king of defenders

Chapter 1225

Miami, American Airlines Arena.

After the training, Coach Spoelstra stopped Xiang Long.

"Coach." Xiang Long stood in front of him.

Coach Spoelstra said: "Although you were sent off for six fouls yesterday, you didn't play the role you should have, but that's because you are still in the adaptation stage. The opponent knows this, so they deliberately target you, etc. You get used to it and things will improve."

"One failure is nothing. Since I let you start, it proves that you have the strength to start. Don't doubt yourself because of a failure in a game. It is not terrible to encounter setbacks, as long as you overcome them."

Xiang Long nodded and said, "Yes, thank you coach."

In fact, Meng Yun also talked to him before this, probably meaning the same as coach Spoelstra, but Meng Yun understands Xiang Long's character, so it is very concise, just a sentence "When you encounter setbacks, you will become more courageous".

There were only five words, but Xiang Long listened to them.

Those who become more courageous in the face of setbacks are brave; those who shrink back in the face of setbacks are cowards!

Seeing that Xiang Long really didn't seem to be decadent, Coach Spoelstra was very relieved, and he didn't say anything at all, and went straight to the topic: "In the next few games, the opponent will definitely fight back. Against you, you need to learn how to control fouls."

With that said, Coach Spoelstra greeted Craig and Rostern, and began to conduct some targeted training on Xianglong.

These are actually not new things, Xiang Long has been exposed to them for a long time, but they used to learn systematically without focusing on and pertinence.

This time it is targeted learning and training how to deal with a situation like yesterday's match against the 76ers, which not only includes techniques, but also some strategies and so on.
After half an hour.

Spoelstra nodded, satisfied with Xiang Long's study, turned his head and shouted: "Meng Yun, you come to attack, Xiang Long defends, find a way to make him foul."

Today's training is over, the players have left, only Meng Yun is doing extra training habitually, and Meng Yun has been training by himself just now.

Meng Yun came over and took the ball from beyond the three-point line.

Meng Yun has also studied how to make fouls. Because of his fast speed and sharp breakthroughs, he has many opportunities to make fouls. It would be too wasteful not to study and use them.

In fact, in a basketball game, speed advantage is definitely an incomparable trump card for breakthroughs, more effective than technique and strength.

For example, Owen has skills and James has strength, but in terms of breakthrough efficiency, they are actually not as good as Meng Yun, because Meng Yun is too fast.

Technology, strength, and some strategies can be used to deal with these defenders, even if the effect is not necessarily very good, but to some extent, but facing Meng Yun, there is no way to deal with it at all, because you are too late, you can’t keep up with your feet, and your body If you can't keep up, everything is useless.

Of course, this is for training Xiang Long. Meng Yun does not rely on speed, but even so, it still makes Xiang Long feel a headache. It is really difficult to prevent Meng Yun without fouling.

This requires your defensive actions to be reasonable and smart enough to avoid risks without losing the defensive effect. Then, you also need to have excellent judgment ability to accurately judge the opponent's true intentions without being caught by the opponent's False deception.

"Doo, thugs fouled!"

"Doo, blocking foul!"

Rostern was in charge of the referee, and the whistle blew again and again. Xiang Long's face was full of helplessness. He often singled out Meng Yun. Of course he lost, but he was not depressed today.

Today, not only couldn't prevent Meng Yun from scoring, but he also paid for fouls again and again. It seemed that whatever he did was wrong, or he didn't do anything at all, and there was no way to avoid fouls if he did it.

After ten minutes.

"Stop." Coach Spoelstra stopped, frowned and said to Xiang Long: "Xiang Long, you have a problem. You can't defend every attack, even if you work hard. Some attacks You have no way to defend against it. You will either be scored by the opponent, or fouled, or even pay a foul while being scored by the opponent. In fact, the best way to do this is to let the opponent score. Maybe the opponent doesn’t feel good. It may not be possible to enter."

"Active defense is a good thing, but we must also learn to judge. Sometimes we need to make trade-offs, especially in the face of players like Meng Yun. It may not be a bad thing to give up in many cases."

Xiang Long was stunned for a moment, thought for a while, then revealed a look of surprise, and said: "Well, I understand."

In fact, this has always been a problem for Xiang Long. He has a cold personality and is somewhat withdrawn, but he is very serious in his work. He must go all out and strive to do his best, and he has high demands on himself.

So when defending, I am always very active and work hard, and I want to prevent every attack of the opponent, or even block it.

But in this way, there are times when it is impossible to defend, but Xiang Long still pounces on it. Not all of them will foul, but as long as there are two or three fouls out of ten, it is already very troublesome.

"Okay, go on." Coach Spoelstra said.

The two continued.

Craig whispered: "We used to pay attention to Xiang Long's offense, his tacit understanding with Meng Yun, his three-point shooting ability, low-post skills, and stable shooting. On the contrary, we didn't pay much attention to his defense. There's Monroe and Whiteside, after all."

"Well." Coach Spoelstra nodded, "That's right. But before he was just a substitute player, now he is a starter, and if he wants to become Meng Yun's helper, he needs other starters to do better. We need to take more responsibility and attention. At the same time, this is also a test, and those shortcomings and problems that were not noticed or not paid attention to in the past will be exposed one by one. If we do not solve these problems in advance, we will wait until our opponents find out And use it, it will be troublesome."

Craig's face changed slightly. He was helping Xiang Long to excuse him before, but now he realizes the seriousness of the problem.

Just like what coach Spoelstra pointed out just now, it can be said that it is just a defensive habit of Xiang Long. You must go all out and pursue the best. It is not a problem at all, but if it is discovered by the opponent, then targeted use it?
Not to mention too much, it would be troublesome enough to use this point to make one more foul for Xiang Long in a game.

After being silent for a while, Coach Spoelstra looked at Xiang Long on the court, and said: "There are still [-] games in the regular season. I plan to use these [-] games to train Xiang Long. Originally, I planned to Wait for Xianglong to grow and improve slowly, but now that Monroe is injured, Xianglong must improve faster."

(End of this chapter)