Chapter 258: Training camp (2)

The long summer is finally coming to an end. In mid-September, the entire league began to operate again, preparing for the start of the 2oo3-2oo4 season. 1 small ≧ said ＞≦≦﹤<1o month, the preseason will officially open. Before that, the teams will open their training camps, and they will lay a solid foundation for the new season.
The Celtics' rookie training camp has lasted for two weeks. Five rookies have just made up a lineup. Leon has shown in two weeks of training that these five have great potential and have places worth exploring. At this point, he also admired Angie's vision, and he signed players who were very cost-effective.
Of course, because of that night's talk show, Angie was still sulking at Leon. His title as the number one hero in the formation of the Boston Army has been unknowingly taken away by Leon.
Leon certainly doesn't mind this. Now he is thinking about one thing-after the start of training camp, let this team of newcomers give the team a head.
It is only natural for Leon to have such an idea. The Boston Celtics were indeed too successful this summer, especially in the fragile east. When everyone was still an iron-clad steamship, they built an aircraft carrier overnight. Even in the foreseeable five years, on paper, the Celtics will have no rivals in the East. Just like the sho-time battleship Los Angeles Lakers in the 1980s, they should be like the Lakers at that time. The same rule of the district for ten years.
But Leon knows that there are dangers in optimism and storms in tranquility. The 2oo3-2oo4 season will be a crucial year for the Celtics. If they can’t win the championship, The building will collapse overnight.
First, Kevin Garnett's contract is the last year, and next year he can become a completely free agent. Secondly, Arenas, Dalemport, Anderson are all about to reach their contract year. Reid is already in the contract year. They can all choose not to stay in Boston next year.
Once the building collapses, the Celtics will face the situation where the tree falls and the hunger is scattered, and Leon's hard work for more than three years will be destroyed.
Now, Kevin Garnett, Paul Pierce and other core Celtics players frequently appear in the media, talking about friendship, basketball, and championships. They are not as low-key and calm as last summer.
This is a worrying state. Perhaps after the start of the regular season, relying on Leon and Carlisle's cooperation can completely adjust the team's state, but this is not what Leon wants. He has always been cautious and calm, pursuing a 120% success rate, and he can't tolerate himself as a star's puppet. As a Celtic coach, no star can surpass him.
To this end, he carefully trained this five-man team, and after the start of the training camp, he should show the complacent Celtics other players a little color.
On September 18th, the Boston Celtics' 2oo3-2oo4 season training camp officially opened, in Waltham, the renovated Boston Sports Training Center. In summer, a large spa pool, sports rehabilitation center, multimedia HD video room, and updated strength training equipment are added here.
Everything is the same as this Celtics, exuding a fresh taste. The only constant is the parquet floor in the training hall, and the slogan on the wall, "hat's-hurt-more, the-pain-of-hard-ork, or-the-pain-of-regret." (What It makes you more painful, sweat of training, tears of regret.)
Leon arrived at the training hall at around nine as usual. He saw Reed, saw Arenas, saw Garnett, saw Pierce, saw Anderson, saw Wang Zhizhi, saw Brown, and saw Dalem. Potter, saw Malik Siri...
Of course there are coaches, Siegfried, Cowens, Hess, and the new member, Rick Carlisle. Regardless of the worries and doubts in my heart, I was thinking about how to manage the army, but in a summer, I could see them in this field again, see these familiar faces, and see them in a relaxed atmosphere. After training, chatting, and playing around here, Leon's mood suddenly improved.
The pressures and worries in his heart, with the basic order of the team, have been left behind. Everything has just begun. He is confident to lead this brand new and more powerful Celtics to the championship!
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On the first day of training, Leon did not give the players intensity, but conducted recovery training and shooting exercises. In the morning, Siegfried took the players to shoot shooting video, practice and video, in order to Analyze the shooting posture of the players.
Kevin Garnett was very relaxed in training, always talking and laughing with Pierce. He also got praise from Siegfried in shooting training. Although his shooting posture is not standard enough-because of his size Too high, too long arms, a bit crooked shot, but his accuracy, strength, posture are well grasped, and the rhythm is even better. No matter how Siegfried interferes with the foam wand, Garnett can Keep your hands in good shape and throw the ball into the basket well, just like a machine with a programmed program.
Other players also maintained a relaxed state, especially the main players. Originally it was the first day of training. The Celtics' training was one week earlier than other teams. Now the team has another class star. Last season Both can make it to the finals. Not to mention the championship this season, the finals are also firmly established.
This sentiment permeated the Celtics. It lasted until the afternoon training was about to end. Leon suddenly proposed to play a match. He said that the players did not play a good game in the summer. Have a confrontation before the start of the preseason. And there are a lot of new players in the team, he wants to see the level of the players in actual combat.
This proposal was immediately approved by the players, and a group of people thought about dividing into groups and pulling out teams to fight. Leon proposed that the grouping should be done by him. He divided the team into two groups, one is the main group and the other is the substitute group.
The main team consists of Kevin Garnett, pJ-Brown, Pierce, Reid and Arenas. This should be the Celtics lineup next season. The substitute group is composed of several Celtics rookies, which is the rookie training camp lineup last week, Dior, Bell, Posey, Alston and Daniels.
Others were randomly assigned to two groups ~EbookFREE.me~ This deployment made the main group shook their heads. The upright Arenas bluntly said that even if he didn't make a move, they could win the match.
Arenas’ cynicism undoubtedly aroused the vigor of the rookie players. They just joined the team, and they are not big-name stars. They are very eager to prove themselves in training and games, like Alstom, Bell, Posey and others. Want to get a long contract, while Dior, Daniels and the like must strive to gain a foothold in the team and get a rotation.
Before the start of the confrontation, Leon set the last rule, telling both sides that in order to ensure fairness to a certain extent, the main team will not have the guidance of the coach, and how to play depends on the players themselves. The bench team will be guided by Leon himself, and the main team is no longer so confident.
"Don't worry, even if there is no coach, we can join forces to beat the opponent!" Kevin Garnett is full of fighting spirit. The opponent doesn't even have a decent center. He doesn't think that teaming up with Pierce will not be able to beat the opponent. , Even if the opponent is instructed by Leon himself, the main team tie-tiao dog as a coach can also win.
"I don't think so, man, be careful. Haven't you seen the conspiracy and tricks of our coach?" Pierce is not so optimistic at all. He knows that the ghost master and thoughts in Leon's belly are better than his offensive tricks. More. (To be continued.)