Carlisle was a rare late for the team's pre-match training the next morning, and was sent back to his hotel by Leon after a drunken mess last night. As a former professional, Carlisle is 6-foot-5 tall, half a head taller than Leon, which made it a lot of trouble for Leon to get him back without alarming the Pistons players and staff.

The game will start at 7 p.m., and when the players warm up before the game, Carlisle's face is still visibly tired, and the drunken headache is tormenting him, and he secretly regrets in his heart how he drank so much, knowing that there is still a game against the Celtics the next day. Although it is only a regular season game, the Detroit Pistons are currently seventh in the East and could fall outside the top eight at any time, and the Celtics are Eastern Conference rivals, so the result of this game is quite crucial. Carlisle even wondered if Angie had deliberately drunk him to leave the Pistons without an owner, so that he could handle the game more easily.

Thinking back to the time when he was at Celtic, Auerbach did everything to win the game, Carlisle felt more and more reckless that he should resist the temptation to stay in the hotel for the night, even if he had to drink, until the game was over.

Rick must have felt cheated, but who made him drink like that...... So stupid, now he must be wondering if we are joining forces to play tricks on him, so that he can't command well today. On the Celtics bench, head coach Carroll said to Hart. Neither of them had drunk much last night, only to see Carlisle pouring himself glass after glass, as Angie kept toasting him. They have all worked with Carlisle for a short time, and they know that Carlisle is not good at drinking, but he is really a straight intestine and can't block alcohol. Although the United States does not have a culture of persuasion, it is not okay not to refuse other people's toasts!

"I don't think Rick is in good spirits today, and I guess he won't drink with us next time he comes to Boston." Hart sat on the bench and sorted out the player data sheet, Hart likes to look at the data sheet before the game to set the expected data for the game, especially in suppressing the opponent's scoring and shooting percentage, if the pressure is less than 100 or the shooting percentage is low, he will be very happy, on the contrary, the Celtic players know that the old man Hart is going to be angry today.

"Where's Leon? I have a question for him. Hart looked at the stats sheet and asked Carroll, he had some small questions about the team's defensive stats, and this kind of stat-related question was the best to ask Leon because he could give you the answer just by looking at it.

Carroll pointed to the pitch and said: "Tactical details are still being discussed with the players. ”

Since last night's drink, Carlisle's words seem to have inspired Leon a lot, and many things are like that, and experience is often decisive compared to experience. A sentence or two from an experienced person can uncover a lot of confusion and mystery, although it is only a small turn in thinking, and the changes brought about are often unexpectedly large.

"Is he still instilling in those kids his theory of interior offense, covering? Do you think this kid's idea will work? Hart then asked, as an old-school basketball coach, Hart still has reservations about some of Leon's slightly "deviant" tactical ideas.

"I don't know, but his tactical training plan convinced me, and I don't know why O'Brien didn't adopt his idea at the time. It's a bit fanciful, but it's well-reasoned and very organized, and what we've been training recently is just part of his plan. "It seems that as the head coach of the team, Carroll still has a more holistic vision. That's why he gave Leon all the tactical construction and training, and he knew that one day his position under his ass would be this guy's.

From the beginning of the morning practice, Leon began to revise the tactical formation according to some of the points raised by Carlisle, and the key point was to adjust the position of the interior player from the low post to the end of the free throw, to the low post of the ribs to the free throw circle. This may seem like a small adjustment, but the impact on the formation is huge. First of all, the cut-in line for the bottom corner three-point line player has been changed from being in front of the screener to passing behind the screener, which makes it more difficult for the cut-in player to pass the ball directly to the outside player and go to the basket in the air, because there is a screener between the receiver and the passer. The second change is that the outside ball carrier breaks through the middle directly to attack the inside line and is blocked by the screener, and if the ball carrier wants to go directly to the basket, he needs to bypass the assault from the side.

From these two points, the promotion of the inside screener seems to hinder the team's rapid offensive development, and for the fast, tall and strong NBA game rhythm, a second of delay and a dozen centimeters of space congestion can lead to an offensive failure. Therefore, although there are also tactical routines about the inside screener in the second fast attack, they are all follow-up changes, and basically let the screener stand in a higher position without starting the move.

However, Carlisle's drunken remarks last night reminded Leon that he mentioned the concepts of "pulling" and "squeezing", which gave Leon a new perspective on the ideal tactical routine in his mind. Generally speaking, the core purpose of basketball tactics is to create hand space for players, and the main means of creating space are divided into two types, one is the "pull type", which is to win offensive opportunities for players with zero defense through irregular offensive formations and players constantly covering and running, such as Princeton tactics and UCLA tactics belong to this kind of system. One of the main features of this type of system is that it attacks through the 1-4 position, and the 1-4 position is a very flat offensive formation, in order to flatten the opponent's defensive formation, make room for the court, and create opportunities for players to run and cut in the air.

The other type belongs to the "squeeze type", the squeeze type is represented by Inside-out and triangle offense, this kind of offensive formation players are often very regular, each in its own position, through the strong individual attack of a few players in the team to attract the pack, or through covering, running, passing, in a small area to form a favorable offensive situation. This tactical formation is not particularly pursuing offensive opportunities with zero defense, but by squeezing and deforming, looking for defensive gaps to force and quickly attack, anyway, the score of a goal scored by a defended person is the same as a goal scored by an unguarded goal.

For the Celtics, they lack a master passer, and it is almost difficult for them to find tactical opportunities through formation pulling, because they can't pass the ball when they find it; In that case, why pursue open cut layups and open three-pointers in the second fast break? Playing the second fast break as a positional attack, but to complete the attack as quickly as possible, so the point of lifting the screener is to add a relay station to the upper line and bottom line.

If the upline decides to attack directly, then the screener can provide cover quickly, and if it is decided to create opportunities for the baseline after passing once, then this relay station can take on the task of distributing the ball as the common point of the two triangles. If the pivot is ready to attack directly, then near the free throw line is the best starting point.

To that end, Leon has been pulling Antoine Walker, Anderson, Tony Barty and Dyham Potter to talk endlessly since the morning practice, and every interior player on the team should have this awareness in his mind. Maybe the team doesn't necessarily play this way every offense, but Leon is clearly instilling in the team's young big men the idea of "coming out of the three-second zone and the baseline".

The game started at 7 p.m., and the Celtics still fielded a starting lineup of Barty, Walker, Pierce, Reed and Arenas, which was extremely projective, average defensively and poor passing. Facing a lineup of Pistons Ben Wallace, Cliff Robinson, Jerry Starhouse, Atkins and Michael Curry, this set is clearly lacking in individual offensive power, with only one offensive strong point for Stackhouse, and defensive players at center and shooting guard.

The game went in favor of the Celtics from the start, as the Pistons' interior line got into foul trouble early, and it looked like they lacked enough preparation before coming to North Shore Gardens, after all, their coaches were drunk.

The tactics used by Leon in practice began to show signs during the game, and with the whole situation going smoothly, Arenas and Walker began to pick up the tempo like crazy, and their offense was basically completed within three passes, which made the Pistons extremely uncomfortable. And the biggest benefit of Tony Batty to cover is not that Leon wants to make the team's fast offense more organized, but that it gives Arenas and Walker countless opportunities to overdo it outside the three-point line, and then pick up the ball and throw it directly.

Fortunately, their hands are hot tonight, and it seems that the balls they lost in the last game against the Spurs have all made up for it in this game, and the two have thrown a total of 14 three-pointers on the outside and hit 8, which may be a tactical windfall, let the cover man do a pass, and then give a cover, and the outside player picks it up and throws it, simple and rough, but once it feels good, the effect is terrible.

As a rookie, Arenas has been quite inconsistent from beyond the three-point line, often hitting 0-of-10 shots. However, the Celtics have Walker to take the lead and the coaching staff to allow them to be quite lenient with their players' three-point throwing, so once it comes to the senses, Arenas will indeed have an amazing performance.

The game was burned alive, and Rick Carlisle's on-the-spot command felt like he was forever half a beat slow, and the headache tormented him, and by the end his mind was no longer thinking about how to direct the team to comeback, but wanted the game to end quickly and go back to rest.

Carlisle vowed never to drink in Boston again.