"40 points and 18 rebounds, this guy is crazy"

In the office of the chairman of the Boston Celtics, Zhuang Fei held a copy of the just-released New York Times in his hand and said with some emotion, the time is now May 26, and it has been two days since the second game between the Boston Celtics and the Grizzlies, and the third game between the Boston Celtics and the Grizzlies also started on May 27, before that, the Western Conference Finals on the other side, the game between the Timberwolves and the Lakers also ended the second round last night, The Lakers, who were playing at home, defeated the Timberwolves with a score of 115-106, which also made the Lakers and the Grizzlies the same, turning the current big score into 2-0, the Lakers won two consecutive games at home, and the content of these two games is similar, all caused by the explosion of the Lakers' leading player O'Neal.

"Yes, coach, he should be the first player to play two consecutive games of 40+10 in the playoffs this season, O'Neal is really as energetic as ever against the Timberwolves"

After Zhuang Fei sighed with the newspaper, Stephen Green, the assistant coach of the Boston Celtics on the side, also said with a wry smile that for the grudge between Ao Fat and the Timberwolves, basically NBA fans in the United States and even the world know that these two are almost irreconcilable, basically every time Ao Fat meets the Timberwolves or Zhuang Fei, he will explode, you know, in the 2001 playoffs, this big fat man faced the Timberwolves in two consecutive games when he was at his peak, and he hit 60+, and it was also a playoffs.

Although the dominance of the big fat man now is far from comparable to that time, but in the face of Garnett, Wang Zhizhi and Battle, a seemingly very powerful interior combination, the big fat man is still able to play such a terrifying result in the face of the Timberwolves interior group, of course, with the slow development of basketball to the team, in fact, few people can play such a single game now, and now is not the time for players to brush up the data, so when this big fat man plays two consecutive games like this. For a while, all the media in the United States praised the big fat man and the Lakers, and for a while, the Lakers swept the Timberwolves and easily topped the NBA championship.

"I'm afraid this guy was choked by the kid from Kwame Brown in the last round, but Kevin and Wang Zhizhi have suffered it in this round of the series."

After Green finished speaking, Zhuang Fei also smiled and put down the newspaper in his hand, from the current point of view, the Timberwolves actually have a gap with the Lakers, and this round of the series is likely to be resolved within 6 games as Zhuang Fei expected, but even so. The Timberwolves' two games on the road still made Zhuang Fei a little disappointed.

Because in Zhuang Fei's view, the Timberwolves still haven't fully played their strength, after two years of tuning, Karl has left the former head coach of the Timberwolves Van Gundy in the Timberwolves' defensive poison to clean up, and the team's aura on the offensive end is also slowly recovering, which is also the reason why the team defeated the Spurs in the Western Conference semifinals, the Spurs chose to start an offensive battle with the Timberwolves in the semifinals, and finally lost to the Timberwolves.

You know, Popovich's main focus this season is the team's offense, and it can be said that the Spurs' offense this season is definitely the top team in the league. In this case, if it is the Timberwolves last season, I am afraid that they will kneel in less than five games, and this year they eliminated the Spurs in seven games, and this is what makes Zhuang Fei think that this team should be able to fight with the Lakers in the Western Conference Finals, although Zhuang Fei expects this team to lose to the Lakers within six games. But most people think that this team will lose 2-4 in the end, but now it seems that this team is really going to sweep 0-4 as many media say, and this team has not changed much in the Western Conference Finals and Western Conference Semifinals, which is a fatal flaw.

"yes. However, coach, I don't think Mr. Karl did a very good job in the final. Failing to play the explosiveness of the Timberwolves is also completely unable to suppress the Lakers, making people feel that his team will always lose very untempered"

Although Green is no longer the assistant coach of the Timberwolves, he pays much more attention to the Timberwolves than Zhuang Fei, so after his assistant finished speaking, Zhuang Fei also looked at his disciple with some surprise, this is indeed Carl's problem, he is a very stable head coach, this kind of coach's team is no different from the playoffs, the strength of the regular season is 90, and the strength of the playoffs will be 90 regardless of the first round, the second round, and the third round.

This is far different from some teams such as the Celtics Lakers, who may only be 90 in the regular season, 92 in the first round, and 95 or even 100 in the Western Conference semifinals or Western Conference finals. Such a head coach wants to win the championship unless they are asked to lead a team with 100 ability, otherwise it is actually difficult for such a head coach to win the championship, and it is very likely that he will kneel when he encounters a team that is explosive in the playoffs or a team that is stronger than himself.

Of course, for Zhuang Fei, Carl is now leading the Timberwolves to the Western Conference Finals, which is already very worthy of Zhuang Fei's support last year, and the Timberwolves fans should be temporarily satisfied, and this is enough, as for what will happen to him in the Timberwolves in the future, in fact, this has nothing to do with Zhuang Fei, of course, now Zhuang Fei's vision of his disciple Green is a little impressed, it is true, The assistant coach, who is not yet 30 years old, may be able to beat most of the NBA's head coaches in terms of ability and vision

The game between the Boston Celtics and the Grizzlies was on May 27, and Zhuang Fei left Boston with a group of people at noon on May 26 to go to Vancouver, in the NBA playoffs, for any team, the first game on the road is extremely difficult, because at this time, most teams do not adapt well to the away environment, and in this case, basically for the two teams, such a game is extremely critical, and the home team must win, And the visitors must also try to win, after all, 3-0 and 2-1 are completely incomparable.

In fact, Zhuang Fei and his Celtics went to Vancouver after encountering difficulties far greater than they imagined, if last season, Zhuang Fei and his players were harassed and obstructed by Grizzlies fans in the hotel, and that kind of harassment and obstruction was still civilized and reasonable, then this time, it is far from such sanity and civilization, and in fact, this can even be said to be crazy.

These Vancouver Grizzlies fans directly blocked the door of the hotel where the Celtics players stayed when the Boston Celtics players went to familiarize themselves with the stadium on the morning of May 27, and these thousands of fans frantically surrounded a hotel in a sparsely populated country like Canada, which is basically impossible, in this case, coupled with the deliberate delay of the police and hotel security and the deliberately slow maintenance of order, the Boston Celtics players directly wasted the whole morning. When these police officers and hotel security guards cleared the group of fans away, Zhuang Fei and they could have lunch directly at the hotel.

And in the end, this can only make Zhuang Fei and his two assistants speechless, with their IQ, they naturally know that this is a play that Grizzlies fans have rehearsed first, and in fact, the police, security and even fans here have already ventilated these things, and at this time, Zhuang Fei and the Celtics can only swallow these dumb things in their stomachs.

Fortunately, it is better for the Celtics that these crazy fans just came to besiege the Celtics for half a day, and after lunch, these crazy fans did not appear, and finally Zhuang Fei came to the General Purpose Arena to adapt to the venue It was already half past two in the afternoon, and the game started at 7 o'clock, so the Celtics players had to eat dinner early at half past four, and in fact, the time left for the Celtics to adapt to the venue was only two hours. And it's hard to say how much time you can really get used to the venue after the two hours of changing equipment and warming up.

Of course, although the behavior of Grizzlies fans is very immoral, but Zhuang Fei doesn't think there is really anything wrong with it, if the Boston Celtics encounter the same situation as the Grizzlies, Zhuang Fei thinks that Celtics fans will do the same, but it is just a matter of needing to grasp a degree, and in fact, although the Grizzlies fans surrounded the Celtics players, there was no vicious incident and they were not prepared to hurt the Celtics players. They just want to play their part in the success of their team.

In fact, they were successful, on May 27, 2004, the Celtics played away against the Grizzlies, the Celtics' shooting rate was extremely low throughout the game, even James Posey pushed Billups to the basket, many of his back shots were missed, and even Maddie had a few successful breakthroughs after the blue did not score, these Celtics performance is not only not suitable for the field, but also more is that the preparation for the training game is not enough, and the game is not adjusted well.

In the final away game, when the Boston Celtics lost to the Grizzlies 89-100 away, Zhuang Fei only had a wry smile on the sidelines, and what made Zhuang Fei even more depressed was that on the second day, the Lakers defeated the Timberwolves 105-100 away, and the Lakers got the match point, and sweeping the Timberwolves was almost just around the corner. (To be continued.) )