"New mission released: please get rid of the status of ordinary assistant coach in two months and become the Lakers' chief assistant coach."

"Rewards for completing quests: one dynasty point, ten victory points, and access to the store function."

Mall function, Qiao Hai clicked on the details.

System introduction: "Store function, the system will open the sale of some goods according to the host level, and the host can use victory points to buy various special items from the store......"

Special items, the system didn't say what kind of special items they were, Qiao Hai guessed for a while, but couldn't guess why.

But think about it, it should be a special item that is useful to him, even if it is not for the time being, this store system will definitely be useful to him in the future, and now Qiao Hai already has 38 victory points, compared to the lonely 1 dynasty point, the number of this victory point can be said to be quite large, and if it is accumulated, there must be special items in the store that he can buy.

Since it is a special item, it will definitely have a special role.

However, this task is indeed very difficult.

The Lakers now have no chief assistant coach, and only Cortlambiis is temporarily acting as the chief assistant coach in the position of assistant coach.

Looking at it this way, Qiao Hai still has a chance, after all, there is this vacancy in the Lakers.

And think about it carefully, even if the system does not give a task to this position, he has to fight for it, as long as Del Harris leaves class in the future, the acting head coach position will definitely be the team's chief assistant coach, if Del Harris leaves now, then the acting head coach is Kotlambis.

And Joe's later memories are true, Del Harris led the team to 12 games, 6 wins and 6 losses before stepping down, and Cortlanbis acted as head coach until the end of the season.

Therefore, if Qiao Hai wants to win the opportunity to serve as interim head coach after Del Harris is out of class, he must sit in the position of chief assistant coach.

But it also means that Joe Hay must do everything he can to help Del Harris, and the easiest way to accomplish this task is to win Del Harris's trust, but think about the argument Joe Hay had in Jerry West's office two months ago.

Qiao Hai couldn't help but show a wry smile.

It's really unexpected, Qiao Hai muttered a few sentences: It seems that before doing anything next time, you have to plan the next thing, but you can't have such a problem again......

After muttering, the task still has to be completed, and after thinking about it, no matter what way, Qiao Hai has to help Del Harris, and only by helping Del Harris and helping Del Harris achieve some good results can Qiao Hai's own ability be proven.

Qiao Hai clicked on his inventory again, and the Triangle Offensive Tactics Board lay there quietly, and after the new mission was released, the Triangle Offensive Tactics Board came in handy.

There is no doubt that the most suitable tactic for this Lakers team is the triangle offensive strategy.

The three consecutive championships and two consecutive championships in later generations have fully proved this, and Qiao Hai is naturally very sure of the addition of triangle offensive tactics to the Lakers.

The Lakers under Del Harris are more monolithic in terms of tactics, he relies more on Shaquille O'Neal, and the whole tactic revolves around Shaquille O'Neal, who averaged 19.1 shots per game last season, which is already very high for a center.

Shaquille O'Neal has unlimited firing rights, and his containment is what the Lakers rely on the most last season, through Shaquille O'Neal's containment, Eddie Jones, Van Exel, a group of ordinary outside star players, can play a variety of outstanding performances, helping the Lakers get a record of 61 wins.

But obviously, when it comes to the playoffs, such a single tactic, a single tactical core, the opponent's targeting becomes very effective.

Especially at the last moment, Shaquille O'Neal will encounter the opponent's heavy defense, and a group of Lakers outside are just ordinary All-Stars, with a low tactical status, and they will be dumb at critical moments, so in the past two seasons, the Lakers have stopped in the Western Conference playoffs in a row, stopped in the Western Conference semifinals in 97, and stopped in the Western Conference finals in 98, all of which were lost to the Jazz, and they were all because of the disadvantages at the last moment.

Now that Jerry West is determined to develop Kobe Bryant, it's clear that Del Harris has to give Kobe more tactical position.

The dual-core tactics of triangle offensive tactics are obviously suitable for the Lakers, O'Neal, Kobe Bryant inside and outside, both inside and outside, both inside and outside, and if O'Neal can't stand up at the last moment, Kobe can stand up and help the team win the game.

Of course, the key question now is whether Del Harris will accept Qiao Hai's suggestion and adopt a triangle offensive strategy.

On Christmas night, the league issued an urgent announcement, David Stern stood in front of ESPN, TNT, NBC and other sports TV stations, officially announcing the end of the league's shutdown, and the league official will announce the schedule for the new season the next day.

According to the preliminary setting, the new season will officially start on February 5, 1999, and the regular season of the new season is set at 50 games, after which the NBA will enter the normal playoff mode.

For all NBA teams, the 1998-1999 season has completely become the 1999 season, with only 50 games played in a season, and the season has to end in early May, which means they have to play 50 games in three months.

So, the pressure of a shrinking season came instantly.

Qiao Hai received a text message directly from Mitch Kupchak that night, asking all coaches to arrive at the Lakers training center tomorrow to report, and organize the team's players to return to the training hall to start preparing for the new season.

The atmosphere suddenly became tense, but Qiao Hai still liked this tense atmosphere, and he put away his phone.

Saying goodbye to Stanrefour, tomorrow is work, and he has to go back to rest and prepare for the heavy work of the next few days.

……

The day after Christmas, the explosive news came out one by one.

Michael Jordan officially announced his retirement, the shutdown of the league and the difficulty of the shrinking season made the basketball god directly choose to retire, the basketball god retired for the second time, and even David Stern stood up and said: Michael Jordan's retirement is a loss for the basketball world.

The schedule for the new season was released, and Wizards coach Bernie Bixduff exclaimed in front of reporters: full of back-to-back games, the league is simply crazy!

Indeed, Qiao Hai also took a look at the Lakers' schedule, the first game against the Rockets on February 5, and the Jazz the next day, before the Lakers could rest, they had to challenge the Spurs away the next day.

After a day, there was another wave of back-to-back, consecutive battles against the Nuggets and Timberwolves.

In the first five games of the new season, two back-to-back, among the five opponents, the Rockets are the big three composed of Olajuwon, Barkley and Scott Pippen, and the Jazz have eliminated the Lakers in the playoffs for two consecutive seasons.

The third game has to face the twin towers of Duncan and David Robinson, and this one is still back-to-back.

The Nuggets in the fourth game are not strong and can make the Lakers breathe a sigh of relief, but in the fifth game, it is another back-to-back, against the Timberwolves with Stephen Marbury and Kevin Garnett.

The Lakers lost four of the first five games, and Qiao Hai wouldn't be surprised.

Fortunately, the league still gives a month of preseason training, as long as the team's players can arrive in time and start the preseason training camp in time, Del Harris can accept Qiao Hai's suggestion and practice the triangle offensive tactics, and the Lakers in the new season are still very promising.

Otherwise...... It's really impossible to say......

The next day of Christmas, Qiao Hai started to work, and when he met Del Harris again, he was a little embarrassed, but the old coach Del Harris didn't show Qiao Hai's face, but smiled and assigned Qiao Hai a task, because Qiao Hai was the one who proposed to let Kobe start, so the task given to Qiao Hai in the Lakers team was also very simple - responsible for the training of some outside players, including Kobe Bryant, and had the right to make some suggestions at the tactical level.

On the first day, Qiao Hai called Kobe Bryant and informed Kobe that he must rush to Los Angeles to participate in the preseason training camp on January 1 at the latest.

Kobe Bryant expressed surprise on the phone: "Joe? You're coming to work for the Lakers? ”

"Yes, I'm the assistant coach of the Lakers right now, and I'm in charge of your day-to-day work." Qiao Hai smiled on the other end of the phone.

Obviously, the Drew final still left a deep impression on Kobe, and it was a very good impression, which is good news for Qiao Hai, at least he can easily progress in the training work of the new season.

After thinking about it, there was nothing to do after making this call, and he immediately prepared to make a training plan for Kobe.

Qiao Hai opened the system and queried the specific attribute value of Kobe.

The 20-year-old Kobe Bryant, the breakthrough and backward jumper are already very good, and the defense is also excellent, but the long-range shooting is still missing, Qiao Hai knows the importance of long-range shooting in the future of basketball, so he directly formulated a training plan that is biased towards the outside, planning to effectively improve Kobe Bryant's long-range shooting ability in the next month.

Qiao Hai also communicated with Del Harris, as of now, Del Harris has no intention of making Qiao Hai difficult, which is good news for Qiao Hai, everything is going well.

……

On December 27, 1998, after the previous day's notice, the players returned to the training hall one after another, and the new season was officially announced......