Chapter 304: The Years Go By
In the last 2 minutes of the first quarter, the two teams tied 18-18, Garnett alone got 7 points and 3 rebounds, and Pierce and Ray Allen also played very well, a mid-range shot 3 of 3 scored 6 points and a three-pointer 2 of 3 scored 6 points.
But looking at their physical fitness and resolute attacking attitude, it can be seen that last year's failure to enter the Finals was a very huge blow to the whole Celtics team, and there was once a Boston gossip that Garnett, Pierce and Ray Allen did not go out on vacation to relax themselves this summer offseason, and the three old guys instead took Rondo to practice in Boston to maintain their condition, and it can be seen from this game that these gossip are true.
But the first team did not distinguish the winner or loser, and the bench lineup is the decisive moment for the Rockets, although the Celtics added the famous roaring Tianzun Rasheed Wallace from the Pistons at power forward this year, and Bill Walker as a strong sophomore like "Carter's second" in the scoring guard, but this can't change the 35-year-old old Wallace Sr. and Bill Walker's "glass man" physique.
Although Rasheed Wallace has the ability to shoot from the outside, his accuracy cannot be compared with the Wolf King, let alone the footsteps that the Wolf King still has, the paint area is the world of Rasheed Wallace, but in the face of the paint area composed of Evans and Chandler, who are better defensive, Roar Tianzun is obviously lost.
In contrast, Paul, who was out of the game early, stood up at the moment but dealt a fatal blow to the Green Shirts, the original excellent defense of Rondo could not limit Paul's scoring and tandem, and now replaced by Eddie House was even more beaten by Paul, the original Queen Bee passed a Rondo and needed to rely on the blocking of teammates, but the aging Eddie House did not have so much trouble, and the ball shook in his place with a cross step, and House was behind Paul in a blink of an eye.......
Paul himself can make mid-range shots, and Iguodala, who is good at insertion, Chandler, who is used to going well, and Gibson, who is good at grabbing two rebounds and eating cakes, have created countless empty opportunities for Queen Bee.
Chandler + Evans + Gibson + Iguodala + Paul's lineup turned out to be a substitute? I'm afraid that if it weren't for the fans who had seen it with their own eyes, no one would believe it if they heard it, this is clearly a starting lineup that can enter the playoffs, but it was mixed and matched by the Rockets into a second team to bully the bench, who can stand this?
A little more than three minutes into the second quarter, the Celtics and the Rockets' starting five-five situation was forcibly collapsed, and the difference was as much as 15 points behind, in just 4 minutes, Paul himself only scored 5 points, but he helped Chandler score 6 points, Iguodala scored 7 points, Tygipson scored 6 points, and even Evans, who could only grab rebounds, also got two big open opportunities to score 4 points, and the Rockets scored 28 points on the Celtics bench in less than 6 minutes! If it weren't for Bill Walker, who has no injury hidden danger now, breaking through the restricted area and scoring 6 points in a row, plus the piecemeal play of other players of the Celtics, the Celtics are afraid that they will be GG in this normal rotation........
1 minute earlier than the original game of the Big Three, the unbearable Reeves had to take his starting lineup, the first game of the regular season Green Shirts still want to win, the opening is not only the tradition of the Chinese, the Western crooked Guoren also values this, and these two were originally the established teams of last year's finals, but because the Celtics fell behind, they can win is equivalent to showing the world that their team is capable of defeating the Rockets, If they could have played normally last year, the champion wouldn't know who would have died!
"Little one! Do you only hug your thighs? It's really your happiness to have a good group of teammates, isn't it interesting to have a championship that you don't get? ”
Garnett glanced at Totoro's stats before he came on the court, 4 points, 2 rebounds and 4 assists, which was slightly inferior to his own, and seemed to be able to spray, and Garnett's mouth suddenly became idle.
However, the truth is not that Totoro can't play as explosive as last season, but that the team is full of talent, and it's not a single-function player, there are so many people who can score that there is no need for him to step up when the team is in trouble like last season, and the data of the core players has deteriorated, which is a matter of course, because their data is divided among those role players.
"Old guy, look at the score on the field and talking, sir, I am the one who relies on the players, how about it? Not convinced? If you want to prove that you are better than me, you can chase back the difference by yourself! ”
The wolf king's trash talk didn't affect Totoro at all, because he has proven it in just one season, if the championship can be won by the players lying down, then what about FMVP? You can't lie down after all........
Garnett was scolded by Totoro and had nothing to say, like his trick to black people, maybe even he said to Paul, who is known as the highest emotional intelligence of black people, because black people's competitiveness and self-esteem are generally stronger than other races, if you want to say that he can't, maybe they will all have a hot brain, regardless of the form of their own singles on the court to prove to you that they can do it.
It's a pity that Totoro's skin is too thick, and if you're in a good mood, you can provoke him no matter what, he still plays his own way, and when he's in a bad mood, even if he doesn't need you to say it, he will use practical actions to retaliate against everything.
The Celtics' starting lineup is not weak, needless to say, Perkins has tonnage, Rondo has defensive breakthroughs, and this year it seems that they have improved their passing skills by a summer, and this year they are still considered by the outside world to have one of the teams with the ability to compete for the championship, and the starting lineup of the Rockets is still forced to tie at this time, and even relied on one or two people to play super long and pulled the 15-point difference back by 3 points, but this is only a regular season game after all.
At the beginning of the third quarter, Reeves knew that sending a bench might collapse, but he would not let the Big Three play 35+ playing time.
Rondo's advantage is that he has long arms, big palms, quick reflexes and fast footsteps, and he has all the potential to become a good defensive player, but this can't change the fact that he is still a third-year student in the league.
Paul continued to make trouble for the Celtics with the help of Chandler's blocking, blocking and picking is the most basic tactic in basketball, but it is also the most powerful tactic, its power has no upper limit, the difference lies in the strength of the players, if it is Malone and Stockton level players to block and dismantle, it is really God blocking and killing God and Buddha blocking and killing Buddha, the boxing king may not be as good as the postman, but Paul and Stockton can open five or five, and coupled with the regression of the current league basketball level, there is no Jordan + Pippen + at this timeThe Bulls formed by Rodman, the Rockets' copycat Pan Xuan Ming, and the two elders are still invincible.
The Green Shirts are collapsing again on the bench, Rondo can't defend the opposite five on the defensive end, and he can't score points for the team on the offensive end, Reaves found that in fact, it's the same thing to let Rondo rest, so he might as well let him retain his strength to fight with the Rockets with the starters.
78-55, by the time the Celtics started the game, the bench had successfully dug the hole to 23 points, the wolf king sighed silently, but he did not give up the game, even if his team loses this game, he must not lose to the Rockets by 20 or even 30 points, because what is the difference between them and last year's Magic?
The old wolf king handed the ball to Pierce and Ray Allen first, but these two uncles really can't score points at this time, there is still a physical gap between the young and the old, everyone is in good spirits in the first quarter, the old Pierce and Ray Allen can play with Totoro + Battier, and they are full of wind and water, but as the game progresses deeper, Uncle Pi and Uncle Ray are a little powerless, on the other hand, Totoro and Battier are still alive and well, They no longer had the same dashing style in front of the two strong players who had the strength to defend for a while.
Seeing that the team was about to collapse, the Wolves had to work hard to carry the team on his shoulders alone, as Totoro said in the second quarter, Garnett seemed to be back to himself four or five years ago, when the Timberwolves had no relatives and no helpers, he could average 24.2 points + 13.9 boards + 5.0 assists + 1.5 steals + 2.2 blocks per game in the season when he won the MVP, but that time he was also eliminated by the Lakers 2-4 in the Western Finals, At that time, the Wolves knew that it was not enough to succeed in the NBA alone, so he would join the Celtics in 07, but now it seems that he is not much different from the Timberwolves.
The old wolf king scored 14 points in one fell swoop in the third quarter, and he relied on his own strength to close the difference between the two teams to 15 points, just when the media exclaimed that the wolf king was back again, Totoro, who had not been powerful in the fourth quarter, suddenly went berserk, and hit three unreasonable dry pulls at the beginning, and forced to break through Pierce in the next two rounds, and put the ball into the basket against Wallace and Garnett's fouls respectively, and played two 2+1, and in the next round, he headed the wolf king's aerial relay slam dunk, One person was stunned and scored 15 points in three minutes, widening the difference between the two teams to 27 points, and directly killing the suspense of the game.
Garnett's eyes gradually lost color, he had jumped as fast and high as he used to, and he didn't stay in the air as long as he used to, and when Totoro jumped before him, he waited until he pressed the ball down and fell to the floor because he couldn't bear the confrontation, he realized that this was not the time for him to rule the league.
The referee may be in pity of the old wolf king, and at the same time pity the difference between the two teams awarded Totoro a block foul, Totoro himself is even too lazy to fight, even if Garnett hit two free throws, they are also ahead by 25 points, just because the current Celtics are not capable of winning the Rockets in 9 minutes 20+, and there was no foul in that ball just now, Totoro knows very well in his heart, Garnett knows even more in his heart, Totoro only needs this result to be enough.
After this block, Rivers yelled and replaced all the Big Three, the point difference on the court could already make him announce that he would give up the game, and compared to the results of this first regular season game, Rivers is more concerned about the health of the Big Three, Garnett has just recovered from surgery, although he can already play in the NBA, but if he is unlucky and encounters any injuries, it will be considered an injury on top of injury, and it may not be necessary to not be able to play in the NBA directly.
Adelman also removed all the starters, but the lineup of Chandler + Evans + Tajpson + Battier + Beverley is too unlike a substitute who should play in garbage time to brush up on statistics, but the Rockets can play so many players, and they can't send worse players than these........
The result was 121 to 90, the Rockets beat the Celtics by 31 points at home, and the Rockets 9 double-double results also looked out of the eyes of the outside world, Chandler shot down 13 points and 12 rebounds, it is not surprising that Evans, a rebounding idiot who can only grab rebounds and not attack at all in the eyes of others, can also cut 10+15 big double-double data is a bit incomprehensible, the only thing in NBA history that can make role players shine is the dynasty team, The Rockets showed others how strong they are this year in just one game.......
At the press conference, the game performed well, and the wolf king who scored 30 points and 12 rebounds did not attend, although it cannot be said that Garnett was lost by Totoro's shocking cap, but the impact on him in a short period of time is still very huge, and the wolf king will be abnormal for at least a while.
"I think it's exciting to win, you know we've had a big shake-up this summer, it's our first regular-season win for our new Rockets, and I think it's a great feeling to win, and I'm sure we're going to keep it that way."
My Neighbor Totoro was listlessly reading the manuscript that others had prepared for him a long time ago, but he didn't think so at all in his heart.
Isn't it just about winning the Celtics? I won't be so excited in my heart, what team is the Celtics? Are they strong? Isn't it a matter of course that you can win against them........