Updated: 2012-10-02

The defeat to the Pacers stopped the Supersonics' winning streak. At the same time, the confidence and confidence in the Supersonics was also a heavy blow. The Pacers are no longer the Pacers before the Auburn Mountain Palace incident.

The Pacers are at the championship level. Now the Pacers are not considered a strong team even if they are slightly weak in the East, but they defeated the hot Supersonics team, making the Supersonics dream of winning ten consecutive games shatter.

This defeat touched Stephen a lot. There are many reasons for this loss, including player performance, on-the-spot command, desire for victory, etc., and Stephen himself also has some responsibility, but the fundamental reason is to underestimate the enemy.

Because of underestimating the enemy, the players were not psychologically prepared to deal with hard battles, and the coaching staff did not analyze the opponents as much as possible and made every preparation. When they were behind, the whole team did not adapt to the huge contrast between expectations and reality, resulting in untimely response.

Especially after falling behind in the big score, the huge psychological contrast made almost all the players on the field mentally abnormal. Although Stephen himself performed well, he did not play the role of a team leader, driving the whole team to counterattack the opponent, only focusing on scoring alone.

It seems that no matter how you face any opponent, you cannot have the idea of ​​underestimating the enemy at all. Stephen never needs to consider these things. There is **Vic in the coaching staff. According to the fact that this principle is not needed, **Vic's attitude can be directly reflected. Under the influence of Duncan, no matter when and no matter what opponent you face, there will be no idea of ​​fear or underestimation.

Now that I am the leader of my own, Stephen realized that it is not that easy to be the boss of a team. Not only do I consider myself, but also the entire team, but also every teammate, both from small to large and from large to micro.

Stephen decided to hold a formal player meeting, so after the second day of the match, Stephen called all his teammates and told them to hold a small meeting in the lounge after taking a shower. Although this situation rarely happens on the Supersonics team, the players all knew that such a thing was happening and were all going to prepare.

No matter which team you go to, no matter whether you are a coach or the boss of the team, you just have a certain authority. No matter where you are, you cannot infringe on the players' personal ** and personal freedom. You can give orders on the court and on the training ground, but when you are off the court, you can no longer interfere with others.

So sometimes the boss of the team communicates privately with individual players, and sometimes a small-scale player meeting is held, just like the meeting Stephen attended by the Spurs. This time Stephen was called after the training game, so naturally all the members participated.

There was no player who didn't give Stephen face and left alone, so Stephen sat there for a while and the round table was filled with people. This was also the first "round table" after Stephen came to the Supersonics.

The advantage of a roundtable is that everyone has no distinction between status and status. When sitting around the roundtable, everyone has the same identity and is a player. Of course, the boss of the team, the main starter, the substitute who can play and the substitute who cannot play, is naturally different in terms of speaking.

After everyone sat down, Stephen, as the convener, naturally spoke first: "Hello everyone, I called you here today mainly for the future development of our team. Everyone has seen the situation of the team in the previous period. It turns out that we can only win away games, and slowly we can get all away games and home games, and we have achieved nine consecutive victories. This is the credit of everyone, including those who have not played the game."

"But yesterday we lost, and we lost to the Indiana Pacers, which is not a strong team. The main reason is to underestimate the enemy. We despise the opponent, so we were retribution for failure. This includes the responsibility of the coaching team and our own responsibility. First of all, I admit my mistakes to everyone. I was also affected by the idea of ​​underestimating the enemy. I was unable to remind or correct everyone's thoughts in time, and apologize to everyone for yesterday's failure."

Stephen’s opening remark was first apologizing for the failure, which made everyone unexpected. Everyone basically knew that the purpose of today’s meeting must be for yesterday’s failure. Many people thought that Stephen would definitely accuse or criticize everyone, but they did not expect that Stephen would apologize for the failure at the beginning.

"We lost yesterday. There are mine and everyone here. But there are no ones here. You don't need to apologize. Your performance is the same as usual. There are many balls passed to us, but we didn't make a shot, so the responsibility is all of us." Wilcox took the lead in speaking. He did not think that this was Stephen's responsibility. At the same time, he was very satisfied with the current situation of the team. His personality was very straightforward, so his speech seemed to be against Stephen's point of view, but in essence he was standing on the stance of maintaining Stephen.

"Yes, it's not your responsibility at all. We all performed very well." Although Cooperd is an outsider, his confidence has also increased as the team's status and playing time have increased in recent times. Although he dare not regard himself as the team's No. 3 character, he consciously has a good relationship with the boss, so he spoke first.

"I agree with everyone's opinion. The loss of this game is our responsibility." After Durant spoke, no one spoke again. Although Robert Horry was qualified to speak, he was standing on Stephen's side. For the purpose of training Stephen, he did not want to interfere too much in this matter. If he didn't speak, Cott Thomas would naturally not speak.

"No matter what, I am also a part of everyone, and I have the responsibility and common things. For this game, we have to review the gains and losses, but we cannot be nostalgic for the defeat in this game. In the 82 regular season games, we have only had seventeen games in the past 17 games. We have achieved 20 wins and 5 losses. We were once ranked in the top three in the Western Conference. I hope we can continue to maintain such a record. Before the season started, I set a goal for myself and must lead the team into the playoffs. Now it seems that as long as we keep our state in the last month, the goal of entering the playoffs is not difficult to achieve, and maybe we can go further."

"Well, there should be no problem with this goal." Wilcox nodded.

"There is definitely no problem. As long as we play well, let alone the playoffs, we can achieve it even further." Coupard said, Durant just smiled and nodded. In fact, people nodded or smiled to express their recognition of this goal. Although they had just experienced a defeat, the confidence they had developed in a month would be so easy to destroy.

"Yes, it is absolutely no problem if we can keep it going, but the game will have to be played one game after another. If we still underestimate the enemy because of a winning streak, then we will still fail. So we must be as old Chinese saying goes, do not be arrogant and do not be discouraged."

"Boss, why do you always like to say the old sayings in China? How many old sayings do they have? What is their meaning?" Kupperd often heard Stephen say this in his contact with Stephen, so he asked very strangely.

"Do you know when our American history began?" Stephen did not answer his question, but asked Coopard.

"In 1776, we all know this, what's wrong?" Kupad answered very puzzledly.

Asked.

"This shows that our history is only more than 200 years old, while China has a history of more than 5,000 years. In this 5,000-year history, civilization has not been broken and has been continued to develop. Therefore, we have accumulated a lot of experience. They summarized a certain truth or rule in a very short sentence. This is the origin of the old saying."

"The meaning of winning is not arrogant or being discouraged is to win, don't be proud or complacent, and don't underestimate the enemy, fail, don't be discouraged or lose confidence. So I think this sentence is very suitable for us. No matter whether we win or fail in the previous game, don't change our attitude towards the next game. I believe that if we can do this, even if we fail, it will not affect our goals."

"Well, this sentence is very good. When you look back, you write it for me. I'll tattoo my arm and you can see it as soon as you raise your hand." Kupperd has had a very strong tattoo recently, and is worried about what to tattoo. When he heard Stephen say this, he suddenly thought that it would be better to tattoo this sentence on himself.

"Boss, do you have any other words? I want to tattoo a tattoo too. Coupard. I know a tattoo shop here. It has a very good craftsmanship. Let's go together." When talking about tattoos, Robert Swift also became interested and said to Stephen with great enthusiasm, and then invited Coupard to tattoo with him.

"There are many words in this category. I'll pick a few to write to you when I come back, and then everyone can choose what they think is suitable for themselves." Stephen naturally would not refuse this request, but he heard from his father. He couldn't imagine what Robert Swift said in a while, so he had to push it back.

The meeting ended here, and many players basically didn't even speak. Of course, for them, there was no difference between whether they were speaking or not. The main players who could play a role were the players who could play. For Stephen, this meeting did not achieve its goal. It would take a look until the next game to find out that at least from now on, the team's bad atmosphere has been wiped out, which is enough.

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