Late at night on November 6, close to the wee hours of the morning, Leon and the Celtics returned to Boston, and after a frantic away slaughter, the players still had some irrepressible excitement. Especially the relatively young players like Arenas, Johnson, and Reed, who seem to have just mastered some powerful skill, are proud and proud to be able to rely on their minions to hunt their prey. Of course, they don't seem to fully realize that it's not their skills and minions that really help them hunt their prey, but the tactics and command of the lions.

Leon didn't mind that, and he sat quietly in his place on the plane and slept in a daze, letting the young men play and joke. After getting off the plane, the cold wind of the late night in Boston cooled everyone down, and the Celtics arranged a chartered bus to take everyone home. However, veterans like Pierce, Walker, and Ciri all chose to drive back in their own cars.

Leon, on the other hand, had Ayatollah Khomeinith drive to the airport to pick him up. Before the plane departed from Chicago, Khamenez texted Leon to tell him that he would pick him up at the airport, but Leon called Holmenez after arriving at the Boston airport and no one answered. The rest of the Celtics either went back on their own or followed the team bus, while Leon stayed in the airport lobby to find Ayatollah Khomele. Finally, he saw Holmenes asleep on his seat in a small café next to the airport, it was already past one o'clock in the morning, and Holmenes came to the airport early to wait, and unknowingly fell asleep.

After convincing his dad to buy Celtic, Ayatollah Khomeenez did not get his wish to keep Leon in Boston to stay with her, he became the team's head coach, often accompanying the team to away games, but fortunately, half of the season's games were played at home, and after the end of the season's three-game winning streak, the Celtics had only three away games in November's remaining 11 games.

Leon didn't wake Khomeenez, but carried her from her seat. The waiter at the café stopped Leon. Because he didn't know who Leon really was, but when he recognized Leon as the new head coach of the Celtics, he immediately let Leon go, and by the way, he also asked Leon to sign his order book. In Boston, Leon, who led the team to four consecutive wins, has begun to make a name for himself.

After carrying Khomeenes to the car, the girl slowly woke up, and she was startled when she found herself in the car from the café in a daze, and when she saw that it was her lover who was carrying her. The mood relaxed again, and he put his arms around Leon's neck and his eyes were half-open and half-closed, and he was about to fall asleep again. Leon kissed Khomeenes on the forehead with pity, and drove the two back to the city together.

Since meeting Leon, Khomeenez's personality has both reserved and changed, and she is less enthusiastic about participating in social and public events at school, and she has focused more on her academic work and anthropological research. She quit cheerleading and spent her free time on ethnic expeditions, community visits, library visits, and, of course, watching Celtic games. In life, Leon's focused, conscientious work attitude undoubtedly influenced Ayatollah Khomeenez. She has a clearer view of her college career and future plans, and is no longer indulged in rebellious and exciting young youth activities against her father.

But what remains unchanged is her love for Leon and the stubbornness in her bones. Leon has been dealing with stubborn people since he came to this plane. From Auerbach to Sigfried, from Arenas to Dick Hart, and Khomeenes is perhaps the most special one. Ayatollah Ayatoll's love for Leon came for no reason, like a mountain of seas. But it couldn't fade away for a long time, and finally she got Leon, but Leon was still unwilling to promise to marry Khomemenes. Khomemenes didn't know what Leon was thinking, but she didn't argue or plead like ordinary women, just waited silently, waiting for the day when Leon was willing to promise.

"Are you home?" After arriving at the place where the two lived, it was almost two o'clock in the morning, and Leon carried Khomemenis into the house, and Khomeenes asked in a snort. Leon didn't answer, but kissed Khomemenez and sent her to the bedroom on the second floor, where he returned to the study on the first floor, turned on the lamp, and took down a folder from the bookshelf with the label "Losangles-Lakers" on it. Flipping through the folder, there are not only the information and history of the Lakers team, but also news clips from the last three months, as well as some handwritten materials from Leon himself.

Before the start of the season, someone told Leon that the manager's job is to coax the team's superstars to play happily, so you have a job that will keep you going. As for winning the championship, it is not entirely under his control as a manager, and it is the players who ultimately decide the game.

Leon agrees with half of this sentence, he knows that it is the players who decide the game after all, so he has never given up the pursuit of superstars and potential rookies, but the other half he will not agree, a head coach is like just becoming a chicken soup master who coaxes stars to play well, then he will become a eunuch by the emperor's side, when the emperor is unhappy and unhappy, he can drag you out and kill you. The manager's job is much more than that, using his incredible energy, plus more than two years of collecting information, to build a dossier for each team over the summer. While each team will have its own rival research team, this archive belongs to Leon and has a lot of his own ideas.

There are two things that make Leon feel a little reassuring about this file from the Lakers, one is the news that Shaquille O'Neal will miss most of the games in November at the beginning of the season due to an old injury to his big toe. Second, the Lakers have lost three of their last five games, including the last one in Cleveland, where they lost to the Cleveland Cavaliers 70-89, and won one of the two games against the Trail Blazers in overtime. This shows that the Lakers are in quite bad shape.

According to common sense, Leon should choose to speed up tomorrow's game and crush the tired Lakers with a quick offense. The Celtics are now on a four-game winning streak, and after training last season and summer training camp, the Celtics have reached an unbelievable level of conversion and fast-breaking, with an equally outstanding shooting ability and frequent pick-and-rolls that allow their backcourt players to minimize the distractions of handchecks.

But Leon remembered what Auerbach had told him, that is, the first thought that pops into your head is often the same as your opponent, so you must think carefully about what strategy to use to prepare for the next opponent. The field is long and painful, and it is impossible to have enough preparation time for each game, or maybe a simple idea can bring a difference to the team.

Leon looked at the Lakers' recent starting list seriously, and then turned his gaze to his team's roster. Under a lonely light, Leon looked for the idea that would give the team an edge.

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The next day, Nov. 7, the Celtics did not go to the training base to practice, but gathered at 3 p.m. at the North Shore Garden Arena for an hour-and-a-half-long shooting practice. Since becoming the head coach of the Celtics, Leon has been very strict about the basic skill of shooting, which is more demanding than all other technical skills. His philosophy is very simple, the most important thing in basketball is to score, and the most important way to score is shooting, since shooting is the most important, it is natural to have the most important thing to be treated. Whether it's a back-to-back or a training day, a group one-and-a-half-hour shooting session is something that no one can run away.

Inspired and helped by Leon, Sigfred prepared a "shooting technique profile" for each player, which includes a textual description of the strengths and weaknesses of a player's shooting skills, a graphical description of shooting action, a shooting percentage table for training and games, and some optimization suggestions will be added every day.

Of course, Sigfried will not do these things, but the help of data experts like Leon, Wesland, and Morey is naturally a piece of cake, and Wesland has begun to consider digitizing and networking these things, and he has also received Leon's support.

In today's shooting drill, Sigfried focused on three-point shooting and long-distance two-point shooting, because according to the Lakers' defensive strategy, this is a team that has always been good at making opponents lose confidence in shooting near the three-point line, and is good at disrupting the opponent's shooting rhythm and running without the ball, so that the opponent enters a disgusting cycle of constantly trying long shots near the three-point line, which is the so-called shooting psychological warfare. So, Sigfried cooperated with the team to practice long-range shooting, and began to correct some of the bad habits of the players when shooting one by one.

Because it's a long-range shoot, an interior player like Durham Porter doesn't seem to have much to do, but to pick up the ball and pass the ball to his teammates on the court. At this time, Leon called Daim Potter to his side and said to him: "If you are asked to take one defense and one against O'Neal, do you have any confidence?" ”

Dareham Potter shook his head, he was an honest boy, but he wasn't a megalomaniac like Arenas, guarding against O'Neal? Olajuwon can't do it, he's a sophomore center, and if he doesn't get killed, it's a bone club.

"I think so too." Leon nodded, and Durham Potter felt the manager was playing tricks on him.

"But, with the sharks away, do you think you can mess with the Lakers' interior?" Leon asked again.

This time, Durham Porter didn't shake his head again, he nodded vigorously because he knew that opportunities were fleeting, especially in places like the NBA. (To be continued.) )