Chapter 176 A Bloody Wash
Fletello, the head coach of the Grizzlies, is definitely possessed by the decline, at least he really thinks so.
Otherwise, I really can't explain why his sad luck this season is so bad. Before the new season starts, the team's main core is injured, and Paul Gasol has been resting for several weeks.
This directly made the Grizzlies' pre-season training a piece of empty talk. As for tactical training and so on, there was no shadow. Fletello already had a hunch that this season was going to suffer.
Sure enough, the Grizzlies started with a losing streak. They didn't have the same momentum as last season. They don't look like a team that can rush into the playoffs.
It's not that Fletello hasn't thought about how to save the Grizzlies, but he, a cook who can't even be a clever woman, must be a team that can't handle the staff. At most, he can only be a brazen support.
No one can become God without a good player. Even Phil Jackson has to have a Jordan.
Fletello finally brought back the Spanish's expectations for the stars and the moon, before he began to rebuild the main lineup of the Grizzlies with the core of Gasoviet.
The Bulls over there began to openly seduce the Spaniards to defect, and the price offered not only made Gasol excited, but also the team's management was a little shaken.
This is no longer news. Memphis is not a standard business center. If you want to keep players here, it is far less attractive than Los Angeles or New York.
Compared with Memphis, Chicago, in addition to the urban environment as an advantage, the Bulls' staff structure is more reasonable, and the calves are also more aggressive, far more competitive than the Grizzlies.
People go up and water flows down. Gasol can run from the Iberian Peninsula to the United States, just to get ahead. Shenma pursues the highest honor of basketball, which is all bullshit.
Who doesn't want to win the championship? Bring a championship ring back to Spain. That's a matter of Dora!
Moreover, the price offered by the Bulls this time is indeed not low, and even the outside world has begun to speculate about how long the resistance of the Grizzlies will last.
Even the local media in Memphis are spreading that they don't choose to trade now, but they are waiting for the price.
If it hadn't been for Fletello's insistence, it would have been that someone had begun to propose whether to trade Gasol away, but his insistence was not the Grizzlies' bottom rebound.
I don't know whether the consecutive defeat after the start of the new season made the players lose their spirit to win, or whether they have recently met a strong team in a row, which made the Grizzlies a little confused and didn't recover.
Anyway, they lost the two games after Gasol returned to the team. One was lost to the Hornets led by Paul, and the other was killed by Old Nelson's Warriors**.
They have lost more than 100 points per game in these two games, but their offensive firepower is only 91 points. This gap is often widened to a loss of more than ten points, which makes everyone feel pressure.
The strength is not as good as the opponent's, and the momentum is not as good as the opponent's. There is nothing to explain the loss in this game. Even Fletello himself admitted after two consecutive defeats that the overall state of the Grizzlies is terrible.
But this guy is also stubborn. He has not let go of the possibility of entering the playoffs at all, as if he can keep the Grizzlies a high winning rate in the remaining 60 games.
Just like last season, they can still enter the playoffs at the last minute, but now their hearts are completely different from the previous season.
I guess this can only be Fretello's own beautiful imagination. Whether it is fans or the media, no one is optimistic that the Grizzlies can enter the playoffs for the fourth time in a row.
Even Gasol said in a low mood in an interview with the Spanish media, "We are sliding into the abyss, and the door of this year's playoffs is about to close to us."
Even the main general is so depressed, not to mention other players, negative emotions have long spread in the Grizzlies, no matter who can stop it.
A team that is on the verge of collapse in both mood and state needs a heart-strengthening agent. A victory is the best recovery medicine. At this time, the Grizzlies are extremely eager for a victory.
Fletello thought that the Celtics, who had a poor record recently, could turn himself into a serf and sing.
As a result, Rivers gave him a stick head-on. In the first quarter, he directly opened the gap between the two sides with a sharp attack. In the second quarter, Pierce led a scoring frenzy and widened the gap to 25 points!
In the third and fourth quarters, the Celtics' attacks are extremely fierce. That posture is completely beating the falling dog, pure falling into the well, not taking advantage, son of a bitch!
The wave of offensive tides made the Grizzlies lose their desire to chase points, and those fans who vented their dissatisfaction began to choose to leave at halftime.
By the fourth quarter, in the whole FedEx Arena, the remaining fans, even less than 3,000 people. It is estimated that only those loyal supporters can tolerate the poor performance of the Grizzlies.
The gap of nearly 30 points was widened by the opponent. This completely one-sided scene, even when the Grizzlies met the Suns, they did not show such a breakdown.
But in front of an opponent who thought they could win successfully, they met a more fierce impact, which made the Grizzlies not have strong enough confidence and began to collapse.
This is not someone who can save it, even if Fletello is almost hoarse in the first two quarters.
But even if Fretello shouted for several pauses in a row, he could not save the fact that the Grizzlies lost.
As for those boos and the weak explanations of the live DJ, it makes people feel that the end of Fletello is coming, and the person concerned can only sit on the sidelines without saying a word and frown in the end.
Especially in the fourth quarter, Fletello didn't even call for a pause, and even the substitution was a little mechanical. In this mental state, don't expect him to cheer up the team members.
It is estimated that Fletello's pose can make him look like he is still thinking about the game. As for whether he is really thinking about the game in his head, only God knows.
However, looking at the reaction of the fans and the management of the team who left early in the morning, everyone can imagine what will be like waiting for Fletello.
In fact, this unlucky guy has worked hard enough. After taking over the team, he has entered the playoffs for two consecutive years. Anyway, it's okay, at least a little better than the Timberwolves.
But the NBA is so realistic that your past achievements can never win much voice for you.
When you fail, those past achievements are more like a burden, because you have not reached the previous height. For the fans, for the team, you are a loser, which is beyond doubt.
Moreover, in terms of on-the-spot strategy, Fletello is really not handsome. At most, he is a man. He does not have the iron-fisted method of old Brown, and in terms of tactics, he is a little lackluster.
Rudy Gay, who had high expectations for him in the first quarter, was firmly pressed by Sprewell.
When Fretello began to put all the hope of chasing points on Gasol, the Spanish, who was as unlucky as him, met an extremely rogue bald boy.
Sprewell played for less than 25 minutes, scoring eight points, four rebounds and two steals, but he also sent four assists. This all-round performance is a perfect comeback.
Under his care, Rudy Gay didn't make any achievements, but only scored 13 points in the garbage time, but everyone can understand how much water the score is.
This was thought to be the biggest weakness in the Celtics' defense, but it turned out to be the toughest part of their peripheral defense. Even Rondo had to sigh when he looked at it. The old guy's defense was so fierce!
Not only is Sprewell's performance very tough, but also because the Celtics' collective fierceness completely defeated the Grizzlies, and the Novak guy even scored 10 points in the third quarter.
The main reason is that Chen Feng beat Gasol in the inside line, and Jefferson scored against the brain-damaged child Swift, which completely compressed the Grizzlies' defensive range to near the three-second zone.
With so much space for Novak to take action comfortably, he was simply happy and crazy. When he was in Houston, he didn't have this kind of freedom, not to mention Rivers wanted him to take more action in the empty seat.
"The pitcher always relies on the game to accumulate the feeling. Since he is so far ahead, why not let this boy quickly get familiar with his teammates? In addition, he can sharpen his three-point flying knife with the Grizzlies."
With Rivers' tactical idea of fighting to the death, do you still expect the Celtics' cattle to let go of ** the opponent's chance? They beat their opponents all the game.
The Grizzlies want to use them as a good recipe for recovery. These Boston bandits don't want to take the opponent's knife. The previous games they lost have made them angry for several days, and now they have been caught.
That's really a national soldier. Even Perkins, who came on as a substitute, scored 11 points. You can imagine how ferocious those starting players are, and Pierce scored 31 points in the whole game.
Of course, the least human guy must be the animal with a bare head ** Gasol's chest. The madman didn't score much, but he only scored 16 points for Gasol's whole game, which is a little inhuman!
Even Sibodu muttered in a low voice, "This guy just doesn't give the other party a way to live at all..."
The way to live? Er, Chen Feng, who just kills the owner who is buried, what kind of face can he leave for others and what kind of retreat? In the whole game, he scored 15 points, 11 rebounds and 3 blocks, and Gasol frowned.
At the end of the game, the media reporters in Memphis remembered the wild boy who touched Gasol's whole body, "Our Paul is so ruthlessly spoiled..."
Er, it's spoiled, it's true, but is there still less people spoiled by that boy?
Of course, he will definitely continue to spoil it until he has all the opponents of this league, otherwise he will not stop.
The Celtics, which are ready to go, began to re-enter their fight for the playoffs after getting rid of the Grizzlies. Although it is only December, the fierceness of these guys is accumulating.