Eastern Time, January 23, 2013, 10 p.m.
Memphis, FedEx Arena.
The game between the home team Memphis Grizzlies and the visiting team Los Angeles Lakers is in full swing.
Off the court, the Lakers bench and players on the bench were already drawn by the game and stood up and sat down one after another in excitement.
The Lakers fans who are watching the live TV broadcast at this time must be familiar with these Lakers substitute players.
Pau Gasol, Antawn Jamison, Chris Duhon, Darius Morris…
All of them are well-known players in the league.
If you count Kobe, Nash, Howard on the court at this time, charity World Peace...
2 MVPs, 2 Defensive Players of the Year.
This Laker is definitely a star stud.
However, the star-studded Los Angeles Lakers currently have a record of 17 wins and 25 losses.
After the team's head coach D'Antoni took office, the record is 12 wins and 20 losses. In the past 11 games, the Lakers have lost 9 games.
If we lose this game again, we will lose 10 of the past 12 games.
The Lakers led by Kobe, Nash, Howard, Gasol and Ci Shiping are being beaten by the Grizzlies...
On the side of the court, in the first row next to the players' bench, Lakers head coach D'Antoni could no longer sit still and was anxiously talking to the ants on the hot pot.
At this time, many trouble-making NBA expert reporters are waiting for another death glare from Kobe.
The last time Kobe Bryant stared away at Mike Brown.
This time, will Kobe attack D'Antoni?
In the second row of side seats where no one pays attention.
The atmosphere is completely different from the first row.
"Du, we must have lost this game again. There is something wrong with our tactics. We can't let Kobe and Nash run around like crazy dogs without goals. They are no longer young. I'm not sure that doing this will not only consume Do our stars have other roles? We need to change."
"Darwin, is there a possibility that maybe, Mike... only knows this trick?"
"..."
After hearing what the handsome young man next to him said, Darwin Ham was stunned.
Why didn't he think about this?
The young man sitting next to Darwin Hamm was named Du Kang.
23 years old, family member who grows flowers, former international student in the United States, graduated from UCLA last year.
He joined the UCLA men's basketball team in his freshman year and became the team's part-time assistant trainer.
In his second year of college, he successfully became a part-time trainer from part-time assistant trainer Teague.
In his junior year, he was promoted to a part-time assistant coach.
After assisting UCLA head coach Ben Holland for two years, he successfully joined the Los Angeles Lakers after graduating from college.
Du Kang is now an ordinary assistant coach for the Los Angeles Lakers.
Generally speaking, an NBA team will have 4-5 assistant coaches.
Take the Lakers as an example.
At this time, there were five people sitting in the first row of the front bench (coach’s bench).
A head coach, three assistant coaches, and an athletic trainer.
This is a fixed number stipulated by the alliance.
The five people in the first row of the dugout are the specifications that every team must abide by.
For the Lakers, the head coach is D'Antoni.
The three assistant coaches are D'Antoni's confidant and brother, and the current chief assistant coach, Don D'Antoni.
There is also the confidant of Lakers superstar Dwight Howard, Steven Clifford, who is responsible for the team's defense and keeping an eye on Warcraft Howard.
As well as the hero of the Lakers' 1982 championship and responsible for the team's offense, the former head coach of the NBA Wizards, Eddie Jordan, was invited by the former Lakers head coach Mike Brown.
These people are all familiar to many NBA fans.
As for the second row of the coaching bench, except for the team's fourth assistant coach, other personnel are not certain.
The second row can accommodate player development coaches, video coordinators, senior scouts, athletic performance assistants, assistant trainers, and team security personnel.
For a team with super giants like the Lakers, these super giant bodyguards can also be mixed in the second row.
Therefore, the second row, in the side seats, also known as the reserved seats for idlers, is filled with a bunch of bastards.
Fans don't pay attention, the media won't report it, and there may not be a single broadcast of a game.
And Du Kang is the fourth assistant coach of the Lakers.
Next to him, Dalvin Hamm is the Lakers' fifth assistant coach.
Both are rookies in the NBA coaching world.
Darwin Hamm was previously an assistant coach for the New Mexico Thunderbirds of the NBA Development League.
Du Kang was previously an assistant coach at UCLA.
Relatively speaking, the qualifications of prestigious schools in the NCAA Division I League are definitely far higher than those in the NBA Development League.
Moreover, Du Kang is not an ordinary famous school, he is from UCLA, and the UCLA brand is very useful in Los Angeles.
Du Kang's background is better than that of former NBA player Darwin Hamm in the Los Angeles Lakers.
So Du Kang is fourth and Darwin Hamm is fifth.
However, the fourth and fifth, it doesn’t really matter, they are just trash fish.
Even Eddie Jordan, the team's second assistant coach, has recently been tortured by an NCAA assistant coaching job with an annual salary of $900,000. He wants to leave for the money, but is reluctant to completely lose the opportunity to coach in the NBA.
Even Eddie Jordan was like that.
Idiots like Du Kang and Hamm, if they want to counterattack and become NBA head coaches, they have to work hard for at least ten or twenty years?
In fact, most of the losers will never have the opportunity to coach an NBA team in their lives. Most of them can't survive and end up coaching abroad in secondary universities, high schools, middle schools, and elementary schools.
A small number of those who can take root will only be able to earn a salary of tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of dollars in their lifetime and travel around various NBA teams.
There are only a handful of people who can eventually become an NBA head coach.
Former Lakers acting head coach Bernie Beckstaff struggled for 30 years before getting his first coaching opportunity.
Thirty years...
"Du, I still think we should do something to prevent the Lakers from losing like this again. We have so many outstanding players, how can we achieve such a record?"
"Darwin..."
Du Kang carefully looked at this middle-aged man whose neck was getting shorter and shorter, fatter and fatter, and longer and more honest.
“Can you make George Karl like Ray Allen?”
"..."
Du Kang's rhetorical question almost made Ham's dark face turn red.
Ray Allen was his boss when he was a player with the Bucks.
George Carl was his mentor.
The entire basketball circle knows about the conflict between the two.
In the Bucks that year, George Karl designed a tactic for Ray Allen. He first gave the ball to Hamm in the low post on the strong side. Hamm took the ball and broke through to the baseline, attracting Ray Allen who passed the ball to the bottom corner from the defense.
The name of this tactic is 'Hammer', derived from Darwin Hamm's name.
Even though Ham is unknown, he has been a bottom-level role player throughout his career.
He is also someone who once had exclusive tactics with Ray Allen.
He knows the relationship between Ray Allen and George Karl better than anyone else.
"Du, you are right..."
Harm sighed.
Back then, he had a much closer relationship with Ray Allen and George Karl, and he was unable to change their relationship, and he was not even qualified to intervene.
Who is D'Antoni now?
Ask D'Antoni to listen to him, give up the run-and-gun tactics, slow down the pace, and play position?
Isn't this a joke?
Except for a few of the famous coaches in the NBA, they are people who have clung to their own system all their lives. They only know, or in other words, only study this skill.
Run and gun is D'Antoni's trademark.
Even if run-and-gun is not suitable for the current Lakers, D'Antoni will not change it.
It's about letting the players adapt to him, not him adapting to the players.
"Darwin, these things are not what we should care about. These things are what those people should worry about."
Du Kang smiled and pointed to the sky.
When something like this happens, the gods will naturally start a fight, and they are not qualified to participate.
What qualifications do these two idiots have to love the Lakers?
They love the Lakers, so the Lakers must love them.
If they take the lead in rebelling against D'Antoni, they will definitely be the ones who die.
The Lakers certainly won't love them.
Having said that, looking at the Lakers being beaten on the court at this time...
The Lakers are about to lose 10 of 12 games, and Lakers fans will be heartbroken.
Not to mention these Lakers assistant coaches.
Such a good lineup, brought like this by D'Antoni, is not as good as the previous Bernie Beckstaff.
In fact, Du Kang, like Hamm, was also very upset.
It's just that he's not as outgoing as Ham and doesn't show his emotions on his face.
You don’t have to have a dark face, just a dark belly.
Ham, on the other hand, is an extrovert even among black people.
Hamm, who won the championship with the Pistons in 2004, was the one who cried the most in the locker room.
Moreover, Hamm's dissatisfaction with D'Antoni is not just because of his open personality and D'Antoni's poor coaching performance.
Also, former Lakers head coach Mike Brown was kind to Ham.
Ham came to the Lakers a year earlier than him. He was invited by former Lakers head coach Mike Brown to join the Lakers coaching staff, responsible for the physical and mental development of players such as Kobe and Howard...
Is Hamm responsible for the physical and mental health of Kobe and Howard?
Is Ham worthy enough to teach the physical and mental development of these two people?
Mike Brown actually gave Ham a job and a job.
Mike Brown is a disciple of Popovich, Popovich is a disciple of Larry Brown, and Hamm followed Larry Brown in 2004.
This is why Mike Brown is willing to support Hamm.
Hamm is the biggest force in the NBA, a fringe member of the Larry Brown-Popovich faction.
The two former head coaches of the Lakers, Mike Brown and Bernie Beckstaff, are both members of this faction.
If someone from the Larry Brown-Popovich family likes D'Antoni, then that's weird.
What's more, D'Antoni has made this star-studded Lakers like this.
Du Kang has no faction in the NBA, and there is no need for him to get involved.
The Larry Brown-Popovich faction has basically been eliminated from the Lakers.
Even if he wanted to take sides, he wouldn't take sides with a remnant like Ham.
Moreover, there is no need for him to take sides.
As a UCLA student, he can't offend anyone, and naturally no one will cause trouble for him for no reason.
Hamm is now. If D'Antoni doesn't leave, he will get out immediately.
Eddie Jordan, who is a few levels higher than Ham, has already found a new home. Before being purged, he left voluntarily to preserve his dignity.
If Hamm could find a new home like Eddie Jordan, he wouldn't feel so sorry for himself around him all day long.
He is completely different from Ham, who is now unable to protect himself.
Therefore, hanging around with the Lakers for the time being, secretly developing and getting rewards, this is his current strategy.
In the game between the Lakers and the Grizzlies, the Lakers, who played away from home, were defeated 93-106.
At the end of the game, D'Antoni was livid.
This is the Lakers' 10th loss in the last 12 games.
Jim Bass, who was sitting in the VIP seat and supervising the battle, may have a uglier face than D'Antoni.
As the old Bass era comes to an end, it is well known that the Bass family's struggle for power has become fierce.
Jim Buss and Jeanie Buss are the two biggest factions of the Lakers.
Jim Buss teamed up with the other three siblings to push Jeanie Buss out of the basketball business.
Jenny Buss was beside Old Buss, making suggestions and fanning the flames to fight back.
The fight between the two sides was tense and inextricable.
After Mike Brown and Beckstaff are dismissed from get out of class, Jeanie Buss wants to bring back her boyfriend Phil Jackson as the head coach.
Jim Buss invited D'Antoni.
In such a severe struggle situation, every time D'Antoni loses a game now, it is equivalent to a slap in the face of Jim Buss.
Thinking of Jenny Buss's face, Jim Bass wanted to take a gun and kill D'Antoni at this moment.
It’s so damn disappointing!
D'Antoni is becoming more and more incompetent, and he who invited D'Antoni to come is not blind-sighted?
How can he unite the Lakers to resist Jeanie Buss if he is blind?
He rose to power because his brothers and sisters helped him squeeze out Jenny.
And Jenny has great support from the Lakers management.
If the Lakers lose again, Jeanie Buss will soon be able to make a comeback.
Now there are many voices within the Lakers who are looking forward to Phil Jackson coming back to coach and Jeanie Buss coming back to take control of the team.
"Farke!"
…
…
"Ding, the game is over and the basketball coaching career system point settlement begins."
Competition level: A level (NBA regular season), you can get 1.6 times the MP (career points) settlement.
Game data reward: 93 to 106, loss, reward MP: 16 points (data guarantee reward for A-level games)
Satisfaction reward MP: 100
Player satisfaction: 20%
Fan satisfaction: 15%
Management satisfaction: 65%
Coaching game influence reward MP: 0 (no positive influence on the game)
MP reward settlement for this game: 186 points (rounded)
"The Lakers management is really full of rebels. They lost this game so miserably, and the management actually has 65% satisfaction. The more games they lose, the higher the management's satisfaction. This is so impatient. I hope Jim Buss gets out of here, all I can say is, Aunt Jenny is a jerk.”
Thanks to Aunt Jenny's support, even if the Lakers' record is not very good, even if the current record is only 17 wins and 25 losses.
But it still provided him with an MP reward of 12525 points.
There are a lot of rewards for winning, and the rewards for losing are also not low. This kind of salty life is simply not very enjoyable.
"It's still far from the 1 million points needed to buy the head coach position of the Lakers."
If he can stay in the NBA and play soy sauce, maybe 30 years later, he can complete the counterattack in life and become the head coach of the Lakers.
By the way, the Lakers head coaching job now has the lowest points available.
The main reason is that he is an assistant coach of the Lakers. Secondly, the position of Lakers head coach D'Antoni is unstable. In addition, the Lakers are now recognized as a coaching black hole in the NBA coaching circle.
No famous coach would dare to step on this trap now.
The current Lakers head coach position is at the bottom of the purchase price.
It's a pity that he doesn't have so many points now.
Leaving the NCAA to apply for a job as a Lakers assistant coach cost him all his NCAA experience.
If he were not from UCLA, it would not be enough for him to become an assistant coach of the Lakers.
Except for the Lakers, assistant coaching positions for other NBA teams require very high career points.
After settling the account, Du Kang habitually opened the job application interface to see if there was any chance of missing out.
Not to mention picking up NBA head coaches, picking up assistant coaches from other promising teams is also good.
However, Du Kang generally does not respond with hope.
Huh? !
Position: Los Angeles Lakers Acting Head Coach
MP: 10,000 (exclusive discount for Lakers assistant coaches)
Purchase requirements: Lakers assistant coach (requirements met)
Introduction: After the purchase, the Lakers fired D'Antoni and made you the acting head coach. As an acting head coach, you may be able to become a regular coach, or you may be fired in the next game, so please purchase with caution.
Du Kang rubbed his eyes hard, and then rubbed them again. There was no dazzle!
At this moment, he really has a chance to become the head coach of the Lakers. Even if he is the acting head coach, he is still the head coach!
Be careful, sister!
If we don’t stud now, will we really have to wait 30 years? !
Jim may regret it the next second and don't want to fire D'Antoni!
"Buy! Buy! Buy!"
"Ding, the host has purchased the Lakers acting head coach position, please do not repeat the operation."
The prompt that popped up on the system interface made Du Kang a little embarrassed.
I was so excited just now.
However, everyone should be able to understand it, haha.
"Du, what are you doing? Please review this game!"
"..."
Du Kang came back to his senses and looked at Don D'Antoni in surprise.
As the team's first assistant coach, shouldn't you review it?
Or is it that this game is just a defense? If you don’t want to eat it, do you want me to eat it?
When you don't want to eat, don't you ask Ham to eat it?
He is a little miscellaneous fish, but he doesn't feel that he has a great background and no one will bully him.
With the Lakers' current record, they need to find someone to take the blame.
Kobe, Nash, and Howard certainly cannot be used to take the blame.
The D'Antoni brothers certainly don't want to take the blame.
Then the ones who can take the blame are Eddie Jordan, Hamm and him.
The current record of the Lakers, it is estimated that Hamm and Eddie Jordan are not enough, and adding him is not enough.
He has already guessed that, next, D'Antoni should suggest to Jim Buschina to completely clean up the team's coaching system.
It's because these assistant coaches are useless, so the Lakers players can't implement his tactical system.
Good calculation.
However, everyone is trying to save themselves, so Du Kang will not feel targeted, and then childishly confront the D'Antoni brothers, criticizing the sky and the ground.
When he bought the Lakers acting head coach position just now, didn't he also consider D'Antoni?
Maybe if he doesn't buy it, Jim Buss, who has passed the impulsive stage, will regret it and be willing to give D'Antoni another chance?
Therefore, Du Kang, who was caught by the D'Antoni brothers and took the blame, was not angry.
Nor did he allow other members of the coaching staff to review the game as requested by Don D'Antoni.
This coaching staff meeting made it clear that it was a blame-shifting meeting for the D'Antoni brothers, and there was no need for him to waste any words.
There is no point in arguing.
Confronting the 'Dead Man'.
At this point, just smile.
hehe.
"Du, I think your work attitude is very problematic."
Seeing the inexplicable smile on Du Kang's face, D'Antoni frowned.
Du Kang still didn't speak, but the object of his smile was changed to D'Antoni.
Du Kang's behavior made D'Antoni, who was about to take the blame, punch the cotton, and the expression on his face became even more ugly.
Suddenly, the hotel conference room suddenly became tense.
Seeing that Du Kang is so brave, he actually dares to confront the D'Antoni brothers.
Eddie Jordan, Hamm, and Clifford were all in disbelief.
Is this still the good gentleman that he usually is, the transparent person who doesn’t offend anyone?
Ham, who originally felt that Du Kang was timid and did not dare to rebel against him, now looked at Du Kang in a different way.
"Du...he is braver than me!"
Now that Du Du has stood up, what am I waiting for? !
Even if we are all cleared in the end, the news of the internal strife in the Lakers coaching staff will be enough for the D'Antoni brothers to drink.
The poor record, coupled with news of internal strife among the coaching staff, might allow the D'Antoni brothers to get out of here?
"I think……"
Harm just stood up.
The door to the room was opened from the outside.
Jim Bass had already pushed through the door.
Seeing Jim Bass come in, Brother D'Antoni's eyes lit up.
"Jim, I think Du is no longer suitable as the team's assistant coach."
After D'Antoni finished speaking, Jim Bass did not speak, but looked at D'Antoni deeply.
"Mike, from now on, you are dismissed."
"What?!"
D'Antoni thought he heard wrong.
Jim Bass didn't look at D'Antoni anymore, but frowned and looked at Du Kang.
"Du, you will act as the head coach of the Lakers until the new head coach takes office."
With that, Jim Bass left.
There was silence in the hotel conference room.
At this time, the way the D'Antoni brothers and others looked at Du Kang was completely different.
Especially the calm smile on Du Kang's face at this time, that smile means so much.
"He already knew it!"
"His background is very deep!"
"The D'Antoni brothers wanted to touch him, but it was the D'Antoni brothers who left in the end!"
Ham, who had just stood up to save Du Kang, was excited.
He has a backer again!
"Du!"
In fact, Du Kang was actually more excited than Ham at this time.
He actually became the head coach of the Lakers!
