Chapter 71 The Lions in the Automobile City

What do you do in the NBA and get scolded the most? The referee? Cheers? Mascot? Or site maintenance?

None of the above, because these professions will not provoke the curses of the head coaches of all NBA teams.

Even if it is Stein, not everyone will scold him, but there is no NBA head coach who does not scold the so-called professionals who write the NBA schedule, and everyone scolds very hard.

You can't say that the head coaches of the NBA have no self-restraint. In fact, even those who believe in Buddha like Zen masters have complained a lot about how bad the NBA schedule is.

There's nothing you can do. If you encounter five or six consecutive away arrangements, you will also jump and scold the street.

In the regular season stage of the NBA, combined with 1,230 games, it is really rare for these guys to make up such a strange thing. It is often found that teams have to play back to back in a row.

As for the continuous away encounters, they are all floating clouds, and basically any team has encountered them.

So, don't expect those coaches to say good things for the experts who arrange the schedule.

"A group of professionals who are claimed to have graduated from Harvard University can make the schedule so chaotic. I really don't know if these guys are all from classical literature majors, not professional statistical talents!"

But this situation has lasted for many years, and almost every time the schedule comes out, someone will scold.

The only difference is that a few scolders will change every year. At this time, the schedule arrangers have completely given full play to the socialist average system. Unlucky people will never be just one family.

"What a damn schedule! After playing a home game, you have to play three away games in a row!"

No wonder Rivers' good temper will get angry. It's the worst experience to play away.

Originally, some of the players on the Celtics side had some minor injuries and minor diseases. In such a continuous away game, the rest is not guaranteed, not to mention the recovery. It's good not to aggravate it.

Pierce's old injury broke out in New Jersey and has been suspended for a while. As a result, because of the journey, he had to rest in the next away game. In order not to repeat the experience of last season, Rivers had to put up with it.

Latlieff is still in Boston to recover from his injuries, and Ogwokandi's physical condition is not much better.

West's fingers are fine, but he has to be careful. Otherwise, Rivers will probably go crazy immediately. He can't stand so many sick truce.

The Celtics are not the Knicks. They can't stand so many sick tos. Rivers doesn't want to be pulled away by his opponent because of injury in the early stage. What he plots to be the top of the division.

And playing so many away games at the beginning of the season also has an impact on the team's performance. If you are not careful, it is possible to make morale fall to the bottom. In that case, it is not easy to recover.

Originally, one-third of the Celtics' players are now inexperienced. If there is a problem with confidence, Rivers doesn't think he can turn the tide like Auerbach.

Fortunately, the Celtics played well in the first two games of this season. Although the opening was a little weak, they all won the opponents in the end. The game they lost was only at the last minute.

But now Rivers looks at the fourth opponent he is going to face, which is really melancholy.

The Detroit Pistons, although they are no longer the bad boy army created by Chuck Daley.

But in the past few years, the strength of the Pistons has been experienced by many people. One championship and two finals, even the Lakers' super luxurious "F4" has been won by the Pistons.

Although the overall strength of the Pistons has been weakened to a certain extent after leaving Big Ben, everyone knows the strength of those guys, which is only weakening and does not shake their foundation.

The Pistons with Billups, Hamilton, Rashid Wallace, Prince and McDais are still the most favorable competitors for the Eastern Throne. Their strength is not ordinary strength.

"This damn schedule, if we meet them at this time, are we going to have two consecutive defeats?"

Although Rivers doesn't want to be so discouraged, he looks at his lineup and then looks at his opponents. The Celtics will never be easy to face in this Detroit game.

"Can you win such a strong opponent with this lineup?" Rivers' heart is also beating.

But he seems to have forgotten that in his team, there are a few guys who are speechless, such as the bald boy who never knows what fear feels like.

This is Chen Feng's first visit to Detroit. I'm afraid his only memory of the city is to see the famous violent conflict at Auburn Hill Palace Stadium on TV.

"By the way, the fans and players here are so fierce." Looking back on the hot scene at that time, even now, Chen Feng can feel a little excitement of rapid adrenaline secretion.

Of course, his excitement fell in the eyes of Sibodu and Rondo, which was quite speechless.

"This guy's bones may be full of belligerent cells." Ron can only evaluate Chen Feng in this way.

However, Chen Feng is right. Detroit, a highly industrialized city, is not as fierce as the fans. They are all rough blue-collar workers.

Fans like New York may greet you with shocking boos, but most of the time such a move is their limit. Otherwise, when Chen Feng raised his finger, someone would have rushed over.

Most of the fans in New York are still educated and a little self-restrained, especially those celebrities sitting on the sidelines. Of course, except for a strange person like Spark Lee.

You know, just after that game, the big director was still grinding his mouth endlessly on his blog. He vowed to teach Chen Feng a lesson the next time he met the Celtics!

However, Chen Feng doesn't have the uncle. According to his own words, the uncle's little physique can really deal with him. If necessary, he doesn't mind bullying the weak.

But after arriving in Detroit, Thibodeau has privately warned Chen Feng not to continue to act like that in New York, otherwise it is definitely not those noisy boos that greet him, but probably overwhelming beverage bottles, or... Or a pile of flying car repair tools.

"This is not a joke. Thinking about the conflict here last time, I can only say that the fans here are not the kind of people with a peaceful personality. Blue-collar workers always have a very grumpy temper."

It turned out that what Siberdou said was not exaggerated at all, and he said a little less.

"I'll go! Is it so cruel? It has been at least a quarter of an hour since we entered this stadium. Why are these guys still spraying so fiercely? Copy, don't these grandchildren know that they are tired?

I have played two away games, but whether it is Madison or the Aviation Center Arena, although those fans are not very friendly, compared with Auburn Hill, the atmosphere of those two stadiums is simply heaven.

When the Pistons came out, it was a tsunami-like roar, but when the visiting team appeared, you could only be greeted with abuse. This is not a joke, it is really overwhelming abuse.

Chen Feng felt that since he stepped into this Auburn Mountain, he could only hear tens of thousands of people attack the Celtics together. It has been a quarter of an hour now, but this fierce saliva attack still has no tendency to weaken. You have to say that the workers' brothers are strong.

And when more than 10,000 blue-collar workers gathered together, the momentum was really overwhelming.

Xibodeau is a little worried about whether novices like Rondo and Chen Feng are a little uncomfortable in the face of such a crazy atmosphere. Even he is a little irritable in the face of such a crazy home court.

However, after only a few seconds, Thibodeau found that he was really superfluous, because the wild boy did not use his spirit to experience the away atmosphere at all, and what he aimed at was strange.

"Detroit is indeed a famous car city..." Rondo and Pierce really don't know why Chen Feng has such feelings in this hostile atmosphere.

"Damn it, look at those cheerleading girls. Is this cheating? They are all factory girls!"

"I finally understand why these old men watching football are so furious. They guard such a group of sad girls every day. I guess if it were you, you would have to release your extra energy here!"

Chen Feng's expression of understanding at this moment really made Xibodu's teeth itchy.

"It's really shameless. I will never worry about whether this boy will be nervous in the future! This guy doesn't have that fucking nerve at all!" Siebodeau almost slapped himself in the mouth, which was really nosy!

Although Chen Feng's words made people around him roll their eyes, it was also because of his words that most of the depressing feeling of entering Auburn Mountain disappeared, and the irritability was much less.

But Rivers frowned and did not relax, because he saw that Sanders, the head coach of the Pistons, was gathering the group of tough players in the team to train together.

If the NBA teams are all beasts, then these animals in Detroit must be a group of lions.

They are a group of hunting masters who can act collectively. They can fiercely tear up those unlucky prey, but what makes Rivers very unhappy this time is that the Celtics seem to have become prey.

Rivers is not sure whether he can escape from the strong lions of Detroit this time.

After all, this is a group of fierce people who have been baptized in the finals. Compared with their sophistication, the Celtics are simply immature and pitiful.

Whether he can break through this barrier, Rivers is not psychologically...

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