Chapter 125: Fleeting opportunity

On the late night of November 6, near the early morning, Leon and the Celtics returned to Boston. After experiencing a crazy away carnage, the players still had some uncontrollable excitement. Especially young players such as Arenas, Johnson, and Reid, they seem to have just mastered some powerful skills, and they are proud of being able to kill prey by relying on their minions. Of course, they don't seem to fully realize that it is not their skills and minions that really help them hunt their prey, but the tactics and command of the lions.
Leon didn't mind it. He sat quietly in his seat on the plane and fell asleep in a daze, letting the young men joking around. 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. But veterans like Pierce, Walker, and Ciri all chose to drive back in their own cars.
And Leon, Khomeinis drove to the airport to pick him up. Before the plane departed from Chicago, Khomeinis sent a text message to Leon telling him that he would pick him up at the airport, but after Leon arrived at the Boston airport, he called Khomeinis but no one answered him. The rest of the Celtics either went back by themselves or left with the team bus, while Leon stayed in the airport lobby to find Khomeinis. Finally, he saw Khomeinis lying on his seat and asleep in a small cafe next to the airport. It was already more than one o'clock in the morning. Khomeinis arrived at the airport early to wait. Feeling asleep.
After persuading her father to buy the Celtics, Khomeinis did not get her wish so that Leon could stay with her in Boston. He became the team's head coach and often went to away games with the team. Fortunately, half of the season's games were played at home, after the end of the three consecutive seasons. The Celtics have only three away games in the remaining 11 games in November.
Leon did not wake Khomeinis, but lifted her sleeping directly from the seat. The waiter in the cafe stopped Leon, because he didn't know who Leon was Khomeinis, but when he recognized Leon as the new Celtics coach, he immediately let Leon go. , By the way, also let Leon sign a 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 slowly woke up. When she found herself in the car from the cafe, she was startled at first, but she saw clearly that she was holding her. When it’s my love. Feeling relaxed again, he was about to fall asleep again with his arms around Leon's neck, half-open and half-closed. Leon pityingly kissed Khomeinis's forehead and drove the two back to the city together.
Since getting to know Leon, Khomeinis' personality has both reservations and changes. She is no longer so keen on participating in social and public activities in school. She has devoted more energy to her academic work and anthropological research. She withdrew from the cheerleading team and devoted her free time to ethnic investigations, community visits, and library visits. Of course, watch the Celtics game. In life, Leon’s focused and serious work attitude has undoubtedly affected Khomeinis. She has a clearer view of her university career and future plans, and she no longer indulges in rebellious and exciting youth activities towards her father. .
But what remains unchanged is her love for Leon and her unparalleled stubbornness. After coming to this time and space, Leon has been dealing with stubborn people, from Auerbach to Siegfried, from Arenas to Dick Hart. And Khomeinis is perhaps the most special one. Khomeinis’ love for Leon came for no reason. It was overwhelming, but it couldn’t fade away for a long time. Finally she got Leon, but Leon was always unwilling to promise to marry Khomeinis. Khomeinis didn’t know about Lyon. Ang thought, but she did not quarrel or plead like ordinary women, but waited silently, waiting for the day 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, when Leon hugged Khomeinis into the house, Khomeinis whispered. Leon did not answer. He just kissed Khomeinis and sent her to the bedroom on the second floor. He went back to the study on the first floor, turned on the lamp, and took a folder from the bookshelf with the sticker "- Lakers" label. Open the folder, there are not only the information and history of the Lakers team, but also the news clips of the last three months, and some of Leon's own handwritten information.
Before the start of the season, someone told Leon that the job of the head coach is to coax the superstars of the team to play happily. Then you will hold onto your job. As for winning the championship, it is not entirely his head coach's control. It is the players that ultimately determine the game.
Leon agrees with half of this sentence. He knows that it is the players that decide the game after all, so he has never given up on the pursuit of superstars and potential rookies, but the other half he will not agree. A head coach is like just a coaxing star to play well. Master of Chicken Soup, then became the Bingbi next to the emperor. When the emperor is unhappy or unhappy, he can drag you out and kill you. The job of the head coach is much more than that. He used his amazing energy, plus various information collected over two years, to build an archive for each team in the summer. Although each team will have its own opponent research team, this archive belongs to Leon himself and has a lot of his own ideas.
The Lakers file has two points that make Leon feel a little relieved. One is a piece of news about Shaquille O’Neal’s absence from most of the games in November at the beginning of the season because of his old mother’s toe injury. The second is that the Lakers have lost three of the last five games, including the last one in Cleveland. They shamefully lost to the Cleveland Cavaliers 70:89 and won one of the two games. Still defeated the Blazers hard through overtime. This shows that the Lakers' state is quite bad.
According to common sense, Leon should choose to speed up tomorrow's game and use a fast offense to defeat the tired Lakers. Now the Celtics have won four consecutive victories. After last season’s training and summer training camp, the Celtics’ conversion of the second fast break level has reached a level beyond ordinary people’s imagination. The shooting ability is also outstanding, and the frequent pick-and-rolls allow their backcourt players to minimize the interference.
But Leon remembered Auerbach’s admonition to him, that is the first idea that comes to your mind, which is often conceivable by your opponent, so you must think carefully about what kind of strategy you are prepared to deal with. The next opponent. The arena is long and painful. It is impossible to have sufficient preparation time for each game. Perhaps it is just a simple idea that 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. In a lonely light, Leon was looking for ideas that could give the team an advantage.
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The next day, that is, November 7, the Celtics did not go to the training base for training. Instead, they gathered at the North Shore Garden Arena at 3 o'clock in the afternoon and conducted shooting training for an hour and a half. Since becoming the head coach of the Celtics, Leon has been very strict with the basic skills of shooting, which is higher than all other technical requirements. His philosophy is very simple. The most important thing in basketball games is scoring, and the most important way of scoring is shooting. Since shooting is the most important thing, it is natural to have the treatment of the most important things. Whether today is a back-to-back or a training day, one and a half hours of collective shooting training is something everyone can't escape.
Siegfried, as the shooting coach of the team, led the training. Inspired and helped by Leon, Siegfried prepared a "shooting technique file" for each player, which included a player. The advantages and disadvantages of shooting techniques are described in text, shooting action diagrams, shooting percentage tables for training and competitions, and some optimization suggestions will be added every day.
Of course Siegfried would not do these things, but the help of data experts like Leon, Wesland and Morey is naturally a piece of cake. Wesland has already begun to consider digitalizing and networking these things. It is also supported by Leon.
Today’s shooting training, Siegfried focused on three-point long-range shooting and long-distance two-pointers, because according to the Lakers' defensive strategy, this is a ball that has always been good at letting opponents lose their shooting confidence near the three-point line. The team ~EbookFREE.me~ is good at disrupting the opponent's shooting rhythm and off-the-ball position, allowing the opponent to enter the disgusting cycle of constantly attempting long shots near the three-point line, which is the so-called psychological battle of shooting. Therefore, Siegfried coordinated the long shot practice for the team, and began to correct the bad habits of the players one by one.
Because it is a long-range shooting training, so inside players like Dalem Porter seem to have nothing to do, can only pick up the ball for teammates on the field, pass the ball. At this time Leon called Dalem Potter to his side and said to him: "If you are asked to defend against O'Neal, do you have confidence?"
Dalembert shook his head. He is an honest boy, but he is not an arrogant like Arenas, to guard against O'Neal? Olajuwon can't do it, he is a second-year center, not being killed is a bone stick.
"I think so too." Leon nodded, Dalembert felt that the coach was playing him.
"But, the Shark is not here, do you think you can disrupt the Lakers' inside line?" Leon asked again.
This time, Dalemport won't shake his head anymore, he nodded vigorously, because he knew that opportunities are fleeting, especially in places like the NBA. (To be continued.)