Tykes-Winter's basketball life is as complex as his triangle offense, starting his debut at the University of Southern California, where he began coaching and spent the decades coaching in Kansas, California, Washington, Texas and Michigan. Of course, he is best known for his triangular offense that accompanied the Chicago Bulls to six championships, and now he continues to follow Phil Jackson with the Lakers on the march to another three-peat.

Just three days ago, he was invited by Bill Sharman to coach offensive tactics at the University of Southern California, and he learned from Sharman about Fox Leon, a person who has become a little famous in the scouting circle in recent years, but Winter, who was born as a player-coach, was quite disdainful after hearing that Leon was going to change coaches after a year as a scout, and he said that Leon would have to be a scout for at least another ten years before he could touch the door of the head coach.

Bill Sharman couldn't deny this, but he dragged him to the Memorial Coliseum early in the morning, and met Leon at the door. Leon naturally knows a famous assistant coach like Winter, and the problem is only heard of Leon and has never seen it, so when he saw Leon with long curly hair like an artist on the streets of Los Angeles, he couldn't believe that this was a basketball worker, and not only taught him: "If you want to be a basketball coach, first learn to comb your hair, not to mention like Pat Riley or Chuck Daley, at least a little bit of it." ”

It seems that unlike Sharman, Winter is not so polite and likable to Leon, but Leon is not impressed, he smiles and nods, and then enters the gym. A day's training starts with a training plan, as an assistant coach Leon is in charge of a week's training plan, although he doesn't need a paper form at all with his memory, he still carefully makes a clear and concise plan, in the training before the start of the training he will give everyone a form, and then briefly explain today's training plan.

"Today is Friday and tomorrow there will be a day off, so today is a tactical training day, fitness and strength will be moved to next week, of course I have no objection to you doing more training after training. In the morning, we collectively watched a half-hour video of the game against Oklahoma State last year. Starting at 10 o'clock, there will be a five-corner pass, a four-corner pass, a three-on-two fast attack, a three-on-three strong side attack and a full-line attack, which will last for two hours, and the whole team will be prepared for physical strength. After the whole team training, we will start the individual technical exercises, and I have written down the classification of each person's items on the table, so you can look at it yourself. In the afternoon, there will be confrontation training, five-on-five full-court confrontation, rapid offensive and defensive conversion exercises, positional offensive transformation exercises, and today we will practice the cracking tactics of joint defense. That's the main thing about today's training, get ready, boys, get dressed and get ready to see how you guys performed last year. Leon stood in front of the team and finished the day's tactical arrangements smoothly, without even glancing at the schedule, and spoke in a familiar tone as if he had been here for twenty years.

"This kid has a terrible memory, we all call him 'Copier Leon'." Bibi said to Winter and Sharman who were watching from the sidelines, and Winter's impression of Leon has also changed, at least he is still very coach-like when arranging the training plan just now. It's just that compared to traditional American coaches, he is a little less passionate and a little more calm, and he seems very reluctant to yell at the players like those college coaches. In Leon's words, he doesn't feel that the decibel size of the sound determines the effectiveness of the message, and that a calm coach is more stable than an excited coach on the field.

Winter began to look forward to what Leon would do in the next tactical training, he had heard Sharman say that this kid had a very good memory and mathematical ability, and he could remember all the tactical content as long as he wanted, but Auerbach never agreed with him learning and memorizing tactics.

After half an hour of video viewing and analysis, as well as warm-up exercises, the morning tactical training began. The training starts with passing practice, the simplest four-corner pass, the players are divided into four groups, stand in the four corners of the half-court, and then carry out diagonal passing, running cycle, which is the most basic practice to practice the player's passing accuracy and receiving ability. These players have been doing this simple exercise since elementary school, and it can be said that they can't get to know it more well, and it can be regarded as a warm-up part of tactical training.

Winter wasn't interested in this part of the game, but he soon noticed that Leon was standing on the sidelines repeating things like "Stride bigger, Buck, your pass is too hard, Farmar should slow down properly." Leon gave advice to the players like a fine-tuner, and it didn't take long for Winter to discover that Leon wasn't talking casually, because as the training progressed, the players passed the ball faster and more fluidly, almost to the person. However, when Leon stopped reminding, the pass was noticeably sluggish.

After the four-corner passing training, Leon said to the players: "I can't remind you of the essentials of passing on the field, so I hope everyone will be careful when doing the most basic training in the future." Okay, let's get to the next section, let's take a break. ”

"Wonder boy, his observation is terrifying, and it looks like I'm going to change my opinion of him. But if that's all he can do, he's going to be a very good trainer or an offensive assistant coach, not a good head coach. Winter said to Sharman as he sat in the audience on the sidelines.

"Like you, Tyx?" Sharman smiled and joked to Winter.

"Hahaha, maybe, like me, can only be a coach in college and high school, NBA, no. You know, it wasn't until I met Phil that I really understood how different people like me are from NBA head coaches, especially great NBA head coaches. I think you know better than I do, Bill. ”

"It's just a small stage, and it doesn't fully show the energy of this kid, you know I've been following him for a long time, and no one is more like Arnold than him, but it's completely different from Arnold."

"I don't know, I don't know about red heads, not everyone eats in Los Angeles and Boston like you. Let's watch the confrontation training in the afternoon, and let Bibi give him some command. If this kid is good, I will try to share with him what I know and learn, and if he is not suitable for this path, then you better go back and persuade the red head to let him die. As an assistant coach of the Lakers, Winter was not so friendly to Auerbach, and he came to help Leon purely for the sake of Sharman's face.

In the afternoon match, Bibi divided the teams, the freshmen had not yet joined the team, and the team was just enough to divide into two full teams. Bibby split the team into two evenly matched groups, but Winter objected. He said: "Leon has no coaching experience at all, so it's not fair for him to lead a team that is evenly matched with you, so it's divided into the main team and the substitute group, Leon with the main team, Bibby, you with the substitute group." That's what makes sense. ”

Winter actually had a "bad idea", of course he did it on purpose, although the strength of the main group is definitely stronger than the substitute group, but the coach of the substitute group is the team's head coach Bibi, not to mention how much Bibi knows these players, from the point of view of heart, the substitute group will definitely do its best against the main group. And the main group, under the leadership of a temporary coach, is lazy and lazy, and finally capsizes in the gutter. Winter saw this situation a lot when he was a coach.

Winter felt like he had dug a hole for Leon, but he didn't notice the helpless look on Bibby's face. Soon when the match began, Winter realized that everything was completely different from what he had envisioned. Leon, as the coach of the main group, did not make any tactical arrangements before the start of the game, but simply asked everyone to play hard and relax, and then sat on the field without moving, like an old monk in a fixed place.

The game also presented a one-sided situation, the main group from start to finish hanging the substitute group, although Bibby tried to boost the team's morale through a timeout and set up some tactics, but it had no effect at all, 20 minutes of short game, the main group scored 57 points on the head of the substitute group, and the substitute group only scored 31 points, and the 26-point difference made Winter stunned.

Sharman, who was sitting next to Winter, also laughed, and he said: "You don't know that Leon has only been here for a week, but he has already earned the respect and awe of all the players, and you didn't see how he taught those hairy boys when he came here on the first day." Since you let him command the main group, then he doesn't have to do anything to be the best conductor, let them relax and play freely. And the substitute group, what determination and belief do they have to win? Come on, old Winter, don't set any tests, hand over everything you know, this kid is a coach material. ”