Chapter 232: Win the match point

Doug Rivers now has the capital of laughing silver, the original 12-point gap, at the end of the third quarter, became 16 points, 74-58, things are as simple as that, Jiang Yang has got 15 points, 8 assists and 4 rebounds in the third quarter of the game, and Jiang Yang's performance is far from over, at the beginning of the fourth quarter, Doug Rivers did not want to kill the Magic team with a stick, he once wanted to kill the Cavaliers with a stick, and then step on the opponent's body a few times, such an idea is not wrong, But in the last quarter, it is definitely the most dangerous for the Celtics, the main force in the Celtics is basically based on veterans, whether it is Garnett, Ray Allen or Pierce, it won't last long after three quarters, so at this time it is better to let the young people take the main attack, with this idea, Doug Rivers did not replace the main player, and still used the substitute to play on the court, and the substitute played on the court, and the effect was not generally good! Its biggest highlight is in Jiang Yang's body, Jiang Yang is getting stronger and stronger now, and he has an advantage against any outside line of the magic team.

At the beginning of the last quarter, Howard first made two rare free throws to help the Magic team chase the score, but after that, Jiang Yang grabbed the basketball that fell after Tony Allen was blocked by Carter, and made a basket on the inside to chase the score back.

Then Rashid Wallace hit a three-point shot after receiving Jiang Yang's pass, Jiang Yang's data became 17 points, 9 assists and 5 rebounds, although Jason Williams then took advantage of the opportunity of a double block to shoot a ball, but Jiang Yang immediately bullied him and hit a layup, turning the score into 79-62, the lead continued to expand, and Jiang Yang also scored 19 points!

Then Petrus caused a foul on Tony Allen, and made one of two free throws to chase the score back to one point, but then Rasheed Wallace returned Carter with a foul, two free throws and two hits, and the score on both sides continued to stretch away, reaching 81-63, and the role of the veteran Jewei Williams was shown at the critical moment, and he actually shot a three-pointer outside Jiang Yang's defense.

This three-point shot actually shouldn't be scored in Jiang Yang's eyes, because of Jiang Yang's height advantage, forcing the opponent's three-point shot to be raised to a high height, not the shooting point he is used to, the three-point shooting rate will definitely be limited, but Jason Williams' luck today is really good, and the three points actually went in! And this can be regarded as opening the opponent's three-point rain, with Ray Allen's dribbling error, the ball is out of bounds! After that, Michael Petrus also hit a three-point shot, but fortunately, Glen Davis made a layup, Jiang Yang's assists reached 10 at the same time, and it also helped the Celtics stabilize the situation, and then Jiang Yang made two consecutive outside three-point shots, the first time he didn't score, the second time he shot again, he didn't hesitate at all, three-point hit, Kyle continued to lead the other party 86-69, and Howard finally opened up on the inside, with Perkins on top of him, he hooked his hand to narrow the score, But then Ray Allen hit a jumper to stretch the score to 88-71 and continue to lead by 17 points. At this time, the last quarter of the game was already halfway through, and the Magic team had to call a timeout, with only 6 minutes and 38 seconds left, how to recover 17 points became the biggest headache for the Magic team, but this matter had nothing to do with Jiang Yang.

Jiang Yang has returned to the bench, and now Rondo, who has stronger defensive skills, is undoubtedly much more stable than Jiang Yang to grab points on the court, Doug Rivers is notoriously stable, and what he needs most now is stability!

Rondo deserves to be Rondo, Rondo only got a total of 8 points and 8 assists today, but when he needed to stabilize the rhythm at the last moment, he still controlled the rhythm very perfectly, 102-88, the Celtics turned the rest of this Eastern Conference semifinals into garbage time with 3 minutes 08 seconds left in the game, and when the bell rang for the end of the game, all the Celtics fans raised their hands and cheered for the victory of this game, In the words of Kenny Smith of TNT on the sidelines, 'It's hard to believe it's a game of close competition, it looks like Celtic are bullying kids!' Kenny Smith's words are a little biased, but they speak the hearts of Celtics fans, today's game is indeed very much like bullying children, the Magic team from the beginning of the game, to the end of the first quarter, and then to the end, has not narrowed the score, Jiang Yang's play is outstanding, he and Pierce and Ray Allen together cut 70 points out of 102, completely replacing Garnett's role, Jiang Yang 23 points, 11 assists plus 7 rebounds, Recently, Jiang Yang's sharpness in grabbing rebounds has also slowly increased, Pierce has 22 points, 9 rebounds and 5 assists, Ray Allen has 25 points, 7 rebounds and 3 assists and won the honor of the best player of the game, Garnett has 8 points, 11 rebounds and 5 assists, and Rondo has 8 points and 8 assists.

All the players of the Celtics are very selfless, and no matter how you look at this game, it looks like the Celtics are brushing the attack.

On the other hand, on the Magic team's side, the super core of the interior line, Dwight Howard was defended by Perkins and Rasheed Wallace just like his grandson, with only 3 percent shooting percentage in the whole game, and the free throw shooting rate turned out to be more than 5 percent today, which is really a miracle, shooting 3 of 10 from the field and 7 of 12 from the free throw line, which is already a good statistic for Howard.

And he had a total of 13 points and 12 rebounds, although Rashad Lewis only allowed Garnett to score 8 points today, but he was even more pitiful, only 6 points in the account, the opponent's highest scorer was Carter, who scored 23 points in the game, and Nelson was also good.

Although Jiang Yang didn't score a point and made a lot of mistakes when he was defending, he grabbed a lot of points in the final garbage time, and the final score was 20 points and 9 rebounds...... But! Take a look at his assists...... An assist in the first game of a starting point guard who made it to the Eastern Conference Finals...... 2 pcs! The whole team has 10 assists, if the Celtics have any stats that have a completely overwhelming advantage, it is only assists, the Celtics have 31 assists as a team, a full 21 assists more than the opponent, these 21 assists represent at least 42 points, not including the situation of three points in it, assists have become the main problem for the Magic team to lose, and Nelson has been put on fire again.

"The Green Shirts beat the Magic at home, and the Celtics take a 1-0 lead! The next day, the Boston Globe began to report on the game, and even the Orlando media are now honest, describing the game with the title of the rout.

However, this is only the first game, and Celtic will need to win three games before they can successfully progress to the next level.

After a day of rest, in Boston, the two teams played the second game, after the start of the second game, the Green Shirts played well, Pierce was in excellent shape, jumper, free throws outside the three-point line, the game just started 2 minutes 08 seconds, he alone took the team's first nine points, after being bullied for more than two minutes, Carter finally began to fight back, broke through the layup yesterday and caused Pierce's foul, 2+1 really killed' Truth's majesty, Barnes dunked, and the Magic overtook the score 10-9, but the Celtics immediately exerted their strength and regained control of the situation on the court, and at 4:43, after Pierce hit a three-pointer from the outside, the Green Shirts changed the score to 23-13! But then the referee suddenly put pressure on the Celtics, blowing two fouls in a row for Perkins and Pierce, Howard played a beautiful 2+1 on Rondo, and Redick cheated three more free throws on Pierce...... In such a situation, Doug Rivers replaced Jiang Yang and strengthened the offense! Jiang Yang's existence did make the Magic team feel threatened, after Jiang Yang came on the court, he hit a three-pointer in front of Nelson's face, and then broke through Nielsen and went to the basket, scored five points in a row, and stopped the decline, but the opponent's Redick did feel too good, after hitting two three-pointers in a row, the Magic team played a wave of 16-7 offensive, chasing the score to 28-30, and then Jiang Yang hit another jumper to help the Celtics open up some more scores, and the first quarter ended. The Magic trailed the Celtics by four points at 28-32, while Jiang Yang scored seven straight points with 4:01 left in the first quarter.

In the second quarter of the game, the Celtics once again played a double-point guard tactic, Jiang Yang and Rondo were on the court, Rondo instigated, and Jiang Yang attacked! Under the instigation of Rondo, the Celtics played a wave of 7-2 small **, stretching the score to 9 points in one fell swoop, leading the opponent 39-30, and the Magic launched a counterattack with the intentional help of the referee, Carter's hand was still hot, and he hit a three-pointer in front of Jiang Yang, and stealed Pierce's ball, but his layup was covered by Jiang Yang, who came over to make up for it, although Jiang Yang blocked Carter's layup, but there was no way to cover the hot touch of Magic.

With the excellent play of Howard and Carter, the Magic team continued to chase the score, at 5 minutes and 12 seconds, Carter once again forced Jiang Yang, but was blocked by Jiang Yang again, Carter thought that Jiang Yang interfered with the ball, and then kept scratching the camera on the sidelines, the referee did not hesitate to give him a technical foul, and after Jiang Yang got off the court, the smell of gunpowder on the field became stronger and stronger, at 4 minutes and 16 seconds, Peel deceived the right side of the bottom line and broke into the penalty area, Petrus, who had lost his position, fouled helplessly, but Howard under the basket jumped up, and when he landed, he directly knocked Pierce to the ground with both hands, and the action was unusually fierce, in the boos of the audience, the angry Pierce stood up and wanted to reason with the other party, but was pulled by the rest of the Green Army, they knew that they were now dominant, and they must not destroy the Great Wall!

The Magic is not that the Heat can still sweep the opponent without Garnett, and without Pierce, it will not be easy to play against the Magic.

The referee immediately ran over, under pressure, and gave Howard a first-degree malicious foul, the field was full of gunpowder, and the fans of the North Shore Garden Arena were also unusually faceless, and the earth-shattering boos made Pierce's offense unstoppable!

With Howard off the court, Rondo and Ganeh interpolated and others have made contributions, although Barnes hit a three-pointer, but when the first quarter of the game ended, the Celtics still led the Magic team by 6 points at 57-51 into the second quarter, Pierce semi-directed 22 points, Rondo semi-directed 13 points, Howard half-time 17 points and 4 rebounds, and Jiang Yang also scored double-doubles in the half, got 11 points and 3 assists, and fought again, although Howard performed very well on the offensive end, The game started with Garnett's foul, and after hitting both free throws, he rolled over and dunked under the basket, but he couldn't get rid of the foul trouble.

The outside line of the Celtics seemed to find him, constantly breaking through to find Howard's foul, and soon he received his fourth personal foul, Van Gundy could only change it early, the Green Army immediately launched an offensive, after Garnett's jump shot, the Green Army led the opponent 68-59 by as many as 9 points, and then Carter's breakthrough, he was tripped by himself, but it should not be a big problem, he also followed when Jiang Yang played, with Jiang Yang, the Celtics continued to refresh the score difference between the two sides, a 13-2 attack, the Celtics led the opponent by as many as 14 points 74-60, but fortunately, Nelson hit a three-pointer in time to stop the bleeding for the Magic, but then Jiang Yang immediately returned a 2+1! Playing against Jiang Yang, neither Nelson nor Jason Williams was useless, Lewis hit a three-pointer at the last moment, but Rondo on the Celtics' side also hit a two-point whistle, and at the end of the third quarter, the Celtics still led the opponent by as many as 14 points at 84-70.

At the beginning of the last quarter, Rashid Wallace received Jiang Yang's pass at the beginning, and hit a three-point shot, although the Magic then returned a 7-2 offensive small **, but Jiang Yang also immediately returned a three-point advantage to the opponent, 92-77 but also opened a one-point advantage, although Howard used his strength one after another to attack successfully, but the Celtics' play was more stable at the critical moment, although Perkins left the court with six fouls, but Tony Allen and Glen Davis made great contributions to their sons, Helped Kyle hold a lead of more than 10 points until the benches came off the court.

It's still the same routine as it was at the beginning, the bench opened the score, and then the main force went up to control the rhythm, but today's Rondo didn't feel bad, and the successive attacks succeeded, and the score not only did not shrink, but there was a tendency to pull away, although in the end Pierce also graduated with six fouls, but when Carter and Nelson missed the three-point shot, it also means that the game is over.

In the end, the Celtics won the Magic team by six points at home 98-92, completing the two-game home kill against the Magic.

will go to Orlando with a 2-0 score, Howard scored a game-high 30 points in this game, but Howard, who only cares about scoring, only grabbed 8 rebounds, this is the first time, the Magic team's rebounds will lose...... In addition to Howard, there are no players who have scored more than 20 on the other side, Carter and JJ Redick who came off the bench both scored 16 points, today Jiang Yang and Rondo's defense played its due power, Williams only scored three points on 1 of 4 shots, and Nelson, another point guard, shot 4 of 15 from the field, and only scored nine points, it is impossible to completely restrict a player from scoring, but Jiang Yang They can control it, as long as they control the opponent's shooting rate below 30%, That's basically like this guy is scrapped! For the Celtics, five players scored in double figures, Garnett had 10 points and nine rebounds, Perkins had 10 points, and Pierce had a team-high 28 points, five rebounds and five assists to win the best player of the game.

Rondo had 25 points and 8 assists, Jiang Yang had 21 points and 10 assists, Jiang Yang had a lot of playing time for Ray Allen today, and the power of the two guns in the backcourt really made Doug Rivers laugh at night! With a 2-0 overall score, the Celtics followed the Magic to Orlando, where they are ready to play Game 3 and Game 4 against the Magic!

However, in the first game after coming to Orlando, who would have thought that on their home court, the Magic team would let the Celtics play the circle, and the Celtics showed their defensive strength at the beginning of the game, Pierce, Ray Allen and Rondo teamed up to play a 7-0 start, and then the Magic strengthened their defense, and they also had a 6-0 ** to chase the score closer, but the game will return to the side of the Celtics, and they played a higher 14-0 **.

After Jiang Yang came on the court, he successfully broke through the interior twice in a row, completely beating the Magic team's defense into a sieve...... With 1:23 left in the game, the Magic scored just six points...... At the critical moment, the referee was still strong, helping Nelson find a foul on Jiang Yang's body, and then White Chocolate Williams hit a three-pointer, and the Magic avoided the burden of the lowest score in the first quarter of the playoffs, but after the first quarter, they trailed the Celtics by as many as 17 points at 12-29! When they get back at home, they won't be able to play! At the beginning of the second quarter, Jiang Yang began to plan the team to carry out a fast attack, and after a 9-5 offensive **, he directly stretched the lead to 20 points, and the Magic team could only call a timeout, although Howard hit a dunk, but Glenn Davis scored seven points in a row with the support of Jiang Yang, and Kyle led by as many as 28 points at 47-19...... After chasing half a quarter, the Magic finally trailed the Celtics by 21 points at 34-55 and entered the halftime break!

In the final quarter, the big baby Glenn Davis contributed 7 points again, and contributed 17 points in the third quarter to become the highest scorer in the game, and under his leadership, the Celtics led the opponent by 31 points 78-47 after the third quarter, entering garbage time in the final quarter!

The game has now been confirmed, the Celtics are 3-0, and the Magic are only one game away!

(To be continued)