After the start of the second quarter of the game, Wang Xiao immediately felt the change in the defensive strategy of the Celtics.

The marking of George has increased quite a bit.

But again, there are only 10 people on the court, 5 on each side, no matter how powerful and perfect the tactics are, they can only be executed by these 5 people, and the number of people will inevitably lead to loopholes in the tactics.

George's mid-range threat has kept the Celtics on guard, and accordingly, the rest of the defence is bound to be slackened.

Wang Xiao immediately made a decision and immediately asked George to change his position, from the horn area to the position of one step inside the bottom corner three-point line, echoing Curry who was standing outside the bottom corner three-point line at the other end.

As soon as the space was further stretched, the Celtics' defense immediately had problems, and both Harden and Curry were under a lot less pressure on offense.

The Celtics' defense, which was established by Bulls head coach Thibodeau when he was an assistant coach with the Celtics, is characterized by the linkage between players and players, or a small area of defense.

Garnett's mobility can make up for the three-second problem caused by the NBA's defense. The coordinated defense of Allen and others has created the iron-blooded defense of this Green Army.

But now, George's excellent play in the first quarter of the game forced Pierce to concentrate on coping, and as a result, the Celtics' combined defense was forced to switch to man-to-man defense.

In this case, both Curry and Harden have too many opportunities to play.

Using the blocking and dismantling cooperation with Jordan Jr., Harden continued to rush into the interior, and in the case of man-marking, no matter how fast the Celtics' reaction was, it was too late to stop Harden.

"Squeak squeak—"

The referee's whistle blew, and Rivers' face was a little unpleasant.

On the court, Garnett had already received a second foul, and it was in just 2 minutes.

Although Harden's strength is far from reaching the peak of the future, his ability to make fouls is already a bit perfect, and Rao is an experienced player like Garnett, and he is also careless.

was whistled for two fouls in a row, Garnett was a little unhappy, he walked over to reason with the referee, but was pulled back by his teammates.

Now the league has begun to implement a zero-tolerance system, especially in the playoffs, which are fiercely resisted, as long as Garnett's words are a little more intense, he will inevitably be whistled, and if he is whistled for a technical foul or something, it will be a big loss.

The Wizards, who seized the opportunity, took advantage of the victory and extended the score further in the second quarter.

At 48:39, the gap in the score came to 9 points, and as the Celtics' defense was torn apart by George's mid-range shot, the Wizards' offensive firepower began to pick up, scoring 48 points in the first half, and it should not be difficult to score more than 100 points in the second half.

George didn't get many chances in the second quarter, but even so, he hit one 3-pointer and one mid-range shot, and his score rose to 19 points.

In the third quarter of the game, the Celtics still had no chance, because the Wizards were recognized as the strongest in the league in the third quarter.

The reason is simple, the Wizards' bench lineup is the best in the entire league.

When the stars of the two teams consumed too much in the first two quarters of the game and wanted to take advantage of the halftime break and the third quarter of the game to recover more physical strength on the bench, the bench on the Wizards' side was only time to exert its strength.

Harden and Butler, who didn't play much time in the first two quarters, launched ferocious attacks against the Celtics' defense in the third quarter.

In a matter of minutes, the difference of 9 points was widened to 15 points.

The Wizards' offensive frenzy made Rivers on the Celtics' side have to call two timeouts in a row, and then put Garnett, Pierce and others who have not rested in advance.

Rivers knew that this was not a good sign, but the situation did not allow him to decide.

The Celtics' bench lineup is actually quite good, Jeff. Green and Glenn. Davis is a standard bench bandit, but he really doesn't have enough to look at when facing the Wizards.

The Wizards can't count Harden and Butler on their side, but with Beverley, McGee, and Whiteside, they can compete with the Celtics' bench lineup, and when Harden and Butler, two players who are properly qualified to start the team, are on the court, the gap is quite large.

Rivers started also trying to get the young Rondo as well as the style of play that wasn't particularly physically draining Ray. Aaron pushed through this difficult time.

However Rondo + Ray. Allen's combination is completely no match for the combination of Harden + Butler, not that there is a huge gap in the strength of these two combinations.

It's because on the Wizards' side, there is a mad dog on the point guard.

At another time and space, Beverly was still playing in Russia and was still unknown.

But in this time and space, Beverley, who was selected and cultivated by Wang Xiao, has become an excellent role player in the eyes of many scouts.

As Curry's backup, Beverley has only averaged about 18 minutes per game this season, and in those 18 minutes, most of the time the player is still in Harden's hands, resulting in Beverley averaging only 6.7 points, 2 rebounds and 1.4 assists per game.

But that doesn't hide the fact that Beverley is superior defensively.

Beverley's tenacious style of play, excellent defensive awareness, and top-notch physicality among point guards have caused many point guards problems in the regular season.

In this game, Beverley, who came off the bench, immediately focused on Rondo.

Although Rondo has grown into one of the league's top point guards, as a point guard, his shortcomings are too obvious, and that is poor shooting ability.

Taking advantage of this, Beverley can easily lock up Rondo, so that he can only use the big picture and passing to his teammates.

But under Beverley's mad dog-like entanglement, Rondo's organization of the offense was not particularly smooth.

With Rondo entangled by Beverley, Ray Allen was naturally no match in the face of Harden and Butler's rotational offense.

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On the Celtics side, Pierce and Garnett played early, while on the Wizards' side, Wang Xiao did not change the main force at the first time, but continued to let the bench lineup play on the court.

The appearance of Pierce and Garnett immediately reversed the unfavorable situation of the Celtics, especially Pierce, he clearly felt that when facing Butler, the pressure was much less than facing George, after all, the former is not good at defense, and George has begun to be a bit of a defensive warrior under the cultivation of Wang Xiao.

In the face of Butler's defense, Pierce scored consecutive points, and Garnett used his experience and skill to single McGee and Whiteside several times on the inside, and finally chased the score gap back to only 5 points.

And at this time, the time for the third quarter of the game is running out.

At this time, Wang Xiao was unhurriedly replaced by the main force here.

With the appearance of Curry, George, Jamison and other players, the rest time was not enough, and Pierce, who had been on the court for four or five minutes, Garnett and others were immediately a little overwhelmed.