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Losing to the Pacers stopped the Sonics' winning streak. At the same time, it was a heavy blow to the Sonics' confidence. The current Pacers are no longer the Pacers before the Palace of Auburn Hills incident up.

That Pacers team was at the championship level, and now this Pacers team is not a strong team even in the weaker Eastern Conference, but they abruptly defeated the hot Sonics, making the Supersonics The dream of ten consecutive victories came to naught.

This defeat touched Stephen a lot. There are certainly many reasons for this loss, including player performance, on-the-spot command, desire for victory, etc., and Stephen himself is also partly responsible, but the root cause is that he underestimated the enemy.

Because of underestimating the enemy, the players were not mentally prepared to deal with tough battles. The coaching staff did not analyze the opponent as much as possible and did not make the necessary preparations. When falling behind, the whole team did not adapt to this expectation. The huge contrast with reality led to untimely response.

Especially after falling behind by a big score, the huge psychological contrast caused almost all the players on the field to become mentally disturbed. Although Stephen himself performed well, he did not play the role of a team leader, driving the whole team to counterattack the opponent, only caring about Score by yourself.

It seems that no matter what opponent you face, you can't have the slightest thought of underestimating the enemy. In the Spurs, Stephen never needs to think about these things. The coaching staff has **Vich. It can be directly reflected, and under the influence of Duncan, no matter when, no matter what opponent they face, there will be no thoughts of fear or underestimation of the enemy.

Now that he has become the master of the house, Stephen discovered that being the boss of a team is really not that easy, not only considering himself, but also the entire team, and every teammate. From small to large, from large to small.

Stephen decided to hold a formal player meeting, so after the confrontation training on the second day after the game, Stephen stopped all his teammates and told them to have a small meeting in the lounge after taking a shower. It rarely happens in the Sonics, but the players are aware of this kind of thing, and they all go to prepare.

No matter which team you are in, whether you are the coach or the boss of the team, as long as you have a certain amount of authority, no matter where you are, you cannot infringe on the personal desires and personal freedom of the players. You can give orders on the training ground, but off the court, you can no longer interfere with others.

So sometimes the boss of the team communicates privately with individual players, and sometimes it is a small-scale player meeting, just like the meeting Stephen attended at the Spurs, but this time Stephen called it after the training game , Naturally, all members participated.

It’s not good yet. No one player left without giving Stephen any face, so Stephen just sat there and waited for a while, and the round table was full of people. Meeting".

The advantage of the round table meeting is that there is no distinction between high and low status. Sitting around the round table, everyone has the same identity and is a player. There are naturally differences in the right to speak for the substitutes.

After everyone sat down, Stephen, as the convener, naturally spoke first: "Hi everyone, the reason why I called you here today is mainly for the future development of our team. You see, it turned out that we could only win the away games, and gradually we were able to win all the away games and home games, and we achieved nine consecutive victories. This is due to the credit of everyone, including those who have not played. "

"However, we lost yesterday, and we still lost to the Indiana Pacers, which is not a strong team. My own responsibility, first of all, I would like to admit my mistake to everyone, I was also influenced by the thought of underestimating the enemy, and I failed to remind or correct everyone’s thinking in time, and I apologize to everyone for yesterday’s defeat.”

Stephen's opening remarks were to apologize for the loss, which made no one think that everyone basically knew the purpose of today's meeting, and it must be for yesterday's loss. Many people thought that Stephen would definitely blame or After criticizing everyone, I never thought that Stephen would apologize for the loss at the beginning.

"Yesterday we lost. I was responsible, as well as everyone else here, but you didn't have it. You don't need to apologize. Your performance was still the same as usual. There were a lot of balls passed to us, but we didn't take any shots. Therefore, the responsibility is all of us.” Wilcox spoke first, he did not think it was Stephen’s responsibility, and he was also very satisfied with the current situation of the team. His character is very straightforward, so his The speech seems to be against Stephen's point of view, but in essence it is standing on the side of defending Stephen.

"Yeah, it's not your responsibility at all. All of us didn't perform very well." Although Coupard is a newcomer from outside, his self-confidence has also increased with the increase of the team's status and playing time recently. Increase, although he still dare not call himself the third player in the team, but he feels that he has a good relationship with the boss, so he opened his mouth first.

"I agree with everyone. The loss of this game is the responsibility of all of us." After Durant spoke, no one spoke again. Although Robert Horry was also qualified to speak, he was standing on Stephen's side. At the same time, for the purpose of training Stephen, he didn't want to interfere too much in this matter. If he didn't speak, Kurt Thomas would naturally not speak.

"In any case, I am also a member of everyone, and I have the responsibility to share our common affairs. For this game, we have to review the gains and losses, but we can't stay in the loss of this game. There are 82 games in the regular season. In the past [-] games, we have achieved a good result of [-] wins and [-] losses. We used to be ranked in the top three in the West. I hope we can continue to maintain this record. Before the season started, I set a goal for myself The goal is to lead the team to the playoffs, and now it seems that as long as we maintain the state of last month, the goal of entering the playoffs is not difficult to achieve, maybe we can go further."

"Well, there should be no problem with this goal." Wilcox nodded.

"It's definitely not a problem. As long as we play well, let alone the playoffs, we can reach it even further." Coupard said, and Durant just nodded with a smile. In fact, everyone nodded or smiled. He expressed his approval of this goal. Although he had just experienced a defeat, the confidence he had cultivated in a month was so easily destroyed.

"Yes, if we can keep going, it will definitely not be a problem, but the game has to be played one game at a time. If we still underestimate the enemy because of winning streaks like this time, then we will still lose, so we have to As an old Chinese saying goes, win without pride and lose without discouragement.”

"Boss, why do you always like to say that there is an old saying in China? How many old sayings are there in China? What's the meaning of them?" Coppard often heard Stephen say this when he was in contact with Stephen, so he asked very strangely .

"Do you know when the history of our United States began?" Stephen didn't answer his question, but asked Coupard instead.

"[-], we all know this, what's the matter?" Coupard replied very puzzled.

asked.

"This shows that our history is only more than 200 years old, while China has a history of more than 5000 years. During these 5000 years of history, civilization has not been broken and has been continuously developed. Therefore, they have accumulated a lot of experience. They use a very Short words to summarize a certain truth or rule, this is where the old saying comes from.”

"Winning without arrogance and losing without discouragement means winning, don't be proud or complacent, let alone underestimate the enemy, and don't be discouraged and lose confidence in failure, so I think this sentence is very suitable for us, regardless of our previous games Whether we win or lose, don’t change our attitude towards the next game because of this, I believe that if we can do this, even if we fail, it will not affect our goal.”

"Well, this sentence is very good. Write it down for me, boss. I will tattoo it on my arm, and I can see it as soon as I raise my hand." Coppard has a very strong desire to get a tattoo recently, and he is worrying about not knowing how to get a tattoo. What's so good, when I heard Stephen say this, I immediately thought of getting this sentence tattooed on my body.

"Boss, do you have any other words? I want to get a tattoo too. Coupard, I know a tattoo parlor here. The craftsmanship is very good. Let's go together later." When talking about tattoos, Robert Swift also became interested. Yes, said to Stephen with great interest, and then invited Coupard to get a tattoo with him.

"There are a lot of words like this. When I come back, I will choose a few to write to everyone, and then everyone can choose what they think is suitable for them." Stephen will naturally not refuse this request, but all he knows is what he heard from his father. One, for a while, I really couldn't think of any suitable words for Robert Swift, so I had to push back.

The meeting ended here. Many players basically didn't even speak. Of course, for them, it doesn't make any difference whether they speak or not. The main players who can play a role are the few players who can play. For Stephen , Whether this meeting achieved its goal or not will not be known until the next game. At least from now on, the bad atmosphere of the team has been wiped out, and that's enough.

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