In a few days, the Kings will be sure to enter the playoffs as the third in the West. Looking around the top six teams in the West, the Kings are just as upstart, because at this time last year, they almost clearly couldn’t make the playoffs, but now, the Kings and nuggets, Grizzlies, Sun, Clippers, warriors, these playoff regulars, came together.
When it reached 72 games last year, the King won only 25 games, and this year he has won 43 games, with an astonishing 72 percent increase. As the first hero, coach Mike Brown’s “best coach” should be in the bag. But if his men had no good generals, it would be difficult for Brown to reform the style of the Kings so smoothly. In addition to the original core Fox, Brown’s most successful thing is to build Sabonis into the tactical core of the team and let him serve as the “organization center” of the Kings “.
The current King’s team has a concise and effective playing method and a clear core. The attack is calculated every hundred rounds, with an average of 119.4 points per game, which is regarded as the team with the first attack in the league. Last year, the King’s attack was only ranked 25th, with an average score of 109.9 points in 100 rounds.
The key is Sabonis, because he is related to many aspects of the King’s attack:
① from his direct fengshui ball to the front court, up offensive tempo.
② directly launch the high-level block and split cooperation to improve the attack efficiency.
③ liberated fox and outside pitcher.
Mike Brown’s reform of the Kings was very thorough. He not only advocated attack, but actually designed a unique style for the Kings. Although their “organization center” style was not unique in NBA, in the past, there was yokeki as a more successful example, and the dream pursuit won four championships. However, for a traditional weak team like the King, Sabonis provoked the important task of organization, which is of epoch-making significance.
Many people watch basketball and watch the stars first. There is nothing wrong with this, especially in NBA, a commercial basketball league that focuses on show. However, the correct way to watch basketball is to look at the core of the organization first. The reason why NBA stars are supreme is that most of the time the ball is in their hands, and most of them are defenders or super strikers.
The core of the organization determines the playing style of a team. The core of the Outside Organization seeks the center to break down and launch an attack. Therefore, the playing style of most teams is similar. The center is the core of the organization. Sabonis is not the first or the last, but this role is rare because there are few centers who can pass on their abilities.
Before switching to the King, Sabonis played for 5 and a half seasons. His technical characteristics have always been the same, but no matter in thunder or Pacers, the head coach has not given the role of the center of the organization. At most, he is a comprehensive technical center, good at passing. Letting him respond at a high position does not mean letting him organize. In the Thunder team, there were Wei Shao and Oladipo in the team. In the Pacers, there were Oladipo, Collison and broghton in the team.
Even if he was transferred to the Kings, the ball was still in Fox’s hands, and the acting coach Gentry did not change the traditional style of the Kings. In fact, in exchange for Halliburton and Sabonis, there has been an obvious direction in the future play. Only in the hands of Mike Brown did the organization center become a reality.
Sabonis was not prepared for the transformation of his role. Over the past five or six years, Sabonis’s position is still a center who can pass the ball. The Pacers even let him and Turner match for several years, hoping to create a pair of inner line combination that can be inside and outside and can prevent transmission, but it has always been very awkward. In his best year of data, he reached 20+12, and was elected as an All-Star for the second time, with an average assist of 6.7 times. However, he is still not an organization center, and he is just a center who can pass the ball.
When he was in the Thunder team, coach Donovan hoped to make good use of Sabonis’s all-round skills. Maybe most coaches thought of him first, and they also used him like this: blocking and dismantling, going smoothly or playing outside, receive the ball attack basket, low attack with the ball, hand in hand outside the line, the most advanced usage is to let him take more measures. To this end, Wei Shao also specially opened special snack for him. The two practiced separately to block and split, familiar with Wei Shao’s habits, and connected Wei Shao’s bounce pass. It was also Sabonis’s rookie season. In addition to covering for weishao, he was also responsible for buying drinks for weishao and taking the plane.
An excellent coach should learn to refine the players’ strengths and make great use of them, instead of pushing the players into the system designed by himself. If he can’t adapt to it, he will throw it away. Creative use of players’ strengths often results in unexpected results.
Mike Brown did not participate in the revolutionary transformation of the Warriors in the 2015 playoffs, but he always served as Cole’s assistant when he won the championship three times after the Warriors. Among the characteristics of the Warriors’s playing style, it is very important to pursue dreams as the center of the organization, although his height is less than 2 meters. In fact, the way Sabonis plays now is very similar to green, but his attacking skills are really not comparable to dream chasing.
When he first arrived at the Kings, Fox was injured after playing 13 games with him. This season, Mike Brown gave the ball to Sabonis. Fox concentrated on the attack and created his own scoring, field goal percentage data record. Sabonis ranked first in the league with 12.5 rebounds, but in my opinion, his biggest data achievement hit a career high with 7.3 assists.
Compared with the average three pairs in jokich, Sabonis still can’t reach that height. However, this has already changed the Kings.
The most significant change was that Mike Brown asked him to lead the ball directly to the front court after he grabbed the rebound, and immediately cooperated with the defender when the opponent’s foothold was not stable. After Fox gets the ball, he can directly launch a breakthrough attack, and pitchers like Herter and Monk also have the right to directly shoot three points. This greatly accelerated the offensive tempo of the Kings, and the efficiency was also high.
Controlling the ball belonging to Fox in his own hands, Sabonis was a little flattered at first. He said: “You know, he has been playing in the Kings. This is his team. There are so many point guards in NBA who can be the signboard of the team. Few of them are willing to let the big men in the team lead the ball to the front court, but he is willing to, and he also covers for me, which shocked me. But in this way, our conversion attack is much easier. We don’t care who is who, we just want to win more goals.”
Sabonis likes to cooperate with the three-point defender very much. During training, he asked to be in a group with Hert. Hert was very grateful. He said, “with his cover, I instantly felt like I was flying.” Now, Herter’s hit rate of three points has reached 40% for the first time.
Mike Brown’s transformation of the King has been very successful so far. It is another matter what the playoffs are like. After all, the Kings have not made the playoffs for 16 consecutive years.
Except for Barnes, this king team has no veteran of more than 10 years. The rotation team has played for seven or eight years at most. Therefore, everyone is very convinced by Brown and accepts his arrangement for their respective roles.
In order to adapt the whole team to the new system and play style, Brown stressed that everyone should train together more, but the NBA schedule is tight, and it is difficult to find a time for continuous rest to arrange the whole team training. Moreover, in order to ensure the rest of the players, the players’ union stipulated in the labor agreement that there must be at least 18 complete rest days for each season, which is limited to 1 am. After this time, the so-called “next day” is not a rest day. Brown organized a “four-person leading group” consisting of Fox, Sabonis, Barnes and Davian Mitchell, letting them decide when to train and when to rest. This mechanism ensures the cooperation of all players. Sometimes they play away. In order to arrive at the next stop before 1 a.m., everyone will urge each other to hurry up slowly so as to take the second sky out as a rest day, strive for more opportunities for team training.
As the organization center of the whole team, Sabonis also gained the same leadership status as Fox. Although he is well-known, he is still a simple European player and very self-disciplined. After each team training, he would go to eat something first, then perform personal exercises at night, and practice a different skill each time: practice the hook today, practice the right hand tomorrow (he is left-handed), practice three points the day after tomorrow.
It is hard to believe that such an organization center with such an important position can accept less than 20 million annual salary in walkers. Fortunately, he will reach the contract year next season, and this playoff is his best chance to prove himself.
Beside Sabonis, except Barnes and Herter, most of his teammates have not played the playoffs. He has had three rounds of experience. According to the current ranking, Sabonis will have his own template for the first round-the center of the warrior’s organization to pursue dreams.
