Chapter 12: Bishop's trap

　　 Auerbach has played basketball all his life. Whether as a coach or general manager of the team, he always believes in a rule: When the authorities face your advantage, then make it more advantageous.
From the random changes on the game, to the scheming off the court, and even the bargaining of his own players on the contract, Auerbach will never give up any opportunity to squeeze advantage and profit. His acting style is tough and aggressive, but It makes people helpless.
　　 Rick Pitino, who was sitting next to him, fully realized this at this moment.
The 1999-2000 season has just ended. This is Pitino’s third season coaching the Celtics. He is still blocked from the playoffs. Compared with the ambitions of three years ago, Pitti at this time Nou has reached the lowest point of his coaching career. Because the entire Celtics from team operations to player selection, from off-court training to on-court command, are all in Pitino. The glory of the revival will belong to him, and he will also be responsible for the failure of the failure.
This proud Italian descendant doesn’t want his second NBA career to be ruined so badly. He has also heard that the big boss will sell the Celtics. If the team’s sovereignty changes hands, then he is a failed coach. The general manager will be the first choice for rejection.
Auerbach is the last straw he can rely on for the Celtics. If the team is sold with a new owner, Auerbach, who has accompanied the Celtics for fifty years, will be the first in the NBA. The legendary figure of the rich and powerful, it is ironclad to be carried back to revive the facade.
As long as Auerbach agrees, it is not impossible for Rick Pitino to continue to try as the head coach for another season. The big deal is to hand over the power of other positions. Pitino only hopes that he can still lead the team as the coach of the team. The Celtics have reached the height that people expect, at least not to be so embarrassed.
The irony is that it was Rick Pitino who made Auerbach resign three years ago. The two have many differences in team management and team tactics. Auerbach’s stubborn personality and Pitino's proud posture was incompatible with fire and water, and finally Pitino, who had high hopes from Bostonians, easily squeezed the old Auerbach away. Fengshui takes turns. In the NBA, this result is everything. The championship is the only cruel jungle. Pitino, desperate, can only come back and bow to Auerbach.
However, Auerbach is not a forgiving and forgiving guy. Pitino is cautiously close to Auerbach, but Auerbach is unceremonious and points out straightforwardly that Pitino’s tactical philosophy and The idea of ​​building a team is inseparable in the NBA, and he said: "If you want to succeed in the Celtics, you must inherit the Celtics tradition and find the team temperament that belongs to the Celtics, instead of using Your simple and crude three-pointer delusion achieves the same success as in the NCAA. I have always said that first, the NBA's three-point line is farther than the NCAA's, and secondly, the closer the ball is to the basket, the easier it is to score. Finally, Basketball is not an arithmetic problem where three is greater than two!"
Auerbach’s words are not polite. Although Pitino is here to reconcile with Auerbach, as a coach who has been successful in both the NBA and NCAA, he cannot allow himself to believe in and implement the successful basketball philosophy. Being so despised by others, he was proud to argue with Auerbach, especially Auerbach said "simple and crude three-point tactics", which makes Pitino totally difficult to agree with.
　　 Whether in the NCAA or the NBA, Pitino is known for three-pointers and full-court press tactics, especially three-pointers. He caused controversy because of the three-pointers, and because of the success of the three-pointers.
The three-pointer, a new rule introduced in the NBA for twenty years, is considered by Pitino and other coaches to be the key to future basketball tactics. In 1997, Pitino and Auerbach had the initial relationship on this issue. The dispute eventually caused a big conflict between the two.
"Although my coaching was not successful, it is undeniable that the three-pointer is used more and more in the game, and it is becoming more and more important. My three-point tactics are not simple and rude. Not doing enough, and denying the use of this new technology and new tactics. I bet that one day the league will be the world of three-pointers." Pitino tried to hold back his anger and lowered his voice in response to Auerbach. .
So Auerbach said that, "The three-pointers and full-court presses you favor are so simple that even a cleaner can use them, and we can't let the cleaner be the head coach of the Celtics. ."
　　 When Leon heard this, he guessed that he had work again.
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The quarrel between the two did not escalate. From a distance, they seemed to have a long conversation. Only Leon, who was sitting nearby with very sharp ears, knew that they were fighting between you and me, and Pitino wanted Orr. Bach’s help, but he was unwilling to be completely subdued, still insisting on his last bit of dignity; Auerbach wanted to shred Pitino’s last bit of dignity, and let Pitino admit that his knowledge of basketball was just In pediatrics, everything depends on his cardinal.
Until the opening ceremony was over, the audience stood up and applauded. Auerbach picked up a basketball and threw it at the children in team uniforms. The two people were still thinking about each other in their mouths. Finally, Auerbach spoke Pitino said: "I just said that your three-point tactics can even be used by a cleaner. This is not a metaphor. I can prove to you now that your tactics are really too simple, as simple as a cleaner for an hour. Can figure it out."
Pitino has long been furious in his heart. Since entering the Celtics three years ago, Auerbach, an old stubbornness, has been in the way. To this day, the Celtics are the only NBA ball without a cheerleader. The team, Pitino, who had won the NCAA championship at the time, naturally squeezed the old Auerbach.
Now, in order to save his last chance, Pitino abandoned his suspects and visited Auerbach. He could bear Auerbach’s cynicism, but he could not bear Auerbach’s doubts about his basketball philosophy, just like he did in 1990. Leaving the Knicks because of a discord with Bianchi's philosophy.
"I don't think my tactics are so advanced and effective, but it doesn't mean that a cleaner can understand the secrets. I did not achieve the results I deserve in the past. I am here to hope to get your understanding and support. , To make the Celtics better, but this does not mean that you can easily deny my basketball thinking."
Auerbach clapped, smoked a cigar, moved his mouth gently and said, "Come to the office later, I want to make a bet with you, if you lose, listen to me obediently, if you win, I Support you fully."
　　 After finishing talking, Auerbach walked down from the stands to take a photo with the children, leaving Pitino in the stands looking depressed. He didn't know what medicine Auerbach sold in the gourd.
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　　 After the opening ceremony, Leon was called by Auerbach to the office at the entrance of the training hall, which is connected to the locker room and is the office of the team coach. Because it is an old-fashioned gymnasium, the office is very small, with only one desk, two stools and a blackboard.
Pitino took off his suit and was sitting on a stool smoking a cigarette. Auerbach patted Leon on the shoulder and said,
This is our cleaner, a guy who doesn’t know anything about basketball. He just came out of MCI and came to me to complete community service. Rick, you can clarify your tactical concept to him in twenty minutes, draw a few tactical pictures, and I will ask him to repeat it later, if you can, prove that your tactics are too simple, even a cleaner I can figure it out; if it doesn't work, I will lose."
Pitino looked at Leon, a tall biracial boy with expressionless expression. He had noticed this guy. He stayed around him and Auerbach during the opening ceremony. He thought this was a bodyguard, but he didn't expect it. It's a glass cleaner.
　　 It was impossible for Pitino to agree to Auerbach’s trivial bet. It was an insult to him. Explaining the tactics to a cleaner, what is this?
However, Auerbach's behavior angered him. He suddenly picked up the chalk, knocked on the blackboard, and after slanting a glance at Leon, he said: "Listen, this will be the development trend of NBA tactics in the next 20 years. The course is $200 per hour, and I will teach you for free today."
Fox-Leon actually didn’t want to come in and listen to this guy named Pitino talking about basketball tactics, but Auerbach just dragged him after the opening ceremony and told him that as long as Leon could help him win the bet. With Pitino, he will find ways to help Leon end community service early, and even consider helping Leon find a job in the Boston Celtics.
For two months in prison, Leon has been thinking about what kind of job he should look for. As a traverser, he will not die until 2000. He can neither contend for world hegemony nor invent and create, and this body My body is not my own, and I cannot invest in real estate to buy a house. The most terrible thing is that I have lost my memory.
　　 What's the meaning of such a crossing?
　　 Leon has even planned to go to a casino in Hamilton mentioned by Simmons to win some money, sign up for a night school to get a diploma, and then start his life again.
　　 Now, UU reading www. uukanshu.com He sat on a stool in the office of the basketball hall and listened to Rick Pitino teaching his own basketball philosophy and basic tactics.
"When the three-pointer was just introduced, I told my team that we want to lead the country in three-point shooting! Looking at this tactic, this is a double screen. The starting point of the tactic is the shooting guard at the bottom line-scoring. Do you know the guard? My god, I guess he doesn’t know what a shooting guard is, a shooter? (Shotting-Guard, shot means shooting), well, the shooting guard starts from the bottom corner here and moves in an arc. The center is at point A, the power forward is at point B, double screens, the shooting guard runs to a 45-degree angle, receives the ball and takes a three-pointer."
Pitino used solid lines, dashed arrows, horizontal bars, crosses, and circles marked "SG", "PG", and "C" on the blackboard to conceal the offensive tactics of a three-pointer. Leon Jing Watching and listening quietly, suddenly asked: "What if he can't make a move?"
　　 Pitino looked at Leon and smiled contemptuously: "Then hand the ball to the referee and say you are going home."
Leon was indifferent to Pitino's ridicule, and said calmly: "Maybe he can consider re-entering from the original route. If that'PF' can do one screen, then he can do it a second time... However, that'C 'Standing there will be a hindrance, he should run away and find a place to stay."
　　 Pitino looked at Auerbach in surprise after hearing Leon’s words, saying, "This guy is really a cleaner. You found a basketball team to tease me?"
　　 Auerbach shrugged and said, "He is really a cleaner, but a clever cleaner."
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