Slam Dunk: My Study Abroad Career in Northern Hunan

Chapter 111 If you can't do it, don't play!
Budo recognized that coach Anzai's tactics should be the sun's bombardment cover shooting tactics in the mid-90s, but what Budo didn't know was that his cognition actually had some deviations.

Because in this era, Nash, known as the Son of the Wind, has not yet joined the Suns.Coach Anxi's reference template team for this set of tactics is actually the Warriors from 89 to 91.

That is, the classic tactics of the run-tmc combination of the Warriors under the coach of the old coach Nelson.

The run-tmc combination is composed of three NBA legends Tim Hardaway, Mitch Richmond and Chris Mullin.

In the late 80s and early 90s, these three players played for the Warriors at the same time, forming the famous "RUN-TMC" combination.

巅峰的1990-91赛季，穆林场均25.7分5.4个篮板4次助攻，里奇蒙德23.9分5.9个篮板3.1次助攻，哈达威22.9分4个篮板9.7次助攻，三个人带领球队打出44胜38负，季后赛首轮3-1淘汰马刺。

But in the second round, they lost 1-4 to the Lakers led by the Magician.

The Warriors may not be the strongest team in that era, but they are definitely a very powerful team.

The legendary coach, Don Nelson, is the coach with the most wins in the entire NBA. This coach not only played bombardment tactics in the 90s when big centers were rampant, but also the famous shark-cutting tactics. Invented, his method of dealing with Shaquille O'Neal was later quoted by many other team coaches.

And one of the cores of Coach Nelson's coaching philosophy is the blurring of positions, which is also the basic idea of ​​small ball play.

The so-called blurring of position means that the players on the court do not stick to their own position, but set a predetermined framework for themselves.A simple analogy is that if you are a center forward, you don't need to be stupid to just stand inside to eat cakes or grab boards. You can also appear in other positions on the court, and even shoot three-pointers.

Now coach Anxi, who was explaining tactics to the players on the bench, actually wanted to integrate this style of play into the offensive system of Xiangbei High School. This sense of dislocation across time and space made Budao stunned.

Is the small ball game easy to use?By era, by team.

It is not without reason why the bombardment style that existed in the 90s did not shine in this era, but spread in the NBA decades later.

There are many reasons, the change of defensive rules, and the lack of big centers in later generations are all related.But the biggest reason is that there is no big center.

Coach Anxi's set of tactics does not fit well with Xiangbei High School.

Perhaps in the eyes of others, a big center with the height of Takenori Akagi is not considered a "big center", but the facts may be somewhat different from what everyone thinks.

Although Akagi is less than two meters tall, he can really be regarded as a big center in high school.Akagi's movement speed is not very fast, at least compared with Budo, Mitsui Hisashi, Miyagi and others, it is a lot worse. Even Chiba Oishi is faster than Akagi Takenori in terms of movement. .

If Xiangbei wants to play Coach Anzai's set of tactics, mobility must be guaranteed. Quick pick-and-roll coordination is the core of this set of offense. Akagi, who has a slow pace, obviously does not meet the requirements.

"Do you all understand? There is nothing to ask?" After coach Anxi told the players the tactical requirements, the players were silent. Seeing this, Coach Anxi couldn't help asking.

Coach Anxi wondered why the players were silent. Could it be that his coaching skills are already so strong?Is there any doubt that the players understood a new tactic so quickly?
"No problem! Coach!" Miyagi Yoshida replied the fastest, because he needed relatively few operations in terms of tactical arrangements.Dribbling the ball across the half court and letting the ball reach the designated position smoothly after half court is all the requirements of this tactic for Miyagi.

For Miyagi, it was not very difficult.

"This...coach, you mean, I need to pull out to the outside for Mitsui's pick and roll?"

"But in this way, wouldn't the offensive power inside be gone?"

"Normally speaking, shouldn't the offense be better centered around the center? The closer to the basket, the higher the success rate of scoring."

Akagi Takenori looked at the tactical board in Coach Anzai's hands and came back to his senses.Although it was his first time hearing this tactic, Akagi was not a stupid person, and he immediately understood the meaning of this tactic.

Coach Anxi intends to build a new offensive system around Mitsui Shou and Budo on the outside.

Before Budo joined Shonhoku High School, Shonhoku's offense was built around Mitsui Shou and him. In terms of ball possession, Mitsui Shou and he can be said to be equally divided.But as soon as Budo came, and the practice match with Lingnan High School, Akagi Takenori's ball rights were greatly reduced, not only him, but even Mitsui Hisashi's ball rights were greatly reduced.

At that time in the practice match, Akagi didn't feel much, because Budo's offensive efficiency was not bad, and he also helped the team win, and he didn't feel much about the reduction of his possession of the ball.

But if coach Anxi's tactics start to be implemented, it means that his possession of the ball will be directly reduced from a strategic point of view.

Although what Akagi said was quite tactful, he still wanted to fight for some rights for himself through this method.

"Offensive, only scoring and no scoring, no inside and outside."

"No matter where the offense is launched, scoring is the main purpose of the team!"

"Akagi, you need to adapt to the team's tactical changes."

Coach Anxi explained briefly, then looked at the others, and asked again: "What about the others, is there anything you don't understand?"

Akagi bowed his head silently when he received the answer from Coach Anxi. The coach's arrangement was not for him to refuse, but in his heart, he was still a little unwilling.In Akagi's view, it is better to give the ball directly to him and go inside with such an offensive method.

Akagi is full of confidence in his own strength. He feels that with his strength, no player in the county can defend him.He was a little invisible in the game against Lingnan, mainly because he didn't have enough possessions.

Hisashi Mitsui, Budo and others have a lot of basketball experience, and they are quick to accept new tactics. However, the other first and second graders have a lot of questions. After Coach Anxi answered them one by one, the arena became quiet again. down.

"In this case, let's conduct tactical exercises for the rest of today."

"In the rest of the afternoon, what you need to practice is this set of tactics. At the same time, you also need to cultivate a tacit understanding of changing defenses."

"I will break up the players and divide them into groups of five to conduct tactical drills. While simulating the attack, the defender needs to take turns and switch defenses in time to defend the attacking group."

Coach Anxi said, and began to divide the players into groups.Takenori Akagi and Hisashi Mitsui formed a group with several second and third graders, while Budo, Miyagi, and Chiba Oishi led two members to form another group.The other team members also formed groups of five.

The tactical drill in Xiangbei started directly.

Yasuharu Yasuda was assigned to Budo's team, and took on the role of ball control, while Budo and Miyagi, on the contrary, stood on both sides of the three-point line and played the role of initiating offense.On the inside, Kakuda Satoru and Chiba Oishi, one as a power forward and the other as a center, practiced as a pick-and-roll role.

The entire court in the Xiangbei Arena is divided into two training areas, and each half has two to three groups of players for training.

Budo and his half are two groups, and they are facing off with a team formed temporarily by freshmen and second-year players. Tetsushi Shiozaki and others are all against Budo and his team.

Yasuda Yasuharu is a new player who joined Shonhoku in Hebudo's first class. Although he is a new player, his basketball foundation is fairly solid. At the very least, his level of ball handling and passing is not bad, and he can find good passing opportunities. Give it to Miyagi or Budo.

In the halftime, Miyagi Yoshita quickly broke into the inside after taking advantage of his teammates' pick-and-roll, and when the defender rushed up to block Miyagi, Miyagi Yoshida ignored the pass and directly made a pass. The ball was given to the side, and the ball arrived. Bu Dao accurately received the basketball inside, and after one step, he got up and dunked.

The smooth attack took only three or four seconds, and the team defending Budao didn't even have the time to react.

"Good pass, Miyagi!" After the slam dunk, Budo and Miyagi high-fived and praised.Miyagi's passing awareness is really good, and the amount of advance he gives is just right. The position where Budo catches the ball is just in front of his chest, which is also very comfortable.

Generally speaking, although the two of them did not cooperate so much in sports battles, they already had a tacit understanding.

Next, the two groups began to contact each other repeatedly. After Wu Dao and his group had attacked ten times, the two groups switched offense and defense.On the offensive end, Budo and his team played very smoothly, giving people the appearance that this tactic is very simple.

But when the offense and defense switched and another group started to attack, those people knew that they were thinking too much.

Budao didn't release water at all on the defensive end. Although the Xiangbei player who was facing him used the pick-and-roll to pass Budao, Budao's pursuit speed was terrifying.The players who wanted to layup were repeatedly blocked by Wu Dao, and they were blocked three or four times in a row. For a while, the training couldn't continue.

The covered first grader still wanted to let Budao release the water and not chase so fast, but what he greeted was Budao's slightly reprimanded words: "After the pick-and-roll screen breaks through, you don't just let you go to the layup. After the breakthrough, it is still necessary to observe the movement of the opponent.”

"It doesn't mean that everything will be fine if you break through!"

"Also, don't keep looking at the ground and the ball when you are dribbling the ball. This shortcoming is very serious and must be corrected. Your eyes need to look at other places, observe your opponents, and observe your teammates!"

"When you encounter difficulties, don't look for the reason from others, but look for your own problems!"

Jinguji Budo doesn't know how to release water during training. If you don't train hard, what you do to release water will become a loophole when it really comes to the field.

Budo hopes to lead Xiangbei High School to win the national championship, but if there are only five main players, the national championship is obviously unrealistic!
Their other substitutes in Xiangbei also need to train well to make themselves stronger, so when faced with the opponent's request to release water, Bu Dao retorted mercilessly.

"." The team member who was told by Bu Dao felt a little ashamed, blushed, lowered his head and didn't speak any more. Bu Dao's merciless words also made the training atmosphere a little awkward.

Fortunately, Chiba Oishi can be considered a qualified senior. He stepped out to smooth things over and the training continued.

The player who was pointed out by Bu Dao was not a piece of mud that couldn't support the wall. After Bu Dao finished speaking, he was obviously also paying attention to his own problems, observing the situation on the court as much as possible while dribbling.

However, his dribbling foundation is a bit weak, and he repeatedly made dribbling mistakes, which made their team's offense stumble and the training progress was greatly hindered.

For the opponent's mistakes, Wu Dao is somewhat tolerant. He didn't say much because of the opponent's mistakes. Instead, he took the trouble to accompany him to train over and over again.

Budo is not the kind of unreasonable person. Attitude issues need to be pointed out. Ability issues can only be practiced. No one is born knowing how to play.And Chiba Oishi is really a qualified senior, he doesn't complain when the team members make mistakes, but encourages them loudly.

For a while, the training atmosphere in this half became harmonious, and the players were all focused on the practice of the new system.

the other side of the field.Hisashi Mitsui led the players to conduct tactical drills. He was partnered with Akagi, Kohito Kogure and others. Kohito Kigure and Kohito Mitsui were the initiators of the attack. As for the ball control task, a third-year player performed it.

Takenori Akagi on the inside is one of the people who promoted the pick-and-roll.

Unlike Budo's relatively smooth training, Mitsui Hisashi's training was really stumbling.

"Hey! Akagi, can you run faster and raise the pick-and-roll higher!"

"The defender is stepping on the three-point line, what are you doing standing at the free throw line?!"

On the court, Hisashi Mitsui received a pass from his teammate outside the three-point line, and after dribbling the ball for three or four seconds, Akagi's pick-and-roll was delayed. Mitsui Shou felt a little impatient and yelled at Akagi directly. .

Akagi, who was shouted, slowly prepared to advance, but at this time, Mitsui broke through directly and quickly before Akagi's pick-and-roll. The next second, the players defending him and the players who should have defended Akagi on the inside quickly surrounded Mitsui, and completed the attack on Mitsui. Double teamed.The helpless Mitsui Shou could only pass the ball back.

To return to the hands of the point guard players.

At this time, Akagi, the point guard, quickly moved towards the basket. The player in possession of the ball saw that Akagi was in a good position, and sent the ball to Akagi with a long pass. Akagi made an easy layup.

After scoring the goal, Akagi couldn't help being a little proud. Sure enough, he is still very important!
"Mitsui, if you can't score, pass the ball to me!" Akagi said to Mitsui Shou, then picked up the basketball and threw it to the outside teammates, allowing them to organize a new round of offense.

Hisashi Mitsui, who was a little annoyed because Akagi didn't follow the tactics in the pick-and-roll, became angry when he heard Akagi's words.

"Before you say this, understand your running position first!"

"If I still don't get a shot after you pick and roll, and you're open, I'll give you the ball!"

"Of course! The request is, you give me the running position first to understand!!"

"If you can't do it, don't play! You know, I'm the captain, and I have the right!"

When Mitsui Shou spoke, his voice was not high, it seemed that he deliberately lowered his voice.In fact, Mitsui Shou could more or less understand some of Akagi's careful thoughts. While taking into account Akagi's face, he did not forget to remind Akagi.

"Hmph! I hope you can hit the ball well!"

Akagi is not a fool, and Mitsui Shou's words are both a threat and a reminder. Although Akagi is not convinced by Mitsui Shou, he dare not resist Coach Anzai's tactical arrangements.

In the next few rounds of offense, Akagi went to the designated position to perform a pick-and-roll strangely. Hisashi Mitsui was also very steady. He either made a layup or passed the ball to the open Kigure Koyan for the opponent to complete the finish.

During this period, Akagi Takenori also had a mid-range open opportunity, and Mitsui Hisashi also gave the ball to Akagi. Akagi made an open shot. The basketball hit the backboard and popped up directly, wasting an offensive opportunity.

Hisashi Mitsui also seized this opportunity, and said with a lukewarm sarcasm: "You can shoot so crookedly even if there is an open spot, you should practice your shooting!"

"If you can't practice well, you can come and ask me for advice! After all, I am the captain, and it is my duty to help the players!"

Mitsui Shou's words made Akagi blush, while hurting Akagi's self-esteem, it also made Akagi feel a deep sense of shame.

"Damn guy, isn't it just shooting? I will definitely practice it, and my shooting will definitely be more accurate than yours!"

(End of this chapter)