The stage of the 376th Grand Final
The 3:0 lead allowed the Los Angeles Clippers to enter the stage of the finals with most of their bodies, and Gu Fei was getting closer and closer to his first trip to the finals, and at this time, the Eastern Conference finals also entered the realm of 3:0. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
At the American Airlines Center in Dallas on May 26, the crowd in the audience had gradually dispersed before the game was over, and when the whistle blew at the end of the game, Nowitzki walked towards Gu Fei, and the two leading stars hugged simply, "Gu, I hope you can win the final championship." ”
Gu Fei gently patted Nowitzki's back and said, "Dirk, I will, you will definitely be better next year." ”
Looking at the background of Nowitzki's departure, Gu Fei shook his head This is the cruelty of competitive sports, there is a winner and a loser at the same time, he has been a loser in the first two years, and he can only watch Kobe advance.
The desire for the O'Brien Cup has never been stronger than this year, and the Orlando Magic, who had their backs to the fourth game of the Eastern Conference Finals, stubbornly dragged the game into overtime on the road, and finally won a hard-fought victory with Jameel Nelson hitting two three-pointers in overtime to tie the overall score at 1:3.
The Clippers' promotion has almost won overwhelming media coverage, and the media in Los Angeles are already working hard for the Finals, but Howard does not seem to be going to give up on this, and the Magic who returned to their home court pulled back a game with a 113-94 victory, which greatly boosted the morale of the Magic players, and the Orlando media has even begun to report on the reversal of the Jedi.
And Celtic is also a little panicked, if they can't win at home in the sixth game, once they are dragged to the seventh game, it will have a huge impact on the morale of both sides.
On May 31, the Celtics pulled back from the precipice on their home court after losing two games in a row, successfully defeating the Orlando Magic 96-84 to advance to the Finals with an overall score of 4-2, which was their second time in three years.
The Clippers have finally waited for the real opponent to come out, although the Celtics have been training for the Finals for the past few days, but they have more or less trained with the Magic as the imaginary enemy, and now the real opponent is out Mike Dunleavy also has a better arrangement for training.
And the daily war of words between Boston and Los Angeles made the finals four days later full of gunsmoke.
With the exception of Boston and Los Angeles every day, almost all of the nation's media attention has focused on the upcoming Finals, and ESPN columnist Mark Stern's comparison of the two players has been approved by most people.
However, no amount of saliva from the outside world can not affect the preparation of the players on both sides, although the Celtics' main lineup is older, but it is experienced and still does not show that age brings them a huge bond, and even has become more experienced under the erosion of the years, and this is their second Finals in the past three years, for them the Finals experience is also more than most of the Clippers, which is a point that Mike Dunleavy is quite worried about.
The names of Garnett, Pierce, and Ray Allen are prominently marked with a red pen on the tactical board, while Rajon Rondo's name is marked with a blue pen.
In training, it's more of a simulation of the four of them, and Mike Dunleavy puts the finishing touches on the personnel involved, all hoping to get off to a good start at the start of the finals.
And Doug Rivers is undoubtedly more worried, although his team has experienced veterans, the Clippers are not lacking, and as the first game day gets closer and closer, both sides feel the tension of the Finals.
At 8 p.m. on June 4th, the bustling downtown of Los Angeles seemed to have become quieter, and when the eyes focused on Staples, people knew the reason, there were thousands of people in the square outside Staples, people were surrounding the large LED screen in the square, the picture was the scene of the Celtics and Clippers warming up before the start of the first game of the finals, and the square rang out from time to time with uniform cheering sounds.
Clippers fans are obviously crazy, this is the first time in their history that they have entered the Finals stage, and the feud between Los Angeles and Boston is undoubtedly the highlight of the publicity, and the temporary addition of 3,000 seats Staples is still sold out in a short period of time, so that many people outside Staples have tried to buy a ticket in various ways outside of Staples.
At the door of the Staples Arena, a father and son attracted a lot of attention, and the chest of the little boy in front of him read, "If anyone can give me a ticket, I'll sell my dad to him." ”
The middle-aged man behind him also wrote on his chest, "If anyone can give me a ticket, I will sell my son to him, but please don't tell him." ”
The Staples Center, with 3,000 temporary seats, was even more crowded, with a variety of voices converging.
Everyone was waiting for the Grand Final, which was broadcast live from nearly 160 countries around the world.
"This is the Imperial Court, this is the Imperial Court! Now we will be broadcasting the first game of the NBA 2009-10 Finals for you, if you have any thoughts on the game, or if you have anything to say, you can win a generous basketball gift package prepared for you, and one lucky viewer will be drawn to win the latest autographed boots from Gu Fei in each session! As he spoke, Yu Jia took Gu Fei's sneakers in his hand and showed them to the audience in front of the TV.
For the first time in the entire history of ESPN, Charles Barkley, Kenny Smith, Jeff Van Gundy, and Mark Jackson will work together to provide live commentary for audiences across the United States.
The lights were all turned off in Staples, the music was up, the spotlights were lit up and began to shine on every corner of the arena, and the Celtics players began to play in the weak voice of the DJ on the spot, accompanied by deafening boos on their appearance.
When the Celtics players finished playing, all the Clippers fans were waiting for their heroes to appear, and the Clippers players began to appear one by one to the roar of live DJs.
When it came to the last one, the spotlight was also turned off, and a low and favorable roar broke out in every corner of Staples in the dark, accompanied by the shouts of DJs Gu Fei trotted out of the players' tunnel, his raised hands and the fans on both sides of the player's tunnel high-fived each other, and the whole Staples reached the first wave climax.
Gu Fei clearly felt how excited he was at this moment, a feeling he had never felt before.
"Okay, the much-anticipated Finals are finally here, now let's look at the starting lineups of both sides, no surprise the Celtics starting lineup will not change much, and I believe Doug Rivers is also very concerned about the Clippers' starting lineup at the moment." Charles Barkley said with a smile.
Jeff Van Gundy looked at the list in his hand, "The Celtics' starting lineup is Perkins, Kevin Garnett, Paul Pearce, Ray Allen and Rajon Rondo are exactly the same as the pre-game prediction, O'Neal Jr. is still on the bench, and this arrangement is undoubtedly to make the interior line have some lethality in the second team competition stage." ”
"The Clippers' starting list has changed slightly, the main center has been replaced by Shaquille O'Neal, who has only started 12 games so far this season, and the power forward position is Tyson Chandler, which is obviously Dunleavy's way to contain Kevin, the small forward position has been replaced by Ron Artest, who rarely starts in the playoffs, the scoring guard position is still Gu Fei, and the organizational guard is still Andre Miller, I don't know if the Clippers' lineup is beyond Rivers' expectations?" Mark Jackson looked at Doug Rivers on the Celtics bench.
"They've made a change, but we shouldn't mess with the offense we laid out, Kendrick, your defensive task is undoubtedly a bit heavier, but you can't take that old shark too lightly, pay attention to your defense and don't foul easily......," Rivers made his final effort.
As the whistle blew, the starting lineups of both sides stepped onto the floor and stood in their positions, waiting for the game to begin.
The Clippers have only lost nine games in the regular season this season, and it was the loss to the Celtics in the crucial game of the 34-game winning streak, which somewhat gave Rivers and Celtics players some confidence, especially in that game, the Clippers' starting lineup was exactly the same as today, even though it was the regular season and the Finals.
Tyson Chandler and Kevin Garnett were in the center circle, and with a whistle, Tyson Chandler again narrowly flicked the ball to Andre Miller.
Miller saw that there were no good fast break opportunities, so he simply stopped, firmly controlled the ball, and waited for the players to all be in place.
"Or do you want to give it to Shaq?" Rivers couldn't help but sound off the court, the game that beat the Clippers in the regular season began, and the Clippers frequently handed over the ball to O'Neal to score consecutive singles.
"Kendrick, hold on, hold on." Rivers shouted at Perkins on the court.
Perkins stood, but his chest ached from O'Neal's impact.
At this moment, Gu Fei, who was being targeted by Pierce, shook his upper body to the right side of Pierce, and his lower body threw Pierce to the left side, and instantly threw Pierce behind him with a no-ball run.
After getting rid of Pierce, Gu Fei went straight to the inside line, Kevin Garnett was about to help defend but was blocked by Tyson Chandler, and he could only watch Gu Fei cut in.
At this moment, O'Neal leaned on Perkins with the ball in both hands, and when Perkins was waiting for O'Neal to make a move, he didn't wait, and was about to stretch out O'Neal to the referee for a violation, when the wind came from behind him, and he turned his head to see Gu Fei's hands to meet the ball and fly to the basket.
"Bang!"
In the first offensive basket at the beginning, he withstood Gu Fei's angry dunk under excitement.
"Shaq is beautiful, you should go and rob Andre of his job." Gu Fei said with a smile.
"Did you only know today that I was going to pass the ball? This is the regret of your life. O'Neill said thoughtfully.
"Nice air relay, Shaq passed a good ball, look at Kendrick's face he must be looking for where the ball went." Barkley didn't care about Perkins' feelings.
Although the Celtics came to the wolf king Garnett, despite the arrival of the gentleman Sword Ray Allen, and despite the rise of Rajon Rondo as the fourth giant, they could not change Paul Pierce's low position in this team, from the good beginning of the twin stars who first entered the league, Paul Pierce has been following this legendary team, no matter at any time he did not leave the team but chose to stick to it, he longed for the feeling of victory, looking at Gu Fei who was celebrating with O'Neal, Pierce beckoned to launch a quick counterattack.
Ron Artest is the defense that River meant for him.
Rivers wanted Artest to use his body to fend off Pierce's attack.
Pierce didn't rush to attack after receiving the ball, and dribbled the ball steadily in front of Artest.
Artest's ability on the defensive end is not enough for him to lose his defensive position in the face of teasing like Pierce, and he looks at Pierce coldly like a good show.
Maybe because it was just at the beginning, Pierce's sudden change of direction made Artest's defense fluctuate, and at this time, Pierce keenly observed Artest's defense, and directly jumped and shot, so suddenly that Artest's defense could only do its best to interfere with Pierce's rhythm, in fact, Artest's defense has always been effective before the final shot of the offense, after all, Artest's bouncing arm span makes it almost impossible for him to complete the front block.
Pierce threw the ball out with determination, with his trademark back.
The basketball flew past Artest's fingers to the basket in the distance.
"Shooting is Paul's forte, and obviously Ron didn't expect Paul to handle it so easily on the first shot, which gave him a chance." Mark Jackson analyzed.
"Yes, look, the ball easily got into the basket to tie it 2:2, and both sides managed to score the first goal in the opening game, which will have an impact on the next offense of both sides." Jeff Van Gundy gives his opinion.
The Clippers' offense was once again in O'Neal's hands, and this time the Celtics were apparently keeping a close eye on the rest of the team, and Perkins had to take on the pressure of defending O'Neal alone.
The moment O'Neal crashed out of position and found the offensive space to shoot, Garnett seemed to return to that strongest era and quickly appeared on the defensive end, and finally O'Neal's hook shot hit the iron under the interference.
Garnett directly protected the defensive rebound and immediately handed it to Rajon Rondo.
"You can see Kevin doing great, it's like going back to '04, his lateral movement ability even makes me think he's still 24 years old, even though it's just a help defense and I can feel that Kevin is in good shape today, so what about Ray?" Kenny Smith asks his own questions, and it doesn't take long for Ray Allen to give his own answers.
“**。” Gu Fei scolded in a low voice, he had bypassed the cover that Pierce had given to Ray Allen and chased after him, who knew that he was blocked by Garnett, who was once again promoted to the high position, and watched Ray Allen catch the ball and shoot.
"Just now I was talking about Ray. Allen's form, and now he tells me that he is in good form as well, and that the Celtics won that game of the season on the Big Three, is that a good sign now? Kenny Smith said with a smile. (To be continued.) )