The Whip of the God of Basketball

Facts have proved that the Hornets' team offense still cannot withstand the impact under the Sun's unrestrained system. Leon has fought Scott too many times and knows him too well. Knowing that his team is too rigid and lacks in creativity, it is difficult to win in chaos when encountering a team whose overall strength is stronger than his own, or if the weak wins the strong, he will always be run over.

Throughout the game, Leon didn't call too many timeouts, but just gave Nash instructions to keep attacking, attacking, and attacking until the Hornets' steady rhythm was broken up, and even Chris Paul couldn't control it. Can fight alone to continue life.

In the end, with an advantage of 119:107 and 12 points, the Suns beat the Hornets from start to finish, giving the emerging upstart a blow.

After this game, Leon kept his promise, realized his ideal, and became a hands-off shopkeeper-type coach. If you can sit without standing, if you can speak without speaking, let D'Antoni direct. It's like I have carefully designed the structure and characters of a storyline, how to develop and operate in the future is up to the readers to play by themselves.

This allowed every player in the Suns to use their brains and truly display their creativity on the offensive end. The Suns have changed from a turkey with only one brain to an annelid with many brains, and they can operate smoothly without anyone. This is the new realm that Leon has pursued in coaching the team in the past few years. The so-called governance by doing nothing, autonomy is better than coercion.

The Suns have been going smoothly in the first half of the season. There were some stumbles in the middle and late stages, but injuries did not hinder them. They entered the playoffs with the No. 1 record in the Western Conference.

Not surprisingly, Leon won the best coach again, and Nash won the MVP title for the third time, surpassing Kobe and Chris Paul.

Then in the playoffs, the Suns beat their old rival, the Spurs, and let out a sigh of relief with a 4:0 sweep. In the Western Conference Finals, the Lakers who got Gasol were solved in 6 games. Facing the Celtics of the old club and the Celtics of the new Big Three in the finals, they fell behind 0:2 in the first two games. Leon was hated by Boston fans. He called it a traitor. Only Kevin Garnett, hugging Leon warmly before the game, didn't care about anyone's criticism.

After returning to the home court, the Suns team burst out with great energy. Fans all over Phoenix gathered to cheer for the Suns and Leon. They have lost too many opportunities in history and have too many regrets. With a lot of pressure and motivation, the Suns won three games in a row, including Nash's lore in Game 5, and returned to Boston with match point.

In Game 6, at the TD North Shore Garden, under the boos of 18,000 Boston fans, the Suns led the Celtics by 20 points at halftime. Leon proudly lit the victory cigar and was sent off. After that, the Suns The team scored 141 points with a super high shooting percentage, slaughtered the Celtics, and brought the sun to the top of the world with the most brilliant game in team history, known as the cigar massacre in history.

Leon, who had completed his mission, did not renew his contract. Instead, he chose to leave Phoenix and return to coaching at the university, focusing on training young players and developing new basketball tactics, and said that he would not return to the NBA.

(End of the book)

(As for the description of coaching, it is better to save it for the next book.)