After defeating the Portland Trail Blazers, the Supersonics did not leave immediately and rushed to the next away game of Los Angeles, but continued to stay in Portland. On the one hand, the training conditions here are better. The two teams in Los Angeles have nothing to do with the Supersonics, and Los Angeles is a prosperous place. If you go there, most players are not interested in basketball, but in bars, girls or food. The training effect is naturally not as good as staying here.

Since it is not a back-to-back schedule, there is still a day off in the middle, and it is not too late to rush to Los Angeles when the next day's training is over. At the same time, it also leaves players with time to have fun. One-on-one-sky is the way of kings. This is not Carlesimo's idea, but the collective decision of the coaching staff.

This season, the record of winning the league's first record, and the only one who has promoted his personal reputation was Stephen. Although the league has established the award for Best Coach for more than 40 years, no one has ever won this award for two consecutive years, so naturally he will not break this example. You should know that Phil Jackson led the Chicago Bulls to 72 wins and the best coach, but he won 69 wins in the second year but did not win this award again.

Moreover, this award is rarely awarded to the teams with the best record in the league, because generally such teams have a luxurious lineup. When selecting this award, the star factor is usually eliminated. Compared with last season, the Supersonics only improved from the first in the West to the first in the league, but also had an all-star center Yao Ming. Therefore, the Supersonics' record this season is not too surprising. Although Carlesimo has little hope of winning the best coach, it does not prevent him from thinking that he has become the best coach in the league.

Before he was about to achieve his goal of leading the team to become the league's number one, Calesimo was already a little arrogant. For him, this was his great success. Some people, after becoming head coaches, no longer become assistant coaches for others, while others are not. If they can't become head coaches, they can also become assistant coaches for others. That's how Calesimo is.

Because he does not have the style he insists on, he is a master-level figure in tactics, but his tactics are subtle. At the strategic level, he does not belong to his own set of things. For example, this supersonic team has a strong Spurs style, but in detail, because of Stephen's personal wishes, he has become mainly offensive. In fact, Stephen, who started from defense, has never given up his defense, nor has his teammates given up on defense.

Calesimo has never achieved any decent results in his career as a head coach. His best result is in the first round of the playoffs. However, when he was an assistant coach, he had a remarkable result. He only achieved such a good result after coming to this supersonic team. Although Calesimo knew that all this had a considerable relationship with Stephen, he should have at least half of the contribution, right? Perhaps half of it was a little more.

Calesimo was a little unconsidered in the players' feelings. This problem has been around for a long time, and it was only after he came to the Supersonics that it changed greatly. Occasionally, it was a little old-fashioned. However, with Stephen and Presti's time-to-day beating, it was barely possible. Among the players, although he had no authority, no one provoked him with his sternness and Stephen's crowding. Gradually, he felt that the players respected him from the bottom of their hearts.

But he thinks about things and rarely thinks about them from the perspective of players, especially things related to daily life. But sometimes it is like this. Players are also humans, and they are not children. Basically, half of the players earn no less money than Calesimo. In this case, how can you expect players to be as obedient as children? At all times, you have to consider the players for them. As long as it is not too much, it is OK.

In this case, anyone is willing to go to a big city like Los Angeles instead of staying in a small place like Portland. Los Angeles is the second largest city in the United States and the economic center of the West Coast. Los Angeles is not even as good as New York in terms of entertainment. Who doesn’t know what to do here? Portland has the most roses in the United States, but there is no woman matching roses.

Players want to go there for fun and relax. You have to keep the players here. Even if it is limited to discipline and the players are willing to stay, the quality of training can be guaranteed there.

Now we only need to train here for one afternoon, and we can go to Los Angeles to relax in the evening. The players are naturally very happy and are very dedicated to training. Seeing this, Caresimo realized his mistake and made an old problem again.

After arriving in Los Angeles, Stephen asked the team to leave to visit his aunt and stayed at her aunt's house for a night. Although Stephen didn't come here once every half a year, his room was still left for him. Shi Xianghua's health deteriorated once during the Chinese New Year last year. In the end, Chen Yingjie found someone from China to help her treat her for a while and improved. However, even so, after the Chinese New Year, Shi Xianghua completely gave up his job. In addition to recuperating at home, he occasionally went to live with his brother and sister-in-law for a while. Although his face was a little pale now, it was much better than before.

In the second day's game, although everyone knew that with the current situation of the Los Angeles Clippers, the opponent was a strong team like the Supersonics, and the possibility of winning was almost zero, even so, the Staples Center Arena was still in a mess, and the Los Angeles Clippers were not bad for this season, and fans have long been used to it.

However, this game was probably due to the last game of the season. The Clippers, who had completely relaxed, played very well. In the whole first half, they almost played comparable to the Supersonics, which made the fans on the scene very excited and kept cheering for the home team.

But at the beginning of the second half, the situation suddenly changed. Stephen, who had no rest in the whole first half, continued to stay on the court, leading the half-main and half-substitute lineup to a 16-0**, 32-12 in a single quarter, leading the Clippers 20 points and four assists in a single quarter.

At the beginning of the fourth quarter, Stephen scored nine points in a row with free throws, and then sent three consecutive assists, widening the gap to 36 points. Although there were nearly eight minutes of game time, everyone knew that this had entered garbage time. Most of the fans of the Clippers immediately changed their positions and started to shout at Stephen: "mvp, mvp, mvp". On the one hand, Stephen's performance was indeed excellent, and he won this award basically without any dispute. On the other hand, it was also to stimulate Kobe Bryant, who is the darling of Lakers fans, not the Clippers fans.
Chapter completed!