Soul of the Golden State

Chapter 37 Coaching Team
In the locker room, Li Weisi stood in front of his own locker. The leftmost locker was chosen by him, so as to avoid having muscular men on both sides when changing clothes, which would be too unhygienic.

Li Weisi's jersey number is 99. The reason for choosing this number is not because Li Weisi is a fan of George McCann, but because it is the largest number.

Some people may say that there are still 100?Unfortunately, in Li Weisi's view, only "00" can be displayed on the number. Such a number is not perfect and cannot represent 100 at all.

In addition to Li Weisi's No. 99, several other rookies, Mark Price chose No. 25, Jeff Hornacek chose No. 14, Creighton Smith chose No. 11, Kevin Da Kworth chose No. 0, and Rodman chose No. 91.

When Rodman chose the number, there was also an episode. Originally, Rodman wanted to choose the number 10, because he wanted to use 1 to represent that he had a mother, and 0 to represent that he had no father, but who knew that the number 10 ball The team has given the edge guard Perry Moss who has just been traded by the team a few days ago.

Then he wanted to choose No. 69, but unfortunately, due to well-known reasons, the team did not let him choose it at all, which made him very angry.

In the end, after learning that Li Weisi had chosen No. 99, Rodman chose No. 91 sullenly. After all, 9+1=10, it was barely a touch, not to mention that his jersey number was still in the team. Yu Li Weisi's number size also made Rodman less resentful.

After changing his training clothes, Li Weisi came out of the locker room. When he came to the arena, he found that the head coach Don Nelson and several assistant coaches had already arrived at the arena. They were standing on the sidelines discussing something.

This summer, in addition to the big change of players for the Warriors, the same is true for the coaching staff. Last season's head coach John Bach has left the Warriors at this time and joined the coaching staff of the Chicago Bulls.

In the four seasons that the old coach coached the Warriors, the team never made the playoffs, and the average winning percentage was only 35.6%. Very handy, and became the mainstay of the bull dynasty in later generations.

In fact, in the summer, Frank also kept old Bach, wanting to let old Bach stay in the Warriors coaching staff to continue to shine, and the salary is negotiable, but unfortunately old Bach rejected Frank's kindness.

Perhaps in the old Bach's heart, not only the team management was disappointed with him, but he himself wanted to leave this sad place.

In addition to the head coach, among several assistant coaches, only head coach and defensive coach Don Delaney was a member of the coaching staff last season.

The assistant coach who was the general manager and coach of the Cleveland Cavaliers, although his performance in coaching was quite poor, with a poor winning rate of only 26.9%, but he was just a firefighter as a coach after all, coaching a total of 26 games in two seasons.

In addition, no one can save the team with an owner like Ted Stepien, not even the famous champion coach Chuck Daly.

This really corresponds to the sentence, God wants to kill me, it is not a crime of war.

After coming to the Warriors, although he doesn't have as much power as he did in the Cavaliers (although he doesn't have much power as the head coach of the Cavaliers), but as an assistant coach, he doesn't have so many bad things. Handy.

Offensive coach Bob Lanier, the 2.11-meter-tall Pistons star, joined the team's coaching staff after the Milwaukee Bucks retired in 1984, but this year he followed Don Nelson to the Warriors by accident .

The eight-time All-Star in his career, the well-known restricted area demon in the 8s, not only relies on his body to play, but also has a proficient long-range shot in one hand, a pinnacle hook, and skilled rebounding skills. In addition, he is not bad at learning. IQ is online, which is particularly favored by Don Nelson.

Shooting coach Jamal Wilkes, the Lakers star who was once selected by the Warriors, retired in 1985, and was invited by General Manager Attles to return to the Warriors this summer to join the Warriors' coaching staff. It is regarded as a nail for Attles to break into the coaching staff.

Attles, a Warriors star who has dedicated half his life to the Warriors, has a strong influence in the Warriors' management. Frank, as the team owner, still needs to give up three points to Attles in certain things.

On the surface, it seems that the current relationship between him and Don Nelson is very harmonious, but it doesn't mean that Attles will let go of the coaching staff, and the necessary support must be kept.

This is the world of adults, with harmonious superficial relationships and ubiquitous struggles.

Although regarded as a pawn of Attles, Wilkes is by no means an ordinary person, with 4 NBA championships and 5 NBA All-Stars.

The 1.98-meter-tall forward and guard swingman, although lacking coaching experience, became the second scorer in his rookie season and followed Rick Barry to win the Warriors' first championship after moving to Golden State .

Later, he helped the Lakers win three championships. It can be said that he is very experienced in the playoffs. In addition, he, nicknamed "Silk", has a soft shooting touch. The legendary Lakers commentator Chick Hearn even called him His outside jumper is a 20-foot layup, which shows his shooting ability.

In addition, according to the concept of modern basketball, Wilkes is still a standard 3D player, and his defense is also very good. As a member of the coaching staff, the help he can provide to the team is inestimable.

In addition to these experienced assistant coaches, the coaching staff also has a handsome guy in his 20s who looks out of place with the uncles of the coaching staff, and even looks more handsome because of the comparison of these uncles.

Of course, Li Weisi thought that he was not as good as himself.

Li Weisi knew this person, because he was recruited by Frank against all opinions. When he was recruited, he caused a lot of criticism, and even Nelson even expressed doubts about Frank.

But in the end, the young coach won the respect of Don Nelson and Attles by virtue of his excellent past performance and rich tactical knowledge, and became the assistant coach and video analyst of the coaching staff.

Although this handsome guy is only 26 years old this year, he is not even as old as some players, but he has rich coaching experience. He was born in a coaching family. After graduating from college in 1981, he served as an assistant coach for the basketball team of the University of Vermont. Beginning in 1983, he served as the head coach of the Catherton State College basketball team, and his performance was very good, with 68 wins and 18 losses.

Oh, by the way, this handsome guy's name is Stan Van Gundy.

Just as Li Weisi looked at the members of the coaching staff in a daze, suddenly someone behind him patted him on the shoulder.

"Hey, West, hello! We finally know each other."

Li Weisi turned his head and saw a young man with a bitter face, who was greeting him enthusiastically, and seemed to be very familiar with him.

Brother, who are you?do we know each other?

(End of this chapter)