Chapter 35: A Rapidly Forming Coaching Staff

Richard quickly contacted Mike Malone with the help of Tom Thibodeau, and accepted the olive branch extended by the Warriors without any hesitation, after all, the Warriors gave a serious assistant coach position, which is different from the Knicks' intern coach, which is a breakthrough in Mike Malone's coaching career.

And after getting Mike Malone, even if there is a pure defensive coach in the Warriors, Richard talked a lot with Mike Malone, and he found that this coach who has not been turned into a regular in the Knicks is still a bit real in defense, maybe he has learned from Jeff Van Gundy and Tom Thibodeau in recent years.

With Mike Malone, the Warriors' defensive system can be built up next season, and the Warriors' coaching staff has quickly increased to four.

Then, Kiessmart, whom Richard contacted last season, also chose to join after Richard's re-invitation, and he will become the Warriors' player development coach.

The coaching staff of an NBA team will consist of an offensive coach, several defensive coaches, several player development coaches, and finally a trainer and team doctor.

And now Frank Vogel is the team's offensive coach, Mike Malone is the team's head defensive coach, Kiessmart is the team's player development coach, and Crisp Engelland, the shooting coach Richard hired last season, is also a player development coach, and Del Nigro, whose nature in the Warriors coaching staff is also player development exchanges. Truly from a coaching perspective, the Warriors still lack some defensive coaches and player development coaches, but with a few key coaches, other supporting coaches are not very important.

The remaining trainers are divided into several types, including chief athletic trainers, physical trainers and clinical physiotherapists, among which in terms of clinical physiotherapists, Richard has found a more famous physiotherapist in the Chinese last season, Judiceto was Kobe's royal physiotherapist, but after receiving an invitation from her hometown team, she finally decided to join the Warriors.

The chief athletic trainer is the head of the trainer, this position generally represents the level of physiotherapy of a team, like the Lakers' Gariverti, the Suns' Aaron Nelson and the Rockets' Keith Jones all hold this position in the team, and the level of these three is not the same, Gaviotti is a relatively mediocre trainer, but he can handle the relationship with the stars, so he has been standing tall in the Lakers; And Aaron Nelson is a famous miracle doctor, and the reputation of the Suns' medical team is needless to say; As for Keith Jones, Chinese fans who know the Rockets know that this guy is a veterinarian.

And in this position, Richard knew that the team couldn't poach Aaron Nelson, but he still played the idea of the Suns, and if he couldn't poach Aaron Nelson, then poach his men, so Mike Elliott was poached by Richard with a high salary to the Warriors and became the chief athletic trainer of the Warriors.

As for the last physical trainer, Richard found a famous folk god, Ganon Baker, who was only a rookie not long after graduating from college, but he posted a few training videos and got a lot of recognition, and Richard came to the door and quickly persuaded Ganon Baker, who then joined the Warriors and became the Warriors' physical trainer and player development coach.

As for the Warriors' team medical team, it is naturally a cooperation with the University of California, San Francisco, which is the same as most NBA teams, such as the Rockets, their chief athletic trainer is Keith Jones, he can give advice when Yao Ming has an injury, whether to have surgery or continue to play, but if Yao Ming wants surgery, the Rockets often find the local Herman Memorial Hospital's authoritative expert Cranton, in fact, the latter does not work for the Rockets, but the hospital has a cooperative relationship with the Rockets.

Similarly, if a Warriors player is injured and needs surgery, the previous partnership with the University of California, San Francisco will help.

In order to allow Mike Malone to better complete the establishment of the team's defensive system, Richard still found a few assistants for Mike Malone, first of all, the team's former famous rock Mitch Ridgemond returned and became one of the team's assistant coaches, and the position Richard gave him was defensive coach.

Then there is the former US CBA coach, the former assistant coach of Keith Smart, Dave Jogel, who also joined the team at the invitation of Richard, the position is also defensive coach, plus Chris Mullin was invited by Richard to work part-time as a player development coach in the team, and in this way, the Warriors' coaching staff is also completed.

Head Assistant Coach & Offensive Coach: Frank Vogel

Head Defensive Coach: Mike Malone

Defensive coaches: Mitch Richmond, Dave Jogle

Player development coaches: Chip Engelland, Kiessmart, Vinnidel Nigro, Chris Mullin

Lead Athletic Trainer: Mike Elliott

Strength and Conditioning Trainer: Ganon Baker

Clinical physiotherapists: Judi Seto, etc.

The coaching staff was quickly assembled, but it was already the end of April by that time, and Richard had traveled thousands of miles to cities such as New York and Phoenix. Next, Richard has to hurry up to pick the players for the team and prepare for the upcoming boss's party in Los Angeles.

The boss party held on May 1 was temporarily initiated by Lakers owner Jerry Buss, but because of Jerry Buss's high status among NBA bosses, and the party was held in Hollywood, there will be many Hollywood stars at the party site, which can help the bosses break into the upper class, so almost all the bosses of this party have indicated that they want to participate in this party.

For Richard, what upper-class or Hollywood stars are not attractive to him, but Richard, who has never attended a similar party, is still a little interested in this kind of party, he wants to see how the bosses get along and communicate with each other, after all, these bosses are opponents every season, even now, the playoffs have not passed, if Mavericks owner Cuban meets Jazz owner Larry Miller, will the two of them fight? After all, these two teams are playing inextricably in the first round of the playoffs, and they have already played a tiebreaker.

With the help of Larry Foster, Richard prepares the dress and plane ticket for the party, and Larry Foster will also go with him at this party, after all, he is the executive vice president of the team, in fact, this party is nominally a boss party, but the boss will just have a small meeting after the party to communicate, and when the real party is held, even Chris Mullin, Shaquille O'Neal, former NBA stars and current NBA stars will attend.

This kind of gathering of upper-level people, and the emergence of elites from other industries, can be regarded as a good opportunity for major NBA teams to sponsor their teams.