Chapter 44: Heavy Snow Closes the Road
The first matchup between Jonny and Tim Duncan ended with Jonny winning the game, with Jonny stepping up to the free throw line and hitting the free throws steadily.
But then, the Celtics began to fall into the disadvantage, and the young Tim Duncan began to shine on the defensive end, and his bonus to the Spurs' team defense was very large. In fact, Ben Wallace of the Celtics also has this attribute, but so far the Celtics have not used it, on the one hand, Rick Pitino is unlikely to use Ben Wallace, and on the other hand, Ben Wallace is not so mature in defensive positioning and defensive ability.
And this can see the bull break between Tim Duncan and ** Vic, a rookie, a coach in his second year of coaching career, the two have just been together for less than two months, and they can play such a performance, obviously one of these two is a phenomenal power forward, and the other is a phenomenal head coach.
speed, and in this case, the Spurs don't need to compete with the Celtics for rhythm on the court at all, and they won't be chaotic because of the rhythm like other teams that have been defeated by the Celtics.
In the second quarter, Jonny spent a little energy point to activate the Desert Butcher's R skill, Full Strength Zhan.
And at the beginning of the second quarter of the game, Jonny turned on his personal mode, and he chose to come by himself on the first ball, directly opening the W skill - James-style dunk, rushing into the interior is a violent dunk! The Spurs' outside line can't be stopped at all, they don't have a good outside player who is good at defense, and they can only make a little appearance in the face of Jonny's impact.
Even Tim Duncan on the inside, when he saw Jonny hit the inside. also dodged, he was afraid of getting into a foul.
On the first ball of the two, Jonny made a foul on Tim Duncan, and at the end of the first quarter, the reason why the Celtics only trailed by 5 points was because Jonny made consecutive fouls on Tim Duncan and David Robinson in the final period. Tim Duncan had to go off the court early, and David Robinson didn't dare to do it.
And as a manager who is good at making trade-offs, ** Vic has already given the order, since he can't stop Jonny, don't stop it, ** Vic doesn't believe that Celtic can rely on Jonny to win the game alone.
However, when Jonny turned on his personal mode in the second quarter, Vic was still taken aback, and Jonny first completed a breakaway dunk, and then easily hit two three-pointers in a row under Jaren Jackson's defense. Then he also stole Avery Johnson's ball, scored a fast-break dunk, and consecutive hits helped the Celtics go straight from a 5-point deficit to a 5-point lead!
Vicky broke out in a cold sweat, he didn't expect Jonny to be so fierce, but he was still not worried, because in comparison, Jonny's teammates had little effect during this time. In a word: the offensive end looks at Jonny's offense, and the defensive end looks at the Spurs' offense. If it weren't for Johnny being rebellious enough. In that time, the Spurs had already established a double-digit lead.
However, as Vicky thought, soon Jonny would not be able to support this high-intensity offense, after all, a person's physical strength is also limited, and after Jonny fought for two quarters, the fourth quarter. Jonny was completely out of energy, and he couldn't even jump on the court when defending, and the Celtics collapsed, and finally the Spurs beat the Celtics at home.
And the first game of the Celtics' Western tour ended in a loss, and Jonny was a little helpless. But in the away dressing room, he heard news that made him even more helpless. Flights have been grounded because of the snow, and although the Celtics have a day off, they have to take a bus from San Antonio to Dallas overnight just in case of accidents, and from there they are ready to transfer to Los Angeles.
Jonny didn't have time to say hello to Tim Duncan, a group of role players who defended the whole game, let alone an interview with the media, he boarded the bus and rushed to Dallas in the snow, but as soon as he arrived at Dallas, what made the Celtics even more desperate was that Dallas also began to snow
Although there is a distance of hundreds of kilometers between the two cities, the Celtics did not play the next day, and they did not dare to wait for the snow to stop in Dallas, so they had to choose to go directly to Los Angeles.
However, this road is not so easy to walk, heavy snow closed the road, and the Celtics' journey to the west was extremely difficult. Most of the players in the bus were already asleep, and the team chose to switch to a bigger bus so that the group of tall players could have enough space to sleep.
However, in the middle of this group, there was one person who couldn't sleep, Derrick Coleman was going to go straight from Boston to Los Angeles, after all, he would not play in the game against the Spurs, but I don't know what Derrick Coleman considered, he finally chose to go to San Antonio with the team.
And now, Derek Coleman began to struggle, it was already two or three o'clock in the night, as long as he thought that he would play in tomorrow's game, Derek Coleman couldn't sleep, he didn't know whether he should compromise with Jonny, after all, in Derek Coleman's heart, the dollar is still very important.
Derek Coleman struggled all night, and it wasn't until about seven o'clock in the morning that he fell asleep. At this time, the bus in which the team was riding was still driving slowly on the road, and the road was slippery in heavy snow, and the driver did not dare to drive too fast.
At this time, Jonny had already woken up, he rubbed his eyes, and asked the driver who had changed shifts, "Mr. Driver, how long will it take for us to get to Los Angeles?" ”
And this bearded driver who drove the bus also slept all night before getting up to change shifts, and he was in good spirits at this time, and made a hearty voice: "There is still a long time!" We don't expect to be in Los Angeles until the afternoon! But we'll stop and let you eat first, you're athletes! You can't skip a meal! ”
"Oh, by the way, Mr. Jonny, you're the league's leading scorer right now, right?" Jonny looked at the somewhat talkative bearded driver, a little speechless.
However, Jonny knew that this kind of long-distance drivers would generally be very tired and easily unable to concentrate, and it would obviously be much better to have someone to chat with, so in the face of the problem of the bearded driver, Jonny naturally nodded.
And the bearded driver immediately said: "How nice it would be if we had a player like you in Dallas!" Why don't you come and play in Dallas? ”
Jonny Falls Khan, this time he didn't respond because he didn't know how to respond, apparently the bearded driver was a Maverick fan. And Jonny also knows a little about the Mavericks, these seasons are the low period of the Mavericks, and it is normal for this Mavericks fan to say so. (To be continued......)