One hundred and eighty seventh chapter blocking fire
The topic of whether Lao K wants to recruit Chen Feng is still fermenting. Rivers has no feeling about this news. Anyway, the head coach of the NBA is not willing to let players participate in international competitions.
Most of those games are hit during the summer break period. They were originally for players to maintain their health, but because of international competitions, many players still had to run hard, which made many head coaches dissatisfied.
After all, the team is the employer who pays you a salary, and the Basketball Association will not give you a cent, but players still have to bear the risk of being injured in the World Championships or the Olympics, 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 contribute, and you don’t give money and there is no accident insurance, which discourages many players.
But sometimes, this kind of thing is not something you can hide just by wanting to, but the Dream Team is still a bit of an exception. After all, the NBA is a big-name player. If you want to use it, you have to be happy with it.
Anyway, if you really get hurt in the game, the team itself will definitely suffer in the end, especially a little guy like Chen Feng who has just emerged. 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 another big drop in the new season at the beginning of the new season. Rivers will just want to cry at that time and probably won’t be able to find a place.
Whether it is Rondo or Pierce, and Chen Feng, Rivers will not publicly oppose their entry into the national team, but the premise is to ensure their condition and also exercise 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 deal with it.
After all, this depends on the players' own considerations, but Rivers really has no choice but to poach the blatant poaching of Lao K. After all, that old guy is playing the signature of the Dream Team.
If he forcibly stopped him, there would be no good excuses, but Rivers was really a little interested in the so-called honors. He was eager for Chen Feng to reject Lao K's invitation in one go.
As for what kind of ending this matter will be, Rivers is not interested in exploring it. The question he needs to consider now is how to handle the last game before Christmas.
Being able to win six consecutive victories is definitely a very good state for the current Celtics. If it can continue like this, it will be beneficial to both now and in the future.
Moreover, the Celtics' consecutive wins have made their rankings in the Eastern Conference soar one place. If they can defeat the next opponent, they will even have the chance to be in the top six in the Eastern Conference.
It takes a good position in the first half of the season, and maybe it won't guarantee that you can go smoothly to the playoffs, but in the process of wrestling with your competitors, ranking will bring you a favorable situation.
In the six games before Christmas, the Celtics have won five of them, which can be regarded as completing the tasks assigned by Rivers ahead of schedule. Now every game that wins is considered a profit.
Now Rivers just wants to take the team to play away games and then take these wild boys home to celebrate the festival. The Celtics are not qualified to compete for any Christmas game opportunities.
But this is also a benefit. At least they won't play games on Christmas Day, and the bad feeling that others are having Christmas dinner but they have to shout and sing on the sidelines. Rivers doesn't want to try it.
So now Rivers is waiting to fight with the last opponent, so he lets these wild boys go back to their own houses and find their mothers. His ambition is to rush to sixth place before Christmas begins.
The East is playing so chaotic, Rivers is still waiting to get some benefits from the chaos. Now that this situation is in front of him, he can reach sixth place. If there is such a chance, why not try it?
At least the pair Rivers and Thibodeau are preparing to maintain this momentum before Christmas, but they look at the opponent they will meet next and scratch their heads a little.
"I was so desperate that I met the Miami Heat before Christmas, and I went to play away games." Just thinking about this problem, Rivers felt a little headache.
After all, that was the championship team last season. Even though they played a bit tepid this season, who dared to underestimate them? After all, those guys have recently risen to third in the Eastern Conference.
And the main problem now is that Rivers wants to play away, which is not a battle on his own territory, and the opponent this time is not comparable to the Clippers.
For Rivers, he was able to defeat the Clippers and the other four teams at home, and for him, he was not familiar with his lineup adjustment tactics, and because he was in his own territory.
Including the away game against the Bulls, Rivers felt that the game was very dangerous. It was not that he was modest and cautious, but that the Celtics' current performance was indeed not stable enough.
If these guys are a little more ruthless, they can even make the Bulls' horns easy to beat, but if the game is not smooth, they can still stumbling even if they play against the Pacers.
Now they are going to Miami to challenge last year's championship. No matter how you look at it, it seems like a difficult task. Don't forget that when he met the Mavericks, he lost tragically.
Those Dallas were just the runner-up last year. Now that they are hitting the championship head-on, only one knows what the situation is. If you are not careful, you might be beaten miserably by your opponent.
When encountering such an opponent, Rivers dared not take it lightly. He wanted to study the opponent's loopholes, but after watching videos of the last few games, he could only scratch his head and say, "Those guys are really powerful."
There is no way, don’t expect to have Wade and how weak Mo Ning’s team is, let alone these guys have a stabilizing needle at the basket, and want to kill them easily? That is undoubtedly a dream of spring and autumn.
The most headache-inducing problem for Rivers is probably not the hottest situation recently. Dwyane Wade, who has already scored 30+ games in three consecutive games, is far less vigilant than other aspects.
The Celtics can defeat the Clippers, which are also mainly inside, at home, because of their tough performance. Chen Feng held down Brand, and Jefferson over there also defeated Carman.
If these two points were not advanced strongly, the Clippers would not have been widened by them little by little.
But if this advantage is placed on the Miami people, it may be a little too much to play. Compared with the Celtics, those guys may be more powerful in the inside.
O'Neal, with such a "big shark" in the basket, do you still expect Jefferson and Chen Feng to easily break in and out at the basket? That kind of control over the paint area will definitely decline.
This is not that Rivers is belittling his players, but O'Neal's lethality under the basket is already a big killer in the NBA league. With him, he is usually a stranger at the basket.
In the past ten years of this guy's storm, I don't know how many excellent big guys have been this guy's soul. Whenever O'Neal is mentioned, many people who play inside will feel a little chilled.
With a weight of 320 pounds and a height of 7 feet per inch, you dare to say that you are superman's tough style. No matter where you put this guy, you will feel the pressure he brings to you.
This is O'Neal, a terrorist who is called a monster in a place like the NBA.
Although this guy is old and no longer has the tough deeds of smashing rebounds when he was young, the name of the tree's shadow man and O'Neal's deterrence under the basket can still be suppressed.
When the Heat spent a lot of money to seduce him from Los Angeles to Miami, what they valued was his dominance.
Moreover, this old guy is really a deputy player. He won the championship in his second season with the Heat. Although the MVP in the finals was Wade, no one could deny that O'Neal's existence involved much defensive energy from the Mavericks. If it weren't for him, Wade might have been trapped in the three-second zone by the Crazy Bulls.
So, whether there is O'Neal's Heat is completely different styles. He may not be the one who scores the most points, but as long as this guy is on the court, you will be able to get twelve points.
Just 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 at the basket can still easily destroy all opponents."
This is Barkley's evaluation of O'Neal. Of course, it is limited to the confrontation at the basket. When it comes to fighting, Barkley dared to wave his old fists with O'Neal, so he was naturally not afraid of the other party.
Well, just pretend he is not afraid, at least in front of Chen Feng, that's what he said. Of course, Chen Feng's suspicious expression also made Sir Charles speechless.
But his evaluation of O'Neal, just like the problem that Rivers is now, is that it is really under his nose. Chen Feng is going to meet such an overweight opponent.
Chen Feng didn't know what O'Neal was in the past in the NBA, but since he started watching the NBA game, this huge and powerful man was already an omnipotent "Superman".
Now that I can face off against such a tough guy at the basket, even if Chen Feng is so cold-hearted, he will be a little scared.
But when Rivers and Thibodeau tried to find Chen Feng and explained to him how to fight O'Neal, they realized that the kid was still fighting for life on the training ground.
They all heard Takanian ask Chen Feng at the training ground, "How is it, boy, I know I'm afraid of having such a big guy this time?"
As a result, Chen Feng replied, "Sun Wukong encountered the Flame Mountain when he went to the West to obtain the scriptures. He was afraid that if he could solve the problem, then I would be afraid of one. If he couldn't, then I would have to cross the mountain with all his life."
For the Celtics, Miami is the blockade of their seven-game winning streak.
For Chen Feng, O'Neal will pass this level sooner or later...
Anyway, I have to live longer than late, so I will just bite the bullet and go on. Chen Feng doesn’t want to wait until the day when this old guy retires, so he will have a chance to knock down his opponent.
Now that I have encountered it, let me see if your sharp shark teeth can chew my hard bald head...
Chapter completed!