Chapter 963: The Finals
The recent period has been very difficult for Adelson, really hard, because the recent period can be called the most tangled days of his life, the Los Angeles Lakers, his old opponent Zhuang Fei has led the team to the finals, and his own team is in a quagmire, completely unaware that it is on the verge of despair, and even in the last game, if it were not for the miracle that shocked the United States and even the world, this team would have lost a long time ago, and his bet with Zhuang Fei had long been lost.
But the good thing is that Maddie saved the team, Yao Ming saved the team, O'Neal Jr. saved the team, in the last game of the Boston Celtics at the last moment, these three Zhuang Fei's previous three fierce generals led the team to complete a shocking reversal, and this is also a point that makes Adelson entangled, just like now Larry Brown is entangled in his team actually needs Zhuang Fei's basketball to win, this is a shame, at least for him personally, this is a big blow, And now Adelson is no less striking than Larry Brown is now receiving.
Of course, no matter what, now the Celtics are not dead, that is, his bet with Zhuang Fei has not been lost, as long as in the sixth game, the Boston Celtics can take advantage of Maddy's momentum to defeat the New York Knicks at home, that is, in the sixth game, the Boston Celtics may not be able to complete the amazing reversal.
Adelson is expecting such a shocking comeback, and if he wasn't confident before, he's confident now, especially after watching the late games between Maddy, Yao Ming and O'Neal Jr.
The video on the big computer screen on Adelson's desk now is the 10.10 seconds and 10 minutes of Maddy's last game, which he has watched many times, even so. Every time he watches this video, he still gets excited from the bottom of his heart. I have to say. It's so big a game like this, and he's never seen it in a previous Celtic game since Larry Brown came to the team, and this kind of fluidity and agility is not something Larry Brown can have.
Adelson never considered himself a basketball fan in the past, and even he hated basketball as a 'black sport', otherwise he wouldn't have looked down on the Celtics bosses, because in his opinion, baseball is the sport that they should enjoy as aristocrats, and what is so good about those 'niggas' running around and jumping around?
But now, the rich second generation has a new understanding of the sport of basketball.
In the past. Before he bought the Boston Celtics, he had a lofty attitude towards this team and this league, this team and this league were just a high-level toy for him, and it was also a tool for him to retaliate against Zhuang Fei, and now, such a mentality has rarely appeared in his heart.
"It's really a very attractive sport" Adelson knows that he loves the sport, especially after seeing Maddie's eyes on the last ball, which makes it difficult to contain the excitement in his heart. And that moment of wandering between life and death is not exactly what he is looking forward to?
"Boss, it's time for us to go. The game is about to start."
And at this time, just when Adelson wondered if he had fallen in love with basketball, his assistant pushed the door in. Today is June 4th, the sixth game between the Boston Celtics and the New York Knicks at home, and Adelson doesn't want to miss it again.
If it weren't for the North Shore Gardens fans' hatred of him, he wouldn't have been able to wait to go to the stadium, but if he really went to the arena early like the Boston Celtics fans, the bored Boston Celtics fans would definitely have been booing him all the time, which is a real thing.
In this case, Adelson needs to pinch the time, he needs to start the game immediately, and when the fans' eyes are all on the court, he can pass, so it has to be said that it is a kind of torture, especially now it is a torture, in the past, when the basketball was still his plaything, he didn't care whether he went to the court or not, and he naturally didn't care very much whether the fans booed him on the court.
But now, things are a little different.
Now Adelson's situation is actually a little worrying for his assistant, who doesn't know that his boss has so many things in mind, but for Adelson, his assistant doesn't need to know these things.
When Adelson received a notice from his assistant that he could go to the arena, when Adelson and his party came to the arena, the game had just kicked off, and I have to say that Adelson's assistant was accurate in time, and at this time, the fans of the North Shore Garden Arena had long been attracted by this game, and it was naturally impossible to notice that he, the owner of the Boston Celtics, was here.
The Boston Celtics and the New York Knicks are very important, this is one thing that everyone knows, this game determines whether the Boston Celtics will be eliminated, for this team, the last game of the desperate survival gave them a chance, if they can continue to win this game, then with the momentum of two consecutive wins to grab seven, the New York Knicks are estimated to be bad luck even if they play at home, in this case, whether it is for the New York Knicks or for the Boston CelticsThis game must be won, because whoever wins will advance to the next round to challenge the Los Angeles Lakers.
And such a game, for the head coaches on both sides, is basically the most important game of the season, in the two teams have played five games, almost know the roots, the layout of the two teams is basically a stereotype, but what many people did not expect is that after the opening of this game, the Boston Celtics' style of play makes people feel a little familiar.
"Huh? What's going on? ”
Even Adelson, who was in the box at this time, felt that the Boston Celtics seemed to have seen this style of play at this time, Jay Williams, who had been trusted by Larry Brown, lost possession of the ball, and the team's offense was handed over to Maddy. Let Maddie decide the pace of the game and the direction of the team's attack. Isn't this the 'point forward' tactic that Zhuang Fei used when he first came to the Boston Celtics?
Adelson didn't watch much of the Boston Celtics game. Even when Zhuang Fei was there, he didn't see much, although many times because he wanted to see Zhuang Fei make a fool of himself, he would also watch Celtic games and pay attention to this team, but for this team, he still didn't know much about it, he just felt a little familiar, and for the Celtic fans on the scene, it was not as simple as familiarity.
This is the basketball that Zhuang Fei played with the Celtics. And it is Zhuang Fei's style in the early stage, Zhuang Fei's basketball in the later period is much more complicated than this time, at that time, even the triangle offense was outdated, and now, because there is no reason for Zhuang Fei, although the Boston Celtics want to return to Zhuang Fei's kind of basketball, but they are also powerless, and in the end they can only play this 'organizational forward tactics' that they can play even without Zhuang Fei's guidance.
"Looks like we're going to win this game"
Before the start of this game, Phil Jackson was still a little worried about this game, you know. The team was reversed by such a big margin as in the previous game, and then became the laughing stock of the whole country. This kind of thing is a big blow to the New York Knicks, and the strength of the Celtics is also extremely strong, the reason why the New York Knicks can lead 3-1 at the beginning is not because their strength is much stronger than the Celtics, if only in terms of strength, the two teams are about the same, just because the Celtics, who defended the Grizzlies so badly in the semifinals, were a little unguardable in the face of the two players of the New York Knicks, and they couldn't attack and open up when they couldn't defend themselves, so they have been passive.
Of course, the player who can make this Celtics unstoppable no matter what, of course, is none other than O'Neal, the other is Van Exel, especially this Van Maniac, it can be said that Larry Brown is mad, this player who always throws three-pointers two steps away from the three-point line makes Larry Brown, the defensive coach, crazy.
Maybe when he was thrown by Van Exel, the current head coach of the Celtics should think about Zhuang Fei last year, last year, Zhuang Fei's Boston Celtics was a team with a defensive system, and it was the strongest team in the NBA defense back then. Watching his defensive system in last year's Finals be shot into a hornet's nest by Van Exel, the Celtics' assistant coach had his hair gone. The former Lakers' super sixth man, the guard who squeezed Kobe Bryant to the bench is a super weapon to break the defensive system.
It is precisely for this reason that the Celtics, who were broken by the Lakers last season, threw all the defense away in the end, and then relied on their unparalleled offense to defeat the Lakers and defeat Phil Jackson, but this year, for the Celtics players and the New York Knicks players, the same group of people have a different effect, naturally because Larry Brown's offense is too fucked up, the same defensive system is broken, Zhuang Fei can win with offense, And Larry Brown can't do that.
It is precisely because of this that when Phil Jackson saw that the players on the Boston Celtics were ready to play offense, he still wanted to use the seemingly rough offensive tactics of organizing forward tactics to open the offense, Phil Jackson was happy, because this was definitely not Larry Brown's arrangement.
Phil Jackson saw that the basketball that the Celtics are playing now is not Larry Brown's arrangement, and why the Lakers' players did not play Larry Brown's basketball, obviously, these players no longer trust Larry Brown, and how not to make Phil Jackson happy when he thinks of this.
It can also be seen from this that the Zen master's eyesight is also extremely good, and it is not for everyone to be able to see so many and such deep things from such details, but in the end, Phil Jackson's eyesight is still not as strong as Zhuang Fei, because Zhuang Fei discovered this problem after the last game, and the Celtics are a little chaotic.
Is this chaos good or bad for the Celtics? It's not clear because it's not that the coach and players have to be on the same page to be successful, or that the players have to listen to the manager to win, and it's clear that now that the Celtics players find themselves unable to win by listening to Larry Brown, it's not a mistake for them to go to the way they know the best way to win.
Perhaps the only mistake is that even if they want to find the same way to play, they are missing the most important person, which dooms them to not do well.
"You also have to have capital to attack us, but now you can't"
When the game was about to end, looking at Maddie and Yao Ming and Xiao Ao who were still working the court, Phil Jackson sneered and thought that Larry Brown was not the Chinese, and Maddie could not replace the role of the Chinese.
There's nothing wrong with the Boston Celtics players trying to beat the New York Knicks in this game with offense vs. offense, but it's almost an impossible task for the Boston Celtics to pick up the offensive basketball they haven't played in a year, or to play with the New York Knicks, who were almost last year's enhanced version of the Lakers, without guidance, tactics, and personnel.
And even if it is such an impossible task, but these Celtics players are still playing very seriously, especially Maddie and other veterans, but some things are not just serious and hard-working, this chaotic and no routine Celtics is now in a situation where there is no way out, Maddie can always be on the Celtics once, but it is impossible to save this team for the second time.
At the end of the game, when the Boston Celtics lost 105-118 at home to the New York Knicks, the defending champion was eliminated by a score of 2-4.
The NBA Finals will be the Los Angeles Lakers vs. the New York Knicks, which is a replay of this year's Christmas game.
"Boss, it's over" At the end of the game, Celtic fans gave their team applause very unexpectedly this season, even if they lost today, but at this time, Adelson's assistant in the box was in a very complicated mood and said to Adelson that their bet with Zhuang Fei had lost.
It's just that to the surprise of this Adelson assistant, the boss next to him did not show that hysterical expression and state at this time, but just turned around and left after throwing down a sentence in great surprise, and the assistant was confused by his boss's words.
"This is just the beginning"
The Adelson assistant chewed on his boss's words, as if he had thought of something, and then a smile appeared on his face.
"We'll be back," said Adelson's assistant at the end of the day, looking at the New York Knicks players who were already celebrating on the court and the Celtics players who were walking to the court in frustration, and no one would notice him at this time. (To be continued......)