Kerr admired Min Congda's sacrifice for the Clippers.
Most head coaches will put pressure on referees to achieve fairer penalties or even missed whistles.
However, this kind of pressure has its limits, and sometimes it can be self-defeating, irritating the referee, and specifically targeting your team.
Min Congda is not the case. He puts pressure on the referee all the time, regardless of whether you are targeting me or not. He "attacks" the referee indiscriminately.
In the end, the Clippers were feared by everyone in the league. If they can't offend me, why can't they hide away?
For this reason, Min Congda paid a "fine" of nearly one million U.S. dollars.
Although Cole's annual salary is several million, he still has to pay millions in taxes.
Including the cost of various insurances, the actual money received is the same as that of an NBA star, less than half.
So it still hurts to be fined, but Min Congda is really fearless and dares to speak out.
"If I'm not wrong, Smart's 15-man rotation and the team's strange substitution strategy must be based on long-term considerations rather than immediate gains and losses. Therefore, we all have to believe in him. Can."
Cole firmly decided to support Min Congda.
To be honest, when Min Congda first decided to be the head coach, Cole was unconvinced.
When Cole gave up his job at Turner Television Network and came to the Clippers, he hoped to take the position of head coach in the future and make great achievements.
As the first assistant coach last season, he has a vague tendency to replace Dunleavy.
And Mike Dunleavy also wisely transferred most of his power to Cole.
During the game, Cole was asked to arrange tactics and complete substitution arrangements.
Dunleavy happened to have physical problems, and Cole succeeded as the head coach.
Who knew you, the dignified general manager, would come here to compete with our coach for his job?
But after more than a month and half of the game.
Cole felt that he still had a lot to learn from Min Congda.
Not to mention anything else, just a city like his that makes people unable to see through his thoughts, and an all-encompassing tactical whimsy like the sea are enough for Cole to chase.
Just calm down and learn slowly. There is no end to learning.
At this time, Min Congda was immersed in the joy of being fined two thousand for a technical foul.
"Oh, one technical foul in each game, and the salary for losing will come! Being a coach still has its benefits, hehehe. It's just that cursing people doesn't fit in with my nature. I am a refined and easy-going person, but now I have become so irritable. ...This dog system really turns people into ghosts...I'm from CNM, how did you hit this ball? Why was it intercepted again!"
The situation on the field suddenly changed.
Matthews made only one of two free throws and missed the second shot.
But Ade grabbed the offensive rebound and was about to attack with the ball.
Leonard sneaked up from behind like a ghost and broke the ball from Ade's hand.
The Clippers, who succeeded in stealing the ball, immediately launched a counterattack.
The ball was given to Curry, and Curry passed the ball forward to Harden.
Harden caught the ball, rushed to the basket and dunked with one hand!
Although little fat Harden may seem lazy when playing basketball, he is actually quite explosive.
Once he charges up, he can fly into the sky and escape from the ground, and he is an omnipotent dunk general.
Seeing Harden succeed in the fast break, Min Congda couldn't sit still and wanted to call a timeout again.
But now the Blazers have the ball, and he can't call a timeout.
Ade caught the ball in the low post and beat Gasol with a back-up.
Min Congda took a look and said, "Wori, who the hell asked Gasol to guard Adelaide? What's going on? Where's Bonner? This bitch was lazy and squatted under the basket!"
Gasol defended Ade, but Ade was not so easy to score easily.
The turnaround jump shot missed and Bonner got the backboard.
The pass was quickly passed to Curry again, and Curry advanced with the ball.
A dangerous cross pass was passed to Harden. Harden received the ball and passed it to Xiaojia who was following up in the middle.
Xiaojia made another pass to the inside, Leonard had already rushed to the basket, caught the ball and dunked again!
How did you pull off this smooth attack?
On the one hand, it is because Harden, Curry, and Gasol are all masters of passing.
And Leonard obviously has a high golf quotient, is good at seizing opportunities, and is very focused on the court.
On the other hand, if the head coach doesn’t make arrangements, we will discuss it ourselves.
When Matthews made a free throw just now, the five people repeatedly communicated and discussed how to attack later.
A core idea is to play fast and push up the speed.
As for why? Anyway, the coach didn’t say anything, so we can play however we think we can.
The situation on the court was not conducive to the Trail Blazers again, and McMillan called a timeout.
Min Congda desperately wanted to scold Curry and Harden, but he couldn't.
At that stage just now, I played really well.
Okay, well done, I'll reward you with a ten-minute break.
Curry and Harden took another break and were replaced by Fisher and Butler.
Gasol, you are tired too, drink some water and let Milicic come on.
This magical substitution made the entire Moda Center drunk.
Of course, the Clippers players are confused. Why do they have to make substitutions whenever they have an advantage?
If you play like this, the players' state will not be restored and there will be no continuity.
Curry and Harden find it easy to get into shape.
Being pushed to the bench again to cool down was as uncomfortable as it was.
McMillan saw that the Clippers were doing this again, so he made targeted changes.
Let Crawford take the lead early and use his personal ability to tear apart the Clippers' backcourt defense.
Crawford is flexible and has very strong personal offensive ability.
Milicic led the team to retreat and shrink the defense in the first half, but it seemed too slow to face Crawford.
With continuous mid-range jump shots and breakthrough throws, the Trail Blazers once again closed the score.
The Clippers' lineup is very constipated offensively. No one is the main attacker, so they can only let Butler, a young man, hold the ball and attack.
Butler doesn't have this ability now. He made two mistakes when he got to the basket and couldn't score at all.
The score was getting closer, 75:70. Near the end of the third quarter, the Clippers were leading by 5 points.
Such a bad second team obviously cannot be used on the court for too long.
Min Chongda replaced Dragic, Harden and Ricky Davis again.
Replaced Leonard, Fisher and Bonner and played a small lineup.
Although Dunleavy also experimented with various lineups last season.
Many coaches will conduct lineup experiments, expand rotations during the regular season, and allow different players to appear and combine to see the effect.
However, it is extremely rare for people like Min Congda to make such large-scale and frequent substitutions and expand the rotation to 12 people.
This resulted in two results. The first result was that at the beginning of the fourth quarter, Ade hit a three-pointer from the outside and the difference between the two sides narrowed to 7 points.
The game became suspense again in the fourth quarter, and the 7-point advantage was completely unsafe.
The second result is that Clippers players are forced to get familiar with their new teammates, new routines, new coordination, and discuss tactics during the game.
Min Congda didn't arrange any tactics, he just let the players go up and play.
The players were discussing on the court how to play.
Of course, this is inefficient and painful. How can a coach not arrange tactics and let the players discuss it themselves?
But the Clippers players really didn't say anything and started discussing it on the court.
You have your plan, and we have our ladder.
From the perspective of the Clippers players, this is just a test for Mr. Smart.
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