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American Norman De Silva shares his journey through a turbulent season as head coach of the Chinese pro basketball team the Foshan Longlions.
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00:01:12You spend every waking second of every day as an assistant coach thinking about what you're going to do when
00:01:19you're a head coach.
00:01:19What am I going to run? What am I going to practice going to be like?
00:01:23I still feel like I'm in a whirlwind right now.
00:01:27I'm sitting there at dinner with coach and he tells me he's going home
00:01:30and they tell me that I'm going to be the head coach.
00:01:32So now I have 24 hours to cram in all of this stuff
00:01:36that I've tried to think about and plan out
00:01:38for the last five to six, seven years of my life
00:01:41and put that out there on the floor for tomorrow.
00:01:49I go from being an assistant coach, you know, very relaxed
00:01:53to all of a sudden being thrust into a situation
00:01:57where I'm standing out there in front of a packed arena
00:02:00of 10,000 people on national television
00:02:02coaching against Tracy McGrady.
00:02:13I mean, that was beyond reality to me, though.
00:02:18It was still hard for me to, like, comprehend
00:02:20exactly what happened there.
00:02:22All right, listen up, real quick.
00:02:24We're going to go four down.
00:02:25Four down.
00:02:27Michelle.
00:02:28Michelle's here.
00:02:29And then beyond that, to go out and win the game was, I mean,
00:02:33I thought I was, like, invincible at that point in time.
00:03:07Go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go,
00:03:12go.
00:03:16And this may, he may have saved the game for the Indians here.
00:03:21Norm DeSilva back on the line.
00:03:22He just missed a one-on-one.
00:03:24We'll have another one-on-one here.
00:03:27And I'm counting on Norm to make this win.
00:03:31First one on the way.
00:03:32Nothing but net.
00:03:34I knew Norm wouldn't miss too. He's just too good at the line, Joe.
00:03:38We have Norm DeSilver and Sam Madden. What a ball game.
00:03:42Yeah, it was an exciting one. Just love to come away with a win there and a close one.
00:03:45Well, you had an outstanding game. You had 13 points, 10 assists,
00:03:49and those key free throws at the end of the game. I'm sure as a young boy growing up,
00:03:54you always want that basketball at the far line to win a game.
00:03:57Yep. Me and Sam here every morning before school at 6.30, we're shooting far shots,
00:04:01and finally it pays off, you know. The stats don't really mean much.
00:04:04It's in the win column. That's what matters.
00:04:27This court was finished before the house was built, so
00:04:30the priorities were very clear from the beginning.
00:04:41Earliest memory of playing basketball has to be with my dad.
00:04:44You're going to make a couple shots?
00:04:46Probably not.
00:04:49Some things never change.
00:04:50He would come home from work late every night at about 10 o'clock at night.
00:04:54I would try to time it so I was always out there shooting when he came home,
00:04:57and then, you know, he'd rebound for me for half an hour or something before we'd go inside.
00:05:02I always thought he was an average-sized kid, and then I remember he came home one day on the
00:05:05school bus,
00:05:06and he was like in the first, second grade, and I started looking at all the boys,
00:05:09and I went, holy moly, he's not very tall.
00:05:12But I guess I just didn't want to make any excuses for him.
00:05:19Paul Santos alongside two of the great coaches in the area here.
00:05:23Skip Caron, former coach of Derpy High School, and of course, Eddie Roderick still coaching at New Bedford.
00:05:28And talk a little bit about the game tonight.
00:05:30I know you've watched Don Smith play.
00:05:31What impresses you about this year's Indians team?
00:05:33I like the silver.
00:05:34I had, you know, I saw him against Derpy.
00:05:35I didn't realize how good he was.
00:05:37Go on to the basket.
00:05:39The floater up and over the defense.
00:05:41I came to the realization probably in middle school that I wasn't going to make the NBA.
00:05:45I always knew that basketball was such a big part of my life that I wasn't going to be able
00:05:49to give it up
00:05:50after I was done playing.
00:05:51And I had a finance internship in college,
00:05:54and it was the first summer of my life that basketball wasn't the centerpiece of what was going on.
00:06:00I was lost without it, really.
00:06:02I was empty, and it was kind of at that point where I said,
00:06:04all right, next summer I'm going to get a basketball internship,
00:06:08and I'm going to start working towards my life after playing basketball
00:06:11and staying in the game somehow.
00:06:14I drove out in my pickup truck to Chicago,
00:06:17and I had all my belongings in the back,
00:06:19and I didn't know where I was going to stay or what I was going to do.
00:06:22I started out at Tim Grover's spot.
00:06:24It's called the Tag Athletics, where he works out NBA players.
00:06:28And it was important just to get in the gym
00:06:30and be on the floor with some really high-level guys.
00:06:34Going to the gym at 7 a.m., leaving at about 1,
00:06:37maybe have 30 minutes to stuff my face with some food,
00:06:40and then I got to go out and knock on doors in Chicago, suburban areas,
00:06:43and try to sell finished basements.
00:06:45As much as that might sound miserable, like, I loved it.
00:06:47I was around pro basketball players.
00:06:49I was learning every single day.
00:06:51That was when I figured out that I could have a life
00:06:54after playing basketball, still in basketball.
00:06:58From there, I was able to make enough connections
00:06:59and latch on to the D-League as an assistant coach,
00:07:02again, making next to nothing.
00:07:04Never complained.
00:07:05I mean, I found out things now.
00:07:06Like, when he was in Chicago, he was living in his car.
00:07:08I never knew that.
00:07:08He would never tell me that,
00:07:09because I'd have said,
00:07:10hey, come on home, you're going to get a real job, right?
00:07:12But he wouldn't tell me that.
00:07:14You know, when I'm graduating from college,
00:07:17I'm thinking, I have four years of experience in finance,
00:07:24in the business world,
00:07:25or I have, you know, 15 years of experience in basketball.
00:07:31Basketball is what I know best.
00:07:32And you have, I don't know, 50 years of your life to do work.
00:07:36Why do anything but what you love?
00:07:40So...
00:07:44At this point, about to turn 27,
00:07:47still making essentially almost no money.
00:07:49I have loans.
00:07:50I have to support myself somehow.
00:07:51You know, my parents are on me telling me,
00:07:53you know, you got to get a job.
00:07:56Again, I always did think
00:07:57that it was going to be a very short-term thing,
00:07:59and then he would say,
00:08:00yeah, this ain't for me.
00:08:02And, well, I was wrong.
00:08:05I get a call from, like, my basketball mentor,
00:08:07Mike Procopio.
00:08:08He goes, pack your bags, kid.
00:08:10You're going to China.
00:08:12It was a coaching job in China,
00:08:14being an assistant coach for Joe Welton
00:08:17with the Foshan Long Lions.
00:08:19He goes, you absolutely need to take this job.
00:08:21So I called the coach, talked to him,
00:08:23he offered me the job,
00:08:24and I had about 24 hours to talk it over with my parents,
00:08:28and to me, it was a no-brainer.
00:08:30I can get paid to be a basketball coach, basically.
00:08:32That's what it came down to.
00:08:33And whether it was in China
00:08:35or whether it was in my backyard,
00:08:36I was going to say yes to it.
00:08:43Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
00:09:14There's basketball coach inside the Forbidden City.
00:09:17They sure do love their basketball.
00:09:19Yeah.
00:09:20How old is that?
00:09:35He's back in the stor Second World difference.
00:09:36I did it all once again.
00:09:39Super cool cool cool cool cool cool cool cool cool cool.
00:09:40Going outside
00:09:44Fans could click a little cool cool cool cool cool cool cool cool cool cool cool cool cool cool cool
00:09:45cool cool cool.
00:09:45It was the best football team.
00:09:48At the beginning,
00:09:50there was, like,
00:09:50King of NB,
00:09:51and Liu Yui-dong.
00:09:53The Chinese gold medal
00:09:54made my impression very深.
00:09:56But very soon,
00:09:56my興趣 was moved.
00:09:58Because the third time
00:09:59in the CBA game,
00:10:00I was at the end of the game.
00:10:02As for the tournament,
00:10:04I was not going to have a CBA game.
00:10:06After that,
00:10:07I didn't have a CBA game.
00:10:08I was watching a CBA game,
00:10:09which was a CBA game.
00:10:11I was very biased.
00:10:13I was still a 6-year-old child.
00:10:14I saw the CBA completely different.
00:10:16They finally took the ball.
00:10:17This is the first feeling.
00:10:20They're playing the game right now.
00:10:21Now, let's see both of them.
00:10:24Although the CBA is very apparent
00:10:26that they haven't developed such a stage,
00:10:28but the goal of the CBA is to become the Chinese NBA.
00:10:31If someone were to ask, I would tell them
00:10:33the CBA is one of the Premier League's
00:10:34up-and-coming leagues in the world.
00:10:36There's such a love and passion for the game in China
00:10:38that with the amount of money they're putting into it,
00:10:40the names that they're getting are off the charts
00:10:42in terms of talent.
00:10:44From American import standards,
00:10:46it's growing quicker than people expected.
00:10:50So the CBA allows every team to have two imports.
00:10:53They could be from any country outside of China.
00:10:55Generally, they're always Americans.
00:10:57So our team is the Foshan Long Lions.
00:10:59We have two American imports.
00:11:01You're Shadlik Randolph and Shad McCants.
00:11:04And since Foshan finished in the bottom five in the league,
00:11:07they were also able to have an Asian import
00:11:09from any Asian country.
00:11:11There is no league now in Syria.
00:11:13Nobody playing basketball.
00:11:15So then I took the decision to come to China
00:11:17because China is one of the most important leagues in all Asia.
00:11:28I'd only played in the NBA.
00:11:29That was my only playing experience.
00:11:31And that's obviously what I had wanted to continue to do.
00:11:33I was coming off of surgery the year before.
00:11:35I'd rehabbed.
00:11:36I'd gotten stronger.
00:11:37So I was really looking forward to trying to get back in the NBA.
00:11:41You know, I just saw more and more and more guys kept signing over in China.
00:11:44And it probably wouldn't be a bad thing for me to go over there,
00:11:47play to get that experience,
00:11:49you know, to be able to make a good amount of money.
00:11:51Did my research.
00:11:52I saw that, you know, as opposed to being in Europe for nine months,
00:11:55you're in China for four months, you know,
00:11:57and it's the same kind of money, if not more.
00:12:00And I was like, yeah, I mean, absolutely. I'm interested.
00:12:04The Chinese players follow American basketball.
00:12:07Like, you know, they know who we are before we get there.
00:12:10Like, they've probably seen us and they've watched us.
00:12:12So it's important, like, you let them know, like,
00:12:14hey, like, I'm your teammate now.
00:12:15Like, we're playing together.
00:12:16Like, you know, don't look at me as somebody who's played in the NBA
00:12:19or I'm a long line or whatever the name is.
00:12:23Like, I'm on your team now, you know?
00:12:40I have no idea what long lion is.
00:12:43I know that long is Chinese for dragon.
00:12:51And I know that lion is English for lion.
00:12:55.
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00:13:09So I'm thinking,
00:13:15,
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00:13:16Thank you very much.
00:13:46In the tournament, we have a lot of things to learn and improve.
00:13:52And the players are very young.
00:14:16We took him out of nowhere.
00:14:22The reputation of Foshan around the league going into this season was another win on the docket.
00:14:40When I took over, we were 6 and 11.
00:14:43We were down in the very stellar of the league.
00:14:46And we were struggling.
00:14:50The game was a challenge.
00:14:56The players were struggling.
00:14:57We had a problem.
00:14:58We had a problem.
00:14:58We had a problem.
00:14:58We had to go back to Germany.
00:15:00And this time, we didn't know how to do this.
00:15:04Joe, our coach before, you know, he's older, he's very experienced.
00:15:09Norm, this is his first coaching, head coaching job,
00:15:11so it's a different dynamic.
00:15:13He's 27, you know, he's a kid.
00:15:16Across the league, it does seem as though a lot of the coaching staff,
00:15:20a lot of coaches are actually Chinese,
00:15:21or if they're not Chinese,
00:15:23they're people who have had some sort of long-standing tie
00:15:25with international basketball or China specifically.
00:15:28So it is incredibly strange, I think,
00:15:31for him to be handed the keys to an entire team.
00:15:35We're going to slow it up and go through all the dead ball stuff.
00:15:40Corner, corner.
00:15:42That means we're in this alignment.
00:15:46And you just, everybody takes a peek over the sideline real quick.
00:15:51You know, I was really the only guy they had for the job.
00:15:53Coach Schier had taken the team over last year
00:15:56and they had done much worse,
00:15:57and he had a hard condition and he didn't want the job.
00:15:59The consultant had been sitting back
00:16:02and, you know, critiquing everything all season,
00:16:04and it's just a losing position for him.
00:16:05He didn't really want the job.
00:16:06There really was no other option for them
00:16:08other than to give me the job.
00:16:12Let's go, let's go, last time, last time, let's go.
00:16:14Let's go, let's go, let's go.
00:16:15Maybe there's a lot of people who felt like
00:16:18let's go, oh, let's go, let's go.
00:16:20I'm sorry.
00:16:21I think that the team might not have a good performance tonight.
00:16:25What would you really like to do so far again?
00:16:30I don't know.
00:16:36Go!
00:16:43Go!
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00:16:53But the coach of the Wihardt is still not returning,
00:16:55but the outside team is only a person of the馬丹利.
00:16:58Because the coach of the team is not good,
00:16:59the Wihardt has to make some changes in the team.
00:17:02According to our news,
00:17:04the football team is trying to change it.
00:17:08His body is getting beat up a little bit.
00:17:10I think his legs weren't at the level that they were when he first got here.
00:17:16Basically, our management thought that a change would be for the best,
00:17:19and the personnel we have coming in,
00:17:21I believe is similar to Wihardt,
00:17:24and hopefully he can do just as well as Wihardt did for us.
00:17:27Go!
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00:17:36I just knew that from what everybody was telling me before I came
00:17:40that, you know, these guys are not good,
00:17:42that, you know, you're going into a situation and don't expect to win.
00:17:47Go!
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00:17:49I felt like there was a bond right away.
00:17:51All right, here we go, here we go, come on.
00:17:53Go, go, go.
00:17:55I tried to give them more freedom, open up the floor,
00:17:58let them play a little bit more.
00:18:01Not even from a strategic standpoint
00:18:03was it that important as it was mental for them.
00:18:05Allen, ball, ball.
00:18:08Ready?
00:18:13Oh, miss, miss.
00:18:15Wide open.
00:18:16All they knew was we got a new coach.
00:18:19He's going to let us play.
00:18:20He's not going to pull me out from making mistakes.
00:18:22We're just going to go have fun and enjoy.
00:18:24We're going to have nothing to lose.
00:18:30He's still learning a lot, so he let me do a lot of things,
00:18:33you know, and he just gave me a lot of control,
00:18:35and, I mean, let's go.
00:18:43He's still learning a lot, so he let me do a lot of things,
00:18:46you know, and he just gave me a lot of control,
00:18:48and, I mean, let our team play.
00:18:50They're on.
00:18:51Now you're a prototypical CBA American player.
00:18:54He doesn't take many shots.
00:18:56He's a great team player.
00:18:57He gets everyone involved.
00:18:59Chinese players love him.
00:19:00He's a great team player.
00:19:02He's a great team player.
00:19:03After the new team,
00:19:05Norman's team's team
00:19:06is very suitable for the new team
00:19:09after the new team
00:19:10of the new team.
00:19:11A lot of what we did was modeled off of Mike D'Antoni's stuff, spread ball screen, kind
00:19:16of opening up the entire middle of the floor, really no post, and letting JK, letting our
00:19:21point guard Duran, whoever it be, you know, penetrate and kick.
00:19:25And we had the luxury of doing that with a guy like Jay-Z, who's, you know, a seven-footer,
00:19:30plays the four, and can also shoot the three, and Shaft could shoot the ball.
00:19:34I thought it fit with what we had for pieces.
00:19:35You're amazing. Every fucking rebound is going to determine this win right now.
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00:20:34I think it's not a good thing for three people.
00:20:40I hope in the next tournament,
00:20:41we can bring more help for three people.
00:21:28I was in the game, like, ooh!
00:21:38He did it like he was, like,
00:21:42Iverson or something.
00:21:45He did it like...
00:21:46I was in the game, like...
00:21:53Around the back?
00:21:54Yeah, around the back.
00:22:01You know, sometimes watching Jay-Z play basketball
00:22:05breaks my heart,
00:22:06because there's no doubt in my mind
00:22:08if somebody had gotten with him,
00:22:10or the right people had gotten a hold of him
00:22:11when he was 18, 19, 20 years old,
00:22:13he'd be in the NBA right now.
00:22:14I mean, a seven-footer who can stroke it
00:22:16from 20-plus feet,
00:22:18those guys don't come around every day.
00:22:25I've had a lot of conversations with Jay-Z,
00:22:27and he, at times, wants to fly under the radar.
00:22:33But it's frustrating sometimes,
00:22:34you just want to grab him
00:22:35and shape him into the player
00:22:37that you know he could be.
00:22:39I think, in China,
00:22:41as a Chinese country,
00:22:42it's definitely found
00:22:43that there's a kind of culture
00:22:44that's similar to it.
00:22:45For example,
00:22:46the Chinese people say
00:22:47that the Chinese people know
00:22:48that they don't know too much.
00:22:50We all need to play together.
00:22:52But at the same time,
00:22:53it's a kind of emotion
00:22:55that makes people feel
00:22:55more bright,
00:22:56more bright.
00:22:57But this doesn't fit
00:22:58for the Chinese Chinese people.
00:23:01They run this lap number 8 in 3D.
00:23:08As much as I think the CBA is trying,
00:23:11they're still extremely different from the NBA.
00:23:13You have an 82-game season
00:23:14versus a 32-game season.
00:23:16Each game counts a whole lot more
00:23:18than in an NBA season.
00:23:19In the NBA,
00:23:20you've got a farm system.
00:23:21In China,
00:23:22you have kids that don't go to school
00:23:24who are strictly basketball players.
00:23:27From an NBA team,
00:23:29from their perspective,
00:23:30revenue is extremely important.
00:23:31the CBA team is not as important
00:23:34nearly as it is in the NBA.
00:23:36Because the CBA,
00:23:37at the beginning,
00:23:38I said that the CBA
00:23:39has two skills.
00:23:40One is that
00:23:41they want to make the competition
00:23:42more successful,
00:23:42and make the Chinese people
00:23:45have a better sports career
00:23:46to spend money.
00:23:47On the other hand,
00:23:48they want to teach people
00:23:49for the country.
00:23:49They have two skills.
00:23:51Who are they more important?
00:23:53In the moment,
00:23:55they want to teach people
00:23:55for the country.
00:23:57The Maldi and Patliss
00:23:58and that's why
00:23:59the CBA is a great sport.
00:24:02The Maldi and Patliss
00:24:05are more of the competition.
00:24:06The Maldi and Patliss
00:24:09are more of the competition.
00:24:10The Maldi and Patliss
00:24:17are more of the competition.
00:24:18This is the Maldi and Patliss
00:24:22and the Maldi.
00:24:37The Chinese sport was always controlled by the government.
00:24:41The system was like the Soviet Union.
00:24:43They pick you according to your height, what they think you will be good at, not what you
00:24:52like.
00:24:53They pick you from very young, and they have amateur athletic schools, and that means after
00:25:01your regular schools, you go there, train.
00:25:04You are kind of groomed by the nation.
00:25:08Your effort is not recognized unless you serve the country.
00:25:14Let me see, this is the whole men's and women's team, Romanian tour, Pakistan, France, Manila,
00:25:211975.
00:25:23We defeated the Spanish national team.
00:25:25World Chamberlain went there particularly to see that game because it's new.
00:25:31And the team from China?
00:25:33Can you imagine?
00:25:34Isolated for decades.
00:25:36You know?
00:25:37And it's just like a team from North Korea now visiting the United States.
00:25:41It's impossible.
00:25:42It's impossible.
00:25:43You know?
00:25:44Because China was isolated.
00:25:47Internationally.
00:25:48Back then, maybe China's best friend is Albania.
00:25:52You know, back then it was like that.
00:25:55But after Nixon visits in 1972, then things start to change.
00:26:00Because ping-pong diplomacy.
00:26:07Oh, we can use sports to get China out of isolation.
00:26:12You know, all sports is for political reasons.
00:26:16Once I, you know, in the game I dunked the ball, I was forced to make self-criticism.
00:26:23So, that means you draw too much attention to your person.
00:26:28I did that.
00:26:30You know, that's back the political atmosphere.
00:26:33You know, even today, you can't entirely get rid of it.
00:26:38Individuality, creativity, initiatives.
00:26:41These things are lacking in Chinese basketball.
00:26:43You know that.
00:26:44I know it.
00:26:45Every time I watch them play, I know how they think.
00:26:47They don't play to win, but they play not to make mistakes.
00:26:54They don't play to win, they play not to make mistakes.
00:26:55I will read this!
00:26:58I am going to run.
00:27:00Wow, I hear you.
00:27:03This is a big man.
00:27:07I'll play.
00:27:07How many players will compete with?
00:27:08I'll play threeEU.
00:27:09No, no, no.
00:27:10No, no.
00:27:11No, no.
00:27:12It's a big one.
00:27:14The fans are more famous because he's more famous in all countries.
00:27:18The fans are more famous.
00:27:20It's not easy to have fun when you guys lose,
00:27:22but you can tell we're a completely different team.
00:27:24You guys have made tremendous strides to show that you can play in every single game.
00:27:29This is a game we can win. You guys will beat this game.
00:27:32Let's go, let's go.
00:27:33Let's go, let's go.
00:27:35Brothers!
00:27:40They're the number one team in the league.
00:27:42They're, you know, a bunch of dynasty in China, if you will.
00:27:45So I'm sure they're going to come out gunning for us.
00:27:46They're going to try to pound us.
00:27:47Really, everything needs to go right in order for us to win.
00:27:50But, you know, they're not infallible either.
00:27:52Yi, Terence Williams, and Ike Diagu, like, those are NBA players.
00:27:56And the rest are on the Chinese Olympic team.
00:27:58Like, that's a good team.
00:28:16So today we can see that,
00:28:19is, except for the two players,
00:28:21the main players,
00:28:21the two players,
00:28:22and the other players,
00:28:25which is the overall team
00:28:26is more effective.
00:28:28So, let's see the
00:28:30design of the special training
00:28:34Alright, I have two goals,
00:28:40we got 120 points.
00:28:43And I want to get 25 assists.
00:28:45And the other is the goal,
00:28:46we got 254.
00:28:48Alright, second point for tonight,
00:28:50protect the pain.
00:28:51So, the second one,
00:28:51is to protect the pain.
00:28:53Everybody knows that you're dangerous,
00:28:55and that you're good right now.
00:28:56So, now,
00:28:57all of the other teams
00:28:58believe that you have a threat
00:29:00and that you have a threat.
00:29:02So, let's go out and have some fun.
00:29:03It's going to be a war.
00:29:04It's going to be a war.
00:29:05Let's go.
00:29:07Let's go.
00:29:08Let's go.
00:29:08Let's go.
00:29:09Let's go.
00:29:15Let's go.
00:29:36Let's go.
00:29:37Let's go.
00:29:39Let's go.
00:29:40come on.
00:29:41Let's go.
00:29:52Let's go.
00:29:56Let's go.
00:30:06Let's go.
00:30:09Hopefully, he played that way on everything needs to be continued
00:30:15And the thing is I was always that kind of player
00:30:17And then once I got into college
00:30:19professionally, I kind of got away from that
00:30:21and just became more of a role player for the teams that I played with
00:30:23but since I've come over here
00:30:25they put the ball in my hands
00:30:27and expect me and need me to be able to make something happen
00:30:36We started okay
00:30:37and then slowly but surely, they started to make shots.
00:30:59There's an obvious huge gap between the imports
00:31:03and their level of play versus the Chinese players.
00:31:05But you can't be good without good Chinese players.
00:31:35Let's go!
00:31:36Let's go!
00:31:37Let's go!
00:31:38Let's go!
00:31:40We're in!
00:31:45Let's go!
00:31:46Let's go!
00:32:05Let's go!
00:32:07Go!
00:32:07Go!
00:32:08Go!
00:32:32We're not a great defensive team by any means anyways, but we go through periods
00:32:37where we can't get stops, and against Guangdong, if you give them a 10-point lead, they're
00:32:41going to hold on to it.
00:32:41They're not going to cough it up.
00:33:17Maybe it's an inexperience or youth or lack of practice time because we haven't practiced,
00:33:22we haven't been able to drill defense really, but we just got to find ways to not be fighting
00:33:27from behind all the time.
00:34:04So there's these courts near the stadium, I would say maybe 80 hoops.
00:34:09It blows my mind because every time I walk by there, every hoop is filled.
00:34:18When you think about it though, I mean the most populated country in the world, and really
00:34:23basketball is their sport in China.
00:34:25They love it.
00:34:26You know, people are playing it nonstop every day in every park that you go to.
00:34:29You think that with that much of a talent pool to choose from, you'd be able to develop some
00:34:35players.
00:34:37I think one of the main differences though is the infrastructure is very different.
00:34:42So in the United States, there's a lot of ways you become pre-professional at an earlier
00:34:47age.
00:34:47For example, with basketball, you might play high school ball, you might also play AAU ball.
00:34:54I don't really think that infrastructure exists in China.
00:34:56So even if there are kids who are out in the streets, balling every day, the opportunities
00:35:02to hone their skills aren't quite there yet.
00:35:10You know, I think the CBA needs to really start at the ground level.
00:35:17For whatever reason, at the lower levels, they're not getting the instruction they need.
00:35:22All they do is practice.
00:35:23They don't really play many games at all.
00:35:25And like anything that you don't really know how to teach, you just tell them do more,
00:35:30do it faster, do it harder, do it better.
00:35:35If you don't have someone actually giving them direction, coaching them, and actually
00:35:39teaching them versus just telling them to go run, that's a problem because there's not
00:35:43a whole lot of ways to get players in China other than developing them.
00:35:54You know, I'm just looking for a quiet life.
00:35:58I try to get away from people.
00:36:00You know, I never, I never enjoyed being around, you know, a crowd or anything.
00:36:06You know, even, you know, I'd rather stay home and watch NBA than go to an NBA game or
00:36:13something, you know, just, I don't know.
00:36:32In China, basically, you're treated as a tool.
00:36:42On the basketball court, I, I could express myself.
00:36:47I decided that I played my own way.
00:36:50I was on the 17, but I, I, I dunked the ball like nothing.
00:36:54You know, back then, nobody can dunk the ball.
00:36:57You know, they saw it, they dunk the ball.
00:36:59I never saw basketball play that way.
00:37:02Oh, the coach hate me.
00:37:05Oh, the coach hate me because I don't play their way.
00:37:15Oh.
00:37:19I was very depressed.
00:37:21So depressed.
00:37:23I, I lose entire motivation to play.
00:37:27Oh.
00:37:32I honestly believe that, you know, I do love that.
00:37:38I think there's a balance of things.
00:37:39Like, I mean, I don't know.
00:37:42But I think that the people of Israel, in a lot of people,
00:37:47have a lot of greater skill.
00:37:48You just need to give him a rule of competence.
00:37:50You tell him that you have to win a 100
00:37:51game.
00:37:54Most people need to make it work.
00:37:56Only a lot of people.
00:37:57Very few.
00:37:57But you can't help him.
00:37:58He can be very well.
00:38:00Also, he's a really good guy.
00:38:12I was very young when I was a kid.
00:38:16My parents invited me to play a game.
00:38:19I didn't have CBA,
00:38:23I had a lot of problems.
00:38:26I had a lot of problems.
00:38:27I had a lot of problems.
00:38:28I had to leave.
00:38:28I had to leave.
00:38:47It's hard to remember that these guys are like 18, 19, 20 years old. There's so many droopy faces all
00:38:53the time, and it doesn't seem as if they're having fun.
00:38:59I'm not saying that all these guys are forced to be basketball players, or I'm sure that plenty of them
00:39:04picked it up as kids, and they liked it, and they were good, and that's why they're here. But it's
00:39:08hard to enjoy something when you're doing it six days a week, 11 months out of the year.
00:39:26After the season of the season of the season of the season of the season of the season of the
00:39:28season of the season, the season of the season of the season is very short.
00:39:34You need time away from basketball in order to enjoy basketball. They want to be kids probably, and they're in
00:39:41such a structured lifestyle that it's difficult to be a kid. And it seems like at times they hate basketball.
00:39:59Hey, baby. Baby? Get a haircut. He doesn't know what I'm saying. That's Kobe. By the way, if you want
00:40:07to get an autograph later, that's Kobe.
00:40:10When I got to China, the team basically gave me an option of living downtown in the city, but I
00:40:15actually chose to live in the dorms with the players, and that's where I spent 90, 95% of my
00:40:19time.
00:40:21Jay-Z, turn your jacket around. You look like a fool.
00:40:28Alex, tell him to turn his jacket around. That was cool in 1991.
00:40:41Trying to learn the language a little bit. You have to understand who your players are personally before you can
00:40:46coach them in a game setting.
00:40:50My girlfriend came, like, late in the summer, and made me promise that I would free all the animals before
00:40:55I left.
00:41:14What's up, buddy? How much they want for you?
00:41:20I thought it was beautiful, and then I realized that they were killing all the animals to eat them, and
00:41:25then I was kind of depressed, but...
00:41:31Being around the players, eating with them every day, using the chopsticks, going over there and cruising through the fish
00:41:37heads and trying to find something to eat.
00:41:39If you want guys to go to war with you, you better be able to do the same things that
00:41:42they're subject to doing every day.
00:41:50This is about the most American-Chinese dish you could possibly get.
00:41:53Yeah. What is that, chicken?
00:41:56Like, whatever you eat in China, there's going to be a bone.
00:41:59You're going to be eating egg, and there's a bone in the middle of the egg.
00:42:03I had never left the country before until I got off the plane in China.
00:42:08I was just in incomplete culture shock. That's the only way to kind of explain it.
00:42:33It's tough to come out here and be by yourself, because you can't talk to anyone. It's hard to communicate
00:42:39with anybody, really.
00:42:42You look like brothers. You look like brothers.
00:42:47But I knew my first month, two months, last season when I came over here were tough.
00:42:54It was really hard for me not to be able to talk to people when I wanted to talk to
00:42:58them, not to be able to walk outside and have a conversation with someone for the most part.
00:43:04But, you know, once you get used to it, it definitely gets easier.
00:43:11Got to have a computer and some internet, you know, and you'll be good to go. Some way to contact
00:43:16people back home.
00:43:19I'm at the airport, that's why I'm awake.
00:43:24Yeah, we're fine. It's a game. We've got a game tomorrow.
00:43:27It's all right. Hanging in there, we got...
00:43:29I got delightfully reminded by our Quazine assistant that I'm 4-4, which makes me the winningest coach in franchise
00:43:40history.
00:43:43The best part is, though, he tells me to play every minute, ignore him, and then we win.
00:43:48And then he's, like, congratulating me for listening to his advice and telling everyone that we're winning because I'm listening
00:43:54to him.
00:43:57But winning cures all, right?
00:44:01We're in a position right now where we're still in the hunt for that last playoff spot.
00:44:06But, you know, we've got seven games left, and we can only afford to lose one or two more games.
00:44:18What's your number?
00:44:2011B.
00:44:21Can you speak Chinese?
00:44:23No.
00:44:23Huh?
00:44:2611B.
00:44:3611B.
00:44:4211B.
00:44:4311B.
00:44:4712B.
00:44:4913B.
00:44:5215B.
00:44:5415B.
00:44:55Yes, no, no, no.
00:44:58No, no, no.
00:44:58No, no, no.
00:45:00No, no!
00:45:47Okay, our effort was exceptional, but at times our mental focus wasn't there.
00:45:51All right, the possessions where we played poorly on defense mainly resulted because we took four shots on offense.
00:45:59When I first got here and I'm watching film of games from last year and I'm sitting with coach and
00:46:03we're talking about the style of game, the number one biggest difference that was glaring to me was the defense.
00:46:09There is almost no defense being played in China.
00:46:12Listen, you have to communicate.
00:46:15You have to stay with him until you can physically touch the next guy.
00:46:19Come on, come on, one back.
00:46:22All right, switch. Now you go to the ball screen.
00:46:24You have to stay there.
00:46:25All the people love scoring the ball. Nobody clap or chill for the good stop.
00:46:32All right, look.
00:46:33Ball pass.
00:46:34One back.
00:46:36Say they cut through.
00:46:38So you're trying to move on to get up.
00:46:40Right?
00:46:40The overall position of the game is a bit complicated.
00:46:44Say he gets stuck in a situation where the big guy is five minutes from the corner, okay?
00:46:49Song has to go to the corner, we'll bump him down.
00:46:51So look, say this is Song.
00:46:52Go on, go on.
00:46:53Offensive.
00:46:54Come on, Song.
00:46:55Come on.
00:47:07Come on.
00:47:08You're going to have to make a decision.
00:47:09You're going to come off a ball screen.
00:47:10You're going to have to make a read and make a decision on the fly as to where the ball
00:47:14needs to go.
00:47:15Whereas over here, they're trained as basketball players to this is your job.
00:47:19This is how you do it.
00:47:20And they want to be told exactly how things are supposed to be done.
00:47:23And you can't.
00:47:23That's a tough way to play basketball.
00:47:25He said I suggest that when the guys cut, don't stay with them.
00:47:29Don't stay with them.
00:47:30Because if you stay, they'll mess up.
00:47:33Sometimes they, on the court, sometimes they use the communication.
00:47:38Number one rule.
00:47:39When in doubt, stay with your man.
00:47:41If you don't know what to do, stay with the guy you're with, okay?
00:47:45If you guys can communicate, it'll solve a lot of problems.
00:47:48Rule one, you can that challenge.
00:47:48I think defense is lacking and I think that there's a few reasons.
00:47:53One, you don't see the kind of defense out of the import players like that you would see in the
00:47:58NBA.
00:47:59If I was in an NBA game, if a guy came, I would go up and try to contest or
00:48:03block a shot.
00:48:04In this league, I may not do that because I can't afford to get in foul trouble.
00:48:08You know, and you don't know how the whistle's going to go in this league.
00:48:12I mean, calls can get kind of crazy.
00:48:20This is the beginning of the season.
00:48:22We and Fujian have almost the same record.
00:48:25But after winning in Guangdong,
00:48:28Fujian's this tournament,
00:48:30for us,
00:48:31is probably the only one to keep the hope in the end of the season.
00:48:36It's a very important match.
00:48:40We have a great big man in Will McDonald.
00:48:43They have a really good young Chinese big man.
00:48:46Yeah, Boundalian, it's his first season.
00:48:47He's got spin moves.
00:48:49He rebounds, plays hard.
00:48:50He is probably already one of the best centers in the CBA.
00:48:55I think that if we come out, we're able to get up and down the floor,
00:48:58and we're able to make some shots, and the game's not called too crazy,
00:49:02I think we could win.
00:49:05The president had a good, like, I don't know if it was a Chinese proverb or what,
00:49:09but it translated pretty good.
00:49:10He said, if we back up, we fall off the cliff.
00:49:12So he goes, you got to stand and fight.
00:49:31Go, go, go, go, go, go. Come on, J.K., come on, J.K.,
00:49:35Tano, Tano.
00:49:37Good pass.
00:49:38Let's go.
00:49:39Go, go, go, go, go. Come on, J.K., come get it.
00:49:42Tano, Tano!
00:49:44Tano, Tano!
00:49:46Tano, Tano!
00:49:50We've had trouble with starts.
00:49:51Okay, so that was part of our emphasis where we ran the ball,
00:49:54we got to the rim, we were getting easy shots in transition,
00:49:56guys were making open shots, and then after that, we kind of hung out.
00:50:00Yes, sir!
00:50:02My team is a young man.
00:50:04We will be relaxed and we will be rejected.
00:50:13On who? You're behind the play. You can't see that.
00:50:18Tramble. Tramble.
00:50:20Yes. Yes.
00:50:26Oh! Oh! Oh, again!
00:50:30Oh, you're not watching this.
00:50:34It won!
00:50:36Sir, he's getting killed. Killed.
00:50:39Getting killed.
00:50:40Actually, you have to expect the bad calls on the road,
00:50:42but not like that.
00:50:45Are you serious?
00:50:46Do you see that?
00:50:48Are you kidding me?
00:50:54Are you serious?
00:50:56I'm not fighting the fucker.
00:50:58I'm not going home.
00:51:01Anytime, as a coach, you see your guys fighting for you
00:51:05and going to war, you get emotional and you get fired up.
00:51:09They're going to war for me.
00:51:10I got to go to war for them.
00:51:11Hey, you guys better clean this game up.
00:51:14You better clean it up right now.
00:51:17Haysa.
00:51:18Haysa. Black whistle.
00:51:19Black whistle basically means that the referees were paid off.
00:51:23It's so common because it's simple, it's easy,
00:51:25and it's probably true.
00:51:28We had a game on the road.
00:51:29I won't say where or what team or whatever,
00:51:31but we lost by less than 10 points.
00:51:36And the owner of the other team, which I found out after the fact,
00:51:40goes and grabs their head coach and screams at him
00:51:43for about 20 minutes after the game
00:51:45because they only beat us by a certain amount,
00:51:47and they had paid 50,000 RMB to the officials.
00:51:50So, I mean, that's frustrating.
00:51:52You want to believe that there's an even playing field,
00:51:54and you work hard, and you do what you're supposed to do,
00:51:57that you can compete.
00:51:58What are you teaching 19- and 20-year-old kids
00:52:00when they work their whole year round
00:52:02to go out there and win a basketball game?
00:52:05And it doesn't matter how hard you work.
00:52:07It only matters who you know or how much pull you have.
00:52:09Like, what are we teaching them if that's the case?
00:52:12I'm working for you.
00:52:14Next.
00:52:15Why?
00:52:15Next time.
00:52:16Why? What'll I do?
00:52:18Don't pass on the referees call.
00:52:20Next time.
00:52:21Next.
00:52:22Next time.
00:52:23Next time.
00:52:24I didn't touch.
00:52:26Next time.
00:52:26Once I saw his appearance,
00:52:27he was also seeing your performance on the floor.
00:52:29At some point,
00:52:29he would be affected all the time.
00:52:30They were affected everyone, and affected us.
00:52:31And we thought the match wasn't going to be at it?
00:52:35So, we had no idea.
00:52:36Next time.
00:52:41When Nolman came back,
00:52:42the game couldn't compete with the team,
00:52:44and the coaching team,
00:52:44and the team could do anything else.
00:52:45It's the best chance to play at the场.
00:52:47Everybody, regardless.
00:52:55Go, go, go, go, go!
00:52:57Go, go, go!
00:53:00Go, go, go!
00:53:01Go, go!
00:53:02Go, go!
00:53:06Every player has a lot of pressure.
00:53:10Go, go!
00:53:11Come here!
00:53:14Go, go!
00:53:15Yeah!
00:53:16Well done!
00:53:27Yeah!
00:53:28Yeah!
00:53:29Go!
00:53:30That's 50 straight.
00:53:31Yeah!
00:53:36Yeah!
00:53:39That's it!
00:53:40That's it!
00:53:41Ready to win, it's a tight game.
00:53:44If they win a game, they won't win.
00:53:46After a long time throwing up in the games,
00:53:48maybe everyone will get more nervous.
00:53:51I want to go.
00:53:52I want them to go.
00:53:53I hope for them to win the game.
00:53:57One!
00:53:58Start the clock!
00:54:01Be careful!
00:54:03Be careful!
00:54:05Be careful!
00:54:06Be careful!
00:54:09It's mainly because of everyone's
00:54:11chargeback with the talent
00:54:12which can't stop...
00:54:13until the end...
00:54:15doing the championship
00:54:16so...
00:54:17so winning is coming down to me.
00:54:42All right, listen, we got to go do that six more times.
00:54:48We have stuff to work on, we'll figure it out, but it's not about the X's and O's, it's
00:54:52not about the referees or the opponents and the matchups, all right?
00:54:55It's about that level of concentration, focus, and intensity.
00:55:00Great job.
00:55:10Absolutely, big sigh of relief.
00:55:13Call mom and dad, go get the critiques on the X's and O's from dad, and maybe a pat
00:55:19on the back if he's feeling good about it, so definitely a sigh of relief, just feel good
00:55:23about the win, and we can enjoy it for a little bit, because it would have been a long break
00:55:25had we not gotten it, so really, really proud of the guys.
00:55:29They played extremely hard in the position where they easily could have folded, and they
00:55:33didn't, so very proud of them.
00:56:44I get back to my room.
00:56:45It's like, yeah, like one o'clock in the morning and I hear some like scuttlebutt going on down the
00:56:49hall.
00:56:50So I walk down, I peek in.
00:56:52It's JK, Wei and Jeremy.
00:56:54They're all in the room playing NBA 2K13.
00:56:56Like, coach, come on, come on, play, play this, play this.
00:56:58So I play them and we're going through selecting teams and we come by the 85, 86 Celtics and I
00:57:03go, greatest team that ever lived right there.
00:57:06There they are.
00:57:06So I pick them, I play with them and they're going, Johnson, who's Dennis Johnson or who's Bill Walton?
00:57:12Like, they're like, who are these people?
00:57:13So I go, you guys stay right here.
00:57:15I run back to my room down the hall and I have the 1986 NBA Finals on DVD.
00:57:21Eight on the shot clock.
00:57:23Bird's been marvelous.
00:57:28They're just eyes lit up.
00:57:30They were like in a fantasy world for a minute.
00:57:32They're watching the short shorts and they, all these white guys running around and Ralph Sampson, 7'5", bringing the
00:57:37ball up, like, junking on people and Elijah Wan.
00:57:40And they were just completely, like, baffled and taken in by the whole thing.
00:57:44Johnson goes in, gets the basket in the foul.
00:57:47But I sat there, we watched the whole game together and we were laughing and it was a good time.
00:57:51Side line, they spread out to defense, beautiful fast break.
00:57:54Bird, please.
00:57:55Bird, please.
00:58:26Bird, please.
00:58:28It's not that easy to do it, but it's the advantage of the young players in the game is that
00:58:32they're fighting and emotional.
00:58:39Baye is the military team.
00:58:41They're difficult because there's a lot of pride that goes into the military team and their success or failure.
00:58:48And the referees understand that.
00:58:49We also know that when we face Baye,
00:58:51the players' support strategy will have a little bit of a change.
00:58:54Any game with Baye, you're only allowed to use one import at a time,
00:58:58so it makes your lineups a lot more challenging.
00:59:00You get into a certain rhythm the whole season, then you play them,
00:59:03and now your lineups are all different.
00:59:08Coming in, everyone knew that this Baye game was going to be extremely important.
00:59:12They were in the race with us. They were right around the same spot.
00:59:14I think we were tied for 10th place.
00:59:16We couldn't lose that game.
00:59:39We were up six with about maybe a minute left.
00:59:42They hit three big threes to go up in the game.
00:59:53Like, wow, you know, that was it.
00:59:56And then we called a timeout.
00:59:58We got you out of the ball.
01:00:10We made a contested three-off to dribble.
01:00:12It was unbelievable.
01:00:19Shav is a warrior.
01:00:20We expect Shav to go out every night and battle, which he does.
01:00:26We tried to ride that high and win in overtime.
01:00:32You got to give Baye credit. They played very well.
01:00:41He didn't need a three, but, you know, there was four seconds left.
01:00:46It could have been time.
01:00:47He could have, you know, passed it up.
01:00:53But I think no one got down on Jay-Z.
01:00:56People encouraged him.
01:00:57He hasn't been in a situation to take the big shots.
01:01:00You know, he's still a young kid.
01:01:02He needs experience.
01:01:03You know, he needs confidence.
01:01:05If he made that shot, maybe, you know,
01:01:06it would have turned his career around.
01:01:08But I think putting him into those situations,
01:01:10it'll be good for him.
01:01:11You know, he needs that.
01:01:18It was probably the toughest loss for us of the season.
01:01:23You know, he needs to go.
01:01:40After the game, they come into the locker room and tell me,
01:01:42you know, we warned you.
01:01:43We want you to play more players.
01:01:44So, you know, we're not going to let you coach the team anymore.
01:01:48You're going to still be running practice.
01:01:50You're still going to do all the film.
01:01:52You're still going to do all the scouting.
01:01:53You're going to do all the game preparation.
01:01:54You're going to do the walkthroughs.
01:01:55You're going to go to the press conferences.
01:01:57But we're going to let the Chinese team manager
01:01:59coach the teams during the game
01:02:01because he'll play more players.
01:02:02And that's what we want.
01:02:03And, you know, I kind of sit there,
01:02:05my head's spinning, like, is this real life right now?
01:02:08Stop, stop, stop, stop, stop.
01:02:10Hold on.
01:02:16I think one of the things you realize when you're in China
01:02:20and trying to get things done is that the kind of hierarchy and bureaucracy,
01:02:24it's very thick and it's very difficult to navigate
01:02:27if you don't understand what you're participating in.
01:02:31So, you know, unfortunately, it's probably not that great of a surprise
01:02:35that he found himself subject to these, the whims of those higher up than him.
01:02:42He felt victim to the nature of this league.
01:02:44And that is, when you lose a couple games in a row,
01:02:48the nature of this league is, you know, you've got to make a change.
01:02:52I never get a bump in salary, never get a bonus increase or anything like that.
01:02:56I'm running around like a maniac doing two people's jobs.
01:02:58I'm the head coach and the assistant coach.
01:03:00I have no help.
01:03:01I'm pouring my heart and guts and soul into this team
01:03:04and you're going to take it away from me because I'm 6-5
01:03:08and you guys had a 6-11 team that I took over.
01:03:11And I'm just baffled.
01:03:42You know, I miss my family, obviously, you know, my friends, being able to go out to
01:03:46a bar with my buddies and fist pump to a born in the USA or something like that, but, yeah,
01:03:52maybe I was a little bit crazy for going.
01:03:54I left behind my family who loves me and a girlfriend who everyone said I should have
01:03:58married.
01:04:00You know, I kind of put that all on hold for my career.
01:04:11You know, I talked it over with my parents that night and, basically, we came to the
01:04:15conclusion that if I take a back seat and I don't coach the teams during the game, just
01:04:20the perception around the league is that I screwed up.
01:04:23There's some sort of baggage with this kid.
01:04:25Why did they take the team from when they've never been successful and he's being successful?
01:04:31And so I called back and I said, if that's the way they feel about me, then I have to
01:04:36be happy with me, then do a buyout for my contract and I'll go home.
01:04:42Next morning, we're leaving on a two-game road trip to G-Land and then Lowning.
01:04:468 a.m. rolls around.
01:04:47We're about to jump on the bus and I got my backpack.
01:04:50So I'm like, all right, we can go talk about it at the airport.
01:04:52The president will be at the airport.
01:04:53We'll talk about it at the airport.
01:04:57I basically tell them, I'm not getting on that plane if it's not my team.
01:05:01If it's my team and you believe in me, then great.
01:05:04We'll move forward just like we were.
01:05:05If not, and you don't believe in me, I'm going to go home.
01:05:09No hard feelings.
01:05:10But there's no doing things halfway.
01:05:14And basically they said, okay, we'll let you coach the team.
01:05:17We don't want you to leave.
01:05:19You can coach the team during the games, but you have to listen more to Coach Shear about the substitution
01:05:24patterns.
01:05:26The problem that I see is that the CBA is trying to develop the Chinese players at the professional level.
01:05:32They need to be developed long before they get to the professional level.
01:05:34So you have these imports coming in that are taking all the attention in the game away from the Chinese
01:05:41players that you're trying to develop.
01:05:42When in a sense, they should already be a complete player at that point.
01:05:46And by that time, it's a little bit too late to develop them.
01:05:48So if winning really is the goal at the professional level, then you should rely on the imports because they're
01:05:53going to help you win.
01:05:54I think this is not a problem.
01:05:58I think the American players are like,
01:06:00I think the American players, this is the most establishes.
01:06:03They give us a lot of strategies.
01:06:05A lot of new practices.
01:06:08Of course, what exactly does the United States and the United States of the country did not结合 that?
01:06:13What did the United States of the world?
01:06:15How do the British players could illustrate the result in the future?
01:06:18What do the unique impact that they think was the same?
01:06:19This is what we always wanted to think about.
01:06:22The European players'ssä on the last year was not a long time.
01:06:25So in this way, there are some difficulties in this way.
01:06:56You know, a lot of players in my generation, even these photos, they don't keep it
01:07:02because there's a lot of unpleasant memories.
01:07:04So they don't want to remember all these things.
01:07:06But I do. Even if it's unpleasant, I still want it.
01:07:11But this history is rejected by China.
01:07:13I disappeared as far as they're concerned.
01:07:19I think back then, what motivated me, you know, a lot is
01:07:24to travel the world, you know, to see things, to ask questions,
01:07:29to think about things, you know, and keep my mind busy
01:07:32so I don't get overwhelmed by, you know, what I have to confront every day, you know.
01:07:40So I think some other things rather than be controlled
01:07:43by the political study sessions and re-education camps and all that stuff.
01:08:03Well, I'm glad I did what I did.
01:08:06I'm glad I didn't move.
01:08:25It is my car.
01:08:39So the game that technically kicked us out of the playoffs was at Lowning, which is a
01:08:43difficult place to play.
01:08:44They're very good.
01:08:45You know, it's just tough to start in a hole, you know, when you take over a team of 6
01:08:51-11.
01:08:52And changing the culture, you know, almost immediately is a very difficult thing to do.
01:08:57And since that time going 9-6, I mean, I think that was a decent job all around for everybody
01:09:04that was involved.
01:09:04Oh really?
01:09:17Yeah.
01:09:19Uh-huh.
01:09:19Yep.
01:09:21Yeah.
01:09:24Yeah.
01:09:32Oh, my God.
01:09:57I tried to get across the message to those guys that any time you step on the floor, you as
01:10:03an individual are forming your reputation.
01:10:05And even if it's a meaningless game, if you can prove to other people that, you know, you can go
01:10:10out in any situation, try to win, be a winner, take a game seriously, even when there's not much on
01:10:14the line, you're a valuable asset to any team.
01:10:31Yeah, I could hear. There's only a few people in the gym that can kind of understand what he's saying.
01:10:37We're Portuguese of ancestry, and we get very excited, very, very excited, very animated people.
01:10:48We were a little anxious about him being that far away from home.
01:10:51We just don't know much about the country at all, so it was just a little nerve-wracking.
01:10:55I was scared. I'm still scared, but I was happy. I was happy. At least he was going to keep
01:11:00going with what he's trying to do.
01:11:07It's very easy as an assistant coach to sit back and know what the head coach should do.
01:11:13When you are out there on the sideline by yourself, you really are on an island.
01:11:18You have things going through your mind between match-ups, who plays well together for our guys, how many fouls
01:11:23do the guys on our team have, who's in foul trouble on their side, who do we want to put
01:11:27in pick and rolls.
01:11:28You can't even begin to respect the difficulty of being a head coach until you've been there on the sideline.
01:11:35It's really amazing, and I was very naive in that respect.
01:12:02Being in front of those guys and getting them to believe in you.
01:12:05Not only just getting across the message of what you need them to do, but getting them to believe that
01:12:10it's going to work and believe in you.
01:12:11That is probably the most valuable thing I've learned.
01:12:15I believe you are.
01:12:17Do yourself.
01:12:18Winner.
01:12:19Winner.
01:12:20Winner.
01:12:21Everyone across this league, now, right now, today, when they hear the name of your team, they hear the full
01:12:26shot, they understand that you are a team to do record.
01:12:31Winner's team is a coach for the current ohw
01:12:33and if only they do want to hit those goals or score, they will become a coach for me.
01:12:43Man, you can't.
01:12:43Got it?
01:12:43Man, you can't.
01:12:47Man, you can't.
01:12:49Being in any long fourteen and three.
01:12:57My last days in China were, it was kind of down, I was pretty down, you know I had gone
01:13:03on this rollercoaster ride and all of a sudden it's over.
01:13:09You spend every day, every second thinking about the next game or the next practice or
01:13:14the next opponent and then all of a sudden there is no next game.
01:13:22You guys playing, next?
01:13:24Okay, I have after you guys.
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