The visiting dressing room at the North Shore Gardens was a gloomy fog, and McMillan stared at the technical statistics of the first half, wanting to scold the players, but in the end, the look of annoyance on everyone's faces turned into a sigh. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Can the Trail Blazers players be blamed for this? It's true that they have a lot of responsibility for the game to be like this, but a player wants to help the team win, but Celtic's strong defense makes them feel like they have lost their soul on the field, and the offense that the team is good at can't play, so it's only a mermaid's share. Looking at the personal data statistics, basically everyone played like a piece of shit in the second quarter, including Ye Feng.

McMillan was very emotional, no wonder many people say that offense wins the box office, defense wins the championship, the Celtics' defensive intensity is not something to encounter in the regular season, they have raised to such a height in the finals, and they are obviously aiming for the championship. The reason why the Trail Blazers were able to unexpectedly defeat the Lakers in the Western Conference Finals is because the Lakers do not have such a rigorous defensive system like the Celtics, and most of the time the two sides are competing for offense, so the Trail Blazers, the No. 6 seed in the West, broke into the Finals and competed with the Celtics for the championship.

So how did the Trail Blazers break the blockade in the second half? McMillan frowned and pondered, his face gloomy as if it were going to rain. He knows it's hard to crack the Celtics' defense, at least with his ability to be a question with few answers, is it really a bet on the player's hand?

McMillan shook his head, denying his own idea. In the end, he said to the players helplessly: "In the second quarter, we had a problem with the offense, and we had to work on it in the second half." Marcus, you come to the high post to play blocking and dismantling with Ye Feng, and the others are ready to catch the ball. I know Celtic are very strong defensively, but that's a dilemma we have to deal with, and I hope you can see if your teammates are better positioned than you before you shoot, we don't want to be fast, but we have to play with a success rate. As an attacking team, not scoring goals means death, so I don't need to teach you this simple truth, right? ”

In McMillan's view, pick-and-roll is a tactic that will never go out of style, and in a situation where there is no way to do it, it is undoubtedly the best option, or at least one of them. And there is a reason why he let Cambido and Ye Feng play blocking and dismantling, before Princeton asked Aldridge to stand high, just because he needed his hand to pass, and now if he plays blocking and dismantling, it is undoubtedly a tyrannical thing to let Aldridge pull to a high position. Not to mention that Camby's screens are also of high quality, as he can go down to the basket after the screen, and Aldridge can move to the elbow area to get ready to respond, which is a relatively comfortable scoring position for him. If Aldridge continues to cover, Camby will occupy space under the basket, and Aldridge's own impact is not enough, so Camby and Ye Feng's blocking is a better choice.

After the start of the second half, the Trail Blazers' streamlined offense still had a good effect, at least keeping Garnett free to clean up the perimeter. Tony Allen wasn't on the court, and Rivers couldn't always put out such a negligible scoring guy, and he still had to rely on Ray Allen most of the time, which gave the Trail Blazers some breathing time on the outside. But perhaps because the shadow of the first half has not been shaken off, Miller and Batum have indeed wasted too many opportunities on the outside, and before the third quarter is halfway through, the two of them combined to shoot 1 of 5, which the Trail Blazers can't afford.

In desperation, Ye Feng could only support the team's offense with Aldridge, which was a bit of pressure for him. The reason is simple, after the block, he has to quickly judge the situation on the court, whether to pass the ball to Camby down or Aldridge in the elbow area, or to take Perkins alone. If one is not careful, even if the shot hits the iron, a direct mistake is also possible, and with Garnett's long pass and Rondo's speed, a counterattack will not run.

Thanks to their efforts, the Trail Blazers' offense improved slightly, but it was not enough to fill the hole dug in the first half, and the margin hovered around 15 to 20 points. It's easy to understand that the Trail Blazers' offense isn't enough to break down the Celtics' defense, but the Celtics' offense can be seen as nothing on the Trail Blazers' defense, which is reflected in the score. Even though the Trail Blazers wanted to defend against the opponent's offense and fought the court, the courage of the Horseman had no effect on the trend of the whole game, which is the dilemma that a team with an imbalance in offense and defense may encounter.

Ye Feng has been working hard to score, and he scored 12 points in the third quarter, but so what? If you want to score points, Pierce can accompany you, the captain of the Celtics also scored 10 points in the third quarter, which directly offset Ye Feng's efforts. It's true that Miller and Batum began to gradually regain their touch in the second half of the third quarter, but so what? Ray Allen's three-point shot is not covered, as the player with the most three-point shots in NBA history, his outside projection can withstand the two players on the Trail Blazers' side, in other words, the five players who started the game, the Trail Blazers did not take advantage of any aspect.

Even if both sides were on the bench at the same time, the Trail Blazers' vaunted bench didn't help the team save face. McMillan doesn't expect them to fill the hole, as long as they draw with Celtic's bench, it's done. The Trail Blazers still want to win, but until they get the opponent's defensive system in mind, it's just an empty phrase, and at the current level of the Celtics, it's really impossible to cope with it without thinking about some moves.

The situation in the fourth quarter still did not improve, Ye Feng's efforts alone could not save the whole team, and with 8 minutes left in the game, McMillan simply replaced all the starters, which meant that the Trail Blazers raised their hands and surrendered in this game. There's no way, the point difference has widened to nearly 30 points, and now there is no good way to face the Celtics' defense, and it's just a fool's dream to continue to put the starters to reverse the game, so it's better to rest early, and by the way, see if the opponent's defense has any loopholes that can be exploited.

The Celtics also had a tacit understanding of the substitutions, and in the end, the Trail Blazers suffered a heavy defeat 86-111, and fell behind 0-1 in the finals.