The Whip of the God of Basketball

John Carroll felt more and more that he couldn't control the Celtics and had to rely on his assistant coach, because there are a lot of bad boys in this team now. Needless to say, Dennis Rodman, until today there are still different opinions on why Rick Pitino traded to Rodman on draft day. Pitino has returned to the NCAA and faded out of the NBA. Unless he comes back to recount his mental journey many years later, it is estimated that no one will know in a short time.

Anyway, Rodman is undoubtedly an outlier among the Celtics' historical players, a freak who "one person's tattoo reaches the sum of the Celtics' history". However, his life here is pretty good. Except for frequent absences from training, being late and spitting in the locker room, he will go all out in every game and make his own contribution to the team. And off-court defeats are not troublesome, and Boston's not-so-rich nightlife seems to be able to satisfy Rodman, provided that Fox Leon takes one day a month to take him to the casino.

As the core players of the team, Paul Pierce and Antoine Walker are both masters with distinctive personalities and difficult to control. One has restrained a lot due to the bar injury incident, while the other is still unrestrained, shooting without scruples on the court. A lot of money is spent off the field. Pierce has great respect for Leon because Leon passed him; Walker is a guy who smiles all day long, but he will be a little more serious when he meets Leon, the iron-faced Hades, and only Leon dares to do it in daily training Criticize Walker for taking too many three-pointers on the field, and list the data to teach him a lesson.

In addition to old fritters and main players, among young players, Arenas is not a fuel-efficient lamp. With a strong personality, his reputation in the team is not very good. As a rookie, he never swallowed his anger. Fortunately, the Celtics are a young team with fewer veterans, and the growth environment for rookies is relatively relaxed. He took care of Arenas a lot before, so this bad-tempered guy still respects Carol. But as soon as Arenas was on the court, he couldn't stop the car. Only Leon patted Arenas on the shoulder during the timeout to calm him down, pass a few balls, and control the rhythm. In the last few games, Arenas has played better and better, more and more confident, and his scoring average has soared from 3.2 points at the beginning of the season to 11.8 points.

What worries Carroll the most is the recently traded Chris Anderson. This wild boy who grew up in Texas has become Rodman's number one disciple in just a few days. Follow the big bug all day long. As soon as he came to Boston, he imitated Rodman and dyed his small crew-cut hair with green hair, and his hair glowed green. He sat with Rodman on the bench and formed a small grassland. Nightclubs, drinking, gambling, etc. are of course not a problem. Fortunately, he also knows that he is a rookie with a basic salary. He is not late for training every day, and he will come to the weight room of the arena early to practice strength. And his personality is not bad. Although he is a little sensitive and introverted, he is not as weird as Rodman, and he is still a young man who can be touched and shaped.

Of course, Carroll still wondered why this guy obeyed Fox Leon. Whenever Leon waved to Anderson during training, he would obediently run to Leon and bow his head to listen to Leon's guidance. After listening, obediently go back to the court to practice basic skills.

This is a group of weird guys with different personalities, old and young, the lineup is not strong, and the former head coach dismissed get out of class. During the period from the end of November to mid-December, they actually played Excellent record of 7 wins and 2 losses. It’s no wonder that Carroll feels he has to rely on Fox Leon. It is because of him that Carroll can put more energy on training the team’s tactics and on-the-spot command. experience and capabilities. Sometimes Carroll wonders if Pitino would have had a different experience in Boston if he had met an assistant coach like Leon earlier.

But something as bad as it happened on December 16th. Leon caught a cold while traveling with the team to Charlotte against the Hornets. Colds are a big problem for Americans, so on the 16th Celtics When the team left for Philadelphia, he flew back to Boston on a flight. In this way, the Celtics had to face the defending champion of the Eastern Conference and their owner, Allen Iverson, in the absence of an assistant coach. This may be the biggest challenge Carroll faces after taking office, even more difficult than playing against the Wizards.

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The reason for Leon's cold is very simple, because after the game in Charlotte, Dennis Rodman and Chris Anderson insisted on taking Leon to swim in the middle of the night, and the three of them sneaked to the eighth floor of the hotel. Closed swimming pool for two hours. It turned out that both Rodman and Anderson had the body of a beast. Although Leon had good physical fitness, he really hadn't exercised for a while, and he was a little tired from flying away from home. A sickness, a cold.

On the morning of the 17th, after taking a special flight back to Boston ahead of schedule, he called the team doctor directly. The team doctor told Leon to go home and rest well, and not to take medicine easily. If you take medicine, please take his prescription to the designated pharmacy. It doesn't matter after that. Leon also didn't dare to go to the doctor casually. He heard Khomeinis say that if he went to the doctor casually because of some minor ailments, especially if he went to the emergency department, he would be scared to death when the medical bill came out.

So Leon dragged his weak body to Khomeinis' house. Today Khomeinis and his roommates went to class. He had the key of Khomeinis's home, so he entered her house by himself, and then found He filled a blanket with an ice pack and went to the study where he often sleeps, closed the door and lay down on the bed to sleep soundly. When Khomeinis returned home after class in the afternoon, she saw that Leon was back by looking at the shoes at the door. He knew that Leon should have been in Philadelphia today. There was only one possibility for him to come back to his home at this time, and that was I got sick.

Sure enough, Khomeinis ran into her study and found Leon lying on the bed wrapped like a caterpillar, with an ice pack on his head, sweating on his face, pale lips but a very red face. It seemed that his condition was not serious. If there is no relief, it is very likely that you have a fever. Khomeinis hurriedly removed the ice pack from Leon's head that had melted long ago. The water in it was slightly hot. She brought the medical kit from the first floor to Leon and tried to stuff the thermometer into Leon's mouth. However, Leon clenched his teeth tightly and closed his eyes tightly, not knowing what terrible dream he was having.

Khomeinis thought for a while, and gently covered Leon's mouth with her lips. Slowly, Leon's mouth was not closed so tightly, and Khomeinis slowly opened Leon's mouth with her tongue. the teeth of. Then, Khomeinis stuffed the thermometer under Leon's tongue, and then held Leon's mouth with her hand to prevent him from biting off the thermometer. After a while, Leon's muscles relaxed, and Khomeinis took out the thermometer to check, only to find that Leon had a fever of 39 degrees!

"No, call an ambulance!" Khomeini became anxious and got up to make a call, but at first Leon grabbed her hand. He woke up and stared at Khomeini with slightly opened eyes. Zhang opened his mouth and said to Khomeinis in a hoarse voice, "Don't do anything, stay here with me."

Seeing Leon's appearance, Khomeinis almost shed tears. This was the first time he saw Leon so weak. In the past, he was always as energetic as a lion, running around the world tirelessly. Finally one day he would be tired and fall ill. Whenever she saw Leon hurt, Khomeinis would feel that a part of her heart had been hit hard.

"Don't cry girl, you know I'm sure I'll be fine. I just had a dream where I went back in time and dreamed things about when I was a kid and dreamed some funny stuff. Now I'm awake and everything is going to be fine, as long as Get some sleep and take some medicine. You see, I have a prescription from the team doctor in my pocket, go to the pharmacy to buy some medicine, and then bring it back to me.” Leon held Huo Menise comforted her with her hand, and asked her to bring the medicine back. It seemed that it would be impossible not to take the medicine.

When Khomeinis bought the medicine back, Leon was already lying on the bed and leaning on the pillow to watch TV, because tonight there will be a live broadcast of the game between the Celtics and the 76ers. Don't want to miss tonight's game.

Khomeinis fed Leon medicine and forced him to lie down and sleep. At Leon's request, Khomeinis finally agreed that she would watch TV to make a live voice broadcast for Leon, and Leon would have to Lie on the bed and close your eyes to rest obediently. Leon still feels very sorry, after all, it is impossible to fully appreciate Iverson's wonderful skills with words.