"Pull back, change direction, accelerate, beautiful, Anfernee turned around and got rid of Maddie's defense and went to the basket, Jermaine was a little far away from him at this time, beautiful wipe the board and layup, Jermaine was a little powerless with this ball"

Michaels, who was on the North Shore Garden commentary box, shouted with excitement, and the Boston Celtics fans around him also booed loudly after Penny Hardaway's goal.

It's just a little regrettable that Penny's face didn't have the slightest joy after scoring this beautiful goal, and Xiao Ao, who was made a layup by Hardaway under his nose, didn't have too many expressions, and even Maddie, who was just beautifully thrown away by Hardaway, only had a trace of regret at this time.

It didn't look like a successful offense, but rather a successful defense.

"It seems that this press failed, and Hardaway successfully broke through the defense"

Michaels, who was in the commentary seat, said with a smile after Hardaway scored the goal, this commentator did not have the nervous and worried look for Zhuang Fei at the beginning of the game, and now he seems to be in a pretty good mood.

"Yes, this time it was a failure, but the whole game was very successful, gambling is supposed to pay a price, from the current point of view, the price paid and the gain are completely negligible" Danny Angie also said with a smile, originally this game and even this series He was worried about the Boston Celtics, after all, this Cavaliers' style is very weird, it can be said that it is the only one in the NBA, and such a control team is very difficult to deal with when they do not find their shortcomings. This season, the sudden rise of the team has no way to take them across the league, and they have always been able to drag the game into their own comfortable rhythm and the opponent's uncomfortable rhythm, which is arguably unprecedented in the history of the NBA. Against such a strange team, any team in the league will feel very difficult.

And the start of this game is also the Boston Celtics are completely weak, which makes the supporters of the Celtics even more worried, but when these people's worries come to the second quarter of this game, they are basically all put down.

When the second quarter of the game began, the Chinese head coach actually let his Boston Celtics complete the half-court pressing defense, and it was the high-intensity pressing defense that started directly from the middle circle.

Zhuang Fei is defined as an offensive head coach in the NBA. But on the defensive end, he is also the league's favorite coach to use the gambling style of pressing, and many times, a team with excellent talent and strength can often achieve good results by adopting such a simple and rough defense against a team with weak strength and average talent. But in the NBA, even the weakest team is not bad. The rash use of this gambling defense is likely to be beaten into a sieve by the opponent, and this tactic is also a great drain on physical fitness, it is a tactic of killing 1000 and losing 800 or killing 800 and losing 1000, which will not be used by NBA teams under normal circumstances, unless the team is in a desperate situation. So it's just a strategic defensive tactic and not a regular one.

In this game, Zhuang Fei not only used half-court pressing or full-court pressing defense, but also used this tactic as a regular tactic in the second quarter, not only when it was a conventional tactic in the second quarter, but also after the second half.

A lot of people saw that the somewhat crazy Celtics were ready to wait for this team to be beaten into a sieve, but this team completely disrupted the Cavaliers after the second quarter. Whether it is James Posey sticking to Miller to lead the defense or Hardaway being constantly squeezed and collided by Maddie after halftime, anyway, this Cavaliers can't play the basketball they want in the first quarter, and more importantly, Zhuang Fei in the other three positions is also concocted in the same way, Yao Ming can't move the big Z cover. Tylon Hill, who is only 2.06 meters in the opposite position of Xiao Ao, is also immobile, and Jackson, who has always been known as the most sticky person in the NBA, is also unable to move, and the same is true for Jackson against Ricky Davis in this game. …,

Many times, when Hardaway receives a forced pass from Miller and looks up, let alone controlling the tempo and looking for opportunities for the team to attack, this player even thinks that if he is also forced by Maddie to pass the ball, then who should he pass the ball to? The teammates on the pitch were completely annihilated by the opponent at this time.

"I really didn't expect the pressing defense to work so well for the Cavaliers, and they've completely lost the feeling of their game right now," Michaels said with a sigh. How is it that such a simple strategy has not been used by teams before?

"It's not that the effect of pressing defense is good, but the tactic of pressing defense can fully play the advantages of Celtics players and completely find out the disadvantages of Cavaliers players, when the Celtics are taller than the opponent in every position, faster than the opponent and stronger than the opponent, this seemingly savage defensive defense is the best, I think the league can use the pressing defense to beat the Cavaliers so embarrassed is only this Celtic, this Celtics is completely the Cavaliers' nemesis" Danny Angie looked at the players on either side of the pitch and continued.

"It's a direct collision of talent and talent, and the Cavaliers lost completely in this regard, which is also the biggest weakness of this team, although this team has a lot of good players, but they are limited, they don't have absolute speed, they don't have absolute height, they don't have enough power against Celtic, if they don't have these talents that can create space, then even if they have good skills and awareness, there is no room to show it"

"It's lucky for the Cavaliers to get Hardaway and Miller, they have the best pair of beat controllers in the league, but it's their misfortune to not get Hardaway at his peak, Hardaway doesn't have so much ability to tear up space for the Cavaliers, the ball just now played Maddie beautifully, but how many times can Hardaway play this ball in a game? If there is no way to inflict lethal damage on the Celtics, Coach Z will not change his pressing strategy, and if even Hardaway can't force the Celtics to change their strategy now, who else can the other Cavaliers players? ”

When Danny Angie saw that Hardaway on the court was constantly using the cover of his teammates to break through, but whenever he just got rid of it, his pace was slow, and at this time Maddie was following again.

"Steady, steady, Andre, don't do blind, give the ball to Anferni"

At this time, the mood of Cavaliers head coach John Lucas on the sidelines was completely less relaxed than at the beginning of the game, and the legendary player was now pacing on the sidelines and loudly indicating his players to the court.

At this time, he didn't expect that when facing the Celtics, the team's five players were actually Hardaway's singles with the most certainty, and the other four did not have a slight advantage in the face of the other four.

For this experienced player and coach, he can say a lot of ways to break the tight defense, such as continuous blocking, such as direct players one-on-one breakthrough to the basket, but either method requires the team to have a sharp knife, but at this time, the five players on the court have no such character at all.

And what makes this coach extremely embarrassed is that he just finished shouting to hand the ball to Hardaway, the Cavaliers' young point guard Miller was cut off by James Posey, this player who is usually strong and even able to eat hard in the face of most point guards in the league is now completely unable to move when facing James Posey, neither speed nor strength can get rid of him, in this case, the Cavaliers can only rely on Hardaway alone to break the opponent's half court or the full court. …,

"It's really a total suppression."

Hardaway watched James Posey break Miller's ball and then hit the Cavaliers half-court dunk with some envy, thinking with some envy that if he was the one six years ago, he probably wouldn't be so passive now, at this time, the swingman also squatted a little and rubbed his somewhat sore knees, and he was also full of thoughts for a while.

"It seems that this game is also decided" Zhuang Fei also looked at the Boston Celtics players on the court with a smile and said, although the Celtics regarded pressing defense as a regular tactic in this game, but they did not use it all the time, but used it every few minutes and every few minutes, the current Cavaliers don't want to control the rhythm of the Celtics, and it is difficult to even ensure their offensive rhythm.

It can be said that by the end of the third quarter of the game, the winners and losers of these two teams have been divided, and even if the Cavaliers can't find a way to break the Celtics' press, let alone the suspense of this game, even the entire series will be directly explained, and the Cavaliers' way to break the Celtics' pressing naturally can't be those theoretical things.

"He hasn't given up yet."

Stephen Green looked at the proud son of the former magic who was still struggling on the court, and sighed in his heart, and Zhuang Fei also nodded.

Although Hardaway still did not give up, the Cavaliers finally declared their defeat at the end of the third quarter, the final score of the game was also 80-98, the Cavaliers lost by 18 points on the road, and the Cavaliers shot only 28% in this game. Hardaway, on the other hand, scored a game-high 25 points. (Your support is my biggest motivation.) )