Mountain Peak System: a Path to NBA

"You idiot, can't you follow my instructions for your positioning?"

"Moron! Damn it, what a moron! It's such a simple fake run off the screen, how many times do I have to emphasize that it's just a fake run?"

"Get back to your position! That's not where you're supposed to be standing, do you even know how to play ball?"

Unlike Montgomery.

Mike Malone was never a mild-mannered head coach.

However, on the training ground, as Malone's shouts grew louder, and his insults towards the Warriors players, except for Qin Yue, became more frequent...

A new crisis was looming before the regular season even started.

"I can't stand this, I'm a damn champion player! And what about him? He was just an assistant coach for the Knight last season, what gives him the right to call me an idiot all the time?"

"Agreed! We're about to receive our championship rings at home, he has no right to criticize me for not knowing how to play!"

"He's treating us like machines! But we're living, breathing people! There has to be some improvisation in games, how can we follow his tactics every time?"

When an ambitious, talented but temperamental young coach encounters a group of players already holding championship rings...

It's evident that Mike Malone's current reputation and authority are not enough to support his coaching style.

Even though in training, Qin Yue has saved Malone multiple times...

Yet Qin Yue must also consider the pent-up resentment of his teammates.

Qin Yue knows very well that, in the short term, his teammates would definitely not be able to accept Malone's coaching style, so he must figure out a way to get Malone to integrate himself into the team voluntarily.

"I know they can't accept my way of expressing myself right away, but don't they realize...the regular season opener is just two days away?"

Looking at Malone who had found him privately, Qin Yue responded.

Hearing this, Qin Yue said, "Mike... It's true the regular season is about to begin, but they have never slacked off in training."

Malone, feeling even more dejected, said, "I appreciate their effort in training, but that's not the content and details I want..."

Seeing this, Qin Yue said, "Since we can't achieve the content and details you want for now, why not set up the framework first?"

After pausing for a moment, Qin Yue added, "When I was in college, Coach Skip Prosser told me that no team can undergo a drastic change after just one training session.

Therefore, as long as we can establish the framework you want, the details and content can be filled in gradually."

After thinking for a while, Malone said, "Now the framework is not a problem...the player roles can be accepted...but we've been practicing for so long, surely we can't just not use our drilled tactics during the game?"

Qin Yue laughed and said, "I didn't say not to use them at all, but I think, for now, we should let the players choose the way they are most comfortable playing within your framework."

In Qin Yue's view, the reason Malone couldn't execute the content he wants...

is precisely because he inundated the Warriors players, including himself, with too many complex advanced tactics all at once.

It's no exaggeration to say that each of these advanced tactics designed by Malone for the Warriors could be enough for an NBA team to digest for half a month.

These advanced strategies have endless variations and developments.

So...

It's not Malone's tactical design that's the problem, but his impatience in wanting the Warriors players to perfectly execute these extremely complex advanced tactics.

There's no way around it; the current Mike Malone is after all not yet the "Zhuge Ma Long" who has been honed for years in the NBA.

In Qin Yue's opinion, he has simply committed a mistake that the majority of young coaches make.

That is, he has not realized...

that no matter how good the tactics are, they need the players on the court to execute them.

"I understand what you mean... I know that there's grudge against me in the team, but they can't just rest on their laurels and not follow my orders and arrangements, right?" Malone said to Qin Yue with a face full of grievance.

At this moment, Qin Yue could fully comprehend Malone's feelings.

But there are some things Qin Yue was destined not to be able to help Malone with.

Because at this point, Malone, who had not yet achieved anything...

was coaching a team about to receive championship rings.

From the opening of the preseason training camp until now, Malone's basketball understanding and tactical reserves have truly opened Qin Yue's eyes.

Qin Yue believes in Malone's coaching ability and is certain that his success in Qin Yue's memory is hardly a coincidence.

But in the NBA, if Malone wants to showcase his coaching talent, he must learn how to get along with players.

On November 1st.

The 2006/2007 NBA regular season opener officially commenced.

The defending champion Golden State Warriors were hosting their first opponent of the new season at Oracle Arena:

—— The Dallas Mavericks.

As the banner symbolizing the highest team honor of the 05/06 season rose up and stood alongside the championship banner from 31 years ago...on-site, the ever-surging golden wave almost instantly shattered the mental defense of Dirk Nowitzki, who was witnessing the flag-raising ceremony.

As the star player of the Dallas Mavericks, this season marked Nowitzki's ninth in the NBA.

In the past, Nowitzki was destined not to understand why champions are champions.

But now, in his age, he has never had a moment like this...

Feeling both envy and jealousy, to the point of bitter regret over the precious years he himself had wasted.

At the moment the banner rose...

Nowitzki felt a sudden inexplicable sharp pain in his chest.

This pain was so severe that it almost left him breathless, an agonizing pain tearing him apart inside.

Friends come and go, only the championship banner waves in the breeze.

And on the Warriors' bench, at this moment Mike Malone also roughly understood why his orders were far less effective than he imagined.

Because before he coached this team, they were already champions.

In front of this Warriors team, why should he dare not restrain his temper?

Why should he criticize these champion players?

"Mike, you have to integrate yourself into this team actively, rather than forcing the team to adapt to you."

Although Qin Yue indeed held Mike Malone in high regard.

If Malone cannot integrate into this Warrior team...

Then what Qin Yue said to him earlier is not just a piece of advice.

What Qin Yue said is both advice and a warning.

Because if necessary, who says the Warriors can't change to a new head coach?

And thinking of this, the suddenly pale-faced and sweating Malone involuntarily looked towards the man who was ready to receive the championship ring at the center of the court...

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Note ①: The data here is sourced from multiple biographies and related English reports on the Supersonic relocation. (Ah Qiao is just a porter)