At the end of the first half, the score was tied at 55:55, and the two sides were evenly divided for 24 minutes. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Garnett's resurgence allowed the Celtics to overtake in the second quarter, but when Leon replaced Garnett in the last two minutes, the Celtics fell into a scoring drought, and they only scored three points in two minutes, and the Spurs played a small 8-2 surge in the final moments, which ended in the difference was erased and the two sides returned to the same running line.

Due to Chris Anderson's injury, Leon can only use Durham Porter on the inside bench, this guy has improved a lot defensively, but the offense is really unavoidable. As for Wang Zhizhi, against the Spurs Leon will not use Wang Zhizhi, last year's finals proved that under the Spurs' efficient rotation system, Wang Zhizhi's miracle soldier will not have too good effect, on the contrary, the holes in the defense will expand.

During halftime, Leon didn't have time to miss Anderson, and now this guy is still reflecting at home.

"Do you think that tonight is really Christmas, so we should hang our socks next to the bed, stay on the pitch and sleep on the field, and then wake up and win, and put them in our socks? Look at your desire to fight, who are you up against? If we had won two finals at North Shore Gardens last season, we would have had one more flag in the sky and say 2003! Now, you don't even show the desire to kill each other, and I'm ashamed of you. Leon pounded the board in the dressing room, scolding the players for not showing a strong determination to beat their opponents in the game.

Indeed, the atmosphere of Christmas Eve and the successes of recent games have made the Celtic players a little bit uneasy, especially in Stamps, who have yet to taste the real success of the young men who have yet to learn how to control their power calmly after Leon has relied on tacit understanding and strength to defeat their potential worst enemies without much command.

The Spurs on the other side are a good positive example, perhaps thanks to their leader, Tim Duncan, the super-forward who reached the full level as soon as he entered the league, and the stable stone Buddha who collapsed in front of him without changing his face. His career so far has not been without failures, and his Spurs are not the strongest in history, but they have never taken the enemy lightly, never been proud, and never collapsed. The spurs that can be killed are either absolute strength or miracles. This is the real style of a strong team.

The Celts have extraordinary talent, but they lack such temperament due to their lack of experience, and Leon also knows that this is not something that can be built overnight, and it requires constant fighting, honing a strong spirit in iron and blood.

After giving the players a reprimand, Leon thought a little and decided to make some changes to the starting lineup for the second half. He put Michael Reed on the bench and Ragabel in the starting position, and Leon felt that having Reed as a substitute might alleviate the Celtics' lack of firepower on the bench.

It was just a small personnel change, and Reid accepted it without complaint, anyway, he felt that this was a special case, and he would still return to the starting lineup in the future.

The second half of the game began, and when the Celtics' five starters stepped on, Popovich was taken aback, and it looked like Leon was going to play tricks again, pushing Bale to the starting line-up and Reid to the bench.

Anyway, Popovich is a move, compared to the number of cards in his hand and the number of moves Popovich is not as good as Leon, but compared to the stability of playing cards, Popovich is better.

In the second half, the Celtics attacked, and after Reed sat on the bench, Arenas was a little uncomfortable, and he was quite unaccustomed to not seeing Reid in the bottom corner. Every time there was no frontal almost, Reed would consciously cut from the outside of the baseline to 45 degrees to receive the ball to Arenas, and now it was Bale, and Arenas didn't dare to give him the ball casually.

Arenas chose to block and pick up with Garnett at the top of the arc, the most common starting hand, and then hit the ground and passed the ball to Garnett, who cut to the three-second zone, turned to Duncan after receiving the ball, and then passed the ball to Pierce on the right, Pierce took the ball and took a step forward and made a direct stop-and-go jumper.

Bruce Bowen stuck to Pierce like gummy candy and poked his finger directly into Pierce's eyes at the moment Pierce shot, although it didn't really poke, but it also affected the feeling of Pierce's shot.

"Phew!" Hitting the iron, Duncan pocketed the rebound.

"You stinky-**** ......" Pierce couldn't help but curse at Bowen as he was made uncomfortable by this nasty guy tonight. So Pierce is in bad form and has only scored eight points so far. In the first half, the Celtics' main scoring points were Arenas and Reed.

When Reed was not in the starting lineup, the Celtics lacked a ferocious firepower point on the outside, a third point of possession, and some tactical changes were difficult to play.

But back on defense, but when Parker had the ball across the half, the defender changed from Arenas to Bale, which was also set up by Leon in midfield. Bale is taller and heavier than Parker, but his speed is not lagging behind, and Arenas focuses more on offense, and was caught up by Parker a lot in the first half.

Against Bell, Parker immediately felt the pressure.

Bale isn't on the pitch to attack, he's there to defend.

With the exception of the triangle offense and Princeton, the point guard is one of the most important aspects of almost every offensive system, and the Spurs are no exception. After snatching Parker back from the Celtics, the Frenchman worked his way up and down under Popovich's careful tutelage to become a point guard with a lot of personality.

His projection and distribution requirements have never met the requirements of a top point guard, but his speed, penetration, rhythm control, and sense of understanding with Duncan have ensured his unique tactical position with the Spurs, and it is also a role that is easily overlooked.

Many people underestimate this point guard, but Leon will not underestimate him, he knows what a unique talent this French kid who was once in his favor.

The Spurs' offense also started with Parker and Duncan's pick-and-roll, and unlike Arenas' bypass defense in the first half, the more dexterous Bale chose to squeeze through. It's not easy to squeeze through Duncan's high-quality pick-and-rolls, but Bell has done it, and squeezing through the defense will take more energy and give opponents more opportunities to break through. However, it also increases the pressure on the opponent to hold the ball and compresses the opponent's operating space.

The vast majority of teams defending Parker's pick-and-roll will choose to bypass it, after all, Parker's shooting ability is insufficient, and his ability to shoot three-pointers is even worse. But many people overlook Parker's ability to split the ball and his ability to run without the ball.

So Leon decided to try to use a new defensive strategy against Parker in the second half, which is the ice strategy.

After Parker and Duncan blocked, Pierce on the other side immediately came up to block the breakthrough line in the middle, even if Bruce Bowen was free. Parker gave the ball to Bowen, Bowen missed a 45-degree three-point open jumper, and the Celtics got the rebound and counterattacked, Kevin Garnett once again played the role of a second fast offensive in the center, taking the ball at the top of the arc and hanging it to Arenas, Arenas made a layup.

When Parker was ready to block Duncan again in the Spurs' attack, this time he no longer chose to go in the middle, but to take the side, first, the Celtics in the middle were blocked, and second, Bale deliberately turned sideways, obviously putting the side in the block.

When he finished blocking Duncan, there was a route on the side that went straight into the Celtics box, which could get into the Celtics hinterland, but it wasn't so easy to get the ball again.

Parker used his speed to throw off a difficult Bell, and then cut from the baseline at a wide angle to play a rebound on the baseline.

This trick was tried and tested against the Celtics in the Finals last year, but he forgot that this year's Celtics have Kevin Garnett.

Leon's biggest reliance on daring to squeeze through Parker's defense is Kevin Garnett!

Parker slipped across the line, only to find Garnett clinging to him, his hands outstretched like a spider monster. He hit the basket and tried to force a layup, but the angle was blocked, and he wanted to feint to shake Garnett away - dreaming.

Seeing that it was about to be three seconds, he had to force a small throw, but the ball did not score under the interference, Garnett grabbed the rebound, a long pass to the frontcourt, and Arenas made a quick counterattack and layup. The Celtics started the second half with a 4-0 game against the Spurs.

The Spurs served in the backcourt, Parker dribbled through the half court with his head down, and this time he no longer saw Duncan waiting for him at the top of the arc to cover him, and the stone Buddha was already standing near the three-second zone with his arms outstretched, holding Garnett behind him.

He's going to start lifting the Spurs with a low post attack. (To be continued.) )