In the third minute of the first quarter, Don Nelson called a timeout, and Michael Reed hit a three-pointer from a 45-degree angle on the right side to make the score 9-4, and Don Nelson knew he had lost the opening three minutes of the battle.

Obviously, the starting line-up he fielded was targeted by Leon and Nahura didn't play a role at all. And Adrian Griffin is in the starting point guard position for the Mavericks as a veteran of the Celtics, and Nelson was hoping that he could use his experience with the Celtics to find some way to deal with them. But the Celtics he met were no longer the Celtics he was familiar with, and he couldn't put pressure on Reed on both the offensive and defensive ends, and Reed's beautiful three-pointer was a tribute to Nelson's failure to set up.

But as an experienced veteran coach who has seen all the big scenes, Nelson quickly took advantage of the 20-second short timeout to make adjustments. First of all, he replaced Nahura with the current No. 1 tallster in the NBA, Sean Bradley, and then replaced Griffin with veteran Walter Williams, so that the average height of the Mavericks on the court increased sharply, and the speed naturally slowed down, but the Mavericks are not a team that can only play fast break.

"Good job, boys, but it's just the beginning." On the Celtics side, Leon doesn't have anything to arrange, seeing the move, now it's Nelson's turn to make a move, he just needs to wait for the situation to change on the court. At the beginning, the Celtic players were still in quite good shape, Leon encouraged the group, and then specially patted Wang Zhizhi's arm and said in Chinese: "Good job, but you may not have so many opportunities later, take it easy, and work defense." “

Wang Zhizhi nodded after hearing this, and took a big sip of water, these three minutes should be the best three minutes he has performed since entering the NBA, and the targeted training is effective. He clearly felt that his ability to get stuck and move was stronger, he was no longer afraid of confronting his opponents, and his body felt always full of energy. And Fox Leon made very detailed tactical arrangements in training before the game, and these were all achieved in the game. Wang Zhizhi admired this coach in his heart, and there were too many things in his head.

The timeout soon ended and the players returned to the court, Leon sat back on the bench and began to concentrate on what he wanted to do with Nelson.

The game restarted, Nash possessed the ball, and the Mavericks' positional attack. Nash passed the ball to Finley on the right, and the other four Mavericks all came to the left and cleared the right side to Finley for a single. In the face of Paul Pierce, Finley used his feet to force a breakthrough, he was not fast, but he did a good job of protecting the ball, and when he came to the near baseline position, he leaned on Pierce and made a feint to shake Pierce up slightly. Then he leaned on Pierce to make a shot.

"Beep!" The referee's whistle blew, and Leon knew that Finlay had come to cheat foul, and Pierce himself was a master of cheating. But sometimes human movements are not controlled by the intellect, and Finley's realistic feints still make Pierce shake up instinctively, and although Pierce has tried to retract it, Finley's movements are also very fast. The body has rubbed up.

"I've already taken it, and he's just rubbing my clothes! Clothes! Is it also a foul to rub on clothes? Pierce complained weakly to the referee, who just glanced at him. It seems to be saying that in the past, when you rubbed other people's clothes, I didn't blow fouls. Finley still stepped to the free-throw line.

With Finley hitting two free throws, the Mavericks made the score 6-9, which was obviously a seasoned move, and the timeout ended with the safest free throw, Nelson's experience was evident. But what really made Leon frown was the Mavericks' changes on the defensive end.

Although it seems that the Mavericks replaced Bradley and Williams, and the Celtics' dominance in the opening three minutes was also reflected in the center and shooting guard positions, Leon knew that he was really targeting the Mavericks' two vulnerable areas on the defensive end - power forward and point guard, that is, Nowitzki and Nash. The Mavericks were scored by Wang Zhizhi in the opening game, on the one hand, Nowitzki's defense Wang Zhizhi did not have enough suppressive power, and on the other hand, the fundamental reason was that Nash was always thrown away by Arenas.

Nowitzki's ability to assist in defense was not strong, but Wang Zhizhi was transferred to a position that needed to assist in defense, and then Nash always needed to assist in defense, which gave Wang Zhizhi an opportunity to take advantage of. As the two offensive cores of the Mavericks, Nash and Nowitzki's defense really doesn't match their position on the offensive end, and Leon knows that once a player is pressed by the opponent in defense, the mentality and state of the offensive end will also be stabilized. As long as he can continue to attack Nash and Nowitzki like this in this game, he has a 60% chance of ending the game before the fourth quarter.

But Nelson quickly realized this, and it was the Celtics' turn to attack, and Bradley immediately changed the defense to Wang Zhizhi after coming on the court, and the defender of Arenas became Michael Finley. Paul Pierce handed over to Walter Williams to deal with, and then Nash's opponent became Michael Reed, although it seems that Reed has an advantage over Nash, but Reed is not the main point of attack for the Celtics, and Leon did not design more one-on-one tactics for Reed, he is more of an eye-catcher and sudden cold arrow in the bottom corner, Nelson assigned Nash to this defensive point, undoubtedly seeing Reed as the link with the least change in the Celtics' tactics.

The Celtics still lacked some change in the positional attack, and against Michael Finley, Arenas couldn't get through easily, and from the halfway point, Finley used his own arm to resist Arenas, and the handcheck made Arenas completely unable to get off the ground. Walker had to move to a higher position to meet Arenas so that he was less of a threat when he was attacking, and Nowitzki even let him go two steps and waited for Walker to shoot the bird from a distance.

In the past, Walker took a step back and threw it outside the three-point line when he received the ball, but now he won't, Wang Zhizhi in the low post saw this situation and did not continue to be in the position, he knew that he couldn't beat Bradley, so he pulled out and made a cross cover with Pierce, went to the outside to receive the ball, and then Pierce sank to the low post, Wang Zhizhi received Walker's pass, and then hoisted the ball to Pierce.

Walter Williams entered the league in 1992 and has been a veteran for 11 years, facing Pierce his low-post defense is not leaky, neither shaking, but also very good position, Pierce turned to the line, was caught by Nowitzki, he barely passed the ball to Walker after jumping, Walker received the ball at the top of the arc, but the ball was not passed well, he adjusted the direct jumper, the ball missed. Nash grabbed the backcourt rebound, Finley had already rushed through the half, Nash made a long pass through the half, Finley scored a fast-break dunk, 8:9, the Mavericks had closed the score to one point after a timeout.

The Mavericks scored two straight points and Mavericks owner Mark Cuban, who was wearing a Mavericks jersey off the court, sat up from the bench and applauded loudly and yelled "Go-Mavericks" as the North Shore Garden fell a little silent, and Leon scratched his head, hesitating to call a timeout.

Before he could think about it, Arenas was suddenly caught by Finley and Nash in the process of dribbling through the half, and he was cut off by Finley without preparation, Nash received Finley's pass and scored a basket directly, 10:9, the situation on the court was reversed instantly.

"Beautiful breaks, Finley's defense was like pincers, it made Arenas mess up, and it looked like the Celtic lads weren't really ready for the Mavericks to counter back, and they looked like they played three minutes of good play and got a little carried away." Wharton's comments were a bit caustic, but they certainly seemed to be the case.

“Time-out！” Leon had to shout a timeout at the referee, and at the moment Arenas was cut off, he had already figured out how to deal with Nelson's tricks. (To be continued.) )