Chapter One: After the Final Buzzer

“Send me today's strength test and my running loads for the last fourteen days.” “The staff sets training. Are you starting a rebellion?” “Then Coach Du can tell me himself why his starting point guard should begin a playoff game with heavy legs.” She turned, so calm that Sun Bo took an involuntary step back. “And what is my acute-to-chronic workload ratio?” Few players even knew the newly introduced metric. “One point two,” he said. “You're lying.” She remembered the original number: 1.68, well beyond the danger line. She also remembered that Sun Bo was not the architect. He had merely made obedience a habit. “Give me the source data now, or explain it tomorrow in front of the doctor and a players' association representative.