Redick develops a two-phase defensive plan to catch up with the Lakers golden era level

After the training session organized by the Lakers recently, the new head coach disclosed to the media the plan for building the team's defensive system. Facing the competitive landscape of the upcoming 2025-26 season, the core figure of the coaching team admitted that in order to achieve qualitative changes in the team, the defensive ecology of tacit cooperation established in previous seasons must be reproduced.

The tactical transformation focuses on three dimensions:

Reshaping the linkage mechanism of team defense

Establishing a new paradigm of intelligent rotation

Cultivating the instinctive reaction of reading the offense

When asked about the specific implementation strategy, representatives of the coaching staff pointed out that they are using a stepped training method. The current stage focuses on refining personal defensive skills, and it is expected that the overall running-in of regional defense will be strengthened in the pre-season training camp. It is worth noting that the teaching team deliberately avoided using general slogan-like expressions such as "championship-level defense" and instead conducted special drills by breaking down typical scenarios that may be encountered in 82 regular season games.

Improvement roadmap:

The defensive efficiency in the 2024-25 season will be set as the baseline

Each player needs to complete at least 500 off-ball defense simulations

Video analysis will focus on the details of handling mismatched defenses

The coaching team particularly emphasizes that the cultivation of defensive awareness should be a penetrating process rather than a cramming process. They are designing confrontational exercises that cover real-time game situation judgment, and reproduce the defensive decision-making pressure of real games through computer simulation systems. This method not only retains the tactical autonomy of the players, but also ensures the stability of the execution of the defensive strategy.

(Doctor)