Start coaching the Thunder, starting with Westbrook

Chapter 65 Returning to China
Putting aside the matter of the assistant, Li Sheng felt quite free after staying here for more than a week.

The training matters include Englander, Udoka, the team's trainers, and the staff in the training hall, so he doesn't need to worry about it at all.

Collins is also watching the recording of the training progress. He also coordinates the players and is responsible for building a good relationship with the players.

As for Li Sheng, apart from helping them open some plug-ins at the beginning-no one knows about this, he basically just watched the excitement from the sidelines every day.

Of course, he didn't really do nothing at all. The reason why he followed during training was also to arrange targeted tactics in the future, so he had many discussions with Uduka and Collins.

And this requires a sufficient understanding of the characteristics of the players, including their strengths and weaknesses.

In fact, in the NBA, although there are various scientific systems, training, medical treatment, etc., these are all operated by people after all, and because of the closed nature of this circle, it is inevitable that human relationships will be mixed in.

So some fans watched very puzzled things happen. For example, some coaches and managers have done so badly, but they can still stay in their posts.

Some players have reached their age or are not strong enough to support high-intensity performances. Their combat power has been greatly reduced and even affected the strength of the team. However, because of seniority, contracts and other reasons, you still cannot take him down at will.

These situations have never been uncommon in the NBA, but with Li Sheng, he only considers performance, so unless there is pressure from the boss, otherwise he will act according to his best ideas.

At the beginning, he still needs to be restrained. As long as he can prove himself with a little performance, even if Durant and Westbrook fight randomly, he will dare to put them on the bench instead of watching them lead the team to collapse.

Of course, it takes important games to do this. If it is an ordinary regular season, there will be good and bad times in the long schedule, and you need to play more in the game to get back to the state.

And if he can do such a thing casually, then he is not a coach but a boss, not even a boss. After all, the most important thing for the team is to watch the stars eat. If they really have conflicts with them, they will only suffer.

Later, Texas Xiaoqiang’s playoffs Harden’s performance was not good. In the fourth quarter, he watched the headband help lead the team to come back from the bench.

But after that, McHale dismissed get out of class. Who would believe it if he said that he had nothing to do with Harden?

Also during the James Cavaliers 2.0 period, Blatt led the team to the finals in the second season and was fired because of conflicts with the team's superstars.

Of course, they proved themselves by winning the championship that season, otherwise this coaching change would definitely cause huge controversy.

Li Sheng didn't feel that he was special compared to them. After all, no one knew about the system, and there were never many coaches who got out of class with good grades. Building a good relationship with the players was also an important part of securing the coaching position.

Of course, if he can really lead the team to win the championship next season, then win two consecutive championships or something, and directly become the team's meritorious coach, then he might not be able to challenge Westbrook's status.

Well, I don't know if Westbrook is doing shooting training now...

While watching Robertson's shooting practice, Li Sheng thought of this question again.

After some enlightenment from Li Sheng, and after Li Sheng asked Collins to help him record training data, he could detect even a small improvement in himself through the specific data, which finally made Robertson regain his confidence and become more involved in training.

Li Sheng knew that this should be due to the effect of the shooting enhancement card. Otherwise, regardless of the effect that can be achieved in more than a week, normal people's shooting will always have ups and downs. It is impossible to have a single line like Robertson that can rise a little every day recently.

On the surface, everyone will think that this is the credit of Englander, because under his guidance, Robertson adjusted his hand shape, found the right shooting method for him, and the more he shot, the more confident he became.

And there is another change that they don't pay much attention to, that is, when Robertson is outside the three-point line, his shooting hand will change unconsciously, which is more like Ray Allen's "textbook shooting".

Having said that, many people think that Ray Allen's three-point shooting is a textbook. The main reason is that he can shoot more and more accurately, especially the three-point shooting, which was once considered unsurpassable.

But in fact, the shooting posture of Houston, the "King of Mid-range Shooting", is more in line with the standard. However, for individuals, forcing everyone to learn the so-called standard shooting gestures is not necessarily a good direction, because sometimes the most suitable one is the best.

It's like Curry's later ONE-MOTION is also the so-called "push shot" in some people's cognition. Do you think he is standard, but he is accurate.

The other Thompson of the Splash Brothers doesn't use this. He has a two-stage style, which is relatively standard. Note that this is only relative.

Robertson may not be the most suitable for him, but the system is unreasonable, so his shooting will improve just like this, which is getting closer to the template.

The same is true for Ennis on the other side, except that his template card is Roy, and Roy's characteristics cannot be said to be outstanding, but his basic skills are absolutely solid, and there are changes but it is not obvious.

As their training progresses, Li Sheng's future plans for the team will become more and more clear.

However, the offseason is still very long, and he will not stay here forever. It seems that it is time to leave first and go back to China. Li Sheng has already made a decision in his heart.

Speaking of which, another advantage of being in the Holy City is that it does not have the luxury of Los Angeles, the magnificence of New York, and the beach style of Miami. This is a normal city. Of course there are fun, but there are not many places to attract players to indulge.

This would be more conducive to them concentrating on training—although it has the same effect in Oklahoma City, but the connections there are more familiar, and rookies will also want to know more people, coupled with the support of local fans, there will be some influence.

So even if the head coach Li Sheng leaves, there is no need to worry about any changes in their training process. Not to mention that the coach is watching, they themselves will not allow themselves to relax.

This kind of joint training itself is to motivate each other. Now that Durant and Leonard have taken a good lead, others dare not neglect.

"Take care of yourself..."

To leave Li Sheng, he only brought Michael Johnson with him, and no one sent him off. He just packed his things and came to the training hall to tell everyone.

I don't know how the players feel, but Udoka is still a little bit reluctant anyway.

I didn't feel it when Presti left before, that's because I didn't have a good relationship with him and I wasn't very familiar with him.

Although I knew that Li Sheng was going back to stay for a while and would meet again soon, but after Li Sheng poached him from the holy city, the relationship between the two was somewhat different.

Now Li Sheng can be regarded as entrusting him with a heavy responsibility. He needs to be responsible to these players, and he also needs to be responsible to Li Sheng.

Li Sheng just smiled and waved, without saying anything, then turned around and left with Michael.

They have already booked the plane, and it's not just them who are traveling with them, but also the brother reporter from CCTV.

(End of this chapter)