Updated: 2012-12-16

After the game against the Sacramento Kings, Calesimo felt that the team had a good record and the players were familiar with each other. He was able to work together to deal with the game. At the same time, his prestige was established. He had enough understanding of the players under his command and didn't have to worry that they would disobey him, so he began to make major adjustments to the team.

Although this style of play has achieved good results now, if you keep playing like this, Stephen will be too tired and cannot rely on Stephen's performance alone for a season, and it is easy to be defended by the opponent. At the same time, Calesimo must also prepare for Stephen's poor condition or in case of injury, so it is very necessary to establish a system with more scientific rotation and more reasonable ball rights operation.

When there is no player who can share the pressure on Stephen’s scoring, using a system to share is also a good choice. The first goal of building this system is to reduce Stephen’s playing time from now forty-five minutes to about thirty-six minutes. This is the standard playing time for core players in the league.

Although Stephen has not had any injuries yet, since the Spurs came out, Caresimo naturally learned to eliminate injuries in advance and be better than anything else, so he decided to take action now. According to his original plan, he planned to act after the team was hopelessly entering the playoffs when the season was about to end. He did not expect the team's record to be so good.

Of course, we have not yet locked in the West's No. 1. We have not yet obtained the position of head coach of the Western Conference All-Star Team. Naturally, Calesimo will not change it now, but there is no problem in designing the drill in advance. Moreover, even if it causes fluctuations in the record, it is not a big problem, because we only played one-third of the regular season, and there is still enough time.

Although the first goal is just to give Stephen a few minutes less time, it is very difficult to achieve. You should know that with Stephen's scoring efficiency, a few minutes are a steadily scored and scored, and in ordinary games, a few points determine the victory.

This season, the Supersonics ranked fourth in the league in scoring average, and ranked 11th in the league in scoring average, with only four-point five points between positive and negative points. That is to say, on average, the Supersonics won the opponent in an average of four-point five points per game.

Once Stephen has fewer five minutes and fewer five points, it means that the Supersonics' scoring and losing points are basically the same. This has not yet calculated Stephen's defensive contribution when he is on the court. Even if Stephen is not on the court, the Supersonics still find it difficult to maintain his current winning rate.

As the team's leader and core player, Stephen's position in the team is no less than that of Carlesimo. When Carlesimo communicated with Stephen in advance, he explained that making such adjustments is not aimed at Stephen, so that he can reduce his playing time. In addition to reducing fatigue and the possibility of injury, he hopes that Stephen can use the saved energy to perform better in the time period of playing.

To do this, Stephen must do two things in the offense, one is to save energy, and the other is to play smarter and get more points with less energy. If this is done, Stephen will have no problem even if he spends a few minutes less.

In a player's long career, not only can he not always rely on his physical talent to play, but also must continue to evolve in technology. There are very few people who can do this. After all players enter the league, they must undergo a test of whether their body and technology can adapt to the league's confrontation.

Those who can adapt can survive in this alliance, but those who cannot adapt or adapt to it will not be successful, either leave the alliance after a contract is over, or become mediocre among the people.

Those who can adapt are divided into different levels according to their physical talents and technical means. They have amazing talents and become superstars. They have become star players. They usually get middle-class contracts, and even worse, they are just living with a basic salary.

However, these are not static. Those who play ball on their body will not last long, and they are easily injured and are easily restricted. Although those who are better at technology flow, their technology is not omnipotent. Only those who combine physical talent with technology and work very hard can reach the ultimate success.

Among these three factors, hard work is necessary. Players who do not know that hard work will never succeed. However, the two factors of body and technology are two completely different paths. Those who rely on their bodies to play must take the path of first rising and then suppressing, because no matter how good the physical talent is, they cannot withstand the erosion of time.

However, with the increase of time and experience, the skills will only become more and more mature. After relying on the body to play, they will perform very well in the early stages of their careers, but they will usually be very average in the later stages. However, those who rely on the technology or wisdom to play will only become bigger and bigger.

Among these two, the body can only be maintained through hard work and good living habits, but the technology can continue to improve. According to your own physical conditions, the rules of your opponents and the league, Michael Jordan can be regarded as the most successful one. Carlesimo focused on telling Stephen about how technological evolution was carried out in Michael Jordan's career.

In the 1990s, in the years when Jordan first entered the league, he had the fastest first step in league history, Elgin Baylor's starting speed, El Monroe's silky charm, and Dr. J Irving's volley. These factors combined are the lightning-like speed and flexibly irrational and irrational breakthrough.

No one in the league has such a flash of speed as he is. In order to defend Jordan, he had to use short guards who were less tall than Jordan. Among them, the outstanding representative is Jodumas of the Detroit Pistons. He is famous with him, and the famous "Jordan Law". The reason why the "Jordan Law" was introduced was because he could not defend Jordan alone.

Both the Eastern Conference strong team, the Pistons have always played the role of the Bulls in the 1990s. Jordan can win forty, fifty, and sixty when facing them, but he cannot break through the Pistons' defense line.

However, Jordan, who grew up gradually, became more and more terrifying. Chuck Daly said this: "I decided that Jordan can't kill us alone." So the "Jordan Rules" were released, and the result was that from then on, in the seventeen games the Bulls met with the Pistons, Jordan averaged 28 points per game, and the Pistons won fourteen of them. The three games lost were the three games in which the Pistons did not implement the "Jordan Rules".

"Jordan's Law" is a very strict and targeted defensive tactic. It is so meticulous that it is outrageous. It is specially invented for a player to defend a player. Jordan is the first one. Simply put, it is: Jordan is one-on-one, forcing him to move to the left to avoid his more terrifying right breakthrough; when trying to pick and roll, use a big double to double to maintain physical contact; when playing back singles, three double to double; when Jordan runs away without the ball, Ranbill stepped forward to force him to stay away from the basket, and Dumas was close to him; Thomas played illegal defensive edge ball at any time to try to double-team Jordan.

The Pistons have to participate in this tactic, and there are all kinds of small movements and physical contact. However, even so, it is still not enough to completely limit Jordan's offense, but it can prevent the Bulls from winning. From this point of view, they are successful, and the reward for success is two championships.

Apart from the Pistons, the ones that can cause trouble for Jordan are short and fast guards like Moncliff and Dennis Johnson, because people of the same high-level as Jordan can never catch up with his speed. Using short guards to deal with Jordan is to make it difficult for him to break through and force him to jump shots outside. As we all know, Jordan's perimeter shooting is not good.

No matter how many points Jordan can score, including the season that averaged 37 points per game, his shooting always points his weaknesses, and his main way to score points is to attack the basket, break through, and constantly break through to the basket. No one can stop him, but he is the only one who can stop him.

So starting from 1988, Jordan began to make changes, his upper limb strength increased, his shooting posture changed, and he tried to focus on outside jump shots as much as possible in the offense, and emergency stop jump shots became his main scoring method. After a year of adjustment, his mid- and long-distance shooting posture became the standard action of shooting now, no longer leaning forward, slightly leaning back, stable, smooth and concise. He successfully transformed from the best breakthrough hand in the league to the best mid-range pitcher.

Since his jump shot stabilized, the ones who can defend him alone no longer exist. The ones who can fight against him are basically a single defense player plus inside group, Detroit Pistons, New York Knicks, and Seattle Supersonics. During his first three championships, it was an evolutionary process in which his breakthrough proportion decreased and his jump shot became more refined. In fact, at this time, his athletic ability has begun to decline, but his control over the game has reached a peak.

After two years of baseball, Jordan returned to the league, but because he had been away from basketball for too long and his physical function declined, his athletic ability was only about 50% compared to before. Not only was it difficult to break through, but even the emergency stop jump shot became less stable than before. However, Jordan found another way, that is strength.

Just like Kobe Bryant now, he has increased his strength to the extreme of defenders, so the classic defender's back-on singles and a back-turned jump shot appeared. At the same time, he also trained his left hand. At this time, those small defenders can no longer defend Jordan, and big and powerful players have become the best choice to defend Jordan.

Calesimo told Stephen that a player's score is usually divided into two types, one is "normal score" and the other is "key score". Normal scores are played through tactics, while key scores are in a stalemate. The scores at the end of each quarter or the final kill period are basically single-handed. If the other eight players are spread out in each round, the two are single-handed, not to mention whether the audience is willing to watch it, the physical strength of the single-handed challenge will not be able to stand it.

And during the whole game, you can't see how many attacks he has made, and he has already won 30 points, because many times, his scores are "normal points" of team tactics. Carlesimo took out a bunch of videotapes of Jordan playing at different times and analyzed Jordan's off-ball attack step by step for Stephen.

In the beginning, Jordan simply called a teammate to help cover it and cut in. Whether it was on the left or right, he could take off and dunk it by receiving a pass; in the early 1990s, he became a cutting around the left and right waist positions of the penalty area and then took a threatening posture, and then broke through, and the receiving of the bottom line cut in with the trend. In the later stage, most of the time he saw Jordan's offense was to turn over and lean back as soon as he received the ball, because before receiving the ball, he had already prepared to get a position, squeeze space, and adjust his pace.

So, Jordan achieved such a great achievement because he has been evolving. After he had no athletic ability and no physical strength, relying on his skills, experience and will, he was still invincible in scoring. After an afternoon, Caresimo told Stephen a lot, and then asked, "Stephen, do you understand, are you ready?"
Chapter completed!