With Richard's knowledge of the Trail Blazers, it's not for nothing that they're back-to-back playoff first-round picks......

The reason is that the strength is not enough!

And in order to break the current embarrassing situation of the first round, the team must either bring in a superstar or completely tear down and rebuild!

But how can superstars be so easy to introduce, and those who can be called superstars in today's league are Jordan, Big Dream, Admiral, Gorilla, Ewing, Malone, Barkley plus a young O'Neal......

And among these players, only one O'Neill has a slight opportunity to be introduced, and the others don't have to think about it.

The cost of bringing in O'Neal is extremely staggering, and O'Neal may not be happy to come to a city like Portland.

With a population of less than 500,000, a city of this size is really not prosperous.

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As for the demolition and reconstruction, this Richard is more adept, plus there are a lot of high-quality chips in the team, Richard is confident that he will create a new army with unlimited potential!

But since it is a new army, that is, combat power, it is definitely not as good as those teams whose core players are at their golden peak, and it is definitely unrealistic to win the championship in one or two years......

Just like the rebuilt Timberwolves and Philadelphia 76ers in the future, they can definitely be regarded as talented, but they are still far from winning the championship.

Paul Allen, who is not the kind of layman who doesn't know anything, knows that it is difficult to play a decent record in the window period after the demolition and reconstruction, so he gave a relatively graceful time!

Passed the first round of the playoffs in three years and entered the Western Conference finals in four years!

Richard is still quite confident in such a goal......

Of course, the tasks assigned by the boss must be guaranteed goals, and if possible, Richard will definitely shorten this time as much as possible, such as passing the first round in two years and reaching the Western Conference finals in three years......

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Thinking of this, Richard couldn't help but smile bitterly......

In the NCAA, Richard wants to play ten consecutive championships, which is really like fun, but after arriving in the NBA, he can only target the second round of the playoffs......

The NCAA doesn't have to worry too much about Richard, but the NBA is not, not to mention anything else, the trade alone is enough to make Richard anxious!

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"Yes!" Richard nodded......

He really couldn't find any reason not to choose the Trailblazers, and in any way, the Trailblazers were extremely suitable.

Seeing Richard nodding, Paul Allen's face showed surprise, although he had expected that Richard would not refuse his sincere self......

But in an instant, Paul Allen had a puzzled expression on his face......

It seems that until Richard nodded and agreed to join the Trail Blazers, they hadn't talked about any compensation between them.

"Lee, don't you talk about salary?"

"Feel free to give it, talking about money hurts feelings, haha!" Richard said with a smile.

As for the salary, Richard actually doesn't really care much, it is up to the sky, that is, four or five million US dollars, and if you say less, with Richard's limelight in the past two years, it will not be less than three million.

Wilkens, the head coach of Qiansheng, is only five million US dollars, and if his salary is too much higher than Wilkens, it is not impossible to cause public anger among other coaches......

The NBA's coaching community is not quite the same as the NCAA's coaching community......

The vast majority of NCAA coaches are academy coaches, and they really rely on their strength, and if they don't have the strength, they won't be able to find a job at all!

And more than half of the NBA's coaching group does not rely on strength, but on their connections and relationships.

After a violent clash with Larry Brown the other day, Richard could feel that he might have provoked a faction......

Larry Brown still has a lot of connections in the league, not to mention that now Spurs general manager Popovich has worked as an assistant coach under Larry Brown.

As Richard prepares to enter the NBA, the Spurs are unlikely to remain indifferent in theory, and their current head coach, Bob Hill, is not performing satisfactorily, at least not to Popovich......

In that case, there was no reason why they should not approach Richard.

But they just didn't, not even invite Richard to be an assistant teacher......

The only explanation, I'm afraid, is that Popovich is not ready to have anything to do with Richard, Larry Brown's nemesis!

Before this entered the league, Richard provoked a bunch of forces to be reckoned with in the NBA, which is really not good news.

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"Then 20 million dollars for four years!" Without saying a word, Paul Allen gave Richard a current NBA coaching base's highest salary.

Richard nodded, originally wondering if to ask Paul Allen to take this salary down......

But after thinking about it, such a request is really a bit neurotic, so I simply gave up.

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"Okay, Lee, then when this season is over, we'll sign it!"

"There were other things I wanted to talk to you about, so let's just wait until the contract is signed......"

Richard nodded, not asking what was the matter.

The matter of joining the Trail Blazers has basically been finalized, and the next thing is to wait for the end of this season before Richard can sign with the Trail Blazers......

And while waiting for the signing, Richard still has extremely important things to do!

That's to recruit your own coaching staff!

Own your own coaching team!

The role of the coaching staff cannot be ignored, especially the Pioneers formed by Richard, there will be many newcomers in the team, which will highlight the role of the coaching staff!

Under normal circumstances, the coaching staff is composed of a head coach, a head coach, and a number of assistant coaches who can be dispensable with special assistants.

The head coach is naturally Richard, the English translation of the head coach, head-coach, from this word, it can be seen that the head coach is the brain of the coaching staff, responsible for the general direction.

Human energy is limited, and with the head coach at the helm, the rest of the coaching staff is responsible for assisting the head coach and helping the head coach to share some of the details.

The chief assistant coach, also known as the assistant head coach, is responsible for participating in the formulation of offensive and defensive tactics and system construction, and is also the position of the general leader.

The assistant coaches below are much more specific, with those who are specifically responsible for offensive tactics, those who are specifically responsible for defensive tactics, and those who are specifically responsible for player shooting......

The number of people varies, depending on the needs of the manager.

As for the special assistant coaches, they have little sense of existence, such as psychological mentors, career planning mentors, etc., and the coaching staff of some teams simply do not have these positions, but the team recruits relevant personnel themselves......

Although there is no mandatory number of people, in order to carry out the work normally, the number of coaching staff must not be less than four, excluding the head coach.

In other words, in the next period of time, Richard will have to find four assistant teachers!