Leon's name can be said to be well-known in the entire NBA, even a stadium sweeping old man knows this iron fist coach from Puerto Rico. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info, however, Mavericks player José Barria is blind to his compatriots, of course he knows Leon, as a legendary coach with Puerto Rican roots, León is a heroic presence in the District of Puerto Rico.

If you see Leon on the side of the road, on the pitch, or somewhere, Barria will definitely go up to him and ask for an autograph and take a picture with him. But in the Mavericks' summer league training gym, Barria suppressed his excitement when he saw Leon and gave Leon a soft nail. Because their coach Carlisle really said that if they met Fox Leon in training camp, they would stop him out the door and not let him in.

A total of 22 NBA teams signed up for the Las Vegas Summer League this time, and later the Boston Celtics and Seattle SuperSonics chose to withdraw and participate in other regional summer leagues, so there are a total of 21 teams including the Chinese national team. The tournament is divided into 4 large groups, with five to six teams in each group playing a single round-robin, and then the top team from each group advances to the semi-finals for the final championship.

The Phoenix Suns did not get in a group with the Dallas Mavericks, and the Suns have lost three of the four games and will definitely miss the final four, so the Mavericks and Tai** have no chance of meeting. Leon knew that Carlisle had become the Mavericks' assistant coach, and he came to watch the Boston and Dallas games today, in addition to meeting his old club, another purpose was to meet Carlisle.

Unexpectedly, Carlisle even gave a special order to the players, saying that he would not let Leon in when he saw him, and what he didn't expect was that Jose Barria obediently listened to Carlisle's words and really didn't let Leon enter the gym.

Of course, Leon finally went in, because except for Barria, the other staff members of the Mavericks really didn't dare to stop him. And Leon had a good reason to go in, he just wanted to come and meet an old friend.

When Leon walked into the gymnasium, Carlisle was directing the players on the sidelines to practice, and then he saw the figure of the last person he wanted to see appeared in front of the door at the entrance. Of course, it's not because Leon and Carlisle have a bad relationship, on the contrary, after both left Celtic, they are still very good friends in private. But it's not in private, it's the Mavericks' training time, and Carlisle knows that Leon's ability to dig corners is a must in the NBA, and he himself has been poached, and he knows it well.

Now that he's here, he doesn't know that he's taken a fancy to the Mavericks' summer camp again, and wants to pull it out of the ground and go to the Arizona desert. Carlisle has seen a lot of things like this when he was with Leon, after all, this guy came all the way from scouting, and is one of the very few head coaches in the NBA who will participate in a low-level event like Summer League.

So as soon as he saw Leon coming, Carlisle first stopped the training on the field, asked everyone to do physical exercises, and then greeted Leon.

"Hello Rick, long time no see." Leon said to Carlisle.

Carlisle nodded and said, "Long time no see, why don't we see you next time?" ”

Leon was stunned, he didn't expect Carlisle to say "Goodbye" so quickly, he smiled and said: "When I was at the door just now, your players didn't let me in, and said that you ordered me." I don't believe it, I didn't expect it to be true, is this how you treat your friends? “

In the face of Leon's questioning, Carlisle was expressionless and said: "We are friends, but that is in private, not now, I am working, and you are also working." And we're working for different teams right now, and I don't know what kind of purpose you're coming here for, so of course, the Mavericks' training camp won't welcome the Suns' head coach. ”

The Dallas Mavericks and Phoenix Suns have led the league for the past few seasons, and they are the strongest teams in the West, dominating the Western Half with the San Antonio Spurs and then taking turns challenging the Boston Celtics in the Eastern Conference – unsuccessfully, of course.

With the departure of Fox Leon in 2007 and the injury of Kevin Garnett, the Celtics were in trouble, giving the Western Conference team a huge impetus, and the Dallas Mavericks finished the regular season with a 67-win record in the hope of bringing a championship to the West after the Boston dynasty ended. As a result, they were beaten in the first round, and the head coach Johnson was questioned.

In this case, Cuban hired Rick Carlisle as the team's assistant coach, in fact, in preparation for Johnson's departure, once the new season starts with the Mavericks and can't recover from last season's failure, then Carlisle will be the team's alternate as the new head coach.

Of course, not many people know about this, but Leon is one of them, because this guy is too well-informed. Carlisle had worked with Leon for three years, and knew that he was terrible, so he was a great enemy of Leon's sudden visit.

Leon had no choice but to accept Carlisle's reaction, but he had no intention of leaving here, but cheekily said that he wanted to see the Mavericks' training, and maybe he could give Carlisle some advice.

"You know I've got a lot of training and some unique methods that might help you."

"No, no, no, your method is so unique that no one in the world can use it except you. Unless you're the coach of the Mavericks, once or twice this particular way of training will only confuse the players. Today we are almost done, and we will do some physical training later, and then we will practice shooting. "Carlisle appreciates Leon's kindness, but I will never fall for you.

Leon knew that as an old friend, he would definitely not be able to fool Carlisle, so he no longer insisted on watching the calves' training, but found a stool on the sidelines to sit down and talk to Carlisle about his parents' shortcomings, his daughter, and Carlisle's family. Both of them are already fathers, and they have a common language when they talk about their children, and they talk for more than an hour before they know it.

For more than an hour, the Mavericks' players were in a state of relaxation, running laps on their own, practicing shooting, or going to the gym to practice strength.

While Leon chatted with Carlisle about parenting, he secretly observed the performance of the Mavericks players on the court, especially Jose Barria. The players who participate in the NBA training camp are all marginal or rookies in the NBA, and their work in the NBA is not reliable, so they train very hard in the training camp. However, it is still difficult to see the level of a team from simple training, and it is necessary to conduct detailed trials.

But Leon isn't looking at their skill level, it's something else.

Leon noticed that Barria would go to the sidelines to practice two sets of push-ups after each shooting session. In NBA training, push-ups rarely appear in daily practice, because such actions do not help much in the strength zone required for training basketball, basketball does not need chest muscles, and NBA players are generally tall and long-armed, and the frequency of use of palms is high, and excessive push-up training can easily lead to palm and wrist injuries.

So Leon couldn't help but ask, "Why is that guy doing push-up training?" It's not a good way to train. “

Carlisle thought for a while and said: "I just casually mentioned that his shooting stability is not very good, and you can try to do push-up exercises before shooting to exercise the ability to maintain the stability of the shot in a state of arm fatigue." Actually, he has other methods, but ...... He's an obedient guy. ”

Leon nodded in agreement, this guy is indeed very obedient, Carlisle asked him to stop himself, he stopped himself, and he was not afraid of the iron fist from his hometown in Puerto Rico to teach him how to behave.

After talking about ten minutes later, Leon saw that it was not too early and was ready to go back, anyway, as long as he was here, Carlisle would not start training with the whole team.

Before leaving, Carlisle asked: "Did you find any players you wanted?" I try to get the boss to sign them off. ”

Leon smiled and said: "You better find a way to be the head coach of the Mavericks first, when our team meets in the new season, I will do you as much as possible and beat Johnson a little harder." ”

Carlisle doesn't want Leon's kindness, but after three years as a championship assistant coach, Carlisle does want to be a head coach to achieve his basketball dreams.

However, four days later, after the end of summer training camp in Las Vegas, the Mavericks and Suns made a trade in which the Suns traded Marcus Banks, a future first-round pick and some cash to get Jose Barria from the Mavericks.

Carlisle knows that Fox Leon is still a digger after all, and he must be stopped out of the training gym next time.