basketball pope

Chapter 109 [Dismount Mawei, Slasher Knife]

The NBA stipulates that a coaching meeting cannot be held. Yang Rui invited the remaining two assistant coaches of the Raptors to have dinner in his own name, intending to contact the relationship.The physical trainer and the shooting coach don't make substitutions and don't participate in tactics. He didn't call.

During the lockout, everyone is in danger, players can't sign contracts, and assistant coaches are hard to find.If Thibodeau hadn't voluntarily followed Yang Rui to Toronto, he would have been in trouble for the new season.

As soon as they met, Yang Rui clearly felt the malice from the original coaching staff. Butch Carter, a 196-year-old black assistant coach with a height of 40cm, looked very unpleasant to him.

Last season, the Raptors cut Darnell Walker in the middle, and Butch took over as the coach for 33 games, with a better record than the first half.

After the season, Butch happily waited for the team to negotiate a contract extension with him, hoping to continue to be the Raptors head coach.As a result, the bad news came one by one. The Raptors signed Yang Rui and Thibodeau. He was not even the first assistant coach.The salary doesn't drop, but he's completely unmotivated.

During the meal, Yang Rui took the initiative to show his favor, but Butch loved to ignore it. When talking about basketball, Butch started to speak up and repeatedly refuted Yang Rui's tactical intentions.

Yang Rui said offense is the main thing, he said defense, Yang Rui said to reuse Billups, he suggested to use Alvin Williams, it seems to use the bar to prove his value, or just vent and not be reused of resentment.

Yang Rui was not angry at all, always smiling.

The other assistant was a small white man in his mid-fifties named Jack Smiley.

The surname is spelled smiley, which translates to "happy, smiling".As his name suggests, he always has a faint smile on his face.

He gave Yang Rui face very much. He didn't say that he was mainly in charge of player training because he was a senior.

The next day, Yang Rui asked Glenn Gruward to meet at lunch and asked straight to the point, "How long does Butch Carter's contract expire?"

"One year, it's a team option." Glenn smiled wryly: "Why, you guys are not having a good time talking?"

Yang Rui nodded: "Not only, I can't communicate with him at all, this person makes me look everywhere, since it is a team option, then let him be fired, two assistant coaches and a trainer are enough for the new season. I don't need an assistant to hold me back."

Glenn was stunned and persuaded: "Do you want me to talk to him? It's hard to find experienced assistant coaches now. I don't know when this shutdown will be, and the training camp and preseason games will be cancelled. Players don't have time to run in."

"Because he doesn't have time to run in, he has to go. Anyway, if he has real experience, he can go to other teams to find a job, right? He provokes the new coach he works with without studying the character of the new coach. How can he arrange suitable for the players? What tactics? There is Tom on the defense, I don't need him. We can't leave him to raise the bar every day, right?" Yang Rui said bluntly.

"..." Glenn was speechless.

Yang Rui smiled and said: "I understand, you will consider it from the human aspect, but I have to make this request, because in the new season, we have to lead the team to attack, to lead the team to the playoffs, and there can be no internal obstacles. To cut him, at most Butch Carter himself is uncomfortable. If he doesn't leave in the new season, it will be me and the whole team. You don't want to see me and him have a conflict for a season, right?"

"Okay, I'll go talk to him about the termination of the contract." Glenn made a quick decision.

He knew that Yang Rui and Butch Carter couldn't coexist.But it is too overbearing to drive away the teaching assistant once we meet.A young man showing such strength made him uncomfortable.

He can fully understand that Yang Rui is very gentle on the surface, but there is a wildness hidden in his bones. Everything in the past has proved that provoking him has to pay a price. Butch made his temper to find the wrong object.

"Thank you, I will stick to the previous bet, and there is a way to lead the Raptors to win. Young people are inexperienced, and the advantages are equally obvious, that is, physical fitness and explosiveness." Yang Rui smiled: "I recommend Brad Miller, Will the team sign it?"

"Of course, I'll give him a two-year base salary and a team option for the second year," Glenn replied.

"Okay, a meat shield player must have."

Because of the players' strike, the US national team to participate in the World Championships had to select talents from overseas. Miller was lucky to be selected and won a bronze medal with the team.Miller's playing time was limited, averaging only 5.2 points and 3.3 rebounds per game, but his solid defensive skills and basketball IQ attracted the attention of many scouts.

With his strength, he is definitely qualified to be a substitute in the team, and his height and physique are good.

Yang Rui is optimistic about each newcomer, and he has detailed plans for how to arrange tactics and which direction to train them in.In this case, he is even less likely to let the assistant point fingers.

For example, Miller is suitable for assisting offense and catching the ball after pick-and-roll. If Butch Carter insists on finding fault, let Miller go to the basket to show his footsteps, play low-post offense, and show toughness. Who has time to talk nonsense with him?
Glenn contacted Butch Carter in the afternoon and announced that the team would waive the final year of his contract.Team options, layoffs are just a matter of one sentence, and there is no need to pay liquidated damages.

Butch was dumbfounded on the spot, everything happened too fast, he was unprepared, and began to give in. "Glen, can I talk to Jerry Young again?"

"Do you know what he thinks of you? He said that you are provocative without even studying the character of the new coach you are working with. How can you arrange suitable tactics for the players?" Glenn said firmly. "You're no longer fit for the Raptors' coaching staff."

Butch was speechless, he only saw Yang Rui's age, and felt that this kind of coach who would go to a reality show had no dignity and was easy to deal with.But he forgot that no matter how unreliable it seemed, it was also the head coach and his boss.

Yesterday he gave Yang Rui a dismount, and today Yang Rui directly gave him a saber.

When Butch was fired, he could only complain to his former colleagues, called Smiley, and provoked that Yang Rui was a dictator, and he would also be operated on in the new season.

Smiley listened embarrassingly to a sentence, but made no comment.

He knew that Butch's words were not credible at all.He had a good relationship with his former coach, Darnell Walker. Carter often said how useless Darnell was after the former coach left.

Temporarily succeeding the head coach, Butch also ran the train with his mouth full, saying that Camby would be the core of the team, but Camby was still a blue-collar in the second half.He watched McGrady's performance in the All-Star Game and said that he wanted to give McGrady more opportunities to perform. In the second half, McGrady's data did not improve.

At the same time, Smiley's impression of Yang Rui has also deteriorated. He feels that this young man is too much. How can anyone make a big deal at the press conference as soon as he signs a contract, and kill the former assistant coach as soon as they meet?

Instead of Smiley, he would choose patience and try to impress Butch with sincerity.He felt that Yang Rui's emotional intelligence was low and would not be a human being, and would sooner or later fall to the ground.

In fact, this is the reason why Smiley is still only a teaching assistant when he is 50 years old. He has been pretending to be a grandson for most of his life, and he is used to it.This kind of person looks stable like a mountain on the surface, but in fact it is mediocre and can't do great things at all.

Some people say that those who are tough are easy to break, and those who are good and soft are undefeated; others say that to succeed, you need friends, and to achieve great success, you need enemies; both arguments are reasonable, and the key depends on the position of the person. .

Not being envied is mediocrity, and indecision is useless.

(End of this chapter)