"Zhuang, these guys are a little uncomfortable by you, and now they all look like they want to swallow people."

In the Boston Celtics' training hall, Tom Thibode, the new assistant coach of the Boston Celtics, looked at the Boston Celtics players on the court with a smile, and then turned his head and said to Zhuang Fei, this year's preseason Boston Celtics are a mess, as an NBA team, a small preseason is really not very important, after all, the preseason record is not counted in the team's regular season record, in this case, basically all teams will not do their best in the preseason, It's a given.

It's just that even so, but like Zhuang Fei, his main players are almost completely hidden, just every game like a symbolic let these guys play a quarter or half a game such a thing is impossible in other NBA teams, and more importantly, as a defending champion, although you can not watch the preseason, but you can't lose too ugly, but it is obvious that in Xibodu's view, this Chinese seems to care about this at all, as an extremely rigorous coach, At the beginning, Xibodu was extremely reluctant to Zhuang Fei's approach.

When he was in New York or in the Timberwolves, Thibodo and Van Gundy had always played the preseason as the regular season, and the assistant coach of the Boston Celtics not only did not understand Zhuang Fei's attitude towards the preseason, but also did not appreciate Zhuang Fei's rotation strategy. Zhuang Fei believes too much in the Boston Celtics assistant coach, whether it is the team's main player or secondary player, in this case the team has rotated too much in the past few games, which is not a good thing in Thibodu's view, and he is more in favor of another method of employment, which is that if possible, the main player can play 48 minutes. Then he wouldn't have let them play for 47 minutes.

In his opinion, the team can only be stronger when the strongest players are more on the field, and at this point. In the past few decades in the NBA, these two methods of employing people have always been distinct, so there will be some head coaches who like to train new people and there are also some head coaches who don't like to train new people, but no matter what, as far as the current Boston Celtics are concerned, Zhuang Fei's employment is the same as making the Boston Celtics the current state of the main players is bursting.

These guys didn't drop in preseason because they weren't in good shape. Contrary. They played the national team game, and when they returned to the team, they didn't have much rest, in this case, their state was earlier and better than other players, but at this time, Zhuang Fei was suppressing their playing time, these people were also suffocated by Zhuang Fei for most of the month, and even these main players looked at the performance of a group of Celtics substitutes in the preseason with a straight eye. This is also a strange phenomenon that is difficult to occur in other NBA teams.

"It's a good thing for them, and I don't want these guys to be in the slump in the second half of the regular season, so it's better for them to keep it down."

Zhuang Fei also said with a smile after hearing Tom Thibodu's words, in general. A player's state is early, it is very likely that the problem of lack of follow-up will occur, in this case it is very disadvantageous for the Boston Celtics, after all, this team is the team that is most affected by the international game among all the teams in the NBA, if in the second half of the regular season when you need to fight with other teams like last season, it will be tragic for the Celtics players to suddenly have a dumb fire or a sluggish state, and in fact, such things have happened in the history of the NBA. The most recent and typical one is the Jazz in the 1998-1999 season.

At the beginning, the team led by the second elder was not affected by the suspension of the league, and the game state came out very early, once suppressing all the teams in the league to rank first, but in the end, this team was dragged down by the Timberwolves led by Zhuang Fei at the last moment, and in fact, the state of the Spurs came out very early that season, so the Spurs' record in the second half of the season was far inferior to the previous half of the season, if it wasn't for the fact that the gap between the Timberwolves and the Spurs was a little big, If Spurs head coach Popovich has also done an excellent job of adjusting the condition of his players, then the Timberwolves may really complete the comeback to the Spurs, and the Timberwolves, who have home court advantage after the playoffs, may not lose to the Spurs in the first year.

So for Zhuang Fei, what he needs to do now is to better adjust the form curve of these Boston Celtics starters, and try to delay the form curve of these players. This job is also a long-term job, and it is not something that Zhuang Fei can completely solve in a few games in the preseason.

"However, I'm afraid that these people will take a big break, and in the end they need to readjust their state" Although Xibodu has now recognized Zhuang Fei's style, but for him personally, in essence, he and Zhuang Fei's coaching ideas are different, and the biggest difference between him and Zhuang Fei is that he is a realist, and his gaze has always been very close, compared to the future that Zhuang Fei thinks, he values the present and the present, he can't deny it, Maybe in the future, the Boston Celtics will need to compete with the Spurs or the Lakers and Grizzlies for the final regular season first, and the Boston Celtics really need to be at their best.

But if the team's record fluctuates because of the adjustment of the team's state in the front, and the team loses the ability to compete for the first place in the regular season after the first half, then no matter how you look at it, it will be worth the loss, and Xibodu's worries are essentially distrustful of the team's role players, and this is the most essential difference between him and Zhuang Fei, Zhuang Fei believes that his team's young players and role players can share the pressure with the team's main force, while Xibodu does not think so, Even the Boston Celtics' summer training is run by Mr. Thibodo, and he actually knows the Boston Celtics young players very well, and even with this knowledge he can not give much trust.

"It's not too much of a problem, even if these main players don't have the game and need to start training again, we can still have good enough players" Zhuang Fei also took a deep look at Thibodu and said with a smile, why did the New York Knicks have a lot of injuries under the leadership of Van Gundy and Thibodu in the past? Why did the rockets of later generations, under the leadership of Van Gundy and Thibodo, always be full of wounded soldiers and finally collapse? Why is this Mr. Thibodo repeating the fate of New York and the Rockets after going to the Bulls, and the team is still full of injuries? If this happens once or twice, then it is an accident, after all, the injury of a player is a small probability time, but if such a thing happens all the time, it is not an accident.

Of course, this is just Xibodu's style, Zhuang Fei doesn't want to change his assistant coach or anything, as a coach of Xibodu's level, he has completely stereotyped his style, in this case, even if Zhuang Fei says more, it is useless, and more importantly, Xibodu's style is not a bad thing, this kind of seriousness and extreme conservatism and rigor can complement Stephen Green, Green's style is too easy compared to Xibodu, This Zhuang Fei's apprentice is able to get along with the players, and the players are not afraid of him, in this case, plus the Boston Celtics' leading player is a very lazy guy, which also makes the atmosphere of the Boston Celtics a little lazy, which is also where Arenas himself thinks he is better than Maddy, and it is also the reason why Arenas is very unhappy with Maddie, and Thibodo's arrival may be able to neutralize this team. So Zhuang Fei is looking forward to what kind of sparks Xibodu can have with Green in the new season

October 28, 2003, Boston, North Shore Garden, today is the first game of the new season for the Boston Celtics and the first stop on the Boston Celtics' title defense.

So in today's game, the attendance rate of North Shore Garden once again let everyone see the current top five hot basketball market in the league, at this time, Zhuang Fei took the Celtics players out of the locker room, looked around the arena, almost all of them were a sea of green, and the sound made by these fans was definitely no worse than the last game of the finals last season, in this case, coupled with the crazy murderous spirit of the main Celtics players who were choked by Zhuang Fei, The head coach of the Mengliu team, Pat Riley, who came to the away game, was also a little chilly, and he was also curious about what happened to the Boston Celtics.

"Zhuang Fei, what's going on? How do I feel that your team is a little strange" Patrick asked with some curiosity when he shook hands with Zhuang Fei, but at this time Zhuang Fei didn't speak, just smiled and shook his head.

"Enjoy today's game"

Looking at the back of Zhuang Fei leaving, the Heat head coach was full of doubts again. It's just that at this time, the game also begins.

And with the start of this game, the 2003-2004 NBA season also began.

(Boston Celtics 2003-2004 Season Players List: Center Yao Ming, Haslem, Power Forward Ao Jr., Chris Anderson, Small Forward, Maddy, Kirilenko, Prince, Barnes, Guard, Jackson, James Posey, Wade, Mo Williams, Korver, Daniels, Anderson) )