There are always some things in a person's personality that are difficult to change, maybe they will change in a flash of inspiration, but in the long run, they will still respond to that sentence, the country is easy to change, and the nature is difficult to change.

As the team's head coach, Leon began to focus on the "character of the players" when he first started as a scout. A lot of times scouts always focus on the player's body, skill level, stats, and other objective things. Leon is different, he values a player's character, growth experience and maturity, so he always has a basic personality criterion for selecting players, don't work hard, don't have a loose personality, don't have perseverance.

Like Arenas, who grew up in a single-parent family, has a stubborn and competitive arrogant personality, and has been looked down upon by others since he was a child, but he has always slapped those who look down on him in the face, so Leon chose him. Joe Johnson, who grew up in an ordinary and harmonious family, has a gentle but tough personality and a temperament that makes a fortune in a muffled voice; Michael Reed, a devout Christian, his father was a priest, and his biggest dream was to buy a church for his father. There is also Delham Porter, who was born in Port-au-Prince, whose parents went to France at an early age, and lived alone with his grandmother, which was extremely difficult. After immigrating to Canada to play, he had a very strong willpower and the ability to learn. Including Steve Cole and Chris Anderson, before selecting them, Leon not only looked at the player's ability and team needs, but also valued their personality, the kind of good character that is suitable for the team and hard work.

Wang may be an exception, but his reticence is more due to cultural reasons than his character flaws, and Leon is confident to see him establish himself in the NBA.

In addition to having this research on his own players, León will also take a hard look at the personalities of other teams' players, especially the superstars of other teams. The way to find out is either hearsay, the news media, or personal contact. Like Kevin Garnett. From personal contact with him, Leon knew that this was a very contradictory fellow, and that he had two very different souls inhabited in his body, so much so that he would be controversial. That's why Leon chased this player in a blatant way, and he knew that the contradictory people would inevitably have a day of wavering under the constant direct pursuit.

Compared to Garnett, aside from his love of basketball and a strong sense of competitiveness, Kobe Bryant is a completely different person. Leon didn't have much contact with him, more than getting to know the league's young superstar from the news media, television interviews and games, and Leon thought he was a man who wasn't complicated at all. Growing up in a wealthy basketball family, he has a former NBA player dad who grew up in Italy, and his life is simple and pure, just basketball. Everything in his life revolves around basketball, living for basketball, fighting for basketball, everything else that comes with basketball is an accessory and doesn't matter. He's a ball idiot.

So Leon knows that in such a predicament, in this kind of game situation, under the premise that his teammates are not playing as well as they should. In the absence of the boss of the team, Kobe Bryant will definitely not pass the ball!

Not because of his poor personality, not because he can't pass the ball, but because he believes that only he keeps attacking. It's the team that wins, it can win, and he's here to win. Not for scoring.

However, his ability is clearly not enough for him to complete such a turnaround task, especially if Fox Leon has been prepared for it. After the timeout, the Lakers sent the sideline ball to attack, Kobe Bryant received the ball, and he dribbled on the right side outside the three-point line, at which point it was Paul Pierce who defended him one-on-one. Pierce has never been to the All-Defensive Team defensively, but his weight, strength, and judgment are enough to make him an excellent one-man defender when he's serious. In contrast, although Michael Reid is more hardworking, he is still inexperienced, especially when facing a master attacker who is full of feints.

The Celtics' bench is facing this side of the Lakers' offense, and Leon can get a clear look at the one-on-one matchup between Pierce and Kobe Bryant up close. However, it seems that the Lakers are not ready to "let Kobe come everything", Robert Hawley is standing near the free throw line, looking like he wants to block and cover, but Kobe Bryant did not summon him, he is standing there and some does not know what to do next.

At this point, Chris Anderson started to move closer to Kobe, and Pierce moved out of the way of his right center, and if Bryant tried to go through the middle at this time, Anderson would come up and close the door. In fact, other players will choose to hang the ball to Hawley at this time, Hawley can attack from the middle, after all, Anderson is a little out of position, but Kobe Bryant is not, he is Kobe after all, he chose to force a shot in front of Pierce.

Before making a shot, he leaned his whole body towards Pierce, obviously like a foul on Bo, but Pierce was also a master of cheating fouls, he was not fooled at all, his body dodged back slightly, avoiding physical contact with Kobe, and then watched Kobe's shot not even touch the basket, but smashed on the rebound and fell. Samaki Walker picked up the rebound and wanted to make a layup, but the referee's whistle blew because Walker was in the three-second zone for too long, three seconds.

There's no doubt that Leon's strategy was the right one, and while the Lakers aren't the kind of team that relies solely on superstars to play, they are a superstar-driven team, and once two superstars are out and the other is iron, the team's offense will come to a standstill. However, striking iron seems to be a contagious virus, when the Lakers missed two consecutive offenses, the Celtics began to shoot from the outside, from the third quarter to the fourth quarter, the Lakers scored 5 points, the Celtics scored 6 points, and the feel of the two teams seemed to have disappeared under the drive of Kobe.

However, although Leon predicted that Kobe Bryant would not pass, he still underestimated the kind of paranoia and stubbornness in Kobe's heart, and by the beginning of the fourth quarter, Kobe had made 30 shots, only hitting 11 of them, scoring 24 points, 6 rebounds and 4 assists, which is quite low offensive efficiency. However, his crazy shooting didn't really kick in in the fourth quarter.

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Leon has always had the ability to judge whether the goal can be scored when he sees a player make a shot. In fact, I watch a lot of basketball games, and most people will have a little bit of this ability, some balls are thrown, and they look at the players' shooting postures and the trajectory of the balls in the air. You can feel in advance whether the goal will be scored or not, although it may not be accurate.

The difference between Leon and ordinary people is that his judgment is quite accurate, and his judgment often does not rely on the trajectory of the ball. Leon doesn't need to, he just looks at the shape of his hands and the rhythm to make a judgment, for a game at this level in the NBA. If a player can keep his shot out of shape and slow down in high confrontation, then the probability of the ball being thrown is very high. Leon's brain is like a supercomputer, storing holographic images of many players' shooting postures, when a player makes a shot, he will match the shooting posture he sees with the picture in his head, and then through probability calculations, give a probability result of entering or not entering.

This is also the reason why Leon was able to carry out off-ball simulation training in training, without his brain and judgment, such training would not have been carried out at all.

By the fourth verse. Leon had to apply that ability to Kobe Bryant because a bad situation happened that he didn't want to see. Kobe Bryant was still shooting wildly in the fourth quarter and didn't hit high enough. But the Celtics ran into two problems, starting with a drop in shooting percentage that began in the second half of the third quarter. When the Lakers finally began to abandon the habit of shrinking their defense and expanding their defensive area, the Celtics' biggest problem - the lack of low-post attackers - was exposed, and the outside players inevitably had cold hands. There isn't a single master of interior offense to stabilize the situation.

Second, although Kobe Bryant is striking iron, he is also scoring. And the referee's whistle began to sound frequently, Kobe Bryant began to walk to the free throw line continuously, and the Lakers, under his leadership, finally stabilized their position and slowly chased forward, even if the chase came a little late, but after all, they are the champions, after all, they are the overlords of three consecutive championships, and the team's confidence and psychological quality are not comparable to the Celtics.

Finally, when Arenas forced a breakthrough, but was hit by Derrick Fisher with the ball, and the ball was given to the Lakers, the gap between the two sides at this time was only three points, and from more than ten points behind in the third quarter, the Lakers relied on Kobe's insistent offense to slowly catch back. Bryant has made 40 shots so far, made 15 of them, and scored 37 points, eight rebounds and four assists -- and the assists will basically not change.

With less than three minutes left before the end of the fourth quarter, the Lakers' offense, they had a chance to equalize on this offense. The hearts of the fans at the scene were once again in their throats, including Auerbach, who was still wearing sunglasses and watching the game with a cane at the beginning, and now he has taken off his sunglasses, threw the cane aside, and held his hands on the seat in front of him to watch.

Kobe Bryant once again held the ball across the half court, still starting to attack from the right side he was used to, no blocking, no cover, in the face of Paul Pierce, he adjusted slightly, dribbled sideways with his left hand to near the top of the arc, and suddenly jumped directly to shoot three points!

The moment Bryant made his move, the hearts of all North Shore Garden fans were about to jump out, for a player like Kobe, even if he missed the first ten three-pointers, he would still shoot in the eleventh opportunity, and firmly believed that he could make this shot.

But at the moment when Kobe Bryant made a move, Leon shouted to the court: "The ball didn't go in!" Front Basket Rebounds! ”

When Chris Anderson heard this, he almost instantly drilled into the three-second zone, and then was in front of the basket, and sure enough, the ball smashed into the front of the basket and fell right into Anderson's arms. Anderson received the ball and immediately passed it back into the hands of Arenas, who had little bright spots in the game and delivered one of the most beautiful passes of the game, he sent the ball to Paul Pierce who had already driven to the halfway line with a wide diagonal ball. Pierce used his strong body to push away Kobe Bryant, who was chasing behind him, all the way to the basket, and scored a layup with his left hand.

North Shore Garden exploded, a decisive goal, originated from Leon's prediction, because at the moment of Kobe's shot, he knew that Kobe Bryant's finger plucking the ball was faster, and the strength was obviously insufficient, and the ball would be short, and because the shot was very positive, there was no problem with accuracy, so it was likely to be a front basket rebound. During off-ball simulation training, as long as Leon shouts "front basket rebound", the players will squeeze to the front of the basket and jump hard, and then Leon will determine who gets the rebound.

So Chris Anderson almost subconsciously rushed to the front of the basket and picked up this rebound.

Kobe Bryant, who missed a goal, obviously didn't believe in evil, he looked at Leon coldly and walked past him. Leon knew that this guy had to score a goal in front of him.

Sure enough, Bryant once again held the ball on the left side, this time with his back to Pierce, and then walked to the baseline, stepping back and making a slight step-back jumper. At this time, Leon shouted again: "The strength is great, the left front basket!" As soon as he finished speaking, the ball deviated from the correct line and smashed into the front of the left side of the basket, and this time the Celtics didn't have time to get stuck early, and there was chaos under the basket.

Samaki Walker grabbed the rebound in the frontcourt, but the layup was blocked by Anderson. Bryant got out of nowhere and grabbed the ball, then shook Anderson, picked up a basket with a left-handed fingertip, and sent the ball to the basket for 39 points.

After the goal, Bryant pointed his finger at Leon, meaning that he had scored. Leon shook his head and smiled, he really wanted to say this distance to Kobe, I will enter if I change me, but he still stabilized his mentality and continued to devote himself to the game.

Kobe's three-point miss undoubtedly became the turning point in the final stage of the game, and then Kobe Bryant's three outside shots all missed, and they were all predicted in advance by Leon on the sidelines. In this way, the more accurate Leon is, the less accurate Kobe Bryant is, and the more accurate Leon is, the more Kobe wants to shoot.

When the game was played in the last second, the Celtics had already led the Lakers by five points at 101-96, and the game was completely over, Bryant still tried to force a three-pointer from the outside. Kobe Bryant's shot was very reluctant, and his shooting posture was completely deformed, and he pushed it out with his right arm and left hand, and the ball drew a high arc.

“You-get-it！ But-it\'s-over!" Leon shouted at Bryant from the sidelines, no one caring if the goal went in or not. The fans have begun to celebrate, the Celtics players have begun to hug, the Lakers players have begun to leave the court, and only Kobe Bryant and Leon are still caring whether the goal will be scored or not.

When Leon said "over", the ball hit the rebound, hit the board into the basket, a three-pointer, Kobe Bryant's last shot, the 47th shot of the game, and the 17th goal, got the 42nd point of the half.

47 shots, 17 goals, set a record of 30 iron strikes in a single game, the first iron king of the new century, and even the first iron king after the 80s, only Chamberlain, Barry and Falcao can be more iron than him.

Leon watched Kobe Bryant's back leave the court with his shoulders bowed and his head down after scoring a goal, knowing that he might not care about the embarrassing record of playing iron at this moment, after all, he lost the game, which was the only thing he cared about.

At this time, the Celtic players rushed up and hugged him, blocking his view. He was happy and happy at this time because he had won.

"You've won enough things, it's our turn." Leon raised his right arm high in the middle of the players. (To be continued.) )