Chapter 253: The Battle of the Angels

Los Angeles, the City of Angels, the second largest city in the United States, second only to the existence of New York, the Big Apple, Jiang Yang is not a stranger to Los Angeles, others also know him here, after all, he is a supernova in the league now, and he is also familiar with this city.

For Jiang Yang, whether it is the Lakers or Los Angeles, Jiang Yang is very familiar with it, after all, he has played here, of course, this other person does not know, staying in the Celtics, Jiang Yang has naturally been to Los Angeles.

However, the Celtics only come here twice a year, once at the home of the Clippers and once at the home of the Lakers, and they are busy during the regular season, so Jiang Yang and they don't have time to walk around, this time it's different.

The Celtics and Lakers Finals, after the second game, the third game will not start until three days, and one day to Los Angeles, one day to practice, and one day in between can allow the players to relax naturally.

After all, now leading 2-0 at home, the Celtics are still relatively sure, Doug Rivers team in Los Angeles had a good time, Universal Studios, Hollywood and other places, have left Jiang Yang's footprints, Pierce was born in Los Angeles, so this is his hometown, where is it fun in Los Angeles, he knows everything, compared to the Celtics' ease, the Lakers are in trouble, they are now 0-2 behind the Celtics, so they have been training for the past three days.

In fact, Phil Jackson also knows that basketball does not mean that it can be changed after a day of training, originally he wanted to combine work and rest, and also take a day off, but Kobe Bryant disagreed, and it was Kobe Bryant who really spoke well in the Lakers.

Kobe Bryant is a paranoid, not only training by himself, but also forcing other players to train with him.

If you don't train, then you don't want to play, of course some people will be unconvinced, if you don't accept it, Kobe Bryant will stand up and fight you alone, if you can win, he won't care about you! It's completely unreasonable, but it's very useful in the Lakers.

There are two factions in the Lakers, Kobe Bryant himself and Phil Jackson and the other faction.

Because of the shark incident, Phil Jackson still doesn't deal with Kobe Bryant now, Phil Jackson has no way to command Kobe on the court, and Kobe has no way to interfere with Phil Jackson's tactics when he is off the court, and no one on either side can take a break!

The current Lakers are more like a team made up of interests, and only interests can sustain the group.

Although the other teams in the league are like this, it is a fool's business to preach morality in the league.

But at least they didn't show the discord on their side as obviously, and the discord between the generals and coaches is no longer news to the Lakers, and even if Kobe Bryant and Phil Jackson have a pre-game verbal fight, no media will pay attention to them.

Three days in a blink of an eye, on June 10th, the third game between the Celtics and the Lakers officially started at the Staples Center, the home of the Lakers.

"It's going to be three games in a situation like this, hehe, I finally understand how the Lakers feel when they're at home!" Jiang Yang plucked out his ears that were shocked with some tinnitus, and said with a smile to Pierce next to him, the Green Shirts and the Lakers can be described as a feud.

This is the fourteenth time they have met in the finals, what else is there to say in the face of such a feud?

The earth-shattering boos are the best explanation for them! And the Lakers, who are back at home, will be ashamed today.

After the start of the game, Garnett, a veteran, showed his stable side, playing very positive on the inside, one swept the team's first six points, Rondo still maintained his good all-round form, helping the Green Shirts to achieve a 12-5 golden start, and the Lakers not only blocked the offense, but also the defensive titan Artest was plagued by fouls at the beginning of the game, and only played two more than two fouls, and had no choice but to be replaced by Luke Wharton.

However, after he got off the court, the Lakers' side played more and more smoothly, when Kobe Bryant played 2+1 on Rondo's body, the Lakers had overtaken the score 13-12, and Garnett, who continuously reflected the killing effect, continued to improve, and scored two consecutive offenses, not only increasing his personal score to 10 points, but also helping the Green Shirts to tie the score at 16-16.

Gasol watched Garnett perform so well, and the 'sister-in-law', who was determined to be ashamed of two years ago in this series, played also very tough, helping the Lakers overtake the score, and blocked Ray Allen's long-range shot, at the end of the game, Jiang Yang came on the court and continued to impact the opponent's lineup, but there was only one Jiang Yang, and there was really no way to withstand the Lakers who had already gained momentum.

In the end, Odom scored three points on Wallace's body, igniting the morale of the Lakers, the first quarter ended, the Lakers led the Celtics 26-21 by 5 points into the second quarter, Jiang Yang played 3 minutes and 32 seconds in the first quarter, all the substitutes in the game, only he scored two goals and scored four points, and the other players did not score a point, and the results were quite miserable.

"Rub, it's really back at home and it's a dragon!" During the break in the first quarter, Jiang Yang wiped the sweat on his forehead.

The game was more tiring than the usual halftime, and when the Lakers returned to their home court, the lethality skyrocketed.

Looking at the situation on the court, Jiang Yang couldn't help but smack his lips, if the Lakers have been playing like this, then this series will be hanging! However, Pierce next to them just had a grim face and didn't pay much attention to what Jiang Yang said.

They also know that the Lakers are holding back their breath and released it in this game, and if they want to maintain such a 150% combat effectiveness for several games, it is simply an impossible task! So they just didn't look good, but they weren't too worried, and at the beginning of the second quarter, it turned out that the Lakers' false fire really hadn't been exhausted.

Kobe Bryant hit a three-pointer on Glen Davis at the beginning, which was also Kobe's sixth free throw in this game, and the number of free throws in his playoff career accumulated to 1,420, surpassing Lakers center Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and reaching the seventh place on the NBA playoffs all-time free throw list.

Next, Nate Robinson's three points finally helped the bench group except Jiang Yang to open up, breaking the scoring drought of the Green Shirts, but this did not stop the Lakers' offensive footsteps, after a wave of 11-3 offensive, the Lakers led 37-24, at the critical moment, Jiang Yang stood up again, he first hit a three-point shot on the outside, and then rushed into the inside, forced Gasol to win, and then broke through the inside again and passed to Glen Davis to let him shoot, After that, he caused Bynum's foul and two free throws, and in four minutes, the Lakers did not score a point, and the Green Army played a wave of 9-0 offense with the support of Jiang Jian**, narrowing the score to 33-37 in one fell swoop, only four points short! At the critical moment, the Lakers twin towers are sons to help the team stabilize their position! After Jiang Yang went off the field, Ray Allen, who performed extremely well in the last game, completely stopped in this game.

Offense misses, 3 minutes 06 seconds, Kobe Bryant singled out Ray Allen jump shot and got this quarter of the game, in addition to the opening three points, the only two points, under Jiang Yang's defense, unless Kobe Bryant uses blocking tactics, it is impossible to easily break through Jiang Yang, otherwise it is okay to pull outside the three-point line, but Kobe also understands that his level of dry pull is not high, and it is okay to throw three points when it is critical, but the usual conventional tactics, his three-point shooting rate is ...... Ahem.

With the Lakers' last 3 minutes and 06 seconds of counterattack, at the end of the half, the Lakers continued to lead the Celtics by 8 points at 52-44 into the second half of the game. The best thing is that in the first few games, the substitutes who had made Jiang Yang and them completely violent performed quite well today, and it seems that after returning to the home court, the Lakers' bench has also rejuvenated its second spring! And to fight again...... Gasol, who returned to the home court and was unusually brave, faced Garnett's defense, turned around and hit a jumper, but then Garnett immediately returned one, Pierce hit a three-point shot at the top of the arc, Ray Allen finally broke his scoring drought, and the Green Army played a wave of 9-0 offense**, unfortunately when the third quarter was 8 minutes and 40 seconds, Pierce ate his fourth foul of the game on Kobe's body, and he could only leave the court early, the big killer on the bench, Jiang Yang, replaced Pierce as a small forward.

After Jiang Yang came on the court, it was obvious that the Celtics' defense had significantly improved by a level.

At 6 minutes and 27 seconds, Garnett broke through Gasol, the Lakers contracted the defense, and after the ball in Garnett's hand was poked off, Garnett grabbed the rebound and jumped again, but it allowed Gasol to seize the opportunity with a big hat and fan it out, just picked up by Jiang Yang, and then Jiang Yang directly hit a three-point shot on the outside and returned one to the Lakers! After the tug-of-war, Tony Allen received an assist from Jiang Yang to score the ball, and the Green Army chased the score to 61-62, only one point short!

At the critical moment, Kobe's key ability was still reflected, in front of Jiang Yang, he hit a three-point shot to help the Lakers break the scoring drought, but the bench players of the Green Shirts under the leadership of Jiang Yang still performed very well, and at the end of the third quarter of the game, the Green Shirts turned the score into 65-67 and only two points behind the opponent into the final quarter.

At the beginning of the final quarter of the game, Jiang Yang continued his crazy performance on the court, although Pierce received his fifth foul just after he came on the court, but Jiang Yang's performance gave the Lakers a headache, if the main force is allowed to defend Jiang Yang, then who will defend the main force?

Jiang Yang can play three positions on the outside, he cooperates with whoever he is the same, can rush, pass, shoot, the most important thing is that his defense is still very good, with sufficient physical strength, great strength, and fast speed, no wonder he can almost be rated as the best sixth man this year, if you use the main force to defend him, then when the opponent's main force comes on the court, what will you do? The main force will have no physical strength at that time, just like now, if Kobe Bryant is used to defend Jiang Yang, it can indeed contain Jiang Yang's attack.

But what happens to Kobe Bryant when Ray Allen is on the court? Be! The current Ray Allen has a bad hand, but when the players play their part, the feel can only decide some small details, and Kobe Bryant doesn't dare to let go of Ray Allen at all.

No matter how you calculate it, Jiang Yang's position is a loophole, which is also the biggest headache for Phil Jackson and other coaches now, in a team, if you don't count according to the right to shoot, there are four players who can average 20+ points per game, one player can play two doubles per game, one player is the defensive gate, plus a good substitute, it's hard to play...... Rubbing his hair, Phil Jackson looked helplessly at Jiang Yang, who was frenzied on the court, Jiang Yang broke through Kobe Bryant again, hit a layup, and successfully overtook the score, after a wave of 8-3 offensive by the Green Army, the Celtics had become 73-70 ahead of the opponent by three points! But at the critical moment, Odom and Fisher scored two goals in a row to help the Lakers turn the score back by one point. When the game went on for 5 minutes and 15 seconds, Jiang Yang and Glenn Davis cooperated, and after Glenn Davis blocked Jiang Yang, Jiang Yang dismantled the ball to him, Kobe Bryant defended hard, but where is the tonnage of this little fat man that Kobe can withstand? Glenn Davis easily made a 2+1 on Kobe Bryant's body! Pierce, who came on the court later, also hit a three-point shot, Garnett turned around and hit a jumper, and the Green Shirts regained the score, 82-80! But Gasol hit a shot right away, found two points, and hit the score to re-equalize! At this time, Jiang Yang's physical strength was almost the same, and he was replaced.

The Celtics, who replaced Jiang Yang, began to press time, but today's Lakers' hand was really terrible, Garnett hit a jumper, Kobe Bryant immediately returned one, and Glenn Davis, who had just made a contribution at the last moment, made a mistake and was beaten into a 2+1 by the old fish Fisher on his body, and after the free throw, the old fish had already scored 11 points in this quarter, and the Lakers also led the Celtics by three points 87-84 with the play of the old fish, and there were still 48.3 seconds left before the game!

After Pierce scored two points, the score was narrowed to only one point, and at this time the Celtics also adopted foul tactics, Jiang Yang came back to the court, the first foul was Jiang Yang committed on Vujasic, Vujacic in the cheers of the fans, two free throws and two hits, very stable, but after that, Garnett's pass, but unexpectedly missed!

was originally going to give Jiang Yang's pass, but was stealed by Kobe, although Jiang Yang hugged Kobe for the first time, but also sent Kobe to the free throw line, and finally Kobe Bryant hit two free throws, and the original three-point gap became five points, and the Celtics officially lost the last chance to turn the tables, although Jiang Yang's mid-range shot hit in the end, but it was difficult to save the defeat...... In the end, the Lakers won the game in the first game at home, 91-88, with a three-point advantage, Kobe Bryant scored a game-high 29 points, and the shooting rate was only 30%, 10 of 30 shots, and he was restricted quite miserably, but he had unlimited right to fire!

Gasol, who performed well in the first few games, was a little soft today, with only 13 points and 10 rebounds in the whole game, and in the last game, Andrew Bynum, who became the core of the interior, only scored 9 points today, but also grabbed 10 rebounds, in addition to them, the Lakers also had two double-doubles, the old fish Fisher shot a total of 6 of 12 today, the shooting rate was as high as 50%, and he scored 16 points, but the assist was very strong, 1! I really don't understand, why a player like them is also called a point guard?

On the bench, the best performer today was Ramal Odom, who finally didn't slip today, maybe this has something to do with his wife Kardashian who has been sitting on the sidelines cheering for him, and he scored 12 points on 5-of-5 shooting today.

His play can be said to have played an important role in the Lakers' victory! On the other hand, the Celtics' performance today was a little watery, Ray Allen shot 0-of-13 in a game today, and the only two points he scored were through free throws.

Garnett scored a team-high 25 points today, Rondo only had 8 points and 8 assists, Pierce scored 15 points, and surprisingly Glenn Davis also scored 12 points, while Jiang Yang scored 18 points and 9 assists today, and his performance was remarkable.

But the Celtics lost and lost, and in the Lakers' first game at home, they were tied 1-2 by the Lakers! And their fourth game, which will be held in three days, is still held at the Staples Center, the Lakers are now only one game behind the Celtics, and their confidence is slowly returning to the Lakers' side, like Los Angeles, like a team like the Lakers, their fans will never lose confidence! Although they only won the Celtics by three points in this game, they want to believe that they will beat the Celtics in the next game, at least if it's true or not, I don't know, at the post-game press conference, Doug Rivers also congratulated the Lakers on today's victory, but in his opinion, the Lakers can win the game, luck and home court advantage account for a very large factor, and their players' poor hand today is also a very critical thing, especially Ray Allen, who scored 32 points in the last game, today I only got a fraction......

(To be continued)