His words left everyone else completely dumbfounded.
What the hell did he mean, they were going to move the whole locker room into the parking lot? Did he think a locker room was a car?
Gian continued to explain, "He brought in more than a dozen RVs to use as locker rooms, plus a container home on wheels to serve as a meeting room. They're all parked in the lot."
Everyone on the Spurs froze at those words.
Holy crap!
That guy had actually thought of doing something like this?
Popovich wore a rueful smile too. "Little Fox really is a little fox. He even came up with a trick like this?"
Actually, coming up with the idea wasn't hard. The hard part was breaking free of fixed ways of thinking.
People had always assumed that locker rooms couldn't be moved.
Meeting rooms were even less likely to be movable.
But now the visiting team's locker rooms and meeting room were right there. They could do whatever they wanted in them—unless they chose not to use a locker room at all.
Almost nobody had thought to bring in a mobile locker room and meeting room.
That was what Wang Yi did best: he broke free of fixed ideas and habitual ways of thinking.
He stepped outside the usual frame.
He solved the problem in a completely different way, and that was what made it so impressive.
That was also what amazed Popovich most about Wang Yi.
Did an old coach who'd spent nearly half his life immersed in basketball really have no way to deal with a kid like Wang Yi, who was only about thirty?
Not at all.
The problem was that Wang Yi often stepped outside people's habitual ways of thinking and used unconventional methods to solve problems.