Chapter 404: Stamps

Chapter 407 Staples
After finishing four consecutive games of the Eastern Conference away, the Phoenix Suns got a two-day break. They can return to Phoenix, cultivate a little in the winter sun, and prepare to continue their battle.
Leon gave himself a short holiday. This is the season he has the least desire for control since he took charge of the NBA team. In Boston, he is almost always at work. For his perfect defense, in Phoenix he began to try his new coach. Ideas.
Taking advantage of this short vacation, Leon went to Los Angeles to visit his wife and learn about the real estate market in Los Angeles by the way.
Khomeinis has been pregnant for more than six months. By next spring, the crystallization of the two will be born in this world. Leon will call every day to find out about his wife.
Khomeinis is in good health. She is still active in the front line of the agent's work, showing her talents this summer, and constantly recruiting for CAA.
Now, several potential future superstars in the league are all CAA players, and some of the superstars that are reaching their peaks are also receiving the services of CAA, such as a few guys in the 03 Platinum area.
Of course, in Leon’s eyes, these guys are still unable to become the climate for the time being. The team they belong to is old and weak, and those old guys in the 90s still hold the throne of the league. This year they are forming the Big Three in the 90s. After that, the Boston Celtics looked more terrifying than in the past, and so far they have not yet tasted a defeat in the regular season.
To be honest, Leon is not 100% sure of whether he can beat the Celtics. In terms of the lineup, the Suns still have a lot of problems, so he has to test the five small lineups to break the routine and try to make up for the shortcomings of the lineup and players. .
But he himself knew that the defensive system he built in the Celtics had been inherited by Reeves, and it was not that easy to pierce this layer of armor.
After arriving in Los Angeles, he left these problems behind for the time being, and spent a good rest day with Khomeinis. They watched the sun rise together in the house by the beach in Santa Monica, and together again. Watching the sun go down.
Unlike Americans who love to party, Leon is a quiet person. Apart from work needs, he rarely organizes parties at home. He played enough with those old guys in Phoenix, and when he was with his wife, he wanted to enjoy some quietness.
However, on the night of the 11th, Leon still arranged some activities for himself. Khomeinis booked two tickets at the Staples Center. Tonight there will be a game between the Los Angeles Clippers and the Cleveland Cavaliers.
Khomeinis knows that no matter how Leon rests or relaxes, he still can't let go of basketball. At most, one day, at night, it is estimated that he will open the ESPN channel and start watching the game. Now that we are in Los Angeles and LeBron James is playing, we might as well go to the Staples Arena to take a look.
Leon personally drove with Khomeinis to the Staples Arena. Since his wife became pregnant, Leon finally sold his eight-handed Chevrolet and exchanged it for a large car like Fu Fei Feifu for his wife and belly. Escort the children in the house.
Before getting off the car, Khomeinis said to Leon: "Do you want to wear a baseball cap?"
Leon said: "Why, you know I don't like wearing a hat."
Khomeinis said: "You are not very popular in Staples."
Leon remembered that he once had a "bad track" of smoking a cigar in front of all Lakers fans at Staples. This behavior caused a lot of waves in the media at the time, and he became more than Auerbach. Someone hated by Los Angeles fans.
Although tonight’s game is not the Lakers, the Clippers and the Lakers share the same arena. Celebrities like Leon will definitely be recognized by fans in Los Angeles.
Leon said: "I'm just an audience now, don't worry, they won't do anything to me."
In the previous years, when leading the Celtics to Los Angeles to play every year, Leon received the most boos, but he has long been used to it, and as the Celtics dominate three times in a row, and the Lakers left O’Neal. Falling into decline, the confidence of the Lakers fans is becoming less and less.
Sure enough, as soon as they entered the familiar Staples Center, some fans recognized Leon. Most people just paid attention and said "That's Fox", and a few people would come forward and ask for an autograph or something. A young fan wearing a Kobe jersey came to Leon with a photo of Kobe and asked for an autograph. Leon did not refuse. Instead, he thought this kid was very interesting. He was wearing a Lakers jersey to watch the Clippers game and asked the head coach of the Suns for an autograph.
But for children, this is not a problem. Everything stems from their love of basketball. Those so-called grievances and hatreds are not worth this kind of love.
Khomeinis did not buy a seat in the first row. Although it was a Clippers game, the first row would not be occupied by some Hollywood stars, but she knew that Leon was relatively low-key, so she chose a relatively back seat. However, this did not hide Leon's light. More and more people discovered that the star coach appeared in Staples. Many people took out their mobile phones to take pictures of Leon.
A fan also asked loudly: "Fox, why not come to coach in Los Angeles!"
Leon replied: "Because the basketball courts in Los Angeles are too noisy, I don't sleep well. And I don't want to get up at four."
Yes, his favorite time to wake up is five o'clock.
As the time of the game approaches, there are more and more people in the arena, more and more noisy on the field, people pay less attention to Leon, and players start to enter the field.
The two Los Angeles teams have a lot of grievances with the Suns. In 2006, the Suns, lacking Stoudemire, eliminated the Los Angeles team 4:3 in two consecutive rounds to enter the Western Conference Finals. They killed the first in history. The birth of the second playoff city derby.
Back then, the Suns were simply the team that Los Angeles fans hated the most.
After experiencing most of the time in history, the Clippers relied on the combination of Cassell, Brand and Mobley to shine in the Western Conference in 2006 and almost reached the Western Conference Finals.
But injuries soon affected them. Their captain Brand suffered serious injuries in the summer and is likely to be reimbursed for the season; Sam Kassel is 38 years old this year and has reached the final stage of his career. Mobley seemed to have some problems with his heart, which bothered his performance on the court. After a brilliant season, the Clippers began to enter distress again.
However, after the start of the new season, their condition looks good, 4 wins and 2 losses. Chris Kaman and Maggette in the team have grown up and become the main players in the team. The 38-year-old Kassel Still exerting the residual heat, this old monster really is the more old he gets. Mobley accepted his position as a substitute, but it seemed his state was worrying.
The Cavaliers are still like that. With James as the core, they have put together a non-stop lineup, and they are moving forward with difficulty. They played in the first few games of the new season, 4 wins and 3 losses, and James does not seem to have entered. In his state, he has been reducing his shots and increasing assists and rebounds for many consecutive games.
Ilgauskas and Gooden have scored 20+ points in several games, but they can’t get enough victories. For example, facing the Suns, relying on the inside to feed the ball to score. This efficiency is really low, much heavier than the Sun's quick counterattack plus three points.
Leon knew that Mike Brown wanted to follow the Spurs-like heavy-duty team model in order to fight a super defensive team like Boston in the East ~EbookFREE.me~ to pull the opponent to the same level, and then use James to defeat other side.
The idea may not be a problem, but the team's tactics are not good, and they are a bit too dependent on LeBron. The first few games can see that the Cavaliers and James are adjusting, but the effect is not obvious.
Therefore, Leon estimates that the Cavaliers are still not very good at this game. If they continue the offensive strategy that James organizes the main line, they will be defeated by the light and agile Clippers.
The life cycle of a heavy-duty team is almost over.
"Fox, Fox?" Khomeinis yelled several times in Leon's ear before Leon reacted: "What?"
"I'm calling you, what are you thinking about again? See you sitting there motionless and not talking." Khomeinis knows Leon best, as long as he sits on the edge of the basketball court, his brain will Starting to keep calculating, it is estimated that the Clippers and Cavaliers will lose and who will win.
Leon said, "Oh, no, I was thinking, uh, the Clippers' floor logo is really ugly."
(End of this chapter)