The Whip of the God of Basketball - Chapter 379

Just when Leon went to New York to take advantage of his old business and prepare to take advantage of the fire, D’Antoni was worrying about the team’s tactical training. In the team training on November 3, D’Antoni gave the team a job. A three-hour tactical training session was taken to further adjust the team’s tactical use in the offense and the distribution of ball rights.

Especially the problem of the distribution of ball rights, this is a super problem Leon gave him, and it is also a big problem the Suns have been facing in the past few seasons. This shouldn’t have been a problem. After Nash came to the team, this super point guard became the team’s best offensive engine. His turnover and assist ratio was amazing. It can be said that as long as Nash is on the court, the Suns almost every offense. All have to go through Nash’s hands.

And this season, Leon asked Nash to reduce assists, reduce his role in the offense, and hand over the ball to others. Judging from the first game, the effect is not very significant, the Suns still rely on the overall advantage to crush their opponents. Now, Leon has put forward higher requirements, to directly design independent tactics for Stadamel and Dior, which can make D’Antoni scratch his head. Designing tactics and training for the inside is not his strong point.

No way, D’Antoni bit his head and led the team to practice for three hours. From time to time, he took out the tactical folder Leon had left him for a look, but after watching it a few times, he didn’t read it because Leon He couldn’t understand many of the things he wrote. It was not D’Antoni who was stupid, but some of Leon’s diagrams, tables, and terms that only he could understand.

Hoping for the stars and the moon, by the afternoon of November 4th, Leon finally returned to Phoenix. He had almost settled the affairs of New York. This was the long line and waited for the big fish to take the bait. Next, he has to focus his energy on the Phoenix Suns, from the summer training camp, to the preseason, to the first game of the regular season, the team has been running very well so far.

As Leon’s experience in the past few years has shown, a tall and magnificent champion iceberg must have a larger part underwater as a support. At present, everything in the team is very good. All he has to do is to maintain this state, so After arriving in Phoenix on the 1st, Leon called D’Antoni and asked him to give the players a vacation in the afternoon. He said that he would take everyone to eat Mexican barbecue.

“Eat barbecue? All?”

“For all, everyone, including the people in your coaching staff.”

D’Antoni couldn’t believe his ears. He still had a stomach problem and wanted to discuss with Leon. Why is Leon going to eat barbecue again? But there is no way, Leon is the head coach, everything has to listen to him, D’Antoni informed everyone, canceled the afternoon tactical training, and then asked to have dinner together.

Leon went home and took a shower, took a short break, watched half an hour of game video, spent 20 minutes browsing the latest US financial news, and spent another 15 minutes watching ESPN’s basketball express. The NBA regular season has been in full swing, but only one or two games have not seen the clue. He called his wife again, talked about the recent situation, and drove to the barbecue restaurant.

The rotisserie is located in the southwestern district of Phoenix. It is a very good Mexican rotisserie. Leon had communicated with Nash before coming. He said that the team used to go there for dinner and indulge his own appetite. After arriving, the Suns have basically arrived, including the coaching staff, the main players and the bench. Such big battles are not common.

In the NBA, even on the same team, the players have a small circle. Besides, the players are all of different ages. Young people and young people play together, middle-aged people and middle-aged people, or middle-aged big brothers with young kids. The old man goes out and mixes, in short, in twos and threes, it is also convenient to move around.

Besides, a team player plus coach number twenty people, no matter what activities to go out, there are too many people, eye-catching and inconvenient, except to play basketball.

Fortunately, now that the season has just begun, the players are still in a relatively relaxed state. The relationship and atmosphere of the team are generally very good. It is not difficult to come out together.

Leon said hello to everyone. Everyone seemed to be in a good mood. Most NBA players have simple minds. Young people in their early 20s and various millionaires can earn money every day by playing games. The ideal life.

The players of the Suns also discovered that Leon is not as scary as the legend, he is only very strict on the court, and his life is very relaxed. At the beginning of the season, he was absent from training and went to New York to “play”. Now he comes back and again. Please eat barbecue. Some negative concerns about him before the start of the season were quickly wiped out.

Of course, this is just the Fox-Leon they have seen so far, but the players don’t think much about it anyway. Except for a smart guy like Nash, he knows that everything Leon did after he came to the Suns. Purpose, but Nash is on Leon’s side, because everything Leon does is for the championship.

Everyone had a very happy meal. For a small party, Leon even allowed the players to drink some alcohol properly. Afterwards, everyone played High, and some people even wanted to play with Leon. Poker, of course, was killed by Leon and turned into a dog, and everyone stopped working.

D’Antoni always wanted to find a chance to talk to Leon about tactics, but couldn’t find a good opportunity. Until the dinner was over, everyone had to go back, and D’Antoni went to Leon’s car. D’Antoni didn’t. Drinking, he sat in the co-pilot and asked, “What have you been doing these past two days? I missed a training session and brought the players to eat and drink, and your tactical folder. I can’t understand it!”

Leon seems to be playing very high, but in fact he didn’t drink a drop of wine, he didn’t even eat barbecue, because it was too greasy and heavy, and he eats more healthy now. Facing D’Antoni’s questioning, Leon put his hand on his shoulder, signaled him to calm down, and said, “Mike, how many games have we played now?”

“Just one game.”

“How many games have you lost?”

“We haven’t lost yet.”

“That’s not great.”

“But we just had a fight!”

“Yeah! Just one fight!”

Leon emphasized D’Antoni’s words again, and then looked at D’Antoni. D’Antoni stopped talking. He thought about it and asked, “Then our tactics…”

“Don’t worry, we still have a lot of time to train slowly to run-in and experiment. I believe you Mike, you also have to believe me, and you have to believe in your players. I know that the whole sun is full from top to bottom. With the breath of’I want to change’, everyone can’t wait to immediately transform themselves. Just like what you did in 2005, you have reborn and entered the ranks of the championship, so I came here.”

Leon said halfway through, paused, took a cigarette out of his pocket and lit it, took a sip, and continued: “And after I came here, it just didn’t happen to you. Although I made some changes, I still see It’s not obvious to go up, and even deliberately to prevent some changes from coming. I know that Steve Kerr has been brewing a big deal and wants to turn the team upside down. But I know Kerr, he is a great guy, no matter what Is it the player or something, except the team manager.”

D’Antoni nodded, and Leon said: “Managers and coaches are often opposites. A good coach always wins the hearts of the people and gets the support and support of the players. He has to learn to obey. Of course, this kind of obedience may only be superficial. Yes, but at the very least, it is necessary to meet between the stars. Let those big-tempered guys willingly listen to your command. Fortunately, Nash is a good guy, and Amare is still young.”

Nash is indeed very easy to handle among MVP-level players. Of course, this is related to his personality and life experience.

“The general manager is different. He is on the side of the boss, dominating the livelihoods of the players. He often stands on the opposite side. It is difficult for players to like them for long-term consideration to do some right and bad things. So you know, How difficult it is for a guy like Cole to be a manager. He will always follow the trend, but the manager can’t follow the trend. He must be unique, cruel, and suffer countless people when necessary. Scold, let time prove that he was right in the end.”

After speaking, Leon took another cigarette, one cigarette was almost burnt out, and D’Antoni stopped talking.

Leon concluded: “In short, stand on my side and do your daily work. This is a mature team. The players are very smart. We have many veterans and the best point guards. As long as they are given guidance, they will solve the problems on the issue. Trust me.”

In the end, Leon persuaded D’Antoni ~www.mtlnovel.com~ to have a pleasant dinner, which is undoubtedly a good thing for the cohesion of the players. But for a team, the best glue is only one, and that is victory.

On the night of November 4th, while the Suns were having a dinner, the Los Angeles Lakers flew to Phoenix. They will win the team’s second game of the season. They lost to the Houston Rockets in the first home opener. , Cast a shadow over the journey of the new season.

The team’s star, the super scoring champion of the previous two seasons, Kobe Bryant, after a whole summer of runaway farce, still stayed with the Lakers, but if the team still does not improve, the superstar Still do not rule out the possibility of being traded.

As for Phoenix, Kobe really dislikes it very, very much. Especially in the past two years, two consecutive seasons have been broken. This year, the Suns have changed their head coach and ushered in that annoying guy. Phoenix is ​​even more so. It’s disgusting.

After getting off the plane and at the airport, Kobe ignored any reporter’s interviews. Wearing headphones, he got on the bus and went to the hotel. Facing some persevering reporters, Kobe only said one sentence: “Iwilldomybest. (I will do my best.)

(End of this chapter)