Chapter 340: It's not the first time I've done this
The facts are exactly what journalists imagined.
When the relevant report was published, the vast number of people who ate melons were stunned.
Is there still such an arrogant person in the world? That's a record of 72 wins in the regular season! Booking to break this record well before the start of the regular season?
Many people immediately questioned the news after learning the news.
"This is not something that a normal person would say at all, did Wang Xiao ask his team members to say so?"
For a while, rumors of various conspiracy theories were circulating everywhere, and not many people were willing to admit that Wang Xiao really had the courage to say this, and really led the team to achieve this feat a few months later, and people were more willing to think that this was Wang Xiao's arrogant move after leading the team to 73 wins.
Of course, people who support the Wizards or like Wang Xiao will also make some rebuttals.
"If you are familiar with Wang Xiao, you will know that this kind of thing is not the first time he has done it! Have you forgotten that in the 11-12 season, he made a declaration in front of reporters half a season ahead of schedule? Even the championship is enough, so what is it to break the 72-win record in advance? ”
And in China, far away on the other side of the ocean, Wang Xiao once again showed his face big.
With two championships in hand, Wang Xiao has become the best basketball coach in Asia.
And when the record of 73 consecutive wins was achieved, Wang Xiao's popularity in China instantly rose to a peak.
The vast majority of fans prefer unattainable records to championships.
Kobe's 81 points and Maddy's 35.13 seconds are all honors that can make them crazy to worship.
Although Wang Xiao's 73 wins are not a personal honor, the difficulty is no less than the former, and more importantly, he is still a serious Chinese!
is different from the Chinese-American Jeremy Lin, from bloodline to nationality, they are all real Chinese people!
Soon, Wang Xiao will lead the Wizards to the top again, win the third championship trophy, and achieve a dynasty, which is also the first coach to win three consecutive championships in the NBA......
Since Wang Xiao joined the NBA, the word "first" has never been related to him.
The first Huaxia coach to coach an NBA team, the first Huaxia coach to be elected NBA Coach of the Year, the first Huaxia coach to be elected NBA All-Star head coach, and the first Huaxia coach to coach an NBA team to win the championship......
And now, the title of the first Chinese coach to win the honor of the three-consecutive crown dynasty is also about to be achieved, and more and more voices have begun to sound in China...... Let Wang Xiao be the head coach of the national team!
This is already a cliché.
When Wang Xiao began to coach the Wizards team in 09, he made it clear that he was willing to serve as the head coach of the Chinese men's national basketball team.
However, he made it clear that he must have absolute command of the team, just like in the NBA Wizards.
Perhaps it is precisely because of this that the Basketball Association has not moved, after all, allowing a head coach to have too much power, many people in the Basketball Association do not want to see and cannot accept.
So even if the men's basketball team experienced a crushing defeat in the group stage of the London Olympics in 12 years, and even failed in the Asian Championships, it is still the same.
But now, as Wang Xiao has stepped to the top, the situation has become somewhat uncontrollable.
With the progress of the times, the influence of the Internet has begun to gradually expand, and Wang Xiao's popularity has also risen.
Now as long as basketball is mentioned, the first thing that Chinese people think of is Da Yao, but then Wang Xiao, followed by Yi Jianlian, Jeremy Lin and others......
After the Wizards won 73 wins, he immediately posted on Weibo to congratulate him, and praised Wang Xiao's coaching ability, and even called Wang Xiao the hope of the rise of Chinese basketball.
The pressure of public opinion is increasing, and finally one day, it has attracted the attention of a certain bigwig in China.
"This Wang Xiao is very powerful in the United States, he has already won two championships, isn't the men's basketball team not very good in the past two years? Why didn't he coach the national team? ”
The big guy just mentioned it lightly, but it caused a lot of shock in the Basketball Association.
They didn't expect that Wang Xiao's matter would even alarm such a big guy!
And the Basketball Association's subsequent cautious answer seemed so pale and weak.
"Just because the other party is asking for too much power, worried that they will use the public for personal gain? What is this called, shouldn't professional things be done by professional people? Can a senior executive who doesn't know how to farm decide how to farm the land well? Let's give it a try first, maybe he can really bring something different to the Chinese men's basketball team. ”
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Wang Xiao, who is far away on the other side of the ocean, does not know that under the voice of a certain bigwig, the Basketball Association has been forced to draw up a plan to hire him to coach the national team under great pressure.
At this time, Wang Xiao was sitting on the bench, watching the last game of the regular season.
The Wizards' final game of the regular season was against the Brooklyn Nets.
The Wizards, who have completed the goal ahead of schedule and broke the Bulls' 72-win run, came directly to a big vacation in this game, Curry, Thompson, and Leonard all took turns off, and only took out Thomas Jr. and Jimmy. Butler, Chandler. Parsons, Drummond. Green & Rudy. Gobert's starting lineup.
73 wins or 74 wins, it doesn't matter to Wang Xiao and the players of the Wizards, as long as they break the record held by the Bulls, they are the first, and I am afraid it will be difficult for others to catch up in the future, so they are not obsessed with winning this game.
Originally, fans at the Wizards' home court believed that it would be a one-sided game, and the Nets, who were third in the East, would definitely have an advantage over the Wizards' almost all-bench lineup.
But the process of the game was shocked by the Wizards fans.
The Wizards of this bench lineup actually played back and forth with the Nets, the core of the Nets, Jeremy Lin, played 39 minutes in the whole game, and scored 28 points, 9 rebounds and 13 assists with a quasi-triple-double data, which was worthy of leading the Nets to win the game by a narrow margin of 2 points.
In addition to the surprise, the fans of the Wizards will inevitably rise into a mood of ecstasy.
This Wizards team is too strong, even if Curry, Thompson, Leonard and George are absent at the same time, they can still play with the Nets, who are third in the East.
The Wizards were able to win 73 wins in the regular season, definitely not luck, but pure strength!