The Whip of the God of Basketball

In the middle of the night of November 6th, near the early morning, Leon and the Celtics returned to Boston. After a crazy away game, the players were still a little uncontrollably excited. Especially young players like Arenas, Johnson, and Reid, they seem to be little lions who have just mastered some powerful skills, and they are proud and proud of being able to rely on their own minions to hunt and kill prey. Of course, they seem to have not fully realized that it is not their skills and minions that really help them hunt prey, but the tactics and command of the lion group.

Leon didn't mind this, he sat quietly in his seat on the plane and fell asleep drowsily, letting those young people play and joke. After getting off the plane, the cold wind in Boston at night cooled everyone down, and the Celtics arranged a chartered car to take everyone home. However, veterans like Pierce, Walker, and Siri all chose to drive their own cars back.

As for Leon, Khomeinis drove him to the airport to pick him up. Before the plane departed from Chicago, Khomeinis sent a text message to Leon telling him that she would pick him up at the airport, but after Leon arrived at the Boston airport, she called Khomeinis but no one answered. The rest of the Celtics either went back by themselves or followed the team bus, while Leon stayed in the airport lobby looking for Khomeinis. Finally, he saw Khomeinis lying asleep on the seat in a small cafe next to the airport. It was already past one o'clock in the morning. Jue actually fell asleep.

After persuading her father to buy the Celtics, Khomeinis did not get what she wanted, so Leon could stay with her in Boston. He became the head coach of the team and often went to away games with the team. Fortunately, After half the season at home, the Celtics have only three road games in their remaining 11 games in November after a three-game streak to open the season.

Leon didn't wake up Khomeinis, but lifted her from the seat when she was asleep. The waiter in the cafe stopped Leon because he didn't know who Leon was Khomeinis, but when he recognized Leon as the new head coach of the Celtics, he immediately let Leon go , By the way, let Leon sign his name on his order book. In Boston, Leon, who led the team to four consecutive victories, has begun to become famous.

After carrying Khomeinis to the car, the girl woke up slowly. She found herself in a daze after coming to the car from the cafe. When it was his lover, he relaxed again, hugging Leon's neck with half-closed eyes, and was about to fall asleep again. Leon tenderly kissed Khomeinis on the forehead, and then drove the two of them back to the city.

Since getting acquainted with Leon, Khomeinis' personality has both reservations and changes. She is no longer so keen on participating in social and public activities at school, and she puts more energy on her academic work and anthropological research. She quit the cheerleading team and spent her spare time on group inspections, community visits, going to the library, and of course watching Celtics games. In life, Leon's focused and serious work attitude has undoubtedly influenced Khomeinis. She has a clearer view of her college career and future planning, and she no longer indulges in rebellious and stimulating youth activities against her father. .

But what remains unchanged is her love for Leon and her incomparable stubbornness in her bones. Leon has been dealing with stubborn people since he came to this time and space, from Auerbach to Siegfried, from Arenas to Dick Hart, and Khomeinis may be the most special one. Khomeinis' love for Leon came for no reason, overwhelming, but could not fade away for a long time. Finally, she got Leon, but Leon was still unwilling to promise to marry Khomeinis. Khomeinis didn't know that Leon Ang's thoughts, but she didn't quarrel or plead like ordinary women, she just waited silently, waiting for the day when Leon was willing to promise.

"Are you home?" After arriving at the place where the two lived, it was almost two o'clock in the morning. Leon carried Khomeinis into the house, and Khomeinis asked in a whisper. Leon didn't answer, just kissed Khomeinis, sent her to the bedroom on the second floor, returned to the study on the first floor, turned on the desk lamp, and took a folder from the bookshelf with the words "Losangles -Lakers" label. Opening the folder, there are not only the information and history of the Lakers team, but also news clips from the last three months, as well as some handwritten information by Leon himself.

Before the start of the season, someone told Leon that the job of the head coach is to coax the team's superstars to play happily, so you will definitely embrace this job. As for winning the championship, it is not entirely within his control as a head coach. It is the players who ultimately decide the game.

Leon agrees with half of this sentence. He knows that it is the players who decide the game after all, so he has never given up on the pursuit of superstars and potential rookies, but he does not agree with the other half. Master Chicken Soup, then you will become the eunuch holding the pen next to the emperor. Whenever the emperor is unhappy, he can drag you out and kill you. The work of the head coach is far more than that. He used his amazing energy and various materials collected over the past two years to build an archive for each team in the summer. Although each team will have its own opponent research team, but this archive belongs to Leon himself, with many of his own ideas.

There are two points in the Lakers file that make Leon feel a little relieved. One is a piece of news that Shaquille O'Neal will miss most of the games in November at the beginning of the season because of an old injury to his great big toe. The second is that the Lakers have lost three of the last five games, including a shameful 70:89 loss to the Cleveland Cavaliers in Cleveland, and one of the two games they won, Still defeated the Blazers through overtime with difficulty. This shows that the state of the Lakers is quite bad.

According to common sense, Leon should choose to speed up in tomorrow's game and use a fast offense to defeat the tired Lakers. Now the Celtics have achieved four consecutive victories. After the training last season and the tempering of the summer training camp, the Celtics' conversion and second fast break level has reached a level beyond ordinary people's imagination. Their The shooting ability is also outstanding, and the frequent pick-and-roll hands allow their backcourt players to minimize the interference caused by Handcheck.

But Leon remembered Auerbach's warning to him, that is, the first thought that pops up in your mind is often the opponent's thought, so you must think carefully about what kind of strategy you use to be ready to deal with it. next opponent. The field is long and painful, and it is impossible to have sufficient preparation time for each game. Perhaps just a simple idea can bring different gains to the team.

Leon looked carefully at the Lakers' recent starting roster, and then turned his attention to his team's roster. Under a lonely light, Leon looked for the idea that could bring the team an advantage.

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On the second day, November 7th, the Celtics did not go to the training base for training. Instead, they gathered at the North Shore Garden Arena at 3:00 p.m. for an hour and a half of shooting training. Since becoming the head coach of the Celtics, Leon has been very strict about the basic skill of shooting, which is higher than all other technical requirements. His philosophy is simple. The most important thing in a basketball game is to score, and the most important thing in the way of scoring is shooting. Since shooting is the most important thing, it is natural to have the treatment of the most important thing. Whether today is a back-to-back or a training day, the collective one-and-a-half-hour shooting drill is something that no one can escape.

Siegfried led the training as the team's shooting coach. Inspired and helped by Leon, Siegfried prepared a "shooting technical file" for each player, which included a player The advantages and disadvantages of shooting techniques are described in words, diagrams of shooting movements, training and game shooting percentage tables, and some optimization suggestions will be added every day.

Of course Siegfried would not do these things, but data experts like Leon, Weissland, and Morey help, naturally it is a piece of cake, Weissland has already begun to consider digitizing and networking these things Transformation was also supported by Leon.

In today's shooting training, Siegfried focused on three-point long shots and long-range two-pointers, because according to the Lakers' defensive strategy, these are the balls that have always been good at making opponents lose their confidence in shooting near the three-point line The team is good at destroying the opponent's shooting rhythm and off-the-ball movement, allowing the opponent to enter a disgusting cycle of constantly trying long-range shots near the three-point line, which is the so-called shooting psychological warfare. Therefore, Siegfried cooperated with the team to practice long-range shooting, and began to correct some bad habits of the players one by one.

Because it is long-range shooting training, inside players like Dalembert seem to have nothing to do, they can only pick up the ball for teammates on the court and pass the ball. At this time, Leon called Dalembert to his side and said to him: "If you are asked to deal with O'Neal one-on-one, do you have confidence?"

Dalembert shook his head, he is an honest boy, he is not an egomaniac like Arenas, guarding against O'Neill? Olajuwon can't even do it. He is a second-year center, and he is considered a strong body if he doesn't get hit to death.

"I think so too." Leon nodded, and Dalembert felt that the coach was playing him.

"However, the sharks are not here, do you think you can disrupt the Lakers inside?" Leon asked again.

This time, Dalembert would not shake his head anymore, he nodded vigorously, because he knew that opportunities are fleeting, especially in places like the NBA.