Pitino looked at Leon, a handsome half-breed man wearing a simple white T-shirt with some scars on his face, and it seemed that he had indeed fought a lot before.

Pitino himself is also a sports expert, he scanned Leon's body shape slightly, and found that his figure really did not look like a basketball player, the finger joints were thick and calloused, the deltoid muscles were very developed, and the neck was thicker than ordinary people.

But he had an impressive pair of eyes, pure black, black and bottomless, like Lake Wald in the darkness, which contrasted sharply with his somewhat wild and handsome countenance, and Pitino stared at him for a moment, and unconsciously looked away, as if he were going to be sucked into them.

These black eyes are inherited from Leon's Chinese great-grandmother, and the calmness and courage behind them come from the soul of this body.

"Go on, Mr. Pitino, twenty minutes is not a long time." Leon reminded Pitino.

Pitino nodded, and began to continue scribbling on the blackboard, condensing his basketball life into this small blackboard.

Pitino began his basketball coaching career at the University of Hawaii in 1974 and worked as an assistant coach and head coach at the University of Hawaii, Syracuse University, Boston University, New York Knicks, and the University of Kentucky.

The more Pitino spoke, the more he spoke, not only to Leon, but also to Auerbach, and even more to himself, his 30 years of love and devotion to the game of basketball, and his in-depth analysis of this game of 10 people revolving around a ball, presented as much as possible in these 20 minutes.

"The tactics of figure 8 running, making full use of blocking and running without the ball, this tactic focuses on, first, we have at least two excellent three-point shooters, they can form a lethal three-point threat to the opponent in the bottom corner or 45 degrees, and second, our blocking and pick-and-roll needs to have a high quality, which can not only provide good shooting space for the shooter, but also can give the shooter more offensive options, after the block and dismantle down or up, are good tactical back-ups, from this tactic we can make these two choices......"

"The 1-2-1-1-1 pressing tactics can maximize the physical advantage of young players and reduce the lack of positional sense or leakage caused by lack of defensive experience, and we generally start with a full-court leader............

"The three-point shot will be the future development direction, not just to score one more point each time, but because of its tactical significance, I can say without any shy secret that the emergence of the three-point shot has extended the life of basketball by a hundred years!"

Pitino talked about the blackboard for a whole hour, and in the end he was no longer completing a bet, he didn't want to win, he just wanted to prove in front of Auerbach that his coaching philosophy was right and ahead of his time, and three years of failure made him depressed for too long, and even began to wonder if the basketball philosophy he had summed up for more than 20 years was correct.

Now, in front of such a small office, a small blackboard, a person who doesn't know basketball at all, and a person who knows basketball and has become a master, he has completely exploded.

"That's what I'm going to say, I don't care if this young man can figure it out, I just ...... I just need some more time, some opportunities......"

Pitino put down the chalk in his hand and said, he took out the blackboard eraser and wiped all the tactical maps on the blackboard.

Auerbach sat on a stool with his cane in tow, unable to see a single expression, and Pitino's emotional catharsis did not seem to move him. For an old man who has experienced countless ups and downs and has seen all kinds of people, there is almost nothing that can easily move them.

"It's your turn, Leon." Auerbach moved his lips and said that he always liked to call Leon "boy", "cleaner", "that man" these days, and this seemed to be the first time he called Leon by name.

Pitino waved his hand a little tiredly and said, "No, it's not necessary, it's been more than twenty minutes, and I don't care about this bet, it's just a joke......"

However, Leon stood up, walked to the blackboard, picked up a piece of chalk, and said to Pitino: "There are many unsatisfactory things in this world that make us lose and complain, and most of them come from our own lack of ability and self-misunderstanding. Enlisting the sympathy and support of others can bring momentary strength, but in the end, it's up to you to solve the problem. It's never too late to improve your abilities. ”

After speaking, Leon raised the chalk and drew five circles on the half-time simulation of the small blackboard, marking five marks such as "SG", "PF", and "C", and then used dotted lines and solid arrows to draw a clear and powerful tactical running chart on the blackboard.

"It's a double cover tactic, the starting point of the tactic is the shooting guard who is located on the baseline, he starts from the bottom corner, arc moves, the center is at point A, the big forward is at point B, double cover, the scoring guard runs to a 45-degree angle, receives the ball and shoots directly at three-point." Leon recounted the first tactic that Pitino had explained an hour earlier, word for word.

Then he added: "If the center point A and the power forward point B are the two tangent points on the arc route of the scoring guard, then make a tangent line on A and B, the angle of the tangent line A is about 30 degrees, and the distance M between A and B is about 2.5 meters, according to the curvature formula lima/M (M tends to 0), the curvature of this arc at point B is about ............"

On the basis of Pitino's tactical explanation, Leon even began mathematical derivation, looking at the confused Auerbach and Pitino, Leon said lightly: "Mathematics is the basis of everything, basketball is no exception, the perfect arc curvature can fight for players to move faster and better space." ”

Subsequently, Pitino was surprised to find that Leon was repeating almost every detail he said, except for those emotional catharsis, the general direction of the tactics he talked about, the details, and even the changes that were not fully explained, Leon could repeat it exactly at all.

Moreover, the Puerto Rican man's voice was calm and powerful, calmly without a trace of waves, without nervousness, without excitement, everything was like it had been prepared for a long time, and everything was like his personal experience of more than ten years of experience on the court.

Auerbach had a smile on his face at first, and he had expected it to turn out, as he had learned three days earlier that Pitino was coming to attend his opening ceremony, and he knew the purpose of Pitino's trip. Auerbach has been competitive all his life, and he will do whatever it takes, even if Pitino relents and takes the initiative to sue for peace, the bishop will not give up, and must think of giving Pitino a dismissal.

Just as Auerbach was smoking in his golf cart and had bad ideas in his head, Leon appeared, and Auerbach didn't care about the newly released labor reformer, but when he set up the chair, Auerbach found that he was a very smart guy.

In the next two days of getting along, the cunning Auerbach understood that Leon was an out-and-out genius of memory and calculation, and after wiping the glass of the arena yesterday, Auerbach casually asked Leon how many pieces of glass he wiped, and Leon replied 477 without thinking about it.

This arena has a total of 8 large windows, each with 60 small square glasses, originally a total of 480 pieces of glass, of which three pieces fell because the arena has not been repaired for a long time, and at the same time, the same brand of glass of that era can not be found, so it is replaced with three sandwich panels, so there are a total of 477 pieces of glass.

By yesterday afternoon, Leon had been an interim coach, and from his diction Auerbach knew he was a layman, but his command made Auerbach realize that he seemed to have a unique talent for basketball.

From this point on, a plan was born in Auerbach's mind, he wanted to use Leon to embarrass Pitino, so he made this bet with Pitino after the opening ceremony.

Pitino's inner resentment and ambition erupted on the small blackboard in the small office, but he didn't expect to fall into Auerbach's little trap, let alone that a small person would have such an amazing memory and comprehension.

As Leon began to repeat every word Pitino had said, and finally, the smile on Auerbach's face was gone, and the smugness and satisfaction began to slowly be replaced by surprise and disbelief, and Leon had behaved beyond his imagination.

This young man, more than just a repeater, was able to see from every word he said and every picture he drew that he could understand the meaning, and even the meaning behind it, what a terrible ability to comprehend.

Auerbach didn't know if he was like that for everything, or just basketball.

"The three-point shot will be the future development direction, not just to score one more point each time, but because of its tactical significance, I can say without any shy secret that the emergence of the three-point shot has extended the life of basketball by a hundred years!"

León uttered the last sentence of Pitino's hour-long speech, with the same passion, even pinching the chalk in his hand.

Leon looked at the two people who didn't speak, and said calmly, "It'sallover. ）”