279. Alliance pressure: Yang Fan's plan;(1/2)
With the Wizards defeating the Heat by 26 points, this result undoubtedly shocked many fans.
In addition, the Heat's reputation has even collapsed in a cliff-like manner.
The Heat's Big Three has been formed for three years, and the Heat has been questioned for not winning the championship in the past three years.
This season, while the Heat continued to strengthen, they still defeated the Wizards with 26 points. This situation is really helpless.
Even Miami fans have begun to call on the Big Three to disband. Anyway, the Big Three cannot bring Miami championship trophy and cannot defeat the arrogant Wizards. It is better to disband as soon as possible and let the Heat consider strengthening from other aspects.
In addition, the strength of the Wizards in the new season also made fans feel numb. So far, the Wizards have scored a record of 19 consecutive victories at the start of the game.
And what is really scary is that fans don’t know when the Wizards will lose the first game of the season.
At the current pace, the Wizards may have to wait for a long time to lose.
After all, whether it is the Nets, the Clippers or the Heat, these three top teams in the league are defeated in the battle with the Wizards.
So fans really can't imagine which team can give the Wizards the first defeat, and which team can do this.
At present, the top teams that are capable of defeating the Wizards but have not played against the Wizards are the Spurs, Thunder and Rockets.
However, considering that the Thunder were eliminated by the Spurs for two consecutive years in the playoffs, and the Spurs lost to the Wizards in the Finals for two consecutive years, this situation really made fans unable to raise confidence.
But if even these teams cannot compete with the Wizards, then fans really can't imagine which team can compete with the Wizards.
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The Wizards continued to make great progress throughout December, while crushing their opponents in basically every game, and they kept setting new historical records.
It was not until December 13 that the Wizards, who had already won 24 consecutive games at the start of the game, lost in the game against the Mavericks, ushering in the team's first defeat since the new season.
The Mavericks are not a favorite to win the championship this season. At least compared with the Spurs, Thunder and Rockets, which are in the West, the possibility that the Mavericks can break out of the West is too low.
However, in this game, Nowitzki and Monta Ellis felt too hot, among which Ellis and Nowitzki joined forces to score 78 points.
Coupled with the outstanding performance of the outside shooters, the Mavericks defeated the Wizards and ended the Wizards' 24-game winning streak with an eight-point lead.
The news spread quickly at the first time of the end of this game, and the news in the sports sector was also covered by the Wizards' loss.
Obviously, the Wizards' loss is a big deal in everyone's opinion. I don't know when it started, but the Wizards seemed to have become the core of the league.
Focusing all the attention of the entire sports sector on this team.
Even though more than one team has won two consecutive championships in NBA history, I'm afraid no team can feel as invincible as the Wizards this season.
Even the Bulls, who had won three consecutive championships twice, were not as strong as the oppressive feeling that this Wizards now gave people.
After all, although the Bulls were powerful back then, they did not feel invincible. But now this Wizards gave people the feeling that they were not only invincible, but even losing was a shocking thing.
In addition, according to rumors, it is said that league president Stern has planned to abdicate in the past two years and pass the position of NBA president to his assistant Adam Xiao Hua.
It is said that before Stern was about to abdicate, he had contacted Yang Fan privately, hoping that Yang Fan could consider other teams after his contract with the Wizards expired.
Because Stern believes that Yang Fan's existence has broken the league balance, turning the basketball league, which should have been fairly competitive with 30 teams, into a scene where 29 teams join forces to compete against the Wizards.
This situation is obviously not what Stern wants to see. Even though the Wizards have brought great benefits to the league in the past two years, the NBA ratings have shown a slight decline in the new season.
The reason is that the NBA is gradually losing suspense. The Wizards are currently dominant in both the East and West. Other teams can only attack the Wizards as challengers, but cannot compete on an equal footing with the Wizards.
For this news report, it has received strong support from many fans online, and their idea is the same, that is, the Wizards are gradually destroying the league.
The strength of the Wizards has made the league lose the suspense that competitive sports should have retained, and has made fans in various cities less and less eager to watch the game.
After all, except for a few teams that are slightly capable of challenging the authoritative Wizards, more than 20 other teams can only play the role of a runner in the regular season, no matter what personal performance they have played in the regular season.
Anyway, the NBA championship has basically been decided, and no team can beat the Wizards, so it is no different from the winning championship!!
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"Yang, don't be too stressed. Although I don't know what David has told you in private, I have asked the boss for instructions. He said that if you are willing to stay with the Wizards, he will help you withstand all the pressure." Looking at Yang Fan sitting at the computer desk playing video games, Grenfeld leaned over and said.
"pressure?"
"You see, I look like I'm under pressure now. David has indeed come to me and told me a lot, but that's all things to discuss in the future."
"Don't worry, I didn't plan to be a coach for the rest of my life. If I can successfully win three consecutive championships this season, then after counting the time, I should indeed pave the way for my future."
"I know, it was Leon who asked you to come. You can tell him directly that he doesn't need to bear the pressure on this matter. I know very well what to do next." Taking off the headphones, Yang Fan stretched with a smile, as if the pressure from the outside was just a trivial matter.
In fact, for Yang Fan, these external pressures are indeed not a big deal.
David Stern has indeed found Yang Fan, hoping that Yang Fan can consider coaching in New York or Los Angeles after the end of this season.
The Wizards' dominance has now destroyed the alliance balance, and this is something Stern does not want to see.
After all, Stern suffered a lot along the way in order to promote the NBA and develop. He didn't want to see the NBA that he had finally developed to go downhill.
However, the city of Washington is a bit special. Even if Stern doesn't want the Wizards to be the dominant one, he will not dare to openly hack the Wizards' championship they should have won.
If Stern really chose to do this, then the anger from Washington was definitely not something Stern could bear.
So the best solution is to start with the person involved Yang Fan. As long as Yang Fan is willing to leave the Wizards, the league will gradually move towards balance within at least two years, and it will no longer be like this season. It seems that the championship has become no suspense.
And if Yang Fan is really willing to leave the Wizards, Stern naturally hopes that Yang Fan will coach in New York or Los Angeles.
After all, these two places are the main income cities of the NBA's annual income source, and the Lakers and Knicks teams have also not won the championship for many years.
These two cities are eager to save heroes and need to restore their former glory.
For Yang Fan, he had already made plans, which was to use the three consecutive championships to make himself completely famous before leaving the coaching industry.
Then, taking advantage of the development trajectory of some later players in my mind, I found opportunities to join the team management to act as a general manager.
It only needs to operate in drafts and trades, which at least ensures that Yang Fan completely maintains his foothold in the NBA.
Even if the trajectory that Yang Fan mastered will be connected with reality, Yang Fan can still be successful in the management by relying on the connections accumulated over the years.
Even if he wants to retire from behind the scenes and resign from the position of general manager of the team, Yang Fan will be a casual operation president to make him feel free to eat and wear.
However, the premise is that Yang Fan has to leave enough time for himself, after all, it will take several years to prove himself in the management.
Even though Yang Fan has been very successful in the position of coaching, strictly speaking, coaching and management are in two systems.
A successful coach does not necessarily mean a successful general manager, and a successful general manager does not necessarily mean a successful coach!
At present, this wizard is very suitable for Yang Fan to pave the way for his future. Whether from the city of Washington or from his boss Leon Sis, these two points satisfy Yang Fan.
So when Stern found Yang Fan, Yang Fan was not surprised.
As for whether to retreat behind the scenes and enter the management team after the end of the season, Yang Fan has not yet decided on it, but one thing is certain that even if Yang Fan wants to continue to coach the Wizards next season, it will be difficult for him to continue coaching the Wizards.
After all, as a business league, the NBA naturally aims to make profits. The Wizards really want to touch the bottom line of the league. Yang Fan has no doubt that he will be introduced to this circle.
So sometimes it is a sin to be too strong, and Yang Fan really empathizes with this!
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Time flies in a blink of an eye, and in a blink of an eye, time comes December 25th.
On this day, the league will stage an annual Christmas battle, and the Wizards, as the defending champion, will naturally show up on the Christmas battle.
As for the Wizards' Christmas Battle, the Spurs, who have met in the Finals for two consecutive years.
This arrangement in the league naturally has a purpose. Although the Spurs lost to the Wizards in the Finals for two consecutive years, the grudges between the two teams have been talked about by fans.
The Spurs have not changed much in lineup this season. It’s not that the Spurs management does not want to strengthen, but that the city of San Antonio has limited economic capabilities.
Simply put, San Antonio is a small local city in the United States, so few stars are willing to come to this place to play.
After all, the attention you gained from playing for the Spurs is too low, and the Spurs boss is famous for being stingy and frugal, so the Spurs' reinforcement methods are basically starting from the inside.
Or sign in the free market with scraps that other teams don’t want to sign for secondary processing.
In this case, the Spurs can win the championship trophy many times. I have to say that this is really a kind of luck.
Of course, when it comes to luck, the Spurs' best luck was that they used the No. 1 pick to pick Tim Duncan.
If it weren't for Duncan, it would be hard to imagine what kind of team the Spurs would be. I'm afraid it would be a bottom team that would be a bad team every year.
It is worth mentioning that so far, the Wizards' record is 28 wins and 2 losses.
As for the second loss in the season, it was a loss to the Suns. In that game, the Suns scored a total of 26 three-pointers, setting a new NBA record.
To defeat the Wizards by almost killing the master with a fist, head coach Yang Fan could only sigh helplessly in this situation.
After all, when the basket seems as vast as the sea in the eyes of the other party, the only thing that can be done is to steadily and pray in your heart that the other party’s feel will not always be so hot.
Fortunately, the schedule has passed by 1/3, and the Wizards have only lost two games in total.
At the current pace, if the Wizards do not suffer large-scale injuries in the future, the Wizards are likely to break the best record of 75 wins and 7 losses.
Once Yang Fan leads the Wizards to achieve the best record in history again, the chances of Yang Fan winning the best coach will be greatly increased.
You know, as long as Yang Fan wins the Best Coach Award again, Yang Fan will become the coach with the most best coaches in NBA history, and absolutely no one.
Before the game started, the players of both sides warmed up. Even though it was a highly anticipated Christmas battle, the overall atmosphere on the Wizards was still very relaxed, and there was no sense of tension and oppression as the war was approaching.
Especially head coach Yang Fan, who was still careless in the Christmas game, and sat on the sidelines before the game started, looking drowsy, which really made home fans feel helpless.
As the game is about to begin, both sides announced their starting lineups respectively.
Spurs:
Parker, Danny Green, Leonard, Duncan, and Split.
To be continued...