Gergulich’s training class started directly in the training hall of Santa Monica College. There were no classrooms for students to sit down and listen to the class at ease. There were no large white whiteboards. Gergulich liked to teach directly on the court. By constantly moving and walking on the field, holding the ball physically teaches tactics and movement details to his students. 1 Xiao ≧ Sai ≦ Then in the afternoon video analysis class, he and the students will appreciate some classic playoff games, especially the games conducted by his students themselves, and use specific examples to illustrate the use of skills and tactics.

Of course, on the last day of the training class, he and the students will participate in the Drew League. The students will command a team to fight on the field in batches and test the learning results through actual combat drills.

In the first three days of study, Gergulich mainly taught some offensive tactics and strategies, and summarized the more popular and used tactical ideas in the league in recent seasons, including the two proposed by Fox-Leon. The tactical routine that combines the second-fast offense and the triangle offense is evaluated by Gergulich as "a blade-edge offensive tactical system that only a few coaches can control."

The next three days were the focus of Gergulich's teaching, his old line of defense, defense.

After all the personnel arrived, Gergulich picked up the ball and walked to the middle of the court. Several students could freely choose a position to stand around him to listen to Gergulich's teaching from different angles.

"The few present here are either already head coaches with a reputation in the league, or they already have a wealth of experience as assistant coaches, or they are familiar with their families. So regarding defense, I will not emphasize those basic things. , Such as willpower, the basic principle of defending the bottom line in the middle, the position and change of the joint defense, etc., you have either done well on the field, or often used and emphasized in training, and these things were in the previous training class I have studied hard. Okay, we don’t waste time on these things. Then in our training class this year, we have to understand more advanced defense, upgrade the defense to a strategic posture, and understand how the defense plays during the game. How does the defense even change the situation of both sides in the entire series, and finally make it a tool for you to win." Gergulich started today’s lecture with an opening remark, undoubtedly everyone's mind and body are affected by Gerguri. Qi was attracted.

Whether it's Brown, Leon or Carlisle, they have worked with top defensive coaches in actual team operations. They all understand and use defensive things, and they have seen all kinds of wonderful defensive designs. Obviously, ordinary defensive courses can't satisfy them at all. They must raise the defense to a new height to analyze, so that they can get a new understanding.

"For the defensive course, I will start with a few tactics as analytical points, and gradually expand to explain the essentials of defense in basketball games. Before that, I want to remind you that the difference between defensive tactics and offensive tactics is that offense is more focused. Because of change, the core idea of ​​defense is to remain unchanged and respond to changes. Of course, this is not absolute. After understanding this, your team’s concept of offense and defense will have a deeper understanding." Gergulich gave a formal lecture Before, finally reminded.

"The first defensive tactic we are going to talk about today is not unfamiliar to everyone. It is also my famous defensive strategy, amoeba-defense, amoeba defense. Yes, I was still talking about it just now. The core idea of ​​defense is Constantly changing, but in the end I want to talk about amoeba." Gergulich said to everyone half jokingly.

The so-called amoeba-defense, literally translated as amoeba defense, amoeba is a famous amoeba whose body is naked, soft, and can extend in all directions. In addition, this kind of insect is a very deadly pathogen. After entering the human body, it will cause a variety of diseases, which is quite dangerous. The same is true for the amoeba defense. First, he does not have a fixed defensive formation. He emphasizes strong pressure and requires defensive players to actively attack everywhere, just like the tentacles of amoeba.

At the same time, once this kind of defense is successful, it will cause a large number of opponents to make mistakes, making the opponent look like he is infected and sick, and is dying in his own steals and counterattacks. Therefore, the name amoeba is really suitable.

As Gergulich said, this kind of defense became famous for the sound. In the 1996 season, the sound that entered the Finals relied on this kind of defense to get Michael Jordan the lowest average score of his Finals career.

But this kind of defense has many weaknesses, and it has high requirements for the player configuration, so it has not been promoted in nBa. Since the voice of George Karl, no team has used this kind of defensive tactics. The core has made greater achievements. More often, this will become the team's defensive change choice, used in special stages to suddenly strengthen the defensive intensity, and will not be used throughout the court.

"The weakness of the amoeba defense is obvious. I still remember coach Charles Riddle reminded me repeatedly that if the amoeba defense is not good or unreasonable, he will in turn greatly damage the team's defensive morale and cause bad effects on the team. Let’s demonstrate the actual use of Amoeba’s defenses. What are the problems and weaknesses in the actual use of the amoeba’s defense.” After Geergurich finished speaking, he asked his five people to come over and form an amoeba defense at halftime. Basic formation-diamond formation.

The core concept of the amoeba defense has two points, one is to choke the first point of the outside line, and the other is to use fast movement to form a local multi-to-less. This requires that on the one hand, defensive players have strong mobility and defensive area, so the Seattle sound of the year had an extremely strong forward line; on the other hand, it requires players to have a very good overall defensive awareness, sense of position and sense of distance. Be strong. This is often easily overlooked. In fact, this one is more important than the first.

Gelgurich then demonstrated that the amoeba defense that pays attention to movement and double-teaming has huge loopholes in the two bottom corners and the top of the arc. Once the players do not cooperate in defensive cooperation with each other, they will blindly double-team and move. , Will give opponents the opportunity to open a large space.

"A brief explanation of the amoeba. Next, I want to say that the second defensive tactic is the most common and widely used defensive tactic in our basketball game, and that is man-to-man. The core of man-to-man lies in In response to ever-changing changes, we firmly believe in the players' personal defensive ability, break the opponent's pick-and-rolls that confuse us, break through points and quickly transfer the ball, and ensure that every player of the opposing team has a defender in front of them. This is the most primitive and ancient defense. Strategy, but it is also the most persistent defense. I can say that 80% of nBa’s offensive tactics exist for the purpose of cracking man-to-man defense." Gergulich began to talk about the amoeba defense after a taste of the amoeba. From the most common man-to-man defense.

It can be said that these are two extreme defensive tactics that are mutually exclusive, one is slant, the other is unworkable, the other is only a glorious one, but the other has been in the basketball world forever.

Leon listened carefully to Gergulich's narration~lightnovelpub.net~ and he knew that Gergulich brought out these two almost opposite defensive tactics and it would never come for science. Obviously, he must have a unique idea.

Sure enough, after a brief talk about man-to-man defense and a basic positioning exercise, Gergulich said: "Why do I want to talk about these two defensive tactics, which are very different in style? , 30 years ago, my teacher, Mr. Charles Riddle, tried to combine these two types of defenses into one that not only contained the advantages of the two defenses, but also avoided the shortcomings to the greatest extent, the ultimate Defensive tactics! Of course, in the end he failed. He just replaced different types of players in different time periods to implement different defensive strategies. And to this day, I am still looking for this answer. And our course The content is to discuss together how to combine these two types of defenses organically to maximize their power!"

Gergulich finally put forward the topic of this lecture, and his teacher, the master coach of the University of Pennsylvania Pittsburgh Hall of Fame, Charles Riddle has been pursuing the ultimate defense in his basketball career, who is also known for amoeba tactics.

Fox Leon finally felt that coming to this training class might be more interesting and important than getting Carlisle to join the Celtics. (To be continued.)