Chapter 72 The Lions of the Motor City
Chapter 72 The Lion Group of Auto City
What jobs do in NBA get scolded the most? Referee? Cheerleader? Mascot? Or venue maintenance?
None of the above is because these professions will not provoke all NBA team head coaches curses.
Even Stein may not be everyone scolded him, but none of the so-called professionals who wrote the NBA schedule do not scold him, and everyone scolded him very ruthlessly.
You can't say that the NBA's head coaches are not well educated. In fact, even the Zen masters who believe in Buddhism have complained a lot about how bad the NBA's schedule is.
There is no way. If you encounter a five or six consecutive away game arrangement, you will jump and scold the streets.
The NBA's regular season stage, with a total of 1,230 games, is really rare to make these guys so weird. Teams often suddenly find that they are actually going to play back-to-back.
As for the experiences of consecutive away games, they are all over the world. Basically, any team has encountered them.
So, don't expect the head coaches to say anything good to those experts who arrange the schedule.
"A professional who graduated from Harvard University can make the schedule so messy. I really don't know if these guys are all from classical literature, not professional statistics talents!"
But this situation has been going on for many years, and almost every time the schedule comes out, someone will start scolding.
The only difference is that every year the number of people cursing will change. At this time, the schedule and arrangement personnel have fully played the socialist average system, and the unlucky people will definitely not be just one.
"What a fucking schedule! After playing one home game, you actually have to play three away games in a row!"
No wonder Rivers gets angry with such a good temper. Playing away games is the worst experience.
Originally, some of the Celtics players had minor injuries and illnesses. If you don’t get a guarantee for your rest, let alone recover, it would be good if you don’t get any aggravated.
Pierce's old injury occurred in New Jersey and had a truce. As a result, due to the journey, he had to stop the next away game. In order not to repeat the experience of last season, Rivers had to endure it.
Ratliff was still staying in Boston to recuperate, and Ogvokandi's health was not much better.
West's fingers were fine, but he had to be careful, otherwise Rivers would probably go crazy immediately after a pre-schedule was reduced. He could not stand up to so many patients to quit.
The Celtics are not the Knicks and can't stand so many ills. Rivers doesn't want to be the winner of the opponent due to injury in the early stage. He is planning to be the top spot in the competition.
Moreover, playing so many away games at the beginning of the season will also have an impact on the team's performance. If you are not careful, you may cause morale to fall to the bottom. In that case, it will not be easily saved.
Originally, one-third of the Celtics now lack experience. If there is a problem with confidence, Rivers would not think he could turn the tide like Auerbach.
Fortunately, the Celtics played well in the first two games this season. Although they were a little unsatisfactory at the beginning, they all beat their opponents in the end. The game they lost was only lost in the last minute.
But now Rivers looked at the fourth opponent he was about to face, and it was really a bit melancholy.
The Detroit Pistons, although they are no longer the bad boys legion built by Chuck Daly.
But in the past few years, many people have experienced the strength of the Pistons. Once the championship and two finals, even the Lakers' super luxurious "f4" was won by the Pistons.
Although the overall strength of the Pistons has been weakened to a certain extent after leaving "Big Ben", everyone knows the strength of those guys. It is just weakening and cannot shake their foundation.
The Pistons, which have Billups, Hamilton, Rashid Wallace, Prince and McDyce, are still the most favorable competitors to the Eastern Conference throne, and their strength is not ordinary.
"This damn schedule. When we meet them at this time, will we have two consecutive losses?"
Although Rivers didn't want to consider it so disheartenedly, looking at his lineup and then his opponent's, the Celtics will definitely not be easy to face when facing this game to Detroit.
"Can you win such a strong opponent with this kind of lineup?" Rivers was also worried.
But he seemed to have forgotten that there were a few guys in his team who were speechless, such as the bald boy who never knew what fear felt.
This was Chen Feng's first time to go to Detroit. His only memory of the city was probably the famous violent conflict that occurred on TV at the Auburn Hills Palace Stadium.
"By the way, the fans and players here are so vigorous." Looking back at the hot scene at that time, even now, Chen Feng can feel a little excited about the rapid secretion of adrenaline.
Of course, his excitement fell in the eyes of Thibodeau and Rondo, which was quite speechless.
"This guy may be full of warlike cells in his bones." Rondo could only comment on Chen Feng in this way.
But Chen Feng is right. Detroit, a city with a very serious industrialization, is not ordinary and vigorous. It is full of blue-collar workers with rough personalities.
Fans in New York may greet you with a shocking boo, but most of the time, such actions are already their limit. Otherwise, when Chen Feng raised his finger, someone would have rushed over.
After all, most of the fans in New York are educated and well-educated, especially those big stars sitting on the sidelines. Of course, except for the weirdness of Spark Lee.
You know, just after that game, the big director was still gritting his mouth on his blog. He vowed to teach Chen Feng a lesson the next time he met the Celtics!
However, Chen Feng was not as good as that uncle. According to his own words, the uncle's small physique was really idle and could deal with him. If necessary, he would not mind bullying the weak.
But after arriving in Detroit, Thibodeau had privately warned Chen Feng not to continue to act like this in New York, otherwise he would definitely not be greeted by those sounding a little noisy booing, but most likely a covered beverage bottle, or... or a bunch of car repair tools flying over.
"This is not a joke. Thinking about the last conflict here, I can only say that the fans here are not the kind of people with calm personalities. Blue-collar workers always have a very irritable temper."
As it turns out, what Thibodeau said is not an exaggeration at all, and he said less.
"I'm going! Is it so cruel? It's been at least a quarter of an hour since we entered this stadium. Why are these guys still squirting so fiercely? Don't you know how tired these grandsons are?"
We have played two away games, but although the fans are not very friendly in Madison or the Aviation Center Arena, the atmosphere of those two are simply paradise compared to Auburn Mountain.
When the Pistons appear, there are roars like tsunamis, but when the visiting team appears, you can only be cursing. This is not a joke, it is really a flood of cursing.
Damn, Chen Feng felt that since he stepped into this Auburn Mountain, he could only hear tens of thousands of people sluggish attacks on the Celtics. It has been a quarter of an hour now, but this fierce saliva attack still has no tendency to weaken. You have to say that the workers' brothers are powerful.
Moreover, when more than 10,000 blue-collar workers gathered together, the momentum was really overwhelming.
Thibodeau is a little worried that novices like Rondo and Chen Feng will be a little uncomfortable with such a crazy atmosphere. Even if he is facing such a crazy home court, he is a little irritable.
But after just a few seconds, Thibodeau found himself really redundant, because the wild boy didn't use his spirit to experience the away atmosphere at all, and what he aimed at was weird.
"Detroit is indeed a famous car city..." Rondo and Pierce really don't know why Chen Feng, a kid, feels so emotional in this very hostile atmosphere.
"Damn it, look at those cheerleaders, are you cheating? You're all fucking factory girls!"
"I understand why these guys watching football are so violent. I am guarding such a group of mischievous girls every day. I guess you will have to release your extra energy here if you go!"
Chen Feng's expression of understanding at this moment really made Thibodeau feel so angry that his teeth were itchy.
"I'm so shameless. I will never worry about whether this kid will be nervous in the future! This guy doesn't have that fucking nerve at all!" Thibodeau almost slapped himself. This is really meddling in other people's business!
Although Chen Feng's words made people roll their eyes, because of these words of him, the feeling of depression that had just entered Auburn Mountain disappeared mostly and the feeling of irritability was much less.
But Rivers' frown did not relax because he saw Pistons coach Sanders gathering the team's strong players together to teach.
If the NBA teams are all beasts, then the animals in Detroit must be groups of lions.
They are a group of predators who can act collectively. They can fiercely tear off those unlucky preys, but what made Rivers very upset this time was that the Celtics seemed to have become prey.
Rivers is not sure whether he can escape from the mouths of these powerful lions in Detroit this time.
After all, this is a group of fierce men who have been baptized in the finals. Compared with their sophistication, the Celtics are so young and pitiful.
Rivers didn't know whether he could pass this level...
Chapter completed!