Legend of Tomorrow

The American Airlines Center Arena, also known as the Air Corridor Arena, was built in June 1992. It was renovated this summer and can accommodate 19,000 spectators. It is currently the NBA team Suns, NBA team Phoenix Mercury, AFL The home side of the team Arizona Diamondbacks. At 10 a.m., the Suns will open for interviews and photos here.

Guo Xu and coach Mike D'Antoni, the team's first assistant Larry Drew, and manager Brian Colangelo arrived at the arena at 8 o'clock and had a coffee chat in the manager's office to discuss the new season. .

Guo Xu must make some suggestions, otherwise they have to drink hatred in the playoffs this season. It is Guo Xu's job to lead the team on the court, but how to arrange the player's playing time, D'Antoni has the final say.

At present, D'Antoni has two fatal weaknesses. His previous life was only better after he went to coach the Rockets.

One is that his rotation is very rigid. Whether it is the Suns, Knicks or Lakers, De Fat often stubbornly rotates seven or eight. When the players are fatigued to a certain extent, they begin to encounter major injuries, and then the role players shine. This routine has been repeated on De Fat many times.

The second is that he didn't even plan to practice defense last season. Finding an assistant coach who emphasizes defense may solve this problem.

It was a surprise that the Sun signed Larry Drew, an assistant assistant who emphasized defense this summer. Guo Xu, the coaching staff, did not comment. Brian knew that the team needed to strengthen the defense, and there was a ready-made free man who was blinded by him.

Drew was a point guard during the player period, averaging 20.1 points, 8.1 assists and 1.7 steals per game in the Kings' 82-83 season. After retiring, Drew began his career as an assistant. From the 1992-93 season, he successively worked as an assistant for the Lakers, Pistons, Wizards and other teams. He just left the Wizards for three seasons this summer.

Because the Wizards have failed so badly over the past three years and messed up Jordan's comeback performance, Drew is not a sought-after assistant, and Brian signed him largely because it was cheap.

He attaches great importance to defense and likes to warn players that he would rather allow opponents to get to the free throw line than to easily give up the defensive position and give the opponent easy scoring opportunities. In Guo Xu's previous life, Drew had been the head coach of the Hawks. He made two first round games and once reached the second round.

The most famous deed of Drew is that in 2018, instead of recuperating, Tyrone Lu has been the head coach of the Cavaliers for a period of time and achieved an excellent record of 8 wins and 1 loss.

Tyrone Lu was absent, and the rotation and technical and tactical level of the Cavaliers increased significantly. It was recognized by the majority of Cavaliers fans. Some fans even said in the forum: "Larry Drew should have replaced Tyrone Lu long ago!"

Talking about coaching qualifications, Drew finished Tyronlu. At that time, he had been in the NBA coaching position for 18 years. Compared with Tyron Lu ’s stubborn use of “five suicides”, Drew ’s rotation adjustment of the team lineup is obviously More reasonable and convincing.

Unfortunately, "Tactical Ghost" Tyrone Lu returned before the playoffs, and the Cavaliers immediately changed back to "give the ball to James" ...

D'Antoni's idea is to insist on playing small balls, let Diop and two veterans be marginal, young people who can run more. He didn't even look at Diop, a blue-collar guy who wouldn't shoot, but was interested in a low-rank rookie James Jones who could shoot a three-pointer and could make a guest appearance at No. 4.

Drew recommends that the team guarantee at least 10 rotations. In addition to Guo Xu, the playing time of everyone else should be controlled within 30 minutes, so that the role players can not only ensure the efficiency of offense and defense, but also ensure physical strength and reduce the possibility of injury. In addition, this will allow young players to get more exercise in the regular season and play a role in the playoffs.

Drew is a coach who likes to rotate. During the coaching of Mike Woodson in the past life, the Eagles played very long starts. Joe Johnson averaged more than 40 minutes per season. After Drew took the coach, every game was The 12 players played in rotation, and core Joe Johnson and Josh Smith only played for about 35 minutes.

His shortcoming is that the offensive tactics are too bad, mainly because of basic pick-and-roll plus singles, not to mention leading the team to score 100 points, averaging 90 points in the three postseason games, and winning by defense.

The two coaches come together and the styles are complementary.

Guo Xu didn't listen at first. He waited for the two coaches to discuss how to allocate playing time for inside players. After asking his thoughts, he expressed his opinion.

"Mike, don't blame me, this time I will stand on the side of Larry, although he is a newcomer." Guo Xu smiled.

When Drew signed the contract, he was a little worried that Guo Xutai liked to attack and ignored the defense. Now that his ideas are supported, he is very happy. He doesn't like players who go to extremes, and feels that kind of people can't succeed.

D'Antoni had to face Guo Xu and sighed: "Do you also think you should increase the playing time of role players?"

"Yeah, otherwise it will be difficult for newcomers to enter the playoffs, they will feel nervous if they lack experience. I think Diop must have playing time, playing about 10 minutes per game, let him meet opponents who attack the restricted area. Go up for a while. This will increase his confidence and his physical fitness is great. "Guo Xu explained.

Brian answered: "We changed him to defend O'Neal and Duncan. The offense is almost okay. Try the effect in the regular season. When the opponent's inside attack is poor, you let him sit on the bench."

3 to 1, D'Antoni has to listen even if he doesn't like it.

It was Guo Xu's proposal to sit down and talk together. What he wanted was such an occasion that he could "stand in line". Discussing differences in private would not hurt the peace.

Guo Xu also gave D'Antoni face, in the offensive tactics, he fully supported D'Antoni's decision, veterans can rest. The task of the veteran is to teach the newcomers the experience of the game during training, and to be a captain in the locker room to maintain a good relationship with everyone. They are not as good as a group of young supermen in terms of strength.

Raja Bell, a 27-year-old player must be reused. He has a lot of game experience, although most of the time is not in the NBA.

In addition, the key point of the German run is the point guard. Teammates can rotate. Guo Xu must play more. Of course he has no opinion. If he plays less, he cannot get beautiful data.

Manager Brian also supports rotation, so that the data of the role players will be more average. If the starting data are very beautiful, the management will not be able to renew their contracts in the future.

Talk about the core makeup photos ~ www.wuxiaspot.com ~ Guo Xu suggested five people this year.

"Isn't it too much?" D'Antoni thought three people would do.

"Not many, now the Western Powers have shouted out four-star and five-star. We don't need to fall behind in this respect. In an interview, I plan to say that the Sun is also a big five." Guo Xu laughed.

Brian clapped his hands and grinned wryly: "High, really high!"

The three of them could not help shrinking their necks. The expression of this goods is really not like a good person.

Bryan explained with excitement: "If we don't do this, the new season may not be as focused as those teams. It's not the same as they did. They are famous players. We are young teenagers. If you play well, the fans will definitely Support us more. "

Guo Xu admires Brian's analytical skills. In fact, he didn't think so much. He just believed that the young talents with super talents will definitely improve this season. Taking photos together should be praised in advance.

Simply taking a few sets of photos can enhance the confidence of young players, why not do it?