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Chapter 365 Pre-match Demonstration Preparation
I just cleared up all doubts, but I received the latest news about the match. Tomorrow night, I will face the Nets, which has been rampant in the East for the past few years, at home. , because of this game, the outside world regards it as a battle between the two overlords in the East.

Therefore, this match between the two sides has attracted a lot of attention from the outside world. As soon as the match schedule came out, the tickets were robbed. This is a rare phenomenon in the past.

For the Pistons, this matchup seems unfair to them, because they just fought a tough battle last night, and they lost terribly. After a lot of running and tiring, they are not ready yet, and they have to play against the powerful Nets in the East , I don’t know what the league’s intention for the schedule is?The Pistons players commented puzzledly: "Could it be that we were blown away by the Spurs last night and want us to find some comfort tonight? Since we are asked to find comfort, I don't know how to pick a bottom team for us, such as the Cavaliers. .It took a lot of effort to pick last year's champion team to play for us. Could it be possible to let us reverse your growth?"

At this moment, Neil, who was sitting beside him silently, said, "I think it's fair!"

"Neil, you didn't get beaten up last night, did you? Is it fair?"

"Am I stupid? NO... Think about it, even though the Nets had two days of rest, they had to travel and work hard all the way, flying from New York to the Motor City, against us who were qualified to challenge them. Without home court advantage, they may not be able to win, because our loss to the Spurs last night is a living example. The reason why we have been out of shape and unable to find a good rhythm is because we were overworked on the road and our body was weak, which led to a drop in shooting percentage. I didn’t make any shots, so I couldn’t keep up with Parker and Manu. This is the real reason for the loss. Therefore, brothers, don’t worry about it. The game against the Nets should be better than the Spurs last night. They feel uncomfortable after running around, and so do they, trust me, be confident."

"But we are really afraid of Kidd's beast, scoring, assisting, and rebounding almost every game is terrifying."

"What is there to be afraid of? Apart from ourselves, we also have the audience, lights, cheerleaders, and bosses to help out. What are we afraid of? Could it be that Kidd can become a Kishen?"

The teammates laughed and taunted him: "Neil, you are very good, be careful to be blown up by him tomorrow night!"

"In short, you are afraid of him, but I am not afraid of him. Even if he is awesome, I will try my best to limit his scoring and assists. As for rebounding, it depends on you."

"Brother, with your words, we can rest assured. I hope that tomorrow night you restricted him can be truly restricted, so winning the game should not be a problem."

"However, to be clear in advance, we must not let them always have the opportunity to play misplaced like the Spurs beat us last night, then we will be quite passive."

"Neil, do you mean not to help defend and cover?"

"No, the implication is that when the opposing player sees that their player with the ball is having a breakthrough, dribbling, or layup difficulty, they will take the initiative to come forward to pick and roll, screen, and assist in defense. At this time, you also quickly catch up with your defender to prevent The occurrence of extra play prevents them from successfully completing assists or cooperation."

"Neil, why don't we play half court and try the defense you just mentioned, maybe it will really come in handy then."

"Okay, for tomorrow night's victory, let's practice on the spot."

As the saying goes: "Eat a fall, gain a wisdom."

They were beaten too much by the Spurs last night, which led to their final loss to the Spurs. After the battle last night, they seemed to have understood a truth. People cannot step into the same river twice at the same time. If that is true Fool.

So, they did what they said and did not neglect, because the game against a strong team really can't afford to lose. Once they lose, all kinds of doubts, all kinds of contempt and sarcasm will follow one after another, and that kind of voice is really harsh. , but sometimes it is unavoidable, but until it is unavoidable, all efforts should be made to prevent it.

Neal randomly selected six substitute players to form a 3V3 demonstration. He commanded and let players who often appeared in the rotation lineup watch how this tactic would work together.

Before the demonstration started, Neil asked the six substitute players to put on equipment of different colors, and named them the red team and the blue team, so that it was easy to distinguish and give orders.
Everything was ready, and the demonstration started. Neil let the red team and the blue team compete for the ball with free throws. After some competition, the red team got the first ball.

"The red team organizes the offense, and the blue team defends. The offensive team should be as fierce as possible and cooperate more. The defensive team should try to stop the offensive team without losing their position."

"The red team runs and passes the ball. People without the ball step forward to screen for the ball holder. The ball holder breaks through and finds the best layup opportunity."

"The blue team don't lose their position, make up the defense faster, come up to break up the red team's pick-and-roll coordination, try to get close, don't be too far away, because if the opponent is too far away, if the opponent is like Kidd, there will always be hidden murderous intentions, an accelerated Breakthrough feints plus an emergency stop, and a dry pull-back shot will not interfere with his layup at all."

After hearing what Neil said, the red team and the blue team made sense, and immediately launched a death-coiled defense, causing the opponent's shooting rate to drop sharply.

The spectators applauded Neil after seeing this situation, and they were extremely happy: "Death Coil defense, if we use this defense tomorrow night, we will definitely win!"

Neil saw that the red team and the blue team had a hard time attacking under the high-intensity defense, and it was even more difficult to score points. He applauded them: "Good job, brothers, keep going!"

As soon as Neil's voice of encouragement fell, the red team took the lead to make adjustments and emptied all the restricted areas. All three players were running on the outside. Passing the defender and moving down quickly, the two teammates ran to the penalty area from the left and right corners at the same time. At this time, the two players in the penalty area of ​​the blue team had to step forward to defend the point guard of the red team because their point guard had been passed. At that time, a three-on-two situation was formed. The two players in the penalty area of ​​the blue team are not stupid. Try to strangle the point guard so that he cannot pass it out. But the smart point guard passes it to one of his teammates without looking at the head. The teammate succeeds in the alley-oop dunk, Neil announces that the blue team failed to defend, and congratulates the red team for successfully using the pick-and-roll to complete a wonderful attack.

Based on what happened to the blue team just now, Neil paused the demonstration, and then discussed with the watching teammates to see if their conclusions were consistent with his own: "Big Brother, Second Brother, Third Brother, Fourth Brother, please express your opinions. Why did the blue team fail to defend?"

Big brother (Ben Wallace): "Fifth brother, they failed to defend. The biggest reason is that the two teammates without the ball in the penalty area did not keep up."

"Do other people have the same opinion as Big Brother?"

"Yes!"

"This is indeed the reason. This is to achieve the effect through simple pick-and-roll coordination. I hope we can play more offenses like this tomorrow night, and try to catch them off guard as much as possible."

When the blue team knows their own problems, the players on both sides will never lose their position no matter how tired they are, and they will cooperate with pick-and-roll screens without losing their position. In the end, the competition will be which side is more careful, patient, and tougher.

On this day, the pick-and-roll and screen cooperation demonstration was not the red team, but the blue team, because after the blue team lost for the first time, the defense became more proactive, and the offense was very patient and tough, and they were not afraid of the red team.

As the result of the final demonstration exceeded the expectations of the watching teammates, even though they had many doubts, Neil still did not explain the reason, but asked knowingly: "I hope that today's pre-match preparations, brothers, think about it, why did the blue team win in the end? Because they defended aggressively after the loss and attacked fiercely and patiently?"

In fact, the reason why Neil asked the question so knowingly is that he wanted to let his teammates understand through this demonstration: the biggest enemy of a person is himself, and if you deal with problems with a fearless heart, the final result will be completely different.

He wanted to make it clear, but he made it clear that his teammates would forget it after a while. Therefore, he hoped that the pre-match preparations could really help the team and his teammates, so he asked questions knowingly.

(End of this chapter)