Soul of the Golden State

Chapter 38 Adversarial Training
"Hello! Who are you?" Li Weisi asked puzzledly, looking at the acquaintance in front of him.

"Oh, yes, you don't know me, but I know you very well. Let me introduce myself. My name is Donnie Nelson. I watched you play at Stanford for a whole year from the sidelines. You didn't notice me. Is it?" With that said, Downey stretched out his right hand and shook Li Weisi's hand.

After Downey's self-introduction, Li Weisi looked at this bitter face and seemed to think of something. He thought that when he played at Stanford, this face often appeared in the auditorium, and he took a notebook to record what seemed to have been ignored at the time. Matthews mentioned it, so I have some impressions.

"Hi, it's you. Nice to meet you, Donnie. By the way, your surname is Nelson..." Li Weisi looked back at Don Nelson who was stopping to listen to what Van Gundy said.

Downey obviously noticed Li Weisi's actions, and smiled unabashedly: "Yes, the head coach is me. Although I just graduated from college this year, I have been a scout for the Bucks for two years. He will be the assistant coach and scout of the coaching staff, and hope to have a happy cooperation."

After exchanging a few words with Downey, Don Nelson announced the assembly.

After all the members arrived, Don Nelson didn't waste much time, introduced himself and the teaching assistants around him, and started the first day of training.

Since it is the first day of training, the first training is basically warm-up training and physical training.

Before the training, with the help of the training counselors, make preparations in advance, and the team doctor will conduct a simple check on everyone's physical condition, and then officially enter the training.

It has to be said that although the hardware is not perfect, Frank spent a lot of money on various software matching. Although most players have never met Frank, they all have a good impression of this boss.

At around ten o'clock in the morning, he felt that the players' bodies were basically already active, so Don Nelson announced a simple team confrontation to understand the basic situation of the players.

Since the team has three point guards, but the top two are both rookies this year, Li Weisi was assigned to the starting team.

The team's current starting five are: Li Weisi, Terry Teague, Chris Mullin, Larry Smith and Moses Malone.

The other team has five substitutes: Mark Price, Jeff Hornacek, Rodman, Rod Higgins, Kevin Duckworth

As for the remaining four players, their playing time will be arranged according to the situation at that time. However, it has basically been announced that those four players will be the fringe figures of the team. Infinity tends to zero.

At the beginning of the match, the situation showed a one-sided situation, and there was hardly any doubt about it.

After the start, Li Weisi was not eager to attack with the ball. Instead, he chose to distribute the ball once halftime passed, whether it was for Mullin to control the ball, or to pass the ball to the inside. More like a spectator on the field, always paying attention to the actions of his teammates, and rarely taking the initiative to attack.

When mentioning the NBA in the 80s, what do fans think of?Iron defense?Savage basketball?
In fact, the overall defense in the NBA at that time was not strong, and the offensive tactics were also very poor, full of a lot of one-on-one.

What needs to be emphasized here is that great defensive action does not mean good defense. During this period, there were indeed constant fights on the field, dragging in the air, stepping feet, black elbows, etc., but when it comes to the integrity and layering of defense, it is really not worth mentioning. It cannot be compared with the later NBA.

However, this is not difficult to understand. After all, competitive sports, no matter what you say, are actually improving, of course, except for the national football team.

So the confrontation match at this time is also very simple. The starting team's offense is basically Malone's inside singles and Mullin's flank singles, and then the others watch the show or wait for the ball to be scored, which is very boring.

But even so, the substitute team is still difficult to defend.

In terms of weight alone, Duckworth is not inferior to Malone, but he still can't withstand Malone's hard chisel. Under the collision of muscles, Duckworth is not surprised, and Malone keeps pushing him. Taking points on the head, it seems that Malone is going to vent all the anger he has accumulated for half a year on Duckworth.

Also unlucky is Rodman. After he was abused in a duel with Li Weisi, thanks to Li Weisi's encouragement, Rodman regained his confidence, but at this time his self-confidence was destroyed again.

Don't look at Mullin's body that he is defending. It seems that he is not as strong as him, and his face is covered with plateau red, and he hiccups from time to time. Rodman felt that he was playing with Li Weisi, who had grown more than ten centimeters.

Unlike the starting team, the entire rhythm of the substitute team was completely disrupted. Although they were trained by Li Weisi in the summer, it was the first time they faced NBA-level players, which made them play a little tight. At this time, it is not bad to be able to play three or four points.

As a result, the whole match became even more boring, until Frank arrived late, and some people in the coaching staff on the sidelines started yawning.

"Hi! Frank, why are you here?" Seeing that it was the boss, Don Nelson greeted Frank with a pleasant face.

"Today is the team's first training anyway, so I have to come and meet everyone, after all, I still have the identity of an assistant coach!"

Speaking of this, Don Nelson couldn't help but twitched his face. Whose boss has his own ability to toss, let the good boss quit, and insist on adding an assistant coach position for himself, why?Are you short of that salary?

But if someone wants to be the boss, you can't stop letting him be the boss, right?As a last resort, Nelson could only hold his nose and agreed to Frank's request.

But even though he is a teaching assistant, you can't really treat him as a teaching assistant, can you?

Therefore, no matter what plans the coaching staff had, Nelson would inform Frank. As for whether Frank would come or not, it was all up to him.

Take today's training as an example, Frank was late, and Nelson would have lost his temper if he had changed. He was worried that there would be no chicken to scare the monkeys, but Frank couldn't. Anyone can be that chicken, only Frank can't.

This is the power of money!
"Hey, are you training against the team right now? Then I came just in time!" As he spoke, Frank obediently stood beside Nelson and began to watch the game carefully.

But after a while, Frank's brows were tightly furrowed.

After seeing Frank's expression, Nelson asked curiously, "Is there something wrong?"

"Nellie, do you want to switch West and Mark?"

(End of this chapter)