Enbide took the ball in the back court, and a dragon directly killed the front court.
This was the 76-person away match against the Celtics on February 9. There were only 8 seconds left before the end of the half. Enbide didn’t want to make the problem too complicated.
In this game, the three defenders of the green army-smart, Horford and Robert Williams were all absent due to injuries. Just over a minute ago, Jay Brown was also accidentally injured by his teammates and left the field early due to facial fractures, enbide didn’t see the rest.
After losing Derek White and Grant Williams in a row, in front of enbide, there was only conette-the white center who became popular in social media against the “empty jump defense”-enbide decided to give him a good look, so he raised his right arm high, hit rim hard……
Unexpectedly, enbide not only failed to achieve “a violent buckle on your head”, but also was covered with a scruple on the front of Cornett, which looked awkward.
This scene is almost the epitome of the whole game-76 people with full health. Facing the green army lacking four starting players, it should have been easy to accept the victory, but the fact is just the opposite. Boston people laughed at the end, continue to firmly rank first in the standings and rewrite the battle record of both sides this season to 2-0.
Last season, the Celtics won the finals with a set of their own talent picks that can compete with the Warriors. Therefore, they were highly praised and naturally became the biggest imaginary enemy of all the Eastern teams this season.
However, since the beginning of the new season, they have been hit by injuries frequently. Gary Nelly has just signed a contract for reimbursement for the season within a few days. Lowe’s sometimes bad knee once again went wrong in the playoffs last year, horford has obvious traces of time. Even Matt, who has always been famous for his toughness, has missed 15 games before the All-Star came…….
However, even with so many difficulties, the Green Army still maintained a strong and stable fighting capacity, playing triumphant songs all the way, leaving only the back to the other 29 teams.
The data shows that the offensive and defensive efficiency of this season ranks among the top five teams in the league, and there is only one team, which is the Celtics.
One of the important reasons why Celtics “stand out” is that they have established a mature talent training and use system. In addition to the gorgeous core lineup, the depth of the bench is amazing. No matter who is injured or fallen, everyone can stand up, quickly top the vacancy, play the right basketball, and then win the game.
And all of this, thanks to their “farm plan”.
The term “farm” comes from Major League Baseball. Every major league team will have their minor league team, that is, farm team, which is used to cultivate and train young players, select reserve forces, help Injured major league players recover and so on. Hearing this description, NBA fans should not be difficult to think of developing the league, right?
Yes, the development alliance is equivalent to NBA’s “farm”, but it is not as perfect and mature as MLB’s farm.
Before Celtics, Raptors and heat were the first teams to benefit from the “farm plan”, such as Van vlitt, Bucher, Strous, Vincent, Duncan Robinson, etc, they are all outstanding representatives from the Development Alliance.
The current core class of Celtics is mainly due to their successful talent draft-Tatum, Brown, smart, Lowe, gowei and Pritchard, which are all the first round shows selected by the Green Army. But after the rookie bonus was finished and the picks were mostly used for trading in the next few years, Stevens had to find another way to increase the depth of the lineup and ensure the ability to resist risks.
The answer lies in Portland, Maine, 112 miles north of TD Garden Stadium, which is the home site of the Celtic Development League team Maine Celts.
Inspired by the Raptors and the heat, the Celtics began to regard the development alliance as a talent base for exploring and cultivating reserve forces, rather than a cheap stage for those who couldn’t play in NBA to find a sense of presence, or the advanced training ground to find the feeling of competition before the wounded return. They invested a lot of energy and money for this and began to reap returns.
In the regular rotation of the Celtics this season, two of them were also Development League players last year-one was shooter Sam Hauser, and the other was Connet of large hat enbide.
Hauser (first left) and Conet (second left)
Hauser was a talent show in 2021. he signed a two-way contract with Celtics last season and was then downgraded to the Development League. As a white shooter, Hauser knocked on the door of NBA by shooting, but to gain a firm foothold, he must broaden his other skills.
The development alliance helped him do this.
“Sam’s projection ability is very outstanding, and we have nothing to help him in this respect. What we have done is to make more efforts on defense.” Alex Barlow, the coach of Maine Celtics, said, “We often let him defend against the best players of the other side, because only in this way can you improve your defensive ability. Of course, we can also let him defend against the worst player of the other side, so he will feel relaxed, but it will not help his growth.”
With hauser’s ability, he can easily cope with the development league games, but if he wants to play the NBA well, he must go out of the comfort zone to adapt to those things he is not used to and is not good.
“He has always been a player with a ball in hand, and the team will design many tactics for him. But if he wants to play with Jason and Jay, he must learn to open space and adapt to the situation where he may not design a tactic for the whole game. Most of the time, after the two-way contract player was decentralized, he only wanted to score, but he accepted the idea from the beginning, ‘in Maine, I have to play the role I will play in NBA in the future. ‘”Barlow added.
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The tacit understanding between Hauser and Connet
Conette’s situation is different from Hauser’s. Before joining Maine Celtics, he had several years of NBA experience in Knicks, bulls, Knights and Bucks, but there is never a stable opportunity to carefully polish their technical details in attack and defense. The Maine Celts gave him such an opportunity.
“Luke is undoubtedly an NBA player,” Barlow said. “What we really try to help him practice is the feeling of shooting in nearly rim areas, because he will fall more into the basket, instead of always floating outside and throwing three points as before. We also need to make him more versatile on the defensive side. Last year, we arranged some relieve a garrison exercises for him, which is very helpful to improve his overall defensive ability.”
Therefore, in this season, we saw conette become a “real insider”, who accounted for more than 50% of the three-point shots in the first four years of his career, so far this season, 48 games have only scored 9 points and 3 points, while his shots within 0-3 feet of the basket account.
Cornett changed from a kite man to a tough guy in the basket.
15 points 8 rebounds 4 cap against the Eagle
Relieve a garrison Trey-Yang successfully sealed
Accurately locate talents, and according to the characteristics of these talents, carry out targeted training for them, so that they can eventually become players who can exert influence in NBA, this is what many teams failed to do through their development league teams, and Celts did.
This is why, in the first battle with 76 people, even if 5 of Tatum 15 only scored 12 points, the Celtics can still rely on the performance of other role players to win the game.
In that game, conette played 29 minutes, contributing 8 points, 6 rebounds and 2 blocks in 3 shots, and Hauser even made 4 points and 4 shots in 20 minutes, get 14 points and 8 rebounds. The positive and negative values of two people are +6 and +7 respectively, ranking second and third in the whole team, second only to Brogden.
The big three are talking about you, right?
It is worth noting that Hauser and Connet are only the first outstanding graduates of Celtics’s “farm plan.
After them, like JD-Davidson (the ND No. 53 show), Luca-samanich (the 2019 No. 19 show), young players such as fiondu-Caben guelai (the 27th 2019 show) are also being trained by the same system and ready to listen to the call of NBA at any time.
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Training talents, cultivating talents and continuously delivering fresh blood to NBA are the core idea of Celtic “farm plan” and the original meaning of the existence of Development Alliance.
As Barlow said, “If you don’t take the development alliance seriously, how can you get rewards from it?”
The “farmer” Celtic is driving his “turkeys” wildly.