The Celtics are now in the midst of a petty theft.

Seeing that they are about to be overtaken by the Bucks, the last few games are tough.

The Celtics have had a terrible year, having reached the second round with a 49-33 record last year, and this year they are hopeful of bringing in Vin Baker, who earns more than Antoine Walker and Pierce, who has just signed a contract extension, and trading Rodney Rodgers for Tony Decker as a quality point guard.

But unexpectedly, when Wen Baker came to Celtic, he directly collapsed and didn't know his mother.

Although after the suspension, Wen Baker's state collapsed, but he is still at the NBA starter level, and played the worst performance of his career up to last season last season, but at least he has an average of 14+6 data per game, so he can be an inside killer by relying on a fat body, and the singles shooting rate is still about 45 percent, and he can stir up trouble on the inside, as long as he doesn't meet a first-class defender, Wen Baker's interior singles are still very strong.

But this year, Wen Baker directly collapsed to an average of 5+3 per game, and he was out of breath and couldn't run after 10 minutes.

In addition, Antoine Walker also has problems, similar to the contract of the madman, the contract can be renewed early after the first four years of the contract, so Antoine Walker has been moving towards a contract extension, and in general condition, he throws the ball for the sake of data, 38 percent shooting rate and 31 percent three-point shooting rate, and averages 20 points per game and 2.5 three-pointers per game, which is tied for second in the league with Maddy, is simply maddening.

Of course, since the Celtics don't have a better scorer than Antoine Walker other than Pierce, and Antoine Walker has seven rebounds and 4.5 assists this year, it's acceptable.

But this record is much worse than last season.

But it's been until now, the playoff spots have been decided, and it depends on the rankings.

The Bucks are in hot pursuit, and no one wants to meet the Nets in the first round of the playoffs, but the last four games of the Celtics are against the Hawks, Knicks, Raptors, and 76ers, except for the Raptors, the other three games are difficult to play, and the Bucks are much luckier, although they also have to play opponents like the Pacers and Pistons, but the other two are the Cavaliers and the Bulls.

In this way, the Celtics with 43 wins are likely to be tied by the Bucks with 42 wins, and the Celtics and Bucks have a 1-2 record against each other, and the Celtics are likely to be overtaken as a result.

However, who would have thought that the Hawks, who performed well from January to March and had the strongest record in the East since 2003, would actually do something on a whim, as if they only needed to make the playoffs, and they were not interested in the rankings at all.

The Celtics players never dreamed that the Hawks themselves would do some weird tricks in the final moments, and even the Cavaliers lost, leaving the offense in a mess.

This can undoubtedly be seen as a send-off for the Celtics! It can be described as a willow and a bright flower.

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Boston, one of the world's famous education centers, Harvard, MIT and other famous universities are in Boston, so, Chinese and Asian students, overseas Chinese, Asians are a lot, the rogue alliance also has a rudder here, most Asians and Asians in the United States, a country with serious skin color problems, will choose to huddle together for warmth, in addition to the island country, no matter which country the island people go to, they all play their own games, at most follow the Americans behind the ass to wave the flag and shout, except for the United States, other countries they are consciously superior, After all, he is the number one little brother of the Americans.

Celtics fans were worried about being overtaken by the Bucks, so they wanted to win the remaining four games, and when the Hawks entered, the audience booed, but in Boston's frenetic basketball atmosphere, hundreds of fans behind the technical table cheered loudly for the Hawks like a clear stream.

The Hawks only come to Boston twice a year, even if you add the Rockets, Lakers, and Spurs, there are only five games a year when Asian players come to Boston to play, like Wang Zhizhi and Battle, it is difficult to be regarded as stars, so this season, Liu Mang is already very famous, Yao Ming is the champion show, and when they come to Boston to play, it is a carnival for local Asian fans.

The fans are always the loveliest, due to the recent poor state of the Hawks, Liu Mang's fans in Boston are worried about the Eagles, the Hawks came to Boston, they risked being beaten, and they got the tickets behind the technical table, and cheered for the Eagles with nearly 20,000 local team fans around.

When Liu Mang entered, he expected the Celtics fans to target them, but he didn't expect that there would be so many fans of his own, not to mention, he was really moved!

Liu Mang pulled Jason Terry to the front of the technical table and waved to the fans like a big star, as if this was not the scene of the game, but his fan meeting......

Jason Terry seems to have dug a hole into it, this is the home of other teams! Our team is like this, and we still run to provoke.

Seeing Liu Mang come to greet his group, the fans became even more excited and cheered loudly.

But the fans are gone, hey, hey, this is our Celtics' home stadium!

And your recent record is so bad, 1-3, and you are still in the mood to interact with the fans?

Celtics fans have a strong feeling of being slighted, they are sixth in the East, and the Hawks are only eighth in the East! Celtics fans were very annoyed when they saw Liu Mang interacting with the fans, and immediately used boos to cover up the cheers of the only hundreds of Hawks fans.

Liu Mang "cut", these Boston fans are so uncute, kill their team!

When the starters of the home team Celtics entered the stadium, they happened to see Liu Mang interacting with the fans, Pierce still had the same expression of rejection thousands of miles away, and Antoine Walker couldn't stop laughing.

"Ace was so much fun, and we went to say hello to the fans." Antoine Voula ran out with a cold-faced Pierce.

Pierce is so helpless, funny fart! People make 2.4 three-pointers per game, you have to make 2.5 three-pointers per game, but people shoot 5.9 three-pointers per game, you shoot 8 three-pointers per game, and they shoot 48 percent from the field, and you shoot 38 percent......

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"Jason, you don't have to worry, all of us will support you, don't have pressure, just play the tactics, don't worry about the pressure of the game, we are in a secure position in ......the playoffs"

The game is about to start, Coach Kruger still decided to try again in this game, this kind of thing is not good, what if it opens up all of a sudden, sometimes there will be the kind of situation that can't run in for 82 games a season, but what if it does, wouldn't it be right?

After the pre-game mobilization and seeing the starters on the field to do the opening moves, Coach Kruger returned to the bench and sat down.

"Lang, isn't it too risky for us to continue trying like this?" Mike Woodson thinks that the previous style of play was very good, he was a defense-oriented coach, he felt that the offense was enough, and it was good to strengthen the defense, but now it is not as good as the original offense, no matter how good the defense is, even if the opponent is limited to less than 95 points per game, he can't score 90 points, what's the use?

"For the last time! If you don't succeed today, you can adjust it back next season, when you play the Pacers in the next game. "Coach Kruger is also under a lot of pressure, most of the teams are a combination of inside and outside these years, and often a combination of internal and external lines, there are very few teams with a double guard organizational core, such an attempt he is under a lot of pressure, and the team will become more difficult to defend if it succeeds, if it affects the team's original tactical cohesion, it will be worth the loss.

So this game is not successful for Coach Kruger, and this plan can only be put on hold for the time being.

The two teams started on the field, Antoine Walker came to greet the Hawks players very warmly, Liu Mang looked at Antoine Walker, who was getting fatter and fatter, smiling so brightly, and then looked at Pierce, with frost on his face, the twin stars are really not the same at all.

Eagles starters: Liu Mang, Prince, Rahim, Mohammed, Ratliff.

Celtic starters: Tony Deck, Pierce, Eric Williams, Antoine Walker, Tony Barty.

Decker played with the Celtics in the second half of last season, but was waived due to poor performance, and later signed a one-year 2 million contract with the Nets, who knew that it broke out, with a 39.5 percent three-point shooting rate this year, averaging 1.8 three-pointers per game, and was replaced by the Celtics with Rodney Rodgers.

Eric Williams is a rookie in 1995, when the rookie year was over, together with Rasheed Wallace and Garnett, he was called one of the three most potential forwards of the year, higher than the evaluation of the year's champion show, second only to the best rookie flying squirrel, the three rookie season data are almost the same, and they also improved at the same time in the second year, becoming a quasi-first-class interior with an average of 15+7 per game, but when he was in the third year, he was greatly injured and ruined his explosiveness, and now he can only be reduced to a role player, which is really embarrassing, before the third-year season was reimbursed, He averaged 19 points per game, better than Garnett and Rasheed Wallace at the time.

Barty, who had a bitter and aggrieved face, saw the other party's arm thicker than his own, and his expression was even more sad, as the No. 5 pick in Duncan's draft year, he didn't play the kind of dominance he had in college, but was so soft.

The referee blows the whistle for the start of the game and throws the ball into the air.

Ratliff likes nothing more than to ravage the inside of this soft egg, making a weird scream before the ball reaches its highest point, jumping up and flicking the ball backwards.

Barty glanced at the referee with an aggrieved expression, but the referee ignored it, but fortunately, the Celtics were very disciplined defensively, and Barty hurried back to defend in Pierce's shout.

Liu Mang received the ball and advanced quickly, but Pierce was already in place, and Eric Williams, a tenacious small forward, was ready to pack at any time outside the free throw line.

After Ratliffe and Mohammed entered the inside line, the Eagles did not pause, and the tactics immediately ran.

It was Pierce who defended Liu Mang, and Derk was not tall enough to jump up, so he couldn't defend Liu Mang, so it was Pierce who defended.

Liu Mang took a step forward with his right foot, Pierce didn't move, seeing this, Liu Mang started with this step!

If you say accelerate, you will accelerate, it's too direct and too sloppy! Pierce hurriedly moved to the left rear, but was a beat slower, and Muhammad, who was running out to block the demolition, got stuck in position first, and Pierce and Muhammad collided together! Mohammed clutched on to Pierce's shirt.

Liu Mang stepped back and threw a three-point shot! Antoine Walker, who followed Muhammad's defense, was unexpectedly fast, and pounced to give Liu Mang a lot of interference, Liu Mang added a little back, and the angle of the shot was crooked!

"Rebounding!" When Liu Mang threw it, he felt that it was wrong, and immediately shouted.

The two men under the basket immediately ...... Not at all intense, Ratliff pressed Barty to put the ball into the basket.

Ratliff didn't expect that he would one day be able to play O'Neal's posture, running back excitedly after dunking.

Coach Jim O'Brien asked Vin Baker to hurry up and get ready to play, and the inside tonnage was insufficient.

The offense and defense switched, the Celtics attacked, and Decker pressed the rhythm to push over.

After advancing to the front court, Decke handed the ball to Eric Williams, who headed in the curvature.

This year's Celtics have become a three-point team, playing a very different offense from last season, except for Barty, the other four starters have an average three-point shooting rate of 35 percent, adding up to an average of 7.1 three-pointers per game, and the entire Celtics average 8.8 three-pointers per game, after Deck traded back, the Celtics played until the end of the season, averaging second-place three-pointers per game! Second only to the Dallas Mavericks' 8.9 three-pointers, which is close to one more than the Hawks' average of 7.9 three-pointers per game.

Eric Williams held the ball at the top of the arc, everyone else was blocking and dismantling the run, running for most of the day, and it didn't have a good effect, the Celtics' offense has always been a big problem, it seems that there are many scorers, but there are not many stable scorers, but the defense is good, conceding an average of 93.4 points per game, and only 92.7 points per game, running very hard, but not getting rid of the defense, only one point ran out of chances, he is...... Antoine Walker!

With four seconds left, Eric Williams threw the ball to Antoine Walker, who came to the right 45-degree angle, and Antoine Walker took the ball!

It's true that Antoine Walker is quite difficult to defend against this, hitting anyone in the wrong place, Muhammad didn't keep up, Antoine Walker received the ball and hit a three-point shot.

Then the Hawks also returned the color, after Liu Mang broke through, Raheem gave Prince a no-ball block, and Prince received Liu Mang's pass and returned the three points to color.

Antoine Walker was a standard opener, scoring seven straight points from the start, one from the outside, and four points from the inside to help the Celtics start the game with 11 straight points.

But the Celtics scored 11 straight points in three minutes and it didn't affect the Hawks.

On the Hawks' side, steady and steady, Liu Mang organized the offense, threw when he should shoot, and passed when he should pass, although he didn't stop the Celtics at the beginning, Liu Mang didn't rush to let Rahim go to Antoine Walker's most irritable minutes at the beginning of each game, and he didn't let Rahim consume physical strength to play inside singles, but ran to organize the offense.

Coach Kruger changed Liu Mang to the starter, in addition to strengthening the defense, is to free Raheem from the strange circle of consuming a lot of physical energy in the opening game, Liu Mang's scoring ability is not necessarily as strong as Jason Terry, the burst score may be stronger, but the stable scoring ability, now Jason Terry is more powerful.

If it was the first few games, Liu Mang would have tried his best to open up the score at the beginning in order to create a better run-in time for Jason Terry, and then Jason Terry would have sent the lead back to the opponent after coming up......

But today, Liu Mang is just not in a hurry, Antoine Walker broke out? Then break out, Liu Mang controlled the rhythm, played slowly, followed the score steadily, and used the team offense to survive Antoine Walker's strong performance of 7 points and 3 assists at the beginning.

With five minutes to go into the first quarter, the Celtics couldn't sit still and Coach Jim O'Brien called a timeout.

Scoring 16 points in the first five minutes of the game was a horrific scoring efficiency that didn't make Coach O'Brien happy, because the Hawks also scored 14 points!

Ratliff broke out under the basket offensive rebounding, the Celtics scored 16 points in a row by personal ability, even if the Hawks couldn't shoot from the outside, no one on the inside could win Ratliffe and Muhammad, the best rebounding players for the Celtics were Antoine Walker and Pierce, who only averaged 7 rebounds per game, and the rebounding disadvantage was too great.

And the main thing is that the Celtics were originally the team that played the first and fourth quarters, relying on Antoine Walker in the first quarter and Pierce in the last quarter, Antoine Walker averaged 8.5 points per game in the first quarter of this season, first in the league, and Pierce averaged 6.7 points per game in the final quarter of this season, second in the league and second to Kobe Bryant.

The first quarter was not able to pull away when Antoine Walker played such a beautiful start, and Coach O'Brien was not in a hurry.

Coach O'Brien called a timeout early with only one purpose, for the Hawks to bring Jason Terry on!

After watching the Hawks' first few games, Coach O'Brien found that the beginning of the Hawks' collapse was to replace Jason Terry, and the start was often very good, that is, after Jason Terry came on, the Hawks collapsed.

In this game, Coach O'Brien found that he couldn't hold down the Eagles' starters, so he immediately called a timeout.

The Celtics replaced Barty with Vin Baker, increased the tonnage of the interior line, and played 13 million for 10 minutes, which must also be used well.

On the Hawks' side, Coach Kruger hesitated and replaced Prince with Jason Terry and Mohammed with Boozer.

Looking at Jason Terry's rare nervousness, Liu Mang patted him on the back and whispered, "It's okay, play at your pace, and I'll take care of the rest." ”

Jason Terry didn't expect that he would need this kid to comfort himself one day, it felt amazing.

Liu Mang has also grown, he learned a sentence from Jin Yong's pen, how much ability is as great as responsibility, in the past, it was Jason Terry and Rahim who gave him all kinds of blind spanking, and now, it is time for him to be the one who takes responsibility!