God's hand behind the scenes

Chapter 358 The Mysterious Legend
The Celtics' home TD North Shore Garden Arena has always had some mysterious legends, some have been confirmed but some are purely fabricated.But in any case, this is an arena that other teams in the league fear.

In the last century, the Celtics had tampered with the air conditioner in the arena. When the opponent was warming up, the temperature of the air conditioner was adjusted to a very low temperature, which was difficult to achieve the purpose of warming up.During the game, the air conditioner was turned off and the temperature was turned on, which made it difficult for the opponents to adapt. The home team has long adapted to this environment. There is no doubt that the away team finally returned home under the attack of high temperature.

In addition, they may not provide hot water to the visiting team from afar, which will prevent the visiting team players from taking a shower.Because of this incident, many players who went to Boston to play away games protested, but the Celtics did not give any answer in the end.The lack of hot water may seem like a trivial matter, but it still has a great impact on the visiting team players, which will also affect their state.

Of course, the whole league has heard the legend of the floor of the North Shore Garden Arena. Although it has not been confirmed, everyone has a nose and an eye when talking about it.Rumor has it that parts of the North Shore Gardens floor are basically inflexible, and anyone knows what happens when a ball hits a non-resilient floor.It is said that every Celtics player will know which floors have problems after joining the team. They will force the opponent to go to a specific position during the game, and then easily complete the steal.

Brown has always sneered at these rumors, but he has to admit that the North Shore Garden Arena is a home of the devil, and the fans of the Celtics are a group of fanatical believers. After all, the team they support has won the most championship trophies in NBA history, so Every team that travels to Boston has been attacked by them, mostly verbally.

However, Brown is gratified that the players who suffered their first loss in the playoffs have regained their enthusiasm in training. Several people, including Bell, have worked hard to the extent that people feel frightened, for fear that they will be injured. .But Brown praised their performance greatly. In his opinion, there must be such an aura of fighting for every ball in training.

In case someone gets hurt?It doesn't matter, anyway, with Chang Wei here, Brown believes that his chief assistant can handle everything, as long as he doesn't suffer serious injuries during training, and ordinary minor injuries and illnesses will not affect the team's preparations.

In order for the players to adapt as soon as possible, Brown took them to Boston the day before the third game, which will give the players more rest time.However, Brown will not relax the training requirements just because they want to let them rest. After arriving in Boston in the morning, they will start training in the afternoon and come again in the evening. He hopes that the players can find the state of the game.

No one said anything about the head coach's arrangement. The loss in the second game was a big blow to them. Now each of them hopes to show their opponents a little color in the next game, and training has become their A place to vent your anger.Fortunately, everyone was relatively restrained and did not cause any bloodshed.

Brown was very satisfied with everyone's performance, and he knew it was Chang Wei's credit.Now the NBA has not popularized psychological counselors, and neither does the 76ers, but Chang Wei, a guy who minored in sports psychology in college, has played this important role very well. Important factor for best results.

In fact, after losing the game, the 76ers players were very frustrated, especially Bell. As Pierce's defensive player, he was convinced that he did not guard Pierce and caused the team to lose.Of course that's one of the reasons, but anyway it's over and the most important thing now is the third game.Therefore, Chang Wei mainly provides psychological counseling to him. He doesn't want to see the team's number one perimeter gate collapse by himself. If this is the case, it will be really difficult for the 76ers to win the series.

Fortunately, Bell is not a person who likes to dig into horns. Before the game started, he finally recovered successfully and prepared to continue to defend Pierce during the game with high spirits.But no matter what his state is, the starting small forward position is basically his. Unless Brown hopes to use a three-back lineup to attack the opponent's defense, otherwise, with Lynch's strength on the defensive end, he is completely unable to challenge Bell's starting position. Pierce can and can only rely on Bell.

On the way to the North Shore Garden Arena, someone accidentally mentioned some legends about this arena. Iverson and the others didn't feel much about it. More than once.Only Arenas, Dalembert, and Okur were very interested in asking questions. Of course, they were not afraid of the next game, but took this as a curious story to pass the time on the road. boring time.

Chang Wei doesn't believe these claims. Perhaps the Celtics have indeed tampered with the air conditioning and hot water in the visiting team's locker room, but the floor problem should be nonsense.Although Chang Wei heard that the Celtics have been using the old floor of the last century before being reborn, he has never heard of any player who encountered indescribable things in the North Shore Garden Arena.

Everyone talked and laughed all the way and soon arrived at the destination. After completing the preparatory work, Brown took them to the competition venue to warm up.It may be that the chat topic in the car played a role. Arenas, who always likes to be funny, deliberately dribbled the ball and ran around every corner of the entire court. In the end, he vowed that several positions really felt different. But from Chang Wei's point of view, this guy is completely psychological, or is it just for fun?
To be honest, this time the Celtics didn't engage in some off-the-table tricks to "entertain" their away team. The air conditioners are very powerful, and there is hot water in the locker room. This is also the style of most teams in the league. The standards of the home team locker room and the visiting team locker room in each arena have always been far apart.

With this kind of treatment, the entire 76ers team is already very satisfied. Of course, those players who add drama to themselves will think that this is the Celtics hoping to win the game in a dignified manner, so that others will not complain after the game. Whispering.However, for whatever reason, the 76ers' pre-match preparations have not been affected. This is a good thing for them. After all, not just any team can retreat in Boston, and preparations must be done as much as possible most.

(End of this chapter)