start with scouting

Chapter 286
Su Yang's speech was quickly spread to Twitter and other social platforms, which once again aroused heated discussions among fans.

说唱歌手、湖人球迷艾斯库伯发推写到：“哈哈！我很喜欢他说这种十分惹人想要暴揍他一顿的发言，我现在明白巴斯家族为什么会选择他，因为他It's the second Pat Riley, Dr. Buss wants to recreate the performance moment of the Lakers in the 80s, and he is undoubtedly the best candidate, this time I support him!"

Another rapper, snoop, retweeted and wrote: "Wow! Born with Lakers blood! I heard he grew up in San Gabriel. At that time, he failed to interview for the Clippers. He should have interviewed for the Lakers. We missed too much time!"

In addition to the praise of big-name fans, some fans continue to be curious: Why do no Lakers players publicly welcome them?

After discussing and discussing, apart from the dissatisfaction of the Lakers players and waiting for the boss Kobe to express his opinion, the fans came up with another guess, that is, the league may be shut down soon, and many Lakers players are too busy to take care of themselves, so how can they have the energy to welcome Su Yang.

There are also Las Vegas casinos that offer bets on 'when will Su Yang get out of class the fastest' to induce betting on leeks with high odds.

While the fans were discussing, Su Yang also finished the press conference and rushed directly to the team's training base with Kupchak.

The Lakers training base is located in the Toyota Center in El Segundo, Los Angeles. Since Su Yang received the news that the Lakers confirmed hiring him to coach, he has let Taylor rent an apartment nearby to ensure that every training day can always be done at the fastest speed. Arrive at the base.

A group of people rushed to the base, went straight to the office and began to arrange work plans, saying that there was a large backlog of work to be resolved.

"First of all, we need to solve your assistant coach candidate..."

Kupchak took out a pen and paper, "Before that, I must remind Mr. Garivetty, the team doctor and trainer, that you can't move. You bring your own Quin Snyder, and there are three available places. You can write down whatever you want. The name of the coach you want to contact."

Su Yang nodded to express his understanding. Gary Witty has been working for the Lakers since 84, and his qualifications are quite old. Even during Phil Jackson's three consecutive championships, he never thought of replacing him. Unless he wanted to leave, the boss would not Good dismissal.

Su Yang was about to speak, but saw that Kupchak seemed to have something to say, and immediately raised his hand to let the other party speak first.

"You may have seen the report before, knowing that we interviewed Brian Shaw and Mike Brown for the head coach position, and finally chose you, but they both left us with a deep impression, but their style is very different from yours. ..."

While talking, Kupchak pretended to observe Su Yang's expression casually, as if trying to capture something.

Su Yang guessed what was going on, but he didn't interrupt, and Kupchak continued: "We invite the two of them to have a talk with you to discuss the possibility of them joining your coaching staff, Brian Shaw How do you feel about Mike Brown being open to talking to you and being your assistant coach already with other job offers?"

Su Yang turned his head to think, and guessed that Kupchak recommended Mike Brown as a backup, but he was not worried about being replaced, but Brown was good at adjusting the defensive system, and he was a good person, good at dealing with the relationship with players, and himself With a Quin Snyder, it is necessary to accept Mike Brown because of emotion, reason and effect.

"Mr McBrown can join the coaching staff now if he wants to, and Quinn and I are very welcome."

Hearing that Su Yang didn't hesitate at all, Kupchak asked with a smile: "There are still two places, who do you want to invite?"

Su Yang thought about it for a while, and found that there was really no one he wanted to invite, and said: "Not yet, you can invite a player-born coach depending on the situation, and the remaining spot will be reserved for the time being, anyway, it will be suspended soon, and there is no one." Too much work."

According to Su Yang's idea, the lockout will last until the end of the year, and the team's lineup will not be determined until then, and related work such as designing the offensive and defensive tactical system will follow.

Moreover, he is responsible for the offensive and main defensive strategies, Snyder is responsible for the details, and there are sufficient staff for tactical related work.

The other three assistant coaches either came to gold-plated to gain experience, or shared some daily pre-match preparations.

"Not always…"

Kupchak shook his head, "Dr. Bass is teaming up with New York and Miami and other team owners to seek normal promotion of the free market and the start of the summer league. The summer league schedule has been launched, and you have to prepare as usual..."

Su Yang was a little surprised when he heard the words, and soon came back to his senses.

The main reason for the lockout is that the boss feels that the players, as laborers, are too greedy to share 57% of the season's income. They hope to increase the proportion of management to avoid falling into perennial losses or getting good results, and even the championship is difficult to make a profit.

The Hornets have been managed by the league, and the King Maloof brothers are also clamoring to sell the team. Life in the small ball market is really difficult.

But teams like the Lakers, Knicks, and Heat don’t have a profit problem, so they naturally don’t want a lockout, which would be a big loss for them. Among them, the Lakers’ Buss family has the least assets. normal.

"Could it be that you are really serious about implementing the transaction rumor that broke out yesterday?"

Su Yang subconsciously thought of a reporter breaking the news on Twitter, saying that the Lakers were planning to use Lamar Odom + Shannon Brown to trade for Monta Ellis of the Warriors, and then let Ellis and Kobe form the most powerful backcourt in the league. Ask urgently.

"Of course, I am happy to share information about the transaction reasonably, and I will ask for your advice in advance..."

Kupchak said with a smile: "In fact, we heard your idea of ​​trading outside core players during the interview, and then came up with this dusty plan. We need players to help Kobe share the scoring pressure on the outside... "

During the conversation, Kupchak was full of confidence and said that he would create a lineup for Su Yang that could definitely hit the championship.

Out of politeness, Su Yang didn't interrupt Kupchak, but everyone was almost dumbfounded. What kind of confusing option is Ellis?

Seeing that Kupchak finished speaking, he hurriedly said, "Don't! Didn't I suggest trading Stephen Curry?"

"My scouting department evaluated Stephen Curry. He thought his upper limit was average and did not meet our standards. Although he performed well in three-pointers, it was because the Warriors had not yet completed their reconstruction and had no requirements for record. Others Every time the team played against the Warriors and every other player played against Steph Curry, the team never gave a playoff-strength defense, the data is watery..."

Kupchak made it clear, and it's understandable when you think about it carefully. At this moment, no one really expected Curry to be so hung up.

Su Yang knew that he had not yet gained the full trust of the management and the Bass family, so even if he had the prophetic advantage, he had to proceed step by step.

"What about Chris Paul? Don't you plan to pursue? And Dwight Howard?"

Hearing Su Yang's words, Kupchak laughed and said, "Actually, we came back from the interview that day, and we conducted an internal review. I wanted to know how you guessed that we planned to pursue Chris Paul and Dwight Howard. That was not discussed publicly. plan of.

But in the end, the result was not found out, so I can only accept your perfect guess, but fortunately you know about it..."

What Kupchak said later, Su Yang didn't listen carefully, and he quickly replied after he finished speaking: "Don't change Monta Ellis, go after Chris Paul, but you must do a good job of keeping it secret, and absolutely don't wait until the deal is concluded." Any leaks..."

Su Yang is numb.

Compared with the exchange for Monta Ellis, I am more willing to accept the Paul trade turmoil, at least it will not affect it for too long.

He made up his mind to take advantage of this shutdown crisis to gain the trust of the Bass family and management.

(End of this chapter)