Legendary Basketball Tycoon

"The prince is like this. I heard General Manager Mickey say that the team will change the head coach next season. I want to know who will coach the team?!"

In fact, this is also the reason why Kobe stayed in the conference room all the time. He wanted to know who the prince would invite to coach, is it an ordinary head coach or a famous coach? !

When Bruce heard that Kobe was looking for him because of this, he immediately understood what Kobe meant.

"Then what kind of coach are you looking for to coach the Han people?!" Bruce asked with a smile.

He turned this question back to Kobe, and let Kobe choose what kind of coach, of course, if Kobe has the right blues, he will also use it as a reference.

"Mike Krzyzewski of Duke University, he is one of the best head coaches in the NCAA, and I believe he is also the coach that fits the Han Chinese team best."

Mike Krzyzewski, nicknamed "Old Coach K", is currently the head coach of Duke University and one of the top ten NCAA coaches. As for his information, please click on Baidu. I will not introduce them here. Up.

In fact, Kobe thought about the head coach when Mitch Kupchak reported yesterday's conflict to the prince. If the prince asked him for his opinion, it would be the old K coach of Duke University. Apart from him, Kobe couldn't think of other coaches coming for a while. After all, if he chose college last year, he would definitely go to Duke University to join the old K coach, because the old K coach really wants to recruit him.

This matter is as Kobe said, the old K coach did recruit Kobe.

Duke, for new fans who are not familiar with the history of the NCAA, these two words are probably a typical concept of a famous basketball school, and the truth is also true: in the history of the NCAA, Duke has won a total of 5 NCAA championships ( Second only to UCLA, Kentucky and North Carolina), reached the finals 11 times (the third in history), reached the final four 16 times (still second only to the above three schools), and has the highest winning rate of 75.5% in the NCAA National Championship.

Duke is very good and powerful, but what most people can't imagine is that at the 1996 node before the Kobe draft, Duke was actually just an NCAA upstart. Before 1980, Duke had always been a small NCAA running role in the team history for more than 70 years. Most of the time, they would be eliminated directly in the small division and rarely entered the national championship. There are only 15 players in the team history who have entered the NBA, most of which are dragons.

It is the well-known old K coach that makes Duke from a big belly to a powerful. It is worth mentioning here that NCAA players are all directly recruited from schools for high schools. Famous basketball schools have their own advantages, and non-prestigious schools can only take the mass line first and slowly develop relationships. The old coach K also did it back then. In the first three years of his coaching, Duke's record was also very mediocre, but starting from the fourth year, Duke completed the accumulation and recruited the first super rookie Danny Ferry in the history of the team.

Ferry later became synonymous with the second place in the NBA, but in high school, he was a world-renowned first-class center in the United States. After he got him, Duke began to consolidate his position in the NCAA, and can basically enter the championship steadily. In the following years, with the improvement of the team's record, Duke also began to have an advantage in recruiting. Players like Christian Lightner and Grant Hill began to gradually form a relay chain, allowing Duke to remain good. Combat effectiveness.

And Kobe, it is the next successor on the chain in K's heart.

As we all know, when Kobe emerged in high school, the original template was not Jordan, but Grant Hill. After Hill announced his candidacy in 1994, Duke had a superstar vacuum for just one year. At that time, Coach K had a back surgery to solve the pain that had been plagued him. He missed most of the coaching games and recruited players. Something went wrong. The preferred target Vince Carter was hijacked by North Carolina. As a result, Duke's record in the 1994-95 and 1995-96 seasons plunged, and it could only maintain a 50% winning percentage.

Therefore, in 1996, Bryant became the savior that Duke University and the old K wanted most. Before Kobe made the final decision to go to college or draft, the old K coach always hoped to recruit Kobe to become Hill’s successor. . But in the end, Kobe decided to bring his talent directly into the NBA, and this decision also had a profound impact on both Kobe and Duke.

It can be said that if Kobe continues to play at Duke University for 4 years, then the four-year NCAA championship will basically not fall behind other giants. Kobe was like that at the time, even Wake Forest University with Tim Duncan could not stop it. The dream of living in Duke's four-year residence.

But then again, Kobe will have to fail to go to Duke University, otherwise Kobe will not be able to get the draft pick last year, so he has to rely on the No. 1 pick.

(Duke University is indeed a very powerful university, and similarly, some Chinese players will join this university. As for who they are, we will wait and see.)

When Bruce heard that Kobe chose the old coach K, he suddenly got a big head. Didn’t he know what the old coach K has. During the Olympic Games, he can sit on the bench and drink health tea without calling a timeout. The master of the game to the end, who invited such a great head coach to come!

Kobe is completely standing and talking, but you don't have a backache. If you have the ability, please go and ask. You can ask Laozi with your surname!

In the basketball world, Bruce has only admired three people. One is the "Cardinal" Reid Auerbach who brought the Celtics into the giants, and the other is the shrewd, capable and discerning Lakers general manager "LOGO Man". Lee West, the last one is Mike Krzyzewski, the "old K coach" who often doubles as the American men's basketball dream team.

But coach K is really not interested in NBA coaching.

Then some people may ask: Why doesn't the old K go coaching in the NBA? I think it would be better to say, why do you want to coach in the NBA?

First, the NBA is a business league. Since it is a business league, winning is not the most important thing, but making money is the most important thing. So the star is the biggest. Big-name players who don't like any coach will get fired, and similarly, no coach can win a championship without a star coach. On the contrary, the coach in college basketball is the most important, and a university can fire the president, but not a successful coach. That is, here, old K is God.

Second, I can enjoy the pleasure of coaching more in the NCAA. Players here can only play for 4 years at most, and they are not paid. The only thing they can do is to sweat and win. In such a good atmosphere, the coaches can better instill their basketball concepts into the players, explore more freely in tactics and enjoy the pleasure of teaching in a variety of ways.

Instead of you, would you still choose to coach in the NBA?

"Carrot and cabbage, each has their own love." The old coach K who coached at Duke University is very happy here. Many of his former lovers have become NBA superstars. Therefore, there is no need for him to pass the NBA. To prove their worth.

So after Bruce heard that Kobe chose to let old K to be the head coach, Bruce thought it was too unrealistic. Coach K would definitely not be able to come. After all, it’s not that no NBA team has invited him. People still don’t go. What can I do with him!