Leon and Nash said this and then didn't say anything more, but continued to carefully watch the progress of the training camp on the court. Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info Nash no longer asks, he has long heard of Fox Leon's style, he is not the kind of coach who likes to talk about chicken soup, he is calm and almost cold, and has a high-IQ brain and super computing power. Unlike the average coach, he started as a scout, often providing significant advice on drafts and trades, and it is said that behind Boston's mega trade is Fox Leon's threading the needle.

He single-handedly restored the glory of the Boston dynasty and led Boston to rebuild the Third Reich, but at the peak of his career, he retired bravely to become a coach in college, and now he is back again, but in Las Vegas, a little-known garbage training camp, he watched with relish, Nash really couldn't understand it, he couldn't understand it at all.

After about fifteen minutes, Leon finally turned to Nash and said, "Do you know the biggest problem the Phoenix Suns have faced in these three years?" ”

Nash shook his head, apparently eager to hear it, and leaned over. In the past three years, Nash has achieved unparalleled brilliance, from an All-Star level point guard to an MVP-level superstar, which can be described as a late bloomer. But the Suns are always one step away from the championship, and not only the championship, but they are always one step away from the Finals, with the Spurs and Mavericks in front of them.

The Troika has dominated the West for three years, the Spurs and Mavericks have all reached the Finals, and the Spurs are now leading 2-0 in the Finals, and it is no surprise that the Cleveland Cavaliers will not be a match for the old Spurs, and they have a chance to regain the championship after the Boston Dynasty. And the Suns, there is no way to even fight to the seventh.

"Your first problem is that the offense isn't strong enough." Leon said.

This answer surprised Nash, he had heard a lot of criticism and opinions about the Suns, most of them were clichés such as "no defense", "no interior", "too few rotations", etc., but Leon said that their offense is not strong enough, isn't the Suns' offense strong enough? Since '05, they have consistently maintained the strongest offensive firepower in the league and scored the most points. created a dazzling seven-second V-shaped offense, which swept the NBA for a while, and Leon actually said that their offense was not strong enough?

Without much explanation, Leon continued: "Your team is developing, not focusing on the use of draft picks, wasting opportunities to create new blood, ignoring the basic structure, and always spinning in the same place. Three years, you know, can change a lot. “

Nash agrees with this, because the regular season record is very good, and the Suns' first-round and second-round picks are not high, so the team management does not pay attention to it, and often trades with other teams, in exchange for cash, in exchange for other draft picks, and does not seriously cultivate rookies, everything serves the Nash system, everything serves the bombardment. In fact, shelling is not a training of players' technical and tactical abilities.

After Leon said these two points, he pointed to the field and said: "Look at it, here, there are some ordinary, mediocre players who don't have too high talent, at most they are a second-round show." But when I decided to come back to the NBA, the first thing I did was come here and watch these players play. I want to find value in them, and here I can find the feeling of starting out in my work. ”

Leon started out as a scout, often working with people on the fringes of the NBA, and for him, picking up treasure from the trash is a fun and useful job.

"Did you find any outstanding people?" Nash asked.

Leon shook his head and said, "No, this year's draft, there is not much I like. But my informant in Europe told me that he might have something there that interested me. ”

"When will the sun announce his inauguration?" Nash asked again. So far, Leon's comeback from the Suns has only existed in theory, with no contract signed and no official announcement in front of the media.

"Now." Leon said.

After saying that, Leon jumped off the stands, walked to the sidelines, and stood in a conspicuous position, and soon a sharp-eyed scout spotted him, and then a reporter rushed over and took pictures of him. There are few reporters here today, and it is a small reporter from an unknown sports newspaper that day, ready to take two photos casually and upload them to the Internet to write something to make up the task, anyway, no one will watch the news of this kind of small training camp.

Unexpectedly, he saw Fox Leon on the sidelines, the ace coach who disappeared in the NBA for more than a year, but what surprised him even more was that he soon found that there was a person standing behind Leon, and if you looked closely, it was Steve Nash!

The young reporter slapped the two of them, and he was already thinking about what kind of news he was going to make up tonight, by the way, it was called "Championship coach Fox Leon and Nash met in Las Vegas, maybe they were discussing the next championship." ”

Just as he was thinking, Leon beckoned to the reporter to come over, and the reporter walked over with some concern, knowing that Fox Leon's iron fist was as famous as his coaching ability.

"Hey, have you figured out the news you're going to make up tonight?" Leon asked reporters.

The reporter nodded tremblingly, his head shrinking back, for fear that Leon would come and blow his head with a fist.

"Then you don't have to make it up, I'll tell you, Fox Leon is back today to join the Phoenix Suns, and I'm going to work with Steve Nash, and he's right behind me right now." Leon said to the reporter, and turned to leave.

At this time, not only the little reporter, but also some other people around him rushed up, wanting to grab Leon and Nash and ask something more.

Leon shouted to the two bodyguards who had been following him, "Hey, what are you two not doing?" Help me stop them! ”

Two bodyguards hurriedly stepped forward to help Leon and Nash hold back the crowd, and then the two left the sports center.

"Hey, we're not here to be bodyguards, are we?" A security guard said suddenly.

"yes, we're here to keep an eye on Fox Leon."

But by this time, Leon and Nash had no idea where they had gone.

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"I'm going to go to Phoenix tomorrow and meet with the owner and Steve Kerr and talk to them about team building, trades and drafts." Leon and Nash drive down the Las Vegas Strip in the car of two bodyguards, and they prepare to make their way to the Venetian Hotel.

"I don't know what kind of change Cole will bring, but the combination of you and him, I'm very much looking forward to it." Nash said.

"No, to tell you the truth, Kerr is a, and he's going to make a drastic overhaul of the Suns' roster in order to prove himself. But I'm willing to bet this guy wants to strengthen the team's defense and get a strong interior line against Tim Duncan. This guy is so simple in his mind right now, I'm going to change his mind. Leon was unimpressed with Cole.

"I don't understand why you still say that our offense is not strong enough, I think our offense is good enough." Nash again brought up the question that was bothering him, why Leon said the Suns' first problem was offense.

"Because without you, the sun is garbage." Leon said.

After saying this, Nash didn't know if Leon was praising himself or scolding the Suns. Indeed, Nash is so important to the Suns that without Nash, the Suns are like a different team.

"A team with point guards as the absolute core, over-reliance on point guards is almost a common problem, so the Detroiters had a bunch of bad boys back then, the Lakers had Abdul-Jabbar, and if the Suns decide to build a team with you at the core, they should give you more support." Leon explained.

"Also, D'Antoni's tactics and if only he had as much of a beard, you guys play too monotonously a lot of the time, because you're the only brain." Leon added.

"Don't we have two brains now?" Nash said with a smile.

The two looked at each other and smiled, just as they had already driven to the Venetian Hotel.

When he got out of the car at the hotel, Leon said to the parking boy: "This is your hotel car, give it back to you." ”

The car boy recognized this as Fox Leon, and the car was indeed the security department of the hotel, and I heard that two security guards were sent to keep an eye on Leon, and I don't know how the car was driven back by Leon.

The Venetian Hotel is a famous comprehensive casino hotel in Las Vegas, the interior decoration imitates the Italian Venetian style, there are man-made rivers, bridges and waterside buildings, making people feel as if they have come to the water city of Venice.

As soon as one of the hotel's security guards saw Fox Leon coming in, he immediately greeted him and said, "Hello Mr. Fox Leon, your room is ready for you, just upstairs, please come with me." ”

Leon nodded and said, "Don't worry, I'll leave tomorrow, I'm not going to gamble here, I have serious business." ”

The security guard breathed a sigh of relief and said, "That's good...... Oh no, that's a shame, I'll report back to my boss. ”

Nash followed behind and asked, "Do you need to register?" ”

Leon said: "No, I've always brushed my face in Las Vegas, and they wish I could stay in the hotel room every day, otherwise they will have to pay me rent." ”

"Pay the rent?"

Seeing that Nash was a little strange, Leon explained it to Nash. Because his salary income is basically handed over to his wife Ayatollah Khomeenez, he doesn't have much pocket money, and every time he wants to use the money, he goes to Las Vegas to gamble, which he calls "rent". Of course, the casino owner is afraid that Leon will collect rent, and he will generally send security guards to keep an eye on him, and if he wants to gamble, he will alert the casino in time. But this time, the two bodyguards discharged by the Venetian Hotel are not very good-looking.