The Basketball Court Swordsman

Bird knew that Henson had so much potential as a coach, but he didn’t expect the kid to adapt so quickly. Just sitting by Frank Vogel and listening to the half of the game, Henson probably knew what a coach should do in a game.

Bird did intend to train Henson, but he was not in a hurry. If he can, he hopes Henson will start with an assistant coach. After all, Henson has only been in basketball for two years. His experience is not rich enough, and most importantly, his contacts are not broad enough.

Now the entire coaching staff is left behind by Bird’s predecessor, Donnie Walsh, and Bird also wants to insert his own hand in. Henson is undoubtedly the guy who helped Bird take the lead. Although he still has a lot to learn, Bird still has expectations of Henson.

After becoming the temporary assistant coach of the summer league team, Henson unlocked another achievement: as an assistant coach.

If Henson knew that being an assistant coach can also unlock achievements, he would definitely have already tried every means to go to the position of assistant coach. Although Henson couldn’t check the total number of achievements in the data analysis module, after the third achievement was achieved, he could probably guess the standard of achievement.

The first time I achieved an achievement by myself, I saved my scout job. The second achievement was the successful selection of Bird’s favorite player. And this third achievement is because he became an assistant coach, well, although it is a temporary assistant coach.

These three things may seem unrelated, but they are actually milestones in Henson’s career. As long as you think of ways to do your job better, you can get more rewards. Byrd made him a temporary teaching assistant so soon, it must be related to the increase in the trust of Bird by Henson the first two times. So these rewards are actually quite practical for Henson.

After achieving the achievement this time, Henson wanted to upgrade the “Excellent Employee” medal once, but because the three optional rewards appeared randomly, he was not so lucky this time.

Medal: Loyal Warrior Level 1: Player loyalty increases by 10% during contract negotiation.

Medal: Negotiation Expert Level 1: Increase the success rate of transactions by 10%.

Medal: Strengthen the potential level 1: Increase the player’s potential mining speed by 10%.

The three medals this time did not seem to be of direct help to Henson. After all, I am still just a scout, even if I have already entered the coaching staff, he is only a temporary assistant in the summer league, not a serious coach at all. Henson still doesn’t need such things as contract negotiations and player transactions.

So this time he chose the third medal, strengthening the potential level 1. The effect of this medal will not change a player’s strength, but it will allow him to improve faster and reach the peak earlier.

Henson thought that after choosing this medal, everyone in his team would be able to tap the potential faster. But after selecting the reward, the medal has been shown as ready to use.

Henson then discovered that this medal can only be applied to one player. This is a bit embarrassing. It can only be used on one player. Who should use it?

To say who is the most qualified to use this medal in this team, it is undoubtedly Zhu Holledi. Don’t look at this guy almost falling out of the lottery zone, but the potential is one of the highest among the 2009 rookies. There is no one in this Pacers team that has more potential than Holiday.

But even so, Henson did not use up the medal, but saved it.

Holiday is indeed very potential, but his upper limit is foreseeable by Henson. If the data analysis module does not make a mistake, then the All-Star should be the upper limit of the kid Holledi. An All-Star player is important, but it cannot change the destiny of the Pacers.

So Henson intends to keep this medal and use it when the Pacers choose a player who can truly become a superstar. Huo Ledi, let him develop slowly.

After studying how to use his rewards, Henson also invested in learning to become a basketball coach.

When it was all right, Henson basically shut himself up in a hotel room to read. In places like the United States, it is not difficult to find teaching materials for basketball coaches. Moreover, Vogel came all the way from a layman. Knowing that Henson was really interested in being a coach, Vogel also very enthusiastically recommended many of Henson’s teaching materials.

Looking at the pile of books on the table in his room, Henson didn’t have a headache, but was extremely excited. He is very willing to plunge into the basketball world depicted in the book. With Henson’s clever mind and his previous understanding of basketball, it is not difficult for Henson to understand the things in the book.

But being a head coach is not a test of civil servants. This is always a very practical job. In addition to reading books, Henson follows Vogel every day to see how he trains the team, how he arranges and arranges rotation. Vogel is different from Posey. Both have been with O’Brien for a long time. Posey seems to have made no progress, but Vogel has almost been able to stand alone.

See how well he arranges the summer league team, we know that Vogel does have the strength to become a head coach. After all, when he was still a young man, he began to study every day and set this goal as his goal. The accumulation of so many years is not for Xiao Xu.

When there were games, Henson and Vogel’s cooperation became more and more tacit. Vogel has been unable to speak recently, Henson is his microphone, and you can always hear the Chinese teaching assistant yelling on the sidelines.

He has become more mature in the position of assistant coach, and from time to time he can give Vogel some very useful advice, especially on offense. Dennis Posey, the Pacers’ real offensive coach, often sits on the bench for 48 minutes and does nothing. It seemed that Posey looked more like a rookie coach.

After the summer league played three more games, three games, Henson has begun to adapt to the position of assistant coach, and gradually familiar with the players. This guy seems to be able to get along with the players very easily. After all, he is less than 30 years old and is indeed very young for a coach.

In early July, the summer league is gradually coming to an end. So far, the Pacers still maintained a record of victory. Holiday and Danny Green are even more eye-catching.

Of course, in addition to these two young players, Vogel and Henson are also praised by Bird.

I thought that the entire summer league would pass so calmly. Until July 2nd, against Oklahoma, Henson found another incredible guy.

James Harden, the genius that Henson had known for a long time, was naturally the most dazzling star of the game. This guy is growing very fast, and his multiple abilities have improved a lot from the first time Henson saw him.

In the game, Harden is also the main attack point of the Thunder. Even if Henson asked Danny Green to guard against Harden, the effect was not enough.

However, in today’s game, it was not Harden that caught Henson’s eye most, nor was it Holliday, who had always been very stable, but James Harden’s substitute, a senior from Marquette University who lost the draft. , Wesley Matthews!

In the third quarter, the Pacers trailed by 2 points. Vogel intended to take advantage of Harden’s absence to reverse the score, but Matthews two calm bottom corner shots, but doubed the momentum of the Pacers counterattack.

After Matthews scored the second three-pointer, Holiday and Danny Green played a very classic breakthrough point match. Holiday hits the basket to attract the defense, and then divides the ball in the crowd for Green to score easily.

But surprisingly, Wesley Matthews was very active to make up, interfered with Danny Green’s shooting, causing the latter to miss all sights.

The aggressiveness and calmness that this guy showed on the defensive end is even stronger than James Harden’s high-profile probe in Henson’s view!

Henson looked at it attentively. Sure enough, Matthews and Green are of the same type, able to shoot three-pointers and defend. The most important thing is that Matthews has an A-level potential! You know, Holiday’s potential is only A-!

Although the level of potential does not represent the strength of a player, after all, the “base” of Matthews is far inferior to those of Hollodi and others. But according to Henson’s calculation, even if Matthews cannot become a superstar, he is definitely not just a loser. If he can sign this guy, he may be able to form a strong defensive wing with Green!

“Did you see that guy’s performance?” Seeing Green miss the ball, Henson smiled instead, as if he had discovered a new treasure.

“Is Harden? It still needs to be watched?” Vogel waved his hand, searching flowers is searching flowers. Today’s game is the most difficult game since the Pacers summer league.

“No, I’m talking about Harden’s substitute, the guy named Matthews.”

Although he became a temporary assistant, Henson still has a scout’s heart. It seems that after the draft, Henson had to give Bird another scout report.