Chapter 247: Toughness means victory

The NBA is not like European football, which is divided into many countries and five major leagues, representing the highest level of football.

There is only one league in the NBA, only in the United States and Canada, so basketball has never played football.

Of course, this situation in China is somewhat different, and the revival of Chinese basketball is mainly because football is too weak.

If there are giants like Europe in the NBA, there may only be two teams that are such giants.

One is the Boston-Celtics team that has won the most NBA championships, and the other is the Los Angeles Lakers, who have won the first NBA championship and the second most championships.

The NBA represents the highest level of league in the world, and was founded in 1946 by Boston Garden owner Walter A. Brown, but they were called ABA until 1949, when they were officially renamed the NBA.

In 50, the Minneapolis Lakers won the first NBA championship in history, and in 54, the Lakers became the first player in NBA history to win three consecutive championships, but there were only eight NBA teams at that time, the Philadelphia Warriors, the Boston Celtics, the New York Knicks Bulletin, the Fort Wayne Pistons, the Minneapolis Lakers, the Rochester Royals, the Syracuse Nationals, the Three Cities Black Hawks, and then from 1966, the Celtics began their eight consecutive championships, It kicked off the championship, but at the time it was just two teams I had made, the Chicago Bulls and the Chicago Packers.

The Celtics and Lakers are the big brothers in these teams, although the Lakers do not have as many championships as the Celtics, but the Lakers' development relies more on later existence, and in the 80s, the Lakers in the league have a showtime frenzy, and the Celtics have become the only existence that can compete with the Lakers under the leadership of Larry Bird.

The black-and-white competition is the epitome of the entire 80s, followed by the Jordan era, after the Jordan era ends, it is the OK era of the Lakers, with the consolidation of the OK era, the entire league has entered the era of melee, and the strength of each team is more balanced.

In such a situation, if you want someone to win three consecutive championships, it is tantamount to a fool's dream, the year before last it was the Celtics who won the championship, last year it was the Lakers who won the championship, and this year's finals were the Celtics meeting the Lakers, and there are still some meanings of black and white competition at the beginning, but now the leaders of the two teams are all black, and the only white man is not American.

As you can see from the pre-war preparations, both teams attach great importance to each other, and this series must be a battle! Because of the Celtics' winning lead, the finals were played on the Celtics' home court first.

The finals are different from other playoff schedules, the finals schedule is 2-3-2, this arrangement is more inclined to the away team, because the away team has a three-in-a-row away game, which can better make the away team turn around, not like the usual 2-2-1-1-1 in the playoffs, so the home field advantage is basically equal to none in the finals, and if you want to play the game on both sides, it depends entirely on your own strength! Any opportunistic approach is not easy to use in the finals, which is also the meaning of the finals.

This year's finals, although there is a financial tsunami of attention, but the ratings are very high, not to mention the fans in China waiting to see Jiang Yang, even in the United States, the competition between green and purple is extremely exciting.

"Why aren't you nervous?" Sitting in the team's locker room, Jiang Yang hummed a song while tying the ankle pads on his feet.

Listening to Jiang Yang's relaxed tone, Nate Robinson, who was sitting next to him, asked a little strangely.

Now the people in the whole locker room, although they didn't say anything, but the discerning people could see that all the people were very nervous.

Whether it is the league veterans Garnett, Ray Allen, Pierce, or Perkins, Rondo, or Nate Robinson, these substitutes, all of them are extremely nervous in their hearts, although many people are listening to the music, but their clenched hands still betray their thoughts at this time, in the locker room where there should be laughter, there is more of a thing called silence at this time, even Doug Rivers is looking at the tactical tactics in his hands with a nervous face, Studying the tactics that may be used tonight, in the entire locker room, there is only one person who is relatively relaxed, and that is Jiang Yang.

"The psychological quality is good!" Jiang Yang pursed his lips and casually talked about a reason, he can't say that he has played too many finals and has developed an immune system! In his opinion, the finals are indeed nothing to be nervous about.

It's no different from the usual game, after all, Jiang Yang's first copy was the Bulls' 91 Finals.

He didn't care about the finals for a long time, but he could not care, but other people didn't have such a high consciousness, the thing called nervousness, was spreading throughout the room at this time, and even the laziest players would definitely tense their nerves and pay twelve points of attention to meet the next game, because they knew that they couldn't afford to lose!

"Cut ......" Listening to Jiang Yang's words, Nate Robinson, who was already very arrogant, couldn't help but cut off, but it was precisely because of Jiang Yang's words that Nate Robinson's nervousness was relieved, took a deep breath, and forcibly expelled the thing called nervousness in his body, of course, accompanied by a sense of ugliness, which also Jiang Yang jumped up for the first time and ran to the other side of the room, all of them looked at Nate Robinson with disgust, and Robinson was also a little embarrassed.

"Okay, don't make a fuss, let's talk about today's starting list!" Doug Rivers was also amused by Nate's fart, then clapped his hands and motioned for everyone to quiet down and prepare for tonight's starting lineup.

The Celtics' starting list tonight is still relatively decent, or the old five, center Perkins, power forward Garnett, small forward Pierce, scoring guard Ray Allen, point guard Rondo, at this time, in this case, no one will take the initiative to replace their starters, and it is estimated that the Lakers will not change people!

Sure enough, it was the same when the Lakers' starters came out, with center Andrew Bynum, power forward Pau Gasol, small forward Ron Artest, scoring guard Kobe Bryant, and point guard Derrick Fisher.

Speaking of looking at Fisher, the only weakness in the Lakers' starters, who would have thought that this guy would be the current president of the players' union? And this chairman is fighting against the team capitalists for the benefit of the players at this time!

"Celestial Dynasty Imperial Court Television, Celestial Empire Imperial Television, hello viewers and friends, today is Friday, June 4, 2010, Yenching time, at nine o'clock in the morning, and the first game of the 2009-2010 season finals of the American professional basketball season is about to begin! I am the holder Sun Zhengping, today we are fortunate to invite everyone's old friend, Zhang Weiping, Director Zhang to give you a live commentary! Hello Director Zhang, do you think that today's game is more likely for Celtic to win? Or will the Lakers have a better chance of winning? "At nine o'clock on time, these two old men appeared on the TV of the fifth channel of the imperial court, and the Shuangping combination appeared on time.

For such an important game, the leaders of the imperial court are not at ease to let the newcomers go up to explain, and it is better to combine the double flats.

"I think the Celtics have a better chance of winning, from the starters on both sides, the level is almost the same, in this case, the benches have become the most important part, the Celtics have a bench and Jiang Yang, although the opponent also has Odom, but Jiang Yang is a guard, his offensive ability, three-point ability at critical moments, and his ability to connect are what the Lakers lack, so I think that as long as the Celtics play well today, it should not be a problem to win the game!" Listening to Director Zhang's words, the leaders of the imperial court who had been staring at the live broadcast couldn't help but nodded, and now the Basketball Association is showing favor to Jiang Yang.

Therefore, you must not say bad things about Jiang Yang during the live broadcast, and you must stick any good thing on Jiang Yang's face.

Of course, what Director Zhang said is also more reasonable, after all, what Zhang said is unreasonable, it is indeed a bit of a joke.

However, at this time, in the North Shore Garden Arena, TNT, ESPN, and FSN are also broadcasting live.

The Finals, you don't have to think about it, it must be broadcast live in the United States, there is nothing wrong with this, among the three national media, ESPN's Jeff Van Gundy is more optimistic about the Celtics, because the Celtics' defense looks better.

On the other side, TNT's Buckley and Kenny Smith are more optimistic about the Lakers, because the Celtics are old after all, starting from the preseason in October, and now in June, they have played for eight months. Basically, everyone also speculates that the current level of the Celtics and the Lakers is about the same.

In the tunnel of the players, all the Celtic players clasped their hands together, shouted their own slogans, and then came out.

Jiang Yang and other substitute players played first, and then the main players of the Celtics played, the first to play was Rondo, and now Rondo is the engine of the Celtics, which everyone understands that can be successfully transformed into the fourth big man under the pressure of the Big Three, Rondo's talent has now been confirmed by many parties in the league, and the future superstar.

The second to play Kendrick Perkins, among the five people in the starting lineup, basically the main responsibility is defense, and the offense basically has nothing to do with him, the third appearance is Ray Allen among the Big Three, Ray Allen's appearance, the applause and cheers on the field are very warm, the fourth appearance is Garnett, Garnett's appearance caused a bigger wave of sensation! And Paul Pearce, the last to play, just came out on the field, and the roof of the North Shore Garden Arena was about to make the fans cheer, here, the truth, will always be the captain! When DJ shouts 'Paul...... Pierce! The cheers even shook off the earwax in Jiang Yang's ears, and the lethality was indeed very amazing.

At the signal of the referee, the players on both sides entered the field to warm up, and then today's game began!

When the piercing bell rang, the referee also put the orange ball in the air, Perkins and Bynum jumped towards the basketball in the sky at the same time, Perkins actually did not jump high, but he jumped very rhythmically.

Unexpectedly, before Bynum, who had a clear advantage in bounce, slapped the basketball to his side, and after Rajon Rondo took the ball for the first time, he went straight to the opponent's hinterland, and when the old fish Fisher made up for the defense, Rondo directly distributed the ball to Pierce.

And Pierce didn't stop at all after getting the ball, he shot it directly and returned the basketball racket to Rondo, who had already rushed into the inside line at this time with the ball, and directly made an easy pick-up basket to score the basketball and help the Celtics score the first point of the game.

Watching Rondo hit, the audience burst into deafening cheers, but then the game fell into trouble, the Lakers' first offense, Fisher dribbled after half court, and handed the ball to Kobe, Kobe took the ball and looked at the inside line and wanted to hang one back, and hung it to Bynum, Bynum dribbled and wanted to hit Perkins with his back, but after squeezing a few times, he found that although he could squeeze Perkins, this amplitude was very small, and Perkins' power was definitely much more terrifying than what he was going to do.

This step is basically in the same place, so after Bynum hesitated, he handed the ball to Gasol, Gasol's shot was fouled by Ray Allen, and the basketball smashed directly on the basket, and at this time, Pierce and Artest, who were grabbing positions under the basket, fell directly to the ground in order to grab this rebound! Garnett wanted to pull the wrong account for the first time, but the referee's reaction was faster, after all, the game had just begun, if there was a Douou incident at this time, then he, the referee, would not have to mix, Pierce also understood that this time was not the time to fight, so he ran away as soon as possible, and Garnett also stretched out his two hands, signaling that he did not do it, and Artest next to him also knew that he could not cause trouble at this time, so he suppressed the anger in his heart, and the referee did not want to go too far, The two of them each played fifty boards, one technical foul per person, and after the players on both sides stabilized their emotions for a while, they continued today's game! However, although the situation is stable, Gasol's pass is still wrong, and after being stolen by Rondo, Rondo rushed directly into the opponent's interior line and made a backhand layup, but unfortunately, his offensive level is even worse than the current Jiang Yang, the layup did not enter, and the basketball brushed out of the basket directly.

On the Lakers' side, Fisher received a pass from Kobe Bryant and hit a shot to pull the score back.

Don't look at the current old fish, the speed is not fast, and he is easy to make mistakes when playing, but he is not soft on his shots at critical moments.

If Bao had a chance, his old fish's offense would not give the Celtics any face and chance, the basketball hit, and the two sides were tied!

In the next game, the Lakers slowly began to dominate, Kobe Bryant hit a layup, Bynum dunked, Artest hit a shot, although the Celtics also counterattacked, but the strength of the counterattack was not large, with 5 minutes and 30 seconds left in the first quarter of the game, Gasol grabbed the rebound in the front court where Kobe Bryant's layup missed, and hit an easy layup, turning the score into 16-10, at this time the Celtics finally couldn't sit still, Doug Rivers directly called a timeout, and then replaced Ray Allen off the court, Replaced by Jiang Yang, let Jiang Yang and Rondo form a backcourt double gun, to impact the opponent's defense!

This style of play is really good, after Jiang Yang came on the court, it was Kobe Bryant who was opposed, both of them were defensive masters, and there was not much difference in height, which also gave Jiang Yang a chance! After the pause came back, Jiang Yang directly pulled Kobe Bryant away and let Pierce single Artest, the effect was really good, after causing Artest's foul, he served again, it was still Pierce's single, easy mid-range shot, and chased the score back to two points, and then Artest's jump shot did not score, and after being grabbed by Bynum on the inside, he passed back to Kobe Bryant on the outside, Kobe Bryant still wanted to single Jiang Yang in the face of Jiang Yang, but Jiang Yang is so easy to play alone? Jiang Yang posted it at the moment of Kobe's breakthrough, huge strength, sensitive speed, and small movements in Jiang Yang's hands, which made Kobe miserable, and after grinding for twenty seconds, Kobe found that he had no chance to shoot at all, he was completely restricted by Jiang Yang at this time, and could only pass the ball out, but after the ball was passed, others had no chance, so after Jiang Yang came on the court, the Lakers' first attack ended with 24 seconds of offensive time.

Then the Celtics attacked, and after Rondo dribbled past half court, he handed the ball to Jiang Yang, Jiang Yang glanced at the inside line and signaled for someone to come out to block and dismantle, Garnett came out as soon as possible and helped Jiang Yang directly block Kobe Bryant behind the outside line.

Jiang Yang was directly inserted into the inside line, and it was Bynum who came out to make up for the defense at the first time, but unfortunately Jiang Yang didn't mean to attack today, so he passed the ball directly to Perkins on the inside, and then I have to say that Bynum's reaction is really not slow!

Unexpectedly, after Jiang Yang passed in, he could still stretch out his hand, although he didn't block Perkins, but he interfered with him and didn't let him in, although he was also accompanied by a foul, but it was better than letting Perkins dunk at this time!

(To be continued)