The NBA's road trip to the Southwest is not an easy thing for the vast majority of teams in the East, although the strength of the Houston Rockets has been declining in recent years, but other teams such as the Hornets and Spurs and the Mavericks are the league's playoff teams, especially the Spurs and Mavericks have been the top teams in the league recently, and the Spurs are even the second-best team in the West this season, and it is very likely that they will compete with the Kings for the first place in the West. Come on,.!

So for many Eastern Conference teams, this series of road trips is rarely able to get out of the way, and last season's Boston Celtics were a big heel in the Mavericks' defense.

Of course, for the Boston Celtics, their trip to the southwest this season has been a lot easier, in this road trip Boston Celtics schedule is very good, there are no back-to-back games, and the Boston Celtics' first opponent, the Hornets, is also the Celtics' most willing opponent.

Because the biggest strengths of this Hornets are on the periphery, and the defensive strengths of the Boston Celtics are also on the outside, especially the restrictions of James Posey, the No. 1 position of the Boston Celtics, on Byron Davis, the No. 1 position of the Hornets, is a must in the league.

When Byron Davis entered the league, he has been playing the No. 1 position with the body of the No. 3 position and has attracted much attention, for this guard, it can easily crush most of the league's No. 1 players, it can be said that the point guard with the body of a small forward is a bug player in the league in a sense, but what makes this bug player very tragic is that the No. 1 James Posey of the Boston Celtics is one of his nemesis.

So every time you face this Boston Celtics. This Hornets will always drop a level when attacking, and the same is true in this game, the Hornets, who can average 97 points per game this season, only scored 80 points against the Celtics, while the Boston Celtics scored 93 points in this game, so the Hornets also easily lost to their nemesis Boston Celtics on their home court. The Boston Celtics, on the other hand, got off to a good start with this victory.

After beating the Hornets on Jan. 8, the Boston Celtics travel to Dallas, where they will take on the Dallas Mavericks on Jan. 10. The team currently sits in third place in the West, behind the Kings and Spurs in the West. And when Zhuang Fei and his team came to this team, Zhuang Fei got a special invitation

"Hello Coach Z. I'm Mark Cuban, owner of the Mavericks."

When Zhuang Fei received the invitation of his idol and mentor Nelson Sr., he came to Nelson's house, but he saw a very familiar person appear in front of him.

Mark Cuban, the current owner of the Mavericks, has been looking forward to building an invincible ship since he took ownership of the Mavericks in 2000. Zhuang Fei, the boss of this calf, is no stranger to him in his previous life or now.

If you say that in the current NBA, who will make the league the most crazy, except for Zhuang Fei, the head coach who constantly misses the post-game press conference and makes David Stern have no way, it is the best Mark Cuban, David Stern is not willing to punish Zhuang Fei, and for this Maverick boss is useless, in the current NBA, this Maverick boss is already a figure who dares to shoot at David Stern and the NBA league, in many cases, other NBA practitioners are a very' The fool's eyes look at this 'madman'. Of course, Zhuang Fei is naturally unlikely to appear among these people who despise Cuban, Zhuang Fei still has a lot of respect for this Maverick boss, at least for him to be able to devote all his spirit to the team, at least I don't know how much better than the one in the Rockets. This somewhat stupid NBA boss is one of the few NBA owners in the NBA who can make Zhuang Fei look at him.

Of course, although he didn't have any ill feelings towards this Maverick boss Zhuang Fei, but appearing in front of him like this still made Zhuang Fei a little speechless, after all, he came to old Nelson's appointment, if people saw him and this Maverick boss mixed together, I don't know what kind of news would come out. Zhuang Fei didn't want to make a mess for his team at this time.

"Zhuang, this has nothing to do with Mark, I invited him here, Mark said he had always wanted to meet you, he is a fan of Wake Forest University"

After seeing Zhuang Fei's embarrassment, the old Nelson on the side also said with a smile, and after the old Nelson finished speaking, Zhuang Fei's face improved slightly.

"Hello, Mr. Cuban, I am also surprised by your enthusiasm for the NBA," Zhuang Fei finally smiled and nodded to the Mavericks' boss.

Seeing Zhuang Fei like this, this Mr. Cuban was also happy, and it was obvious that Zhuang Fei was not a person to be approached as rumored.

In fact, for Zhuang Fei, when the Maverick boss appeared here, Zhuang Fei understood the meaning of the old Nelson and Cuban, and recently there have been rumors that the old Nelson is ready to leave the Mavericks, and the head coach who laid the foundation for the Mavericks now seems to want to take a break for a while, so the Mavericks have been looking for a head coach recently, but for many people, Zhuang Fei and the Mavericks have nothing to do with each other, and naturally no one thinks that Zhuang Fei will deign to leave Boston to coach the Mavericks.

It's just that others don't think that Zhuang Fei will go to Mavericks, but this does not affect Mark Cuban's pursuit, in fact, he is here to explore Zhuang Fei's bottom this time.

"Mr. Cuban, I'm doing well in Boston right now, I have no intention of leaving Boston, and I think Mr. Nelson is doing a great job with the Mavericks, he's one of the coaches I respect the most, and I think he's the best head coach for the Mavericks."

When leaving the old Nelson's house, Zhuang Fei said sincerely to the boss of the calf who wanted to dig himself, he really didn't have much interest in the calf now, but after getting Zhuang Fei's answer, it was just that both Mark Cuban and old Nelson were extremely disappointed, this was not the answer they wanted, but it was obvious that these two people had also been psychologically prepared in this regard. After a brief period of loss, it also returned to normal.

Getting Mark Cuban's invitation was a surprise for Zhuang Fei, and the Celtics and Mavericks also came close to it on the night of January 10.

The Mavericks and Celtics are the kind of teams that chase offense, and the two teams played an offensive battle on the North Shore Garden Court more than a month ago, and in Dallas today, the two teams also contributed an offensive battle, but unlike the last time the Boston Celtics had a clear advantage in North Shore Garden, the two teams were extremely close in this game. Until the last minute, the two teams were only three points apart, and in the end, the two teams were separated by only one goal, and in the end, Nowitzki's three-point strike failed to send the Dallas Mavericks to a 117-120 home loss to the Boston Celtics. And in this game, these two teams also set a league record. There were four triple-doubles in the game, and the Dallas Mavericks' Nowitzki had 30 points, 14 rebounds and 10 assists, which was also the first triple-double of the Mavericks' career in the NBA. The white chocolate is 12 points, 11 rebounds and 13 assists, in addition to the two triple-double players in Dallas, the Bostontics James Posey and Maddy also played a triple-double, James Posey is a standard triple-double of 16 points, 10 rebounds and 10 assists, and Maddie is 22 points, 12 rebounds and 11 assists.

After leaving Dallas, the Boston Celtics' next opponent is the Houston Rockets, another Texas top three team, who has been considered a laughing stock by all for sending Jay Williams to the Bulls this season. Now the Bulls are doing very well in the East, and this Rocket is indeed a little not good, the Rockets sent Williams out to get Jalen Rose did not show the previous average of 20+5+4 per game, this team is still only Francis still leading the team, it is obviously difficult to find his place in the competitive West with such a configuration. Therefore, in this game, Zhuang Fei can clearly feel that the head coach of the Rockets, Tang Shuai, is much older than last year.

Although Zhuang Fei sympathized with the old coach, Zhuang Fei did not mean to stay in this game, Zhuang Fei's Boston Celtics have been leading from beginning to end, and the final score of defeating the Rockets was 111-97, and the Boston Celtics easily achieved the third victory of their southwest journey.

After beating the Rockets on Jan. 12, the Boston Celtics arrived in San Antonio on Jan. 14, and when they arrived in San Antonio, it was clear that the atmosphere was a little different. If Magic Johnson is the least popular player here, then Zhuang Fei is the most unpopular head coach here, so when Zhuang Fei and his team appeared on the court, they were met with the biggest boos.

The Spurs' performance this season has been outstanding, with the help of Scola and Pippen and Parker and Eric Williams, Duncan is obviously playing more calmly than before, and this game is indeed the hardest game of the Boston Celtics' Western journey.

"Jermaine, good job, sit down and watch your teammates do well"

Zhuang Fei smiled and patted O'Neal Jr. who came down from the court and said, and at this time, although the Boston Celtics core interior who had just come off the court saw the head coach comforting him, he was still extremely depressed in his heart.

In this game, he was directly beaten by the opponent's leading player, Duncan, who was directly beaten into six fouls. And what makes Xiao Ao even more helpless is that he is not the only one who has six fouls in this game of the Boston Celtics, he was knocked off the court by Duncan's six fouls in the second overtime, and the team's starting center Yao Ming was played by Duncan directly before the end of the fourth quarter. It can be said that these two starting interior lines of the Boston Celtics were played badly in this game.

"This year's Duncan is better than ever, he has entered the peak of his career" Stephen Green, the assistant coach of the Boston Celtics on Zhuang Fei's side, sighed and said, he is Duncan's best friend, and he also knows Duncan best, and Zhuang Fei nodded after listening to Green's words, this year's Duncan's performance is indeed against the sky, His current average of 26.5 points, 13.5 rebounds, 6.5 assists and 3.2 blocks per game this season is the best performance of his career.

Of course, today's game with the Spurs Boston Celtics played very the inside, but the same is true for the Spurs' outside players, the Boston Celtics have been laid down by the time they play so far, and the same is true for the Spurs on the other side of the court, Pippen and Eric Williams of this team are also played by Maddie and Arenas of the Celtics. It can be said that after the two teams played the second overtime, they were completely competing for the absolute superiority of their respective players, which was very miserable.

It's just that not long after Xiao Ao went off the court, there was a new change on the court again, the Spurs' point guard Parker was directly forced by Arenas to play one when defending Arenas, Parker's performance this year is actually very good, the sophomore point guard has slowly entered the league's top ranks, but just like last season, Parker is difficult to do when facing Arenas, and Arenas's direct play to his body makes this guard also play with six fouls.

"Coach, Arenas' offense is a lot more decisive in this game" Stephen Green also said with a smile after seeing Arenas complete this offense, and Zhuang Fei also nodded. How Arenas and Maddie can be organically combined has always been an unsolved problem, Zhuang Fei gave Arenas the initiative to attack just so that Arenas and the other Boston Celtics don't have to be humble to each other when attacking, and there is no need to hesitate, in this regard, Arenas, who has been loosened by Zhuang Fei in recent games, has done a good job.

This game is the hardest game of the season for the Boston Celtics, when the Boston Celtics defeated the Spurs 110-105 in the fourth overtime under the leadership of Kirilenko, Maddy, Jackson and Arenas James Posey Zhuang Fei was relieved, this game Boston Celtics showed the depth of their roster, but it was able to make the Boston Celtics play four overtimes to score 110 points, which can also show the strength of this Spurs defense, In this game, Spurs leader Duncan almost had a quadruple-double, and the last stat of the interior player was 36 points, 22 rebounds and 9 assists, 8 blocks and 5 steals.

After the big game against the Spurs, the Boston Celtics ended their Southwest tour with a complete victory. (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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