Chapter 183: Rookie Wall
Because of Glen Davis' last-minute stunner, the Celtics finally won 101-100 at home against the Mavericks.
Nowitzki scored the most of the game, scoring 37 points and adding 7 rebounds, which was very eye-catching.
In addition to him, the Mavericks also had four players scoring double-doubles, Eric Daniel on the inside got 11 points and 7 rebounds, and veteran Kidd scored 13 points, but he had 17 assists, and he was very strong!
Sean Marion scored 16 points, and he played Jiang Yang really well! Drew Gooden scored 10 points.
The Celtics scored a total of five double-doubles, Pierce scored a team-high 24 points, Ray Allen scored 21 points, Rasheed Wallace scored 11 points, Perkins 14 points, Jiang Yang and Rondo are more complementary, Jiang Yang played 24 minutes today, scored 13 points plus 9 assists, and Rondo scored 7 points and 12 assists, which is more complementary to Jiang Yang.
It is worth mentioning that Glen Davis only hit two goals in the whole game, and one of them was a last-minute stunner!
It's really very powerful, after the Mavericks, the Celtics are really very happy, they can beat strong opponents at home, they really have that mood to celebrate the victory, and then they are going to Detroit, a game against the Pistons, the Pistons have always been a strong team in the league, but since Rasheed Wallace left the Pistons last year, the Pistons have now begun to rebuild, and their core is Starkey, and the starting lineups on both sides today are as follows.
In the direction of the Celtics, it is still center Perkins, power forward Rasheed Wallace, small forward Paul Pierce, scoring guard Ray Allen, point guard Rajon Rondo, Jiang Yang They are still sitting on the bench and watching the game.
As for the Pistons, today's starting lineup is as follows, the center is Big Ben, Ben Wallace, who they just signed back this year, if Rasheed Wallace doesn't go, plus Hamilton and Prince, they really look like the original Pistons.
But now after all, they are no longer the same as they used to be, and the current Pistons are old!
The big forward is Chris Wellcox, and he calmly tells everyone that this is a soy sauce player, and the soy sauce party is very strong!
Small forward Jonas Jerick, who was the ninth pick in the second round this year, is not at a very high level...... The shooting guard is a veteran, Richard Hamilton, the Mask Man, but the current Mask Man is estimated to be unable to run.
The point guard is the core of their current team, and Rodro Starki is the team's main point of attack and the only bright spot.
The main players TayXia Prince and Will Bynum did not play due to injury, and they were equal to the Celtics, because Garnett could not play, and both sides lost a main player, which is far from a bad reputation.
Under the referee's order, the game on both sides began, the Celtics were mainly anti-guest at the beginning of the game, Rondo, who only scored seven points in the last game, was ashamed and passed, after the opening, the hand was very hot, scored six points in a row, and followed Pierce to play a wave of 10-4 offense ** to play the game, and the Pistons' Starkey stepped forward at the critical moment.
Including the Pistons' first seven points, then Pierce hit a three-point shot, Big Ben made a layup to shoot back, 4 minutes and 39 seconds when Pierce hit another three-pointer, the Pistons paused, and after the timeout came back, Jiang Yang came on the court, Jiang Yang immediately assisted Pierce to cheat the foul, and then assisted him to make a layup, at the end of the first quarter, the Green Shirts led the opponent by nine points at 30-21.
And Pierce also scored 17 points in a single quarter under the feeding of Jiang Yang and Rondo, which is not easy for these veterans, and the main player of the Pistons Starkey also scored eleven points, and his performance was remarkable, quite good.
At the beginning of the second quarter of the game, the bench lineups on both sides began to align, and the Pistons woke up like a dream, and bench players such as Villanueva and Marc Hill on the inside line fought to catch up, but with Jiang Yang, Tony Allen, Eddie House, and Glen Davis's bench lineup, is it so easy to deal with? The substitutes of the Green Army are not inferior to each other in the confrontation.
Especially Jiang Yang, when facing Chaggy Atkins, he was completely violent against the other party! Don't give the other party any chance at all.
After Jiang Yang scored six points in a row, he was replaced by Rondo, who just came on the court and scored four points in a row, although the opponent's Daye shot three points in the last second, but the Pistons still trailed the opponent by as many as 11 points at home 48-59, and the two teams were not at the same level at all.
And Jiang Yang's six points in a row was also the only shining point of his game, and he didn't score a single point in the first quarter of the game.
Rematch, the morale of the Pistons in the third quarter was high, with Hamilton, Stad and Big Ben scoring successively, the score was quickly narrowed, and the Celtics' offense fell into a stalemate, after Pierce made two free throws to stop the decline, Starkey immediately scored five points in a row, and the Pistons overtook the score! Yes, the score of eleven points allowed the Pistons to overtake, and at the critical moment, Rondo first cut three points, and then after Jiang Yang came on the court, he hit three points again, and Davis hit two free throws on the inside!
With Jiang Yang's substitution and Rondo's performance in the final moments, the Celtics led the opponent by six points into the final quarter.
At the beginning of the final quarter of the game, the two sides fell into a white-hot battle, Rondo and Rasheed Wallace helped the visitors play a wave of 7-2 small **, stretching the lead to 11 points, but the Pistons immediately played a wave of 13-0 offensive wave under the leadership of Starkey, and the home team overtook the score 84-82 and led the Celtics by two points.
At the critical moment, Ray Allen scored two consecutive layups, and the visitors still had hope of winning, but then Villanueva hit a three-point shot, and after Starkey scored three points in a row, the Celtics fell into a scoring crisis again, and there was no way to shoot it.
Jiang Yang has no way to play the role of Mr. Key at the last moment, he played Marion in the last game, which really broke Jiang Yang's confidence a lot, and then Jiang Yang has been reflecting, because he has been a lot stronger recently, there is a little bit of the meaning of not putting the world's stars in his eyes, Marion and his own position, it can be regarded as waking himself up, but he knows it, but in the game, Jiang Yang is still a little lacking in confidence, this game, he is still very rough!
Just like his three-point shot at a critical moment, Jiang Yang used to observe the position of his teammates before making a decision on whether to shoot or not.
But today, Jiang Yang shot directly in front of Starkey, and such a shot is a bit of a big luck.
So Jiang Yang didn't score, the Celtics also lost the game, and Doug Rivers didn't say anything to Jiang Yang.
Because he knows what kind of player Jiang Yang is, he is very smart, so he can adjust his feelings well!
And the other players also know what the reason Jiang Yang is now, they have all encountered this thing before, there is nothing strange about it.
In this game, Jiang Yang only made 4 of 12 shots in the whole game, and the shooting rate has never been lower than 50% Jiang Yang, today's shooting rate is just 30%, and he got 10 points and 3 assists, although this result looks good, but the Celtics lost.
Jiang Yang played the whole game, how awkward it felt to play, his state always kept up with the rhythm of his teammates, this feeling was really uncomfortable, but the more Jiang Yang wanted to integrate into the team's offensive and defensive system, the more he couldn't integrate into it, the whole game, Jiang Yang also said at the beginning that the opponent's players were playing soy sauce, but this time, he felt like playing soy sauce, the Pistons won the game 92-86 at home, and Jiang Yang, who lost the game, took a deep breath!
"Are you feeling better?" Seeing that Jiang Yang felt like he had been pressed there, Pierce walked over.
"Hehe......" Jiang Yang naturally knew that his strange appearance couldn't escape the eyes of these old fritters, so he could only smile.
"Got time? When you get back to Boston, let's talk? Looking at Pierce's invitation, Jiang Yang nodded, he knew that Pierce's search for himself must have something to do with his current state, and Jiang Yang's current state was indeed not right.
After losing to the Pistons, the Celtics did not stop at the Motor City, because of the financial tsunami, the American auto industry suffered a major blow, and now Detroit is almost like a ghost town, full of rags.
And the population is still decreasing rapidly, and staying in such a city is really not too comfortable.
Early the next morning, Jiang Yang and the others flew back to Boston, and after returning to Boston, Jiang Yang did not go home directly, but got into Pierce's car, and Pierce took Jiang Yang to Boston's most famous Boston public green space!
may know what Pierce wants to say to Jiang Yang, Doug Rivers and they didn't interject, originally Doug Rivers didn't know much about these psychological counseling, the brick family in this area is Phil Jackson, otherwise he wouldn't be called a fake monk.
The original public green space was a piece of greenery, but now it's January, even in the south, the grass has turned yellow, not to mention that Boston is still in the north, and the snow that has not been disposed of is piled up on the original lawn of the green space, Jiang Yang and Pierce walked in the park in vain, if it is a man and a woman, pressing the road in this snow-white world, maybe there is still a little bit of a sight, but look at Jiang Yang and Pierce, two strong men of two meters and one, a yellow race, and a black man.
It's really not good-looking! After walking for about ten minutes, the two of them sat on a bench on the side of the road in the park.
Pierce went to the vending machine next to him, bought a drink from two halls, and handed Jiang Yang a bottle.
"Carbonated?" Looking at the drink handed over by Pierce, Jiang Yang asked with some surprise, carbonated drinks can cause osteoporosis.
So under normal circumstances, athletes don't drink this kind of thing, they basically drink sports drinks, of course Red Bull can't, Red Bull in the United States, that's an illegal drink, it's not allowed to be sold, it's the same as marijuana.
"It's okay, drink a bottle once in a while, it feels good!" Pierce smiled and threw it to Jiang Yang, then opened a bottle by himself, drank half of it in one gulp, and saw that Pierce drank it all, Jiang Yang also wanted to drink it, after all, he hadn't drunk this thing for a while.
opened the Coca-Cola in his hand, Jiang Yang also drank half of the hall in one go, and then followed Pierce with a ...... "Hehe!" Listening to the other party's open chuckle, both of them couldn't help laughing, seeing that Jiang Yang didn't seem to be in his own problem anymore, Pierce began to drink slowly, and then looked at Jiang Yang and talked about his current situation.
"Is it the last game, I feel like I can't fit into the team, I don't feel the passing, I don't feel the shooting, even the usual dribbling feels impatient, I don't have such a feeling in training, but when it comes to the game, I feel very uncomfortable!" Pierce looked at Jiang Yang and said to Jiang Yang with a smile, and after listening to Pierce's words, Jiang Yang raised his head in some surprise. He didn't say this to anyone, in fact, he had this feeling before the Mavericks game, and then after being killed by Marion, his feeling was even stronger.
However, Jiang Yang is a stuffy gourd type, so he didn't mention a word even to Zhou Yun's three daughters.
Now Pierce actually knows how he feels, which makes Jiang Yang feel amazing, could it be that this guy is a mind reader or something?
"Don't look at me with that surprised look, haha...... I'll be embarrassed! In fact, this kind of thing, in other words, any old guy who has been in the alliance for a few years knows, Ray They don't tell you, the main thing is that they want you to spend this time by yourself, but it seems that you don't know your current state, so I'll explain it to you! Pierce couldn't help laughing when he saw Jiang Yang's surprised gaze, Jiang Yang's growth was indeed very fast, and he was also very pleased!
"Your current state, the outside media should call this the 'rookie wall'" Listening to Pierce's words, Jiang Yang was stunned for a moment, and then shouted out, he used to hear this term a lot, but he never thought that he would also bump into this thing.
"In fact, the rookie wall is a good explanation, that is, every time the season starts, those rookies, such as you, will be very active, they expect to be able to perform in the new season, so that whenever they play, they will unconsciously stimulate their adrenaline, so that it secretes more, makes themselves faster, jumps higher, is more excited when they are playing, and plays better! But unfortunately, the NBA is a marathon of the Games, not a sprint event, you are okay, you don't have to go to training camp, you don't need to train there for a whole month to throw away time, you don't need to play summer league, preseason, and the 82 games of the regular season, you don't need to play all of them, but you do need to play all the time, this" Pierce took a sip of his drink, looked at Jiang Jian and smiled, and then slowly continued.
"This long road is full of back-to-back, continuous games and endless flights, as well as staying in hotels, and taking buses, you haven't played in the college league before, so you may not know, such a schedule is more than three times that of the college league, so when your physical strength and spirit have reached the limit, after the line is broken, your body and spirit will begin to collapse slightly, which is the so-called rookie wall!" After listening to Pierce's words, Jiang Yang really felt that it meant a little bit.
Recently, Jiang Yang has always felt very tired, and he can't wake up in the morning, and he thinks it's because he has exercised too much.
When competing, it is not easy to concentrate, which is also the reason why he always can't find the right time, he is not concentrating and his physical strength is not enough, Jiang Yang becomes more and more uncomfortable, the more he fights in his heart, the more annoying he is, the more irritated he is, the more restless he becomes, this is Jiang Yang, he can control himself well, he likes to find fault with his body, if he changes to a person who is already short-tempered, he may have broken out a long time ago.
Looking at Jiang Yang's puzzled expression in front of him, Pierce drank his drink by himself, he hadn't drunk Coke for too long, and it tasted pretty good! And Jiang Yang here began to speed up his state in the past few days, and it really didn't look like the previous few days.
"So what's the solution?" Jiang Yang looked at Pierce, since he told himself that his current state was wrong, then he should know how to face his current state! Seeing Jiang Yang's hopeful eyes, Pierce shook his head.
"It's okay to say that you need to take care of your body, eat correctly, and you should also pay attention to it when you eat at home, at least for the last period of time, you must not eat fried things, nor do you get angry! It is necessary to have sufficient rest time, tell you those three mm, don't toss too late...... And keep training, stay in good shape! In this way, your physical discomfort can be appropriately reduced, and the rest of the mental can only rely on yourself! Looking at Jiang Yang, Pierce shook his head with a smile, and then accurately threw the Coke can in his hand into the trash can on the ground.
"Diet, training, these are fine, but mentally...... How do you get this thing? Touching his head, Jiang Yang still felt for the first time, it turned out that this rookie wall was so difficult, which really made him a little unhappy.
"This thing is like a woman's menopause, you don't always think about it, the more you think about it, the more annoying it becomes, so you need to adjust your own state now, you are very smart, Jiang, your growth is much faster than I expected, the more potential the newcomer, the thinner the rookie wall, your potential is very good, I guess you will be able to break through soon! Haha......" Looking at Jiang Yang's distressed look, Pierce patted Jiang Yang's shoulder, and then slipped away by himself, leaving Jiang Yang alone in the public green space.
By the time he reacted, it was dark, and he sat here for an afternoon, and finally had no choice but to take a taxi home.
"This Pierce, it's quite hateful......" Seeing that this guy actually abandoned himself and ran away, Jiang Yang was angry!
(To be continued)