ace marshal

Chapter 872
"Hey~!! Could it be that our Clippers team is really a cursed team~?! Why do we have that damned injury every time we are about to gain momentum~!!! "

After learning that Brand, who had just returned from injury, was reimbursed for the season again due to injury, team owner Sterling said angrily.

"Without Brand, it seems that it will be difficult to do anything this season~ It's another year~, hey~!!"

Sterling continued to lament.

In order to resolve the next tactical direction of the team, Sterling called the key personnel of the team management, including Lan Shengli, and held an emergency meeting.

At the meeting, Lan Shengli made a long speech. The core point is that in the case of Brand being reimbursed for the season, the team should change their thinking and focus on the summer draft and the free market.

"To put it bluntly, it can be called rotten, but I think such an approach should be called strategic abandonment~!!"

Lan Shengli said.

"Okay, I don't want to look at how powerful these future championship puzzles are, I just want to ask you, what did you say about building a winning culture~?!, will there be good results if you play poorly all year round~?!"

Sterling questioned.

"I'm glad Mr. Sterling still remembers this incident. You are right. Doing this is really not conducive to the team's establishment of a winning culture, but I didn't say it was deliberately bad~!!"

Lan Shengli responded.

"And I think that a team that wants to truly complete the reconstruction and win the championship in the future cannot do it through the method of being poor for five consecutive years and winning five champions. It is doomed to fail~! !"

Lan Shengli continued to explain, and Sterling was taken aback again.

"Then if it doesn't suck, then how can you get a high draft pick~?!, you shouldn't put all your treasures on the lottery show~!! If that's the case , I’d rather get two tickets to the playoffs~!!”

Sterling asked.

"No, there are many, many ways to obtain a high draft pick. It can be through trading, of course, it can also be through luck~, but the more important way is to get it through even less ideal results~!!"

Lan Shengli explained.

"It's just that the unsatisfactory results I'm talking about here are not achieved by poor performance, but by letting young players play as much as possible in the game and training young players as much as possible~!! At the ticket holder meeting, it was said that we just want to show it off~!!"

Lan Shengli responded.

"As a head coach and a rookie head coach, of course I want to win, I want to win more goals, I want to lead the team back to the playoffs in my rookie coaching season, but I also know that I am coming What is the ultimate goal of the Clippers~!! That is to win the championship~!!"

Lan Shengli still responded with a firm tone.

"If you can't win the championship, entering the playoffs is just selling tickets, and I know that with your financial resources, it shouldn't be short of the ticket price for the playoffs~!!"

Lan Shengli's words made Sterling fall into silence again.

"I'll go back and think about it~"

Sterling thought, and the emergency meeting was over.

"Is it really possible to have both training young players and performing poorly~?!"

After the meeting, the general manager asked Lan Shengli.

"It should be. I want the young players in the team to get more playing time, more opportunities to show themselves, and to play themselves. This will not only help the young players grow quickly, but also allow them to have a bigger deal. Value~!!"

Lan Shengli said.

"In that case, what should Mesozoic players like Gooden and Blake do, and veteran players like Camby~?!"

The general manager continued to ask.

"In the remaining games, there are basically not many opportunities to play, so it is up to you, general manager, to see if we can get some draft picks before the door of the trading market is closed~? !"

Lan Shengli said.

"Okay, I'll try my best~"

The general manager nodded and responded.

A few days after the emergency meeting ended, Sterling issued an internal statement, announcing that he would officially abandon this season, focus on training young players, and no longer aim at the playoffs.

"Everyone should have seen the latest internal statement~!"

Here Lan Shengli said to the players in daily training.

When the players listened, they all lowered their heads.

Especially players like Camby and Gooden, they have worked hard in the league for many years, they have stayed on championship-level teams, and they have also stayed on bad teams, so they know what Sterling released before. What that internal statement meant to them.

"I know some of you have ideas. I have already talked with the general manager. If we want to pursue the championship and get the guarantee of playing time, we can keep an open mind and carry out some operations to solve the problem~! !"

Lan Shengli said.

"After all, the next team will mainly play young players~!!"

Lan Shengli added.

"We are now sixth in the Western Conference~!!, we had a great chance to hit the playoffs, or even hit the upper half of the Western Conference, why did we give up~?! Just because Brand was reimbursed for the season~? !, when Brand couldn’t play due to injury, couldn’t we still be on the verge of the playoffs~!!, why did we suddenly have to fail~!?”

The straightforward Johnson frowned, looked at Lan Shengli, and questioned loudly.

"I repeat, including Mr. Sterling's internal statement, and what I said to you here, never said that the team will be poor in the coming season, never~!!, My coaching philosophy is not to be bad~!!, we just want to speed up the training of young players~!!, if you have enough strength and can win the game, we can still enter the playoffs~!! "

Lan Shengli explained loudly.

"Whether you are accepting interviews or other occasions, you must remember this. The Clippers never want to be bad~!!!"

Lan Shengli emphasized again.

"It's so fresh and refined to say that it's bad. After playing for so many years, it's really the first time I've heard of it~, haha~!! How can it be possible to win with these young players~,"

Gordon listened and sighed secretly.

"Hey~, it seems that the days of the Clippers have entered the countdown~~"

Gordon continued to sigh.

With Brand's season reimbursement and Mr. Sterling's internal statement, the Clippers seem to be ushering in a sea change.

(End of this chapter)