manynovel Chapter 407 The Benefits of Being a Coach (Part 2)
Chapter 407 The Benefits of Being a Coach (Part 2)
Chapter 407 The Benefits of Being a Coach (Second More)
The news that Min Congda became the head coach of the Clippers caused a shock in the league.
The last person to go from general manager to head coach part-time was Popovich.
He spent two years as general manager from 1994-1995, and then began as the head coach of the Spurs in 1996.
Then he has been in these two positions until now, becoming the godfather of the Spurs.
Popovich was 37 years old when he held these two roles, which is very young.
And Min Congda is younger than him, only 33 years old.
All parties have commented, and some people think that the Clippers will usher in a turning point this season.
But there are also people who think that Min Congda is a great success, and he will be the head coach if he is not a good manager.
The famous NBA Twitter comment account NBA-Batman broke the news: "The original intention of the Clippers was to let Steve Kerr be the head coach, but Smart declared himself the owner of the Clippers without discussing with others. The coach fully embodies his dictatorial character. The performance of the Clippers in the new season is worrying."
Everyone is puzzled as to why this mysterious account has worked tirelessly for Black Clippers and Min Congda.
It has been more than a month since the NBA officially sued Twitter and NBA-Batman.
Twitter still can't find the owner of NBA-Batman and refuses to ban him because of freedom of speech in the US.
In the end it was just an NBA-Batman tweet about Stern fixing the game, nothing more.
The FBI has been involved in related investigations so far, and has no clues about Donaghy's death and the true face of NBA-Batman.
As the heat of public opinion gradually subsided, this matter was gradually forgotten by people.
Of course, the FBI will not give up the investigation of this matter easily.
The NBA and the FBI are inextricably linked.
Stern has a very deep network in the FBI, because it is far from enough to rely on laws, contracts, and money to maintain such a super sports league brand that spreads across the United States and radiates global influence.
In the 70s, the NBA was once mired in the quagmire of drugs, violence, and gang organizations.
After that, Stern made a lot of efforts to clear the alliance, and naturally needed the help of the police and the FBI.
Later, Stern could even monitor the daily life of each rookie to ensure that these black guys with high hormones, low education level, and overnight riches would not do something outrageous and destroy the goodwill of the NBA. image.
Anthony became a star within a few years of entering the league, which is quite impressive.
He likes to show off his gang background to others, and he also distributes DVDs to gang members in Baltimore.
After being punished for the brawl in Madison, New York, he didn't know the heights of the sky and the earth, and he even called Stern to question him.
As a result, Stern told him, "I know exactly where you live, where your friends live, what time you wake up every day, and what you do. Be honest with me!"
This scared the young Anthony enough, and then he realized that this small Jewish old man can control the league for decades, and he is really not a vegetarian.
After falling down due to illness, Stern's body gradually recovered, but he was not in a hurry to return to the job of president.
The new acting president Adam Silva continues to preside over the work of the new season.
Silva made a special call after learning that Min Congda became the head coach of the Clippers.
On the one hand, Silva expressed his concern and congratulations to Min Congda as the head coach, and on the other hand, he also reminded him.
"Smart, you should pay more attention to the game in the future. The referee can call the head coach a technical foul, don't do something impulsive. By the way, is your psychological treatment over?"
"Psychotherapy? Oh, it's over. Ms. Mia has issued a rehabilitation certificate for me. Don't worry, I'm fine!"
"Okay, then I wish you the best of luck in your coaching career."
"OK, if I do something wrong, don't be polite and punish me hard!"
Another advantage of being a head coach is that he will be under the jurisdiction of the referee.
In the past, as the general manager, he was regarded as a spectator on the sidelines. If he wanted to conflict with the referee, he had to go up and do it.
Now that I am a coach, I just need to move my mouth. When the time comes, I will call Min Congda a technical foul or expel him from the field.
This is much more comfortable and convenient than doing it yourself. After all, it is very disgraceful to put a popcorn bucket on the referee's head.
The league would ban him and order him to go to therapy, which was a pain in the ass.
According to NBA regulations, a technical foul should be fined.
First through fifth offenses are fined $2000 each.
Sixth to tenth fouls, $3000 each.
No. 11 to No. 15 fouls, each $ 4000.
No. 16 technical offenders were fined $5000 and suspended for one game.
After No. 16, each will be fined 5000 US dollars, and every two will be suspended for one game (that is, the 18th, 20th, and 22nd will be additionally banned for one game, and so on)
Min Congda did the math for himself. In 82 games a season, if he gets the full number of technical fouls, he will be sent off for two fouls in each game.
Then he will be fined 21 US dollars, equivalent to more than 5000 million yuan, and will miss 160 regular season games because of the suspension.
Of course, Min Congda knew that it was impossible to make two technical fouls every game, and that would be too much.
But more than 16 is a must, and 16 technical fouls are full, which is $50000.
Thinking about it this way, the number of losses caused by the shrinking schedule this year has decreased, so the situation of insufficient wages for losing games can be alleviated.
The Clippers lost 35 games last season, and Min Congda only received $70000 in wages for losing games.
The income is fully supported by the fines of the alliance and the dividends of Apple stock.
For this reason, his current savings are not enough to buy a house in downtown Los Angeles.
High housing prices in big cities are too unfriendly to the working class.
Min Congda seems to work for the Clippers, with double positions and double salaries.
In fact, he is working for the system, and the old man of the system makes Min Congda run a miserable business with only this little money.
Not to mention head coaches like Dunleavy and Cole, who spend millions of dollars a year.
Assistant coaches have an annual salary of hundreds of thousands of dollars at least.
The shooting coach specially hired by Jeff Ball is priced at $100 million a year.
Thinking that he had done a lot of work and his salary was so difficult to earn, how could Min Congda have any enthusiasm for work.
Anyway, he was the head coach just to show off, and he was late on the first morning of training as the head coach.
Call and ask Steve Kerr to host the team practice, and he will come over for lunch at noon.
After lunch, in the afternoon, the team conducted a team-wide tactical run-in training, and Min Congda watched the whole process.
All the training content was led by Cole, Kim Hughes and others, and Min Congda didn't say a word.
After the training, it is reasonable to hold a regular meeting of the coaching working group to summarize the results of today's training and arrange tomorrow's training plan.
Because the summer league and preseason games were cancelled, the regular season will start directly on January 1th, so the training schedule is very intensive and the volume is also very large.
As a result, Min Congda said: "Everyone is very tired, don't hold meetings, go home and rest!"
Everyone is required to leave the training hall, and Curry, Harden and others are not even allowed to practice more.
All the teams are training intensively, only the Clippers look like they have been fishing for three days and drying the net for two days.
Fisher, a veteran player who joined the new team, was very puzzled and asked Cole: "Has the Clippers' training always been this loose?"
Cole said: "Uh... no, Smart should want everyone to have a good rest."
"But we all rested for half a year."
"Trust Smart, the Clippers have always been slow."
Judging from the performance of the previous two seasons, the Clippers are indeed slow, always making efforts in the middle and late seasons.
In fact, the reason is very simple, because Min Congda is always messing around in the early stages of the season.
As a result, in the middle and late stages, the team's inertia was too great to stop the car, and it became what it is now.
This season, Min Congda decided to step on the brakes from the very beginning of the season. I can't believe it, the team can still be good!
In a blink of an eye, time came to January 1, and the Clippers' opening game was the same as last season, playing the Blazers.
It's just that this time it's an away game against the Trail Blazers. Min Congda flew to Portland with the whole team.
After one season, Min Congda wanted to pass the Blazers to test what level the Clippers are now.
(End of this chapter)