Chapter 772: Ordinary Heart

"I'm Gan Liliang!"

In the morning, Li Liang woke up from his sleep and couldn't help cursing angrily.

The player who slept in the same room as Li Liang was the player Waiters. He woke up a little earlier than Li Liang, and when he heard Li Liang curse, he asked, "What's the matter, Bruce, did you have a nightmare?"

Li Liang got up from the bed and said, "No, it's more terrifying than a nightmare."

"Oh, really? So what did you dream about?"

"I dreamed about Kobe."

"Oh, that's pretty scary." Waiters shrugged, a weird look on his face.

The two were teammates for a short time with the Pacers before Waiters was traded to the Thunder.

In terms of personality, Waiters is a carefree player, a bit fearless.

So he didn't have any pressure to sleep in the same room with Li Liang.

And as a former younger brother, Waiters occasionally helped Li Liang carry his bag, so although he was careless, he was actually quite discerning.

After washing up a bit and going to the hotel restaurant for breakfast, Li Liang was a little out of his mind.

Last night, during the task of coaching the Los Angeles Lakers, Li Liangcai felt for the first time that being a head coach is really not that easy.

The biggest difference between being a player and being a coach is that in the final analysis, a player is playing on the court, can control the ball, and is the final winner of the game.

And when you are a coach, no matter what skills you have on the court in the past, you have thousands of holes in your chest, and you have thousands of wisdom, you can only stand on the sidelines and stare blankly.

Obviously seeing an opportunity, some people just don't pass it on.

Even if the pass was passed, he couldn't make the shot if someone was there, making Li Liang stomp his feet anxiously on the sidelines.

In last night's game, Li Liang saw the performance of the Lakers outsiders Kobe, Jones, and Van Exel, and scolded ten thousand times in his heart, "Switch to me, I already put the ball in!"

Especially Kobe, who made 0 of 6 outside three-pointers!

Four of them were non-stick, and Li Liang was about to explode at that time.

When he was a teammate, Kobe Tie Liliang didn't feel much, because he could get it back.

If I can't make a shot, I will shoot, or I will grab offensive rebounds.

But being a coach is not enough, you can't do anything, you can only cover your face.

This is really too painful for Li Liang. There is no difference between the 18-year-old Corvo and the 38-year-old him.

If you can't make it, you have to make it, until you make it.

Unfortunately, in this game, he was not given a chance to score.

As the head coach, Li Liang made a lot of defensive arrangements.

But he found that it was useless, because the players started to play according to the habit after they got on the court for a while.

I think so, training on weekdays, running in more than 80 games in the regular season, and in the playoffs, you want them to play the defensive targets and defensive strategies that they have never played before. It is really difficult for them.

Besides, at the Utah Jazz's Triangle Center in 1997, Li Liang's voice was hoarse from the sidelines and his ears were deafened by the level of noise.

In the end, the Lakers players were lost in the tsunami in the center of the triangle.

Li Liang finally understood that before he thought he could be a coach, it was just an illusion.

In the presence of a head coach, he can use his personal ability and basketball wisdom to supplement.

Once there is no head coach and he cannot play himself, there is no way to organize a team.

Being a coach is not that easy.

So, when he met Mike Brown in the hotel restaurant, Brown's image in Li Liang's eyes suddenly became bigger.

This smiling fat man turned out to be the NBA champion coach. Even if he hadn't won a championship before the Lakers, his achievements in the Cavaliers were very, very impressive.

"Mike, Mike!" Li Liang approached Brown with his breakfast and took the initiative to strike up a conversation with him.

"Oh Bruce, did you sleep well last night?" Brown asked.

"No, I dreamed... oh, I dreamed I was the head coach."

Brown frowned and said, "I didn't ask you to practice this."

Li Liang waved his hand and said, "I didn't practice, I was dreaming!" Damn, did Mike Brown know that I was training in my dream?

Brown said: "I think about it every day and dream about it at night. Maybe you have been sitting on the bench for a long time, so you will dream about being a coach."

Brown's explanation was quite perfect, but Li Liang was not joking with him.

"Mike, let me ask you, how did you coach in the first place?" Li Liang has an advantage, so he is not ashamed to ask!

If the system can solve it, he will solve it in the system. Even in the system, he is not ashamed to ask. When practicing, if there is something he can't understand, he will ask and learn.

Now he feels that there are some things he can't learn in the system, so he has to ask Mike Brown.

Brown said: "I went to the Nuggets in 1993 to work as a video editor. I paid for it at my own expense. I was an intern. I watched game videos every day and studied basketball games. Then I worked for four years. In 1997, I was hired and went to Washington as an assistant coach. , I learned from scratch. Then I went to the Spurs, went to Indiana, worked as an assistant coach for 7 years, and finally applied for the head coach. What happened to Bruce? You are still early, and you will be a coach after you retire. But I think you may not be suitable as a coach."

Li Liang was a little puzzled, "Why?"

Brown said: "Your court ability is too strong, basically no one can meet your requirements, because your requirements are set according to your own standards. For example, two steps away from the three-point line, no one in front of you, you may Hope he shoots right away, you can do it. But your players can't do it, they can't do it, you're going to be mad, you're going to be in a hurry, you're going to be like, 'This is a bunch of shit, something as simple as that Can’t do it.’ But that’s how coaches are, sometimes you have to treat players like idiots and sometimes they’re God, and it’s hard for someone like you to adapt and just treat them like idiots.”

It was the first time for Li Liang to hear Brown say such words that touched his heart.

The main reason is that Li Liang's experience last night was exactly like what Brown said. He felt that the Lakers' outsiders were idiots.

Especially that number 8!

Seeing that Li Liang was silent, Brown added: "Coaching is a hard job. I stayed in Denver for four years, editing videos, and my eyes were almost blind. Four years, look at you, four years have won everything that can be won. Yes, I'm still watching the video."

To be honest, Brown’s experience is very inspirational. To go to an internship at his own expense and not to pay for it, and then gain a firm foothold in the relatively exclusive circle of the NBA, he must rely on his own perseverance and a little talent.

Li Liang thought about it, and said: "Then Mike, if I want to be a head coach, should I let myself be an ordinary player first?"

Brown didn't know why Li Liang said such strange words, he said: "In theory, it is so, but you are not an ordinary player, you want to be the best in history."

In fact, Li Liang knew that he used to be an ordinary player, no, he was not ordinary, he was not qualified by NBA standards.

During his four years in Kentucky, he should have a full understanding of the psychology of ordinary players.

But in the past three or four years of NBA experience, he has continued to improve in the system, winning one after another, champions one after another, and has become a history-making, maverick superstar. "I forgot all about it.

Li Liang thought for a while and decided that his performance on the court should not deteriorate, but he wanted to get back his ordinary heart.

Not only to complete the task of coaching, he felt that it would be beneficial to his career and the improvement of his ability.