The biggest difference between international players and local American players is that they will consider things other than themselves.

In addition to surviving in the NBA, they also hope to give feedback to the national team through their growth in the United States.

Louis believed that Paul Gasol's desire to serve the country was true, and agreed that gaining weight was the best way to enhance the competitiveness of the court for him.

But the Gasol who gained weight was not the Gasol that Louis needed.

Therefore, Louis' top priority is to delay Gasol's pace of gaining weight and make plans for the offseason.

Moreover, Gasol did gain weight a little blindly.

He just felt that he needed to gain weight, but he didn't know how to gain weight, nor did he know how much he gained was the most suitable for him.

Therefore, Louis asked the nutritionist and sports medicine doctor in the team to hold a meeting for Gasol, using all scientific and medical terms that Gasol could not understand to let him know that gaining weight in the past period was unscientific. If he wanted to gain weight, he should have scientific plans and goals.

Louis assured Gasol that starting next season, the team will design a scientific and rigorous weight gain plan for him. Anyway, 2007 is not the year of the competition, so you don’t have to hurry to gain weight.

Gasol was convinced that he now has two months to lose weight.

Louis hoped that it was still time.

Gasol's decision to gain weight made Louis discover a problem, there were too many centers and too few power forwards in the team.

If Gasol also wants to gain weight, he will definitely be moving to transform into a big center. At that time, if the team's personnel structure is not adjusted, the team will have to let some centers play guest-playing as the No. 4 position.

When Louis thought of this, he planted a seed for trading the Spaniards. For him, the Celtics were only Wuxia, Yao Yueban, Ginobili, and Roy were not traded. Others could negotiate as long as the price was right.

A day later, the Celtics played against the Bucks at home.

Fans discovered that Gasol did not make it to the starting lineup.

The Celtics have no explanation for this.

Gasol himself has no complaints.

This was agreed by Louis and Gasol. When his flexibility that was competent for the fourth position was restored, he would return to @ to start.

The Bucks themselves are weak and have had a break with Vince Carter, who is the cornerstone a few years ago. Since then, the team's fortune has declined and is still a weak team.

The Celtics defeated the enemy with just the firepower from the outside and secured the victory.

A big surprise tonight was Greek Vasris Spanoris, who played for 20 minutes as a substitute. Whether it was "7 seconds or shorter" or "20 seconds or longer", he was as good as he could.

In Span Norris' words, this is playing European basketball in the NBA.

Yao Yueban said tactfully: "I enjoyed tonight's game very much."

Some people who don’t understand the art of speaking, such as Mike Dunleavy, are very straightforward: “It’s great to be able to play normally.”

The whistle became normal, and the black-free accusations against the Celtics turned into the issue of "whether the NBA needs to be more diversified."

Of course, it is not completely unaffected.

But those mixed and weak accusations, like Louis once publicly criticized Pepsi, became trivial controversy.

A large number of media people like Bill Simmons who are familiar with NBA history have begun to explain the historical significance of the Black-free team.

External interference and influence have been greatly reduced, and now is a critical period for the Celtics to launch an impact on honor.

After dealing with Gasol's affairs, Louis began to strengthen supervision of the team.

Louis discovered that the Celtics were in a delicate period.

Unlike last season, the team has no irreconcilable contradictions.

Or, due to Wade's season reimbursement, the problem that should have troubled Louis this season - Lu Wuxia, Ginobili, Wade, and Roy's @ starting and ball rights dispute did not appear.

The Celtics have established Lu Wuxia's absolute core position, and Yao Yueban's position as captain has also become a consensus.

It was only a trivial matter for Gasol to gain weight for the national team.

Others, like some substitute players who are dissatisfied with playing time, are just trivial matters and cannot affect the atmosphere in the team.

This Celtics looks like the smoothest team that Louis has ever taken over. There are no sharp players in the team;

There are no major contradictions;

There is no veteran who is in a dull state;

The Celtics don’t have any factors that can make the strong team suddenly collapse. But this kind of team without any major problems is the most difficult thing to break the dilemma.

Just when Louis was worried about the team's atmosphere, a major event that shocked the league happened to the Miami Heat, an Eastern Conference rival who was also a championship team.

This incident made Louis discover that the plainness is the truth.

On February 24, the Heat were on their journey to the West for four consecutive guests.

This year's Heat are regarded as the year with the greatest hope of defending their title. If they win the championship again, Duncan will not only end the shortcomings of the Heat's history without a defending champion, but also make his ring number reach seven.

Before this, the biggest hidden danger of the Heat was Duncan himself.

Duncan, who had been tortured by plantar fasciitis for several years, lost 16 kilograms at the doctor's advice, which caused his performance on the court to fluctuate significantly.

After the All-Star Weekend, Duncan plays better and better.

The Heat seem to be on the right track. With the help of Arenas, Martial Saint, Ray Allen and Liu Yuqing, they can completely sweep the league.

However, on the night when the Heat defeated the Los Angeles Clippers away, some media revealed that their outside core Gilbert Arenas had a fierce quarrel with someone outside the nightclub.

If things ended there, it was just the most inconspicuous one of Arenas' many off-court news, however, the source finally said: "GA was very emotional, and someone saw him pulling out a pistol..."

As soon as the news came out, the sky collapsed and the earth broke.

An NBA player playing away game is holding a gun off the court?

What does this mean?

Did he go away with a gun?

Before Arenas and the Heat made any clarifications, the powerful media got the surveillance video of the incident.

It is unknown whether Arenas is as emotional as the source said, but he does indeed hold a pistol.

As soon as the video came out, the popularity of the incident completely exploded.

For David Stern, who is determined to portray these basketball players as gentlemen, Arenas touched on his reverse scale.

It is related to the image of the alliance. No matter what reason Arenas has, no matter what impact will severe punishment of Arenas have on the Heat, Stern will not hesitate at all.

February 25

David Stern held a press conference and announced in public the plan to deal with the gun-carrying incident in Arenas.

Arenas was suspended for 40 games.

This result can almost be said to have missed Arenas this season.

The Heat only have 28 games left in the regular season, and when the playoffs begin, Arenas will have to suspend 12 games.

If you are optimistic, Arenas has the chance to make a comeback in the Eastern Conference Finals or Finals, but by then, can Arenas, who has been missing for 40 games, find the feeling of the game in time?

What's more, it is unknown how the Heat view Arenas' gun-carrying incident.

It can be said that Arenas' season has ended, and even his time with the Heat has ended.

When a reporter asked Stern on the spot whether such a severe punishment was decided by club voting, Stern looked at the questioner coldly: "Of course, the vote was voted, and the result was 1 to 0."

Should Louis be happy?

The Celtics' biggest opponent who rushed out of the East cut off his arm before the start of the playoffs.

It is no exaggeration to say the impact of Arenas' ban on the Heat.

The firepower vacant from Arenas may be filled by Martial Saint, Ray Allen, and Liu Yuqing, but his threat of holding the ball can hardly be filled.

The Heat are extremely weak now. They need to find a defender who can withstand the pressure. This person not only needs to be able to control the field, but also has a certain threat to hold the ball, and also has chemical reactions with other main players.

Louis didn't know how the Heat would solve this problem. He just felt from the bottom of his heart that it would be great to have a lot of normal people in the team who would not compete or compete.
Chapter completed!