Chapter 395: Ghosts
After making substitution adjustments, Perkins, the Celtics' starting center, was left off the court, his place was replaced by Garnett, and Shi Lei served as the team's power forward. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
"The Celtics made substitution adjustments, Shi Lei was left on the court, this lineup is very targeted, which completely restrains the Raptors who are very outstanding in terms of flexibility!"
Far away in China, Director Zhang saw the Celtics' intention to adjust, and the head coach of the Raptors certainly couldn't see it, so he quickly replaced O'Neal on the court.
But this didn't make much of a difference, although O'Neal Jr. is the most majestic on the court now, but in fact he is not a traditional interior line, the Raptors now need the most low-post offensive ability, he is not much better than the Banjani who was replaced by him.
Especially now that he is entering the end of his career, his scarred knee has greatly reduced his athletic ability, which he is most proud of.
In this way, the Raptors' offense was cut by the Celtics' defense with this lineup, and they fell into a state of separate battles. Obviously, such a Raptors can't get any mismatch advantage over the Celtics, and Moon, who is best at breaking through, is still a rookie who doesn't get much trust.
In this case, the Raptors fell into a four-minute scoring drought, allowing the Celtics to use a wave of 13:0 to overtake the difference by four points into the fourth quarter of the game after switching to the main team.
Since the Celtics were successfully formed, they have not been reversed by any team, and the Raptors, who caused huge problems for the Celtics in the first half of this game, did not do this, although they reintroduced Baniani, the young "champion" has a very strong desire to win, scoring six points in a single quarter, but this is not enough to change their final outcome.
At 118:103, the Celtics extended their win to five games again.
The winner will not get too much blame, although the Celtics played poorly in the first half, but after the game, people still invariably focused on Shi Lei, who helped the team turn around, and gave up attacking them!
"The Silent 'Rock', the Sanctuary of Victory!"
"After eight assists, three rebounds, two blocks and two steals in a single quarter, eleven points, eleven rebounds and seven assists in 27 minutes, No. 1 is already the most important force for this team's victory!"
"The least suspenseful award of the season - Sixth Man of the Season!"
"The ubiquitous pitch ghost, Bill. The strongest defender of the Celtics after Russell! ”
"What else can you ask him to do?"
...... The praise of the media and the team's victory made Shi Lei think that he had found the most suitable way to help the team, and he thought that he had found the way to help the team "enhance its strength", which gave him more confidence in the next game!
After returning to Boston from Toronto, with only one day of rest, the Celtics were immediately challenged by the Golden State Warriors.
It's a crazy team, yes, crazy, they can fight better than the blacksmith in one game, but it's possible that in the next game, even if God comes, it won't stop them from winning!
In this game, the Celtics rarely got into the groove quickly at the beginning, they led the opponent 35-28 in the first quarter, but in the second quarter of the game, the Warriors' "madmen" went crazy, and they scored 39 points in a single quarter, overtaking the score in one fell swoop, and returned to the locker room with a 13-point lead at halftime.
When the team needed to suppress the opponent's hot hand with defense, Rivers remembered Shi Lei again, and at the beginning of the third quarter of the game, he replaced Perkins with Shi Lei as the team's power forward.
If you set back the time by five years, such an adjustment may only say that the team has become more chaotic, but now in the NBA, there are fewer and fewer confrontational interior lines, more and more attention is paid to flexibility, and habitually floating outside the interior line, but Shi Lei is like a fish in water in this position, his very large defensive range, and Garnett, who is not comparable to him, completely puts his backcourt in their coverage, so that the team's outside line can rest assured that the defensive energy is concentrated outside the three-point line.
This kind of defensive intensity has caused fluctuations in the Warriors' already very inconsistent shooting. This inevitably affected the mentality of the Warriors players who played very passionately, and at the eight minutes of the quarter, the Warriors, who were still 12 points ahead of the Celtics, Jamal Murray. After Crawford forced a three-point shot and was blocked by Shi Lei, Rondo, who grabbed the basketball, passed Lei. Allen, who used this as the opening game to launch a wave of 10-2 counterattacks, quickly chased the difference to four points.
In the face of the Celtics' solid defense, the Warriors played more and more impatiently, and in the final two minutes of the third quarter, they did not score a point, allowing the Celtics to take an 86-83 lead.
In this quarter of the game, Shi Lei only scored four points, but he grabbed five rebounds, handed out four assists, and also gave his opponent two blocks!
"Oh, our No. 1 ghost is back on the pitch!"
Shi Lei's all-round performance caused loud cheers from the fans at the scene. Field, too, in the gap between the third quarter and the fourth, exclaimed!
Stimulate the enthusiasm of any teammate on the field, tap everyone's ability in the attack, and put pressure on the opponent as much as possible when defending, this is the method that Shi Lei found to "enhance the competitiveness of the team". For this reason, Shi Lei is more busy on the field, more versatile, and selfless!
This really worked, driven by Shi Lei's performance of duties, the Celtics briefly replaced the bench, intending to let the main star rest for a few minutes, and then reap the victory of the game, the Warriors players who felt that they had fallen to the cold lower limit still did not make their offense better.
In the end, the Warriors still lost the game 110-119 when the Celtics did not replace the main force in the fourth quarter.
In this game, Shi Lei once again scored 13 points, 8 rebounds and 7 assists and 4 blocks in the all-round data!
The problem did seem to have been resolved, and the Celtics extended their winning streak to eight games after defeating the 76ers and Bobcats in the remaining two games in November. With a 16-1 record throughout November, and three wins since the start of the regular season late October, they are firmly in the top spot with a 19-1 record. They have won four games against the second-place Lakers! (To be continued.) )