The Whip of the God of Basketball

Khomeinis finished eating the chicken legs in her hands and wiped her hands with a tissue. She looked at Leon sitting on the sofa in a daze and asked with concern: "What are you thinking about? Why did Auerbach do this?" ? Wondering if you hate him a little for setting up so many obstacles for you? "

Khomeinis knew Leon's feelings for Auerbach. During this month, she accompanied Leon on vacation and helped him make plans and collect information. The conjecture that everything was manipulated by Auerbach was raised by Khomeini. She pointed out with female intuition that the most unlikely person is often the final answer.

Leon shook his head and said: "I will never hate him, even if he no longer lets me be the head coach... I am just thinking about whether that plan will be effective... I never thought about becoming a successful coach. Coaching needs that level of sophistication."

Khomeinis touched Leon's head and rubbed Leon's hair with her slender fingers. She liked to rub his smooth black hair like this, and then said: "If you start playing football since you were a child, you can enter the middle school team." . Then he entered the college team, and there was a coach who was relatively famous in the basketball world. He played basketball in college for four years, and then tried to play professional basketball but failed. So he stayed in school and worked in basketball, starting as a team leader. , become a college scout, become an assistant coach, and then be recommended by the head coach to become a head coach at a certain school. During this period, you may become famous in the NCAA, or you may enter the professional basketball circle by chance and become a basketball worker. After five years of training, In ten years, you can start to be a head coach and add your basketball ideas to your own team. You may succeed or you may fail. You may stay in the NBA for a long time or you may leave quickly. To get to this point, you need to go through about 30 years. But, Fox, my dear, it only took you three years to complete the path that others took 30 years, so it is reasonable for this path to be more complicated. "

"The way you preach is exactly like your father." Leon joked after listening to a large section of Khomeini's words. As one of the team owners, Pagliuca often likes to give long speeches.

Khomeinis hit Leon's arm with her fist, glared at him with an angry look, then stood up, took out a book from her bag, handed it to Leon and asked: "Read this book?" Is it finished?"

What Khomeinis is holding is the famous group psychology work "The Crowd" by a French sociologist. A week ago, Khomeini recommended this book to Léon Jean. He read carefully.

Leon glanced at it, took the book from Khomeinis's hand, flipped through it and said: "After reading more than half of it, I happened to see 'Group leaders and their methods of persuasion', 'If you want to quickly lead a group of people , let them make up their mind to do something... They must be influenced by quick hints, and the most effective one is the power of example... If you want your thoughts and beliefs to penetrate into the minds of the group, the leader's method is different, they mainly Three very clear methods were adopted, assertion, repetition and infection..."

Leon read one of the paragraphs. He was a very fast reader, with ten lines at a glance and an amazing memory. However, he read this book very slowly, because every time he read a paragraph, he would fall into deep thinking, thinking about his Celtic experience. Think about everything a person has done since he became a head coach, and think about whether the content written in the book is helpful to him in coaching a team and controlling a team.

A week ago, Leon and Khomeinis were in Detroit together. They were collecting old NBA news at the Detroit State Library. There were a large number of reports, columns and articles about the confrontation between the Celtics and Pistons in the mid-to-late 1980s. news. After sorting out how the Bad Boys reached the top step by step, Khomeinis put forward an opinion to Leon. She hoped that Leon could use this fight and suspension to change his past silent and calm attitude. The image has transformed into a dictator who is good at instigating, speaking and exaggerating.

Khomeinis believes that in the NBA, a place full of confrontational hormones, passion is always on the court. The team as a group is very susceptible to the influence of emotion rather than reason. A three-minute reasoned analysis during the timeout, compared with Less than ten seconds of incitement.

Khomeinis quoted Le Pen's words in "The Crowd", "The impulses to which crowds obey may be generous or cruel, heroic or cowardly, but they It will be so powerful that no individual’s interests or sense of self-preservation can compete with it.”

When there are more and more negative news about Leon recently, Khomeinis is not worried about Leon at all. She does not think that these negative news will really harm Leon. For competitive sports, as long as it can With the final victory, all the negative news in the past will disappear and become a wonderful footnote that the prodigal son will return with nothing in return.

Instead, Khomeinis sees this as an opportunity, an opportunity for Leon and Celtic. When those naughty media say something laudatory in order to cater to the fans, they often have prepared a plan B to make things worse, and they will criticize the team when the team being praised suffers a setback. However, this will only be harmful to the players and the team. On the contrary, when those teams and players who have always been questioned and undervalued are forced to really focus on basketball itself, success often follows, and the sweet words in the newspaper pages also come unexpectedly.

If Celtic and Leon continue to accept praise from the media, or those seemingly "meaningful" praises, some hopeful compliments, then they may encounter ups and downs like a roller coaster on the rugged road ahead. Public opinion evaluations are unpredictable at times. The most obvious example is Anfernee Hardaway and his Orlando Magic. Although the fundamentals that destroyed the Magic were stupid management and injuries, optimistic public opinion made the entire team and city blind at that time, thus losing their The drive to see the future clearly and come together as one.

Khomeinis proposed a strategy for Leon, which is to let him learn from Isiah Thomas, figure out the psychology of the media and fans, say some inappropriate words when necessary, and break some negative news to make public opinion change. He always maintains a high-pressure posture against the Celtics. As long as the team's record does not collapse, this kind of high pressure will only make the Celtics group more united and more cohesive.

Just like the New York Knicks in 1999, the lack of optimism from the outside world, constant injuries, and the eighth playoff position in the Eastern Conference made the entire Knicks team fall into a tragic fantasy of being the enemy of the whole world, and thus burst out. He showed great mental fighting power and advanced all the way to the finals until he fell under the cold Spurs twin towers.

Therefore, Leon would find Andy Miller. On the one hand, he confirmed Popper's position, and on the other hand, he made a request that Miller could not understand.

Of course, Leon still has doubts about this strategy. This is undoubtedly fighting fire with fire, dancing on the edge of the cliff. Once he fails to control it, not only will he be ruined, but it will also cause the Celtics to fall apart again. After all, the current NBA It is not as rough and unrestrained as it was in the 1980s, with a strong atmosphere of the world. This is a business alliance that pays attention to appearance and brand. God knows how Stern will punish this stubborn green cancer due to excessive negative news.

"Khomeinis... maybe... I mean maybe, this plan will not succeed, then I will be like a clown and leave in dejection amidst everyone's ridicule. I will be worse than Pitino, O'Brien and Carroll are both in a panic. Just like when I was in the bar three years ago, when I broke the noses of three guys and walked out of the door to blow the cold wind, I felt that the world was unfamiliar." Leon Watching Khomeini express his concerns.

Khomeinis stepped forward and hugged Leon's head, took the book from his hand, turned to the chapter "Group Faith", and read: "Today, most rulers do not have altars, but there are Statues or portraits. People's worship of them is no different from the past. Only by deeply understanding this basic point of group psychology can we understand a little bit of historical philosophy. For groups, there must be a god, otherwise everything will be discussed If you don’t go to...Fox, you will either turn into ashes or become a god..."