Chapter 501: Coaching the last season

The Rio Olympics have created a global craze, and this year there has been so much focus on all aspects of the competition and off the field. The Chinese team won the Olympic championship this year, which made Chu Xuan stand at the highest peak in history. After all, no one can be as perfect as him, and all the evaluations of him can be described as rave reviews.

As a member of the Chinese men's basketball team, everyone is also relatively tough this year, you know, they won the championship, can they not be tough? After all, if you say such things before the start of the game, I am afraid that you will be drowned in the saliva of global public opinion. But now it's different, they won the championship, the U.S. team can only win the bronze medal, what else do they not have to raise their eyebrows?

In short, no matter what, Chinese basketball is well received today, and there are many fans and blacks abound. Obviously, after this year's Olympics, the voice of the black Chinese men's basketball team will be much less, after all, everyone is watching their efforts.

Many media programs and endorsements have found Chu Xuan, but Chu Xuan, who is working hard to create a man with Adeline on vacation, did not hesitate to push this away, and then focused on the most primitive movement of human beings...... The vacation lasts a long time...... Summer League is coached by Walton, a new member of the Lakers coaching staff. Wharton led a group of young people and Chinese players to play a winning record in Las Vegas, and he officially started his coaching career and entered the field of vision of fans.

Why did Wharton bring a bunch of Chinese players? Mainly because the Chinese team performed too well in the Olympics, many NBA teams have begun to be willing to give Chinese players a chance to perform. Among them, in addition to the players who were originally in the NBA, Zhou Qi began to play for the Rockets as a first-round pick, Ding Yanyuhang was found by the Dallas Mavericks, and Guo Allen walked into the vision of the Kings. In addition, the Lakers, who are the base camp of Chinese players, are naturally no exception, and after consulting Chu Xuan's opinion, the Lakers gave Li Muhao and Li Gen the opportunity to play in the summer league. Together with the original Yi Jianlian, Zhang Yang and Wang Zhelin, the Lakers have five Chinese appearing in the summer league.

Of course, the all-winning team record is definitely not dominated by these guys. Except for Zhang Yang and Yi Jianlian, the others are more like supporting roles. After all, Devin Booker, Downs is here, and everyone else is a floating cloud. These are two potential rising stars for the Lakers last season. Although he is only a substitute, he is recognized as a player who has the ability to become an All-Star. Many teams have also been interested in trading to get the two, but the Lakers are obviously not stupid, and no matter what conditions other teams propose, the Lakers will not hesitate to veto them.

The Las Vegas Summer League Lakers were able to win all of them, and the performances of Booker and Towns were the root cause, with Booker averaging 28.6 points in 25 minutes per game and shooting 52.5% from the field. Towns, on the other hand, was able to contribute 20.8 points, 12.8 rebounds and 3.2 blocks. The performance of the two people makes people more deeply aware of the talent of the Lakers, and at the same time, more voices began to criticize the Lakers, and two people with such talent can only play as a substitute in the Lakers, isn't this delaying their careers?!

Throughout the summer league, the Lakers duo were the brightest stars, and apart from these two, only the top pick in '16, Ben Simmons, was a good performer. The Australian big man who templated James was not reimbursed for the season as Chu Xuan did in his previous life, he was drafted by the Thunder and started his career in Oklahoma! In the summer league, Ben Simmons initially showed his all-round, 15+8+8+2+2 contributions are remarkable, the only deficiency is that this guy does not have outstanding shooting ability!

Chu Xuan didn't pay attention to these things, after all, all this was under his control. After the summer league passed, the Lakers' training camp gradually opened, and in September and October, the players began to slowly return to their positions, and of course, as a veteran, Kobe Bryant will undoubtedly rest for a longer time. It's just that what makes fans speechless is that Chu Xuan is still enjoying his crazy vacation, and he has no intention of returning.

In the preseason, Nash is playing with players, and in the new season, new troubles for the Lakers have begun to appear, not a problem of funding, but a problem of player use and rotation. The Lakers have so many talented players that everyone wants to get playing time, which gives Nash a bit of a headache. In fact, the most difficult thing to deal with is the problem of starters, because Towns undoubtedly wants to start, but the Lakers are full of talent in the frontcourt, and it is really difficult for Towns to have this opportunity. So, just as the preseason began, hidden dangers appeared, and there were undercurrents within the Lakers, and the unity of the team seemed to be about to be destroyed. After the preseason, the Lakers lost 5 games.

The situation is very unoptimistic, and the team's boss Kobe Bryant can't sit still, he rushed back in a hurry, hoping to stabilize the morale of the army, after all, he still has a lot of influence among this group of young people. After Kobe Bryant came back, Chu Xuan rushed back leisurely, as if none of this could make him have anything particularly worried.

After Chu Xuan came back, he first had a private conversation with Devin Booker, and then talked to Whiteside, the big man with the best relationship, so the problem was solved.

Booker was willing to play off the bench, while Whiteside was traded to the Magic, from which the Lakers acquired Ingram and two first-round picks. So, the trouble was solved, and everything became calm.

Subsequently, the Lakers officially announced the starting lineup of the Lakers for the new season: Towns, Noll, Antetokounmpo, LaVine, Kobe. Devin Booker continues to learn from Kobe as the team's sixth man, after all, Kobe will retire soon.

I don't know if it's to appease the hearts of young people and hand over the future of the Lakers to them. In a subsequent interview with the Los Angeles Times, Bryant said that he would retire in 2018 and hoped that the youngsters would lead the Lakers on a path to greatness. And Bryant said he would be willing to be on the bench next season if necessary.

Obviously, Kobe Bryant is planning to do so with the last goal of his career, which is to break Abdul-Jabbar's all-time record for the first scorer, 38,387 points! According to the normal rhythm, Kobe Bryant will undoubtedly be able to break this record by playing two more seasons, even if he plays as a substitute in the last season! Kobe's decision is the decision that Lakers fans want to see the most, and everyone cherishes the last two years of Kobe's career even more. Of course, we also hope that he will be able to win more championships before retiring!

After Kobe Bryant announced that he would retire in 2018, Chu Xuan also announced that this season will be his last season as a coach.

It was very sudden news, because before that, there had been no such sound coming out at all. Undoubtedly, this was Chu Xuan's temporary decision. Many people hoped that Chu Xuan would be able to retract his decision, but Chu Xuan was clearly resolute, and in an interview with EAPN, he explained that he wanted to start a new life and that he would try to leave with a quadruple in a row.

Chu Xuan's decision cannot be changed, and the fans are slowly willing to accept the reality. Immediately, speculation began about who the Lakers will take over as head coach next season and coach Kobe Bryant's final season. In fact, after Chu Xuan's announcement, Kobe Bryant also talked to Chu Xuan, he hoped that Chu Xuan could coach for two seasons, because he hoped that he could have a perfect retirement season, and others he obviously didn't believe that he could be as good as Chu Xuan.

However, Kobe Bryant's work did not have any effect, and Chu Xuan was determined to retreat!

The new season is treacherous, and Whiteside's departure is very regrettable, which has greatly reduced the overall strength of the Lakers. It's a pity, but it's inevitable, Whiteside needs a big contract, and he needs a higher team positioning to be great. And in this Lakers team, it is obvious that he cannot have a leadership position, in this case, greatness will not have anything to do with him, after all, he is really not young. With three championship rings in hand, Whiteside has the hard capital to impact greatness, so Chu Xuan also supports Whiteside to start a new career with the Magic, after all, he can become the leader of a team, and only then can he have the data of a Hall of Fame player when he retires in the future, so that he has the possibility of achieving greatness.

Chu Xuan felt that this was the friendship between the two of them, Whiteside was the first player he brought out, so he naturally hoped that this big man could become a Hall of Fame player with more honors, and letting him go to the Magic team was all Chu Xuan could do!

The Lakers lost their three-game winning starting center, which is a very big loss in everyone's eyes, and it will affect the Lakers' impact on four consecutive championships. Because although Downs seems to be very good, it is also unknown whether he can perfectly perform the role of starting center. However, Chu Xuan didn't have any worries, he believed in Tang Si, after all, this guy was a guy who could become a superstar in his memory, a man who had fought against Davis, the thick eyebrow brother for a lifetime!

The Lakers started the new season with great strength, and their biggest enemy was born at the same time, and the opponent was still the Cavaliers. While the Lakers' roster seemed to regress, the Cavaliers' roster was upgraded again, the Big Three became the Big Four, and James ushered in Dwight Howard, who had been fighting him in the East for many years. Although Howard no longer has the dominance of the first center, he is still a first-class strong interior player, and his athleticism is undoubtedly a perfect match for James and the Cavaliers. The combination of the Big Four has allowed the Cavaliers to get tickets to the Finals without starting the new season, and the Lakers seem to be difficult opponents of this Cavaliers.

"Our goal is to win the championship, and not to win the championship is to fail!" The newly recruited Howard is in high spirits and has made a war letter to the Lakers!

The terrifying Big Four, the Knights are determined to win the championship, and it seems that Chu Xuan's four-consecutive championship declaration is suffering from an unprecedented failure crisis!