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Chapter 287 Let me be fair

After Kupchak chatted with Su Yang, he directly arranged for a meeting with Mike Brown, and met him at the training base at [-]:[-] p.m.
Su Yang simply communicated with Brown, mainly exchanging ideas on how to deal with the relationship between players. He quickly felt Brown's positive and optimistic personality, determined that Brown was a natural candidate for an active atmosphere, and pulled Brown to sign an assistant coaching contract in the office on the spot.

In the evening, Su Yang took Snyder and Brown to the welcome dinner hosted by the Bass family.

Jack Nicholson, a loyal Lakers fan, who played the leading role in The Shining, came to the scene temporarily to participate in the welcome. He took the initiative to chat with Su Yang about how to improve the offensive and defensive efficiency of the Lakers. When the conversation was over, he smiled and said that he would invite him to the party in the future.

Su Yang was dumbfounded on the spot, and subconsciously guessed that Nicholson's so-called party was the kind of multiplayer sports party.

The dinner lasted about half an hour. Kobe and Odom came late, and it was the first time they met Su Yang in public.

The three of them chattered a few words about the possible stoppage in a polite way, and didn't touch the topic of chasing the championship at all.

That kind of situation was known to the reporters in some unknown way that night, and it soon became "The Lakers trust the head coach and the team's ace player to disagree on the goal of winning the championship. The Lakers may reorganize next season and trade. The object is...'.

At the end of the dinner, Kupchak formally introduced Su Yang as a potential assistant coach - Darwin Hamm.

After symbolically listening to Kupchak's introduction about Ham, Su Yang directly welcomed Ham to join the teaching assistant team without any hesitation. A teaching assistant above the standard.

Hamm was born as an undrafted player. He has played in overseas leagues and the Development League, and also worked as a head coach of the Development League.

For Su Yang's reaction, Kupchak was very happy, and Hamm was also very happy. Both of them felt that Su Yang valued them.

No way, the prophetic advantage can not only be used to make various layouts in advance, but also to satisfy various human conditions.

At [-]:[-] the next morning, Su Yang arrived at the training base, preparing to hold a meeting with the coaching staff that had initially formed, but found that Mike Brown had arrived earlier, at least half an hour earlier, chatting with the venue staff, and the atmosphere was excellent .

Su Yang was not surprised at all, knowing that Brown is a particularly hardworking person, otherwise it would be absolutely impossible to take the position of head coach.

"You can entrust me with any tasks that need to be assigned in advance. I'm used to getting up early..." Mike Brown and Su Yang talked with a smile, "I look fat, but I usually exercise, so don't worry about it. Overworked."

Su Yang replied confidently: "You can also figure it out yourself, I'm not the kind of coach who emphasizes the relationship between primary and secondary..."

At about eight o'clock, all the coaching staff arrived, even the veteran Garivetti also arrived to discuss the lockout.

"Our main task is to keep the players in good condition during the lockout period, and then when the training camp starts, there will be enough time to coordinate the tactical system, but this lockout will make many players relax from the bottom of their hearts, and we need to find a suitable plan..."

In Su Yang’s view, the veterans of the Lakers have won championships, have been valued and despised by the ball, have guaranteed contracts, and have heard of all types of chicken soup for the soul. Except for Kobe, it is difficult for others to be like the young people of the Thunder That keeps the hunger for success that way.

When he was coaching the Thunder, he would automatically send text messages every day to remind the players to keep training.

But you can’t do that when facing the veterans of the Lakers. You need to adapt to local conditions, otherwise you will be like Cavaliers coach John Beilein, because he calls tactics with names like "Sunshine Bear and Tyrannosaurus Rex", and also stipulates various behaviors of players. Let the Cavaliers feel like being treated as children, and then the Cavaliers publicly stated that it is difficult to adapt to Beilein's coaching style.

When Beilein was at his worst, TT got caught in a nationally broadcast game and left sadly.

To say that Beilein was also a generation of NCAA coaches, but because of the wrong coaching method, he was not guaranteed at the end of the season.

"Then it's decided..."

The coaching staff discussed for a long time, and Su Yang finally made a decision and said: "Send each player a specially formulated training plan, as well as specific requirements such as various physical indicators such as weight, indicating that after the season resumes, adjustments will be made according to those standards."

The core of the plan is to 'put the ugly words first', to warn the old fritters in the team, but not to say anything dead.

A group of veterans will fight with threats and lures. They have guaranteed contract and team merits, so they can't engage in that kind of one-size-fits-all strategy.

After the plan was confirmed, Snyder and other assistant coaches followed up to formulate the training plan, while Su Yang dragged Garivetti to discuss in detail.

"Mr. Gary, I have a challenge in the new season that needs your help, which is to control Kobe's playing time..."

Su Yang is very clear that rather than designing an offensive and defensive tactical system, it is more important to keep Kobe and other players healthy in the new season. To achieve such a goal, it is necessary to introduce health management systems such as rotations, but with Kobe's personality, it is bound to be difficult to implement.

He could have forced Bryant to truce at certain moments with his head coaching authority, but that would have only one benefit.

Garivetti has qualifications and the identity of the chief team doctor, and has a good relationship with Kobe, so he can be called the perfect intermediary candidate.

"I agree with you, Kobe's body load is very high, he needs to rest, I will fully cooperate." Gary replied, "Phil basically didn't think about such things at the time, you can think about it this way, I believe Kobe will understand sooner or later importance…"

The two hit it off, from hard rules to soft words, all around Kobe Bryant to formulate various strategies that need to rest.

Anyway, from the bright side, it is not aimed at Kobe alone but covers the entire Lakers team, and Kobe should take the lead.

Of course, no matter Kobe or other main players of the Lakers, more rest time will lead to an increase in the probability of losing.

Su Yang needs to try his best to balance issues such as player health, team winning percentage, media questions, fans and management concerns.

The season has not yet started, and he has already foreseen in advance that there will be those crazy remarks when there is a losing streak and the ranking is low.

That's something that can't be helped. Everyone says that the ultimate goal is to take the championship, but if they lose two games, they will jump in a hurry.

That is human nature.

After chatting with Garivetti, Su Yang found Kupchak according to the plan, and together with Kupchak, he met the Lakers scouting director Jesse Buss and others, as well as the video analyst Bodaen and others, as well as the public relations staff. Personnel Josh Rapsari et al.

After getting acquainted for a while, Su Yang returned to the office, began to participate in the formulation of training plans, and suggested purchasing new equipment.

The overall training facilities of the Lakers are too old, and compared with other rising teams, the training efficiency is quite low.

Kupchak replied that the lockout is coming, and you have to wait until the new season to buy. The key is that there is no place to display, and some equipment cannot be used, because the Lakers training base is shared with the development league team and the ice hockey team, and the place is relatively small. Relatively poor.

Two days flew by, and on July [-]st, the NBA officially announced that the labor negotiation agreement had not been reached.

The league went into hiatus.

All of a sudden, various discussions appeared.

Wade said he was going to be a wedding host, Nash said he would sell Suns uniforms, and Durant called on the players to resist to the end.

Su Yang knew that his chance to improve his reputation was coming, so he decided to act as a middleman to reconcile the labor and management. If all goes well, he can win the trust between the players and the owners at the same time, and can lay a solid foundation for buying a team as the owner in the future.

But he knew that no one would listen to his eager words, so he still sent the training plan to the players first, and then went directly back to China for vacation.

In mid-August, Su Yang returned to the United States, first moved the MT company to Los Angeles, and then took advantage of another failed labor negotiation, tweeted: "I have a plan that fully meets the interests of both labor and management, please listen to my detailed explanation... "

(End of this chapter)