The Boston Celtics have been in some minor troubles for the new year. The first is the inevitable injury problem in the league, with the team's main power forward Antoine Walker missing the team's trip to Texas due to a knee injury, which also caused the Celtics to suffer heavy defeats in Dallas and San Antonio. Walker's stats have dropped slightly this season, but his role in the team is still quite important, especially with his playmaking skills developed by Leon, and his assist count has increased significantly.

Leon had to put PJ Brown at power forward for a couple of games and then put Dyham Porter as the starting center. Although Brown has a good mid-range hand, his lack of strategy and independent offensive ability has led to the team's offensive initiation burden being completely pressed on the perimeter. In the battle against the Mavericks, the Celtics, who lacked an inside attack, were defeated by the Dallasians' strong flames of revenge. And in the SBC center, Brown alone can't stop the Spurs twin towers, and Dale Porter is still too immature.

Leon boldly changed the formation in the third game against the Rockets in Texas, he no longer sent Dale Potter, a kid who lacked offensive power, but sent his wonder soldier Wang Zhizhi, so that Wang Zhizhi started the one-on-one against the Rockets' champion show, which attracted the attention of fans all over the world, the "little giant" Yao Ming. This is a very risky move, although many people know that Wang Zhizhi has always had the upper hand against Yao Ming in the CBA, but Yao Ming in the 2002-2003 season is no longer Yao Ming in China. In his NBA debut, he was questioned from the beginning, scoring 0 points in the first game. Later, Charles Barkley kissed the ass of a donkey, and once had the upper hand in the confrontation with O'Neal, and a series of outstanding performances made people see the strength of this Chinese genius.

Opposite. Wang Zhizhi, the first Chinese player to come to the NBA, can only sit on the bench in the Celtics now, although Leon also gave Wang Zhizhi some opportunities, and Wang Zhizhi also had a moment to shine, but after all, it cannot be compared with the champion Yao Ming. And Leon took advantage of this before the game, he used words to stimulate Wang Zhizhi's fighting spirit, and then made clever arrangements in tactics, taking advantage of Wang Zhizhi's good feet and long range. Coupled with the confidence he built up against Yao Ming in the CBA, he finally played the best game of his career at the Compaq Center in Houston on the night of January 13, shooting 3-of-4 from three-point range. He scored 19 points on 4-of-5 two-pointers and 2-of-2 from the free-throw line, plus three rebounds and two assists, beating Yao Ming's 10 points and five rebounds, helping the Celtics to retreat away from home without a big man.

After returning to Boston. Because of this victory, Leon's proposal to sign Wang Zhizhi in the summer was unanimously praised by the Boston media. However, the poor injury problem did not improve with the team's return home, but on January 15, Michael Reid suffered a minor contusion to his right thumb in the home game against the Hawks, and after a team doctor's examination, he was advised to recuperate, observe and treat for a period of time before considering returning to the game. Fortunately, the Celtics won the game 96-87 by relying on the play of Arenas and Pierce, and with a strong defense. Won two in a row.

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On the morning of January 16, a rest day for the Celtics. Leon woke up in the morning and made himself a cup of coffee, and lately he was feeling a little sleep-deprived. On the one hand, the team's successive injuries tormented his brain cells, and on the other hand, the slowly idle Khomeenez, who was slowly idle in the paper, began to make Leon unable to be idle at night. Fortunately, Leon's physical foundation is very good, but he can still bear it, since becoming the head coach, Leon also feels that his desire in all aspects is declining, and the position of NBA head coach is worthy of being one of the most stressful positions.

After drinking coffee, Leon felt that his originally somewhat chaotic mind had cleared up a little, and the flow of the day's affairs appeared in his mind. Team training, video analysis, pre-match preparation and a host of more. Leon is perhaps one of the league's most overburdened head coaches, and many managers leave some of the planning to their assistant coaches, but Leon is not.

It's not because Leon is a butler coach who likes to grab his eyebrows and mustaches, but he thinks he is good at planning and planning, and he is very efficient in doing it, so why should he let the assistant coach do these things? The assistant coach's time is freed up to do more meaningful work, such as Cowens' basic technical guidance, Sigfried's focus on shooting drills, Hart's dedication to the team's defense, and Hess's development of the team's new physical training plan, so that his assistants can focus on their jobs, Leon is willing to do some chores as head coach.

Boss Pagliuca once suggested that Leon recruit another assistant coach to be his own affairs assistant, but Leon refused, and Angie did not agree. Angie disagrees because he thinks the Celtics have a lot of assistant coaches, and Leon is so capable that he should work more and better. The reason Leon refused was because he always had an assistant coach position in mind for Rick Carlisle.

Leon took advantage of the fact that Holmenez was still asleep in bed and went out quietly, after all, he had come to the bedside to kiss goodbye before leaving, but it was delayed for another twenty minutes, so Leon chose to leave quietly.

Upon arriving at the training gym, Leon met Michael Reid, who had just missed the game yesterday with a right hand contusion and was considered a week of recuperation after being examined by the team doctor. Leon saw that the middle finger of his right hand was holding a ball of gauze, and he was practicing shooting. Thankfully, his right hand is not his shooter, but it still affects the lifting of the shot.

"How does your hand feel, Michael, you still have to pay attention to rest, and don't let a day or two of training affect the rest of the day." Leon stepped forward and asked with concern. This season's Reed has been an important piece on the outside of the Celtics, Leon pays great attention to the cultivation of his personal ability, and the shooting coach Siegfried is sometimes said to be Reed's personal coach, and he is also the Celtics No. 20 He bets the most energy on Reed.

"Seeger also asked me to take advantage of the opportunity to practice my defensive footwork, but I think I have to practice shooting every day, otherwise it will feel worse unless my left hand is broken." Reed said to Leon, and after saying that, he threw another mid-range, and the ball hollowed into the net. Reed's shooting speed is getting faster and faster, and his posture is getting stranger and stranger, but his shooting percentage is getting better and better. Leon could see that Reed's shot was casual and relaxed, and the muscles in his arms were well controlled, and Leon knew that the ball was going to go in the moment the ball went out.

"Maybe you should think about changing your stance to be more pretty, otherwise there won't be too many fans who like you...... Shooting like an excavator...... "The only thing Leon can complain about is Reed's shooting posture, which is really getting worse and worse."

"It's useless to look good, it's the last word to be able to enter!" Sigfried, who had changed his clothes, came from the side, and he responded loudly when he heard Leon's words. Leon smiled and didn't say anything, for old-timers like Sigfried, it's better not to talk to them about any humor, anyway, Leon is completely relieved to hand over Reed's training to him.

Because of Reid's injury problems, Reid did not participate in the group training during the day, and instead found time to do individual shooting practice with Sigfried on the sidelines. Leon organized the whole team to practice while watching what Reed was practicing from time to time. Sometimes he found that Sigfred was an old man with a lot of ideas, worthy of being trained in a correctional center, he was very studious, full of energy, and came up with a lot of various tricks for training in shooting practice. And his training method is not his own blind imagination, but supported by data, he does not know how to use a computer, he specifically asked Leon to help him do data statistics and print them out on A4 paper, and formulate shooting training methods according to the guidance of these data.

This time, Leon found out that Sigfred was taking Reed to a very strange practice, he first asked Reed to perform continuous vertical jump training on the spot, and then asked Reed to stand still and only practice shooting with his upper limbs. Leon wondered why Reed was doing such an exercise if he didn't have a leg injury.

When asked about Sigfried, the old guy smiled and said, "It's new technology!" (To be continued.) )