On March 20, 1998, the Rockets hosted their long-awaited opponent, the Boston Celtics, on their home court.

In the last round of the matchup, the Rockets played with seven players on the road and were defeated by the Celtics with wheel tactics.

This made all the Rockets players, including head coach Lao Tang, remember it, and it feels very uncomfortable to be remembered.

The Celtics are going to hell for this time, waiting for the Rockets to judge them at home.

Before the start of the game, Celtic's momentum fell to its lowest point, and before the game even started, there were already people waiting for the game to be over.

Pitino was very annoyed when he saw this bad situation, looked at his players in the locker room, looked at his players coldly without saying a word, and said for a long time: "Are you players?" ”

"Yes."

The Celtic replied in a very low voice.

"What kind of professional players are you in TMD, look at the way you look, like a castrated rooster, you have surrendered before you see the opponent, what team are you, you are the Boston Celtics, do you know the spirit of this team? You've completely forgotten, look at your predecessors, Russell, Havlicek, Bird, McHale, these shiny names are the same names as you are wearing, are you right about your uniforms, you softass, cowards, I don't want to talk about you anymore, do you want me to go to the rocket side and say we throw in the towel, and then you can go home without fighting and shrink your heads. Pitino's face was already iron-blue, his voice was already roaring, and some players now believe that Pitino's roar could be heard from 5 kilometres away from him.

The stimulated Boston players, one by one, looked at their head coach with blood-red eyes, like bloodthirsty beasts.

Antoine Walker stood up and said, "Coach, you can belittle us, but you can't insult us, we won't let ourselves be subdued and insulted, are you right, brothers?" ”

"Right"

The Celtics players roared in unison.

"Okay, then you can prove it to me, it doesn't matter to me whether you win or lose this game, but the spirit I want, the fighting spirit, a kind of inheritance of the Celtic spirit, go ahead, guys, prove it to me, prove it to the guys who look down on the Celts, let them know that you are still strong." The final agitation of the author of Pitino.

"Then let's go on the field and see what a fully loaded Rockets can do." Walker was the first to walk out of the locker room.

Looking at the Celtic who were on the pitch, Pitino smiled bitterly, he knew that he had done his best, he had picked up the players' battles, and now it was them who could watch.

With the referee's whistle, the Rockets vs. Celtics game officially began.

As the game began, it wasn't the Rockets who took the lead, it was the Celtics.

Garnett faced Antoine Walker, looking at Walker who was holding the ball and ready to attack, Garnett said: "Boy, you're ready to be blocked, it's a really nice feeling, 'snap', smashing the ball you threw in your face, it's a real enjoyment." ”

Walker didn't say anything, just a cross-step, shook off the space for a first-line shot, and relied on his own touch to shoot the ball when Garnett put his hand on his eyes.

After the goal, Walker pursed the corners of his mouth lightly and said in a contemptuous tone: "Look, my goal is in, why didn't you cover it, boy, you have to look at the actual situation when you speak in the future." With that, he turned and left.

Looking at Walker, who turned to leave, Garnett's face was already iron-blue.

Seeing this, Olajuwon stepped forward and said to Garnett: "Stinky boy, provocation is provocation, why are you angry with yourself." ”

Garnett was stunned for a moment, but also reacted, and sneered: "I forgot." ”

Olajuwon, who heard this, was also stunned, and then laughed and said, "Okay, stinky boy, let's continue the game." ”

After saying that, beckoned the others to continue the attack.

Still, the offense allowed Garnett to fight back on his own.

Garnett relied on Walker's turn and accelerated backcut and pounced directly to the basket, Mark Jackson threw the ball directly to the basket with both hands, Garnett almost jumped up against Walker, and dunked the ball into the basket with both hands.

Garnett, who was so successful, saluted the Celtics players, and the fans who watched the Rockets were very enjoyable.

The Rockets' terrifying attacking power, that's what all the Celtics' players are thinking at this moment.

In this case, the Rockets and Celtic had a fierce battle.

In the first quarter of the game, the Celtics tied with the Rockets with high morale.

25：25

The two sides were tied, and at the end of the first quarter, Lao Tang explained to the Rockets players: "Listen, now the Celtics rely on a morale, this is not their real level, as long as they are discouraged, then they will be finished, but, I remind you, if you are suppressed by the other party, then it will be difficult for you to overtake, you can't let them maintain this momentum, you have to find a way to grind down their momentum, play more inside, make more fouls, so that they don't dare to stretch out their hands, understand?" ”

"Understood."

The Rocket everyone nodded.

As soon as the referee's whistle blew, the second quarter of the game between the Rockets and the Celtics began.

After the start of the second quarter of the game, the Rockets really strengthened the interior offense, Garnett, Olajuwon, and Big Ben, who came off the bench, took turns to attack the Celtics' interior, and the outside players such as Bodi Roga and Saurius who played in the second quarter also began to attack the Celtics' interior.

For a while, the Celtics' interior line was in turmoil, and McCarty and Weiss Knight were under huge impact.

In just five minutes, the two men have already collected six fouls.

Seeing that the situation was not good, Pitino quickly adjusted his tactics, and the Celtics began to shrink inside, trying to control the intensity of the rocket's attack on the inside.

However, several of the Rockets' outside players, after they shrank inside, quickly found their crosshairs and hit three three-pointers in a row, making the Celtics players cry without tears.

Under such a blow, the breath in the chest of the Celtics players has slowly begun to vent.

The intensity of the defense is no longer as hard as it was at the beginning, and the Rockets are slowly feeling that the opponent is quietly changing.

The scales of victory are already beginning to tilt in favor of the rockets.

At this time, the game time for the second quarter also came, and it was over when it was time to go to work.

53：44

The Rockets led by nine points.

At halftime, the Rockets' locker room gave the Rockets players a plan for the second half.

"Guys, you did a good job in the first half and took that breath out of the Celtic heart. So, in the second half, we're going to go all out, everyone cheer up, take all your means, let the Celtics know what kind of team the Rockets are, it's not something that a down-and-out aristocrat like them can trample on at will, and we must get all the humiliation we received on their home court, let them know that we're good, okay, guys, let's go on the court and kick their ass. Old Tang threw the tactical board to the side and yelled loudly.

"Roar"

The Rockets players were excited.

As Lao Tang expected, the Rockets began to be like a tiger out of the mountain at the beginning of the second half, and completely crushed the Celtics' ** and spirit in the first few minutes of the third quarter.

From the second half of the third quarter, the Rockets had an absolute advantage, and the Celtics were defeated by a first-class offense.

The score between the two sides was rapidly increasing, from 9 points at the end of the second quarter to 21 points at the end of the third quarter.

It took the Rockets a quarter of time to completely destroy the Celtics.

The desperate Celtics could only replace all the substitutes at the beginning of the fourth quarter of the game, so that the main players who had been ravaged on the court for three quarters had a rest.

Seeing this situation, the rocket was also embarrassed to continue to kill everything, and also replaced himself with his own water dispenser patron.

As long as the Celtics do not counterattack on a large scale, the Rockets' players also try to use up the offensive time as much as possible, and the two sides are in such a back and forth to end the game.

105：87

The Rockets had an 18-point advantage over the Celtics.

Such a score also made Celtic more dignified.

This made many media feel puzzled, and they interviewed the Rockets players one after another.

Many Rockets players laughed at this question but didn't answer it.

Even the head coach of the Rockets, Lao Tang, answered this question in official words.

What has trained the young players, what has ensured the health of the main players.

This kind of prevarication makes the media go crazy looking for the inside story.

Through various news channels, all kinds of gossip flew all over the sky for a while.

Finally, someone got a little bit of wind inside Tiger's estate that someone called the Rockets' owner before the game, meaning not to let the Celtics lose too ugly.

Although the news is unconfirmed, it still spreads all over the country at high speed.

Some say the call was made by the 'cardinal'.

Others say the call is related to the Boston consortium behind the Celtics.

Multiple versions of gossip permeated the entire alliance for a while.

However, only all who know the real insider, only the players and coaching staff of the Rockets.

At that time, Tiger, the owner of the Rockets, said an extremely classic sentence in the locker room of the Rockets.

Tiger said at the time: "If the dog bites the person, the person can beat the dog, but the absolute TMD can't bite back, then what is the difference between us and the dog, give them a lesson, the game we lose, we should be bitten by the dog." ”

At that time, all the people were almost wiped out, but this sentence was immediately sealed by Lao Tang, if anyone passed it out, then what was waiting for him was definitely the most tragic fate.

Seeing that after Tiger said this, he was embarrassed by what Lao Tang said, and all the people who knew this sentence immediately buried this sentence in their hearts and became their most eternal secret.

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