The Whip of the God of Basketball

　　 On October 10, 2001, on the fourth day after the start of the training camp, the Celtics' first NBA preseason game of the 2001-2002 season will be played at TD North Shore Garden. Their opponent is the Charlotte Hornets.

　　 At five o'clock in the morning, Leon departed from home to the training hall. This was training on match day, so he had to arrive earlier to prepare for the evening game.

　　 He arrived at the training ground at six o'clock, and he also arrived with Jim Young. As the team's video editor, he also has a lot of work to do. The team’s strength trainer Yousser Dick has also started training in the strength room. As a strength training guide for the players, he must make good use of these equipment before the players arrive, and experience the training that will be arranged for the players today. content.

Leon and his colleagues greeted him and went to his small office and made himself a cup of coffee. On the table were two documents prepared yesterday-one is the Charlotte Hornets team profile report this year. , A videotape of yesterday’s training.

　　 There are a total of 29 teams in the league, and each team needs to be studied carefully. Leon is mainly responsible for the data collection and collection of the eastern team, and the western is handed over to Vogel. The wasp information in front of Leon was his first-hand material collected in his spare time throughout the summer. Every word, sentence and data in it was typed out by Leon using a computer. While drinking coffee, picking up the information and looking through it, he stuffed the videotape into the video recorder, and started to watch the videotape edited by Jim Young, combined with the report in hand, began to list today's training plan on the draft paper.

The team’s daily training plan is similar. After O’Brien sets the team’s direction for the next season, what Leon has to do is to add, delete and repair the training plan for different situations every day. Today he decided to conduct defensive training in the morning. Joining the training of the zone defense, this is a brand new change in the 2002 season. In April this year, the league announced that it would release zone defense restrictions next season, abolish the rules of illegal defense, and increase defense by three seconds. From the current point of view, the impact of this rule change only exists in theory, and the actual effect will not be known until the regular season officially starts.

In the summer at the University of Southern California, Leon and Old Winter discussed this issue in depth, and they agreed that this rule change will have a significant impact on the team's play, especially the restrictions on inside players and outside players. The release of, especially the role of the shooter will increase, which is also one of the theoretical foundations of Leon's draft this year and the development of the team's training plan. O'Brien, on the contrary, does not think that the release of the zone defense and the three-second defensive setting will have a substantial impact, so his training is still biased towards the conservative category.

　　 It took ten minutes for Leon to list the training outline on the draft. To him, one mind and three uses are basically a small case. After packing up the information, turning off the video recorder, it is time to go to the cafeteria for breakfast. Leon has always insisted on keeping pace with the athletes in his diet. He never eats and drinks casually because he is just a coach. For breakfast, he always only eats salads, fruits and the buns he brings. That's right, Leon likes to eat steamed buns, but the chef in the cafeteria doesn't know how to make them, so Leon's steamed buns are made by himself, one every day.

When Leon drank buns with salad dressing to eat with relish, the team’s assistant player development coach John Carroll sat opposite Leon with a dinner plate. As the coach of the main players’ personal ability development, he also You must arrive at the training hall early in the morning to watch the player's personal training videos in the video room. Recently, he has focused on the shooting options of Arenas, Joe Johnson and Michael Reid.

　　 "Unique way of eating, I heard that Chinese "buns" are packed with stuff?" Carol looked at Leon eating, and wanted to find a topic to chat with him.

　　 Leon took another bite of the bun dipped in salad and said, "This is a bun. There is nothing in it. Only the bun has something."

Carroll joined the Celtics in 1997 with Pitino. Prior to that, he coached in the NCAA and also served as a scout in the NBA for several years. He has extensive experience in player personal development and is good at Training young players. Although he joined the Celtics at the same time as Pitino, he was not born in Kentucky like O'Brien and Vogel, so he is not a direct line of Pitino. In a series of actions taken by the Celtics in the past two years, Carroll has always been outside, on the periphery of the storm circle, and feels at ease as his player development coach. The team's draft, trade, and sovereignty changes have basically nothing to do with him.

　　 He is like a steamed bun, without all kinds of stuffing, no special talents, but he is really full and nutritious.

　　 Carol’s breakfast is coffee and bread, which is unacceptable to Leon’s strange way of eating. Leon and Carol are not very familiar, they chatted a few words, packed up the tableware, and it was time for the coaching meeting. O'Brien was already waiting, and the meeting place was in his office.

The coaching meeting just started as usual. Everyone watched the video of yesterday’s training and discussed the progress and shortcomings of the two days of training. Leon, as the data collector of the Eastern Conference team, reported the recent situation of the Hornets. Brian nodded in satisfaction. However, in today's training plan, contradictions emerged, and O'Brien expressed dissatisfaction with Leon's arrangement of joint defense training.

"There is no need to engage in zone defense. Just let the players adapt to the defense for three seconds. For zone defense, one or two training sessions are useless. Moreover, with the increasing popularity of three-pointers today, zone defense is a waste of time. "O'Brien doesn't want the players to practice zone defense, and thinks this is a waste of time.

　　 O'Brien's words are not totally unreasonable. Under the limitation of the three-second defensive rule, the power of zone defense is cut in half. Then the three-point line of NBA is farther than FIBA, and zone defense is more difficult. Moreover, it takes a long time to train in zone defense to form a tacit understanding. One morning practice can only give players a basic concept.

"If we don't start training, we will never be able to use it. The zone defense will always play his role." Leon defended, but O'Brien didn't seem ready to listen to his opinion. He used the pen to train. In the plan, the zone defense was crossed out and replaced with a full court pressing defensive practice.

At this time, John Carroll spoke. He rarely spoke in the coaching meeting. He said: "Perhaps we should practice zone defense. Antoine Walker and Pierce both mentioned to me during training yesterday. Tomorrow, it’s best to practice zone defense and adapt to this new thing, so that they can get familiar with zone defense on the offensive end."

Carol's words made O'Brien hesitate. After thinking about it, he thought that Carol's words might make sense, so he erased the places that had been painted off with an eraser, and then said to Leon: "Organize a defense in the morning. Train, Hart, you are also in charge, let the substitute players perform the defense, the main practice is to break the defense, forty minutes, only forty minutes."

　　 Leon was too lazy to argue with O'Brien, but he didn't expect that Carroll would come out to help him, and even convinced the coach that he knew if Walker and Pierce said yesterday they wanted to practice zone defense.

　　 Today’s training ended early at 1:00 in the afternoon, because there is a competition in the evening and the training intensity is not too high. Leon had an appointment with Khomeinis in the afternoon, so he left the training hall early and returned to Boston. The night's game was played at 7 o'clock. The Boston fans came to the arena early with unusual enthusiasm to watch the first preseason game of the new season, and the Celtics did not disappoint the fans. The first game was 119 at home. : 91 swept the Charlotte Hornets, Paul Pierce and Antoine Walker are in excellent form, the Gemini star scored 38 points in half the occasion, and laid the victory for the team in one fell swoop.

　　 In the next consecutive games against the Mavericks, Cavaliers, and Bucks, UU reading www. Uukanshu.com The Celtics have won. Throughout the preseason, the Celtics showed a stubborn attitude, which gave the fans great hope and gave O'Brien confidence in his new season. Doubled. The performance of several rookies was also quite good. Arenas, who was holding back, the mature Joe Johnson, and Michael Reid, who were technically mature, all performed their best in the playing time, just how to allocate the playing time of these people. The big problem O'Brien has to face.

Soon, on October 30th, the regular season officially started. The Celtics' opener was held in Cleveland. Faced with the weaker knights who were obviously inferior to their own strength, they followed last year's routine with old punches. Soon they were beaten to the ground. The Celtics made a good start with a 108:90, 18-point advantage in the away game. The Celtics are highly motivated, and they will return to home in the next game. It is worth noting that Dennis Rodman was placed on the watch list because of the contradiction with the head coach. He did not get a chance to play in the preseason and the first game of the regular season. It seems that O'Brien is With the mind to abandon Rodman.

Leon performed his due diligence during this time, and fulfilled all the requirements of O'Brien. Unlike Pitino, there is no personal grievance between O'Brien and Leon, so I see that Leon is responsible and outstanding. , He also put his energy on team building and game command.

　　 The first game at home on October 31st will be very important. It was the start of the season in Boston. The significance of winning this game is more important than the last one. Their opponent is the New Jersey Nets.

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