warrior godfather

Chapter 433 Gambling
"Swipe-swipe-swipe!"

"Good!"

"Whoa, Stephen, great work!"

In the Warriors' training ground, the players and the coaching staff gathered in a circle, watching Curry hit a three-pointer and cheering continuously.

After Curry stopped, Yi Jianlian and Parsons rushed up excitedly, bumped chests with Curry in celebration, with triumphant smiles on their faces.

Zhang Yu said with a smile:

"I announce that the invincible team consisting of Stephen, Yi, and Chandler won the gold belt of today's shooting contest!"

As his words fell, Silas stepped forward with a smile on his face, and handed a golden belt to the three of them. This belt was exactly like the gold belt of a boxing champion, but it was printed with the logo of the Warriors.

"Yeah!!"

"Hahaha, I knew it, if you team up with Stephen, you will definitely win!"

Yi Jianlian and Parsons were very excited, and Curry was also grinning, very happy, and everyone else was also smiling. Only Clay looked at Curry a little sullenly, and shook his hand helplessly:

"Just wait, Stephen, I will definitely win next time!"

"Clay, come on!"

"Clay, next time we are in a group, we will definitely beat Stephen, we won last time!"

"Don't worry, maybe next time Stephen will be with Tyson or Hassan..."

"Hey, what do you mean! It's not like I can't shoot threes!"

"Tyson, stop joking, can you get back 10 out of 3 three-pointers?"

"Hahaha……"

There was a burst of laughter and ridicule from the crowd, and the atmosphere off the training ground became even colder.

"Basket Shooting Competition" is a game that the Warriors often play among superstars during training intervals. Players in the team are divided into groups of eight according to the distribution of forwards, strikers, and insiders. Each group shoots eighty-eight points. The team with the fewest votes is the winner.

In every small shooting competition, the group outside Curry or Clay basically wins, and the large group outside Curry wins very few times. It is a time when I am not unlucky. If I draw with Xiong Linzhe or Whiteside A group, this is basically a loser.

That game was very popular with the players. There was no such rare moment of relaxation during the boring training. Everyone played it backwards, especially before losing G6 in the finals. This move made Xiaojiu and Tyson angry Before the dull atmosphere within the team, the players became cheerful again.

Xiong Lin was watching the players playing together, congratulating the large team outside the library who won the shooting contest, smiling, and his mood became more cheerful.

Wade and I learned that trick. After Tyson crossed, he heard Wade’s "slow basketball" coaching philosophy. The reason why the Warriors are the same as other teams is that there is no special family atmosphere. It is the selfish humility outside the library, and the slow-play basketball pursued by the Warriors has also had a significant effect.

The privateness outside the library makes the Warriors have superstars, role players, and marginal substitutes. Everyone is a member of the team, and the difference is that the responsibility is the same.

That's enough. Tyson swept away the unspoken internal rules of the NBA team accumulated over decades. In the Warriors, rookies need to carry bags and shoes for veterans, and veterans can play pranks on rookies. Everyone can speak freely , Big Thomas and Currency are treated the same in the locker room, no one has privileges.

In training, Tyson completely abandoned this old-school concept of "managing a team like running an army", tried to eliminate the boring and serious atmosphere in training, and allowed players to listen to music during training and shoot from time to time. Games such as small competitions and skill challenges have also produced "honors" such as the best defensive player of the week and the top scorer. The players who performed well in the team's confrontation match were selected to maximize the enthusiasm of everyone.

Those measures had a miraculous effect. Players who can retire to the NBA are very competitive. Those big games are hurtful, but the players are very concerned about them. They train very hard and want to come out on top. The training effect is very significant.

Tyson is always right. Although I scolded Wade later on for nothing, Wade does not have such major shortcomings. He is quite rigid in on-the-spot adjustments, is very stubborn about long rotations, and often plays key ball tactics, but I am an absolute master in how to build, train and maintain a team.

In terms of Xiong Lin's coaching, the Warriors' record in the 2019-2020 season was at the bottom of the league, but whether they collapsed or not, they played very chaotically. There is no essential difference from other teams with poor belly. Before the trade came, he bluntly said that he felt the same winning culture as the Timberwolves, and the Warriors at this time happened to be the time when they lost the worst.

It’s that kind of team, but it made Wiggins feel like home. Wade’s coaching art is really amazing, and the relationship between me and the players is also handled very well, except for Durant before winning the championship. Completing my tactics, other people respect me very much.

Does Xiong Lin have the prestige of the owner and head coach of the Tyson team, but he can achieve absolutely inferior results? Naturally, Tyson must learn from my coaching methods.

……

Before a moment of silence, today's training also started. Everyone greeted Tyson one after another, chatted and laughed and left the arena.

In G5, there was no two-day rest period. The Cold Fire played all eight home games. The Warriors did not have home court advantage in the next two games. Yesterday, the Warriors returned to the Bay Area. Tyson gave the team a day off. Today, I quit the weight training, and my complexion suddenly turned up again, and the mood of the whole team gradually recovered, and the fighting spirit was lifted again, and I just waited for tomorrow's game to start.

The players left one by one, but the coaching staff did not leave. We still have some work to do. Before Ron Adams and Fraser said goodbye to Tyson, they walked to their offices, and Xiong Linzhe followed Tyson. .

"Stephen, are you all right?"

Xiong Linzhe stepped up firmly, and then said:
"Ronan, you want to ask, why are you using the Big Seven? If you let Drummond play the center, you can put up a 5-out lineup. Will Cole have too few opportunities in those two games? With Drummond and Chandler, there will be no seventh point to handle the ball, and all seven of them will have no shooting threat, and the offense will be weaker."

In G4 and G5, James only scored 5 and 6 points in the two games, and few of them were seven retreats before grabbing backcourt rebounds.

James lacks the ability to retreat on his own, and his passing is poor. His handling is seven-on-eight, and he can only cruise far from the penalty area, waiting for an opportunity to attack the frame. In addition, my players also pay attention to shrinking. As long as I delay Xiong Linzhe's footsteps, I will rush forward. The small probability of passing the ball in is a mistake.

Stephen was right, Tyson also nodded and said:
"Of course you have considered the seven major lineups, but after thinking about it, you decided to keep Cole off the court."

"Why?" Stephen asked in surprise.

"You can only think about retreating, but also keep the defense."

"But the defense of the Big Seven is also poor. The limited rotation defense is also suitable for dealing with the Cold Fire. The Big Eight's eight points are accurate enough. The others can shrink the basket and limit the Cold Fire's offensive frame. The inside rotation is completely in time. " said Stephen.

"He's making no sense, but it's all right." Tyson shook his head.

"Which is right?"

"You overestimated the breakthrough of Silas and Xiong Lin. We retreated suddenly, and it would be useful to have fewer people shrinking. If you want to limit us, especially Silas' breakthrough, you must have no small center." Tyson said.

Stephen thought for a while and said:
"Drummond can also protect the frame. When you use the top seven in the future, the defensive effect on the inside will be wrong. If you try it first? To be honest, you always feel that there is no suspense in betting on Chandler alone. At the very least, we need to add another point to deal with the ball. If the cold fire continues to weaken the attack on Xiong Linzhe, and Chandler gets the ball before being double-teamed, this..."

Stephen's worries are also unreasonable. It is a small problem to double-team the ball. Few stars fall down at that mark, and they are so restricted by double-teaming that they are dying of ecstasy.

Of course there is always a problem with the ball outside the library, but the Warriors' opponents are cold fire. Without Zhang Yu, Silas, Battier and other defensive champions, the inside defense is top in the league. I am worried about whether the Warriors will have a seventh At the point of handling the ball, the cold fire takes a step back to weaken the flanking attack outside the library, and the Warriors' retreat is bound to be affected.

Tyson nodded slightly, as if agreeing with Stephen, looked at Stephen with a smile, and joked:
"He's about to go to the Rockets to step down. You think he has to be lazy anyway, but he's very sloppy in thinking about whether to put down the work at hand."

"What he said, you are now the assistant coach of the Warriors, of course you have to think about how to win, and you will not end your work with the Rockets until the finals are over." Stephen said quickly.

Tyson nodded:
"You have a lot of thoughts about that matter. The top seven is really useful. Cole must stay on the court to guard against the breakthroughs of Silas and Zhang Yu. As for handling the ball on the offensive end, you doubt that Chandler can do it. To that Sometimes, there may be no perfect strategy, just play like that, Spoelstra dares to bet on Klay and Jimmy whether we will shoot or retreat, so you can bet that we will retreat, you doubt the players you have trained."

Tyson has no way to explain it to Xiong Linzhe, but I know the effect of the seven major defenses against Xiong Linzhe. In the seven-year skirmish between the Warriors and Cavaliers, Xiong Linzhe had the worst data in the year, with 29.7 points, 11.3 rebounds, 8.9 assists and 49.4% shooting.

Iguodala won the FMVP in 2015 on the grounds that he changed the situation of the game and limited Silas's retreat. However, this year, Silas averaged 35.8 points, 13.3 rebounds and 8.8 assists per game, and his efficiency was low. The shooting percentage is only 39.8%, but that is the performance when Irving and Love are both injured.

Facts have proved that the seven basic defenses are to contain Silas, but to limit the connection between Silas and his teammates, let me score alone, and bet that I can beat the Warriors by myself.

In 2015, Silas was isolated and supported, and the Warriors succeeded; in 2016, Silas had no Owen and Love by his side, and the Warriors won.

Although the 2016 Finals was shrouded in a lot of fog, the controversy has always been broken, but the winner and loser, the Cavaliers achieved the only 1:3 headwind comeback in the history of the Finals. Silas is the best player in the Cavaliers. Arguable facts.

There was no suspense in the finals of the previous two years. The combination of Kuwai and Durant was a bug. As long as the Warriors who formed the Seven-Star Battlefield were broken, they would be enemies. However, Xiong Linzhe was still able to score low points. Strategy doesn't matter, but I also completely broke the Warriors' defense.

However, while Silas was fully fired on the offensive end, he also took into account the defense. Iguodala shot all small open shots. Durant played historical data in the 2017 finals. This time the key Eight points became a classic moment in my career, and both of them won FMVP.

At this time, Silas has been very healthy on the defensive end. If Barnes is completely lost, if I miss two eight-point shots, the Warriors will also lose in 2016.

However, now Silas is going all out on both ends of the offense and defense, and he is even younger. If I use the top seven, the Warriors' inside line will be sieved by me. , Love was replaced by Xiong Lin and Bosh, and it was even more handy to play in the top seven.

There are no problems with the Warriors' retreat now, but if Tyson uses the top seven, the Warriors' defense is likely to collapse. After weighing the pros and cons, I can only withdraw Green, add a space point, and bet on the team's eight-pointer.

G4 Tyson won the bet, Spoelstra lost the bet; G5 Xionglin lost the bet, Spoelstra won the bet, the bet will continue, and the winner can win the championship.

Tyson has made up his mind, Xiong Linzhe is free to say anything else, I shrugged and said:
"You still feel that the next game is accidental, and you can only hope that the team's eight points tomorrow will be accurate enough."

"Don't worry, Cold Fire has already run out of ammunition and food. Whether you have any cards or not, we have no room for adjustment. All you need to do is to play your own things. The rest is up to luck, and you Occasionally, luck is wrong," Tyson laughed.

Stephen nodded, said goodbye to Tyson, and walked back to his office.

Looking at the back of Stephen leaving, Xiong Lin remembered an anecdote. After the last eight games of the 2015 finals, the Warriors fell behind by a small score of 1:2. The lineup of the Seventh National Congress is quite similar to Xiong Lin's current situation.

The difference is that Xiong Lin has used the Seven Greats since then, and it was Stephen's initiative, and Tyson still accepted Stephen's suggestion.

But Stephen’s reminder is still very satisfying to Tyson. As the first assistant coach of the Warriors in those eight years, I made a small contribution in arranging training, communicating with players, and building a tactical system. The smallest reason to be a head coach.

Now that Xiong Linzhe is leaving, the Warriors need to add a new assistant coach. Ron Adams specializes in defense, and Frazier is in charge of team training, so there is no way to fill Stephen's position.

Later, Tyson invited Xiong Lin to the Warriors as an assistant coach. I was busy with team affairs and had no communication with Wade. Now it seems that I have to have a good chat with Xiong Lin before the finals.

　Make up for yesterday's.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)