Chapter 700: The Piston That Destroys the Three Views, a New Pattern of the Alliance
(Haha, 700 chapters)
The new season of the Boston Celtics game is very tight, and it can even be said that Zhuang Fei has encountered the most compact start of the season after coming to the NBA, after defeating the Spurs on the road, Zhuang Fei flew directly to Detroit with the team, and will face the Detroit Pistons who changed coaches after the playoffs last season.
At present, this piston is almost completely different from the piston that Zhuang Fei knew in his previous life, after all, there is no so-called Pistons Five Tigers for the current team, and the Pistons led by Stark House and Raheem are no longer a team with rigorous offense and defense, especially in the new season, the head coach of this team is former Timberwolves head coach Philip Sanders, Sanders is the last head coach of the Timberwolves before Zhuang Fei went to the Timberwolves from college.
It can be said that Zhuang Fei took over the Timberwolves directly from Mr. Sanders, and it was also the head coach who brought the Timberwolves into the playoffs for the first time that he left the Timberwolves directly, so that he only found a job as a head coach now, because the former head coach of the Timberwolves has been working as a TV commentator in recent years after leaving the Timberwolves, Philip Sanders, Zhuang Fei also knows his predecessor in the Timberwolves very well, after all, when he went to the Timberwolves, Zhuang Fei is also interested in hiring the former Timberwolves head coach as his assistant coach.
This is a head coach with very good ability, but Zhuang Fei also knows that the current Pistons head coach is not a creative head coach, especially Zhuang Fei watched the regular season and playoffs of the Timberwolves before going to the Timberwolves and came to such a conclusion, such a head coach is actually not very common in the NBA, they are the kind of people, as long as you give them a team with an ability of 80, they can play the team's ability value to 80, it will not be low or high, Such a coach will not take the team below the strength of the team, and don't expect them to perform at a super level.
So the head coach of the Timberwolves almost counterattacked the supersonic in the first round in 1988, in terms of strength, the Timberwolves of that year were only a little worse than the superSonics, the three-headed monster led by the Timberwolves Garnett and Marbury and a group of powerful role players like Terry Porter can be one step closer in Zhuang Fei's opinion, and this team almost did it, as long as the former Timberwolves head coach can slightly let the Timberwolves play at a super level, That is to be able to defeat the supersonic, and in the end, Zhuang Fei may not be able to come to the Timberwolves.
Of course, although this Mr. Sanders is not a head coach who plays a tough game, but the current regular season is not a tough game, and the new head coach of the Pistons has just come to the team, and his influence on this team is now extremely weak, and the current way of playing the Pistons is estimated to be mostly inherited from the previous head coach Rick Carlisle. Judging from the record or the ranking, this team is very average now, and even much worse than last season, even if the lineup of this team is actually the same as last season.
This game is the second game of the Boston Celtics away back-to-back, consecutive away games, plus Zhuang Fei has now been adjusting the state of Maddie and Yao Ming, so in this game, Zhuang Fei directly replaced all the starters in the previous game, and directly let Wade, who has played very well recently, take Haslem and Prince, as well as Birdman Anderson and Korver, to play on the bench 1, and even James Posey and Jackson did not play.
As for Yao Ming and Maddy and Xiao Ao, the three leading players were put on the injury list by Zhuang Fei, and they had no intention of activating them to play in this game, and at present, even if the team's three core players are missing, it is difficult to beat the Boston Celtics with the current strength of the Pistons, and this Piston is now completely incomparable to the past, especially when Starkerhouse and Raheem and Squirrel Stoudemire are getting worse and worse.
And in this game, the Boston Celtics did bring a lot of blows to this team at the beginning, this Pistons had no way to score in the entire first quarter of the game, and the Pistons only scored 8 points in the whole quarter of the game, in fact, the Boston Celtics started the defense is not very strong, and although the Boston Celtics invited the NBA or the best defensive coach Thibodu this year, although Thibodu is now transforming the defensive system for the Celtics, but it is obvious, It won't work so quickly, just because the Pistons are no longer the team they used to be able to use the speed of the flying squirrel and Starkerhouse's individual abilities to wreak havoc on the Boston Celtics.
In the past, this team was once recognized as the nemesis of the league's Z coach team, but now, although this team is still dominated by individual singles, it is completely floating outside to shoot, in this case, this team wants to score depends on its own character, if it feels good and can shoot on the periphery, then this team can beat the opponent, if it feels bad, they have no way, and as far as the Celtics are currently building a defensive system, It's really hard for this team to defend these teams that shoot from the perimeter.
In the past, Zhuang Fei's team, whether it was Wake Forest, Timberwolves or Celtics, although they have always been first-class teams in their respective leagues, the defense of these teams is piled up by the individual defensive ability of the playersIt will also be difficult for opponents to find scoring opportunities on the perimeter.
It's just that after the start of the new season, Thibodu began to emphasize the position and rationality of the defense, and no longer encouraged the players' rushing defense, in this case, the Boston Celtics are actually very contradictory in their current defense, and they also gave the Pistons a lot of opportunities to shoot from the outside, but it is clear that the current team's feel This team has not seized such an opportunity to give the Celtics a fatal blow.
Of course, for a team like the Pistons now, Zhuang Fei never expected this team to shoot 1 of 9 three-pointers in the first quarter throughout the game, and he would not think that Stackhouse would miss all 4 three-pointers in the first quarter like the first quarter.
So the game was in the first quarter when the Pistons only scored 8 points. But in the second quarter, the team scored 30 points in one fell swoop, and the shooting percentage also went up, which also made Zhuang Fei, who was watching the game off the court, and the team's assistant coach Xibodu shake their heads for a while. Now this is a hole in the Boston Celtics defense, and the players are now conflicted about how to defend themselves, according to Thibodo's instructions they need to stand their own position and not let their defense fall out of position, but on the other side. This wasn't the case with their previous defense.
This makes the current Celtics a little overwhelmed on the defensive end, and of course, a defense like the Boston Celtics is difficult to show against an interior powerhouse like the Spurs. After all, Thibodo's defensive thinking is very restrictive to the opponent's interior, and when a team's defense is not out of position, it is difficult to crush the team from the inside, in this case, the Spurs' Duncan and the Lakers' Ao Fat will hardly show such a strong dominance in the face of such a Celtics.
At the very least, these two will not easily score 40 points and 50 points in the face of Zhuang Fei's team at every turn, and now Zhuang Fei's team is no longer a team that only relies on individual defense and has no defensive system. Of course, this kind of defense that works against the Spurs or the Lakers is now a bit awkward against the Pistons.
"Now it seems that our defense has not been able to be well combined," Zhuang Fei looked at the Boston Celtics who were a little lost inside and outside on the court, and also said with some emotion to Xibodu on the side, always the team's defense, strengthening the aggressiveness of the outside defense and standing in a good defensive position is not contradictory. It's like a player's scoring and assisting. Although there are not many players who can do these two things well, these two points are not contradictory, and in the same way, there are not many teams and players who can do a good job of aggression and positioning when defending, but the Boston Celtics have this potential, at least these Boston Celtics players can have this potential and strength.
"I think we need time now," Thibodo said with a frown, he was also dissatisfied with the Boston Celtics' defense in this game, although most of the players on the court are bench players at the moment, but even the Boston Celtics' main starters have such flaws now. In this case, it really takes time for this team.
"Well, I'm waiting to see what they can do" Zhuang Fei also said with a smile after listening to the words of the West, although it is a huge pain for the Boston Celtics to change their defensive methods in the short term, but in the long run, this is still a very correct thing, in recent years, the biggest opponents of the Boston Celtics in recent years are still the Lakers with Fat and the Spurs with Duncan, in this case, Zhuang Fei really doesn't want his team to be beaten into a sieve by these two people in the end, facing these two players, Without a good defensive system, it is very sad to rely on individual ability to defend, so Zhuang Fei is now very open to the current pain of this team.
Of course, the Boston Celtics exposed their current flaws in Detroit, but it was clear that it would be difficult for the Pistons to take advantage of these flaws of the Boston Celtics to win, and now the Pistons are completely not up to this standard, and the final score of this game also ended with the Boston Celtics beating the Pistons 95-75 on the road.
The Pistons shot a terrifying 10-of-40 three-point shot in this game, which can also be seen that this game is not that the Boston Celtics did not give the Pistons a chance, but that this team is completely incapable of taking it. Of course, although Xiao Ao and Yao Ming and Maddie did not play in this game, Wade, a rookie player of the Boston Celtics, played very freely in this game, completely free, without the restraint and pressure from his teammates, which also made the rookie play 25 points and 8 assists again in this game.
The Boston Celtics played well in this game and won their sixth win of the season, but for Zhuang Fei, it is still a bit ruin to see this Pistons finally become such a three-point team, maybe for this Pistons, it is time for them to rebuild, maybe when they kicked out Rick Carlisle last season, this team has begun to consider rebuilding, after all, with a coach like Carlisle, it is estimated that it is still possible for the Pistons to enter the playoffs, but obviously, Being swept in the playoffs like last season is definitely not what the Pistons want, and since the rebuild is more thorough, not half-dead.
In fact, despite the rebuilding of the Pistons in the new season, the Kings' double interior Webber was suspended due to injury, Divac retired, and the NBA in the new season The whole situation has changed dramatically after these games.
And the most intuitive thing about this change is that it can be seen from the current ranking of the east and west of the league, except for the Boston Celtics and Lakers, the first place in the East and the West, there is no team in other leagues that can have such a winning streak, and even teams like the Spurs and Kings have not just lost one, the Bulls in the East and the Raptors in the West are actually in the top four, while the Mavericks and Kings in the West and the Pistons 76ers in the East are all in the lottery area.
It can be said that since the start of the new season, except for the Boston Celtics and Lakers who have maintained their strength last season or the Lakers have been stronger than last season, the other league powerhouses have all regressed, at least in terms of performance.
And the final pattern of this season is likely to be the model of two super teams of the Celtics and Lakers with a group of strong teams, and there will be no more five super teams going hand in hand like last season. (To be continued.) )