Chapter 135: Killing the Stag
After only staying in Boston for three days and playing a game, Jiang Yang and the others left Boston by plane early the next morning after the Bucks, heading to Washington, D.C., the administrative hub of the entire United States and the seat of the American political axe.
Washington, D.C., full name, Washington, D.C., is the capital of the United States of America, located in the northeastern United States, named in honor of George Washington, the founding father of the American Workers, and Christopher Columbus, who discovered the New World of America.
Of course, the current abbreviation is Washington, and not many people will remember its full name.
In fact, after the founding of the United States, the requirements for the capital were very troublesome, we all know that the American Civil War at that time, because the political axe of the south and the north was not unified, the northern political axe hoped to set the capital in New York, and the southern political axe wanted to set the capital in the south, and finally the north and the south of the United States made concessions, and built a new city in the south of the United States not far from the north as the capital of the United States, which was the original capital of the United States 'Federal City', which was renamed Washington City in 1791.
Because I came early and the time on the plane was relatively short, everyone was not too tired.
Boston is not particularly far from Washington, D.C., and the distance is about the distance between Changchun and Dalian.
It took less than an hour to take a plane, and he has been taking planes a lot recently, Jiang Yang has become familiar with the road, and by plane, Jiang Yang and others came to the airport in Washington, and boarded the team's bus in turn, ready to go to the hotel.
In order to take care of Jiang Yang, who came to Washington for the first time, the driver of the bus deliberately went around the downtown area of Washington.
In the car, after seeing the legendary 'Zhongnanhai' White House in the United States, as well as the US Congress, and the Washington Monument, they returned to the hotel they chartered near the stadium, the Wizards' stadium MIC Center Arena, next to Chinatown, looking at those familiar signs, Jiang Yang really feels very good, no matter where in the world, as long as there are Chinese, there are Chinese restaurants, it seems that there is no need to eat those nutritious meals tonight.
Washington Wizards, this is the name of Chinese mainland, in Hong Kong and Taiwan, called Washington Wizards, is a team with many name changes in the NBA, formerly known as the Washington Bullets, and it was when the Bullets they won an NBA championship, two thousand years later, and then the team's main player, Gilbert Arenas's strong rise, now the Wizards have become a strong team in the East, plus the addition of Jamison and Butler, the current Wizards, It's definitely one of the tougher teams in the league to deal with, and if it weren't for the fact that these three guys are always injured, they might not just be qualified for the playoffs now, and before this game, the Wizards started the game 7-12 and didn't play too well.
But this time Boston attacked, the Wizards players had no intention of giving up, the reason is because their current main lineup is very neat, Arenas, Jamison, Butler are all there, plus Haywood and a good bench, they have the confidence to overturn the Green Shirts on their home court, and after dinner, Jiang Yang and others cleaned up.
I took the team's bus to the MIC Center Arena, today is December 10 EST, Yanjing time is December 11, Friday, there are no NBA games, so fans who want to watch Jiang Yang can only run to the Internet to watch.
Recently, Jiang Yang's reputation as the No. 1 defender in Asia has become more and more famous, especially in the Celtics, Jiang Yang's scoring and assists are quite good, those fans watched Jiang Yang's game, and then looked at these domestic players couldn't help but pout.
However, the Basketball Association has not made much action recently, because Jiang Yang No. 1 has no agent to help him deal with these things.
Second, they also have to observe Jiang Yang, the places in the national team are all 'booked' by those bigwigs, if Jiang Yang is from the CBA, it is easy to do, then he should have laid the bottom in China.
However, Jiang Yang was born in the wild road, the roots are not right, and the seedlings are not red, don't look at Jiang Yang's high voice now, if Jiang Yang is a meteor and flashes by, the officials in the Basketball Association will offend people and not please people, so now they are basically paying attention to Jiang Yang, and there is no action, of course, those media are trying their best to advocate Jiang Yang.
Those commentators, bricks, and beasts also praise Jiang Yang very much, a player who can average 7 points and 4 assists per game in his rookie season, that is basically the level of dominating guards in China, although Jiang Yang may not be able to dominate the guard group in China, but according to his surname, it is almost the same...... At 8 o'clock in the evening on December 10, 2009, the game between the Wizards and the Celtics officially began.
"Welcome to the NBA regular season game brought to you by ESPN, the Boston Celtics vs. the Washington Wizards!" And in the United States, it was ESPN who did the live broadcast, and it was none other than Jeff Van Gundy who sat in the middle.
Recently, Jeff Van Gundy has been a particularly popular Jiang Mi on the Internet, maybe because of Yao Ming, or because Jiang Yang is really good, anyway, he is very optimistic about Jiang Yang, and thinks Jiang Yang will learn more things at the Celtics this year.
You can come out of the self-reliance portal next year, just like Kevin Durant, of course, such remarks will not make Jiang Yang too concerned, after all, Jiang Yang knows what level he is, unless he comes up with any upgrade tasks, or experience potions or the like, otherwise he can be promoted to the S-level self-reliance portal in a short period of time, which is not an easy thing.
Jiang Yang has met Durant, Durant's offense, at least S-, this kid cheated on foul free throws when he fought with the Celtics, and he cheated nine of nine free throws, which shows that his offense is really very powerful.
If Jiang Yang wants to be promoted to that level, he still needs to boil it slowly, at least he thinks so.
Today's starting lineups on both sides, needless to say about the Celtics, are still the same old, the starting lineup of the Wizards, the center is known as the very talented Brandon Haywood, the big forward is All-Star level big forward Antoine Jamison, the small forward is Caron Butler, the scoring guard is the rookie Nick Young the year before last, and the point guard is the general, Gilbert Arenas.
As soon as the game began, the two sides played extremely fiercely, and the two sides jumped the ball, and Perkins won a rare time.
Slapped the basketball to Garnett, who opened the game by picking up Paul Pierce and hitting a jumper from 20 feet out.
Just opened the game to let Garnett play one, Jamison's face is not good-looking, although Jamison is destined to become a player like Garnett, but his own level is definitely not bad, on the offensive end, taking advantage of Garnett's inability to defend, and his own offensive range is particularly wide, Jamison hit a direct three-point shot on the outside, overtook the score, and at the same time found the court.
And Ray Allen, who was here, also immediately rushed into the interior and caused Nick Young's foul, made two free throws, and then overtook the score.
Then he received an assist from Rondo and hit a jumper from 19 feet out, while Haywood on the Wizards' side also forced Perkins inside.
Rondo hit a layup to chase the score back, and Rondo hit a jumper from 20 feet out, and Arenas on this side immediately returned a pull-up jumper to put the ball in...... From the beginning of the game, the pace on both sides was very fast.
Just two minutes into the game, the two sides were already tied at 8-7, which is not a common scoreline!
It wasn't until there were 7 minutes and 29 seconds left in the first quarter that the Wizards tied the score at 13-13 with Arenas' three-pointer from the outside, and it wasn't until this time that the rhythm on both sides slowed down.
With 5:28 left in the first quarter, the two sides were tied 17-17.
After that, though, the Wizards began to get out of the way, first Jamison received an assist from Arenas and hit a three-point shot, then Nick Young hit a jumper, and then Jamison dribbled and broke through Garnett's defense and hit a backhand layup.
And Nick Young also caused Ray Allen's foul at this time, and when there were 3 minutes and 43 seconds left in the game, the opponent played a wave of 9-0 small **, in addition to Rondo's dunk after the timeout came back, the Wizards easily led the Celtics 26-19, looking at the situation on the court, Kyle did not hesitate, and Doug Rivers immediately called a timeout.
Jiang Yang came on the court, replaced Pierce, as the team's starting small forward, and this substitution immediately played a role, after Rondo dribbled after half the court, handed the ball to Jiang Yang, who had just come on the court, Jiang Yang was obviously a little lacking in confidence in the face of Caron Butler, but he was on the court, not for offense, but for channeling the game, watching Ray Allen come out in a half circle, leaving Nick Young behind, Jiang Yang made a very weird ground pass, directly past Butler to Ray Allen's hands, Ray Allen deserves to be the three-point king, he shoots when he catches the ball, and the three-point shot hits in response, directly chasing the score back to three points.
Seeing that the ball hit, the Wizards had to make another adjustment and replace Nick Young, who was not very strong defensively.
Changed Randy Foye to the court, wanting to limit Ray Allen, and after replacing Randy Foye, Jiang Yang and they don't play outside, Jiang Yang and Rondo also have a tacit understanding, Jiang Yang made a block and dismantle for the other party, and then Rondo dismantled the ball to Jiang Yang, Jiang Yang's three points have been very hot recently, so the other party had to come out to help defend Jiang Yang, and Jiang Yang took this opportunity to directly return the ball to Rondo on the inside, Rondo dribbled, facing Heywood's defense, a simple back pass, The ball was handed to Perkins, who was already in the open position, and Perkins went straight to the basket, and Arenas, who had just chased Rondo, fouled, although it didn't go in.
But he was also sent to the free throw line, two free throws and two hits, and the original 7-point difference is now only two points left.
And the nightmare of the Wizards is not over, Randy Foye, who just came on the court, missed a jumper, but was grabbed by Brandon Haywood on the inside to grab the offensive rebound, and then passed to Andre Blatche, Bracy received the ball and was stunned by the thief basket, was cut down by Jiang Yang with a hand knife, and then dribbled directly across the halfcourt, and when he reached the three-point line, a sharp stop, it looked like he wanted to jump shot, but Jiang Yang's feet did not leave the ground, after shaking off the desperate small forward Butler in front of him, Jiang Yang handed the ball to Garnett next to him, and Garnett dribbled directly into the inner line, and after only dribbling, he jumped directly.
Garnett is indeed old, but even if he is old, he is still Garnett, like a big bird with wings, Garnett flew directly to the inside, dunked with one hand, smashed the basketball directly into the basket, 26-26, the two sides were tied!
Looking at Garnett's violent dunk, the fans on the sidelines burst into boos, and the fans in Washington still recognized the home court very much.
After all, the stunt that Arenas performed here at the beginning is still talked about, the team plays well, and naturally the fans' sense of identity is particularly strong, except for the Warriors and Clippers, the teams that do not enter the playoffs will not be very good.
And the Warriors have a lot of fans, mainly because they play crazy, and their offense is the main reason why they attract fans.
And the Clippers ...... Their fans are among the most loyal in the league and the team with the highest attendance in the league.
Originally, this honor should have belonged to the Knicks, but who said that the Knicks have not been able to do so in recent years! So the Clippers are the team with the highest attendance in the league right now, much higher than the Green Shirts, Magic, Cavaliers, and Lakers...... But while the Clippers have a high attendance, they have few diehards...... Basically, people who come here to watch the game are just because of one reason, the Lakers' tickets are too expensive, and they are reluctant to ...... Both sides use a home court, so if you come to see the Clippers, you should come to see the Lakers, anyway, you have to watch the game in a stadium, or it is cheaper to watch...... Seeing Garnett dunk and hit, the boos of the audience were all transmitted, and when the Wizards attacked, the boos disappeared, just like the offensive routine just now, Haywood on the inside took the ball, and Garnett assisted in defense, because now Haywood is facing Rashid Wallace and has to help defend! And his help defense, Blatch on the other side of the interior line vacated the position, as soon as Haywood passed, Blatch was about to shoot as soon as he received it, and this time Jiang Yang cut it again.
Black hand, Jiang Yang has basically developed such a habit now, anyway, he is a substitute player, and it doesn't matter if he fouls more.
So every time he wants to attack a big man on the other side, he will go up and cut it.
The last time it cut right, but this time it was off, and he slapped Bracy on the hand and sent Bracy to the free throw line.
Two free throws and two hits, 28-26, but Jiang Yang immediately made up for it, and in the twenty seconds before the end, Eddie House, who came off the bench, missed the shot, was grabbed by Jiang Yang for the offensive rebound, and then made a rebound, and the ball was purely picked.
In the end, Jamison missed a mid-range shot, and Rasheed Wallace grabbed a defensive rebound, and the first quarter ended on both sides.
The two sides fought to a 28-28 draw, in this quarter of the game, Jiang Yang played 3 and a half minutes, and the general area got 2 points plus 2 assists, an assist to Ray Allen, an assist plus an internal hold, and it was precisely because Jiang Yang was on the court that the opponent's 9-0 offense was wiped out, which also made the head coach and players of the Wizards not look good.
And at the beginning of the second quarter, under the leadership of Jiang Yang, the substitute players on both sides also played very beautifully.
Even if the other party sometimes sent the main players, under the harassment of Jiang Yang's little black hand, it would have no effect.
It wasn't until the second quarter that Jiang Yang went off the court, and the Celtics still led the opponent by four points at 42-38.
And because Jiang Yang consumed too much physical strength of the main players of the Wizards, when the main players of the Celtics came on the court, the other party was obviously unable to keep up with the rhythm, Jiang Yang's rhythm was very fast, and Rondo's rhythm was very stable, this is the difference between the two.
The Celtics relied on strong offensive power and scored as many as 22 points in the remaining six minutes of the second quarter, which also made the score change from 42-38 when Jiang Yang went off the court to 64-50, and at halftime, the Celtics entered the lounge with a 14-point lead over the opponent.
In the first half of the game, Jiang Yang played a total of 9 minutes and 18 seconds, contributing 7 points plus 4 assists, and in the second quarter, he contributed two more assists, plus a three-pointer, and two free throws after being fouled.
Jiang Yang has now led the Celtics bench group of offense, and he is clearly much more stable than Eddie House.
Although Jiang Yang has only played a total of ten games now, this is his eleventh game, but Jiang Yang has won the trust of Doug Rivers, in the bench time, Jiang Yang has enough shots, and when Rondo is not on the court, he is the commander on the field, which is also Doug Rivers' greatest trust in Jiang Yang, but Jiang Yang did not brush up on this trust.
This can be seen from his shooting rate of more than 50% in every game, Jiang Yang's main purpose is to stay in the NBA!
Only if he stays here, can he have a chance to become stronger, and after becoming stronger, he may become a superstar in the NBA, with a smile, Jiang Yang and others returned to the locker room, in the locker room, Doug Rivers began to introduce the tactics of the second half, according to Doug Rivers' understanding of the Wizards, it was time for them to fight back in the second half.
And if the Celtics did not withstand the counterattack of the other party, the blow to the Celtics would be fatal!
That's why Doug Rivers is now leading by 14 points, but he's not careless.
Those careless teams have been made into a sieve by Arenas and hung on his honor roll!
(To be continued)