Chapter 530: The Third A-Rank Player
(Crazy begging for a monthly pass)
The brawl between the Boston Celtics and the Grizzlies had a great impact, as many people said, it affected the image of the NBA, and the impact on the image of the NBA was the most talked about and the most obvious, but it was obviously impossible to say that such a large-scale ban only affected the image of the NBA in this way.\\
Of course, this incident naturally had a very drastic impact on the Boston Celtics and Grizzlies' lineup, which is also obvious, in addition to these, the brawl between the Boston Celtics and Grizzlies indirectly turned the Boston Celtics and Grizzlies into a player supermarket.
Artest's season ban, Rasheed Wallace's 30-game ban, Billups and Ben Wallace's 15-game ban, Jackson's 15-game ban, and Xiao O's 6-game ban are all long bans, and if Xiao O's six suspensions are excluded from these players, there are still five players in the long suspension. And these players who have been banned for a long time are still the core and main force of the team.
In this case, it is extremely normal for the Grizzlies to want to throw away these players who have been suspended for a long time as a burden for the sake of the team's record, or the Celtics for the sake of the team's record.
Especially for the Vancouver Grizzlies, although there are 15 players registered in a season for a team in the NBA, there are only 12 players who can really be useful, and there are only 10 teams in the rotation lineup at most in a team, and almost 11 or even 12 players in the NBA like the Boston Celtics are definitely the most in the NBA. In this case, after the Grizzlies suspended four players, there are only six players left who can rotate. There are only six players who can be trusted by Jerry West and have the ability to play in the NBA, and even in order to get out of this dilemma, the Grizzlies have now thrown the big Chinese fat man inside into the starter. And in addition to that, they are also recruiting short-term contract players.
But whether it's re-recruiting players or other methods, it's hard to change the face of this team, if a team's head coach can only trust six, then in the NBA such an intensity of the game has to exhaust these six, so even Jerry West really doesn't want to trade those banned players in the team, but the current situation of the team has to make adjustments.
Not to mention that the Grizzlies are now in a trading vortex. Even Zhuang Fei has also received a lot of trade offers recently, such as the Magic like the Boston Celtics asked about the possibility of Xiao Ao's trade, for which the Magic management is even vaguely willing to take out Grant Hill in exchange, except for Xiao Ao. Like Jackson, who was banned for 15 games, also attracted the attention of Spurs head coach Popovich, and on the second day after Zhuang Fei returned to Boston from Orlando with the team, Zhuang Fei directly received an offer from the Spurs.
It's just that whether the Magic wants Xiao Ao or the Spurs want Jackson are rejected by Zhuang Fei without any hesitation, and now the Boston Celtics are short of people, but they can also ensure that there is a normal rotation lineup of 8-10 people, not to mention that Xiao Ao is about to be lifted, Jackson's ban is only 15 games, even if these two people are banned for a longer time, Zhuang Fei will not be forced to trade banned players in order to increase the number of people who can play in the team.
However, Zhuang Fei is very confident in the depth of the team's squad. But that's not the case for the Grizzlies, who now have a maximum of six players who are really capable of playing on a championship team, and the rest of the players can basically only play in garbage time, and regular time is not useful at all, so although the Grizzlies have won the last few games after the league announced the penalty decision, their team boss Carter has basically played all the games, and even the Iron Man can't keep going like this at this intensity.
Although neither Rasheed Wallace nor Artest are the kind of players the Grizzlies are very worry-free, the two are really good, and both have won championships recently. is a veritable champion player, a player who has won a championship in the NBA can wash away many shortcomings of this player, when Rashid was in the Trail Blazers, he was also banned for fighting, at that time the interior player was almost unattended, but this time it was not the case, I heard that the Hawks were very interested in the inside, and even did not hesitate to take out the team boss Terry in exchange, and there are also a lot of interests in Artest, such as the Spurs and the Mavericks, etc., plus the Pistons' pursuit of Billups, Basically, the whole league is now surrounding the Boston Celtics and Grizzlies in a big trade drama, even if Zhuang Fei keeps refusing and constantly saying that he has no intention of trading players, but the offers received every day are still endless.
On December 9th, the Boston Celtics ushered in the Magic team that they had just defeated not long ago, and the Magic is currently chasing after the Boston Celtics inside O'Neal Jr., which makes Zhuang Fei speechless is that the face of the Magic team management is too thick, no matter how Zhuang Fei refuses to say how he and the Celtics have no interest in trading O'Neal Jr., but this team is still chasing after it, and insists on calling Zhuang Fei every day to fax the Boston Celtics, It seems that he hopes to impress Celtic and Zhuang Fei with his sincerity.
For this somewhat strange Magic and Magic management, Zhuang Fei basically expressed all his grievances in this game, the Boston Celtics almost beat the current second-to-last team in the East at home, this game Boston Celtics have an absolute advantage from the beginning, since James Posey came back Zhuang Fei put Arenas back on the bench, although the team handed over possession to Yao Ming can solve the problem of Maddie and Arenas coexisting, but obviously, It is impossible to let a big man over 2.26 meters tall control the ball all over the court, so the problem of Maddy and Arenas coexisting is actually still an unsolvable problem for the Celtics, Maddie and Arenas are not as effective together as the two of them in regular time, and when the team hits a critical moment, Zhuang Fei can use Yao Ming's leverage to dominate these two players.
And this game against the Magic is the first time that Arenas has returned to the bench since he has been playing the main team recently, in the first three quarters of this game, he had a 100-71 lead of 30 points and completely entered garbage time, but in the fourth quarter, Arenas actually led the second team of the Boston Celtics to play the Magic a 40-18, and won the game again by 22 points in a single quarter, and the Boston Celtics defeated the Magic 140-89 in the whole game, And the best player of this game was also awarded to Arenas, who scored 24 points in a single quarter in the fourth quarter and scored 40 points in the game, and what made Zhuang Fei extremely unexpected was that Arenas actually rose from 89 to 90 in this game, and became the third A-level or A-level player of the Boston Celtics in one fell swoop, plus Arenas's 90, Xiaoao's 92 and Maddy's 95, the Boston Celtics have three players with abilities above 90.
Arenas and Magic are playing with anger in this game, Zhuang Fei is also very clear about this, in fact, in terms of the current ability of this guard, it is too simple for him to want to start in an NBA team, if Zhuang Fei is willing, now there are at least ten teams in the league willing to come up with an offer to trade this Boston Celtics backup guard, but what makes Zhuang Fei a little helpless, Before Zhuang Fei fails to find a way to let Maddie and Arenas coexist in regular time, it is impossible for Zhuang Fei to put Arenas and Maddy on the court at the same time, even if it is Prince who is now replacing Jackson as the starter, after all, Arenas and James Posey are different, James Posey can not attack himself, he can still use other methods to help the team, and Arenas's biggest role is to attack. Besides, Zhuang Fei's tactical idea now is that only one core of Maddie is needed on the outside, if the team has two cores on the outside, then Yao Ming and Xiaoao on the inside are basically half wasted, and the offensive ability of these two people is also very good.
On December 11, 2002, the Boston Celtics hosted the Suns, the performance of the Suns this season was very bad, especially last season's Juwan Howard from the Wizards did not show the strength expected by fans and the team at all, which also made this team completely become a stage for Marbury alone, in this case, Mr. Marbury also started his own performance, it can be said that this season Marbury has reached a career-high data of 25 points and 8 assists per game. But also this season, the Suns' results are the worst in recent years, and now many Suns fans are very dissatisfied with the team boss.
In this game, the Boston Celtics almost didn't use much effort to beat this team, and the final score was 113-94, and in this game, Arenas came off the bench to score 31 points again, which can be said to be more lethal day by day.
On December 13, the Boston Celtics hosted the Cavaliers, this game was also a game in which the Cavaliers were released from the ban, this season's Cavaliers after the absence of Hardaway was a drop compared to last season, especially in terms of morale, the Boston Celtics defeated the Cavaliers 105-89 at home, and O'Neal Jr., who came back in this game, scored 20 points and 12 rebounds in the third quarter, and also won the title of the best player.
After this game, the Boston Celtics reached a record of 21 wins and 1 loss, and also walked out of the shadow of being banned by the league. (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendation and monthly passes, and your support is my biggest motivation. )
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