Wang Zhizhi's opportunities and number of appearances this season have been reduced to a certain extent compared with last season, and the arrival of Kevin Garnett and the growth of Chris Anderson and Daim Porter have made Wang Zhizhi's role more and more swordsman's and development in the direction of complete surprise. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

However, Wang Zhizhi's state and strength this season have actually improved compared with last season, hard training, good physical conditioning, and learning from predecessors and masters after adapting to the Celtic environment, Wang Zhizhi has made great progress. A notable feature is that Wang Zhizhi did not blindly throw three-pointers to score as he did in the past when he had many garbage time opportunities, but was more involved in collective offense and defense, and played well.

Because of this, when the playoff squad was established, Leon still included Wang Zhizhi when the interior players were a little overnumbered. In the first round, he didn't get too many opportunities to play, and in the second round, facing the New Jersey Nets, Wang Zhizhi finally played his due role.

Obviously, the Continental Airlines Arena is Wang Zhizhi's blessed land, and as long as he plays here, he can find a sense on the offensive end, giving the Nets a fatal blow in the limited playing time.

After shooting the equalizing three-pointer, the balance of the game has gradually tilted in favor of the Celtics, because the Celtics have slowly found the feeling on the offensive end through the cooperation and transmission throughout the third quarter. That's not good news for the Nets, who played three quarters of good play and were still on the same starting line as the Celtics.

At the beginning of the fourth quarter of the game, Leon did not hesitate, and immediately the main lineup was full of players, and the soldiers were very fast, and in the last twelve minutes of the fourth quarter, every second was critical.

As soon as the whistle opened in the fourth quarter, the Celtics quickly passed half court, opened the four corners, and ran an Eagles tactic, Garnett made a cover for Reed to completely pull away the right side and clear it, and then Arenas forced a breakthrough from the right side, directly attacked the basket, and used a small throw past Collins' fingertips to score two points.

That's a bad sign for the Nets, as the Celtics' offense looks like they're going to switch back and forth between teams and individuals, which can overwhelm the Nets' defense, which is struggling to hold up.

But the worse thing the Nets faced next was that their offense began to go mute.

Relying on Kidd's strong and delicate organization in the first three quarters, the Nets played quite well, Kidd has already handed out 15 assists in the third quarter, and tonight the veteran adjusted his condition to the best, and many fleeting opportunities were seized by him to form an effective offense, and even Leon had to admire the point guard's strong observation ability and excellent scheduling level on the court.

However, in the fourth quarter, Kidd's knee began to hold a little untenable, and in the third quarter he began to use ice packs to cool down the knee pain, and by the fourth quarter, his pace slowed down significantly. Arenas, on the other hand, looked no different from the first quarter, still coming and going like the wind, starting like a panther.

Kidd's pace was getting slower and slower, and in the offense he began to be caught between Reed and Arenas, in which Kittels couldn't share the load, and the Nets' offense struggled without a single master — as they had shown in their first two games.

At 12:3, the Celtics used a 12-3 offensive shock bar in three minutes to stretch the deficit to nine points, Frank had to call a timeout, and the fans began to have a bad premonition, and a shadow of possible sweep appeared over their heads.

Sure enough, the timeout didn't improve Kidd's knee injury, and once the Nets couldn't stop the Celtics' offense defensively, then they couldn't use an effective positional offense to form a tug of war with the Celtics, and the long-standing lineup flaws exploded in this quarter, and the Nets could only rely on Martin's stiff small hook and some back-to-back singles from Jefferson to score points, while the Celtics' offense came in waves.

By the eighth minute of the fourth quarter, the margin had been stretched to 15 points, and the trend was gone. The collapse came so quickly that many fans felt extremely lost, some had already left the court early, and some covered their faces and did not want to watch the Nets continue to be slaughtered.

With less than three minutes left before the end of the game, Fox Leon finally put down his butcher's knife, called a short timeout, and brought on a substitute to play the last two minutes or so.

At 107:91, the Celtics took away the Nets in a wave in the fourth quarter, and they won the opponent by 16 points in the entire fourth quarter, and the overall score became 3:0, and no team in NBA history can turn the tables from 0:3 down. The only doubt now is whether the Nets can salvage some dignity for themselves in the next game and drag the series to the end of Boston.

But obviously, Leon and the Celtics didn't want to give the Nets any chance, and two days later, also at the Continental Airlines Arena, the Celtics ended the game in an hour and a half, 98:87, 11 points, the smallest difference between the two sides, but in fact the Nets didn't have any chances, and they were pressed and beaten by the Celtics from beginning to end, and they were completely pressed and beaten.

When the game-ending buzzer sounded, Jason Kidd got up from the bench, a towel over his head, pouted with a look of indifference and numbness, and fell in front of the Bostonians for the second year in a row, and without resistance.

His left leg was slightly lame, and the pain in his knee was not light, but it was nowhere near as painful as the pain of defeat. However, he still walked to the halfcourt and hugged Pierce and Garnett, congratulating them on reaching the Eastern Conference Finals.

Then he stepped forward again and walked up to Leon to shake his hand.

Leon looked at the point guard who had been fighting with him for three years, and he couldn't help but feel a sense of respect in his heart.

Three years ago, in the Eastern Conference Finals, his Nets blocked the Celtics and Lakers' dream of meeting in the Finals, Martin was just a sophomore, Jefferson was still a rookie, and Kidd was almost half the sky for the Nets. He also has razor-fast speed, superior strength among point guards, excellent vision, and a lame shot.

Leon also vividly remembers that in the game Kidd and Dennis Rodman competed for rebounds, and he could even steal the ball from the big bugs, and he was able to grab 11.3 rebounds per game in that series, and averaged 17.5 points and 10.8 assists per game, a perfect triple-double. It's enough to put a guy like Antoine Walker to shame, who averages 8 rebounds per game.

Three years have passed, the Celtics have struggled to cross the ambitious Nets, and this year they swept this old rival without doing their best.

Kidd looked at Fox Leon with a lot of helplessness in his heart, this assistant coach who was once just an obscure assistant coach on the sidelines has now become a terrifying master. Throughout the series, Kidd could feel that he was being targeted, both offensively and defensively, infinitely. He knew that Arenas wouldn't be that smart, that he was a straight-to-go kid that only the one in control behind him would teach him how to do it.

Leon succeeded, tearing Kidd and his Nets apart, and at the end of the game, Kidd even felt like his career was over. He seems to be 40 years old, and he will leave the stage empty-handed. It wasn't until he hugged and talked to the Celtic players that he wiped that feeling out of his head.

The two shook hands on the sidelines, hugged gently, patted each other's backs, and without saying a word, they both turned to leave.

At the end of the Eastern Conference semifinals, the Celtics swept the New Jersey Nets 4-0 and advanced to the next round. (To be continued.) )