Chapter 460: Fierce Battle Against the Green Shirts
Several high-density games in a row have made Ye Xuan very tired recently, and his own dark injury is the kind that needs to be recuperated, so after Ye Xuan ended the game with the Knicks, he decisively decided to play a dozen soy sauce in the next game, although the opponent he faced was the Celtics who reached the playoffs last season, but Ye Xuan felt that even if he lost the game because of his paddling team, it didn't have much impact.
But in fact, the Celtics have improved a lot this season, and many people can't imagine that the Green Shirts can enter the playoffs last season, thanks to the team's coaching staff's reasonable planning and tactical arrangements for the team's lineup, and then the team's desperate unity to play with potential stocks. Coupled with the fact that Thomas, who brought a gun to shoot halfway, finally made the Green Shirts stand out in the Eastern Conference playoffs and enter the playoffs as the seventh in the East. And in the playoffs, against the Cavaliers, who are recognized as the strongest in the East, although they were swept, they also played their own momentum.
With the foundation of last season's success, the team leadership has continued to work hard, and while maintaining the current squad, the salary space is cleared by the contract when the income expires. The team's exchange of Wallace for David Lee directly adds $500 to next year's expiring contract, which is a very good sign for a rebuilding team. And judging from the Warriors' championship process, David Lee's immediate combat power is still there, much stronger than Wallace, and if he regains his value, it will be even better for the trade. The rest is the draft and contract extensions for young players, there's nothing to say, it's decent.
The current balance of the Celtic lineup is actually very good, and the team's strength from the first man Thomas to the 10th man Jerebko is very balanced. The interior line, David Lee, is experienced and delicate, Zeller, Salinger, and O'Neik are all low-key and practical good interior lines, and other young forwards are also the type of impulsive. With such a group of players, the Celtics' style of play is that Thomas controls the ball and blocks and dismantles...... The rest of the players answered without the ball, or Thomas shot and the other players grabbed the board and attacked twice. This kind of indiscriminate shooting and birdie play (not X**D) is simple and brutal, and it seems to be dead, but in fact, there are infinite variations that can be developed on the team's many pick-and-roll objects.
However, the team only had a stable possession point for Thomas, and Smart still did not grow as expected, which is why the team chose another point guard in the end. Another problem for the Celtics is that Bradley, the team's other core, is actually the level of the team's fourth man, and letting him be the core is indeed the result of the tiger monkey dominating the mountain...... Moreover, the first core Thomas is subject to physical conditions and cannot be cultivated for a long time, so it can only be used as a temporary choice.
What this team needs now is not a playoff finish, nor a high-quality role player, but a soul who can resist the team's progress, I heard that the Celtics are brewing a stormy trade, and even scrap materials like Rondo last season (Rondo didn't get along with the coach at the Celtics, so he basically didn't have playing time) can be exchanged for an efficient player like Clyde, and see what kind of surprise Danny Ainge can bring us, which is what many people want to know.
In fact, the Celtics' performance this season is not like a team that is still rebuilding, because the fighting power they show is not as bad as the Raptors and the Wizards, and they are completely a playoff-level team, but they also have some differences from teams such as the Raptors, that is, even if they are at the top of the league, they still have very high draft picks, which is due to the ' Ruthless' was decided, when they sent Pierce and Garnett to the Nets, where they traded for a large number of first-round picks.
But the Nets are now the biggest of the New York doubles, the season has been going on for two months, the Nets have only won a total of 4 games, and you can think of it with your ass that their first-round pick will be very valuable, of course, these have nothing to do with the Nets, because their first-round picks for the next three years are not in their hands. This makes the Nets, who have begun to enter the rebuilding stage, not have the slightest hope of rebuilding success, because they bet on the present with their future, but in the end not only lose the present, but also lose the future, and it is foreseeable that the Nets will only be able to mix at the bottom of the league in the next few years.
The Celtics do have their strengths, although it seems that their staffing is not as star-studded as the Cavaliers or the Warriors, and they do not have a lot of salary cut veterans like the Spurs, but they are able to play their own combat effectiveness, just like the Nets back then, although it was the troika that brought the team to the Finals, but in fact, in the end, it was basically Kidd's credit, Martin and Jefferson, One has declined in various ways after going to the Nuggets, and the final strength is just a blue-collar worker of about 15+8, and the other is even more tragic, playing less and less confident in the Nets, and finally from the second to the third on the team, and then traded, and then into a complete role player. And the same is true of the current Celtics, it looks like Thomas and Bradley and Crowder and others are working together to support the team, but in fact, how much combat effectiveness Crowder and others have will only be known after he leaves the Celtics (mainly because he saw that Crowder is playing too in the Cavaliers now.) )
Ye Xuan rested for a whole day, and didn't even participate in the team's daily training, but out of trust and love for Ye Xuan, Coach Frank didn't say much, and the time came to December 23rd, the Pacers set off for Boston to challenge the Celtics, the last time he visited here, Ye Xuan left a record that made the Celtics rush to shame in this holy land of the Green Army, that is, the scoring record of 69 points on the TD North Shore Garden Course, So although Ye Xuan can still see fans who come to cheer for him in some other big cities, but here, there is no ghost shadow, and it is estimated that no one dares to risk the world to cheer for Ye Xuan, the public enemy of the whole Celtics.
The game is about to start, and the difference between this game and the previous two games is that Chandler needs to be out for two weeks due to a muscle strain, so Frank Vogel announced the starting lineup before the game, and the starting backcourt naturally did not change, but the starting power forward became Myles Turner, and Jordan Hill was put in the center position.
At the beginning of the game, although he came up from the power forward position, Jordan Hill was originally a player who played the center position, so in the face of Jared Sallinger, he still beat the opponent and slapped the ball into Ye Xuan's hands, Ye Xuan dribbled two steps forward, and then handed the ball to Rondo to control, today he made up his mind to play a soy sauce, so he was not ready to attack with the ball himself.
Rondo faced Thomas Jr. and wanted to force the opponent directly, but although Thomas Jr. was indeed a little shorter, he was also very athletic, a lateral move stuck Rondo's breakthrough route, and he was about to reach out to Rondo's ball, as a top point guard, Rondo of course would not be easily cut off by the opponent, but in the face of Thomas Jr.'s pressing, Rondo could only quickly pass the ball out, Ye Xuan on the outside received the pass, and immediately passed the ball to Pickled Pepper after dribbling twice, so that he could play alone.
When Pickle Pepper received the ball, the Pacers' offensive time was less than 7 seconds left, so it was too late to make any moves, and they could only squeeze two steps inside on the outside and then hurriedly stepped back to shoot a jumper, although Crowder did not take the cap down, but also successfully interfered with Pickle Pepper's shot, and finally the basketball ended in iron, and the rebound was also bagged by Aamir Johnson.
Looking back, Thomas Jr. received Aamir Johnson's pass and immediately launched a fast attack, rushing towards the Pacers' half, the strongest 175 on the surface is indeed not covered, the speed is very good, and he rushed to the Pacers' three-point line in a few clicks, and the Pacers' defense is not bad, so Thomas Jr. did not find a chance to directly impact the basket, but just when everyone thought that Thomas Jr. gave up the fast break and was ready to fight positionally, Thomas Jr. suddenly changed direction and accelerated past the pickled pepper of the defense, and then rushed into the Pacers' interior line, facing Myles Turner's defense, Thomas Jr. was very calm, using his rhythm to trick Turner, and then crashed into it, and the basketball in his hand also flew to the basket, and the whistle sounded! Ball!
Seeing that his team played a beautiful 2+1 at the beginning, the fans of TD North Shore Garden Stadium immediately cheered, and there were naturally some provocations and insults for Ye Xuan in the middle, this scolding did not matter, it immediately aroused Ye Xuan's desire to counterattack, and after coming to the front court again, Ye Xuan changed his lazy appearance in the last round, and immediately began to cut inside after helping Rondo block and dismantle, and then after receiving Rondo's pass, it was also the same as the attack of Thomas Jr. just now, Tricked Jared Sallinger and hit the ball, but because Ye Xuan still cared a little about his injury, he didn't make the opponent's foul, so it was just a two-point shot.
The Celtics are still offensive, Thomas Jr. is about to force a breakthrough again when he comes to the front court with the ball, but Rondo's steal is not fake, after all, he is the man who once beat Paul and won the title of steal king, if it weren't for Rondo's standing out in the 09-10 season, then Paul would have won the title of steal king in 7 consecutive worlds. So Thomas Jr. didn't pay attention and was almost stabbed off by Rondo with the ball in his hand, but fortunately, Thomas Jr.'s chassis was low, so even if he held the ball in his arms, and then passed it to Bradley on the side.
Bradley naturally didn't dare to be careless in the face of Ye Xuan's defense, after all, the last careless Wall is now a meter high, so he immediately called Jared Sallinger to help block and dismantle, and after the block and dismantlement was over, he immediately rushed towards the inside line of the Pacers, who knew that Ye Xuan didn't seem to make any effort on the defensive end, so he didn't chase the defense, so he could only be made up by Myles Turner, and as a result, Pickled Pepper could only give up the defense of Crowder in order to make up for Jared Sullinger's emptiness. But Bradley's pass found Crowder, and Crowder, who was vacant on the outside, naturally got up and down and hit a three-pointer.
At the beginning of the game, the opponent scored 6 points in two rounds in a row, and Coach Frank of the Pacers side was also a little angry, but he also knew that as long as he could play an effective offensive end, his team's benches would be able to help the team recover the point difference in the rotation time, so he did not make any adjustments.
The defensive end does not make any effort, but on the offensive end, Ye Xuan is not ready to make the Celtics fans who booed him better, so he decisively asked Rondo for the ball after coming to the front court, and Rondo naturally did not give it, after receiving the pass, Ye Xuan made a few crotch drops in a row and then suddenly stepped back and then pulled it up to be a three-point shot, in fact, in the usual training, Ye Xuan's kind of ball is only five or five if someone defends it, but this time his luck is still good, the basketball hollow into the net.
After hitting the ball, Ye Xuan also began to fight back, but maybe it was because Ye Xuan was a little too depressed recently, or maybe it was because his brain was short-circuited, so when he hit back at those fans, Ye Xuan made a move that shouldn't have happened, that is, he shook his fingers at the audience, because of the bonus of Uncle Mu's finger-shaking talent, Ye Xuan's fingers shook so much that it was called a slip, and the result was 。。。。。。 was stuffed in the face by the referee with a T, looking at Ye Xuan's stunned appearance, the referee was also very helpless, yes, you are indeed the person who the boss of the alliance asks for care, but you are still crazy in front of yourself to make a move that must eat T, this is too arrogant, right?
Ye Xuan also knew that he was a little too much just now, so he didn't reason anything with the referee. The Celtics inexplicably got a free throw for a technical foul, and Thomas Jr. shot the ball safely. However, in this round, although the Celtics scored a free throw, the positional offense could not be hit, Bradley and Jarred Sallinger's blocking did not take effect in the end, and Thomas Jr., who shot in a panic, was also unable to hit the shot under Rondo's interference.
After Ye Xuan grabbed the rebound, he was also ready to give the opponent a counterattack, but the Celtics' defense was obviously also practiced, and did not give the Pacers any chance, Ye Xuan could only give up, and then passed the ball to Rondo, who controlled the ball and came to the front court to use pickled pepper to cover and Ye Xuan's running position, confusing the opponent's sight, and then successfully helped Myles Turner hit a long-distance two-pointer, the two teams had already tied 7:7 at this time, and the game only started for two minutes.