The Whip of the God of Basketball

There are always some things in a person's personality that are difficult to change. Maybe he will make a change in a flash of inspiration for a while, but in the long run, he will still respond to that sentence, the country is easy to change, but the nature is hard to change.

As the head coach of the team, Leon began to pay attention to "player personality", which is often overlooked by people, when he first started as a scout. Many times scouts always focus on the player's body, technical level, statistics and other objective things. Leon is different. He values ​​a player's character, growth experience and maturity, so he always has a basic personality standard when selecting players. Don't try hard, don't have a loose personality, and don't have perseverance.

Like Arenas, who grew up in a single-parent family, has a stubborn and arrogant personality. He has been underestimated by others since he was a child, but he has been slapping those who look down on him, so Leon chose him. Joe Johnson, who grew up in an ordinary and harmonious family, has a gentle but tough personality, and has the temperament of making a fortune in silence; Michael Reid is a devout Christian, his father is a pastor, and his biggest dream is to give his father Buy a church, his personality is low-key and restrained, which fits the Celtic style very well. There is also Dalembert, who was born in Port-au-Prince. His parents went to France in his early years, and he lived alone with his grandmother, which was extremely difficult. Afterwards, he immigrated to Canada to play, which gave him a very strong willpower and the ability to learn. Including Steve Kerr and Chris Anderson. Before choosing them, Leon, in addition to examining the player's ability and team needs, valued their personality, the kind of good character that is suitable for the team and suitable for hard work.

Wang Zhizhi may be an exception, but his reticence is more cultural than a character flaw, and Leon will have the confidence to watch him establish himself in the NBA.

In addition to having such research on his own players, Leon will also seriously understand the personalities of other team players, especially the superstars of other teams. The way to understand is either hearsay, the news media, or personal contact. For example, Kevin Garnett, through personal contact with him, Leon knew that this is a very contradictory guy. There are two completely different souls living in his body, so that he will be controversial. That's why Leon chased this player in a blatant way. He knew that under the continuous direct pursuit, the contradictory people would inevitably have a wavering day.

Compared to Garnett, Kobe Bryant is a completely different person, aside from his love for basketball and his fierce competitiveness. Leon didn't have much contact with him, but he got to know the young superstar of this league from the news media, TV interviews and games. Leon thought he was not complicated at all, and he lived in a wealthy basketball family since he was a child. , There is a former NBA player father who grew up in Italy. His life is simple and pure, that is, only basketball. Everything in his life revolves around basketball, he lives for basketball, he fights for basketball, and all other things brought about by basketball are accessories and are not important. He is a ball fanatic.

So Leon knows that in such a predicament, in this game situation, under the premise that his teammates are not performing as expected, and under the absence of the leader of the team, Kobe Bryant will definitely not pass the ball !

It's not because of his bad personality, it's not because he can't pass the ball, it's just because he believes that only by his continuous offense can the team win and win. He is for winning, not for scoring.

However, his ability is obviously not enough for him to complete such a reverse task, especially when Fox Leon is already prepared. After the timeout ended, the Lakers sent a sideline ball to attack, Kobe received the ball, and he dribbled the ball on the right side outside the three-point line. At this time, Paul Pierce was already defending him one-on-one. Pierce has never made an All-Defensive team defensively, but his weight, strength and judgment are enough to make him an excellent one-on-one defender when he gets serious. In comparison, although Michael Reid is more aggressive, his experience is still insufficient, especially when facing attacking masters who are full of fake moves.

The Celtics' bench is facing the Lakers' offensive side, and Leon can clearly observe the one-on-one matchup between Pierce and Kobe at close range. But it seems that the Lakers are not ready to "let everything come to Kobe." Know what to do next.

At this time, Chris Anderson began to move closer to Kobe. Pierce gave way to the line in the middle of his right. If Kobe tried to go from the middle at this time, Anderson would come up and close the door. In fact, another player would choose to hang the ball to Holly at this time. Holly can attack from the middle. After all, Anderson was a bit out of position, but Kobe did not. He is Kobe after all. He chose to force a shot in front of Pierce. .

Before the shot, he leaned towards Pierce with his whole body, obviously like a foul by Bo, but Pierce is also a master at cheating fouls, he was not fooled at all, he leaned back slightly to avoid the physical contact with Kobe, and then Seeing that Kobe's shot didn't even touch the basket, but hit the backboard and fell off. Samaki Walker picked up the rebound and wanted to make a layup, but the referee's whistle blew because Walker stood in the three-second zone for too long, three seconds.

There is no doubt that Leon's strategy is correct. Although the Lakers are not the kind of team that only relies on superstars to play, they are a team driven by superstars. The offense will stall. However, blacksmithing seems to be a contagious virus. When the Lakers missed two consecutive offenses, the Celtics also began to fail to make consecutive shots. From the third quarter to the fourth quarter, the Lakers scored 5 points. The Walters scored 6 points, and the touch of the two teams seemed to have disappeared under the leadership of Kobe.

However, although Leon predicted that Kobe would not pass the ball, he still underestimated the paranoia and stubbornness in Kobe's heart. By the beginning of the fourth quarter, Kobe had already made 30 shots and only hit 11 of them. 24 points, 6 rebounds and 4 assists, very low offensive efficiency. However, his crazy shots really started in the fourth quarter.

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Leon has always had an ability, that is, when he sees a player take a shot, he can judge whether the goal can be scored with a good degree of accuracy. In fact, after watching a lot of basketball games, most people will have a little bit of this ability. When throwing some balls, you can feel in advance whether the ball will go in or not by looking at the player's shooting posture and the flight trajectory of the ball in the air. It must be very accurate.

The difference between Leon and ordinary people is that his judgment is quite accurate, and his judgment often does not depend on the trajectory of the ball. Many shots can be known to be biased, heavy, or light just by looking at the trajectory of the ball. Leon doesn't need it, he can make a judgment only by looking at his hand shape and rhythm. For a game of this level in the NBA, if a player can keep his shot without deforming or slowing down under high confrontation, then the ball will be scored. The probability is very high. Leon's mind is like a super computer, which stores many holographic pictures of players' shooting postures. When a player makes a shot, he will match the shooting postures he sees with the pictures in his mind, and then use probability calculations to give A probability result of entering or not entering.

This is why Leon can perform off-the-ball simulation training during training. Without his brain and judgment, such training cannot be carried out at all.

In the fourth quarter, Leon had to use this ability on Kobe, because a bad situation he didn't want to see happened. Kobe Bryant was still shooting crazily in the fourth quarter, and his hits were not high enough. But the Celtics encountered two problems. First, the drop in shooting percentage from the second half of the third quarter continued. The Lakers finally gave up the habit of shrinking their defense and expanded their defensive area. At this time, the Celtics The biggest problem-the disadvantage of lacking low-post attackers has been exposed. In the case of outside players who inevitably have cold hands, there is no inside offensive master to stabilize the situation.

Second, although Kobe was hitting the iron, he was also scoring goals, and the referee's whistle began to sound frequently. Kobe began to walk to the free throw line continuously. It's a little late to catch up, but they are the champions after all, after all, they are the overlords of the three consecutive championships. The team's confidence and psychological quality are not comparable to the Celtics.

Finally, when Arenas forced a breakthrough to score the ball, Derek Fisher made a dribble charge and the ball was given to the Lakers. At this time, the gap between the two sides was only three points. After falling behind by more than ten points, the Lakers actually relied on Kobe's willful offense to slowly rush back. So far Kobe has taken 40 shots, scored 15 goals, scored 37 points, 8 rebounds and 4 assists-the assists will basically not change.

With less than three minutes left before the end of the fourth quarter, the Lakers' offense, they have a chance to tie the game in this offense. The hearts of the fans at the scene once again raised their throats, including Auerbach. At the beginning of the game, he was still watching the game wearing a pair of sunglasses and leaning on a cane. I watched from the chair.

Kobe once again held the ball across the half court, still attacking from the right side he was used to, no pick-and-roll, no cover, facing Paul Pierce, he made a slight adjustment, dribbled the ball with his left hand sideways to near the top of the arc, and suddenly jumped directly for three Break up!

The moment Kobe made a shot, the hearts of all the North Shore Garden fans almost jumped out. For a player like Kobe, even if he missed three-pointers ten times before, he would still take the shot at the eleventh chance, and firmly believed that he could shoot. Score this goal.

But at the moment of Kobe's shot, Leon yelled towards the court: "The ball is not in! Rebound from the front basket!"

When Chris Anderson heard this sentence, he got into the three-second zone almost instantly, and then was stuck facing the basket. Sure enough, the ball hit the front of the basket and fell into Anderson's arms. Anderson immediately passed the ball back to Arenas after receiving the ball. Arenas, who had no bright spots in the game, sent the most beautiful pass in the game. The ball is sent to Paul Pierce who has driven into the center line. Pierce used his strong body to push away Kobe who was chasing behind him, all the way to the basket, and made a layup with his left hand.

The North Shore Garden exploded. A decisive goal originated from Leon's prediction, because he knew the moment Kobe shot the ball. It will be short, and because the shot is very positive and there is no problem with accuracy, it is likely to be a front rebound. During the simulation training without the ball, as long as Leon shouted "rebound to the front basket", the players would squeeze to the front of the basket and jump hard, and then Leon would judge who got the rebound.

So Chris Anderson almost subconsciously rushed to the front of the basket and picked up the rebound.

Kobe, who missed a goal, obviously did not believe in evil. He looked at Leon coldly and walked past him. Leon knew that this guy must definitely score a goal in front of him.

Sure enough, Kobe held the ball on the left again. This time he used his back to resist Pierce, and then walked to the baseline, stepping back with a slightly fadeaway jumper. At this time, Leon shouted again: "The strength is great, the left front basket!" Just after finishing speaking, the ball deviated from the correct line and hit the front left side of the basket. This time the Celtics did not have time to get stuck in advance Bit, chaos at the basket.

Samaki Walker grabbed the offensive rebound but was blocked by Anderson for a layup. Bryant got out of nowhere and grabbed the ball, then shook Anderson, picked the basket with a fingertip of his left hand, and sent the ball into the basket, 39 points.

After the goal, Kobe pointed to Leon, meaning he scored a goal. Leon shook his head and smiled knowingly, he really wanted to tell Kobe this distance, and I would go in too, but he still stabilized his mentality and continued to devote himself to the game.

Kobe's missed three-pointer undoubtedly became a turning point in the final stage of the game. Then Kobe missed all three outside shots, and they were all predicted in advance by Leon on the sidelines. In this way, the more accurate Leon is, the less accurate Kobe is, and the more accurate Leon is, the more Kobe wants to vote.

When the game progressed to the last second, the Celtics had already led the Lakers by five points 101:96. When the game was completely over, Kobe still tried to force a three-pointer from the outside. Kobe shot the ball very reluctantly, and his shooting posture was completely deformed. He pushed and threw it with his right arm and left hand together, and the ball drew a very high arc.

"You-get-it! But-it's-over! (You made it, but it's over)" Leon shouted at Kobe on the sidelines, no one cared about whether the goal was scored or not. The fans have already started to celebrate, the Celtics players have started to embrace, and the Lakers players have started to leave the court. Only Kobe and Leon still care about whether the goal will be scored or not.

When Leon finished saying "over", the ball hit the backboard, hit the board into the basket, a three-pointer, Kobe's last shot, the 47th shot of the game, and the 17th goal, got The 42nd point of the half.

47 shots, 17 goals, created a record of 30 iron strikes in a single game, the first iron king in the new century, and even the first iron king after the 1980s, only Chamberlain, Barry and Falcao can be more iron than him .

Leon looked at the back of Kobe leaving the court with his shoulders lowered and his head bowed after scoring a goal. He knew that he might not care about the embarrassing record of blacksmithing at the moment. After all, he lost the game, which was the only thing he cared about.

At this time, the Celtics players rushed up to hug him, blocking his view. At this time, he is happy and joyful, because he has won.

"You have won enough things, and it's our turn." Surrounded by the players, Leon raised his right arm high.