Leon was indeed a glass-cleaning cleaner in the arena, and a temporary worker, but his acumen and intelligence had caught Auerbach's attention, starting with setting up the chairs and directing the trio to turn things around on the field.

Although the three of them still lost 8:10 to Maxwell's three, they were supposed to lose 2:10, but under Leon's on-the-spot command they became a team and found some small ways to deal with their opponents.

"This guy is kind of interesting, he has a power to make people trust." This is what Auerbach said about Leon, as a former head coach of a basketball team, Auerbach knows how difficult it is to get players to trust themselves and their teammates, when the ball is in hand, everyone tends to believe in themselves, and when the opponent is too strong, they start to doubt everything again.

Leon's words are short and powerful, his vocabulary seems to be scarce, there are no clever metaphors or exciting motivational words, just simple verbs, "pass through", "chance under the basket", "the ball will be behind you", and even some professional basketball jargon he does not have, such as Tip-shot, make a basket, he will shout "Again" and other strange expressions.

However, Auerbach has noticed something unusual about him, because no coach will direct the players to "make up the basket", this is a matter for the players on the court to decide to judge, and it is related to personal ability, but this guy seems to feel that there is an opportunity to make up the basket under the basket and shout out.

Of course, that doesn't change the fact that Leon is still a cleaner...... After this little contest, Auerbach instructed Leon to wipe all the basketballs in the gym one by one.

Leon doesn't talk much nonsense, if he really works as a cleaner, then he must be a very good cleaner, he doesn't talk much, has good physical strength, has a lot of strength, has a flexible brain, is very organized, the key is to be obedient, he will do whatever he wants.

"I'll help you." Khomeenez saw that Leon was going to wipe two full frames of basketballs alone, and took the initiative to step forward and say, Leon's command on the sidelines just now made her a little impressed with Leon.

In this world, most people who like basketball are not bad, especially girls, and Khomeenes is such a simple guy.

She was attracted by Leon's good-looking appearance and unique temperament, and was slightly disappointed that he couldn't play basketball, but when he pointed out the country under the basketball court, she felt that this person exuded a charming brilliance.

Leon did not refuse Khomemenez's kind help, he pulled out two basketballs, and then picked one by one, half of them for Khomemenes and half for himself.

Khomemenes asked with some curiosity: "One person and one basket is enough, why do you want to look at each one?" ”

Leon replied, "The one for me is dirtier, and the one for you is cleaner." ”

Khomeinith listened and looked at the basketballs on both sides, and felt that each one was quite dirty, and his own did not seem to be much cleaner than Leon's.

How can a person who can tell the difference even in pure water not be able to distinguish which ball is dirtier, and where is this clean and dirty?

When the two of them wiped the two baskets of basketballs, the day's preparations were basically over, the basketball hall was newly arranged, the neatly arranged white and green stools formed a clover shape, the stands were hung with old-school three-color round cloth, guide signs, microphones, and balloons were properly placed, and the glass, floor, and grandstand were wiped clean with a layer of soil.

Auerbach looked at the new arena and felt much better, knowing that he didn't have much time to run a camp like this, and it could be the last time in his basketball life.

The children's camp in Marshfield did not produce many famous stars, but the camp focused on developing children's interest in basketball and love of sports, compared to the professional basketball camps he held in places like Europe, where many of the biggest names in basketball were trained.

But Auerbach still loves it, the kids who come to the camp, and the joy of sitting on his golf cart and running between the camp and the Celtic rookie camp, and those days are numbered.

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In the evening, Leon refused Khomeenez's request to invite him to a volunteer meeting, and chose to ride his bicycle back to the community management center to rest and sleep early.

When rejecting Khomeenes, the moisture in the eyes of the red-haired simple girl made strangers feel distressed, Leon was not hard-hearted, he could feel the enthusiasm of Khomeenes, so he still promised him that they could have lunch together at the training camp tomorrow, and volunteers would be needed for the opening ceremony.

The next morning, June 1st, Children's Day, when Leon arrived at the training hall by bicycle, residents from the Marshfield area, children from all over Massachusetts who signed up for the camp, their parents, and some local celebrities had arrived at the old basketball arena in the Millbrook neighborhood.

But in Auerbach's eyes, it was still not as good as the Celts in the mid-80s, when he vividly remembered the Scottish bagpipe team coming to cheer on the opening ceremony, and even the governor of Massachusetts speaking at the opening ceremony one year.

And today, the opening speech for training camp is the most powerful man in the Celtics besides the owner, head coach and president and chairman and general manager, Rick Pitino.

After Leon arrived at the training hall, Auerbach assigned Leon a task - the old man was unequivocal in assigning work to Leon, making full use of Leon's community labor time to help him actively reform, he said: "You don't have to go anywhere today, you are responsible for receiving Mr. Pitino." ”

This was the few manual labor that Leon had received in the past two days, but how to receive Pitino, Leon made it difficult for him, and Auerbach said: "Do nothing, just follow." ”

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At nine o'clock in the morning, a light rain began to fall in the sky, and Leon met the man he had often heard of on the cusp of the Celtics, Rick Pitino. Leon, who was standing at the door of the training hall, saw him walking through the grass towards the training hall, a middle-aged man with chestnut curly hair and clear and cold facial lines.

His appearance is clearly of Italian descent, which gives him the same Italian charm as Al-Pacino and Robert De Niro, but his dark complexion, combined with the continuous rain, makes him look gloomy.

Auerbach shook his hand at the gym door, and the two exchanged a simple hug, and some smiles finally appeared on Pitino's face, although it looked like it was hard to squeeze; Auerbach still chuckled as he chuckled his cigar, and the two didn't say much, and entered the training hall together to prepare for today's opening ceremony.

The opening ceremony was not complicated, with a powerful speech, speeches by important figures, uniforms to the children, and then some delicious blueberry pie and sandwich cookies to the parents, and the ceremony was over, and the formal training began the next morning.

Pitino was undoubtedly the protagonist of the opening ceremony, which began with his speech, which Leon had the honor of sitting behind the podium after Pitino and Auerbach, and Pitino's speech was quite wonderful, with both affectionate retrospectives and humorous interludes, mixed with some reflections on his three years in Boston, and some prospects for the future, which made the audience stand and applaud him.

Leon noticed that Pitino was constantly changing his standing position with his feet during the speech, and he guessed that Pitino had already prepared the speech, and he had other things on his mind.

Sure enough, when his mission was completed, Pitino sat next to Auerbach, the first time the two men sat side by side and spoke after Auerbach left the Celtics in 1997.

The two men spoke sometimes in a whisper, sometimes in a relaxed tone, and it was clear that they were both negotiating and having some minor arguments, but Leon did not listen carefully, his attention was drawn to the Khomemenes under the stands, and the redhead kept winking at him.

This desertion was quickly broken by a quote from Auerbach, who heard Auerbach say: "Your favored three-point and full-court pressing is so simple that even a cleaner can use them, and we can't have a cleaner as the head coach of the Celtics." ”