Chapter 358: Mysterious Legends

The Celtics' home stadium, TD North Shore Gardens, has always had some mysterious legends, some of which have been proven but some of which are pure fabrications. Regardless, it's a playground that the rest of the league fears.

In the last century, the Celtic used to manipulate the air conditioning in the stadium, and it was difficult to achieve the purpose of warming up by adjusting the air conditioning temperature to a very low level when the opponent was warming up. The air conditioning was turned off and the heat was turned on during the game, which made it difficult for the opponent to adapt, and the home team has long been accustomed to this environment, and there is no doubt that the away team will eventually return home under the attack of the heat.

They may also not provide hot water to visiting players from afar, which can result in the away players not being able to shower. Because of this incident, many players who played away from home in Boston protested, but the Celtics did not give any reply in the end. Not having hot water may seem like a small thing, but it still has a big impact on the away players, which can also affect their form.

Of course, the whole league has heard the legend of the North Shore Garden Arena floor, and although it has not been confirmed, everyone has a nose and an eye when it comes to it. Rumor has it that there are parts of the floor at the North Shore Gardens Arena that are largely inelastic, and anyone knows what happens when the ball hits the inelastic floor. It is said that every Celtic player will know which floors are problematic when they join the team, and they will force the opponent to go to a specific position during the game and then make a tackle with ease.

Brown has always scoffed at these rumors, but he has to admit that the North Shore Garden Arena is a devil's home stadium, and the Green fans are a group of fanatical believers, after all, they support a team that has won the most championship trophies in NBA history, so every team that comes to Boston to play on the road will be attacked by them, mainly verbally.

However, to Brown's relief, the players who suffered their first loss in the playoffs have regained their motivation in training, and several people, including Bale, have fought to the point of making people feel scared, for fear that they will be injured as a result. But Brown praised their performance and said he had to have that kind of momentum in training.

What if someone gets hurt? It doesn't matter, anyway, with Chang Wei here, Brown believes that his chief assistant can handle everything, as long as he doesn't suffer serious injuries in training, and ordinary minor injuries and illnesses will not affect the team's preparation.

In order to allow the players to settle in as quickly as possible, Brown flew them to Boston the day before Game 3, which will give the players more time to rest. But Brown isn't going to let them rest and start training in the afternoon and start training in the afternoon and do it again in the evening when they arrive in Boston, hoping that the players will be able to find the right fit for the game.

No one said anything about the manager's arrangement, the defeat in the second game was really a big blow to them, and now each of them hopes to give their opponents a little color in the next game, and training has become a place for them to vent their anger. Fortunately, everyone was relatively restrained and did not cause any bloodshed.

Brown was very pleased with everyone's performance, and he knew it was due to Chang Wei. Now the NBA has not popularized psychological counselors, and neither do the 76ers, but Chang Wei, who minored in sports psychology in college, has played this important role well, and his reassurance and enlightenment of players are also an important factor in the 76ers' best record this season.

In fact, after the loss, the 76ers players were very frustrated, especially Bell, who was Pierce's opposing defender and believed that he was not able to defend Pierce and caused the team to lose. Of course that's one of the reasons, but things are in the past anyway and the most important thing now is the third game. Therefore, Chang Wei mainly conducts psychological counseling for him, and he doesn't want to see the team's number one outside gate collapse by himself, so it will be really difficult for the 76ers to win the series.

Luckily, Bale wasn't one to get into the nitty-gritty either, and he managed to recover before the start of the game and was ready to defend Pierce in high spirits. However, no matter what his state is, the starting small forward position is basically his, unless Brown wants to use a three-guard lineup to impact the opponent's defense, otherwise with Lynch's strength on the defensive end, he will not be able to challenge Bale's starting position at all, and the defense of Pierce can only rely on Bale.

On the way to the North Shore Garden Arena, someone accidentally mentioned some legends about this arena, and Iverson didn't feel anything, after all, they have been in the league for a few seasons, and they have played against the Celtics more than once. Only Arenas, Dareham Potter, and Oku were interested in asking questions, not dreading the next game, but rather using it as a little story to pass the time of boredom along the way.

Chang Wei is not convinced by these claims, and it may be that Celtic have indeed played tricks on air conditioning and hot water in the away team's dressing room, but the issue of the floor should be nonsense. Although Chang Wei had heard that the Celtics had been using the old floors of the last century before he was reborn, he had not heard of any players who had suffered unspeakable things at the North Shore Garden Arena.

Everyone talked and laughed all the way to their destination, and after completing the preliminary preparations, Brown took them to the competition venue to warm up. Maybe the chat topic in the car played a role, Arenas, who has always liked to be funny, also deliberately dribbled the ball to run around every corner of the court, and finally he swore that there were a few positions that did feel different, but in Chang Wei's opinion, this guy was completely psychological, or was it just just funny?

To be honest, this time the Celtics did not engage in some off-the-market "hospitality" for their away team, the air conditioning is very powerful, and there is hot water in the locker room, although it looks a little tattered, but this is also the style of the vast majority of teams in the league, and the standard of the home team locker room and the away team dressing room in each arena has always been far from the same.

The whole team of the 76ers is already very satisfied with this kind of treatment, of course, those players who add drama to themselves in their hearts will think that this is the Celtics' hope to win the game in a dignified manner, so that others will not be crooked after the game. However, for whatever reason, the 76ers' pre-game preparation has not been affected, which is a good thing for them, after all, it is not just a team that can walk out of Boston, and it is necessary to prepare for the game to be the best possible.