The game got a little bit special, and when Sun Ce and Rondo came on, it was when both teams had a chance to take the lead.

Because the rest of the Grizzlies were exhausted trying to bite the score, Sun Ce became a key factor.

On the Celtics side, Pierce retains his stamina, defending and occasionally helping with catch-and-shoot blocking, and Rondo is already one of the Celtics' best players.

And whether the two can help the team gain the lead lies in the Grizzlies' protection of defensive rebounding, that is, the rebounding battle between Sun Ce and Rondo!

While the rest of the Grizzlies tried their best to get stuck with the Celtics' interior group, Sun Ce had a chance to play a counterattack and speed up if he protected the defensive rebound.

Rondo don't look at the assists today, but in fact, the main thing is that the Celtics players are strong, and the Grizzlies defend very well today, especially after Sun Ce found a small way to defend against Rondo, the Grizzlies used tall guards to defend Rondo, Rondo couldn't attract a pinch under the basket, and Ray Allen, Garnett, and Pierce were able to shoot the ball in.

When the Celtics can only complete the offense like this and still bite the score, if Rondo grabs the offensive rebound, he can get extra points to offset the counterattack led by Sun Ce.

And Rondo ...... The thief is great when the rebounding ball explodes!

For Sun Ce, it is a thief.

Stealing his rebounds like a thief!

Sun Ce remembers watching the 2010 playoffs when the Celtics beat the Cavaliers in his last life, Rondo's offensive rebounding almost snatched the Cavaliers inside, and the Cavaliers had a good internal card position, which limited the rebounding of the Celtics' interior combination, but he couldn't prevent Rondo, and was even played by Rondo with 29 points, 18 rebounds and 13 assists in a single game, and in that game, Rondo relied on offensive rebounds to get 8 free throws and 4 assists, and single-handedly overturned the Cavaliers.

At that time, Sun Ce still thought that the inside line of the Cavaliers was so stupid.

Now this matter has fallen to his grandson!

At halftime, the Grizzlies' adjustment was mainly to reduce Sun Ce's physical exertion, so that Sun Ce could play on the court for a while, like Gay, and in the second half, Sun Ce was on him to contain Tony Allen's defense.

Pierce defensively is also good, but he is certainly much worse than Tony Allen, who is a quasi-All-Defensive Team level, and Pierce has nothing to do with the All-Defensive Team at his peak, he is more suitable for guarding heavy players like James, Stephen Jackson, and Artest.

As long as Pierce defended Guy, Sun Ce passed the ball to Guy and let Guy pick it first, and Guy did his best to score two.

And Pierce really can't prevent Guy from counterattacking, once Sun Ce wins the defensive rebound, Guy gets to the front court to receive the ball, and it is difficult for the Celtics to prevent his cut and attract passes after the defense.

In order to avoid this, Tony Allen finally let Sun Ce go and went to fight Guy.

In order to let Sun Ce play well, in order to drag the game to the last moment, Coach Hollins has played his strongest coaching ability!

If it was such a difficult game before All-Star Weekend, the Grizzlies might give up and save their energy to play other games.

But now it's a different story, you need to play the Celtics to test your ability, give the players confidence, and now is the time to lay the foundation for the playoffs!

This fight to the end!

After the third quarter, the offense of the two teams played relatively well in the third quarter, the Grizzlies had a clear strategy on their side, and the Celtics also developed a special strategy for Rondo.

The Grizzlies scored 23 points in the third quarter, which was already impressive compared to the first half, and the Celtics scored 24 points.

The first three quarters of the two teams were tied at 60!

Two key players rested in the third quarter, with Gasol Jr. of the Grizzlies playing only two minutes in the third quarter and Garnett playing only four minutes on the Celtics' side.

After the start of the fourth quarter, the Grizzlies went all-in, and the Celtics finally showed their strongest defensive lineup, with Rondo, Tony Allen, Pierce, Garnett, and Perkins on the court together!

The battle between the fifth in the league in defensive efficiency and the fifth in defensive efficiency is bloody!

Even if the physical strength is well preserved, by the fourth quarter, the physical strength is definitely not as good as it was at the beginning of the game.

The biggest impact is not the efficiency of the defense, but the accuracy of the shot.

The two teams did not score a single goal in the first two minutes of the fourth quarter, and each team scored only two goals in the first five minutes, and the scoring was basically stagnant.

Both of the Celtics' goals in the field were scored by Pierce, and his one-on-one ability is the strongest in Celtics history; Coincidentally, the Grizzlies' side also scored two goals in the field of one-on-one ability by the most capable player in team history, with Randolph scoring two.

Apart from these two, no one else scored in the first five minutes of the fourth quarter.

5 minutes played a wave of 6-6......

After Pierce hit the second goal to tie the score again, the two teams scored zero points in the next minute, and they stayed up until the sixth minute of the fourth quarter, when the Grizzlies called a timeout and entered the official timeout.

Sun Ce rested for half a quarter, and he was in a cold sweat......

Entering the pause, seeing that there were already staff members walking up to him to pick up the training clothes he took off, Sun Ce silently took off his training clothes, and felt scared for the first time when he was on the field.

Take a deep breath, I'm afraid of wool!

Isn't it just a regular season?

And if you don't play, how can you beat Rondo!

Sun Ce played 24 minutes in the first three quarters, got 10 points, 16 rebounds and 6 assists, and the rebounds in the third quarter have broken his regular season rebounding record, and he has previously scored 15 rebounds in a single game.

Sun Ce felt that he was 20+10 hopeful.

Rondo, on the other hand, has played 32 minutes now, with 8 points, 12 rebounds and 9 assists, almost a triple-double.

At present, Sun Ce still leads a little bit 22-21, thanks to the rough defense of the two teams in the first half of the fourth quarter, Rondo did not have a good chance to go to the basket, and the waving long arms were too terrifying.

Coach Hollins replaced Battier, Randolph, Gasol Jr., and Conley, leaving only Guy, who has excellent physical strength, and replaced Sun Ce, Anthony Parker, Cook, and Jordan Jr.

Cook, who has performed well in the recent three-point performance, Anthony Parker, who has been very consistent, plus the two counter-attacking arrows of Guy and Jordan Jr., and Sun Ce, the playmaker, is already the best lineup that Coach Hollins can come up with at this stage.

It's not that I don't want Randolph to play, but even Randolph can't hold it anymore, otherwise after Pierce responds, Randolph won't stop and will definitely continue to fight.

can only arrange suitable tactics for Sun Ce as much as possible.

On the Celtic side, the current situation is something they did not expect!

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PS: For the rampaging Niu Ye greatly added (2/3).

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