Chapter 279: What to do if you don't lose three points
"Instead of asking me about Adelman, you should ask more about the Magic, the Rockets are already the team that has decided the championship, their players can get enough time to rest, their coaching staff can study the tape with impunity, and we have Game 7 to play."
Rivers then said that he doesn't want to talk too much about the Rockets right now, and he doesn't even know if he can show up right now, but judging by the melancholy on his face, he is not optimistic that the Celtics will win tomorrow.
'Kevin is so important to us, he's not only the defensive pillar of the team, he's the spiritual leader, the fighting spirit, and we have lost a lot without him, so if we want to go further, then the rest of us have to contribute more, and they have to work together to make up for what Garnett's absence has done to us."
Doug Reaves is farting when he says this, I guess even he won't believe it, the Wolf King is a big forward with a historical price, the same value as Duncan, and his role can be replaced by several other role players?
But Rivers can't be blamed for that, what else can he say as a head coach of a team, "We're without Garnett, oh, we're dead", right? What he can do now is to make chicken soup for the morale of his players, but the effect is also very limited, because no matter how good the chicken soup is, it is impossible to feed Davis as Garnett and Perkins as Howard, which is already a problem of poor ability to qualitative change, otherwise if the chicken soup is so effective, what talent do players have to look at, and what skills do they have to practice, just watch the two head coaches before the game, which coach has good work and which team wins, so it's not beautiful for the players?
The Celtics suddenly dropped from the favorite to the freezing point, the bookmaker opened the handicap to skip the ticket, the odds of winning the championship suddenly soared from 2.01 to 5.01, and even the odds of the Eastern Finals rose by 3 percentage points.
My neighbor totoro said that these people are dying, small gambling pleasure and big gambling hurt the body, although gambling is not illegal in some states in the United States, but how capable people do how big things, like themselves with an annual salary of tens of millions of dollars, occasionally only get a tens of thousands of dollars to play, you Ya an annual salary of tens of thousands of dollars of working class also learn to play like this, that is not looking for death?
And he is still a person who goes to play in person, and he can also control the situation on the court a little, and those gambler fans are really watching the sky to eat, so they also make big bets, which in Totoro's view they are not a group of gamblers, but really gambling on their lives!
No matter what the Green Shirts do, the schedule of games will not change, and the Celtics still have to step on the Amway Arena of the Magic, where they have won three games before, and each game has been a hanging Magic, as if they have been blessed with some special magic, which is the only good news among the many misfortunes for the desperate Celtics players.
"I'm going to try to lead the team to victory, and after Kevin's season reimbursement, we had an emergency player meeting and I'm sure you know what I mean, it's not over until the whistle blows, and we still have a chance!"
Pierce said to the familiar media before the game, Garnett is not there, he is the soul and captain of the Celtics, the truth has dedicated the best years of his life to this team, from the core of the team in '98 to the current Uncle Pee, Pierce has been witnessing the development of the Green Shirts in the early 20th century and never abandoned, if there are no accidents, he should end his career in Boston, as he started here, and the Celtics will undoubtedly retire his jersey.
Pierce has excelled in every big game and big moment, and he has a big heart that he was born with, which is why he was nicknamed "The Truth".
'We all have to be more focused as a team, we have to contribute from the players on the bench and now it's time for us to fight with our backs and we have to give it all to the team.'
Ray Allen, the No. 2 leader of the Green Shirts, said in an interview, thinking that when he was in the supersonic before, Ray Allen's label to fans was not only cold-blooded three-pointers, but also his scoring weapons, but now he has sacrificed the ball after coming to the Celtics, and now that the Wolf King is not there, it is time for him to take out these dusty weapons and use them.
But as the game began, the game didn't go as well as the two veterans said before the game, the Magic team was like a tiger breaking free from a cage, and kept hitting the Green Shirts' interior with overwhelming momentum, today is their most important game, as long as they win, they may be able to do what the young O'Neal and Penny Hardaway couldn't even do.
The Magic's outside line was still not accurate this night, but when Turkoglu and a group of outside shooters missed a few three-pointers, they gave up three points, and you can imagine how crazy the Magic team was when a white shooter like JJ Redick was also holding a basketball and carrying a bag of explosives to the restricted area.
21-19, after the first quarter of the game, the scores of both teams were surprisingly low, the Magic team was caused by their own lack of baskets, and the Celtics were completely killed by the Magic team.
Today, not only Howard, but every player who was originally criticized by the media as a soft egg has also hardened, the most representative is Nelson Reddick and Lewis, Nelson was criticized by experts for being too short, Redick is too soft, and Lewis is too easy to get distracted, but today these three masters are obviously in place on the defensive end, they are like a nail nailed in front of their defensive object, and as soon as others touch the ball, they rush up and entangle with hyena bites, Redick, who has always been polite, ate two fouls in the first quarter because of the defense of Ray Allen, But it's all worth it, because sharpshooter Ray Allen was only 1 of 5 in the first quarter, and the Magic team's back-to-back momentum made the Rockets in front of the TV startled, if they were still so crazy in the finals, then they wouldn't be the team they imagined to give them a championship.
However, there is a disadvantage for the Magic team to play the game so hard, their high-intensity defense cannot last a whole game, even if they have this mind, but the actual situation will not allow them to do so, the big Van Gundy's jade burning state can only be maintained for a while, at most it can limit the main lineup of the Celtics, but when the bench lineup comes up, the Magic is a little powerless, which is an opportunity for the team with deep bench lineup, because the Magic's bench players are not good.
Jeremy Richardson, Courtney Lee, Anthony Johnson, Michael Petrus and Polish Hammer Gortat are the strongest starters that Big Van Gundy can send right now, but Lee here is just a nerve knife, Jeremy Richardson is not Quentin Richardson's quasi-All-Star player who can shoot suddenly, Anthony is not a melon of the Western Nuggets but a 35-year-old old PG who can't run fast this year, Petrus and Gortat also play well, but they will only perform well when facing weak teams on the bench, They still can't meet strong teams.
If they meet the Rockets, the time for the opponent to come off the bench is definitely the time when they can make a big fuss, but looking at the Celtics' bench list, Reeves sighed, they can be considered worthy of themselves without being exposed to by the other party.
Eddie House, Poway, Glenn Davis, Tony Allen, Marbury, O'Bryant, Moore Brian, Bill Walker, Giddens, Pruitt, Scarbryan, in this long list, only Marbury, Tony Allen and Eddie House are famous, but Lao Ma, a person who is infinitely close to the CBA, has long since lost the All-Star style of the lone wolf, Tony Allen can only defend but the offensive ability is infinitely close to zero, Eddie House can only attack but defense is a big colander, Other players are even marginalized people in the NBA who have never even heard of it, so you let the Celtics fill the hole like this?
Under the glory of the Giant Three, it is easy for anyone to ignore the fact that the overall strength of the Celtics is not strong this year, any team that forms a Big Three, the salary space has long been locked, they are not unwilling, nor are they reluctant to pay the luxury tax, but there is no room to operate those players who play to fill the depth of the bench, especially in the special period of the playoffs, when everyone is desperately working on the main team, the bench players can get 5 or 6 minutes in a game, and they are already going crazy with laughter, That's the normal pattern for most teams.
But the absolute main force has fallen one, who do you let top? Let those marginalized people in the league who are not well-known and have little playing time and game experience go to the top? There is no shortage of examples of grassroots players in the NBA who have become famous, but there will never be many examples of this, otherwise what else would the draft look like?
The Celtics' substitutes complained bitterly, originally they were just overused, and now they are suddenly formed into the main force of these supernumeraries, so no one will be psychologically prepared, and their tasks on the field have also changed, originally Reeves was to warn them not to lose too many points, they are water drinkers, the main players have already opened them up in advance to let them go to the waves, but now Reeves has taught them to go on the court to chase points, so what's the deal? They have only learned how to dig holes, but they have not learned how to fill them.
The result can be imagined, Glass Man Bill Walker's defense of Courtney Lee has become Kobe, O'Bryant and Moore Bryant's double Ente combination has made Petrus and Gortat O'Neal and Olajuwon, the Magic bench can no longer be said to be a substitute for the Celtics, it is simply rubbing on the floor, a slight breakthrough can get a foul, Yang Yang can hit a shot, and the difference between the two teams has been expanded to 10 points in just two minutes.
Reeves had no choice but to replace the main force that had only rested for two minutes, during which they had time to take a sip of Gatorade and wipe the sweat on their faces with a towel, some people didn't even have time to put on the team jacket, but this also saves trouble, you don't have to take it off if you don't put it on, right?
The Celtics began to find their touch in the middle of the second quarter, of course, this is also due to the fact that the Magic team has always been dumb on the outside, Reaves put a three-high strange formation on the court, put the two big babies and O'Bryant all on the court, let Pierce drop a position to play point guard, let Ray Allen drop a position to play point guard, the average height of this lineup is infinitely close to 2.05, and the movement speed on the court is even slower, but the effect has achieved miraculous results.
Doesn't the magic feel bad and can only play inside? Then I'm piling up blue-collar players on the inside, Davis and Perkins are enough to fill the entire three-second zone at that stop alone, leaving a backup power forward O'Bryant to keep sweeping outside the three-second zone, we don't want the outside, you have the ability to shoot me?
On the offensive end, Yan Shi doesn't talk about any tactics, the basketball is all handed over to Pierce and Ray Allen, let these two buddies play by themselves, whether it is pulling out one-on-one singles or passing, let them choose by themselves, the NBA has been circulating a sentence, that is, real superstars are impossible to be prevented from death, whether it is a few people in the bag, whether they use points or assists to help the team, they can always play a performance that meets their one-year salary.
Now it's time for Pierce and Ray Allen to prove if they're supergiants, they were Boston's heroes last year, and this year it's up to them to see if they can keep that hero's name alive!
And the two elders did not disappoint Reeves, if they didn't have a champion's heart in their hearts, they wouldn't have spontaneously sacrificed to form the Big Three last year, and they wouldn't have worked hard to reach the Eastern Conference Finals this year, and they still want to grab the tail of their peak and have another championship! While you can still impress now, let yourself move forward in the Hall of Fame in the future.
On the other hand, the Magic, this is the best time for their three-point team, but they don't dare to shoot, in this kind of game where a ball can affect a lifetime, they hesitate in their hearts!
They don't want to lose the game, and they don't want to take the blame for losing the game, although this is the most unnecessary psychological state for NBA players, but it is also human nature, the more important the moment, people will have a sense of escape, they feel that they redeem people who get millions of dollars a year, they should not bear such a responsibility, how to look at it at this time, it should be the moment of the core performance of the team with a salary of more than 10 million?
Howard shouted MMP in his heart, he wanted to save the team with his performance, but he couldn't shoot three points how to break it!