In the new stadium, Howard Schultz went to the best in all aspects.

Among them, the coffee shop that integrates personal tours, fast food, drinks, and rest areas... occupies a quarter of the commercial area and occupies the entire golden area.

The most interesting thing in the commercial area is almost no posters of Zhang Hao, and the Bulls players have the most posters.

Kobe, Ben Wallace has the most, followed by Kassel, Wang Zhizhi, Yao Ming, Pierce... because the second largest store here is X Sports' sports equipment store.

Zhang Hao's posters are basically limited to the flagship store opened by Nike here.

Zhang Hao visited it well, and it was a great stadium overall.

A normal game can be arranged for 23,242 spectators. If you want to hold an All-Star, you can accommodate up to 72,324 people. Unlike previous years, this year, this stadium has received many reservations for events, concerts, competitions... early.

In terms of popularity, it is even higher than expected by the Supersonics and Seattle City Hall.

The training hall built just to satisfy Zhang Hao's "good face" now seems very necessary.

But apart from the large, apart from the new facilities in all aspects, the decoration style is a little novel... nothing, it's just a stadium.

The training hall is very interesting, which makes Zhang Hao recall his feelings in high school.

When he returned to Seattle in the middle of the month, Zhang Hao had already started working in the training hall.

The training hall also has a competition venue, which can accommodate 3,000 to 5,000 fans and arrange games according to needs.

The Supersonics bought the WNBA's Utah superstar team last summer, moved to Seattle, renamed the Seattle Storm, and spent 5 years and $3.9 million to poach women's basketball super point guard Betty Round Knox, becoming a WNBA strong team.

But even if a strong woman basketball team plays in a normal NBA stadium and sits at five or six thousand people, it will give people the feeling that there is no one in the stadium.

So later, the Seattle Storm chose to rent the stadium at the University of Washington in Seattle.

But the old stadium at the University of Washington in Seattle was too bad, and after the Supersonics changed the stadium, the owner Howard Schultz did charity and donated the Key Stadium to the University of Washington in Seattle. Later, when he was in the training hall, he became a big design.

A stadium with up to 5,000 seats can be arranged, which is just right for the Seattle Storm, which has a long-term attendance of between 4,000 and 6,000 people.

WNBA teams have been losing money. When the Storm was a superstar team, they lost more than 3 million a year. The Jazz owners stopped. After Howard Schultz bought it, they lost more than 5 million last season, and their negative profits almost turned over.

Zhang Hao complained during a chat, and then, in August this year, many American associations praised Howard Schultz, and the NBA officials also praised Howard Schultz for his contribution to the development of women's basketball...

Because of buying the superstar team and increasing investment, the sales of season tickets for the new season increased by nearly 50% compared with last season.

Only then did Zhang Hao realize that some things can’t be seen just like that.

Maybe female sports fans won’t buy Storm’s tickets just because the Storm Team is strong, but they will spend a lot of money on the Storm Team and run to buy Storm Team’s tickets for the Storm Team at a loss... The Supersonics Team’s game is better.

The training hall is named 58 Stadium and is named by 58 Technology Investment.

The most distinctive feature of the 58 Stadium is that it has 6 standard NBA-scale training grounds.

The training grounds are much larger than the stadium...

In addition to Supersonics training, Storm training and competition, Supersonics are once again preparing to form a Development League team.

Once again, it was that I had formed a Development League team before, but the partner led the team to join the Continental Basketball Association... Now that I have a stable stadium, I can do it myself.

It is also a very necessary thing to form a development league team. Howard Schultz and Zhang Hao both have business vision.

Some things cannot be considered purely from the perspective of basketball. With the expansion of the basketball market, fans' attention will probably not be limited to the NBA. Although it may take 20 or 30 years, it is always good to lay the groundwork early.

For example, was the NBA champion in the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s that important at that time?

But now, a team has a championship in its history, even if it is a champion in the 1940s, it is a champion.

When the NBA was beaten by the ABA, it finally merged with the ABA. It's hard to say what the future will be like...

Both gymnasiums are only less than 6 kilometers away from Lake Washington, less than 7 kilometers away. It is more than 10 minutes' drive from Zhang Hao's house and about 20 minutes from the boss Howard Schultz's house.

The location of the new stadium is closest to their homes.

The stadium and the training hall are less than 15 minutes' walk away.

The Seattle City Hall, which Zhang Hao learned, is preparing to start construction around these two arenas, and several winning bidding companies have begun construction.

According to the city hall, this place will be transformed from scratch and into a prosperous commercial district like the Auburn Hills in Detroit and the Chicago back-circle business district.

There are many Chinese here in Seattle. Most of the developers who bid for this time are Chinese. With Zhang Hao's fifth year in this city, Washington State has quickly surpassed all other states except California and became the second largest settlement for Chinese and Chinese in the United States, with Seattle as the leader.

The city of Seattle has also begun to be called "Tangren City".

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With the arrival of October, the NBA 2003-2004 season officially kicked off, the training camp stage began, and the world of basketball became more and more lively.

Zhang Hao started the new season in an orderly manner and started a new identity work.

In terms of adaptation, the recognition of teammates is better than Zhang Hao expected.

In terms of adaptation, it is related to the inclusion of the coaching staff.

The point is the help of the Collins brothers.

Zhang Hao has strong game analysis skills, rich tactical reserves, and a very calm and clear game ideas.

However, having these abilities is actually very different from being a coach.

There are many examples of players directly becoming head coaches after retirement, and there are several examples of serving as head coaches. However, the former may be a real head coach, while the latter is often not a real head coach.

Those who directly act as head coaches after retirement are usually role players, or have been learning from coaches two or three years before retirement... For example, Hornersek, who was already in charge of some coaches in the last two years with the Jazz, and Sloan also consciously trained him and was also learning for one season with the Supersonics. Only after retirement can he become an assistant coach of the Supersonics immediately.

Being a coach does not just need to command on the court, there are many things to do.

Although Zhang Hao is the executive coach and should participate in every aspect of the tactical system construction, Zhang Hao is now watching more.

This is Scott Collins' arrangement.

Everything that should not be handled by Zhang Hao was arranged on him, such as the work assignment and work plan of the coaching team.

This is something that the head coach has the right to do. When Zhang Hao returned to Seattle, the Collins brothers called Zhang Hao over to discuss this matter and asked Zhang Hao to give work arrangements.

Zhang Hao had never expected that he was too big when he was performing this part of the work!

Fortunately, with the help of the Collins brothers, the two of them learned that Zhang Hao must have wanted to become the coach in the future, so they taught him step by step.

It was only then that Zhang Hao did not learn very hard, but of course it was still very difficult.

It is only when they have the ability of a coach that they can get on the job.

He started learning only after he started working.

During this period, he discovered that some things that he thought that learning was just for exams and that they were useless for life and work could be used!

At this time, Zhang Hao understood that there were many things, but it was not useless, but it was useless when it came to you.

Perhaps most teachers don’t know why they teach the knowledge taught in school, but the knowledge learned in school is likely to be cultivated by students as “perfect” people.

If you really learn every subject you have learned from childhood to adulthood, and when you are engaged in many professional work, you will find that you have already learned a lot of basic knowledge.

Or even if you don’t learn every subject well and have a specialized subject, and if you are lucky, you may encounter situations that are just right to use.

In terms of the support of his teammates, Zhang Hao found that he was overly worried about this.

New teammates have no say in this regard.

For old teammates, that's even easier. Old teammates already support Zhang Hao in the game and have the power to mobilize his teammates like Kidd.

The teammates' perception of Zhang Hao becoming an executive coach is different from the executive coach's work itself.

In this case, the coaching staff of the Supersonics team will naturally not go to teach the players the differences, and Zhang Hao will not be troublesome.

Just take it step by step...

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Time flies, and October 8th is coming. From September 27th to October 7th, the Supersonics' 11-day training camp ends.

This is the first time Zhang Hao has made a training camp plan for the entire team, including the work arrangements of the coaching team, the work arrangements of the team members, and the work arrangements for the needs of the management and press officers...

Although with the help of the Collins brothers, Horacek and Silver Fox will also help, they all give advice. For specific reasons, let Zhang Hao make arrangements by himself. After Zhang Hao made the plan, the four of them discussed again. If they felt that it was not good, they would ask Zhang Hao to plan again...

From September 20 to September 25, in 6 days, Zhang Hao submitted the third plan to coach Doug Collins before passing.

The final thing passed was Zhang Haoyi's copy and reviewed the training camp work arrangements in the past few seasons that he remembered. After fine-tuning according to the current team situation, he handed it over directly, and it was actually done.

During this period, Zhang Hao learned the fixed process of the head coach's job arrangement.

For a team, there must be players who have to play for many years. When coaching a team, the game style can be adjusted, but many things outside the court and the overall style are best to be continuated, otherwise the players will have to spend time getting used to things outside the court and waste time.

And if there is continuity, it will be easier for old players to lead new players.

This also led to a situation in the NBA with coaches' style inheritance.

Like Popovich's current coaching style, it basically continues the style left by Larry Brown when he coached the Spurs in the early 1990s. The Larry Brown style of the Spurs has been playing for more than ten years, and it has become military and has a bloody wind.

Now, Zhang Hao is also learning Doug Collins' style of "training the department coach" planning to work the whole team.

This time, according to the work arrangements of Zhang Hao, the Supersonic Team Training Camp was progressing quite smoothly...

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On the afternoon of October 8, 2003, yesterday's training camp ended. Today, the Supersonics' rest day, tomorrow is the preparation day, and the day after tomorrow, the preseason will start on October 10.

Zhang Hao rested all morning and came to work at X Stadium in the afternoon.
To be continued...