In Wang Shuo's original time and space, many people only knew that Jordan was a strong-natured person, but few knew that in order to win, he could also endure everything that ordinary people could not endure.
Therefore, as time goes by, I am afraid that neither Wang Shuo nor Jordan noticed when the position reversal occurred in their relationship.
On September 27, after the summer break, the Wizards officially assembled.
As a result, Wang Shuo received a surprise on the first day of the team's joint training.
"[When the extinguished flame is rekindled] Mission One has been completed.
The host now gains permanent Charisma +1. "
"[Idol, did you choose?] Mission 2 is now open.
As NBA teams begin to gather one after another, it’s time for the annual prediction session.
The abominable Charles Barkley actually openly made a bet with Kenny Smith on a TV show. If the Wizards can win 20 games under your leadership before February next year, he is willing to kiss Kenny Smith’s ass. This is called How can you bear it?
Please lead the geniuses to prove yourself to the world!
Mission completion conditions: Before January 31, 2002, the Washington Wizards won 20 games.
Mission completion reward: Basketball reputation permanently +2. "
Unfortunately, because he was conditioned by future social networks to dislike watching TV and newspapers, Wang Shuo didn’t know until the system released a new task that Barkley, who had broken his ribs after being hit by Artest in the Jordan training camp, , and made a bet with someone on a TV show again.
And this time, he is still the "victim".
After asking the staff to get a newspaper, Wang Shuo roughly learned about the bet between Buckley and Smith.
To put it simply...
This is purely an act of "revenge of public and private revenge" with a grudge in mind.
"I'm not optimistic about this young Chinese coach at all, and I don't know where his confidence comes from. Anyway, in my opinion, it's impossible for him to move to the NBA. He will be given up by the Wizards in a month at most. Fired." Yesterday, Barkley said this in the new season preview on TNT TV.
On the side, how could Smith, who always liked to take advantage of the situation, miss such a good opportunity?
So soon, he incited Buckley to complete a bet with him.
The content is exactly what was mentioned in the new task released by the system. Barkley bet that the Wizards would not be able to win 20 games before February next year.
In fact, at the beginning, Barkley wanted to bet that the Wizards would not win 20 games throughout the season.
But out of respect for Michael Jordan, who has announced his comeback, Barkley just added a time limit to the bet.
After reading the newspaper, Wang Shuo was happy.
Because he never expected that he, who was already thinking about his opponent in next year's finals, would receive such a difficult task.
Moreover, the reward is quite generous.
2 points of permanent reputation.
In addition, what is interesting is that on the 27th, after the team's joint training in the morning, Wang Shuo also completed the "When the extinguished flame is ignited again" previously released by the system.
The task is to convince Michael Jordan that the Wizards can do something big in the new season.
So that means...
Almost at the same time, the Wizards coached by Wang Shuo were questioned by Barkley and affirmed by Jordan.
Boss Joe's reason for affirming the Wizards is simple.
After the summer, this group of young people on the Wizards have made significant progress.
Hamilton's shooting posture adjustment training is not over yet. Englander estimates that Hamilton will need another offseason to fully adapt.
But even so, after developing a new way of exerting force, Hamilton's three-pointers are much more accurate than before.
Gasol, who returned from the European Championships, looked tougher just by looking at his appearance. On the first day of training together, this young man even showed off Jordan under the basket without any morals.
In this year's European Championships, the "one high and one fast" combination formed by Gasol and Navarro almost defeated the entire Europa.
Had they not encountered Yugoslavia, which had not yet disintegrated, in the semifinals, Spain would have definitely had a chance to compete for the championship.
Not to mention Arenas, who has been coached by England together with Hamilton since the end of the summer league. This guy is a natural sniper. As long as you dare to let him throw, he dares to take action from any position.
As for Jefferson and Crawford, the former doesn’t need to worry too much, and as for the latter...
Anyway, Wang Shuo didn't know what "Old Mike" talked to him in the summer league. Anyway...
Crawford's style of play is obviously much more unrestrained than what Wang Shuo remembers from the same period in history.
Xia Jiba is the originator, it is true.
Compared with when he signed the contract, Jordan's junior Haywood is also much stronger.
This guy is stupid, but one look at him makes you feel safe.
Wang Shuo plans to promote him as the "No. 1 center in the Eastern Conference" after he plays a few good games in the new season, so that as a "layered warrior", his ability to ridicule will be improved to a higher level.
Artest and Jackson, who returned from training camp with Jordan, became boss Joe's "favorites."
On the first day of joint training, you can see Jordan spraying anyone, but you will never see Jordan spraying these two people.
And what made Hamilton almost cry with grievance was...
The two of them actually have a pair of sneakers signed by Jordan.
Wang Shuo now understood why even the famous tyrants in ancient times would treat their personal guards well.
In addition, you may not believe it, but during the three-point test on the first day of joint training, the best performer on the Wizards was neither Arenas nor Hamilton, but Ron Artest.
Wang Shuo feels that the talent pool of the Wizards' forward line in the new season can only be described as abnormal.
Although Jefferson is still a rookie and Jackson has not yet made a name for himself, Artest definitely has a chance to compete for the best defensive team nomination in the new season.
That big elbow is awesome!
Etan Thomas, whom Unseld signed in the summer to make up the money, also brought a surprise to Wang Shuo. This guy is neither noisy nor noisy, but he looks like a ruthless person with his pigtails.
Therefore, this is really not a question of whether Renqiao’s boss has good or bad vision.
But how low does one have to have a basketball IQ to think that this talented Wizards cannot win 20 games in the new season?
On the training ground, after Wang Shuo showed the newspaper to Jordan, Jordan immediately laughed and said, "If you have the chance, you must ridicule him!"
Wang Shuo blinked and said, "Then will the great Michael Jordan reward me with a pair of signature shoes?"
In ten years' time, Jordan's handwritten limited edition basketball shoes will be sold at sky-high prices, so Wang Shuo plans to ask for a few more pairs from Boss Qiao in the new season.
After the Wizards practiced together on the first day, everyone from the coaching staff to the players gained full confidence.
And as the team's joint training officially started, all the attributes with "?" in the system interface were now unlocked.
Before the start of the 01/02 season, Wang Shuo’s personal panel is as follows:
Personal charisma: 1 (8)
Management level: 0 (11)
Training level: 0(8)
Tactical Theory Level: 4 (11)
Basketball reputation: 0 (35)
NBA career coaching record: 0-0.
NBA coaching career honors: None.
As the system explains, any attribute it displays will be modified as reality changes, so in the interface displayed by the system, Wang Shuo's final ability is also composed of the permanent ability outside the brackets and the system's temporary score within the brackets. Composed of two items.
In addition, in addition to the 100-point system for basketball reputation, the system also uses a 20-point system for personal charisma, management level, training level, and tactical theory level.
In other words, according to systematic scientific analysis and evaluation, Wang Shuo's current tactical theory level is absolutely first-rate.
Of course, Wang Shuo's ability to score a total of 15 points for his tactical theory level is also related to his three assistant coaches.
Because in the system's ability introduction, it is clearly written that the level of the assistant coach will also affect the tactical theory level of the head coach.
This is so fucking reasonable!
After all, in the NBA, no head coach can manage the giant babies in the team, have superb tactical theories, and at the same time take into account the daily training of each player.
In addition to the personal panel, the team panel that Wang Shuo can currently see is as follows:
Team stability: 1.
Team training level: 57.
Team morale: 74.
The maximum limit of team stability is only 3. Generally speaking, as long as this attribute can be at a positive value, it means that your team is relatively stable and united at present.
The team's training degree of 57 points does not pass at first glance, but because the team has just begun to gather and practice together, in Wang Shuo's view, the current training degree of the Wizards' team is definitely the 29th team in the NBA. One of the best on the team.
As for the team's morale of 74 points, in Wang Shuo's eyes, at least half of it is due to Jordan's choice to come back.
It is worth mentioning that at the bottom of the team panel, the system also has a line of warm reminders about the team attributes that Wang Shuo can currently see.
That is, as the season progresses, the correction of team attributes will be much greater than that of individual attributes.
This sentence sounds complicated, but it is easy to understand.
To put it simply, although many of Wang Shuo's personal attributes are temporary scores, it is impossible for Wang Shuo's tactical theory level to change from 15 points to 4 points at once.
Unless, he fired his three assistant coaches.
But the team attributes are different.
Because a disastrous defeat is likely to quickly lower the morale of your team.
If players are lazy for a few weeks, your team's training efficiency will not be improved.
Not to mention the stability...
Wang Shuo believes that in this giant baby league, except for a very small number of teams, the stability of most teams will repeatedly jump between plus and minus values.
In the ranking of favorability with players, Wang Shuo discovered that after Jordan announced his comeback, his relationship with him had moved from the previous favorability list with staff to players.
Jordan's current favorability rating for Wang Shuo is 88 points.
Of these, 30 points are permanent, while the other 58 points are temporary.
It's still the same truth.
In interpersonal interactions between people, nothing is static.
As the saying goes, today's good friends can become tomorrow's enemies.
So it’s still the same sentence.
This system is so fucking reasonable!
In addition, compared with before, after the new season officially started, Wang Shuo also saw an interface similar to a task tree.
The name of this mission tree is [Conqueror].
The only task Wang Shuo can see right now is to gain his first victory in order to unlock more system permissions.
In short, with the help of this system, Wang Shuo is already ready to compete in the new season.
September is over and October is here in the blink of an eye.
On October 5, at the regular fan meeting held by the Wizards, Hamilton, Jordan, and Artest took the Wizards' team makeup photos for the new season together.
When being interviewed by reporters, Wang Shuo once again made shocking remarks.
"The bet between Charles Barkley and Kenny Smith? Sorry, I don't care or care what someone who doesn't understand basketball thinks about me."
Because before the interview, Boss Qiao had a death order that all issues involving Barkley must be fought to the death, so Wang Shuo had no choice but to deal with it.
Even though he thought so in his heart.
The next day, Wang Shuo's reply to Barkley even stole the limelight from the NBA's just-announced team schedule.
It can be said that it stirred up a thousand waves for a while.
"Huh? I don't understand basketball? I'm the MVP of the NBA and have played in the NBA for more than ten years, and what about him? He's just a rookie coach!"
At TNT TV station, someone is obviously anxious, but let’s not say who it is.
According to the schedule announced by the NBA, the Wizards will challenge the New York Knicks away from home on October 30.
The current head coach of the Knicks is still Jeff Van Gundy, and Wang Shuo is no stranger to this opponent.
When playing against the Knicks, in Wang Shuo's opinion, the most important thing to do is to guard against the Knicks' outside shooters.
Although Van Gundy is a defensive coach, Van Gundy's team will not be like Larry Brown's team, unwilling to shoot three-pointers.
When coaching Houston XX, because of the presence of Yao on the inside, Van Gundy often arranged pitchers on the outside.
In the four years Van Gundy coached Space City, the team averaged 17.1, 18.5, 17.2 and 23.1 three-point attempts per game.
From the perspective of Wang Shuo before time travel, this data is not high, but in the first decade of the 21st century, such a proportion of three-point shots is by no means low.
Van Gundy's only shortcoming is that he is stubborn. Once the situation on the court exceeds his expectations, he will burn out the CPU without waiting for the opponent to make a move.
Of course, before discussing the regular season, Wang Shuo had to lead the team to play the preseason.
In October, in the team's seven preseason games for the new season, the Washington Wizards, which attracted much attention from the public and the media, successfully locked in the third-to-last place in the NBA team strength list for the new season with an impressive record of 2 wins and 5 losses.
Only higher than the Chicago Bulls and Golden State Warriors.
Although no one would take a game of this nature seriously in a preseason game.
But many people have already begun to criticize Wang Shuo verbally and in writing.
This group of people will never see that in the preseason, Wang Shuo only allowed Jordan to play one quarter in each game.
You won't see the new combinations the Wizards play in the tactical phase.
Not to mention that no matter whether they win or lose, the Wizards are much more united than last season and other details.
"A 27-year-old foreign coach, what does the Wizards management want to do? Is it really to sell tickets for Michael Jordan to come back?"
"I feel now that Charles Barkley's estimate is too conservative. Let alone February, even if you give this coach named 'Wang Shuo' another three years, he won't be able to win 20 games!"
"The Wizards are destined to pay for their stupidity! Only Americans understand basketball, these foreigners can't play basketball at all!"
"I bet $100 that in two weeks at most, you will see news about the Wizards' coaching change. I heard that they have already privately contacted Larry Brown, the legendary coach of the Philadelphia 76ers!"
"Now it turns out that the clown is Wang Shuo himself! He is the one who doesn't understand basketball!"
After the preseason, Wang Shuo felt that it was a pity that there was no social network in this era when he saw the overwhelming questioning.
Because this kind of firepower, which is not even considered in the era of line infantry, can be compared with the firepower of the future that is comparable to the precision guidance of intercontinental missiles?
Moreover, Wang Shuo discovered that his previous words "I come, I see, I conquer" indeed had an effect far beyond his imagination.
Because American basketball at this time has not experienced the impact of three consecutive major competitions in 2002, 2004, and 2006.
So for the American basketball community, which has always been aloof, at this moment, they are focusing their attacks on Wang Shuo alone.
And this is exactly the effect Wang Shuo wants to achieve.
Anyway, his handsome position and his current goodwill with Boss Qiao have reached 90 points. Who can move him in a short while?
So, do it and that’s it!
On the 28th, after the team's last training session in Washington, the Wizards flew to New York a day early to prepare for the opening game of the 2001/02 NBA season.
It is a coincidence that the first official game of my coaching career was played in Madison Square Garden, the "Holy Land of Basketball"...
Wang Shuo always felt that even God was reminding him that if he didn't do it, he would be a hit!
(For God’s sake: Who said before that he wasn’t superstitious?)
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