Chapter 452: Brutality (4)
In his home stadium, Shi Lei staged "The Return of the King", which turned the atmosphere of the home stadium from anger to passion, but in fact, all this came from Shi Lei's self-writing and self-acting, and he was not hurt at all. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
Carried on a stretcher to the locker room, when he remembered the fact that science could not have been injured from the illusion of injury caused by the pain in his body, the second thought that came to his heart was not peace of mind, but made him realize that this was a rare opportunity.
That's why there was the scene just now, yes, this is a "lie", but the Celts need this lie, and Shi Lei also needs it. Shi Lei needed this lie to make the conquest he wanted to achieve more legendary, and the Celts also needed this lie to boost the momentum of the abyss.
Shi Lei did it, he succeeded in doing nothing, so that the Celtics had already overwhelmed the opponent in momentum, but he didn't think that this was enough, the hope he brought to the people here, but he hadn't brought fear to their opponents!
So Shi Lei continued his performance!
Shi Lei hung on the Hawks' basket, holding the hoop with one hand, and dancing up and down with the other arm towards the fans, which made the enthusiasm of the fans here no longer be able to suppress, and finally became like a volcano of enthusiasm, surging eruption.
Those high-pitched cheers, those screams in the bottom of the hiss, accompanied by Shi Lei's movements, became the only one in TD North Shore Garden!
The fans are always the team's best sixth man, the clarion call for the battlefield charge, the drumbeat when the battle is scorching, and the completely uncontrollable passion of the battle, at this time, completely haunts the heart of every Celtic warrior.
This blatant foul, although Shi Lei was shown a tactical foul by the referee, but you can see how worthwhile it is when you look at Rivers' arm waving hard!
Yes, it's all worth it!
Rondo pressed Bibby's advance with his body, and the unprecedented defensive threat made Bibby unable to continue to direct the team's offense, and passed the basketball to Joe. Johnson.
That's what Pierce was defending. He stuck hard to his opponent's body, followed the opponent's body back and forth with light steps, his round eyes, and his upright chest, allowing his opponent's breakthroughs and advances to return several times in vain.
This is a strange Pierce that people know, even in last year's finals, he didn't let people see that he can defend so well. So Johnson passed the ball, and Johnson dropped the ball directly to Williams on the inside.
His defender is Davis, but today's Davis seems to have become extraordinarily flexible, Williams just got the basketball, he held his fat belly, and immediately returned to the defensive position.
Williams broke through and changed direction, but no sooner had he passed in front of Davis than he crashed into a solid wall.
Only responsible for defending Josh. Smith is alone, so that Shi Lei has the energy to take care of the inside defense. His quick rebound caused Williams to walk with the ball.
The ball was returned to Celtic.
After Shi Lei came over with the ball, he penetrated Johnson's defense without stopping, and threw the basketball in his hand into the hands of Pierce, who was on the weak side of the defense, before the Hawks' outside finished defending him.
Pierce broke through with the ball, the Hawks' offset defense made it easy for him to do this, Williams in the paint area quickly helped to defend it, Pierce singled with his back, suddenly stepped back, and his trademark step-back jumper made Williams' heel move off the floor, but Pierce smashed the basketball backhand in his hand on the floor and rebounded into Shi Lei's hands.
At this time, the Hawks' defense was completely messed up, Shi Lei pushed away Johnson, the only one who was pestering him, and Williams, who was falling in his body, rushed into the Hawks' basket.
Horford, who was standing under the basket, couldn't jump at all at this time, because he had a Perkins on his body that weighed one and a half times his body.
The basketball hoop began to tremble violently, and Shi Lei's hands were violently buckled, almost paralyzing it.
There was a rift in the Eagles' defense, and their quick defensive movement, and their height advantage, which would never be misplaced, turned into paper paste in front of Shi Lei's breakthrough. However, what made them even more painful was that their offense was becoming weaker and weaker.
The Hawks' offense became sticky, the Celtics' defenders cut off the player-to-player cooperation between them, Bibby became the first point of the team's collapse, Rondo's youth and vitality made him look even more old, he had no ability to break through, and the long arms that were always in front of him made him unable to even find space to shoot.
Woodson had no choice but to bring on Assi. Law, the Celtics have chased the difference back to eight points by this time.
But Shi Lei suddenly accelerated the team's offensive and defensive rhythm.
Like a surging tide, the Celtics' offense penetrated into the Hawks' half, and Shi Lei's determined breakthrough made Johnson have to go all out, but it won't have any effect. Smith also had to leave Pierce a little bit to make Shi Lei a little more comfortable.
But who can stop Pierce, the tiger?
After Pierce received the ball, he let himself be deeply encircled, but he had no intention of breaking through, and the basketball only went over in his hand before appearing in Rondo's hand.
Rondo broke through with the ball, went deep into the basket and suddenly threw the ball to the weak side of the created defense, Shi Lei just waited there, and the next second he took off into the air and began his soaring on behalf of death.
Horford snorted, fell from mid-air, and in the roar of the basket, Shi Lei's rippling feet were like a volley kicking his heart, and he felt suffocated!
His youth, and the desperate situation on the pitch, finally made him lose himself in the suffocating pitch.
Josh. Smith is no longer the arrogance he had at the beginning of the second quarter, he is no longer roaring, he is quiet, and he has disappeared from the court under Shi Lei's defense.
The score was 32:26 and the lead was the Eagles, but no one believed that they could take a win away from here!
Woodson dutifully called a timeout, tweaking every problem and lineup, but even he knew that they were already having a hard time getting anything out of this game!
"Everybody wants to win, but there's always only one winner, and there's no doubt that it's going to be Celtic!"
At halftime, Shi Lei was interviewed by reporters, and when reporters asked him what he thought of the game, he answered reporters' questions like this.
It's hard to imagine that the reporter who got this answer believed it for no reason. He nodded his head as if he had become a worm, and if it weren't for the sign on his chest that read "Atlanta," people might have thought he was working in Boston.
In this game, Shi Lei is undoubtedly able to convince everyone. By this time, with the addition of eight points in the first quarter, he had scored 24 points, helping the Celtics, or leading the team, to complete a 14-point comeback, and they had a three-point lead over the Hawks by this time.
Of course, there is a credit for this. After Shi Lei came back, he didn't make many shots, and he turned his breakthroughs into assists. He knew that although it was the same score, he got it, and Shi Lei got it, and the meaning would be completely different, because Shi Lei was the starring role in this game. So he restrained the light on his body and hid behind the invisible brilliance emanating from Shi Lei's body.
"Dude, you need to be sharper, they feel the pain, but they're alive!"
This is Pierce's advice to Shi Lei after halftime.
"But they're just surviving!"
"There is no doubt about it!"
Woodson has no good solution, he has replaced half of the team's main players, Bibby, Josh, Horford, but the team is still lifeless.
"We must be a little more resolute, please remember our tactics, gentlemen!"
But it was just a futile cry, standing on the court again, the breath of death still made the Eagles' eyes dim, and only loneliness and silence remained.
In comparison, in the eyes of everyone in the Celts, there is a flame burning!
"Victory belongs to the Celts!"
It seems that the cheers of the fans who never stop are already a little hoarse, but all the voices of victory here have become louder!
Shi Lei collided with Mario, and he was reactivated by Woodson and became the main force to defend Shi Lei. But the first time he attacked, he felt that Shi Lei's impact was even more unmatched.
Is it a delusion? It's just a trade-off of momentum. The Celtics are like a rainbow, and the Hawks are depressed and sluggish, so in the eyes of Johnson, who is making up for the defense, Shi Lei seems to have become faster!
"Apparently, Atlanta has awakened a sleeping lion!"
Since last season's playoffs, Fagan has had a penchant for commenting on Celtics' games, and in this unwatched game, he sat in the commentary booth again.
Now the Hawks team is only Johnson and Williams, and the lineup is more defensive and more defensive, but they still can't stop the Celtics' offense, which undoubtedly adds to the burden on their hearts.
This made them lose a lot of offensive talent, and it became a lot more pitiful.
Without so many helpers on the court, Johnson could only believe in himself, who was also a Jordan successor, and forced a step-back jumper shot.
"Bang!"
Shi Lei suddenly burst out from behind Pierce and slapped Johnson and the two to the floor with the ball.
Step-back jumpers are hard to defend, in fact, it's just because they don't jump high enough, they don't get close enough!
.......
"He seems to be capable of anything, he can score, he can defend, he can defend the rebound, I never realized that winning would be so easy!"
Perkins' words after the game became the headline of the Boston Daily News' coverage of the game - "Stone Can Do Anything"!
The Los Angeles media, who came from afar, finally gave their old rival a positive evaluation in this game - "Some people are always able to do everything they want to do!" ”
"The King Returns, 51 Points Plunges Boston Into a Rage!"
has always been the backbone of touting Shi Lei, and "Sports Illustrated" certainly will not forget to make his voice heard: "Heaven and hell, fire and ice, it is hard to believe that the third-year Shi is already the most stable winning force in the playoffs of this great team!" ”
"Sweep!"
Celtic fans seemed even more impatient, unfurling such banners in the arena before the start of the second game between the two sides.
But that's not a good prayer!
Two days is not enough time to heal the Hawks' psychological injuries, and in fact they have been preparing for a season of playoff encounters between the two sides, but they still haven't found a way to defend against the Celtics' outside attack.
Shi Lei started this game, and he replaced Ray. Alan! Woodson's worst fears came true.
In the first quarter, Shi Lei scored 13 points with a burst shot and handed out 3 assists at the same time. The morale of the Celtics has finally weakened a bit, although it has allowed the Hawks to regain the advantage on the inside, but it is not big enough, compared to the disadvantage of their outside line against the Celtics' outside line!
The Celtics took a 7-point lead in the first quarter!
The Celtics usually rise in the second half of the game, so in both seasons, all the teams that have been able to beat this team have done so by a sufficient margin of points in the first half of the game.
So some media once said: "In the game against the Celtics, how well his opponent played in the first quarter can let everyone who watches the game know that there is no suspense in this game!" ”
It seemed to have evolved into a motto, and in the second quarter of the game, the Hawks' form improved. Well, the main thing is that without that atmosphere, the Celtics' bench allowed the Hawks to recover some points. But in the third quarter, the Celtics played a wave of 7:0 without warning, expanding the difference to 10 points in one fell swoop.
Then in this quarter of the game, the Celtics' sudden tightening of defense allowed the Hawks to score only 14 points in a single quarter. Although the Celtics also had a mediocre shooting percentage in this quarter, the 22 points were enough to make the game lose suspense before the start of the fourth quarter.
Back in Atlanta, the Hawks still didn't get a chance, they played a good half in the third game, but they also paid enough for the breakthrough of defending Shi Lei, Horford was fouled in the middle of the third quarter and was fouled, Pachuria, who came off the bench, couldn't keep up with Shi Lei in terms of mobility, allowing Shi Lei to score five points in a row, and at the same time gave Davis two assists, breaking the scorching situation on the court in one fell swoop.
No team has ever advanced from 3-0 down, so although there is still a fourth game to be played between the two sides, the Atlantans have lost hope of victory, and the Celtics have also turned their attention to another game at this time.
It was a very tough series, and the Magic and Cavaliers were 2-2 at this point.
Who will be Celtic's opponent in the Eastern Conference finals?