Chapter 415: Seven Consecutive Victories

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"New Orleans is a beautiful place, and even though it's my first time here to lead a game, I'm no stranger to it, and the Hornets are a very strong team and we've had some good contact before."

Zhuang Fei looked at the reporters in the audience with a smile, and the reporters in the audience also all focused on this Chinese.

This is an away game for the Boston Celtics, and the game is against the New Orleans Hornets, which should be called the Charlotte Hornets if it is called last season, and there are many Hornets growing in Charlotte, North Carolina. So this team is also named after this, but after coming to New Orleans, there are no wasps in this place, the most famous animal here is 'Osprey', according to Zhuang Fei, this team is now preparing to change the name of the team in order to get rid of the dark history and imprint in Charlotte, and the new name is considered by many people to be 'New Orleans Osprey'.

Of course, although the Hornets have been thinking about dissociating themselves from the previous history, but for the past history there is a person they are unlikely to be clear, it can be said that the Chinese at the press conference is one of the biggest triggers for all this, when Zhuang Fei took the Timberwolves to visit Charlotte, causing the whole city fans to fight back, the team was extremely harmful, but also strengthened their determination to fight against Charlotte, it can be said that Zhuang Fei's relationship with this team is not very friendly.

In fact, before the start of this game, whether it was Eddie Jones, the current boss of the Hornets, or Byron Davis, the team's super guard, all said in the media that they wanted to give the Boston Celtics, who have now won five consecutive games, a little color. It's just that with the current state of the team, it's a bit difficult to achieve their goal.

"The Hornets standings? I think it's just temporary, I said, they're a very strong team and it's just a surprise for this team to stand now. They'll be on the right track. I think after this terrible start, the future must be bright for them."

If the biggest change in the Hornets' move to the west is the change of the team's home field and the team's name, then the biggest impact on this team must be the team's rapid transformation from an Eastern powerhouse to a Western fish belly.

The Hornets have always been a powerhouse in the NBA, especially when they're in the East. You must know that in Charlotte, North Carolina, that place is a concentration camp for the strongest teams in the NCAA, and if the team in that place doesn't have the strength, it won't attract the attention of any fans at all, so. In order to be able to establish itself in North Carolina, this team has been building well, so the team has also been strong, and they almost reached the Eastern Conference finals in the East last season, which is arguably one of the strongest teams in the East. {}

Originally, the current pattern in the NBA is strong in the West and weak in the East, but for any NBA practitioner or NBA fan, this team moved from the East to the West and never thought that they would be so miserable, and even they themselves did not think that this team has played 24 games so far, and in these 24 games, this team has lost 15 games. With only nine wins, and seven of the nine wins coming to Eastern Conference teams, the Hornets are on a 10-game losing streak against the top eight teams in the West. It can be said that this team will be currently the top eight Lakers in the West. Timberwolves, Kings. The Spurs, Mavericks, SuperSonics, Jazz, and Trail Blazers lost all over again. And this team aiming for the top four in the West is currently only ranked 10th in the West, which is somewhat inferior to the Clippers who are ninth in the West. …,

It can be said that this kind of contrasting record has made this team currently suffer, last season they were still the top four teams in the East, this season they have become one of the worst fish belly in the West, compared to the Raptors who came to the West with them, everyone is also a lottery team.

Therefore, for this game, the outside world does not think that the Hornets can create too much threat to Boston led by Zhuang Fei in this game, and the two teams are no longer at the same level.

Although the outside world thinks so, Zhuang Fei will not see it that way, although the strength of this team is far inferior to the Lakers, Timberwolves, Spurs, Mavericks or Kings, but this team still has the strength to enter the top eight in the West

With so much effort, this wasp is much stronger than the Suns.

"Coach, although the current results of this team are not very good, it is clear that they are still treating well here, at least much better than Charlotte"

At the beginning of this game, Zhuang Fei's assistant coach Stephen Green said to Zhuang Fei after shaking his hand at the surrounding stands, and Zhuang Fei also smiled and nodded.

New Orleans' investment and expectations for this team are very good, and it is not at all emotionally comparable to North Carolina fans, it can be said that this is also the reason why the Hornets say that they hope to be able to beat Zhuang Fei at home, this team hopes to have a new start in a new place, if it can beat Zhuang Fei as a new beginning, then the meaning is a little different, if it can really beat Zhuang Fei today, then this team will definitely get rid of the shackles and then rebound in the future.

It's just that Zhuang Fei, who is extremely clear about all this, naturally can't give them such an opportunity, today is a back-to-back game between Zhuang Fei and the Boston Celtics, Zhuang Fei's lineup has not changed in this game, Posey, Jackson and Maddy, Yao Ming and Xiao Ao, as for the Hornets, their outside golden three guns Byron Davis, Eddie Jones and David Wesley, plus the center Magroyle on the inside and Lee Nelon on the big forward.

The Hornets have a lot of offensive ability from the outside three-shot, which is also their main way of offense, which is to focus on the outside, while their interior is more responsible for defense, so this team is very similar to the Grizzlies in a sense.

But the tragedy for the Hornets is that their opponents today, the Boston Celtics, are a team that is extremely defensive from the outside. Whether it's James Posey. Both Jackson and Maddy's defense is excellent, especially James Posey's defense against Byron Davis, and the Hornets' No. 1 position can be used to dominate opponents against most No. 1 positions in the league. But now that he meets James Posey, his size advantage is gone in an instant.

It can be said that this game is a little upsetting for the ambitious Hornets, the Boston Celtics are playing back-to-back away games, but the last game against the Bulls did not consume much of their physical energy. So the Hornets have little advantage in terms of physical fitness, and the current Boston Celtics are not underestimated because they are the belly of the West from the attitude of the game, so the game was uncomfortable at the beginning, and the Boston Celtics led by 8 points at the end of the first quarter with a 33-25 lead, although in the second quarter the team recovered some scores with the super touch of the veteran swingman Steciogmon, but the team still trailed by 5 points at halftime. …,

As for after the second half, although the Boston Celtics did not open up the point difference, they always occupied the initiative in the game, which made the Hornets a little unable to pull it back. This game is definitely not the rhythm that the Hornets themselves should have. The team's outside three metronomes strangled the Boston Celtics completely.

If it weren't for the fact that Markroyle had a lot of restrictions on Yao Ming in this game, Yao Ming and Xiao Ao would not have been able to play normally. Otherwise, the game will go into garbage time at the end of the third quarter.

"Coach, that Hornets center has a really long arm span. Yao Ming's shooting range was too high in this game. It's a little uncomfortable," Zhuang Fei's assistant coach Stephen Green said with a sigh on the bench for the Boston Celtics, and Zhuang Fei also nodded. This Hornets center did cause a lot of trouble for Yao Ming, and the center who had been back in form in the last game became iron again.

"Now he still can't read the game very well" Zhuang Fei finally saw Yao Ming was not very satisfied with the behavior of pulling out and shooting after being a little uncomfortable by Magroyle on the inside, in fact, in this season, Yao Ming will habitually pull out and shoot when facing opponents who make him uncomfortable on the inside many times, although there is not much wrong with this approach, this approach can also be a good way to avoid strongmen like Ben Wallace, But when encountering an inside defender like Magroyle, who also makes him uncomfortable but can't compare with Big Ben in terms of strength, Yao Ming should insist on using his feet to hit him under the basket even if he is uncomfortable, and pulling it out in this case can only make him more uncomfortable, this Magroyle is not only 2.06 meters from Big Ben, Yao Ming can't easily face him.

Of course, the current Yao Ming is just a 21-year-old rookie center, and it is very normal to have some deviations in experience, and Zhuang Fei also believes that with the passage of time, this Boston interior pillar will naturally grow up slowly.

"Coach, are you going to let Yao Ming stay on the court in the fourth quarter today?"

In the fourth quarter of this game, the Boston Celtics had a 10-point lead, so the Hornets did not plan to replace their players at the beginning of the fourth quarter of this game, this is the team's preparation for an early decisive battle with the Boston Celtics, so Zhuang Fei is the same, if in the past, when this situation occurred, Zhuang Fei would always replace Yao Ming first, and then replace it when the game was only about 6 minutes, but this time Zhuang Fei did not do this, which also made Stephen Green a little worried, Is the fitness of this big center possible?

It's just that as this game continues, Stephen Green's doubts are all gone, because the Chinese interior line has no so-called physical problems at all in the next game, and when there are only 2 minutes left in this game, the Hornets are hopeless to replace all of them because of chasing points, and Boston also replaces all the main players, although the Chinese interior line looks a little sweaty, but his breathing is still very smooth, which shows that his physical condition is still very good.

The final score of this game was 111-97, the Boston Celtics won six consecutive games after the away victory over the Hornets, and in this game, the boss of the Boston Celtics Maddy scored 22 points, 9 assists and 9 rebounds in the face of Eddie Jones's defense The Boston organizational forward is now more and more aware of his position, it can be said that his style of play and data are slowly moving closer to Carter, if Kidd is the league's triple-double machine, then Carter is the league's quasi-triple-double machine, From the current point of view, the frequency of Maddie's quasi-triple-double data is no lower than Carter's. And in this game, Yao Ming, another core player of the Boston Celtics, scored 15 points and 6 rebounds on 6-of-18 shooting, and his performance was not outstanding, of course, this center played 40 minutes in this game and was able to maintain the state of fighting with Magroyle at the last moment, which also made Zhuang Fei very satisfied.

After beating the New Allegian Hornets on the road, Zhuang Fei once again led the team back to the East, where they will face the Cavaliers, who are currently the second-to-last in the East, on December 17.

The current situation of this team is slightly better than that of the Bulls, although the team's boss Marion has excellent statistics this season, the all-round forward is currently one of the few players in the league who can contribute 20 points and 10 rebounds, and the all-round forward is very good both offensively and defensively, and it can be said that he is now the most popular among the young generation of the NBA, although it is a little worse than Maddy Bryant and others, but it is also worth looking forward to.

Although Marion's stats were still impressive, the winner was the Boston Celtics, who beat the Cavaliers 107-95 to win their seventh straight game. At the same time, it also made his record 21-4 and firmly ranked first in the East.

It's just that in this case, the Boston Celtics' next game will be a test for the Celtics, who will next face the 76ers, who are fourth in the East. This is the team that just cut the Grizzlies. And it is also Zhuang Fei's old rival who topped the NBA last season.