Chapter Ninety-Eight: As Long as Victory
"Joe, have any teams contacted you lately?"
Just when Qiao Hai made up his mind and decided to throw out that Michael Jordan experience card in the next game, he received a call from David Falke.
While in San Antonio, Johi had already signed with David Falke and became David Falke's employer.
For David Falck, Michael Jordan retired, and now his most important employer is Joe Hae, who is now the talk of the league and the youngest head coach in the NBA.
However, after losing to the Spurs in the Western Conference finals, the trend of public opinion in North America made David Falke a little worried, and if such public opinion continues, it will even affect Qiao Hai's future.
The problem of Qiao Hai being too young will be confirmed, and at that time, even if some teams are interested in Qiao Hai, they may be discouraged.
For example, the fat man who accompanied David Falke to watch the first game of the Western Conference finals before, the fat man was very mysterious, but David Falke knew that the fat man was Jerry Kraus, the general manager of the Chicago Bulls, and in the Bulls, Jerry Krause was the godfather.
Whether the Bulls change coaches and who to use as the new coach, Jerry Krauss can decide in one word.
David Falke and Jerry Claus are very familiar, everything is related to Michael Jordan, because Michael Jordan, David Falke and Jerry Claus have dealt a lot, of course, this also leads to the relationship between the two seems to be good, but it is actually very average, and there are even many contradictions.
If it weren't for the existence of mutual interests, Jerry Krauss would have turned against David Falke a long time ago.
David Falke wants to recommend Joe Hay to Jerry Krauss, which is already close to success, and the Bulls, who have not made achievements for a year, are interested in changing coaches, and Joe Hay is still more in line with Jerry Krauss' requirements.
But the trend of public opinion in the past two days directly made Jerry Claus hesitate.
David Falke is also a little anxious, and he is eager to help Qiao Hai determine a next home as soon as possible, so that the operation of the new season can be prepared now.
turned out to be the way it is now, David Falke felt that it was necessary for him to remind Qiao Hai and let Qiao Hai solve the current public opinion problem as soon as possible.
"Nope."
"Joe, have you noticed the recent wind of public opinion?"
As soon as David Falke asked this, Qiao Hai knew what he meant, and he replied directly: "I have paid attention, David, don't worry, I will solve this problem as soon as possible." ”
"That's good." David Falck nodded, and then, he told Qiao Hai what he thought. "Joe, my advice is to settle for your next home as soon as possible, so that you can also prepare for the new team early, you know, the draft will start at the end of June, you don't want to miss the draft, right?"
Qiao Hai thought about it, and what David Falke said made some sense.
"That's it, David, I will reverse the current public opinion as soon as possible, before the finals, I will determine the next home in advance, but for the next family, I have a request."
"What requirements?"
"I want draft picks and transfer rights for the new team, and if I don't get those two rights, at the very least, I have the right to advise the new team when they make a trade and signing."
David Falke thought for a while and nodded: "No problem, I will help you fight for these two rights, but I can't guarantee that you can get the right to transfer, but the right to suggest can be guaranteed." ”
For Qiao Hai's request, David Falke is not surprised, many coaches want to transfer power, but many coaches feel that they can't get the transfer rights, so no one will mention this, only some part-time general manager coaches naturally have transfer power, such as Pacers head coach Larry Bird.
As for the right to recommend transfers, this is a right that most coaches have.
David Falke didn't dare to say that he would definitely be able to help Qiao Hai get the right to transfer, at least he could guarantee the right to recommend the transfer.
Hanging up David Falke's phone, Qiao Hai had already led the team back to Los Angeles.
In the next two home games, Qiao Hai will take the Lakers to prove himself, because he will throw out the Michael Jordan experience card, and all the pre-game preparation will become meaningless, Qiao Hai does not believe that the Spurs can beat a team with peak Jordan Pippen and O'Neal.
Even in the history of the NBA, no team has been able to do this.
Peak Chopi is already a team at the historical level, plus a peak shark, can this still be watched?
There was a wrong argument before, in fact, what the NBA is most afraid of is not the restraint of style, but the crushing of pure strength.
The current Spurs are not a historical team, and when they meet such a Lakers, they will obviously be crushed and eliminated.
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In the training before the third game, Qiao Hai changed the team's tactical play.
The new change is surprising, Kobe has become the tactical core of the Lakers, the Lakers' ball will revolve around Kobe, of course, O'Neal's tactical position is still there, as long as Kobe Bryant opens up the situation on the outside, O'Neal can also get more balls in the restricted area.
What Qiao Hai wants is a situation where more flowers bloom, what he wants is a hearty offensive battle.
However, Johi's adjustment was opposed by Byron Scott and Jim Eden.
"Joe, this is too risky, Kobe Bryant doesn't have the ability to be the core of the team, Shaq can't open the situation, don't expect Kobe to open the situation." Byron Scott is also right, with Kobe's current ability, it is indeed difficult to open a situation that even O'Neal can't open.
Jim Eden even put forward the idea: "It's better to let Scott try, I think with Scott, the possibility of success is greater than Kobe." ”
Qiao Hai was very helpless, he couldn't say that the Kobe Bryant in the next game would be Kobe Bryant with a total rating of 99 points and his strength equal to the peak basketball god.
As a result, Qiao Hai could only be very stubborn and directly insisted on his own adjustment.
Although Byron Scott expressed dissatisfaction, Qiao Hai did not pay attention to it.
By the time the game started, Johi was sure that Byron Scott would understand.
However, to make Kobe Bryant the new core of the team, there is another point that needs to be solved, whether O'Neal agrees with this change is very important, Qiao Hai doesn't want to provoke O'Neal because of a Western Conference Finals game, not to mention anything else, after the Spurs, the next team to play in the East, Qiao Hai has to rely on O'Neal's play.
In the previous life, the three championships of the OK combination, especially the last two, had a pattern.
In the three rounds of the Western Conference playoffs, Kobe Bryant's performance was better, but in the finals, O'Neal will explode and directly help the Lakers crush and win the O'Brien Cup.
Therefore, Qiao Hai actually took the path of the OK dynasty, relying on Kobe Bryant to play the Spurs in the West Finals, and relying on O'Neal in the finals.
Joe Hai went out of his way to talk to O'Neill and appease O'Neill.
It turned out that he didn't need it at all.
After losing the second game, O'Neill also felt that the team needed to try more.
The finals are just around the corner, and all O'Neill wants is to win.