God's hand behind the scenes

Chapter 324
After defeating the Lakers, the 76ers finally returned to their home court and received the championship ring during the intermission.Wearing this championship ring made all the players of the 76ers shed tears of happiness. You must know that the overall average age of the 76ers is not very old. Excluding Mutombo, an uncle-level player, they are too young to be able to play professionally. It is a great honor for them to win the championship early in their careers, and it also makes them full of confidence and hard work to reach the top again this season.

The newly joined rookies Arenas, Dalembert and Okur are even more salivating. Arenas is better. He has always believed that he can lead the team to win the championship as the core of the team. Dalembert And Okur's eyes turned green with envy.For them, being able to join a strong team and win a championship is simply the ultimate goal of their careers, but now they obviously have such an opportunity, looking at the golden ring in front of them, they have secretly made up their minds determination.

The opponent of the 76ers in this game is the Timberwolves. Although they lost the shooter Szczerbiak, the lineup with Garnett as the core has not been greatly affected. They are still quite a competitive team in the West. The 52 draw between the two sides in the first half is a good proof.However, under the stimulation of the championship ring, the 76ers played an 11-0 scoring climax at the beginning of the third quarter, in which Okur contributed two three-pointers, and Dalembert also had a gap at the basket. People dunk.

This kind of performance makes Brown very gratified. Although Jones, who was selected with the 56th overall pick, is useless, Arenas, Dalembert and Okur have shown good potential and are completely worth continuing to cultivate.In the end, the 76ers beat the Timberwolves 117 to 100 in this game. Even Garnett scored a triple-double of 27 points, 15 rebounds and 10 assists.

In the press conference after the game, Brown said very forcefully: "The Timberwolves are a very good team, but unfortunately, our players are in better condition in this game. What? Are you asking if we will Will you slack off because of winning the championship? No, no, no, we are a young team, young people will never lack the desire for honor. Today our three rookies played very well, obviously they are inspired by the championship The excitement of the ring, with their help, I believe we will still be favorites to win this year."

Chang Wei was a little helpless. He seldom said such degrading words, but what Brown said was not a big problem. It just made other strong teams go all out when they played against the 76ers. The players can fully bear the pressure, and this is what they must bear, because they are the defending champions this season, and deliberate targeting is indispensable.

Several newcomers in the locker room gathered around the seniors to ask this and that, almost begging to touch that delicate looking ring.In fact, they won't care even if it's not too refined, because their focus is on the championship. If they can win the championship with the team, they won't care no matter how ugly the ring is, anyway, the honor is real.

The envy in the eyes of these guys was overflowing, which made Chang Wei, who had just sneaked back from the press conference, very relieved. It should be a long time since the three of them troubled by loyalty.In fact, it doesn't matter even if the loyalty is low. Except for Okur, Arenas and Dalembert are both first-round picks and signed four-year rookie contracts. Play at least three seasons in Philadelphia.

The two consecutive victories did not stop the 76ers from moving forward. They immediately won eight consecutive victories and won the first ten consecutive victories among 29 teams this season, ranking firmly in the Eastern Conference. 1, and lead the second Celtics [-] win.It is really surprising that the Celtics are ranked second. You must know that there are strong teams such as the Raptors, Pacers and Pistons in the East, but the twin star combination of Pierce and Walker has shown strong combat power. The Walters followed suit.

It was not until the 11th game that they unfortunately lost to the Spurs, or they lost to Duncan.In this campaign, Duncan scored a large double-double of 32 points and 20 rebounds, and also sent 6 assists and 3 blocks, completely dominating the inside.Mutombo was directly blown away by Duncan, who was in a runaway state. He only scored 7 points and 4 rebounds in the game.

The only consolation is that Dalembert, who got more playing time due to Mutombo's poor state, performed well. With the team's most 11 rebounds, including 12 offensive rebounds, he basically has the strength to be the team's starting center.

Brown saw it in his eyes and kept it in his heart, but he didn't let Dalembert start so quickly, but adjusted the time for Mutombo to rest.According to his latest arrangement, Mutombo can still keep his starting position, but after 4 minutes in the first quarter, he will be off the field, allowing Dalembert to play the remaining 8 minutes, in other words Mutombo Mbo is now the pseudo-starter of the 76ers, just bearing the title of a starter, but in fact it is the rookie Dalembert who contributes.

In addition to Dalembert, Okur also got more time.Although the Turkish big man likes to hang around the perimeter during the offense and his control of the rebound has been greatly reduced, his firepower has more than made up for this shortcoming.Besides, liking to shoot doesn’t mean that Okur also likes to play soy sauce on the defensive end. When the opponent is attacking, he will still stand honestly under the basket to protect the basket. Thanks to his experience in the Turkish League, he is at least It will not become a loophole in the team's defensive system. Compared with the two, Brown is quite satisfied with him, but he also hopes that he can further improve his rebounding ability.

Regarding the team's arrangement, Mutombo is a little sad, but he also knows that his competitive state this season has declined a lot compared to last season. The Lakers or Spurs, O'Neal and Duncan can easily beat him inside.Instead of continuing to hang on to the starting position, it is better to allocate some playing time to a few rookie insiders as the head coach said, so as to help them grow up as soon as possible and make up for the vacancies in the insiders.

In fact, the reason why Mutombo has declined significantly is entirely thanks to Chang Wei. If he hadn't used props for Mutombo, the latter's decline may not have been so fast.But Chang Wei didn't feel guilty. If he didn't use the props, Mutombo might not win the championship in his entire career. For a championship, what's the decline in his status?

(End of this chapter)