Chapter 180: Calling Banros
After the game against the Nets, the Celtics players didn't have time to rest and regroup.
When I got back to the hotel that night, I went to bed, and the next morning I left New Jersey in a car and headed for Boston, which was about the same distance from Boston as New York and New York.
New Jersey and New York are across the river, and Boss and New York are very close, so after a morning in the car, everyone returned to the arena, had lunch, and began to rest and prepare for the evening game against the Bulls.
The Celtics and the Bulls are also a pair of grudges, last year, in the playoffs, it was the Celtics who advanced after killing the Bulls, and this game made two people, one is Rondo of the Celtics, and the other is Rose of the Bulls.
With this series, Rondo officially became one of the league's top point guards, and Rose also officially became one of the league's top point guards with this series.
Prior to this game, the Bulls didn't have a very good record, with a 17-20 record and didn't even finish in the top eight in the East.
But Rose, who averaged 20.8 per game plus 6 assists at the beginning, is very dazzling in the league.
Now that the Bulls have decided to rebuild with Rose as the core, they have replaced former boss Ben Gordon before the start of the season, and Hinrich has also given up his position as the team's starting point guard, and now even if he starts, he is only one of the two point guards, and basically, his role is to dribble the ball past half court and give the ball to Rose alone.
As the night fell, the game officially began, and the starters of the two teams today were as follows, on the Celtics side, the starting center is still Perkins, the power forward Scala Blanei, the starting small forward Pierce, the starting scoring guard Ray Allen, and the point guard Jiang Yang.
Rondo's injury has basically been suppressed, the team doctor has given the time for his comeback is tomorrow, it is estimated that he will return in the next game against the Mavericks, and Rasheed Wallace will also come back with him, and only one Garnett is still injured in the Celtics lineup, but according to the team doctor's estimate, Garnett's injury has now healed.
It's just that it's still in the observation stage, and it is estimated that Garnett will be able to play when it comes to the 23rd against the Trail Blazers.
The starting line-up on the Bulls' side is as follows, the starting center is Big Mouth, Joakim Noah, and the power forward is the rookie, Ty Gibson, but he has long been away from the opportunity to compete for the best rookie compared to Jiang Yang and others.
Small forward Lore Deng, double guard, Rodk Rose and Kirk Hinrich! It is estimated that Hinrich is responsible for passing, and Rose is responsible for attacking, and at the referee's signal, the first quarter of the game began, which may have really been affected by consecutive games.
At the beginning of the first quarter of the game, the two sides jumped the ball, Joaquin Noah jumped to win Perkins, and gave the racket to Rose, after Rose dribbled directly past the half, Jiang Yang posted it, and today Jiang Yang's main defense object is him, Derrick Rose.
Ross didn't dare to be careless in the face of Jiang Yang, and now Jiang Yang can be said to be the strongest outside defense in the recent batch of rookies!
There is nothing to say about this, the average players who did not participate in the draft were selected by those NBA players because of their good defense, so as soon as Jiang Yang entered the league, everyone thought that Jiang Yang was an outside coolie.
Sure enough, at the beginning, Jiang Yang's position in the Celtics was a defense-oriented existence, but the more he played, the stronger Jiang Yang's offensive ability became, and until now, Jiang Yang's offensive ability is comparable to the top three super rookies in this session, especially when he has a hand that others have no one to defend, and others have no passing! At the same time, you can dunk and be very passionate.
"The most well-rounded rookie ever!" This is the nickname given to Jiang Yangan by the domestic media, of course, Jiang Yang will not think so.
Comprehensive is comprehensive, but comprehensive also means that there is no outstanding point, now Jiang Yang basically all levels are half a catty, what he needs to do is to improve his abilities, at least a few things first.
Rose looked at Jiang Yang in front of him, he was not in a hurry to attack, his shooting was not very accurate, after a glance at Jiang Yang's defense, Rose hesitated for a moment or passed the ball to Ty Gibson, Ty Gibson is really born calves are not afraid of tigers!
After receiving the ball on the inside, get up and dunk! This is simply bullying the Celtics and there is no one inside!
Scalablaney endured it and put up with it, but can Perkins endure it? directly slapped this guy down.
After Pierce next to him grabbed the rebound, he dribbled directly to break through, Rohr Deng's offensive ability is very strong, and his defensive ability is good, but he is most afraid of Pierce...... Pierce's breakthrough of pure strength is not something he can defend.
I could only watch Pierce break through and hit the first shot! But the bull's side is not a soft persimmon either.
Although Lore Deng was broken by Pierce just now, he was still in color, assisting Hinrich in front of Pierce, who hit a jumper to equalize the score! At the beginning of the game, the two sides were directly in a state of hand-to-hand combat, but the Celtics were unable to do so! The Bulls slowly turned against the guest and gradually gained the upper hand in the offense.
And Ross slowly got a feeling, and scored four points with consecutive jumpers in front of Jiang Yang!
Jiang Yang's defense is basically based on defending breakthroughs, defensive jump shots, he can only do his best, and then he will obey the fate of God.
Jiang Yang really doesn't have many ways to face the jump shot, and now Rose is slowly developing his new offensive ability.
It's far from like when he first entered the league, he would just hold the ball and rush inside, but Jiang Yang was beaten by Rose, if he didn't fight back, would it still be Jiang Yang? In the next ball, Jiang Yang dribbled across the half court by himself, looking at Rose in front of him, Jiang Yang was very casual!
Seeing Jiang Yang dribbling so casually, Rose was also angry and rushed directly to Jiang Yang, wanting to steal! But Jiang Yang is so easy to be broken? His casual dribbling was completely deliberate, Jiang Yang's dribbling came from Marbury, and the feints were quite sharp!
Jiang Yang deliberately exposed a flaw to Rose, but he didn't expect that Rose really didn't calm down, and rushed over directly.
Looking at Rose who rushed over, Jiang Yang easily dribbled away from Rose with a back dribble and rushed into the inside, but when it comes to physical fitness and explosive power, Rose is still much stronger than Jiang Yang, although he was shaken away, but he was still blocked in front of Jiang Yang before Jiang Yang entered the three-second zone, and Jiang Yang was not ready to dunk, looking at Rose in front of him, Jiang Yang directly made an emergency stop, stopped, and threw Rose, who was already at full speed, after throwing away, Jiang Yang simply hit the shot and equalized the score, But then Rohr Deng made a penalty and led the only Bull team to play a 9-0 attack wave with Noah, and Jiang Yang was also angry at this time! There's no way, the Celtics' shooting percentage is okay today, but the three-point shooting is really bad!
At the critical moment, it depends on Jiang Yang, a three-point shooter, two consecutive outside three-pointers, scoring six points in a row to narrow the score, Hinrich made two consecutive layups to pull the score away, there is no way, Jiang Yang does not guard against Hinrich! Ray Allen was really out of shape today.
At the end of the first quarter, the Bulls led the Celtics 29-21 by 8 points into the second quarter, and at the beginning of the second quarter, the home team began to fight back, and the benches played unusually bravely, but Salmons hit a three-point shot, stretching the score to more than ten points, but Pierce immediately returned the ship and shot three points, Roel Deng - not to be outdone, scored six points in a row, Jiang Yang also successively shot outside the line, and scored five points in a row, and the competition between the two sides entered the white heat, and the last three seconds. After House received Jiang Yang's pass, he hit a three-point shot, and in the first quarter of the game, the Celtics pulled back three points, and they fell behind the opponent by two points at 47-45 and entered the second half.
Today's referee didn't make trouble with the Celtics, which can't be blamed on the outside world, it can only be said that playing consecutive games is too physically hurtful! At halftime, Doug Rivers also began to lay out new tactics!
In terms of defense, it is completely handed over to Hirodeau, who has a very strong defensive philosophy, but he is more about limiting the shooting percentage of the opponent's whole team, rather than targeting everyone, just like facing Rose, he has no good defensive methods.
can only let Jiang Yang defend alone, watch him break through, then Jiang Yang has nothing to be polite about, even if Rose's body is much stronger than Jiang Yang, but Jiang Yang's little black hand is not something that ordinary people can crack, so if Rose breaks through, then Jiang Yang can deal with him, if the opponent shoots, Jiang Yang can only jump as high as possible, and if he can block it, he can only block the opponent's eyes! This is also a way to do no way, when it comes to blocking eyes, Sean Battier is the strongest.
Bowen said that he is the strongest outside defender, which is basically related to his small movements, and now Jiang Yang has only learned the movements of Bowen's upper body, the lethal Bao Sanjiao, and the movements of the lower body, Jiang Yang has not learned it, and now he can only use his hands!
Sure enough, the tactics laid out by Doug Rivers at halftime worked in the third quarter!
The duel on both sides in the third quarter was even more tragic, the Green Army won the opponent by one point 24-23 in the third quarter, Ray Allen, Pierce and Jiang Yang, three arrows together, the morale of the home team was high, Hinrich hit a 3-point shot, helping the Bulls stabilize the situation, and in the middle of the battle, Pierce scored five points in a row again, Eddie House and Jiang Yang also icing on the cake, Jiang Yang first assisted Eddie House for a layup, and then hit a three-point shot himself, and the main force in the first three quarters was only one point behind the opponent 69-70! This point difference can be erased almost at any time! At the beginning of the final quarter, Eddie House confirmed this, scoring four consecutive points to successfully overtake the score, but then Roel Deng scored five consecutive free throws to pull the score away.
There's really no way, today Rohr Deng's hand feels so good that it can't be broken, even if Pierce seals his eyes, he can still throw the ball in, just like he can't guard against Pierce, and Pierce feels like he can't guard against him today!
With 7 minutes and 15 seconds left in the game, the two sides fought to a 77-77 draw, the Bulls asked for a timeout, a short timeout of 20 seconds, and after the timeout, the main forces on both sides also played, and after Jiang Yang came on the court, he faced Rose! Looking at Rose in front of him, Rose looked at Jiang Yang in front of him, after nearly a game of temptation, Rose already knew the details of Jiang Yang.
Speaking of physical fitness, Jiang Yang is not as good as Ross, so Ross has to use his physical fitness to beat Jiang Yang! After Rose dribbled, he leaned directly towards Jiang Yang, and Jiang Yang had no choice but to stick it up and down Rose's waist.
Ross was really able to bear it, holding back his strength, while enduring the pain and itchiness when Jiang Yang pinched himself, while squeezing Jiang Yang to the inner line!
17 feet away from the basket, Rose suddenly exerted force, squeezed Jiang Yang away, got up and jumped, and although Jiang Yang had already blocked hard, the ball still scored! Watching this ball hit, Jiang Yang was actually quite helpless.
The offense transitioned, the Celtics attacked, and Jiang Yang just dribbled past half court when he encountered Rose's half-court marking.
Rose pounced when he saw Jiang Yang, and began to want to make Jiang Yang's mistakes, looking at Rose's defense, Jiang Yang was under a lot of pressure, because in terms of physical fitness, even if Jiang Yang's physical fitness reached A+, it was still a little worse to compete with Rose, who was obviously at least S-level, and was squeezed back more and more by Rose, there was no way, Jiang Yang could only pass the ball, and it was Glen Davis who came out to answer Jiang Yang at this time, Jiang Yang didn't look at it and passed the ball directly, but just before Glenn Davis, A little black hand snatched the basketball away one step ahead of him, it was Ty Gibson, Ty then Ty Gibson made a long pass directly to Joakim Noah, who had not yet retreated and came back, the latter hit a layup that was originally tied in the score, and after being scored four points by the Bulls, it was quickly pulled away, but fortunately, Perkins caused Joaquin Noah's defensive foul on the inside at the critical moment, two free throws and two hits, and chased the score back a little, but it didn't give Jiang Yang a chance at all, Rose was even more crisp this time, After directly using his speed and strength to wipe Jiang Yang, the overlord made a bow and made a layup, and in the face of such a layup, Jiang Yang could only look at the ball and sigh!
But Jiang Yang will not admit defeat like this, and then Jiang Yang assisted Pierce, and after Pierce caused Joaquin Noah's foul on the inside, he made two free throws and two hits, and then Jiang Yang assisted Perkins to make a layup, and also scored four points in a row!
With 5:28 left in the game, the Celtics and Bulls were tied at 83-83! And this time the Bulls shot on their side, Ty Gibson, Rose broke through again, and this time he was defended by Jiang Yang very dead! Rose reluctantly made a move, and was wiped by Jiang Yang's fingertips, and the basketball was short and became a three-no-stick, but this three-no-stick was grabbed by Ty-Gibson under the basket, and then dunked the basketball into the basket before Perkins reacted with his strong bounce ability.
85-83, the Celtics asked for a timeout! After returning from a timeout, Scala Blanei missed a shot and was grabbed by the opponent! was beaten by the opponent and attacked, Rose went down directly, Jiang Yang had no way to restrain Rose, who was already running, so he could only adopt foul tactics! And Rose's free throws were really weak, one of the two free throws at the critical moment, but the score on both sides was still stretched to 3 points, and when the Celtics attacked, Jiang Yang and Ray Allen were defended by the other side, in order to be afraid that they would shoot three points! But it's not just Jiang Yang and Ray Allen who will score three points in the Celtics!
At the critical moment, Pierce hit a three-point shot after receiving Jiang Yang's pass, and the score was tied at 86-86, and the Bulls asked for a timeout again! The fans who watched this game were hooked, and the players on both sides attacked and defended, all of which were bayonets fighting bayonets.
The play was unusually intense, and after the timeout came back, Joakim Noah squeezed Perkins on the inside and made a layup, but was fouled by Pierce, two free throws and two hits, and then Derrick Rose forced Jiang Yang again and made a layup! Four points in a row.
But on the other hand, Jiang Yang hit a three-point shot himself, and then passed the ball to Pierce, Pierce singled Rohr Deng, Rohr Deng had no choice but to foul, Pierce made one of two free throws, and the two sides tied again with 1 minute and 24 seconds left in the game!
And at the critical moment, Joakim Noah deceived Glenn Davis again, and then scored four points in a row with a hook shot!
Then the Celtics' Perkins also hit an inside layup and scored two points! Rose scored two points after dribbling to the basket.
Jiang Yang immediately hit one and returned two points to the other party! With 12 seconds left in the game, the Celtics had the ball, and the score was 96-94 by just two points! And the last chance to shoot was given to Pierce! But Pierce didn't catch it...... Pierce pressed the clock to the last two seconds to shoot, but unfortunately, Rohr Deng, who had been violent by him for a whole game, successfully defended at a critical moment and missed the three-point attempt, and the Celtics added another loss and lost the game 94-96.
In this game, the duel between Jiang Yang and Rose, Pierce and Rohr Deng also became the best watching duel.
Jiang Yang scored 17 points and added 9 assists, Rose scored 17 points and added 8 rebounds, the two of them are almost you score one, I score one, Jiang Yang mainly attacks the outside line, shoots three points, Rose is mainly fighting with Jiang Yang and playing inside.
In this game, the two of them are incompatible! In terms of small forward, although Pierce had 20 points, 8 rebounds and 6 assists, he lost to Lore Deng with 25 points, and Lore Deng's 25 points were also the highest points in the game.
The most surprising thing is Ray Allen, who didn't score any of the 4 three-pointers in the whole game, and only scored 8 points, the Celtics lost, his play played a very important role, after losing this game with the Bulls, Jiang Yang They really need to rest!
(To be continued)