The Whip of the God of Basketball - Chapter 365

The training method of the Suns rookie training camp lasted for three days. Every morning, they came to the University of Arizona gymnasium. Everyone practiced on their own, while Leon was watching. But no one dared to be lazy, even the veteran of Brent Barry practiced very hard. Fox Leon’s eagle eyes are like a pair of surveillance cameras, making everyone feel that they are being stared at. Then in the afternoon, Leon will take the entire team, including the staff, to play a steamboat on Lake Havasu, to play slot machines in nearby Las Vegas, or to take pictures at the Hoover Dam.

In three days, everyone didn’t practice anything in training. They had a great time playing, and all the expenses were Leon’s one-person all-inclusive package. Leon later went directly to the Las Vegas casino for reimbursement. This made the originally nervous newcomers completely relaxed. Everyone thought that Fox-Leon was a cold-blooded iron fist coach, but he did not expect to be a playful and good guy, especially his amazing gambling skills, everyone. No one can beat him when he gambles together.

On the fourth day, Leon did not come to the stadium very early that day. He arrived at the stadium at nine o’clock as usual. This time, the first three days were different. The first three days he was dressed in casual clothes, wearing jeans and shirts to the arena. Today he changed into sportswear, with a whistle around his neck, and a tactical board and a folder in his hand. Everyone knows that the good days should come to an end, and training must start today.

Sure enough, as soon as he arrived at the arena, Leon summoned everyone. With the experience of eating, drinking and having fun together in the first three days, the players and staff have become familiar with each other a lot, and they all talked and laughed and looked very relaxed. But seeing Leon standing in front of him with a serious face, everyone did not speak, waiting for the head coach to give orders.

“Hello everyone, I’m Fox Leon. I’m sorry to introduce myself to you four days after I came here, but I think you must have known me before, but you don’t know me very well. So I spent three days, It’s a special way of introducing yourself to get along with everyone as easily as possible. I don’t know what your impressions and thoughts of me were before, but now I think you must all have your own opinions.”

Leon made a belated self-introduction, which made everyone feel relaxed again. The three days of relaxation did change many people’s inherent impression of Leon.

Leon continued: “You have young people and some who are about to retire. I’m sorry I haven’t coached you before, but I have contacted more or less. After all, I have killed many teams in the past few years. There must be your team. I know all about your technical characteristics and past performances on the field. So I asked you to join the Suns for a reason, because I think you can help this team and bring us It’s changed, and of course it also includes me.”

None of the people on the scene expected that Leon would say such a thing, as a role player of the NBA, they still know how many catties they have. Except for people like Jaskovicius who want to prove themselves, other players still think about how to mix well in the team. The rookie is thinking about playing hard to survive in the NBA, and the veteran is thinking about not getting hurt and playing for a few more years to get more money. Mesozoic people have to work hard for their next contract.

They just didn’t expect that Fox Leon, the champion coach, would think that they can bring changes to the Phoenix Suns. For the Suns team, they have only one goal to change, and that is the championship.

“Okay friends, starting from today, in order to adapt to the upcoming new season, we have to carry out real training. I have played for three days. I hope that in the next few days, you can adapt to my training. I wish everyone , Happy training camp!”

After saying the above, Leon finally blew the whistle in his hand and really began to guide the training of the rookie training camp. But so far no one understands why Fox Leon has spent so much effort on these benches.

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In mid-October 2007, for the NBA, the holiday was finally over, and the training camps of each team opened one after another to prepare for the upcoming new season and preseason. On the day of the training, the Phoenix Suns held a press conference in the press conference room of the American Airlines Center, announcing that Fox-Leon and the Suns had officially signed the contract for three years. Suns owner Savoy, general manager Cole, as well as the former coach and current assistant coach D’Antoni all attended the conference.

Of course, the reporters at the scene will not let this opportunity go to “interrogate” Leon, but it seems that Leon is in a good mood today, or he just arrived in Phoenix and doesn’t want to get too rigid with Phoenix’s local media relations. In Boston, he broke up with the sports media there, after all, his media relations resources are all in New York.

Compared with the tough reporters in Boston and New York, the Arizona media guys seem to be simpler. They don’t ask too sharp questions, but they express the Phoenix people’s worries about the future of the Suns next season.

“Will the Suns take the defensive route next season?”

This is the problem that Leon encountered the most before and after the press conference, because the bronze wall and iron wall he built in Boston is really frightening, and the Mavericks, who are also the top three in the Western Conference, also brought defense in 2006 because of the young general Johnson. And a qualitative breakthrough in strength. Now the Suns fans are most concerned about whether Fox-Leon will also develop the team towards a balanced offensive and defensive route.

But Leon’s answer was very simple: “No, I will not let the Suns take the defensive route. In the past three seasons, the Suns have proven that they can sweep the league with offense, but their performance in the playoffs is regrettable. I don’t need to overthrow the Suns’ efforts for a bit of regret in the playoffs. This is unfair to the Suns’ players and coach D’Antoni. So, what I have to do is to make the Suns perform better and make the offense stronger. .”

Leon’s answer was far beyond the expectations of the reporters at the scene. It was like Pat Riley went to the Knicks. Everyone thought he would bring the Knicks to the Lakers offense, but he did not expect him to let the Knicks. Become a Jagged Muscle Legion.

After that, Leon did not give too much explanation to his thoughts. Instead, he left the press conference room and went directly to the annexus training field at the American Airlines Center. Today will be the first team training for the Phoenix Suns in the new season, training at 10 o’clock. Officially begin.

The first meeting between the coach and the players in training is very important. This will determine the first impression of a coach in the players’ minds and directly affect the coach’s authority in the team. Although Leon is a well-known champion coach, it is not easy to win the respect of the team for a team like the Suns with a mature and successful team. After all, a famous teacher like Larry Sanders was despised by the entire Pistons when he went to Detroit.

However, Leon is not Larry Sanders. He didn’t wear sportswear today. Instead, he wore a stiff brown light striped suit. The shoes were shiny and the originally messy curly hair was taken care of very well yesterday. After many years in the NBA, the scars on his face have faded a lot, but you can still see it carefully, especially the faint bruises under his right eye, which was when he crossed to the Boston bar and was beaten out on the ring. of.

This makes him look elegant, rude, wise and brutal. In contrast, D’Antoni followed behind him, wearing a white sports t-shirt and gray sweatpants ~ www.mtlnovel.com ~ looks like a high school physical education teacher.

Leon walked into the annexus training ground, where the Suns’ players have gathered, Nash, Stoudemire, Marion, Bell, Dior, and the newcomers of the team who participated in the rookie training camp before. When they saw Leon walk into the arena, they stopped one after another and gathered towards the sidelines. Leon is not tall, he is considered a short among NBA players, but he stands on the sidelines and looks at everyone without a word. No one dares to speak for a while.

D’Antoni still remembered that every time when the camp went to the training hall in the new season, everyone would jokingly say hello to him, and then joking around all morning, until the actual practice could not begin until tomorrow. And Leon stopped here. He hadn’t had any contact with the main players of the Suns before. Everyone knew about him only from past games and the media.

But when he truly became the head coach of the Suns and stood in front of everyone, the players of the Suns knew how the title of “Attila” came about.

“Good morning, everyone. I am honored to be your new coach. I am not a person who likes nonsense. I will give you five minutes to prepare for the match. A group of main players and a group of new players. I am I want to see if you have brought me a little surprise this summer.” Basketball God’s Whip