Chapter 404: Stamps
After a four-game road trip in the East, the Phoenix Suns have been given two days off before they can return to Phoenix to recuperate in the winter sun and get ready to get back on their game.
Leon gave himself a short vacation, the least controlling season since he took charge of an NBA team, working almost all the time in Boston for his flawless defense, and at Phoenix he began to experiment with his new coaching ideas.
Taking advantage of this short vacation, Leon went to Los Angeles to visit his wife and learn about the real estate market in Los Angeles by the way.
Khomeenez is more than six months pregnant, and by next spring, the crystallization of the two will be born into this world, and Leon will call every day to find out how his wife is doing.
And Ayatollah Khomeenes is in good health, she is still active in the front line of agent work, showing her skills this summer, and constantly recruiting for CAA.
Now, several potential future superstars in the league are players under CAA, and some superstars who are on their way to the top are also receiving CAA's services, such as a few guys in the 03 Platinum area.
Of course, in Leon's opinion, these guys are not going to be able to become the climate for the time being, their team is old and weak, and those old guys in the 90s still hold the throne of the league, and this year after forming the Big Three of the 90s, the Boston Celtics look even more terrible than in the past, and they have not tasted defeat in the regular season so far.
To be honest, Leon is not 100% sure of whether he can beat the Celtics, and the Suns still have a lot of problems in terms of lineup, so he has to experiment with a five-small lineup to break the routine and strive to make up for the shortcomings in the lineup and players.
But he himself knows that the defensive system he built in the Celtics has been inherited by Rivers, and it is not so easy to pierce this layer of armor.
When he arrived in Los Angeles, he put all these problems behind him for a while and spent a day off with Ayatollah Khomeenez, watching the sun rise and set together in their beach house in Santa Monica.
Unlike party-loving Americans, Leon was a quiet man who rarely organized parties at home except for work needs. He'd had enough of the old guys in Phoenix, and when he got to his wife, he wanted to enjoy the quiet.
However, on the night of the 11th, Leon still arranged a little activity for himself, and Ayatollah Khomeenez booked two tickets at the Stamp Center for the Los Angeles Clippers vs. Cleveland Cavaliers tonight.
Khomeenez knows that no matter how Leon rests and relaxes, he still can't let go of basketball in his heart, at most one day, and at night he will probably open the ESPN channel to start watching the game. Now that you're in Los Angeles and there's a LeBron James game, it's better to go to Staples Arena and have a look.
Leon personally drove with Ayatollah Holmenes to Staples Arena, and since his wife became pregnant, Leon finally sold his eight-handed Chevrolet and replaced it with a large car like the Ford Conqueror to protect his wife and the child in his belly.
Before getting out of the car, Khomemenes said to Leon, "Do you want to wear a baseball cap?" ”
Leon said: "Why, you know I don't like to wear hats. ”
Khomemenes said: "You're not very popular in Stamps. ”
Leon remembered that he had a "bad record" of smoking a cigar in front of all the Lakers fans in Stamps, which caused quite a stir in the media at the time, causing him to become a more hated person by Los Angeles fans than Auerbach.
Although the Lakers are not playing tonight, the Clippers and Lakers share a common arena, and a celebrity like Leon will definitely be recognized by fans in Los Angeles.
Leon said: "I'm just a spectator now, don't worry, they won't do anything to me." ”
In the past few years, leading the Celtics to Los Angeles every year, Leon received the most boos, but he has long been used to it, and with the Celtics' three consecutive dominance, and the Lakers fell into a sinking after leaving O'Neal, the confidence of Lakers fans is becoming less and less.
Sure enough, as soon as they entered the familiar Staples Center, some fans recognized Leon, most of them just saluted and said "That's Fox", and a few people would come up and ask for an autograph or something. A little fan wearing Kobe Bryant's jersey came to Leon with a photo of Kobe to ask for an autograph, and Leon did not refuse, but thought this kid was very interesting, wearing a Lakers jersey to watch the Clippers game and ask the head coach of the Suns for an autograph.
But for the children, this is not a thing, everything stems from their love for basketball, and those so-called grievances and hatreds cannot be matched by this love.
Khomeenes didn't buy a seat in the first row, although it was a Clippers game, and the first row would not be occupied by some Hollywood stars, but she knew that Leon was relatively low-key, so she chose a relatively lower seat. However, this did not hide the light of Leon, more and more people found out that the star coach appeared in Stamps, and many people took out their mobile phones to take pictures of Leon.
One fan also asked loudly: "Fox, why don't you come to Los Angeles to coach!" ”
Leon replied, "I didn't sleep well because the basketball courts in Los Angeles were so noisy. And I don't want to get up at four o'clock. ”
That's right, his favorite time to wake up is five o'clock.
As the time of the game approached, the crowd in the arena grew, the pitch became noisier and the attention to Leon became much less, and the players began to enter.
The two teams in Los Angeles have a lot of grievances with the Suns, who in 2006 eliminated Los Angeles 4-3 in two consecutive rounds to reach the Western Conference Finals, killing the first ever playoff city derby.
At that time, the Suns were simply the most hated team by Los Angeles fans.
After most of their history, the Clippers came close to reaching the Western Conference Finals in 2006 thanks to a trio of Kassel, Brand and Mobley.
But injuries quickly hit them, with their captain Brand suffering a serious injury in the summer and a good chance of a season reimbursement; Sam Cassel is 38 years old this year and has reached the final stage of his career. Mobley seemed to have something in his heart that plagued his performance on the court, and after a stellar season, the Clippers began to go back into trouble.
However, after the start of the new season, they looked in good form, 4 wins and 2 losses, Chris Carman and Margeti in the team have grown up and become the main players in the team, and the 38-year-old Kassel is still exerting his residual heat, this old monster is really getting older and more demonic. Mobley accepted his place as a substitute, but his form looked worrisome.
The Cavaliers are still like that, with James as the core, putting together a non-three-and-four lineup, moving forward with difficulty, they played average in the first few games of the new season, 4-3, James doesn't seem to be in the state yet, and he has been reducing his shots and increasing assists and rebounds for many games.
Ilgoskas and Gooden have scored 20+ points in several games in a row, but they can't get enough wins, such as the game against the Suns, relying on the inside to feed the ball to score, which is really a bit inefficient, and much more cumbersome than the Suns' quick counterattack plus three points.
Leon knew that Mike Brown wanted to go through the Spurs-like heavy team model in order to play against a super defensive powerhouse like Boston in the East, pull the opponent to the same level, and then beat the opponent with James.
There may be no problem with the idea, but the team's tactics are not good, and they are a little too dependent on LeBron, and it can be seen in the first few games that the Cavaliers and James are adjusting, but the effect is not obvious.
Therefore, Leon estimates that in this game, the Cavaliers are still not easy to play, and if they continue the offensive strategy of James organizing the main interior, they will be broken by the light and agile Clippers.
The life cycle of a heavy team is almost over.
"Fawkes, Fawkes?" Khomemenez shouted several times in Leon's ear before Leon reacted: "What? ”
"I'm calling you, what's going on in your head again, look at you sitting there motionless and not talking." Khomeenez knows Leon best, and as soon as he sits on the side of the basketball court, his mind will start to calculate non-stop, presumably predicting who will win or lose between the Clippers and the Cavaliers.
Leon said, "Oh, no, I was thinking, uh, the Clippers' floor logo is ugly." ”
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