"Give me the ball!" was the last thing Pierce said before he walked out of the locker room, and no one objected, including Garnett and Rondo, who had been making a lot of noise just now. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

The second half of the game began quickly, and the lunar eclipse, which had performed well in the second quarter, was the first to take to the court.

He jumped and waved his arms on the court from time to time, and seemed to be looking forward to the third quarter.

In contrast, his opponent Paul Pierce was calm, as if 12 points behind in the first half was nothing.

Celtic possessed the ball, Rondo controlled the ball past half court and sent the ball to Pierce for the first time.

Pierce singled out a lunar eclipse in the basket, a tentative step, and then a pull-up jump shot after an accelerated breakaway, and Pierce contributed the first point of the second half for the Celtics.

No one on the Eagles had noticed, and Pierce's eyes changed.

Embarrassment missed an outside shot, and Garnett grabbed the rebound with the help of Perkins' block.

Pierce received the ball and advanced directly into the half-court, with his back to the eclipse.

One step, two steps, a sudden half-turn, followed by a shooting feint, after leaning upward, immediately shoot and shoot, in the ball, add a penalty!

Pierce stood at the free throw line, dribbled twice, and added a free throw in the middle of the free throw.

Pierce scored five points in a row, and the gap between the two teams was stretched to within 10 points at once.

The Celtics are on the rise!

Ruan Erniu held the ball inside and made a mistake.

The basketball was knocked out by Rondo, who suddenly came up, and Garnett received the ball and passed quickly to the frontcourt.

Ray Allen three-point shot, ball hit!

With only four points left between the two teams, the Celtics went on an 8-0 run.

The Hawks called a timeout, and Woodson was very unhappy with the current state of affairs on the court, with the Hawks' defensive intensity declining while the Celtics were on fire.

At the end of the timeout, Mike Bibby stepped up, scored 3 points and fouled one after another, and finally stabilized the situation.

However, Paul Pearce's performance has just begun.

Defending Pierce's eclipse head-on should be the most vocal, and Pierce's triple-threatening stance from beyond the 3-point line makes it difficult for him to defend.

Pierce moved, and with a swift first step, the lunar eclipse was out of place.

Immediately after a turn to pull the ball, the lunar eclipse has been pulled away by 2 paces.

Pierce calmly leaned back, and despite the eclipse envoy's best efforts, he still couldn't reach the ball in Pierce's hand.

The basketball flew towards the basket with a strong spin.

"Brush!"

Ball!

Pierce clenched his right hand into a fist and turned back to defend as his performance in the third quarter was far from over.

……

That night in 1998, at the draft, Pierce shook his head and put on a Celtics hat.

Later, PP described the feeling at that time: "It's like falling into an ice cellar!"

He is a native of California and played in Los Angeles as a teenager. To be exact, PP's mecca is in Inglewood, Los Angeles, which is a paradise in Hollywood and where Pierce's dream begins.

Although Pierce was born in Auckland, he grew up near Rogers Park in Inglewood.

"A lot of the stars grew up in the park," said Pierce, "and that's where I really started. ”

Growing up in Los Angeles, it is natural to treat the Lakers as his home team. Can be created to make people.?

When Pierce was a child, he hated Danny Ainge, who was a Boston Celtics guard at the time.

Every time Angie played excellent stats against the Los Angeles Lakers, Pierce pouted: "It's just luck." ”

But in 1998, Angie was the general manager of the Celtics and took him out of the draft.

PP had heard about the way Rick Pitino, the head coach of the Celtics at the time, trained "like going to hell".

What's even more crazy for PP is that as the best small forward in the class of 1998, he is also considered the most well-rounded player, and he was not selected until No. 10.

"I really didn't want to go to Boston, or even wear a Celtics jersey. Pierce said.

On January 20, 1999, NBA commissioner David Stern announced the end of the shutdown, and in the 98-99 season, the regular season was reduced from 82 games to 50 games, and Pierce's Celtics career officially began at this moment.

"I told myself that I was a professional footballer and that I just had to play well wherever I went. "When I put on the green jersey, I'm a Celtics player and that's not going to change. ”

And he has a more important goal, he said: "There are nine teams that didn't pick me, there are nine players ahead of me, and I'm going to prove it all wrong. ”

What Pierce didn't expect was that the Celtics' attitude towards him was far more important and passionate than he thought.

Celtics head coach Pitino never thought about getting Pierce before the draft, saying: "Paul hasn't been drafted at No. 9 yet, I'm ecstatic, my heart is going to beat out, Danny and I both know how good he really is, and we're all saying in our hearts, 'Hey, we've got a treasure.'" ’”

The outside world is not optimistic about Pierce's prospects with the Celtics, because they already have two players who can play small forward: Antoine Walker (fat head) who is 203cm tall, swingman who can play the No. 3 and No. 4 positions in the frontcourt, and is the scoring champion of the Celtics in the 97-98 season, and Ron Mercer and Pierce are both 201cm tall and can play as a swingman at the front and are the second scorer of the Celtics in the 97-98 season.

In the NBA, rookies come off the bench at the start of the season, but Pitino made the alternative decision to start Pierce from the first game and stay at the usual small forward position.

The Boston Globe reporter who followed the Celtics was a little surprised, but Pitino's answer left him speechless: "In this team, only Pierce has the strongest fighting spirit." ”

The '99-00 season was Pierce's first full NBA season. By this time, he was on an equal footing with Walker.

In order to make room for him, Pitino even traded Mercer to give Pierce more chances.

Just this season, Pierce averaged 19.5 points per game, he and Walker formed the Boston "twin stars", making opponents unguardable, they both have the ability to play in the low post, and they can also shoot 3-pointers, Boston sees their bright future, and Pierce's fate is also linked to the Celtics.

But as recently as September 2000, fate played a joke on Pierce.

In the early hours of September 25, Pierce went to a Boston bar with Barty and Barty's buddies, and Barty went to the bathroom, and when he came out, Pierce was covered in blood and lying on the floor.

The bar staff who saw all of this later revealed that Pierce was trying to strike up a conversation with the two girls, only to have a man come up to him and say, "Hey, this is my sister." Pierce backed away, indicating that he had done nothing, but disaster struck, and a crowd gathered around him, first smashing a champagne bottle on his head, then punching and kicking, and finally, several knives stabbed him, and Pierce fell to the ground.

Barty lifted Pierce's clothes and found that he had been stabbed in the chest, Pierce unnaturally covered the wound with his hand to prevent more bleeding, and he was also stabbed six times in the shoulder. Barty hugged Pierce, put him in the car, and drove frantically to the hospital. In the emergency room, Pierce asked clearly, "Am I going to die?"

(To be continued.) )