I was determined to be bad, but I went straight to the Basketball Hall of Fame

Chapter 563 Mike Malone's New Idea
Min Congda had tried his best to be as meticulous, serious and thoughtful as possible during the interview with Mike Malone.

But it is very difficult for people to change their character, so it is difficult to change their destiny.

Impulsivity and taking things for granted are Min Congda's greatest weaknesses in human nature.

No matter how thorough the thinking beforehand, how profound the lessons of the past, they will always disappear in front of the momentary impulse and the unrealistic beautiful fantasy in the mind.

After a meal at noon and a simple communication in the afternoon, Min Congda decided that Mike Malone was the kind of assistant coach he needed.

The second-generation coach, who has worked in the industry for a long time, is proficient in basic business, has no talent, and can only earn a little hard work by working hard.

And Min Congda thinks very confidently that in a team like the Clippers, if he is raised for half a season, he will definitely be successfully assimilated by the atmosphere here.

With a high salary, you can eat well and wait until you go bankrupt. With a salary of millions, what do you do every day?

In this way, Mike Malone became Steve Kerr's successor, and the Clippers and Cavaliers, the opponents of the Finals, completed the coaching exchange.

This exchange, looking at the history of the NBA, is also quite explosive. No one understands what kind of show operation this is.

But later events proved that this was a win-win swap.

Cole's construction in the Clippers has been basically successful.

With his ambition, it will be a matter of time before he leaves.

Continuing to stay in the Clippers is just a brush with honor, and his dream of being a head coach cannot be realized.

The Cavaliers really need an offensive coach to further tap the team's potential.

Affected by the salary space, it is difficult for the Cavaliers to continue to reinforce.

Besides, it's already such a good lineup and it needs to be strengthened, so it's not justified.

The arrival of Cole introduced new tactical and strategic ideas, and the Cavaliers continued to maintain a strong competitiveness in the East to fight against the Galaxy Warship Heat.

As for Mike Malone, his assistant coaching career also came to a bottleneck.

In the Cavaliers, he has learned everything he can learn, and there is no room for improvement if he continues to stay.

Leaving the Cavaliers and embarking on the path of becoming a head coach is a necessary step for Mike Malone.

Now it's just a little earlier, and it's completely in his plan.

For the Clippers, Malone's arrival is also of great significance.

That is they really need a good defensive coach.

On the third day after signing the contract with the Clippers, Mike Malone took office early in the morning.

The Clippers ended their game in Salt Lake City last night, and they easily defeated the Utah Jazz on the road.

For a rebuilding team like the Jazz, it's easy for the Clippers to win.

However, the score of this game was 112:104. A relatively poor offensive team like the Jazz scored 104 points on the head of the Clippers.

This is not good news for the Clippers.

Because the Clippers will have a home game soon, after returning to Los Angeles, Tyronn Lue gave the players a day off.

During the day on the 29th, only the Clippers' coaching staff and scouting team came to the training center in the morning to meet with Mike Malone for a coaching meeting.

Malone is still a little nervous. Last season, the two teams were still rivals in the finals, and the coaching staff intrigues with each other to study each other's weaknesses.

Just a few months later, Mike Malone will turn around and help the Clippers study tactics.

The assistant coaches are familiar with each other, so there is no need to introduce themselves, and they sit down in the office for a discussion.

Kim Hughes first briefly analyzed the current situation of the Clippers.

The team has recently encountered some injury problems. The insider Randolph suffered some repeated knee injuries, playing and stopping.

This has had a considerable impact on the Clippers' inside and offense, and Fatty Lan's role in the team is beyond doubt.

There is also Curry's ankle injury. The previous surgery has treated him well, but he still has some habitual sprains in recent games. The team attaches great importance to this. While actively treating him, he was asked to give up certain games.

Curry and Randolph are the two sharpest knives inside and outside the Clippers lineup.

If they are affected by injuries, the team's offense will be greatly reduced.

As for tactics, Kim Hughes gave another set of data about the team's shooting percentage, points per [-] rounds, inside points, and offensive efficiency.

The Clippers' offensive data in the last 10 games has declined, and injuries are one of the reasons. The bigger problem is that teams are increasingly targeting the Clippers.

But for any championship team, the opponent will definitely go all out and make adequate preparations.

Especially some young teams are proud of beating the championship team or having excellent performance in the game.

The Clippers are not only the champion, but also this year's No. [-] pick in the team. If you don't beat you, who will you beat?
Therefore, the Clippers will be strongly blocked by their opponents in every game.

29 teams and 29 coaching staffs, hundreds of pairs of eyes are staring at you every day to study you, and if you see any loopholes, you will catch up and bite them.

The NBA court is the jungle society, the lions on the prairie. There is no lion king who did not kill the previous generation of lion kings, and almost no lion king can stand upright until the end without being killed by the next generation-Michael Jordan and his bulls are an exception.

The Clippers are the new lion king, and the other lions are eyeing them, and they will rush up and bite if they get weak.

Of course, the Clippers are still young, and even if they have a little problem, they can still repel most attacks.

But certainly not without defense.

Before you became the lion king, you stared at others, went to sneak attack and attack.

Becoming a lion king means being the target of public criticism. It is not enough to be able to counterattack and attack, but one must be able to defend.

"Our defense has some problems, but I think the offense is unfavorable and dragged down. When Randolph is not there and Curry is injured, we need to develop more tactical routines..."

Lao Jin expressed his views, and other assistant coaches also agreed.

Tyronn Lu folded his hands on his chest, pretending to be deep and did not speak.

It's not that he doesn't want to talk, but that he doesn't have too many thoughts in his mind.

How to design a few tactics?
By the way, there is Mike Malone, why not ask Malone.

This guy has been an assistant coach for more than ten years, so he has something.

So Tyronn Lue asked, "Mike, what do you think?"

Malone is holding a notebook in his hand, and these data of Lao Jin are still very important.

At present, the use of big data in the NBA is becoming more and more frequent and common.

Coaches can no longer rely solely on intuition and experience to make strategic adjustments. Data is very important.

But Ma Long is new here, and he is not familiar enough with everything.

He didn't answer Tyronn Lue's question, but instead asked: "Uh, I can understand, what is the core thinking of the Clippers when formulating tactics?"

To thoroughly understand a team's tactical strategy, we must first understand their core ideas.

In this era, tactics are common, and everyone has all the information.

What triangle offense, Princeton, Eagles offense... as long as you want to learn, there must be materials for you to learn.

Tactics are not some martial arts cheats, there are some unique alliances, tactics that no one else knows.

The key lies in the combination and execution of tactics.

Execution is based on the ability of the players.

The combination depends on the team's core thinking.

For example, on the offensive end, if you take a fast attacking approach, you may use a combination of V-shaped offense, some counterattack routines that open up space, or high-position pick-and-roll tactics.

Correspondingly, the fast offensive route will not provide enough protection for the rebounds in the backcourt, because the forwards and defenders have to quickly invest in counterattacks.

So there must be a good inside rebounder to provide sufficient ammunition.

This is still just offense.

In short, a core idea will affect all aspects of the team's offense and defense.

The head coach must establish the core ideas based on the characteristics of the players, the version situation, and his own understanding and wisdom, and then combine to build a tactical system.

Now that Malone has come to the Clippers, if he wants to participate in the discussion, he must first understand the tactical thinking.

Facing this question, Tyronn Lue replied: "The core idea of ​​our team is consistent, that is, everyone has a ball to play."

Malone heard this answer and thought Tyronn Lue was joking, everyone has a ball to play?What is this idea?

Is this the concept of basketball?This is a political idea, right?
"Don't be kidding Tyron, I mean it."

"I'm really serious. The core idea of ​​​​the Clippers is that everyone has a ball to play."

Ma Long couldn't react for a while, and was stunned for several seconds.

He thought for a while and said, "Uh, why does everyone have a ball to play?"

"Simply put, the Clippers have no real core players, or in other words, everyone is a core."

"That is, team basketball?"

"Uh... it's not just team basketball. It's everyone playing, including the players on the bench. You should know that our bench players spend a lot of time on the court."

Of course Mike Malone knew that.

In his understanding, the Clippers are taking the team route. At the same time, there are many young talents in the Clippers team, and the substitutes are strong.

I didn't expect it after playing, because the core idea of ​​​​the Clippers is "everyone has the ball to play", and I have never heard of such a team building concept in this life.

"Who thought of this?" Malone asked curiously.

"Of course Mr. Smart, he has advocated this team building concept since he entered the Clippers in 09. Of course, we have never made a big publicity..."

Malone has seen it, the Clippers are really a wonderful team.

After understanding this, Ma Long calmed down and thought about the question just now.

He replied: "Mr. Smart asked me similar questions during the interview before. I have always had an idea in my mind. I think the Clippers need to build a more stable and efficient defensive system."

"Of course, I know that the Clippers' defense is not bad. The team's defense is very tough. And the defensive talents of the guys on the front line are very good. But you... No, our system is still not complete. Once some players are absent, the team's defense will be affected. A good defensive system is very solid, and it is the best weapon to deal with the long and fierce regular season battles."

Mike Malone's words were unanimously agreed.

In fact, Tyronn Lue and others also have similar ideas, but they are not masters of defensive system construction.

Mike Malone has served as an assistant coach for Eastern teams for many years. The Eastern teams have always been good at defense. The Cavaliers were also a heavy team that took the defensive route.

And Mike Malone's father, Brandon Malone is an expert in defense. The head coaches he assisted, Chuck Daly and Jeff Van Gundy, are all top defensive masters who started the school in the 90s.

It was their contributions in the 90s that allowed the NBA to gradually enter the era of strong offense and strong defense from the 80s.

Mike Malone followed his father and Mike Brown and others, so of course he knew how to build a defensive framework.

Seeing that everyone had no opinion, Malone continued to express his opinion, saying: "The Clippers actually have very good defensive resources. I am studying you... Oh, it should be said that when I was in the Cavaliers before and researching you, I thought that the Clippers' defensive resources may be the best in the league. The biggest flaw is the back line, which is indeed a big problem. Curry and Harden are not high-quality defensive resources. I think an immature suggestion is to let Harden return to the bench he is familiar with and let him be the sixth man like Ginobili. "

Malone's idea aroused Tyronn Lu's interest, and said, "Go on, what else do you think?"

Malone continued: "Actually, the Clippers' starting lineup is somewhat overflowing in offensive ability, and the substitute's firepower is actually not enough because of Jamie Lin's departure. James Harden has comprehensive abilities and rich offensive imagination. He can completely provoke the team's offensive burden. Putting him and Curry on the court at the same time is a waste of resources. I think Leonard or Jimmy Butler should be mentioned as the starting lineup, and Paul George should be combined to better control the opponent's backcourt offense. Harden is the sixth man of the team. , leading the offense of the second team, I don’t know how?”

I have to say that Mike Malone really has ideas.

The combination of Curry + Harden is indeed powerful.

Especially in the 11 playoffs, the two sophomores beat the Spurs.

But as the two continue to grow, there is only one ball on the field after all.

When the ceiling is only 100 points, it is a pity that two players with 80 points are on the field, each sacrificing 30 points.

It's just that according to Steve Kerr's idea, Harden and Curry are on the court at the same time, which can maximize the Clippers' space-passing style of play.

And Mike Malone letting Harden come off the bench will weaken the starting firepower to a certain extent, but it will make the offense and defense and deployment of the entire team more balanced.

After unanimous discussion, everyone quickly came to a conclusion: this is a good suggestion!

Advice is good advice, but how to implement it?
Mike Malone asked with some concern: "Let James Harden play the sixth man, would he be willing?"

For NBA players, starting is not only a matter of style of play, but also a matter of honor and status.

It is impossible for most famous stars to agree to be relegated from the starting lineup to the bench, especially if their ability has not declined, they will still occupy a starting position even if they die.

Like Ginobili, starters, substitutes, and starters take turns, and there are very few black American stars who need to go. Generally, only European and South American players are willing, and they don't care.

Tyronn Lue has no idea about tactical construction, but he is very confident in political and ideological work, which is his strong point.

He packed the ticket and said: "Don't worry, no problem, Harden will play the sixth man in the next game. Oh yes, the specific defensive system and training, Mike, you work harder."

Mike Malone nodded, feeling in a good mood. It seems that the coaching staff of the Clippers has a good atmosphere, and everyone is very friendly.

Since I got such a big contract and so much money, I have to work hard!

(End of this chapter)