Chapter 88: Dream and reality

"Mutombo blocked Walker's layup, Rodman got the rebound and gave Arenas a three-pointer, but didn't score. The 76ers got the ball, Iverson's fast break! Wow! A one-stop layup! The ball went in again and he scored 25 points."
　　 "You are a Bostonian, a Celtics fan, please don't be so happy when the 76ers score."
　　 "Hmph, I know I am a Celtics fan, but I am happy for Iverson's goal, and it has nothing to do with the 76ers."
　　 Leon lay on the bed and closed her eyes and listened to Khomeinis' fallacy. She knew that it was meaningless to reason with a woman. It's better to lie in bed to soothe the headache caused by cold, fever and dream memory. From the results of Khomeinis on the game scene, the Celtics played very hard in Philadelphia tonight. The 76ers' meat grinder-like defense made the Celtics with no offensive system into the quagmire. . Mutombo controlled the inside, almost no opportunity for the Celtics to rush for offensive rebounds, and effectively interfered with every player entering the inside offense. In this case, the Celtics can only focus their offense entirely on the outside, but tonight the Celtics’ offensive feel has reached the highest level of the season, especially Antoine Walker, without Leon’s presence. After the reminder, he began to shoot uncontrollably from the three-point line, but none of them hit.
　　 This extremely bad feel even affected the team's shooting confidence. They hit the perimeter again and again. They couldn't get the offensive rebounds, failed to defend, and were counterattacked. The opponent scored easily. The team began to collapse in the third quarter, the offense was paralyzed and the defense was ineffective, and there was no good posture of fierce firepower and active defense some time ago. Leon was lying on the bed and not watching the game, just listening to Khomeini's amateur commentary, you can imagine the horror of the Celtics team being beaten up.
Leon knows nothing more about the structure of this team. They have weird guys with special abilities inside, Walker who is addicted to three-pointers offensively, and Rodman is rebounding monsters on defense, but there is one less standard of offense, defense, and height. Inside players. Fortunately, the teams in the East are generally not very strong inside. Kenyon Martin is still too young and Olajuwon is too old. They are not like the wild beasts in the west. So when the Celtics stayed in the East for most of their games, their internal disadvantage is not yet obvious.
　　Moreover, the Celtics have the most potential perimeter group in the East. With Carroll's gradual adjustments, the Celtics' offense has shifted from the bright and smooth during the O'Brien period to fierce and violent. At present, it seems that the team's offensive style has not changed significantly. Leon, who is very sensitive to tactics, can feel that some of the team's offensive details and guidelines are changing. For example, the players are more decisive in their shots and have greater tactical autonomy in a small area. This gives the Celtics more seemingly unreasonable offensive options, but it also makes the team's offensive firepower more fierce. The offensive explosive power has become extremely strong.
　　 The flaw is the explosive power. Once languished, it will fall directly to the bottom, as evidenced by the 76ers tonight. Inside, a 35-year-old Mutombo made the Celtics at a loss, especially Arenas, for the first time to feel the defensive power of the NBA's best defensive player and best defensive team. On the defensive end, he was not found by the son of Philadelphia. In this game, Arenas had 2 points, 1 assist and 3 turnovers, and suffered the most painful wall hit of the new season.
　　 Other players are also in a downturn. Without a good and suitable offensive system, it is easy to spread the bad state and low morale on the court, and then fall into the division of fighting and fighting alone, and finally be completely defeated by the opponent.
　　 "The 76ers have changed and Iverson is out." Khomeinis, no matter how many thoughts flashed in Leon's mind, just continued to follow Iverson's movements. Leon has to admit that in this era, Iverson has an unparalleled charm among fans. Even if he himself, after experiencing the glory of the Phillies in the 2001 season, even if he can perceive the weaknesses and defects of this little man, he must pay high respect and infinite tribute to the dazzling glory that he bloomed during that season. With emotion. To a certain extent, the tragic atmosphere of heroism infected Leon, which made him have a deeper love for basketball and a greater pursuit.
　　 "Okay, turn off the TV Khomeinis, the game has ended early, I want to take a good rest." Leon patted Khomeinis and said. Khomeinis turned off the TV, gave Leon a light kiss on the head, then closed the door and left the room. Khomeinis was like this. In her feelings towards Leon, she didn't have the slightest trace of muddy, like that pleated, pretty and cute pleated skirt. Leon watched her leave the room and turned over, but she was thinking about it in her heart. Past events come.
　　 This time with a cold and fever, Leon released some memories, including catching birds in the woods with his friends as a child, and playing ice on the frozen lime pool in winter. But the most profound ones are those clips from high school. Every day I eat at school at noon, the big TV in the cafeteria starts to broadcast NBA games, and the boys sit around the TV and watch the NBA live. He and his classmates were eating and watching the game. After eating, they stood next to the TV and watched. They like to see the basketball hero from China wearing a fiery red jersey to show his superb skills, and sincerely hope that this giant can create belonging Own basketball dynasty. Of course, in addition to him and the other two pioneers of China in the NBA, Leon still remembers that in the game when Anderson was traded to the Celtics, the 6-foot-11 Mongolian guy in the Nuggets turned out to be early It exists in my own memories.
　　 When these memories and emotions were immersed in his mind, Leon realized that he was not without emotions about basketball in the past. On the contrary, when he was a teenager, he had a passion for basketball dreams like many kids of the same age. It's just that with the growth of age and the tempering of life, those unrealistic fantasies are diluted with the passage of time. Those beloved players, obsessive performances, sweat and smiles swaying on the court were also thrown out of the bag during the difficult life journey. Just like the body I have now, I was fascinated by the whistling and tsunami of the Boston Garden Plaza, cheering for the greatness of the Green Legion, but in the end I was beaten to the ground by the fist of destiny, and turned into that appearance.
"There is always a lot of things to be lost in a person's life, and there is nothing more imperceptible and heartbreaking than losing a dream." Leon got up from the bed and took out his pen on the Khomeinis bookshelf. This sentence was written on the title page of the "Heart of Atlantis", and before it was taken down, it was lying quietly on the leftmost position of the third row.
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　　 By the next day, Leon’s fever subsided. He sweated all over in the middle of the night and took away all the excess heat from his body. In the morning, Leon left Khomeinis a hearty breakfast, then left her house and went to the training hall.
　　 The Celtics rushed back to Boston overnight after experiencing yesterday's tragic defeat. When the players disbanded in the evening, Carroll notified the team that they would come to practice in the morning of the next day. Leon also received a text message from Carol, but instead of asking him to participate in the training, he asked about his physical condition and informed him of today's training plan. It doesn't matter if he can't come. Of course, a workaholic like Leon would not sleep in Khomeinis's house. He knew that a big defeat would be a good thing for the Celtics.
　　 The hardware defects exposed by the team and some detailed faults will also be revealed. Leon can't wait to watch the video of the game in the video room and edit it carefully. There must be a huge number of problems waiting for him.
　　When he arrived at the training hall, Leon found that Danny-Angie was there. Angie was a little surprised to see Leon actually come. After asking about his condition, the two chatted for a while. For Anderson's trade some time ago, Angie's operation was quite perfect. The team sent out the contract between Brown and McCarty and got another junk contract, which was criticized by many media. However, after his arrival, Anderson improved rapidly~EbookFREE.me~Although he still lacks the ability to be alone and has a lot of problems outside the court, he learned from his teacher Rodman and his rebounding ability has risen sharply. Every day, he asks Leon for video tapes. Master the mystery of rebounding. In some weaker opponents, the potential of a new generation of inside monsters has been shown, and his blocking ability is much stronger than Rodman.
The most important thing is that the Celtics also sent out a future first-round pick in the trade. The Nuggets originally wanted the Celtics to get the pick from the Grizzlies, but Angie refused, and he would rather give it. The draft pick of his own team is not willing to give the Grizzlies that pick. Of course, this sign is a complicated sign, involving an old deal between the Grizzlies and the Pistons. Leon also has a detailed understanding of this deal because it is related to the Celtics sign. The final year and rank.
　　 "I think we must let the Grizzlies cash out the deal with the Pistons next year, otherwise we will get much less profit." Leon said bluntly to Angie.
　　 Anji nodded, but he didn't have the ability to make the Grizzlies cash in on the deal. That was the business of the Grizzlies management team. And what effect the position of this lottery will play, in fact, Anji himself cannot be sure.
　　 "There will always be a way. It will be a sign that will change everything, but we still have more than a year." Leon said to Angie, and went into the video room after speaking. You know, what Leon recalls in his mind is not only dreams, but also reality and the well-known summer of 2003~EbookFREE.me~ Book friends are welcome to visit and read, the latest, fastest and hottest serial The works are all at ~EbookFREE.me~ For mobile users, please go to read.