"If you have Liu's athleticism, I don't mind you being a defensive libero. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info" Bickerstaff glared at Nick Young.

Nick Young was stunned when he saw Bickerstaff's angry eyes, don't look at Bickerstaff so kind to Liu Ren, in fact, he has a very high authority in the coaching world, after all, he is a person who has been a head coach and a general manager.

Now the Lakers are only satisfied with Bickerstaff's five people: Whiteside, Green, Gasol, Liu Ren, and Antetokounmpo.

Liu Ren, Green and Whiteside, Antetokounmpo are all very talented and motivated defensively, and defense still depends on talent.

The quartet look like the kind of players who are naturally good at defending at Bickerstaff, with Liu Ren and Antetokounmpo being super athletic and defensively minded, able to rely on their natural instincts to break through players at any time, and rely on their physical gifts to get back in front of their defenders at any time.

Green's defense is completely at the level of the best defensive player in Bickerstaff's opinion! He really couldn't understand why the team had such an all-round defensive player, who could defend center and shooting guard, why the team's defense was ranked 14th in the league last season, it was incredible.

Whiteside's biggest characteristic is the dominance of blocks and rebounds, and Whiteside has not been idle this summer, he went to former Bulls and Lakers star power forward Horace Grant to ask for guidance to make his defensive ability closer, and it is simply the choice of the timing of his blocks to further strengthen himself.

The huge size, combined with good movement and the look that doesn't seem to be doing everything at all, makes Bickerstaff not worry at all about the interior defense of the second team led by Whiteside, who has such a big man, as long as it is accompanied by a group of players who are active in defense and do not play blindly!

Although Thackeray's athleticism makes Bickerstaff very dissatisfied, fortunately, he has a good defensive attitude and is very obedient, let him squat on the inside, he is not like Nick Young and LaVine who want to show himself excessively, which makes Bickerstaff feel satisfied, and the most important thing for the bench is to be obedient!

With such five interior players, Bickerstaff feels that the team's interior talent is simply a bit overflowing!

But the outside line looks bad in Bickerstaff, Liu Ren's defensive habits are a little poor, and he always lets go too much of his defensive players to help defend, but now the league's small forwards are mostly 3D players except for a few who serve as the first scorers like James, Anthony, and Durant, and they score some points is not very important, and no team wants to win by scoring 3D players.

The role of the offensive end of the 3D player is to open up the space and let the team's tactics play, if the 3D player scores more, it actually means that the tactics of other teammates are not playing well!

The most important thing is that Bickerstaff Judging from Liu Ren's confrontation with top small forwards last season, his single defense ability has become better and better as the season has deepened, but because the team has no defensive system, the help defense is getting worse and worse.

The system of assistance defense is very important, and the more important thing is talent, otherwise the league would have a lot of help defense masters, and there are too many players who rely on defense to gain a foothold, except for D'Antoni's kind of coach with a clear mind, other coaches like players who are active in defense.

The first week passed quickly, and the Lakers players were divided into three groups to practice the defensive running of the whole state, except for Green, Whiteside, Liu Ren, Antetokounmpo and Gasol, and Kobe Bryant, who has a lot of defensive experience, felt good, like a fish in water, everyone else was tired enough!

Every day is a constant repetition, constant repetition, constant repetition, and constant repetition of the running position, which can only be described as boring.

This is also the reason why teams like the Spurs and the Pistons at the beginning of the century are not treated well by stars, because every day of training is boring and repetitive training defense.

Bickerstaff built a defensive system for the Lakers based on the Nuggets' defensive system in the 90s, and the two teams have one thing in common, which is that they are excellent overall athleticism!

The Nuggets seem to have always been built according to the track team, always composed of a group of physically gifted players, and Bickerstaff was a head coach and general manager at the Nuggets, so he knows how to build a defensive system for such a team.

When Bickerstaff built a defensive system for the Nuggets, he retired as general manager, and the head coach was George Karl, who is also a team that loves offense, but he has defense.

In order to match D'Antoni's offensive physicality, Bickerstaff's defensive goal for the Lakers was to quickly rotate and get opportunities to counter and break quickly.

Generally speaking, the current Lakers are somewhat similar to the Nuggets lineup back then, the Nuggets at that time had top blockers like Mutombo on the inside, and there were defensive leaders with excellent physical conditions like Bryant Stich, and other players were very athletic, with a complete defensive system, and George Karl's fast offensive play, so they created the NBA's first Black Eight Miracle.

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After the first week of training, Bickerstaff gathered some questions from the players and handed over the team to D'Antoni to study how to improve on his own.

Obviously, the Lakers are the Lakers, and the Nuggets of the year are the Nuggets of the year, and the two teams are still very different, and it is not okay to do it rigidly.

"Finally you can practice attacking!" Nick Young exclaimed excitedly.

"I think it's fun to defend, and it's nice to defend the opponent so that you can't shoot continuously." Liu Ren said with a smile.

“boss！ That's you! I'd be fun if I was like you, but I'm a pitcher, you know how boring it is. Either run along, or stand stupidly, it's too boring. Nick Young said indignantly.

Defensive coaches are most afraid of Nick Young, a very important part of the defensive system is the positional defensive players, they are the key to intercepting the opposing pitcher and the weak side of the air cutter, as important as the player who is good at defense!

Usually such defensive players are average-talented, hard-working players, and Nick Young is clearly not that type.

"Isn't it, it's boring? I think CJ had a lot of fun. Liu Ren said and glanced at McCollum, who was so happy because he was praised by Bickerstaff.

Nick Young ran over and hooked McCollum by the neck and said viciously, "Eh! CJ, how do you practice so energetically for such boring things? ”