Chapter 64: The Weakness of the Green Shirts
Whether it's the Celtics' main center Fat Perkins or the backup center Glenn Davis, they are all standard interior blue-collar players, tall and tonnage but slow moving, they are the Green Shirts' players specially prepared for the Magic's Howard, these big meat balls are extremely useful when encountering those interior players who are rough enough to have excellent physical fitness, but they have to be blind when they encounter the kind of interior players who are flexible and shoot from the outside.
And Zach Randolph is definitely a flexible fat man!
When Totoro handed him the ball and pulled it away together, the Grizzly Bear told the Celtics with step-back jumpers again and again that Yao Ming is indeed not good, but if you underestimate me, I will tear off a piece of meat from you.
Of course, the Celtics' own offense is no problem, but if the two teams score together alone can't close the difference, the Green Shirts just played against the Bobcats on their home court yesterday, and today they flew thousands of miles to Texas to play against the Rockets.
Rivers also called two timeouts in the first quarter for this, but what good can he do, the Big Three of the Green Shirts + a fast-growing Rondo is already his best hand at the moment, and he can't conjure another Garnett out of thin air to improve the team's defensive level, right?
After releasing a mouthful of cannons every day, the champion coach who just won the championship asked the team to pay more attention to rotation and pay more attention to interior running, and the Rockets' interior players let them quickly pinch as soon as they received the ball, using this way to quench their thirst to curb the Rockets' scoring.
Then the Rockets' perimeter players were given another open spot.......
Originally towards the end of the first quarter, Pierce's defense against Totoro has been successful.
He doesn't shoot but doesn't break through, and his teammates behind him can stop him.
In the face of the Celtics championship team's complete defensive system, he really can't find any space to drill and score, but this does not mean that the Celtics can ignore Totoro's outside scoring ability, especially his 95 three-point shooting ability........
"Huh!" "Huh!" "Huh!"
The Toyota Center Arena sounded the sound of splashing, Totoro shot three of three three-pointers in the empty position, the chic shooting posture and wonderful shooting trajectory directly detonated the Rockets fans, and the dragon slogan once again echoed throughout the Toyota Center Arena.
Although Ray Allen, one of the Big Three of the Green Army, also responded with two three-pointers, the momentum of the Rockets was brought up by Totoro's three-point shot, and in the next round, Totoro attracted the defense and handed the ball to Yao Ming on the inside, Yao Ming then attracted the double bag and passed back to Battier who was ambushed on the bottom line, and the president hit another three-point shot with a knife in his hand, and the Rockets' three-point rain without warning completely stunned the visiting Green Army generals.
At the end of the first quarter, the Rockets actually led the Green Army by 7 points at 32:25, and the six three-pointers in the first quarter also set a new record for the Rockets in the history of three-point shooting in the first quarter, and it was not very far from the record of three-pointers in a single quarter, just in the first half of this year, that is, in the 07-08 season, the Rockets had conceded 9 three-pointers in a single quarter.
My Neighbor Totoro's own score also changed from 2 points to 11 points all of a sudden, which is exactly 1 point more than Pierce, who always claims to be the league's No. 1 small forward.
At the beginning of the second quarter, the bench lineup clashed, Eddie House, Poway, Glen Davis, Tony Allenga Bill Walker's lineup is not weak on the books, but the Rockets bench is not vegetarian, especially when the second-round pick Mark Gasol faced the big fat Glen Davis, the white bear twice luckily moved small hooks to score on the big fat head, one of which also caused 2+1, which caused a full house of applause.
Although many Rockets fans also think that his two goals are blind, but Gasol Jr. can occasionally play this wonderful performance, which also proves that he definitely has more than one second-round draft, and interior players are the easiest type of players to be buried in the draft, you can see Uncle Huang, Jordan Jr. has spent 9 years since he entered the NBA without developing his free throws and mid-range shots, but this still does not prevent him from becoming the league's No. 1 center (into the first team, into the defensive team).
Of course, Gasol Jr. is just the epitome of the Rockets' bench, Lowry has occasional wonderful performances, David Lee can basically be mixed as a starter in any team, and Artest, who has not yet changed his name to Ci Shiping, is not something that those Celtics substitutes can stop........
The benches who had just made a great contribution to the team a few months ago did not break out, but were instead opened up by the Rockets bench by another 5-point gap, and by the time the main players returned, it was 54:42, and the Green Shirts had half a foot in the coffin.
For the dignity of the championship team, Rivers and the Big Three naturally will not surrender in half the time, the Celtics began to blow the horn of counterattack under Garnett's mid-range hit, Uncle Pi's signature step-back jumper, Junzi Lei's lethal three-pointer, Rondo's lightning breakthrough, the Rockets can't prevent the collective outbreak of the Green Army, otherwise the Celtics, the championship team, is too worthless,
But they couldn't pull the margin to within seven points, because they had one of the biggest weaknesses in their lineup that the Rockets had been targeting, and that was Perkins at the center position.
If Garnett defends against Yao Ming, the main offense on Randolph, if Garnett defends against Randolph, then Yao Ming will attack mainly, and the Rockets will not enter the three-second zone on the inside, one will turn over in the bottom corner and the other will shoot near the free throw line, which will weaken the Wolf King's epic defensive ability to the greatest extent.
Rivers really wants to go to the day dog at the moment, these two inside lines show off their power in their three-second zone, but he has nothing to do to solve it, if he dares to use a double bag to limit the little giant and rotten tofu, then it is estimated that the outside line should be shot into a sieve by the rocket, Totoro, Battier and Little Black Bean that can't shoot three points? The tragedy of the first verse is still vivid........