At the end of the first quarter, the Celtics still chased the score.

At 29:27, the Celtics are still two points behind the Trail Blazers.

Vanderwig single-handedly propped up the team's offense in the second half of the first quarter, and the Trail Blazers' substitutes Drexler and Norris were both average, which was also a small mistake by Ramsey when rotating the lineup.

He took into account that Sampson could limit McHale, but he wanted too much to preserve the stamina of the main lineup.

On the Celtics' side, Dennis Johnson completely overtook Drexler, while Norris was average against Parish, who controlled the three-second zone well.

The play of these two allowed the Celtics to catch up with the score in the second half of the first quarter, and it has to be said that Ramsey was a bad move.

However, Ramsey decided to use a bench facelift at the beginning of the second quarter, and now that the rotation plan and tactical plan are in place, it must be strictly enforced.

The Trail Blazers traded Jerome Cauchy, Colt and Kenny Carr and replaced Van der Verwic, Valentin and Norris.

It's a four-in-one second line-up, which is very rare in Ramsay's rotation, and Ramsay usually keeps two or three main players on the pitch to play with substitutes.

This lineup is obviously lacking in offense, only Sampson is a stable offensive point, Colt and Corcy are both rookies, and Drexler is more limited from the first quarter, and he still scores.

Ramsey's rotation also made Moster very strange: "The Trail Blazers' lineup, four bench players, it's really surprising, Ramsey actually sent all his bench players on the court, is he doing rehearsals for garbage time in the fourth quarter?" ”

On the Celtics side, Jones was much more conservative, and he only replaced Larry with Scott Waedman.

?? De, while reintroducing Danny Ainge, who was replaced by Quentin Buckner at the end of the first quarter, was on the court.

I don't know if Anji, who felt cold in the first quarter, was warmer after missing a while on the bench.

"At the start of the second quarter, the Celtics served, and Angie was back on the court, hoping that he would sit on the bench for a while and get his hand back to normal, at least you had to make a 15-foot jump shot in the open space of our little angel." Most watched Angie dribble across the half court and said with some "flesh". "Angel" is Angie's nickname.

However, Anji's style of play has nothing to do with Angels, this small guard who looks polite and has the blood of the Celtics' "unscrupulous means to win" in his bones.

Angie was heavily defended by Colter in the half, and at the beginning of the second quarter, the Trail Blazers unleashed a full-court press.

In terms of speed and strength, Angie was no match for rookie Colt, but the cunning white man began to turn around and slowly rub Colt into the middle line with his ass.

At the same time, Angie's hands are not clean, dribbling with her right hand and lifting her elbow with her left hand against Colter's ribs.

Angie suddenly turned around and elbowed Colt with one acceleration across the halfway line, leaving Colt behind him.

The most feared thing about pressing the defense is to be thrown off by the opponent, once it is thrown off, it means that other players will have to come to make up for it, Colt was thrown away by Ange's little tricks, and Drexler had to go to the top of the arc to make up for Ange.

One leak leaked everywhere, Drexler came up to make up for the defense, and naturally missed Dennis Johnson, Angie passed the ball to Dennis Johnson who cut inward, Johnson received the ball and broke inside.

On the inside, McHale and Robert Parrish formed a wall in the three-second zone, opening up a straight path for Johnson to the basket, Johnson scored an easy layup, and at 29:29, the Celtics equalized the score at the beginning of the second quarter!

"The Trailblazer's three-second zone is as wide as the Great Lakes! DJ's layup gave the Celtics an equalizer! Most's voice was once again high-pitched, and Boston Garden Square was boiling as ever.

The 12-point gap has been quietly smoothed out, and the Celtics have the impression that they haven't made a splash yet.

It's true that the Celtics haven't started to work hard yet, and everything is going on in an orderly manner, but the Trail Blazers are actually saving up energy, and Ramsey put so many benches on the court just to buy more rest time for the main players and then establish an advantage in the second half of the second quarter.

But the premise is that these benches must grit their teeth in the first half of the second quarter and not be opened up too far by the Celtics.

Fortunately, Sampson is still there, and at this time he has become the most reliable point for the Trail Blazers on the court.

"Sampson got the ball in the low post and faced McHale, this matchup must have played out many times at the University of Minnesota, and hopefully Kevin won't be afraid of his seniors, this is the NBA...... Sampson turns! Easily put the basket and the ball went in...... Pretty footsteps, both Parish and McHale were deceived by his feints. ”

In the first quarter, Sampson was not involved in the team's offense, so his physical strength was still very abundant, just now he faced McHale's defense in the low post on the right, a confident inside turn, directly facing the front of the basket, and then under the sandwich of Parish and McHale, he used a feint to point up the two, and then an easy basketball to score two points.

"Fortify your defense! Press! Tight!" Ramsey yelled from the sidelines, he had never put so much emphasis on defense as he did today.

The Trail Blazers have always been an offensive team, and Ramsey has a motto that "offense is the best defense," and he gets up wherever he falls, and he recovers as many points as he concedes.

But now that the Trail Blazers have a lineup on the court, it is impossible to attack against the Celtics, so the best strategy is for the two sides to abandon each other's martial arts, I can't score, and you don't want to score!

Anyway, get through this time first.

Colter learned smartly this time, no longer pressing closely, but staring closely at him one step away from Angie, who dribbled past half court, handed the ball to Johnson, and ran to the bottom corner as an ambush shooter.

Kenny Karl defended a little better than Norris, so instead of going around Parish, he held off the chief's chrysanthemum.

From the beginning to the present, the chief's expression is like that of the old Indian chief, as if he has been petrified by the strong wind on the North American plains, whether Gan Guoyang dunks on his head or Norris goes around him, he has a calm face.

Gan Guoyang sat on the sidelines and looked at Parish, he felt that this player had a different temperament, which seemed to be like a black stone, ordinary but tough.

"Stop him Carl!" Gan Guoyang shouted from the sidelines, and he felt that Parish should be the main point of attack for the Celtic attack.

Sure enough, the ball was passed to Weedman on the left, and Parish suddenly made a quick inward cut, rubbed Karl with his shoulder, and ran into the three-second zone.

Wiedman threw a high-profile pass to the basket, and the 7-foot-2 Parrish jumped lightly, grabbed the basketball with both hands in the air, and poured the ball into the basket!

A light and swift aerial relay, Parish didn't smash the basket as hard as some big centers to reduce the life of the basket, just touched it lightly, and then landed and turned away.

The score was levelled again, and Ramsey could only shake his head next to him.

Although Parrish is not a super center like Abdul-Jabbar, he is very good at dealing with some ordinary interior players, because he is smart enough and he is very good at taking advantage of his physical advantages.

On the Trail Blazers' side, apart from Sampson, the most reliable point is Drexler.

But Drexler's state today is not good, first, he received a tight defense from Dennis Johnson, and DJ's defense made Magic very uncomfortable; The second is that the Trail Blazers didn't play fast offense at all, Drexler's strengths were not brought into play, and grinding positional warfare was not his strong point.

Sure enough, after receiving the ball at the top of the arc, Dressk struggled again under Johnson's defense, unable to break through, and passed the ball nowhere to go, and finally after two dribbles, he could only distribute the ball to Colter on the right.

Ramsey watched Drexler's somewhat awkward performance on the court, but still looked patient, and he knew that this was a workout that Drexler had to go through, and if he couldn't achieve something in his ball-handling and off-ball movement, he would always be a fast attacker, not the team's core shooting guard.

Colter was confident in his shot, and after receiving the pass, he didn't hesitate to shoot directly from 16 feet.

"Phew!" The ball hit the basket and didn't go in.

The Trail Blazers once again went against the grain and didn't give up frontcourt rebounds, with Cauchy, Drexler and Sampson all squeezing under the basket to grab frontcourt rebounds.

Jerome Cauchy grabbed the ball out of five or six people with his superior reaction speed, and then directly tossed the basket with one hand!

"Bah~" Under the interference of the tree-like Parrish, the ball was thrown lightly.

But Sampson got his right hand with McHale and single-handedly took the ball in the air with his left hand.

He threw the ball to the basket, and then the referee blew for a foul and McHale pushed.

The ball rolled on the basket twice and fell into the basket!

"Yes! Well done! Gan Guoyang suddenly rushed up from the bench and shouted at Sampson.

Sampson just nodded to the bench, but it was clearly a smug shot for him, and McHale was a bit depressed by comparison.

No matter which team McHale is on, he is a proper starter in terms of strength, and his role as a substitute for the Celtics is to meet the needs of the team's tactics and lead the team to increase points in the second team period.

But in this game, when he met Mitchell Sampson, he didn't even have a few chances to shoot, and he didn't score a point, and he couldn't get Sampson in defense.

"McHale is still helpless in the face of Sampson, giving Sampson a chance to play three-pointers, I really hope McHale is not a graduate of the University of Minnesota, so he may not be too afraid of Sampson." It was also rare for Moster to see McHale struggle so much in the game commentary.

"Huh!" Sampson hit a free throw and the Trail Blazers took another three-point lead, which was extremely beneficial for the Trail Blazers, who only had to wait a little longer until the main team came on.

Defensively, the Trail Blazers once again managed to stop the Celtics' offense, and Angie was too casual in his passing, only to be cut off by Jerome Cauchy.

“run,run,run！” This time, Ramsey didn't let the players slow down, but yelled at the team to break fast and let the players launch a counterattack.

At this time, it was time for Drexler to show his skills, Cauchy passed the ball to Drexler, and Drexler lowered his head and dribbled into the middle of the field!

Dennis Johnson followed Drexler to try to pick up the ball with his hands, and Drexler looped the ball from the right side to the left and jumped straight to the free throw line!

"Beep!" The referee's whistle blew and Dennis Johnson was fouled, and he couldn't afford to watch Drexler make an easy layup.

With Drakes at the free-throw line and one of two free throws, the Trail Blazers extended the margin to four more points, and it was clear that the bench had overdone.

Jones called a timeout, and if the Celtics couldn't even play the Trail Blazers' bench, the game wouldn't be playable.

And for the Trail Blazers, it's time for their main players to go all out and build an advantage.