Chapter 2 The Los Angeles Lakers are all rebels!

The early morning of January 24, 2013 was definitely a carnival midnight for NBA fans.

The Lakers lost to the Grizzlies on the road, losing their 10th game in the last 12 games.

The Lakers officially announced that they have fired head coach D'Antoni, and the team's assistant coach Du Kang will temporarily take over the coaching position.

This is breaking news.

For a time, fans of other NBA teams were madly laughing at the Lakers for changing four head coaches in half a season.

As a wealthy team, the Lakers have a high hatred value in the NBA. Basically, no fans of other teams like the Lakers.

The Lakers suffered, and everyone was happy.

The best thing is for the Lakers to change their head coach every day, so that everyone can be happy every day.

In fact, Lakers fans are also very happy at this time. That cheating coach D'Antoni finally got out.

In the 32 games coached by D'Antoni, many Lakers fans feel that they are not as good as Mike Brown and Backstaff.

Mike Brown and Backstaff will never allow the Lakers, an aging and lacking athletic team, to play run-and-gun.

Nash and Kobe's old arms and legs simply couldn't bear it.

The key is Nash, the core of running and gunning. He can't find an inside man in the Lakers who can play pick-and-roll with him.

Howard, athletic, but can he shoot from the corner?

Gasol can shoot from mid-range, but does he have the athleticism to sprint back and forth with Nash?

In this game against the Grizzlies, D'Antoni actually asked Gasol to come on the bench and Earl Clark to start, and played for 40 minutes. What was he doing?

This is to abolish the Lakers' champion Gasol and support Clark's rhythm.

Earl Clark works hard, but he doesn't have the ability.

In this game, Howard and Howard were defeated by Randolph, Gasol and Darrell Arthur.

Faced with such a difficult situation, it is understandable to seek change, but your changes need to be successful and make everyone see hope.

D'Antoni's changes in this game were unsuccessful and did not give anyone any hope of success.

Moreover, what he changes is still not himself. He can change anyone who can't beat his own system. He can also take advantage of Lakers achievements like Gasol.

I have to say that D'Antoni has courage.

But it did give Lakers fans and Jim Buss a brain hemorrhage.

Using meritorious deeds before he has even established his authority is pushing the players into Aunt Jenny's arms.

Most of the Lakers players originally had their hearts set on Auntie Jeannie and Phil Jackson.

Therefore, 90% of the blame for the Lakers' loss to the Grizzlies lies with D'Antoni.

This game made D'Antoni sacked, which was just right.

Fan support.

The players also support it. If they want to have a family sister-in-law, can Kobe agree? If Kobe supports it, that means the players support it.

Management also supports it.

People here in Jimmie feel that D'Antoni is holding back every day.

Aunt Jenny also supported Jim Shu's own slap in the face. Of course she supported it. D'Antoni left. With Jim Shu's connections, it would be very difficult to find a famous coach who was willing to come to the Lakers to take the blame.

Let’s not talk about the personality problems of the Lakers players, just talk about the suitability of the Lakers’ lineup, which is very problematic.

Playing a triangle offense with Kobe Gasol as the core, Nash lacks the defensive ability in positional warfare.

In a run-and-gun game with Nash as the core, Gasol is not athletic enough, and Howard is unable to shoot.

With Howard as the core, playing one inside and four outside, Kobe and the Lakers' outside players are not strong enough in three-point shooting.

The Lakers seem to have a very strong lineup, but they are actually a hodgepodge.

D'Antoni is so confused by this hodgepodge, which famous coach would dare to come and step on him?

Aren't you afraid of being fired like D'Antoni when you try to touch a star?

The NBA, after all, is still a league of stars.

Having said that, now that D'Antoni is out of class, public opinion in the NBA is all about who can take over as head coach of the Lakers after D'Antoni is out of class.

Phil Jackson, Rick Carlisle, Van Gundy, Doc Reeves, and even Magic's names appeared.

Well, there is no option for Du Kang, the acting head coach, to become a regular coach.

Here in the United States, no one takes Du Kang, the acting head coach of the Lakers, seriously.

Basically, no acting head coach in the NBA becomes a regular coach.

What's more, a team like the Lakers that wants to compete for a championship can have an assistant coach lead the team?

What kind of international joke are you kidding?

The Lakers have found a new head coach, and Du Kang will be fired next game.

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However, on the other side, it's different.

After the Lakers announced that head coach D'Antoni would be dismissed and the team's assistant coach Du Kang would be appointed as his replacement, it was already midnight, and Hupu was wiped out.

"Really or not, is this Du Kang really Chinese? A Chinese coach coaches the Lakers? Am I not dreaming?"

"I remember that Du Kang seemed to have an account in Hupu, and he had analyzed some problems of the Lakers in the Lake District before."

"Let's go to the Lake District to watch the Lakers head coach analyzing the Lakers' posts!"

"Jrs, there's no need to go. Lakers head coach Du Kang was considered by moderators to be smearing the stars and provoking infighting among fans of the stars because of his objective analysis of the Lakers' problems. The post was locked and the account was permanently banned.

The previous ban of the Lakers assistant coach in Lake District was a sensation in Hupu, hahahaha."

"Damn it, are you so brave in Lake District? You banned your own head coach forever, and now you can no longer tell the truth in the Hupu team area. Telling the truth is bad, is it just sowing discord?"

"The homepage of Hupu is still on the most professional basketball forum. The more I read this sentence, the more funny I find it. Such a professional forum cannot accommodate China's first NBA head coach."

"Isn't this more professional? Hahahaha..."

"Damn it, the answer upstairs was so graphic, and Teacher Chen came right in front of me."

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Here in the United States, the game between the Lakers and Grizzlies ended very late.

It was already early in the morning when the Lakers coaching staff held a meeting.

But in China on the other side of the river, the current time is the most exciting afternoon of the day.

The news that Du Kang became the head coach of the Lakers on behalf of the Lakers quickly spread in major sports media in China.

After all, they are the Lakers, one of the most trafficked teams in the entire sports world, and one of the most trafficked sports teams even in China.

And this directly caused a very serious consequence.

Du Kang's cell phone kept ringing, and he didn't have to think about sleeping tonight.

However, even without these calls, he actually couldn't sleep.

Becoming the head coach of the Lakers, even as the acting head coach, makes him so excited that he can't sleep.

Buzz buzz!

The phone rang again.

"It's really endless."

Du Kang was complaining when he spoke, but the expression on his face was very happy.

Although he is only the acting head coach, it can still be regarded as a homecoming, right?

He is a top student at UCLA with a bachelor's degree in business economics. After graduation, he did not go to Wall Street to make a lot of money, but went to work as a basketball coach for the Lakers.

This puzzled many people at the time.

In the NBA, if you don't become a head coach and are just a low-level assistant coach, you really can't make much money.

Some of his classmates who went to Wall Street had bonuses from one project that were comparable to his annual salary with the Lakers.

The salary is low, there is no development prospect, and it is not stable. You can be fired at the first sign of dismissal, and there is no guarantee at all. This is like a trap.

Before becoming an NBA head coach, what these people said was really correct.

If he hadn't been hit by the system of this basketball coaching career, he would never have come to coach in the NBA.

The person who called him this time was not his high school classmate, nor his college classmate, nor any journalist friend.

But his father.
To be continued...