Chapter 404: Boston That Must Grow
(Ask for a commuter pass)
"It's miserable, it's so miserable, the coach seems to have a big opinion of Tracy"
"yes, just finished the Carter training method and started training again without a 10-minute break, James, was the same when you were the coach against Carter when you were at Wake Forest?"
In Boston 2001, the time has come to December, and after a crazy road trip for a while, the Boston Celtics once again have the opportunity to rest at home. {}
In fact, for many Boston Celtics players, they now prefer to fly on an away plane all the time, because the days of resting on their home court are more tiring than taking off to play on the road.
Although the game will be very tiring, it is much easier than staying at their home stadium every day to 'play' with Maddie's 48-minute 'Carter training method', the Chinese coach is really devilish.
Of course, the Boston Celtics players have a lot of 'opinions' about Zhuang Fei's current situation, because many NBA players have rarely been forced to train like this by the team coach after entering the NBA from college or high school, and this kind of training method and intensity are only available in college.
"Hehe, Vince had a lot less training than Tracy now" James Posey sat on the court and watched Maddie, who was constantly practicing shooting on the training ground, remembering his time in college, when they were in college, they were blown away as soon as they entered the team. Fierce mad practice' At the beginning, they also had a great opinion of Zhuang Fei, but in the end, they slowly succumbed to Zhuang Fei's obscenity, but compared to his own time, the current Maddie of his team is too unlucky, in James Posey's opinion, the coach is more ruthless to this swingman than to the group of players in Wake Forest.
"Well, Tracy won't offend the coach, right?"
After getting James' answer, the other Celtics players also looked thoughtfully at the somewhat thin and sluggish figure on the training court.
"Tracy. Move it. You can't have no one in front of you when you're playing, and you can't just stand still and get a shot, remember. I don't need a three-pointer who shoots 90 percent from the field in practice but only 20 percent in the game."
Zhuang Fei shouted at Maddie, who was practicing shooting with his trainer on the training court, at this time, the Boston Celtics had just practiced the Carter training method as a team, and the Carter training method was a very intense 48-minute intra-team match. Originally, after the end of the match, the players needed to rest for half an hour and then conduct other training, but Zhuang Fei directly threw Maddie, who had played 48 minutes, to the training ground again after Maddie rested for 10 minutes, so that the team's organizational core could practice three-point shooting. []
"Coach, wouldn't you be too ruthless like this?"
Watching Zhuang Fei continue to put pressure on Maddie on the training ground, Stephen Green on the side was also a little unbearable, in fact, at the beginning of this season, the coach was already very strict with this swingman, and the training subjects of this swingman's organizational striker were already very murderous, if such a somewhat murderous three-point training was added, the team's organizational swingman would not have a little buffer time to rest when the team trained. Add in 82 regular season games, and it's not worth it if you have any injuries due to fatigue. In Green's opinion, players should be the best combination of work and rest. It's just that to the disappointment of the assistant coach, Zhuang Fei did not intend to take any of his advice. Still kept yelling at Maddie. Seeing this scene, Stephen Green also sighed and stopped talking. This coach of mine is too stubborn. …,
"Tracy. If you can't shoot 40% from three-point range this season, you're going to be trained by me every day."
Facing the trainer's defense on the training court, Maddie, who had already thrown out of the space and was ready to shoot three-pointers, couldn't help but tremble in his heart after hearing a word from his head coach on the sidelines. The legs, which were already extremely tired, were also weak, so the three-point shot this time was also a blue hollow because of some weakness.
40% three-point shooting? And then keep practicing like this?
Hearing the words of his head coach on the sidelines, Maddy's heart trembled a little, his three-point shooting rate this season is only a little more than 29%, when will this shooting rate increase to more than 40%? In fact, he himself also knows that because of the team's joint defensive three-point shooting in the face of the Mavericks in the last game, he shot an embarrassing 5-of-22 three-point shot, and his own shooting rate was even more embarrassing 1 of 9, which is also the reason why his head coach trained him to shoot so hard, Maddie is very clear about all this, but there is still some pain in his heart.
He is not dissatisfied with Zhuang Fei, although his own data in the hands of Zhuang Fei this season is a little insufficient compared to last season, last season he was able to average more than 25 points per game, and this season's average points per game is only for all this Maddie also does not have too many opinions, he knows that this is because he is a little uncomfortable with the change of his style of play, many times in order to meet the responsibility of the coach to organize forwards, he deliberately reduced his shots, So this season's average assists per game reached 8.5, according to the coach's words, he is not yet able to switch between scoring and assists as he wants like Carter, and when he can control his scoring and assists as he wants, his score will rise quickly.
And more importantly, he recently reached the sixth place in the league's official MVP rankings, which is the first time in his career that he has appeared on that list, so Maddie has always believed that even the coach is abusing himself for his own good and to improve his ability.
It's just that this time, even if he knew that the coach's original intention was good, Maddie's heart was also a little turbulent and tangled, in the past, with his own talent, even if he didn't train hard, he could make good progress, and when he thought of this, Maddie's pace of training slowed down again. It's just that just as Maddie's footsteps slowed down, Zhuang Fei on the side shouted again.
Tracy, Carter's three-point shooting percentage this season is 41 percent. The shooting percentage was 49 percent. How many years are you going to surpass him? Five years or ten years? ”
In the face of the sarcastic words of his coach on the sidelines, Maddie, who was a little prepared to be lazy, trembled again and finally accelerated his pace.
Seeing this scene staged by Zhuang Fei and Maddie, the other Boston Celtics players all shook their heads helplessly. This coach of his own has eaten Maddie too thoroughly. Carter is now a demon in Maddie's heart, as long as 2 Zhuang Fei throws out this name, Maddie will definitely take the bait.
"Andre, from today onwards in Tracy's shooting drills, you will defend him instead of the trainer"
Just when Maddie was ready to plunge into training again. Zhuang Fei gave an order directly to the Russian kid next to him who was sitting with other Boston Celtics players, and when Zhuang Fei's command entered Maddie's ear, Maddie's originally fast pace softened and almost fell to the ground.
Let Kirilenko defend? Although the Russian kid was new to the team and only had a training game with the team, the Russian scored only 20 points in today's 48 minutes of play, which is a big spider-like defender. Thinking of this, Maddie was directly speechless. This TM was too painful, but at this time he could only swallow bitter water in his stomach. …,
Unlike Maddie's sudden change in face, Kirilenko was a little excited after receiving Zhuang Fei's instructions, and he liked to defend those players who were better than him. It's just that the other Celtics players on the other side are directly speechless.
How much worse are Maddie and Carter now? If you just look at the data, Maddie's ability is 93, Carter's ability is 97, and the ability gap between the two is only 4. It doesn't seem to be very big. If you take apart all four abilities of the two, the shooting ability of both of them has the potential of A-level, but Carter's current shooting ability is 94. has reached his maximum, and Maddie is 84, a difference of 2 levels, if it is a comparison of offensive ability, the offensive potential of both is A+, Carter's offensive ability is now 98, and Maddie is 94, as for defense, both of them have A+, Carter's current defense is 96, and Maddie is 89, which is also a huge difference, but in terms of physical talent, Maddie's 97 is not much different from Carter's 97.
So in Zhuang Fei's opinion, Maddie's ability score of 93 is a bit 'watery', he doesn't know what the scoring rules of the dynasty system are, but in terms of the current Maddie's shooting: 84, offense 94, defense 89, body 97 compared to Pierce's shooting: 91, offense 94, defense 88, body 93 is a little worse, but Pierce's rating is only a little higher than Maddie, Pierce's ability is 94.
Now Zhuang Fei sees something urgent after this trip to the Southwest, and now if the Boston Celtics can't develop an absolute strong point, it will be difficult to compete in the NBA.
In fact, in the past, Zhuang Fei was ready to give Maddie two years to let him grow up slowly, and finally follow the Boston Celtics to the top, but from the current point of view, two years is too long.
Now although the Boston Celtics have a good record and are ranked very high, they definitely do not have such a good record in absolute strength, and after losing to the Mavericks, Zhuang Fei also has a sense of urgency.
Now Zhuang Fei's abuse of Maddie is only the first step of Zhuang Fei's plan, and then he is ready to slowly give others a boost, if he can, he hopes that the team can transform after half a season, and also hopes that the team will officially start the triangle offensive training after half a season.
Of course, although Zhuang Fei now seems a little harsh on the players who cover the shame, but because of the dynastic system, he has never been afraid that the players will be injured due to overwork, he has always been monitoring the physical condition of these players, as long as there is a problem with the physical condition of these players, he will be faster than the team doctor's judgment, which is also the reason why his team has always rarely had unexpected injuries. So the team doctor Stephen Green was worried about the problem, and he never worried about it.
Zhuang Fei is now planning the team's path for a period of time in the future, and on December 4, the Boston Celtics welcomed the Nuggets who came to challenge.
The Nuggets are currently the third-to-last team in the league, and this team has a slightly better record than the Raptors and Bulls, and this team has now lost three games in a row on their Eastern journey, and this game against the Boston Celtics is also the final game of their Eastern Conference tour.
This game is a game for the Celtics to regain the feeling of victory, after the last somewhat embarrassing loss to the Mavericks, the current third team in the East is in urgent need of a victory to wash away the shame, so this game Boston Celtics did not stay because the Nuggets were too weak, Zhuang Fei and his team started to attack with all their might, and in the first quarter of this game, the Boston Celtics led the Nuggets by 10 points, and after the end of the game, they almost locked the win.
The only thing the Nuggets can do so far is former Lakers All-Star point guard Nick Van Exel, who can contribute an average of 22 points and 8 assists per game this season, which is one of the few players in the league who can contribute 20 points + 8 assists. Naturally, it failed to save the Nuggets.
The final score of the game was 80-115, and the Nuggets lost by 35 points to the Boston Celtics on the road, and the Boston Celtics once again scored in double figures for seven players in this game.
It is worth mentioning that this game is also the debut of Boston Celtics newcomer Russian all-round forward Kirilenko in the NBA, because of the long garbage time in this game, the Russian player played 22 minutes in this game, and in these 22 minutes, the all-round forward scored 10 points, 7 rebounds, 4 assists, 2 steals and 2 blocks. It's just that compared with Kirilenko's all-round statistics, Zhuang Fei attaches more importance to his role as a defensive barrier for the team's second team. This is also Zhuang Fei's biggest gain in this game.
After this game, Zhuang Fei and his Boston Celtics will face their strongest opponent of the season, the Vancouver Grizzlies, who are currently the first in the league to lose two games.