The world cannot win with its mouth – except in debate tournaments and the US election.

On his trip to Catadine, León's real goal was not to show off his basketball philosophy in front of the old guys, but more to enhance the team's emotions and get to know each individual's personality. For example, Dave Cowens, for example, has a tough personality, just like his style on the court, and is quite impulsive, although he is in his fifties, but his temper is not soft at all.

And surprisingly, this guy is still a talker, in a week in Katading Mountain, he talks more alone than everyone else combined, and often fights with Leon while talking, because among the four assistant coaches, Cowens is the only one who has not personally recruited or cooperated with him for a long time, so Leon is very suspicious that Cowens is Auerbach inserted to torture him.

Of course, in the space of a week, Cowens agreed on at least one thing, that is, Leon is a person who can be the head coach, no matter how sharp Cowens' questions are, Leon can resolve his doubts with reason, and his thinking is always different. He's also not like some people like to say witticisms and gags to cover up conflict and embarrassment. Leon was always willing to confront the conflict with Cowens, which Cowens, who has a lot of experience in NBA management, appreciated.

Compared to Cowens, Sigfred has the same tough and stubborn personality, but at nearly 70 years old, he seems to be much more gentle on the surface, he usually doesn't talk much, he likes to fish with Dick Hart on Lake Catadine, and likes to discuss the technical details related to shooting with Leon. Because he found out that Leon couldn't play though. However, with a strong sense of observation and memory, and the ability to fully recount the technical details of various shots, Siegfried also needs to learn the latest shooting techniques of modern times.

Sigfried is a very attentive person. Years of work in the correctional center made him always have a patient attitude, whenever Leon and Cowens quarreled, Siegfried was always able to mediate, he was like a real elder to understand and understand the thoughts of others, and then to comfort others, always received good results.

Of the five, Steve Hess is the closest in age to Leon. The two people also have the most common language, and after a short period of contact with each other, they found that they have a lot of common hobbies, such as fitness. For example, boxing. As a strength and fitness coach, Hess is a fitness freak and a boxing enthusiast himself. When Leon used his iron fist to beat a maple tree by the lake to a trembling and the leaves fell down. Hess finally knew that he was meeting a coach who was completely different from what he had done before. He's ready to help the Celtics in the new season. In terms of physical training, he was completely sure that he would train the young men of the Celts into small animals.

Dick Hart is still the same, but he seems a little depressed compared to last season, doesn't talk much during his travels, and often spends long hours fishing alone at the lake. It seems that O'Brien's departure still haunts him, after all, it was O'Brien who personally invited him to the Celtics, and everything seemed to be thriving last season, who knows that in just one season, it will be a sea of life. Not only did it remind him of his brief glory days in Indiana, but he was already thinking about leaving the professional arena at the age of 70. It would probably be his time at Celtic. Or the last season of the NBA.

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In mid-August, Celtic's coaching team wrapped up an impressive trip. The coaching staff has laid a good emotional foundation for their partnership in the coming season. Age didn't get in the way of linking the five, because they still had basketball.

After returning to Boston, Leon spent more than a week with Ayatollah Holmenez, they went to Florida, went to Orlando to play Disneyland, and spent three days on the beach in Miami, until the end of August, when the men's World Basketball Championship was about to begin, Leon returned to Boston, and decided to go to Indianapolis to watch the World Championship all the way.

On August 27, Leon arrived in Indianapolis by plane, accompanied not only by Morey, but also by Celtics' newly hired scout, Paul Cormier, who previously worked in New York. After Leon stepped down as the team's scout, the Celtics' position as chief scout remained vacant until another scout was finally recruited this year. Cormier is not well-known in the league, he is an unknown small person, and the main reason why the Celtics fancy him is that he has three years of experience in Europe, and the team selected Scola in the draft this year, and the scouting report provided by Cormier also played a role.

Leon chose to stay at the Marriott Hotel where he stayed with the teams, there is a training ground near the hotel, and there will be media opening hours for each national team to train, Leon hopes to take advantage of this opportunity to contact more European teams, and get to know those European and South American players more closely, Leon believes that in the future NBA, international players will be a big gold mine waiting to be developed.

Leon was not alone, as he soon met old acquaintances, such as Spraley, who arrived two days earlier than Leon and had begun to focus on some of the stars who played in Europe. In fact, if it weren't for the Celtics' robbery in the draft, the Spurs' primary target would actually be Scola.

Leon's other object of concern is, of course, Wang Zhizhi, after holding a press conference to decide to return to the national team, Wang Zhizhi has been back to China for more than a month, this time he also came to Indianapolis with the national team, for more than a month, the Celtics have always maintained an observation of Wang Zhizhi, every week Xia Song will submit a training table of Wang Zhizhi to Leon, listing in detail Wang Zhizhi's training programs in the national team, physical condition and injuries, overall Wang Zhizhi's state is not bad, And having played in the NBA, he obviously has a completely different concept in the national team.

Of course, none of this is Leon's concern, he only hopes that Wang Zhizhi will not be injured and can come back healthy before the start of the team's training camp.

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On the 28th, two days before the official start of the World Championships, Leon got up from bed early in the morning, woke up Morey and Cormier, dressed for breakfast, and rushed to a basketball training gym near the Marriott Hotel for squatting. Just like media reporters, in order to be able to interview the first-hand news of each team, it is necessary to go to the training hall early, because in the afternoon, the team will have a closed training session and no outsiders are allowed to visit and interview.

In order to be able to blend in with the media team, Leon got several press cards from Woj, so that if someone wanted to check the identity of the reporter, he could use them as a shield.

However, even with such a plan, Leon still has to face a big problem, that is, they do not have a schedule of training venues for each national team, so they do not know which national team is training in the nearby training hall. He only knows where the Chinese team's training ground is, but he really doesn't have much interest in the Chinese team's players.

In the end, Leon decided to believe in fate, picked the nearest training gym, and took a taxi directly over after breakfast. When they arrived at the training hall, they found that there was no one at the door, neither reporters nor players coming to practice. And this venue is not a special basketball hall, but a gymnasium where basketball, volleyball, badminton, and table tennis are crisscrossed together.

In the center is the basketball court, on which there are also lines of badminton courts and volleyball courts, and above the stands on the second floor, there is a circle of table tennis tables.

"It's over, I won't run to the training gym in Angola." Leon was secretly annoyed in his heart, he had always been meticulous in his work, but he made a mistake in this matter. But the organizers of the tournament are also to blame, the United States Basketball Association did not take this World Championship to heart at all, the whole event was organized in a mess, and there was no World Championship atmosphere in the city. It is no wonder that in the basketball kingdom of the United States, especially Indiana, which is known as the state of basketball, people's enthusiasm for the men's World Men's Basketball Championship may not be as good as a state high school basketball league.

Just as a few people were worried about the gymnasium, Leon saw a guy in a red tracksuit, jogging from the corner of the street, looking like an athlete who had come here to train.

"Hey, see who that's that?" Leon pointed to the man and said to Morey and Cormier.

Morey squinted his eyes in the direction Leon was pointing and said, "It's Nash of the Mavericks!" Damn, this is where Team Canada trains!" (To be continued.) )