NBA Legends Manager

Chapter 208 Separation
After Presti arranged the training tasks for the players, he let them go to practice separately, then turned to D'Antoni and said, "Let's go and talk,"

"Well, I happen to have something to tell you too," D'Antoni nodded and said.

"Oh?" Presti looked at D'Antoni curiously.

The two sat on the chairs beside them, and Presti spoke first, "Why, what's the matter?"

"You go ahead," D'Antoni smiled.

"Then I'll talk about it first." Presti straightened his body, and continued: "Just now I watched the three games we lost, and summed up some problems. First, when we encounter a team with a strong inside team, it is a bit disadvantageous to simply run and shoot, especially when the inside has a good coping ability, just like when we face the Spurs and the Kings."

After Presti finished speaking, he looked at D'Antoni. Although D'Antoni seemed to be listening carefully at this time, Presti could feel that he didn't seem to care much.Press sighed inwardly and continued:

"Secondly, we should design some complex positional tactics. The running and bombing offense is indeed very sharp. Generally, teams can't defend against it at all. But there will always be a day when Curry's hand feels very bad. At this time, simple running and bombing will not produce results."

After Presti finished speaking, he saw that D'Antoni was still the same, regardless of other things, and continued: "Our players are all very good, and we can give each of them a chance. In some games, they even played better than the main players."

Presti saw that D'Antoni nodded, but he knew that D'Antoni didn't listen at all. When he was about to say "you should be flexible in time, pay attention to defense, and don't replace players with hot hands immediately", D'Antoni said, "Well, I understand, thank you."

D'Antoni's words directly suppressed what Presti was going to say, and he could only say helplessly: "You just said you have something to tell me? What is it?"

"I want to resign," D'Antoni said slowly.

"What?!" Presti suddenly stood up and said in surprise. He couldn't help but be surprised. D'Antoni finally found a team that suits him, and the team is also playing well. His previous title of "parallel importer" coach was also removed. Now he actually wants to resign?
"Well, I received an invitation from the Los Angeles Lakers, and they invited me to be the head coach," D'Antoni said, looking at Presti.

"It seems that I changed the trajectory of some things again." Presti secretly thought, in his previous life, D'Antoni only joined the Los Angeles Lakers on November 2012, 11, but because of his arrival, he had to join in advance.

But D'Antoni's coaching with the Lakers can be said to have been a very failure. In the season he just coached, he had a fantasy lineup of Nash, Howard, Gasol, and Kobe, but the result was that he entered the playoffs as the seventh in the Western Conference.

In the second year of coaching the Lakers, he was second to last in the Western Conference! , and then he voluntarily resigned and left the Lakers.

Thinking about D'Antoni's resume in his previous life, he said, "I don't recommend you go to Los Angeles. Their team style doesn't suit you, and why do you want to leave? This is the best place for you, and now you are also the head coach." Presti was very puzzled.

"When I received the invitation from the Lakers, I was hesitant, but when you appeared in the arena just now, I saw the expressions of the players after seeing you. They said that their trust and dependence on you far exceeds their trust and dependence on me. You are the soul of this team."

D'Antoni paused and continued: "This kind of trust from the players is also what I am pursuing. I know that I will never be able to achieve this here, so I will go to other places to prove my ability and achieve my goal!"

Speaking of this, D'Antoni's eyes glowed brightly: "The Lakers are not suitable for me now, but it doesn't mean that in the future, a really good coach should be able to use the cards in his hand to achieve the best results. I didn't get it in the Knicks before, and now I will definitely do it in the Lakers!"

After hearing D'Antoni's words, Presti knew that it would be useless to say more, so he stood up and patted D'Antoni on the shoulder: "Good luck, come on!"

"Thank you," D'Antoni said sincerely.

Presti sighed. He knew that D'Antoni would end up sadly in Los Angeles. After thinking about it for a while, he said, "If you don't like coaching the Lakers, you can come back. I'm here for you."

"Well, thank you, I'll come back to join you when the time comes, haha" D'Antoni laughed.

The next day, when the news that D'Antoni resigned from the Hornets and joined the Lakers was announced, the fan forum of the lion flutter exploded again!
Lakers fans: "Haha, D'Antoni is here, our Lakers are saved!"

Lakers fans: "I have been looking forward to Mike Brown getting out of class quickly, and finally succeeded!"

Lakers fans: "Thank you Presti for putting D'Antoni on us!"

Lakers fans: "Wake up upstairs, don't hold out too much hope, look at the Knicks before"

Lakers fans: "The upstairs is right, the greater the hope, the greater the disappointment!"

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In short, D'Antoni coached the Lakers. Many Lakers fans expressed their excitement. Of course, there are very few fans who think that D'Antoni should not have too much hope for D'Antoni. After all, D'Antoni has a "Knicks" record.

Hornets fans: "Why did Presti let D'Antoni go, can't he be an assistant coach, I like that offensive system so much",
Hornets fans: "It doesn't matter who goes, as long as Presti is here, everything is fine."

Hornets fans: "Wish Coach D'Antoni happy with the Los Angeles Lakers"

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In short, Hornets fans are much calmer about D'Antoni's departure. After all, Presti, the soul stone of the Hornets, and D'Antoni have only coached here for more than ten games, and they don't have much deep feelings.

The Hornets fans are more discussing the Hornets' game against the Pacers at night. After all, this is the first game of Presti's return!
In the evening, the Hornets sat at home to meet the challenge of the Pacers. The Pacers traded the No. 15 rookie Kawhi Leonard in the first round for the Spurs' combo guard George Hill and the No. 42 pick in the second round to increase their bench thickness!

However, the Pacers at this time are quite different from the previous life. The Pacers in the previous life had two cores, Paul George and David West, but in this life, there are only two ordinary NBA rotations.

Half an hour later, the first game of Presti's return officially started!

(End of this chapter)