Almighty Coach

Break through, throw, miss;

Break through, throw, miss;

Breakthroughs, throws, and goals;

A breakthrough, a throw, a miss, and a successful foul;

Break through, throw, miss;

Breakthroughs, throws, balls scored...

If you don't count the foul, Wood's shooting percentage is just 33%. According to the standard of two-pointers, this is indeed a bit low. Many pitchers have a higher percentage of three-pointers than this.

Although Wood's knee has recovered, his hand feeling has not recovered, and his sense of the game has not recovered. Even if he made a beautiful continuous change of direction, he rushed to the basket with speed and explosive power, and he could meet Watching the opponent's tall defender inside make a throw, but can't put the ball in the basket.

On the sidelines, the assistant coach of the Trail Blazers in charge of defensive training had embarrassment and depression written all over his face. Wood's breakthrough was too sharp, and the Trail Blazers were not a team good at defense. Their defense line was in front of Wood's breakthrough. , turned into slag.

Next to him, Tris, the coach of the Trail Blazers, looked at the lead of more than ten points, but his face was filled with sadness. It looked like he was more than ten points ahead, but more than ten points behind.

"Wood's knee has recovered!" Trail Blazers coach Terry finally said such a sentence.

Now that the game has been played, from the perspective of the NBA coach, how can it be impossible to see that Wood's knee has fully recovered.

Wood has made too many consecutive changes of direction, too many sudden stops and quick starts, too many jumps, and he has also used difficult movements to shake down defenders. And to do these actions, you must have a pair of good knees.

Every sudden stop and change of direction, every sudden start, puts huge pressure on the knees, so Wood's knees are worn out to look like they are in their fifties or sixties. This is basically an irreversible injury, once it occurs, it will only get worse, not better.

At the beginning of the game, Wood began to use this offensive method, which is also his best offensive method. At that time, the coach of the Trail Blazers didn't take it seriously. Wood had a season of training and his knee recovered for a season. At the beginning of the first quarter, taking advantage of the low pressure on his knee, he used several difficult moves. It is also a very normal thing.

Triss concluded that Wood's style of play won't last long. He knows that Wood's knee has been seriously injured, and he also knows that his knee is already very bad. At most, he will burst out occasionally and do a few difficult moves. If he continues to play like this, his knees will definitely not be able to bear it.

But entering the game, Wood has been using that kind of difficult technical movements. He doesn't seem to worry that his knees will not be able to bear it at all, and the speed, explosive power, and control over his body he has shown are also telling. Everyone, his knee is in great shape.

Those who can become the head coach of an NBA team must have two talents. They have been engaged in basketball work all their lives. The head coach can tell the player's performance on the court, his physical condition, and his concentration at a glance. As for Wood's performance, the head coach of the Blazers naturally saw some clues.

"Wood's knee has recovered!" Trail Blazers coach Terry showed a complex expression on his face, as if he was constantly switching between doubt and shock.

"Coach, what did you say?" the assistant coach next to him asked.

"I said, Wood's knee is fully recovered!" This time, Tris added the word "completely".

The assistant coach thought for five or six seconds before he understood the true meaning of Wood's words. He subconsciously said, "Impossible!"

Immediately afterwards, he looked at Wood on the court again, recalling the difficult technical moves that Wood made today, and his tone suddenly softened: "Impossible?"

From "impossible" to "impossible", the tone of the assistant coach has shown that he agrees with the head coach's point of view.

Tris didn't answer, he just looked at Li Dai who was sitting on the Clippers bench on the other side.

Dai Li has been the coach of the Clippers for half a season, so the coaches of the NBA teams have already figured out the details of Dai Li. They knew that Li Dai was very good at rehabilitation training, allowing those players who had suffered serious injuries to regain their original state, and also very good at giving some older athletes a second chance.

It's just that the coach of the Trail Blazers never expected that Dai Li's rehabilitation training could make Wood's knee fully recover!

Wood used to be the youngest MVP, and he can be regarded as a superstar player. His injury will not be a secret. Although the details of Wood's injury have not been announced, each team is responsible for information. The personnel will definitely have an estimate, and this estimate is also close to ten.

Even the team's physical trainers and team doctors will use Wood's injury as a case study to prevent their own players from suffering the same injury, or to study how players should recover after similar injuries .

So the Trail Blazers coach Tris knows how serious Wood's knee injury is. He doesn't think Wood's knee can recover as before, nor does he think Wood can maintain his original speed and explosive power. And the media described Wood as "five or sixty-year-old knees", almost telling the whole world that the youngest MVP has been abolished!

But what happened in front of me today is beyond Tris' cognition. Wood's knee has really fully recovered! If he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, Tris would never have believed it, or until now, he still had some doubts about what he saw.

How can such a serious injury be healed?

After a short period of surprise and distraction, Trail Blazers coach Tris suddenly realized that the guy who recovered from his knee was Wood. He was not a third-rate character like a cat or a dog, nor was he an ordinary star player. MVP.

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break through, cast, enter;

break through, cast, enter;

Drives, floats, goes in, and draws a foul;

It is rare for Wood to score three goals in a row.

"It feels so familiar!" Wood quickly ran back to his own half, but he was still reminiscing about the throw just now.

In the past, Wood used this scoring method to kill all quarters in the NBA. Since his knee injury, he can no longer use this method to score. He has gradually forgotten the kind of breakthrough, and then threw away The joyful feeling of shooting and scoring, until just now, he realized that he had regained that feeling.

"My touch is back!" Wood felt a burst of joy in his heart.

After his knee miraculously recovered, Wood entered high-intensity training. He was eager to get back his touch and the feeling of the game.

It's just that this kind of thing can't be rushed. No matter how good the performance on the training ground is, without actual combat training, the player's touch will never be regained.

Basketball players are like this. They are as fierce as tigers on the training ground, but they are abused like dogs on the court.

On the training field, many players run fast, jump with high awareness and shoot accurately, but in high-intensity games, if they can maintain a good state for ten minutes, they are already top professional athletes. For example, a certain NBA insider star player often sends some free throw training videos, and he hits a hundred free throws in training, but in the game, he makes two free throws and one is considered a profit. If he can really make two free throws, the whole The bench is waving the towel for him.

This is the difference between training and competition. The simplest free throw can be twice as bad as the shooting percentage. Wood's continuous emergency stop, change direction and breakthrough, and then forcefully carry the defensive player's technical action of throwing layups, has reached the official stage. In the game, it took too many attempts to get back the touch of scoring.

Fortunately, Wood has regained his former touch, and he has regained his confidence in scoring.

For the next attack, he became even more resolute.

Wood's continuous change of direction made Dumid a little unstable and lost his position. Wood took this opportunity to rush from him to the basket, and then made a beautiful throw to send the ball into the basket.

Dumid looked at Wood very unhappy, and this conceded goal was regarded as his defense.

Dumid is not a player who is very good at defense. His defense was even criticized by people for a while. For a while, the Blazers' double shots in the backcourt were also known as "double leaks in the backcourt". People are commonplace. However, in the last two seasons, Dumid's defense has improved a lot, at least it is no longer a loophole on the court.

However, when facing the top breakthrough players in the league, Dumid's defense is still full of loopholes.

"Isn't it just two points, I'll pay you back a three-pointer right away!" While thinking, Damid motioned for his teammates to pick and roll for him, and directly made a three-pointer.

Three-pointers are one of the ways he is best at scoring. Dumid, who made a three-pointer, also looked at Wood with a provocative look, as if to say that a three-pointer is always one point more than a two-pointer.

In the next attack, Wood responded quickly. While putting the ball into the basket easily with a high throw, it also caused a foul by the Trail Blazers and also made a three-pointer.

The game entered the mode of two defenders soaring points.

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Cassel looked at the scoreboard. The two sides had reached a 63-63 tie. He couldn't help but said, "Wood's touch has really recovered. Coach Li, your tactical arrangement once worked."

Dai Li smiled slightly, but did not answer. "Give the ball to Wood" Although that is only a lottery, it is also the second best choice for a lottery. It's like when you didn't get the first place in the exam, but it's a flattering thing to get second in the exam.

After a timeout, Li Dai replaced the starting center Gray.

This guy Gray is still troubled by fouls, so he doesn't play much time, but as long as he is on the court, the Clippers have an inside advantage. It is a big killer.

On the court, the Blazers' defense against Wood became more and more tough, and Wood also changed his style of play. He no longer obsessed with breaking through and throwing, but started the passing mode. The biggest beneficiary of this is naturally Gray.

Breaking through and scoring is the most common way of cooperation in basketball. Later, the Rockets' "cake-feeding" tactic abruptly made a blue-collar insider eat the "cake king". In terms of "cake-feeding" skills, Wood may not be as good as the Rockets' strongest backcourt combination, but in terms of "eating cakes", Gray is better than the Rockets' cake king. His existence has shared Wood's offensive end. The pressure made the Blazers' insiders dare not easily double-team Wood.

At this point in the game, the value of the regular season MVP is finally reflected.

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"Hey!"

The sound of the basketball hitting the rim was extremely crisp, and Dumid had already missed three three-pointers in a row.

Trail Blazers coach Tris wanted to call a timeout to let Damed calm down, but the rebound was caught by the Clippers.

The ball came into Wood's hands. At this time, he seemed very focused, with sharp and calm eyes, constantly observing the changes in the positions of his teammates on the court, and commanding the positions of his teammates in his hands.

At this time, Wood is like a general on the battlefield, waving the command flag and mobilizing thousands of troops.

"A natural leader!" Dai Li suddenly sighed. He remembered Wood's scout evaluation when he participated in the NBA draft. One of the words was "He is a natural leader"!

In the NBA, there are not many rookie players who deserve this evaluation.

The MVP of the regular season is indeed the leader of the team, and the responsibility of the leader is to lead the team to victory!

On the court, Wood looked at his teammates. There was Gray who had five fouls, Hall who still had no sense of returning, and Raymond who was still adapting to the game. None of his teammates was strong. This made Wood feel as if he had returned to the Bulls a few years ago, the season when he won the MVP.

That season was also like this. The two All-Star inside teammates missed more than 30 games and played more than 30 games with injuries. The entire team was supported by Wood alone. He played 81 games and averaged . He scored 25 points, 4.1 rebounds and 7.7 assists, and led the Bulls to the league's first 62 wins and 20 losses. This record fully proves the gold content of that MVP.

But today, he has the feeling that he had at that time. His teammates can only give him limited help, and he needs to be alone to carry the team to victory.

Wood firmly believes that he can do it, because he is the leader of this team, and all he has to do is to play this role well!

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Trail Blazers coach Tris only felt exhausted. He slumped on a chair and looked at the scoreboard helplessly.

Originally, the scores of the two teams were still rising alternately, but just after the game entered the last two minutes, the Blazers players suddenly made mistakes continuously, while the Clippers seized the opportunity to take the lead, and the score was instantly pulled to 0. 6 points.

6 points is equivalent to two three-pointers to tie the score. This requires not only strength, but also the favor of Goddess of Luck.

"The youngest regular season MVP! The youngest leader!" Triss looked at Wood, and there was even more fear in his unwilling eyes.

The next second, he looked at Damed.

In terms of honor, before Dumid and Wood, there was only one regular season MVP, but this honor of regular season MVP was separated by another title: leader!

In the eyes of Tris, Dumid is indeed very strong and capable of leading the team to victory, but he is not a qualified leader, not even the word "leader".

But Wood is different. He is a real leader. There is no doubt about this. Wood once proved this when he was in the Bulls. And this kind of player, even in the current NBA, can't find a few.

"How can such a serious injury be healed?" Tris muttered to himself again.

On the bench on the other side, Dai Li said in a narrator's tone: "Wood is different from other players. He is a natural leader, so I feel more at ease in entrusting him with the decision-making power on the court. He Being able to make correct judgments, he knows what method to use to win, and even more knowing what method to use to master the method of winning!"

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When the game is at its most critical, someone needs to stand up and take over the game.

The Blazers stand out is the All-Star player Dumid.

The Clippers stand out is the leader player Wood.

The results speak for themselves.

In the first game of the new season, the Clippers defeated the Trail Blazers 105 to 101 and won their first victory of the season.