Chapter 29: The First Teaching Assistant

Wang Mingming's eloquent talk, advanced ideas and quite spiritual tactical ideas, immediately conquered Billy King, and the two hit it off and signed a formal coaching contract.

$250,000 for 1 year!

Bilikin can be sure that Wang will be the first assistant coach of the 76ers next season, but how to conquer head coach Cheeks, players and fans is Wang Mingming's own business, and Bilikin will solemnly announce the news on the official website and make Wang's resume public.

In the final analysis, Wang Mingming just has no resume, and once he becomes the first assistant coach, he will definitely be sprayed with no skin.

The two chatted all morning, and then Billy King invited Wang to have a steak lunch tomorrow.

In the words, Wang Mingming also has a deeper understanding of the current predicament of this 76ers team.

One of the biggest problems is the conflict between manager Cheeks and Allen Iverson.

In fact, Cheeks had a very good relationship with Iverson when he first came to the 76ers, and Iverson once said: "If you have a conflict with Cheeks, then you must have done something wrong." Iverson even told the media that Cheeks was the answer the 76ers wanted.

But the good times didn't last long, due to the poor record this season, the relationship between the two deteriorated rapidly, there was a quarrel in the locker room, Iverson apologized afterwards, but he was still punished by the team, so there were a lot of rumors that Iverson was seeking a trade, and the 76ers had a poor record, and the team was deeply involved in trade rumors for a reason.

Billy King told King Tomorrow that he didn't just want to trade Chris Webber, he even moved the idea of trading Allen Iverson to put the 76ers in a complete rebuild with young Andre Iguodala at the core.

His ideas were even more extreme, so that Wang Ming would not know what to say.

A day later, the 76ers' official website announced the signing of a new assistant coach, Wang Mingming.

At the end of the season, the 76ers assistant coaching team fired three coaches at once, leaving only offensive assistant coach Randy Ayes. As for Randy Ayes, he is actually a member of the Larry Brown era, who has assisted Larry Brown for six consecutive seasons, and in the 03-04 season, he also briefly served as the interim head coach of the 76ers, with a record of 21-31.

After finalizing Wang Mingming, there are still 2 positions in the assistant coaching team, one is the physical fitness coach, and the other is the hot potato - the defensive coach.

The 76ers' defense was so poor that only five teams conceded 101.3 points per game last season were worse than their defense, and their poor defense took a heavy toll, with the 76ers losing out on a double-digit lead in multiple games towards the end of the regular season, when they only needed five more wins to secure a spot in the playoffs as the fifth or sixth seed.

So this defensive position of the head coach is simply a hot potato, if you don't do it well, you have to leave next season.

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Now that the 76ers have been eliminated, Wang will start participating in the draft and the summer trade market tomorrow.

General manager Billy King continues to search for the rest of the assistant coaches.

The Internet is already boiling, about Wang Mingming, who has no qualifications but is in a high position, not only fans are puzzled, but many basketball commentators are also criticizing it.

"New Jersey has its own stupid attributes, and it has affected Philadelphia next door, and now it seems that Isaiah Thomas is still a person who understands, and this Chinese assistant coach can really pretend."

"Last season had already proven that he didn't have what it takes to coach in the NBA, and I don't know why Billy King is hitting the south wall."

"The 76ers are done next season, maybe they can still get a No. 1 pick, is it to compete for Greg Oden next year? A good hand played by Billykin. ”

sneered, and came to the king tomorrow.

However, the scorching and intense playoff game quickly took away their attention again, and only occasionally when they remembered it, they would sporadically attack Wang Tomorrow.

On the contrary, in China, the media is mostly supportive, although Wang Mingming's qualifications are very shallow, but according to them, that is a genius, a genius, is always different from ordinary people.

Subsequently, Billy King signed two more assistant coaches.

One is Jim Lenham, the decorated former coach of the 76ers, who coached the 76ers from 1987 to 1992 and had an overall record of 194-173 in four and a half seasons in Philadelphia. During his coaching career, he had a 328-392 record and led the Los Angeles Clippers, 76ers and the then Washington Bullets.

Jim is the team's defensive coach this time.

The old coach told reporters with a heroic attitude that the team's defense will be improved next season.

The other is even more exaggerated than the signing, with Moses Malone serving as the team's physical assistant coach and also serving as a technical advisor to the players.

Moses Malone is one of the most famous stars in the history of the 76ers, one of the top 50 superstars in league history, who helped the team win a championship in 1983, and averaged 21 points and 12 rebounds per game in 19 years of his career, with a career total of 29,580, second only to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Carl Malone, Michael Jordan, Wilt Chamberlain and Julius Irving.

It is the league's record-holder, a true giant of basketball.

However, no matter how hung his career is, in the basketball coaching industry, he is a rookie, and he is even newer than Wang Mingming.

In the playoffs of the 05-06 season, the Nets were sweet and then bitter.

After eliminating the Sunset Pacers 4-2 in the first round, they lost to the Heat 1-4 in the second round.

There was only one reason for the loss, and no one could defend against Dwyane Wade.

Wade, who is in the third year, is already in the top five in the league in terms of strength alone, he and O'Neal are known as the two major killers of positional warfare, Wade's lightning raid is too fast, the defenders are half a meter away from him, and the finishing ability under the basket is terrible and not presentable, save your physical strength, the critical moment is a sudden attack, and even the tactics are saved.

As a result, the Nets raised so many meat shield players, O'Neal resisted, but no one in Wade could catch up with him.

Then Wade led the Heat to take revenge on the Pistons and advanced to the finals, facing the Mavericks in the finals, playing a classic 0-2 comeback game, averaging 34.7 points and 7.8 rebounds per game, which can be called the most wonderful individual performance in the modern finals.

Wang Tomorrow is busy collecting player reports every day, and he also took the time to watch Wade's game, and he seems to have gained some insights about Iverson's use of it.

In the midst of all the disturbances, the NBA ushered in the '06 draft.

The Philadelphia 76ers have a first-round pick with the 13th pick, and Billkin's and head coach Morris Cheeks plan to select a three-point shooter or a good rim protector in this area.

This point was strongly opposed by the newly appointed "first assistant teacher" Wang Mingming.

"Allen's offense is strong enough, it doesn't mean much to him if he can't open up space, what he needs is someone who can defend for him, or lock up the scorer on the opposite side, and now the league is full of swing guards, what we need most should be a good wing defender, with Andre Iguodala to form an infinite change of defense, forming a defensive iron gate from the outside."