The Whip of the God of Basketball

Passing is the most basic technique in basketball offense. After becoming the team's assistant coach, Leon has always attached great importance to the team's passing training. However, when O'Brien was in charge of the team, he asked the players to improve the speed and accuracy of the pass, so the team had a lot of four-corner pass practice and fast pass training around the pile in training. However, Leon believes that when there is no way to ensure that every player has enough passing talent, one-sidedly wanting to rely on repeated training to improve the team's overall passing level is an act with little effect.

Of course, his training plan and principles were not appreciated by O'Brien, and then O'Brien dismissed get out of class. During Carroll's coaching period, Leon continued to maintain the past passing training methods, but emphasized more on the details of short passing and small-scale passing. He knew that this team did not have a real team. A pass master, and it seems that it is difficult to have a pass master in the short term. Their offense has become simple and rough, and the offense is often completed by the players alone after a small coordination, which relies on the extremely high offensive talent of the players.

Walker, Reed, Pierce, Johnson, Arenas, any one of them has the strength or potential to average 20 points, but none of them can increase their assists to 5. But that doesn't mean they won't be good passers. In Leon's plan, he doesn't expect a Jason Kidd-like control master, but hopes that everyone can participate in the pass. For this reason, in the training on the morning of the 2nd, Leon officially started the passing training he designed.

"From now on, I ask every player to keep two principles firmly in your mind when passing the ball. I believe that you have experienced many years of college basketball training and professional basketball. I have a deep understanding of many basic techniques and details, but training and learning never stop. The focus of many skills is not on the understanding of the mind, but on the habits of the body. We must deeply plant some basic habits. Get into your subconscious mind and your motor neurons. Gilbert, Joe, Michael, Milt, come here, stand here." Before the training began, Leon called Arenas, Michael Reed, Millt Te Palacio and Joe Johnson were called around the middle circle and asked them to participate in passing drills.

Four people came out of the line, wearing black training uniforms, Leon threw the basketball in his hand to Arenas, and then said to the three: "Joe, from now on you stand on the center line, you can't cross this center line .Gilbert, you come here with the ball, stand in the free throw circle, this is your range. Michael and Palacio, you two have no range. Stand up four of you, Gil Bert gave me the ball back."

Arenas passed the ball back to Leon, and Leon took the ball and said: "I will pass the ball to Arenas later, from the moment I pass the ball to him, he will be in the middle of the three seconds." Nei passed the ball into Johnson's hands. Johnson can't cross this center line, and Arenas can't go out of the free throw circle. Pay attention to the bright spot, don't allow the ball to be thrown hard towards the backcourt, and then let Johnson turn around to chase, I Will call you offside; not allowed to give up on Arenas to double-team Johnson, that's a defensive violation... Reed and Palacio are in charge of the defense, you start off about 4 feet, 4 feet away from them , that's right, step back three-quarters of a foot to Michael."

Leon's sense of distance is so strong that he can see with his eyes that Reed and Palacio are now standing 4 feet away from Joe Johnson and Arenas, slightly challenging them. After fine-tuning, Leon nodded with satisfaction and continued: "Remember, you only have three seconds, okay, let's get started..."

After finishing speaking, Leon passed the ball to Arenas, and Palacio, a small 6-foot-1 point guard, jumped at Arenas like a small frog. I observed Johnson's position for a few tenths of a second, and he was also entangled by Reid. However, Arenas took a step back with the dribble before Palacio pressed up, and then threw the ball towards Johnson with one hand. A lob, counting on Johnson to get away from Reed and catch it in the air. It's a pity that Johnson is not as good as Reed in terms of bounce, and he is not as strong as Reed. Reed squeezed Johnson and robbed the ball.

"Beep!" Leon blew his whistle, and when three seconds were up, he didn't even wear a watch. He took the ball back from Reid and said, "It's okay, let's move on.

As he spoke, he threw the ball to Arenas again, and repeated it four times. Finally, for the fourth time, after Arenas received the ball, at the moment when Palacio had just pounced, he hit the ground with a The pass was passed to his left, and Johnson pretended to go to his left, and then turned to the right after a false move. Finally, he got rid of Reed's defense slightly and received a pass from Arenas. It worked.

"Oh! It's more difficult than I thought, but it doesn't seem to bother me." After passing the ball successfully, Arenas felt as if he had found the knack, and his self-confidence swelled up again. He also stepped forward to give Johnson a high-five in celebration.

"Tell me Gilbert, what's the trick?" Leon asked Arenas.

"The trick is speed, and tacit understanding. The pass must be fast, and then you must have a tacit understanding with your teammates."

Leon didn't say anything about this. He stepped forward and patted Palacio on the shoulder to let him go down to rest for a while, then waved to Dennis Rodman and said, "Dennis, guard against one."

Rodman took off his sports jacket, walked to a position about four feet away from Arenas, and moved back a small step under Leon's guidance. The former best defensive player in the NBA stood in front of Arenas. He was full of confidence, and he was also a little worried. He didn't know what kind of pressing defense Rodman would use. Arenas was ready to make a quick exit. Ball ready.

"Okay, get ready..." Leon said and passed the ball to Arenas again. Arenas was highly focused, and he was ready to retreat when Rodman pressed him. Li has already outlined several passing lines, and he is still observing Joe Johnson's expression, and the two are making eye contact.

But the moment he got the ball in his hand, Rodman didn't push forward at all. On the contrary, he took two steps back, stood eight feet away from Arenas, spread his limbs, and covered Arenas's body like a spider web. before. Arenas hesitated for a second. He found that the passing line he designed was likely to be interfered by Rodman's limbs. It seemed that there was only one way to throw the ball high. However, the previous pass proved that the high throw would only be robbed by Reed. .

"Beep!" Leon's whistle rang again, three seconds had passed, and the ball was still in Arenas' hands. Rodman did not press as close as he expected, but took a step back and stood closer to the midpoint between Johnson and Arenas, blocking the possible passing route between the two. In this way, Rodman didn't have to mark people at all, because one of Arenas and Johnson was fixed in the circle and the other was fixed on the line. For three seconds, there was nowhere to run. This is the skill of the best defensive player.

"OK, Gilbert, I can tell you that according to Dennis's defensive strategy just now, you don't even try to pass one of the ten balls. Everyone has seen that it's not that the closer the defensive player is to you, the more you pass the ball. Difficult, the farther away you are, the easier your pass is. Sometimes the opposite is true, when the defender is closer to you, your chances of passing the ball are greater, because he is too close to you, he has no energy to take care of Your passing line and the receiver, he only has you and the ball in his eyes. When the ball is gone, he has nothing. Therefore, the first principle of passing I want to tell everyone is that when the defender is three feet away from you When you are within feet, it is the best time for you to pass the ball. At this time, the defender can get the shortest reaction time." Leon said, walked to the court, stood on the sideline and took a step towards the court, and then A basketball was placed next to the outstretched foot.

"The distance from the sideline to the basketball here is three feet. Everyone stands in twos and stands on both sides to feel the distance of three feet." The three feet given by Leon are basically the same as measured by a ruler. All the players were divided into two groups to roughly feel the distance of three feet. In the days of training in the future, Leon will continue to mention the distance of three feet. He can judge the distance between two people by measuring with his eyes. Players will then be extremely sensitive to this distance.

After finishing the three-foot estimation, Leon continued: "In addition to three feet, I also asked Arenas to pass the ball within three seconds. When our pass is fast enough, leave it to the opponent The less opportunities for defensive adjustments and changes, I believe this is clear to everyone. Then how do we improve the speed of passing the ball, is it to improve our reaction speed, improve the tacit understanding or improve the passing skills? Sorry, these are all It is a basic subject, something we have been practicing since the first day of training. What I want to emphasize today is still distance. This is the second principle I want to emphasize. In a half-court attack, never let the closest Your teammates are more than 20 feet, or closer to 15 feet. This distance is the key to ensuring that you can play the ball quickly without making mistakes."

After hearing what Leon said, Dennis Rodman couldn't help covering his mouth and snickering, "Isn't this just a triangle offense?"

Leon glanced at Rodman, as if he heard him, and said, "No, it's not a triangle offense, because we don't have a deployment line."