214. Carlisle: I want to coach the Bad Boys... Legion!

Since the opponents couldn't guard their four young talents, it was essential to capitalize on this by adjusting the tactics, allowing the young talents better scoring opportunities.

On the defensive end, they intensified the confrontations and sped up the switching and double-teaming to not only improve defense but more importantly to rush the opponents into making offensive decisions, increasing their error rate, and boosting the number of counterattacks.

Bickerstaff's coaching style, different from mainstream coaches, had Carlisle taken aback.

The key was that these strategies were successful!

Carlisle's impression of Bickerstaff during his player days—the team no one wanted to face in the playoffs in the upper half of the bracket during the late '80s and '90s.

However, he hadn't specifically focused on the teams coached by Bickerstaff back then, and in recent years his own coaching duties with the Pacers had kept him too busy to pay attention to other teams.