It was Yao Ming and Garnett who jumped the ball.

Garnett leaned on Yao Ming to jump up first and flick the ball back into the Celtics half.

The visitors were the first to get the chance to attack.

When it came to the frontcourt, Rondo directly directed his teammates to run at the top of the arc.

The Celtics once invited Tang Tian to join in the summer, but they were politely declined, and their current head coach is Dao Brother Rivers during last season's slump period, which is also known as River Document in Tang Tian's previous life.

Rivers is a coach who is a big fan of positional offense, especially now that he has the Big Three, and his tactics are finally playing perfectly.

Ray Allen cut to the basket from a 45-degree angle on the right, and Garnett and Perkins made back-to-back pick-and-rolls on the inside.

That's not all, when he ran out of the inside, Pierce was a high post block again, and after the ball was removed, Pierce went to the basket, and Garnett pulled over to make a second off-ball block for Pierce.

The dazzling tactical coordination makes it difficult to know who the Celtics' offensive endpoint is this time.

Rondo can't shoot three points, which is the biggest weakness of the Celtics, but because of the existence of Ray Allen, Tang Tian did not dare to let the team shrink the basket, and the strategy adopted on the defensive end at this time was one-on-one, waiting for opportunities to wrap up.

Rondo threw his hand and passed the ball to Garnett, who was blocked, and Garnett directly faced the switching Battier and directly chose a high jumper.

"Huh!"

The shot was decisive, and the basketball hit steadily.

Garnett, as one of the top five power forwards in history, has first-class scoring, rebounding, playmaking, and defense, even if he has degraded a little now due to age, but his ability is undoubted.

You must know that in his previous life, it was his excellent play at both ends of the offensive and defensive ends that completely suppressed the Lakers' Gasol, and the Celtics could easily win the championship.

The Rockets' offense, Yao Ming pulled Perkins to the high position, and the Rockets played an infinite air-cut tactic.

Blocking, air cutting, blocking and dismantling, and then air cutting.

This tactic has been used by the Rockets for an entire season, and it is already quite skillful.

However, unlike all the opponents they have encountered before, the Celtics' change of defense is not leaky, and the Rockets ran for a while without getting any shots.

Seeing that there was not much offensive time left, Maddie and Yao Ming finally played a simple pick-and-roll combination, facing Perkins' defense, and Garnett accepted the defensive rebound.

There was a stirring at the scene.

This is the first time since the playoffs that the Rockets have played with full force and encountered a bad start.

Tang Tian also held his chin with his hands at this time, thoughtfully.

Unlike the optimism of the fans and the media before the game, he attaches great importance to the Celtics, and he also vaccinated the players before the game, and greeted the players with all the situations he may encounter.

However, it seems that the Celtics are still doing a lot better than he expected.

Especially defensively.

In his previous life, it was Tom Thibodeau who built the Celtics' defensive system, yes, he is now the Rockets' No. 1 assistant coach Thibodeau.

Now that Thibodeau is not there, it stands to reason that the situation should have changed, but when watching the video before, Tang Tian felt that the Celtics' defense did not seem to be much weaker than in his previous life, and it was just a feeling at the time, but now it is confirmed.

The NBA, as a top league, is not lacking in talent, and there will always be someone on top if it is missing, and now look at it, among the assistant coaches of the Celtics, there is also a very eye-catching name, and there is still some relationship with the Rockets in the previous life.

Bickerstaff.

Tang Tian was very impressed by this person, of course, because his name had two English letters in it that people couldn't forget.

In his previous life, after the Rockets head coach McHale was fired, he represented the head coach of the Rockets for half a season.

Performance, very poor.

A coach who doesn't know what tactics offense is at all, but like the players, coaches also have a skill to survive in the NBA, and the only thing that the coach is best at is defense, and the Rockets' defensive system under McHale was built by him.

Because his reputation is far inferior to Thibodeau, Tang Tian didn't pay much attention to it before, but now it seems that Coach ***'s defensive skills are not much worse than Thibodeau.

The game on the court continued, and the Rockets' strategy on the defensive end did not achieve good results, and they couldn't find too good opportunities to shoot on the offensive end, and the individual strong offensive effect was not very good under the high-intensity confrontation.

Rivers plus Bickerstaff, Tang Tian is a chess opponent.

Halfway through the game, the Rockets trailed the Celtics by eight points 10-18 and have missed three consecutive offenses.

Tang Tian stretched out his hand at this time and called a timeout.

"The Rockets are in trouble, Boston is doing a fantastic job defendingly." After watching half of the game, Kenny Smith in the commentary seat sighed.

"yes, it's the first time I've seen the Rockets struggle so aggressively." Barkley nodded in agreement.

"Jeff, what do you think of the Celtics' defense compared to when you were coaching the Rockets?" Barkley then turned to look at Jeff Van Gundy, the special guest of the finals.

"Better than me." Van Gundy was very honest and nodded.

"Yes, after all, they have Kevin Garnett." Barkley was very face-saving and continued.

The commentary seat burst into laughter.

The commentators are talking, but whatever the reason, the Celtics did play historic defense.

"Chauncy, you wrap up Aaron, Paul, you shrink the basket and let go of Rondo."

'We play tactics in attack, pull out the space and create one-on-one chances as much as possible.

Tang Tian's arrangement was very simple, and he was never a stubborn person, including for himself.

After the timeout, in the Rockets' offensive round, Yao Ming went to the front court and landed directly on the free throw line, and Billups followed to hand the ball in.

"Team Rocket has changed tactics." The changes on the field affected the commentary seat, and Smith spoke immediately.

The fans at the scene also looked anxiously at the field.

The Rockets gave up their infinite air-cut tactics and went back to the old ways, allowing Yao Ming to organize a strategy at the free throw line.

Yao Ming held the ball, and the Rockets' outside blocking and air cutting were combined, and the space was very open.

At this time, the Celtics' infinite rotation and assistance defense on the defensive end were obviously weakened.

Seeing that Maddie misplaced Rondo after the block, Yao Ming handed over the ball as soon as possible.

Yao Ming quickly sank to the basket after handing over the ball, and Battier in the bottom corner and Billups in the circle both moved to the other side at this time, creating enough space for Maddie to play alone.

Because the space is very open, the Celtics do not dare to go over to help defend easily at this time.

Rondo, a sophomore, played with Garnett for a season, improving defensively, but against Maddie.

Maddie turned to face Rondo, directly ignoring the small movements of Rondo's hand, and after changing direction, he stopped sharply and pulled out his hand.

The scissor leg reached Rondo's chest, and all that was left of Rondo was to look up.

"Huh!"

Maddie's dry pull hit steadily.

In the first round after the pause, the Rockets' offense was done.