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Updated: 2012-10-11

Chapter 330 Seven Defensive Training

The game with the Rockets and the Suns is over, and the time has officially entered November, while the Warriors ushered in a very easy schedule (read the full text of Traveling through Adventures).They went four days without a game from the first day of November and then played two games in the last three days of the week.

Of course, the old Nelson will not waste the four days. The season has just started, and he doesn't have to worry too much about the physical problems of the players, so he has arranged team training every day for these four days (Xuanwu Zhenjun).Old Nelson did not forget what he promised Chris Mullin at the beginning. During these four days of training, he was going to hand over one training session to Mike Malone.

Mike Malone is a big-name assistant coach, but under the old Nelson, he doesn't have much arrogance, because he is just a big-name assistant coach, and the old Nelson is a big-name head coach with thousands of victories.

Choosing to come to the Warriors, Mike Malone is to prove his ability to other teams in the league, especially his defensive training ability.But after actually coming to the Warriors, Mike Malone discovered that things were far simpler than he imagined.

Old Nelson's men did only worship offense, but that was before last season. With the adjustment of these two seasons, the Warriors' players are completely different from the previous two seasons.

At the center position, Tyson Chandler's food guy is defense. Although his defensive skills have declined due to injuries in the past two seasons, his defensive skills are still quite deep.And Anthony Randolph has only been in the league for one year, and his abilities have not yet been finalized. Whether it is offense or defense, it is not a problem if he wants to improve.

At the power forward position, Rasheed Wallace's versatility is in all aspects, including defense.Although Turiaf and Landry have obvious flaws, they have a very strong willingness to defend, and they are willing to play coolie players on the court.As for Brandon Wright, maybe he is not willing to try to improve these things, but for a long time, if the team does not have injuries, he may stay on the inactive list.

There is no doubt about Yang Shuai's defensive ability at the small forward position. Stephen Jackson, who is currently at the shooting guard position but actually a small forward, also has very good defensive skills.

As a guard, Hinrich's physical fitness is not outstanding, but his defensive awareness or skills are not weak. If he hadn't run into a point guard with extremely strong physical fitness, his defense at the first position would be reassuring.The newly joined Evans and Collison were players with a relatively balanced offense and defense in college, and it is not too difficult to make contributions in defense.

Belinelli's defense is very hard, although his defensive skills are not outstanding, but some games last season have proved that when he defends with all his strength, he can still cause great trouble to offensive players (Pause Immortal latest chapter).

Anthony Morrow may be the only person who really has a big defensive problem at the guard position, but Mike Malone doesn't expect every player on the team to have super defensive strength.

After careful observation and research, Ma Long suddenly discovered that he doesn't need to do much to help players improve their personal defensive strength. What he has to do is to let these teammates form a system and form a tacit understanding in defense.With the personal defensive ability of the Warriors' current players, if they can strengthen the tacit understanding of defensive rotation on the court, the Warriors' defense can win a qualitative leap.

After sorting out these things, Mike Malone began to formulate the next training plan, and this is not a big problem for an assistant coach like him who is good at defense.

Old Nelson's arrangement was quite reasonable. He put Mike Malone's training session on the second day. Of course, on this day, Old Nelson would not appear in the training session. This was his old Nelson's pride.

Thinking of Old Nelson as a stubborn old man, Yang Shuai was actually very happy in his heart, because he finally saw the team's training sessions on defense.

Participating in the finals with the Celtics and finally helping the team win the O'Brien Cup, Yang Shuai has a deep understanding of the strength of the Celtics that year, and he has a deeper understanding of the role of defense.

He likes to attack, because the feeling of completely destroying the opponent's defense gives people a thrill of conquest, which makes people excited.

However, Yang Shuai also understands that this feeling can also be achieved through defense.The iron barrel defense that ends the opponent's offense time and time again, and even the suffocating defense that destroys the offensive player's psychology, the visual impact brought to the fans is no less than an exciting dunk.

Defense wins championships!Yang Shuai is in a team that advocates offense, but he respects this sentence very much. When the game is at a stalemate, when the game enters a critical moment, a successful defense may lead the team to victory.

Just because he understands the importance of this point, last season, Yang Shuai tried to lure his teammates to strengthen their defense (the latest chapter of Tang Huang's legend).Biedrins is an example, and at that time, Biedrins had indeed begun to learn and strengthen in this area, but an injury that followed brought it all back to the starting point.

In the new season, Yang Shuai suddenly discovered that not only his teammates have been replaced by players with higher defensive strength, but even the team's training sessions have been trained in defense. It is absolutely impossible for him to say he is not happy.

Mike Malone stood in front of the Warriors players, and in front of him stood all thirteen players of the Warriors. The head coach was not there, and this was the training session he was in charge of. He has naturally become the supreme commander here today, which makes Mike Malone had an illusion that he even felt that he had become the person with the most say in the team, but when his eyes touched Jackson and Yang Shuai standing in the middle, he began to become sober.

Mike Malone understands that he doesn't match the old Nelson's style. He doesn't understand why the old Nelson would agree to increase defense in training, but he understands that if his training can't help the team improve and win more victories, the old Nelson He would never agree to stay on this team.

Mike Malone knows better that in the eyes of the team's top executives, there is only one person whose status may affect Old Nelson, and that is Yang Shuai who stands directly in front of him, and as far as he knows, Yang Shuai is a defensive player. players.

"Well, guys, I'm sure you all know our defense sucked last season. We lost a lot of wins because of poor defense that we should have won. We had a great offense , Imagine how powerful the Warriors will become when we can defend the opponent's offense and our powerful offense is played out..."

After the opening of the training camp, Mike Malone also trained the Warriors players, but at that time he could not train with the whole team due to time constraints. He just trained with each teammate separately and explained his defensive tactics.

And starting today, Mike Malone's defensive training session for the Warriors team officially began. Mike Malone soon discovered the two most active guys in the training session, Yang Shuai and Evans.These two guys are the opposing players, and Yang Shuai is constantly criticizing Evans most of the time (the latest chapter of Dark Lies).

"Tyreke, I am rushing to the left, your movement position is not enough, your retreat speed needs to be faster."

"Tyreke, jump harder, I have to face your defense every night, it's not effective at all!"

"Did you feel the force I just exerted? In the middle of my two forces, why didn't you try to interfere with my attack!"

"The sense of oppression is too weak. Move your hands further forward. Does your defense exist? I don't feel anything when I dribble and attack!"

It was the first time for the team to practice defense together. Mike Malone didn't give too many training tasks. He just helped the players get familiar with their respective defensive responsibilities. But Yang Shuai obviously didn't think so, and he was fully involved after the training started. , and Evans, who was facing him, unfortunately became the object of his lesson.

At the beginning, Evans felt that Yang Shuai might just be joking, and even felt that Yang Shuai was a bit unnecessary, but as time went by, he found that Yang Shuai's words were on point.

"Damn it, you actually judged the direction of my breakthrough in advance! Hey, is this what you mean by exerting force to interfere? It's so accurate..."

"Yang, did you rely on the small movement of my shoulder to judge the direction of the breakthrough?"

Evans' physical fitness is very good, and his defensive ability is considered outstanding in college, but compared with Yang Shuai, his defensive awareness and skills are far behind.

Yang Shuai's defense is trained in space, but who was his training partner? "Kobe".This figure with one of the best offensive skills in the league, regardless of his physical fitness, Yang Shuai's defense has reached the league's first-tier level when he entered the league. With the improvement of his physical fitness and two seasons of training, his defensive strength has further improved. improvement.

Evans’ situation is the opposite of that of Yang Shuai. He has excellent physical fitness, but his defensive awareness and skills are not outstanding. Now what Yang Shuai has to do is to combine his skills with the systematic defensive knowledge he learned in space. Teach it to Evans slowly.

Mike Malone originally planned to teach Evans' defense himself, because he could see Evans' potential in this area, but after watching Yang Shuai and Evans' duel for a while, he decided to I gave up this plan, because Yang Shuai's professionalism is no less than his, at least his skills in one-on-one defense.

After the one-on-one training, Mike Malone began to divide the players into two groups for confrontation training. This is undoubtedly more difficult than the previous training. Malone did not expect to rely on a training session to improve the Warriors' defense. .

What really excites Mike Malone is that the defensive training effect of the starting players has exceeded his expectations. The acceptance speed of the five starting players for his defensive system is amazing. He has a premonition that a month later, the Warriors Defensive strength will take a leap forward.

Finally being able to integrate his defense into one system, Yang Shuai really felt that his defense had a place to play. In a sense, the difficulty and importance of team members' cooperation in defense is no less than that of offense. Even more so.

Any good defensive player, without the help of his teammates, his defensive effect will be greatly reduced, and this discount is more obvious than the offense.

"Yang, I think I should buy you a drink!" After the training, Evans approached Yang Shuai with a smile and said.

Yang Shuai shrugged, and agreed immediately. In fact, this kind of teaching is not bad, at least, it gives a sense of accomplishment.

As a veteran who has been in Oakland for a year, when Evans proposes a treat, of course it is Yang Shuai who decides where to go, and there is only one place Yang often goes to, Thomas' "Good Mood" wine .

This summer, Yang Shuai did not appear in the "Good Mood" wine, because he was not in Oakland most of the time, and now he naturally has to take care of his old friend's business.

(ps: Mom's treatment is facing a difficult choice, headache!)