NBA Building Cardinals

Chapter 87
In the 2015-16 season, Stevens continued to improve, leading the Celtics to a record of 48 wins and 34 losses, ranking fifth in the Eastern Conference.

Such a young coach is already a hot figure in the league, and he leads the team to grow every year. Until this time, the league really paid attention to this young coach.

And in this year, Stevens led the Celtics to end the Golden State Warriors' 54-game winning streak at home in NBA history.

This was mercilessly abused by Golden State fans at the time, who felt that he had become a sinner in history and blocked the Warriors' footsteps from the road to history.

But for Boston as a whole, if someone asks, who is the core boss of the Celtics now? ?
Everyone will say one name, and that is Stevens...

In the 16-17 season, due to the 94-102 loss to the Magic in an away game by the third-ranked Raptors in the Eastern Conference, Stevens, the head coach of the Celtics ranked second in the Eastern Conference, officially became the head coach of the Eastern Conference in the NBA All-Star Game.

This is the first time he has served as an All-Star head coach after entering the NBA, and such a young age and handsome face have quickly accumulated a large number of fans for him, most of whom are female fans.

And this also made many fans who came to Boston to watch the game at home not to watch the players, but to watch the coaches. This has also become a big legend in the NBA.

In the 2016-17 season, with the loss of the Cavaliers, the Celtics coached by Stevens locked in the first place in the Eastern Conference with a record of 53 wins and 29 losses.

The news quickly spread across the United States at the time.

Because Pierce Garnett, Rondo and others were sent away one after another, everyone believed that the Celtics would have to go through a long period of downturn before they could make this dynasty team re-enter the glory of the year.

But no one thought that under the leadership of Marshal Stevens, the Celtics quickly returned to the No. [-] position in the Eastern Conference in just a few years.

This surprised everyone, even Lenny Wilkens sighed: "He is a genius, really, I have never seen a coach who is as talented as him, and the most terrifying thing is his age."

"Because of his strength, many people always ignore his age, but his age reminds us all the time that everything is possible in the future."

And in that season, Stevens trained Thomas Jr. into a regular-season MVP-level player, known as the strongest 1.7-meter-five on the surface! !

Before that, Thomas Jr. was a wandering player who couldn't find his own position. Because of his shortcoming of height, he was destined to be targeted.

But Stevens' defensive system has helped him make up for this shortcoming, allowing him to focus more on the offensive end.

It allowed him to average 28 points per game that season, and he was the king of the last quarters in the entire league, ranking third in the mvp list.

Before this, this was something that no one had thought of.

Later, the facts also proved that Thomas Jr., who left Stevens, declined rapidly.

Although this has something to do with his hip injury.

But in general, because of leaving Stevens' system, the Cavaliers were even dubbed as the essence of human beings.

Finally, in that year, Stevens led the Celtics to defeat the Bulls 4-2 and the Wizards 4-3 in the playoffs to reach the Eastern Conference Finals.

Although they eventually lost to the Cavaliers 1-4 in the Eastern Conference finals, no one cared too much about it.

Because at that time, the East launched an anti-Zhan movement that lasted for several years.

But everyone failed, and until the last season before James went to the West, no one stopped the Cavaliers from reaching the finals.

So the Celtics' defeat, not only did no one blame them, but also won the cheers of all Boston fans.

After all, they have seen the hope of the Celtics' future.

During the offseason of 2017, the Celtics completed two important signings. They signed Gordon Hayward, Stevens' disciple when he was coaching at Butler University, from the Jazz.

As well as sending Isiah Thomas and others and the 2018 first-round pick, Kyrie Irving was traded from the Cavaliers.

And Irving, Hayward, and Horford, such a combination is also full of favor.

When everyone thought that the Celtics would hit the championship this season under the leadership of Stevens.

In the first regular season game of the 2017-18 season, Hayward suffered a terrible broken leg and was reimbursed for the season.

This also cast a gray shadow over the entire Boston sky.

But after the Celtics started with 0 wins and 2 losses, Stevens quickly led the team to a 16-game winning streak.

This made the already desperate Celtics fans see new hope.

Even though the team lost a general at the beginning of the season, the Celtics are still unstoppable under the leadership of Stevens.

And in the regular season, the team defeated the very strong Warriors twice.

The hope of winning the championship seems to have returned to the side of the Celtics, and the Celtics are once again favored by everyone.

But fate seems to have played a big joke with them.

At the end of the season, Irving had to undergo surgery because of a knee injury, and was subsequently announced to be reimbursed for the season! !
This sudden blow also made all the NBA experts from being optimistic about the Celtics to win the championship, to making it difficult to pass the first round in the Eastern Conference.

No one thinks that the Celtics will be good this season.

But how can genius be understood by people.

Stevens led the disabled Celtics to 55 wins and 27 losses in the regular season, leading the team to rank second in the Eastern Conference.

Stevens' strong response also seemed to slap the experts in the face, making them ashamed, which made the experts want to regain their prestige.

So a large number of experts jumped out at this time and said: "The regular season is different from the playoffs. The Celtics without stars will definitely not go far in the playoffs. After all, the regular season and the playoffs are completely different things."

But fighting against the sky is a lot of fun, and the word genius is not because of a flash in the pan.

In the historical stage of the NBA, there are countless young people who have been called geniuses.

But there are not many who can really carry this title to the end, but obviously, Stevens is one of them.

In the playoffs, Stevens led the Celtics to eliminate the Bucks 4-3 in the first round when they were generally not favored by the outside world.

Eliminated the 4ers 1-76 in the second round, leading the team to the Eastern Conference finals! !

At this time, the East is still James' stage.

No one thinks the Celtics can cross the mountain of James.

In the odds given by the bookmaker, the Celtics will be swept by the Cavaliers 4:0 with a high probability.

4:1的几率，只有15％，4比2的几率只有7%。

As for the tiebreaker, only 1.7% of people support it.

Presumably even this 1.7% of people have no hope at all, and they are definitely die-hard Celtic fans.

But beyond everyone's expectations, it was in this situation that the Celtics actually dragged the game into the tiebreaker.

And in the tiebreaker, the Cavaliers led by James were once cornered.

In that year, James was simply a god, and there was no rest in the whole game. At the critical moment, his continuous scoring killed the game.

The Celtics without a superstar has indeed become the biggest shortcoming.

But Stevens is a glorious defeat! !

And Stevens was successfully elected the best coach of the season.

Became the youngest best coach in NBA history, permanently recorded in history! !

And it is such a genius coach, it is indeed possible to become his disciple! !

Serve tea and pour water, and go away.

This made Liu Rui, who was still on the plane, in a very excited state. He wished he could jump off the plane now and reach his destination quickly...

　I'm playing a big game of chess.

　　Anyone who is familiar with old cats knows that what old cats play is heartbeat.

　　Why do you need so many excellent assistant coaches, and it's not the kind that is written in such detail.

　　Because next season if I can sit around a few capable assistant coaches, then I can spare more time to do other things.

　　For example, I went to Europe twice. Everyone in European basketball should know that there are many talented players there, but they failed to make it to the NBA due to many reasons, which is very regrettable.

　　For example, Wang Laopu, a European player who only joined the NBA at the age of 35, is still so popular.

　　If you can log into the NBA ten years earlier, who knows what will happen? ?

　　Of course, there is also Lao Mao's favorite European player, Teodosic, who is known as European white chocolate.

　　Passing the ball is so coquettish. If you like it, you can search for the video and watch it. It's so handsome.

　　Now that he is still young, it happens that I have built a coaching system in the past two years. When he grows up, he will go to Europe twice, except for him to see if he can invite Old Pu.

　　I am a professional chess player, running through the main line of the whole book, the tens of thousands of words outline is not bragging (ω)hiahiahia
　　
　
(End of this chapter)