Li Liang did not expect that the person who came to teach him this time was Adolf Rupp.

When he was studying to play in Kentucky, Li Liang knew this old senior, the pioneer of Kentucky basketball.

He led the University of Kentucky to the first NCAA championship in team history as early as 1947, 1948.

In 194951, he led the Kentucky Wildcats to win three championships and founded an era belonging to Kentucky at NCAA.

He taught at the University of Kentucky for a full 41 years, starting in 1930 and retiring in 1972.

Rupp has been in NCAA forty years, leading Kentucky to win four championships, five finals and 20 national competitions, and has won numerous honors.

But if you open the list of players that Rupp once coached, you will find that there are no super players.

The most famous ones are Pat Riley and Dan Isel (Li Liang followed him to learn the divine tradition).

Riley is not famous for playing football, but because he is a coach and manager.

In other words, Rupp's players have never been great geniuses.

He is not like John Wooden with Jabbar and Bill Walton, nor is he like Dean Smith with Jordan Walsey.

He coaches some relatively mediocre players.

During his 41 years at Rupp, he has recruited 80 players from Kentucky.

Of course, there is no way for a state to compare with the United States.

Such achievements can be achieved in this situation, which is enough to show the level of coaching at Rupp.

He also became famous in Kentucky.

Because I learned about Rupp in the Kentucky Basketball Hall of Fame before and knew that this was the founder of his school, Li Liang was a little nervous when he entered the system than when he was in classes before.

As can be seen from the name, Rupp is a German. He has a kind face and is called a man in brown because he always likes to wear brown suits.

Seeing Li Liang, Rupu walked forward and reached out to shake Li Liang.

Every coach has his own coaching style. Bob Knight is irritable, John Wooden Chicken Soup, Don Haggins is tough, and Rupp is cold and precise.

This is different from the kind of coach who likes to yell. Rupp doesn't like yelling at the players.

But Rupp has very high requirements for players, especially in terms of basic skills and details.

This is also why Rupp was able to succeed without a talented player.

He is very careful with every technical and tactical detail and uses precise tactical cooperation to make up for the players' lack of talent.

Li Liang heard about this, so when he saw Rupu looking at him up and down, he felt a little scared in his heart for some reason.

Have you worn a pin? Rupp asked suddenly.

Li Liang was stunned. What's the problem? Pin?

Li Liang grabbed his head and said: No.

Rupudao: Next time I come, bring a pin, this time I will bring you good luck.

Li Liang is full of black thread. Why does pins bring good luck?

Later, Li Liang figured it out that Coach Rupp, like many NBA players, is also a big superstitious person.

He believes that on the game day, if you can find a pin or a card on the field, it will indicate good luck.

Also, on game day, he would put a horse chestnut leaf in his suit pocket, which is his lucky thing.

There is also the brown suit he wears until the suit is old and never changes it.

Because once he changed into a new blue suit to coach the game, the team lost a lot.

Since then, Coach Rupp has never changed his suits and has been wearing old-fashioned brown suits.

It can only be said that in the basketball world, feudal superstition has a wide communication basis.

Afterwards, Li Liang followed Rupp to the training ground and met Pat Riley as expected.

Li Liang and Riley are really in a bad relationship.

In reality, I have met a lot of chatter and laughter. I played the role together in the NBA mission, and the cunning duo colluded.

When we arrived at the tactical training mission, we met Riley, who was young in college, the foul king.

Li Liang joined the Kentucky Wildcats training in 1966.

The Wildcats are called rup runts, which is Rup's short team, because no player in the team is over 6-foot-5 (1 meter 95).

But such a short team actually reached the NCAA finals that year.

The opponent of Kentucky that year was Don Haggins' West Texas United, the first all-black starting team.

The last time Li Liang learned the double-team tactic was at West Texas United and Huggins.

Unexpectedly, when I came to learn to keep an eye on people today, I met Rupu. This system must have been intentional.

Unlike West Texas United, Rupp is a determined executor of a man-to-man defense.

He has coached Kentucky since the 1930s and has insisted on using simple but effective man-to-man defense and has refused to adopt other defensive strategies.

Even though his team always suffers from height, he still uses tough and confrontational people to defend, achieving good results.

Rupp has a deep understanding of the seemingly simplest and least technical defense method of human-to-person.

Using good people to guard against people, everything else is actually not important. Rupu said to Li Liang.

Li Liang thought that Mike Brown said that was not what he said.

Coach Brown likes to play the role of the head spirit on defense the most. Anyway, the league can now defend, and it is a variety of troubles.

Sometimes the middle is swept, sometimes the 14-way defense is done, sometimes the middle is blocked, sometimes the edge is placed, and sometimes the middle is put to the wing.

Li Liang is about to be annoyed by Mike Brown.

But Mike Brown does have two tricks in defense. When the Lakers' overall defense is relatively aging, it is indeed useful to use strategies to make up for weaknesses and tactics to make up for physical fitness.

But Rupp is different. The team he coaches is a university team, and students do not have physical fitness problems.

However, players have their own characteristics, and the general characteristic of Kentucky players is short.

How can this be done with one-on-one defense alone?

Before the training began, Li Liang took the initiative to ask, if he encountered a tall opponent, would he just use one-on-one to keep an eye on people?

Rupu looked at Li Liang and said: If we encounter a tall team, we will use 131 joint defense.

Um?

Li Liang said hello, you just said that using good people to guard people is not important, nothing else is important?

I thought you would have some ideas, but you would also use joint defense!

Rupu saw Li Liang's thoughts and said: I am the first coach boy to promote the use of joint defense in NCAA. People must continue to learn and improve, and they cannot limit themselves to death. But people are always the basis and cornerstone of NBA defense. Do you think there is something wrong with this?

Although Rupp is a firm supporter of man-to-man defense, he also keeps pace with the times and began to learn and introduce 131 joint defense in 1963.

Otherwise, Rupp's short guy would not be able to reach the finals.

Li Liang hurriedly said: No problem, Ning is right.

Li Liang's attitude towards the ancestor was still very good.

Then, formal training began.

The training content is also very clear, and you don’t practice the skills, because that is the task goal.

What you practice here in Rupp is mainly human-to-human consciousness and cooperation.

Li Liang's outside defense skills are already very good. He has been practicing basic skills in college.

After tempering and improving in missions and real-life competitions, the experience of speed and combat has increased comprehensively.

Li Liang thought that he would practice his defensive tactical routines and he could be a coach when he went back.

It seems that people just stare at their opponents, but in fact there are routines and cooperation.

In the first lesson, if one-on-one-on-two and three-on-three are done, if you ensure that your defense is not lost, you can still cooperate and help each other.

Because the opponent's offensive tactics must revolve around disrupting the deployment of people-to-people, and there are misalignment gaps.

Therefore, players who are defending by man-to-man must have good defensive skills.

At the same time, we must pay close attention to the movements of our teammates and opponents, make predictions in advance, and rotate in time.

These things were learned in Kentucky before, and later in the Lakers, Li Liang.

But it is still a bit different to study in systems, that is, Rupu is so meticulous.

He gave clear distance and time regulations on when players should move, when cross-transfer, and when to provide assistance when people are guarding against people.

How far apart the players are, Rupp almost measured with a ruler.

During training, if the distance between players is not controlled properly and the timing of transfer is inaccurate, Rupp will be stopped and corrected.

After half an hour, Li Liang felt a headache.

Only coaches in NBA won’t be so meticulous. The only coaches in NBA who do this in my impression is Larry Brown.

He created the Detroit Pistons in 2004.

Li Liangxin thought that none of these famous coaches in the basketball world are fuel-efficient.

Each has their own pervertedness.
Chapter completed!