John Carroll felt more and more that he couldn't control the Celtics and had to rely on his assistant coach, because there are a lot of bad boys on this team right now. Needless to say, there are still different opinions about why Rick Pitino traded for Rodman on draft day. Pitino has returned to the NCAA and faded out of the NBA, and unless he returns years later to recount his journey, no one will know for a short time.

Anyway, Rodman is undoubtedly an outlier among Celtics' all-time players, a freak who "one person's tattoos are as good as the sum of Celtics' all-time history." However, he has had a good time here, except for frequent absences from training, being late and spitting in the dressing room, he will give his all in every game and do his part for the team. And with no off-court beatings, Boston's not-so-rich nightlife seems to satisfy Rodman, provided Fox Leon takes a day out of his month to take him to the casino.

Paul Pierce and Antoine Walker are the core players of the team, both of whom have distinct personalities and are difficult to control, one has been much more restrained by the bar injury, and the other is still bohemian, shooting without scruples on the court and spending a lot of money off the court. Pierce has a lot of respect for Leon because he has passed him; Walker's hippie smile all day long, but when he meets Leon, the iron-masked Hades, he will be a little more serious, and only Leon dares to criticize Walker for shooting too many three-pointers on the court in weekday training, and list the data to teach him a good lesson.

In addition to the old fritters and the main players, among the young players, Arenas is not a fuel-efficient lamp. With a strong personality, his reputation in the team is not too good, as a newcomer, he never wants to swallow his anger, fortunately, the Celtics are a young team, there are fewer veterans, and the growth environment of newcomers is relatively relaxed, and at the same time, because Carol took care of Arenas before and took care of it, so this stinky guy has a lot of respect for Carol. But once on the court, Arenas was a little unable to stop the car, and only Leon patted Arenas on the shoulder during the timeout to calm him down, pass a few balls, and control the rhythm. In recent games, Arenas has been playing better and more confident, and his points per game average has soared from 3.2 points per game at the start of the season to 11.8.

The most worrying thing about Carroll is Chris Anderson, who has just been traded, this wild boy who grew up in Texas, has become Rodman's number one disciple in just a few days, and he follows the big worm all day long. As soon as he came to Boston, he learned that Rodman dyed his little flat hair green and his head was green, and sat with Rodman on the bench to form a small prairie. Nightclubs, drinking, gambling and other industries are naturally not a problem, but fortunately, he also knows that he is a newcomer with a basic salary, and he is not late for training every day, and will come to the power room of the stadium early to practice strength. And his personality is not bad, although he is a little sensitive and introverted and carved out of the same mold as Rodman, but he is not as weird as Rodman, and he is still a young man who can be contacted and shaped.

Of course, Carroll still wondered why this guy obeyed Fox Leon's words, every time Leon waved to Anderson in practice, he would obediently run to Leon and bow his head to listen to Leon instruct him, and then obediently return to the court to practice basic skills after listening.

It's this group of guys with strange personalities, old and young, who are not strong in the lineup, and the situation of the former head coach is in the period from the end of November to the middle of December, which actually played an excellent record of 7 wins and 2 losses. It's no wonder that Carroll feels like he has to rely on Fox Leon, and it's because of him that Carroll can focus more on tweaking the team's tactics and on-the-spot command, which makes the most of his experience and abilities as a coach in the NCAA. Sometimes Carroll wondered if his experience in Boston would have been completely different if Pitino had been able to meet an assistant coach like Leon earlier.

But something as bad happened on December 16th, when Leon caught a cold while traveling with the team to Charlotte against the Hornets, which was a big problem for Americans, so he flew back to Boston on a flight while the Celtics were on the 16th when the whole team was traveling to Philadelphia. As a result, the Celtics had to face the defending Eastern Conference champions and their host, Allen Iverson, in the absence of an assistant coach. This is perhaps the biggest challenge Carroll has faced since taking office, and it will be even more difficult than against the Wizards.

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The reason for Leon's cold is simple, because after the game in Charlotte that day, Dennis Rodman and Chris Anderson had to drag Leon to swim in the middle of the night, and the three of them secretly ran to the closed pool on the eighth floor of the hotel for two hours. As a result, Rodman and Anderson are both like beasts, although Leon is also very physical, but he really hasn't exercised for a while, and he is a little tired from flying away from home in a row, and as a result, he has the first illness after coming to the United States, a cold.

On the morning of the 17th, after taking a special plane back to Boston in advance, he directly called the team doctor, and the team doctor told Leon to go home and rest well, and not to take medicine easily, if you take medicine, please take his prescription to the designated pharmacy to get the medicine, and then leave it alone. Leon didn't dare to go to the doctor casually, he heard Khomemenes say that if he went to the doctor casually because of some minor problems, especially the emergency department, the medical bill would scare him to death.

So Leon dragged his weak body to Holmenis's house, and today Holmenes and his roommates went to class, and he had the key to Holmenez's house, so he went into her house by himself, and then found a blanket and poured an ice pack into the study where he usually slept, closed the door and lay down on the bed to sleep. When Khomemenes returned home from class in the afternoon, he knew that Leon was back as soon as he looked at the shoes at the door, and he knew that Leon should have been in Philadelphia today, and there was only one possibility that he would come back to his house at this time, and that was to be sick.

Sure enough, Khomemenez ran into his study and found Leon lying on the bed like a caterpillar, with an ice pack on his head, sweating on his face, white lips but very red face, it seemed that his condition had not improved, and he was very likely to have a fever. Khomeenez hurriedly took the ice pack that had melted long ago from Leon's head, the water in it was slightly hot, and she brought a medical kit from the first floor to Leon to stuff the thermometer into Leon's mouth, but Leon clenched his teeth tightly, his eyes were closed, and he didn't know what terrible dream he was having.

Khomeenes thought for a moment and gently covered her lips over Leon's mouth, slowly Leon's mouth closed less tightly, and Khomeenez slowly opened Leon's teeth with her tongue. Afterwards, Khomemenes shoved the thermometer under Leon's tongue and held Leon's mouth with her hand to prevent him from biting it off. After a while, Leon's muscles relaxed, and Khamenes took out the thermometer to look at it, only to find that Leon had a fever of 39 degrees!

"No, call an ambulance!" Ayatollah Khomeenes got anxious, got up and wanted to make a call, but at first her hand was grabbed by Leon, he woke up, stared at Holmenes with his eyes slightly open, opened his mouth and said to Holmenes in a hoarse voice: "Don't do anything, stay here with me." ”

Khomemenez almost burst into tears when he saw Leon's appearance, this was the first time he had seen Leon so weak, he had always been as energetic as a lion in the past, and he ran tirelessly around the world. Finally one day he would be tired and sick, and whenever he saw Leon injured, Khomemenez would feel a place in his heart that had been hit hard.

"Don't cry girl, you know I'm going to be fine. I just had a dream that I was back in time, that I was a kid, and that I was dreaming of something funny. Now that I'm awake, I'm all right, just get some more sleep and take some medicine. You see, in my pocket there is a prescription from the team doctor, go to the pharmacy and buy some medicine, and then bring it back to me. Leon took Khomeenez's hand and comforted her, and told her to bring the medicine back, as it seemed that she would not be able to do without it.

By the time Khomeenez bought the pills back, Leon was already lying on the bed leaning on the pillow and began to watch TV, because there will be a live broadcast of the Celtics and 76ers game tonight, and even if he is not there, Leon does not want to miss tonight's game.

At Leon's request, Homenez finally agreed that she would watch TV to give Leon a live voice broadcast, while Leon would lie on the bed and close his eyes and rest. Leon still feels a pity, after all, he can't fully appreciate Iverson's wonderful skills in words.