The Whip of the God of Basketball

After the brief match, Leon began his first real training session with the Phoenix Suns, and the first lesson he gave the players was to tie their shoes.

"Everyone, untie all your shoelaces, immediately, immediately." This was the first instruction Leon gave to the players in the training hall. This made the Suns players look at each other, not knowing that Leon was selling something else. What kind of medicine.

Even Bell and Diaw were puzzled. When he was in Boston, Leon was not like this. He had a very tight schedule for training, so much so that he would not waste a single minute on training with him. On unrelated matters.

But today was the first training session. Nash took the lead in squatting down and untying his shoelaces. Seeing the boss doing this, the other players squatted down and untied their shoelaces.

Then, Leon said: "Now, everyone should tie their shoelaces again." The players were in an uproar. Is this a monkey trick? But Leon continued: "However, I ask everyone to tie their shoelaces in the same way, with a neat and beautiful bow. I don't want to see other shapes appear."

It turns out that in the past, every Suns player had his own way of tying his shoelaces. Many NBA players had all kinds of weird superstitions, such as wearing underwear inside out and adding a training vest to their jerseys. Etc., are all used for self-suggestion behaviors. One of the most common superstitions among players is tying shoelaces. Some people must wear two buttons, some people like to wear a single button, and some people must wear a complicated button that no one can understand.

In short, there are all kinds of things, and it must be like this, otherwise it seems that you can't play well and win the game. Some players on the Suns also had this little habit, and when Leon said this, they were a little hesitant.

Leon said: "If your messy shoelace tying methods can bring you victory, then you can write a complete collection of victory methods for tying shoelaces! In this collection, I will also write an article to tell everyone , the neat and ordinary bow tie is the tying method that has won the most championships and wins, and there will be more and more in the future. "

After Leon finished speaking, Nash took the lead again and tied a beautiful and neat bow. Then the other players followed suit and everyone tied a bow. Leon looked over one by one, saw Marion's bow, and asked, "Are you a butterfly?"

Marion looked down and saw that it didn't really look like a butterfly. The shoelaces were crooked and looked like a few insects tangled together. Marion did not speak, but Leon squatted down, untied Marion's shoelaces, and tied a bow for him himself. This made Marion a little flattered, and he quickly said: "Oh no, I will do it myself, I will do it myself, I can tie it up."

After the shoelace problem was solved, the players began to perform basic exercises. Because it was the first day of training, it was mainly restorative training, basic passing, running and tactical rehearsals, without too high-intensity training. But it was just this kind of elementary practice, and the Suns' players quickly experienced the difference between Fox-Leon's training and D'Antoni's.

The most significant difference is that Leon's requirements for details are too high. Leon is very meticulous about small coordination and subtle technical movements, especially passing coordination, passing movements, and routes for catching and running. These are the basic skills learned in high school and college, but Leon still remains the same. Very strict controls are being carried out.

During the training process, he kept stopping, correcting, stopping, and correcting. And no matter what problem occurs when a player performs any action, he will be able to discover it immediately and tell you immediately with a roar from the sidelines.

It wasn't until the training lasted for more than half an hour that the Suns' players gradually became accustomed to such a fragmented training process, and they focused highly on training to avoid being called out by Leon for making mistakes. Diaw, who has always been relatively lazy in training in the past, worked particularly hard today. D'Antoni looked a little incredible. Diaw was running with his head buried in the air and rushing forward?

In fact, Diaw just recalled the fear of being dominated by Leon when he was training with the Boston Celtics. Everyone was like a puppet on the strings, being pulled around in Leon's hands. And no player will be dissatisfied with Leon, because no matter how individual he is, as long as he is a basketball player, as long as he still has a little bit of competitiveness, as long as he still understands basketball, he will not think that Leon's methods are harmful to him. .

" Stoudemire, pay attention to your position and positioning. You are not a threat in this position. Find the point where you are a threat. This can bring greater help to your teammates."

"Nash, you held the ball too long. Distribute your ball appropriately. The left wing can actually be used as a starting point for the offense."

"Barea, when you don't have the ball, it doesn't mean you don't have work to do. If standing in the corner can help you stand out, I don't mind letting you stand in the desert all day."

This is the team conducting 5V5 undefended offensive training. The defensive side defends symbolically, while the offensive side must run and follow tactics. This requires players to be very clear about the tactical routines.

Leon knows that most players who have been in the NBA for several years know the tactics well, not to mention passing masters like Nash. However, he found that the Suns' players often did not pay attention to some details during the offensive and running tactics, and these details often determine whether a tactic can be successful, or if a tactic fails, whether there is a backup plan behind it.

In a high-level, high-intensity basketball confrontation like the NBA, the role of tactics is often not as great as people imagine, but the role of details is often overlooked.

Leon doesn't think the Suns need to make any earth-shaking changes in tactics, but in some key details, he must install the right equipment for this team to maximize the energy of this lineup and this group of players. Avoid flaws that cannot be erased.

The training lasts until 12 o'clock in the morning. The team will have a holiday in the afternoon as usual. NBA training does not last all day. Efficient rest is as important as efficient practice. Moreover, after practicing all morning, the Suns players felt that they would retire directly if they practiced again in the afternoon. Because they feel unprecedented fatigue, not only from the body, but also from the spirit.

Looking back now, the players would rather tie their shoes all the time, training with Leon is just too tiring. I had never thought that a coach could be so energetic. He covered almost everything in training and observed the details of everyone's movements. It made people feel that he was not coaching a team, but coaching everyone. Conduct individual coaching.

After the training, Marion and Stoudemire were sitting in the physiotherapy bath in the locker room relaxing. They couldn't help but ask Diaw, did Fox-Leon train like this when he was with the Celtics?

Diaw frowned, as if the two mentioned some past events that made him sad, and said: "I don't even want to mention the days of training in Boston. In fact, when training under Leon, the body is not too tired. He arranges for the team The training time won’t be too long. It’s just that my brain is too tired. I don’t know when he will start Hawkeye’s off-ball training. Thinking of that makes my head spin.”

Leon's Hawkeye off-ball simulation training has always been legendary in the NBA. Many people are curious about it, but for those who have experienced this kind of training, the difficulties and hardships involved are not familiar to outsiders. The most important thing is that Leon can really practice this seemingly impossible training method very well.

After a group of people took a shower and had physical therapy, they were going to go home and relax a little in Phoenix in the afternoon. However, at the entrance of the training hall, Leon proposed to invite everyone to have a meal together.

This was beyond everyone's expectation. They didn't expect that this serious and cold-looking coach would treat everyone to dinner after the training. However, the new substitute players who joined the Suns don't seem to be surprised. After all, they have been doing Leon's favor for more than a week.

Leon's desire to treat everyone to dinner was not just a last-minute idea. He had already booked a famous Mexican restaurant in Phoenix, with a large private room that could accommodate all the Suns players.

Nash walked to the gym for training, so after leaving the gym, he got into Leon's third-hand Toyota and headed to the dining area.

Along the way, they chatted about today's training and some ideas for the future. It could be seen that Nash seemed very excited after the training.

"Why do we have to tie our shoes? Is this some little southern magic?" Nash was obviously very interested in tying his shoes before training.

Leon replied: "That's right. This will bring the hearts of all the players closer. Haha, actually I don't know. I just don't like the way you tie your shoelaces in a mess."

Nash laughed after hearing this. How could Leon do something meaningless? In the Suns' first training session, every action and word he made was meaningful. Even the Mexican restaurant was a treat for lunch, because Leon knew that Nash liked to go to Mexican restaurants with Nowitzki when he was in Dallas.

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