Chapter 141: The Age of the Brush
Pierce's pass was then stolen by Conley and the long pass was given to Rudy Gaiyi, who made a layup and was fouled by Rondo.
There is no way, Rondo can't just let the other party rush into his inner line and dunk violently, it's impossible.
So he could only foul and send the opponent to the free throw line, hitting two free throws, and the Grizzlies overtook the score at home.
However, the Celtics are not rookies, and their captain, Pierce, is not ordinarily short-tempered.
was beaten by Rudy Gaiyi, he naturally had to fight back, with his strong body, Pierce forced Rudy Gaiyi to squeeze away when attacking, rushed into the interior to attack, but was committed by Mark Gasol.
After two free throws and two hits, both sides are tied! In the next round, Rondo also took the opportunity to make a layup, and then Ray Allen hit a three-pointer, and the Celtics played a 9-4 opening game for the Grizzlies, but then OJ Mayo hit a mid-range shot.
Mayo is a two-way defender with good offensive ability, and if he is asked to pass the ball, he can pass well.
But he wasn't the Grizzlies' point guard, and in the next round, Conley assisted Randolph, who hit a jumper from 16 feet out to make it 9-8, giving the Celtics a one-point lead, and that point didn't last long.
With 8 minutes and 18 seconds left in the first quarter, Marc Gasol on the inside received a pass from Randolph and hit a layup directly to overtake the score, 10-9! At the crucial moment, Pierce came back to power, and after a successful counter-run in the opposition half, opened up the distance between him and Rudy Gaiyi, received a pass from Rondo, and hit a three-point shot from 25 feet out.
The offenses on both sides basically maintain this style, you hit me, I hit you, and the offense is quite chaotic.
With 4:56 left in the game, the Celtics took the lead to 5-16 at 21-16 thanks to Pierce's three-pointer, and the Grizzlies called a timeout, and after the timeout returned, Rudy Gayyi caused Garnett's foul.
After two free throws and two hits, OJ Mayo received a pass from Rudy Gaiyi and hit a shot, 21-20, and in the blink of an eye, the Grizzlies chased back four points, and Ray Allen hit another three-pointer at a critical moment, but then Mike Conley also hit a shot.
The biggest problem for the Grizzlies right now is that they don't have three-pointers, yes, basically all the three-pointers in this team are relatively unreliable, but with two-pointers, they can also play very tenacious, with 2:56 left in the game, Rondo made a pass error, the Celtics called a timeout, replaced the bench, and Rasheed Wallace replaced Perkins.
Jiang Yang replaced Rondo, Zach Randolph, who had just been replaced by Tabitt, came on the court and replaced Marc Gasol, Jamal Tinsley replaced the main point guard, Mike Conley, and the players on both sides continued to play.
After the Grizzlies served in the half and handed the ball to Tinsley, everyone passed the half, and after watching the other party pass the half, Jiang Yang posted it, wanting to find an opportunity to interfere with the other party, but the other party obviously knew that Jiang Yang was not easy to deal with.
So he didn't fight with Jiang Yang at all, and he didn't give Jiang Yang a chance to stick up, he directly bypassed Jiang Yang, originally Jiang Yang still wanted to pursue, but there is a tactic in this alliance, called blocking and dismantling!
Randolph's big body was in front of Jiang Yang for the first time, and he blocked Jiang Yang at once.
This is the first time that Jiang Yang has been used in the game, they didn't use this tactic before, because they didn't think it was necessary, but the Grizzlies are a youth army, and they think that all tactics are necessary, especially now that Jiang Yang's position in the league is becoming more and more important, other teams in the league have begun to officially exist Jiang Yang.
Tinsley relied on Randolph's pick-and-roll to go straight to the interior and score a layup before the assistant defenders came over to make up for it.
"Rub!" Seeing that the other party scored so easily, Jiang Yang's face couldn't help but look good.
Now Jiang Yang is playing point guard, and after the basketball comes out, it is Jiang Yang who is naturally given.
After Jiang Yang dribbled the ball past half court, Tinsley came over and wanted to defend Jiang Yang, but Jiang Yang couldn't prevent him, which didn't mean that he could prevent Jiang Yang After a simple step dribble, Jiang Yang directly wiped it inside.
With the body he has developed, he is no worse than Tinsley in speed and strength, and the two are in a rivalry.
But Jiang Yang has an advantage that he doesn't have, that is, Jiang Yang's height and tall stature, so his vision is naturally large.
Jiang Yang saw very accurately that after he attracted the attention of the other party, Ray Allen had already run outside the three-point line at this time.
There is exactly his range, Jiang Yang made a very perfect pass from behind, passed the basketball to Ray Allen, saw the basketball pass here, it was too late for OJ Mayo, who was defending Ray Allen, to save, and Ray Allen was born directly outside the three-point line. But perhaps because he had already hit two three-pointers today, Ray Allen made a bit of a shot this time and smashed it on the basket all at once.
Bounced out, and Hashem Thabit was caught in the basket and copied the basketball in his arms.
Hashim Thabit, known as Mutombo II, is 211 cm tall and weighs 119 kg, and is this year's No. 2 rookie.
The scoring ability is almost zero, but he has the talent to become a super defensive warrior under the basket, the height and arm span are very perfect, with the ability to move to the upper average, the top bounce ability, and the rather domineering blocking sense.
At least until the draft, he was the favorite this year, and was eventually selected by the Grizzlies with the No. 2 pick.
But the game has been played for several months, and Tabit's ability has never been developed, which is really ugly.
Now he's on the bench and more of a defender, and he can't be blamed for that.
Hashem Thabit started very late, and in the wild land of Africa, it is strange that he could start a long time ago.
Of course, no matter how late he started, he would have started much earlier than Jiang Yang, and now his entire basketball career is still in his 'infancy'.
At this stage, the strength is weak, and it can't withstand the opponent, but this can be improved, the offensive ability is poor, and the defensive ability is strong.
However, the current grizzly bear does not have that time to wait for him to grow up slowly, so Tabit has not had a good time recently.
Although he has an absolute height and physical advantage when asking for the ball in the low post, he is often made uncomfortable by players who are shorter than him.
The only way to do that is to gain weight, but it's not easy! After Thabit grabbed the defensive rebound, he handed the ball to Tinsley, who just passed half court when Jiang Yang came up, and he didn't give the other party any chance this time.
Directly pasted it, began to go up and down, just started, Tinsley goosebumps fell to the ground, Jiang Yang's defense is really difficult, although he knew it long before the game started, but directly after encountering it in the game, he still has some numb claws, desperately protecting the ball, not letting Jiang Yang steal the ball, and at the same time looking for reinforcements on his side.
Don't say, it didn't take long for the reinforcements to really come, the scoring guard, OJ Mayo ran to the outside, Tinsley directly reversed into his hands, OJ-Mayo turned around and threw after receiving the ball, don't say, it really went in! In this way, the two sides were tied 26-26.
Looking at such a score, Jiang Yang breathed a sigh of relief, now the team is in crisis, Jiang Yang has been training his self-confidence recently, at such a critical moment, Jiang Yang set his eyes on the coach's bench next to him.
Seeing Doug Rivers nodding, Jiang Yang knew that the next ball should come by himself! After dribbling the ball past half court, Tinsley in front of Jiang Yang was still like just now, and wanted to rush inside after a false shot.
Tinsley, who had already been struck by Jiang Yang once, immediately shifted his center of gravity and blocked in front of Jiang Yang.
"The same moves won't work for me!" Seeing the surprised expression on Jiang Yang's face, Tinsley couldn't help but feel a little complacent.
But just when he was secretly happy in his heart, Jiang Yang suddenly took a step back and took back the long legs that had been stepping out.
In the other party's surprised gaze, Jiang Yang directly pulled out his hand outside the three-point line, Jiang Yang's current three-point shot is very sharp, which is also his main offensive means at present, Jiang Yang's current three-point shot has begun to be valued by other teams in the league, after all, under his three-point shot, there are many hated teams, the original Celtics team benches, have three-point ability, basically from Eddie House, but House's own three-point shot, punctual and inaccurate.
This also gave the other party an illusion that the Celtics' three-point shot off the bench was not too bright, and now that Jiang Yang arrived, the level of the bench's three-point shot immediately rose to a table, at least they didn't dare to shrink the defense line too far.
Jiang Yang's shot was very fast, and Tinsley didn't have time to react at all, Jiang Yang threw the basketball directly, and after the basketball drew an arc in the air, it fell straight into the basket, watching the ball go in, Jiang Yang couldn't help but raise his hand high, three points, it was because of Jiang Yang's three-point shot that the Celtics overtook the score again.
Jiang Yang scored three points here, and OJ-Mayo, who has always thought he was the pride of the sky and was the boss on the bench, couldn't sit still, and also tried a three-pointer on the outside, but the shot was called a bias.
was robbed of the rebound by Pierce, who was still on the court, and after Pierce took the rebound, he handed it to Jiang Yang, Jiang Yang went down directly, and Pierce followed, and Tinsley, who wanted to defend against Jiang Yang, just posed and let Jiang Yang shake it over.
Jiang Yang's dribbling comes from Marbury's night wolf roar, such a street-style dribble, it is very easy to deceive people.
Even if Jiang Yang hadn't played street ball before, his dribbling style has always been subtle because of his skills.
Now Jiang Yang's dribbling is really not much worse than those players who are messing around on the street, in front of Tinsley, Jiang Yang dribbled behind the ball in one middle of the day, shook off the opponent's position, and then wiped it from the opponent's side with a simple turn.
rushed directly into the inner line, and at this time Randolph also returned to the defense in place, blocking Jiang Yang's way forward.
Jiang Yang looked at Randolph in front of him, smiled, and directly took the basketball back, and then handed it to the back, a simple straight plug was handed to Pierce in the back, because Jiang Yang blocked Randolph's sight, and when he saw Pierce, he no longer had the ability to defend against him, so Pierce was like a gust of wind, and directly entered the inner line.
Get up and want to dunk violently, Jiang Yang's 'pass without looking at people' just now is very Johnson's demeanor, simple, fast, and convenient, so that Pierce can dunk directly out of the position, but just when Pierce is about to dunk successfully.
A big black hand suddenly appeared on the path of Pierce's basketball, and he didn't give Pierce time to react at all, and with a slap, he directly slapped the basketball out, looking at Hashem Thabit who fell to the ground, Jiang Yang and Pierce were stunned.
When did he move here? It's amazing! Jiang Yang was stunned here, it doesn't mean that the other party should be stunned, Rudy Gaiyi grabbed the basketball as soon as possible, and then went directly to the Celtics' half.
Garnett saw that Pierce was stunned on the court and didn't know what he was doing, so he could only come over to help defend, but Rudy Gaiyi's body was really amazing, and he jumped up directly in front of Garnett, Garnett was also horizontal in his heart, and he would rather foul than let him dunk, this is Garnett's idea, but the idea is the idea, the facts are the facts, I think he Garnett didn't also dunk through the n more big men? If you are deducted one today, it can be regarded as a return to the field! Rudy Gaiyi is like this, dribbling directly into the basket, across Garnett, a dunk pulled out a mountain, smashed the basketball into the basket, 29-28, the Grizzlies chased back two more points, and the referee also blew the whistle at this time, Garnett defensive foul.
not only accompanied him for two points, but was also deducted, and then he was fouled, and Garnett's face turned white in an instant.
This time it's a shame and a big deal...... The Celtics immediately replaced Garnei and replaced Sheldon Williams to play center, Rasheed Wallace played the big forward, and Gaiyi's free throw was also solidly hit, and the two sides were tied again.
And at this time, it was Jiang Yang again, after Jiang Yang dribbled the ball over the half court, he handed the ball to Pierce, Pierce found that there was no chance, so he handed the ball back to Jiang Yang, Jiang Yang took the ball, looked at Tinsley, who was standing far away from him, and was about to jump directly.
Tinsley had already suffered a loss of Jiang Yang's three points, how could he still be fooled, and he pounced directly and wanted to pounce on Jiang Yang.
But who knows, Jiang Yang turned out to be just a little light, and then put his hands down, after dribbling the ball, wiped the jumping Tinsley, rushed into the inner line, before Tinsley chased back, the inside line had no defense, jumped up directly, and gently sent the basketball out, the basketball drew an arc in the air, and fell straight into the basket.
31-29, the Celtics relied on Jiang Yang's five consecutive points to stabilize the situation.
And with 20 seconds left in the first quarter, Rudy Gaiyi also hit a shot, and the two sides were tied.
Then Pierce missed a shot, and the first quarter of the game ended, with Jiang Yang's five points in a row, the Celtics tied with the Grizzlies 31-31 on the road! For such a score, the Celtic side is still relatively satisfied!
At the beginning of the second quarter of the game, Jiang Yang finally saw the reason why Zach Randolph was the brush...... This guy started to attack at the beginning of the second quarter, and when no one was defending, he missed the shot, but he could snatch the basketball back, and then play the board under the basket, and after he put Rashid Wallace behind him with his tonnage, he grabbed the offensive rebound again without entering, and then scored it when he shot for the third time...... But I have to say that the brush also has to have the ability to do it, just like the current Randolph brushing rebounds, if he can't grab the rebounds, then it will be in trouble, that is, there is no data, the team has to lose, then his reputation will be completely finished.
But now he can actually brush it, this is another manifestation of strength!
Randolph on this side successfully brushed the basket, Pierce on the other side also scored two points on free throws, and then Jiang Yang's performance.
Jiang Yang shot three balls in a row within one minute, hitting two of them, one three-pointer, one two-pointer, Jiang Yang played for six minutes, and the score has reached as much as ten, which is really surprising, and Wallace is also under Jiang Yang's strategy, four consecutive shots on the inside, Jiang Yang assists twice, he played twice, Tinsley except for a two-point shot when he first came on the court, he has almost disappeared on the court under Jiang Yang's defense, and after each ball he dribbled the ball past half court, There's nothing wrong with him, if he's lucky and passes the ball to OJ Mayo or Rudy Gaiyi and the opponent hits the ball directly, then he mixes up assists, and if the opponent dribbles, then he doesn't even have an assist.
With 7 minutes and 39 seconds left in the second quarter, Jiang Yang was replaced by Rondo, at this time Jiang Yang had already scored 10 points and 4 assists, and the results were quite good.
But when Jiang Yang got off the court, the Grizzlies' oj-Mayo shot the game, the Grizzlies' first three-pointer, it is estimated that he is also the only three-point shot in the Grizzlies team is more accurate, and then Conley also played a three-point shot on the inside, helping the team bite the score, five seconds before halftime, Rondo hit a jumper, but Conley also hit a whistle shot, helping the Grizzlies to 55-57 at halftime, only two points behind the Celtics, a score that can be solved by one ball!
(To be continued)