Chapter 44: The New Year's War against the Celts

On January 1, New Year's Day 2006, the Clippers hosted the Celtics. Pen "Fun" Cabinet www.biquge.info because he could only play 13 players in the regular season, Ndong was put on the injury list, and Chuck Hayes was on the squad.

The Celtics have lost the glory of giants over the years, and although they entered the playoffs last year, they did not have a championship at all. The Celtics lineup is not weak, Paul Pierce, Ricky Davis, and Al Jefferson are all star players, and many teams have the upper hand against them.

Paul Pierce and Al Jefferson are both swingmen at the front and can guarantee the attacking power of the entire team. Al Jefferson was a rookie last year, and he was very strong, although he didn't play this season because of injuries, but he had a lot of highlights on the court. You know, this is a man who can be exchanged for Garnett, and he definitely has the strength, but he hasn't played it yet.

On the other hand, the Clippers are really not very good at defending the interior line, so Carman is a tall interior line, and Breraxia's defensive ability is not very good. The big forwards are basically short, Brand, David Lee, James Singleton and Chuck Hayes are not tall centers, the defensive swing man is okay, and the defensive tall center is absolutely dead.

The Celtics hit the gun, and at the beginning of the game, Paul Pierce and Ricky Davis were restrained by Brand and Rose. Without the firepower of these two, the Celtics' offensive power was immediately cut in half, trailing by 12 points in the first quarter.

In the second quarter, the elder Dunleavy went up and down as usual, with Brera Xia, David Lee, Ryan Gomez, Chuck Hayes, and Liu Su.

This lineup is actually a point guard, four insiders, such a weird lineup was used by the elder Dunleavy. Then strange clothes appeared on the field, and the four of them kept interspersing and moving on the inside, disturbing the peace in the penalty area. Liu Su took advantage of David Lee's cover to get inside, and then Ryan Gomez cut to the basket in the air, and Liu Su assisted to score.

When defending, Ryan Gomez defended opposing guards, but Chuck Hayes pushed into the interior to defend the power forward. Chuck Hayes has plenty of power to resist most of the inside line, and the threat of the inside line not getting into the box is much less. Such a skill is worthy of old Dunleavy to sign him.

Chuck Hayes did not live up to the expectations of the old Dunleavy and Liu Su's optimism, and steadily pushed the opposing player outside the penalty area and could not play a role. It's like a redemption, he can just redeem one of the opponent's insiders, and he really doesn't count on him when attacking, Liu Su, David Lee, and Ryan Gomez can all attack, and Brera Xia's skills are also good, and he has the ability to shoot from a distance.

Al Jefferson who came off the bench was limited by David Lee and couldn't shoot from the outside, and was pushed out by Chuck Hayes under the basket and scored on 1-of-5 shooting in six minutes.

Seeing that the point difference was about to reach 20 points, the Celtics immediately replaced Paul Pierce and Ricky Davis. Old Dunleavy glanced at the time with a smile, and did not replace anyone, but asked Liu Su to adjust his tactics appropriately, and the game was handed over to Liu Su to command.

Liu Su asked Ryan Gomez to defend Ricky Davis, although Ricky Davis is a swingman at front, but now he still plays at point guard, with Paul Pierce at small forward and Al Jefferson at power forward.

Ryan Gomez only defended Ricky Davis and didn't break through to break through and then broke through to the interior and then David Lee or Hayes assisted in the defense. The two were very defensive against the defenders, and Ricky Davis broke in a few times with less than satisfactory results, and the success rate was not even half.

Dunleavy Sr. couldn't help but laugh as he looked at Hayes on the court, and the wheel defense Hayes was much stronger than the three big forwards in the team. It looks like Hayes could be kept and James Singleton traded out for a shooting guard back. Now the team's defenders are a bit insufficient, in case anyone has an injury, everyone in the back line!

The three games in which Liu Su was sick a few days ago were lost because of the lack of scoring points in the back line, and he would not have traded Livingston if he knew it.

No one would have thought that the Celtics' strongest team would have no way to take the Clippers off the bench. At halftime, the Celtics were still trailing by 19 points at 65:46, a situation that basically doomed the Celtics.

In the third quarter, the old Dunleavy changed to the strongest lineup, played six minutes, and stretched the score to 25 points, and then replaced Cassel, Rose, Rademanovic, Hayes and Brera Xia, this lineup still limited the Celtics, although Paul Pierce relied on his personal ability to score a lot of points on Ryan, but at the end of the third quarter, the Celtics had fallen behind by 30 points.

The fourth quarter turned into garbage time, and the Celtics lost by 26 points. Liu Su only played 18 minutes and had 16 points and 12 assists. Hayes, who played for the first time, had 13 points and 7 rebounds, and he performed well.