The world is fickle. No one knows what will happen tomorrow or even what will happen next moment.
Just over two months ago, when the Celts bought Brogden at a small price and signed garinali, The Celts were the favorites of gambling companies and American media. They were rated as “the king of off-season operations”, “The biggest hit in the new season”.
But as the saying goes, “The heat will die”. After that, the Celts seemed to be cursed. First, garinali followed the Italian national team for a knee injury and underwent surgery, which may be reimbursed for the season. Then, Robert Williams felt uncomfortable in his knee after training, and had to undergo surgical removal. He was expected to be absent from training camp and preseason.
Then, on September 22, Beijing time, another heavy news came: Celtic coach Wu ducurno violated team discipline and he would not be fired, but he might be banned for a long time. Mingji charrania reported that Wu cheated on female employees inside the team ducurno.
Injuries and farce, these two words make the Celts have a painful feeling of familiarity. Since 2016, the Celtics have poured all the resources over and over again, and are eager to raise the 18th championship flag in young pioneer team history. However, the Celts stumbled over and over again by the same or two stumbling blocks, and fell into tears.
Success certainly requires continuous efforts, but Success also requires a magic stroke and luck. Unfortunately, in these years, the lucky goddess has never favored Celts.
In the 2016-17 season, Jay Brown joined as a flower show. However, in the Celts with a large number of veterans and a clear division of labor, Brown was not even the core. His average score was only the 7th in the whole team, which was not as good as ollinick. This season, the Celtics built an excellent team around Thomas Junior, who won 53 and ranked the first in the east. Under the circumstances that the whole team helped cover the attack and the whole team helped to check and fill the gaps in the defense, little Thomas turned into a god and played his career masterpiece, with an average of 28.9 points in the game. His high scores showed again and again, the last takeover shocked the alliance.
The Celtics eliminated the Bulls 4-2 and entered the Eastern finals after 4-3 killed the Wizards. Although the playoff LeBlanc James is a completely different level form, compared with the strength of the complete lineup of both sides, the Celtics didn’t have to fight. The problem is that the Celtics are not a complete lineup. Little Thomas could overcome the pain of losing his sister, but the deterioration of his hip injury was a difficult problem he could not overcome. Thomas junior in the Eastern final only played 2 bad performances, and the Celtics were out 1-4.
In the summer of 2017, the Celtics sent little Thomas to the Knight, which was criticized as “lack of human touch”. However, from the perspective of basketball, the overall operation of the Celtics during the offseason that year could completely play “A +”. Danny Anji got Marcus Morris, the draft got Tatum, the deal got Owen, and the free agent market signed Gordon Hayward. From the back court to the front line, Celtic has achieved a significant upgrade per capita.
In the 2017-18 season, Celtics’s tenacity left a deep impression, but this tenacity was forced by disasters. Hayward was seriously injured and reimbursed at 5 minutes 15 seconds in the first regular season. At the end of the regular season, Owen underwent surgery on his left knee and was reimbursed for the season. In the case of the highest salary and the third highest Player reimbursement, the Celtics still won 55 wins and ranked 2nd in the east. In the playoffs, the Celtics once again entered the Eastern finals. They forced the knight to win seven by virtue of the rookie Tatum, the second-grade student Brown and the third-grade student Rochelle, and finally they were out because of lack of experience.
At that time, everyone thought the Celtics were still young and had plenty of opportunities. When the Celts walk in the jungle of Qu Xiaoxiao for several more years, they will eventually reach the Sunshine zone of their dreams.
After losing the Eastern finals in 2018, Celtics tried to make a comeback again and again, but failed again and again.
In the 2018-19 season, Owen and Hayward returned. But this season, the contradiction between Owen and the young Celtics players was the focus. Owen and Hayward’s comeback did not bring the Celtics to a higher level, but instead they regressed. They won 6 games less than the previous season and ranked the fourth in the east. In the playoffs, Owen and Hayward were healthy this time, but the defensive gate smart played only two games due to injury. The Celtics finally fell in the eastern semi-final, losing 1-4 to the Bucks.
During the off-season in 2019, Owen, who had promised to renew his contract and stay in the team, chose to leave freely. Celtics executed plan B and signed kenba Walker. Walker is not as famous as Owen, but he scored 25.6 points and 5.9 assists in the last season of The Wasp, and is fully capable of filling Owen’s vacancy. To the Celtics’s surprise, Walker, who had been on full duty three times in the first eight seasons of his career and reached 80 games games played in four single seasons, became a sick seedling after arriving in Boston. His fragile knees caused his attendance rate to plummet, he missed 16 games and 29 games in two seasons respectively. Coupled with Hayward, who frequently raised 20 games, it was difficult for the Celtics to play a complete lineup.
In the 2020 playoffs, Celtics reached the Eastern finals, but Hayward played only 5 games in 17 games. In the 2021 playoffs, Celtics stopped the first round, and Walker played only 3 games due to injury.
As for last season, the lineup changed, the coaching staff changed, even the management changed, and the Celtics still didn’t say goodbye to bad luck. The injuries of smart, Tatum and Lowe ran through the whole playoffs. They finally broke through the finals, but fell to the nearest place to success. They are only two victories away from the Championship, but these two victories are just like the sky.
In the new season, how should Celtics deal with the reality that Gary Nelly may be reimbursed? At the beginning of the season, how should Celtics conduct internal rotation to survive the period of Rowell’s recovery? How should Celtics handle the farce caused by Wu ducurno?
Everything is unknown.
In the east where the competition is fierce, if the Celtics can’t solve this problem, they want to go through strong teams such as basketable nets, Knights, Bucks, and 76 people, the difficulty is undoubtedly S-level.
Over the years, the Celtics general manager always said that they were still young and had a chance. But perhaps only after a few years can they find that their best opportunity has already slipped away.
Many players and teams are like this. They all feel that they are still young and have opportunities until they are no longer young and have no opportunities.
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Wu ducurno face ban penalty for violating team discipline