Stubbornness seems to be contagious, and Leon, who has always been known for his flexibility, reused Michael Reed in the third quarter, but when Reed repeatedly missed shots, he insisted on Reed as the team's main point of attack after the start of the fourth quarter. At this time, the Celtics had trailed the Kings by 5 points in the score, and Reed made 0-of-3 shots and 1-of-4 two-pointers in the third quarter, completely disrupting the Celtics' offensive rhythm.www.biquge.info

Pierce tried to take over the game in the fourth quarter, but Leon still kept Reed on the court, and according to Leon's tactical requirements, Reed was still an important point of containment on the court. However, when a shooter is unable to hit a long shot, his lead will be dispensable. At the beginning of the fourth quarter, Pierce broke through to Reed in the bottom corner, and the Kings had begun to abandon their defense of Reed and instead wrapped up the inside.

Reed had a big open shot, and he even had a second to adjust his shot, but his three-pointer was deflected. Brad Miller got the backcourt rebound, and a long pass was handed to Christie, who raided the frontcourt, and Christie made a layup, and the Kings stretched the margin to seven points again.

Adelman is like this, going on one by one, and many times it has good results. The offensive rhythm of the Kings was quite good throughout the game, and the players played very evenly, Bibby, Miller, Divac, and Stojakovic all scored double-doubles, which is the characteristic of the team under Adelman, selfless, smooth, and teamwork.

Leon called a short timeout, and Sigfried didn't look good, perhaps feeling guilty that rushing to let Reed carry such a burden would not help the team and hurt his own confidence.

Leon looked disapproving, and instead of making tactical and personnel adjustments during the timeout, he asked his players to strengthen their defense, improve rebounding control, and reduce unnecessary turnovers. The 20 seconds passed quickly, and everyone just took a little breath to calm down and was about to get back into the game.

Before the game, Leon walked up to Reed, pulled his clothes and said to him, "Sieg is watching you, don't let him down, and don't let him blame himself." With that, he patted Reid on the back and motioned for him to continue playing.

Reed glanced back at Sigfried, and the old man's face was indeed not very good-looking. On the team, Siegfried has always kept a low profile, very low-key, almost never making a statement, just dedicating himself to his job as a shooting coach. In his sixties, he is as stubborn as ever, and in order to do this job well, he himself has started to learn shooting again, learning a variety of different postures and techniques. He also finds time to train his arms and wrists with his players to experience the impact of muscle changes on the feel of his shots.

Reed has benefited a lot from him, in addition to shooting, but also strong defense and good character. Sigfried was also a devout Christian, which is why he worked in prison. This gave Reed, who was also a Christian, a natural intimacy with the old man.

Seeing Sigfred's somewhat lost look, Reed clenched his fists. Sigfried told Reed more than once throughout the summer that he could be an All-Star caliber scorer this season because he had seen Reed's progress over the summer — and Arenas wasn't the only one training frenzy.

Now, Reed is just missing a chance, and he's had four consecutive three-pointers against the Grizzlies, but that was in the first half, an inadvertent outburst. Now Leon has decided to let Reed take the lead, but he can't take the opportunity, is it just because the king and the person in charge of him are Christie?

"The Celtics need to fix their offensive problems, and I don't know why Leon is obsessed with keeping Reed on the court, and his performance in the third quarter was simply catastrophic, epic." Tom Tolbert clearly couldn't understand Leon's continued keeping Reed on the court, and if Reed had hit half of his shots in the third quarter, it would have been the Celtics, not the Kings, who would have taken the lead now.

"Because you haven't been in this league, you can't understand how much confidence you need to be a shooter. In this matter, I support Fox Leon, and if a loss in one game can be exchanged for a shooter's transformation, I would definitely be willing! Wharton expressed his disagreement. But he added: "But Christie is one of the best No. 2 defenders in the league at the moment, and I think Reed is going to be very tormented in the last ten minutes. He has to respond, he has to show his trust in the coach. ”

Indeed, Christie is one of the best outside defenders in the league, he has a tough style, is a representative of the technical defensive school, has good defensive anticipation and skills, is good at cutting off opponents' passing lanes, and has the title of scalpel. And he's always been seen as the best template for Michael Reed's development, and he also has a great scoring ability to force points when the team needs them.

Now, Reed is a bit of a defeat in front of Christie, but he still has ten minutes to redeem himself, to redeem himself.

Back in the game, a 20-second timeout brought calm back to the game, and Arenas controlled the ball past half court and started attacking, at which point he knew he should give the ball to Paul Pearce.

Pierce took the ball at the top of the arc, and after the start of this season, Leon began to increase Pierce's offensive command role, with Steve Kerr last season, Kerr was in charge of key moments, and then Pierce was the main player on the offensive end. Now that Kerr is retired, Arenas doesn't have the seasoned organizational experience of Kerr, so the team's organizational responsibility falls to Pierce.

Garnett stepped forward and made a pick-and-roll, Pierce dribbled and tested, it was a fake pick-and-roll! Pierce made a cross dribble, and then used Garnett's block to get past Stojakovic in one fell swoop!

Pierce broke through from the right side, where he excelled, and he glanced at the weak side during the break, and in his heart he hesitated to continue passing the ball to Reed, because the Kings were almost going to let Reed empty.

This time, though, Reed didn't continue to wait in the left corner for the ball to be fed, and he watched Pierce break through to attract the Kings' defense, and immediately slid like a loach into the box.

"Pierce splits the ball, Reed catches the ball and dunks!" Pierce distributed the ball to Reed in the gap, who received the ball with a rare two-handed dunk, and after the goal, he threw his fist and roared, causing the North Shore Gardens to start burning again because of him. Even Bill Wharton couldn't help but applaud this unexpected dunk.

"Clever guy." Leon was also very anxious on the sidelines, and seeing Reed finally score, he still used this way, and he put a stone down in his heart.

In the case of consecutive misses, players are often burdened with huge psychological pressure, and some mature teams will use this pressure to let you shoot, fail to shoot, and fall into a vicious circle. Arenas is such a type, so Leon is going to guide him, and Reed is different, he lacks self-confidence, but he is smart.

Reed didn't blindly believe in his own feel when he played poorly in the third quarter, but first took advantage of the opponent's relaxation and scored a dunk to score a goal, which not only relieved the pressure on his own heart, but also put pressure on the opponent - I don't just shoot the basketball.

Reed's dunk worked, and in the next two counterattacks, Christie didn't dare to let go of Reid easily, and he began to seriously return to one-on-one defense.

That's when Reed knew it was time to prove himself. (To be continued.) )