Los Angeles has been very lively recently, for the Lakers, and Zhuang Fei came to Los Angeles this time not to find the Lakers but to go to the Lakers' city rival Clippers, this season the Clippers have a lot of ambitions, from the previous want to poach Arenas from the Celtics can be seen.

This league is almost a fish belly team every year, after inviting the famous coach Dunleavy, it is naturally impossible to be willing to become a fish belly team, and in fact, with the recent rise of the NBA, the commercial value is getting bigger and bigger, and the Clippers are located in a big city like Los Angeles, if they can't make a breakthrough in results, it is really a waste of their place and their home stadium Staples Arena.

After all, at present, when the commercial value of the NBA is soaring, only the team with excellent results can really get a big bowl of soup, and if it is still at the bottom every year, it is estimated that it can only live with the average income of the 29 teams, in this case, almost no team this season is ready to continue to get by next season, of course, the Clippers are now trying to rise, It's just that in fact, even in the case of the big brother next door who won two top free agents in a row not long ago, the road to such a rise is still very long, after all, this team must have good players if it wants to rise.

And at present, the Clippers players do not have much strength to break out of the West, and if you want to improve the team, you need to strengthen the strength of the players, so you need to poach people in the free market outside the draft, but with the attraction of the Clippers, there are really no big stars now, in this case, even if the team invites the old Dunleavy to prepare for a big fight, but the performance next season may not be how good it is. As for Zhuang Fei, he has no interest in the Clippers' players, the strength of this team is not what Zhuang Fei needs to care about, in fact, there will be two games between the two in the regular season, and there will be no intersection at other times, and Zhuang Fei came to Los Angeles to find a trainer and scout for the Clippers this time. Former Timberwolves head coach Tom Thibodo, assistant coach of Van Gundy.

As an assistant coach, Tom Thibodo has been a failure in the past two years, the absolute hero of the New York Knicks to reach the Finals has been living a very embarrassing life since his boss Van Gundy was swept away in the NBA, because of Van Gundy's relationship, his reputation in the NBA is not so good, after all, now Van Gundy has a reputation of 'Van Run Run' is too hurtful. And this has little to do with Xibodu though. But it's impossible to stay unaffected.

So after Van Gundy was fired by the Bucks, there was no way to find an NBA coaching job, his assistant was also forced to leave Van Gundy, without any job, Van Gundy could not afford to pay Thibode's annual salary of hundreds of thousands of dollars, and Thibode, who left Van Gundy, finally went from applying for assistant coach to applying for team trainers and scouts before he barely found a job on the Clippers, and now Thibodeau can't even find an assistant coach opportunity, Although the NBA has a very low threshold for coaches, and there has never been a so-called coaching certificate, this does not mean that there is less competitive pressure.

It's because the threshold is too low. That's why the competitive pressure is great, and this competitive pressure is even more so for Thibodu, who is excellent in theory but lacks connections, and the unspoken rules in the NBA are not much less than those of the Great Celestial Empire, although he found a job with the Clippers last season, but it is obvious. In this way, whether it is the team's trainer or the team's scout, it is not what he wants, he is ready to work in these two positions for two years and then slowly rise within the team, he has absolute confidence in his own strength, but God does not fulfill people's wishes, the team actually invited a famous coach in the end, the old Dunleavy, which is not to say that he has an opinion on Dunleavy or Dunleavy has an opinion on him.

It's as an NBA coach. Everything else can be secondary, but the pomp is amazing, although not all coaches are like Phil Jackson with a minimum of four assistant coaches, but also not all coaches like Zhuang Fei with only one assistant coach. In this case, the arrival of the old Dunleavy and the arrival of a new batch of assistant coaches almost blocked his promotion path, for now, the annual salary of a team's assistant coach needs to break one million, in this case, the team cannot have too many assistant coaches, and in the end there is not much left for Thibode, either leave the Clippers and find a new job, or go to hug Dunleavy's thigh and become Dunleavy's personal assistant coach.

It's just that let's not talk about whether the two are similar in style, in terms of Thibodo's character, it is impossible for him to be a personal assistant coach for others if he does not have such absolutely strong autonomy under Van Gundy, and in fact, Dunleavy cannot give him so much autonomy under Van Gundy, and it can also be seen in this regard that although Van Gundy may be lacking in ability, he is still quite bold in terms of employing people, So now the former New York Knicks assistant coach is facing a dilemma in Los Angeles, and it's easy to say that he left the Clippers, but where to go after leaving the Clippers? It's a headache enough.

Xibodu has a headache now, Zhuang Fei is very happy at this time, he was able to get Xibodu last year, when Xibodu had just come out of Van Gundy, but Van Gundy at that time was not as desperate as now, Van Gundy at that time was still prejudiced against Zhuang Fei, after all, this extremely emotional assistant coach was extremely sympathetic to Van Gundy's experience, and most of the reason why Van Gundy had such a tragic encounter was brought by Zhuang Fei.

In this case, it is difficult for him to leave the old owner and immediately throw himself into the arms of Zhuang Fei, so last year, the former assistant coach of the New York Knicks almost submitted resumes to all 28 teams in the league, but did not submit resumes to Zhuang Fei's Celtics, and in fact, if Zhuang Fei was willing to invite him in person, Zhuang Fei could also get him last season, but for Zhuang Fei, this is not a very good choice, after all, he doesn't want his subordinates to have a grudge against him all the time, and now, When the former Van Gundy assistant coach suffered a major setback in the NBA, Zhuang Fei could also come to him, although he didn't necessarily need Thibodo's gratitude, but it was not too likely to be resented by Thibodo.

In a high-end café in Los Angeles, Zhuang Fei saw this man who was almost ' In the current NBA, in addition to his own current assistant coach Green, there are not many assistant coaches that Zhuang Fei can look at, and the former Spurs' McBrown and the current Thibodo are one of the few two, so every time he plays with the Spurs, Zhuang Fei will dig a corner in front of Popovich This is not Zhuang Fei to disgust Popovich or just kidding, in the current dynastic system rating, these two are currently the highest among all assistant coaches, of course, now McBrown is already the head coach of the Suns, even if he is not the head coach of the Suns, Zhuang Fei can't get himIn the end, Zhuang Fei's target can only be this Xibodu who has reached the A+ level of defense.

"Tom, I think you should know why I came to you, now you should be able to give me an answer," Zhuang Fei smiled and looked at the Clippers scout in front of him, and Xibodu was not the slightest surprised to hear Zhuang Fei ask after sitting down, Zhuang Fei naturally didn't come to him for common words.

"I wonder, what can you give me? Is it still as promised in New York" After hearing Zhuang Fei's question, the former New York assistant coach also looked at Zhuang Fei deeply after being silent for a moment and said, at this time he also had some emotion in his own heart, after being in New York, the fate of him and Van Gundy was completely incomparable to the young man in front of him, maybe there was some resentment before, but now it is light, in this situation, he no longer minds playing for his former enemy, but even so, He also doesn't plan to become an ordinary assistant coach, he needs rights, and if Zhuang Fei's conditions don't attract him, he can't go to Zhuang Fei.

"Of course" Zhuang Fei picked up the coffee in front of him and took a sip of it, nodded with a smile without a doubt, and continued: "I said before, the door of my coaching staff is open to you at any time, as long as you want, you can come to me at any time, and the conditions will never change, you will be the number one defensive coach on my coaching staff, my team is completely at your disposal, you can build the system you want."

In the past, when the Timberwolves were playing bombardment tactics, the defensive system was not a necessary thing under the bombardment system, after all, running and bombing was the pursuit of speed, and the defensive system was the pursuit of slowdown, which was a contradiction, but now there is no such contradiction in the Celtics, since Zhuang Fei can play the team when he is in the Timberwolves, there is naturally no reason to limit it in the Boston Celtics.

It's just that for Xibodu, Zhuang Fei's simplicity surprised him, Zhuang Fei also trusted him too much, at this time, the scout of the clippers was also a little hesitant, and he was also thinking, while Zhuang Fei was smiling and watching, and finally after a few minutes, Zhuang Fei looked at the scout of the clippers and nodded.

"Mr. Zhuang, I agreed to your invitation, and I hope to have a happy cooperation in the future."

"I think we will have a happy cooperation" Zhuang Fei also said a little excitedly after seeing Xibodu nodding, and after taking care of Xibodu's affairs, Zhuang Fei's purpose of coming to Los Angeles was also completed, but just when Zhuang Fei was about to leave with Xibodu, he got an unexpected invitation.