It's December, and the October and November schedules are over, and the NBA awards are out.

In the East, LeBron James averaged 30.5 points, 6.4 rebounds, and 7.8 assists per game to win the Eastern Conference of the Month.

The Cleveland Cavaliers are third in the East with a 12-5 record, and the Cavaliers' momentum has slowed down compared to last season's regular season boom.

On the contrary, it was Garnett who was reimbursed last season, and the Celtics, who were unfortunately out of the playoffs, made great progress, ranking first in the East with 12 wins and 4 losses, followed by the Magic.

However, James' individual performance is unmatched, he has absolute dominance on the Cavaliers, and everything revolves around him.

The Cavaliers traded for Shaquille O'Neal, further reweighting the roster, aiming at the Los Angeles Lakers and Orlando Magic, and using the big sharks to deal with the Lakers' three highs and Howard.

Last season, the Cavaliers went light and were beaten badly by the Magic in the Eastern Conference Finals, and this season they are going to learn their lesson.

In the West, Carmelo Anthony, another Tianjiao in 03, won the Western Conference of the Month, averaging 30.4 points, 5.9 rebounds and 3.5 assists per game.

The Nuggets also have a 12-5 record, and like the Cavaliers, both teams that lost to the division finals have fought to topple the yellow and green forces this season.

It's just that the season has just begun, and there are still a long way to go.

In the Rookie of the Month award, the Bucks' Brandon Jennings and Kings Tyrese Evans shared the title.

The two had pretty good stats, with Jennings 22.1 points, 3.8 assists and 5.6 rebounds, while Evans was the more comprehensive 20.3 points, 5.5 rebounds and 5.1 assists.

20+5+5, the strong Evans was tough in November, giving hope to Kings fans.

In comparison, the performance of the top pick Curry can only be described as so-so, and there are a few games that have played very well and impressed the fans.

But in some games, the performance was mediocre and didn't even get many opportunities to play.

He scored 20 points in the last game, maybe 5 points in the next game, 3-of-5 in another three-point game, and none in the next game.

Curry is a backup for the Clippers after all, and Baron Davis, although declining, is still the leader of the team.

The Clippers had a good first two months with an 11-7 record and are in seventh place in the West, in the playoff zone.

This makes the coaching staff even less likely to let Curry start the team, Curry plays the bench very well, and he himself is a little adapted.

On December 1st, Mike Dunleavy was going to hold a monthly work summary meeting with the coaching staff at the training center as usual.

Summarize the team's performance in November, and then arrange the work plan for December and the direction of the team.

But before the meeting began, Ida called out of the blue and said that Mr. Smart was temporarily attending a meeting of the coaching staff and asked Dunleavy to wait.

So, Dunleavy postponed the meeting, and the big guy chatted in the conference room of the training center.

Dunleavy's coaching staff consists of seven people, Dunleavy himself, head assistant coach Kim Hughes, assistant coach and player development assistant Raman Sposato, assistant coaches Neil Meyer, John Lucas, Tony Brown and Fred Vinson.

The size of the coaching staff is really not small, and everyone has their own division of labor.

For example, Kim Hughes is in charge of the team's offense, and John Lucas is in charge of the team's defense.

Sposato directs the players' technical moves, Meyer directs specific tactics, and so on.

They all revolved around Dunleavy and followed Mike Dunleavy to guide the players in training and play.

Originally, everyone was panicked this season, but after the team slipped from the top, everyone could feel that the table was about to disperse.

Once Dunleavy leaves the Clippers, a new coach will be on top.

At that time, the day will come when everyone will leave the Clippers and go to other teams to find jobs.

Who knew that after Smart Min was airborne, the policy of stability was overridden, and everyone did not move their work, and their wages were raised.

Then the team's results gradually improved, and everyone worked with peace of mind and did a good job in daily life and training.

If the current momentum continues, it is possible for the Clippers to fight for the playoffs.

It is not easy to get into the top eight in the highly competitive West.

"Mike, Mr. Smart doesn't always care about the team's style of play, why did he suddenly have to attend our training meeting this time?"

John Lucas asked Dunleavy if he was an assistant coach, but he was no worse than Dunleavy in terms of seniority.

Dunleavy was the No. 13 rookie in 1976, and John Lucas was the No. 1 pick that year.

Lucas worked as a head coach at the Cavaliers, and his results were not good, so he came to the Clippers to play Dunleavy.

"Who can figure out what the superiors mean? Smart isn't a basketball guy, though, and we had a good run in November, so he probably wants to change his course and make the playoffs all the way around. ”

Dunleavy sighed, thinking that time on the plane Min Congda analyzed the tactics really shocked him.

Four months ago, this guy clearly said that he was new to basketball, and in just a few months, he has reached this point in understanding basketball.

Dunleavy communicates with Min Congda every day, and he can feel that this person is extremely keen on basketball.

He has his own unique understanding of everything and is not influenced by other people's opinions.

This shows that his judgment does not come from books, not from the teacher's teaching, but all based on the information he receives from the court and his own judgment.

It's a very scary sense of smell on the court, and Dunleavy has only seen it in one person in the past, and that is Magic Johnson.

When he was head coach with the Lakers, Magic Johnson was the kind of guy you didn't need to dictate how to play at all, and your guidance was an obstacle for him and interfered with his judgment.

The timing and node he identified were something that ordinary coaches and players couldn't grasp.

So then Johnson became a coach and was very unsuccessful, because what he could see, his players couldn't see.

He's on the fifth floor, the players are on the second floor, it's too far away to communicate, but it's incomprehensible, it's not executing, and the coach can't do it.

The reason why Dunleavy sighed was mainly because he felt that it was easy for the team to play for a month relatively freely, and he had no record pressure on his shoulders, so he could experiment with the lineup and style of play he wanted to experiment.

Now it's a little better, and I definitely want to make the playoffs.

Once you have to make the playoffs, you have to get busy again.

Now Dunleavy regularly rotates eight, occasionally giving players at the end of the bench a chance.

will also use a pure substitute lineup, play five up and five down, one big, four and three defenders or something.

When the team was going to produce results in '05 and '06, Dunleavy was used in a six-man rotation.

Now optimistic that the days are coming to an end?

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