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On April 1st, April Fool's Day, Zhuang Fei and Celtic players went to the NCAA finals to witness the NCAA coronation of former Celtics head coach Rick Pitino, and after that game, the interactive picture of Zhuang Fei and Pitino also became the front page headline of basically all media sports pages the next day. The name of Coach Z's successor is overshadowed by this coach, and many University of Maryland fans have directly shouted to Wake Forest University that their head coach can definitely surpass the miracles that Coach Z has created in the ACC league and NCAA.

It can be said that after the NCAA finals, the basketball world in the United States is still noisy, but now Pitino, who has succeeded again in the NCAA, has also immediately washed away his failure in the NBA.

However, for Zhuang Fei, Pitino's provocation is just a small episode, and it is extremely difficult to complete a three-consecutive championship in the current NCAA, not to mention that even if Pitino completes a three-in-a-row championship, it is impossible to surpass Zhuang Fei, unless he can also complete the miracle of winning the championship for three years without defeat. It's just that this manager has lost two games this year. So Zhuang Fei didn't worry too much about anything.

Zhuang Fei is more concerned about the team's next games than Pitino's matter, and now the Boston Celtics have eight games left, and the team's record is now 61-13, which can be said to have lost the competition for the league's first place in the regular season.

The current Celtics are not the Timberwolves, when he was in the Timberwolves, Zhuang Fei did not have too much to worry about the team's first or second round of the playoffs, and the absolute strength of the Timberwolves was absolutely no problem. But this is not the case for the current Celtics, the absolute strength of this team is not a grade worse than the original Timberwolves, not to mention the top in the league like the Timberwolves. Even now, in the entire East, there are as many as four or five teams that can compete with the Celtics in terms of hard power.

For the NBA, a team's hard power is the lower limit that determines a team's performance. The coach is the ceiling of a team, and now the distance between the lower limit and the upper limit of the Celtics is very wide, or the lower limit of this team is a little low and the upper limit is a little high, in this case, the team's performance and strength have a lot of room for change up and down, which is commonly known as instability and no absolute dominance. In such a team, the coach has to work harder and be more prepared.

So after April Fool's Day on April 1, the day after Zhuang Fei and the team returned to the Celtics, on April 2, the Celtics hosted the Heat, who are currently fifth in the East, and the Celtics lost the game when they went to the Heat's home court not long ago. The Celtics felt very bad in that game, but Zhuang Fei didn't have much idea of revenge in this game, because most of the Celtics players participated in the NCAA finals trip with Zhuang Fei a day ago, so it was a bit of a journey, and Zhuang Fei did not let the most regular main players of the season appear in the lineup in this game. In this game, big center Oku and forward Kirilenko and guard Arenas all got a chance, in addition to these three former substitutes, Zhuang Fei also put Walter McCarty in the lineup, and the original Celtic lineup only kept Maddy alone. …,

In this game, Zhuang Fei also wants to test the possibility of Arenas and Maddy coexisting, for now, both of them need to be more powerful when they have the ball, if a team has most of the ball in the hands of outside players. Then the team's tactics have no room for depth, and the most important thing for basketball is the mastery of space, so the effect of the Celtics in this game when Arenas and Maddy are on the court at the same time is far inferior to Maddie and Yao Ming at the same time, or Arenas and Yao Ming are on the court at the same time, so far, Arenas and Maddy are not able to lead the team together.

However, to Zhuang Fei's surprise, when Yao Ming, Maddie and Arenas were on the field at the same time, the effect between the three was very good, especially when the No. 5 tactic with Yao Ming as the core was launched, Arenas and Maddie did not control the ball, but as tactical sharp knives, these two can always find opportunities to go through the back door and cut in, and at the same time, they can echo Yao Ming in a high position.

"The offensive talent of these two people is really strong, if Yao Ming can really become a lever to balance these two people, then it is really possible to integrate the combat power of these two people" Zhuang Fei also moved when he looked at Yao Ming Maddie and Arenas on the court.

It's just that after watching it for a while, Zhuang Fei shook his head again, because the game was playing Yao Ming's old mistake again, his passing was too easy to make the opponent adapt, it can be said that the current Yao Ming is not on the same level as Maddie's offensive awareness of Arenas, and now it is a bit of a fool's dream to let Yao Ming integrate these two people.

However, after finding the direction of the team to be able to integrate Arenas and Maddy, Zhuang Fei was also a little relieved, the most important thing in the NBA is to be able to find the direction, and then move forward slowly, if you can't even find the direction, you can't talk about moving forward at all.

In this game, Zhuang Fei is using the Celtics to test the combination of coordination and personnel, to put it bluntly, he is adjusting his tactics, but for the Heat, they are not like this, they are now competing for the third position, for the Heat, the Pistons have been Wizards. There is no difference between fourth and fifth, and even fourth and fifth are not as good as sixth, and now no one wants to meet the Grizzlies in advance, in this case, if they can get the third position, it is the best choice, so in the end, most of the teams in the league have begun to adjust their state for the playoffs or are busy for the summer draft rebuild, but only these three teams are still desperate, for these three teams. The playoffs have actually begun.

So the result of this game was not so surprising, the Heat defeated the Celtics 99-91 on the road, and the team also moved up to fourth place in the East. With only half a win away from the third-place Wizards, it's fair to say that the three-team competition has just begun.

Although the Celtics, who adjusted the lineup in this game, lost the game, Zhuang Fei did not have too much frustration. After all, the team has found a new direction in the game, in fact, for many NBA teams, the 82 games of the regular season in a year is too dense, and it can even be said that in the regular season, every team basically does not have too many external forces, such as injuries and other external forces, a team will guard a lineup from the beginning to the end, and few teams have the opportunity to change their roster configuration in the regular season or have the opportunity to find a new configuration.

In this case, even the end of the regular season every year has become the only point of time for many teams to find new highlights in the team, and now the Celtics are like that.

After being defeated by the Heat on April 2, the Boston Celtics host the Kings on April 4, a team that currently sits second in the West and is the same as the Celtics. The Timberwolves, who are currently third in the West, are still some distance away from them, so this team is now in the same adjusted state as the Celtics, but this time when they meet their nemesis Zhuang Fei, this team is still ready to work hard, and it can be said that defeating Zhuang Fei has become the demon of this team. The team has beaten 27 of the league's 29 teams this season, except for the Celtics, and Zhuang Fei originally intended to test the team's new fit and did not intend to fight with the Kings. …,

It's just that even so, the king, who was under too much pressure in the face of Zhuang Fei, habitually collapsed in front of Zhuang Fei, especially in the third quarter of the game, after Arenas and Maddie received Yao Ming's pass and continuously played the 'classic Princeton' backdoor tactics, the team was completely confused. In fact, a team like the Kings is too easy to adapt to Yao Ming's passing, but unlike most other teams that focus on Celtics players.

This king, who was basically 'played bad' by Zhuang Fei, has always focused on Zhuang Fei's body, and this team even 'deified' Zhuang Fei. Demonization', as long as Zhuang Fei's team has a little bit of trouble, these king players will subconsciously think that Zhuang Fei must have a conspiracy, this guy will definitely have some new bad ideas, in this case, many times the king is in a good situation, but as the game progresses, he will become more and more worried, and in the end, they don't even care about their own performance.

So Zhuang Fei and Stephen Green, who were standing on the side at the end of the game, were also speechless, and at this time, the Kings players on the court still had a little bit of the second look in the West, and they were completely a rabble looking forward to the early end of the game.

"Coach, did they really beat the Grizzlies, Timberwolves and Lakers?" Stephen Green finally asked Zhuang Fei in some surprise, and Zhuang Fei could only smile helplessly on the side. He himself never thought that he would make the team like this, this king is not worse or even better than the one in his previous life, but there is a shadow in the heart of this team that cannot be surpassed, if they can go beyond the scope of this shadow, this team will become extremely strong, if not, then it is difficult to become a champion team.

However, at this time, Zhuang Fei didn't pay much attention to the performance of the Kings, but was thinking about the prospects of the Celtics in the playoffs.

"I hope to surprise the Grizzlies in the playoffs," Zhuang Fei finally looked at Yao Ming and Arenas who came down from the court, and Maddie smiled in his heart

Zhuang Fei now wants to surprise the Grizzlies in the playoffs, but he must also play game by game. At the very least, they must be able to meet the Grizzlies, and in the current situation, Zhuang Fei's team must reach the Eastern Conference Finals if they want to meet the Grizzlies.

It is also very difficult for the current Celtics to reach the Eastern Conference Finals, and these teams in the East are not weak.

For example, the 76ers who took over the sixth place in the East that the Celtics met on April 6, although this team has always been a team that can be said to be extremely single on the offensive end, but this team with a single offense can give huge damage to most teams, and the current 76ers have basically stabilized their sixth position in the East, although the Cavaliers who are now seventh in the East are chasing fiercely. However, because the gap between the early results and the 76ers is too great to catch up, and it is impossible for the 76ers to win the third place in the East, if they can't win the third place in the East, it is better to guard the sixth place in the East in their hands. It can be said that in the current situation, the fourth and fifth in the east are really not as good as the sixth in the east.

It's just a bit surprising that the team is now in some playoff form. But this team is still going all out in the game, and now the team's boss Iverson is competing with the Grizzlies' boss Carter for the scoring championship trophy is a bit hot, in fact, at the beginning of the season, the guard is in the lead most of the time, after all, the Grizzlies need to reposition the role of new players at the beginning of the season, in this case, Carter must also give his new teammates a lot of offensive opportunities so that they can find their role as soon as possible, In this case, Iverson has been at the top of the scoring list, but with the advent of 2002, Carter's scoring momentum is getting stronger and stronger, in fact, Carter and Iverson are in a similar situation, both teams are defense-oriented. The two are also the only offensive strengths of their team, and although Carter's helpers are much stronger than Iverson, they are also mainly defense-oriented, which allows both to score high points most of the time, even in the past March, during the Grizzlies' 34-game winning streak. In that whole month, Carter's average points per game reached 38.5 points, although Iverson's score was also high, but it was still more than 7 points lower than Carter's in that month, which made the 76ers guard in the last few games must score more than 40 points per game to have a chance to get the scoring title, after all, now the Grizzlies are also slowly adjusting their state, Carter only plays 30 minutes per game and takes a 20-point break. …,

It's just that even so. This is still very difficult, no one in the NBA thinks that they can score more than 40 points per game, such as this game with the Grizzlies, Zhuang Fei tried to put Arenas and Kirilenko and Jackson and Maddie in his lineup plus Posey, this is a completely small lineup, this lineup is Zhuang Fei prepared for teams like the Cavaliers and the 76ers, but in this game, this small lineup always loses rebounds when facing the 76ers, Mutombo alone stole most of the Boston Celtics' entire team of rebounds.

And this game Boston Celtics also suffered their 15th defeat of the season, after this game Boston Celtics record also became 62-15, it can be said that it can no longer break the best 68-14 record in Celtics history, but in this game Zhuang Fei did a good job of restricting Iverson, this game Celtics Celtics' highly mobile small lineup made Iverson's offense a little uncomfortable, Although Mutombo played a terrifying 32 points and 30 rebounds on a secondary offense, Iverson was only 9-of-32 in this game, and most of the guard's shots were best converted into Mutombo's secondary offense.

After losing to the 76ers on April 6, Boston again met the Grizzlies, who are currently the No. 1 team in the East, on April 8, and the Grizzlies did not give their best in this game, and the same was true for the Boston Celtics, who did not even play in this game, and in his place was Michael Reed, the team's sixth man who was traded from the Timberwolves this season.

Reed has slowly played his value since he left the Timberwolves and came to the Grizzlies, in fact, not only Reid, but even Jamal Crawford who went to the Wizards, Reed immediately gave the Grizzlies' second team a single notch, if the guard still has some concerns when he was in the Timberwolves, then after coming to the Grizzlies, the guard doesn't have to look at anyone's face in the second team, and the ball is basically all in his hands, Therefore, this guard can contribute an average of 11 points per game after coming to the Grizzlies, which can be said to be one of the best sixth man players in the league, although it is not as good as the current Celtics' Arenas, but it is not too far behind.

In this game, Arenas and Reed played a confrontation, this game Celtics are playing at home, although the team does not plan to do their best, but the attitude of the players is much better than that of the Grizzlies players, the Grizzlies' current lineup except Reed wants to perform seriously in front of Zhuang Fei, others do not have this, so most of the ball is given to Reed, and the Celtics on the side of Zhuang Fei let Maddie and Yao Ming rest after the same large amount of ball to Arenas.

This makes the two who are currently somewhat similar in style to the end, although the final result of the two is like the Grizzlies losing to the Celtics by a narrow margin, and Reed also lost to Arenas in the end.

But Zhuang Fei was extremely happy to watch Reed on the sidelines, because this player regained the confidence he had when he played under him, and dared to shoot indiscriminately, under Van Gundy, he and Crawford didn't even dare to shoot in the end, and the 34 points scored by this player in this game also set a scoring record for his own career, so after the end of this game, Zhuang Fei also specially found Reed to congratulate his former disciple.

After defeating the Grizzlies at home on April 8th, followed by April 9th, the Boston Celtics ushered in the challenge of the Wizards, this game Wizards will not be as desireless as the Grizzlies, this team came to Boston and played fiercer than before, in this case, the Celtics were a little disrupted at the beginning, after all, the Celtics' lineup in the last few games is not a regular lineup, in this case, the Wizards who are still fighting for the third place in the East are naturally not comparable to this Celtics, So in this game, the Wizards defeated the Celtics for the first time this season, and after beating the Celtics, the team can be regarded as consolidating its current third position in the East. …,

After ending their three-game home streak, the Boston Celtics visited Milwaukee on April 11, where they faced the Bucks, who are currently ninth in the East, and the team slipped directly from the eighth place in the East to the ninth place after firing George Carr. On the contrary, the combination of Ray Allen and Lewis, who went to the supersonic, is getting better and better.

And in this game, the Bucks, who have basically lost hope for the playoffs, lost to the Celtics' 'second team' on their home court, and the Celtics won by 100-82 by 18 points.

After beating the in-form Milwaukee Bucks on the road, the Boston Celtics also beat their opponents in the game against the Magic on the road on April 13, and compared to the Bucks, the Magic are in even worse condition, completely missing the expectations of the original Grant Hill, but Hardaway, who was abandoned by them, is now playing well with the Cavaliers. After beating the Magic 111-91 on the road. The Boston Celtics are back on their home turf.

After returning to the home court, the Boston Celtics' opponent on April 15 is the Pistons, who are currently fifth in the West, and the Pistons have determined that they cannot compete for the third place before this game, so the Celtics played relatively easily on their home court, because this is the last regular season game, so Zhuang Fei is also the main team, after defeating the Pistons 106-95 at home.

The Boston Celtics are now at the end of the regular season, and after a five-game winning streak at the end, the Celtics' final record is also fixed at 67-15. (Your support is my biggest motivation.) )