"Mark, the team has been doing well lately"

In a high-end café in Atlanta City, Zhuang Fei looked at the former assistant in front of him with a smile, and then gently put down his coffee cup and asked with a slow smile.

Atlanta is not far from Windsor City, so when Zhuang Fei came to Atlanta, he didn't expect that on February 9, his assistant at Wake Forest and the current head coach of Wake Forest University, Mark Allen, actually came to him.

Although Zhuang Fei has been in Boston now and does not care too much about the NCAA situation, but for the current situation of Wake Forest Zhuang Fei is also clear, the recent results of this team is good, the second place in the ACC league regular season, and now this team has reached the final four of the ACC league playoffs, and some recent media speculation that this team will win this year's ACC playoffs is also the most favorable contender for the NCAA championship. You must know that the ACC league is currently the most competitive place in all the NCAA leagues, and it is not easy to achieve such results in this place.

It can be said that according to the situation that Zhuang Fei has learned, the current situation in Wake Forest is very good, but what makes Zhuang Fei puzzled is that his assistant's face is not too good-looking, and he seems to be preoccupied.

"The situation of the team is very bad now," Zhuang Fei shook his head helplessly after hearing Zhuang Fei's question, and said at this time, the protagonist of Wake Forest was full of frustration, and seeing Zhuang Fei's somewhat puzzled expression, the head coach of Wake Forest also continued.

"Windsor fans have been a little bit too late to wait, and now the two key players in the squad, Gerard Wallace, are juniors this year. Josh Howard is graduating this year, and I've been working on a system with these two people as the core for two years, and if I can't win this year's championship in this situation, I think Wake Forest will need to start again, and if it does start again, I don't know when it will be able to win the championship again."

When Mark Allen finished speaking, the Wake Forest manager sighed again, while Zhuang Fei on the side nodded with some sympathy.

The biggest reason why his assistant is so anxious is because Windsor City fans have lost the championship for a long time recently, in fact, just like when Zhuang Fei left the Timberwolves, the taste of Timberwolves fans was raised. To some extent, Wake Forest fans have a higher vision than Timberwolves fans, and it can be said that for this group of fans, they certainly hope that the team can continue or inherit the glory brought to them by Zhuang Fei, but in recent years, the team's results have been very stable after Mark Allen took over. Basically, they can reach the quarterfinals of the NCAA every year, but no matter what, this team just can't go to the highest stage, and in this case, if not NCAA fans are more patient than NBA fans. It is estimated that Zhuang Fei's assistant coach has already been out of class with the Timberwolves like Van Gundy Jr., but from the current point of view, the patience of Wake Forest fans seems to have really reached its peak.

"Mark, don't you have any confidence in winning the NCAA championship this year?" Zhuang Fei said with a smile to his assistant, and when Zhuang Fei said this, the head coach of Wake Forest smiled bitterly again.

"I really don't have a lot of confidence this year, Zhuang, do you know that this year Pitino with Cameron Anthony's University of Maryland is simply against the sky, this year this team has not lost, although we are now second only to them in terms of results and strength, but the gap between the strength of the two teams is a bit big. If nothing else, it will be really difficult to fulfill the wishes of the fans this year, in fact, for me personally, last year was the best time for us to win the championship, only to lose out of the semi-finals in the end" When the Wake Forest manager talked about last year, the manager's tone also became a little regretful. Zhuang Fei naturally knew that Wake Forest was 'hacked' by the NCAA league last year, and last year, this team was indeed the strongest in the NCAA under the leadership of Josh Howard and Gerald Wallace, and it was almost a matter of course to win the championship, but in the end it fell in the quarterfinals.

"You came to me today to complain," Zhuang Fei looked at the former assistant in front of him who kept sighing and said with a smile again, as far as Mark Allen's current situation is concerned, I am afraid that he is very emotional. It's just that I can't vent it when I'm usually in the team.

"Yes, my mood hasn't been right lately, I just want to find someone to talk to" Mark Allen was also stunned after Zhuang Fei finished speaking, and then nodded with a wry smile.

"Mark, I think it's going to get better" Zhuang Fei still said with a smile, and he didn't give any advice at this time, because as far as a head coach of Mark Allen's level is concerned, he doesn't need any advice from him at all, and he also doesn't need him to recommend players, so Zhuang Fei can't do much in this situation.

"I hope so" Mark Allen drank the coffee in his hand with some emotion, and at this time, Zhuang Fei shook his head when he saw his former assistant.

"Mark, I heard Chris Paul say that he has now received your invitation, and I think there should be changes in the team next year" When Zhuang Fei mentioned Paul, the Wake Forest manager's eyes also lit up, and his face was much better, but he soon returned to square one.

"The ACC competition is really fierce now, even with Chris, but if Josh Howard leaves, the strength of our team still hasn't improved, and even needs to start over, it's really not easy to beat Maryland or other colleges with such strength."

Because of the strength of the ACC league in the past ten years, it can be said that the current ACC league has been the first well-deserved NCAA, especially after Zhuang Fei played a three-year winning record in the ACC, and now almost the best high school students in the United States choose the ACC league as the first goal of choosing college, and even recently in the NCAA, there is such a sentence, the best player is in the ACC, it is obvious that they have the confidence to say this sentence for the league of Jordan, Duncan and Carter in the past ten years. Similarly, for those super geniuses who want to follow in the footsteps of Jordan Carter or Duncan, the ACC league is their first choice, for example, last year's high school graduate Carmelo Anthony refused the invitation of super prestigious schools such as Syracuse University and Kansas Kentucky and resolutely joined the arms of the new upstart University of Maryland in ACC.

When Zhuang Fei thought of this, he also had some sympathy for his former assistant.

Mark Allen was in a very bad mood when he came to Zhuang Fei, and when the head coach of Wake Forest University left, Zhuang Fei was also a little relieved, it seems that his former assistant has recovered a lot, but when he thinks of his assistant's current situation, Zhuang Fei is a little helpless. To some extent, most of the assistant's current predicament is caused by himself.

Mark Allen came and went in a hurry, and during this period, the head coach of Wake Forest did not go to see Duncan and Carter, but Zhuang Fei was about to start his live broadcast of today's All-Star Game after meeting with Mark Allen

The 2003 Atlanta All-Star Game was a special event. In this tournament, the league wants to be as attractive as possible, but the people involved in it don't have much of that idea, just like the All-Star Rookie Game and the Skills Contest that ended before. The players weren't too excited.

This is also related to the current NBA situation, as far as the current NBA is concerned, the top five in the league are competing for the first place in the league, and these teams are the largest output teams of the All-Star.

Therefore, for today's All-Star Game, I am afraid that these players will be more cautious, hoping to reserve most of their energy in the hope of helping the team in the next regular season sprint.

This time, ABC's all-star commentary is very painstaking, and it can be said that it has played an extremely big-name lineup, and this media not only invited Zhuang Fei, the hottest head coach in the NBA. And Zhuang Fei's two partners are also very big, and these two people are also Zhuang Fei's good friends, the Lakers' famous Magic Johnson and the Celtics' famous Pacers head coach Larry Bird, as for the ABC's official commentator Michaels, he put down the burden of commentary and took up the role of on-site reporter. Obviously, this time ABC was going to create a competition like no other, so it was going to give all the microphones to these three big-name non-professionals.

Although this year's All-Stars will definitely save their strength by stuffing these big-name All-Stars. But when Zhuang Fei saw the lineup of the two All-Stars, he couldn't help but feel a little emotional, the lineup of this All-Star didn't dare to say that it was the first in history, but it was definitely a number in history.

In addition to the starters Yao Ming, Maddy and Carter, Jordan and Iverson, the Eastern All-Stars have seven other bench players, namely the Timberwolves' Shaw and Arenas, the Wizards' Nash and Marion, the Heat's Mourning, and the Nets' Kidd and the Pistons' Stackhouse, as for the West, in addition to the five starters Wang Zhizhi. In addition to Garnett and Duncan, as well as Kobe and Pierce, there are also the Lakers' Fat and Szczebiak and the Kings' Webb and Peja, as well as the Mavericks' Nowitzki and the Warriors' Anthony Walker, plus the supersonic Ray Allen.

In Zhuang Fei's view, the two teams in the east and west are very close in terms of strength, at least in terms of the number of A+ level players, the east and the west are about the same, one is three, and the other side is four, and what is even more strange is that the three A+ players in the east Carter Maddy and Iverson are all outside, and the four A+ players in the west Fat and Garnett and Duncan are all inside, and only Kobe Bryant is the outside, it can be said that this situation is extremely clear inside and outside, That's the main thing in tonight's All-Star Game, with the East dominating the outside and the West dominating.

"Zhuang, this year's All-Star is really a rare All-Star game that is not really played."

When the game started, the Magic Johnson on the commentary bench also said with regret, and Zhuang Fei and Larry Bird on the side also nodded a little embarrassed, in recent years, the All-Star Game has been real from the beginning of the game, but tonight it is from the time of the show, it is obvious that the Magic is taking this opportunity to mock Zhuang Fei and Larry Bird, Larry Bird is okay, his team was not selected as an All-Star, and Zhuang Fei was selected for four, Obviously, Zhuang Fei also instructed his players not to work hard. In this case, in the face of the magician's sarcasm, Zhuang Fei could only be dumbfounded.

Of course, although the performance form of the game lacks the tactics and intensity that professionals want to see, but it has the dunk and three-point that fans are looking forward to, as well as a variety of fancy scoring methods, it can be said that this game has adjusted the appetite of fans from the beginning, and in the face of this somewhat fancy game, the three non-professional commentators in the commentary seat are slowly finding the rhythm of the fancy game after a short period of discomfort.

"Now it looks like there are two other people in these All-Stars who are very different."

In the commentary seat, Larry Bird looked at Arenas and Kobe, who were getting more and more tense on the court, and said with some surprise, the score of the two sides in this game was very large, which is also because both sides basically gave up physical contact and defense, and in the first three quarters of the game, it was not without bright spots, but the Lakers' Kobe and Arenas were more energetic, especially when Iverson in the East did not play much time due to injury. Of course, the frenzy of these two people was only limited to the first three quarters, and when the two teams began to fight each other in the fourth quarter, the two men ended the situation of flying each other.

The performance on both sides of this game is very heavy, the score of the two teams has been very tight from the beginning, and it is even more so in the fourth quarter, in the fourth quarter, the east is completely playing Arenas Jordan and Carter Maddy and Xiao Ao's small lineup under the arrangement of Jerry West, and in the west, all the three A+ big guys are put up, and with Kobe Bryant and Pierce, it can be said that it is a complete big lineup, and last year, Zhuang Fei led a small lineup to defeat the big lineup in the west, which is different, This time, it was the big lineup in the west, and the east was out of breath.

In the end, the West defeated the East 144-132, and the MVP of this game was also won by Garnett and Kobe Bryant in the West, Garnett scored 30 points and 17 rebounds in this game, and Kobe Bryant scored a game-high score of 36 points.

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