The Whip of the God of Basketball

(New Year’s Eve Water Chapter, I wish you all a Happy New Year. Interested book friends can add me to WeChat jiangleiyu001, join the group and send you red envelopes. Without him, I just hope everyone will be happy in the new year.) Before the preseason begins For the past few nights, Jim O'Brien was a bit awake at night. He has only slept three or four hours a day for several days for the Boston Celtics' work for the new season. Compared with last year when the Celtics just took over, the team will undoubtedly ask for further progress this year. The pressure on the head coach can be imagined.

　　In the position of NBA coach, it’s not like other jobs. The longer the time, the more proficient and the easier it is. On the contrary, the newly appointed head coach is often the best to carry out the work, and it is also the easiest to gather people’s hearts and produce results. Over time, the longer you stay in the coaching position of the same team, the greater the internal and external pressures will increase. When one day the team's record collapses, the coach will become the first scapegoat. .

Throughout the history of the NBA, the coaches who led the team to championships often reached the top three years before joining the team, such as Pat Riley, Phil Jackson, Tomjanovich, and Lanney. -Wilkens, KC-Jones. This is why Larry Bird is only willing to coach the Pacers for three years, and will be laid off if he fails to win the championship. Three years is a hurdle for the coach. Three years cannot bring out the desired achievements. It is too difficult to win the championship, at this time the team will generally choose to change coaches. This is also one of the reasons why Pitino can't continue to stay in the position of head coach. It has been three years and everyone, including himself, has no patience.

O'Brien, who took over the Celtics in the first year, had a very good season last year. The devastation left by Pitino made the fans of Boston quite tolerant of O'Brien, and Pierce's rapid recovery, Luo Deman's stable court performance and decent off-court life, as well as Michael Reid's unexpected potential, have given the Celtics under O'Brien a strong vitality. Not to mention re-entering the playoffs, the Celtics also showed the potential of a strong team in the coach with the Bucks. Although the 3:1 total score is not good, except for the first defeat in Milwaukee, other In all three games, the Celtics fought against the mighty Bucks to the last minute.

This result is undoubtedly beyond the expectations of the Boston fans, especially the fact that he led the team to re-enter the playoffs, making O'Brien one of the most watched sports figures in Boston for a while, and the Boston media even started Compare him to the coach of the NFL New England Patriots, Bill Belikic. This undoubtedly made O'Brien, who has been under Pitino as an unknown assistant coach, once stood up and became one of the representatives of new NBA coaches, but it has put great pressure on O'Brien in the new season because of the fans. And the media will no longer be satisfied with reaching the first round of the playoffs and then having a defeat, especially after experiencing a bumper harvest in this draft. Some media even use this draft as an analogy to the 1980 Celtics. This time, they turned over to the draft. That year they got Kevin McHale in the flower show and traded to Robert Parrish. The lineup that dominated the age was built overnight.

The Bostonians are eager for such a miracle to be reproduced. O'Brien is their new Bill Fitch. For such a team that has a glorious tradition but has experienced such a long period of darkness, any step-by-step, brick by brick team The rebuilding of the team can't satisfy the people here. Moreover, in history, the Celtics have never spent more than ten years honing a lineup and a tactic like the Utah Jazz. Like the Lakers, they like to make it to the sky. Only championships and victories can satisfy them.

　　 O'Brien’s pressure came from this, and the greater pressure came from the inside. He found that as a head coach, he could not control the direction of the team. Especially in this draft, his opinions hardly played any role. A head coach should have made important opinions in drafts and trades. Some powerful coaches can even decide who to choose and whom to trade.

In a special period when the Celtics’ power was restricted by the general manager-president-head coach triangle, the role of the head coach completely lost the right to speak in team building, and the general manager completely fell to Danny Angie’s side. The two of them completed the draft decision in Madison and the transaction process in Boston. During those two days, O'Brien's job was to sit in the stands in the Garden Plaza and watch the scene.

Of course O'Brien knows that it is not Danny Angie and Chris Wallace that really decides all of this, but Arnold Auerbach, the big master behind the Green Legion, who returns to the Celtics. Although Bach's power is smaller than in the past, his influence on the Celtics is not inferior to the past. Almost every department now has Auerbach’s protégés. The boss Gass Communications is Auerbach, and the Boston consortium, which is rumored to be buying the Celtics, also has a close relationship with Auerbach. No matter what success O'Brien achieved last season, he and Pitino came to the Celtics "outside group" after all, they were born in Kentucky with Kentucky blood. In New England and Massachusetts, it is always so out of place.

　　The consequence of not being able to participate in the draft and trading decisions is that O'Brien is not satisfied with the current team's lineup, especially with three talented young men at the same time at the guard position, but the inside line is as weak as ever. Although Fox-Leon promised to sign a potential defensive insider after the start of the new season, O'Brien does not think there are such players in the free market. Dennis Rodman is one year older, and no one knows when he will suddenly become nervous, kicking the beverage barrel on the sidelines and retiring directly. And Rodman has never been a rim guard. O'Brien is eager for a solid, reliable, and strong defensive post to deal with the offensive beasts that are now rampant in the NBA.

Dalemport has the possibility of such growth, but he is still too young. O'Brien feels that he cannot wait until the Haitians truly grow into towering trees. He needs immediate combat power and players who match his style of play. It's not about running around the world with a bunch of small guys who can only shoot outside-O'Brien thinks so anyway.

As the preseason approaches, the Celtics’ training camp is about to begin, but so far O’Brien has not come up with a clear coaching idea to establish the direction of the Celtics this season. These days He stayed up all night to think about this. He kept calling Vogel and Dick Hart to communicate. They talked about it late at night, but they were still at a loss who lacked power, and many plans could not be implemented.

After struggling for a long time, O'Brien still picked up the phone one night. This time he did not dial Vogel or Hart, but directly dialed his father-in-law, Jack Ramsey. . It was already eleven o’clock in the evening, and ordinary old people had already fallen asleep, but O’Brien knew that his father-in-law had always had the habit of going to bed late. He wouldn’t go to bed until two o’clock in the evening. Lan Trail Blazers left when coaching.

　　As a famous NBA championship coach, Jack Ramsey's most glorious moment was also in his first year coaching the Portland Trail Blazers. They won the only championship trophy in team history. Following Wharton's injury, he and the Blazers never reached the top again. When O'Brien just coached the Celtics last season, O'Brien, who became the new head coach, had to call his in-laws almost every night to talk about the day's work. This habit stopped until the offseason. .

Now O’Brien knows it’s time to pick up the phone again and ask experienced Ramsey to answer questions. Maybe Ramsey can bring substantial help because O’Brien can directly become Celtic last season. As the head coach, Ramsey and Auerbach’s friendship is in it.

　　 The phone was connected after two beeps, and Ramsey's somewhat gritsome voice came from the microphone: "I know it's you, Jim, is there something wrong with the team?"

O'Brien really wanted to say, "My father-in-law, you still understand me," but he resisted and cleared his throat and said, "Sorry to disturb you again so late. The preseason is about to start. The team's lineup and I expected It’s not the same. I don’t know how to adjust. I can’t speak in the management.”

　　 O'Brien and the old man had almost nothing to talk about, and he could only talk to Ramsay about questions like this. This seems to be a big problem for Ramsey, he is not ignorant of the Celtics team structure ~ www.NovelMTL.com ~ and he has been silently watching his son-in-law in the Celtics Development, the special situation he faces, is also something Ramsey has not encountered in the past. He thought about it for a long time before he said to O'Brien: "If you are not in the team's plan at the beginning, then prepare to leave as early as possible, especially if your competitors are very strong. If you are unwilling to be a transitioner, then I bet they will have a new transitioner. You know who they will actually succeed to the throne in the end. He is now very sharp."

O'Brien knew that Ramsey was talking about Fox-Leon. Indeed, he was very sharp. Almost everyone knew about becoming Auerbach’s heir. From a scout to an assistant coach, I don’t know when Will become the head coach. The speed of his ascent is so amazing, but his performance is also tangible. The data and video analysis system established by him and Vogel last season has become an important reference for O'Brien coaching. In the draft, he gave an excellent scout report and played an important role in the establishment of the development league. In the summer, it is also rumored that he went to the University of Southern California to complete the coaching special training, and everything is moving in the direction of becoming the head coach.

After 　　 ten minutes later, O'Brien had no thoughts to continue talking with his father-in-law. They talked about family life and ended the conversation. After hanging up the phone, O'Brien sighed deeply. He did not expect that the little scout he met for the first time in Chicago had grown into his current successor, but O'Brien didn’t want to give up his position as coach easily. Hard-won reputation.

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