Coach, I don't want to retire yet

Chapter 1 I became the head coach of the Lakers!
January 2013, 1, 23:10 PM ET.

Memphis, FedEx Arena.

The game between the home team Memphis Grizzlies and the visiting team Los Angeles Lakers is in full swing.

The Lakers bench off the court, the players on the bench, have been drawn by the game, stood up and sat down one after another excitedly.

The Lakers fans who are watching live TV at this time must be familiar with these Lakers substitute players.

Pau Gasol, Antawn Jamison, Chris Duhon, Darius Morris...

Each is a well-known player in the league.

If you count Kobe, Nash, Howard, Charity World Peace on the court at this time...

2 MVPs, 2 best defensive players.

This Laker is definitely star-studded.

However, the star-studded Los Angeles Lakers are now 17-25.

After the team's head coach D'Antoni took office, the record is 12 wins and 20 losses. In the past 11 games, the Lakers have lost 9 games.

If this game is lost again, it will be 12 losses in the past 10 games.

Kobe, Nash, Howard, Gasol, the Lakers led by Metta World Peace are being beaten by the Grizzlies...

On the side of the court, in the first row of side seats next to the player's bench, Lakers coach D'Antoni couldn't sit still, anxiously following the ants on the hot pot.

At this time, many NBA experts and reporters who were involved in trouble were waiting for Kobe's death stare again.

The last time Kobe glared away at Mike Brown.

This time, will Kobe attack D'Antoni?
In the second row of the unnoticed side seats.

The atmosphere is completely different from the first row.

"Du, we definitely lost this game again. Our tactics are really wrong. We can't let Kobe and Nash run around like crazy dogs without goals. They are no longer young. I'm not sure how to do it, except to consume Our stars, whether there are other roles, we need to change."

"Darwin, is there a possibility, maybe, that Mike... only knows this trick?"

"..."

After listening to the handsome young man next to him, Darwin Ham was stunned.

Why didn't he think about it?

The young man sitting next to Darwin Hamm was named Du Kang.

23 years old, a family member who grows flowers, a former American student who graduated from UCLA last year.

He entered the UCLA men's basketball team in his freshman year and became a part-time assistant trainer for the team.

In the second year of college, he successfully changed from a part-time assistant trainer to a part-time trainer.

In his junior year, he was promoted to a part-time assistant coach.

After assisting UCLA head coach Ben Holland for two years, he graduated from college and successfully entered the Los Angeles Lakers.

Du Kang is now an ordinary assistant coach for the Los Angeles Lakers.

Generally speaking, an NBA team will have 4-5 assistant coaches.

Take the Lakers as an example.

At this time, there are five people sitting in the first row of the front seat (coach's seat).

A head coach, three assistant coaches, and an athletic trainer.

This is a fixed number stipulated by the league.

The five people in the first row of the coach's bench are such specifications, and every team must abide by them.

For the Lakers, the head coach is D'Antoni.

The three assistant coaches are D'Antoni's confidant and brother, who is also the current chief assistant coach, Don D'Antoni.

There is also responsible for the team's defense, keeping an eye on Warcraft Howard, the confidant of Lakers superstar Dwight Howard, Steven Clifford.

And the hero of the Lakers' championship in 82, responsible for the team's offense, the former head coach of the NBA Wizards, Eddie Jordan, who was invited by the former Lakers head coach Mike Brown.

These people are familiar characters to many NBA fans.

As for the second row of the coach's bench, except for the team's fourth assistant coach, there are no other personnel.

The second row accommodates player development coaches, video coordinators, senior scouts, athletic performance assistants, assistant trainers, and team security personnel.

For a super giant team like the Lakers, these super giant bodyguards can also be mixed in the second row.

Therefore, the second row, the side seats, is also called the special seat for idlers, a bunch of bastards.

Fans don't pay attention, and the media won't report it. There may not be a single rebroadcast of a game.

And Du Kang is the fourth assistant coach of the Lakers.

Darwin Hamm next to him is the fifth assistant coach of the Lakers.

Both are rookies in the NBA coaching field.

Darwin Hamm was previously an assistant coach for the New Mexico Thunderbirds of the NBA Development League.

Du Kang was previously an assistant coach at UCLA.

Relatively speaking, the qualifications of prestigious schools in the NCAA Division I must be far above the NBA Development League.

Moreover, Dukang is not an ordinary famous school, he came from UCLA. The sign of UCLA is very useful in Los Angeles.

Du Kang's background is better than the former NBA player Darwin Hamm in the Los Angeles Lakers.

So Du Kang is fourth and Darwin Hamm is fifth.

However, the fourth and fifth, it doesn't really matter, they are all miscellaneous fish.

Even the team's second assistant coach, Eddie Jordan, has recently been tortured by the NCAA's assistant coach job with an annual salary of 90 US dollars. He wants to go for money, but he is reluctant to completely lose the opportunity to coach the NBA.

Even Eddie Jordan.

For trash fish like Du Kang and Ham, if they want to counterattack and become the head coach of the NBA, they must work hard for at least ten or twenty years?
In fact, most of the miscellaneous fish have never had the opportunity to coach an NBA team in their entire lives. Most of them couldn't get along. In the end, they went abroad to coach in secondary universities, high schools, middle schools, and elementary schools.

A small number of those who can take root can only earn a salary of tens of thousands, 10,000+ US dollars in a lifetime, and go around in various NBA teams.

In the end, those who can become NBA head coaches from miscellaneous fish are rare.

Former Lakers acting head coach Bernie Beckstaff struggled for 30 years before getting his first coaching opportunity.

30 years...

"Du, I still think, what should we do to prevent the Lakers from losing like this again? We have so many outstanding players, how can we achieve such a record?"

"Darwin..."

Du Kang seriously looked at this middle-aged man whose neck was getting shorter and shorter, fatter and longer.

"Can you get George Karl to like Ray Allen?"

"..."

Du Kang's rhetorical question made Ham's black face almost turn red.

Ray Allen was his boss when he was a player in the Bucks.

George Karl was his mentor.

The contradiction between the two is known to the entire basketball circle.

In the Bucks that year, George Karl designed a tactic for Ray Allen. First, he gave the ball to Hamm who was in the low post on the strong side.

The name of this tactic is 'Hammer', derived from the name of Darwin Hamm.

Regardless of the little-known name of Hamm, he has been the lowest role player throughout his career.

He is also the one who once had exclusive tactics with Ray Allen.

He knows the relationship between Ray Allen and George Karl better than anyone else.

"Du, you're right..."

Hamm sighed.

Back then, he had a much closer relationship with Ray Allen and George Karl, and he couldn't change the relationship between the two, and he didn't even have the qualifications to intervene.

Who is D'Antoni now?

Let D'Antoni listen to him, give up the tactical thinking of running and bombing, lower the rhythm, and play positions?

It's not a joke.

Those famous coaches in the NBA, except for a few people, are those who have clinging to their own system all their lives. They can only, or only study this skill.

Running and bombing is the hallmark of D'Antoni.

Even if running and bombing is not suitable for the current Lakers, D'Antoni will not change.

It's about letting the players adapt to him, not him adapting to the players.

"Darwin, these things are not what we should care about. These things are what those people should worry about."

Du Kang smiled and pointed to the sky.

When encountering this kind of thing, the gods will naturally fight, and they are not qualified to participate.

What qualifications do the two of them have to love the Lakers?

They love the Lakers, so the Lakers have to love them.

If the two of them took the lead in rebelling against D'Antoni, they would be 100% dead.

The Lakers sure don't love them.

Having said that, looking at the Lakers being hanged on the court at this time...

The Lakers are about to lose 12 in 10 games, and Lakers fans will be heartbroken.

What's more, they are assistant Lakers coaches.

Such a good lineup, led by D'Antoni, is not as good as the previous Bernie Beckstaff.

In fact, Du Kang, like Hamm, was also very upset.

It's just that he's not as outgoing as Hamm, who doesn't put his emotions on his face.

The face doesn't need to be black, just a black belly is fine.

And Hamm, even among blacks, is extroverted.

Hamm, who won the championship with the Pistons in 2004, was the one who cried the most in the locker room.

Moreover, Hamm is dissatisfied with D'Antoni, not just because of his outgoing personality and D'Antoni's poor coaching performance.

What's more, former Lakers head coach Mike Brown was kind to Hamm.

Hamm came to the Lakers a year earlier than him. He was invited by former Lakers coach Mike Brown to join the Lakers coaching staff, responsible for the physical and mental development of Kobe, Howard and other players...

Is Hamm responsible for the physical and mental health of Kobe and Howard?

Hamm also deserves to teach the physical and mental development of these two?

Mike Brown is actually giving Hamm a job and a job.

Mike Brown is a disciple of Popovich, Popovich is a disciple of Larry Brown, and Hamm mixed with Larry Brown in 2004.

This is why Mike Brown is willing to support Hamm.

Hamm is the biggest force in the NBA, a fringe member of the Larry Brown-Popovich family.

The two former head coaches of the Lakers, Mike Brown and Bernie Beckstaff, are all members of this faction.

People from the Larry Brown-Popovich family have a crush on D'Antoni, so there's nothing wrong with it.

What's more, D'Antoni made this star-studded Lakers like this.

Du Kang has no factions in the NBA, and he doesn't have to be involved.

The Larry Brown-Popovich faction has basically been wiped out of the Lakers.

Even if he wanted to stand in line, he wouldn't stand against the remnants of Ham.

Moreover, he does not need to stand in line.

He is a member of the UCLA department, no one will offend him, and naturally no one will make trouble for him for no reason.

Hamm is now, if D'Antoni doesn't leave, he will have to roll immediately.

Eddie Jordan, who was a few levels higher than Hamm, had already found his next home, and left voluntarily before being purged to preserve his dignity.

If Hamm can find a next home like Eddie Jordan, he won't be so self-pitying around him all day long.

He is completely different from Hamm, who is in trouble now.

Therefore, dawdling in the Lakers for the time being, secretly developing rewards, this is his current strategy.

In the game between the Lakers and the Grizzlies, the Lakers lost 93 to 106 in the away game.

By the end of the game, D'Antoni was livid.

This is the Lakers' 12th loss in the last 10 games.

Jim Bass, who was sitting in the VIP chair and overseeing the battle, may have an even uglier face than D'Antoni.

As the old Bath era draws to a close, everyone knows that the Bath family's struggle for power has intensified.

Jim Buss and Jenny Buss are the two biggest factions of the Lakers.

Jim Buss joined forces with three other siblings to keep Jenny Buss out of basketball affairs.

Jenny Buss was the old Buss' side who made suggestions and fanned the flames to fight back.

The fight between the two sides was on the verge of breaking out, and it was inextricably linked.

After Mike Brown and Beckstaff were dismissed, Jenny Buss wanted to bring back her boyfriend, Phil Jackson, as head coach.

Jim Buss invited D'Antoni.

In such a severe struggle situation, every game D'Antoni loses now is equivalent to a slap in the face of Jim Buss.

Thinking of Jenny Buss' face, Jim Buss wanted to take a gun and kill D'Antoni at this time.

Too fucking disappointing!
D'Antoni is becoming more and more incompetent now, and he who invited D'Antoni here, isn't he blind?
How can he unite the Lakers against Jenny Buss with his blind eyes?
He was able to take over because his brothers and sisters helped him to exclude Jenny.

And Jenny has great support from the Lakers management.

If the Lakers continue to lose, Jenny Buss will soon be able to make a comeback.

Now there are many voices in the Lakers who are looking forward to Mayfair Jackson's return to coach and Jenny Buss' return to control the team.

"Fake!"

……

……

"Ding, the game is over, and the point settlement of the basketball coach career system begins."

Competition level: A level (NBA regular season), can get 1.6 times the MP (career point) settlement.

Game data reward: 93 to 106, lose, reward MP: 16 points (data guarantee reward for A-level games)

Satisfaction reward MP: 100
Player Satisfaction: 20%
Fan Satisfaction: 15%
Management Satisfaction: 65%
Coaching game influence reward MP: 0 (no positive influence on the game)
MP reward settlement for this game: 186 points (rounded up)

"The management of the Lakers is really full of thieves. The management has lost so badly in this game, and the management has 65% satisfaction. The more games they lose, the higher the satisfaction of the management. How impatient it is. I hope that Jim Buss will go away, I can only say, Aunt Jenny Cowhide."

Thanks to Aunt Jenny's support, even if the Lakers' record is not very good, even if the current record is only 17 wins and 25 losses.

But he still provided him with 12525 MP rewards.

There are a lot of rewards for winning, and the rewards for losing are not low. This kind of salty fish life is simply not too pleasant.

"It's still far from the 100 million points needed to buy the head coach position of the Lakers."

If he can stay in the NBA to play soy sauce, maybe 30 years later, he can complete his counterattack in life and become the head coach of the Lakers.

By the way, the purchase point of the Lakers head coach position is now the lowest.

The main reason is that he himself is the assistant coach of the Lakers. Secondly, the coach D'Antoni of the Lakers is precarious. In addition, the Lakers are now recognized as a coaching black hole in the NBA coaching circle.

There is no famous coach who dares to step on this trap now.

Now the Lakers head coach position is the bottom of the purchase price.

Unfortunately, he doesn't have so many points now.

Leaving the NCAA to apply for the Lakers assistant coach made him spend all the NCAA accumulation.

If it weren't for UCLA, it's not enough for him to want to be the assistant coach of the Lakers.

Except for the Lakers, the career points required for assistant coach positions in other NBA teams are very high.

After the settlement, Du Kang habitually opened the career application interface, wanting to see if there was any opportunity to miss.

Not to mention missing the head coach of the NBA, it is also good to miss the assistant coaches of other promising teams.

However, Du Kang generally does not give hope.

Huh? !

Occupation: Los Angeles Lakers acting head coach
MP: 10000 (Exclusive discount for Lakers assistant coaches)

Buying Requirements: Lakers Assistant Coach (Meet Requirements)
Introduction: After the purchase, the Lakers fired D'Antoni and you became the acting head coach.The acting head coach may be able to become a regular, or he may be dismissed in the next game, please buy carefully.

Du Kang rubbed his eyes viciously, and then rubbed it again, no dizziness!

At this moment, he really has the opportunity to become the head coach of the Lakers, even if he is an acting head coach, he is still the head coach!
慎重伱妹啊！
If you don't stud at this time, do you really have to wait 30 years? !

Maybe Jim Shumai will regret it in the next second and don't want to fire D'Antoni!
"Buy! Buy! Buy!"

"Ding, the host has already purchased the acting head coach position of the Lakers, please don't repeat the operation."

The prompt popped up on the system interface made Du Kang a little embarrassed.

I was so excited just now.

However, everyone should be able to understand it, huh, huh.

"Du, what are you doing, please review this game!"

"..."

Du Kang came back to his senses and looked at Don D'Antoni in surprise.

As the team's first assistant coach, shouldn't you review the game?
Or, this competition is just a defense, you don't want to eat it, you want me to eat it?
Usually when you don't want to eat, don't you ask Ham to eat it?
He is a small fish, but he doesn't feel that he has a strong background and no one bullies him.

With the current record of the Lakers, it is necessary to find someone who is responsible.

Kobe, Nash, and Howard certainly cannot be used to blame.

The D'Antoni brothers certainly don't want to take the blame either.

Then the ones who can take the blame are Eddie Jordan, Hamm and him.

The current record of the Lakers, it is estimated that Hamm and Eddie Jordan are not enough to memorize, and he is not enough.

He has already guessed it. Next, D'Antoni should suggest to Jim Bass to clean up the team's coaching system.

It's because their assistant coaches are useless, so the Lakers players can't implement his tactical system.

Good calculation.

However, everyone is trying to save themselves, so Du Kang will not feel that he is being targeted, and then naively face off with the D'Antoni brothers, and hate the air.

Didn't he also consider D'Antoni when he bought the position of acting head coach of the Lakers just now?
Maybe he doesn't buy it, and after the impulsive period, Jim Buss regrets it again, and is willing to give D'Antoni another chance?

Therefore, Du Kang, who was caught by the D'Antoni brothers and took the blame, was not angry.

Nor did he replay the game to the rest of the coaching staff as requested by Don D'Antoni.

This time the coaching staff meeting, it was clear that it was the D'Antoni brothers' dumping meeting, so he didn't need to waste his words.

It is useless to argue.

Face the 'dead man'.

At this point, just smile.

Ha ha.

"Du, I think your work attitude is very problematic."

Seeing the inexplicable smile on Du Kang's face, D'Antoni frowned.

Du Kang still did not speak, but the object of the smile was replaced by D'Antoni.

With Du Kang like this, D'Antoni, who was about to throw the pot away, punched the cotton with a punch, and the expression on his face became even uglier.

All of a sudden, the hotel meeting room suddenly became tense.

Seeing that Du Kang is so brave, he dared to toughen up the D'Antoni brothers.

Eddie Jordan and Hamm and Clifford, all in disbelief.

Is this still the usual good man, a transparent person who won't offend anyone?

Ham, who originally thought Du Kang was timid and didn't dare to rebel against him, now looked at Du Kang in a different way.

"Du... he is braver than me!"

Now that Du has stood up, what am I waiting for? !

Even if we are all cleaned up in the end and the news of the infighting among the Lakers coaching staff spreads, it will still be enough for the D'Antoni brothers to drink a pot.

The poor record, coupled with the news of infighting among the coaching staff, may make the D'Antoni brothers go away?

"I think……"

Hamm just stood up.

The door of the room was pushed open from the outside.

Jim Buss had pushed the door open.

Seeing Jim Bass coming in, the D'Antoni brothers' eyes lit up.

"Jim, I don't think Du is fit to be the team's assistant coach anymore."

After D'Antoni finished speaking, Jim Buss did not speak, but took a deep look at D'Antoni.

"Mike, from now on, you are fired."

"what?!"

D'Antoni thought he had heard wrong.

Jim Bass didn't look at D'Antoni anymore, but frowned at Du Kang.

"Du, before the new head coach takes office, you will act as the head coach of the Lakers."

After speaking, Jim Buss left.

The hotel conference room was silent.

At this time, including the D'Antoni brothers and others, they looked at Du Kang completely differently.

Especially the calm smile on Du Kang's face at this time, that smile has more meanings.

"He already knew!"

"His background is very deep!"

"Brother D'Antoni wanted to touch him, but it was Brother D'Antoni who left in the end!"

Ham, who stood up to save Du Kang just now, was excited.

He has backing again!

"Du!"

In fact, at this time, Du Kang was actually more excited than Hamm.

He, unexpectedly, has really become the head coach of the Lakers!

　The fisherman's new book set sail, I hope this time I can write a story that everyone likes!

　　Special thanks to Mu Zhixing, otherwise I would not dare to write basketball coach articles.

　　Finally, I ask for the support of all book friends.

　　The group of book friends seemed to be blown up while the fisherman was raising his children, and the fisherman opened the book without publicity, feeling very nervous.

　　Finally, please rest assured that no matter what the grades are, the book will be finished.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)