basketball god

Chapter 33 The Belonging of the Head Coach
The next day, the next day, the media in Memphis praised Yang Zhan's performance in the summer league with the headline "The lottery show beats the show".

Half a month after the end of the summer league, the Grizzlies' pre-season training camp also restarted. This time, the purpose of the training was not for the players to resume training, but to prepare for the upcoming long season.

However, the outside world is not calm for the Grizzlies in the tactical drill.

On July 7, the Detroit Pistons appointed Saunders as the team's head coach.

On July 7, the New York Knicks appointed Larry Brown as the team's head coach.

The start of the season is 2 months away, but the Grizzlies haven't even solved the problem of the head coach. Of course, this is not what Yang Zhan has to worry about now.

Another month has passed, and Yang Zhan's personal ability value has also increased to 67 at this time. Yang Zhan's goal is to increase his ability value to 70 before the start of the preseason.

But today the general manager of the team, Jerry West, brought a familiar person to the arena. This person is a mad scientist, Don Nelson.

When he arrived, the players were completely shocked. You must know that in the eyes of orthodox basketball defenders, Don Nelson is an outlier.

In his coaching career, Don Nelson has countless inventions, big and small: ball-handling small forwards, shark-slashing tactics, pulling big men to the outside to shoot three-pointers...

Whenever Don Nelson invented a tactic, people laughed at his madness.

But many of his crazy inventions have become classics in the future. There have been many coaches in history who have led their teams to win championships, but there will always be only one Frankenstein.

And Don Nelson also announced his resignation last season. The reason for this is because.

In the 2003-04 season, after the Mavericks were eliminated by the Kings 1-4 in the first round of the playoffs, many people began to criticize Don Nelson's tactics of advocating offense and ignoring defense, which made it impossible for the teams he coached to go too far in the playoffs.

This led Don Nelson to invite the soon-to-be-retired Avery Johnson to join the Mavericks coaching staff as an assistant coach, and Del Harris shared responsibility for the team's defensive issues.

In the 2004-05 season, Don Nelson began to subconsciously observe Avery Johnson's coaching ability, and finally announced his resignation in March 2005 and Avery Johnson took over as head coach.

At the same time, he resigned from the position of general manager of the Mavericks and was replaced by his son.

Everyone thought that after resigning this time, Don Nelson, even if he came out again, would be next season, even he himself thought so.

But this summer, Jerry West came to ask him to come out of the mountain, but Nelson originally refused.

Firstly, he wanted to continue to study his own tactics, and secondly, the public opinion of the media made him want to rest.

But at this time West made a temptation that he had no reason to refuse, yes, the Grizzlies, Yang Zhan, this player who is called an uncertain factor by the outside world.

Who he is, a mad scientist, a player like a vocational teacher, is a temptation he can't refuse, but he also put forward his own conditions.

That is in the summer league, he must see the potential of Yang Zhan, otherwise he will not waste time on parallel imports.

And Yang Zhan's performance in the summer league can be said to make him very satisfied, so today, he is here.

Don Nelson who came here didn't have too many polite words, just this one sentence.

I'm Don Nelson, and I'm your head coach starting today.

(End of this chapter)