Chapter 363 Crazy Wizard
The Washington Wizards are not a super team, but the fame of these guys in the East comes more from their ability to go crazy. Once they go crazy, no matter who they really meet, they will probably suffer.
Jamison, Butler and Arenas, with these three people in the team, the Wizards may be leaking in defense, but if they want to attack, if these guys lose their temper, even Nelson the Elder will have a headache.
The ferocity of the Golden State gang lies in the madness of the group, and the killer of Washington lies in personal ability.
Whether it is Jamison, Butler or Arenas, they can have the ability to reverse at a critical moment.
Especially General Arenas, once he enters his attack mode, there may be a gap of more than ten points, and he can smooth it out instantly. The NBA believes in individual heroes, and Arenas has this talent.
If you let him play well, it will be really difficult for you to contain such a stingy convulsion player.
Rivers is not the first brother who has just entered the league, so he knows what kind of encounter it is to meet in Washington. Before the start of the game, he has warned his players not to underestimate the enemy.
"You all know how fierce the attack of the Wizards is. I don't want to lose the first game of the new season. It's better to cheer me up and listen to those people's crazy shouts. It must be good to make them shut up."
Siebodeau has now found that his partner has become more and more unkind, especially since last season, like his wild kids, he prefers to beat his opponent to death.
However, compared with his livestock, maybe Rivers is still very kind, especially compared with Chen Feng, it is obvious that the bald boy is darker, and that guy is the one who toss people to death.
"Kevin, Ray, Paul, Rajan, Kendrick, you five start. I only have one request for you. Limit the impact of your opponent as much as possible in the opening stage. You must first stabilize your position."
"There is nothing special about Washington's tactics. They just like to attack. Don't follow their rhythm. Otherwise, you will only fall into a disorderly state. Remember, we have to fight ourselves."
Before playing, Rivers explained word by word that although this is only a regular season, it is undoubtedly a battlefield to test the actual combat effectiveness for the Celtics, who have changed more than half of the team lineup.
How many people are waiting to see the Celtic jokes now? Rivers doesn't know. Look at the dozens of media reporters who really came to cheer for Boston? If you believe it, it's really a ghost.
Rivers is quite aware of his current situation. This is walking the wire. Too many people are staring at him as the head coach. If the players don't play well, he must attach responsibilities, especially such a strong lineup.
Others are predicting that if the team doesn't play well, Rivers will definitely leave the class within a month, but even Murphy knows that it doesn't take a month. As long as there is a losing streak, Rivers will be fired at any time. Although the team's management says it fully supports it, but everyone knows that they really lose now. Get up.
The Celtics almost use their future potential to exchange for the hope of a championship. They can only move forward and can't retreat. Rivers can't, nor can Thibodeau, including Angie, who is now also hesitant.
If it hadn't been for the pre-season killings to reduce this pressure by a strength, it is estimated that those negative news would have broken out long ago, but it's just the pre-season, and the regular season is an important battlefield for their performance.
Rivers may have a relatively stable lineup. He doesn't want to be defeated by the Wizards' attack at the beginning, and he doesn't want to fall into a fierce battle. What he needs is control and control everything.
While maintaining the team's offensive firepower, it is also necessary to make the defensive strength on the field reach a height that is difficult for the opponent to reach. This is what Rivers has long thought about in the course of several pre-season games.
But this is just something on paper. Only God knows whether it can really be typed out. In order to maintain a balance, Rivers even put Chen Feng on the bench. Of course, this knife will come out of its sheath at any time.
The Wizards don't have so many ideas. At least the Arinas guys never think about the imbalance of balance. The "General" plays whatever he wants, because he does not lack the talent for scoring.
However, when they met the Celtics last season, the lineup was always incomplete, so they didn't take any advantage, but this season their personnel were in a rare neatness, and they felt very hot.
Although the Celtics have won an eight-game winning streak in the preseason, the Wizards' performance is not bad, especially in the last four games, the almost running-in lineup has also won a wave of four consecutive victories, which greatly increased their confidence.
At least before the start of the regular season, these guys have shouted the slogan to hit the playoffs, and their lineup does seem to have that strength. At least this is a combination of the Big Three.
If these guys lose their temper, they really have the ability to overturn any opponent. Don't look at their poor record last season, but when they set the Dragon Gate at home, the Spurs, the Mavericks, and the Cavaliers all fell here. No wonder Rivers will be careful, because you can't predict the thoughts of a group of attacking lunatics. Law.
But everyone knows that they will attack! And it will attack fiercely! So Rivers hoped to withstand it first, but he still underestimated how lethal it would be when a group of psychopaths went crazy.
Everyone knows that the Wizards' offensive firepower at home is very strong. Sometimes their charge in the opening stage will make their opponents dizzy. If they are not careful, they will lose all the game and put themselves in an doomed situation.
But Rivers still didn't expect these guys to be so popular at the beginning. I really don't know if it was those full fans who stimulled these guys with roars, or if these guys were really suffocated.
Anyway, as soon as the game started, the attack of the Wizards seemed quite unreasonable. Even if the Celtics were stable, they were also a little embarrassed by the opponent. The main reason was that the attack of the Wizards made people a little defenseless. They played without a fixed offensive route at all, which can be said to be a standard chaos. War.
It's not that Rivers hasn't seen it. He has wrestled with the Jinzhou gang, and has also competed with the Mad Cows of the Mavericks, not once or twice, but the whist's' outburst is obviously out without your preparation!
Butler, Arenas, Jamison, Haywood, Stevenson, this lineup is the starting five-man of the Wizards, which is not much different from usual, but at the beginning of the game, these guys continued to fire fiercely on the periphery. The three-pointer is the same as free, all the basket. Smash.
Especially Arinas, the "general" who has been trapped for a season always wants to find an opportunity to explode, so that someone always talks in the newspaper that Arenas, who has a high salary, is a representative of high salary and low ability. The salary given to him can completely make the team find a few more useful middle-class balls. Member.
Someone even made an account. If Alinas is traded, the Wizards will have a better chance to enter the playoffs. If they are lucky, they may be able to go further. With such a big contract, it is simply a burden.
I don't know what kind of intention the person who said this is, but some people say that someone will agree.
Especially when your team's performance is not good, this statement is even more rampant. Although Arenas has not publicly scolded the street, it must be difficult to make people stab the backbone life. But if you want to hit other people's reporters in the face, you can only make your team's performance better. At that time, it is useless even if someone wants to talk nonsense. It is.
However, the wave of injuries last season has kept the Wizards in a very sluggish state, and the results of the regular season have also been low, which makes Arenas, the core of the family, criticized, and there are many people who say that he can't work hard.
This season, it's easy to wait until the staff are ready and his physical condition is good. How can he not have a little extravagant, at least he has to enter the playoffs, and in the face of a strong team, this guy definitely has an explosive desire.
Originally, the Celtics star lineup was coveted by many people. Before the game, some people said that this was a confrontation between new and old giants. In the face of such a strong opponent, Arenas's guy is no different from doping. This guy just likes to fight with such a strong team, so as to show his extraordinary personal ability. Come on.
So at the beginning of the game, the Celtics still want to play steadily. Arenas has taken the lead in opening fire. In fact, when this guy warms up, he seems to be a little excited and a little manic.
Before the start of the jump ball on both sides, this guy pounded his chest, like a ** gorilla. This is really a unreasonable attack. The first four moves were outside the three-point line, and two of them were still one step away from the three-point line! How to prevent this!? At least Pierce and Ray Allen have no way.
You can't stay close to this guy. Once Arenas' physique chooses to break through, it is also very threatening. What's more, this guy's attack range is still very large. Are you going to prevent it? Or prevent him from shooting?
And no one thought that Arenas would play so aggressively. Two of the shots were basically when the Wizards had no one to put into the basket, he took action, as if he didn't care what would happen after the real shot was lost.
"That guy is still like this, and it hasn't changed." For the anti-sky shooting feel of Arenas, Rivers was helpless on the sidelines. He could only curl his lips and express the depressed feeling in his heart to Siberdu beside him.
"If he is that kind of calm person, I'm afraid he has already surpassed many people, but Washington fans seem to like his performance very much. For the first time, I feel that the atmosphere here is really not much worse than that of Los Angeles."
Siberdu can only shrug his shoulders. Indeed, as he said, if Arenas is really a very reasonable and calm guy, then his results will probably be much higher than now.
It's a pity that Arenas' talent is more squandered in this arbitrary attack. Once he suddenly goes crazy, he can indeed cut off many opponents, but his stability is very problematic.
Especially in terms of mentality, this guy is more like a person who is used to playing by feeling. As long as he feels right, there is no pressure to score against Kobe Bryant or James.
But once there is something wrong with your mentality, you can only throw five or six times in a game. This is completely a guy who plays at will. You really need enough courage to make him the core.
Just like the attack just now, Arenas can suddenly stop shooting three points in front of Pierce. He is quite confident in his hand, but this guy really doesn't care how to grab the rebound if he loses the shot.
However, when he met such a hot hand and threw in four three-pointers in less than three minutes, Rivers could only express his helplessness, and the starting five on the field also felt a kind of strong pressure.
Sitting at home, he played so hotly when he came up. Arenas set off the crazy cheers of the whole Washington, including the fans on the field, and the live commentary of standing up and roaring loudly with the microphone. These guys were very excited.
This is a kind of catharsis after boredom. Last season, these Washington fans were really depressed. They had a relatively good lineup, but their results have not been good. This is unacceptable. They need ** too much!
And Arenas played so hot in the first game of the new season, which is to give the fans of the Wizards a boost! He wants to tell those who cheer for the team in this way that they are very strong!
It was really a headache for the Celtics to meet such a group of unreasonable guys, but although Arenas threw four three-pointers in a row, there was no one-sided situation in the score.
Garnett really has no pressure to carry Haywood under the basket. The main reason is that he is not interested in fighting against that guy. He just relies on moving his footsteps and eats Haywood to death and fights him twice in a row.
And Ray Allen's encounter with Butler is not physical condition, but to use Rondo's flexible pass to find a chance to shoot in the bottom corner, so that his accurate three-pointer will also get into the basket.
While not staring at Arenas, Pierce also made the due counterattack. He got rid of Arenas twice at a medium distance. Although he was not as tough as the opponent's three-pointer, his stability was more reassuring.
There is only one Arenas in the Wizards, but the Celtics' attack seems more reasonable, but this is the opponent's home court, and no one will applaud them, and the fans of the Wizards are sparing no effort to shout.
However, when Stevens also hit a three-pointer, and Jamison then made up for a shot, Rivers still shouted a timeout, and the score was temporarily fixed at 17:13. The Wizards' current momentum is indeed a little crazy.
The timeout was not because Rivers was dissatisfied with the players, but when the opponent felt hot, he still hoped to hang out the Wizards, and there was no need to really follow the opponent's rhythm.
"Our attack and defense are not bad, but the other party's feel is really helpless. This has nothing to do with tactics, but just because of the hit rate. They can't keep this hit rate all the time, so don't care about the current gains and losses. The problem we should consider is how to play ourselves, and not It's to fight to attack.
"Kendrick, take a break for a while. Our inside strength is not enough. The control of rebounds needs to be strengthened. Jamison is good at making up for the basket, and he has grabbed three backcourt rebounds. We need to give him enough pressure now, and we also need to let Haywood have this kind of oppression, so that we Only then can we control everything."
When Rivers explained the tactical problem, it was not aimless. The game played for five or six minutes. The Celtics' shooting rate was not high or low, but the score kept biting very tight, and Arenas' furiousness did not change much.
But in terms of rebound control, Jamison obviously took advantage of height and experience against Perkins. He can avoid Perkins' impact, but he can find enough space to score under the basket.
Especially on the control defensive rebound, Haywood blocked Garnett for him. Although it was a little reluctant, Jamison could eat Perkins, which made Garnett have to face the attack defense of two people alone under the basket.
There may be no problem when attacking, but once you compete for rebounds, you will suffer a lot. In particular, Perkins' footsteps can't keep up with Jamison, which makes him slow down when he is a helper for Garnett. It's often such a step. Jamison has already saved the rebound. Let's go. This situation must be changed. Perkins temporarily returned to the bench, and it was also Rivers to let the Celtics show their tough attitude inside! In this kind of control over rebounding, he doesn't want to give his opponent any chance.
"Chen Feng, get ready to play. Your task is to control rebounding. Don't let Jamison have the opportunity to make up the basket like he did just now. If there is any more, you should be ready to pout your buttocks and be kicked out of Washington by me."
While replacing Perkins, Rivers has made adjustments, and Chen Feng finally doesn't have to continue to be cold on the bench.
"Head, calm down, if you pout your buttocks in front of so many people, they will definitely not think that you are going to kick out. At least this is a live broadcast. Aren't you afraid that your wife thinks that your sexual interest has changed her goal?"
"I don't want the newspaper tomorrow morning to be full of my love affair with you. Head, I'm a virgin!"
"You have to be responsible for my reputation! If such a shape comes out, it will be difficult to find a wife in the future.
Rivers had no choice but to face such a unreasonable guy as Chen Feng, but the boy's relaxed tone seemed to have isolated the noise around him, and everyone's mood was not so cautious.
Chen Feng, who threw his training jacket on the floor, was looking at a group of big guys on the side of the Wizards with his arms and sleeves. No one could see that this guy had faintly showed his sharp teeth...
(I've been discharged from the hospital, recuperate for another day, and then start two more chapters. There should be another chapter today...)