The rest is just noise

Chapter 1,152 The Smartest Person

Not every restart will herald a bright future with victory.

In the opening game of the 1995-96 season between the Lakers and the Knicks, after four quarters of hard work at home, the Los Angeles Lakers lost by 11 points.

The most eye-catching thing is that the Lakers committed 24 turnovers tonight.

Moreover, most of them are due to errors in the conductive ball.

For a team like the Knicks, a league based on defense, as long as they catch their opponent's mistakes, it will be a quick counterattack.

The Knicks scored 20 points with quick counterattacks alone.

"Although the Lakers lost by 11 points, with so many turnovers, I would say they have a bright future." Hubie Brown boasted, "If they can reduce their turnovers by half, with what they did tonight

Shooting percentage does not mean there is no chance of winning."

New Yorkers don't want to hear this.

But this is a fact. The Lakers feel hot today, especially Ellis and Liu Yuqing.

These two shooters rained three-pointers from the outside. Although the shooting rate dropped in the last quarter due to the Knicks' high-intensity defense, the performance of others was not bad either.

The tragic player scored 11 points, 7 rebounds and 6 assists as a substitute in his first game since his comeback, but made 6 turnovers.

Tonight, the Lakers used the "shooting star" tactic 12 times, all of which were performed by tragedy masters.

As shown by the Tragedy's turnover numbers, they had 6 direct turnovers, and 4 of the remaining 6 were eventually converted into points.

Judging from the shooting percentage after the tactic is successfully completed, the "Meteor" tactic is a tactic that has a high probability of scoring as long as it is played.

However, Louis was not satisfied at all.

Although the tactics were successfully run 6 times, that was only the completion of the tactics, and there were many mistakes during the period.

It’s just that the tactic itself is too complex and poses a threat in the form of multi-threading, so even if someone makes a mistake, the tactic can still be completed.

This can be said to be the basic value of the "Meteor" tactic, but it is far from enough.

Failure to play the "shooting star" strategy perfectly in one night was unacceptable to Louis.

Louis shook hands with Tomjanovich sullenly.

Rudy asked: "What big move are you doing again?"

"I'll tell you when I'm done." Louis had no intention of chatting, said goodbye to Rudy, and walked directly to the reporters.

No matter how stupid the reporter is, he can still see that Louis has "You'd better not ask fucking stupid questions" written all over his face, so he just mentioned a few innocuous things.

"The Romance of Fairy Wood"

Louis also gave a hasty answer, and the on-site interview was over.

Louis was full of anger and was ready to find someone in the locker room to vent it out to.

He knows that "Meteor" is not only a difficult tactic, but also a tactic that can only be completed by players with high golf IQ.

But a group of NBA players have been training hard for half a month and played twelve tactics in official games. Not to mention that one play is a perfect play. Is it difficult to ensure that one play is completed without making mistakes?

It’s outrageous that someone makes a mistake every damn time!

Louis is like a bomb about to be dropped in the dressing room.

When he walked into the locker room with a gloomy face, Wilson slammed the orange Gatorade to the ground.

"This is fucking unforgivable!" Wilson roared, "We have been practicing hard for more than half a month, but we can't make a good tactic in the game. Can any of you tell me why?"

Tretter didn't know Wilson well enough, otherwise he would never have said in order to ease the atmosphere in the locker room: "The tactics are too difficult."

"Too difficult?" Wilson sneered again and again, "I'm not saying that we have to master a new tactic in half a month. What I mean is that we are a group of professional players and we have practiced this new tactic for more than half a month.

Month, but we couldn’t play the strategy correctly and completely during the game? Are you fucking telling me that this is because the strategy is too difficult? Are you fucking trying to say that we are all idiots?”

"Benj...I didn't mean that..."

"I don't mean to blame you. I want to ask other people, do you use your heart to run tactics? Do you use your brain to play?" Wilson sprayed them one by one like a tyrant, "Jasmine, everyone looks down on high school students.

The reason is, you don’t fucking know how to play basketball! Ervin, if you’re doing this every night, you might as well not come back! Chris…”

"alright……"

Before entering the locker room, Louis never thought he would play such a role.

He was actually responsible for calming down Benj's anger, making the team members truly feel that although they were in hell, King Yama was in love.

If Benj replaces him as the villain, Louis can control the team better.

Regardless of whether Benj did it on purpose or not, Louis should have spoken out to dissuade him.

"Benj, don't be so harsh on your teammates. You make mistakes too. Just like them, we are learning a new tactic that has never been seen before. To make it work, we need to not only work harder than before."

You have to practice hard, feel it with your heart, and use all your basketball IQ to understand it.”

Louis successfully became the team's guardian angel.

"Everyone, I hope you remember that only relying on rote memorization will not only make you unable to play the 'Meteor' tactic, but also the conventional tactics. It is like giving birth to a child. We have to waste hundreds of millions* of money every time before we can change

Come to a new life. In order for 'Meteor' to work, we have to pay more."

As Louis said, Wilson did make mistakes.

But he only made one mistake from beginning to end, and it was a very hidden mistake.

Compared to others, Wilson is the person most qualified to get angry.

After Louis persuaded Benj, he took the initiative to admit his mistake to his teammates.

"I also made a lot of mistakes. Maybe I am not qualified to criticize you at all, but I need to let you understand how much I take this matter." Wilson retreated in order to advance, "I hope we will work harder and make unprecedented efforts to make it happen."

The shooting star sets early."

Then, the exchange in the locker room ended.

Louis brought Wilson to the press conference.

On the road, they exchanged "shooting star" tactics like normal people.

Wilson seemed to have forgotten that not long ago he was cursing teammates as if he was having a hyperthyroidism attack.

He kept asking: "Coach, how can we make the five people work in sync and form a perfect 'Zihuatanejo Path'?"

"Benj, have you ever seen a baby run away before they could walk?"

Wilson could only continue to explore.

After the press conference, Louis took Zhao Yuanzheng and Tomjanovich together for a small gathering at the Forum Club.

Louis did not return home until two o'clock in the morning.

The family was all asleep, but Louis was not sleepy at all.

He brought back the videotape of tonight's game and prepared to review it.

It is a waste of time to just rely on the players to find problems on their own.

What's more, the role of the coaching staff is to guide the players to play correct tactics.

Louis expects to review the tape three times.

Record the mistakes made by the players on the first pass.

The second time, I used the video to think about the reasons for the mistakes and the methods and ideas to avoid them.

The third time is to check for omissions and fill in the gaps.

Look at what needs to be added, not as carefully as the first two times.

After reviewing it three times, it was already dawn.

Louis seems to have gone back to ten years ago, when he was still a young scout for the Celtics, carrying pen and paper with him wherever he went.

Now his energy is not as good as before, but if he occasionally takes it seriously, his skill is still the same as before.

Almost all the players who participated in the "Meteor" tactic last night made more than ten pages of mistakes.

There is only one exception.

Liu Yuqing——Louis specifically replayed the video in fast forward for the fourth time in order to find his mistakes.

The result was unexpected. Liu Yuqing participated in 8 "Meteor" tactical rounds without making any mistakes.

Moreover, the "Meteor" tactical round with his participation was successful 5 times.

The "Meteor" tactical round without Liu Yuqing's participation was only successful once (4 times).

This seems to prove that Liu Yuqing is the player in the Lakers team who has the best grasp of "Meteor".

Louis watched Liu Yuqing's running position carefully and could indeed see the difference from others.

Others, including Wilson, were guided by their tactical thoughts through rote memorization of tactical paths.

Back-to-back only will only form a dependence on the tactical path.

In other words, if someone makes a mistake, there will inevitably be an overlap of movements, and those who rely on tactical paths are not prepared for teammates who appear on their paths.

Once this happens, the offensive thread represented by the overlapping tactical paths of the two people will basically be cut off.

Liu Yuqing is different, he does not rely on paths.

He instinctively knows how to move.

Others move their heads first - look at the direction and then start running, which is very uncoordinated.

Liu Yuqing, on the other hand, was running normally without the ball. There was no incompatibility between his game thinking and limbs. Every step he made was calm and correct.

Louis didn't know how to describe this feeling...

It was like... he saw the "place where whales fell" on the battlefield.

While the rest of the team is still in a state of confusion and frequent mistakes, Liu Yuqing's understanding of tactics seems to have gone beyond the stage of understanding the "meteor" and is pointing directly to the "whale fall" in the second stage.

Is he the smartest guy on the team?

Louis grabbed the notebook in his hand and took out the video tape.

－－－－－－Digression－－－－－

Thank you Bai Xiaopao Jiang for the 10,000 reward.