Chapter 224: Divergence (I)
The scorching results of the two teams proved the strength of the two teams.
Wang Mingming squinted his eyes, rubbed his chin and observed the situation on the field, depending on the situation, this game will be delayed until the last moment to determine the winner.
And at the last moment, it is unpredictable, and it is even more difficult to predict who will win and who will lose.
Time ticked by, and at 1:05 of the fourth quarter, Iverson hit a mid-range pullup jumper.
The 76ers led the Celtics by one point, 77-76.
There were many instances of alternating leads in the fourth quarter, and this time the lead, I don't know how many times the 76ers took the lead, but the time was getting less and less.
With this goal, the pressure on the 76ers players is much less.
Iverson roared angrily and vented.
Rivers called a timeout, leaving the suspense behind the timeout.
The atmosphere at the scene was even more tense, and after the silence of the whole stadium, there was a "buzz" noise, and the fans were talking, some hands together in prayer, praying that the next wave of Celtic's attack must be scored.
"Iverson is still strong, the years don't seem to have left any mark on his face, he's still the all-powerful super scorer, and he's still the shortest champion in the history of the league."
"At 34 years old, you can still maintain this level, 22+6+7, Iverson tonight, the performance is enough to remember."
Reggie Miller blew a wave of Iverson, and what he admires most is this kind of player who has been from the beginning, like Iverson has a tattoo on his neck, this kind of player, which represents loyalty, in this league full of material and profit, it is rare.
"The Celtics may choose a three-point tactic, or they may choose a low-post strategy, our specific defense, or man-to-man, everyone don't follow the ball but follow people, don't leak people, this time the defense will be the most important defense of your whole game!"
Wang shouted loudly tomorrow, reminding the players to improve their concentration.
The players nodded their heads and then re-entered the pitch with the whistle.
In the final moments, Wang's lineup tomorrow is Iverson, Safrosa, Iguodala, Pau Gasol, and Paul Millsap.
Dalem Potter looked at Wang Mingming with a complicated expression, and sat down on the sidelines dejectedly.
Actually, according to reason, he performed well, scored 8 points and 9 rebounds today, only in 25 minutes of playing time, but the head coach just favors Paul, Paul Millsap, who can always play in the last moments, even if he feels that his defense is better than Paul Millsap and rebounds better than Paul Millsap.
The head coach was too stubborn, and Durham Potter shook his head, and couldn't help but feel a little resentful of him in his heart.
Garnett is still Gasol on defense, and Millsap is on top of Perkins.
Millsap's strength is amazing, Perkins is not tall, under the basket, Millsap can complete the card position, and Millsap moves quickly and has better blocking and pick-and-roll ability, which is why Wang is more willing to use Millsap tomorrow.
"Toot ~"
The whistle blows, Rondo serves the ball, and Garnett catches the ball.
With Paul Pierce hand-to-hand pass cover, the 76ers followed Wang's Tomorrow tactics, man-to-man, and no packs.
As a result, the quality of the cover was particularly high, and Garnett blocked Iguodala in one fell swoop, Iguodala was out of position, and Pierce dribbled the ball inside.
Millsap switched to defend Pierce.
Pierce's face did not change, and he made a mid-range pull-up jump shot, with his legs spread apart, and his movements were extremely steady.
"Huh!"
The basketball swiped through Millsap's fingertips and slid into the net.
"It's overtaken again! 78-77, the Celtics overtook by 1 point! β
In the passionate roar of the commentator, the fans broke out into amazing cheers, everyone stood up and cheered, a stone in their hearts fell, and the pressure was transferred to the 76ers again.
Wang didn't call a timeout tomorrow, Iverson dribbled through the court, and the clock was only 50 seconds left.
"Papa~"
Iverson dribbled and looked for opportunities on the outside to block and pick-and-roll, but there was never a chance.
Rondo defended very well, seeing that the time was consumed for ten seconds, Wang almost called a timeout tomorrow, Iverson turned around with the ball, his body tilted sharply, and forced a breakthrough.
Rondo guarded Iverson and stuck to Iverson inside, and Iverson dribbled and threw the ball with one hand.
Rondo jumped, seriously interfering with his shot.
Iverson almost lost his balance in the confrontation, his movements were already deformed, and the basketball was missed, smashing into the front of the basket and bounced.
Garnett and Millsap jumped up at the same time, Garnett had a longer arm, but Millsap stretched out one arm and the two seemed to touch the basketball together, and then the basketball went off course.
Gasol subconsciously stretched out his long arm to catch it, but when he saw that the ball was too fast, he immediately retracted his arm.
But the fingertips seemed to rub the ball, and the basketball flew out of the baseline.
"He touched it!"
Garnett reacted quickly and immediately pointed to the backcourt to signal to the referee that the ball should go to Celtic.
"No, absolutely not!"
Gasol shrugged his shoulders, with an innocent expression on his face, and began to play.
The referee glanced at the two men, then walked to the technical table to watch the replay.
There are different opinions in favor of the 76ers in the frontcourt and in favor of the Celtics in the backcourt, but just looking at the replay, it is not certain whether the ball was dialed by Gasol.
After hesitating for a long time, the replay was played, and it was seen from different angles, and in the end, the referee awarded the ball to the home Celtic.
Wang Mingtian jumped to his feet, stood up dissatisfied, and protested to the referee.
The fans cheered, 39.7 seconds, less time.
The Celtics held the ball on the outside, and Rondo consumed time unhurriedly, and everyone thought he was going to consume time, but Rondo broke through directly around 30 seconds.
Halfway through, Rondo wanted to pass the ball, but found that Iverson was unaware and touched his arm.
He immediately jumped to his feet and grabbed Iverson's arm to jump.
"Toot ~"
The whistle blew and the referee blew for a foul on Iverson.
βhatοΌβ Iverson looked puzzled, the referee didn't move much for the whole game, and at the last moment, did he finally jump back?
Of course, Wang Tomorrow is even more dissatisfied, and it looks like if it weren't for Randy Ayes, Tyronn Lue and other assistant coaches pulling Wang Tomorrow, he would have gone up to play the referee.
In the applause of the fans, Rondo made one of two free throws.
Wang called a 76ers timeout tomorrow, the penultimate timeout for the 76ers, with 27.8 seconds left on the clock.
Even if the 76ers use up all their time and complete the offense, the Celtics still have time to complete the final offense, and the 76ers will certainly not waste time until the last second in order to leave time to reorganize and so on.
In addition, Wang Tomorrow picked up the tactical board, and the players gathered around to listen to Wang Tomorrow's layout of the tactics for the last attack.
Wang Tomorrow looked at these sweaty players, in fact, he was also struggling in his heart, whether to hand over the ball to Iverson to deal with, or arrange an overall tactic, and whoever has the opportunity to come out in the end will be cast to whom?
It was a difficult choice, an emotional and rational one.