Chapter 8: O'Neill is late
In the Guangyue men's basketball team, Bai Fan saw the United Arab Emirates, who had just entered the professional arena, and the United Arab Emirates at this time could really only be described as young and thin.
and the person in charge of the Guangyue men's basketball team, as well as the coach of the team, the upright and short-tempered Li Gui, after visiting the team, went to the office together.
"This time, I want to cooperate with the Guangyue men's basketball team to cultivate more young basketball talents for China."
Bai Fan didn't go straight to the goal as soon as he came, and the cooperation model could give the club and the sports bureau the green light.
Director Li's attitude was completely written on his face, and he didn't have much affection for Bai Fan, a foreigner with yellow skin and black hair.
The team only discovered a group of outstanding young players last year, and now the good seedlings have not yet matured, and there are peaches to pick them, and if they change to other head coaches, they will not have many good faces.
"In what form do we cooperate?"
Compared with Coach Li, the attitude of the team leader is much better, and in his eyes, this is to send money.
"Every year, the Suns can accept the Guangyue men's basketball team to study in the NBA, which is mainly the training of coaches.
The most important thing is to select outstanding young players and study abroad, starting in high school and continuing through college, where they can choose freely after graduating from high school and during college, participating in the NBA draft or returning home.
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In the room, silent, it was Cambridge tonight.
"I'm not here to pick peaches."
Director Li is not young and vigorous at this time, anyway, Bai Fan is not a person in this system, he can't control him, and he is not polite and honest when he speaks.
"It's not about picking peaches, it's about making the players more capable."
"I can practice in China, Da Yao is not a domestic player, and I haven't seen him go out to study, he is not still the champion, and now he is playing very well."
Bai Fan finally understood the ancient sentence that Xiucai met the meaning of soldiers.
Bai Fan wanted to help the men's basketball team, and it was not the United Arab Emirates who went out, most of the high school graduates probably couldn't get a college offer, and they came back at that time as a Guangyue men's basketball player, and they also saved their own money to train.
Of course, Bai Fan doesn't do loss-making business, these people will become players of Bai Fan's agency.
"Let's have a meeting to discuss this matter, and then we'll talk about it later."
Touching the nose, Bai Fan left Guangyue, there is only one chance, this cooperation is not successful, and in a short period of time, he will not choose to promote this matter.
As for the decline of the men's basketball team, Bai Fan can only say that time is also fate.
Go all the way north, visit the West Lake, Pan Xiangjiang River, climb the Five Mountains, climb the Great Wall, and taste snacks from all over the world.
In his previous life, he had no time, no energy, and no money, but now Bai Fan wants to enjoy the great rivers and mountains of the motherland at one time.
Early October.
The Suns began to assemble for preseason training for the new season.
At nine o'clock in the morning, the head coach of the team waited in the stadium early, and Rick Carlisle, who is only forty-four years old this year, can be called a young coach among all the head coaches in the league.
As an academy manager, his coaching style is one of sharpness and discipline, and he does not allow players to question the manager's arrangement.
The head coach is a new official, and most of the players are new to the Suns, and the first day of the assembly is scheduled at half past nine, and there are already several players at nine o'clock, arriving in the locker room to change clothes.
"Kyle, you're here early, you've changed your clothes, do you see the manager, you're really too young, it would be nice if you could smile."
Wade walked into the locker room, and the first person who started to tease was the head coach.
Compared to the assistant coaches who played in summer league together, this group of young players has never played under Rick Carlisle, and they have a serious poker face when they meet a few times, giving the players a very old-fashioned impression.
"The head coach came really early, I was the first to arrive, and I saw the head coach in the office of the training hall at half past eight."
Matt Bonner is also a hard-working guy, and at this moment he walked into the locker room with a basketball and looked at the beads of sweat on his head, obviously he had been playing for a long time.
"What are you doing so early, not training today, just a pre-season physical examination and physical test."
Ragabel, who has played in the game, played in the summer league with this group of rookies, and he didn't have any fights, and he was all familiar with them.
"I can't help it, I can't sleep with excitement at the thought of the first official gathering, and I waited outside before the training hall opened."
When Wade also changed his clothes, several people walked out together.
It's a quarter past nine o'clock, and several of the team's superstars who didn't play in the summer league have yet to arrive, and many players are looking forward to seeing stars like O'Neill and Marion and experiencing what it's like to play with them as soon as possible.
Brad Miller walked in, greeted Rick Carlisle, and exchanged a few memorable pleasantries with Ragabel before heading to the locker room.
The stadium has already begun to hear the sound of basketballs hitting the floor and rebounds, and the occasional hollow into the net.
Marion came in almost stuck, and when Marion came out with a change of clothes, Rick Carlisle motioned to the assistant coach and began to arrange for the players to take physical tests.
"Shaq hasn't come yet, and he dared to be late on the first day of the new season, which is worthy of being a supergiant."
Marion slapped Matt Bonner on the back of the head, not forcefully, just joking, and a lesson.
"Who told you that the supergiant could be late."
"When I was with the Pacers, Isaiah was very strict and had absolutely zero tolerance for tardiness, and Jermaine and Ron never dared to be late."
Brad Miller's words include both star O'Neal Jr. and thorny Artest.
Isaiah Thomas, as a young head coach and a retired star in the league, has a self-evident prestige in the team.
The players lined up one by one to measure their height, weight, body fat and other data, and they were almost finished, and O'Neill was late.
"Coach Rick, I'm very sorry, I just moved to Phoenix, I'm not familiar with the road conditions, I took the wrong road when I came, and I was delayed for a while."
In fact, I got up late, I played too well last night, and I didn't want to get up this morning.
However, just arrived at the new team, with a new coach, O'Neill can't help but give face to the head coach, so many players look at it and don't say anything, how will the head coach lead the team in the future.
Just make up a reason, this kind of thing O'Neal often does with the Lakers, this reason I remember when I first arrived at the Lakers, I also used this for the first meeting.
"Hurry up and change your clothes and take a physical test."
Rick Carlisle knew that O'Neal was, this matter was not a secret in the league, and the probability of missing training was commonplace, so the probability of taking the wrong path was too low.
But after all, he is the star of the team, O'Neal gives face, and Rick Carlisle can't help but give steps.
At the end of the day, Rick Carlisle took the physical test data and walked behind O'Neal.
"What time did you play last night?"
"Four points, uh, not ......"
O'Neill's broad body didn't see who was behind him at all, and he didn't react until halfway through speaking, and the voice was the head coach.
I just arrived at the new team, so I was too unfamiliar and careless.
"Let you go today, starting tomorrow, no lateness is allowed.
Also, your physical stats are terrible, you don't manage your weight at all during the holidays, and you have to lose 10 kilograms before the new season starts. ”
After speaking, he didn't wait for O'Neal to answer, and left directly, Rick Carlisle didn't expect O'Neill to lose ten kilograms, five kilograms would be good.
The results of the physical test showed that O'Neal's physical burden was too heavy, and even if he controlled the playing time within 30 minutes, he could not avoid the potential injury caused by his weight.