The Whip of the God of Basketball - Chapter 369

In the week after coming to the Suns, Leon put all his thoughts on the Sun training and getting along with the Sun players, while keeping a distance from the Phoenix media. Finex is not a big sports city. Unlike New York, Los Angeles, and Boston, where there are a large number of senior sports critics and journalists. The only more influential sports media in Finex is “Arizona Republic”. It is some small media or TV stations that report some sports news part-time.

After Leon moved to the Suns, the top NBA reporter of the Arizona Republic, Paul Kolo, has always wanted to conduct an exclusive interview for Leon to learn about Leon’s thoughts on the direction of the Suns next season, because many Suns fans now In fear, Leon will transform the Suns into a defensive team like Boston.

Phoenix is ​​different from Boston. There is no such deep sports soil here. Although the Suns have a long NBA history, their team history is far less glorious than Boston. For Phoenix fans, they have no historical glory or historical burden. They just want to watch beautiful games and beautiful offenses, starting from Paul Westphal in the 1960s, to Larry Nance, and then to Kay. Wen Johnson, Charles Barkley, Jason Kidd, until Steve Nash, they never attacked or died.

In the past three years, the entire league has been shrouded in the defensive shadow of Boston’s green, but the sun has been hidden by the dark shadow of the Spurs, and there is no chance of entering the finals. Now that the guy from Boston has come to the Suns, the fans are naturally mixed. They want the team to win and rush out of the West, but they don’t want the Suns to become an ugly team.

In the past few days when Leon was instructing the Sun training, reporters kept coming to the American Airlines Center’s training hall to request interviews, but every time they passed, the Sun’s training opening hours were very short, and they would not be tactical when there were reporters. Training is just simple shooting and confrontation exercises. This disappointed reporters who wished to obtain a little information from the training.

Therefore, Kolo just wanted to arrange an interview for Leon, hoping to rely on his network and reputation accumulated in the Suns, and ask the NBA best coach to talk to all Phoenix fans about his plan.

Of course, his invitation was ruthlessly rejected by Leon, and then Kolo contacted the top of the Suns, the boss, the director of the human resources management center, and the director of the external publicity department, but it was useless.

“Sorry, you can interview anyone on the team, but Leon can’t. Don’t ask me why. You can’t ask Stern to invite him.” This is the reply from the Suns’ propaganda department to Colo. No way, Leon can be regarded as one of the biggest coaches in the NBA, and he is very appreciated by the owner Savo. Colo, who has served the Suns for many years, is really no way.

However, in this era of advanced media, reporters are all connected with each other. So Korot immediately thought of the Yahoo reporter Woj, who became famous for his various revelations in the past two years, and it is said that Woj and Fox Leon are good friends, and many of Woj’s revelations were provided to him by Leon. It’s just that the two never admit it in public, just saying that they know each other.

Kolo immediately contacted Woj and wanted to ask him if there was any news about Leon and what direction the Suns would go next season. Ke Luo directly sent a short message to woj on the weekend. He knew that, except on the plane, woj was always on 24 hours a day and working at any time. Soon Kolo received Woj’s reply, but the content disappointed him: “I can help you guys in other aspects, but to be honest, let me know about Leon. It’s better to let me tell you where the President of the United States is. “

If Woj can’t detect Leon’s voice, the only way left is to break through the sun. Find assistant coaches, team trainers, team staff. However, it would cost Kolo a little money. Eventually, he found a masseur who was engaged in the relaxation and stretching of the muscles after player training in the team. He wanted to learn some information from him.

Finally, Kolo’s work has made some breakthroughs here. The trainer told Kolo three very precious news. First, the time the Suns’ players spend on muscle relaxation after training has increased a lot, but Their training time has not changed. Second, the Suns’ main training focus is still on offense. Third, Fox-Lyon seems to often say to Steve Nash, do you want to be a scoring leader?

The first and second messages Koruo felt normal, and he was relieved, indicating that after Leon came to the Suns, the team’s training efficiency was higher, and they would still be an offensive ball. team. But what is the third thing? Let Nash take the lead in scoring? Kolo thinks it must be Leon and Nash joking, but it’s not like that.

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Leon has had a very fulfilling time in Phoenix during this time, and he is a lot busier than when he was in college. When he was at Davidson College, before and after training every day, he would have a lot of time to go fishing, take a walk in the suburbs, or go to Los Angeles to accompany his wife. During that year, Leon thought about many things related to basketball. He could put aside the complicated affairs and off-court issues of the NBA, and focus his energy more on the court.

Such days he originally wanted to last longer. When his child was born, he would have more time to accompany him, grow up with him, win a few championships in the NCAA, and then think and experiment with more tactics and ideas. But when Steve Kerr invited him, he was still moved. The reason is simple. The Phoenix Suns is the best experimental field for realizing his new ideas.

Just as Leon caught the league’s three-pointer trend after coming to the Boston Celtics in 2000, in 2007, Leon had already smelled the precursor of a major change in the league’s style of play. As a coach who stifled the league with a strong defense in the past few seasons, Leon knows that this team style is not suitable for the league. No team will have so many defensive players like the Celtics in the 2004-2006 season, and at the same time have the most versatile and intelligent defensive core. They are the nuclear submarines that Leon’s meticulously built upstream. Still have to be submerged in the water.

After coming to Davidson Academy, Leon’s biggest problem as a team coach is that no one in the entire academy can defend as he requested. For those children, the basketball environment they grew up in is completely different from the players born in the 60s and 70s. They love offense, dribble, three-pointers, and subtle and complex offensive tactics.

Every time Leon explains various complicated and ingenious tactics to the students in the tactics course, those children will concentrate more and more seriously than they did in the cultural course. Because they think it’s cool, they use beautiful passes, gorgeous dunks in fast breaks, and missile-like three-pointers to beat their opponents, just like the Phoenix Suns. From then on, Leon knew that it was not only the small place like Davidson College, but every school in the United States, such children would be the mainstream.

This is the trend, this is the process of history. Leon clearly understands that no one can fight against time and history, including him who travels through time and space. Leon knows that the era of offense and three-pointers will eventually come. Those players who entered the NBA in the 90s are still at their final peak. They can still dominate the league for a while, but this time will not be long.

The reason why Leon wants to teach at Davidson College ~www.mtlnovel.com~ is actually very simple, because he wants to take courses in economics at Davidson College, but the Boston Ivy League universities refused to let him go. Annoyed him. The Davidson College in North Carolina is very tolerant in this regard. When Leon agreed to become the school’s basketball coach, he gave him a certificate of attendance, and he can attend any course in the school when he is free.

The most frequently listened courses are finance and organizational anthropology. His solid economics and financial foundation have benefited him a lot, and organizational anthropology has opened up his ideas in team management. This year, he led the little-known Davidson Academy to the NcAA quarterfinals, which shocked the United States. The personal ability of the team player Stephen Curry has been greatly highlighted.

If Kolow carefully study the performance of Davidson College and Stephen Curry in the NCAA competition in March this year, then he should be able to understand the meaning of the phrase “let Nash be the scoring leader”. It’s a pity that Corot didn’t realize the inner meaning of this sentence, but thought it was a joke. Then in the NBA column of the Arizona Republic on Monday, he wrote an article describing the blueprint for the Suns next season, thinking that the Suns will continue to uphold the banner of offense and their offense will be more efficient.

As for making Nash the leading scorer, it was a joke and completely ignored. The whip of the **** of basketball