Kwame Brown's Freshman

Chapter 108 Assistant Coaches
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"Eddie, why do you call me when you have time?" It was a regular opening statement, and Kupchak and Eddie didn't know each other very well.

"Mitch, I'm not talking nonsense, I want to join your team." Eddie really drank a little too much, and directly expressed his thoughts.

"..." Mickey looked at the sky speechlessly, this...

On the morning of April NO.13, the Wizards officially announced the termination of the contract with Eddie Jordan, recalling the head coach who was fired the previous year again, and Doug Collins served as the head coach of the team.

At the same time, the Lakers announced that Eddie Jordan would join Rudy Tomjanovich's coaching staff as the Lakers' first offensive coach.

Today Rudy is in a bad mood and very unhappy.Of course, for Eddie Jordan, the Princeton master, coming to his coaching staff, this can enrich the team's offensive tactics.But, does that mean that damn Mitch doubts his ability to coach?

Rudy drove to Staples this morning and turned on the radio. He heard the news that Eddie Jordan had joined the Lakers. Rudy immediately flew to Staples and asked Kupchak to question him.Who would have thought that this guy would actually joke with himself, saying that he wanted to have a meeting with the boss.Rudy came to the training ground full of anger.

"Today, the whole team turned back and ran to practice, to increase their physical fitness for the playoffs!" Rudy's first sentence almost caused the group of guys to fall.

"OH, NO!" Everyone in the team wailed.Only Kobe smiled secretly in the corner.Because Kobe has not played for a long time, he has to practice his physical fitness every day, and now everyone practices together.

"Jason, did Rudy take dynamite today?" Kwame ran back and forth, asking Kidd beside him.This kind of training is not stressful for Kwame. In order to prepare for the playoffs this time, he has practiced more ball control. He has not improved his physical fitness for a long time, and he is really not used to it.

"Kwame, don't you even read the news? Eddie Jordan has joined our coaching staff. I guess Rudy felt that he was looked down upon. Do you know how many people laughed at his four-tower tactic in the last game?" Kee De whispered to Kwame.

That's right, signing the head coach who has just been laid off as the opponent's team is tantamount to saying in disguise that he won the opponent because of the lineup. Isn't this a slap in the face of Rudy?No wonder he behaved like this.

"What are you talking about over there! Hurry up and practice for me!" Rudy's ears were sharp today, and he seemed to have heard Kidd and Kwame's whispers, and yelled in this direction.

Although dissatisfied, Rudy still welcomes Eddie Jordan to join. When Phil Jackson left, the coaching staff of this team was disbanded. Now Rudy is basically busy with tactics alone.Now that there is one more person to help, he is relieved.But I'm still upset!So this group of poor players became a tool for venting.

However, as a head coach, he still has to show his generosity to his assistant coaches.After practicing the group of guys, Rudy left the training hall and went to the coach's office to wait for Eddie to arrive.

When he saw this orangutan face again, he wondered if this guy was the brother of the guy in New York, and the two were not much different in age, so it was really possible.Back then, these two guys were very good players. Eddie also won the championship that year with the Lakers in 1982.Therefore, Eddie and the Lakers are considered veterans of the Lakers, and they pay attention to every move of the Lakers. It is also because of this relationship that they signed a contract with the Lakers so smoothly.

"I really didn't expect that you would come to be an assistant coach. You must know that the first time you were a coach was the head coach." Rudy got up and gave Eddie a warm hug...

Obviously, Eddie has also been in the position of coach for more than ten years, and he understands many things, so the two exchanged pleasantries together.

Although Rudy was very unhappy with the team's decision this time, when it came to the team's affairs, he concentrated on his energy and didn't discuss with Eddie about the tactics of the playoffs like others.Eddie Jordan deserves to be the legendary pure offensive coach, a man whose defense depends entirely on the players themselves, and his research on tactics is quite thorough.A few simple and very simple suggestions pointed out the very simple mistakes of this four-tower tactic.

It doesn't matter how good the defense is at the fifth position, it just needs to be big enough to block the opponent's fifth position. Isn't there Kwame, who can already form a defensive system by himself? ?Let him figure it out for himself.

As for Rudy's concern about Kwame's physical fitness, he is also afraid that he will use too much physical strength on the defensive end and have no physical strength when attacking, so there is nothing to worry about.Kobe is coming back in the playoffs. At that time, you can't wait for Kwame to have no physical strength on the offensive end, so as to avoid problems with the distribution of ball rights.

Back then, the combination of O'Neal and Kobe was divided in this way. Kobe was mainly responsible for defending the opponent's flank, consuming Kobe's physical strength, so as not to grab the scene on the offensive end.It’s just that Kobe is too resistant to grass, and his physical strength may be the best in the history of guards. While the defensive end is in the best defensive team every year, he can also be equally good on the offensive end, averaging nearly 30 points per game, stealing O’Neal This is also one of the reasons for the conflict between the two.

Rudy burst into tears, it turned out to be such a simple question, but he didn't even think of it.It seems that it is good to have an assistant coach.However, the orangutan immediately won the favor of everyone, and it seemed that his position suddenly became a little unstable!
Eddie has a knack for handling the little things, the sorting of files, the expertise of player analysis is pretty good.Some analysis of the team's frontcourt, division of tactics and other documents.There is also the Princeton Lakers version. When these documents were handed over to Rudy and Kupchak, the general manager praised Eddie's assistant coach. Rudy never told him what the tactics were, and they all came directly. important.This time Eddie did design tactics based on the existing personnel. The two people's focus on the team is simply not at the same level!

In fact, it's not Rudy's fault. He was invited to this broken Lakers team when he just recovered from cancer. He came to this team with a soy sauce mentality, and he didn't prepare anything at all.He is ready to be a scapegoat for his poor record. Who knows that Kwame's sudden outbreak, and Kobe also made changes, this team suddenly returned to the ranks of championship contenders.For a while, Rudy could only play the tactics of the Rockets before. In fact, most of the reasons for trying to run and bomb were forced, and there were too few tactics.Although the simpler the tactics, the harder it is to defend, but in the playoffs it is impossible to do without some other tactics.

(End of this chapter)