Deng Fang has been in love with Ron Adams for a long time.
As a Warriors fan, Deng Fang is very familiar with Ron Adams.
He's the skinny old man who sits next to Steve Kerr on the bench every game.
In 2009, Ron Adams was 61 years old and had coached in the league for 19 seasons.
Ron Adams' coaching career began in 1969. He has taught in 7 universities and 8 NBA teams in 47 years, and has very rich experience.
Ron Adams' NBA coaching experience began in 1992, when he played for the Spurs.
After two seasons as an assistant with the Spurs, Ron Adams came to the Suns.
Later, he also served as an assistant coach for several years with the Bucks and Bulls.
Last season, in 2008, Ron Adams joined the Thunder, so he can be regarded as the enlightenment mentor of Westbrook and Durant.
Historically, during the two years that Ron Adams served as an assistant coach with the Thunder, he built this young team into one of the best defensive teams in the league, and the Thunder's record also improved from 23 wins to 59 losses.
With 50 wins and 32 losses, the team also entered the playoffs for the first time in 2009.
Later, in 2010, Ron Adams joined the Bulls. Since Thibodeau was also keen on defense, the two hit it off and built the Bulls at that time into an iron-blooded defensive army. Noah also became a great player under his training.
A DPOY level defensive player.
In 2013, he chose to change jobs and join the Celtics to assist young coach Stevens.
At that time, the Celtics were in dire straits. Although Stevens had rich experience in the NCAA, he was still very unfamiliar with the NBA.
With Adams' help, Stevens quickly adapted to the rhythm of the NBA.
When Stevens later recalled Adams, he said that he taught him like a mentor to his students and helped him establish the style of the Green Army.
After the Green Army's performance steadily improved, this assistant coach with a distinguished record attracted Cole's attention.
At that time, Cole was selected as the new head coach of the Warriors. Because Cole was worried about his lack of experience, he wanted to form an experienced coaching team to assist him, so he poached Adams to come to the Warriors as a defensive assistant.
Because the Bay Area is also Adams' hometown, even though he was still under contract at the time, the Celtics respected the old coach's wish to retire with his hometown team and kindly let go.
When Ron Adams was with the Warriors, he first rejected the deal for Klay and Love with West, and then helped Green become the axis of the Warriors' five small teams.
In the 2016 Western Conference Finals, because Ron Adams was very aware of the two young men and the Thunder's defensive habits, he designated a set of effective defensive plans in the second game, which caused KD to make 8 turnovers in the game and helped the Warriors.
Tied the total score and finally won this series.
Due to his extraordinary relationship with KD, Ron Adams also played a key role in recruiting KD.
Historically, Ron Adams was voted the league's best assistant coach for four consecutive seasons.
You know, those who can be assistant coaches in the NBA are those with two skills.
Being able to stand out among the teaching assistants is a very rare achievement.
The most famous Warriors team in later generations was the Five Death Squadrons, and the most powerful thing about the Five Death Squadrons was their unlimited defense changes!
The defensive tactic of unlimited switching was adopted at the suggestion of Ron Adams.
The defensive tactics used by the Warriors team currently led by Deng Fang are mainly assist defense and flanking attack, which is very similar to unlimited defense changes.
However, Deng Fang did not come from a professional background after all, and his time as a coach was too short.
Deng Fang still had considerable problems with many specific details.
Being able to lead the team to 11 consecutive victories, Deng Fang relied largely on the team's strong offensive firepower, other teams' unfamiliarity with the Warriors and Curry, and his understanding of the main players of each team.
Once other teams become familiar with the Warriors' offensive routines and make corresponding arrangements, it will be unrealistic for the Warriors to rely solely on offense to resolve the battle.
In fact, it is impossible for any strong team to win the championship by relying solely on offense or defense.
Defense and offense always complement each other. Without a good offense, your defense cannot be very good.
On the offensive end, it fails to make shots or always makes mistakes and is counterattacked by the opponent. How good can such a team be defensively?
Similarly, if you don't have a good defense, you will always be attacked by your opponent and forced to grind down your position, and your offense will not be very good.
The Warriors' current defense is pretty good, generally in the middle of the league.
Due to the limitations of the players' abilities, the offensive end is basically like this.
Therefore, if you want to further improve the team's strength, you must find a good defensive coach and train the team's defense well.
Also, a senior assistant coach can remind Deng Fang when he makes mistakes and becomes confused.
To be honest, Hunter, the current team's chief assistant coach, isn't that bad.
However, Hunter's qualifications are too young, and his research on defense is no better than Deng Fang's.
More importantly, Hunter was not Deng Fang's confidant.
Once the emperor and once the courtiers, this sentence would be good.
Generally speaking, a team's coaching team is centered on the head coach.
As long as the head coach is changed, if nothing else happens, most of the coaching team will be purged.
There is no way, everyone wants to use their own people, so that they can get used to it and it will be easy to use!
Therefore, the coaching staff are very protective of the head coach.
Because his job means his own job!
It was agreed upon when the contract was signed that if Deng Fang is still the head coach of the team after ten games, then Deng Fang will have the right to decide whether or not to leave the coaching staff.
In fact, Deng Fang had no objection to Hunter and others.
He just wants to find a more powerful assistant who will listen to him more.
General manager Tim also knew the name of Ron Adams, so he was not surprised that Deng Fang wanted to invite him.
Deng Fang's performance is indeed very impressive, but he is young after all. Pairing him with an older and experienced assistant coach will only benefit the team, and there will be no disadvantages.
However, Ron Adams is under a contract now. If the Warriors have to dig him up, they have to want to come and the Thunder will release him.
Of course, the main reason is that Ron Adams wanted to come.
As long as he wants to come to the Warriors, the Thunder will not force him to keep him.
A tough melon is not sweet, and this principle applies everywhere.
The question is why should Ron Adams come to the Warriors?
Tim hesitated, frowned and replied: "Ron Adams is indeed good, but now that the season has started, what can we do to convince him?"
Deng Fang smiled slightly and said: "Money! Champion! Hometown!"
