Forward to the basket

Defeating the Cavaliers at home and the Bobcats on the road allowed the Celtics to move a small step forward in the Eastern Conference rankings, but looking up, there is still a strong team pressing them.

No way, although the NBA has always said that the east is weak and the west is strong, but if it is actually calculated, the overall strength of the east is not weak, at least it is not so easy to make it to the playoffs from here.

Every year for the eight places that enter the playoffs, they have to fight to the death. Whoever dares to relax will be designated to be left behind by other teams.

Although the Celtics have won consecutive games, compared with the previous strong teams, their current strength is only in a rising period, and they have no dominance yet.

"Nets, Pistons, Magic, Heat, Bulls, Cavaliers, uh, Tom, I found it very difficult to be in the top eight." Rivers was actually a little worried when facing such a strong team.

"Doug, I can't help it. This is the NBA. If you want to make it to the playoffs, you have to work hard." Thibodeau seemed indifferent. Thinking about it, why don't you climb a few mountains if you want to win the championship? OK?

Moreover, the Celtics are already in a relatively benign operation. What they lack now is experience and running-in. The season is still long, so play slowly. Anyway, they can't eat hot tofu in a hurry.

Although the Celtics' record at the beginning of the season is not bad, Rivers and his coaching staff are very clear that 82 games, this kind of long-distance running requires stability and persistence.

Just having explosive power is useless, just like a boy who just met a girl, if you don't give him a lot of tempering, just have a lot of energy, and it will be nothing in a minute before and after, and you will definitely be despised.

If you want to make a name for yourself during the regular season of the NBA, you must have a kind of staying power. It takes several months before and after the season, and there is no way to guarantee that you will get a good ranking in the end.

How many teams are very fierce in the first two months, and then began to decline around the start of the All-Star Game.

At the beginning, the Eagles won the votes but won more than a dozen consecutive games after the start of the game, and the result?In the end, they just barely made it to the playoffs. At that time, Uncle Mu was still in his prime.

Rivers doesn't want his team to repeat the same mistakes. Playing steadily is now the Celtics' strategy.

Now that Rivers has not won a few games, he thinks that he can lead the team to the playoffs. He does not have such great ambitions, and it is reasonable to settle the Atlantic Division first.

The top spot in the sub-division will give the Celtics a good position in the playoffs, and it can handle other opponents in the same division in the civil war, and it will also allow the team to be the leader of the division again.

Thinking back to the time when they belonged to the Celtics, whoever dared to ride on their heads in the Atlantic Division and wanted to restore the glory of the past had to start from here and go down step by step.

However, the opponents in the same district are not so easy to deal with. The 76ers are indeed reduced. Iverson has basically decided to leave around Christmas. As for the end point, there are different opinions now.

Some people say that "Answer" will not leave the long-established East End, while others say that he will go all the way west this time.

Anyway, no matter where Iverson is going, the 76ers have left this absolute core and must start to rebuild. This season, for them, there is nothing to look forward to.

As for the New York Knicks, there is nothing to say. Even the loyal New York fans are bemoaning their decline, and the wars within the team are also one after another.

Isiah Thomas, the "smiling assassin", can't laugh anymore. The locker room war between him and Marbury has been completely publicized, and there is no chance to cover it up.

Anyway, Marbury has publicly stated that there is me without him, there is him without me, and he looks incompatible.

No one can tell who is right and who is wrong between them, but the only thing that can be said is that the New York Knicks will be abolished again this season, and Dolan's money will once again be wasted.

Paying a lot of luxury taxes, and then raising a vote of unprogressive old soldiers, this is the current situation of the Knicks. They really want to make progress, but unfortunately, even God has abandoned them.

Of the four opponents, two are basically crippled, but the remaining two are definitely not so easy to deal with, especially the New Jersey Nets who have two finals experience.

The Nets only ranked No.4 in the Eastern Conference. It doesn't look like it's going up or down, but the results are stable. Although compared with previous years, it has fallen a little bit, but no one dares to underestimate the team led by Kidd.

And they are experienced. When the playoffs come, these old guys will burst out with superhuman combat effectiveness. In the regular season, these people just make a little bit of capital to enter the playoffs.

As long as their winning percentage can be maintained at around [-]%, experience will definitely play a key role once they make it to the playoffs. Rivers has no control over what others think. He is going to overthrow the leader of this division.

In the civil war in the Atlantic Division, the Nets must be suppressed, and the defeat after the start of the season was given to them by the Nets, and Rivers is still waiting for revenge.

But what Rivers didn't expect was that the Raptors, which had been sluggish all the way at the beginning of the season, seemed to have suddenly awakened. After those losing streaks, they began to grab points all the way and win consecutive victories.

The Italian No. [-] pick was really beaten. Anyway, since the preseason, he hasn't played a decent game, which made Raptors coach Michel completely give up on him.

Each game can only get more than ten minutes of playing time, which is pitifully small for a No. [-] pick, but Bargnani dare not complain at all.

No way, who made his performance too sad, although he can score about 10 points in every game with his soft shooting touch, but as a center, his rebounding is simply a scar.

He averaged less than 3 rebounds per game. In the early games of the season, he averaged nearly 30 minutes per game!Then he can get 7 rebounds at most at one time.

This made Michelle and the guys from the Raptors unbearable. A big man of more than [-] meters can't even catch a rebound?Then why do I want you to stay inside?Go to the theater!

Even the backup center Nesterovic can contribute six or seven rebounds per game. Of course, Michel doesn't need the No. 10 pick to stay on the court.

The current Raptors is not where you, the No. [-] pick in Italy, are the boss. The number one star here is Chris Bosh!To grab the right to fight with him, isn't that courting death!

It is actually very simple for fans to watch the game, whoever can score and who can be the boss is their favorite.

Bosh has been here for three years, so he is naturally more popular than Bargnani. Besides, this guy just signed a four-year $4 million contract, and he was trained as the core boss of the team.

Anyway, Bargnani, that tragic guy, can only hold the water dispenser every game and be depressed. As for the best rookie, it has nothing to do with him.

It was originally the glory of Italy, but now this product has become a scar for Italy. Not many people are willing to show off such a top pick in front of him.

However, under the strong leadership of Bosh, the Raptors' performance began to soar all the way, and now the Celtics have three wins less than them.

Even Rivers had to say, "Sometimes you really can't predict what. A wave of winning streak after a losing streak made those Torontonians enter the top five in the Eastern Conference. How can this be reasonable?"

But compared to the Nets, Rivers still has a bit of experience if he fights against the Raptors. After all, he is also a loser under his own hands, and he still has a psychological advantage.

In fact, Rivers also understands that it is useless to think too much now. The game has to be played one game at a time, and there are more than 60 games. No one can predict how many unknown variables there are.

But Rivers has been discussing with Angie recently whether he wants to exchange blood with the team before the transfer is closed. Even if this wish cannot be realized immediately, there must be a record.

Anyway, Rivers has already had a showdown with Angie. He doesn't need players like Ogwakandi and Ratliff who are no longer aggressive, and the sooner they replace them, the better.

These old fritters who have been in the nba for many years can sometimes provide experience, but sometimes they can also bring inertia to those young people. Rivers doesn't want them to bring down Rondo's gang of boys.

Maintaining a strong cohesion is what Rivers is more concerned about now. You can lose, but you must not lose listlessly. If you disarm early, that is the worst.

The lessons of last season are still fresh in Rivers' memory. At that time, Pierce was injured, and then the team began to decline all the way. When failure becomes a habit, it is definitely the most terrifying.

This season, the Celtics have added a lot of fresh blood, and they happen to have a burst of energy. For example, Rondo and Chen Feng, who are stunned, need to rely on that brutal ferocity to smash their opponents.

If this makes them also tainted with Ogwokandi's muddle-headed habit, then the Celtics will stop talking about the future, and what awaits them will only be another failure.

As for how Angie sent Ogwakandi and the others, that's not what Rivers should care about. Anyway, I heard Danny Angie say that there are so many teams that are trying to contact.

These old guys may not be useful to buy back, but it is still useful if there is room for salary or something.

But Angie also said a few words casually. Now when many teams contact them, they will first ask, "Is it possible to trade the No. 9 and No. 99 of your team?"

The problem is not that the general manager of a team asks this question, but that many teams will inquire about the possibility of trading with Angie.

This made Angie a little melancholy. They were obviously two rookies, one was in the middle of the first round and the other was at the end of the second round, but now their attention seems to have surpassed that of Jefferson.

At the time of the draft, Angie didn't expect that he would get two such freaks. Now, even trading a player, they have become an important weight.

Rivers didn't care what Angie answered. Anyway, when he heard this, he just reacted, "Danny, if you dare to sell the two of them, I will definitely kill you with a double-barreled shotgun."

Trade Rondo and Chen Feng?That's the kind of business only a madman would do.

In the eyes of Rivers and Thibodeau, the value of those two little guys is simply inestimable.

Even Auerbach said that apart from Rondo, Pierce, and Chen Feng, everyone can participate in the transaction, including Ainge himself.

Uh, there are not many people who can make the cardinal speak like this. Anyway, Angie has no intention of provoking the old man.

And An Ji himself knew that the value of Rondo and Chen Feng had only just been revealed, and he couldn't see how much room for improvement in the future.

Especially the bald boy who almost never had a tryout at the beginning, who would have thought that he would become so popular just after a dozen games in the season.

Even Angie would smack his lips subconsciously sometimes, "Who would have thought that someone from the street would be labeled like this? Either God is crazy, or the world is already crazy."

An Ji couldn't figure out how much Chen Feng was worth, not to mention him, even Tarkanian, who dragged this kid from the street all the way into the NBA, couldn't tell.

"Who knows how much that kid is worth? Damn it, I can't guess anyway. When I brought him out of the streets of New York, I didn't expect him to be so crazy."

What Tarkanian said was absolutely true. At the beginning, he just thought he had dug up a tough guy like Larry Johnson, but looking at it now, that kid was obviously more vicious.

Now I don't know how many teams are targeting this kid. If Angie's tone is a little loose over there, there will probably be a vote of team managers offering conditions and waiting for the Celtics to nod.

Originally, there are not many big men in the NBA, and those who can fight at the basket are even rarer. Otherwise, Bargnani would have no chance to become the No. [-] pick in this draft.

Isn't it because of the height that the Italians have? There is such a saying in the NBA, I can teach you everything, except the height.

Therefore, the general draft is divided into big and small years, depending on the number of inside players and the number of point guards.

A point guard and an insider are simply the core of the team. In the 30 NBA teams, there are only a dozen big insiders who can be counted, and most of the rest are blue-collar workers.

To put it bluntly, it's a blue-collar worker, but to put it bluntly, it's a coolie. It's okay to make a foul and grab a rebound, but it's really hard to find someone who is good at offense and defense. That's why Chen Feng has attracted so much attention.

He has height, can score, grabs rebounds even more fiercely, not to mention defending at the basket, dare to pull down the beast of the little emperor, is that ordinary people can compare?

The most important thing is that this kid has just entered the NBA, the contract is not that exaggerated, and has training value. If there is a famous teacher to teach him, who dares to say that he will not succeed?

The problem is that this kid is only 19 years old now!How many years can he play if he can maintain enough health?

And now Rivers has heard from the team doctor that the kid definitely has the possibility of growing taller. If he really can grow a few centimeters, it doesn't need to be much, a height of [-] meters is enough.

19-24 years old, there are still a few years to make that kid stronger and more ferocious. If everything goes well, what a beast it will be.

With Chen Feng's height and beast-like jumping ability, the Celtics' basket will definitely become a net. Anyone who dares to stick in it will be no different from courting death.

In addition, Rivers had personally seen Auerbach's dedication to that kid, and with such a group of celebrities behind him, even if Chen Feng was an idiot, he could learn a few tricks.

What's more, that kid was originally a ghostly guy. Who knows how strong he will be in a few years, maybe even Auerbach can't make a conclusion.

At this time, Rivers didn't intend to let this kid go, at least not many players who could be traded could fall into his eyes.

Now it cannot be said that everyone is eyeing such a big guy, but it is conservatively estimated that at least half of the team managers have already started drooling at Chen Feng.

No way, this guy is really a bit too tempting. Among the rookies in this class, although there are also young players with a stable playing style like Brandon Roy.

But if you want to say who is the most popular, it is probably this kid in Boston. Not only on the court, but also the potential value of this kid off the court is also rising.

People like Rivers and Thibodeau can estimate his value on the court, but if it is about operations off the court, it is definitely David Falk's territory.

With such a super predator-like manager operating behind the scenes, Chen Feng may not have to do anything in many cases, and his reputation has already been pushed out.

The crazier Chen Feng is on the court, the more Falke will be able to make things happen off the court. According to this guy, "Bill Duffy can make Yao Ming the most famous Asian player, how can I compare Is he bad?"

Falk didn't disdain those colleagues, but this old guy was arrogant enough. If he didn't make a move, he would definitely not be inferior to others, not to mention that Chen Feng had that kind of potential in the first place.

In Falk's view, that kid is still in the stage of accumulating popularity. As long as he can keep playing like this, he can't be said to surpass Yao Ming, but being equal is definitely not a dream.

"To develop the Asian market, that kid has an innate advantage, not to mention he is young enough. When Yao Ming retired, Chen Feng just entered his golden age. This is an irreplaceable advantage."

Young, aggressive, with a different style of play from Yao Ming, perhaps in that ancient land, when people began to fall into the fatigue of the Rockets center, Chen Feng was an excellent choice.

Of course, Falke is not arrogant enough to think that this kid is already the number one in the world, but with such a potential stock in hand, he, a big broker, will definitely increase his value.

"Now this kid is an original stock. What I'm waiting for is the opportunity to go public. At that time, the value will be multiplied geometrically. By then, those people will be able to see how much he is worth. I can guarantee that It is definitely an astronomical figure, Yao Ming can earn 3000 to [-] million a year, that kid will definitely not be worse than him."

Just like Falk said, no one can predict the future value of that little lunatic...

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