The Clippers Base is located in the Playa area, four miles from Los Angeles International Airport. It is surrounded by the sea on three sides and backed by the Intercontinental Expressway. It is extremely convenient to travel and can also go to the beach to see beautiful women. It has only been put into use recently.

Su Yang leaned over to park the car, looked at the training base with the speedboat shape, closed the car door and walked in.

After checking the appointment, the staff took him to a glass wall reception room.

He came a little early, and the person in charge of the interview had not arrived yet, so he had to read the news related to the Clippers in the newspaper.

Last season, the Clippers rarely entered the second round of the Western Conference playoffs and lost to the Suns 3-4. Boss Sterling was quite happy. Unfortunately, this season, due to injuries, Cassel and Livingston played fewer games. The Clippers missed the playoffs at the last moment. Boss Sterling was so angry that he scolded everyone in the team as a bunch of waste.

Despite the objective factors of injury, the outside world agreed that the bigger reason for the Clippers' failure to enter the playoffs is that the old coach Dunleavy's tactical system is too backward and he deliberately imitates the triangular offense, hoping to prepare in advance for meeting the Lakers in the playoffs.

The Clippers' triangular offensive attempts were obviously failed, but the old coach Dunleavy believed that some games were lost because of the poor work of tactical scouts, which led to some games where the Clippers failed to keep up with the opponent's adjustments and lost many times.

According to the speech at the season summary meeting of Dunleavy, as long as he wins two more games, he will not be ninth in the West.

Perhaps because of this reason, after the end of the season, all the people who were originally responsible for tactical scouts of the Clippers were fired.

This is how scouts work. If you do well, you have no credit or reputation. If you do not do well, you are easy to take the blame. When you encounter a team that is not so professional, you are sometimes responsible for player inspections and sometimes you are responsible for tactical reconnaissance work, flying everywhere all year round.

After waiting for more than half an hour, the sound of footsteps finally sounded. Su Yang subconsciously looked up and saw a middle-aged, long-nosed white man walking over. Following him was a bald white old man, who was actually the head coach of the Clippers.

I thought it was just the scout manager responsible for the interview, but I didn't expect the Clippers to take it so seriously.

"Hello, I am Neil Ossi, assistant to the general manager. This is our head coach and general manager, Mr. Mike Dunleavy. You should be Su Yang, right?" The long-nosed man raised his hand to introduce, and suddenly his eyes were staring at Su Yang.

Su Yang was about to shake hands, but Ossi said in surprise: "Have someone else said you are a bit like that handsome star..."

"There were times when they were as good at discovering and praising me like you..." Su Yang smiled, "I'm glad to meet the two of you, thank you for taking the time to interview me."

Old Dunleavy didn't chew, Osie waved her hand and sat straight on the sofa: "Don't be nervous, let's sit down and chat."

Su Yang sat down and Osie crossed her legs: "Do you know? I grew up in Flushing, New York. There are many Chinese people in that place. I often go to Chinese restaurants to eat, and now I can use chopsticks."

Flushing is a famous gathering place for Chinese people. The first Internet celebrity Feng Jie worked as a manicurist there, and Su Yang has a little understanding of it.

He was about to respond when Old Dunleavy suddenly said: "Let's go straight to the topic. You mentioned in your resume of applying for scouts that you have profound research on drafts in the next few years and can maximize the draft effect of each team."

Su Yang nodded. Old Dunleavy's mouth curled slightly, and a smug smile appeared, as if the plan had succeeded.

"But I don't want to discuss that rookie will perform better, because that's something that hasn't happened yet and cannot be verified for the time being, just like there's always someone who says Durant will be better than Oden in the future, and that's completely indistinguishable from right or wrong.

You hear it clearly, my question is, if you were asked to return to the 1984 draft show, how would you persuade the then Trail Blazers general manager to give up choosing Sam Bowie and choose Michael Jordan instead?"

After Dunleavy finished speaking, he looked at his watch and seemed to have something urgent.

Ossi turned his head to Su Yang, smiling professionally to encourage him, with a slight comfort in his eyes.

Su Yang didn't expect to ask this question. He was a little surprised and then turned his head to think about organizing the language.

During the 1984 draft, Stu Inman, the then general manager of the Trail Blazers, rejected his friend Bobby Knight's suggestion to choose Jordan to play center, and insisted on choosing Bowie, who had been seriously injured in college, which became a famous joke event in draft history.

The Trail Blazers made that choice at that time mainly because the team already had a potential point guard like Drexler, and only one big man who could guard the inside line was missing. If Olajuwon was not selected, Bowie became the primary option.

It was quite reasonable to make that choice at that time, because even the Bulls didn't expect Jordan to be so powerful.

If we want to dissuade the pioneers in the future, we can only focus on the loopholes in the investigation of the pioneers at that time.

"I will tell them that Sam Bowie is pretending to be cured of his injury..." Su Yang spoke slowly.

Before the 1984 draft, the Trail Blazers team doctor examined Bowie's injury, but Bowie was worried about losing the election, so he endured the pain during the examination and said that there was no problem. At that time, medical testing methods were relatively backward, so the Trail Blazers team doctor was foolishly deceived.

"I will also tell them that the Bulls didn't want to choose Bowie. The news published in the Chicago newspapers was all fake news released by the Bulls. The Bulls were very afraid that they would choose Jordan in advance with the second pick..."

Before the draft in 1984, the Bulls conducted a lot of investigations on Jordan, and even let their scouts enter the North Carolina training ground through private relationships, observe Jordan's performance for a long time, and are very optimistic about Jordan's future potential.

But many hardcore fans with season tickets from the Bulls called the Bulls' general manager of sales, hoping to choose Bowie. The Bulls management took the fans' opinions as a guise and pretended to want Bowie very much, successfully confusing the Trail Blazers.

"I will also take the example of the Rockets having center Ralph Sampson, but chose Olajuwon, emphasizing that the strongest one should be selected for the draft. Even if it is temporarily incompatible, it can also be traded in the subsequent process. After all, the team's cornerstone for the championship in the next ten years is more important than the temporary record. There were many cases before 1984, so we must compete for the upper limit!"

Of course, the draft must be the strongest choice. You must not have the Kings. Because you are worried that the main point guard Fox is unhappy, you can let go of the tragedy of super rookie Doncic. That is really sad for those who see it, and those who hear it cry, which is quite miserable.

After Su Yang finished speaking, he looked at Dunleavy and waited for comment.

Dunleavy did not speak, but Ossi said with a smile: "We have discussed this question before. Some of your answers are consistent with our ideas. This question mainly tests your intelligence collection and language organization skills. I think you have a better answer, what about you?"

Osie turned her head and looked at Dunleavy. Dunleavy had not responded for a long time, and he held his hands together, as if he was thinking about something.

The atmosphere in the reception room became a little awkward, and Su Yang used his brain to take the initiative to talk about some interesting topics.

Suddenly, Dunleavy raised his eyebrows and said, "Talk about triangle offense. Do you think Kobe and Jordan are necessary options for triangle offense tactics? Without Jordan and Kobe, could the triangle offense tactics play such a big role?"

Hearing this, Su Yang thought to himself why the problem span was so big, but this was very familiar, so he spoke immediately.

"Triangle offense emphasizes that every player on the field reads and acts on the game format. There are four basic playing styles such as Low    Post and Corner    PNR, which is a dynamic offensive system with strong low-post players as the axis...

Therefore, powerful low-post players like Kobe and Jordan who can pass and play are necessary options for triangular offense. Without those players with strong low-post strength, triangular offense will be difficult to achieve the desired effect..."

Dunleavy interrupted and said, "Do you agree with the outside world's evaluation of our attempt at a triangular offense?"

Su Yang was stunned for a moment. He didn't know much about Dunleavy's personality. He only knew that the other party's performance in leading the team was average and his coaching style was poor. He didn't know if the other party had enough intentions to admit his failure in private, especially in this interview environment.

To be honest, it may make Dunleavy unhappy, and even affect the interview results, resulting in the previous efforts being in vain.

This problem can be said around, such as it is difficult to see results in a season, it takes more time to observe and run-in, etc.

But if he talks around or lies, he is not used to it, so at most he can change the statement with a higher emotional intelligence.

After thinking for a while, Su Yang smiled and said, "I think the Clippers are not suitable for triangular offense at the moment, because..."

He wanted to explain the reasons in detail, but Dunleavy rushed to say: "Where do you think we are suitable for what tactics? Or, what kind of tactical system do you want to design for the current Clippers? You have to explain the conclusions and reasons clearly."

This question is very big and broad, and it will definitely not be finished in a while, and it is difficult to describe in detail if you just talk about it.

But even if you spend a few hours and equipped with various tools to explain clearly, it may lose its effect due to off-season trading.

In short, it is very inappropriate to ask for an interview with an unpaid scout in this kind of interview.

Su Yang glanced at Dunleavy and found that the other party did not want to hear the answer, and seemed a little angry.

After weighing the trade-offs, he said: "The current tactical system is very good. As long as you strengthen the point guard and spend a while to make up for the impact of Livingston's injury, the Clippers are still strong contenders in the playoffs..."

This is his true words, because the Clippers mainly engage in routine offenses, with Elton Brand as the core, and launch tactics through various combinations. The overall basketball IQ of the whole team is not enough to implement the dynamic system tactics of triangular offense for a long time.

As long as you can be disciplined and attack and defend seriously, the Clippers can indeed occupy a place in the playoffs.

Of course, the upper limit will be relatively low, but that is not because the tactical system is not good, but because the player's strength is just that.

"Okay! Go back and wait for the notification!"

Dunleavy said a word, got up and walked out of the reception room quickly, as if he was unwilling to stay for a second.

"I'll go out with you, let's talk again..." Ossi raised his hand and signaled.

Hearing this, Su Yang knew that ninety-nine percent was cold, so he immediately stood up and walked towards the door.

The two walked side by side, walking all the way to the base gate, Osie smiled and waved goodbye.

Su Yang walked out of the base, came to Mazda and stopped, touched his pocket and took out a bag of Zhongnanhai.

When he lit a cigarette, he complained in his heart: "This is too sudden. The assistant general manager and the head coach were there at the same time. He thought he was very optimistic about me, but the interview process was less than ten minutes, so he was having fun? No wonder it has been so bad for so many years!"

The only interview that he had failed in two months was waiting for. He was unwilling to accept it, but he didn't think much about it, and it was over.

Just as we were about to think about what to do next, the ringtone of the phone rang: We want to wander the world and see the miracle right in front of us.

"Hi, who?"

"Hi, I'll look for Su Yang and try to do S     U                                                  

"I am, what's the matter?"
Chapter completed!