Chapter 187 Blocking the Road Fire
The topic outside about whether Lao K wants to recruit Chen Feng is still fermenting. Rivers has no feeling about this news. Anyway, few NBA head coaches are willing to let players participate in international competitions.
Most of that kind of game is hit during the summer rest period. Originally, it was time for players to take care of themselves, but because of international games, many players still have to work hard, which makes many head coaches dissatisfied.
After all, the team is the employer who pays you a salary. The Basketball Association will not give you a cent, but the players have to bear the risk of injury in the World Championships or the Olympic Games, and the team needs to pay for this accident.
The Basketball Association will definitely not care whether your players are injured or not. As long as you enter the national team, you need to give money when you need to contribute, and there is no accident insurance, which makes many players deterred.
However, sometimes, this kind of thing can't be avoided if you want to, but the Dream Team is still a little special. After all, the NBA is a big-name player. If you want to use others, you have to be willing to do it.
Anyway, if you really get injured in the game, it must be the team itself that will suffer in the end, especially a new little guy like Chen Feng, and Rivers doesn't want to let him participate in those international competitions.
Originally, summer is the physical reserve period. If you spend all your energy on the competition, there will be a big decline at the beginning of the new season. Rivers just wants to cry at that time, and he probably can't find a place.
Whether it is Rondo or Pierce, including Chen Feng, Rivers will not publicly oppose them entering the national team, but the premise is to ensure their own state and training during the physical reserve period.
Of course, if there is a chance to let these guys give up, Rivers will not give up. As for the news hype outside now, he has no time to pay attention to it.
After all, it depends on the player's own consideration, but Rivers really can't do anything about Lao K's blatant digging of the wall. After all, the old guy is the signature of the Dream Team.
If he forcibly stops it, there is no good excuse, but Rivers is really a little interested in those so-called honors. He still can't wait for Chen Feng to refuse Lao K's invitation.
As for what kind of ending this matter will be in the end, Rivers is not interested in exploring. The question he needs to consider now is how to deal with the last game before Christmas.
It is definitely a very good state for the current Celtics to win six consecutive victories. If it can continue like this, it will be beneficial and harmless to both now and in the future.
And the Celtics' winning streak raised their ranking in the East. If they can get the next opponent, they even have a chance to get the top six in the East.
It occupies a good position in the first half of the season. Maybe it will not guarantee that you can make it smoothly to the playoffs, but in the process of wrestling with competitors, the ranking will bring you a favorable situation.
In the six games before Christmas, the Celtics have won five of them, which is also regarded as completing the task assigned by Rivers in advance. Now every win is a profit.
Now Rivers just wants to take the team to finish the away game, and then take these wild kids home for the holiday. Now the Celtics are not qualified to compete for any Christmas battle.
But this is also a kind of welfare. At least they won't play games on Christmas Day. It's a bad feeling that others eat Christmas dinner, but they have to shout at the sidelines. Rivers doesn't want to try.
So now Rivers is waiting to finish fighting with the last opponent, so let these wild guys go back to their own homes and find their mothers. His ambition is to rush to the sixth place before the beginning of Christmas.
In such a mess in the East, Rivers is still waiting to get some benefits in the chaos. Now such a situation is in front of him, and he can soar to the sixth place all the way. If there is such an opportunity, why not try it?
At least the partners of Rivers and Thibodeau are going to maintain this momentum before Christmas, but the two of them look at the next opponent they will meet and scratch their heads a little.
"It's so good to meet the Miami Heat before Christmas, and I'm still going to play away." Just thinking about this problem, Rivers feels a little headache.
After all, it was the championship team last season. Even though they played a little teve this season, but who dares to underestimate them? At least those guys have also risen to the third place in the East recently.
And the most important problem now is that Rivers is going to play away, which is not playing on his own territory, and this time his opponent is not comparable to the Clippers.
He can kill the Clippers and the other four teams at home. For Rivers, first, he is not familiar with the tactics after his lineup adjustment, and secondly, because it is in his own territory.
Including the game against the Bulls on the road, Rivers felt that it was very dangerous. It was not that he was modest and cautious, but that the Celtics' current performance was really not stable enough.
If these guys are tougher, they can easily get the corners of the Bulls, but if they don't play smoothly, even if they play against the Pacers, they can stangle.
Now they are going to Miami to challenge last year's championship. No matter how you look at it, it seems to be a difficult task. Don't forget that when he met the Mavericks, he lost badly.
Those Dallasians are just the runner-up last year. Now that they hit the champion head-on, the ghost knows what's going on. If he is not careful, he may be beaten miserably by his opponent.
When encountering such an opponent, Rivers did not dare to take it lightly. He wanted to study the loopholes of the other party, but after watching the video of the last few games, he could only scratch his head and say, "Those guys are really strong."
There's nothing you can do. Don't expect to have Wade. How weak is Mo Ning's team? What's more, these guys still have a pin under the basket and want to kill them easily? That's undoubtedly a spring and autumn dream.
The problem that gives Rivers the most headache is probably not that Dwyane Wade, who has soared 30+ in three consecutive games, is far less vigilant than other aspects.
The Celtics can kill the Clippers, which are also mainly insiders at home, but it depends on the tough play of the inside line. Chen Feng held Brand, and Jefferson also defeated Kaman.
If there is no strong advance at these two points, it is estimated that the Clippers will not be pulled away by them.
But if this advantage is on the Miami people, it may be a little difficult to play. Compared with the Celtics, the inner strength of those guys may be better.
O'Neill, with such a "big shark" sitting under the basket, do you still expect Jefferson and Chen Feng to easily get in and out of the basket? That kind of control over the paint area will definitely decline.
This is not that Rivers is belittling his player, but O'Neal's lethality in the basket is already a big killer in the NBA league. With him, strangers are generally not allowed to enter under the basket.
In the past ten years of this guy's tyinging around the world, I don't know how many excellent big guys have become the soul of this guy's palm. However, when it comes to O'Neal, many insideers will be a little shudder.
With a weight of 320 pounds and a height of seven feet and an inch, you dare to say that you are a superhuman style. No matter where you put this guy, you will feel the pressure he brings to you.
This is O'Neill, a terrorist who will be called a monster in a long-term place like the NBA.
Although this guy is old and does not have the tough deeds of smashing rebounds when he had nothing to do when he was young, the name of the shadow of the tree and the deterrent power of O'Neal under the basket can still control the scene.
At the beginning, the Heat could spend a lot of money to seduce him from Los Angeles to Miami, and he was looking at his dominance.
And this old guy is really a deputy general. He won the championship in the second season of the Heat. Although the MVP of the finals is Wade, no one can deny the existence of O'Neal and how much defensive energy the Mavericks has been involved. If it hadn't been for him, maybe Wade would have been trapped by the crazy cattle for three seconds. It's in the district.
So, whether there is O'Neal's Heat or not, there are two completely different styles. He may not be the one who scores the most points, but as long as this guy is on the court, he will make you play a 12-point spirit.
As Barkley said to Chen Feng, " Although that guy has evolved from a great white shark to a humpback whale, O'Neal's offensive ability under the basket can still easily destroy all opponents."
This is Barkley's evaluation of O'Neill. Of course, it is limited to the confrontation under the basket. In terms of fighting, Barkley dared to wave his old fist with O'Neill, and naturally he was not afraid of the other party.
Well, just think that he is not afraid. At least in front of Chen Feng, he said so. Of course, Chen Feng's suspicious expression also made Sir Charles speechless.
But his evaluation of O'Neill, just like Rivers' headache now, is really under his eyes. Chen Feng is also such a super heavyweight opponent to meet head-on.
Chen Feng doesn't know what O'Neal's reputation was in the NBA in the past, but since he began to watch NBA games, this huge ** has been an omnipotent "superman".
Now let yourself fight with such a tough guy under the basket, even a cold guy like Chen Feng will also be a little afraid.
But when Rivers and Siberdu tried to find Chen Feng and explain to him how to fight with O'Neill, they found that the boy was still playing with his life on the training ground.
They all heard Takaniang asking Chen Feng at the side of the training ground, "How about it, boy? Do you know you're afraid of meeting such a big guy this time?"
As a result, Chen Feng replied, "Sun Wukong took the scriptures from the west and met the Flame Mountain, and he also had to pass it. I'm afraid that if he can solve the problem, then I'm afraid of one. If not, I'll have to go over the mountain with my life."
For the Celtics, Miami is their seven-game winning streak.
For Chen Feng, O'Neal will also pass sooner or later...
Anyway, it's too early or too late, so let's do it. Chen Feng doesn't want to really have to wait until the day the old guy retires before he has the opportunity to knock down his opponent.
Now that you have encountered it, let me see if your sharp shark teeth can bite my hard bald head...