"Stephen, you said Mr. Zhuang was looking for me?"

On April 18, 2004, the Boston Celtics team training hall, although just played a playoff game yesterday, but the Boston Celtics did not take a holiday, after all, the intensity of the last game was not very large, which is far from the extent that this team is tired and needs to take a holiday, and in the Boston Celtics, since the Chinese came here, there is basically no tradition of taking a holiday after the game, in this case, These young Boston Celtics players have been able to adapt perfectly.

Even Maddie, the team boss who is recognized as a relatively jumpy team, is slowly adapting to the rhythm of the Celtics, when everyone trains hard, even if he wants to be lazy, it is impossible, compared to when a person's behavior is contrary to other peers, it is extremely conspicuous, and as far as the current Boston Celtics, Maddie really does not have the kind of status that can be arbitrary, of course, the same is true for Kirilenko, He is currently the boss of the Russian basketball team, and he is also one of the best players in Europe at one time.

But in the Boston Celtics, he has never thought that he is very important, this team is great, but the same team does not need him so much, if it weren't for the fact that this team has Stephen Green, he would not have been able to stay for a long time, but even so, the Russian rookie is ready to go outside after his rookie period is over, for Kirilenko, this Boston Celtics is a paradise that many players think. A lot of young NBA players want to play under that Chinese.

But for Kirilenko he didn't really know what the difference was, and maybe he knew that it was difficult for him to fit in, because many times his teammates were talking about something from the past, he could only stand on the sidelines, he didn't know anything, he didn't want to know anything, like a transfer student who suddenly entered a new class, which was supposed to be for the versatile striker. He has prepared his future plans, although it seems to be a little sorry for Stephen Green, but there is nothing he can do, for Stephen Green he has tried to integrate with these teammates. It's just that he still failed in the end, he doesn't like this environment very much, although this environment looks beautiful and warm, but this evil warmth and beauty make him even more confused.

It's just that the young Russian is extremely surprised that the head coach of the team, who has been paying little attention to him since he came to this collective, has been asking about him through Stephen Green recently, which also makes Kirilenko a little unsure of what to do, for this all-round forward, if Zhuang Fei ignores him, he can choose to disappear from the Boston Celtics in a bland manner. This will be less burdensome for him. Anyway, the team doesn't need him, but the team's manager has been revealing to him that the team needs him very much recently, which makes him very confused.

For Kirilenko, he doesn't plan to stay in this team whether the team needs him or not, because he has discovered that he doesn't belong to this collective at all, but now the pain of this young man is that he doesn't know how to express these thoughts in his heart at all, as a Russian and a European player, he is inherently different from American players in this regard, he is still more reserved. If Zhuang Fei hadn't ignored him before, he would have been able to go with the flow and not have to think about this problem, but now, it is naturally impossible.

"Andre, maybe the coach will be of great use to you?" Green looked at the player in front of him, who was both an apprentice and a friend, and said with a smile, he was Zhuang Fei's assistant coach, and his words were naturally well-founded, without knowing what Kirilenko was thinking, the assistant coach of the Boston Celtics was also very happy for Kirilenko. Recently, the Russian young man's desire to attack is recovering, and all this Zhuang Fei naturally sees in his eyes, since he sees it, then he naturally needs to change something, and now Zhuang Fei naturally will not assign tasks to the Russian young man as before, especially when Wade has entered the starting lineup, his responsibility needs to be greater, and of course it will inevitably be reused by the team.

"Really?" When he heard Green say that Zhuang Fei would reuse him, the Russian also said with a wry smile on his face, and Green on the side didn't know what he was thinking at all, and after Kirilenko finished speaking, the assistant coach of the Boston Celtics also patted him on the shoulder to express encouragement.

Of course, no matter how unwilling Kirilenko is to get Zhuang Fei's reuse, he still has no way to refuse Zhuang Fei's call, he still has this professionalism, although he has been retaining his strength before, but more often he has not hurt the team, at least in his psychological side he thinks that he has not hurt the team, he has neither defense nor offensive indiscriminate iron, although his contribution to the team is limited, but it is still positive energy, but he doesn't know because of his non-attack, The Boston Celtics almost lost to the Spurs in the finals last season.

In the last game, Zhuang Fei was very satisfied with the team's performance, the offensive end was able to score more than 110 points, and the defensive end only let the opponent score less than 80 points, such a performance is basically perfect, which is also the sequelae of the Hawks who were led by James in the last game of the regular season by cutting more than 130 points, the team's assistant coach Thibodu has been quite crazy in recent times, these Celtics players can't work hard, of course, it is precisely because the team is performing very well is all-round, The performance of some key players that Zhuang Fei pays more attention to, such as Kirilenko, is also satisfying Zhuang Fei, and the performance of the Russian has been more and more satisfactory to Zhuang Fei since the second half of the regular season.

Because on the offensive end, he is no longer so often shot three or four times a game, but can be stable to keep around 8-10 times, although this is still not a very high number of shots, but it is also a big step forward, and today Zhuang Fei came to this Russian to assign him a new task, because with Wade's promotion, the sixth man of the Boston Celtics will be led by Jackson and James Posey in turn, these two are very good on the offensive end, But none of them can compare to the absolute explosiveness of Wade and Arenas, so because of this, Zhuang Fei also has to equip these two with a seventh man, and the candidate for this seventh man is naturally none other than this Russian all-round striker.

"Andre, your performance has been excellent in recent times, Stephen Tom and I agree that you can play a more important position in the team" Zhuang Fei looked at the expressionless young Russian and smiled, and then said: "I think you should know that Dwyan's starting position has left some gaps in the team's second team, although James and Stephen can both be the team's sixth man, but the two are still a little bit worse, so I hope to be able to play more auxiliary roles in the second team, of course, The main role of the second team is to attack, you need to be more proactive."

From Kirilenko into his office Zhuang Fei felt that the team's substitute striker was a little different, but he couldn't see what was different, of course, although he noticed that something was wrong with the young player of the Celtics, but Zhuang Fei didn't have mind reading skills after all, he naturally couldn't know what the Russian was thinking, and no one knew what he was thinking when the Russian player didn't show his scheming.

"Andrey, you don't want to" Looking at the Russian Zhuang Fei who had been frowning in front of him, his tone also became a little colder, he knew that this Russian had a gap about why he didn't train Yao Ming after the rookie period, but the performance of this Russia in recent times has made Zhuang Fei feel that he has fully adapted to such a situation, and now it seems obvious that this Russian still has not returned to normal, of course, what Zhuang Fei doesn't know is that Kirilenko is actually not because of his and Yao Ming's training problems.

"Andre, you have to know that this is a good opportunity for you, your contract is about to expire next year, I am already preparing a new contract for you, and your new contract will be directly linked to your performance in the playoffs this season, you are now a player for the Boston Celtics, what you need now is not to fight with your teammates but to make your own contribution to the team" Finally, Zhuang Fei glanced at the Russian and said in a somewhat awe-inspiring tone, as if he was moved by Zhuang Fei's words, Kirilenko, who was still struggling just now, suddenly nodded.

"I know, coach, I'll work hard" Under Zhuang Fei's slightly surprised eyes, the Russian spoke in front of Zhuang Fei for the first time today

"Whether I'm leaving or not, since I'm still a Celtic player, let's do what the coach wants, maybe I should really leave something here" After walking out of Zhuang Fei's office, Kirilenko looked back at the door of the office, and then secretly thought in his heart, and at this time, Zhuang Fei, who was on the other side of the door, fell into deep thought after Kirilenko left, just like no one knows Kirilenko's current thoughts, No one knows what this Chinese is thinking now.

Zhuang Fei said that he wanted to reuse Kirilenko, which is naturally not a lie, on April 19, the second playoff game of the Boston Celtics and Pacers, the Celtics came to a big rotation, the starting players in this game are Haslem, Birdman Anderson and Kirilenko and James Posey and Prince, this is the second team of the Boston Celtics, and this game is also used by Zhuang Fei to test his second team.

In this case, the Pacers also played a more intense game with the Celtics than the previous game, but for the Pacers, even if the Celtics played all the second team in this game, the final result of this game was still 95-90, the Celtics beat the Pacers by 5 points at home, and Kirilenko and James Posey, who were the main attackers in this game, jointly contributed 48 points, including James Posey 23 points, Kirilenko 25 points, 7 rebounds, 5 assists, 4 steals and 4 blocks, The Celtics' backup forward almost went out on a playoff 5x5. (To be continued.) )