Bishop of the Devil

He really couldn't stand Clark's behavior...

But the key is that the system rewards are too tempting, and Richard really can't let go of this temptation.

Even if the blood rushes up to punish Clark today, maybe he will be really good in a few days.

Clark's hot pot is a prop that if any center can get it, it will be enough to give him the top-level super blocking ability in history!

Think about it, if Yao Ming had this kind of shot-blocking ability, with Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's offensive ability, and Richard would find ways to improve his rebounding ability, and also improve his organizational ability, such a center would stop in the penalty area, that is An unsolvable monster!

Yao Ming's defense is actually at a good level, but compared to a little monster like Clark, there is still a gap.

After much thought, Richard finally decided to take on this task.

There is no other reason. Richard doesn’t want to make something really good in a few days...

The goal of the mission is to help Clark get rid of his bad habits and then let him win three personal honors.

A shot-blocking champion, an All-Star and a Defensive Player of the Year award.

The All-Star thing is not too difficult. With Richard's current connections in the league and a few phone calls, as long as Clark's data is not too bad, even if he only averages 13+10+3 per game, then Lee Chad can also help him become an All-Star.

As for the shot-blocking champion, this is difficult, but in Richard's opinion, with Clark's talent, as long as he quits his bad habits, he still has a high chance of winning the shot-blocking title.

You must know that in just over 20 minutes, this guy averaged 2.4 blocks per game!

If he is allowed to play for 40 minutes, not to mention doubling the 2.4 blocks, but there seems to be hope of getting 3.5 blocks.

And if you average 3.5 blocks per game, you have a chance to win the block title.

In the past two seasons, the honor of the shot-blocking leader has been rotating between Ben and Mourning, and both of them average about 3.5 per game.

As for the best defensive player, once Clark wins the shot blocking title, with his legendary nature, he still has a good chance of winning the best defensive player.

A player who has been delayed suddenly breaks out, has a lot of talk, and can have a great advantage when voting.

…

The three honors are not as difficult as climbing to the sky. In Richard's opinion, the most difficult part of this task is how to help Clark get rid of his bad habits!

If you can quit your bad habits, nothing will be a problem.

But is alcohol addiction so easy to quit...

Richard expressed doubt that if he could really quit, then Richard would really be able to look at this guy differently.

But if he can't quit, then Richard will have no choice...

It can only be left to fend for itself.

…

Everyone was looking at Richard, and no one spoke. Everyone knew that Richard was on the verge of breaking out.

This is why these people don’t know much about Richard!

If this had happened in the Trail Blazers locker room, then without Richard having to say anything, the Blazers would have directly pulled Clark out to find a place to bury him...

Living is a waste of food anyway.

…

"On behalf of the Detroit Pistons, I declare an indefinite team suspension for Geon Clark!"

"The indefinite period mentioned here includes the three years of the early renewal of the contract!"

"Not a dime of salary!"

"Gion Clark, if you have any objections to this, you are always welcome to complain to the league management committee or the players union!"

Richard's words were so cold that everyone trembled...

Good guy, this punishment is so severe that it makes people collapse!

Counting the early contract renewals this year and the next three years, that’s four years…

During these four years, Clark was suspended indefinitely and was not paid a dime of salary!

Although Clark could complain to the league management committee or the players union about Richard's behavior, but...

As long as Richard revealed that Clark was drunk and drank heavily during the game, neither the league management committee nor the players union would be able to punish him.

The reason why other teams don't want to expose Clark is because they want to maximize Clark's trade value. They don't want to use it, but they can sell it...

If he were to get out, Clark would be dead in his hands.

But now Richard really dares to expose him, he doesn't care about the trading value of Clark!

…

After hearing Richard's punishment to him, Clark's whole body froze, and his body collapsed on the ground like mud!

He knew that he was completely finished!

It was really over. Originally, he thought he had a wonderful future under Richard's hands, but now it seemed that he had just had a dream.

Dreams and reality are always opposites.

Not only is his frontcourt unable to become more beautiful, it can even be said to be completely ruined.

If other head coaches had said this, even if Clark was flustered, he wouldn't be as frustrated as he is now...

Now it is Richard who says these words. What Richard says, just like what Richard himself said, will definitely not be impossible to achieve!

Richard wants Clark to completely disappear from the league in the next four years, then Clark will not have the opportunity to appear on the court.

Four years later, who would he remember as Clark...

It's over, it's really over this time.

For a moment, Clark really wanted to cry...

"Coach, I really know I was wrong!"

"I will never touch alcohol again. I promise I will stop drinking!"

Clark looked up at Richard and said with a cry.

Clark himself is not very old, but facing such a huge career crisis at this moment, he is calm enough if he doesn't burst into tears.

He now wanted to use an oath to let Richard see that there was still a possibility of salvation, so that Richard could take back his punishment.

But Richard shook his head.

"The words of an alcoholic are just like the words of a drug addict. They cannot be trusted!"

"Sorry, Clark, there's no way I'm stupid enough to believe an alcoholic's words!"

As soon as these words were spoken, Clark was completely despairing!

Now he wanted to slap himself severely. Why did he indulge in those two sips of wine? !

If he hadn't been drinking during halftime, it is estimated that even if Richard knew that he was drunk, he probably would not have faced such a serious punishment.

But when he drinks, he is quite sensitive!

It was actually halfway through the game...

And most importantly, I drank a lot!

"Coach, please!"

"Give me another chance, I really don't dare to do it again..."

Thinking that his career might be ruined forever, he burst into tears.

Richard looked at Clark coldly.

"Zion, it's not that I didn't give you a chance, now I'm giving you one last chance!"

"You will go to AA every week under my command in the future. I don't care where you are every day in the future. Even if it is a rest day, even if it is the offseason, you will report to the team every day and take an alcohol test!"

"Test for three consecutive months. If there are no problems, I can cancel your indefinite suspension!"

"But if you fail the alcohol test, even if it's only for one day, even if you say you just drank some beer, Zeon, I advise you to think about what you will do for a living for the rest of your life, because I will never give anyone a second chance! "

The AA that Richard is talking about is not the AA system that is often mentioned, but the abbreviation of Alcoholic-Anonymus, which is Alcoholics Anonymous.

Now Richard has given Clark his only chance. If he still can't cherish it, then all Richard can do is let him fend for himself.

…

Upon hearing the only opportunity given by Richard, Clark, who was originally despairing, immediately hugged Richard's thigh tightly like a drowning man grabbing a life-saving straw.

"Coach, don't worry, I will never let you down!"

"I will go to AA and come to the team every day for alcohol testing. Even if it is beer, I will not touch it in the future!"

"I will say goodbye to alcohol once and for all!"

"Thank you coach for the opportunity!"

Clark now felt like he was surviving a disaster. Originally, as Richard said, he was already thinking about what he should do to make a living for the rest of his life.

I don’t know anything, and I can’t make any money in the NBA, so I’m afraid I’ll starve to death.

But luckily Richard gave me another chance...

This opportunity seems to Clark to be a life-saving straw, the only hope to save his life!

He immediately made up his mind that he would never touch alcohol in the future no matter what.

No matter what, we can't let this happen again!

…

No one in the locker room was laughing at Clark, who was dripping with runny nose and bursting into tears.

Hu Weidong looked at Richard in shock. A person of his age could completely see Richard's methods.

To deal with Clark, Richard used the method of first making him despair and then giving him a glimmer of hope.

Only in this case will Clark realize the seriousness of the problem and then make up his mind to stay away from alcohol!

Hu Weidong marveled at Richard's methods. In his opinion, Richard was not much older than him, but his methods of doing things were countless times better than him.

He actually has the idea of ​​joining the coaching industry after retiring. He is observing Richard's every move and remembering it in his heart.

Soon after Hu Weidong retired, he became the head coach of Jiangsu Nangang.

Although he has not retired yet, he still has similar thoughts in this regard. If he can stay in the NBA and enter the coaching industry after completing this contract, in Hu Weidong's view, it will be an extremely perfect choice.

There has been a successful case of Zhang Weiping before. In Hu Weidong's view, he may not be able to become the head coach of a team like Zhang Weiping!

In the next four years, I just happened to learn Richard's coaching methods!

…

After this incident, Richard had completely forgotten the idea of ​​​​disciplining the team's starting players.

The emotions that had been brewing in the bathroom were now vented on Clark.

Thinking of this, Richard sighed and waved to everyone.

"The intermission is almost over, get ready to go on stage!"

At the moment, Richard is not planning to talk too much to the players tonight, and will wait until the next game.

…

At this current point in time, Richard feels that this should be the most difficult point in his seven years of time travel!

Even when Purdue University just traveled through time and had no soldiers or generals, in Richard's opinion, it was not a problem at the moment.

At that time, Richard, at least the Boilermakers had operational potential, and he could find a group of strong players to create results for himself!

But at this point in time, Richard has done everything he needs to do and has recruited almost all the high-quality players he can get his hands on.

But the team's combat strength still doesn't look very good...

This made Richard quite uncomfortable.

If tonight's opponents are super powers like the Lakers, Spurs and Trail Blazers, if they lose, they will lose.

Richard is not arrogant enough to use this lineup to compete with these super powerful people!

But the key tonight's opponent is just a Pacers, a goalie-level player in the Eastern Conference playoffs. If they were left in the Western Conference, they would definitely not even make the playoffs.

How could Richard accept that this kind of opponent could overwhelm his own team?

…

Everyone returned to the court, and Clark followed Richard like a follower.

Before this incident happened, he, Clark, regarded Richard as his life-saving straw. He felt that if he wanted to rise, he must have Richard to coach him...

So he had been looking forward to this day during his rookie season.

But today actually happened, and something like this happened, and Clark felt that he had to obey Richard's words even more...

Because now his career is in Richard's hands.

…

"Huh? Kenny, why do you see that boy Zeon's eyes are red and he seems to have cried in the locker room?"

"It seems true. Look at the tears on his face..."

In the TNT commentary room, Barkley and Kenny Smith looked strangely at the Pistons players returning to the court.

Barkley retired two years ago, and then directly joined TNT and became a glorious game commentator.

The current commentary program with Kenny Smith is very exciting.

Tonight's game, although it is only a preseason game, was broadcast live on TNT because of Richard's presence.

Everyone wants to see what kind of lineup Richard has created this season.

However, when the opponent was the Pacers, a team that did not slip away in the league, the Pistons actually lost by a double-digit margin at halftime.

And looking at the trend in the second half, it seems that the point difference will continue to widen.

This made the fans a little confused...

Could it be said that Richard didn't start to exert his strength this season? Just randomly picked up some players who made up the numbers?

Otherwise, these players on the field cannot solve the problem and will definitely not be able to help Richard win the championship.

This makes many Richard fans quite anxious, worried about Richard...

Richard is not a player, but he has coached the Trail Blazers for the past five years because of his unique iron-blooded coaching style, which has also attracted a large number of fans for Richard.

For example, Oregon State fans, even though Richard has left the Trail Blazers, they are still very concerned about Richard's situation.

As for the fans in Detroit, they are definitely paying more attention. Richard is leading their team now.

Although these fans were very worried about Richard, what TNT said next made the fans feel at ease.

"Charles, why do you feel that the lineup Richard created this time is not strong enough!"

"Look, they can't even beat a team like the Pacers..."

Kenny Smith was quite speechless and asked Buckley beside him, wanting to see what Buckley thought about this matter.

In Kenny Smith's opinion, the lineup that Richard had just created was probably incomparable to the original Blazers in terms of combat strength...

But for a team like the Pacers that is a goalkeeper in the Eastern Conference playoffs, it shouldn't be a problem, right?

But the current situation on the court is completely contrary to Kenny Smith's estimation. On the contrary, the Pistons have been hammered.

"Don't worry, Kenny, it's like Richard doesn't care about preseason games!"

"Although Richard and I don't have much communication, it is no exaggeration to say that in this alliance, who knows Richard best, I think there is no one else except me, Sir Charles!"

"In my opinion, Richard must have come up with a complete substitute lineup, just to play in the preseason games, and then wait until the regular season to show his strength!"

"Look, there is a Chinese guard in the Pistons lineup. I have inquired about this guard, and he is known as the Chinese Jordan!"

"I don't need to say more about what this means..."

Buckley said to the camera confidently...

Kenny Smith had a sore face. This guy even said that he had no communication with Richard, but he still dared to say that he knew Richard best in this alliance? ! Where do you get the confidence to say something like this...

"I can guarantee that the Pistons will play an amazing game after the regular season starts!"

Buckley assured, patting his chest.

Kenny Smith asked with interest: "Charles, I know your biggest regret is that you didn't win a championship in your career."

"Suppose, if Richard invites you to return to the league to play, will you have the idea of ​​​​coming back?"

These words were considered to have exposed Buckley's scars, but looking at Buckley's expression, it seemed that he didn't care at all.

"God, I can tell you for sure, now that Richard invites me to join the Pistons, I will resign from TNT in the next second!"

"Two million dollars!"

After that, Barkley raised two fingers again and said two million dollars!

"Charles, you have overestimated the value of your old bones. I can guarantee that Richard will never be willing to spend 2 million US dollars on you!" Kenny Smith joked with a smile.

"Are you kidding? What I mean is that I am willing to give Richard two million dollars. Even if the Pistons don't give me a penny, I am willing to go..." Barkley looked at Kenny Smith with an expression like a fool.

…

TNT's commentary style has always been quite humorous. To be precise, it just likes to talk nonsense.

The preseason game ended with Barkley and Kenny Smith chatting and laughing.

Thomas saved some face for his old club, the Pistons, and replaced the starting lineup in the second half of the game.

The same is true for Richard, who has replaced a pure substitute lineup...

What embarrassed Richard was that the pure substitute lineup he sent almost defeated the Pacers.

Corris Williams performed very well. After coming on in the second half, he scored 18 points, 6 rebounds, 3 assists and 2 blocks, almost leading the Pistons to win the game.

In the end, the Pistons only lost by three points, and the Pacers narrowly won.

…

One can imagine how uncomfortable Richard feels now. The talented players he has selected out of thousands of people are not as good as the old Piston players. Who can explain this...