March went by quickly, with the Celtics winning and losing, and they started to play and go for the upcoming playoffs. I'll tell you that the fastest update of the novel is the eye. Hurry?

Negotiations on a new collective bargaining agreement are also underway. However, the labor negotiations seem to be in trouble, and the gap between the league biting 46% of the league's revenue and the players wanting 54% of the salary share is obviously very large.

Jonny is starting to look less optimistic about the collective bargaining talks, and in Jonny's opinion, it may be difficult to reach a new collective bargaining agreement before June 22.

In the March game, Celtic lost a few and won some. However, this is not the focus of Jonny's attention, Jonny's concern is that as a result of his intervention, the management has brought in a new assistant coach, an assistant coach named Doug Rivers, who is said to be a disciple of Larry Brown, Pat Riley and Yankuaivich.

He was hired by the management at the request of Jonny to adjust the coach of the defense, but this season will not be useful, because the playoffs are imminent, and the team cannot temporarily adjust its defensive system, although the original defensive system is not called a system, but as long as it changes, it is a big change, and it will definitely affect the team in a short time.

However, Doug Rivers' early arrival in the team has already begun to work, he first studied the current composition of the Celtics' lineup, and discussed it with Rick Pitino for a few days, and he already has a general idea. And now Doug Rivers' main job is to coach Ben Wallace alone as Ben Wallace's personal trainer.

Jonny didn't know what Doug Rivers' ability was, but when he heard that he was a disciple of Larry Brown and others, Jonny felt that this coach was still very reliable.

In April, Jonny and Big Ben and others made an appointment to watch the NCAA Finals, this season's NCAA Finals is Kentucky vs. Utah, Kentucky is the team that Celtics head coach Rick Pitino was on before, but the stars of the NCAA Finals this time are a little dim, and the biggest star is the white chocolate Jason Williams of the Utah team.

And Jonny is actually Jason Williams in this game, Jason Williams, who has extremely gorgeous passes, although his strength is not favored by many uniform groups in the NBA. But the flashy nature of the pass still made him a lot of fans, including Jonny.

And in the NCAA finals, Jonny also met Rick Pitino, after all, Kentucky is Rick Pitino's parent team. He was definitely going to come and see, and Jonny said hello to Rick Pitino and went on watching the game.

The final result of this game was that Kentucky won, after all, the overall strength was still stronger in Kentucky, and Utah played to the end. It's actually Jason Williams, but Jason Williams, who passes the ball gorgeously, has a super high turnover, which also puts Utah in a desperate situation.

After the game, Rick Pitino smiled happily, and as a Kentucky veteran, he also accepted congratulations from Jonny and others.

The NCAA Finals are over, and overall, this is a not-so-exciting NCAA Finals, and none of the real talents of this NCAA have been able to make it to the finals, such as Paul Pierce. Like Vince Carter.

And Jonny used to focus on Vince Carter, but his University of North Carolina was eliminated in the Final Four.

The rookies in 1998 are currently the most favored are Antoine Jamison and Vince Carter, two North Carolina teammates, but the teams of these two talents were eliminated in the semifinals.

As the game progressed into April, the playoffs gradually became clear, and the Celtics collapsed a bit in the second half of the season, and the result is currently only fourth in the East, while the Chicago Bulls are in first place ahead of the Celtics. The Indiana Pacers in second, the Miami Heat in third, the Bulls and Pacers have left the Celtics behind, and the Miami Heat can still be chased by the Celtics now.

But Jonny flipped through the schedule. They still have 10 games to play, but in these 10 games, the Celtics have to face the Bulls again, facing a strong team like the Knicks, it can be said that it is only theoretically possible to catch up with the Heat, who are three wins behind them.

It can be said that Celtic can only be in fourth place.

And behind the Celtics. The Hornets and the Celtics are also 4 wins apart, and they can't catch up, and the Celtics' opponent in the first round is almost certainly the Hornets, because the gap between the sixth and fifth is even greater, and the Atlanta Hawks and Hornets in the sixth are 7 wins behind, and there is no hope of catching up.

The seventh in the East is the Cleveland Cavaliers, and the eighth is the New York Knicks, which is currently the top eight in the East, but the New Jersey Nets still have a glimmer of hope of making the playoffs in the ninth place, and they are two wins away from the eighth-place Knicks, and John Calyparry is leading his team to the playoffs.

In this way, the playoff matchups in the East are basically clear, the Bulls' opponent should be between the Nets and the Knicks, the Pacers' opponent should be the Cavaliers or the Hawks, and the Heat's opponent will also be one of these two teams.

The Celtics know their opponents, so they naturally have to start practicing tactics against the Hornets at this time, but for Jonny, it seems that there is no need to practice playing the Hornets, Jonny played with the Hornets in the playoffs last season, and this season has played four games with the Hornets, and every time Jonny plays against the Hornets, he will break out.

But the format still has to go, and the Celtics began to practice playoff tactics at the beginning of the April schedule. Most of the tactics are about the Hornets, and some are about the Bulls.

Because the opponent of the Celtics in the semifinals, according to the current view, must be the Bulls, whether it is the Nets or the Knicks, they will not be the opponents of the Bulls.

For Jonny, the Bulls in the semifinals were the biggest headache for him, and the Celtics wanted to maintain their top three rankings at least so that they could avoid the Bulls in the semifinals, but the collapse in the second half left them with the playoffs to think about the playoffs in the fourth place in the East.

The first game in April was the Celtics' away game against the Magic, and they returned to Orlando again, Jonny didn't make much effort this time, the playoffs are coming, and the Celtics' main players can rest, so when the game reached the middle of the third quarter and the Celtics led by 22 points, Jonny went off the court.

In the end, the Celtics won the Magic again, killing the Magic three times this season.

Then, the Celtics challenged the Pistons on the road, at this time the Pistons had missed the playoffs in advance, and the Celtics still had a Pistons draft pick in their hands, and this time they met the Pistons, naturally they were not merciless, directly beating the Pistons by 12 points, which made the Pistons drop by one place, and also made the Pistons draft picks in the hands of the Celtics more valuable. (To be continued.) )