Chapter 383: The Beginning
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Carter's training method is not an easy training method, neither for Maddie nor for Boston players, after all, this kind of training requires a full 48 minutes at a time, and you must maintain a high level of concentration, otherwise it is impossible to complete the training task, which is why many people simply can't stick to it or no team will be willing to take other players from a team to cooperate with a player training
Others don't dare, but Zhuang Fei doesn't have any concerns about this, as long as Zhuang Fei sets a goal, he won't think too much about other factors, and in Zhuang Fei's opinion, Maddie has begun to slowly change after the destruction of the 'Carter Training Method' for half a month.
It's a very targeted training session, and if a player does do it, then the player can make an easy choice when to pass the ball and when to attack himself.
Therefore, under this training method, Maddie himself can naturally see his own changes and improvements, and the Celtics players have also found that their cooperation with each other has also improved, so although these people are very tired, none of them complained to Zhuang Fei, because this team is really slowly starting to get on the right track. At the same time, the NBA's regular season also began.
The opening game of this season in the NBA is the Timberwolves vs. 76ers on October 30, which is also the match of last season's Finals, but for the Timberwolves, their head coach has left, and this team is also very different from the original Timberwolves.
The Timberwolves have always been a team known for their offense, especially under Coach Z. This team has been able to average more than 110 offensive points per game for three consecutive years, and only the Timberwolves have done it in the history of the NBA, but it is surprising that this year's opening game made everyone's jaws drop.
Because the Timberwolves only scored 84 points under the leadership of Van Gundy Jr. in this game, you must know that the Timberwolves only scored less than 100 points in one game last season, and under the rule of Coach Z, the Timberwolves have not scored less than 85 points for two years, this is a type of Timberwolves game, and in this game is extremely speechless is that the team's organizational guard Nash actually only played 20 minutes. In many cases, the team's playmaker is Ginobili, because the pace of the game is so slow, and Nash, who is the MVP of the new Finals, is unlikely to play to his strengths in such a pace. On the contrary, he kept exposing his weaknesses and was almost killed by Iverson of the 76ers. The team's veteran Bowen also managed to enter the lineup and played the full 40 minutes, while Crawford and Reed, the rookies who performed well last season, only played a total of 20 minutes in this game.
Of course. Many of the current Timberwolves have changed, such as the Chinese center Wang Zhizhi has successfully entered the lineup, and in this game, the Chinese interior lineman, nicknamed 'Abdul-Jabbar Jr.', has gained a lot of offensive opportunities, and it is obvious that this player's position in the Timberwolves has changed now, and this guy may really become one of the cores of this team.
It can be said that after Zhuang Fei left, this is a different team from the past, of course, although the style of the Timberwolves has changed, but this game is still not soft in the face of last season's Finals opponent Timberwolves. The 76ers scored only 75 points at Minnesota's home court today, which shows that the Timberwolves' defense is also absolutely strong now.
This game is the opening game of the NBA, and naturally it is impossible to lack the championship ring award ceremony, but this time this award is a bit embarrassing, because the head coaches of both sides did not receive the ring. This also made Van Gundy Jr., the new head coach of the Timberwolves, very aggrieved, because when the championship ring was being awarded, the audience was actually shouting the name of Coach Z, and he was stunned to stay or leave. …,
However, judging from the performance of the whole game, Van Gundy's debut in the Timberwolves was a success, and Zhuang Fei left a lot of marks on the Timberwolves in the past three years, the most important of which is the awareness of offense, and it is obvious that the Timberwolves have no such awareness in this game. It can be said that Van Gundy only took one month to touch what Coach Z had built up for three years, and he also won the game in his own way of playing, and at this point, even if the Timberwolves' scoring is not high, the coaching ability of this Van Gundy coach is also commendable.
The Timberwolves were the opener, while the Boston Celtics went to Cleveland in their first game, and Boston's first opponent was the Cavaliers.
The Cavaliers were a weak team in the league last season, of course, compared to this Cavaliers, the Boston Celtics led by Zhuang Fei were not much worse last season, but this season Zhuang Fei did not completely dare to treat this team as a weak team, the Celtics lost to this team in the preseason not long ago, and now the new leader of the Cavaliers Marion is very good, especially after the combination of Andrimiller, the last preseason game made the Boston Celtics suffer.
Of course, Zhuang Fei attaches great importance to this game, and so do the Celtics players, the last loss to the Cavaliers obviously made these Celtics players a little uncomfortable, especially the team's leader Maddie, this swingman was choked by Marion in the last game, so this guy is also full of strength in this game.
In terms of strength, Boston's player strength is naturally not comparable to the Cavaliers, this game Zhuang Fei did not plan to use the general tactics with James Posey as the core, but used the organizational forward tactics with Maddie as the core, and now Maddie has changed some changes in the consciousness of passing after so many days of devil training, at least it is not as poisonous as before.
So this game in the Celtics team under the unity of Boston defeated the Cavaliers away, this game Boston scored a total of 96 points, Maddie played 40 minutes and scored 22 points, 8 assists and 7 rebounds, under Marion's defense, this player performed much better than the last game against the Cavaliers, in addition to Maddie, this game Yao Ming, Oku, Arenas also completed his NBA debut, as one of McHale's close disciples Yao Ming is no stranger to the NBA, He had time to adapt to the Timberwolves, so in the center's first game, the center took a double-double of 16 points and 12 rebounds on 6-of-10 shooting, which is absolutely perfect, while the other two rookie players of the Timberwolves, Arenas and Oku, are not so lucky, Arenas leads the second team, the guard only scored 8 points on 2-of-10 shooting, while Oku was 0-of-3 shooting, 1 point and 4 rebounds in 10 minutes, and from the data point of view, there is no pressure on Yao Mingfen to serve as He, The interior lineman, who focuses on mid-to-long range offense, now needs to adapt.
The Celtics and Cavaliers won their first game, and this one was a bit of a fluke, after all, the final score was 96-92, and it was only a four-point win. Of course, the victory in this game also made the whole Celtics team breathe a sigh of relief, after all, the Celtics have lost all the previous six preseason games, and the outside pressure on this team is very high at this time.
It's just that the Celtics are a little powerless the day after that, Boston sits back-to-back at home to challenge the Nets, although the Nets are a rebuilding team, but his strength and the Cavaliers are impossible to speak of, the last game Celtics won away to the Cavaliers, but this game is not so lucky.
In the last game, Zhuang Fei's tactics were to organize forward tactics, and this game was a general tactic, so the core of the team was James Posey, and Maddie was mainly doing off-ball running offense, after so many games, the swingman is now no longer confused about off-ball running, so this game Boston Celtics is playing much better than the last time they beat the Nets. But even so, the result of this game was a little disappointing for the more than 20,000 Boston fans who watched the scene, because the team was actually overtaken by the Nets in the final fourth quarter after leading most of the game, and the Celtics bench lineup led by Arenas did not score at all at the beginning of the fourth quarter of this game, the guard is still a little uncomfortable with the NBA now, this game is still a little iron like the last game, this time it was 7 shots and 2 scored 6 points, Another rookie, Oku, scored 1 point again, but Zhuang Fei was a little relieved that Maddie, who had been attacking without the ball in this game, actually scored 20 points, it is obvious that this small forward has begun to adapt to a variety of roles, and the Chinese big man scored a double-double again in this game, 11 points and 11 rebounds, it seems that McHale has taught him a lot, and now there is no sense of youth as a rookie player at all, which also reassures Zhuang Fei, who has been worried about the team's center being too tender.
After losing 95-101 at home to the Nets, the Boston Celtics embarked on another road trip, this time against the Eastern Conference underdogs Bulls, the Bulls owner sent Brand directly to the Clippers this season in order to avoid giving Brand a new contract extension, and it can be said that the Bulls are now the worst in the league.
Against such a team, even if it is away from Boston, as long as it plays normally, it can defeat the opponent, but it is a pity that the score of the last game is 82-94, the Boston Celtics lost by 12 points on the road, and Maddy, who once again served as the core of the team's ball control in this game, sent 29 8 of the data, scored 20 points and 4 assists, and the Celtics' offense was a mess. In this game, the small forward completely forgot how he felt in training, and the rest was all individual offense.
That is, after the loss to the Bulls on the road, the focus of the United States was once again on Boston.
Boston's next opponent will be the New York Knicks, and Knicks head coach Dowland Jr. has already begun to shout in the media. (Your support is my biggest motivation.) )