The Cavaliers' offensive ball in the frontcourt, Paul looked for Vallejo's block, and directly pulled one with his thick body, but Garnett reacted quickly, and his long arms stretched out interfered with his shooting vision.

"Bang!"

The ball was deflected wide at the end.

Stiesma picked up the defensive rebound.

Rondo attacked the front court and continued the tactical command.

Garnett in turn blocked Pierce this time, and after the split, the whole team pulled away, giving Pierce space to play alone.

The continuous footsteps swayed, and Vallejo was a little unsteady in his center of gravity.

Pierce opted for a step-back three-point shot.

"Bang!"

The ball was lucky, hitting the back edge of the basket and bouncing into the net.

At 16-11, the Celtics took a five-point lead.

Tang Tian frowned slightly.

He realized he might be underestimating the last of the Green Shirts.

Garnett got rid of injury recovery in the second spring, Pierce became more and more mature, although Ray Allen's tactical status has declined significantly, but after Rondo took the lead, the offense has been clearly more layered.

Recall carefully, the green shirts in the previous life, and the formed Heat to fight the East Finals to grab seven, is still very expected.

The game seems to be getting tangled.

With Butler and Battier up front, Garnett became very brave, but with Vallejo, Rondo was able to take advantage of Vallejo's slow speed.

Paul dribbled to the front court, signaled Yao Ming to drop high, and then handed the ball to him, which was directly giving up the block and letting Yao Ming respond to the attack at the first time.

Rondo is the "coach on the field", and Paul's ability to read the game is not bad.

Yao Ming's response, Carter's catch-and-shoot layup caused a foul on Steensma's hitter.

Carter made both free throws.

The score was 16-13.

Whether the Cavaliers wanted it or not, the game began to fall into a stalemate.

Paul and Yao Ming on the Cavaliers' side, and Garnett and Pierce on the Celtics side all tried to take over the game, but both sides had a good hand in this game, and neither was able to defend the opponent.

At the end of the first quarter, the two sides were tied at 32.

The expected defensive battle turned into an offensive battle.

"We'll build up an advantage with the time on the bench." During the break, Casey said to Tang Tian.

Tang Tian was silent and didn't speak.

The main players of both sides basically played a full quarter, and under normal circumstances, they must let the substitutes play for a while.

As for the bench, the Cavaliers' side has more experience and strength.

It's just that Rivers is an outlier, and it's not impossible to let the main team play the whole game.

Coming back in the second quarter, Carter stayed on the court on the Cavaliers' side and replaced Jeremy Lin, Hill, Artest and Whiteside.

On the Celtics side, Rondo, Pierce and Garnett are still on the court, but Bradley and Bass are replaced.

Sure enough, tactics or something can be transferred to Rondo, and Rivers still has the final say in this way of employing people.

"Do you want Paul to go up?" Casey said as soon as he saw it.

"No, it's 48 minutes." Tang Tian shook his head.

The Celtics used people so well and fought with high intensity, and the Cavaliers obviously had an advantage in the fourth quarter.

"Defend with all your might, the game is over and there is a break!" He shouted at the players on the field.

He ran to the Spurs at the beginning, and if Rivers used people like this, he wouldn't mind using hand-to-hand combat to kill you, and see if you could still beat in the fourth quarter.

Rondo's frontcourt organization, Pierce's running position on the pick-and-roll, and the muffled sound of muscle collision on the court.

These substitutes of the Cavaliers are usually used to being in the team, and they have a strong sense of competition, and Tang Tian wants them to go all out, and they really have no reservations.

Pierce's catch-and-shoot layup caused a foul on Whiteside's beater.

Whiteside held his head, looking a little frustrated.

"Well done!" Tang Tian applauded and cheered for him at this time.

Whiteside heard Tang Tian's encouragement, and his frustrated expression was swept away, if he usually made two more mistakes, he would have to end, but now Tang Tian was unusual, which made him even more excited.

Pierce caught his breath and went to the free throw line and hit one of two free throws, and Whiteside jammed Garnett for a defensive rebound.

The Cavaliers' offense, Jeremy Lin's frontcourt block broke through to the basket, and the layup after the confrontation with Bass was missed, and Garnett collected the defensive rebound.

Back on the defensive end, it was another defensive round full of physical confrontations, and the referee's whistle was biting to the mouth all the time.

This time, Pierce's breakthrough layup was defended by Artest, and Whiteside played excitedly, although he was stuck in the position by Bass, but he used his arm span and positivity to directly pick up the defensive rebound with an overhead melon.

For a young player like him, the intensity from the manager is really like playing chicken blood.

The Cavaliers' frontcourt ball, Jeremy Lin burst Carter, Carter burst to the basket again, Garnett blocked the ball with a horizontal hand, and Buss collected the defensive rebound.

After the two sides experienced the offensive battle in the first stage, the situation changed abruptly in the second quarter, and it directly turned into a defensive battle.

More than four minutes were played in the second quarter, and the Celtics led 39-34.

Although the Celtics pulled some scores away because of the strength of the lineup on the field, this point difference is within an acceptable range.

The Cavaliers began to change their main players one after another, with the Celtics not only letting Garnett go down to rest, Rondo and Pierce still on the court, and Ray Allen and Stiesma back on the field.

It looks like Rivers is ready to use a seven-man rotation tonight.

"All the way!" Tang Tian shouted at his team members at this time.

After more than four minutes of high-intensity confrontation, Rondo and Pierce were physically exhausted, and the second half of the second quarter was a good time to pull away the score.

Paul advanced to the front court with the ball and reached directly for his teammates to run.

With a continuous off-ball block, air cut and reverse run on both wings, the Cavaliers players were completely tireless, while the Celtics players looked a little out of breath.

Butler cuts the ball away from Buss' layup.

But at this moment, Garnett struggled to come over from the weak side and reached out to interfere before Butler could make a move.

"Bang!"

Butler's shot was a little off, the ball bounced out of the frame, Garnett turned to collect the rebound, handed the ball to Rondo, gritted his teeth and ran forward.

With the cooperation of the Celtics frontcourt, Pierce's outside three-point deviation, Garnett struggled to grab the offensive rebound at this time, and his jumping shot caused Yao Ming's beating hand to foul.

Hit both free throws.

The Cavaliers' frontcourt cooperated, and Green had a chance to hit a three-pointer in the bottom corner.

Looking back, Ray Allen's three-point shot from the outside was missed, the long rebound flew out of bounds, Garnett struggled out of bounds to ask for help, the ball was not saved, and the person fell directly in front of Tang Tian and Casey.

After Tang Tian saw it, he reached out and helped him.

When Garnett got up, he saw that it was Tang Tian who was stunned for a moment, but immediately ran back to the backfield.

The game continued on the court, but there were some deviations from what the Cavaliers expected, and the Celtics gritted their teeth and insisted, leaving the situation on the court deadlocked.

"They are respectable opponents." After reading this paragraph, Casey unconsciously sighed.

Tang Tian didn't speak, but with a straight face, he yelled directly at the players on the field.

"You guys, do you want to wait for 100 suicides after the game is over?!"