At the beginning of the second quarter, Roy's old acquaintance, Jaylen Brown, a rookie of the Celtics this year, finally came on the court.

This year's No. 16 rookie joins four other bench players, Terry Rozier, Gerald Green, Jonas Jerebko and Tyler Zeller, against the Knicks' Brandon Jennings, Conteney Lee, Justin Holiday, Lance Thomas and Willy Hernangomez.

Speaking of which, since Roy became the starter, the Knicks' "bench bandits" have been disbanded, and now Hornacek usually lets Jennings lead the bench to play, and probably because there is no Roy and Anthony to grab the ball, the "big cancer" Jennings performed well in the game against the Jazz and Nets, not only scored, but also handed out 15 assists, which is simply an unreasonable performance.

It was Jennings who inspired Roy this time, and his unreasonable one-on-one shot gave the Knicks the lead in the second quarter with two points.

The Celtics were scored by Jennings' simple and rough play? Their benches don't seem to be good? No, not exactly, looking at the comprehensive ability, Zeller, Green, and Brown are not low, but their defensive strength is indeed a few notches lower than the main team, and the only explanation is that the Celtics' bench players are not good at defense.

That's right, the Celtics' bench players are not good defensively. After the loss of Al Horford and Jay Crowder, the original bench Olynyk and Smart played the main team, which has led to the current bench players weakening a lot in defensive hardness, which is why Jennings can score points with a simple single.

It was an opportunity, and Roy realized right away, why go ahead and do it? Instead of appearing in the main lineup to strangle the opponent's defense that he is not good at and consuming his precious physical strength, it is better to lead the bench lineup and the Celtics bench to compete for offensive firepower and find opportunities to open the score.

Tian Ji horse racing, which is the crystallization of thousands of years of wisdom of the Chinese nation, and now this theory is also suitable for use in the field.

Without further ado, Roy immediately told Coach Hornacek about his idea, and Huo Shuai frowned, "Are you sure it's a good idea?" ”

"That's right, in China, this is called judging the situation and avoiding the real is false."

"But this is the NBA, and if you choose to avoid the strongest opponents, you're going to be criticized." Hornacek kindly reminds Roy that it's okay to change tactics, but it comes at a cost.

"Coach, I want to win more than public opinion."

Roy convinces Hornacek because Hornace also wants to win.

Maybe that's a good idea? It's definitely a good idea.

Aside from the fact that the honest Contney Lee was a bit depressed again after playing less than four minutes, it was a very clever substitution in every other way.

Roy was on the court early in the second quarter, and he was joined by old enemy Jaylen Brown.

Probably because he was beaten out of the shadow by Roy before, Brown was also a little impulsive when facing Roy this time, he wanted to be ashamed too much, which made his defensive actions reckless and inefficient, a steal miss was seized by Roy to shoot a three-point shot, and another time he used too much force and directly asked for a foul.

Stevens also seemed to understand after seeing Roy come on early that Hornacek was trying to steal points from the bench. However, he doesn't care too much, in the NBA, there are many coaches who like to use the main level players to play off the bench to balance the team's scores, such as the ancient gods Havlicek and McHale, and the nearest ones are Ginobili and Crawford.

In terms of strength, they are the best candidates to play the main team, but if they are placed in the main lineup, it may cause the problem of "output overflow", so it is often better to let them get up from the bench and enter the battle.

Stevens isn't afraid of opponents hitting his bench with super substitutes, and as a theorist head coach with a wealth of tactical knowledge, he believes he can use tactics to solve all the problems. What's more, Roy's early play means he has to go off early, and there are not many players who have the physical strength to last more than 40 minutes, and Hornacek is now overdrawing the team's offensive firepower.

The only problem now is to limit Roy's scoring. Seeing Jaylen Brown being defeated by Roy twice, Stevens saw the problem and made a gesture to backup point guard Rozier, which was to defend the team.

Speaking of Stevens's joint defense, it is really a must in the NCAA, he added a lot of his own understanding to the traditional joint defense theory, thus creating a more flexible joint defense model, a joint defense tactic that is not inferior to the "old K coach" Shashefsky, and it is with his own invention fax that he twice brought the obscure Butler University to the NCAA Finals.

Roy immediately experienced the power of this innovative tactic. To put it simply, it is a joint defense tactic that expands the area, and compared to the traditional joint defense, his three-point defense also has a certain effect, and now it is really very unique and very targeted for Roy.

But can perfect tactics really withstand the individual abilities of the stars? If that's the case, then there won't be Jordan's fourth-quarter unsolved offense, Kobe's 81 points in a single game and Maddy's 35.13 minutes.

Stevens' combined defensive tactics are indeed advanced, but the defensive ability of the executing players seems to be lacking, and after two rounds of adaptation, Roy's "tactical eye" immediately found a way to crack it, to break through resolutely, to be straightforward, and to play more aggressively.

Cutting through the mess with a quick knife, this is Roy's response. He found a tactical flaw in the Celtics on two sharp breakthroughs in a row, and of course Stevens is no wonder that it is all due to the lack of ability of the team's bench lineup.

Jaylen Brown, who was marking Roy, gained weight since entering the NBA, which made him noticeably less fast than he was at the beginning, and Tyler Zeller, who was on the defensive side, moved and defended even worse. Without Olynyk and Johnson on the inside, Roy had the audacity to break inside, causing Zeller to foul once and directly playing 2+1 on the other.

Seeing Roy smash his defense with unreasonable personal ability, Stevens on the sidelines couldn't sit still, and he interrupted the game with a timeout, at which time less than 4 minutes were played in the second quarter, the score was 26:25, and the Knicks were ahead by 1 point.

The poor level of substitutions is indeed a troublesome thing, it is difficult for a good woman to cook without rice, Stevens also knows that his joint defense tactics are used by the bench players in this group of bench players is a bit of a matter of half the effort, since they can't contain Roy, then Stevens has to make substitutions.

The "mad dog" Bradley is back on the court, the small guard who is far less tall than Roy is Roy's most hated speed player, as a member of last year's best defensive team, he has a trick against Roy - stalking, a kraft candy defender on the basketball court is far more troublesome than a block master, Roy has suffered from it before.

Bradley's close defense is very tough, he basically won't lose Roy, and if Roy wants to block Bradley with a pick-and-roll, then Olynyk and Johnson will use tough moves like waste to intimidate Roy.

The Celtics are really as good as the team name suggests, tough, rough, and aggressive, where did Danny Ainge find such a bunch of "savages"?

Seeing that the Celtics were doing their best, Hornacek immediately replaced Roy on the court, just like the tactics that Roy had discussed with Huo Shuai before, avoiding the real and the false, avoiding horse racing, avoiding the Celtics' strong shield, and using the Knicks' strongest spear to attack the opponent's weakness, which is really an interesting game.

Roy got off the court, and the game immediately resumed a dull slow-paced defensive competition, Stevens was a little dumbfounded, the defensive tactics he had just arranged to deal with Roy were in vain, but now he definitely can't remove the main players. In this case, let's hope that the main players can earn more points in the confrontation with the opponent's main team.

To bite the score, Roy and Stevens, who were sitting on the bench, thought of a piece. There are only two Tian Ji matches on the basketball court, the main force against the main force, the substitute against the substitute, if you want to win, one must rely on the substitute lineup you bring to grab points, and the other is to hope that the main force will not dig too deep a pit.

"Today's Knicks may miss Anthony, when the two teams play a slow half-court offense and defense, Anthony's offensive ability can undoubtedly be fully played, but unfortunately, I don't know what kind of illness Melo (Anthony) has, he has been out for three games."

"Mike, I agree with you, Anthony's defensive slackness, but his mid-to-long-range shooting is a great fit for this kind of boring defensive battle, and if he's there, the Celtics wouldn't dare to be so blatant about wrapping Roy. Now that Hornacek has Roy Snow on the bench, it seems that he has made up his mind to be patient with Stevens. ”

than patience? Brin and Fraser were right, it was a real test of patience, and it was destined to be an ugly game with low scores. There is no doubt that whoever is worn out of fighting spirit and perseverance by the Knicks and Celtics will lose first......