"I don't think I caused a lot of trouble for the Pistons in this game. Maybe Coach McWood said it well. In this game, the Pistons played very hard when facing the Bobcats. The Pistons are also a young team. The Bobcats are also a very mature team. These are all facts. In this regard, Mike said it right, but this does not mean that we really put the Pistons in this game. In fact, these pressures are given to themselves by the Pistons players themselves, and the Bobcats' role is just a bystander. Like all the fans on the scene, we are just watching the Pistons players on the court, that's all."

Before the game, the Pistons played such a round of games with great confidence and confidence. After all, the general public opinion in the American basketball industry is that as long as the Pistons can play their own style, it is not very difficult to sweep away the already serious Bobcats. Although the Bobcats are the first in the regular season, the first in the regular season is also divided into grades. If a team like the Manhattan Challenger or the Mavericks wins first, then no one thinks there is anything wrong with these two teams, or no one thinks that these two teams are not right.

To be the first, in fact, for most people, personal emotional factors often affect judgment very much. Everyone thinks that the Mavericks and Challengers are the strongest, so there is no problem with these two teams being the first, and the Bobcats came from behind, and a team that was predicted before the regular season but barely entered the playoffs, finally won the first place. Even if these people put aside some prejudice and no longer think that the Bobcats are just the eighth team, they will never think that the Bobcats are the first team. In fact, it is not just the fan experts who think this way, but even the Pistons themselves may also think this way.

In the regular season, in fact, when the season goes to the second half, the Pistons, the fourth in the regular season, did not have any hope of surpassing the third Celtics. As long as this young team can be more focused, more aggressive, and want to surpass in the last period of the schedule. Because the team is a veteran, it is not impossible to take a break at the end of the season. However, in the end, the Pistons did not want to surpass the Celtics, which is obviously. As a team composed entirely of young people, they actually have the most potential because they can not do it.

It takes too much to rest due to physical fitness. Even in such a favorable environment, the team did not want to go further. This can be seen. In fact, this team is aimed at the Bobcats who have almost determined the first place in the East. It can be seen that from the Pistons, although they were swept by the Bobcats in the regular season, the team does not think that their team is not as good as the Bobcats, but is confident that they can get back all this in the playoffs, or in other words. In the eyes of the Pistons' players, coaches and management, the Bobcats are not as strong as the Manhattan Challengers, nor are they as good as the Pistons.

However, in the end, after the first game of this series, the expectations of the Pistons were broken at this time. The Bobcats were not as weak as they imagined, and they themselves were not as strong as they imagined. It can even be said that this game was completely defeated.

So at the post-match press conference of this game, Zhuang Fei's former assistant coach, McWood, and the current Pistons head coach, also changed the speech of the Pistons players and general manager a few days ago, and began to constantly compliment Zhuang Fei at the post-match press conference, and even almost said that the Bobcats were a team that could win the championship at any time. Zhuang Fei naturally could not make him achieve his goal with his former assistant.

It is obvious that at this time McWood said this, looking for confidence or excuses for the young people in his team. The Pistons lost too badly in this game, so miserable that they could directly lose the entire series. In this case, the players' self-confidence can be said to have been severely damaged. If the Bobcats' status and strength are not infinitely raised at this time, McWood himself would not have the confidence to cheer up the young geniuses of his team.

After all, for young people, they are not afraid of challenges and difficulties. Even the more challenging and difficult things they like to do, the more they like to do. In this case, artificially exaggerating the Bobcats, creating difficulties is not because of the piston’s self-deprecation, but because Mike Wood is very clear about it and intentional.

Perhaps many other coaches in the league will have problems with Mike Wood's strategy at this time, or will be achieved by McWood, but Zhuang Fei is not an ordinary head coach in the NBA. Zhuang Fei can see at a glance what his former assistant wants to do. In this case, it is naturally impossible for him to succeed.

So in the end, McWood looked at Zhuang Fei who was smiling faintly. The Pistons head coach kept twitching his face awkwardly, and he didn't even know what to say for a moment.

In fact, he really didn't know what he said at this time. Zhuang Fei said so clearly. The Bobcats won in this game, not the Bobcats' strongest, not the difficulties and pressure we created for you, but we watched on the side and you lost. Although this doesn't sound very good, McWood knew that Zhuang Fei had already given him face. If it were someone else, with his understanding of Zhuang Fei, Zhuang Fei would probably say directly that your team is too cowardly, and even more ugly words are possible.

Of course, although Zhuang Fei has given him face, the result of this game has no way to change much. So after calming down a little, the Pistons head coach also gave up the plan to play conspiracy with Zhuang Fei at this time. In fact, after giving up such plans, McWood was much easier. After all, it is too difficult to play conspiracy with Zhuang Fei. Even his senior brother "Bobo" Vicci has always been known for being intriguing, and even surpassed their master Larry Brown. He did not dare to play in the dark when facing Zhuang Fei, because he accidentally did not get into the darkness of Zhuang Fei. As for another old fox Pat Riley, the godfather of the Heat has never won. As for the current second-generation head coach of the NBA, McWood thinks he cannot compare with "Bobo" Vicci and Pat Riley.

At this time, after McWood readjusted his mood, the post-match press conference was completely controlled by Zhuang Fei. After all, for anyone, sitting with Zhuang Fei requires such awareness. As Zhuang Fei's former assistant, McWood naturally knew this very well, so he was very open about the fact that he was neglected.

After the post-match press conference, McWood hugged Zhuang Fei quite generously before leaving. However, when the Pistons head coach left, Zhuang Fei could clearly see a faint breath from his back.

“It seems like this is a big challenge”

Looking at McWood's back, Zhuang Fei also smiled and thought that the young players of the Pistons were facing a special situation at this time. Even in Zhuang Fei's opinion, the mentality of these young players of the Pistons has been completely unbalanced, and facing such a test is not an easy task for any head coach. Of course, for Zhuang Fei, if he is the Pistons' head coach at this time, he is confident that he can control the situation easily. As long as he leads these young people to win the next game, he will continue to defeat this opponent who has brought him a huge psychological shadow.

For Zhuang Fei, it may not be too difficult to lead the Pistons to defeat the Bobcats, but for McWood and other NBA coaches, such conditions are really too harsh. Therefore, if McWood cannot lead the Pistons to defeat the Bobcats, no matter how much he says, it is a luxury or impossible to adjust the team's emotions in a short period of time.

And what is even more unfavorable is that on the second day after the game, the Pistons young players who were praised by almost all media before the game were bombarded by all media across the United States and even the world on the second day. In Zhuang Fei's opinion, such bombardment was too fierce. Obviously, the Pistons' crushing defeat made the media who had predicted many results before the game lose their faces, and eventually vented this resentment on the Pistons' young players.

"A shameful defeat, a shameful result. Coach Z used the most direct way to let Dumas know that his jumping up and down cannot bring anything, but could only make himself look more like a clown. He really is not worthy of competing with Jordan for the best general manager this year."

Before the game, the Washington Post even called for the award of this year's NBA Best General Manager to be awarded directly to the Pistons' Dumas instead of Jordan, who seemed to be the most promising. After this game, the American mouthpiece media directly gave up Dumas, and even a rare large number of dirty and frivolous words appeared in its own newspapers. Obviously, the Washington Post is one of the mainstream media that has recently advocated that the Pistons can eventually eliminate the Bobcats, and even the largest general backstage.

"All-stars? Those who laughed at the Wake Forest Five Tigers for Derek Ross and Griffin Monroe Harden for entering the All-Star because of care rather than strength should be embarrassed and angry. Even if they die in terms of strength, these young people from the Pistons are still far behind. In this game, the total score of the Pistons' five starters is not as good as the total score of the Wake Forest Five Tigers, let alone the result of the game."

Similarly, another media, Los Angeles Post, also aimed all its firepower at the Pistons, which is different from the Washington Post’s general manager. This media is aimed directly at the Pistons players. It can even be said that this media used almost all the sports and reserved pages of the entire newspaper to mock these Pistons players on the second day of the game.

For example, in addition to saying that the total scores of the Pistons' five starters were not as good as those of the Five Wake Forest Tigers, Harden, who was also constantly mocking the self-proclaimed cornerstone, faced his chosen puzzle player James Posey, the league's superstar only scored a pitiful 4 points in this game, and all of these four points were free throws. The score of 0 of 6 shots in the sports game was extremely miserable.

Of course, the Washington Post and the Los Angeles Post were just the two most powerful and powerful among all the media that crazily sarcastically and mocked the Pistons after the game, and the two most authoritative ones. Apart from these two, the other media were a little bit slow, but they were definitely not much different. For a moment, the Pistons, which had a bright future, were instantly stepped on by everyone and could not be stepped on again.

"I swear, I will never want to read the newspapers that advocate the Pistons again. These guys are too realistic, and our players are too cowardly, and there is no domineering or banditry like the bad boys army back then. Before this game, I said that these media compared Ross to Isaiah Thomas, Stucky to Dumas, Harden to Hill, Griffin to Ranbill, and Monroe to Rodman of the Pistons now. These guys want to brag this Pistons into the most powerful team in the world. They are eager to create another Zhuang Fei, a Maverick, and even these shameless guys are ready for what will happen to the Mavericks when the Pistons enter the finals, but it is obvious that Ross can really compare to Thomas Stucky and Harden.

Are Dumas and Hill? As for Monroe and Griffin are players of the same type as Ranbill and Rodman? Many of us even imagine that the Pistons are another Mavericks. Have you ever thought that Zhuang Lin of the Mavericks is not a blow, he is a real high school student, a college student and a rookie, and the youngest MVP. These things are not something that the media can blow, and what does our Rose have? Now things are clear, and we don’t need to complain about anything anymore. From now on, what the Pistons need is to be down-to-earth. Our players need to improve their courage and responsibility, rather than make some ridiculed low-level remarks. Maybe this game. This round of the series will be the starting point for this team to start over. We are still far from the top teams now."

Of course, many of the Pistons are old and have experienced the peak of the team and underestimated rational teams. There is not much confusion when the team encounters such a shame. This also makes the Pistons suffer infinite attacks on the Internet, but at least it is not too confusing.

However, it is obvious that although many Pistons fans are still full of hope for their team after the game, such hope will not lead to immediate victory.

Because in the second game between the Bobcats and the Pistons, the Pistons lost again, and they still suffered a crushing defeat. The final score was 88 to 116, and the team almost lost another 30.

Although in this game, the Pistons players changed at the beginning, and the performance of the last game was not very good, Jose Calderon replaced Starkey's starting position. It was obvious that Mike Wood wanted him to come on the court to sort out the team's offense. This was also the beginning of the Pistons' tactically seeking change.

Of course, such changes are not ineffective. At least the Bobcats dare not let Calderon out like letting go of Starkey. Although the defender did not shoot many shots, his shooting percentage was extremely high. Zhuang Fei did not intend to let go of such an unexpected point.

Because among the many superstitions of NBA, there is one superstition that is widely circulated, that is, the hit rate can be contagious, and this sentence or this superstition has actually been proven countless times.

So, in the last game, Calderon, who was also very poor in shooting and seemed to be infected by Ross and others, became the player with the most tight defense in this game.

Zhuang Fei's purpose is also very clear, that is, there is no intention to let the Pistons have an explosion point in this entire series. If Ross, Griffin or other young players defeat him and explode, it would be fine. Others will never be able to provide any assistance to these young people targeted by Zhuang Fei.

Therefore, Mike Wood asked Calderon to play in this game to sort out the team's offense, but after Calderon finally came on the court, the team's offense still ended countless times when his team's players faced the blank space intentionally and ended with countless blacksmiths. Calderon did not play a role in sorting out the offense, because this defender was too easy to be stared at, which is also the difference between star players and ordinary players. It is difficult for star players to star players to stare one-on-one, so most star players can use their personal abilities to create opportunities for their teammates, so Calderon's data has always been very good, but no one will think he is a star player. Of course, defense methods like Zhuang Fei against Ross and others are actually considered to create opportunities. Ross and others have created opportunities for themselves, but they still don't go forward.

Wait for others, no matter what, Calderon's appearance can be regarded as creating another breakthrough for the Pistons for this game, although such a breakthrough does not seem to be too powerful.

But at least, the Pistons' shooting rate has improved overall in this game. Although the team's star players have also reduced their shooting rate under tremendous pressure, the Pistons' role player, which is called an optional puzzle player by Harden, still performed very well.

After this game, the Pistons also completed all their two away games. After losing in these two games, the Pistons stood on the edge of the cliff like the Heat in the first round. If the team returned to the first game of home, there was no way to win, then this team would be like this in this series, and the same would be true for this playoff journey.

And when it was even more unfavorable, until the second game lost, the atmosphere between the Pistons still did not change at all, and they still could not find a way to deal with Zhuang Fei's special defense method.
Chapter completed!