Chapter 149 Value
Defeating the Cavaliers at home and the Bobcats away from home, which took the Celtics a small step forward in the eastern ranking, but looking up, there was still a strong team over them.
There's nothing we can do. Although the NBA has always been saying that the East is weak and the West is strong, if it is actually calculated, the overall strength of the East is not weak. At least it is not so easy to enter the playoffs from this side.
Every year, for the eight places to enter the playoffs, they have to die. Whoever dares to relax will be left behind by other teams.
Although the Celtics have won the game in a row, compared with the previous strong team, their current strength is only in a rising period and has little dominance.
"The Nets, Pistons, Magic, Heat, Bulls, Cavaliers, Er, Tom, I find it's a very difficult thing to enter the top eight." Rivers is actually a little worried about such a strong team.
"Dogg, there's nothing I can do. This is the NBA. If you want to enter the playoffs, you can't do it if you don't work hard." Sibodu looks indifferent. Think about it. If you want to win the championship, how can you not climb a few mountains?
And the Celtics are already in a relatively benign operation. Now all they lack is experience and running-in. The season is still long. Let's 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 their coaching staff know very well that for 82 games, this kind of long-distance running needs stability and durability.
It's useless to have explosive power alone. It's like a boy who has just met a girl. If you don't give him a lot of hard work, he will definitely be despised for just a minute before and after.
If you want to make a name during the regular season of the NBA, you must have a sense of endurance. It will take several months before and after the season. It is ferocious for a while, but there is no way to guarantee that you can get a good ranking in the end.
How many teams were very fierce in the first two months, and then began various landslides around the start of the All-Star Game.
At the beginning, did the Eagles win more than a dozen games in a row after the start of the game? What was the result? In the end, they just entered the playoffs. At that time, Uncle Mu was still playing.
Rivers doesn't want his team to make the same mistake. Playing steadily is now the Celtics' countermeasure.
Now Rivers has not swelled up because he has won a few games to think that he can lead the team to the playoffs. He is not so ambitious. It is reasonable to deal with the Atlantic Division first.
The top of the division will give the Celtics a good position in the playoffs, and it can deal with other opponents in the same division in the civil war, and the team can become the leader of the division again.
Thinking about the era when they belonged to the Green Shirts, who dared to ride on their heads in the Atlantic Division and want to restore the glory of the past, they have 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 have indeed fallen. Iverson has basically decided to leave around Christmas. As for the landing point, there are different opinions now.
Some people say that the "answer" will not leave the long-famous East District, while others say that he will go all the way to the west this time.
Anyway, no matter where Iverson goes, the 76ers have left this absolute core and must begin to enter reconstruction. This season, there is nothing to look forward to for them.
As for the New York Knicks, there is nothing to say. Even the loyal New York fans are lamenting their decline, and the internal wars within the team are also one after another.
Isiah Thomas, the "smiling assassin", can't laugh now. 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 made it clear that he is not me, he is not me, and he is not me.
No one can say who is right or wrong between them, but the only thing that can be clear is that the New York Knicks are going to be ruined again this season, and Dolan's money has been wasted again.
They pay a lot of luxury taxes, and then raise an unmotivated old soldier. This is the current situation of the Knicks. They want to make progress. Unfortunately, even God has abandoned them.
Two of the four opponents are basically disabled, but the remaining two are definitely not so easy to deal with, especially the New Jersey Nets, which has two finals experience.
The Nets only ranked fourth in the East, which seems to be up to none, but the results are stable. Although it is already worse than in previous years, no one dares to underestimate the team led by Kidd.
And they are experienced. When the playoffs come, these old guys will burst out Superman's combat effectiveness. In the regular season, these people are just getting the capital to enter the playoffs little by little.
As long as their winning rate can be maintained at about 50%, once they enter the playoffs, experience will definitely play a key role. What others think, Rivers can't control it. He is ready to overturn the boss 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 is given to them by the Nets. Rivers is still waiting for revenge.
However, what Rivers didn't expect was that the Raptors, which had been sluggish all the way at the beginning of the season, seemed to suddenly wake up. After those consecutive defeats, they began to grab points all the way and all kinds of winning streaks.
The Italian champion was really stunned. Anyway, he hasn't played a decent game since the preseason, which made the Raptors' head coach Michelle completely give up on him.
It can only get more than ten minutes of playing time per game, which is pitiful for a top show, but Bagnani dares not complain about anything.
I can't help it. Who makes his performance too sad? Although he can score about 10 points with his soft shooting feel in every game, as a center, his rebound is simply a scar.
On average, he has less than 3 rebounds per game. In the first few games of the season, he averaged nearly 30 minutes per game! Then he can get seven rebounds at most at one time.
This makes the guys of Michelle and the Raptors can't stand it. A big man of more than two and ten meters can't even catch a rebound? Then why do I still want you to stay inside? Watch the play!
Even the substitute center Nestlovich can contribute six or seven rebounds per game. Naturally, Michelle does not need this champion to stay on the court. As for the data of about 10 points per game, it is directly ignored.
Now the Raptors are not the place where you, the top Italian leader, are the boss. The number one star here is Chris Bosh! Don't you want to die if you want to fight with him?
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 rooted here for three years. Naturally, he is more popular than Bagnani. What's more, this guy has just signed a four-year, $63 million contract, which was cultivated as the core boss of the team.
Anyway, no matter what to say, the tragic guy Bagnani can only be depressed with the water dispenser every game. As for the best rookie, it has nothing to do with him.
Originally, it was the glory of Italy, but now this product has also become the scar of Italy. Not many people are willing to show off with him face to face.
However, the Raptors' results began to soar under the strong leadership of Bosh, and now the Celtics have three wins less than them.
Even Rivers had to say, "Sometimes you really can't predict anything. A winning streak after the losing streak allows those Torontons to enter the top five in the East. How can this be reasonable?"
But compared with the Nets, if he fights with the Raptors, Rivers still has a little experience. After all, he is also his own loser, and he has a little psychological advantage.
In fact, Rivers also understands that it is useless to think more now. The game has to be played one by one, and there are more than 60 games. No one can predict how many variables there are.
Rivers has been discussing with Angie recently whether 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 had a showdown with Angie. Players like Ogwokandi and Ratliff are no longer enterprising. He doesn't need it, and the sooner he changes, the better.
These old deep-fried dough sticks that 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 spoil Rondo's gang.
Maintaining a strong cohesion is a problem that Rivers is more concerned about now. He can lose, but he must not lose listlessly. If he disarms early, it will be the worst.
The lesson of last season is still vivid in the memory of Rivers. At that time, Pierce was injured, and then the team began to slide all the way. When failure became a habit, it was definitely the most terrible.
This season, the Celtics added a fresh blood, and there happened to be a gust of momentum. Like Rondo and Chen Feng, they need to rely on their outrageous fierceness to fight with their opponents.
If they are also infected with the habit of living by Ogvokandi, the green shirts will not talk about the future. What awaits them will only be another failure.
As for how Angie defeated Ogwokandi and others, that's not what Rivers should care about. Anyway, I heard from Danny Angie that there are several teams that are trying to contact.
It may not be easy for these old guys to buy it back, but it's still useful to make a salary space or something.
However, Angie also said a few words casually. Now when many teams come into contact with them, they will first ask, "Is it possible to trade your team's No. 9 and No. 99?"
The question is not that the general manager of a team asks this, but that many teams will ask around when talking about the possibility of trading with Angie.
This makes Angie a little melancholy. Obviously, there are two rookies, one in the middle of the first round and the other in the tail of the second round, but now their attention seems to exceed that of Jefferson.
At the beginning of the draft, Angie didn't expect that she would draw two such freaks. Now, even trading a player, they have become an important weight.
Angie answered that Rivers didn't care. Anyway, when he heard this, he only reacted, "Danny, if you dare to sell the two of them, I will definitely kill you with a double shotgun."
Trading Rondo and Chen Feng? That's a business that only crazy people do.
In the eyes of Rivers and Siberdeau, the value of those two little guys is simply immeasurable.
Even Auerbach has said that everyone except Ron, Pierce and Chen Feng can participate in the transaction, including Angie herself.
Well, there are few people who can make the cardinal talk like this. Anyway, Angie has no intention of provoking the old man.
And Angie herself knows that the value of Rondo and Chen Feng has just been revealed, and he can't see how much room for improvement there is in the future.
Especially the bald boy who almost didn't even have a trial at the beginning, who would have thought that he had become so hot after just a dozen games in the season.
Even Angie sometimes subconsciously stomps, "Who would have thought that a man from the street would be like this? Anyway, either God is crazy, or the world is crazy.
Angie can't figure out how much Chen Feng's value is. Not to mention, even Takanian, who dragged this boy all the way from the street into the NBA, can't tell.
"Who knows how much that boy 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 fight so crazy.
Takanien said absolutely the truth. He just thought he had found a tough guy like Larry Johnson, but now that he looks at it, the boy is obviously more ferocious.
Now I don't know how many teams are looking at this boy. If Angie's mouth is a little loose, it is estimated that there will be a ticket for the team manager to wait for the Celtics to nod.
Originally, there are not many big people in the NBA now, and there are even fewer people who can be combative under the basket. Otherwise, the Bagnani guy would not have a chance to become the first pick in this draft.
Isn't it because Italians have a height? There is a saying in the NBA that I can teach you everything, except height.
So the general draft is divided into big and young, and it depends on the number of inside players and the number of point guards.
A point guard and an insider, which is simply the core of the team. There are only a dozen people in the 30 NBA teams that can count the big insides, and most of the rest are blue-collar workers.
To put it nicely, it's a blue-collar, and if it's not bad, it's cool. It's okay to break a rule and grab a rebound. If it's a good attack and defense, it's really hard to find, so Chen Feng has attracted so much attention.
With height, you can score, and catching rebounds is even more fierce. As for the defense under the basket, it goes without saying that it is comparable to ordinary people who dare to drag down the little emperor's animal?
The most important thing is that this boy has just entered the NBA. The contract is not so exaggerated, and it is valuable to cultivate. If a famous teacher really points out, who dares to say that he will not succeed?
The problem is that this boy is only 19 years old now! If he can maintain enough health, how many years can he play?
And now Rivers has heard from the team doctor that the boy definitely has the possibility of growing taller. If he can develop a few centimeters, not more, a height of two meters and ten is enough.
19-24 years old, there are still a few years left to make the boy stronger and more fierce. If everything goes well, what a beast-like existence it will be.
With Chen Feng's beast-like jumping power, the Celtics' basket will definitely become a trap. Whoever dares to plunge into it is no different from finding death.
In addition, Rivers saw with his own eyes that Auerbach put his painstaking efforts for the boy. With such a famous move behind his back, Chen Feng, even if he is a fool, can learn a few tricks.
What's more, that boy is a ghost. Who knows how strong he will be in a few years? I guess even Auerbach can't make a conclusion.
At this time, Rivers did not intend to let the boy go. At least not many players who can trade can get into his eyes now.
Now it can't be said that everyone is focusing on such a big guy, but conservatively, it is estimated that at least half of the team managers have begun to drool at Chen Feng.
I can't help it. This guy is really a little too seductive. In this year's rookie, there are also stable players like Brandon Roy.
But to say who is the most popular, it is estimated that it must be this boy in Boston, not only in the field, but also the potential value of this boy outside the field.
Rivers and Siberdeau can estimate his value on the court, but if it is to operate off the court, it is definitely David Falk's territory.
With such a super crocodile-like agent operating behind his back, Chen Feng may not have to do anything many times, and his reputation has been launched.
The crazier Chen Feng performs on the court, the more Falk will be off the court. According to this guy's words, "Bill Duffy can make Yao Ming the most famous Asian player. Am I worse than him?"
Falk is not contemptuous of those colleagues, but this old guy is arrogant. If he doesn't take action, he must not be worse than others. What's more, Chen Feng already has that potential.
In Falk's view, the boy is still in a stage of accumulating popularity. As long as he can keep playing like this, he can't be said to surpass Yao Ming, but he is definitely not a dream to be on an equal footing.
"In developing the Asian market, that boy has an innate advantage, not to mention that he is young enough. When Yao Ming retired, Chen Feng entered his golden age, which is an irreplaceable advantage."
Young, aggressive, different styles of playing with Yao Ming, perhaps in that ancient land, when people begin to fall into the aesthetic fatigue of the Rocket Center, Chen Feng is an excellent choice.
Of course, Falk is not arrogant enough to think that this boy is the best in the world, but with such a potential stock in his hand, he, as a big agent, can definitely increase his value.
"Now this boy is a primitive stock. I'm waiting for the opportunity to go public. At that time, the value will double by a geometric number. At that time, those people can see how much money he is worth. I can guarantee that it is definitely an astronomical figure. Yao Ming can earn 20 to 30 million a year, and that boy will never be worse than him. "
As Falk said, no one can predict the future value of the little madman...
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