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Chapter 185 Chapter 183: Housework

Although many days have passed since the fierce battle between the Pacers and the Heat, people still talk about that game.After all, in the East where many strong teams are no longer dominant, fans have rarely seen such a stimulating and exciting strong dialogue.

The buzzer dragged into overtime, and the game ended with a lore in overtime.Fans naturally love this kind of game that is constantly climaxing from the first second to the last second.

And the strength of the Pacers, who can now fight against the full lineup of the Big Three to the last minute of overtime, has also been recognized by most fans.

People even claimed that it was a preview of the Eastern Conference Finals!

Henson curled his lips during the preview of the Eastern Conference finals. If this is the case, it would be pretty good.But the fighting in the NBA playoffs cannot be confused with the regular season.It is not so easy to reach the Eastern Conference Finals.For example, now, the first place in the Eastern Conference in the regular season is the guarantee for the Pacers to enter the Eastern Conference Finals.

And how to surpass the Bulls who blocked and killed Buddha in the regular season is enough to give Henson a headache.

For this goal, Henson is now very concerned about any opponent, even if it is the Trail Blazers who have been locked out of the top eight in the West this season and the Philadelphia 76ers who are hovering in the eighth place in the East, Henson has also done a lot of research on them.

Hard work pays off. On March 3 and March 13, in the back-to-back matchups of Group N this season, the Pacers defeated the Trail Blazers and the 3ers in two games.That's right, taking it lightly.

The current Pacers are rarely overturned against these teams that have not reached the playoff level, or are hovering on the edge of the playoff level.

Henson never experienced this feeling last season.It turned out that when playing certain games, he could really sit on the bench until his butt hurts.

O'Brien sits on the bench until his ass hurts because he coaches the Pacers who are often doomed to lose games early.But Henson's situation is just the opposite. The Pacers led by him often don't need to fight until the last moment, and they can hold the victory tightly in their hands.

So far, counting the Magic's game, the Pacers quickly stabilized their ranking with a three-game winning streak after a two-game losing streak.Now, they are still 0.5 wins away from the No. [-] Bulls in the East.

This victory is very subtle, as long as the Bulls are not careful, they will be overtaken by the Pacers.And if the Pacers lose games that shouldn't be lost, they will not only be thrown off by the Bulls, but also be careful of the Heat who are watching behind them.

So Henson feels that the pressure he has been under has never been greater recently. How far a team can go in a season depends on carefully laying the foundation from the regular season.Every day, Henson dreams about what will happen if the Pacers fail to reach the No. [-] Eastern Conference and thus fail to reach the Eastern Conference Finals.

After working hard for a year and recruiting so many helpers, the final result is the same as last season.Not to mention the players, even such a "shameless" self will be hit hard.

In order to prevent the nightmare from becoming a reality, the only thing Henson can do is to be ready to face every opponent.Therefore, after the three-game winning streak, when the Knicks with the "Linsanity" bonus stood in front of him, Henson finally began to watch Jeremy Lin's game tapes day and night.

Two consecutive back-to-back battles with the Knicks, this matchup that Henson has been thinking about for a long time is finally here!
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"Linsanity," generally speaking, refers to the period when Jeremy Lin led the Knicks to a seven-game winning streak.

However, after studying the video of the game, Henson found that, in fact, "Linsanity" is still going on until now.

7连胜之后的2月17日，尼克斯对阵黄蜂，林书豪在霍乐迪头上拿下26分5次助攻。

19日对阵小牛，林书豪28分14次助攻。20号对阵篮网，林书豪21分7篮板9助攻
Skip February and go straight to March.In the Knicks' last game against the Trail Blazers, Jeremy Lin still scored 14 points and 7 assists.

Therefore, although Jeremy Lin makes people talk about the 7-game winning streak.But Henson could see that the Chinese kid was still in good shape. Even after the return of Anthony, the "big eater" who took the right to shoot, Jeremy Lin was still able to steadily score a 10+7 stat.

And Henson's evaluation of Jeremy Lin is actually the same.Although this Harvard graduate, once lost, was cut countless times, and looks like a nerd-like Asian seems useless, but he definitely has the ability to gain a foothold in the NBA.If he plays well and is not affected by injuries, Jeremy Lin's career data can also stably reach the performance of 10+ points and 5+ assists, a qualified starting point guard for an ordinary team.

It is really inspirational that a Chinese who used to have no ball to play can grow to this point.But no matter how inspirational he is, he is just an ordinary starting point guard.Henson believes that Chris Paul will be the chief culprit in completely eradicating "Linsanity"!

This season, Stoudemire's state is very average, and then Jeremy Lin is strangled to death.The only option for the Knicks is to let their "social melon" singles.

And Anthony's singles is undoubtedly the situation Henson most hopes to see.Whether it was against the Nuggets or the Knicks last season, once Anthony played high in singles, it meant that the Pacers were not far from victory.

With this perfect plan, Henson started the preparation training before the game.After back-to-back matchups with the Trail Blazers and 76ers, the Pacers only have two days to rest.So in the past two days, the training should be effective without being too heavy. This is a great test of Henson's training plan.

But fortunately, Henson, who once studied under coach Stevens of the Butler University Bulldogs, is already familiar with making training plans.When Henson chatted with Stevens recently, he also heard that the guy has plans to enter the NBA.Maybe next summer, I can hire my teacher to be my assistant?

Of course, Henson wouldn't be surprised if any NBA team would hire Stevens as head coach.Nonsense, even a "half" like myself can be the head coach, so why is it impossible for someone like Stevens who already has the foundation?
Shaking his head, Henson didn't think about these messy things anymore, but focused on training.

However, the training did not seem to go as smoothly as Henson expected, and everyone was in good condition.But what is very surprising is that Chris Paul, the absolute leader, is in a very different state from the others.

At first, Henson thought Paul was suffering from injuries.After all, the "Queen Bee" had a serious injury history in the 09-10 season-a torn meniscus in the knee.

This is definitely the pain of Paul's life. After this injury, Paul's speed and explosive power have indeed declined to a certain extent, which can be said to have lowered some of Paul's ceilings.

You know, Paul was already competing with the peak Kobe for MVP in his third season in the league. In the MVP voting, he was second only to Kobe, and almost made the "Ross Clause" become the "Paul Clause".

However, in the season after this injury, Paul played 80 games and averaged only 36 points in 15.8 minutes per game, not as good as his rookie season.There is no doubt that the impact of injuries on Paul is extremely huge.

Fortunately, after coming to Indianapolis, Paul returned to his state.The scoring data of 21.6 points per game is more than a star and a half better than last season.And this season Henson has also upgraded several injury-related badges, Paul should not be troubled by injuries anymore.

After asking the team doctor, Henson let out a sigh of relief.It turned out that Paul's poor form was not due to injury, nor was it due to the flu, but because his wife Jada had some physical discomfort.

Like most black players, Jada and Paul have known each other since they were very young.Although Jada and Paul only got married in August last year, they already had a young son before that.Pregnancy out of wedlock seems quite normal in the American mind.

After all, Howard claims that he doesn't have a girlfriend yet, but in fact, the cost of an illegitimate child is probably already a headache for "Warcraft".

Jada is also pregnant with her second child with Paul after the couple married last year.According to the doctor's deduction, the expected date of delivery is in August this year.In other words, the pregnancy in October is already halfway through.Now that the pregnant wife feels uncomfortable, it is reasonable for Paul as a husband and a responsible man to be distracted by this.

"Why don't you tell me this kind of trouble, but ask the team doctor?" When Henson called Paul into his office, Henson also pretended to be a little angry.He has always believed that he is very close to the players, so he naturally thinks that the players should turn to him as the head coach if they have any troubles, even if Henson does not know how to treat diseases.

However, Paul's answer warmed Henson's heart.

"I just don't want to affect the game, boss."

Paul knows exactly what role he plays in the Pacers, a team leader, how can he casually bring things off the court to the game?

"It doesn't matter, if the family needs it, you can do what a husband should do. I know that this shrinking season is very intensive, so you hardly have time to be with your wife. But if you have other things on your mind, you can't perform at your best on the basketball court."

"Our next back-to-back opponent is the Knicks, boss." Paul smiled. Although the Knicks are not ranked high this season, with the addition of Jeremy Lin and Anthony, no one thinks they are easy to mess with.

"Don't worry, before you came last season, we beat the Knicks to pieces."

Rather than let Paul continue to be in such a bad state, Henson felt that it would be better to let Paul settle the matter and then concentrate on returning to the game.

Besides, against the Knicks, Henson is really full of confidence.

(End of this chapter)