"Gelgurich?" When Khomemenes heard the name, her mind was full of question marks.

In the past month, Khomemenes has met a lot of players and agents who she didn't know anything about in the past, but in the field of coaching, her cognition is the same as that of most ordinary fans, she only knows about those championship coaches with high exposure, or famous coaches of strong teams, and she knows very little about the assistant coaches or college coaches of some teams.

"He's an assistant coach for the Suns and a well-known defensive coach in the league, and every year he runs a coaching workshop in the summer to teach and train the league's young coaches. Hart Sr. was an old friend of his, so he wrote a letter of introduction recommending me to his training class, which was held in Los Angeles this year. Hart asked me to come over and learn and make friends by the way. Leon said.

Gelguric is not only the current assistant coach of the Suns, he has been George Carr's royal defensive coach in the past, single-handedly building a strong defense for the SuperSonics in '96. He then moved to Milwaukee with Carl, but he didn't help the Bucks go further in the '01-02 season. In the '03 season, he was recruited by the Suns and became the team's head assistant coach. While Gelguric hasn't helped any team win a championship in the NBA so far, in coaching circles, it's not just about champions.

Gelguric has a deep foundation in defensive theory and a wealth of college coaching experience, and some of his methods may not be suitable for the NBA, but for any coach, it will always be beneficial to learn from Gelguric.

"Do you still need to learn? I thought you had learned everything a coach could learn. Khomemenes was a little surprised, she was not exaggerating, Leon's memory and learning ability he was deeply touched, and he had no doubt that Leon would be able to put all the knowledge about basketball into his head in three years.

"There is no end to learning...... And learning by looking at the materials on your own is completely different from having an experienced teacher to guide you. I have my own perception and understanding on offense, but on defense...... I haven't studied enough, I left everything to Hart and next season won't be so easy. "Leon prides himself on being a great learner, but he also knows that every line of work is a never-ending quest for excellence, and basketball is a complex modern game that is constantly changing and evolving, and it is not enough to learn those materials and charts.

In terms of defensive tactics, the Celtics mainly adhered to the tough one-on-one last season, supplemented by various defensive traps designed by Hart, which is a relatively simple and concise defensive strategy, obviously after having Kevin Garnett, if you still follow this strategy to defend, it is a great waste of 28 million.

Now that Hart is out of the picture, no one is going to design and tweak the Celtics' defense next season, and Leon must be prepared to do so before finding a suitable defensive coach. So just like last summer when he interned at the University of Arizona, this time he could take a serious look at the training camp in Gelguric and enjoy the treatment of an academic coach.

In the evening, Leon and Holmenez admired the moonlit Pacific Ocean in front of the floor-to-ceiling windows of their room, and whispered all night, not about basketball, not about life, only about love.

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Early the next morning, Leon went to the hotel where he was staying, changed his clothes, rented a car from a car rental company by the sea, and began to head to the stadium at the University of Santa Monica, where this year's Golguric camp was held.

Leon drove a rented wrecked car, a $20-a-day eight-hand Chevrolet, along Tenth Avenue all the way east, one of the most famous highways in the United States. In the movie "Forrest Gump", Forrest Gump ran to the end and was unwilling to run anymore, he just stopped at the sunset on Tenth Avenue.

In just fifteen minutes, he could reach his destination, Santa Monica College, an ordinary community college that is not known for sports, so it can escape the search of the stars and leave a little space for the NBA coaches to study.

Leon was actually a transfer student, and Gelguric's training camp had already started for three days, and the week-long training camp was halfway over, so there were some things he might not have learned. When he came to the training hall with a letter of introduction in hand, he saw a small old man, none other than Gelguric, standing on the sidelines with a tactical board to teach a black man with glasses.

According to Hart, the camp started at 10 a.m. and ended at 3 p.m., and it was only 9:30 a.m. when Leon arrived, and it looked like Gelguric was giving the bespectacled black man a small stove.

Both of them noticed Leon, and Gelguric reacted, remembering that his old friend Hart called him the day before yesterday to send a student to his training camp to study, and Gelguric guessed that nine times out of ten it was Celtics head coach Fox Leon, who is currently a famous figure in the NBA.

Leon said that Hart's letter was handed to Gelgurich, who opened the letter and read it, and sighed with emotion that Hart could actually work for another year, win a championship and leave.

Leon took the opportunity to take a closer look at the famous coach, who had not paid much attention to the low-key assistant coach when the two sides were far away in the past. He's about 6 feet tall, a little shorter than Leon, who is considered shorter for both him and Leon among NBA coaches. He has shaggy gray-white hair, a ruddy complexion, a thin skin, a high nose and large ears, and looks like a forest elf.

And the black man with glasses behind him, with a boxy face, a big mouth and a wide nose, and a tiger's back and a bear's waist, looked very bold, and Leon recognized him at a glance, it was the assistant coach of the Spurs, Mike Brown.

Two months ago, Mike Brown followed the Spurs to win the first championship of his career in the Finals with the Spurs defeating the Boston Celtics in the Finals, as an assistant coach. Leon didn't expect to see Brown here, and it was clear that he had a good relationship with Gelguric.

"Mike was my student, and when I was a superSonic, Mike was a video editor at the Nuggets, and he would follow me to the summer league in the summer, and he would learn something. Now that I'm running a training camp, he's willing to come and learn. Gelguric said with a smile.

Although they are opponents in the finals, even the players will be brothers after the game, and the coaches will not hate each other. Leon also shook hands with Brown and chatted about some of the trades and signings that have taken place in recent summers, and by about ten o'clock, three other cadets also arrived at the training gym.

Hawks head coach Terry Stotts, former Pistons head coach Rick Carlisle, and a black guy Leon didn't know were the other three members of the training class. Gelguric advocates small class teaching in coach training, and he believes that the high-brain work of coaching is meaningless if it is like a summer camp.

Rick Carlisle was obviously stunned when he saw Leon, he didn't think that Leon would also come to this training class, but the two were friends anyway, Carlisle also stepped forward to shake Leon's hand, and then said in his ear: "I don't want to go to Boston......"

Leon just smiled and didn't answer, Carlisle, this guy, who clearly refused Bird's invitation to let him go to the Pacers on the phone, turned around and called a friend and asked him to tell Bird that he agreed, this story was told to him by Hart, and he still remembers it clearly.

As for why Carlisle came here to study, because he was one of the first students in the Gelguric school, he would come to Gelgurich almost every summer for advice.

And Stotts, Leon also has an impression of this guy who looks a little weak, he was a supersonic scout in the 90s, and then entered George Karl's coaching staff, and became a partner with Gelguric, in 02 he finally had the opportunity to coach the Hawks on his own, but the results did not look satisfactory, so he needed to go to the teacher to recharge.

There was also a guy, the black man, with a big round head and thick lips, who introduced himself as ** Bisketaft, the son of NBA coach Bernie Bisketaft. And Bernie Bisketaft is a good friend of Gelguric and a senior at Mike Brown's University of San Diego, leading the way to the NBA with Brown.

It can be said that this little training camp is all related guys. Leon sighed that if there were not a few old guys who forcibly took him, he didn't know how many years he would have to explore, probably like Stotts, ten years before he could become a coach.

And he only used a third of the time of others. Now halfway through the training class, Leon is still confident that he will learn more than others in the remaining half of the time. (To be continued.) )