"I'm good!"

In the morning, Li Liang woke up from his sleep and couldn't help but scold angrily.

Sleeping in the same room with Li Liang was the player Vitesse, who got up a little earlier than Li Liang, heard Li Liang scolding, and asked, "What's wrong, Bruce, have a nightmare?" ”

Li Liang got up from the bed and said, "No, it's more terrible than a nightmare." ”

"Oh, is it? So what did you dream about? ”

"I dreamed of Kobe."

"Oh, that's horrible." Vitesse shrugged, a strange expression on his face.

The two were teammates for a short time with the Pacers before Vitesse was traded to the Thunder.

In terms of personality, Vitesse is a big player, a bit of a fearless.

So sleeping in a room with Li Liang, he didn't have any pressure at all.

And as a former younger brother, Vitesse occasionally helped Li Liang carry his bag, so although he was very aggressive, he actually had a lot of vision.

After washing up a little and going to the hotel restaurant for breakfast, Li Liang was a little distracted.

After coaching the Los Angeles Lakers during the mission last night, Li Liangcai felt for the first time that it was really not so easy to be a head coach.

The biggest difference between being a player and being a coach is that a player is ultimately playing on the field, can control the ball, and is the ultimate winner who determines the direction of the game.

And when you are a coach, no matter what skills you have on the court in the past, and there are thousands of wisdom in your chest, you can only stand on the sidelines and stare dryly.

Obviously seeing the opportunity, some people just don't pass it on.

Even if it was passed, he couldn't throw it if someone made Li Liang stomp his feet on the sidelines.

In last night's game, Li Liang saw the performance of the Lakers' outside Kobe, Jones, and Van Exel, and scolded 10,000 times in his heart, "Change Lao Tzu, Lao Tzu has already put the ball in!" ”

Especially Kobe Bryant, who shot 0 of 6 from the outside three-point shot!

Four of them were all three non-sticky, and Li Liang was about to explode at that time.

When he was a teammate, Kobe Bryant didn't feel anything because he could get it back.

I can't shoot it, or I'm going to grab a rebound.

But you can't be a coach, you can't do anything, you can only cover your face.

This is too painful for Li Liang, there is no difference between an 18-year-old and a 38-year-old him.

If you can't vote, you have to vote, and you have to vote until you get in.

It's a pity that this game didn't give him a chance to throw.

As the head coach, Li Liang has made a lot of defensive arrangements.

But he found it useless, because the players arrived on the field, played for a while and began to play according to their habits.

I think it's also true, training on weekdays, running in more than 80 games in the regular season, and in the playoffs, if you want them to play defensive targeting and defensive strategies that they have never played before, it's really difficult for a strong man.

Besides, in the triangle center of the Utah Jazz in 1997, Li Liang shouted hoarse on the sidelines, and his ears were deaf.

In the end, the Lakers players were lost in the tsunami at the center of the triangle.

Li Liang finally understood that he thought he could be a coach before, but it was just an illusion.

In the presence of a head coach, he can complement it with his individual ability and basketball intelligence.

Once there is no manager, he can't play himself, and there is no way to organize a team.

Being a coach is not that simple.

So, when he met Mike Brown in the hotel restaurant, Brown's image in Li Liang's eyes suddenly became taller.

This fat man who smiles all day long is actually the champion coach of the NBA, even if he has not won a championship before the Lakers, his achievements in the Cavaliers are very, very eye-catching.

"Mike, Mike!" Li Liang approached Brown with his breakfast and took the initiative to talk to him.

"Oh Bruce, did you sleep well last night?" Brown asked.

"Oh no, I dreamed... Oh, I dreamed of being the head coach myself. ”

Brown frowned when he heard this, and said, "I didn't let you practice this." ”

Li Liang waved his hand and said, "I didn't practice, I was dreaming!" ", does Mike Brown know I'm training in my dreams?

Brown said: "You think about it day and night, maybe you've been sitting on the bench for a long time, so you're dreaming of being a coach. ”

Brown's explanation was perfect, but Li Liang wasn't joking with him.

"Mike, let me ask you, how did you coach in the first place?" Li Liang has an advantage, and he is not ashamed to ask!

What the system can solve, he solves in the system, including in the system, he is not ashamed to ask, when he is practicing, he will ask well, and he will learn hard.

Now that he feels like there's something he can't learn in the system, he's going to ask Mike Brown.

Brown said: "When I went to the Nuggets in '93 to work as a video editor, at my own expense, I was an intern, watching game videos every day, studying basketball games. Then I worked for four years, and in '97 I was hired to work as an assistant coach in Washington, D.C., and I learned from scratch. Later, he went to the Spurs, went to Indiana, worked as an assistant coach for 7 years, and finally applied for a successful head coach. What's wrong with Bruce? You're still early, and you're going to be a coach after you retire. But I don't think you're a good fit to be a coach. ”

Li Liang was a little puzzled, "Why?" ”

"You're so good on the pitch that basically no one can live up to your requirements because your requirements are set to your own standards," Brown said. For example, two steps off the three-point line and no one in front of you, you might want him to shoot it and you can do it. But your players can't do it, they can't do it, and you're going to get angry, you're anxious, and you're like, 'This TM is all this stuff, you can't do something as simple as that.'" But that's the way the coach is, sometimes you have to treat the players like idiots, sometimes they're gods, it's hard for people like you to adapt and you just treat them like idiots. ”

It was the first time Li Liang had heard Brown say something that pierced his heart.

Mainly because Li Liang's experience last night was really as Brown said, he felt that the Lakers' outside line was idiots.

Especially that number 8!

Seeing that Li Liang didn't speak, Brown added: "Coaching is a hard job, I spent four years in Denver, editing videos, and my eyes are almost blind. Four years, look at you, four years have won everything you can win, and I'm still watching the video. ”

Brown's experience is quite inspirational to be honest, he went to an internship at his own expense and didn't need money, and then gained a foothold in the relatively xenophobic circle of the NBA, definitely relying on his own perseverance and a little talent.

Li Liang thought for a moment and said: "Then Mike, if I want to be a head coach, do I have to let myself be an ordinary player first." ”

Brown didn't know why Li Liang said such strange things, he said: "In theory, that's true, but you're not an ordinary player, you have to be the best in history." ”

In fact, Li Liang knew that he used to be an ordinary player, no, not an ordinary, he was an unqualified player by NBA standards.

During his four years in Kentucky, he should have a full understanding of the psychology of ordinary players.

But in these three or four years of NBA experience, he has continued to improve in the system, winning one game after another, winning one championship after another, becoming a history-making, maverick superstar, and he has long forgotten that kind of "ordinary heart".

Li Liang thought about it and decided that his performance on the court could not get worse, but he wanted to try to get it back.

Not only to complete the task of coaching, but also to improve his career and his ability.