Chapter 129: Iron King

? There are always some things in a person's personality that are difficult to change. Maybe they will change in a flash, but in the long run, they will still respond to those words. The country is easy to change, but the nature is hard to change.
As the team's head coach, Leon began to pay attention to the "player character" which is often overlooked when he was a scout. Many times scouts always focus on the player's body, technical level, statistics and other objective things. Leon is different. He fancy a player's character, growth experience and maturity, so he always has a basic personality standard for selecting players, don't don't work hard, don't have a loose personality, don't don't have perseverance.
Like Arenas, who grew up in a single-parent family, his personality was stubborn and arrogant. From his childhood to most of his time, he was looked down upon by others, but he kept beating those who looked down on him in the face, so Leon chose him. Joe Johnson, who grew up in an ordinary and harmonious family, has a gentle but tough personality, and has the temperament of making a fortune with a muffled voice; Michael Reid is a devout Christian, his father is a pastor, and his biggest dream is to give his father. Buy a church, his personality is low-key, temperate, very in line with the Celtic style, please be quiet. There is also Dalemport, who was born in Port-au-Prince, and his parents went to France in his early years. Living alone with his grandmother was extremely difficult. After immigrating to Canada to play, this gave him a very strong willpower and the ability to learn. Including Steve Kerr and Chris Anderson. Before choosing them, Leon not only looked at the players' abilities and the needs of the team, but also valued their personality, the kind of good personality that suits the team and is suitable for hard work.
Wang Zhizhi may be an exception, but his reticence is more cultural than his personality flaws. Leon is confident to watch him gain a foothold in the NBA.
In addition to studying his own players, Leon will also carefully understand the personalities of other team players, especially the superstars of other teams. The way to understand is either hearsay. Either the news media or personal contact. For example, Kevin Garnett, through personal contact with him. Leon knew that this was a very contradictory guy, two completely different souls inhabited his body. So much so that he will be controversial. That's why Leon will chase this player in a blatant way. He knows that contradictory people will inevitably have a shaken day under constant direct pursuit.
Compared with Garnett, apart from his love of basketball and a strong ambition, Kobe Bryant is a completely different person. Leon didn’t have much contact with him, and he learned more about the young superstars of the league from the news media, TV interviews and competitions. Leon believes that he is an uncomplicated person who has lived in an excellent basketball family since he was a child. . There is a former NBA player dad who grew up in Italy. His life is simple and pure, only basketball. Everything in his life revolves around basketball. He lives for basketball and fights for basketball. All other things brought by basketball are accessories and not important. He is a ball fan.
So Leon knew that in such a dilemma. In this kind of game situation, under the premise that the teammates are not performing as expected, the boss of the team is absent. Kobe Bryant will never pass the ball!
Not because of his poor personality, not because he can't pass the ball, but because he believes that only by his continuous offense can the team win and win the ball. He is to win, not to score.
However, his abilities are obviously not enough to allow him to complete such a task of turning against the sky, especially when Fox-Leon has been prepared. After the suspension. The Lakers sent a sideline offense and Kobe received the ball. He dribbled from the right side of the three-point line and Paul Pierce was already defending him one-on-one. Although Pierce has never made the best defensive team defensively. But his weight, strength and judgment ability are enough to make him an excellent stand-alone defender when serious. In contrast, although Michael Reid worked harder, he still lacked experience, especially when facing attackers with fake moves.
The Celtics bench is facing the Lakers offensive side, and Leon can clearly observe the one-on-one matchup between Pierce and Kobe from close range. However, it seems that the Lakers are not ready to "let Kobe come with everything". Robert Holly is standing near the free throw line and seems to want to go to pick and roll screens, but Kobe didn't call him. He stood there a little. Know how to come next.
At this time Chris Anderson began to approach Kobe, Pierce gave way to the line on his right center. If Kobe tries to walk from the center at this time, Anderson will come up and close the door. In fact, when you change to another player, you will choose to hang the ball to Holly. Holly can attack from the middle. After all, Anderson is a bit out of position, but Kobe is not. He is Kobe after all. He chose to force the shot in front of Pierce. .
Before the shot, his whole body leaned towards Pierce, apparently like Bo's foul, but Pierce is also a master foul. He was not fooled at all. He ducked back gently, avoiding physical contact with Kobe, and then Seeing that Kobe's shot didn't even touch the basket, he hit the backboard and fell off. Samaki Walker picked up the rebound and wanted to make a layup, but the referee's whistle rang because Walker was in the three-second zone for too long, three seconds.
There is no doubt that Leon’s strategy is correct. Although the Lakers are not the kind of team that only relies on superstars to play, they are a team driven by superstars. Once the two superstars are absent, the team’s The offense will be stagnated, and the concubine will become a concubine. However, ironing seems to be a contagious virus. When the Lakers missed two consecutive offenses, the Celtics' outside shots also began to fail. From the third quarter to the fourth quarter, the Lakers scored 5 points. The Ults scored 6 points, and the touch of the two teams seemed to disappear under the drive of Kobe.
However, although Leon predicted that Kobe would not pass, he still underestimated the kind of paranoia and stubbornness in Kobe's heart. By the beginning of the fourth quarter, Kobe had already shot 30 times and only hit 11 of them. 24 points, 6 rebounds and 4 assists. Very low offensive efficiency. However, his crazy shots really started in the fourth quarter.
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Leon has always had an ability, that is, when he sees a player taking a shot, he can judge whether he can score it or not. In fact, after watching a lot of basketball games, most people have a little of this ability, and some shots are thrown out. Looking at the player's shooting posture and the flight trajectory of the ball in the air, you can feel in advance that the ball will not score. Although not necessarily accurate.
The difference between Leon and ordinary people is that his judgment is quite accurate. Moreover, his judgments often do not depend on the trajectory of the ball. Many shots will know that the trajectory of the ball is biased, heavy, or light. Leon doesn't need it. He can make judgments only by looking at the hand type and rhythm. For a game of NBA level, if a player can keep his shots without deformation or slowing down under high confrontation. Then the probability of this ball being shot is very high. Leon’s mind is like a supercomputer that stores many holographic images of the shooting postures of players. When a player takes a shot, he will match the shooting posture he sees with the image in his head, and then use probability calculations to give There is a probability result of entering or not entering.
This is also the reason why Leon can perform off-ball simulation training in training. Without his brain and judgment, such training would not be carried out at all.
By the fourth quarter, Leon had to apply this ability to Kobe, because a bad situation happened that he didn't want to see. Kobe was still making crazy shots in the fourth quarter. And the hit is not high enough. But the Celtics encountered two problems. First, the drop in shooting percentage from the second half of the third quarter continued, and the Lakers finally began to give up the habit of shrinking defense. Expanding their defensive area, at this time the biggest problem of the Celtics-the disadvantage of the lack of low attackers is exposed. When the outside players are inevitably cold, there is no inside attacking master to stabilize the situation.
Second, although Kobe is hitting iron, but he is also scoring, and the referee's whistle began to ring frequently, Kobe began to continue to the free throw line, the Lakers under his leadership. Finally stabilized the position and chased forward slowly, even though the chasing came a bit late. But they are the champions after all, after all, they are the overlords of three consecutive championships. The team's confidence and psychological quality are not comparable to the stunned Celtics.
Finally, when Arenas forcibly broke through the ball, but Derek Fisher made a dribble to hit a man. When the ball was given to the Lakers, the gap between the two sides was only three points. From the third quarter The Lakers were more than ten points behind, and the Lakers actually relied on Kobe's stubborn offense to slowly come back. So far Kobe has taken 40 shots, scored 15 goals, scored 37 points, 8 rebounds and 4 assists-the assists will basically not change anymore.
With less than three minutes left until the end of the fourth quarter, the Lakers offense, they have a chance to tie the score in this offense. The hearts of the fans on the scene again mentioned their throats, including Auerbach. At the beginning of the game, he was wearing sunglasses and leaning on a cane to watch the game. Now he has taken off the sunglasses, threw the cane aside, and holds both hands in the front seat. Looked on the chair.
Kobe once again held the ball for the second half and attacked from the right side he was used to. There was no pick-and-roll and no screen. Faced with Paul Pierce, he adjusted slightly and dribbled the ball with his left hand to near the top of the arc. Break up!
The moment Kobe took the shot, the hearts of all North Shore Garden fans jumped out. For a player like Kobe, even if he missed the first ten three-pointers, he would still take the shot at the eleventh chance and firmly believe that he can shoot. Score this goal.
But at the moment Kobe took the shot, Leon yelled to the court: "The ball didn't come in! The front basket and rebound!"
Chris Anderson heard these words and almost instantly got into the three-second zone, and then he was facing the basket. Sure enough, the ball hit the front of the basket and fell into Anderson’s wife. Marriage. After receiving the ball, Anderson immediately passed the ball back to Arenas. There was basically no highlight in the game. Arenas sent the most beautiful pass in the game. He used a big angle to hit the ground and pass the ball. The ball was sent to Paul Pierce, who had already driven into the center line. Pierce used a strong body to push behind Kobe, who was chasing after him, and all the way to the basket, succeeding with his left hand.
The North Shore Gardens exploded. A decisive goal came from Leon’s prediction, because the moment Kobe took the shot, he knew that the frequency of Kobe's fingers was faster and the strength was obviously insufficient. Short, and because the shot is very correct and there is no problem with accuracy, it is likely to be a front basket rebound. In the off-ball simulation training, as long as Leon calls "front basket rebound", the players will squeeze to the front of the basket and take off hard, and then Leon will determine who gets the rebound.
So Chris Anderson almost subconsciously rushed to the front of the basket and picked up the rebound.
Kobe, who missed a goal, obviously didn't believe in evil. He looked at Leon coldly and walked past him. Leon knew that this guy must have a goal in front of him.
Sure enough, Kobe once again held the ball on the left, this time he used his back to fight Pierce, then walked to the bottom line, stepped back slightly with a backward jumper. At this time Leon yelled again: "Strong force, left front basket!" Just after speaking, the ball deviated from the correct line and hit the front left of the basket. This time the Celtics didn't have time to advance. Bit, chaos at the basket.
Samaki Walker grabbed an offensive rebound, but Anderson blocked the layup. Kobe got out of nowhere to grab the ball, then shook Anderson, a left fingertip picked the basket, and sent the ball to the basket, 39 points.
After the goal, Kobe pointed his finger at Leon, meaning he scored. Leon knew that he shook his head and smiled. He wanted to tell Kobe this kind of distance, and I would also go in for me, but he stabilized his mind and continued to participate in the game.
Kobe's three-point miss was undoubtedly a turning point in the final stage of the game. Then Kobe missed all three outside shots and was prejudged by Leon on the sidelines one by one. In this way, the more accurate Leon is, the less accurate Kobe is, the more accurate Leon is, the more Kobe wants to vote.
When the game progressed to the last second, the Celtics had led the Lakers by five points 101:95. When the game was completely over, Kobe still tried to force a three-pointer from the outside. Kobe made this shot very reluctantly, his shot posture was completely deformed, he used his right arm and left hand to push it out, and the ball drew a high arc.
"-It! \\\'s-over! (You made a goal ~EbookFREE.me~ but it's over Leon shouted to Kobe from the sidelines, no one cares about the goal being missed. Fans have begun to celebrate, Celtics players began to embrace, Lakers players began to retreat, only Kobe and Leon, care about whether the goal is scored or not.
When Leon finished saying "over", the ball hit the backboard, hit the board to the basket, a three-pointer, Kobe's last shot, the 47th shot of the game, also the 17th goal, got The 42nd point of the half game.
47 shots, 17 goals, and a record of 30 strikes in a single game. He is the first iron king in the new century, and even after the 1980s, only Chamberlain, Barry and Falcao can be stronger than him. .
After watching Kobe score a goal, Leon left the court with his shoulders bowed and his head down, knowing that he might not care about the embarrassing record of ironing at the moment. After all, he lost the game, which is the only thing he cares about.
At this time, the Celtics players rushed up to hug him, blocking his vision. He is happy and happy at this time because he has won.
"You have won enough things, and it's our turn." Leon raised his right arm high among the players. (To be continued.)