We often say that basketball is a team sport, but there are very few teams that really play basketball with advanced team effects.
How do senior teams play ball?
The ball must have been diluted and handed over to the crowd. It must have improved everyone, and then let them all score on their own. It must be in the position of uniting everyone, and then everyone is collective, collective for everyone.
Based on this principle, if we look at the three teams today, we can explain the difference in their record.
Admittedly, the Warriors are the worst players when the top players are not there, essentially because their team has not cultivated other people or not cultivated enough.
First of all, we want to affirm the great team nature of these three teams. Team-basedness is more emphasized in this era, first of all because of the lack of historical technical attackers in this era, players who can use advanced technology to expand space and systems do not exist, and secondly, the development of the past decade is promoting the birth of stronger teams.
This is the inevitability of an era, and it is also the inevitability of an era of stars seeking commercial interests. This is aside, let's look at the Warriors' problem.
As mentioned above, the Warriors did not cultivate new people, this is because their inertia of relying on historical teams to win still exists, and many people, including the Warriors' management and coaching staff, believe that the system of collecting libraries, soups and chases can also win the championship, in fact, this idea is a bit outdated.
The Warriors' system is a team-building concept, and it is possible to fill players, but issues such as library, soup, chasing injuries, age, team structure and opponents' adaptability are no longer suitable for applying this system to continue to chase champions. The Warriors did not want to admit this, so they spent a lot of time, material resources, manpower, and energy on waiting. Over time, the upper echelons may no longer be obsessed with winning the championship, but they are still obsessed with using the system to make money and are very successful. It's not to the point where it has to be stopped, but that's causing significant problems in basketball.
It's about cultivating people.
In fact, the issue of cultivating people has always been a big problem.
Except for the Spurs, no team can repeatedly cultivate people under the same system concept after winning the championship, and the general team development process is to continue to obsess or tear down and completely rebuild. If you want to cultivate people under the same system concept as the Spurs, then you need to keep preparing, keep applying, tinkering, and obviously the Warriors didn't do that.
In Curry's injury or Green's injury or Thompson's injury suspension, they are the core of the Warriors' passing, regardless of the personnel differences and personnel characteristics in each position, forcing them to practice the Warrior system. In fact, this system is only a set of Incuri origins, but also very much promote Curry's system, he has little effect on promoting the No. 4 or No. 5 position or other role players besides Tang and Chai, or the center of gravity is not on this at all.
Therefore, we see that Wiseman has a strong offensive tendency, but is accused of being out of place and damaging the system, which is essentially caused by Kerr's lack of flexibility to develop and use players, and is caused by the Warriors' excessive holding of the Warrior system. They are not wrong to hold the Warriors system, and the concept of passing is not wrong, the fault is that their lineup is not complete, especially the two top shooters can not play at the same time.
Well, the Warriors should have tapped into the potential of others as soon as possible while retaining the characteristics of the system.
I think Poole started with a lot of energy, and that was Curry's positive influence on him. But in the game we can see that Kerr does not want to fully develop Poole. After Thompson's comeback, Kerr gave Thompson too much freedom, allowing Thompson's soft, breezy body to hold the ball Kobe Bryant and suppress Poole's growth.
Cultivation must be cultivated early. For example, the Lakers' Tucker has been ignored for a season, and this season has been used as the main offensive hand, resulting in ability not worthy of ambition, in the end it is related to the Lakers' planning.
To what extent can a child in his 20s influence his or her life? They need direction, and the direction is the company's philosophy.
Poole also didn't get more development opportunities, but he must have worked harder in private, and although it was not stable enough, it gradually became the Warriors' current fig leaf. Cole knew why he had today?
It's a little late to use Poole in large quantities now, but there is still a chance of success, because Poole is stronger, which is very important.
Through Curry's absence, recognizing Curry's importance is not the most important thing, because this is nonsense. In this process, it is the most important thing to recognize the urgency of cultivating Poole and a group of young people.
As a contrast, we look at the sun and the Grizzlies and do a good job. Let's start with the sun.
First of all, it is affirmed that Monty Williams is a very skilled coach, thanks to years of precipitation. Then his greatest contribution was to break the sun's dependence on Paul.
Paul's peak style of play, somewhat similar to the play of the big core with the ball, full of control, because there is no strong scoring number two position, Paul has never touched the floor of the West Final. In essence, it is because Paul is strong, controlling the team, and does not release the team's team.
Paul's few mistakes mean that the team's flexibility is poor and the freedom is not high. After coming to the Suns, Paul poured his sense of competition and championship culture into this team, using his organizational talents to lead this team, while gradually losing control.
The de-control begins with Paul's consciousness, which developed from thunder. Objectively speaking, Paul's increasing age and the effect of tapping the potential of others are more beneficial and more large-scale than one person controlling the game without making mistakes. Monty must have been aware of this point, tactically increasing the percentage of Booker, Crowder, Bridges, and Payne.
Positive dilution of Paul's ball gives these four people more confidence and helps them grow more. As a result, the scale of growth of these four people in these two seasons, we can clearly see it.
In this process, Monti and Paul did not give up Paul's advantages, and his organization, passing, projection and blocking were still flexible and seamless in the team. This is the perfect reform based on reality and the future.
As a result, the Suns team really completed the "de-Paulization", and there was no embarrassment in the Record when the Warriors were absent from Curry. Paul's joining the Sun is a process that is convenient for the time and place.
Similarly, the Grizzlies played an 18-2 record in Morant's absence, essentially completing the "de-Morantization".
Morant was already very prominent last season, but injuries or others were not prominent enough to limit the youth team. This season, the Grizzlies have also improved the ability of a large number of people under the premise of ensuring Morant's output, which is the key to improving the record.
They avoided Morant from becoming the pinnacle Paul-style strong control type of ball controller, integrated into the Warriors' passing system, and also focused on the Suns' valued multi-point ball-holding offense, so they presented a state of "everyone can play, everyone can hold the ball can not have the ball".
Obviously, this is the result of the foresight of the team's top brass.
In addition, because the age of the Grizzlies is more average and younger, it is not conducive to the formation of authority, and several young people in the team have formed a "you catch up with me, scramble" mentality, the competitive situation is very good, and they can maintain or form good trading assets within a few years. Looking at the Warriors again, isn't there too obvious authority?
Therefore, today's process is inevitable, the result of the team's cultural awareness. If you have doubts, you are already confused.
Today's post-lesson question: How similar is the Lakers' problem to the Warriors? Why do ordinary role players who look at the ordinary can perform well after the team is de-authoritative?