Leon is like a high-speed computer, constantly measuring the situation on the field.

The game had reached the middle of the second quarter, and the score remained deadlocked, with the Chicago Bulls still leading by two points at 47:49. The bulls with the twin towers played cautiously and steadily, step by step. Youngsters Tyson Chandler and Eddie Curry looked young and old and played quite well on the inside, with Chandler grabbing six frontcourt rebounds in 15 minutes of playing time, which made Celtics fans have to start nostalgic for the days of having Dennis Rodman.

And Eddie Curry used his ****** to scuttle 11 points under the Celtics' basket, Tony Barty was completely unable to contain Curry, and the Celtics could roam unscrupulously in the Celtics restricted area. But Leon didn't look in a hurry at all, and so far he has only called two timeouts, one long time to give players a little respite and one short timeout to make personnel changes.

"I'm willing to bet that if I were to go back to 30 and play the Celtics inside tonight, I would have 20 points and 10 rebounds in the half." Charles Barkley couldn't help but boast about the Celtics' weak interior defensive performance. But the 30-year-old Barkley was in '93 when he left for the Suns, and few would question what he said. If anything, it would have been Kenny Smith.

"The premise is that the Celtics are no longer without Dennis Rodman, and without the best defensive player, the Celtics have lost not only rebounds, but also defensive passion and resilience, and I don't know what their head coach thinks." Rodman's retirement is undoubtedly a blow to the Celtics, who were able to reach the Eastern Conference Finals last season, and the Big Bugs played a prominent role in that.

"Three hundred and sixty-five days a year, I can get Dennis Rodman in minutes!" Barkley, of course, was not convinced, and countered Smith with Rodman's evaluation of Malone.

And just when the two were bickering. Jalen Rose missed a jumper at the top of the arc, and Eddie Curry grabbed the frontcourt rebound and tried to force a dunk, but was slapped down by Chris Anderson. The ball did not fly away, but was pressed to the floor by two large hands at once. Curry's 300-pound fat was too late to bend over, and Anderson grabbed the ball with his eyes.

"Give me the ball!" Anderson heard Arenas shouting. Without the slightest hesitation, he passed the ball in the direction of Arenas.

Arenas received the ball and started running again, this time rushing in front of Antoine Walker, Arenas adhered to the principles taught by Leon, not easy to make large passes, but to hold the ball all the way to the basket, at this time Walker has moved to the bottom corner, Arenas only then divided.

Walker also stood one step inside the three-point line when he received the ball, dribbled one step back after receiving the ball, and shot at zero degrees outside the three-point line in the bottom corner!

Leon's heart couldn't help but tighten. In his calculations, the bottom corner is not Walker's good shooting point, but looking at the arc and force of the ball, he knows that the ball is going to go into the basket nine times out of ten.

"Huh!" Walker hits a three-point shot! It was Walker's first three-pointer of the game and his first three-point attempt.

After the goal, Walker drooped his eyebrows and pouted and began to dance, like a cannibal of an African tribe, looking unusually funny. North Shore Garden fans also jumped and cheered on the sidelines with excitement, a repertoire of North Shore Gardens in recent years.

"I'm sure there will be a lot of fans every night. The purpose of buying a ticket to the North Shore Gardens is to see Walker dance. Barkley was also grinned by Walker's trademark ugly dance, and Walker's nickname "comedy" was not for nothing.

"We should note. It was Walker's first three-point attempt of the game, and in the previous two seasons, he had averaged a frenzied eight three-point attempts per game...... Charles, you were already the three-point shooting champion when you were with the Rockets and Suns, but you didn't average half as much shots per game as Walker. But today we're going to see that Walker seems to have restrained his desire to shoot three-pointers, and he's been efficient so far. "Kenny Smith is still able to make a calm analysis when necessary. As long as Barkley on the side doesn't make trouble.

Walker has scored a team-high 11 points so far, is the only player to score in double figures, and he's shooting 5-of-6 from the field, including this three-pointer, which is surprisingly efficient.

"Cheer up the boys. Spend more time on your defense! Leon didn't forget to remind the players to step up their defense and get Walker back to normal by the way. Although Walker was efficient on the offensive end, he was so poor on the defensive end that he couldn't stand up to Chandler at all, allowing Chandler to grab six frontcourt rebounds.

Thankfully, the Celtics' interior defense has been a little better after the introduction of Chris Anderson, who looks thin but has an extraordinary talent for blocking, and has already made two blocks in six minutes on the court. It's just that compared to his master Rodman, his talent for protecting backcourt rebounds is still a big step behind.

As soon as Leon's words fell, the Bulls found an open shot at 45 degrees from the outside through careful transmission, Donny Marshall made a three-point shot, but the ball didn't go in, and Paul Pierce struggled to grab the rebound. However, this time Pierce did not pass the ball to Arenas, but dribbled the ball all the way to the Bulls penalty area, and with a not very fast speed, he sent the ball into the basket crookedly and fell to the ground, causing a defensive foul on the Bulls!

The North Shore Gardens decibels reached their first peak of the game, with Pierce sitting on the ground waiting for his teammates to pull him up while enjoying the cheers of the fans.

Leon, on the other hand, calmly took out a slip of paper from his pocket, on which was drawn a table, divided into two lines, each with 20 squares. Leon ticked one of the squares, then crossed the next row of the same column.

There are several more in the pocket of the same table, which is a simple table for judging the offensive and defensive posture on the field, the upper and lower lines each represent the offensive rounds of the two teams, the tick represents the success of the attack, and the cross represents the failure of the attack. Through such a table, León is able to roughly predict the state and trend of the game between the two sides.

In the table of the first quarter, the distribution of the bull's hook and fork is relatively even, and it is rare to miss more than two consecutive attacks; And in the second half of the second quarter, there began to be a series of forks, although Chandler's frontcourt rebounds remedied the Bulls' offense, but Leon could have a hunch that the Bulls were a little tired.

Yes, when a team that puts the twin towers on the field and constantly runs with the opponent, tiredness is inevitable, although it is very inconspicuous, but it cannot escape Leon's eyes. The reason why Pierce was able to make fouls just now is that the Bulls' defense has begun to shoot rat traps, because the Celtics' second fast break is too fast, and the second reason is that they can't keep up with the fast pace of the Celtics.

With Arenas in the first and second quarters in the first and second quarters, Arenas was key to the team's speed, and now it's the turn of stars like Pierce to take over the game.

With Pilce Plus hitting a free throw, 53:49, the Celtics took a four-point lead, Leon sat back on the bench, put away his form card, and continued to observe the situation on the court, the end of the first half will be very important for the Celtics.

Leon studied the Bulls before the game, and their new head coach was Bill Cartwright, the main center of the Jordan era, who won three consecutive championships in a row, and a very good interior player. The Bulls invited him in the hope that Cartwright could develop two potential young interior players on the team, and Cartwright also complied with the management's request and lined up the starting lineup of the twin towers.

Based on preseason observations, Leon concluded that the Bulls will definitely slow down and that the Celtics will definitely suffer something inside. However, the Bulls will encounter two big problems, one is the problem of retreat defense in the face of the Celtics' assault style of play, Curry's 300-pound weight is a sharp weapon in the offense, and it is a burden when returning to defense.

There is also the physical problem of Bulls players, there is no team with poor fitness in the NBA, but it does not mean that all teams can run as fast. The offensive positional war has a large cost and the fast break cost is small, and the defensive positional war has a small cost and the defense fast break cost is large, so that both the offensive and defensive Celtics are the side with a small cost, but the Bulls often follow behind and eat ashes.

The game was not obvious at the beginning, the Bulls played well, and once gave people the illusion that they would play steadily and steadily, but they couldn't stand the Celtics' rapid offense regardless of the shooting percentage, and their legs and feet began to slow down more and more. This even began to affect their offense.

With less than two minutes left in the second quarter, the Bulls called a timeout, and Cartwright wanted to give the team a little respite, so he replaced Curry with Marcus Fetzel, hoping that the physical power forward could keep up with the Celtics' rapid pace.

On the other hand, Leon also made a change, taking Arenas and replacing it with Steve Cole, obviously looking for speed while hoping for the team's attack to be more solid in the final two minutes. Kerr was undoubtedly more skilled with Pierce in terms of coordination, and sure enough, after the timeout, the Bulls missed the shot again, and the Celtics' defensive intensity was insufficient but more than tenacious, which made the Bulls' shooting percentage plummet with declining fitness.

Antoine got the rebound and passed it to Kerr, who pushed forward quickly again, and the Celtics were really fast on offense...... Pierce's slippery baseline, receiving a pass from Cole, and shooting from mid-range...... Bang！ Hit! Smith also had to lament the amazing speed of the Celtics' second fast break, they did not pursue the "easy-ball" to throw off all defenders, but completed their offensive cooperation when the opponent had not yet organized a defensive formation.

"Their passing chemistry is amazing, and it looks like they've been working together for 10 years." Barkley, who had been gagging for half the game, finally said something to the point. The Celtic's passing coordination was just too good. And the bulls don't seem to have found a way to deal with this kind of cooperation, as the so-called only tired cows, no ploughed land, the bulls will not have a good time in the next game. (To be continued.) )