Bishop of the Devil

Based on Richard's understanding of the situation of the Trail Blazers, it is not without reason that they have been eliminated in the first round of the playoffs...

The reason is that the strength is not enough!

In order to break the current embarrassing situation of first-round travel, the team must either introduce a superstar or completely tear down and rebuild!

But it is not so easy to introduce superstars. The only superstars in the league today are Jordan, Dream, Admiral, Gorilla Ewing, Malone, Barkley and a young O'Neal...

Among these players, O'Neal is the only one who has a slight chance of being introduced, and the others don't even have to think about it.

The cost of bringing in O'Neal is extremely staggering, and O'Neal may not be willing to come to a city like Portland.

The urban population is less than half a million. A city of this size cannot really be called prosperous.

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As for tearing down and rebuilding, Richard is relatively good at it. In addition, there are a lot of high-quality chips in the team. Richard is confident that he can create a new army with unlimited potential!

But since it is a new force, in terms of combat strength, it will definitely not be as good as those teams whose core players are in their prime period. It is definitely unrealistic to win the championship in one or two years...

Just like the rebuilt Timberwolves and Philadelphia 76ers in later generations, they can definitely be regarded as talented, but they are still far away from winning the championship.

Paul Allen is not the kind of layman who knows nothing. He knows that it is difficult to achieve a decent record during the window period after demolition and reconstruction, so he gave a relatively generous time!

Made it past the first round of the playoffs three years ago, and made it to the Western Conference Finals four years ago!

Richard is quite confident about such a goal...

Of course, the tasks assigned by the boss must be guaranteed goals. If possible, Richard will definitely shorten this time as much as possible, such as passing the first round within two years and reaching the Western Conference Finals within three years...

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Thinking of this, Richard couldn't help but smile bitterly...

In the NCAA, Richard wanted to win ten consecutive championships. It was just like playing. But after arriving in the NBA, he could only set his goal in the second round of the playoffs...

The NCAA does not need Richard to worry too much, but the NBA does not. If nothing else, the transaction alone is enough to make Richard anxious!

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"Okay!" Richard nodded...

He really couldn't find any reason not to choose the Trail Blazers. No matter how you look at it, the Trail Blazers are extremely suitable.

Seeing Richard nodding, Paul Allen showed surprise on his face, although he had expected that Richard would not reject his sincerity...

But in an instant, a puzzled expression appeared on Paul Allen's face...

It seems that until Richard nodded and agreed to join the Trail Blazers, they had not negotiated any salary.

"Li, don't you want to talk about salary?"

"Give it as you like, talking about money hurts feelings, haha!" Richard said with a smile.

As for salary, Richard really doesn't care much. It's a top dollar, which is four to five million U.S. dollars. To say the least, with Richard's popularity in the past two years, it will not be less than three hundred. Ten thousand.

Wilkens, the coach of Qiansheng, only earns 5 million US dollars. If his salary is too much higher than that of Wilkens, it is not impossible to cause public outrage from other coaches...

The NBA coaching group is different from the NCAA coaching group...

Most of the coaches in the NCAA are academic coaches. They really rely on their strength to get to the top. If you don't have strength, you won't be able to find a job at all!

As for the coaching staff in the NBA, more than half of them rely not on their strength, but on their connections and relationships. The factions are intertwined, and even a small fight can bring about a bunch of enemies.

After the fierce conflict with Larry Brown a few days ago, Richard could feel that he might have provoked a faction...

Larry Brown still has a wide network of contacts in the league. Among other things, the current Spurs general manager Popovich once served as an assistant coach under Larry Brown.

This time Richard is preparing to enter the NBA. In theory, the Spurs are unlikely to remain indifferent. The performance of their current head coach Bob Hill is not satisfactory, at least not to the satisfaction of Popovich...

In this case, they had no reason not to contact Richard.

But they just didn't, not even inviting Richard to be an assistant coach...

The only explanation is probably that Popovich is not prepared to have anything to do with Richard, Larry Brown’s nemesis!

Before even entering the league, Richard has provoked a group of forces that cannot be ignored in the NBA, which is really not good news.

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"Then $20 million over four years!" Without saying a word, Paul Allen gave Richard the highest salary among current NBA coaches.

Richard nodded, originally thinking about asking Paul Allen to lower his salary...

But after thinking about it, I realized that such a request was really crazy, so I simply gave up.

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"Okay, Li, then when this season is over, we will sign the contract!"

"I have some other things that I wanted to talk to you about, so let's just wait until we sign the contract..."

Richard nodded and didn't ask what it was about.

The matter of joining the Trail Blazers has basically been finalized. The next step is to wait for the end of this season so that Richard can sign with the Trail Blazers...

While waiting for the signing, Richard still has extremely important things to do!

That is to recruit your own coaching staff!

Your own coaching team!

The role of the coaching staff cannot be ignored, especially the Blazers formed by Richard. There will be many newcomers in the team, which will highlight the role of the coaching staff!

Under normal circumstances, the coaching staff consists of a head coach, a chief assistant coach, multiple assistant coaches and optional special assistant coaches.

The head coach is naturally Richard. The English translation of head coach is head-coach. From this word, we can see that the head coach is the brains of the coaching staff and is responsible for steering the general direction.

Human energy is limited. When the head coach steers the general direction, other members of the coaching staff are responsible for assisting the head coach and helping him share some detailed work.

The chief assistant coach, also called the deputy head coach, is responsible for participating in the formulation of offensive and defensive tactics and system construction. It is also the position of the general manager.

As for the assistant coaches below, their work assignments are much more specific. Some are responsible for offensive tactics, some are responsible for defensive tactics, and some are responsible for players' shooting...

The number is variable and depends on the needs of the head coach.

As for special assistant coaches, they have relatively little presence, such as psychological mentors, career planning mentors, etc. Some teams' coaching staff simply do not have these positions, but the teams themselves recruit relevant personnel...

Although there is no rigid requirement for the number of people, in order to work normally, the number of the coaching staff, excluding the head coach, must not be less than four.

In other words, Richard will have to find four assistant coaches in the next period of time!