Chapter 259: Training Camp (3)
Paul Pierce was right, the current Fox Leon has long been in a bad stomach, and less than two minutes into the game, the main team began to express their dissatisfaction, because they found that Leon was not only the coach of the bench team, but also the first referee of the game.
It doesn't matter if the first referee is the referee, the key is that Leon's referee's penalty standard is different from other referees! He also came up with the "team first" rule in the summer league, and the main team's singles only counted one point, or not counted, and some even deducted points; On the bench side, although the offense is extremely difficult, as if constipated for a week, the substitute team does not fight alone at all, and the five-man group that has been practicing together for two weeks can often play some small combinations, and these combinations will give extra points once Leon scores.
Just when Leon was so eccentric and had nothing to do to count the main team's 0 points, the main team still led the substitute team by 2 points in the first half, and if it wasn't for Leon's interference, the substitute team would have been beaten into a sieve in the first half.
During the fifteen-minute break, Arenas complained to Leon, believing that Leon's behavior was a serious violation of sportsmanship, and Leon gave him a T. and warned him to **** again, let him shoot 2,000 balls tonight before he can go home.
In the second half, just when the main team was determined to break down the substitutes with the tacit understanding they had gradually built up, the situation on the field changed. Leon brought Dio to the power forward position, then replaced Chris Anderson as center, Daniels played small forward, Posey scored at guard, and Ragabel played point guard, replacing Ralph Alston off the court.
Arenas, who had been a little arrogant before, began to find it difficult to dribble through the half, and Berga Possi sat in the backfield, three steps forward from the middle line to start hunting Arenas, Bale made close physical contact, and Posey kept his distance, both threatening to go up and trapping, and blocking Arenas's passing route with good positioning.
There is no doubt that this is exactly the amoeba defense that Gelguric excels at, and Leon spent a little time experimenting with this defense in the rookie camp, and he found that Bale and Posey are very talented in this area, and their defensive awareness, footwork, and especially distance sense are quite good.
Arenas was hunted like this, and the offense began to have problems.
In fact, Arenas has had a tough summer workout, gaining nearly 10 pounds, increasing the dimension of his arms and the width of his shoulders, increasing his shooting ability, and working his breakaways to improve his ability to handle the ball under the basket.
However, his organizational skills have not changed significantly, and in the two seasons of the Celtics, his organizational line has always been laid out for him by Leon, and Leon has given him clear and concise solutions to what to do in different situations.
But now Leon won't care about him! He had to figure it out on his own, so he tried to hoist the ball to Pierce or Garnett, or simply force a single himself. But there is no tactical coordination in such a pass, even if Pierce scores the ball, Leon silently stretches out a finger and counts as a point.
If he forcibly attacks, even if he makes a strong three-point shot on the outside, Leon will wave his hand and deduct one point!
The main team's offense quickly got into trouble, and that's when Kevin Garnett stepped up and began to pick up Arenas from outside the three-point line, leaving him to make the first pass and transition. Garnett is tall and has long arms, a wide field of vision, and a good set of passing, and quickly sorted out the main team's offense, even if Leon wanted to deduct points or give 1 point, because his play was indeed becoming more and more orderly.
"This TM is talent...... Leon couldn't help but think on the sidelines, both anxious and excited.
Anxiously, he already has cards in his hand, and it is already good to be able to train the amoeba defense in two weeks of training, and the substitute team has also overtaken the score. But the main team is getting more and more stable, it is only a matter of time before they regain the advantage, and their defense is really strong, just a man-to-man, if it weren't for Leon's on-the-spot command and constant shouting, it is estimated that the bench score will be very dismal.
Excitingly, this lineup is indeed terrifyingly strong, and if the bench group is combined again, the potential of this Celtic team is definitely in the top three levels in history.
In the last ten minutes of the game, the main team was still one point behind the substitute team, and at this time, Rick Carlisle, who had been watching Leon perform alone from the sidelines, couldn't sit still, and he took a timeout to walk into the field, saying that Leon's approach was too unfair to the main team, and he asked to be the coach of the main team.
Carlisle's appeal was unanimously agreed by the main team, and Leon protested solemnly, pointing out that he is the only legal referee, coach and sideline staff in this game, and the others can only be spectators, and must not overstep their authority at will.
But Carlisle didn't care, he picked up the tactics board and began to draw tactics for the main team, and then made personnel adjustments, took PJ Brown, and added a guard Malik Ciley, so that the Celtics played three guards, and the three advanced at the same time.
The substitute team's superficial amoeba immediately lost its effect, the three defenders responded to each other, and two of them couldn't defend in place, which required the cooperation of the forwards, but Leon hadn't taken them to this point in the rookie training camp.
Carlisle's insertion made the game lose suspense, and the main team guided by Carlisle quickly overtook the score, even if Leon cheated to count every goal of the main team as 0 points, the substitute team could not win nine times out of ten, because the condensed main team was already an iron wall, Kevin Garnett locked every offensive space of the substitute team like an octopus, and the substitute team without the ability to attack could only look at the basket and sigh.
At the end of the game, the score of the two sides was 78:74, and the main team defeated the substitute team by 4 points, in fact, their scores were much higher than 78 points, but most of them were judged by Leon to be 0 points, 1 point or direct deduction.
After winning the match, Paul Pearce, Arenas and Reed were all quite excited, and the three of them even hugged each other for a small celebration, which made Garnett quite puzzled, after all, he didn't understand that for them, winning this match was like beating the big devil, which was completely different from the normal training confrontation.
The substitutes looked a little disappointed, and the goal Leon gave them in the rookie training camp was to beat the main team in the intra-team confrontation, although Leon used some tricky rules, but the substitutes did play very team, they lacked talent, they experienced twists and turns, but they also had a strong competitive spirit and desire to prove themselves.
In this match, Leon did not achieve the purpose of warning the players, on the contrary, the self-confidence of the main players was further inflated, they were indeed full of talent, full of strong strength, which made the atmosphere of the team continue to be cheerful. They have reason to believe that this will be an incredibly strong team, at least in the regular season.
After practice, Carlisle found Leon in the locker room and said, "Fox - sometimes you're too cautious, don't you see, they keep learning and improving in the game, especially Kevin, he integrates too quickly, too well. ”
Leon nodded, Garnett's game felt really good, his selflessness and team were really unique among superstars, but he still said to Carlisle: "The next time you ruin my plan, I'll let you coach the Red Sox!" (To be continued.) )