0063 Rookie New Tactics
Back at the hotel, Su Yang received a call from a famous agent Bill Duffy, saying that two teams in the West were interested in him and hoped to find time to talk to him during the offseason, but even if the agreement was completed, he would not be allowed to be the head coach directly.
According to Duffy, those two teams hope that Su Yang will serve as the chief assistant coach. If the team's performance does not improve at that time, he will be promoted as an acting head coach, which will be more likely to be excessive for him, players and fans.
After listening to Duffy's narrative, Su Yang expressed his understanding.
The two different identities of acting head coach and airborne head coach bring completely different expectations to fans, players and bosses. The former is "swer and rubbing the butt", while the latter is "expanding territory or making major progress", which is extremely difficult.
Being promoted as an agent coach will make you more dissatisfied and gain a foothold, and you can also get along with the players for a period of time first.
But Su Yang cannot do it indifferently. He really can't do it when he waits for the head coach to get off get out of class and helps the team win with all his might. He cannot deliberately hide his own personalities and abandon his professional spirit.
Moreover, although Duffy didn't say the names of those two teams, he could guess that it was the Kings and the Grizzlies. They would have great turmoil in the next few years, and the management would be one after another. Even if they were the president of basketball affairs, they would easily be confused by the boss.
When Duffy heard Su Yang's polite decline, he seemed not surprised and said he would contact him again during the offseason.
Early in the morning of the 16th, Su Yang got up and had breakfast and accepted a telephone interview with ESPN as planned.
The one who connected him was the well-known commentator Stephen A. Smith. The first question was about the five-for-one positioning tactics of rookie games. Stephen praised him vigorously and finally asked if he could design a tactic for the Knicks.
Su Yang knew that it was using him to mock Knicks coach Isaiah Thomas, and he ignored it after a fight.
After the interview, he took a car to the Morio Convention Center and participated in the Fan Carnival as a member of the Trail Blazers.
Many fans of other teams recognized him and laughed at him saying that he would be invited to serve as head coach next season.
In the evening, Su Yang took a bus to the New Orleans Arena to watch the three-point competition and other performances.
Because he has no position convenience, he can only buy tickets to enter. Fortunately, he has already bought the tickets, so he still chooses the most expensive sideline VIP seats to enjoy the best viewing experience, and get familiar with big-name players, spending half a year's salary.
After finding a seat to sit down, Su Yang found that there seemed to be a female star next to him, quite beautiful, but he couldn't name it.
At seven o'clock, the All-Star performance officially began. The first shooting star competition was held, with four teams participating.
Like the T-Mobile title rookie challenge, the shooting star was also named by Haier. Seeing the domestic brand appearing in the All-Star arena, Su Yang was a little excited and introduced to the stars next to him on the spot, saying that Haier home appliances are easy to use.
The female star chatted with him for a few words, and seemed not interested in basketball, but just came to make a move.
Su Yang turned to chat with Bosh on the other side and directly and boldly "predicted" that the Spurs would win the championship.
Bosh is more optimistic about the Pistons because the Pistons won the championship last year, and the lineup has not changed at all and they are rich in experience.
As a result, the Pistons were eliminated in the first round, and the female player Becky Harmon helped the Spurs win the championship in the finals.
Bosh was dissatisfied on the spot, and Su Yang thought to himself: You should be dissatisfied, after all, you are the king of shooting stars.
The shooting star ended, and a brass band appeared to perform jazz. Su Yang basically didn't pay attention to the music and couldn't experience any feeling. He just felt a group of people twisting around. It would be better to have a song of God A Girl and started to swing directly.
However, the female star next to her was very excited, and many fans even followed her to play slap.
When the central large screen shot was focused on the female star, Su Yang realized that it was actually Britney.
The PS Naming Skills Challenge was held immediately, with Paul, Kidd, Wade and Deron participating.
Bosh is optimistic about his good friend Wade, because Wade has won the championship for two consecutive years and will make three consecutive attempts this time.
But unexpectedly, Wade scored 53.9 seconds in the first round, becoming the worst record in history and was eliminated in advance.
Paul, who played at home, had an excellent score of 29.9 seconds and entered the finals with Delon in 31.2 seconds.
But I don’t know if it was triggered by the passive skill of “Eat, sleep, fight Paul”. Deron was in a state of great shape in the finals. He completed all the projects in just 25.5 seconds, easily defeated Paul and won the championship with the best results in history.
After the dunk contest, there was another performance on the spot. Bosh laughed and said that his teammate Capono would win the three-point contest championship. He also mentioned the previous winning goal against the Trail Blazers, which made Su Yang stunned for a moment.
At the beginning of the three-point competition, Kobe ran to the sidelines to watch the game, his eyes full of desire.
Previously, Kobe signed up for the three-point competition and wanted to be the first player to win the slam dunk competition and the three-point competition at the same time. Unfortunately, when the All-Stars were injured in their fingers, they could only go one lap in the main competition and could not participate in the three-point competition.
The results of the game were not unexpected, Capono won the championship with his best record in history and successfully defended the title.
After watching the three-point competition, Bosh also said that his teammate Jamario Moon would win the dunk contest, and also complained that Su Yang gave Moon too little time to play in the rookie challenge before, and believed that Moon was fully capable of leading the first grade.
Su Yang didn't talk much, but instead talked about the four judges of the slam dunk contest. Which one is better with Bosh?
While waiting, Dr. John took the stage to perform a song What Wonderful World, promoting NBA care activities. Su Yang thought it was quite nice, and he felt that jazz was OK, but it might be just that some styles were not suitable.
The dunk contest was then held, and Moon was the first to make a comeback and performed a 360-degree swing dunk.
Su Yang felt it was very explosive, but the judges only gave 46 points. Bosh was so angry that he complained about Dominic Wilkins on the spot.
Then Guy and Howard appeared, while the last dunk king Gerald Green made the final appearance, performing a candle-dunk.
There was a slight commotion at the scene because of Green's dunk, but unfortunately the dunk was average and he only scored 46 points.
In the second round of the preliminary round, Howard wore a Superman suit and dunked it, officially winning the Superman title, which also made O'Neal hold a grudge.
After two rounds of preliminaries, Howard and Green entered the finals, and the fans finally voted Howard to become the champion.
After watching the performance, Su Yang returned to the hotel with satisfaction. As soon as he entered the door, he was surrounded by Otero and others and asked him if he had asked Britney for a phone call. He replied no, because he was really indifferent, and maybe he could have been a little impulsive a few years ago.
On the 18th, the last day of the All-Star Weekend, the East-West War was officially staged, but Garnett was absent due to injury, and Kobe only played for two minutes due to injury. The game became quite boring. You shot and I dunked on both sides, and the defensive intensity was lower than that of the training game.
Su Yang attended the event as an assistant coach and chatted with the team members throughout the whole process, and did nothing else.
After the game, he was invited to attend the thank-you dinner held by the league and chatted with representatives of the sponsors.
On the 19th, Su Yang flew back to Portland with the team, got a two-day vacation, and ran to the Tuladin River to fish.
Various trades in the league are also coming to an end, while the Trail Blazers are close to getting Vaughan Weaver, and the impact is slightly enhanced.
Su Yang received a notice email from Kevin and began to study Weaver's technical characteristics and prepare to update the tactical manual.
Chapter completed!