2023-04-26 12:00:39
Although Mike Brown broke the record this season and became the first person in NBA history to win the Coach of the Year award with unanimous votes, when he took over as the head coach of the Kings a year ago, the outside world gave Mike Brown and the Kings cold words. Never less.
No one should be more afraid of getting the Coach of the Year (Coach Of the Year, later called COY) than Mike Brown. After all, in the 2008-2009 season, after the Cleveland Cavaliers got COY, he was fired the next year. Except-this is not the first time he has been expelled. As the so-called first time is born and second time is familiar, in his coaching career before taking over the Kings coaching position, the experience of serving as the head coach three times (Cavaliers x2, Lakers x1) are all gone. He was expelled from the uniform team before finishing the contract.
“When I was young, my mind was full of tactical things, like what I could do offensively and defensively, to make the team better.” Mike Brown said: “But I think in the In this case, you need to bring a little new stimulus to the team’s culture, whether it’s from the top down or the bottom up. Kobe Bryant often tells me that you have to have a closer connection with the team, in order to do that. This thing, the team has to have the right soul.”
He was too young and worried that the players would not take him seriously. He always wanted to arm himself and make himself look more like a head coach who did not match his appearance age and had his own majesty. “If you hang out with them until midnight the night before, will they treat you as a coach the next day and respect you?” So he will deliberately keep a social distance with the players or team staff – this boundary line Only his psychology existed – just to maintain his professional image, and more because of his lack of self-confidence at the time.
Mike Brown, who wants people to take him too seriously, made these mistakes when he first coached the Cavaliers. Ten years later, he still makes the same mistakes. He tried too hard to be a “coach” role, but many times what players need is not a coach, but more like a persuasive big brother: “I’m fine with LeBron, but I should be able to handle this relationship better.”
Counting the mistakes he has made, Mike Brown has never been stingy about self-criticism: “I should go eat with him, chat with him, go have a drink with him.” Brown said: “I treat it as my career. So I’m always thinking about the tactical stuff, and how to push the players to play harder, that kind of shit. But sometimes the best team atmosphere is when you know how to work with the team rather than the tactics. To mingle and live together in everyday life.”
It’s a pity that Mike Brown realized it too late. On May 12, 2014, he messed up the job of the head coach again and was fired by the Cleveland Cavaliers again. More precisely, this was the third time he was fired ; two days later, Steve Kerr was named the new head coach of the Golden State Warriors. Kerr called Brown and asked him if he could serve as his first assistant coach. Coming out of failure, it would be a lie to say that there is no self-doubt at all. He took a full year off just to spend time with his sons.
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Before the start of the 2015 NCAA season, his mentor Gregg Popovich called to invite Mike Brown to participate in the Spurs’ annual coaching staff meeting. At the same time, he offered a consulting position with very flexible working hours, which allowed Brown to spend more time with his sons Elijah and Cameron. , That year, he only missed one of Elijah’s 32 games at the University of New Mexico. The opponent was UNLV, which had just fired its coach. At that time, Brown was widely rumored to be the new coach candidate. He deliberately missed that game to avoid suspicion.
Apart from accompanying his son, Mike Brown sometimes misses everything in the NBA. When he feels itchy, he will hold meetings with the Spurs for a few days. Every time Brown is in the Spurs, Coach Pop treats him like a regular The assistant coaches treated him like that — Brown was in every practice, every meeting, and in the locker room before and after games, which was exactly what he needed. The experience brought him back into the league and made Brown realize how much he missed being a coach.
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