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On June 22, 2001, this is the day when Zhuang Fei took up his new post with the Boston Celtics, the weather in Boston and the weather in Minnesota are completely two extremes, Minnesota has a short summer and Boston has a long summer, and now in Minnesota or winter and summer, there are even some places where there is still snow, but in Boston it is a scorching sun, so Zhuang Fei is also a little uncomfortable here these days.

This is a process, maybe for Zhuang Fei after these few days, originally according to the meaning of the Boston Celtics Club Zhuang Fei should have rested until June 23, but when Zhuang Fei learned from the Timberwolves general manager McHale that the Timberwolves are stepping up to find the possibility of trading O'Neal Jr. these days after Zhuang Fei left, at this time the head coach of the Timberwolves has not been selected, you know, the current Timberwolves are a hot potato.

Zhuang Fei's record in the previous years is so brilliant that even people can only look up and can't rise to surpass the courage, which coach of such a team that has been deeply engraved by Zhuang Fei dares to take over? As long as anyone dares to take over, then their only goal to Minnesota is to lead the Timberwolves to defend the title, if they fail to defend the title, it is estimated that their reputation will be discredited, and if it is not a famous coach, with the momentum of the Timberwolves' two consecutive championships, they can't look down on those ordinary coaches, especially after Zhuang Fei broke out that the Timberwolves owner Glenn Taylor asked for money and not results, it provoked a large number of famous coaches who were interested in joining the Timberwolves and then continuing to write Zhuang Fei's glory to retreat, which made the Timberwolves now completely mired in the selection of coaches. Zhuang Fei could also hear McHale's helplessness on the phone, of course. Now the Timberwolves head coach is not in place, but that doesn't affect team owner Glenn Taylor's expulsion of Ao Jr. Now he is extremely eager to put Wang Zhizhi on the throne, especially after Zhuang Fei leaves, this mood is particularly urgent, this boss has now prepared a five-year 45 million contract for Wang Zhizhi, and Wang Zhizhi and his agent team also agreed to this contract, in fact, Glenn Taylor originally prepared a five-year 55 million annual salary contract for Wang Zhizhi, but it was rejected by this Chinese insider. Pierce just took a salary cut to renew his contract last year, Wang Zhizhi naturally can't really accept Glenn Taylor's 'kindness', the current Timberwolves are still very united even after Zhuang Fei left, at least the relationship between the players in the team is quite good. That is, because Wang Zhizhi is about to renew his contract, Xiao Ao must leave.

According to Zhuang Fei's understanding from McHale, Xiao Ao knew that he was about to face the embarrassment of being swept away, but he listened to McHale's words and said that the young center did not have too many negative thoughts, and he was sure that he was unhappy with the team and the boss, but he had no complaints about his teammate, the new league's first-line center, especially Wang Zhizhi's extremely good performance when he played as a substitute for two years, and if it weren't for Wang Zhizhi's estimation that the Timberwolves would lose to the Lakers in this year's Western Conference Finals, So he doesn't have too much dissatisfaction with Wang Zhizhi's position, in his opinion, Wang Zhizhi is too condescending to give him a substitute, not to mention that more importantly, he really doesn't want to compete with Wang Zhizhi in the Timberwolves. Because Xiao Ao has been watching the team's bench interior Deangarrett's All-Star votes are higher than his own, he doesn't want to stay with the Timberwolves, if it weren't for Zhuang Fei, he would have wanted to leave after winning the championship last season. Now that Zhuang Fei has left, then he has no worries.

Glenn Taylor now treats Ao as a mustard and doesn't take Ao seriously at all, but other teams in the NBA don't think so, Ao was selected to the league's third team and defensive second team last season, which is an All-Star level center, and more importantly, many people think that this Ao is Garnett's second. And it's a strong version of Garnett, who is excellent on defense and offense, and is a flawless interior like Mourning, Garnett, and Duncan, and such a player is enough to cause the entire league to scramble. Moreover, judging from the current form, the Timberwolves are not at all prepared to use this interior to get enough benefits, and it seems that Glenn Taylor only needs to clean this contract is enough. …,

Who wouldn't want to be able to get an All-Star level interior line at no cost? Even Zhuang Fei's old rival Lakers' Phil Jackson also shot at this Zhuang Fei's disciple, last season Phil Jackson thought that the reason why the Lakers lost to the Timberwolves was because they lost in the Lakers' interior line and did not have the ability to share the pressure for O'Neal, so that the Timberwolves could completely focus all their efforts on the inside line to encircle and suppress Ao Fat, and finally made Ao Fat be surrounded and annihilated to death. Xiao Ao can not only use his offensive ability to reduce the pressure for Ao Fat on the offensive end, but also use his foot movement to make up for Ao Fat on the defensive end.

It is a big problem for all big centers to defend their opponents, although Ao Fat is the first center in the league, he still has this problem, as long as there is Xiao Ao, then Ao Fat's shortcomings are no longer shortcomings.

It can be said that Xiao Ao is the perfect complement to the Lakers.

The Lakers are in the crazy suitor Xiao O, and Phil Jackson's old rival Grizzlies head coach Jerry West is the same, the Grizzlies are now a harder inside, this is a well-known thing in the league, if there can be a harder inside line and the Lakers this year, they may not lose, in addition to the Lakers and Grizzlies, the Pacers' Larry Bird is also eyeing Xiao Ao, and now the Pacers lack an inside offensive point, last year Bird was already chasing Xiao Ao when Smit retired, It's just that it was vetoed by Zhuang Fei at that time, and now it seems that the time must have come. Of course, in addition to these three most pressing teams, there are also many other teams that are also caught in this small Olympic battle.

So, for a while, the entire NBA revolved around the Timberwolves' young center.

And more importantly, Zhuang Fei is also full of interest in Xiao Ao, he very much hopes to recruit his disciple from the Timberwolves, like Xiao Ao, an interior line who can attack and defend is impossible for any coach to be willing to give up.

This is also the reason why Zhuang Fei pressed the end of the vacation in advance. He needs to compete with other teams, although Zhuang Fei is the former head coach of the Timberwolves. But now out of office, and Glenn Taylor personally handles the deal. It is really difficult for Zhuang Fei to go through the back door and poach Xiao Ao

"Tsk, our new head coach Mr. came really early, and he is really a famous Z coach, maybe he can really lead us to rise."

"Cut, you've been a handsome for a long time? So you and I came before him, why are we still working as cleaners? And Mr. Pitino used to come earlier than him every day. It's not like anyone else is coming earlier to lead the Celtic recovery."

In the corridor at the door of Zhuang Fei's chairman's office, the two Celtic cleaners saw Zhuang Fei walk into the office with an awe-inspiring face and said one after another, the time is only 7 o'clock in the morning, and it is the season vacation. The players of the team are all on vacation, so the staff work time is 9 o'clock in the morning, and Zhuang Fei came 2 hours in advance.

"Yes, Mr. Pitino is really a good man, but it's a pity that the water in Boston is too deep," said the slightly shorter cleaner with a sigh when he heard his colleague talk about Pitino, and it was obvious that the NCAA coach was a good gentleman in the hearts of this staff.

"It's a pity what's the use, you don't know, who are in charge of the Celtics now, and the team's deputy general manager is Danny Ange. The team's director of operations is Michael Leon Carr, these are all old people of the Celtics, I heard that these people usually don't listen to Mr. Pitino and then forced Mr. Pitino and the previous owner away, who knows if these people will force Mr. Zhuang away"...,

When the tall man finished speaking indignantly, the short man also sighed, the two have been working in this office door for twenty years, when the cardinal was the general manager of the team, how domineering was they to lead Larry Bird and their sweep of the league, and now? It's become a complete arena of struggle for power, which also makes the two Celtics basketball fans a little embarrassed, and perhaps the club will not be able to recover until its internal problems are resolved.

And can this Chinese figure out these intricate interest groups within the Celts? It doesn't seem very reliable to these two people. At this time, the two cleaners cast a 'sympathetic' look at the chairman's office.

A cleaner would sympathize with the president of his team, and this is probably the only one.

Zhuang Fei naturally didn't know that there were two Celtics staff members outside who were 'talking' about him, and now Zhuang Fei was quite anxious to carry out his work, and he called the team's deputy general manager Danny Angie last night to ask him to prepare a complete report on the Boston Celtics players for himself, Zhuang Fei is now completely dazzling about these players in his team, and he doesn't know anything.

Fortunately, when Zhuang Fei came to his office, he saw a stack of neatly placed documents on his desk, obviously these are all the player information of the Celtics players, the NBA's biggest giants are very efficient, which also makes Zhuang Fei extremely happy.

The Boston Celtics were the fourth from the bottom in the entire league last season, and it can be said that it has been rotten to the bone, and the overall strength of this team is undoubtedly rotten, and Zhuang Fei also knows a general situation of this team from his dynasty system.

There are 2 players in this team with an ability value of more than 90, Tracy McGrady's 93 and Anthony Walker's 92, and all the others are below 80, and even 4 are above 70, so it is easy to understand that the Celtics were so bad last season, and it is understandable that the strange double kill of the Lakers last season is also understandable, after all, the team has two All-Star level super players.

The boss of this team is Anthony Walker, this is a fact of the Pitino period, and as the boss of the team, although he is lazy, his strength can definitely convince the public, not to mention his dynasty system on the tall 92 ability rating, his data last season is also the best in the league, averaging 42 minutes per game, which is the first in the league, with an average of 24 points per game, which is the fourteenth in the league, The average number of rebounds per game is 9.3, which is the 19th in the league, and the average assists per game are 5.9, which is the 17th in the league, and the average steals per game is 1.9, which is the 13th in the league, the swingman in the third or fourth position is the only two players in the NBA who ranked in the top 20 in points, rebounds, assists, and steals last season, and the other is Garnett, the MVP of the regular season last season, Garnett's scores, assists are less than him, but there are more rebounds, steals, and blocks than him, Garnett's five statistics are all in the top 20 in the league, it can be said that regardless of the team's record, this is an MVP-level dataAnd what's even more bizarre is that the Celtics' successor to Larry Bird shot 240 three-pointers in a single season last season, ranking second in the league, second only to Lakers player Szebiak who shot 331 three-pointers, which is why this guy was able to suppress Maddie and make Celtics fans love and hate.

For such a wonderful player, Zhuang Fei also sighed slightly after reading his report. This is a thorn in the thorn of a thorn.

Of course, in addition to the boss Anthony Walker, the team's second-in-command Maddy also performed well last season, last season Maddy was able to contribute an average of 25.9 points, 7.3 rebounds and 4.4 assists per game, and also had 1.8 steals and 1.2 blocks, Maddy ranked eighth in the scoring list last season, and other statistics are also excellent, and what surprised Zhuang Fei even more was that the guard swingman had a lot of steals and blocks, and it seemed that the defense was quite active.

But when he thought about the fact that the young guard was fighting Anthony Walker for the boss, he understood that if he wasn't active, he wouldn't have forced Walker to be like this, the two almost died, and Maddie almost ran to the aerotropolitan.

It's just that Zhuang Fei is a little funny that under the leadership of these two super players, this giant team has not yet entered the playoffs in the East, so how bad should this team's role players be.

When Zhuang Fei read all the remaining Celtics player reports, he finally understood the reason, and as Zhuang Fei thought, the other players were indeed bad enough.

Just when Zhuang Fei closed all the players' reports, closed his eyes and sorted out his thoughts, the door of his office was pushed open.

Zhuang Fei opened his eyes.

This is Michael Lyon Carr, Celtic's director of team operations. (Your support is my biggest motivation.) )