May 10, 2002, Washington, D.C., MIC Arena, nearly 20,000 Washington Wizards fans in the stands of the arena are shouting frantically for the team, although in the first two games of this season's playoffs, the Washington Wizards lost two games in a row on the road, basically standing on the precipice of elimination, but this team that has just experienced such a thing as a reversal to eliminate the 76ers did not give up their hopes because of 0-2 down.

You must know that the situation of the Wizards in the last round was much more dangerous than now, and in the last round of the series, the Washington Wizards fell behind 0-2 at home in a best-of-five game. Compared to then, 0-2 away from home is really nothing.

It's just that although the fans are still crazy, it's just that at this time, as the head coach of the Wizards, D'Antoni is not like this, this game is not an equal game, and it is no longer an equal game after the first two games, and the chances of the two teams winning are not equal, in this case, unless the Wizards can have a miracle, it is impossible to beat the Celtics to win this series, which is completely different from when they played the 76ers in the first round, When playing the 76ers, the odds of winning on both sides are the same, or the Wizards have the advantage, so the Wizards can stage that kind of basically unrepeatable comeback.

"It seems that this year is really here, I am really a little unwilling" When thinking of this, the head coach of the Wizards looked at the Wizards players who were really fighting with the Boston Celtics on the court and shook his head, the Wizards players in this series played very hard, whether it was the core of the team Jordan and Nash who were working hard to give their best. The same goes for the rest of the team like Marion, Crawford and Hamilton, but at this point the effort seems so fragile and has a very unbearable feeling in front of the Boston Celtics.

"It's really a painful thing to be beaten by someone who knows the roots" Looking at the constantly changing score on the sidelines, D'Antoni sighed again and said, at this time the Wizards head coach also looked at the familiar figure on the side, the two years with that Chinese were the most important two years of his coaching career. If it is said that his direct ability has grown the fastest in the two years, Zhuang Fei has not brought him personal professional knowledge, and he does not need to be taught in the area of professional knowledge. It was already good when he left Europe, and what Zhuang Fei really gave him was to let him know what he should do on the sidelines as a head coach and what he should do outside of the game, and at this point, the former Timberwolves head coach has been imitating everything Zhuang Fei did when he was with the Timberwolves. Whether it is Zhuang Fei during the game or Zhuang Fei when the team trains during the non-game time, this also makes D'Antoni the same as Zhuang Fei in terms of coaching style, and it also helps him resolve a lot of dangerous dilemmas, such as playing the 76ers in the last round, if it was the general coach who would have admitted defeat in that situation, but Zhuang Fei had previously experienced the round of the series against the Spurs in 1999, the former Zhuang Fei's assistant has always believed that the Wizards finally defeated the 76ers, And he also conveyed this belief to the Wizards' players like Zhuang Fei.

It's just that at this time, when facing the problem that his teacher personally designed for him, the vivid coach who imitated Zhuang Fei's imitation couldn't think of a solution for a while.

"What would he do in such a situation?" At this point, D'Antoni fell into deep thought again, but after a moment it was still fruitless. So I can only sigh again.

The Wizards had a tough game against the Celtics, not only because D'Antoni met a teacher who knew him well, but also with the Wizards players on the court, especially Jordan, who said he was going to score 40 points on the Celtics' head before the start of this round. And then lead the team to qualify, such a goal looks so far away from the point of view of the present. Not to mention leading the Wizards forward in this series, and don't score more than 40 points, it is difficult to score 30 points in one game in this series, and this Celtics defender at the second and third positions is too many and too strong. It's really a hassle to be pestered one by one like this, and it's the playoffs now. It's not a semi-showy regular season, and what makes Jordan even more speechless is that Tracy McGrady, the Celtics player opposite him, has changed his style in each game in these games, sometimes the swingman feels like Carter, and sometimes he feels like Grant Hill, but in this game he feels like this guy's style of play has completely changed to Iverson's. …,

For an extremely experienced NBA all-time No. 1 player, Jordan naturally knows the reason why this young small forward is so weird, and now this young player is worrying about his future path, he is now at the tipping point of his career, as long as he breaks through this tipping point, he can break through to the pinnacle of NBA players, and become a level of existence with Carter and Iverson, no matter which path he chooses in the end.

"It's really talented" looked at the young player in front of him, Jordan also sighed, to be able to have three paths to choose from when he reached the top, this is definitely a shocking thing, in the entire twenty years of the NBA Jordan only knows that there are two people like this, one is the current Maddie, and the other is himself who he used to be.

"Michael, catch the ball"

Just when Jordan was looking at Maddie in a daze, Nash threw the ball at Jordan after struggling to get rid of Arenas's pressing, and at present, the team that is most compatible with him on the court is Jordan, Nash also trusts Jordan more than others, although Jordan is a little daze at this time, but it is still natural to receive Nash's pass, and then get up again, in the right basket area of the free throw line in the face of Maddy's block and force a shot, In this game, Jordan's direct defense shot a lot, but the shooting rate was average, no matter which game this series was, the shooting rate of the great god was actually average, but this goal was really crisp.

It's just that after scoring this goal, neither the Wizards players on the court nor D'Antoni on the sidelines of the court had the slightest sense of excitement. The outcome of this game is not something that can be saved by this one goal.

"Coach, it looks like we should be able to win this series"

On the bench of the Boston Celtics, the team's assistant coach Stephen Green said to Zhuang Fei next to him with some excitement when he saw the slowly changing situation between the two teams on the court, and it seemed that the assistant coach was happy about the team's imminent promotion.

"Yes, it's very likely that he will advance" Zhuang Fei also nodded lightly, and at this time, the Chinese coach did not have the extremely excited look on Green's face.

The Boston Celtics performed very well on their own road, although the team boss Maddy was still confused in this game, but it did not affect the outcome of the game, and the final result of this game was 96-85, the Boston Celtics defeated the Wizards again on the road, which was also the Boston Celtics' six-game winning streak in the playoffs, and it was also the Wizards' three-game losing streak, and the best player after this game was awarded to Maddy, and the small forward scored more than 20 points for the first time in this round of the series, Reached 26 points.

The Boston Celtics have one foot in the Eastern Conference Finals after beating the Wizards on the road, and in the NBA's best-of-seven format, no team has been able to come back from 3-0 down, and certainly no team will lose the series when they are 3-0 up.

It can be said that this game has already decided the outcome of this series. So after the game, almost all the media in the United States began to talk about the Celtics' promotion, and the Celtics also reached the Eastern Conference finals again after more than a decade after the Bird era.

Just as all eyes were on the third game between the Celtics and the Wizards, the fourth game between the Boston Celtics and Wizards also began on May 12.

In this fourth game between the Boston Celtics and the Wizards, Zhuang Fei and his Celtics can clearly feel that the Wizards of this game do not intend to end their series on their home court, this game The Wizards played fiercely, especially the players were extremely good on the offensive and defensive ends, and it was obvious that this team did not want to be swept by Zhuang Fei and their Celtics.

On the Boston Celtics side, Zhuang Fei also had no mercy for this game, which surprised the Celtics players, after all, this game is no longer too anxious for them, and it may be better to stay in the North Shore Garden and celebrate with their fans after the game at the Wizards' home court, but Zhuang Fei's words in the locker room made these Celtics players who were ready to 'stay' feel cold. No team can come back from 0-3, but if they lose this game, it will be 1-3.

In such a situation, giving the Wizards hope is definitely not what Zhuang Fei wants, so in this game, the Boston Celtics and Wizards gave Wizards fans the most exciting meeting between the two teams in this series.

Although the Boston Celtics still defeated the Wizards 106-103 in overtime in the end, the Wizards fans all stood up to applaud their team at the end of the game, and it was clear that these fans were satisfied with the team's results this season. (Your support is my biggest motivation.) )