At the airport, Qiao Hai declined to be interviewed.

He will not take the initiative to confirm this matter, because it is confirmed that Phil Jackson will take over the Lakers next season, which will not be beneficial to Qiao Hai, but will make some players on the team disobedient because Qiao Hai is about to leave class.

There is a high probability that this kind of thing will happen, and Qiao Hai thought of two similar things in the football world in his previous life.

Chilean engineer Manuel Pellegrini coached Manchester City, but because of the lack of breakthroughs in European competitions for several consecutive years, Pellegrini announced that he would leave the team at the end of the season, and then Manchester City officially announced that Pep Guardiola will coach Manchester City next season.

Pep Guardiola, who was coaching Bayern at the time, also suffered a similar thing at the same time, and Bayern also officially announced in advance that Carlo Ancelotti would take over Bayern next season.

Qiao Hai doesn't know much about football, compared with these two similar things, Qiao Hai is different from them, on the one hand, compared with the successful Pellegrini and Guardiola, Qiao Hai is still a rookie in the coaching world at this time, and he does not have the prestige of these two football bigwigs.

On the other hand, Qiao Hai is only the acting head coach of the Lakers, and before the word agent is removed, it is completely reasonable for the Lakers to decide on the new coach for next season, although Qiao Hai's current leadership results are excellent.

On the whole, Qiao Hai still can't compare with Pellegrini and Guardiola.

Therefore, Qiao Hai's way of dealing with it is very simple, refuse any interview.

Although in the eyes of these reporters, Qiao Hai's non-cooperation was already a tacit acquiescence, but Qiao Hai did not take the initiative to answer, and the media could only turn their attention to the management of the Lakers and the other protagonist - Phil Jackson.

Qiao Hai temporarily escaped from the whirlpool.

At this time, it was Jerry West who was in a hurry.

In the four hours leading up to the game, Jerry West received calls from five or six media outlets, the Los Angeles Times, the Los Angeles Daily News, Sports Illustrated, Yahoo Sports, and others.

Jerry West hadn't figured out what to do with the early leak, so he refused to answer all the questions.

Then, in the office, he was furious: who the hell leaked this?!

The reporters were closed on the Lakers' side, not only did Qiao Hai ignore them, but the management also seemed reluctant to respond, which made them even more determined to their thoughts, Phil Jackson's is indeed going to take over the Lakers next season!

These reporters didn't even have time to pay attention to the Lakers' final game, and frantically searched for Phil Jackson across the United States, and some reporters had Phil Jackson's phone number, and when they called, it showed that no one answered.

There are also reporters who know the address of Phil Jackson's apartment in Chicago, and when the local reporter in Chicago looked for it, he knocked on the door and found that the person who opened the door was actually a stranger.

Reporters feel more and more that they are getting closer to the truth, Phil Jackson sold his Chicago property, apparently with a new job in another region, and the Lakers are obviously the most likely!

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While reporters were frantically searching for the truth, the Lakers arrived at the Alamo Dome and began warming up.

On the sidelines, Qiao Hai was surrounded by several reporters, Jerry West refused to interview, Mitch Kupchak was silent, and the reporters couldn't find Phil Jackson, so the easiest to find and face to face was Qiao Hai.

"Mr. Qiao Hai, there are rumors that Mr. Phil Jackson will join the Lakers, is it true?"

"Mr. Qiaohai, if Phil Jackson really becomes the Lakers, where will you go?"

There are many questions, and they are basically the same, but Qiao Hai's attitude is the same as during the day today, waving his hand: "Sorry, everyone, I don't want to respond to this question now." ”

The reporters were disappointed, and with the assistance of the Lakers press officer, Qiao Hai left the encirclement of reporters.

"Joe, Mr. Jerry West just called, he told you not to respond for the time being, the team will choose a suitable time to announce it."

Qiao Hai nodded, Jerry West obviously did not want to announce Phil Jackson's joining to the outside world now, although Jerry West did not look down on Qiao Hai, but he still had to maintain the necessary respect for Qiao Hai.

With Qiao Hai still leading the team in the last game of the regular season and playing the playoffs next, it is obviously not appropriate for the Lakers to officially announce the new coach.

Without responding to questions from media reporters, the Lakers' regular season final game against the Spurs was in the spotlight, and this game, NBC broadcast live across the United States, McBrin and Marv Albert commentated, and they also talked about the rumors of Phil Jackson's imminent arrival with the Lakers before the game.

"At present, there are rumors in the media circle that Phil Jackson will join the Lakers after this season, and the Lakers management has remained silent, and the current head coach of the Lakers, Qiao Hai, has also refused to respond to this matter, Mafu, what do you think?"

In the commentary booth, McBlin looked at Marv Albert.

Mav Albert smiled and said: "Judging from the reaction of the Lakers management and Qiao Hai, it should be true, otherwise they will definitely deny it. ”

McBrin also nodded, indeed, judging from the performance of the Lakers, it should be true that Phil Jackson will take over the Lakers next season.

Then the next question to discuss is whether the Lakers need to be so eager to determine the head coach for next season.

"The Lakers don't need to be so anxious to determine the new coach for next season, Qiao Hai's team performance is not bad, the Lakers took over when they were 2-8, and now they are 33-16, that is to say, Qiao Hai's actual record should be 31-8, and the winning rate is close to eighty."

"The winning rate of eighty percent is not low, you know, the winning rate of the Trail Blazers, who are third in the West, is just over seventy percent, and the winning rate of the Jazz and Spurs is only 73 percent.

"That's right, if you have to be fired for this kind of team performance, all the coaches in the league will be fired."

McBrin continued to nod: "And it's worth mentioning that in April, when the Lakers got into shape, they only lost 3 games and almost won the honor of Coach of the Month. ”

"The Lakers are too impatient, and they should wait for Joe Hai to lead the team to the playoffs before making a decision."

If Qiao Hai could hear the discussion between the two commentators, perhaps he would have sneered: The two commentators did not know that Lakers management had identified Phil Jackson as the Lakers as early as early April, not now.

On the field, after the two teams warmed up, Qiao Hai stood on the sidelines and made the final game arrangement.

"It's the last regular season game of the season and we need a win to wrap up the season and start the playoffs with a win, so this game is more important than you think, put away your indifferent thoughts, and give me a little bit of seriousness!"

Scott Pippen immediately became serious, Shaquille O'Neal stopped laughing, and as for Kobe, he has always been serious.

"In this game, we need to do the following......

In order to play well in the playoffs, Qiao Hai prepared two sets of regular playing styles for the team to deal with different opponents.

Against teams with excellent interior lines, the Lakers will play more holistically, and everyone in the Big Three must play something; And against a team with a strong outside line and a weak inside line, the Lakers will directly smash the inside line and use a huge inside advantage to defeat the opponent.

And in this game, the Lakers' opponent is the Spurs, and the Spurs with Tim Duncan and David Robinson are naturally not a weak team on the inside, so the Lakers will play more overall in this game......