"Why are you sighing so much?"

In the office of the president of the Boston Celtics, Zhuang Fei put in his hands the new book "John. Wooden's UCLA University Offensive Tactics System gently placed it on his desk and smiled at his assistant and asked.

"Coach, the one-month deadline has arrived, but the team's current triangle offense is a bit of a frustration, and it doesn't meet the standard of competing with the top teams," Stephen Green said with a final shake of his head.

"It's nothing, the team is very good now" Zhuang Fei smiled and encouraged Green, after last month's Christmas game, Zhuang Fei and Stephen Green let the team start the triangle offensive system for a month, and now it is January 22nd, it can be said that the month period has arrived, a month ago Zhuang Fei and Stephen Green's goal was just to make the team able to run the triangle offense, as for how the triangle offense is running, there are no requirements, In fact, before the last game against the Grizzlies, the Boston Celtics were actually able to run the triangle offense, it can be said that the Boston Celtics have completed the goal set by Zhuang Fei Green in just over half a month, but what makes Green a little frustrated is not that the team has not completed the goal, but that his own goal has changed now, after completing the task of running the triangle offense, the assistant coach is ready to hope that the Boston Celtics can fully master the triangle offense before the All-Star. Especially after the heavy loss to the Grizzlies in the last game, it made him extremely urgent about this idea.

In Green's view, the current Boston Celtics' triangle offense will not be effective against a strong team at the level of the Grizzlies, unless the team can fully grasp this tactic. If the operation of the triangle attack is just the beginning, it is still relatively simple, after all, as long as you draw the gourd in the same way, but if you want to master this tactic skillfully, it will take a lot of trouble, at least the cooperation between the team players can not have too many traces of imitation, you need to be able to do what you want, and you can't be too rigid and have spirituality. It can be said that these things require the understanding of the players and also require them to spend a lot of time adapting to each other and running-in, which is not an overnight thing, when Zhuang Fei was in the first year in Wake Forest, it took more than a year to complete this step. It's fair to say that now at the Boston Celtics, Stephen Green is in trouble.

"Coach, if we want to compete for first place in the East this season. You must completely master the triangle offense, otherwise" Stephen Green was a little nervous to say something at the end, Zhuang Fei naturally knew what his assistant was thinking, there has been some turmoil in the East recently, if the recent rise of the Grizzlies is only the most eye-catching, then the impact of the Wizards' sudden rise on the Eastern rankings has directly made the Eastern regular season rankings chaotic, and now the Eastern East has dominated the Boston Celtics and Grizzlies. The difference between the third-place Heat and the sixth-place Wizards is not more than 2 games, and the gap between these four teams and the Boston Celtics is actually not big, so it can be said that one is careless. The Boston Celtics will be shattered, let alone first in the East, and may even become seventh in the East, and it is understandable that Green will be impatient in this situation.

"Stephen, take this book and read it. Just look at the preface of the first part" Zhuang Fei looked at Green, who was still a little worried, and then put the book "John. Wooden's UCLA University Offensive Tactical System" was handed to Green, and Green also took the book, and then turned the first page, the title of the preface is "The Self-cultivation of the Head Coach" and the author under this title is to startle Green, this is the preface jointly written by Coach K of Duke University and his own head coach Zhuang Fei. …,

Looking at the back of Stephen Green's departure, Zhuang Fei smiled. He is really optimistic about the talent of this coach, it can be said that he is already top in terms of technique and tactics, but he still lacks a little heat in terms of spirit, and there are some young problems.

The book that Zhuang Fei gave him just now was the basketball book "John. Wooden's UCLA University Offensive Tactics System", this book has not yet been listed, but the publishing house has just typeset it out and sent a model to Zhuang Fei, Zhuang Fei used to have a good relationship with John Wuden when he was in college, this old man is the greatest coach of UCLA and NCAA, this year's NCAA league selected the greatest coach of the 20th century ranked first, this 92-year-old man knows that he is in a state of semi-soil, so he is also prepared' The book is divided into six parts and fifteen chapters of 1888 pages, most of this book is UCLA tactics written by the old man, and Zhuang Fei only wrote the triangle attack and run-and-bomb tactics in the second chapter of the book and all three chapters of the fourth part about 'offensive pressing and defensive tactics', Zhuang Fei only wrote a quarter of the book, and Coach K only wrote the fifteenth chapter of teamwork.

Although Zhuang Fei is not very long in this book, but the significance of this book to Zhuang Fei is extremely significant, the author of this book is John Wuden and Coach K plus Zhuang Fei, these three are the top head coaches in the United States, it can be said that this book has been called "the encyclopedia of basketball coaches in the United States" by all coaches in the United States before the interview. According to Zhuang Fei, this book has now been pre-sold for more than 500,000 copies, not only coaches in the United States, but also some coaches outside the United States.

Although Zhuang Fei has published some books before, but compared with this time, it is a bit of a trivial, the real book is the vocabulary of the basketball world, and Zhuang Fei's previous books are not even Xinhua dictionaries.

"I hope I will have the opportunity to speak up in the future," Zhuang Fei sighed quietly leaning back on his office chair when he thought of this, Liyan is not simply publishing a book, he is still far from John Wuden in this regard

The environment in the East is chaotic right now, and now the Boston Celtics are 34-9 in first place. The second Grizzlies are 33-9, it can be said that the reason why the Boston Celtics are currently ranked first is because the Grizzlies have one less game, but now it is extremely unfavorable for the Boston Celtics that the Grizzlies are in excellent condition, while the Boston Celtics are a little not smooth.

In fact, the Boston Celtics have had an extremely bad schedule in recent times, playing the Rockets, Pistons and Grizzlies in the first three games, and the first two of these three teams are Boston nemesis teams. This is especially true for the Grizzlies in the back, as for the next few games such as the home game against the Pacers on January 23 and the 76ers team at home on January 25. Even the away game against the Cavaliers is not an easy thing to do, you must know that the Cavaliers are in excellent form at the moment after trading for pennies. In fact, this team is not a weak team, but it just lacks a backbone. It can be said that in the future, as long as Zhuang Fei and his Boston Celtics have any difference, they will lose the first place in the East.

January 23, 2002, North Shore Garden Arena, Boston

Zhuang Fei and his Boston Celtics ushered in the first opponent of the recent Devils schedule Larry Bird led by the Pacers, before the start of this game, when Bird re-stepped on the court of the North Shore Garden, the scene of 20,000 Boston Celtics fans all stood up to applaud the greatest player in the history of the Boston Celtics, it can be said that the atmosphere of the players on both sides before the game started was not bad, and the relationship between Zhuang Fei and Larry Bird was also excellent, but although the relationship between the two teams was very good, But the Pacers haven't had a great time lately. This team has been sinking since the retirement of Dutch center Smits in the previous two seasons, and it can be said that the team's performance this season is also a bit sluggish, and now it is only ranked seventh in the East, and the team has just been overtaken by the Wizards from behind, so Bird is now in desperate need of a win to stabilize the current team's position. At the same time, it is also to add some confidence to the team, and the sluggish performance of the past two years has made the team that once reached the finals a little demoralized. If this season is still half-dead and half-alive, the team can easily change. …,

Larry Bird wants to win this game, and so does Zhuang Fei, who is also in desperate need of a win to get rid of the shadow of the loss to the Grizzlies in the last game, and this time the Pacers are a good target, and the Pacers' most important weapon this season is their outside three-shot. Organizational guard Jalen Rose, scoring guard Reggie Miller, and small forward Joe Johnson, in fact, in this lineup, Jalen Rose is the responsibility of the team's point guard as the No. 3 position, which is regarded as the Pacers' organizational forward, so the Pacers' lineup is somewhat replicating the current Boston Celtics' flavor, but the team's three outside lines are slightly worse than the Boston Celtics' three outside lines, so although the Pacers are tenacious in this game, But the Boston Celtics, playing at home, still won the game against Larry Bird's seventh-largest team in the East.

The final score of this game was also 106-98, the Boston Celtics won a small victory, in this game Maddie scored 26 points, 8 assists and 6 rebounds, this game is also the swingman's best performance in recent games, since being surpassed by Carter and Jordan in the MVP rankings, the swingman has been a little sluggish, and now the return of the small forward to normal also makes Zhuang Fei a little relieved, in addition to Maddy's good performance in this game, the performance of other Boston Celtics players is also very good, For example, the team's sixth man, Arenas, has been extremely bright since Zhuang Fei lifted his ban, and recently even reached the top five in the rookie rankings.

"Zhuang, if my team has one of Yao Ming and Xiao Ao, then we won't be like this now" At the end of the game, Zhuang Fei was very obvious to feel the bitterness of this famous coach, he wanted to attack the inside line and wanted to go crazy, his team is now missing an inside fulcrum, but Zhuang Fei and his relationship with him is not even good, it is impossible to send one of these two players to him.

Two days after beating the Pacers at home, the Boston Celtics ushered in the challenge of the 76ers, who are fifth in the East on January 25, the team was surpassed by the Pistons not long ago, and now the Wizards led by Jordan and Nash are also approaching, the recent Boston Celtics are not in good shape, in fact, the 76ers' state is also not very good, so this game The 76ers hope to beat the Boston Celtics on the road, especially the Boston Celtics have nothing to do with the 76ers' Iverson, The Boston Celtics are afraid of the speed-type No. 1 position, and things like this are basically known to the league.

So in this game, the 76ers also let Iverson attack as soon as they came up, and the 76ers guard was also extremely active. This also makes the Boston Celtics have been in a backward position since the opening, and by the end of the first half, they were already behind by 15 points, seeing that the 76ers were able to win this game, this defensive team once again had a lack of offensive strength in the second half, this team's offense is mainly relying on Iverson, if Iverson is in good shape in this game, then this team will not have problems in both offense and defense, But a lot of times Iverson always exerts most of his strength in the first half, and in the second half there will be a loss of strength, when the guard has no strength in the second half, this team is really dangerous, which is why the 76ers' inconsistent performance this season has always been reversed by some teams in the second half, this team now does not have a player who can share Iverson's offensive pressure, and the Boston Celtics also took advantage of this opportunity to beat the 76ers in this game.

The 76ers are a team that lacks offensive talent, but compared with the 76ers, the Celtics' next opponent, the Cavaliers, is not like this, this team's offensive talent is very strong, Andre Miller, Penny Hardaway, Ricky Davis and center Big Z, the strength of this team can be said to be the top in the league, so Zhuang Fei does not have any contempt for this away game, even if this team is only 11th in the East, the final result of this game is that the Celtics ushered in a wave of three consecutive wins, The Boston Celtics once again completed the comeback and defeated the Cavaliers in extremely difficult circumstances. This also allowed the Celtics to retain their first place in the East.

Although now Zhuang Fei is in his own devil's schedule to keep his first position in the east. But the grizzly onslaught isn't over. The team is now on a 12-game winning streak. The gap between this team and the Celtics is still only one game less. (Your support is my biggest motivation.) )