Chapter 714: Old Nelson’s Sigh

The defending champions have lost four straight preseason games and have lost each game by at least 15 points.

Looking at this pile of ‘the weakest defending champion in history! ’ report, as the head coach of the SuperSonics, Nelson is really a little angry.

This result is indeed a bit poor.

As the oldest head coach in the NBA, Nelson has certainly passed the stage of looking at preseason results.

The importance of the preseason to the Seattle SuperSonics is actually not that important. If it was really important, Yease would not not play in any of the four preseason games.

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

In this year's preseason, Nelson was originally planning to inspect the status of the team's new players.

Therefore, the new players have a lot of playing time, and the poor record in the preseason has a lot to do with this.

But with four new players and three stretching their hips, this really surprised Nelson.

Harden is mediocre, Ibaka and Ingles just don't know what they mean, and only Gasol still behaves like that in the game.

Now in news reports and public opinion, it is said that the reuse of Ibaka and James Harden is a requirement of Yes.

This is a bit unfair. Yes.

On the training ground, Yes values ​​Ibaka and Harden very much, but Yes respects his choices in the team's formation. As long as he doesn't ask, Yes will never use his influence on the team. Force demands who he must start in the game.

In these four games that made SuperSonics fans and coconut fans around the world laugh and cry, Harden, Ibaka and Ingles and Gasol played for such a long time, all of which were his own choices.

With Durant injured, David Lee and Kwame Brown left.

The Seattle SuperSonics have some big holes in their lineup this season.

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

Who can assume these three positions on the team?

For example, the starting small forward position,

Who can do it?

Quentin Richardson?

Quentin Richardson's physical functions are still declining. Although he is not yet 30 years old, his body is already in a state of disrepair after being ravaged 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 cannot control his increasing weight.

Now Quentin Richardson can no longer assume the responsibility of starting the team. He can't play too long and high-intensity games, but letting him play as a fake starter is not his coaching philosophy. He has never been very good at it. Willing to put a fake starter on the team to hide the obvious.

The rest of the Sonics don't need Quentin Richardson to be a fake starter to cover up the situation.

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

Now Quentin Richardson is a substitute shooter in the team, and he is very qualified to kill for a few minutes in the substitute lineup.

As for the starting lineup, forget it really.

Quentin Richardson was the starting power forward of Durant's previous team, and that's the case now, but what about the old guys from other teams?

Damien Wilkins and Quentin Richardson are completely opposite. Quentin Richardson can't keep up physically, but Wilkins is completely IQ-based.

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

This is really a fact. The physical talent of this nephew who is the essence of human movies is really beyond words.

Before he came to the SuperSonics as head coach, the previous SuperSonics head coaches also thought about correcting him, but in the end they all gave up.

In the NBA, football quotient is the most important, and IQ is indeed not the most important, but the premise is that the person must have football quotient. Wilkins is a typical type who is in arrears with both IQ and football quotient.

As a bench gangster who doesn't care, he is qualified. No matter if the opponent is the Rockets, Spurs or Lakers, if you ask him to go up and kill someone, he will never be afraid of whether he can kill him or not. He will go straight to it with a knife. One type.

Any team needs a player like this.

Such players will surprise you, but you cannot rely on such players as a regular basis.

In addition to Wilkins and Richardson, another old man on the team who can serve as a small forward is Tucker.

Old Nelson gets a headache when he thinks about Tucker's situation.

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

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

Although there has been improvement under Yes' training, he is still not yet a regular starter. It will take at least a few years of training.

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

The team has five starters, and the two players on the outside are both incapable of attacking. The opponent's defense is simple. Two people flank Yes, and three people shrink the basket. When the time comes, the Seattle SuperSonics can only stare on the court!

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

After Durant was injured, Nelson looked at the team's lineup and felt extremely lucky. 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 it was crazy to train Durant.

Assuming that Yes did not predictably develop Durant last season and develop Durant into a talent, what would the SuperSonics' performance be like in the playoffs?

Not to mention being the champion, even the first round may not be passed.

Among the top teams in the Western Conference, which team does not have a strong small forward?

If your team does not have a strong small forward, it will be difficult to move forward!

only……

Thinking of Durant's injury last season, Nelson felt extremely sad.

Yes can predict the problems that will arise in the supersonic speed in advance, which is very, very good.

But if you can't stand it, God will really give you no face.

The players you have worked so hard to train are just discounted for you.

It is said that it opens up the difficulty of purgatory, which is higher than the difficulty of hell. This is really not unreasonable.

It is now said that Yes likes to make their career twice as difficult.

Last season, I kept saying Yes why not train others to train Durant.

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

In addition to James Harden and Ibaka, can anyone else play the small forward position for the SuperSonics this season?

Yes, what can we do if we don’t focus on training these two people?

It is not that Richardson, Wilkins and Tucker have not been cultivated. One is already old, the other has a low IQ and football quotient and cannot be cultivated. The progress bar of the other increases too slowly and cannot be cultivated in the short term.

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

If he had a choice, among the three, even he would 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 discovering that the opponent's powerful scorer was targeting him in these four games, he decisively put his arms on his hips on the court. He was unable to beat him and was humiliated. After being passed by or scored by the opponent, James Harden stood on one side with his hands on his hips and his eyes wide open with a shocked look on his face, which was both funny and hilarious.

Nelson didn't believe James Harden had his hands on his hips on purpose or was pretending to stare in shock.

He believes that these are James Harden's true reactions and true emotions.

This guy's ability to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages seems to be engraved in his bones.

If Wilkins's low IQ and golf quotient, Tucker's low offensive attributes are the only ones he has seen in his coaching career, then Harden's attribute of seeking advantages and avoiding disadvantages is also engraved on his body and even his soul. The only one he saw in his coaching career.

It was precisely because it was the first time he saw such a player that he really didn't know how to exploit Harden's advantages...

This advantage of Harden 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 shrink 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 attributes in offense.

Seeking advantages and avoiding disadvantages...

Like a loach that digs into any holes?

Drill a hole if there is no hole?

He is really not too clear now.

Anyway, now Yes has contracted the growth of James Harden.

He has great respect for Yes' basketball wisdom.

That's right, it's not appreciation, it's respect.

Yes’s understanding of basketball is better than that of someone who has played in many games, coached for two or more games, and experienced the games in total!

And it’s much stronger!

You know, the games he has experienced in the NBA are not low-level regular season games. The more than 3,000 games he has experienced in the NBA include close to 350 playoff games and close to 40 finals games!

Moreover, he learned many of the playoffs and finals from the Cardinals, the number one head coach in NBA history.

The Cardinal is an all-rounder who can handle both offense and defense, and this has already revealed his versatility.

It's just like him, the direct descendant of the Cardinal, whose understanding of basketball is actually somewhat inferior to Yes.

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

He works so hard, how come his experience in more than 3,000 NBA games is not as good as Yes, a young man who has only played in a few games?

Diligence can make up for one's shortcomings. In front of Yes, Nelson always felt that it was a lie.

Nelson felt that since he could discover this shining point in James Harden, Yes must have also discovered it, or even discovered it long ago.

After all, Harden has already trained with the Sonics.

Otherwise, how could Yes just like Harden? Yes would not be so vulgar.

Now let’s see how Yes develops James Harden’s talent.

As for Ibaka, he is not as difficult to understand as Harden. Ibaka is a very simple player to understand.

Nowadays, the so-called experts in the newspapers can interpret Ibaka quite clearly, not to mention him, an old coach who has been in the NBA for so many years.

Most of what these guys say is right.

Ibaka's golf IQ displayed in the game is very, very low. This is a fact.

Ibaka's skills in the game were very, very poor, and this is also true.

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

Ibaka is either the kind of loser who has practiced basketball for many years, or who can't practice his skills and can't even practice free throws.

The reason why Ibaka is like this is entirely because he plays too few games and participates in too few trainings.

In Africa, Ibaka was begging for food before he was 15 years old. Later, he was discovered by his agent and sold to Europe. However, in Europe, Ibaka was treated like pork and was taken from one team to another by his agent. It's a game where the highest bidder gets it.

This kind of experience gave Ibaka almost no chance to systematically and theoretically 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, he is still an idiot in front of a group of university professors in kindergarten.

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

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

Nelson disagreed.

Ibaka is so talented that he was kicked out of trials by other NBA teams. This means that these teams think that he is so old and has to start in kindergarten. His life is indeed ruined.

To be honest, even he doesn't know how to train older kindergarten players or older elementary school students like Ibaka.

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

Obviously, Yes also saw that Ibaka's characteristics are not due to his football IQ. Yes definitely did not like Ibaka because of his length and toughness. Yes is not that vulgar.

only……

Old Nelson also really 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 sad now.

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

"Yes, how about you take Joe and Mark together?"

"..."

Yes, who was training with James Harden and Ibaka, looked at Ingles and Gasol brought by Nelson and was a little confused what to say.

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