masters-orleans Chapter 128 Next stop, Indiana!
Chapter 128 Next stop, Indiana!
Chapter 128 Next stop, Indiana!
From New York to Indianapolis.
This distance is not too short, and of course it is not as far as imagined.
Indiana is southeast of New York, separated by Pennsylvania and Ohio, about 1200 kilometers away.
Xu Xuan was on a United Airlines flight. He looked at the timetable and found that it would take about two and a half hours if nothing unexpected happened.
Xu Xuan took the time to preview his homework on the plane. This transaction happened too suddenly, and he never thought that he would be traded to the Pacers, so he had much less time to preview before class.
New York is a team in the Eastern Atlantic Division, while the Pacers are a team in the Eastern Central Division. The two teams have not played a game yet, so Xu Xuan is not too familiar with this place.
team owner
executive CEO
General manager.
head coach.
There is not much time, so Xu Xuan can only identify these senior managers first.
I heard that the owner of the Pacers doesn't want to be in charge, so the power of the team is basically in the hands of the executive president Larry Bird.
Xu Xuan drew a circle on his profile picture.
This is the key man for the Pacers!
Secondly, their general manager, Kevin Pritchard, also manages things, at least much more than Mills of the Knicks.
Larry Bird does not have the strong desire to control like the old Zen master, and he is still willing to let the people below do some "little things".
Head coach Frank Vogel
Xu Xuan's pen dropped heavily.
Maybe his status in the team is not as high as Larry Bird, but there is no doubt that he will be the person Xu Xuan will deal with the most next!
Xu Xuan took a brief look at his life. His life is very inspirational. He has never played in the NBA. It can be said that he has become a head coach from a young man.
"Yeah, he can also edit videos?"
Xu Xuan saw in his introduction that he had previously worked as the video coordination supervisor under the head coach Rick Pitino of the Boston Celtics for five consecutive years.
Xu Xuan gasped, it's not easy!
After five years, he was promoted to an assistant coach. Well, it may be that the video editing is better, and he was promoted.
After leaving the Celtics, he went to Philadelphia as an assistant coach for a while.
Later, he may find that there is no future as an assistant coach, so he switched careers and became a scout. He worked as a scout for the Los Angeles Lakers and the Washington Wizards for two years.
Uh, maybe he found out that scouting was not as good as an assistant coach, so he came to the Pacers again and started his own business. It was not until January 11, 1 that Vogel was appointed as the Interim head coach of the Indiana Pacers.
as for style
tough?
Defense?
Well, the teams he coaches are tough defensively!
He is also very good at defensive skills and tactics.
In the previous three seasons, the Pacers died in the hands of the Miami Heat led by James, and two of them were in the Eastern Conference Finals!
In the 12-13 season, they even played with the Heat all the way to the tiebreaker!
James thinks the only reason Vogel's team didn't make it to the Finals is because they met the Heat with Wade, Bosh and himself three times in a row.
He is a master in training defense, but he seems to be good at using the inside line when it comes to offense?
Like Roy Hibbert, David West, etc.
There are not many outside skills and tactics, most of them are in a stocking state.
In all honesty, the news is not good.
My family knows my own affairs, so it's okay for you to let Xu Xuan attack, but the defense is really a mess.
And would a defensive coach like Vogel like himself?
seems unlikely
Xu Xuan touched his nose, the future is uncertain, this is
At Xu Xuan's destination at this time, Pacers coach Frank Vogel was also a little worried with Xu Xuan's scouting report in his hand.
The Pacers have struggled a bit since Pickle's injury.
On the one hand, they want to continue the glory of reaching the finals for two consecutive years, and on the other hand, they are limited by their strength and have more than enough energy.
This kind of ambivalence made him very entangled at the beginning of the season.
But after playing a few games, he gradually stabilized, until now his heart is in a mess again.
Xu Xuan?
It's not that he doesn't know this rookie who is currently famous in the history of the league, but he never thought that he would coach this person one day. After all, he performed so well in his rookie season. He was vigorously cultivated until one day, the president Larry Bird suddenly found him with a scouting report and asked him: "If you were asked to coach this young man, what would you do?"
Vogel was stunned at the time, and his first reaction was: Shall I coach him?What are you kidding?
But after he saw that Larry Bird didn't seem to be fake, and had a very serious look in his eyes, he immediately took over the scouting report
it is true!
Larry Bird is not a random person. Since he has put the scout report on Xu Xuan's face, he will naturally not ask stupidly: Is this true?
Such nonsense.
However, the next question lay ahead.
I came to coach this young man, what would I do?
This.
I do not know!
He watched Xu Xuan's scouting report and game video over and over again, but still couldn't find any clue.
From the perspective of D'Antoni or Nelson, Xu Xuan's attributes can even be called excellent, but in the hands of a defensive coach, this attribute... can't be said to be bad, but it's not good either!
Vogel has a headache. Xu Xuan's main threat is on the offensive end, but what he is best at is defense. The two are not on the same channel at all.
What to do?
The person that Larry Bird wanted to come over in person had paid such a high price, he couldn't be perfunctory anyway.
And Vogel also admires Xu Xuan in his heart, but how to use it is a big problem!
It would be great if the pickled peppers are not injured, and they can form a "double leader" of outside offensive firepower with Xu Xuan, so that the Pacers don't have to stick to the inside line on the offensive end, and can bloom both inside and outside.
This would be flattering, Vogel thought for a while.
But now that the pickled pepper is injured, can Xu Xuan survive alone on the outside?
By the way, there is also the starting list. It is also a big problem!
He never thought about letting Xu Xuan play as a substitute. Even if he wanted to, Larry Bird probably wouldn't agree, but it's still a question of who to let go
Too many questions!
Headache!
Irritability!
Vogel simply put down the scouting report in his hand, forget it, wait for him to come, can't he pull out the mule or the horse first?
let it go.
Polis is the capital of Indiana. At night, when the lights were on, Xu Xuan quietly set foot on this land.
A new journey is about to begin!
(End of this chapter)