Basketball League of Legends

Chapter 233 The Situation Has Been Set

The game in March passed quickly. The Celtics won and lost. For the upcoming playoffs, they started to play and stop.

Negotiations on a new labor-management agreement are also going on intensely.However, labor negotiations seem to be in trouble. The league insists on 46% of the league's revenue, but the players want 54%. The gap between the two is obviously very large.

Jonny began to look down on labor negotiations. In Jonny's opinion, it may be difficult to reach a new labor agreement before June 6.

In the March games, the Celtics lost some and won some.But this is not the focus of Jonny. What Jonny is concerned about is that under his intervention, the management found a new assistant coach, an assistant coach named Doc Rivers, who is said to be Larry Brown, A disciple of Pat Riley and Popovich.

He was hired by the management at the request of Jonny to train the defensive coach, but this season will not be useful, because the playoffs are approaching, and the team cannot temporarily adjust its defensive system, although the original The defensive system is not called a system, but as long as it is changed, it will be a big change, and it will definitely affect the team in a short period of time.

However, Doc Rivers had already started work when he arrived at the team ahead of schedule. He first studied the current Celtics lineup and discussed with Rick Pitino for a few days. He already had a general idea. .And now Doc Rivers' main job is to serve as Ben Wallace's personal trainer and guide Ben Wallace alone.

Jonny didn't know how capable Doc Rivers was, but only hearing that he was a disciple of Larry Brown and others, Jonny felt that this coach was still very reliable.

In April, Jonny made an appointment with Daben and others to watch the NCAA Finals. This season’s NCAA Finals is Kentucky vs. Utah. Kentucky is the team where Celtics coach Rick Pitino was before, but The stars of this NCAA finals are a bit dim, and the biggest star is actually the white chocolate Jason Williams of the Utah team.

And what Jonny watched in this game was actually Jason Williams. Jason Williams, who passed the ball extremely gorgeously, although his strength was not favored by many NBA uniforms, his gorgeous passing attributes still gave him a lot of attention. fans, including Jonny.

In the NCAA finals, Johnny also met Rick Pitino. After all, Kentucky is Rick Pitino's home team. He must come to see it. Johnny and Rick Pitino played Say hello, and continue to watch the game.

The final result of this game is that Kentucky won. After all, Kentucky is stronger in overall strength, and Utah actually relied on Jason Williams in the end. It also put Utah in a desperate situation.

After the game, Rick Pitino smiled happily. As a veteran of Kentucky, he also accepted the congratulations from Johnny and others.

The NCAA finals are over. Generally speaking, this is not a very exciting NCAA finals. None of the real talents of this NCAA can reach the finals, such as Paul Pierce, such as Vince Carter.

Jonny had paid attention to Vince Carter before, but his University of North Carolina was eliminated in the semi-finals.

The rookies in 1998 are currently the most promising North Carolina teammates Antawn Jamison and Vince Carter, but the team where these two talents belonged was eliminated in the semifinals.

The game went into April, and the situation of the playoffs gradually became clear. The Celtics collapsed in the second half. As a result, they are currently ranked fourth in the Eastern Conference, and the Chicago Bulls are ranked ahead of the Celtics. , the second Indiana Pacers, the third Miami Heat, the Bulls and the Pacers have already thrown off the Celtics, and the Celtics can still chase the Miami Heat.

But Johnny checked the schedule. They still have 10 games to play, but in these 10 games, the Celtics will face the Bulls again. Facing a strong team like the Knicks, it can be said that they want to catch up. The Heat, who are three games away from themselves, is only theoretically possible.

It can be said that the Celtics can only be ranked fourth.

Behind the Celtics, the Hornets and the Celtics are also 4 wins behind, and they can't catch up. The Celtics' opponent in the first round is basically the Hornets, because the sixth draw The fifth gap is even bigger, and the sixth Atlanta Hawks are 7 games away from the Hornets, and there is no hope of catching up.

The seventh in the Eastern Conference is the Cleveland Cavaliers, and the eighth is the New York Knicks. The Knicks are two games away, and John Calipari is leading his team to the playoffs.

In this way, the playoff matchup in the Eastern Conference is basically clear. The opponent of the Bulls should be one between the Nets and the Knicks, the opponent of the Pacers should be the Cavaliers or the Eagles, and the opponent of the Heat will also be these two balls one of the team.

The Celtics know their opponents, so they will naturally start to practice tactics against the Hornets from this time. However, for Jonny, playing the Hornets seems to be unnecessary. Jonny played against the Hornets in the playoffs last season. However, and this season has played four games against the Hornets, and every time Jonny faces the Hornets, he will explode.

However, the form still has to go. The Celtics began to practice playoff tactics when the schedule just started in April.Most of the plays are about the Hornets, and some are about the Bulls.

Because the opponent of the Celtics in the semifinals, according to the present situation, must be the Bulls, whether it is the Nets or the Knicks, they will not be the opponents of the Bulls.

For Johnny, the Bulls in the semifinals were the opponent that caused him the most headaches. Originally, the Celtics wanted to maintain at least their top three rankings, so that they could avoid the Bulls in the semifinals, but they collapsed in the second half. Let them only consider the playoffs in the fourth position in the Eastern Conference.

The first game in April was the Celtics' away game against the Magic, and they returned to Orlando again. Jonny didn't make much effort this time. The playoffs are coming, and the Celtics' main players can rest. Just rest, so when the game hit the middle of the third quarter and the Celtics led by 4 points, Jonny took a rest.

In the end, the Celtics won the Magic again, killing the Magic three times this season.

And then, the Celtics challenged the Pistons in an away game. At this time, the Pistons had already missed the playoffs ahead of schedule, and the Celtics still had a draft pick for the Pistons. Defeating the Pistons by 12 points directly caused the Pistons to drop one place, and also made the Pistons' draft picks in the hands of the Celtics more valuable.

(End of this chapter)