The first leg of the crusade was the Celtics, Garnett was a year older, Pierce was another year older, Ray Allen was gone, and now the Celtic record can only be described as so-so.

They didn't have an orthodox center in their starting lineup, the old guy was a semi-blue-collar guy, and the two teams were very similar.

However, the Spurs are still a little younger, and Jason Terry, who the Celtics brought in to replace Ray Allen in the summer, is also an old guy.

Zhang Xiaotian, as the only seedling in the No. 3 position, became the starter without dispute.

He will face Paul Pearce, a famous figure in this position, but the other party is 35 years old and no longer young.

Zhang Xiaotian is still very excited, Pierce is now considered the top No. 3 position, and his age is only compared to when he was young, which is about the same as Duncan's state.

At the beginning of the game, the Spurs launched an attack from the inside, and Garnett's degradation was obviously more serious than Duncan's, and the defensive threat was much less than before.

The Celtics made consecutive shots from the outside, and Terry felt very good.

Zhang Xiaotian quickly felt Pierce's awesomeness, like Artest, even if he is older, his strength is still very good, Zhang Xiaotian stares very tightly when he is without the ball, but after the opponent receives the ball, he still takes a simple step back to open up space and hit two points.

Pierce is actually the type that Zhang Xiaotian is willing to face, and his players who defend quickly suffer the most, because he himself is not fast, and he can't keep up with his usual methods of physical confrontation.

Although he was scored by the opponent, Zhang Xiaotian was not discouraged, he also fantasized about killing all sides, just like the night he scored 44 points, but that was a special case, he knew very well that he was just a supporting role in a strong team like Spurs.

Whether he is playing as a main player or as a substitute, he has to put his mind right and try his best to help the team, he is not a superstar.

All he can do at this point is try to contain Pierce, not just defensively.

Pierce's defense may be good, but he didn't put his mind completely on Zhang Xiaotian, the momentary scenery doesn't mean anything, and an old man like him doesn't care that Zhang Xiaotian has been crazy once.

Zhang Xiaotian didn't care, the opponent was talking trash to care about him, the opponent ignored him and even ignored him a little that he could also be used, he kept running without the ball when attacking, and he was stunned to run out of a few vacant opportunities and scored 6 points.

Pierce also only scored 6 points, whether he was a famous person or not, he watched everyone's performance on the court, and Zhang Xiaotian was full of fighting spirit.

In the first quarter, both sides had a good hand, scoring 30:27 to give the Spurs the lead.

In the second quarter, the benches on both sides came into play.

The Spurs' interior line has always been a little tangled, but it also depends on who they are compared to, and the current Celtics can't compare to the Spurs, especially the bench.

Whether it's Dior or Split, the rotation time is playing smoothly.

And Celtics' first-in-the-line bench Jeff Green, although also high, prefers to shoot from the outside.

The score has never been pulled, but Spurs have been on the side that has been in control.

In the third quarter, Celtics point guard Rajon Rondo began to exert his power.

I have to say that Rondo is stronger than Parker in terms of organizational ability.

At the beginning of the second half, Rondo made a few second-to-second crosses, and Garnett scored easily to help the team chase six points in a row.

But Duncan immediately returned the color, and Parker's hand was also good, and he didn't let the other party overtake.

Zhang Xiaotian has been entangled with Pierce, but he still let the other party find an opportunity to hit three points, because many times defense is not a one-man business, and offense is also, and a cover in the system can solve many problems.

As soon as Rondo came out of the vacant position, he passed the ball, and Zhang Xiaotian could only sigh.

In fact, the most troublesome thing is not Pierce looking for cover, but the subtle feints of the other party.

Pierce's shot point is not high, it can be said that it is a bit of a floor flow, and it is precisely because of this that Pierce's preparation time for shooting is far less than that person, and Zhang Xiaotian can't accurately judge whether the opponent is fake or not.

Only a little bit after the third quarter, Zhang Xiaotian received a third foul and had to rest first.

When he came off the court, the Spurs were a back three, but they didn't suffer.

During the rotation, Gary Neal and Split suddenly came into play, and the Spurs suddenly extended their lead to more than 10 points.

In the last quarter, Zhang Xiaotian followed Pierce on the court.

With the blessing of skills, Zhang Xiaotian is even more unscrupulous to engage in physical confrontation with Pierce without the ball.

Pierce, who played longer on the field than Zhang Xiaotian, seemed to be a little tired, and Terry, who felt hot in the first half, did not have the previous firepower, and the Celtics seemed to have lost their vitality all of a sudden.

Rajon Rondo began to go it alone, and after the breakup of the Celtics' Big Three, Rondo has been seen as the core of the team's future, and the ball distribution is more than Pierce's.

However, Parker really couldn't stop Rondo, and was twice broken by the opponent to foul.

But Rondo also has a big shortcoming, that is, his shooting is not very accurate, if he is not worried about his passing, it is impossible to be repeatedly attacked by him.

Coupled with the fact that this is already the last quarter, Rondo can't beat the sky so much.

With only two minutes left in the game, Zhang Xiaotian hit a three-point shot to help the team regain the lead to more than 10 points, and the outcome of the game suddenly lost most of the suspense.

In the end, the Spurs won the opponent 112-100, and Zhang Xiaotian completed the task with 14 points, 5 rebounds and 3 assists.

He was happy to win the game, but in the final quarter, Pierce only tried a three-pointer at the end, did not hit and did not continue, making him feel like a punch to cotton.

Originally, Zhang Xiaotian planned to have a good fight with Pierce at the last moment, but the other party didn't respond.

Duncan's 20+15 vertical and horizontal inner line, pressed Garnett of the same age to the ground and rubbed it, Zhang Xiaotian could only say that it was good to hug his thighs.

He also figured it out and decided not to care about the stats, not to think about playing against players who are famous, to honestly help the team win, and to honestly take the benefits of the system

Zhang Xiaotian's performance in these games was decent, neither soaring into the sky as some fans hoped, nor disappearing as Kuroko expected.

What cares more about his performance than him is the fans, who have already made a lot of noise on the Internet, and the fuse was the words he said in an interview that day that he didn't care about the data and only cared about the outcome of the game.

Fans led by Zhang Yihu and Le Tianyou will support it, believing that this is the attitude that professional players should have, and the Spurs' good record at the beginning is proof of this.

Another wave of fans thought that Zhang Xiaotian was covering up, obviously his strength was not good, but he was just a marginal player, but he found a tall reason, if he hadn't hugged the spurs' thighs, he would have been out of the crowd a long time ago.

Yang Feiyu has been busy for credits these days, Zhang Xiaotian is bored in the away game, and seeing that the two sides are arguing hotly, he can't help but make social media trumpets to apply to join the circle of both sides, and peep at the screen while exercising in the hotel.