Chapter 738: The Perfect Celtic
The duel between Arenas and Maddie at North Shore Garden was very interesting, both for Boston Celtics fans and players, so in this game, Zhuang Fei did not instruct the team's players to take any special care of Arenas, nor did he prohibit these Celtics players from doing anything special to Arenas.
It can be said that this game is a completely autonomous game for the Boston Celtics players, and in this extremely autonomous game, Maddie and Arenas also staged the season or the craziest individual performance, and Arenas scored 52 points in the third quarter of the game can be said to be quite rebellious, at least in Zhuang Fei's impression, no one seems to have scored more than 50 points in the third quarter in the past ten years.
Of course, Arenas's crazy performance in this game is not only that he wants to be in the North Shore Garden, wants to be in front of Zhuang Fei, and wants to prove himself in front of the Celtics fans, but also because his own state is really good, although the Boston Celtics did not use the tactics of wrapping and clamping throughout this game, after all, Arenas is a heads-up with Maddy in this game, the Nuggets are not to Maddy, and the Celtics players will naturally not be to Arenas. Even without the wrap-and-roll strategy, he was the best defender of the Boston Celtics outside defense throughout the game, Jackson, who was the No. 1 defensive player in the league last season, although Arenas was Jackson's former teammate and good friend.
But in this game, Zhuang Fei did not give special instructions. None of these Celtics players will show mercy, and in this case Jackson's defensive intensity is also extremely great, and it is definitely impossible to be a tofu scum project, so in this case, the Nuggets' leading player's performance of more than 50 points in the third quarter is definitely very golden, but maybe it makes Zhuang Fei or the Celtics players a little sad or a little sad in the first three quarters. The Nuggets scored just 58 points as a team, and apart from Arenas, only Devin George, who was traded for the Lakers, and Mark Blunt, who was signed for free from the Celtics, were able to score. The others didn't score a point in three quarters.
And even if these two can score, they only contributed a total of 6 points, which can also be seen the low strength of this Nuggets, it can be said that there are basically not many people on this team except Arenas who have the level of the NBA, and in fact, because the Nuggets have been trading and rebuilding in the last two seasons, most of the players on this team have left, leaving some free market in addition to some veterans who really no one wants, Players who come for a tryout or some rookies who have been cut by other teams, the competitiveness of this team can be said to be zero. If there is no Arenas. Maybe this team won't win even five games this season.
And like Arenas, who was one of their biggest champions last season in the eyes of Celtics fans or players, and even some Celtics fans have always believed that the team owes him a Finals MVP, in this case, although Arenas left, but his popularity or his character is extremely liked by everyone in the Celtics, in this case, these people naturally hope that he can have higher achievements in the new team, Now it seems that the Nuggets are completely helpless to help Arenas right now.
At least that's the way this season is, so the more these people see Arenas trying to prove his crazy performances, the more they feel sad for their former player or former comrade. Because Maddie on the other side of Arenas completely sets off this, Maddy is not a player who can't score, and his attack power is not even worse than Arenas, but the Celtics' dominant player in this game is able to switch between scoring and assisting teammates with great ease, and in fact, like Maddy, Arenas is also able to do this, otherwise in the finals last year, he would not be able to run a 4-5 strategy.
It's just a pity that although he can also help his teammates, none of his teammates seem to be able to really accept Arenas's help under the crazy defense of the Boston Celtics players, so in the second half of this game, there was also a very surprising thing at the North Shore Garden Arena, that is, in the second half of this game, almost all Celtics fans were cheering for the away team, or to be more accurate, cheering for the away team's Arenas, And the cheers in this are directly in favor of Arenas to beat the Celtics, perhaps for these emotional Celtics fans, their team's twins Maddie and Arenas last season are indistinguishable, and the status of the two in the fans is the same.
And this kind of love that already exists, coupled with the guilt of this player about last season's Finals MVP, plus the sympathy for his experience with the Nuggets, it is understandable that the fans on the scene would make such abnormal actions, and the collective defection of Celtics fans in this game is also the first time since Zhuang Fei joined the team, but this time Zhuang Fei or the Celtics management did not feel that there was anything wrong. In fact, the fans' emotional psychology towards Arenas Zhuang Fei and the Boston Celtics management also have it, after all, for any championship team, it is a disgraceful thing to trade the player who has contributed the most to the team for any reason, even if there is really no other choice.
So after the end of this game, Zhuang Fei deliberately found Arenas, and then prepared to feast his disciple tomorrow at the largest hotel in Boston, of course, today Zhuang Fei also knew that Arenas would definitely party with the Boston Celtics players after the game, so Zhuang Fei did not bother these people after the game, and in fact, although Arenas is no longer a Celtics player, but this defender is still very popular with the Celtics. That's why he didn't sell his Boston property.
Of course, the next day, Zhuang Fei didn't just invite players from the Boston Celtics. There are also all the trainers and senior management of the Boston Celtics, it can be said that this is the grandest treat after Zhuang Fei came to the United States, and this is also some compensation for Zhuang Fei's former disciple, after all, this season when Arenas left was very ending, and there was no shrouded farewell party, and this time Zhuang Fei was compensated, and to Zhuang Fei's surprise, many people were surprised. In this Zhuang Fei's treat, Maddy, the leading player of the Celtics, also appeared.
This is also the Celtic's attitude towards Arenas' departure, although Maddy's presence will not actually change the relationship between him and Arenas. But the Celtics boss's actions are sure to be recognized by other Celtics players, and that's enough for Maddy.
Of course, now the Celtics' schedule is very relaxed, so easy that there are no games for a week, but it can also give Zhuang Fei time to feast these players, and after the banquet Arenas, these Boston Celtics players still need to return to their crazy training rhythm, and in fact, when these people return to the team's training. The amount of training of these trainers has increased a little bit again. Obviously, this is also indicated by Zhuang Fei or Xibodu and Green. In the Boston Celtics' training sessions, these three were the only ones on the team who could point fingers or strategize.
For the Celtics, during this period of time, they need to digest the defensive experience accumulated in the previous games, and in Zhuang Fei's opinion, the effect is obvious, at least in less than half a month, the defensive quality of this team has risen a little again, and finally when the defensive quality of this team can rise, then it needs to be tested by the market. And the test of the quality of Celtic's defense soon came.
After a comfortable home win over the Nets on March 24, 2004, the Celtics welcomed the 76ers, who are now underdogs in the East, on March 28. Now the 76ers are ranked 11th in the East, it can be said that they have basically missed the playoffs, and the only significance for this team this season is probably to let their team's boss Iverson defend the league's scoring title, and in fact, this season's team's big man Iverson's offensive power is not much worse than last season's average of 35 points per game, so far this season, the 76ers' leading player has averaged 34 points per game, which can be said to be far ahead of other players. Even Arenas, the Nuggets star who competes with him for the title of scoring title of the season, is far from him, and Arenas is now the only two players in the league to average 30 points per game.
But obviously, a player who has just averaged 30 points per game and a player who has already averaged 34 points per game cannot be compared, and the difference is too obvious. Therefore, for the 76ers, their team is very weak now, but most of these people are still very supportive of the team's boss Iverson in terms of belief, and in fact, for Iverson, any game that does not score 30 points can only be regarded as a failure, and it is naturally the same when facing the Celtics, you know, in the current NBA league except for those players who can average 34 or 36 points per game in the game, Others can only sigh at such statistics, but Iverson failed to perform another miracle in this game.
Since Zhuang Fei came to the NBA, he basically didn't have much to do with players like Iverson, and such players have a characteristic of breaking through sharp speed, excellent offense, of course, these are all the reasons why Zhuang Fei met such a player in the Timberwolves or the Boston Celtics is basically a tragedy. And before this game, even the most conservative people gave Iverson their trust in this situation, and they didn't think Iverson could beat this team when he could take it alone.
Judging from the comparison of the current strength of these two teams, there is no possibility for the 76ers to beat the Celtics, but for the 76ers, it would be good if Iverson could break out when he played the Celtics, of course, judging from the final result, naturally these people's topics have all been realized. Because of this game, the 76ers' leading player, before the game, Iverson, who was considered a failure if he didn't score 40, only scored 28 points in this game, and his shooting rate was also low, 35% of the players. And all this is the growth of the Celtics in the past half month.
Obviously, Iverson is not very prepared for the current Celtic, so it is also such a big failure. In the end, the final result of this Boston Celtics and 76ers game was that the Celtics defeated this team 90-78 at home, and this team would have scored only 50 points in the first three quarters if it weren't for some points in the fourth quarter, which is the same as last year's guy.
If the Boston Celtics beat the 76ers at home, and they simply blew up the 76ers on the defensive end, but for this team's offense; There are still a lot of problems, this is still not a perfect game, of course, and for many people, any skill of this team is fake, and any data is fake, so this Celtics 76ers game is also very confusing.
Of course, such doubts did not have much impact on the Celtics, on March 29, the Celtics back-to-back away games against the Nets, this game Boston Celtics once again showed their defense, the Boston Celtics only let the point of the team score below 70 in the whole game, and the final score of this game was also a little suffocating 100-69, it can be said that this team is completely blown out whether it is offensive or defensive.
The Boston Celtics defeated the 76ers with an excellent defensive posture, and then defeated the Nets, in this case, there are still some people who do not agree, after all, the strength of these two teams is indeed up for debate, but in the next game the Celtics host the Trail Blazers The game is not so easy for each other, the two twin towers of this team completely lost their impression in the last game, because some people did not perform well in the last game, and even went undercover.
In this game, the Celtics defeated these two giants, and the final score reached an astonishing 111-93, and the Celtics became more popular. The defensive problem was also solved. And after this team solved the defense, this team is also getting better and better. (To be continued.) )