In the United States, the NBA has always been an extremely long season, and it is also a sport with an extremely tight schedule, and compared with the other two major professional sports, football and baseball, the amount of professional basketball is too large. ,!

For example, some players have to make a decision, they need to make some trade-offs between regular season stats and the playoffs, and many times, for most players, they generally don't do their best in the regular season when they can guarantee regular season results, such as Carter, who is now known as the first person in the league, when the team has gained a lot of good new teammates, the Grizzlies' leading player began to slowly change roles.

And Carter has some fights with the Boston Celtics player Maddy, the Boston Celtics player in the regular season was unable to exert his strength, which is not only the reason why Zhuang Fei deliberately suppressed, but also the reason why Arenas stole the show too much and some of the data needs of other Boston Celtics players, it can be said that although Maddy has no way to do it like Carter without suppressing his teammates' data too much when his data is excellent, But with his ability, it is impossible to average only 25 points per game, in many cases, the current Maddie may have begun to have a strong mentality, the so-called strong mentality is naturally a kind of indifference to some unimportant or irrelevant things, this kind of indifference is not owned by everyone, if the two superstars of the Lakers can have such a mentality, at least they will not infighting, or will not infighting before achieving a common goal.

"You can see it. Today's game is ready to open up with all his might" Zhuang Fei smiled slightly on the long side, the starting lineup of the Boston Celtics in this game is center Yao Ming, big forward Xiao Ao and small forward Maddy and Jackson also said the same about Posey's guard line, this is still the regular lineup of the Boston Celtics, and the Grizzlies, their starting lineup is a little different from when they played the Wizards in the Eastern Conference semifinals, and in the Eastern Conference semifinals, the Wizards have no strong offensive ability.

Although the Wizards' offense is strong, in terms of individual players, this team lacks offensive ability. Whether it's Xiao Si or Marion on the inside or Jordan and Hamilton on the outside, as for Nash, although he can score, his shooting percentage is also very good, but strong offense is not his characteristic, so for such a team, the Grizzlies are playing a small lineup very calmly, because defending such a Wizard, they only need their own defensive players to defend in place.

With the defense in place. It doesn't matter if any player of the Wizards shoots at the end, then it will be recognized. In this case, I can only admire the Wizards' hand, although this seems to be a bit of a passive defense or self-defeating, but this team has always been able to take the initiative in the 7 big battles with the Wizards, and even in the first four games, the Grizzlies also used such a defensive strategy to force the Wizards to 3-1, if it weren't for the last three games of the Wizards' sixth man Jamal Crawford broke out continuously to make up for the Wizards' weakness of no flashpoint and strong offensive point, Maybe the Wizards were solved by the Grizzlies in six games, so in the division semifinals and even the first round, the Grizzlies' tactics have always been one big and four small. And it played very well.

But this game with the Celtics, it is clear that this team does not plan to start the game with one big or four small, because this is an extremely unwise choice, the Boston Celtics are not the Wizards, the strength of the Wizards lies in their system, in a way the Wizards are very similar to the Kings, they have an extremely strong Del system strength.

But the strength of the system cannot make up for the shortcomings of their individual strength, whether large or small. This may also be the difference between the Wizards and the former Timberwolves, the former Timberwolves did not only play the system, or Zhuang Fei's team was never just a team that played the system, whether it was the Timberwolves or the Boston Celtics. Zhuang Fei's subordinates all have enough strong offensive players, and in this case, the Grizzlies naturally dare not hold it up anymore, so in this game, Zhuang Fei saw the Grizzlies' super outside Terry appear on the bench. And the team's other interior lineman, Nazr Mohammed, appeared in the starter, which is an extremely good role player inside, this player can play an average of 12+9 data per game when he was a starter when the Hawks were a game, and even the frontcourt basketball ball can be close to four per game.

This is a top defensive interior with a very good defensive position and a good sense of rebounding, although he can't send a lot of big hats, but his flexibility and weight can create pressure on most of the league's interior lines, but for such an interior line, he doesn't have much use when he meets the Wizards, because the Wizards don't have any players who need him to top, in fact, in the Grizzlies' interior, except for Mohammed, a hidden good role player, Reeves, who has been suffering from injuries this season, also has good strength, but this game Jerry West believes in Muhammad more, and the Grizzlies' starters in this game have also become center Ben Wallace, big forward Nazel Mohammed, small forward Carter and scoring guard Reed and organizational guard Billups, if only from a functional point of view, this team's current lineup is absolutely outside offensive and interior defense, Obviously, the Grizzlies are preparing to learn from the pattern adopted by the Heat when they played the Boston Celtics, that is, to desperately choke the Boston Celtics' triangle offense, especially Maddy's triangle offense.

This is the strategy that the Grizzlies have laid out at the beginning, although this team was still playing with the Wizards three days ago, but this team has not paid much attention to the Boston Celtics, or has been distracted by the Boston Celtics game, otherwise they would not be able to copy the Heat's extremely successful targeted defensive strategy so decisively, but for the Grizzlies, their defensive strategy against the Boston Celtics or Maddy was thoroughly beaten by Maddie at the beginning. At the beginning of this game, the Grizzlies did not let Carter defend Maddy, and the Boston Celtics did not let Maddy defend Carter, as the first core of the two teams, at the beginning, Shuangfei did not want the two to consume themselves excessively on the defensive end, so it has always been the Grizzlies' No. 1 position Billups, although Billups is far inferior to Maddy in height, but it is obvious that the Grizzlies' defensive strategy in this game is not to defend Maddy's shots, but to defend his breakthrough, Although Ben Wallace and Mohammed's defensive interior combination may not be much worse than the combination of Mourning and PJ Brown, Jerry West is still very cautious, so that Billups can block Maddy first for a while to create a certain amount of reaction time for the team's two interior lines, and when the Boston Celtics played the Heat in the Eastern Conference semifinals, the Heat's first line of defense, Rassell Butler, was almost taken by Maddy, if it weren't for Mourning's performance on the defensive end in the last series, the Heat would definitely be blown up, It's just that this time Maddie wants to be like Tass Butler when he faces Billups. It can be said that Jerry West has worked hard to control Maddy, but this may be the thing that makes the Grizzlies head coach a little depressed. Because at the beginning of this game, even if the Chinese knew that the Grizzlies had arranged so many obstacles for Maddie, the Chinese actually let Maddie attack at the beginning, and let Maddie shoot directly in the middle and long range when facing Billups outside, which is not Maddie's strong point, and what makes Jerry West speechless even more is that in just over a week, Maddie's shooting has actually increased a lot, and even in the arc and stability have changed a lot, And just when Jerry West motioned for Billups to stick up and not give Maddie too much of a chance to shoot. The Boston Celtics man of the year had just completed his team's first inside score of the game, and after forcing a close shake off of Billups on the outside, the Boston Celtics man dunked Nazel Mohammed again almost like he did in the previous round of dunking PJ Brown.

At the beginning, Maddie's state was very good, so Zhuang Fei has been smiling on the sidelines and watching the changes on the court, for the helplessness faced by the Grizzlies on the defensive end, Zhuang Fei naturally knows that the current Maddie is no longer the Maddie of last season, and similarly, the Grizzlies also know that this season's Boston Celtics are not the weaker Celtics last season, so the strategy that this team has been adopting since coming to North Shore Garden is the strategy of standing firm and defending first, Instead of taking the lead as soon as they came up like last season, directly suppressing the Boston Celtics to play, in this case, the defensive Grizzlies are now directly losing the initiative on the court under the play of Maddy.

"I believe that after two seasons of hard work, it is time for him to produce results" After hearing Zhuang Fei's words, Stephen Green, the assistant coach of the Boston Celtics on the side, also said with some firmness, now Maddy's shooting may not be as good as Carter, but it is not far away, after all, Maddy's current shooting is also in the A class, in this case, unless the Grizzlies let Artest defend or let Carter come in person, Billups estimates that it will be difficult to limit such a Maddie. If the Grizzlies are willing to use Carter to fight with Maddie, in fact, this is also something that Zhuang Fei and Green have always been willing to see. Because Carter has never been a single-function player in terms of positioning, he can do a lot of things, such as scoring, defense and assists, and he has a lot of things to take into account in his role with the Grizzlies, he can do his best in every role, if he wants to, he can be a scoring maniac or an assist maniac and a defensive maniac, but he can't score a whole game or defend and assist a game. This is absolutely not good, for the current team without Artest and Rasheed Wallace, Carter needs to be more versatile to make up for these shortcomings, such as making up for the inside scoring without Rashid Wallace, and the contact and assistance defense of the inside and outside when there is no Artest, in this case he cannot focus all his energy on Maddy, and the current Maddy is not a player that Carter can clean up casually. In this case, the Grizzlies need to have a trade-off. However, this is just the beginning of the game, and the time has not yet come to make a trade-off.

"I think at this time, Maddie in Vince's eyes must be full of the shadow of his youth" At this time, Zhuang Fei also looked at Carter on the court with some curiosity, after the disintegration of the Grizzlies before this season, Carter was definitely the one who changed the most. At this time, this player has to be in almost all kinds of areas outside the team's paint area, Carter this season is a different Carter than before, he no longer has the space to roam freely like before, if he wants to play freely, then the Grizzlies really don't have the glue. In this case, Maddie is almost the same style he used to have in Wake Forest or the Grizzlies

"It seems that this game is not easy to do" On the bench of the Grizzlies, Grizzlies head coach Jerry West said with some frowns, at this time the championship coach of last season was a little depressed, the development of this game did not go as he expected, but completely went to another aspect, the Boston Celtics' triangle offense did not die, but became more and more lively, which is definitely not a good thing for the Grizzlies, Especially now that the score of the two teams has been widening from the beginning, it has made the Grizzlies head coach a little unable to sit still.

"Jerry, do we need to change the game strategy now, it seems that we are a little conservative, the momentum of the Boston Celtics is very strong today" Carlisle, the assistant coach of the Grizzlies on the side, suggested that the Celtics players in this game almost wanted to tear the Boston Celtics alive, in this case, the passive beating is likely to go wrong, or it is to boost the offensive arrogance of the Boston Celtics, maybe the original intention of the team's game was problematic at the beginning, but for Carlisle's suggestion, Jerry West flatly refused after thinking about it.

"It's still a little too early, let's see what happens" Jerry West said at the end, hearing Jerry West's words, Carlisle didn't say any more, it's really too early, everything is not finalized.

It's just that in this case, the Boston Celtics pressed the Grizzlies in the first quarter of their first game on their home court, and they also achieved a huge 30-22 advantage in the first quarter.

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