Jim Bass Ambition

Chapter 267 Film and Television Academy
Lakers vice president Jim Buss intends to serve as the team's head coach in the new season, which became the first bomb news of the offseason.

"Thanks to coach Phil Jackson for everything he has done for us in the past five years. The team has won five championship trophies under his leadership. This is a brilliant achievement, but now we are going to start a new chapter. About The management is also the head coach. We have successful examples, such as Gregg Popovich, who once fired his head coach, and then played badly in person, and selected Tim Duncan, laying the foundation for the Spurs. So I assure all fans who support the Lakers that we will continue to enjoy basketball and enjoy the victory." At the press conference, Jim looked confident.

"He used Gregg Popovich as an analogy to himself? Don't make trouble, although I don't like that weird uncle, but he is a serious professional background, has coaching experience in college leagues, played in Larry Brown and Don Nelson's team was an assistant coach, and he was beaten one-on-one by David Thompson... It doesn't seem to matter, but in a word, before Gregg Popovich fired Bob Hill, he was Those who have enough basketball experience, and my good friend Jim Bass, he just watched the game on the sidelines for a few years, I think, considering the good reputation he has built up over the past two years, it is better not to go It's muddy waters, it's not that easy to be a head coach, it's not a game." Charles Barkley, like everyone else, looked down on Jim's coaching career.

Of course, the supporters of the other 29 teams hope that Jim will play bigger and better. It is best to toss the Lakers, and the shadow that has shrouded the league in the past few years will dissipate, and other teams will have the opportunity to "get involved" champion.

Everyone has an attitude of watching the excitement and not thinking it's a big deal, and the Lakers will no longer continue to talk about unnutritious skins with the media.

The free market has already started. Greg Ostertag won the championship ring and accompanied Malone on the final journey. Compared with Los Angeles, he prefers Salt Lake City, where he has played for 10 years. He did not accept the Lakers' mid-level contract. Instead, he signed a veteran's basic salary with the Utah Jazz and returned to his roots.

Without the inside tank, Jim can only consider plan B.

"Mitch, I have an idea..."

"understood……"

The next day, the Lakers announced that they would use a two-year veteran's basic salary contract to bring back the team's main center in the post-Jabbar and former O'Neal era, Yugoslavian actor Vladi Divac.

With the addition of Trevor Ariza and Anderson Varejao, the Lakers' reinforcements this offseason are nothing more than that. Compared with the drastic signings in the previous two seasons, this year's movement is obviously much smaller.

Divac has the same face shape as the actor Jean Reno, and he studied Stanislavsky's "The Actor's Self-cultivation", which can be called Marlon Brando on the basketball court.

As for Anderson Varejao, the brazilian boy with instant noodle hair, described in the scout report as "good at rebounding and defending, full of vitality, but with rough skills and very limited offensive ability."

Only Jim knows that if there is a player who can inherit Divac's mantle, it is none other than Varejao. He is the next Al Pacino.

Divac's gas tank is running out of fuel. Jim's purpose of signing him is to allow him to lead the team's young insiders. In the playoffs last season, it was veterans who could rely on them, but this season lost Without Malone, Ostertag and Campbell, the team needs young players to grow up quickly and support the inside line. No matter Nene, David West or Varejao, they all have the potential to develop into supporting the inside line. Jim The thing to do is to keep this process as short as possible.

Kupchak has been busy discussing with the league and the Rockets about the China game recently. The NBA boom brought by Yao Ming has swept China in the past two years. Of course, David Stern does not intend to let this cake go. Out of the evil tentacles of capitalism, ready to do a big job in China, the Rockets as the home team of China is of course indispensable, and the best option to fight against the Rockets must be the championship Lakers.

That year, when the NBA visited China for the first time, it sent the championship Washington Bullets. The combination of Alvin Hayes and Wes Unseld opened the eyes of Chinese fans. Guy, still easily suppressed Mu Tiezhu, the No. [-] center in Asia at the time.

Today, the No. [-] center in Asia is Yao Ming. The second-year Yao Ming has already become a star. It is not easy to suppress him easily.

Here, the coaching staff has also been reorganized. They are chief assistant Frank Hamblen, who has rich experience and has worked as an assistant for Phil Jackson for many years, and is relatively familiar with the triangle offensive system; Kurt Rambis, The veteran of the Lakers, conscientious, just like when he was playing, took the trouble to deal with all kinds of chores; the chicken soup coach Brian Shaw was responsible for getting along with the players and solving various minor problems and conflicts; the defensive coach Jeff Bzdelik, The new aid that Jim dug at the first time, the purpose is to create a defensive system that is more suitable for the team, not to waste the team's defensive talent; inside coach Kareem Abdul-Jabbar; and Jim's direct staff Rad Stevens.

Except for Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, who is ill, the other members of the coaching staff have assembled to prepare for the new season.

The summer league is a good time for training, and for the rookie head coach Jim, it is also a necessary stage to go out of the novice village, so Jim decisively decided to lead the team to the summer league.

In the first game against the Kings, Kobe, Garnett, Artest, Billups and other starting four tigers all came to the scene and sat on the sidelines to watch the game. The team hadn't started training together yet, and they were eager to know, Is Jim really capable of being a head coach?

"Is it really not necessary to play Dwyane? He is only a second-year rookie. With him, we can win this game steadily." Stevens was a little worried. Although the Kings were also a group of improvised players, but Jim really, really needed this win.

"Have you ever seen a player who averaged 20 points per game in the finals come back to the summer league? Don't worry, Brad, I know it." Of course, Jim doesn't need Wade to fight against the king's stragglers.

The starting lineup sent by the Lakers is Nene, David West, Ariza, Korver, and the point guard is served by this year's undrafted pick Tony Bobbitt.

As soon as he came up, Korver declared his strength with a precise three-pointer.

And David West played well in the first half of last season, but he missed a lot of games after the All-Star Game and the entire playoffs due to injury. He tried his best to express himself. In the past four months, Although he can't run, his upper body can still be practiced. West's arm is a whole circle thicker than last year, and he looks like a small Karl Malone on the court.

Compared with the Lakers, who have a stable rotation and All-Star potential, the King's Summer United team is vulnerable, and the game is not nutritious. 136 to 101, the Lakers won a big victory. Korver scored 7 three-pointers. Sturt had an eye-catching performance with 23 points and 16 rebounds. As for Nene, he put on his jacket after only playing for 10 minutes, and gave Varejao the rest of the time.

(End of this chapter)