Normally, in everyone's eyes, Edison, although he is very strict in training, exudes an aura of giving up to others, and often scolds the players, but he is very reasonable. Scolding you must be because you have made mistakes before, and scolding you is just to comment on the matter.
He will tell you what you did just now, how stupid it is, how undeserved your mistake was, and there will be no further punishment. And if you perform well, he will also smile and praise you. Off the court, he cares about the players very much because they are similar in age and share the same common ground.
There are more topics, so everyone regards him as a respectable, awesome and lovely big brother.
But Edison's performance today was beyond everyone's expectations. Josh didn't know what he did wrong. What happened to the double-team? This was a normal defensive method. Why did he replace me?
The game was not allowed. Josh couldn't figure it out, so he sat on the bench, wiped his sweat with a towel, and then threw the towel to the ground hard.
And this scene all fell into Edison's eyes. Edison narrowed his eyes, and Thibodeau felt something was wrong for the first time. After a summer of contact, he knew that this was a sign that Edison was about to explode, so he
He quickly pulled Josh aside and asked Nelson to take him back to the locker room to avoid a direct conflict between the two.
At this time, Edison watched the situation quietly, turning a deaf ear to the changes behind him.
Thibodeau looked at Edison and couldn't help it anymore, "Is this okay?"
Edison turned his head and glanced at Thibodeau, "What are you referring to, Howard or Josh?"
"The main thing is Howard. The gap between Howard and O'Neal is really too big now. If you let him play like this, you won't be afraid of destroying his self-confidence. As for Josh, I believe it can be solved through communication."
"Tom, do you know what Howard's biggest problem is now?" Edison sighed, looking like he was "worrying about the world first."
After hearing this, Thibodeau thought seriously, "His offensive skills are too immature, he has no low-post attack skills, and he can't shoot..." and then started to ramble on.
Edison heard Thibodeau's unfocused chatter and said with a little boredom: "What you said can be made up for through training, and he is so young, so this is not a problem. To say the least, no one is perfect, we can't possibly point it out.
As long as he masters the left and right skills, he only needs to have one or two stable scoring skills."
After hearing this, Thibodeau also stopped talking.
"Howard's biggest problem is psychological. He was too smooth before, and he was the best from childhood to adulthood, which greatly sapped his aggressiveness. In fact, his psychological quality is very good, and his ability to withstand stress is extremely strong.
After one or two seasons, he will definitely become the best inside man in the league. But by that time, O'Neal will be old and he will lose his opponent again. So now I must leave a lasting impression on O'Neal while he is still at his peak.
Mark, let him know what a good standard is, so that he can continue to make progress toward this goal in the future."
On December 8, 1985, a child named Dwight David Howard was born in a basketball home in Atlanta, USA. Speaking of the birth of this child, it was definitely a miracle - before him, his mother
Shirley Howard had miscarried seven times, and even his father was not sure that the child would survive. However, a miracle occurred and little Howard was born successfully. From that moment on, the child was also called the "Miracle Child."
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His birth background made his parents dote on him very much, and they doted on her since he was a child.
It is no exaggeration to call Howard's family a basketball family. Howard Sr. is both a trooper in Georgia and the director of athletics at Southwest Atlanta Christian College; and his mother, Shirley Howard, once attended Morris Brown University.
He played basketball and was a good athlete on the basketball court. Influenced by his parents, Howard Jr. started playing basketball at the age of 9, and he also inherited his parents' athletic talent...
As soon as he came into contact with basketball, Howard was considered a genius. At that time, he was not only tall and strong, but also fast, accurate in shooting, and had better ball-handling skills than most guards. And the most endearing thing about Howard is that
He can let his teammates fully enjoy the fun of playing and let everyone get involved. His attitude towards the game is very rigorous and serious, but he has never lost the fun of basketball because he is too involved - on the court, you can always
See his iconic smile, and the source of this smile is that Howard always enjoys the fun basketball brings to him.
In 1998, Howard, who was in seventh grade, was finally able to join the school team and wear the No. 12 jersey chosen by his father. At that time, he was not too tall and had extremely strong ball-handling skills.
The team's starting point guard. However, after just two years, the coach couldn't tolerate his point guard getting taller, so he asked him to move to a small forward. A few months later, Howard, who had just played small forward for a short time,
He actually grew another 7 inches! On a high school basketball team, the small forward was already 6 feet 9 inches tall... So Howard became the team's power forward again.
As his height increases, Howard becomes more and more outstanding on the court. He runs like flying on the court, grabs rebounds, blocks shots, scores, and plays fast breaks. Howard can be seen everywhere on the court. Because Howard's school team is not a traditional basketball school.
, so until he decided to participate in the draft, he did not encounter any strong opponents.
Howard's birth and upbringing experience can be said to have advantages and disadvantages.
The advantage is that he has an optimistic, cheerful and confident character. The disadvantage is that he is a little content with being rich and not aggressive enough. So later, a reporter once asked Howard, who had become a "Warcraft", "Do you want to go further and improve?"
"My own low-post ability." Howard's answer turned out to be: "In this league now, I am already very good and my level is sufficient. I don't think I need to develop any new skills."
Edison knew that although Howard was the league's top center on a quarter-on-quarter basis, vertically, he was far behind his predecessors.
Howard's performance in his first two seasons in the league was average and he made little progress. The most typical example is that although Howard was the No. 1 pick, his Rookie of the Year award was taken away by Okafor. There is a reason for this. He started to make more progress.
He played the power forward position, and there was no dominant power forward in the Eastern Conference at that time. The best power forwards were O'Neal Jr. and Rasheed Wallace. But the two of them caught up with Auburn Hills immediately.
The team's strength has been greatly reduced; the other is that in a team-based team, the individual's role is not very obvious. Therefore, although Howard's statistics steadily improved during those days, this improvement was not an improvement in strength, but more of a
This is due to physical growth, adaptation to the NBA, and increased playing time. Without strong opponents to put pressure on him, Howard will be relatively slack.
When he came to play center, he made great progress, and his shooting percentage increased by nearly 10 percentage points. Because at this time, his competitors changed from power forward to center. And Orlando happened to have the last super center next door.
He had to play 4 games each season, which gave Howard great motivation to improve, so he improved rapidly in the next two seasons. However, O'Neal was already very old, and he soon gave up the title of the league's number one center.
Howard took advantage of the situation and became the strongest one. In the 2008-09 season, he successfully led the team to the finals and established his position as the strongest center in the league.
This honor is very glorious, but it is very detrimental to his personal growth. It is said that he is still young, not yet 25 years old, and there is still a lot of room for improvement, but the result is that he stopped improving in the next two seasons.
, because there was no opponent. It wasn't until Bynum began to threaten his position in 2011 that Howard had the motivation to move forward again, so you can see that in this shortened season, Howard began to have low-post steps, and it was no longer a simple step.
Hook shots and forced dunks….
Howard's lack of progress made Edison worried, so today he planned to let O'Neal give him a good beating to let him know what it means to be high and low.
After hearing Edison's words, Thibodeau frowned and said, "I can understand your idea and agree with it. But is this too much? If Howard's confidence is destroyed, he will be useless for the rest of his life."
Already."
After hearing this, Edison closed his eyes and bit his lip, "I believe he will not collapse so easily."
For a player, mental IQ and body = skill. This ranking is applicable to any multi-person confrontation event, whether it is football, basketball, rugby or ice hockey, and is even used in events with obvious confrontation such as tennis and table tennis.
It can be said that except for some sports such as swimming and track and field that pursue physical perfection, physical talent and technical application are put first. In most other sports, physical fitness and technology are really not the most critical.
This is especially true in the NBA. People who can enter this league must have excellent physical skills. The difference lies more in IQ and mentality.
Then talking about IQ, any top athlete must have a very good IQ. For example, James, Kobe, etc., if you only look at the body or skills, there are many people in the league who are similar to them, and there are also many people who are better than them.
, but why did they become superstars? Because their brains are good and they know how to use their bodies and skills. And those who are pure muscles have good skills but don’t know how to use them. There are many examples of this
, as a typical example, everyone looks at Kwame Brown. His physical fitness is definitely not worse than anyone else, but he just can't play well. There are also negative examples. Here I am talking about one in the football field.
Didier Drogba, the World of Warcraft in football, many people think that his current achievements are mainly due to his incredible body. But is this really the case? He came to China this season, and we found out after close observation
, his body is not as good as we thought, many Chinese defenders can resist him. Of course, you can say it is because he is old and his body is no longer at its peak. This does matter, but last season he
He is still a monster who dominates the Champions League, and he should never be so disabled all of a sudden. This explains the problem. In the past, he relied not only on his body in Europe, but also on his brain and understanding of the team's tactics.
, and now in China, his advantage in this area cannot be used because no one can reach his level.
At that time, compared to hard skills such as IQ and physical skills, mental quality was more critical.
There is often a phenomenon in the sports world. A certain player suddenly performs well in a game, and then receives praise from various media. From then on, he is out of control. When we comment on him at this time, we will say: "His performance in that game
The game builds confidence." Many times an athlete's physical skills are already very good. It can be said that they are not much different from those superstars, and their understanding of tactics is not very bad, but they are just short of a game that can vindicate themselves.
If there is such a game, he will be confident. Once he is confident, he will be more daring to make moves, and at the same time, the moves will be more stretched, the success rate will be higher, and the more successful he will be, the stronger his self-confidence will be, forming a benign
Cycle. On the contrary, those who have no confidence are afraid to take action. Even if they do it, they will think about it before and after. Their actions are stiff and they are naturally prone to failure. The more they fail, the less they dare to do it. It is a vicious cycle.
There are many people in the NBA who are eliminated because of poor mental quality. Here are two examples.
First: Kwame Brown, the No. 1 pick in the 2001 NBA draft. As the first high school pick in history and hand-picked by His Majesty the Flying Tigers, Brown was burdened with tremendous pressure. He played a total of 57 games in his rookie season.
There were only 14.3 minutes. Because Jordan was eager to bring the Wizards into the playoffs, Brown would be replaced once he made a mistake during the game, which dampened his enthusiasm. Although he had always worked hard, every time he performed poorly
People who had high expectations for him in good times always threw disappointment and accusations at him without reservation, saying that he was the "parallel import number one", so he really became a parallel import...
Of course, some may say that Kwame Brown not only has a mental problem, but also has a problem with his IQ. He is always unable to execute tactics well. Then let's take a look at another genius whose self-confidence has been destroyed.
Darko Milicic, the second overall pick in 2003. Milicic's talent is unquestionable. The Nelsons, Dumas, Carlisle, Jazz scout Dar Sin and others were impressed by his talent before he was drafted.
.But he was ruined by Larry Brown, who hated all those with athletic talent even though he had no athletic talent. "Larry scared this kid to death. He destroyed this kid's self-esteem too much."
, that kind of rough attitude simply prevented Darko from recovering from the injury... Now that our team's coach has been replaced by Philip, maybe everything will be different. You have to know, he hurt him so deeply that
He may never be able to bounce back... This kid has extraordinary talent, it can be said that he is omnipotent on the court..." This passage was Billups' later explanation of the reason for Milicic's decline.
Unlike Kwame Brown, Milicic has a high golf IQ, so his help defense is very good. The reason why he did not perform well is because his self-confidence was destroyed.
No matter how strong a person's body is and how high his IQ is, if he doesn't have a heart strong enough to support it all, then no matter how good his talent is, it's meaningless.
Although Edison said he was confident in his words, he had no confidence in his heart. No one can say for sure what is going on in a person's heart. Even though Edison knew that Howard had a cheerful personality based on the memories of later generations, he did not dare to vouch for it and could not guarantee that he would not show up.
Accident.
Although O'Neal defeated Howard on both offense and defense, the Heat did not take the lead. The reason is simple. The Heat's substitutes are weak. If the Heat's lineup is a battleship, O'Neal is an aircraft carrier.
, Wade is an F22, Eddie Jones is a Harrier fighter, Haslem and Butler are F16s that are a bit outdated, then the other substitutes are torpedoes, sometimes they can play a role, but most of the time they are just decorations
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Soon the halftime came and the Magic led the Heat 52-46.
All the players filed into the tunnel and returned to their lounges. In the tunnel, Van Gundy also took the time to say hello to Thibodeau of the Magic, "Hey, Tom, why don't you partner with Jeff? It's you.
Is there any conflict between them?"
Van Gundy is the brother of Rockets head coach Jeff Van Gundy, so he is very familiar with Thibodeau. Thibodeau and Van Gundy have worked together for many years. The two have the same tactical concepts. The best one can wear a pair of pants. But this year, Thibodeau suddenly
Du left Jeff Van Gundy. Of course Jeff Van Gundy knew what was going on, but Van Gundy didn't know. Van Gundy knew that his younger brother was usually stubborn and not good at words. He thought it was Thibodeau and Jeff Van Gundy who had a conflict.
I was angered by Van Gundy Jr.'s harsh words. So I planned to take the opportunity to mediate today. I didn't ask Thibodeau to continue to be an assistant to Van Gundy Jr., as long as the two of them could untie their knots.
Van Gundy's thoughts are very good and his intentions are well-intentioned, but he really doesn't know what's going on here.
When Thibodeau heard what Van Gundy said, his mind went crazy and he thought, "My brother has been deceived." But he couldn't say it directly, and Edison was very good to him now, and his salary was higher than before. But again.
After all, Thibodeau was very dissatisfied with this fucking thing that Edison had done, and his face turned dark immediately. But Van Gundy had good intentions, but he couldn't ignore it, so he said, "Jeff and I have no conflicts," and then
Just left.
Thibodeau himself has a somewhat paralyzed face, his expressions are not very rich, and he doesn't have many smiles. Now when he said this with a dark face, Van Gundy misunderstood. Seeing that Thibodeau had walked away, Van Gundy yelled.
: "Don't worry, I'll call him when I get back. If it's his problem, I'll ask him to apologize to you."….
As the head coach, Edison usually walks at the back of the team, so he saw the scene between Van Gundy and Thibodeau clearly and clearly. He originally thought that the matter would be over after Thibodeau left.
I didn't expect Van Gundy to say this at the end.
Edison almost fell to the ground at that time, and the big word "haha" was rippling in his mind. "Good man, it's a pity that I didn't understand the situation. It's not your brother's business. This is all my fault. It's all my fault."
It’s the brothers who are wrong.”
When Edison came to the locker room, the other players had been there for a long time. Several players who had a good relationship with Josh were sitting around him, and they were all filled with indignation. Diaw even talked and gestured. Seeing Edison
When he came in, his face was not very good, and his facial muscles were still a little distorted (made by Van Gundy just now). Diaw didn't say anything, stood up, coughed, and walked away. When Varejao saw Diaw leaving, he also pretended
I moved my back and left.
Edison glanced at the locker room. Josh was sitting in the middle. Tony Allen and Nash were still sitting next to Josh. Ordinarily, Howard is Josh's junior, and Josh was punished for standing up for you. At this time, you
Howard should be by Josh's side, comforting him and uniting with him. But Howard was sitting in the back, while Marion and De Klerk were talking to him.
Edison clapped his hands and prepared to start teaching.
Iguodala was lying on a chair, and the masseur was relaxing his muscles. He had been running around with Wade today and was really tired. Hearing Edison clap his hands, he subconsciously planned to sit up. Edison saw it and waved his hand quickly, "
No, you just listen, there is no need to sit up."
"How does it feel to play against the Heat today? You must know that they are our biggest competitors in the regular season. Let's talk about it, Nash, you go first." Edison saw that the atmosphere in the locker room was already very depressing, so he did not come back as usual.
Playing the role of a hair dryer, he became friendly and interacted with everyone.
There is a saying in martial arts: "You can't be strong and you can't be soft." In fact, this is also the principle of doing things for people. You can't be tough all the time. You have to relax at the appropriate time and relax in an orderly manner. This is "
You can't be strong for long." And when others are strong against you, you can't retreat blindly. The more you retreat, the tighter the pressure will be. But everyone has a bottom line. What happens when you have no way to retreat?
What to do? If you start to explode, something will really happen, because the other party is used to your concessions, and your outburst will make the other party unable to accept it, and will instead intensify the emotions of both parties. So it is said that "softness cannot be defended", and softness can be used to contain and pull.
, but Shou must be head-on.
Edison's team management also follows this sentence. You are usually tough, but you can't be tough all the time. For example, in today's situation, everyone is already very depressed, and you are going to scold them.
, will only make the players' will more depressed. The purpose of scolding the players is to stimulate their fighting spirit. If scolding can no longer stimulate the players' fighting spirit, then it is better not to scold, at least it can save some voice.
Nash heard Edison call his name, so he held his chin and thought for a moment, "The main force of this team is very strong, but the substitutes are too poor. If we really have to fight, as long as our substitutes can perform normally, it won't be a problem to kill them."
"Yes, I think so too. What about other people? If you have any other opinions, or if you think there are loopholes in them, you can tell me."
With Nash taking the lead, the other players also let go and started talking one by one. Edison listened to the following comments and nodded in agreement, but laughed and scolded the more nonsense opinions.
.For a time, the Magic locker room was filled with laughter and laughter, but Josh and Howard never spoke...
So Edison sat across from Josh and asked him: "Josh, what loopholes do you think the Heat have?"
Josh has been sitting in the locker room for a long time, and he no longer wants to be as angry as he was at the beginning. Edison is usually nice to him, so he must have a reason for his sudden anger today. Although Josh has already figured it out, he is still a little blocked in his heart.
He was panicking, so he kept silent just now. But now that Edison had asked questions in person, he had to answer, so he said angrily: "I don't think that Haslem is good. Although he is very desperate and fierce, he is tall and has long arms."
It's not enough, and the defensive effect at the basket is not good."
"Oh, so you think you can beat him?" Edison looked at Josh with some interest.
"Of course, his defense has a very limited impact on me, and he can't guard me at all." Josh replied with a stiff neck, his expression conveying a kind of disdain for Haslem.
"Okay, I will arrange for you to play him alone during the regular season, but not today. I told you you can't play again." Edison replied with a smile, and then patted Josh on the shoulder.
After hearing Edison's question, Josh originally thought there was a turn for the better and became more angry again, but he didn't expect Edison to directly splash the cold water on it, making himself dumbfounded and unable to express himself. However, the two of them were a little stiff at first.
The relationship was resolved by Edison's joking words.
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Yesterday, a book friend pointed out that the two Butlers are not related. The Heat guide I first looked for said they were related. Later, I checked carefully and it seems that the two are indeed not related. I will correct it here.
Finally, regarding some things that happened on the southeastern coast of my country, I will quote a passage here: "Forget it, forget it" has killed many Chinese people and dampened the vitality of our nation. If I were a foreigner, Or, if I were a tyrant, it would be unreasonable for me not to mistreat such a nation. This kind of neurotic fear is the best breeding ground for cultivating tyrants and tyrants, so China's tyrants and tyrants will never Will not become extinct.——Bo Yang
