Chapter 50: The North Shore Gardens
Boston's Fleet Street, the "North Shore Garden" arena is located here, the name "North Shore Garden" is actually a habitual saying for Celtics fans, after all, their team's legendary achievements are obtained in the "North Shore Garden" arena, the stadium on Fleet Street was actually called Fleet Street Arena when it opened in 1995, this arena is the shared home of the Boston Grizzlies and Celtics of the ice hockey league. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
Although it is not as long as the name "Madison Square Garden", when it comes to achievements in the NBA, the New York team can't catch up with the Celtics, not to mention some emerging teams in the West, even the Lakers have had the strength to compete with the Celtics since the eighties, and the entire sixties of the last century belonged to the Celtics.
Liu Han and the Mavericks players arrived in Boston on Dec. 17, and it was approaching Christmas, and there was a kind of pre-holiday anxiety and impatience throughout Boston.
Pierce and Liu Han didn't meet before the game, after all, they were going to play directly today, and it was always not good to see if they met, so it was best to meet directly on the court.
Is the current head coach of the Celtics Jim? O'Brien, he has taken over the Celtics since the 00-01 season, unlike the Celtics' previous traditions, Jim is also a coach who pays a lot of attention to outside projection and speed, which makes him not too valued in the team's management, and his achievements in recent years have been quite good, stabilizing the team in the top eight in the East, however, it must be noted that the management of the Celtics always has a lot of "old guys", and these "old guys" always mention to everyone back then, The tactics pursued by the current Celtics are devalued to nothing, and there are actually various disagreements within the management, and those who don't go to the stack always feel that they have the greatest reason.
When Liu Han stepped into the North Shore Garden Arena, the stadium was already full of people, and it can be regarded as a stadium with a relatively high attendance rate in the entire league, and there is always no shortage of sports fans in Boston.
See Paul again? When Pierce, Liu Han saw the vicissitudes of the other party's face, and he knew Pierce's strength, which showed the hardships and dangers he had gone through.
Sometimes, mental training is more likely to lead to vicissitudes than physical training.
After the warm hug, Pierce didn't say anything, just patted his old friend on the back heavily, and Liu Han didn't say anything, everything was silent.
The game officially started, the Celtics jumped the ball in the circle is the former All-Star player Wenbeck, but Wenbeck's form has declined rapidly in recent years, although he is just over 30, but Wenbeck's physical condition is really poor, he can win the season average of 21 points plus 10 rebounds per game, but now he plays less than 30 minutes per game at most.
However, the jump ball Chinese Baker still successfully defeated Nowitzki, and the two sides were about the same height, but Wenbeck's bullet speed was still much faster than Nowitzki.
Liu Han directly faced Pierce, this is a very normal alignment, Alan McGee will definitely not be able to defend Pierce, but he will defend Michael? James is still okay.
Mike? James is now the Celtics' starting point guard, but he is a player with an overly aggressive appetite.
The ball that Wenbeck dialed out was taken by Walter? McAtty is a non-standard power forward with a similar style to Nowitzki, but with a bit more athleticism than Nowitzki.
The Celtics' offense is also launched from the outside, and in their tactical system, Pierce is not only the offensive end, but also the running and transit of the ball, and relying too much on Pierce's play is one of the Celtics' shortcomings.
Liu Han clung to Pierce after half the game, he had actually felt the change in Pierce, at least this kind of relaxed state was something that Pierce couldn't achieve before.
In the past, Pierce was always in a tense state, and when he did various movements, he always couldn't do seven parts and three parts, and although he used all his strength to make some movements look powerful, he was often caught by the opponent to the extreme.
But now Liu Han feels that Pierce's body is in a relaxed state, but Liu Han also knows that as long as Pierce wants to move, it is also very threatening.
However, the Celtics' offense seems to have deliberately bypassed Pierce today, or Liu Han, Mike James took the ball to the front court and directly used Winsbeck's high cover to shoot outside the three-point line, and the Celtics were in good shape today.
The Mavericks' next offense also revolves around Liu Han, Nowitzki is not the main point of attack today, and Windbeck is still very experienced in defense even if he is not in good physical condition, after all, he is an All-Star player of the year.
Liu Han took the ball to the front court and directly faced Pierce, Pierce was also in an unhurried state when defending, he knew Liu Han's strength, and he also knew that he couldn't try all his strength at once, so it was easy to be deceived by Liu Han to lose his center of gravity.
Liu Han saw that Pierce's defense was relatively simple, so he didn't make too many moves, he knew that in the face of such a defense, too many feints were easy to let himself lose his rhythm, just two crotch dribbles and then suddenly stepped back to shoot three points, the speed of the shot was very fast, Pierce had not had time to save Liu Han's three points.
is still the arc as always, and Pierce has to sigh that Liu Han's strength is maintained so well.
The game between the two sides began, both of which were based on outside offense, and the playing styles of both teams were also biased towards simple and effective, so the game round between the two teams was played very quickly, which made the fans of the North Shore Garden Arena too enjoyable, although the Celtics were still slightly better than many Mavericks to a certain extent, but the score of the two sides was not stretched too wide.
Pierce rarely took a shot today, focusing on defense while attracting Liu Han's defense in attack.
Without Liu Han's supplementary defense, the Mavericks' defense is relatively weak, and if they defend the joint defense, it is easy to be seized by the Celtics' outside offense, so the Celtics' score has been tightly biting the Mavericks.
Halfway through the first quarter, the score of the two sides had reached 17-15, and the scores of both sides in the first quarter were almost equal to the scores of the Spurs or the Rockets in the first quarter.