From prey to hunters! Celtic new player Luka Garza makes a harsh statement: The East is trembling!

When Luca Garza first stepped into the Celtics' iconic TD Garden Arena, "Do you know? I almost fell at the door of the locker room," the 2.08-meter white insider laughed and recalled, "But it was not because of the floor slippery, but because my legs were shaking!" This dramatic confession instantly ignited the passion of Boston fans - is this 25-year-old really ready to set off a green storm with the Double Tanhua?

1. From the undraft to the Celtics' surprise: Garza's counterattack script

Time is turned back to the 2021 NBA draft night. When ESPN's camera swept through rookies whose names were read one by one, Garza, the scoring champion of the University of Iowa, never waited for his name. "I ate 12 spicy chicken wings that night, and I was so spicy that I burst into tears, but I couldn't compare to the pain in my heart. " This NCAA major tenth center forward who also won the MVP+ scoring champion, and finally signed with the Pistons as a loser.

The turning point in fate came unexpectedly. Last season, at the Timberwolves, he scored 11.5 points in just 17 minutes, with a three-point shooting percentage of up to 37.9%! "Remember that game against the Thunder? He shot Chet Holmgren alone, and it was like playing a video game! " The well-known commentator Perkins yelled on the show. It is this highlight performance that made Celtics CEO Stevens throw out a two-year contract of 5.5 million without hesitation - you know, the price is less than Tatum's weekly salary!

2, "The Hunter Manifesto "The Celtic Ambitions Behind It's Our Turn to Be Hunters! " Garza's Manifesto is by no means groundless. Although the Celtics won the championship last season, the experience of being forced into desperate situations by the Heat and the Pacers in the playoffs made the team realize that they need a more fierce "Preat mentality". The data will not lie: When the opponent uses joint defense, the Celtics' three-point shooting rate plummeted to 31.2%, and Garza's 38.1% long two-point shooting rate in his career is the deadly poison to crack the joint defense! There has been undercurrents in the locker room. "Jaylen Brown pulled me to practice 50 pick-and-roll external bullets yesterday," Garza's eyes lit up when she revealed it," he said 'We want our opponent to step on Lego every time he switched defenses! "This kind of ruthlessness perfectly fits the tradition of the Celtics - think about Garnett's sentence in 2008 "Anything is possible ". Now Garza is like the upgraded version of Percy, ready to use three-point rain to extinguish the opponent's counterattack flames.

3. Troubled times in the Eastern Conference: Garza's "time and space dislocation" advantage

If you carefully study the lineup of the Eastern Conference opponents, you will find an interesting phenomenon: the Knicks have a defensive gate like OG Anunobi, but center Hatenstein cannot defend; even if the 76ers leave Embiid, the MVP's knee is always a time bomb; as for the Bucks? Lopez is one year older and is slower than the audience of the Boston Marathon!

"Centers are now learning from Jokic to support, but Luka (Garza) is taking the Nowitzki route," the team's assistant coach Kassel analyzed. In recent team training, Garza used a combination of "golden rooster independent backward + step hook" to eat Porzingis one after another, forcing the Latvians to practice until the early morning after the game. This kind of classical and modern style of play may become an X-factor in the playoffs - after all, when Josh Hart scored a frontcourt rebound last season, no one could punish him for his height flaw.

4, 5.5 million is worth it? Comparing the league's cost-effectiveness king

put Garza's contract under a microscope to observe: the substitute center with an annual salary of about 2.5 million yuan, the Clippers' Plumli's real plus-minus value last season -1.3, while Garza is +2.1! What's more exciting is that his assisted three-pointers accounted for 89%, which is perfectly adapted to passers like Holiday and White. Some fans posted a magical comparison on Reddit: "Buying Garza is like using the money from a second-hand Toyota, and I bought a modified Mustang! "

However, the doubts never stopped. "His defense moves slowly than the melting of the glacier," an eastern scout complained anonymously. But Stevens was prepared - preseason video showed that Garza lost 8 pounds of muscle and his body fat rate dropped to 9.3%. "Now I can keep up with Ju Holiday's cover," he blinked, "Although it may only be able to keep up with the first three steps. "

5. From the locker room culture, the Celtics' locker room has an unwritten rule: newcomers must perform programs. Garza's choice shocked everyone's chin - he covered the famous song "Balkan Cowboy" by the late legend Petrovic in Serbian! "Coach Mazula laughed so hard that he dropped the tactical board," veteran Horford broke the news, "But the next day we found that this guy secretly practiced 200 bottom corner three points. "

This kind of unscathing personality is exactly what Boston needs. The 2008 "Ubuntu" spirit (African Philosophy: Unity Achievement Great) was reinterpreted: Tatum took the whole team to visit the Kennedy Library, Jaylen Brown organized players to watch "The Road of Glory" - and Garza always liked to say: "Don't call me a white shooter, please call me a second generation of the Iceman!" (referring to Spurs legend George Gervin)

Conclusion: The horn of the hunting season has been sounded

When the reporter finally asked "What if I meet the Heat", Garza's response was classic: "I will tell Adebayo that no Love will help him get stuck this time! " This gunpowder-smelling humor is like a microcosm of the Celtics' new season - they not only want to defend the throne, but also eager to take the initiative.

The eastern pattern is changing drastically: Antetokounmpo and Lillard's running-in is still awkward, Embiid's health is not dissipating, and the Knicks' Thibodeau is still fighting the main force. Betting on Garza at this moment is like holding a secret ace in a poker game. Perhaps as the title of the Boston Globe said: "This winter, the snow in North Shore Garden will be hit outside the three-point line! "

Do you think Garza can become the best signing in the new season? Is it the next Stoskas or the white version of the dream chase?