Chapter 294: Basic skills

Leon's heart is also looking forward to seeing the San Antonio Spurs again, but he doesn't want this to be the Christmas battle. In this noisy festival, any game looks like an entertainment rather than a decent revenge.
In order for the players to have the awareness of "This is not a holiday but a war", Leon had to repeatedly emphasize the importance of tomorrow night's game before, during and after training. He also played the video of last year's finals at the video observation meeting before the game, and played the sixth game at the sbc center when the Spurs defeated the Celtics and won the championship-that game the Celtics lost. Simply neat, it was like putting the crown on Tim Duncan's head by himself.
But when Leon arrived at the Boston Garden on the night of the 25th, he knew everything was over. The decoration here is almost like the scene of a Christmas party, with Christmas hats, Christmas trees, colored balls, bells everywhere, and even Christmas knots in the Celtic dressing room.
Leon tore these things away and threw them into the trash can. The players looked elated, playing around in the locker room. Since defeating the Lakers with absolute strength in Los Angeles, Leon can feel the team's gritted teeth and suffocated breath a bit relieved. Before a more violent storm arrives, the team will be in a relaxed state of mental state.
Leon knows this is normal. It is impossible for a team to be tense during the long season. It is normal to have tension and relaxation, and ups and downs. A good coach must be able to adjust the mental state of the team, so that the team will not be too tight and collapse, nor will it be too loose and collapse.
"The timing is not good, the timing is not good..." Leon was distressed while smoking cigarettes in the locker room. At home, against a stable and powerful opponent like the Spurs on Christmas Eve, it is not as good as the fans imagined and he can take revenge. .
On the contrary, the Celtics will bear more pressure, while the Spurs can play more concentrated, just like the Celtics did in Los Angeles a few days ago.
Last year's match with the Spurs made Leon realize that this is a fairly stable and cold team, and the fanatical atmosphere of the away team will not affect them. Last year in Boston, the Green Army fans almost fell into a frenzy, but they took away two victories in North Shore Garden.
After smoking a cigarette, Leon pinched out the cigarette and came out of the bathroom. He saw Kevin Garnett sitting on a stool alone, eyes closed, and he didn't know what he was talking about. The other players are working on their own affairs. Arenas is pouring his earphones upside down, Dalembert is putting bandages on his feet, Reed is reciting the Bible silently, Pierce and Posey are accepting it outside. Reporter's interview.
The Celtics' locker room before the game is like this, everyone will be busy with their own affairs, but once Leon calls to gather everyone will immediately gather together.
Leon walked to Garnett and sat on a stool. There was more than an hour before the game started. Leon wanted to chat with Garnett.
"Do you have the habit of reading newspapers?" Leon asked Garnett, with a point, and the various remarks about Duncan and Garnett had been uproarious recently.
"No, I don't read the newspaper." Garnett replied. He didn't open his eyes, he seemed to be meditating.
"This is a good habit, it will save you a lot of distractions... but you look a little nervous, Kevin."
"No, I'm not nervous."
"You are nervous. When you are nervous, your left foot will jitter slightly, rhythmically. I can feel that when I stood there just now, the frequency of your jitter is the frequency of your nervousness."
When Leon said this, Garnett's trembling left leg immediately stopped, and his eyes opened. He glanced at Leon and silently walked away to take a shower in the bathroom.
It is impossible to say that outside public opinion has no influence on Garnett. Leon knows that Kevin Garnett and himself are completely two types of people. Leon is a person who thinks very thoroughly and understands everything. The negative public opinion from the outside seldom interferes with him. On the contrary, he will find ways to use these things. Garnett is different. His contradictory and sensitive personality makes him very strange when facing negative comments. Sometimes he is tolerant and sometimes hesitating.
Those harsh words sometimes made him angry, vowing to prove it to others; sometimes it made him fall into a deep depression and depression that couldn't help himself. After coming to the Celtics, he almost never appeared in the second situation, that is, he was a little lost against the Timberwolves, but he quickly walked out of it, and recently, he played a superstar. Performance.
Seeing Garnett, Leon thought of Anderson, and then thought that the personalities of his players were more worrying than one, and suddenly felt so tired. Why did he gather such a group of unreasonable guys?
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The game started at 7:30 in the evening. The Christmas game was broadcast nationwide. The Celtics’ home stadium, North Shore Garden Arena, was packed. Tonight, almost one-third of families in Boston will watch the game at home.
Fans on the sidelines showed their slogans, "Welcome to the Spurs, you have no generals, and we have one more king."
Due to the retirement of David Robinson, the Spurs Twin Towers era is officially over, and the inside line of the Black Legion will be guarded by Tim Duncan alone.
Before the game, the two sides were warming up on the court. Duncan looked quite relaxed, swaying swaying, just wandering around, chatting with the referee, talking to the technical desk, and even playing with Leon. Hello.
This perennially expressionless, simple and dumb guy who plays basketball is called "" (basic skills) by the Americans. Everything about him looks calm, his face, his technical movements, his news, and his remarks. . But such a player always makes people feel that he is unstoppable. This is a completely different feeling from facing Shaquille O'Neal.
He is a person who can influence all aspects of the game, instead of just causing devastating nuclear damage on the offensive end like O'Neal. It is almost impossible to let Duncan offense without letting others play like O'Neal did, Spurs. The system is destined to be difficult for you to separate Duncan from others.
Leon thought about using the ultimate death defensive lineup in the game, but in the recent consecutive away games, he was summoned, and Anderson's problem, so that the team's training was broken. And that kind of defensive training requires a lot of brain power of the players, full attention and continuous summary after training, Leon does not have absolute confidence in this defense at this time.
Now he can rely on the absolute strength of the Celtics, and he is confident that he can gain the upper hand in the fight against Vicki, provided that the players can fully cooperate.
Tonight's referee is bald Crawford. The limelight referee has started to talk about the ball, ordering this and that, and the game is about to begin.
In the starting lineup of the two sides, the Celtics are still a stable five-man group, while the Spurs start with Nestorovic, Ginobili, Tim Duncan, Parker and Bruce Bowen~www. EbookFREE.me~ After losing David Robinson and Stephen Jackson, Vitch recruited Nestorovic as a substitute and promoted Ginobili to the starting shooting guard position.
Before the start of the game, Garnett unexpectedly did not engage in the activity of taking powder. I don’t know if he forgot or something. When he was warming up, Garnett’s situation was completely different from Duncan. He kept frowning and paying attention. Conduct shooting training.
The referee threw the ball in the air, the game began, the Spurs took the lead in getting the ball, and Parker started his first offense with the ball.
The game just started, and both sides were in the midst of temptation. Parker dribbled the ball to near the three-point line. Duncan stepped forward and made a pick-and-roll. After the substitution, Garnett suddenly rushed towards Parker. He hit the ground and passed the ball to Duncan, who went down after the pick-and-roll. Duncan caught the ball in his most familiar and comfortable position and hit a two-pointer.
The first point of the Christmas game is a basic jump shot from the basic skills, which does not match the gorgeous and lively atmosphere of Christmas Eve.
Leon's mind is spinning fast, he knows that this game will be completely different from the Lakers, he is about to use his little brain. (To be continued.)