Chapter 714 Old Nelson's Sigh

The defending champion lost four games in a row in the preseason, and lost at least 15 points in each game.

Looking at the pile of reports on the "weakest defending champion in history!" in his hands, as the head coach of the Supersonics, old Nelson really felt embarrassed.

This result is indeed a bit bad.

As the head coach with the longest experience in the NBA, old Nelson has certainly passed the stage of looking at the results of the preseason.

The importance of the preseason to the Seattle Supersonics is actually not that important. If it is really important, Yes would not have played in any of the four preseason games.

However, regardless of whether the preseason is important or not, being beaten by the four Western Conference bottom teams last season in the game is indeed embarrassing for him, the head coach of the Supersonics.

In this year's preseason, old Nelson was originally going to observe the status of the team's new players.

So the new players had a lot of playing time, and the poor record in the preseason is also closely related to this.

But among the four new players, three of them were lame, which really surprised old Nelson.

Harden is mediocre, Ibaka and Ingles are completely clueless, and only Gasol Jr. performs like he is good in the game.

Now in news reports and public opinion, it is said that Ibaka and James Harden are reused because of Yes's request.

This is a bit unfair to Yes.

In the training field, Yes attaches great importance to Ibaka and Harden, but Yes respects his choice in the team's lineup. As long as he doesn't ask, Yes will never use his influence in the team to ask him who must start in the game.

In these four games that made the world's Sonics fans and coconut powder laugh and cry, Harden, Ibaka, Ingles and Gasol Jr. played for such a long time, which was his own choice.

With Durant's injury, David Lee and Kwame Brown left.

The Seattle Supersonics have a big gap in the lineup this season.

At least, the team has a vacant starting small forward position and two important rotation positions.

Who can take on these three positions in the team?

For example, who can take on the starting small forward position?

Quentin Richardson?

Quentin Richardson's physical function is still declining. Although he is not yet 30 years old, his body was destroyed by Larry Brown during his time in New York.

Now Quentin Richardson's body is like that of an old man in his thirties. Although Quentin Richardson has been working hard, he still can't control his increasing weight.

Now Quentin Richardson can no longer take on the responsibility of starting for the team. He can't play too long and high-intensity games, but asking him to play a fake starter is not his coaching philosophy. He has never been very willing to put a fake starter in the team to cover up.

Other players of the Supersonics don't need Quentin Richardson to be a fake starter to cover up.

Now Quentin Richardson has two years left on his contract with the team. Quentin Richardson himself plans to retire from the team after the contract ends.

Now Quentin Richardson is a substitute shooter in the team. It is very qualified to kill a few minutes in the substitute lineup.

As for starting, forget it.

Quentin Richardson was the starting power forward of the team before Durant. Now it's like this, so what about the old people in other teams?

Damien Wilkins is completely opposite to Quentin Richardson. Quentin Richardson can't keep up physically, while Wilkins is completely in terms of IQ.

This is not the head coach of his team saying privately that his players are not good.

This is really the fact. The nephew of the essence of human movies has great physical talent.

Before he came to the Sonics as the head coach, the head coach before the Sonics had also thought about promoting him, but in the end, all of them gave up.

In the NBA, basketball IQ is the most important, and IQ is not the most important, but the premise is that the person must have basketball IQ. Wilkins is a typical type of person who owes both IQ and basketball IQ.

When he is a bench bandit who doesn't care about anything, he is qualified. No matter whether the opponent is the Rockets, Spurs or Lakers, if you ask him to go up and cut people, he will never be afraid of whether he can cut it. He is the type who will go directly with a knife.

Any team needs such a player.

Such a player will surprise you, but you can't rely on such a player as a regular.

In addition to Wilkins and Richardson, the other old man who can play as a small forward is Tucker.

When thinking about Tucker's situation, old Nelson has a headache.

This kid's offense is definitely the worst among the players he has coached!

Tucker is good in everything, but this offense is really eye-catching!

Although he has made progress under Yes's training, he cannot become a regular starter yet. He needs at least a few years of training.

Let him take the position now, Yes will be double-teamed to death in the starting lineup!

The team has five starters, and the two outside players are players who cannot attack. The opponent's defense is simple. Two people double-team Yes, and three people shrink to the basket. At that time, the Seattle Supersonics can only stare blankly on the court!

Of course, although Tucker cannot be a starter now, he is still an indispensable puzzle of the Seattle Supersonics. He plays a key role in many critical moments.

After Durant was injured, after reviewing the team's lineup, old Nelson felt extremely fortunate. He didn't expect that the team's small forward position would have such a big problem.

Fortunately, Yes discovered the gap in the team's small forward position last season, so he was madly training Durant.

Suppose if Yes had not foreseen and trained Durant last season, how would the Sonics perform in the playoffs?

Let alone the championship, they might not even make it through the first round.

Which team in the Western Conference doesn't have a strong small forward now?

If your team doesn't have a strong small forward, it will be difficult to move forward!

But...

Thinking of Durant's injury last season, old Nelson was extremely worried.

Yes was able to predict the problems that the Sonics would encounter in advance, which was very, very good.

But God really didn't give face.

The player you worked so hard to train was broken just like this.

It is said that Yes's entry into the NBA is the beginning of a purgatory that is more difficult than hell, and this is really not without reason.

Now it is said that Yes likes to double the difficulty of his career.

Last season, people kept saying why Yes didn't train others to train Durant.

These people don't think about it. Did the Sonics have other players to train besides Durant last season?

This season, can other people play the small forward position of the Sonics besides James Harden and Ibaka?

What can Yes do if he doesn't focus on training these two people?

Richardson, Wilkins and Tucker have been trained before, but one is old, one has low IQ and basketball IQ, so there is no way to train him, and the other's progress bar rises too slowly, so it is not possible to train him in the short term.

It can be said that James Harden, Ibaka and Ingles are the only three solutions for the team's small forward position.

If there is a choice, among the three, even if it is him, he will focus on training Ibaka and Harden.

Compared with Ibaka and Harden, although these two people have their own shortcomings, they still have their advantages.

James Harden is smart. After finding that the opponent's strong scorer was targeting him in these four games, he decisively put his hands on his hips on the court, and would never go up to be humiliated. After being passed by the opponent or scored by the opponent, James Harden stood with his hands on his hips and stared with wide eyes in shock, which was both funny and funny.

Old Nelson did not believe that James Harden deliberately put his hands on his hips or pretended to be shocked and stared.

He believed that these were James Harden's real reactions and real emotions.

This kid's attribute of seeking benefits and avoiding harm in basketball seems to be engraved in his bones.

If Wilkins's basketball IQ and IQ are both low, and Tucker's offensive attributes are ridiculously low, they are all rare in his coaching career, then Harden's attribute of seeking benefits and avoiding harm, which is engraved on his body and even his soul, is also rare in his coaching career.

It is precisely because he has never seen such a player before, so he really does not know how to develop Harden's advantage...

Harden's advantage is a black hole on the defensive end. Harden himself may really want to work hard on the defensive end, but his body and soul will always subconsciously retreat or hesitate. Isn't this a defensive black hole?

As for the offensive end...

He is also a very accomplished head coach in offense. Now I really don't know how to use Harden's natural attribute in offense.

Seek benefits and avoid harm...

Drill through a hole like a loach?

Drill a hole even if there is no hole?

He is really a little unclear now.

Anyway, Yes has contracted James Harden's growth.

He respects Yes's basketball wisdom very much.

That's right, not praise, but respect.

Yes's understanding of basketball is better than him, who has played more than 1,000 games in the NBA, coached more than two games, and experienced more than 3,000 NBA games in total!

And it is much better!

You know, the games he played in the NBA were not regular season games without any standard. Among the more than 3,000 games he played in the NBA, there were nearly 350 playoff games and nearly 40 finals games!

Moreover, he learned many playoff and final games from the Cardinal, the first head coach in NBA history.

The Cardinal is an all-rounder who can handle both offense and defense, and this has long made him an all-rounder.

Even so, he, the direct descendant of the Cardinal, is not as good as Yes in understanding basketball.

Sometimes Yes really makes old Nelson feel that basketball talent is really too important!

He worked so hard, how could his experience of more than 3,000 NBA games not be as good as Yes, a young man who played less than 250 NBA games?

Diligence can make up for one's shortcomings in front of Yes, which always makes old Nelson feel like a lie.

Old Nelson felt that since he could find this shining point in James Harden, Yes must have found it too, or even found it a long time ago.

After all, Harden had trained in the Supersonics a long time ago.

Otherwise, how could Yes just like Harden's big penis? Yes is not that vulgar.

Now it depends on how Yes develops this talent of James Harden.

As for Ibaka, he is not as difficult to understand as Harden. Ibaka is a player who can be easily understood.

Now the so-called experts in the newspapers can interpret Ibaka quite clearly, not to mention that he is an old coach who has been working in the NBA for so many years.

Most of what these guys say is right.

Ibaka's basketball IQ in the game is very, very low, this is a fact.

Ibaka's skills in the game are very, very bad, this is also a fact.

But this does not mean that Ibaka is a player with the same IQ and basketball IQ as Wilkins.

Ibaka is not the kind of basketball IQ waste who has practiced basketball for many years but cannot practice skills, and even can't practice free throws.

The reason why Ibaka is like this is entirely because he has played too few games and participated in too few trainings.

In Africa, he was begging before he was 15 years old. Later, he was discovered by an agent and sold to Europe. However, in Europe, Ibaka was treated like pork and was taken from one team to another by his agent, constantly playing the game of whoever pays the highest price wins.

Such an experience made Ibaka almost have no chance to systematically learn what basketball is.

It is true that he is almost 20 years old now, but his basketball career can be regarded as almost zero!

Even his basketball career is not as good as that of an ordinary American high school student.

Such a player shows his very low basketball IQ on the court, as if he is an idiot, and behaves like a waste on the court. Isn't this normal?

No matter how talented a person is, in front of a group of university professors in kindergarten, he is still an idiot.

Of course, Ibaka looks like he has gone to college, but his ability is still kindergarten, so it is understandable that he is scolded like this.

Ibaka's current ability is indeed not good, as for whether his future is really as these people say, it is already useless.

Old Nelson does not agree.

Ibaka is so talented, but he was kicked out of the tryout of other NBA teams. This means that these teams think that he is so old and has to start from kindergarten. His life is indeed useless.

To be honest, even if he is, he doesn't know how to train an older kindergarten player or an older elementary school student like Ibaka.

But now it is Yes who takes over the training of Ibaka...

Obviously, Yes also sees that Ibaka's characteristics are not because of his basketball IQ, and Yes definitely does not like Ibaka because of his length and toughness. Yes is not that vulgar.

It's just...

Old Nelson also sighed.

The team's small forward position really has too many problems, so many that he doesn't know what to do.

Old Nelson is very worried now.

So the next day, he gave all his worries to Yes.

"Yes, why don't you take Joe and Mark together?"

"..."

Yes, who was training with James Harden and Ibaka, looked at Ingles and Gasol brought by Old Nelson and didn't know what to say.