The Whip of the God of Basketball

Gergulic posed a difficult problem to all the players present. In fact, in his mind, this problem was unsolvable. In his more than 30 years of basketball coaching career, he has long been convinced that in this game, there are ultimate players but no ultimate tactics. Any tactics require the performance of the players, daily training and the command of the coach as the basis. of.

Without these, those tactical roadmaps that look good on paper may be a complete mess in actual games. Many young coaches who enter the NBA or famous college coaches have suffered a loss, thinking that they follow the tactical board. Using sophisticated tactics to allow players to run, and implementing his defensive strategies in defense, he can win consecutive victories and become a strong team.

In fact, basketball is much more than simply running two tactics, especially in the NBA where geniuses are rampant and money reigns supreme. If you wishfully think of building a team to win the game like playing a video game, you will only end up with a big fall. Therefore, after so many years in the NBA, Gelgulic has always been an assistant coach. In fact, with his qualifications and abilities, he is fully qualified for the position of NBA head coach.

But he just doesn't want to be a head coach. He is only willing to be an assistant coach responsible for more technical projects, and watch guys like Rick Pitino getting his head broken in the league while he makes a fortune quietly. , while becoming one of the highest-paid assistant coaches in the NBA, he also held training classes in the summer to teach students and collect tuition fees, and he was having a great time.

Of course, Gergulic raised this question not just to tease you. On the contrary, he knew that in such a training class, it is meaningless to simply teach these coaches some tactical applications. Everyone is familiar with these things, and they will chew them after they are taken out. It's a complete waste of your tuition money. Only this kind of challenging problem that has not been finalized in the basketball world can stimulate their creativity and thinking ability.

You must know that with the development of rules, player abilities and high technology, basketball tactics are also constantly reforming and improving. Although the basic types of tactics have been finalized in the past thirty or forty years, different tactical combinations have unlimited possibilities. . Famous coaches in the past often had tactical labels attached to them, such as Winter's triangle offense, Sloan's UCLA, Adelman's Princeton, Riley's Show-time and Muscle Corps.

But now, there are fewer and fewer such labels, and it is difficult for people to use one tactical type to summarize a certain coach’s style. They often combine a variety of tactical types to use for their own teams, and after changing teams, the tactics It will also change accordingly. For example, Gregg Popovich, the coach of this year's championship-winning Spurs, would find it difficult to classify him using a certain tactical system.

Gergulic saw this trend, so he asked his students to think. There may not be a final answer, but this thinking process can give them a more thorough understanding of tactics and be able to use them in the future. Use these tactics more flexibly in your coaching.

Regarding this ultimate defensive problem of Gergulic, the five students began to sit on the floor, placing a tactical board in front of each person, and fully began to brainstorm, regardless of whether it could be realized or not, but imagining how to combine the two in their minds. stand up.

"I think one of the principles in Amoeba can be modified, which is the pressure of the defender on the opponent's first player. We know that the defensive investment ratio of the defender is very low, allowing the team's point guard to consume a lot of It is a big waste of energy to block the opponent's shot on the outside that may not be a threat. It is better to give this task to the forward players and test the pressure on the ball holder through small-scale rotation, but not to destroy the defensive formation..." Bernie Biskstaff's son, J. Biskstaff, was the first to offer his opinion.

Biskstaff's idea was just an idea on paper. Although the theory he put forward that the point guard's defensive investment ratio was low was correct, he did not see that the two defenders pressing the first ball player was the core of the amoeba defense. , without this point, the amoeba defense will no longer exist, and it will be no different from other ordinary rotation defenses.

Hearing Biskstaff's opinion, the other four experienced guys smiled, while Gelgurich bluntly pointed out that Biskstaff's idea basically stayed in the 1980s, and this This idea has basically no practical significance, because it simply becomes another kind of defense.

Mike Brown has followed Popovich for several years and helped the Spurs a lot on the defensive end. He has a deep understanding of defense. He thought for a while and said: "The key to the combination of two defensive strategies is to find two The overlapping points of strategies, such as intensity issues, and some details of pressing intensity and pressing direction selection in amoeba defense, can be referenced by man-to-man defense. The stretch and defensive toughness of man-to-man defense are actually in the amoeba. It also showed up on defense, but it was undermined by frequent double teams.”

Regarding Mike Brown's idea, Gelgulic nodded. His principle of "picking the best" is already very similar to the tactical selection of modern basketball. This is undoubtedly the essence of following Popovich. .

However, Mike Brown put forward some ideas and suggestions, but did not really provide a solution. After all, in the process of coaching the Spurs, they had Duncan, a super defensive inside man who had only met once in thirty years. In many cases, his presence made the Spurs The construction of the defensive system becomes simple. Duncan alone is responsible for most of the system.

Stotts has not spoken much. His interest is mainly on the offensive end. He himself is also determined to build an ultimate offensive team. He does not understand the defensive issues thoroughly enough and can only make some minor mentions in the corners. Opinion.

Carlisle thought for a long time with a stern face, and finally said: "I think this is not a problem that can be solved through skills and integration. The difference between the two tactics is too big, especially some principle differences, such as man-marking and double-teaming. How can they coexist perfectly? Unless the five players on the field share the same brain, they can double-team if they feel they need to double-team, or man-mark if they want man-to-man, and switch freely. But facts have proven that something like Collins's will not It works.”

Collins was the head coach of the Bulls at that time. He was famous as a tactical dictionary. He stood on the sidelines and shouted directly to the players what tactics to use. The players followed the instructions and changed formations. As a result, the Bulls with Jordan played extremely rigidly. In the end, he was also " Replaced by Jackson, the master of the "Ye Fox Zen" sect. The latter led the Bulls to achieve extremely brilliant achievements.

Later, everyone was talking to each other, talking more and more, and thinking more and more, but only Fox-Leon, who only said a few words from beginning to end, drew back and forth on the board from time to time, seemed to have already Stuck in this problem.

"Fox, don't get too horny. The purpose of this question is to open up ideas and exchange experiences, not to really come up with an answer. Tell us what you think. In the afternoon, we are going to watch the video of this year's finals for analysis." Gergurich named Leon and said.

Only then did Leon come out of his thoughts. He cleared his throat and said: "In 1940, when cryptographers were trying to use linguistics, semiotics, cipher text, intertext and other methods to decipher the German army's secret messages. , Alan Turing finally cracked those ciphertexts with a calculator he made, because there were 159 billion possible combinations of those ciphertexts. In 1976, at the University of Illinois, they used two electronic computers to design a program , spent a full 100 hours trying 10 billion possibilities, proving that the four-color conjecture is correct. I just spent 15 minutes estimating that if the two defenses are combined with each other, in different areas of the half court , in the face of different offensive situations, fuzzy calculations are used - a little knowledge of membership functions is used here, there are probably more than 1280 possible situations. If classified and summarized, it can be roughly summarized into 19 categories. If, I mean if , like Carlisle said, if the players on the field share the same brain and are familiar with these 19 types of situations, they can probably switch between the two defensive modes freely. "

After Leon said this, he saw the other five people looking at him blankly, and then looking at each other at the people sitting next to them, showing the expression of a primary school student listening to advanced mathematics. Finally, Gergulic said: "What kind of guy is this? A freak, or... a genius..."