on this issue, Larry Bird, who was in charge of all basketball affairs of the Pacers.

Bird couldn't help smiling when he saw Henson, and patted the "half coach" on the shoulder hard.

"Henson, I like your tone of voice before the game started yesterday, hahahaha, there is a bit of my shadow!"

"Uh" Henson nodded with a half-smile, but he knew that he was still far behind Bird when it came to pretending to be aggressive.At least Henson couldn't say "Are you all here to fight for second?"

"Bird, I'm not here to learn how to speak with you. I want to find a shooting coach, definitely the best one. Can you use your network to help me find one?"

"Shooting coach?" Bird was a little surprised. After all, the Pacers had just won by 30 points, but Henson was thinking about how to strengthen the team's training.

But Bird immediately regained his composure. Yes, this offseason is too short, and Henson doesn't have much time to make full preparations.Although the Pacers have already won a game, in fact the team must have many problems that have not been resolved.

"Shooting coach. If you can convince Reggie Miller not to be a commentator, he's on. After all, he's second only to me in Indianapolis in terms of shooting."

"Bird, I'm serious." Henson shook his head, worthy of being a king of the generation.

"I mean, the guy who practiced shooting with Reggie Miller was pretty good. When I think about it, I should still have his phone number." Bird stopped laughing, but tried to think hard while holding his chin.

"The person who practiced shooting with Miller?" Henson immediately became interested, and now it sounds much more reliable.

He doesn't ask Jimmy Butler and Leonard to become the next Miller, as long as they can work on their shots.

"Well, I found it, Bruce Fraser. Don't worry about Henson, I will call him for you, don't worry about it. What you need to think about now is how to let the Pacers continue to win the next game." Bird found the target person's phone number in a small notebook, but he didn't seem to plan to dial it right away, maybe to prepare for a speech.

"That's good." Henson got up and was about to leave work. When he walked to the door of the office, Henson waved his back to Bird. "By the way, I don't think about whether I can win the next game, but whether I can win all the games this month."

After speaking, Henson disappeared into the corner of the corridor without looking back.

Seeing Byrd's smirk, Pritchard, who had been silent in the office, had goose bumps all over his body.

Neither of the two kings is a good bird.

(End of this chapter)