In June, Kerr resigned as general manager of the Suns, ending his brief career as a professional manager.

He returned to his role as a commentator for Turner Television Network Sports, as a professional commentator.

As a member of two championship teams, Kerr's ability to get the weight of Phil Jackson and Popovich is enough to show that he has a high basketball IQ.

It's just that professional managers test not only basketball IQ, but also a lot of work outside of basketball that needs to be handled.

When he first arrived with the Suns, there was a problem with the strategic thinking of the team, and the team was dismantled in exchange for O'Neal, who had passed his prime, to solve the Suns' thorn phobia and fight against the Lakers' three highs.

As a result, he was cleanly abused by the Spurs in '08, and Kerr realized that the era of inside behemoths was over and immediately transformed.

The Suns have been successful for 10 years, but the ceiling has been reached, and in three years Cole has proven himself, and he is not very motivated.

In addition, the owner of the Suns, Saver, really can't be appreciated by Kerr, Cole, as a noble person who helped Saver buy the Suns in 2004, after Kerr's contract expired, Saver refused to give him a generous contract at the helm of the team, and gave him a 10% salary cut, Kerr naturally will not stay.

He returned to Turner, where he once worked, and continued to work as a game commentator while waiting for a new opportunity.

Cole wants to lie dormant for a while, wait for the world to change, and then go out to assist a team to achieve his own hegemony.

Although Cole didn't win a lot of rings when he was a player, he won the championship as a marginal role player after all, and he was not a core member, and the weight of the ring was not heavy enough.

And Cole is a man with a lot of ambitions, and it can be seen from his temper that he is not willing to just be a supporting role.

When he played for the Chicago Bulls and clashed with Michael Jordan in practice, he dared to throw punches at the first man in the league and fight directly.

You can know from this behavior that his heart is very high, and it is definitely not a thing in the pool.

In just three seasons with the Suns, the Suns have made big changes and trades, and their boldness, connections and abilities can be seen.

After thinking wrongly, he quickly adjusted, rebuilt the team, and made good use of Nash's last peak to reach the Western Conference finals.

Even if he failed to achieve the dream of the finals and championships, he swept the Spurs in the semifinals and spit out the evil spirit of being eliminated from the playoffs for many years.

After resigning from the Suns, many teams threw olive branches to Kerr, but Kerr refused one by one, and returned to working as a television commentator, observing changes and new trends throughout the league as the second decade of the 21st century begins.

Unexpectedly, the opportunity came quickly, and the Clippers, who have attracted attention in the past two seasons, sent an interview invitation to Kerr, hoping that he could come to the team as an offensive assistant coach.

The man who found Kerr was Clippers chief bishop Kim Hughes, an old-timer who was a representative of mediocrity in his days as a player and coach, the quintessential good-old bastard in the league.

When he was a player, he mixed in small and medium-sized teams like the Nuggets and Nets, and he was a coach in a bad team like the Clippers, and he belonged to a figure that Kerr couldn't look up to.

But the NBA circle is small, after all, he is an old-timer, he still agreed to Kim Hughes's invitation to meet with old Kim in Phoenix, and talked about the Clippers recruiting assistant coaches.

Kerr originally just wanted to be perfunctory, but he didn't expect what Kim Hughes said to arouse a lot of interest from Kerr, especially when Kim Hughes said that Smart Min asked the team to implement the principle of "everyone has the ball to play", and gradually introduced the tactical system of passing and cutting, which made Kerr's heart brighten.

In recent years, he has been thinking about the future direction of NBA tactics all the time, and he has experienced near-perfect championship teams, has a unique understanding of championship-level teams, and he is trying to find a team that can become the new Chicago Bulls or Spurs, and personally lead them to glory.

The Suns aren't the answer, and the rest of the league's powerhouses are more or less meaningful, but the Clippers have always been on Kerr's radar.

After all, the Clippers impressed the entire league last season, especially their general manager, Smart Min, who many considered a madman and sensationalist.

But more and more examples are proving that this guy could be a genius, someone who has the potential to upend the league.

Of course, most people are imperceptible, and only a very small number of people feel the subversiveness of Min Congda.

Kerr was one of those very few because Min Congda drafted Curry in the '09 draft.

In 09, when Kerr was still the general manager of the Suns, he was very optimistic about Curry and hoped to trade for the Warriors' No. 7 pick to get Curry, and even used Stodammire as a bargaining chip.

The Suns obviously have an absolute point guard core Nash, but Kerr still wants Curry, which is enough to show how much he values Curry's potential.

It's a pity that neither Kerr nor the Warriors can get Curry because they were cut off by the Clippers with a first-round show.

Based on this alone, Kerr decided that Smart Min was not ordinary, and his series of actions last season gave the Clippers a new look.

It's just that the overall style of the Clippers is "stable", and what the future of the Clippers is, Kerr is not sure, so he didn't think much about it.

Unexpectedly, not long after the start of the season, Smart Min began to "behave" again, and wanted to change the team's tactical system and hire a new assistant coach.

Cole promised Kim Hughes for the time being, saying that he still needed to think about it and observe and observe.

After losing the game against the Suns, the Clippers played the Kings on the road on October 27.

The Kings deserve to be the league's No. 1 warm team, after using a dead three center in the last game, this one has become a big four small, Dareham Porter starts, Evans, Mo, Udri three back lineup.

One moment big, one moment small, are you the Monkey King golden hoop stick?

From this point of view, the king's unreliability is even worse than the clippers, Min Congda saw this starter and called him an expert, and wanted to worship the king's head coach and general manager as a teacher, can you teach you how to do it, so that this behavior seems so reasonable.

But Rao is such a strange lineup as the King, and the Clippers, who have an absolute advantage on the inside, still have a difficult time with their opponents.

The two sides battled to the last minute of the game, and when they were 1 point behind the Kings at 98:99, James Harden stepped back at the top of the arc and made a mid-range jumper to kill the Kings!

The opponent who could have been easily defeated relied on a lore to get through the danger, and the Clippers will really increase the popularity of the NBA.

At the same time, it also shows that the Clippers' passing and cutting tactics are a little bit more like the performance art they did at the beginning.

Then, on December 29 and January 2, the Clippers lost to the Utah Jazz and the Atlanta Hawks.

Both games were intense, but the Clippers were still an offensive problem, scoring less than 100 points in the two games, and being too obsessed with passing and cutting led to more mistakes and low offensive efficiency.

Kerr commented on the two games, and after reviewing the footage of the Clippers' previous games, he came to a conclusion: "The Clippers have improved a little bit from game to game, and they may have found some practice tricks." ”

However, when Kerr called Kim Hughes and asked if the team needed an offensive assistant coach at the moment.

"Of course, of course we need it, and we're also inviting assistant coaches from other teams. Of course, if you want to come, you will be the first choice. ”

Cole said: "But I look at your team's offense, these games are improving, you are getting better and better. You know, how hard it is to suddenly change the system in the middle of the season. ”

Unexpectedly, Kim Hughes's answer shocked Cole.

"Forget it, Steve, we old guys can't find a clue to design a new tactical system, their progress comes from their own exploration after the game and in training, it is their own improvement. But that's not the way to go, you have to find an assistant coach who knows how to pass and attack. ”

"What? You say, the players themselves groped for it? ”

"Yes Steve, they're the hardest working people I've ever met."

(End of chapter)