Coach: Coaching the Grizzlies at the beginning, playing the bantam

Chapter 61 Finalize the contract!Coach the Sonics!Seattle, your God, is here!

Tony Brown was already trembling with excitement at the moment.

Although Lu Yong only painted a piece of cake, it sounds like he has a bright future if he hangs out with him.

He didn't expect that Lu Yong decided to take him away without even thinking about it, and promised to let him receive the salary of the chief assistant teacher. Such a good thing is hard to find with a lantern.

In the Grizzlies, his opinions were almost never adopted by Fratello, just a little transparency in the coaching staff.

Only by working with Lu Yong can he develop more, and at the worst, he can challenge himself to avoid being a salted fish for a lifetime.

Lu Yong will lead the new team to success next season, and his assistant coach who comes with him will also get more attention, which will add bricks and tiles to his career resume as a head coach in the future.

Tony Brown has been thinking for the past two days. He feels that being a teaching assistant beside Lu Yong can learn more and improve his coaching level.

Staying with Fratello, even if he becomes the chief assistant, he is just a senior handyman, his opinions have never been adopted, and his talents have nowhere to display.

If he can't become the head coach, he would rather be an assistant next to Lu Yong and learn those incredible tactics.

Fratello is a typical defensive coach, and Tony Brown is the same. Following Lu Yong, he can also provide some suggestions to complement each other in arranging defensive tactics.

Staying in the Grizzlies, he is destined to be only the second generation of Fratello, who are all defensive coaches. Could it be that he can still wrestle with Fratello when he disagrees?
Tony Brown calmed down and asked in a low voice, "Can you tell me which teams have contacted you?"

"Sonics, Eagles, Bucks, 76ers, Timberwolves," Lu Yong replied.

"What? There are so many teams wanting to hire you as their head coach? That's amazing!" Tony Brown lowered his voice like a thief, trying to hide his excitement.

"Don't get excited, I have already rejected three teams, and now only the Sonics and the 76ers are in my consideration. To be honest, I think you can make preparations for Seattle in advance." Lu Yong laughed .

Tony Brown froze in place, unable to believe it. "Lu, are you kidding me? You chose the Sonics over the 76ers and the Sonics? That's the last team in the league! Are we going to Seattle to compete for the No. [-] pick?"

"Calm down, the last season of the Supersonics was last season. The future of this team is very promising. Not only does it have a high draft pick, but the top star can also be exchanged for potential rookies and immediate starters. The new season's record Not too bad. To tell you the truth, I don't like Philly, the 76ers can't turn around without Allen Iverson, at least they have to stay bad for a few years."

Tony Brown took a deep breath and immediately drooped his head. "Well, the bottom one is the bottom one. Seattle is a good place, with a comfortable climate, and it's quite suitable for people to live in. Even if the team lineup is bad, it's better to go to Minnesota, where it's too cold, winter wolves drink saliva tongue It can be glued on, and it is simply not a place for people to stay.”

"Your ability to accept is good, better than I expected. I thought you would be depressed for a long time."

"It's quite depressing, but I trust your judgment more." Tony Brown shrugged.

The next morning, Lu Yong met with Supersonics general manager Presti in Memphis.

The communication between the two was quite pleasant. Presti agreed with Lu Yong to provide suggestions on team signings and drafting, and was willing to give him more room to operate and cooperate with Lu Yong to complete the team's reconstruction work.

The premise is that Lu Yong's proposal is not too outrageous and can be approved by some members of the management team. Otherwise, Presti, the general manager, can't just watch him dismantle the team into pieces.

In the end, the two formally finalized the contract, with a three-year salary of 1000 million U.S. dollars and a salary exceeding 80% of the coaches in the league, only less than a few senior coaches, full of sincerity.

This is the benefit of communicating with young people. It only took half an hour from the meeting to the finalization of the contract. During this period, the two discussed the most about signings.

Until he came out of the apartment, Presti's brain was still in a daze, and he seriously suspected that he was old, but he didn't expect the negotiation to be so smooth.

Lu Yong is very clear about how promising the Supersonics team is, and it is suitable for a rookie coach like him to be gold-plated.

It is no exaggeration to say that his understanding of the Sonics is deeper than that of Presti, the new general manager.

Having already made a decision in his heart, Lu Yong will naturally not bargain, as long as the core issues of signings and drafting are discussed on the surface, the rest of the team development, player training, including the idea of ​​the team's main tactics for the new season will be of great importance to him. It's not a problem.

The Sonics have many potential rookies in the new season, and Ray Allen can also exchange for other immediate players and draft picks. As long as he takes over the coach and makes a few reinforcements from the free market, the team will definitely achieve results.

Promoting from the penultimate place to the penultimate place is considered an improvement, and Lu Yong really didn't know how he could be under pressure.

He doesn't ask the Supersonics management to poach big-name players in the free market, just a few corner reinforcements, and the management will definitely give him face.

In his previous life, Carlesimo, who had a coaching win rate of only 40%, succeeded Bob Hill as the coach. In 07, he was able to lead the team to play the 14th offensive firepower in the league. Lu Yong did not think he was inferior to Carlesimo.

In addition to enjoying the bonus of the Trail Blazers in the first three years of his coaching career, Carlesimo led the team to only 46 victories in three seasons after the team change, which is very poor.

Under the premise of Durant, Jeff Green, Szczerbiak, Delonte West, Kurt Thomas and many other outstanding players, they only achieved a record of 20 wins and 62 losses. Positional warfare allows players to play singles with sticks, which is simply useless.

Many fans know that Carlesimo is because he was choked by the "madman" Sprewell back then, choked his neck and almost hiccupped into heaven.

In terms of coaching level alone, he is not even as good as former Supersonics head coach Bob Hill.

As long as the lineup is properly matched, coupled with an offensive system that focuses on long-range shots, Lu Yong believes that the Sonics' offensive firepower next season will be the least in the league's top three, and they have great potential.

If Lu Yong can bring the SuperSonics into the playoffs, his reputation will be completely blown out, and it is not too much to call him the number one young coach in active service.

In addition, Lu Yong also made a request to re-organize his coaching staff and recruit Tony Brown to the team as an assistant coach, and Presti readily agreed.

Assistant coaches from championship teams are very valuable, and it is not easy for other teams to poach them.

Now that Lu Yong offered to buy one get one free, Presti couldn't find a reason to refuse.

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(End of this chapter)