The Whip of the God of Basketball

After ending a four-game road trip in the Eastern Conference, the Phoenix Suns got two days of rest. They can return to Phoenix, take a rest in the winter sunshine, and prepare to continue their battle.

Leon gave himself a short vacation. This was the season with the least control since he took charge of the NBA team. In Boston, he worked almost all the time for his perfect defense, and in Phoenix, he began to try his new coaching. ideas.

Taking advantage of this short vacation, Leon went to Los Angeles to visit his wife and learn about the real estate market in Los Angeles.

Khomeinis has been pregnant for more than six months. By next spring, the child of the two will be born into the world. Leon has to call every day to check on his wife's condition.

And Khomeinis is in good health. She is still active on the front line of agent work, showing off her talents this summer and constantly recruiting talents for CAA.

Now, several potential future superstars in the league are all players under CAA, and some superstars who are reaching their peak are also receiving services from CAA, such as several guys in the 03 Platinum area.

Of course, in Leon's view, these guys are not going to be successful for the time being. Their teams are old and weak, and those old guys in the 1990s still hold the throne of the league. This year, they formed the Big Three of the 1990s. After that, the Boston Celtics looked even scarier than before, and so far they have not lost a single game in the regular season.

To be honest, Leon is not 100% sure whether he can beat the Celtics. In terms of lineup, the Suns still have many problems, so he has to experiment with five small lineups to break the rules and try to make up for the shortcomings of the lineup and players. .

But he also knows that the defensive system he built with the Celtics has been inherited by Rivers, and it is not that easy to penetrate this layer of armor.

After arriving in Los Angeles, he put all these problems behind for the time being and spent a good rest day with Khomeini. They watched the sun rise together in their house on the beach in Santa Monica. Watch the sun go down.

Unlike Americans who love parties, Leon is a quiet person. Except for work needs, he rarely organizes parties at home. He had enough fun with those old guys in Phoenix. When he got to his wife, he wanted to enjoy some peace and quiet.

However, on the night of the 11th, Leon still arranged some activities for himself. Khomeinis booked two tickets at the Staples Center. There is a game between the Los Angeles Clippers and the Cleveland Cavaliers tonight.

Khomeinis knew that no matter how much Leon rested and relaxed, he still couldn't let go of basketball. At most, during the day, he would probably turn on the ESPN channel to watch the game at night. Now that we are in Los Angeles and there is a LeBron James game, why not go to Staples Arena to take a look.

Leon drove himself to Staples Arena with Khomeini. Since his wife became pregnant, Leon finally sold his eighth-hand Chevrolet and replaced it with a large car like a Ford Expedition to provide for his wife and belly. The children inside are escorted.

Before getting out of the car, Khomeinis said to Leon: "Would you like to wear a baseball cap?"

Leon said: "Why, you know I don't like wearing hats."

Khomeinis said: "You are not very popular in Stamps."

Leon remembered that he once had a "misdeed" of smoking a cigar in Staples in front of all the Lakers fans. This behavior caused quite a stir in the media at the time, causing him to become a more famous person than Auerbach. The guy that Los Angeles fans hate.

Although the Lakers are not playing tonight, the Clippers and Lakers share the same arena. A celebrity like Leon will definitely be recognized by Los Angeles fans.

Leon said: "I'm just a spectator now, don't worry, they won't do anything to me."

In the past few years, when leading the Celtics to Los Angeles games every year, Leon received the most boos, but he has long been used to it, and as the Celtics won three consecutive championships, and after the Lakers left O'Neal, Slumping into sinking, Lakers fans are becoming less and less confident.

Sure enough, as soon as he entered the familiar Staples Center, some fans recognized Leon. Most people just paid attention and said, "That's Fox." A few people came forward to ask for an autograph or something. A young fan wearing a Kobe Bryant jersey came to Leon with a photo of Kobe and asked for his autograph. Leon did not refuse. Instead, he found this kid very interesting. He wore a Lakers jersey to watch the Clippers game and asked for the Suns head coach's autograph.

But for the children, this is nothing. Everything stems from their love for basketball. Those so-called grievances and hatreds cannot compare to this love.

Khomeinis did not buy a seat in the first row. Although it was a Clippers game, the first row would not be occupied by some Hollywood stars, but she knew that Leon was relatively low-key, so she chose a seat relatively far back. However, this did not hide Leon's brilliance. More and more people discovered that this star coach appeared in Staples, and many people took out their mobile phones to take pictures of Leon.

One fan loudly asked: "Fox, why don't you come to Los Angeles to coach!"

Leon replied: "Because the basketball courts in Los Angeles are too noisy, I don't sleep well. And I don't want to get up at four o'clock."

Yes, his favorite time to wake up is five o'clock.

As the game time approaches, there are more and more people in the stadium, the field is getting noisier and noisier, people pay much less attention to Leon, and the players begin to enter the stadium.

The two teams in Los Angeles have a lot of grudges with the Suns. In 2006, the Suns, who were missing Stoudemire, eliminated the Los Angeles team 4:3 in two consecutive rounds and entered the Western Conference Finals. At that time, they killed the first team in history. The birth of the postseason city derby.

At that time, the Suns were simply the most hated team by Los Angeles fans.

After experiencing sluggish years for most of their history, the Clippers relied on the trio of Cassell, Brand and Mobley to shine in the Western Conference in 2006, almost reaching the Western Conference Finals.

But injuries quickly hit them. Their captain Brand suffered a serious injury in the summer and is likely to be reimbursed for the season; Sam Cassell is 38 years old this year and has reached the end of his career. Mobley seemed to have some heart problems, which also troubled his performance on the court. After a brilliant season, the Clippers began to suffer again.

However, after the start of the new season, their condition looks good, with 4 wins and 2 losses. Chris Kaman and Maggette in the team have grown up and become the main players in the team. The 38-year-old Cassel Still exerting its residual heat, this old monster is really becoming more and more demonic as he gets older. Mobley accepted his role as the backup, but his condition appears to be worrying.

The Cavaliers are still the same, with James as the core, they have put together a decent lineup, and they are moving forward with difficulty. They played average in the first few games of the new season, with 4 wins and 3 losses. It seems that James has not yet entered. In this state, he has been reducing his shots and increasing assists and rebounds in many consecutive games.

The two insiders, Ilgauskas and Gooden, scored 20+ points in several consecutive games, but they were unable to win enough victories. For example, in the game against the Suns, they relied on the inside to feed the ball. This kind of efficiency is really low, and it is much more cumbersome than the Suns' quick counterattack plus three points.

Leon knows that Mike Brown wants to adopt a heavy team model similar to the Spurs in order to fight against super defensive teams like Boston in the East, draw the opponent to the same level, and then use James to defeat the opponent.

There may be no problem with the idea, but the team's tactics are not good, and they are a little too dependent on LeBron. In the first few games, it can be seen that the Cavaliers and James are making adjustments, but the effect is not obvious yet.

Therefore, Leon estimates that the Cavaliers will not be easy to play in this game. If they continue James' offensive strategy of focusing on the inside, they will be defeated by the light and agile Clippers.

The life cycle of the heavy team is almost over.

"Fox, Fox?" Khomeinis shouted in Leon's ear several times before Leon responded: "What?"

"I'm calling you, what are you planning in your head? Look at you sitting there motionless and not speaking." Khomeinis knows Leon best. As long as he sits on the edge of the basketball court, his mind will He began to calculate non-stop, probably predicting who would win or lose between the Clippers and the Cavaliers.

Leon said: "Oh, no, I was thinking, uh, the Clippers' floor LOGO is really ugly."