Chapter 109: Downturn
Reasonable collision area, this is Shi Lei's favorite position, here Shi Lei turned and pushed strongly, flipped Wallace into the inside line, Antonio wanted to make up for the defense too late, Shi Lei dunked successfully. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
If it weren't for Shi Lei's lack of height, Rivers really wanted to train him as an insider.
The Pistons' offense was in trouble at this time, and the Celtics' outside three had strong single defense capabilities, but the Pistons did not break through the masters. Moving the basketball into the interior, Wallace was seen by Garnett as not getting a chance to shoot at all. Shi Lei also spared the front and guarded Antonio firmly.
In the end, Wallace forced his hand to strike the iron.
Antonio's rebounding judgment is very good, and the card position is also very accurate, but Shi Lei's impact and flexibility make it impossible for him to grab this offensive rebound.
The Celtics still handed the ball to Shi Lei, who beat Wallace again, and when Antonio came up to make up for the defense, he threw the basketball to the basket and assisted Garnett to dunk it.
In the face of tight defense, the best way is to break the face with points, and Shi Lei's continuous baskets make the Pistons have to give up their strict defense of Garnett.
Garnett scored five straight points after that, and the Celtics went on a 9-2 run to close the gap.
The Celtics trailed only 41-43 in the first half.
In the third quarter, the two teams entered a tug-of-war, and the level of defense was like a preview of the finals, in which Shi Lei only hit one shot, but got five free throws.
With two minutes left in the quarter, the main players of both teams came off the break. The fierce competition has left everyone with a lot of physical strength.
After coming off the bench, the scene was much better, but no one could open the difference, and with 7:57 left in the game, the Pistons led by three points at 72:69.
However, the Celtics began to fight back, the main force came on, Pierce scored 3 points with free throws, and Shi Lei also made a layup again. After scoring five points in a row, the Celtics put the score out.
With 4:55 left in the quarter, Pierce made a steal, single-handedly rushed to the frontcourt, and after scoring a dunk, the Celtics extended their advantage to 81-76.
The Celtics went into another scoring drought, but the Pistons didn't take their chances, and Hamilton missed back-to-back free throws from Billups to score just one point in that time.
However, Prince forced a break to the basket with 2:36 left in the game, and then distributed the ball to Hamilton, who hit a three-pointer to put the Pistons down 80-81.
The game entered the white-hot stage, and Shi Lei, who was looking for a good opportunity, caused Antonio's foul under the basket, and scored three points with free throws.
Garnett added two more points from the free throw line, and the Celtics opened up a six-point deficit.
In the final moments, the Pistons' defense caused the Celtics to make consecutive errors in passing, and the Pistons took the opportunity to score four points to close the gap.
But in the first game between the two sides, Shi Lei, who gave Billups a fatal foul, completed his redemption here.
Shi Lei snatched the offensive rebound that Pierce missed, caused Antonio's foul under the basket again, knocked the opponent down, and scored another three points.
With less than a minute left in the game, Shi Lei helped the team lead by five points.
Billups made a miraculous comeback when he hit a three-pointer in a pinch. However, Shi Lei turned around and hit a layup with 8.5 seconds left in the game, which made the Pistons lose the opportunity to overtake the score.
Shi Lei scored 20 plus 10 again in this game to help the team get through the danger, but the good fortune of the Celtics seems to have come to an end.
Thunder. Allen's form continues to be sluggish, which even infects Pierce and Rondo. In the home game against the Bobcats, only Garnett maintained his level, scoring 24 points and eight rebounds. Allen scored five points, and Rondo and Pierce scored 13 points.
Shi Lei, who has two consecutive games of 20 plus, is finally brave in this game, and under the defense of Wallace of the Bobcats, Shi Lei only scored 11 points and failed to help the team again.
Celtic suffered their second home defeat of the season.
After a surprise home defeat to the Bobcats, the Celtics' January nightmare has only just begun.
Against the Nets, the Celtics' superstar cluster remained sluggish, shooting less than 40% from the field in the first three quarters of the game, putting the team 63-68 behind.
At the start of the fourth quarter, the Nets extended their advantage to seven points, but at this time the Celtics' superstars finally woke up and launched a 13-0 attack wave to overtake the score and avoid the team's first losing streak.
The team seems to be in a slump, with the Celtics unexpectedly losing another game against the Wizards on the road.
This game, Ray. Allen made only 3 of 13 shots and scored 8 points, Perkins went down early, Rondo disappeared inexplicably, although Shi Lei scored 21 points again, but to no avail.
For most of the second half, it was Celtic who had the upper hand. With 3:56 left in the game, the Celtics still led 74-70. The final few minutes have always been the most ferocious time for the Celtics, but today it was the opposite, and the Wizards began to fight back. After Butler hit two free throws, Antonio. Daniels forced a three-point shot, followed by Stevenson cheating Pierce on a foul from beyond the three-point line, hitting three free throws to put the Wizards on a 9-0 run to take a 79-74 lead with 34.2 seconds left in the game.
Garnett then hit just one of two free throws as the Celtics missed their last chance. While Pierce used a three-pointer to close the gap to three, it was too late.
"The Celtics are no longer invincible!"
After this game, Jamison threw this point out to the media.
"I'll wait for you at home, and then I'll say that later."
Pierce responded-for-tat.
Just one day later, the Celtics welcomed the Wizards.
"Let's kill them!"
Before the game began, Pierce was in front of the locker room, high-fiveing every team-mate who came out on the pitch, and perhaps the Celtic leader had a lot of confidence at this time.
The home team was also encouraged by the team's fans, who came to TD North Shore Gardens in full gear and wearing their favorite players' jerseys to cheer on the team.
Before the start of the game, Rivers was also surrounded by the media, and the high-spirited head coach of the new season had no grace on his face, and he was still a little skeptical, and he was also asking in his heart: "What happened to the Celtics?" ”