Chapter 41: Heavenly Hook

With the win over the 76ers, the Lakers also brought their winning percentage back to 50 percent, and they temporarily retained the eighth spot in the West. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

What made Harris even more pleased was not the win, but the Lakers' players who came out of the shadow of defeat in this game, and their mentality began to gradually get on the right track.

To celebrate the win, Harris also booked a restaurant after the game, and he decided to treat the whole team to dinner.

Even a person like Kobe Bryant, who is not very close by nature, joined this group activity half-pushed and half-in place under Tony's strong pull.

However, there is another regret, that is, Jones, who is still recuperating because of a foot injury, so he did not participate.

The Lakers had two days off, which wasn't long. But Harris didn't give the players any more time to rest, Tony has grown up very quickly, since entering the NBA, his offense has become more efficient, and his ability to respond has also been greatly improved, but Harris is not satisfied, he has found the direction of the Lakers, that is, to set up tactics around Tony and let Kobe Bryant play the role of a attacker.

Kobe Bryant's style of play is on the lonely side and is not suitable to be the core of the team's tactics. Only Toney, his offensive ability and defensive ability are enough to support the Lakers' interior line, but his ability to respond is still not enough, as the starting point of the tactic, Tony must practice a better pass.

Only in this way can the Lakers better play the role of Kobe.

In two days, Harris arranged a lot of actual combat training content, and he asked Tony not to not attack after getting the ball, but to observe the running of the players first, focusing on passing.

The demand not to attack put a lot of pressure on Tony. You must know that his passing ability is not excellent, once he loses the threat on the offensive end, everyone knows to keep an eye on his passes, so Toni has made a lot of mistakes in training.

But Harris didn't care, and after two months of performance, he was confident that he could do what he asked of him. Because he found Tony's learning ability to be very good, in the past two months, although Tony's stats have not increased or shrunk, he has found that Tony's awareness of his offensive skills and defense has improved a lot compared to when he first entered the league.

So he believes that although Tony's passing and overall view are still miserable, as long as he forces him and creates difficulties for him, Tony will definitely be able to overcome this shortcoming.

Two days was still too short to see results quickly, but Harris was pleasantly surprised to see that Tony's turnovers had begun to dwindle.

Without the threat of attack, Toni could only fight against countless teammates in the past two days, from his deliberate passing at the beginning that eventually led to a series of mistakes, and later, he could already vaguely detect when the opponent would intercept his pass.

"What do you think?" Harris looked at Tony from afar and said to a big man beside him.

This big man is very tall, estimated to be about two meters and twenty meters, but he is very thin, with a pair of wire eyes that look a little Sven, which is very different from the usual rough and unrestrained image of black people.

"The potential is good, and it's worth cultivating." The big man said lightly, "The 24th pick has indeed wronged him." ”

"Jerry wants you to coach him." Harris, the head coach of the Lakers, did not have any arrogance in his tone, but he still had some respect for the big man next to him.

"Hey, Jerry, this guy really thinks highly of me, I'm an old bone, what can I teach him?" The big man shook his head and politely declined.

"Haha, Jerry also said he knew you would refuse." Harris didn't seem to care, and it seemed that the big man's reaction was also expected, "But he told me that it doesn't matter if you refuse, after all, you can't force people to make it difficult." It's just that he seems to have mentioned something about the gambling contract, and I don't know very well. ”

As soon as he heard the word "betting", the big man's face suddenly fell a little.

"Humph! This old guy really ate me to death. The big man's tone was already a little unkind, "So it seems that I can't even refuse." ”

"Don't worry, this kid won't let you down, his offensive ability is already very good for a rookie, please come out just to teach him more details, his learning ability will not waste too much time on you." Just as the big man finished speaking, a white man who was nearly a head above him appeared.

It was Jerry West, the godfather of the Lakers, who was smiling and staring at the big man with bad intentions.

"Besides, if you want to blame it, you can blame your cheap hands, and you love to bet with others if you have nothing to do."

"What a loss to you." The big man shook his head helplessly, and could only compromise.

Hearing this, Harris did not hesitate, he walked on the field and blew a whistle to signal the end of today's training.

"Tony, you and I." Harris walked away.

Tony looked in Harris's direction and spotted Jerry West and another big black man he didn't know.

"Come, I'll introduce you." Tony walked up to the men, and Harris said with a smile on his face.

However, the big man interrupted Harris, "Excuse me, I'll introduce myself, Karim Abdul Jabbar, you can call me Mr. Jabbar." ”

Tony nodded, smiling kindly at him.

Harris was a little strange now, and he could see that Tony didn't seem to know Abdul-Jabbar.

"You..... Don't know Abdul-Jabbar? Harris looked at Tony incredulously, and after getting Tony's affirmative look, he couldn't help but exclaim, "Oh my God? Have you spent the last 18 years on a desert island? ”

"What's wrong? Is this gentleman famous? "Tony was a little baffled by Harris.

Abdul-Jabbar was also surprised, he didn't expect that Jerry called him over to teach the kid in front of him, and this kid didn't know him.

"Famous? Oh, my God! Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, one of the legendary centers of our Lakers, you don't even know him! Harris looked at Tony like a monster.

What the? Sky hook? The middle-aged uncle in front of him, who looks tall, thin, thin and polite, turned out to be Tiangou?

Tony suddenly showed a surprised expression, "You're the Sky Hook!" ”

To be honest, Tony didn't pay much attention to the NBA before, he only knew a few powerful figures in the league, and some of the big gods only knew their nicknames because their nicknames were too loud, but he didn't care about their real names, so this is where we have now.

"Okay, now that you know, I'll get straight to the point." Jerry West spoke, "I brought this great god here to make him your master and teach you something. ”

"What?!!! Is this true? Tony was suddenly overjoyed, his offensive methods were completely his own wild ways, although the effect was good, but there were still many flaws, to let such a big man who was once a megashock alliance teach himself, Tony couldn't ask for it.