I just want to play healthy basketball

Chapter 134 The Temptation Between the Two Strongest Eastern Powers (Second Update, Please Subscribe)

Bucks, video room.

As usual, the Bucks coaching staff plus the players on the team's active list, the video room meeting will begin soon.

Except for the assistant coach who came to the video room to prepare in advance, everyone else basically arrived in a hurry.

He Li has played games for one season and participated in similar meetings forty or fifty times. He has learned to behave well. He no longer enters the video room ten, twenty, or ten minutes earlier to sit and drink tea as he did at the beginning.

Today, however, there seems to be a bit of an accident.

The time was clearly up, but the figures of Big Dog and Cassel did not appear.

"Big Dog and Sam late?"

Americans still have a sense of time. Although the vast majority of blacks are an exception, the players in the Bucks are still relatively punctual.

Therefore, it is indeed a bit strange that Big Dog and Cassel were late today.

He Li just asked a question when George Karl glanced at his watch and said, "Okay, everyone is here, the meeting begins."

George Karl obviously heard He Li's question, so he explained it to the other players present.

"Glenn and Sam have committed an old problem, and they will recover from their injuries in the next week or two. So the next game is up to everyone!"

As soon as George Karl finished speaking, the video room suddenly became lively.

"No problem, even without Big Dog and Sam, we still win!"

"The Mavericks are worth noting next. I'm afraid that by then, Big Dog and Sam will have recovered from their injuries!"

"Don't worry, George! We'll keep winning games."

In the eyes of Chinese people, the relationship between team coaches and players is more like a master-student relationship, but in fact, the relationship between NBA coaches and players is mainly the relationship between colleagues and friends.

Be friends with a good relationship, and simple colleagues with a bad relationship. If you feel that the other party is holding you back, you will be awkward with the other party, let the other party go, or even stay away from each other forever.

The relationship between the Bucks players and the coaching staff is quite close. When facing George Karl, everyone will call George kindly. Only a few people will call George Carr in a nasty way.

Closer to home, George Karl simply smiled when he heard his players confidently give him a guarantee.

Not long after, George Karl became serious again: "In addition, please also pay attention to protecting your body when playing games and training.

If there is something uncomfortable, be sure to say it, don't hide it!

Treat illnesses, heal injuries, and treat minor injuries with great care.

For us, the playoffs are where we really struggle. "

What George Karl often said is not nonsense, although in recent times, George Karl has said this to the players more than once.

But if the Bucks suddenly hurt the main players and important substitute players, and have an impact on the subsequent playoffs, there is really no reason to go.

Some time ago, the Bucks played three games in four days. "Veterans" like Big Dog and Cassell, even if their playing time was reduced, they still fell ill from overwork and relapsed.

This also made George Karl more concerned about the physical condition of the players.

It's not just the big dog and Cassel who have learned from the past!You must know that Ray Allen also had an injury this year, and he recuperated for more than half a month.

Anthony Mason has no major problems this season, but minor problems have always been there, over and over again, but there is no need to go to the hospital for surgery.

As for Reed, who was reimbursed for the entire season due to illness last season, that is, Reed is just a substitute and there is no need to be concerned, so he didn't make a fuss.

Fortunately, He Li, who is currently leading the Bucks, is relatively young, and Ray Allen returned from injury two months ago, and his condition has been very good.

How can the Bucks have the strength to sit with Ray Allen, even if they face the second-ranked Nets in the Eastern Conference, I am afraid they don't have to worry too much.

On March 3, the Bucks and their team came to New Jersey to try out with the Nets.

Originally, the Bucks were still very sincere and were going to fight the Nets for real.

However, the Nets are also very shrewd in their calculations. After discovering that the Bucks lineup is only a remnant, they chose to finish the first half and voluntarily gave up the game.

Indeed, there is no need for the Nets to continue to compete with the Bucks in the regular season!
If you want to fight, go to the playoffs instead of fighting for an irrelevant regular season victory or defeat.

In today's game, even if the Nets are fully fired, what good is it to win the game while the Bucks lack two main players?

Thinking about it carefully, there is really no benefit, but it is easy to expose the true strength of the Nets.

In the second half of the regular season, the vast majority of teams have shown their strength and are sure to advance to the playoffs, or even get a better ranking, ensuring that they have home court advantage in the playoffs.

However, the current Nets don't need to do this.

The Nets can't compete with the Bucks for the first place in the Eastern Conference, but it is indeed difficult for other teams to surpass the Nets to become the second team in the Eastern Conference.

The position of the Nets is very stable, so the next main task is to hide some strength a little bit, and strive to overthrow the stronger team than him in the playoffs and achieve better results than expected.

In the East, there are only a few that deserve the attention of the Nets, the most critical of which is the Bucks.

Seeing that the playoffs are approaching, and the Bucks are the Nets' biggest opponent to enter the finals, how could the Nets be cheated out of their full strength by the Bucks with a crippled team?
Impossible, unnecessary, forget it!
Under the leadership of He Li, the Bucks are still better than most teams in the league, let alone Ray Allen, who has super giant off-ball running and shooting ability.

How powerful is the Bucks with Ray Allen, a pair of internal and external stars, even if the lineup is not complete, after the first half, they basically did not lose to the full lineup of the Nets.

If the Nets want to win, they can only reveal their own background to the Bucks and other teams that are expected to enter the playoffs against the Nets.

Therefore, the Nets are still very sensible and experienced in retaining their strength.

However, even though the Nets hid some of their strength in the second half, the situation in this game was still quite anxious. The two teams once fought until the fourth quarter, and the score gradually opened up.

It is precisely because of this that He Li, who played all four quarters, scored 31 points under Kenyon Martin's single defense.

It is said that Martin's single defense ability inside is not bad, but it is a pity that he is only suitable for defending players smaller than him.

Originally, He Li's projection-type inside line was also within the range of Martin's defensive ability, but He Li, a high school rookie, had the tonnage of an NBA power forward when he first entered the NBA.

Martin's body can't force He Li, and he is no match for He Li in terms of technology.

On the contrary, it is He Li, who usually defends very cleanly. At critical moments, his small movement ability is full, and the inside defense is supported by tonnage. It is difficult for Martin to single-handedly play He Li.

Through this game, both teams felt that Martin was not He Li's opponent.

The Nets want to use Martin's strength to score, not to rely on Kidd's passing ability to feed Martin.

"We need to use other methods to prevent He Li! If we can't prevent him from shooting, then we can only make him unable to catch the ball."

After the game between the Bucks and the Nets, the Bucks saw the depth of the Nets, and the Nets paid more attention to He Li, and wanted to use other methods to solve He Li in the playoffs.

(End of this chapter)