Billups didn't expect Arenas to say this, and he couldn't help but glance at Fox Leon standing on the sidelines, a deep and cold man, who didn't know what kind of tricks he had against himself tonight. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

In the past games with the Celtics, Billups has always had a good performance, and every time he is handy against Arenas, not only from experience and skill, but also from the style of play, Billups's calm and neat style of play makes it easy for the frizzy Arenas to suffer.

However, during the Carlisle period, although Billups was reused and made qualitative progress in the playoffs, Billups was only an indispensable part of the Pistons' offense overall. But in Larry Brown's team, Billups is already the absolute core of the offense, and in Larry Brown's relatively poor offensive routine, Billups' organization and individual play are very important.

The Pistons served in the backcourt, and Billups began to organize the offense unhurried again, his brain turned fast, and it was precisely because the Pistons did not have many offensive routines that he needed to use his brains more to find flaws in the opponent's defense.

One of the Pistons' most commonly used offensive tactics is the interspersed running position from the baseline, with Rashid Wallace at 45 degrees, Ben Wallace covering at the bottom, and Prince and Hamilton interspersed with the baseline. He's watching Hamilton's movement and bullish on Rashid's position, and he's creating opportunities for Prince to cut inside.

However, before Billups could find the right moment to make a pass, Arenas and Michael Reid had pounced, Arenas began to press the defence, and Reed gave up his mark on Hamilton, but instead of going straight up to the trap, he was in a brilliant position between Billups and the left-hand side of the middle.

"Damn, what's going on......" Billups flashed through his mind, and Arenas rushed forward with a lunge and squeezed Billups with his body, and Billups had to hold the ball in both hands and stop it!

The Pistons' offense went wrong at the first point, and Rasheed Wallace stepped forward to answer it, but Garnett pressed hard, and PJ Brown also came up, and he let go of Ben Wallace and stood at the free-throw line. Reid left his position and continued to catch up with Hamilton.

Billups handed the ball to Rashid Wallace, and Garnett constantly interfered with Rashid with his long arm to prevent him from returning the ball easily, and almost ten seconds had been wasted, and the Pistons didn't show any signs of organizing the offense.

Rasheed Wallace wanted to pass the ball back to Billups, but at this point Pierce pressed from the right and he tried to cut off the connection between Rashid and Billups, and as for Prince, he ran to the bottom left corner, and Rashid Wallace didn't think his pass could penetrate half of the court and PJ Brown accurately reach Prince.

Eventually, Rashid got the ball into Billups' hands – at the cost of Billups taking three steps back to near the halfway line, and Pierce got back to Prince after a bit of a spin around the three-point line, and Billups no longer had a chance to pass the ball to Prince.

Billups forced a break, a strong start, a three-point shot, the ball was deflected, and PJ got the backcourt rebound. The Detroits had nothing to do with this offense, and they had to end the offense by forcing a three-point shot...... We watched the Celtics' counterattack, Arenas was very fast, Pierce took the ball and shook it, cut into the inside, and then passed, Garnett dunked with one hand! Beautiful three-line fast attack! ”

Dick Stockton's commentary was as precise and concise as ever, as was the Celtics' quick counter-attack, Arenas distributed the ball to Pierce in the bottom corner, Pierce shook Prince to the three-second zone, and then cleverly distributed the ball to Garnett, who was inserted in the middle, and Garnett scored with a one-handed dunk.

"Fight simpler, decisive, decisive!" Larry Brown couldn't help but shout from the sidelines, his face was serious, his arms were folded, and the opening two offenses gave him a bad feeling.

Although the Pistons are not known for their offense, it is very rare for them to have no chance at all, and Brown wondered if the players were not in good shape, and if the next offense did not improve, he would have to consider calling a timeout.

This time, Billups dribbled quickly across the half-court court and immediately handed the ball to Rasheed Wallace at the top of the arc, and then he himself ran to the right-hand baseline, looking for a low chance to eat Arenas.

But Arenas seemed to see through this, and he actually started to go around the front defense, while PJ Brown on the other side came over to block the baseline lane.

The Detroit Pistons' starting five, Ben Wallace has almost no independent offensive ability, which is a big problem for the Pistons on the offensive end, and the Celtics seem to have seen through several lines of passing to Big Ben - the middle back, the bottom line is empty, plus the insertion after breaking through the ball, the Celtics all rely on help defense and blocking to eliminate Big Ben's receiving opportunities.

Rashid Wallace hesitated and gave the ball to Hamilton, who cut around from the left, and Big Ben made a block for Hamilton, but Reed didn't go around it, but chose to squeeze through, freeing up the middle to give Hamilton a chance to break through.

This is indeed a good opportunity to attack, provided that PJ Brown follows Big Ben, and the inside will be free for Hamilton to break through after the pick-and-roll - the problem is that PJ is not following Big Ben, his attention is on Billups, who is standing in the three-second zone waiting for Hamilton!

Hamilton couldn't help it, he knew it was a good opportunity, and he chose to force a breakthrough.

Hamilton's driving layup was interfered with by Brown and the ball was blocked! But Billups got the rebound...... Arenas steals and he takes the ball out of Billups' hands! "Billups originally got the frontcourt rebound, but Arenas took it out.

When the Celtics fought back again, and Michael Reed hit a three-pointer from beyond the three-point line, Larry Brown decisively called a timeout, and the game couldn't be played, and he couldn't score at all!

"The Celtics' opening defense is amazing, I haven't seen such a smart defense for a long time, not relying on infinite physical confrontation or infinite rotation to block the opponent, but very smart, almost actively guessing the opponent's offensive routine, anticipating the opponent's offensive opportunities in advance, and then defending." Bill Russell couldn't help but praise the Celtics' defense, in fact, he had much more turmoil in his heart.

The timeout ended quickly, and the Pistons finally scored when they came back - relying on Ben Wallace's open position after the pick-and-roll, and hit the inside for a direct dunk.

But Ben Wallace scored, and Leon was not afraid at all.

"See, the Detroit people's offensive routine is simple and boring, maybe their defense is really good enough, but if they can't score points, they can't win the game." Leon sat on the sidelines and said to Rick Carlisle at his side.

Carlisle also nodded, tonight was different from what many expected to be a spear vs. shield match, and from the pre-match preparations, Leon set the tone for this match - it will be a defensive battle.

Leon's first goal for the players was not to let Billups score easily in the first quarter, and he even said that "Billups can only score one goal", because he knew that Billups was the soul of the Pistons' offensive end. The Pistons' offense without this soul is the level of the middle and lower reaches of the league.

Leon's second goal for the players was not to allow the Pistons to score more than 30 points in the first half.

Sure enough, when the Celtics' hinges were getting tighter and tighter, and the Pistons' offense felt worse and worse, the first quarter ended, and the Celtics were 21:9, leading the Pistons by 12 points, 9 points, which was the Pistons' score in the first quarter. If that continues, it's questionable whether the Pistons can score more than 20 points in the first half.

At the beginning of the second quarter, after the two sides changed to the bench lineup, especially after Kevin Garnett came off the court, the Celtics' defense slackened a lot, and the Pistons also seized the opportunity to score six points in a row, improving the score to 15 points, and was still halfway from 30 points.

A team that is happy to keep opponents under 70 should enjoy this kind of defensive battle, but only if they can score more than 70 points themselves, and now the Pistons may be aiming to go over 50.

In the second quarter of the game, Leon was not in a hurry in the face of the instability of the substitute plastic surgery defense, and he asked the backup point guard Alston to delay the offensive time as much as possible, and drag every offense until the last five seconds before ending. This can effectively reduce the number of offensive rounds on the bench lineup, compress the scoring of both sides, and prevent the Pistons' bench lineup from finding a feeling on the offensive end.

At the end of the fourth quarter, the score was 27-18, and the Pistons looked to be slowly recovering, especially when Prince hit a crucial three-pointer that gave the Pistons a shot in the arm, at which point Leon immediately called a 20-second short timeout.

"Hello everybody, start now, don't let those-sissy scores again. Recently, a lot of people have said how the Detroiters are and what kind of trouble the Pistons are going to cause us, so now, tell them with practical actions, tell everyone, it's all. Three minutes, I'll give you three minutes to prove that we're the best team on the planet defensively! ”

After Leon finished speaking, the timeout was over, and the Celtics defensive lineup came on - PJ Brown, Kevin Garnett, James Posey, Michael Reed, Raga Bell.

When the five Celtics players stood on the court, everyone could feel that an iron curtain slowly hung over the Celtics' basket, indestructible.

"The Celtics fielded a lineup that looked very defensive, and I don't know how their offense was going -- Kevin Garnett caught the ball and hit a jumper from 20 feet out and missed...... It looks like this shot was a bit sloppy. I don't know if it's a rush to show their defense. ”

When Billups returned to the pitch and dribbled across the half-court, he could feel the threat everywhere.

Raja Bale, standing in a good defensive position, seems to be pushing him to the left.

Michael Reid, he's chasing Hamilton, but he's clever and Billups knows he's not chasing Hamilton's guys, but the opportunities that come with Hamilton's runs - and now he doesn't have a chance.

Posey stood 45 degrees to the left, and the area behind him was Prince's favorite spot, where he had just hit a three-pointer. But he felt that Prince would have a hard chance to get rid of Posey.

Brown is three-quarters around Rashid in front, the alignment has changed, what about Kevin, where is Kevin?

Billups was thinking about it when Kevin Garnett, who was standing inside the three-point line, suddenly came up from the left side! Ben was let go again, but Billups didn't get a chance to pass it to him because Percy cut the line.

Prince tried to answer, but it was over, Garnett tied Billups like a cruel spider with silk threads, his attention was not as focused as he was at the beginning, he was intimidated by the Celtic's impeccable positioning, Garnett broke the ball!

An unstoppable dragon with a fast-break dunk from Kevin Garnett.

"I'm sorry, Chaunse, you don't have a chance, not at all." After Garnett's dunk, he said to his good friend Billups, who passed by.

It wasn't quite the same as the feeling in the first quarter, where Billups heard Garnett's words instead of anger, but confused.

In the first quarter, Billups felt a little anxious against the Celtics' defense, they took the lead, but the attackers still had the lead after all, and Billups knew that as the game progressed, he could slowly find the trick to crack and the offensive feeling.

Now, it's different, that deep sense of threat, as if an inexplicable hand will emerge in the dark at any moment, will steal the ball in his hand - just like just now, Garnett mentioned it quickly and decisively, and the teammates behind him are so well coordinated, because at that time Hamilton ran to the left, Reid and Posey two and three, which is much easier than Posey's one defense and two defense.

Billups began to feel a little shaken and confused, and Garnett's words echoed in his ears repeatedly, "You don't have a chance, not at all." ”

A point guard, a shooter, what they are most afraid of is the shaking of confidence, confidence and calmness are the basis for their normal and even extraordinary performance.

Billups, the Pistons' central figure on the offensive end, was the engine that shook his confidence in the face of the Celtics' fan-tough defense.

"The Celtics seem to be starting to show their incredible defensive ...... It's incredible, I can feel the aggression and creativity in it, let's see how the Pistons respond. Billups, he passed the ball to Prince, Prince tried to single Posey, Posey a step back, walked, Prince walked! ”

Leon looked at a frustrated Prince and a confused Billups, and he knew that his third goal was about to be achieved, and he wanted to break the Detroit Pistons' confidence in the playoffs!

"I think I saw the ultimate defense." Bill Russell added: (To be continued.) )