After the Celtics were severely suppressed by the Knicks in the first quarter, the Celtics have not been in any state, as the leading stars, both of them use jump shots as the main means of scoring, Paul Pierce is better, at least his one-handed breakthrough is also a conventional weapon, but Antoine Walker is completely dumb here, two years ago Antoine Walker still has a low single ability to use, but with the slow growth of weight, the low-post technology that should have become more and more powerful has been abandoned, Antoine Walker has become a complete big man pitcher, and in this game against Johnson, Antoine Walker was beaten to the ground, but as the boss of the team, the status is still above Paul Pearce, considering the atmosphere in the locker room, Pitino can't easily replace him. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

As a result, the Celtics almost collapsed directly under the leadership of a big brother who was frantically looking for a three-point shot, and if it hadn't been for Paul Pierce standing up angrily, the Celtics would have surrendered in the third quarter.

Mo Xi was off the court in the middle of the second quarter, the Celtics' interior lacked deterrence, and after Ewing went down, Mo Xi became the Knicks' interior single core, enjoying the first firing right on the inside, and frequently pulled out to block Houston. Opposite to Moxi is Tony Barty. Barty Sr. moves slower than a snail on his feet, and has little to do to resist against a fast-moving insider. Moxi's footwork is good, but it's only good, far from the standard of those who are nimble like a defender.

However, the pick-and-rolls of Murphy and Houston dominated the opposing Adrian Griffin and Tony Barty. You know, although Barty Sr.'s defense is not good, but Adrian is different, after Paul Pierce was rested, Adrian Griffin, as the current Celtics' No. 1 defensive giant, was the best against the Knicks' offensive arrow Alan Houston.

Murphy and Houston block at the free-throw line, and Murphy also has some experience with screening under Johnson's tutelage. The pick-and-roll between Murphy and Houston wasn't a ball-based combination, at least at first. At the beginning, Moxi only covered here a little, and after Houston passed, Charles quickly hoisted the ball to Moxi at the free-throw line, at which time Tony Barty and Adrian Griffin were still following their defenders closely, but because of Moxi's cover, Adrian Griffin had to speed up slightly to catch up with Houston.

At this moment, Houston paused, as if he had hit a trampoline, and suddenly turned back and ran back. Adrian Griffin just caught up and couldn't react, so he saw that Houston had returned the same way, and hurriedly chased after him, but Mo Xi was still in place, Adrian Griffin was knocked into a solid knot, and he could only watch Mo Xi hand over the ball to Houston.

Tony Barty planned to step forward to make up for the defense, but Mo Xi's cover area was very large, and Tony Barty had to take one more step to the side to get around Mo Xi, but it was such an extra step to go around, Houston had already taken the ball from Mo Xi's hand and hit it directly.

Mo Xi and Houston's blocking and dismantling began to play the Celtics in the second quarter, and because of Paul Pierce's departure, the Celtics only had one Antoine Walker on the court, but Antoine Walker seemed to bring his first quarter to the second quarter, facing Marcus Camby, who couldn't keep up with him at all, actually chose the jump shot, although it seems that because of Pitino's reprimand, Antoine Walker was no longer obsessed with the three-point shot for a while, but he was still addicted to the big shot, Obviously, he only needs one step to get rid of Campie and attack the basket directly, but he needs to step back and step on the three-point line to score a big two-point.

Although Mo Xi and Houston only played half a quarter in the second quarter, they helped the Knicks consolidate the advantage in the first quarter, and Van Gundy simply waved his hand, and the Knicks began a crazy defensive mode that they had not seen for a long time in the second quarter. In the entire second quarter, the Celtics only scored 16 points, while the Knicks relied on a set of blocking tactics just now by Mo Xi and Houston to grab 20 points, and at the end of the first half, the Knicks led the Celtics by 12 points at halftime.

At the time of the trouble, it seems that there was also a split within the Celtics, and some players began to distrust Antoine Walker, but in the Celtics' tactics he was the first scorer, and just when the Celtics were hesitating, Paul Pierce stepped up. After what happened that fall, Paul Pierce completed the sublimation of his life, after all, what could be more memorable than meeting death in person, and it can be said that at this time, there is really no one in the Celts who has even half of Paul Pierce's willpower.

Pierce's three-point shooting in this game was not very good, but in the face of such a time, Paul Pierce decisively gave up shooting and began to attack inside, facing Patrick Ewing.

Paul Pierce took the ball from Kenneth Anderson on the flank, lowered his center of gravity, and stared straight at Houston with his eyes straight on the side of Houston while standing in a T-shape with his feet on his feet, constantly testing Houston.

Houston knew that the guy in front of him had a good confrontation ability, so he didn't want him to use his physical advantage to force himself into the basket, so he simply let go of one more step, anyway, the Celtics' shooting in this game was generally not good.

It's just that Pierce's strain is very good, seeing that Houston has the intention of letting him shoot, he directly took a step sideways and dribbled a step backwards, as if he was about to retreat and jump shot, Houston met it unhurriedly, but Paul Pierce suddenly started and directly hit Houston, Houston was hit and retreated, making way for a way.

Pierce accelerated directly and rushed in, facing Ewing's outstretched pair of giant palms, Paul Pierce held the ball to his chest, threw his body directly into the air, opened his body under Ewing's arm, and made a small pull-up action to avoid Ewing's defense and force a layup.

This offense brought back the momentum of the Celtics, and then the Celtics continued to attack successfully, and for a while the Knicks were evenly matched.

It's just that the good times didn't last long, this game was the first game after a long rest for the Knicks, full of energy, plus the team itself is a tough defensive team that emphasizes physical contact, the shooting that the Celtics rely on to survive is actually too much to look up, among the Celtics' group of outside players, the highest shooting percentage is Kenneth Anderson, but at least half of Kenneth Anderson's goals come from the paint area.

Once again, the Celtics were beaten and couldn't hold their heads up.

That's when Paul Pierce stepped up again.

Paul Pearce, who wore the number 34 green jersey, and Antoine Walker did a pick-and-roll combination, and the defender in front of Paul Pearce was replaced by Larry Johnson.

After changing defenses, Larry Johnson moved very quickly, did not give Paul Pierce a chance to accelerate at all, and directly pasted it, forcing Pierce to dribble with his back, and could not break through Johnson's defense at the first time.

Johnson is still very self-aware, although he is only thirty years old, but because of the constraints of his weight, Johnson's feet are very flexible, but they are not fast enough, if he is beaten by Pierce's face frame and distanced, Johnson almost doesn't have to think about it to know that he will definitely be cleaned by Pierce.

After Johnson made his own defensive decision, Pierce also quickly made his own offensive choice, first with his back to protect the ball, and then directly turned his back to the outside, Johnson used his strong body to squeeze Pierce away from the inside little by little.

After Pierce dribbled two steps, he found that Johnson's strength was really strong, and he couldn't get rid of him at the first time, if he was forced by the other party like this, it would inevitably become a drift of the bottom line and barely shot, in the Celtics' morale is low, Paul Pierce hopes to be able to score this goal with his own strength.

Paul Pierce suddenly stopped suddenly, Johnson also stopped very neatly, the defensive distance between the two remained unchanged, there was still only half a step away, Paul Pierce pulled back half a step, saw that Johnson had no intention of moving forward, and suddenly dribbled forward quickly.

This time Johnson reacted, but there was a sudden pain in his knee, Johnson didn't move, only saw Pierce dribble under his crotch and pulled the ball back, Johnson forcibly mobilized the strength of his legs and stepped forward to defend.

Just when Johnson stepped forward, Pierce suddenly pulled out, and Johnson pounced directly, but saw Pierce bump into him straight, and then forcibly leaned on him, and put his hands on Johnson's arm to shoot.

Make fouls.

Among the several excellent scorers of the new generation, Paul Pierce and Kobe Bryant are one of the few masters who are good at making fouls, and the fouls at this time are not the different treatment of the future body hair foul star whistle, but the real game, it must be a violation of the shooting cylinder, and the referee thinks that there is an obvious tendency to foul before it will be successful, you know, the current rules are still very unfriendly to outside players, no defense for three seconds, no back for five seconds, and even when you dribble with your back, The rule that defenders can't put their hands on your waist is a real foul maker who uses his body to force his way into the penalty area, in addition to forcing people to shake up.

Pierce hit both free throws, and for the entire third quarter, Pierce began to take over the game, scoring eight straight points to narrow the gap between the two sides to within 10 points.

However, under Pierce's strong killing, the Celtics still did not have the ability to break through the Knicks' defensive wall, and the shooting rate was still sluggish, and after the fourth quarter, Pierce, who had been playing for more than 30 minutes, had to rest first.

Although the Knicks were temporarily ahead, they were not careless, leaving both guns on the court and replacing them with a bench lineup led by Mo Xi and Camby.

In this game, the Knicks' outside double shot was very eye-catching, unlike the dismal shooting rate on the Celtics' side, whether it was Prewell or Houston, both of whom shot more than 50%, and Houston was even worse, so far, only four shots have been missed, one of which is a full-court three-pointer at halftime.

With such an excellent performance of the two guns, the proportion of Mo Xi's offense naturally decreased, and it seemed that it only became the role of containment and cover.

But obviously, although Mo Xi is doing dirty work, he always has an offensive heart in his bones.

In a wave of Knicks' defensive counterattacks, Camby picked up the backcourt rebound and went directly to Sprewell in the frontcourt, who quickly moved forward after receiving the ball.

Sprewell didn't rush to shoot, and for the Knicks, a solid defense can allow them to win games, and in this case, the success rate should be played on the offensive end. Sprewell waited until Houston came up, and there was a hand-to-hand pick-and-roll between the two, with Houston dribbling down to the bottom corner, and Sprewell going down, just to the basket.

Both of these have the ability to end the game, for a while the Celtics' defense was a little messy, and finally they chose Houston in the bottom corner, after all, Houston has scored 30 points in this game, and the shooting rate is scary, but in this way, Eric Williams is defending in front of Sprewell on the inside, and Houston passes the ball to Sprewell between people, but Sprewell seems to be really playing too high, and he actually shoots directly under the basket after receiving the ball, Such a casual blow was taken directly by Eric Williams, and this time the force was so great that the ball flew straight out of the three-second zone.

It just so happened that Moxi, who had arrived from the back, had already come close and intercepted the ball before Antoine Walker. Suddenly, Murphy formed a wave of misplaced singles against Antoine Walker.

In the last meeting between the two, Antoine Walker's hand was not bad, but he couldn't prevent Mo Xi, so the two played a wave of mutual explosions, but now, Antoine Walker didn't even get ten points.

The Knicks were originally in a fast-break situation, and after Mo Xi controlled the ball, he didn't want the opponent to stabilize the situation, and he planned to win in the chaos.

Mo Xi gently pushed Antoine Walker with his shoulder, and then sank his center of gravity, without any feints, Mo Xi burst directly into the basket from the outside.

Before, when Mo Xi was hungry in the face of the inner line that was shorter than himself, he also made several breakthroughs in the face frame, but over time, after everyone became familiar with Mo Xi's style, they began to break through Mo Xi's face frame, first, Mo Xi was too high, the center of gravity was much higher, and second, Mo Xi did not have such good dribbling skills. It's just that now, the Celtics' players are all on the weak side, and there are only Antoine Walker and Eric Williams on his side, and Moxi's breakthrough seems to be much safer.

Antoine Walker was thrown off by Mo Xi in the first part, and Williams had to rush up again not long after he landed.

It's just that Mo Xi's attention is much more concentrated, and when he saw the opponent making up for the defense, he suddenly came to a stop-and-go jump shot two meters in front of the basket, which was the style he was most familiar with, and he hit a stop-and-go jump shot under the basket.

The Celtics couldn't hold up this period, and Paul Pearce, who had less than three minutes of rest, had to play again.