According to the schedule, on March 21, the game between the Boston Celtics and Lakers starts at the Stamp Center at the scheduled time. As Fox Leon declared before the game, the Celtics pressed their main players to the bench, and he fielded starters Durham Porter, Chris Anderson, Eric Williams, Malik Ciri, and Courtney Alexander.

It's a CBA lineup at all, they're up against the defending champion Los Angeles Lakers, and Shaquille O'Neal is back in the lineup for this game, this is the full Lakers, this is the Lakers sprinting for the playoffs. Fox Leon actually used such a foolish lineup to make an appearance at Stamps, and the moment the players came on the field, the audience could feel the cramped and uneasy Celtics players.

"Is that appropriate, Coach?" Before going on the field, Dyrem Potter still hesitated to ask Leon, although Damham Potter has also started this season, but it is used as a tactical pawn. This time he's a real starter, and he's up against O'Neal.

"Are you scared? If you're afraid to take off your clothes and put me on them? Leon asked with a glaring glance at Daimpoter, who immediately shrank his head in fright, and moved his arms to prepare for the stage.

This is the second coach of the season for the Celtics and Lakers, and in the last game, in O'Neal's absence, Kobe Bryant hit a 47-iron to lead the Lakers to a crushing defeat in Boston. Now that most of the season has passed, when they arrived in Los Angeles, the Lakers players, especially Kobe, still wanted to teach the feud a good lesson at home, but they knew that the opposite side was too cunning, and they directly took turns to rest the main team.

In this way, if the Lakers win, it is not a victory, and if the Lakers lose, it goes without saying that the sky will fall apart and be thrown to grandma's house. This season, the Lakers have been relatively ugly in the regular season, O'Neal has been absent a lot, the team's roster is aging and not aggressive, and there is already a feeling of the end of a strong crossbow.

The Celtics' starting five came on the pitch with a sense of timidity, with a bright yellow floor, a yellow championship flag flying overhead, everything was out of place with a green jersey, a green forbidden place, a green graveyard.

At the beginning of the game, O'Neal was like a shark that smelled blood, easily jumped the ball and won the ball, and then on the first attack of the opening game, he caught the ball under the basket and beat Durham Porter.

For the first time, Durham Potter had encountered such a strong opponent, with a mountain-like back and an iceberg-like hidden power. O'Neill smacked twice, lifted his elbow and turned his back, and Daelham Potter fell like a tree that had been cut down by a chainsaw, and then sat on the floor and watched O'Neal clasp his hands down. Then he landed and walked away.

This is Dyreham Porter's second NBA season, and he didn't get a chance to go one-on-one with O'Neal in both games the Celtics played against the Lakers in his rookie season, and today he finally felt the power of the No. 1 center monster in NBA history.

He struggled to get up from the floor, Chris Anderson went up and pulled him, and Dareham Porter felt some pain in his ass. Leon stood on the sidelines and watched the embarrassing and embarrassing scene, the fans in the audience had already boiled like boiling water, and the Lakers gave the Celtics a dismissal as soon as the game began.

Now Leon knows he has good news and bad news, the bad news is that it looks like Durham Porter is completely impossible to limit O'Neal, and O'Neal has a strong fighting spirit tonight; The good news is that Damham Potter shouldn't feel timid, and after feeling the power of the giant shark, there is nothing to fear.

In the absence of a main player, Eric Williams seems to have become the core player of the current Celtics lineup, and he still has a certain ability to play. Williams' opposite player is Fox, and the two are still somewhat familiar, because Fox started with the Celtics and left Boston for Los Angeles in '97. And Williams came to the Celtics in 95, and the two have been teammates for more than a season, and Fox can be regarded as Williams' big brother.

Williams is strong, average but well-rounded, facing Big Brother, he did not hesitate to hold the ball in the opening game, and caused a foul on Fox, Williams hit both free throws, and used the most dull and boring way to score to equalize the score.

At this time, David Stern was sitting in the VIP box at the Staples Center, where he rarely watched the game, but this time he was accompanying the sponsor guests, so he did not sit on the sidelines. Stern looked serious and unhappy, indeed, the Celtics' lineup couldn't make people happy. A group of bench and bench players are on the field, battling the defending champions, giving the impression that a professional team is playing with a high school varsity team.

Last night Stern brought in Adam Silva, who is familiar with Fox Leon, and he asked Silva to go to Leon in person, hoping that Leon would change his mind and re-send the main players for the game on the night of the 21st.

As a result, Silva and Leon discussed for more than an hour, and finally he came back and got the answer that even if they were fined, Celtic would not change their rotation strategy because their players were really injured.

Stern was furious, and he had decided to issue a big ticket to the Celtics after this game, and since Leon didn't care about the league's advice, let his owner suffer the damage, and then discipline their head coach.

But this is also after the game, and now Stern has to hold back his anger, sit in the private room and watch the game with the sponsor head, and from time to time introduce the history of the two teams to those in charge, after all, those sponsors are not necessarily basketball fans.

As Stern expected, the Lakers established an early lead in the opening period, and O'Neal was unstoppable under the basket except for the opening dunk, scoring 14 points on 7-of-8 shooting in the first quarter. The Celtics' roster is a bit miserable, and these bench players may be able to make a difference at some point, but it's hard for them to stand alone. Players like Alexander haven't played much this season.

At 29:15, the Lakers built a 14-point lead in the first quarter, and it looked like it was going to be a slaughter. If Stern was watching TV right now, he would have smashed the TV set long ago, but unfortunately he wasn't, and he had to nail his ass to the stool to endure the 48 minutes.

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Fox Leon stood on the sidelines at this time, but his heart was not as calm as it seemed. Resting all the main players is not as simple as it seems, it takes a lot of courage and patience to convince the players to accept their ideas.

Obviously, he is thinking about the longer term, but that doesn't mean he can just give up in the moment. Leon's pre-match "training young people" is not an empty phrase, playing under great pressure is a great benefit to the development of young players, and a high-pressure game is better than a hundred garbage time points.

The 14-point gap is big enough, this is still the first quarter, or the Lakers have scored points with the Celtics when they are slightly relaxed, for Leon, the rotation does not mean giving up, he can feel the main players on the sidelines, they must be thinking, why do you have to sit on the bench and watch the team be ravaged now?

If the team loses miserably, then the next time he wants to rest the players, people will not be so easily convinced, and then his authority will not be able to convince the players to do something unreasonable.

"OK, the first quarter is over, have you adapted to the environment here? Are you used to bright yellow flooring? This is Stamps, and this is the home of the Lakers. There are 23,245 people here, and only 20 of them want us to win the game, and that's us. Think it's impossible? Feeling powerless and hopeless? Then I tell you, from now on, forget everything, forget the embarrassment of the first verse, that's just a warm-up. Our score is still 0:0, calm down, let's start from the beginning! Leon used the short five minutes between the first and second quarters to make a small speech that made the players calm and relaxed. It's very, very important, and Leon knows that young people are nervous to start and fight against the defending champions, rather than standing on the side of the main team and making their teeth chatter if they are replaced.

After calming the mood, Leon reshuffled the lineup, replacing Malik Siri, putting Eric Williams at shooting guard and then Grant Long at small forward. Then he replaced Hellam Porter and brought on Mark Blunt, so that the entire Celtics roster was very tall.

At the beginning of the second quarter, the Celtics served and attacked, Alexander stumbled and dribbled the ball across the half court, and then Blunt raised the high post and made a single block for Williams, Alexander handed the ball to Long in the bottom corner, Chris Anderson and Williams, who were originally on the weak side, made a cross switch, and suddenly ran back to the basket, and Long in the bottom corner passed the ball to Anderson, and Anderson easily made a rebound.

A classic backdoor tactic is to have the center pull out to block and pull the inside line, and then use the cover run to attract the weak side of the defense, and another player ambushed on the weak side suddenly cuts into the inside line and scores in the split second of the empty goal.

It seems that the Lakers' defense is a little careless, but the fans at the scene don't care, they still have a 14-point advantage, and although O'Neal is resting off the court, they still have Kobe Bryant on the court. (To be continued.) )