The rest is just noise

Thanksgiving in 1996 was November 28. Before that, the 13-2 Lakers still had two home games to play.

After four consecutive trips, they returned to Luo City with their exhausted bodies.

The plane landed at Los Angeles Airport, and Louis then got on the team bus back to the forum.

Under normal circumstances, when returning from an away game, Louis would go home to refresh himself. Now he is focused on public service and only thinking about the new tactics designed by Bird.

Only the coaching staff went straight to the forum, while the players chose to go back to reunite with their families first.

Due to traffic jam, the Lakers bus was delayed on the road for 40 minutes.

The idea of ​​buying a private jet became more and more intense in Louis' mind.

At this time, there were four people in the president's office of the Forum Office Building.

They are Jim Buss, Larry Bird, Jerry West and Zhao Yuanzheng.

Since the president was still on the way, Bass had to entertain these big guys.

However, they are all boring.

West sat there like a zombie and read the information compiled by Bird. Bird only wanted a bottle of cold Heineken beer.

Zhao Yuanzheng is usually a very capable person, but he has nothing to do in front of these two people.

As a last resort, Bass Jr. could only talk about his past, which seemed very baffling to West and Bird.

He talked about his enlightenment period.

At that time, he was as obsessed with older members of the opposite sex as his elder sister. Later, he found that although his eldest sister was good in this and that, she was not as sweet as younger girls of the same age, so he decided to break up with his eldest sister, who he had been dating for a long time.

"I was very depressed because I didn't know if it was the right decision, until I met a beautiful waitress in a bar. Her name was Angela, and we quickly fell in love, quickly got engaged, and then I made a simple

I decided that I have to end the relationship." Little Bass's face was so serious that people couldn't bear to interrupt him. "I held my scarred heart and confessed my feelings to Lillian, but she turned my heart around.

"He threw the heart into the blender, reached out and pressed the 'mince' button."

"From then on, I never liked women older than me."

Hearing this, Bird and West looked at each other.

West asked coldly: "You said it or should I?"

Bird thought it was up to him to do the talking because he likes to talk trash.

"Jim, I'm sorry for what happened to you, but I think you basically brought it upon yourself. As our hometown says, the more effort you put into farm work, the more corn you will harvest."

Little Bas nodded and said: "I did make a mistake that all men make, but, putting the facts aside, wasn't Lillian not wrong at all? I was not even an adult when she was with me.

Li, she should know that she is dating an immature boy."

West looked at him playfully: "It sounds like you are mature now?"

"Yes, I am much more mature. I only have two dreams now. One is to own my own brand bar in big cities across the country, and the other is to only date women who are over 17 and under 20 years old."

Little Bas looked very painful: "Do you understand? This is what Lillian did to me. She turned me into her shape."

West and Bird really didn't expect that this small president's office would hide such a self-aware scoundrel.

"You guys had a lot of fun chatting."

Just when the two greatest white players in history could hardly sit still, Louis appeared.

"Sir, it's great that you're back!" Bass Jr. quickly got up from the president's throne, "I'm waiting for you!"

"How many times have I told you not to sit in my chair!"

"Yes, I won't sit down next time."

Next time he will sit in the office when no one else is around, for sure.

"Go and order a lunch for me." Louis casually assigned a job to little Buzz.

"Okay, let's talk."

Louis came to sit on the throne that he had not seen for many days, and there was still the residual warmth left by little Bas on it.

"Is that young master usually so casual in front of you?" Bird sneered.

Louis said helplessly

: "I thought he didn't take me seriously before, but later I found out that he was just simple-minded. I happen to be a very tolerant person, so I let him do it."

Louis is a very tolerant and kind person?

Parts of Bird's and West's faces twitched at those words.

Bird put the new system information that he had spent most of the month in front of Louis.

"Let's see."

Louis' requirement for the new system is to have an echoing relationship with "beautiful basketball".

Bird rummaged around and finally found a famous offensive system in the long history of the NCAA that seemed to have some connection with "Beautiful Basketball" - Princeton.

Speaking of Princeton, we cannot fail to mention its creator, Pete Carril.

Carrier's Princeton not only broke the ancient rules of basketball, but also completely changed the perception of offensive positioning, and made the most original attempt to blur the position of the court.

In the future, basketball will be non-positional, with only guards, wings, and big men. However, in the early 1970s, with the emergence of a generation of forwards with modern qualities represented by Connie Hawkins, forwards finally had the distinction of big and small.

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The five positions of modern basketball have also been gradually subdivided.

In that era when everyone formed teams according to position, the Princeton University where Khalil worked did not have talented players, and playing the game step by step would never achieve good results. So, Khalil summarized what he had learned over the years and officially launched

In the Princeton system, the big man is frequently raised to a high position, replacing the organizational function of the first position, and making the inside line become the pivot point that determines the offensive position.

This is position blurring.

Why does Bird's new system remind Louis of Princeton?

The positioning arrangement on the tactical drawings says it all.

The Princeton system has two characteristics:

Must have an inside player with a high basketball IQ, good at passing, and excellent and stable mid-to-long-range shooting ability;

Four inside and one outside positions.

Bird's new tactics gave the inside a very high tactical status, and many fancy moves were arranged around the inside's support of receiving the ball in the high post.

Louis believed that Bird did this out of selfish motives. He wanted Garnett to shine under the new system.

If Garnett is assumed to be the axis of the new system, then a large number of strong and weak side transfers will be carried out around this axis, and pick-and-roll attacks will be launched. Wilson, Barros, Dumas and others will break through and compress the opponent's defense to distribute the ball.

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It seems that Wilson and the others are also very important, but without Garnett, this tactic cannot be completed.

In addition to providing support from a high position, Garnett also provided off-ball coverage to the left and right wings, while also mixing in mutual coverage between the insides - Bird used Princeton's large framework and combined some complicated things, which are essentially the same.

Don't leave your roots.

After Louis read it, he thought for a few minutes.

"How's it going?" Bird asked.

Louis asked back: "Do you really think Jasmine at this stage can take on this important task? Don't you think you are a bit overruling her efforts?"

Bird felt a little guilty, "I didn't say this tactic was prepared for him."

"Stop doing this! He is the only insider in our team who has the ability to accomplish these things!" Louis thought of Garnett being completely blown away by Sampson last night, but he didn't think he could serve as the axis of the new system now.

, "You're too hasty, Larry!"

West expressed his opinion: "I think you can try. Kevin has excellent passing skills and excellent support capabilities, but under the conventional system, his support capabilities cannot be fully developed. If

We want him to mature as soon as possible, and this is an opportunity, an opportunity for him to grow quickly."

Louis agrees with the direction of Bird's new system, but overall it's still too rough.

"I will consider your suggestions carefully." Louis pressed the document gently and said, "Larry, I have accepted your report. I will go back and study it carefully and make some necessary adjustments and changes. In a few days, I will

Will promote your system to the whole team."

Bird felt that Louis might have changed his system beyond recognition. However, when it came to coaching, the other party was a master and he was an apprentice, so it was okay.

I can only agree.