Mutombo covered Walker's layup, Rodman got the rebound, gave Arenas, three-pointer, didn't score. The 76ers got the ball, Iverson's fast break! Wow! A one-stop layup! The ball went in again, and he scored 25 points. ”

"You're a Bostonian, you're a Celtics fan, please don't be so happy when the 76ers score."

"Hmph, I know I'm a Celtics fan, but I'm happy for Iverson's goal and has nothing to do with the 76ers."

Leon lay on the bed with her eyes closed and listened to the fallacies of Khomeenez, she knew that there was no point in reasoning with women, it was better to lie on the bed obediently to relieve the headache caused by the cold and fever and dream memories. It can also be heard from the results of Ayatollah Khomeiniz on the live game that the Celtics played very hard in Philadelphia tonight, and the 76ers' meat grinder-like defense put the Celtics, who have no offensive system, into a quagmire. Mutombo dominated the interior, barely giving the Celtics a chance to grab rebounds in the frontcourt, and effectively disrupted every player who came into the interior offense. In this case, the Celtics could only focus entirely on the outside line, but tonight the Celtics' offensive touch was the worst of the season, especially Antoine Walker, who began to shoot outside the three-point line without Leon's prompts, and he didn't hit any of them.

This extremely bad feeling even affected the team's shooting confidence, playing iron on the outside again and again, unable to grab the frontcourt rebound, unable to defend back, being counterattacked, and the opponent scored easily. The team began to collapse in the third quarter, the offense was paralyzed, the defense was ineffective, and there was no good momentum of the firepower and aggressive defense of the previous period. Leon was lying on the bed and not watching the game, just listening to Ayatollah Khamenez's amateur commentary, he could imagine the miserable appearance of the Celtic team being beaten to ashes.

Leon couldn't know much more about the structure of this team, they have special weirdos on the inside, Walker who is addicted to three-point points on offense, and Rodman the rebounding monster on defense, but there is one less standard interior player with offense, defense and height. Fortunately, the teams in the East are generally not very strong on the inside, Kenyon Martin is still too young, and Olajuwon is too old to be like the West interior beasts. So while the Celtics are still walking in the East for most of their games, their interior disadvantage is not yet obvious.

Moreover, the Celtics have the most potential outside group in the East, and under Carroll's gradual adjustment, the Celtics' offense has shifted from bright and smooth during the O'Brien era to ferocious and violent. At present, it seems that the team's offensive style has not changed significantly, and Leon, who is quite sensitive to tactics, can feel that some of the team's offensive details and guidelines are changing. For example, the players are more decisive in their shots and have greater tactical autonomy in a small area, which gives the Celtics more seemingly unreasonable offensive options, but it also makes the team's offensive firepower more ferocious, and the team's offensive explosiveness has become extremely strong.

The flaw is that it is explosive, and once it wilts, it will directly fall to the bottom, as evidenced by tonight's game against the 76ers. The 35-year-old Mutombo on the inside left the Celtics at a loss, especially Arenas, who felt the defensive power of the NBA's All-Defensive Player and All-Defensive Team for the first time. And on the defensive end, he couldn't be found by Philadelphia's son Huang Di's mother. In this game, Arenas had 2 points, 1 assist and 3 turnovers, and suffered the most painful hit the wall in the new season.

Other players are also in a slump, without a good and suitable offensive system, it is easy to let poor form and low morale contagion on the court, and then fall into the fragmentation of fighting separately and alone, and finally being completely defeated by the opponent.

"The 76ers have made a substitution, and Iverson is gone." Khomeenes didn't care how many thoughts were in Leon's head, but continued to follow Iverson's movements. Leon had to admit that in this era, Iverson had an unparalleled charisma among fans. Even if he himself, after experiencing the glory of the 2001 season of the Phillies of the People, even if he could perceive the weaknesses and flaws of this little man, he must pay high respect and infinite emotion to the dazzling brilliance that he bloomed in that season. To a certain extent, the tragic atmosphere of heroism infected Leon, making him have a deeper love for basketball and a more ambitious pursuit.

"Alright, turn off the TV, Khomeenes, the game is over early, I want to take a good rest." Leon patted Khomemenis and said. Khomeenes turned off the TV, gave Leon a gentle kiss on the head, and closed the door and left the room. Holmenez is like this, in her feelings for Leon, she does not have the slightest drag, like the wrinkled, pretty and lovely pleated dress, Leon watched her leave the room, turned over, but remembered the past.

This time with a cold and fever, Leon released some more memories, including catching birds in the woods with his friends as a child, and playing with ice on a frozen lime pond in winter. But the most profound are those clips from high school. Every day at noon, at school, the big TV in the cafeteria starts playing NBA games, and the boys sit around the TV to watch the NBA live. He and his classmates watched the game while eating, and after eating, they stood by the TV and watched, they loved to watch the basketball hero from China wear a fiery red jersey to show his superb skills, and sincerely hoped that this giant could create his own basketball dynasty. Of course, in addition to him, there are two other Chinese pioneers in the NBA, and Leon still remembers the game when Anderson traded to the Celtics, the 6-foot-11" Mongolian big man in the Nuggets has long existed in his memory.

When these memories and emotions soaked into his mind, Leon realized that he was not emotionless about basketball in the past, but on the contrary, he had a passionate basketball dream when he was a teenager, like many children his age. It's just that with the growth of age and the grinding of life, those unrealistic fantasies are diluted with the passage of time. Those beloved stars, obsessive performances, and sweat and smiles on the pitch have also been thrown out of their bags in the difficult trek of life. It's like the body he has now, he was once drunk by the mountains and tsunamis in Boston Garden Square, cheering for the greatness of the Green Army, but in the end he was flattened to the ground by the fist of fate, and he fell into that state.

"There are always many things to be lost in life, and there is nothing more imperceptible and heart-wrenching than the loss of dreams." Leon got out of bed, took out his pen and wrote it on the title page of the bookbook "Heart of Atlantis" on the Khomeenes bookshelf, which lay quietly on the far left of the third row before being taken down.

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By the next day, Leon's fever had subsided, and in the middle of the night he was sweating profusely, taking away all the excess heat from his body. In the morning, Leon left a hearty breakfast for Khomeenes and left her house for the training gym.

The Celtics rushed back to Boston overnight after yesterday's heavy loss, and when the players disbanded in the evening, Carroll told the team that they would come to practice early the next morning. Leon also received a text message from Carol, but instead of asking him to participate in training, he asked about his physical condition and informed him of today's training plan, and it didn't matter if he couldn't come. Of course, a workaholic like Leon won't sleep at Ayatollah Khomeiles, and he knows that a big defeat would be a good thing for the Celtics.

The team's exposed hardware flaws, and some details will also be revealed, Leon can't wait to go to the video studio to watch the video footage of the last game and edit it carefully, there must be a huge number of problems waiting for him.

When he arrived at the training gym, Leon found that Danny Angie was also there, and Angie was a little surprised to see Leon come, and the two chatted for a while after inquiring about his condition. For Anderson's trade some time ago, Angie's operation was still relatively perfect, and the team sent Brown and McCarty contracts to get another big garbage contract, which was criticized by many media. However, Anderson has made rapid progress since his arrival, although he still lacks the ability to take charge of himself, and there are many off-court problems, but following the teacher Rodman's learning, the rebounding ability has skyrocketed, and he will ask Leon for a video every day to master the mystery of the rebounding point. In some games where the opponents are weaker, he has shown the potential of a new generation of inside monsters, and his blocking ability is much better than Rodman's.

The most critical thing is that the Celtics also sent a future first-round pick in the trade, and the Nuggets originally wanted the Celtics to trade the draft pick from the Grizzlies, but Angie sternly refused, and he would rather send his team's draft pick than the Grizzlies' pick. Of course, this is a complex pick that involves an old trade between the Grizzlies and the Pistons, and Leon has a detailed understanding of this deal because it is related to the final year and pick of the Celtics team.

"I think the Grizzlies have to make the deal with the Pistons go through next year, otherwise we're going to get a lot less in the interest." Leon said bluntly to Angie.

Angie nodded, but he didn't have that ability to let the Grizzlies cash in on the deal, that was the Grizzly Bears' management team. And what role will this signing position play, in fact, Anji himself is not sure.

"There's always a way, and that's going to be a game-changer, but we still have more than a year to go." Leon said to Angie, and after saying that, he went into the video room. You know, Leon's mind is not only reminding of dreams, but also reality and the proverbial summer of 2003.