Chapter 67 The All-Star Crash and the Spring Festival War(1/2)
Charlotte, Bobcat Training Hall.
Rivers came very early, so he discovered Li Ke who was practicing hard.
Even though he was not a big detective, he could tell from Li Ke that he had been practicing for a while.
“No one’s success is achieved overnight.”
Though thinking about this, Rivers couldn't help but give a thumbs up.
There are more players working hard, but there are not many NBA players working as hard as Li Ke.
This was the first training day after Rivers joined the Bobcats. The training started at 9:00. Just after 8:00, everyone was here.
But this is not something to be surprised. Once the old Ai Shark leaves, the bobcats really don’t have the kind of thorns that they like to be late or even absent in training.
All the staff arrived, and several newcomers appeared behind Rivers.
Sam Vincent was dismissed and took half of the Bobcats' coaching staff away. Before Rivers took office, the Bobcats' coaching staff were only Bickstaff Jr. and Patrick Ewing.
Rivers naturally had to bring a few of his own people to fill some vacancies in the coaching staff.
So, in the locker room of the training hall, Rivers turned around and gave up the few people behind him.
"I'll introduce the newcomer to the coaching staff, this is Armond Hill, the team's new offensive coach."
Armond Hill, a middle-aged black man with sparse dreadlocks.
During the Celtic period, he was Rivers' offensive assistant. Later, Rivers was dismissed and Ammond Hill chose to stay in office and continue to assist Xibedu.
But not long ago, Siberdu was dismissed, and Ammond Hill followed suit and chose to leave.
"This is Tyron Lue, the team's new training assistant..."
As his eyes turned, Li Ke saw a familiar face.
That's right, it's Guidance Lu.
He just announced his retirement in the summer of 2009. Before he had a few months of rest, he was pulled back by Rivers, who was in urgent need of an assistant and became a so-called training assistant.
Although, as teammates, there was not much communication between Coach Lu and the Bobcats generals, at least they all met each other.
Immediately, Li Ke and the old Du and others stood up and greeted each other warmly.
"This is Lawrence Frank, the team's new chief assistant coach!"
Finally, a young white man with a little fat and slightly bald face waved his hands to everyone present.
Lawrence Frank is not an unknown person. He was just dismissed from the Nets at the end of November 2009.
Before get out of class was over, he set several records of the youngest coach in the NBA.
His resume is still very glamorous, but he can't find the new job he wants for the time being, so he condescends to join Bobcats and is the Rivers assistant coach for a while.
These three are all the newcomers in the Bobcat coaching team.
Adding to the defensive assistant Bickstaff Jr. and another training assistant Patrick Ewing, the 15 configuration is still enough.
"We have made some attempts to the team's new tactical ideas in the Nuggets' battle. During training, we need to continue to implement..."
Next is some clichés about training. After a big story, Rivers waved his big hand and the training officially began.
Rivers and Sam Vincent have a little bit worse tactical ideas. The game against the Nuggets was just the tip of the iceberg.
After the training really begins, the hidden ones behind the tip of the iceberg gradually reveal themselves.
"Stephen, you should go find Kenyon to make a pick-and-roll without the ball!"
"Sheldon, your position should be a little inward. Yes, that's right, that position, the threat there will be even greater!"
"Kenyang, the middle distance station is where you can get in the way of many people..."
During training, Rivers, Armond Hill, and Lawrence Frank kept making reminders.
Li Ke felt that Rivers had many small details and attached great importance to many seemingly insignificant cooperation.
This style of detail-oriented style only has benefits but no harm for bobcats.
"Now, the move of Changshuai should have done the right move."
Of course, Li Ke also knew that the gap between Rivers and Sam Vincent was actually the gap between the regular coaching team and the grass team.
It’s not that Rivers is so good, it can only be said that Sam Vincent is too bad.
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For the entire Bobcats team, the biggest difference between the head coach from Sam Vincent to Rivers is the game.
Daily training does not exist, what should be done or what to do, what changes are.
As February begins, the All-Star voting results have also been released.
Last year's All-Star, Li Ke was the voter.
This year, this throne was stolen by Kobe.
That's right, Kobe has won nearly 4 million votes and became the vote leader this season.
Li Ke was more than 100,000 votes behind and ranked second.
Of course, such votes do not include votes in the Chinese region. If calculated, Li Ke will be the vote king without any suspense.
After all, Yao Yao has not played due to injury this season. Although Ali Lian and Dasheng have played in their respective teams, they do not have many ball rights and opportunities, and are still too far away from the All-Stars. The support of domestic fans can only be given to Li Ke.
Unfortunately, the votes in the Chinese region are not counted.
The Americans, Li Ke's vote leader last year was achieved by winning the championship in 2008 and domestic fans over the wall to support it.
This year, the championship-winning momentum has gone to Kobe. There are also a large number of Kobe fans in China. They are in pairs, so it is not surprising that Kobe's vote king is the one.
Li Ke didn't care much about this. Is the ticket king? I haven't got this, and he still has a chance in the future.
The ticket king is gone, and the starting lineup is still stable.
But Li Ke felt very disgusted. In the East, he wanted to partner with Wade on the back line, and the forward position was Lebanggabosh and center Howard.
None of them were what he wanted to partner with.
In the west, Kobe and Brother Cannon will partner with the back line as the standard in the next few years.
In the forward position, Guagua occupies one, and the other is usually the driver and Duncan compete. This year, the driver is given the driver, after all, the driver's record is better.
At the center position, Yao Yao was injured and did not participate in the voting. Jia Sao changed her position and was successfully elected as the starter.
In fact, by looking at the All-Star starter, you can see the situation in the league this year.
The stinky fish and rotten shrimps in the east are not yet mentioned. In the west, Guagua became the starter. Isn’t the main reason for the rise of the Nuggets this season?
Including the driver defeating Duncan and Jane Ga became the starter, they are all related to the team's record.
It can be seen from the All-Star starter that the only Lakers, who have two starters, is still the number one champion favorite this season.
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Back from Denver Plateau, the Bobcats' first opponent was the Wizards who came to challenge the door.
The Wizards should be one of the worst teams in the NBA. At the beginning of the season, General Manager Elny Glenfield also attributed the team's problem of Waterloo last season to injury. In the summer, he ambitiously sent away the No. 4 pick and got Outro, Steve Blake and Chris Humphreys.
As a result, at the beginning of the season, injuries were not as good as staying away from the Wizards. Caron Butler, Brandon Haywood and others were injured one after another, and the team's record did not improve for a long time.
By the end of December, a truly devastating event broke out.
The fuse of the incident was that when the Wizards were flying to transfer away games, the Wizards players played poker on the plane to pass the boring time.
Gavalis Cretanton was not doing well and had already lost some.
At this time, Arenas felt that he had the opportunity to make a small profit from the pocket of this new teammate, so he joined the game halfway.
In fact, it was a bit of a game. As a gambler, Crittanton was already on the verge of getting in and directly lost thousands of dollars.
At this time, he reacted...
In fact, if he didn't react, it would be nothing big.
The key was that he reacted and immediately shouted at Arenas like a naughty man: "You shit, how could you join at this time?"
As a result, Arenas became popular, and he felt that his majesty as the boss of the team was challenged.
So, he fought back fiercely: "Shut up your stinky mouth, otherwise I will burn your car and use a fire extinguisher to extinguish the fire and get you out!"
The indifferent Qing Crittanton retorted without any timidity: "Then I will shoot you!"
As a result, Arenas nodded: "Okay, man, I will bring you a gun!"
To put it bluntly, it is a quarrel between primary school students.
Who knew, both of them were serious.
Two days later, Arenas actually walked into the locker room with four loaded guns, and Crittanton even loaded one of them.
Things got a big deal, and the league intervened and directly banned the two of them until the end of the season...
For Elne Glenfield, injury, suspension, the Wizards' season is over.
So, the wizards began to really make a fuss.
To be continued...