Roy's block silenced the crowd for two seconds.

Roy's shocking defense shocked the audience, and even Bryn and Fraser, who were in charge of the commentary, were stunned, to say that Roy had more offenses than they naturally knew, but this was really the first time that Roy showed his defensive talent like this. You know, it's so hard to block Thomas Jr.'s shot, and few people in the league can do it.

At this time, Thomas's face was pale, and he didn't seem to dare to imagine that his high-speed layup would be covered by a rookie, which was simply unreasonable.

"Rookie, you're lucky, but congratulations, you've forced out my real strength." Although Thomas Jr. lost by one goal, he still did not give in in terms of momentum.

Losing doesn't lose trash talk, that's Thomas Jr.'s basketball credo.

Since the basketball that was blocked just now was taken by his teammate Gerald Green, it is still the Celtics who have the ball, and it is still Thomas Jr. who will launch the offense, and he is still facing Roy.

Very good, Thomas Jr.'s "hot state" is gone, and Roy, who is defending, can see it clearly, after the block just now, Thomas Jr.'s good form no longer exists, and now he can undoubtedly defend a lot easier.

Is it really easy to defend Angry Thomas Jr? Not necessarily.

After the humiliation just now, Thomas Jr. was also angry, he had no intention of passing the ball at all, facing Roy's defense, he was a dazzling fast dribble, but Roy was unmoved, he looked carefully, these were tricks.

Thomas Jr. certainly didn't want to fool Roy with these little tricks, he was just looking for his rhythm, and after two crotch dribbles, his feelings came. I saw that the short little Thomas suddenly lowered his center of gravity and accelerated, connected with a sharp turn, and he easily passed Roy.

"It's like going shopping!" Trash talk came with little Thomas, who thought he would be happy with Roy's score.

But it backfired, and he didn't know that Roy had quietly evolved.

It was now, in an instant, Roy saw Thomas Jr.'s shot again, and with the help of the "Chasing Hot Pot Master", his judgment and speed increased greatly, and he could see Little Thomas's throw clearly.

"Smack." Another floor hat, another exclamation from the audience.

"You're acting like a puppet." Roy remembered the trash talk that Thomas Jr. had given him earlier.

Thomas Jr. was on the verge of exploding at the out-of-bounds ball, but before he could spew trash back the whistle, Coach Stevens called a timeout.

Stevens' timeout was just right, and the interruption both calmed Thomas Jr.'s frenzy and extinguished the Knicks' fledgling offensive momentum. Of course, this timeout also pushed the game into a thorough, ugly, and uninteresting defensive battle.

Roy, who was afraid of Thomas Jr.'s break-off, no longer chose to break through, and Thomas Jr., who had palpitations, also did not play in the penalty area, and the main attackers on both sides played a shooting game with a group of substitutes on the outside, and the goal efficiency was naturally low.

After the third quarter, the scores of the two teams were still stalemate and ugly, only 60:61, and the Knicks were still one point behind.

The fourth quarter of the decisive battle began.

At the start of the fourth quarter, Hornacek did not put Roy on the court, and Thomas Jr. was not deployed on the opposite side, and it was clear that both managers intended to save their aces for the final decisive moments.

"Roy, I have something to tell you. You can't hold back because your opponent is tough, this is the NBA, every time you take a step back, your opponents will take a step forward, if you're afraid of rough defense, if you're afraid of Thomas Jr.'s break, then other opponents will imitate the Celtics' style of play against you, and then you'll be really passive. Taking advantage of the break, Hornacek suddenly taught Roy, "Listen, it's smart to avoid once, and to avoid twice is cowardice, if you want to be the heart of the team, then you have to face it head-on, then you have to respond, then you have to beat the opponent from the front, just like any other core player does." ”

"That's right, Roy, you've got to step up in the fourth quarter and show that you can be the ace of the team. If you choose to pick up points on the opponent's bench because the opponent is tough defensively, it won't work in the fourth quarter. In the final moment of the game, what is needed is a real duel between ace players. As the former boss of the Bulls, Rose naturally knows the role of an ace player, and what he has to do is to encourage his little brother.

Leaders, tough, never back down.

After listening to Hornacek and Rose, Roy understood that this is the NBA, not high school basketball or the NCAA. If you want to win, you have to show the courage and determination to win, you can't avoid challenges, you can't always think of opportunism, and the trump card of defeating the opponent face-to-face is the way of the strong.

And the duel of the strong is coming soon, with less than 8 minutes left in the game, Roy and Thomas Jr. are on the court at the same time, which also means that the decisive moment of the game has come.

At this time, the score was still ugly 66:67, the Knicks were behind, and the third-round matchup between Roy and Thomas Jr. began.

"You can't win against me, rookie, our Celtics are the best team in the league to play the fourth quarter, and you 'mud' team, hehehe."

Thomas Jr., who returned to the court, did not stop talking, and his resentment against Roy did not stop, and he started a war at this time.

However, this time Thomas's expression is completely different, if he was still a little angry in the first three quarters, then now he must be playing seriously, and winning in the end is the last word to prove his strength.

Not only Thomas Jr., but the entire Celtics team has gone up to a higher level of defensive intensity, all the players are more focused, and all the players are more desperate. All of a sudden, the atmosphere was tense, there was more physical contact, more pressing defending.

Under the interference of the Celtics' desperate defense, Roy's first offense failed, and he tangled with Bradley for a long time, and finally barely made a shot before the 24-second offensive time ran out, and the result was naturally missed.

As Thomas Jr. said, the Celtics are really different, they are tougher defensively and their offense is simpler.

The ball went to Smart's hands with three passes and two downs, at this time Olynyk was very cooperative to block Konteney Lee who was defending Smart, Smart went inside without saying a word, facing Noah's defense, and Olynyk on the other side also inserted into the penalty area immediately after blocking people, which is a standard double insertion attack after blocking and dismantling.

Noah was alone, and he couldn't defend his opponent's two-pronged approach, so he decided to take a gamble on Smart. Smart was waiting for the opportunity, and with a simple split shot, Olynyk got the ball. With no one in front of him, Olynyk was about to go to the basket, when suddenly, a dark shadow flew back to the basket.

“O。” With the exclamation of the fans in the audience, the basketball in Olynyk's hand was hit the rebound, and it was Roy, who quickly blocked Olynyk's inevitable layup.

"Don't be stunned, attack." Roy had already run out when he shouted this.

Noah obediently threw the ball across the half, Roy, Bradley, and Thomas Jr. rushed to the ball at the same time, and Roy, who was the longest, took the lead in getting the ball, and he was not inferior to Thomas Jr.

Seeing that Roy was all the way, little Thomas pulled the male duck and shouted, "Stop him, Avery (Bradley)!" ”

Bradley understood, and at the moment when Roy was about to get up, Bradley slapped Roy's dribbler fiercely.

There was no doubt that the hitter fouled, and Roy lost absolute control of the ball, but he was not willing to admit defeat, and in the moment of losing his balance, he still threw the ball away.

Sometimes the feel is like an invisible metaphysics, sometimes it is also like a talent, while everyone watched Roy fall to the ground, the whole court was quiet, because the basketball fell into the net crisply after gently rubbing the rebound, a beautiful 2+1!

Stevens asked for a timeout.

"You're too soft on this rookie." After Coach Stevens laid out the tactics, Thomas Jr., as the boss of the team, reprimanded several teammates, "You guys listen to me, this is Boston, this is our home field, how can we let others go wild here, we must let this rookie know how good the Celtics are." ”

"Onward! Boston! ”

"Come on! Celt! ”

After Thomas Jr.'s reprimand, the intensity of the game escalated further, and now there are no words to describe the intensity of the game, almost every contact between the two sides will cause a collision, and no one is willing to give up a position easily.

Thomas Jr. made a defensive trick in the lower three, Bradley was close to Roy from zero distance, Smart was on a rampage, and Olynyk was free to fly his knees and elbows.

The Knicks didn't give in either, Noah didn't lose any bad guys, Porzingis and Rose were also bloody people, and Roy didn't dare to slack off, he learned from Bradley and forced Thomas Jr. to make no move.

Roy believes that now should be the limit for the Celtics, and that he and his Knicks have a chance to win the game if they can withstand that intensity.

"Walter, I don't know what you think, but I feel like today's game is going back to the '90s, when the New York Gangs and the Celtics were at that pace."

"To be honest, although today's game is not good-looking, the intensity is indeed the top level of the NBA, and I haven't seen such a desperate Knicks team for a long time, it's hard to imagine that the tough Knicks team will reappear."

Brin and Fraser summed up today's game.

Tragic, tough, indistinguishable from the winner.

The game was indeed extremely brutal, and the next six minutes of the game became fragmented, and no one could easily score in the open battle amid the shouts of the crowd, and the game was almost spent in hand-to-hand combat and free throws from both sides.

Just like the Celtics did, just like Thomas Jr. and Smart did, Roy and Porzingis were desperate to pounce on the opposing team's basket to make a kill and win free throws. At this point in the game, tactics are already secondary, and what tests the players' perseverance is more.

Unconsciously, the game has entered the last 2 minutes, and the score is still tied at 86.

The Knicks still have a starter, and Roy's physical strength is almost at the limit at this moment, all he can do now is continue to impact the opponent's interior line and cause damage, even if he has been fouled 3 times in a row before, but he still has to make a move, and he has to attack, because everyone is watching him.

He had to throw himself into the enemy's box to blow up the opponent, just like Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant did back then, and that's what the aces of the team have to do, I don't go to hell who goes to hell......