PJ Brown's NBA journey was still quite bumpy, he entered the NBA draft in 1992 and was selected by the New Jersey Nets with the 29th pick in the second round, but the Nets refused to offer Brown a contract, which caused Brown to leave Europe to play in Greece. The short basketball career in Greece gave Brown a lot of things that he couldn't learn in college, and those ways to survive in the professional league slowly infiltrated the bone marrow of PJ Brown from Greece.

After getting ready, Brown returned to the United States to come to the Nets, where he met a head coach who had a deep influence on him, Chuck Daley, who coached the Nets after leaving the Pistons, although he failed to lead the Nets back to Detroit's glory, but the temple coach who is good at tuning players and emphasizing defense has become a good NBA mentor to PJ Brown.

After laying a good foundation with the Nets, Brown was traded to the Miami Heat in his fourth season, where he met the second coach who had a major impact on him, and that was the god operator Pat Riley. It was Pat Riley's second season with the Heat, and it was also the one in which he began to make a big splash on the South Coast, bringing in Mourning, snatching Tim Hardaway, and trading PJ Brown in '96-97, allowing Leon to completely replicate New York's predator muscle mass in Miami.

PJ Brown's four years with the Heat have endured Riley's brutal training test like hellfire, and he has gone from a good, rudimentary interior defender to an interior man-type defensive machine with accurate positioning, quick awareness, and a keen confrontation. When the Heat had no breakthrough for many years and had to package and trade PJ for new changes, the Hornets who finally got Brown were immediately like a treasure, and the defensive efficiency of the Hornets that season was a notch higher than last season.

At this time, PJ Brown is no longer a little guy who needs to be honed and grown, and his days in the muscle forest in the 90s and the hard work under Riley have made him a defensive master in the league. That's why, when he was on the first day of training with Celtic, no one dared to stand up and refute it when he pointed fingers at other people and even coaches, because he had the qualifications and the ability.

Brown thinks he's seen everything on the training pitch and every training style. For example, Riley's devil's drill, Daley's joke distraction, etc., etc., Brown, who has been in the league for ten years, has never seen anything, so when he heard Leon shouting "off-ball simulation training", he thought it was a simple off-ball formation drill, which was pediatric for him.

But when Dylem Potter walked up to the pitch in his substitute training uniform and stood in the centre circle, everyone else walked to the sidelines, leaving only 10 men on the pitch. Brown realized that something was wrong, this was obviously the momentum of the game, the starting group, the substitute group, Leon also stood on the sidelines with the whistle, but what about the ball? The ball that had just been used for training was thrown aside by Leon, and there was not a single ball in sight on the entire court.

"Don't be stunned PJ. Go to the center circle and you're the center of the starting team. It's time to start jumping the ball. Leon blew his whistle and shouted to Brown, who was still stunned.

"Where's the ball?" Brown was stunned and asked Leon.

"The ball is in your heart." Leon responded, then stood in the center circle, stretched out his hand that was nothing, and began to simulate a jumping ball......

PJ Brown soon found out that he was out of the ball. He didn't know what to do on the field, yes, the ball was gone, he couldn't even figure out which side to attack and which side to defend, where he knew what to do. Light a jumping ball. He didn't know how to jump, but Bowler on the opposite side flew up with all his strength, and then he heard Leon shouting, "Dalham touches the ball, Cole takes the ball." “

And just like that, PJ Brown inexplicably failed to jump the ball, then watched Steve Kerr dribble but not have the ball in his hands, and cautiously passed the half court under Arenas' follow. "Kerr passes, Williams, passes...... Durham Porter, dunk! Leon described the changing situation on the field in the most succinct terms, Kerr passed the "ball" to Eric Williams standing in the middle after halftime, and Williams immediately flicked his arm after receiving the "ball" and stuffed the "ball" straight inside, while Daimporter was going down. If there is really a ball on the field and the players cooperate tacitly, this will be a very good secondary fast-break routine, using a mid-position connection point to complete a wall-hitting outside pass inside, instantly tearing apart the opponent's defense that has not yet been formed.

But there was no ball on the court, and PJ Brown didn't realize that Williams passed the ball at all, and he didn't know that Durham Porter cut to the inside to catch the ball and dunk directly, this kind of low-level defensive mistake Brown rarely makes, especially in the opening stage when he is still full of energy. Looking at Dareham Porter, who dunked the "ball" in with his bare hands, Brown spread his hands, indicating that he didn't know what was happening. "They did a quick inside attack, listen to my judgment, pay attention to the position and movement of the people around them, and hurry back to participate in the attack!" Leon briefly explained, and then urged Brown. Leon didn't want to embarrass Brown, but he knew in his heart that this kind of training could only be understood as quickly as possible by participating in it, and it was pointless to watch and explain it.

Brown didn't say a word, buried his head in the half court to participate in the offense, this time he had a heart, after half he was on the free throw line half-arc, his back to Durham Porter to "ball", at this time it was Arenas who dribbled the "ball", obviously PJ Brown's position was not a Celtic tactic, but Arenas hesitated and made a pass to PJ Brownyan's hand. "Arenas passes, PJ Brown...... Shot, missed, right basket angle...... Pierce got the rebound and scored on the basketball. Leon judged an offense again, PJ Brown turned around and pretended to dribble the ball after receiving the ball in the half-arc of the free throw line, and then directly forced the **** shot, anyway, PJ Brown didn't know how the ball was thrown, just made a jump shot.

Brown was so unconvinced when he heard Leon shout "missed shot", he walked up to Leon and yelled, "Why do you think I didn't score this ball?" “

Leon put down his whistle and faced PJ Brown, who was as angry as King Kong above him, and he held his head high and said: "PJ, you have shot 47.5% from mid-range this season, and the highest percentage of shooting is in the left and right corners, 51.4%, and only 45% at the top of the arc. And your best shooting distance is 10 feet to 15 feet, 17 feet you have a worse shooting percentage, just get the ball and you shoot from 17 feet. Then, Durham Porter is not air, and he forces you to lean over and shoot in a deformed position, and if you have the ball in your hands, the shot is obviously not strong enough this time, so it will probably hit the right side of the basket and the corner of the rebound. As a veteran who has played football for 10 years, do you think my analysis makes sense? “

PJ Brown was speechless at Leon's words, his eyes were no longer so wide, but he hesitated for a while and asked unconvinced, "What's the point?" “

This time, Leon ignored him, just told him to go on the field and run, and then listen to his own shouts while paying attention to his teammates' movements. This practice is half an hour in a row, as an experienced basketball player, Brown slowly touched some doorways, he found that this off-ball simulation training focuses on the test of ritual and action norms, realized, the action norms, the position is right, basically from Leon will get a positive judgment, on the contrary, all kinds of mistakes, non-progress and violations.

When the simulation training was over, Brown actually thought this kind of training was quite interesting, and couldn't help but ask Steve Cole if this kind of training was a daily compulsory course. Kerr is the only player on the team who is older than Brown and entered the league earlier.

Kerr glanced at him and said, "It's been compulsory from the first day he's been head coach, and to tell you, the first time we did this kind of training, we were all confused, and we didn't know what to do. But after practicing for a few days, I know that it's actually quite fun. "But without the ball, everything is up to him? What he says is what it is? Brown looked at Leon, who was reading the playbook on the sidelines, with a puzzled look. Of course! The next time he tells you that your balls have been smashed by a ball, all you have to do is roll on the ground with your crotch on. Don't think about it, it's always right to listen to him......" Cole said to Brown with a smile, leaving Brown confused and ready to train next. (To be continued.) )