Chapter 595: Best General Manager
"The Heat caused us a lot of problems in this game, no, I should say that the Heat almost gave us a Waterloo defeat in this game, but luckily we still won the game in the end, and now I need to congratulate my players for their excellent performance."
Zhuang Fei looked at the reporters in the audience with a smile and did not hide his joy at this time, this game and the Heat played very hard, at the beginning of the fourth quarter of this game, the Boston Celtics were still six points behind, although Zhuang Fei's Boston Celtics kept chasing the score when Mourning was resting off the court, but when Zhuang Fei and his Boston Celtics really caught up with the score, more than four points had passed in the fourth quarter of the game, although Mourning played early, But the Heat's superstar soon put the Boston Celtics in a quagmire again, although Zhuang Fei was also replaced by Yao Ming after Mourning came on the court, but in fact, the two teams were still playing very anxiously at the final decisive moment, and it was not until the last two minutes of the fourth quarter that the Heat suddenly had a brief scoring drought due to physical problems before the Boston Celtics finally won a slight victory, so this game is enough to show that although the Boston Celtics have achieved 72 wins in the regular season, But for the league, this team is still far from the dominance of the Timberwolves in the past, and now the Heat team although this game lost 101-106 to the Boston Celtics on the road, but this is just a team in the allocation of player playing time has some problems, Pat Riley in the first half of this game is obviously overwhelmed by the big score advantage. Come on,.! Finally forgot to control the rotation of the team, of course. In the same game, Zhuang Fei didn't think that it was all of this Heat, so the victory in this game also made Zhuang Fei and the Celtics settle down a little.
"Mr. Zhuang, did you think that you would encounter such difficulties before the competition? When you're down by a big score, have you ever thought that this game is likely to be lost? You know, you were completely suppressed at that time."
"Of course," Zhuang Fei smiled and looked at the Washington Post reporter who asked the question, and then said: "We thought that this game would be difficult, because our opponent is Mr. Pat Riley, he is one of the best head coaches in the NBA, and such an opponent will never be easy for you to beat" Zhuang Fei said at this time, and did not forget to look at Pat Riley on the side. At this time, the head coach of the Heat was a little bitter, it was obvious that he had thought about beating Zhuang Fei in this game, but in the end he was still one step short, or 2 minutes short.
'When we were down by a big score, our players didn't panic. Of course we thought it was going to fail, because the Heat did suppress a lot of our offense, they have a lot of great ability from their players, they don't have a single superstar other than Mourning, but every one of their players has a lot of personality, they have some of the best role players in the league. It's a very difficult thing to be down against this team and it's a miracle that we're still winning, but even so. I still think that Mr. Pat Riley performed better than me in this game, he is a great head coach," Zhuang Fei did not hesitate to praise Pat Riley after speaking. In this game, Zhuang Fei used Kirilenko's small lineup in the fourth quarter to completely block the Heat's umbrella tactics, so that in the end Mourning had to play early, and this was almost the only mistake of Pat Riley in this game, and this mistake was only a passive mistake, in this case, the head coach of the Heat did perform extremely perfectly, at least in the first 40 minutes to lead the Celtics. It's just that when Zhuang Fei said this, Pat Riley on the side shook his head again.
"Mr. Riley, in this game we found out that your team was almost entirely using some of Coach Z's previous tactics, is that what you said you had done for eight years? Coach Z said that you performed perfectly in this game, why do you think you regret the collapse the most? Because in the end, the failure of the umbrella tactic or the best Morning's fitness problems? When Zhuang Fei shifted the topic to Pat Riley, these reporters also threw the question to the head coach of the Heat, in many cases, Zhuang Fei is the only protagonist when facing other head coaches, even if the head coach of the Lakers Phil Jackson can only be a supporting role when facing Zhuang Fei in the post-game press conference, and the only person in the league who can compare with Zhuang Fei in popularity is probably only the head coach of the Heat.
"Yes, that's what I did" Pat Riley sighed a little regretfully after hearing the reporter's question, and then continued: "It's frustrating to lose this game, I agree with Zhuang's words, we played very well in this game most of the time, and even surprised me with the excellence, but in the end we slowly became a little bit of a loser, of course, the main thing is that we are not ready to lead the Boston Celtics by a big score, So it caused some subtle scheduling problems on the court," the Heat head coach shook his head again.
"These are small problems, but in the end they slowly fermented into big problems, so my performance in this game is not perfect, of course, my players performed extremely well in this game, I don't deserve Zhuang's praise and I don't deserve the performance of my players, so the failure of this game is not because of the umbrella tactics or because of my players, but my own problems, but I believe that in the next game we will have a new look" said Pat Riley also smiled a little bitterly and said at the end.
"A new look? Isn't the Heat's performance all there is to your team in this game? Just after Pat Riley finished speaking, the reporter grabbed the topic again, and at this time Zhuang Fei also looked at his good friend for a long time, almost all of this game Pat Riley was using his tactics, and even almost beat him, but Zhuang Fei absolutely believed that this scheming guy definitely had a backhand. For Pat Riley's backhand, Zhuang Fei is looking forward to it.
"Of course, you also said this time, I'm just imitating everything about Coach Z, but we don't just have these, we also have some things of our own, maybe we will surprise everyone in the next game" Pat Riley's face also became a lot better after speaking, and at this time Zhuang Fei and the reporter were even more puzzled, but it was obvious that Pat Riley was not like to continue at this time.
"So do you think the Heat will have a chance in this series?" When the reporter finally asked this question, Pat Riley, who had been a little frustrated just now, had no look of frustration at all, and nodded almost confidently.
"Of course, I've always thought so, we're going to be the winners in this series," Pat Riley said with a final laugh. At this time, the reporter who asked the question looked at Zhuang Fei again, but Zhuang Fei was a little surprised by this sudden battle letter.
"I don't think we will fail easily," Zhuang Fei said with a smile at the end......
The first game between the Boston Celtics and the Miami Heat played extremely exciting, which is what many media experts said the day after the game, because in this game everyone seems to have seen the second Z coach, Zhuang Fei is the most popular and accomplished coach in the United States in the past eight years, and the coach with the best record, many times other head coaches will be a cut behind when they meet him, even if it is Phil Jackson of the Lakers, And Popovich, who caused the biggest trouble for this coach, only caused him a lot of trouble in his rookie season in the NBA, which is a bit of a victory no matter how you look at it, and as for Jerry West's defeat of Zhuang Fei last season, almost the whole world knows that that round of the series is not that Zhuang Fei is inferior to Jerry West, the core of Zhuang Fei's No. 5 tactics in that round of the series Yao Ming was completely abolished, and Maddie was also half-crippled by Carter, even so, he still took Xiao Ao and a few other players to almost force the final championship into a tie-break, In this case, naturally no one will pursue Zhuang Fei's problem, it can be said that Zhuang Fei lost to the opponent tactically for the first time in this game, although the fans may not see it really, but as those professionals naturally understand.
So after the end of this game, those media experts who predicted that Zhuang Fei would easily advance in this round of the series also changed their words, obviously they underestimated the strength of Pat Riley and the Heat, so the turmoil in the United States because of this game is also an extremely interesting thing, of course, and the madness of the media, Zhuang Fei and Pat Riley's No. 5 tactical confrontation in the second half of this game was almost regarded as a textbook by some coaches, Even some NCAA head coaches have begun to spontaneously organize to study the second half of this game, this is the first time in the history of basketball that the No. 5 tactics of the two teams are facing each other, for this tactical system that has been amplified and even boasted by many people, most people are very interested, just because this tactic does not appear many times, and there are not many people who will do it, so it can only be watched from a distance, and at this time Zhuang Fei and Pat Riley taught these people a direct lesson.
Of course, this game exposed the shortcomings of Zhuang Fei and the Boston Celtics, which also made Zhuang Fei and the team sober up a lot, and at this time, the NBA league announced the awards for this year's best coach and best general manager, Zhuang Fei failed to defend the best coach but won the best general manager, and the best coach award was given to Jerry West, who won the championship last season.
!