The Strongest Bishop in the NBA

"Shocked! Wang Xiao issued a declaration that if I become the coach of the national team, I will bring the Huaxia men's basketball team the World Cup and Olympic champions!"

"Whimsical or well-thought-out? After pre-booking the NBA championship, Wang Xiao pre-booked the Men's Basketball World Cup champion and the Olympic champion again!"

"Wang Xiao, an amazing coach who never lacks topics and controversies!"

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After the relevant reports after the press conference interview were released, the content of the interview not only did not satisfy the fans, but they became more curious and expectant.

Can Wang Xiao's wild words be fulfilled? Can he really lead the Huaxia men's basketball team to the level of world champion?

On the other hand, Wang Xiao dared to speak so boldly. From another perspective, would it appear that the previous head coaches of the Huaxia men's basketball team were incompetent?

However, what Wang Xiao wanted was this effect.

The situation of the national team is very complicated. It is not enough to simply have ability and ability. If you say something wrong, you may offend some people. Compared with offending those high-level basketball associations, the risk of offending the coach is smaller. a lot of.

So at yesterday's press conference, Wang Xiao avoided talking about the Basketball Association, and his evaluation of the members of the national team was relatively positive, such as great potential and full of hard work.

After some high-spirited talk, the only person who might be offended is the head coach of the Huaxia Men's Basketball Team, Deng Huade.

After all, Wang Xiao claims to be able to lead his team to win the championship. No matter whether he can really do it or not, it will highlight the incompetence of Deng Huade, who was completely defeated in the group stage of the London Olympics.

As for offending Deng Huade, Wang Xiao didn't care much.

As an NBA champion bishop, Wang Xiao's career resume is much more luxurious than that of Deng Huade. He even dares to turn against Pat Riley, an old monster at the level of NBA godfather, so he is afraid of Deng Huade?

Besides, Deng Huade is not in the mood to pay attention to these trivial "little things" now.

The Chinese men's basketball coach Deng Huade, who went to the London Olympics, resigned as the head coach of the national team after the team was defeated in the group stage.

The so-called resignation is just a nice wording. In fact, even if Deng Huade does not resign, the Basketball Association will absolutely not tolerate a coach who led the team to an all-Olympic defeat to continue to serve. Letting the other party resign voluntarily is just the last bit of face for the other party. .

To put it bluntly, Deng Huade was kicked out by the Basketball Association because of his poor team leadership performance.

Now the most serious problem Deng Huade faces is where to work next.

As far as Wang Xiao knows, after resigning from the position of head coach of the national team in 2012, Deng Huade once said that he was tired and wanted to rest for a while. In the following two years, he did not serve in any professional basketball team until 2014. It was announced to coach the Iowa Energy team of the NBDL league.

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Wang Xiao inevitably became the most topical person in China again. Many people admired Wang Xiao's courage and self-confidence, and even more people hated Wang Xiao's arrogance and boastfulness.

But in any case, when these remarks spread with the media's propaganda, the pressure came to the Basketball Association.

Previously, the Basketball Association could use various reasons to explain why it did not invite Wang Xiao to coach. For example, it believed that Wang Xiao was too young.

Another example is that Wang Xiao has always worked in the NBA team, and can only rely on the NBA's short offseason to train with the national team, and cannot wholeheartedly focus on training the Huaxia men's basketball team.

Although these reasons are not convincing to the majority of Huaxia fans, they can at least barely explain the past.

But it's different now.

The fiasco of the London Olympics made the Basketball Association feel pressured. They had to find some scapegoats to share the pressure. Deng Huade was one of them, but the biggest and fattest scapegoat.

Regardless of whether Deng Huade was fired or resigned on his own initiative, it can be directly explained that the disastrous defeat of the Huaxia men's basketball team has a lot to do with the head coach's tactical arrangement.

So here comes the question, the fiasco of the London Olympics was due to the lack of coaching skills, so why not just hire a coach who thinks the coaching level is high enough?

At this moment, Wang Xiao jumped out, patted his chest, bragged without flashing his tongue, and vowed: "I can lead the Huaxia men's basketball team to win the Olympic championship!"

This is no longer something that the Basketball Association can unilaterally pretend to be deaf and dumb and fool around!

However, making Wang Xiao the head coach of the national team is not just a matter of just saying a few words. There are many things involved. Wang Xiao is not a foreigner. He is a Chinese but does not belong to any faction. More importantly, The rights he asked for were too great, to put it bluntly, it was almost a seizure of power, and it was a very important right!

If the Basketball Association can agree smoothly, then there will be a problem!

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When the Basketball Association was overwhelmed and felt a headache about how to respond to the media's questions about Wang Xiao, Wang Xiao had already boarded the plane to the United States.

The preseason will start in early October, and around mid-September, he needs to return to the team to prepare for the start of the new season!

Unlike last season, this season's Wizards team is a championship team. When they won the O'Brien Cup, the whole team shouldered a heavy burden, and that was defending the title!

For any championship team, failure to defend the title in the new season is a failure.

Of course, like the Mavericks in 2011, the Celtics in 2008 are different. Both teams are full of veterans, and the only goal is to win the championship. After winning the championship, the fighting spirit of the veterans will drop to a level. There are two completely different mentalities when there is a champion in hand and when there is no championship.

The Wizards are not an older team, and they are even considered the youngest team in the league.

What Wang Xiao needs to worry about is not their self-motivation, because none of them, including Curry George, has received a big contract. In order to get a big contract after the rookie contract ends, they will go all out in every game and every training.

The real concern is something else.

It is not easy to win the O'Brien Cup. Many players have pursued it for a lifetime, such as Malone, Barkley, Iverson and other superstars.

They won the championship at such a young age, it is inevitable that they will develop arrogance, relax too much in the game or underestimate their opponents.

Arrogance is the first of the seven deadly sins.

Arrogance is unavoidable for everyone in the world. As long as one is a human being and lives in this world, such emotions are unavoidable, and the same is true for Wang Xiao.

Publicly declaring in front of the media that they can lead the Huaxia men's basketball team to win the World Cup and the Olympic Games, this arrogant statement is arrogant, even if it includes Wang Xiao's plan to test the pressure of the Basketball Association, it cannot be denied.

Compared with the arrogance of speech, the arrogance of behavior is more deadly, because it will make the Wizards lose the game that they should not lose, and it will make it difficult for them to defend the championship.

Don't take this as an exaggeration.

Counting down the past 50 years of the NBA, there have only been 10 consecutive championships, including the Bulls who won three consecutive championships twice, the Lakers who won three consecutive championships once, and only the Lakers who won two consecutive championships in 1988 and the Pistons in 1990 , the Rockets in 1995, the Lakers in 2010, the Heat in 2013 and the Warriors in 2018.

50 years represents 50 championship trophies, and only 10 teams in different time periods can win it consecutively.

What causes this? Strength, injuries, luck, etc. may have some influence, but arrogance is definitely the most influential among them.

Wang Xiao understands this very well, and also knows how serious the consequences will be if such an atmosphere spreads in the team's locker room.

So after he returned to the team, the first problem he had to solve was how to kill the arrogance of the players that might not yet sprout in the cradle!