Almighty Coach

Seattle, Davis Institute for Joint Trauma.

Professor Davis has obtained the results of Wood's latest MRI examination through some special channels.

"Looking at the results of the examination, Wood's knee condition is still very bad, and he has not recovered at all! But in the game, he was not affected in the slightest, and he was still able to make that kind of difficult technical moves. What is going on? What? With the recovery of his knee, it is impossible to play like he is now." Professor Davis frowned, looking puzzled.

He thought for a long time but couldn't think of the answer, so he simply rubbed his temples, opened the webpage, and wanted to see Wood's recent situation.

"Yellow Mamba" Resurrection! "The title caught Davis' eyes, he clicked on it directly, and saw the report about Hall.

"That's impossible!" Professor Davis exclaimed violently.

In the next second, he clicked on the video attached to the webpage, which was a collection of Hall's wonderful goals in recent games.

In the video, Hall's various speed changes, as well as the picturesque mid-range emergency stop jumper, constantly teasing the opponent, is really quite enjoyable, and anyone who has watched it can't help but admire Hall's wonderful performance cheers.

However, Davis's heart became more and more heavy. In his opinion, this is simply impossible.

"I have also treated Hall. The menisci of both knees have been removed. How can he make such a change of speed and direction, and this kind of emergency stop jump shot? Doesn't he feel pain?"

Although Professor Davis is not an athlete, he is an authority on knee joint trauma. He knows what kind of clinical performance an athlete who loses both menisci will have, and he also knows that it is impossible for Hall to do such a thing. The technical action of "Knee Terminator".

Especially for this kind of emergency stop jump shot, the knee joint will bear a lot of pressure. Even a person with intact knee joint will feel sore joints when doing this technical action continuously. A person whose meniscus has been removed from both knees, even Being able to make such technical movements, the friction between the bones between the joints will also make people unbearably painful.

Compared with Wood, Hall's recovery made Davis feel even more incredible. Although Wood's injuries are serious and frequent, all the parts that should be on his body are still there. In theory, he has the possibility of recovery. But Hall even had his meniscus removed.

This is like the damage to the nerves in some people's hands, which will cause limb dysfunction. Under normal circumstances, it is difficult to recover, but if there is no guarantee that a miracle will happen, it will really recover. But if the hand is amputated, no matter how miraculous it is, it will not be possible to grow another hand.

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The fans are not as professional as Professor Davis. They only saw Hall scored 35 points in a game, and only saw the beautiful change of speed and direction and the picturesque pull-up jumper. As for Hall's knee, what happened? Getting better is not what fans pay attention to.

The regular season has only started for more than a month. When the Clippers introduced a large number of retired players and then traded away Ronnie, no one was optimistic about the Clippers. People even called the Clippers a "shelter for the elderly, weak, sick and disabled" .

Now, with the recovery of Wood and Hall, Gray has also fulfilled his talent, and the Clippers have three All-Star players at once, forming the most popular "Big Three" model in the NBA in recent years. Coupled with veteran Calabi and rookie Kumar, the Clippers' lineup is not weak at all.

This change of the Clippers is not good news for other teams in the West. The competition in the West is already fierce enough. If there is another team with the "Big Three", the difficulty of entering the playoffs will increase. a lot.

There are now six regular season MVPs in the Western Conference. Except for the Dallas Mavericks who is Lian Po, the other five are all in their prime.

In addition, there are several "prospective MVPs" in the West. These "prospective MVPs" have been ranked in the top five among the MVP candidates over the years. Great record.

One regular-season MVP is enough to change the entire NBA league. If five MVPs get together, it will open up a difficult mode for other teams.

It is already very difficult to reach the playoffs in such a Western Conference. Now that there is an extra Clippers "Big Three", the situation in the Western Conference has become more chaotic, and the competition between teams has become more intense.

Wood and Holga Gray have organizers, scorers, and inside gates. This combination can be said to be able to play both inside and outside, and is excellent both offensively and defensively. Everyone takes it for granted that the Clippers' "Big Three" will show their power.

However, the Clippers unexpectedly suffered a five-game losing streak, and fell to ninth in the Western Conference, falling out of the range of the playoffs.

...

In the conference room, the coaching staff of the Clippers are discussing the reasons for frequent losses in recent games.

"We lost in tactics." Assistant coach Cassel looked at Li Dai cautiously while talking, he was worried that he would make Li Dai unhappy. Because of the tactical loss, the head coach must be blamed.

What Cassel said is true. The Clippers have never established their own tactical system. Of course, with Li Dai's level and lack of tactical literacy, they can come up with a tactical system. Li Dai is not a professional basketball player after all. Coaches, even if they are learning and selling with others, they are not that hot.

The current Clippers rely entirely on star football. This kind of precedent is not unheard of in the NBA. After all, NBA games are more about personal ability. A superstar with outstanding ability, as long as he has the ball in his hand, is capable of turning decay. for magical abilities.

At the beginning of the season, the Clippers' style of play also achieved good results. The teams did not understand the Clippers' style of play, coupled with Wood's sudden recovery, and Gray fulfilled his talent , This caught other teams by surprise, and the Clippers were equivalent to winning by surprise, so they achieved a good record.

Moreover, at the beginning of the regular season, each team is also adjusting their tactics. The players are still in the stage of adapting to the coach's tactical system. There are even some players whose bodies have not fully adjusted to the state of the game. Strength will inevitably be affected.

Now that the regular season has passed for more than a month, the Clippers' "star ball" style of play has been well known by all teams, and opponents will naturally exercise tactical restraint.

More importantly, after a month of competition, the tactical adaptation of each team has been completed, and the players have entered the state of the competition both physically and mentally. The entire team has slowly changed from being unfamiliar at the beginning of the season In order to mature, begin to show real strength.

Every season, there will always be some "anticlimactic" teams in the NBA. They played very well at the beginning of the season. Chasing, but at the end of the season, everyone is bullying, and they don't look like a strong team at all. The reason is nothing more than two points. The first is that other teams have become stronger, and the second is that other teams have found a way to deal with you.

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In the meeting room, everyone's eyes were on Dai Li. It was about the tactical system, which required the head coach to make a decision.

Dai Li tapped lightly on the table with his index finger a few times, as if he was thinking about a solution.

In terms of basketball tactics, Li Dai really has no background, he can't come up with a complete tactical system at all.

Last season's Clippers relied on the title of "evenly matched" to support themselves, so they were able to counterattack and enter the top ten in the Western Conference as a bad team. This season's Clippers must not continue to be "evenly matched". used.

"I'm not a basketball coach after all!" Dai Li thought with a dark face.

In terms of personal reputation, Dai Li is not inferior to the head coach of any NBA team; in terms of training, Dai Li is no worse than others; but in terms of tactics, the assistant coaches of other teams are better than Dai Li.

Many assistant coaches in the NBA are players. They played for more than ten years, and then became assistant coaches for seven or eight years. on the. Even if Li Dai came up with a tactical system, it was just a big knife in front of Guan Gong. Not to mention self-inflicted humiliation, it was far worse than others.

"My advantage is training. With the same training time and training intensity, I have systematic bonuses, so my training will have better results, and will make athletes run faster, jump higher, and have stronger strength. And it won't hurt."

"In addition, I have athlete patches, which can make those injured players recover; I also have age reduction cards, which can make those older players return to youth."

"Understand your strengths and weaknesses, and then make the most of your strengths and avoid your weaknesses. That's the right choice. That's why I chose the strategy of playing star football, because in terms of tactics, the coaching staff of every NBA team can pull out anyone who is better than me. Strong, I don’t need to compete with others in what I’m not good at.”

"From this point of view, as long as I am the head coach, I don't need to do any war system, I can only fight the strategy of star football to the end!" Dai Li silently took a breath, and then seriously accepted this helpless reality .

"But now it seems that the strategy of the star ball seems to be somewhat ineffective. This is already a five-game losing streak... Well, I know the reason!"

Dai Li pondered for a long time, and finally raised his head, as if he already had a countermeasure.

The rest of the coaching staff is all ears.

Dai Li coughed dryly, cleared his throat, and said, "The strategy we have set for this season is to give full play to the personal abilities of our star players. Now that we have lost five games in a row, it means..."

Dai Li made a long draw on purpose, and the others immediately guessed what Dai Li was going to say.

"Do you want to admit that the star football strategy has failed?"

"Are you going to use a new tactical system?"

"Do you want to learn from the Warriors? Or learn from the Rockets? Or learn from the Celtics in the East?"

While thinking about it, everyone looked at Dai Li expectantly.

However, Dai Li said, "Now that we have lost five games in a row, it shows that we don't have enough star players!"

"What?" Cassel's eyes widened, and he looked at Dai Li with the same ghost-like expression. He never expected that Dai Li would give such an answer in the end.

The entire coaching staff fell silent immediately, and all kinds of strange eyes were cast on Dai Li. If Dai Li was not the head coach, some people probably couldn't help but slap Li Dai twice.

Not winning because there are not enough star players, what kind of reason is this?

Dai Li's answer is really rascal!

It’s like playing Dou Dizhu, and you didn’t win after catching a straight. Instead of blaming yourself for being too ugly, you smiled and said with a cheeky look: “If I catch more bombs, then this card will win.” Already!"

Isn't this nonsense...

If you bring all the NBA's best team of the year to you, and five superstars stand on the court, what do you want as a coach!