Leon learned two of the most useful things in his USC bootcamp, one is discipline and the other is freedom.

During the period when he was an intern assistant coach at the University of Southern California, the most work that Bibi gave Leon was to make plans, arrange players' training and even assess the players' life style, but these seemingly leftover jobs gave Leon a lot of work experience. Although the elder Bibby is not a good father, he is a good coach with strict discipline, which makes the Trojans, a team with little talent, have a strong fighting ability.

The latter was given to Leon by Professor Winter Sr., although Winter is famous for the triangle offense, but in a few weeks Winter never instilled the specific tactical routine of the triangle offense to Leon, but constantly discussed the offensive philosophy of basketball with Leon and discussed the basic laws of tactics. Winter believes that a set of basketball tactics is not a roadmap for players, but should give players full freedom to reflect their own court value within the established framework.

These are two diametrically opposed philosophies, one applied off the field and the other embodied on the field, both of which have inspired Leon a lot. But when he tried to put those ideas into practice for the Celtics, he found that nothing worked so well.

At the beginning of October 2001, a few days before the preseason, the Celtics' training camp was held at Waltham again, and the Celtics, who had undergone a trade and draft, ushered in another big change in personnel. Anderson, the former oil guard, has left Memphis, and with the addition of three new young players, the average age of the team has been lowered again, making it a veritable youth army. But the Celtics didn't hold an acclimatization camp for the youngsters in August and September, owner Gaston was reluctant to shell out more money for a camp because he was about to sell the team, and even their press conference was a bit shabby, just holding a random number unveiling ceremony at North Shore Gardens.

So when most of the people arrived at the training hall at half past eight in the morning, the hall was a little deserted, everyone didn't talk much, the three young people were naturally stuffy, the old players were chatting by themselves, and the trainers and assistant coaches were silently preparing training equipment. O'Brien had arrived early, but he had been talking to Vogel all morning, completely ignoring the players. And Dennis Rodman hasn't arrived at all.

Leon appeared on the pitch with his clothes changed and a folder board in his hand, on which he had developed a training plan, and from this season Vogel will be promoted from training assistant coach to the team's offensive tactics coach, and he is already qualified and capable of advising O'Brien. Jimmy Young, the team's video arrangement, was left to Jimmy Young, while Leon was tasked with developing Vogel's training plan in the past. He needs to analyze the video results compiled by Jimmy Young, share the analysis results with the head coach and players, identify problems, and make targeted corrections in training.

Because today is the first day of the training camp, the work of the assistant coach is not heavy, there are not too many videos to sort out, and the training plan given by Leon is not targeted, it is all some simple and basic training content. Leon looked at the lazy atmosphere of the players in the stadium, and his brows couldn't help frowning, but O'Brien didn't want to overstep his responsibilities if he didn't speak, and he was about to have a coaching meeting, and Leon felt that O'Brien should re-coach the players after the meeting.

The coach meeting is a small exchange meeting between the coaching staff and trainers before each training, at which the head coach will arrange the video, training plan, various questions, and the content to be carried out today, and exchange opinions with the assistants, determine the training goals and direction for today or in the near future, and lay a good start for everything.

Leon also participated in such coaches' meetings when he was a scout, but he was not qualified to give opinions on the content and goals of the training, and his main responsibility was to analyze and evaluate the problems of certain players, give some suggestions for improvement, and have no say in the directional problems of the whole team. Now as an assistant training coach, he has a lot more responsibilities and powers, and he has to participate in anything related to the training content.

At 8:45 O'Brien looked at his watch and called the coaching staff to the physiotherapy room in the locker room, where today's meeting took place. Because it was the first day, O'Brien talked to each member of the coaching staff about the summer, such as Vogel's return to Kentucky for a baseball game, Hart's visit to Washington to witness the National Day Parade, and of course they certainly talked about the horrific 911 incident and Michael Jordan's comeback afterwards.

"The guy named Wojnarowski became famous, and he predicted a second comeback a few days after 911, and a lot of people thought it was a fantasy at the time, but after a few weeks Jordan actually said, 'I'm back.'" The team's sports injury protector, Ed Reisert, said on the topic of 911. In September, Wojnarowski finally trusted Leon, and before there was any rumors, he directly broke the news that Michael Jordan would make a second comeback, and it was finally confirmed. Jordan officially returned to the Wizards as a free agent on September 25. This made Wojnalovski, who was still unknown at the time, rise to prominence because of this incident and began to attract the attention of sports public opinion.

"It's hard to remember the guy's name, but I think he's a friend of Leon and a member of the Development League's scouting team." Vogel said that during the New York draft, Vogel learned about Leon and Voynarowski's relationship and was impressed by the ups and downs of the two during the draft.

Leon just nodded, his mind not on the gossip, he had in his hand the training plan for the day, which he had developed since his return to Boston based on a large number of video footage, data analysis, and personal experience, and with Auerbach's opinion. Of course, he hadn't consulted O'Brien before, so he wanted to take the opportunity of the coaching meeting to talk to O'Brien and hope to give some advice on the tactical direction of the team.

"Okay, that's the end of the gossip, put your mind to training. Leon, show me your training plan, you should have shown me sooner rather than when the bootcamp was about to start. O'Brien said as he took the folder board from Leon's hand, grumbling in his mouth. Leon wanted to say that he called a few times to make an appointment with O'Brien to discuss this issue, but O'Brien had been in Orlando some time ago, and he only returned to Boston when the preseason was about to start, and the two had no chance to communicate at all.

O'Brien flipped through a few pages of Leon's training plan, which not only contained today's training content, but also set the team's training and tactical direction throughout the season, the content was very detailed, not only concise and clear text, but also various charts to support it, which can be said to be a very good training guide. As long as the specific situation of the team is realistic, then using such a training plan will be of great help to the team.

However, O'Brien just gave it a few quick glances, threw the training plan on the player's massage table, and said: "It's a good plan, but I don't think you know enough about Celtic's style of play and player configuration." We're not going to play fast, attacking tactics, we're going to continue to strengthen our defence, and we're going to be more efficient than fast in attack, which is the right path for a team to revivenation. Luckily, I have a backup training plan here, and we'll train according to it today, not too intensely, and then we'll practice more fully when the pre-season starts. ”

As he spoke, O'Brien took out a few pages from his folder board and handed them to Leon, which contained the plan that O'Brien had made out after staying up late in the past few days, knowing that in the past, as an assistant coach of Pitino, O'Brien was also in charge of the team's training.

O'Brien's words made the atmosphere in the conference room instantly drop from the cheerfulness just now to the freezing point, and everyone could see that O'Brien did not want to take Leon's opinion, and the method used was simple and rude, half-commanding to make Leon adopt his plan.

When Leon came to Celtic, all the staff, including the players, had the same impression of him: this guy is a nice guy, but I don't know why I'm just a little scared of him. Danny Angie is no exception.

So when O'Brien said this and handed Leon the plan in his hand, everyone could be heard breathing in the treatment room. Leon's face is naturally not good-looking, and O'Brien also looks a little nervous, everyone knows the story of this guy, knocked over Ciri with one punch, and got Rodman in Sydney, and now they are all afraid that Leon will knock O'Brien into the spa pool with one punch.

The silence lasted for three seconds, Leon reached out and took back the folder board that had been thrown onto the physiotherapy table, then clipped the plan that O'Brien gave him, licked his lips and said, "I see, I'll use your training plan." But I think we need to clean up the discipline of the team, otherwise the players don't want to play the way you set it to, and that's bad. ”