Chapter 702: Breaking the Curse

This year's NBA is considered to be a very subversive year, many previously strong and strong teams have become weak teams, and many previously very weak teams have become strong teams in one fell swoop, if you want to find one of the most subversive teams among all the teams this year, then it is not the second king in the Western Conference regular season and the second in the Western Conference playoffs last season, last season this team almost eliminated the Spurs in the Western Conference Finals to enter the Finals, and finally only lost to the Spurs after only a seven-tie failure, Although it is said that this team lost in the playoffs last season.

But obviously, no one thinks that this team will have such a change after just one season, this team that was almost the strongest in the West and almost the strongest in the league in the offensive team is struggling in the new season, of course, the reason why this team is so struggling is naturally caused by the absence of the two core players of this team, first of all, the team's starting center Divac after the end of last season's playoffs, because he was humiliated by Duncan in the final, which led to the direct retirement of the aging European insider, And Chris Webber, who is also the interior core of this team, had a knee injury during the Western Conference semifinals against the Mavericks in the playoffs last season.

Although he came back directly after a week of rest, it is clear that although Webber came back early to help the Kings defeat the Mavericks in the Western Conference semifinals, the injury of the Kings' leading player worsened after the playoffs, especially after playing seven games with the Spurs. To know. In previous seasons, since Adelman came to the Kings, the team's tactical core has never been Peja, who has been extremely good in the last two seasons, nor has it been Bibby, the point guard of the team who has been playing well, and the Kings who only played Princeton have always been tactically attacked by Webb or Divac, in this case. These two are also two of the most important points in the team's tactics.

But after the new season, the two points that the team used to rely on are gone, which also makes the system that the Kings have worked so hard to build in previous seasons almost all collapse. At least the current king has no system at all, and what makes Adelman even more helpless is that he has not thought about how to remedy this team, in fact, he has other plans and ideas after he tried to persuade Divac to postpone his retirement to no avail.

For example, his crazy suitor this summer Rockets center Brad Miller, the Rockets center is very much in line with the King's requirements in all aspects, and if the King really gets this Rockets inside, then the King is still competitive, at least the team's tactical system is kept, but it's a pity that they gave Miller a contract. But the Rockets matched the interior lineman's contract almost without even thinking about it. It is precisely because of this that there is such a tragedy in this team at present. The team is also completely mired in chaos.

Although Peja and Bibi are very good now, it is clear that they will not be able to carry a team like the Kings. Therefore, this team will have a series of failures after the start of the season, and the failure of this team this season may be able to create the total number of failures of the first half of the first half of the last season, or last season, the number of failures of this team in the half of the season is not as many as the number of failures of this team to the present, and the team that was second in the West last season is almost playing who loses, and it completely loses the bearing of the defending champion that it should have.

And more importantly, even if this team has a poor record, there is no hope for this team in the absence of Webb, whether it is the head coach of this team Adelman or the players of this team are extremely desperate, maybe this whole team is now full of despair. It is precisely because of this that in this game between the Kings and the Boston Celtics, it is difficult for the Kings to expect this team to win.

After all, whether it is the comparison of the results of the Boston Celtics and the Kings, or the comparison between the players of this team and the Boston Celtics players, for now, the Boston Celtics are completely able to suppress this team, but the extremely unexpected thing happened the next day, and the Boston Celtics, who everyone predicted to be able to easily win on their home court, lost to the Kings who came to play away. And the king's victory in this game was actually the first victory of Adelman and the king against Zhuang Fei.

'We didn't do very well defensively in this game. Giving them too many opportunities to shoot easily, and even though the Kings have been affected by injuries right now, their shooting is still one of the best teams in the league, they hit a lot of open shots, and we gave them too many chances, and in the end we punished ourselves, but in the end congratulations to Mr. Adelman, it was a great win, and I'm sure they can finally get back on track, and they have the quality."

At the post-game press conference between the Kings and the Boston Celtics, Zhuang Fei looked at the reporters in the stands with some helplessness and said with a sigh, the Boston Celtics lost this game is quite familiar, the process of this game is almost exactly the same as the previous game against the Pistons, and the tactics used by the Pistons are also the same as the current King who has no inner fulcrum at all, and in fact, the Pistons are also a team without an inner fulcrum.

Although the Pistons still have a star interior player like Raheem, this interior line is now completely lacking in the strength to be a fulcrum, and in this situation, both teams are almost playing a crazy shooting game.

It's just that in terms of results, in the previous game, the Pistons' three-point shooting rate was 10 out of 40, and the team did not seize the opportunity given by the Boston Celtics, but in this game, the Kings did not let go of the opportunity given by the Boston Celtics, in today's game, the King's three-point shot was 22 of 48, and the team scored 66 points just by relying on three-point shots, And in this game, the team's 48 three-pointers in a single game almost broke the Mavericks' record of 49 three-pointers in a single game held in 1996.

Although this team was not able to break the league's record of three-point shooting in a single game in the regular season, it broke the league's record of hitting 21 three-pointers in a single game, and in this game, McBibby and Peja convulsed each of them to hit 8 three-pointers, creating a record of more than 8 three-point shots in a single game by two players on the same team in the league, and the last shot of these two people, even if Zhuang Fei changed his defensive strategy to increase defensive aggression, even if he sent someone to mark, These two can actually throw in a lot of completely unreasonable shots in the end, so this game is definitely not a compliment when Zhuang Fei said after the game that it was a great game.

In fact, for the Kings, their 121-113 win over the Boston Celtics on the road was an absolutely great game, not only because of these records, but more importantly, because the Kings shattered a spell that almost wrapped around them and made them unable to extricate themselves, the curse that never beat Zhuang Fei. It's just that it's a little too late for this team to break the curse.

At this time, the king is no longer the king of the peak three years ago or two years ago, and even if this team breaks Zhuang Fei's curse, it is difficult to have the dominance of previous seasons, which is also in the post-game press conference of this game, the king coach Adelman, who should be very excited about this victory, was actually very calm after the game, and there was not much joy at all, obviously he himself knew that the significance of the victory in this game was not very great, If that victory had been two years ago, he would have even thought his team would have won the championship after breaking through the shackles, and even if they could beat Bo Zhuangfei last season, he would be confident that he would have taken the team one step further.

"I'm so proud of my players, they played a memorable game, they played a perfect game, but we don't have time to celebrate right now, we need to get into the top eight in the West as soon as possible, even without Chris's day, we can't be in the lottery for long."

This is Adelman's words after the game, except for some praise, there are not many other emotions, and at this time Zhuang Fei is actually a little sympathetic to the head coach of the king, the lineup that has worked hard for five or six years has now become like this, which is extremely painful for any head coach, and it is rare for Adelman to have such a performance at this time.

In this game, the Boston Celtics won the first victory of the season, and it also made the team's first consecutive win of the season finally fixed at the position of 6 consecutive wins, but although the Boston Celtics lost this game, it also made the team see a lot of their own problems, at least the players of this team have a clearer understanding of the team's defense, if they encounter such a team next time, this team may not be at a loss and do not know whether to be inside or outside.

In fact, soon the Boston Celtics met such a team, on November 9, the Boston Celtics hosted the Nets who lost Kidd, and the Nets also became a team like the Pistons and Kings this season, but the Boston Celtics did not let the tragedy of the previous game happen again. In the end, the Boston Celtics also beat the Nets 99-80 at home. (To be continued.) )