Chapter 34: The Celtic Triumvirate
The Boston Celtics formed the league's feared Big Three in 2007 through a series of crazy trades: Kevin Garnett, Paul Pearce, and Ray Allen. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 In order to trade Garnett and Allen, Boston's head Danny Ainge almost paid the price of losing most of the team.
They traded that year's No. 5 rookie Jeff Green, Wally Szczebiak, and Delonte West for Ray Allen, and then traded Al Jefferson, Gerard Green, Ryan Gomez, Sebastian Telfer, Theo Ratliff and two future draft picks for Kevin Garnett.
Angie's gamble paid off, and after recruiting the right role players for the Big Three, the new Celtics won the NBA championship that season!
However, in the 08-09 season, they lost to the Orlando Magic in the Eastern Conference semifinals due to injuries. In the past 09-10 season, he lost to the Los Angeles Lakers in the finals.
The 2010-11 season saw the Celtics make a comeback, and although Rasheed Wallace retired, O'Neal came to help, and they also drafted rookies Avery Bradley and Luke Haaland Gaudi in the draft, and signed utility players such as Jermaine O'Neal, Vaughan Weaver, and veteran Dronte West on the free agent market, aiming for a championship again!
On October 30, the Cavaliers finally welcomed the mighty Boston Celtics at home, but as Cleveland's home stadium, the sidelines were overwhelmingly filled with fans wearing Green Army jerseys. Yuan Shu, who was training on the court before the game, seemed to have a delusion, and asked Jamison, who was standing next to him practicing shooting: "Antoine, how do I feel that we are playing away from home." ”
Jamison looked around after throwing the ball, with a helpless expression on his face, and said: "No way, Boston is too popular, and in fact, after LeBron left, the Cavaliers have lost most of their appeal to fans in this city." Some extreme fans even think that it was our fault that led to LeBron's departure. ”
After Jamison finished speaking, he continued to calmly devote himself to shooting training.
Yuan Shu looked back at O'Neill and West, who were laughing with Garnett and Ray Allen respectively, and sighed that the wall was really falling apart!
Seeing this situation, Yuan Shu seemed to feel the indifference and contempt he had received after graduating from college before, clenched his fists tightly, and made up his mind: "Kill you!" ”
According to the lineups announced by the two teams before the game, the Cavaliers' starters are still Vallejo, Yuan Shu, Jamison, Parker and Williams.
Boston's lineup is much more luxurious, the center is led by the first giant in history - "Big Shark" O'Neal, although he has been in the league for 18 seasons, but O'Neal's tank still has gas, O'Neal, who was still in the Cavaliers last season, can still contribute 12.0 points, 6.7 rebounds and 1.2 blocks in an average of 23.4 minutes per game, and playing next to the Big Three this season, O'Neal can play more easily and efficiently.
There is no suspense in the positions of power forward, small forward and shooting guard, with Garnett, Pierce and Allen firmly occupying all three.
In the playmaking guard position, there is Rajon Rondo, who has grown rapidly around the Big Three and has improved every season.
Compared to Boston's luxury lineup, Cleveland's lineup is simply a civilian version of the simple lineup. Even so, Yuan Shu didn't think so in his heart.
In the shrill voices of most of the Celtics cheering, the Cavaliers players who are playing at home are holding their breath in their hearts!
Yuan Shu put on the Rulai Ring (like a finger guard, it is soft leather, non-metallic), took a deep breath, roared in his heart to cheer for himself, and came on the field with the attribute of cap 100!
The center forwards of the two teams began to fight for the ball, and the game officially began!
Vallejo's reaction speed was much faster than O'Neal's, winning the ball for the Cavaliers first, Williams dribbled and began to organize the Cavaliers' offense, and after changing hands with Parker when he came to the three-point line, he suddenly ran out of the open space on the right side with Vallejo's block, and after receiving the ball, he shot a three-point shot directly against Rondo's block.
It seems that like Yuan Shu, Mo Williams is also a man of temperament, and it can be seen that for O'Neal and West, who left after James left, Williams also held his breath to defeat his opponent.
The Celtics' offense is very smooth, Rondo changed direction, relying on Garnett's blocking to shake off Williams, at this time Rondo can shoot or pass the ball directly back to Garnett, but Rondo's weird pass found Ray Allen, who lurked on the bottom line by running position, and the latter hit a three-point shot like a weight! Give the Cavaliers a three-pointer back!
When Ray Allen shot, Yuan Shu, who was a little distracted and focused on Allen's shot, was suddenly stuck behind Garnett who came from behind, and after Allen's three-point shot, Garnett's elbow on Yuan Shu's body fell.
Yuan Shu, who was a little dissatisfied with Garnett's elbow position, continued the style of the previous game, and scolded directly: "Sample! ”
“Fu.. ck! You!! When Garnett turned around and ran past Yuan Shu to prepare to return to the defense, he heard what Yuan Shu said, although he didn't understand what it meant, but guessed that it must be trash talk. The battle-hardened Garnett took the most direct and simple response, the super-decibel Fu. ck-You!
"Damn, this guy and Reggie's IQ are not at the same level at all!" Yuan Shu was completely mentally prepared for eating deflated this time, and suddenly felt the roar of the wolf king spraying towards his face, accompanied by the smell of spicy chicken leg burgers before the game.
“TNND!” Yuan Shu scolded angrily in the psyche, and immediately followed Garnett to the frontcourt, as soon as the two arrived at the inside line, they fought together, although Garnett looked thin, but he was covered with bones, and his life hurt!
At this time, Vallejo and Parker played a blocking and pick-and-roll cooperation, as the Celtics chose to pack, Vallejo helped Parker block and went down directly, and received Parker's ball directly to a close-range small throw, but it was out of the basket under the interference of O'Neal's block!
Yuan Shu was stuck behind Garnett at this time, seeing that he didn't have a position to grab the board, in a hurry, Yuan Shu actually pulled the corner of Garnett's team uniform behind his back, and when Garnett's attention was distracted, he leaned on Garnett's back in place to turn around, and turned directly from Garnett's back to the front, but suddenly stuck Garnett behind him!
You can't blindly use attributes and brute force to fight because you have the help of the basketball god system, and the proper use of some skills is also helpful to yourself. It was precisely because he had thought of these in advance that Yuan Shu had the inspiration to compete for a favorable position. Significant energy should be reserved for the most critical moments!
"This trick was taught to me by a slam dunk!" Yuan Shu secretly smiled in his heart, remembering the trick Sakuragi Hanamichi used against Sanno Industries' rebounding king Nobe Shohiro.
Even if my ability is only equivalent to a blue-collar player now, I must be the king of blue-collar players!
Yuan Shu jumped high, and in the eyes of O'Neal, Garnett, Vallejo and others under the basket, he got the rebound that Vallejo missed in the air, and directly made up for the dunk in the air, and pressed the ball into the basket vigorously!