June 27.

With the completion of the draft, there is not much time left for Yang Fan at this moment, because in early July, the league will start training in the summer league.

In previous years, the Summer League was led by assistant coaches of each team. After all, the original intention of the Summer League was to hone the new players in the team, adapt to the atmosphere of the game in advance, and observe and sign some players who were not selected.

So in the summer league, the people responsible for leading the team are assistant coaches of each team, because few head coaches can put aside their faces and fight for the death of other teams.

Yang Fan’s idea is very simple, that is, he wants to improve the system of the team’s various positions before the start of the summer league.

After all, although I successfully served as the head coach of the Thunder this year, the position of chief assistant coach in the team is still vacant.

Originally, according to the general manager Prostie, this position should be held by Jack, the former assistant coach of the Thunder, but while Yang Fan said that he would bring an assistant coach, the matter was stuck.

You know, for the team's management, they never consider who the assistant coach is. In fact, even the candidate for the head coach is an indifferent result.

Because as long as you can lead the team to achieve results and meet the expectations in the management, even if the head coach is a dog, it can be called a good dog.

Austin, Texas, USA.

As soon as he got off the plane, Yang Fan took out his cell phone and opened the SMS box. At this moment, there was a phone number in the SMS on his cell phone.

Looking at this relatively unfamiliar phone number, Yang Fan dialed it as soon as he got off the plane.

"Du...Du~Du"

"Hey, hello."

As the voice of a middle-aged man came from the other end of the phone, Yang Fan on the other end of the phone breathed a sigh of relief because his intuition told him that this voice was the man he wanted to find.

"Hey, hello, let me introduce myself first. My name is Yang Fan. Of course, you can call me David Yang."

After hearing Yang Fan's words, the other end of the phone obviously fell into silence for one to two seconds, as if it was digesting Yang Fan's meaning.

After a few seconds of pause, the other party asked Yang Fan in a slightly puzzled voice:

"You are David Yang Yang Fan, Coach Yang?"

"Haha, that's right, I'm Yang Fan, the new head coach of the Thunder. Although the name Yang Fan is quite common, there are not many people who can be called Coach Yang, haha."

When Yang Fan confirmed on the other end of the phone, the middle-aged man on the other end of the phone was obviously surprised, and felt deeply incredible about Yang Fan calling him.

After all, he is too clear about who Yang Fan is.

You should know that the money-making ability of the NCAA League in the United States is far higher than that of the NBA League, so for those who like basketball, the name Yang Fan has spread throughout the country as early as his NCAA period.

After all, in the long history of NCAA, the coaches who can lead the team to achieve two consecutive championships are undoubtedly the legendary coaches in NCAA.

Among these coaching groups, Yang Fan is the youngest, even at the age of 33, which even broke the age record of leading the team to win the championship in NCAA.

It can be said that when Yang Fan announced this summer that he would leave NCAA and go to NBA to coach, this caused an uproar in the NBA league.

Many people are simply difficult to understand Yang Fan's actions, because compared with the intrigues in the NBA league and a series of unstable factors, coaching in NCAA is obviously much easier, and in terms of salary, it is not much less than that in NBA.

Although the team's head coach who can gain a foothold in the NBA must be more famous than the head coach in the NCAA.

Because in NCAA, there are only a few coaches who can be named in more than a thousand teams in the NCAA league, so for ambitious people, going to NBA will obviously be a better plan.

After all, for these people, even if they cannot succeed in the NBA, when they decide to return to NCAA to coach, there will still be a large number of teams greeting each other with smiles and begging for these coaches to win the favor.

"I..., Coach Yang! I didn't expect that it was you. I wonder what happened to you, Coach Yang, you call me?"

When I learned that the other end of the phone was actually Yang Fan, the new head coach of the Thunder team, the middle-aged man on the phone was obviously a little excited, and even a hint of expectation was vaguely revealed.

You know, the current status of the two people can be said to be one in heaven and the other underground.

One has been successful in NCAA and is now the youngest active head coach in the NBA league.

The other coach is just a head coach who is unable to lead the team to the championship in the NBA Development League, although he led the Austin Bulls to the finals last year.

But it is indeed a bit ridiculous to compare with Yang Fan with this slight achievement.

So in this case, when he learned that the other end of the phone was actually Yang Fan, he felt very excited.

Because all this is completely beyond his expectations, although he is currently serving as the head coach in the Development League, he hopes to be summoned by the NBA team one day.

But at this moment, Yang Fan's call was obviously much earlier than he expected.

And this person is nothing else, but the domineering coach of the Jazz team in later generations, Quinn Snyder!!

Speaking of Quinn Snyder, I'm afraid people's first impression of him is that he looks very cold, and his very domineering big back makes him look like a gangster godfather.

In fact, the reason why Yang Fan, later generations, had such a deep impression of Snyder was also attracted by his cold appearance at first sight.

Then he gained a more comprehensive understanding of him.

In fact, Quinn Snyder served as an assistant coach for the Clippers as early as the 92-93 season, but because his personal strength was quite limited at that time, he was fired by the team after only one year of work.

But after being fired, Quinn Snyder was not discouraged, nor did he look for a job like crazy. Instead, he calmed down and chose to study advanced tactical concepts.

In this case, Quinn Snyder has been studying like other head coaches, and spending money to further his studies. His tactical philosophy has always been rising straight, and he has made a qualitative leap from the early stages of his career.

Finally in 2005, Quinn Snyder came to the NBA Development League and served as an assistant coach for a team.

Later, because Quinn Snyder's personal strength was too outstanding, it took him only two years to go from assistant coach to the head coach of the Austin Bulls.

And in his first season coaching the team, he led the Austin Bulls to the NBA Development League finals stage.

Although in the end, because the team's overall strength was too insufficient, it was regrettable that it missed the championship trophy, Snyder had already shown his strong coaching talent during this period.

If we follow the normal historical trajectory, then in the summer of 2010, Quinn Snyder will be excavated and can return to the NBA to work.

In the end, it only took four years, in 2014, Snyder was recognized by the Salt Lake City Jazz and became the new head coach of the Jazz.

At the same time, I stayed in this position for many years until I finally became one of the best defensive head coaches in the NBA league.

However, at this time, Snyder had just shown his strength in the Development League, and Yang Fan arrived was obviously a little earlier than the normal trajectory of history, so this made Snyder feel very surprised.

After all, although Snyder has always had full confidence in returning to NBA one day, even though he himself never expected that this day would come so suddenly...
Chapter completed!