"What else can I do? Fight."

Rondo has already made up his mind to fight Da Yao like a monster. As long as Da Yao is beaten again, the inside line of the Rocket team will almost collapse, and it will be easy to beat the Rocket again at that time.

It was the last few minutes of the third quarter, and Wen Hao and Harden Parsons had already rested, but the Celtics did not dare to replace Rondo and Babu. Now is the critical moment to chase points, and it will be even more difficult to replace these two main players.

Wen Hao sat on the bench to rest, but his mind was not idle. He watched the game on the field with the eyes of a coach. Now Rondo and Babu, who have the most breakthrough ability in the Celtics, keep rushing to the inside of the Rockets, trying to cause Da Yao's foul.

But Da Yao didn't play much time today, and he only fouled once, so if you want to beat Da Yao, you have to make him at least four more fouls. And Da Yao is different from Warcraft, Warcraft likes to jump, so it is easy to foul. And Da Yao was not very good at jumping, and he didn't like to jump, he just stood there, like a big mountain in front of Rondo and Babu.

One can imagine how difficult it is for Rondo and Babu to score past Da Yao, and it is not so easy for them to cause Da Yao's foul.

This was played until the end of the third quarter, and although they also caused two fouls from Da Yao, they paid the price of three turnovers and were beaten by the Rockets into two counterattacks. At the end of the third quarter, the margin was still 8 points.

The audience at the scene was a little depressed at this time, not because of the 8-point difference, but because the Celtics seemed helpless in the face of the Rockets' current defense. In front of Da Yao, who is like a mountain, it is difficult for them to score. As a result, the outside line can't shoot, the inside line can't shoot, and the Celtics have almost lost their offensive firepower.

Their head coach, Stevens, was scratching his head at this point. With the current situation, he couldn't think of a good way to do it. Now it is no longer possible to let Rondo and Babu burst in, with Da Yao here, their inward rush is almost equivalent to suicide, and the harm outweighs the good.

In desperation, he had to accept the assistant coach's suggestion: let Rondo and Babu block on the outside, Joel? Anthony can also go to the line to block pick-and-rolls and then let the ball carrier shoot from mid-to-long range.

This is a risky move. If the ball carrier has a high hit rate, then there is naturally nothing to say, but if the ball carrier is not in good shape today and can't shoot, it is tantamount to self-defeat.

However, at this time, there is no other way without this method, so I have to be a dead horse and a live horse doctor.

On the Rockets' side, McHale didn't make any adjustments, and he kept in mind the warnings of his predecessors: when the team is playing well, there is no need to change. If it changes, it will disrupt the current rhythm.

For so many years, McHale has followed the admonition that if the team is playing well, he will not make any changes.

He didn't make any changes, the assistant coach didn't think there was any problem, and the experts on the scene didn't think there was any problem, but there was only one person - Wen Hao - he glanced at the head coach, and seeing that McHale didn't mean to make any changes, he asked, "Coach, don't we need to do anything?" ”

McHale shook his head and said, "Wen Hao, if you look at the game through the eyes of a coach, you will know that you don't need to make any changes now. When the team is in the ascendancy, we don't need to make changes. This is the teaching of countless predecessors. ”

Wen Hao doesn't think so, he is thinking about what he would do if he was the head coach of the Celtics: "But coach, if I were them, I would definitely ...... at this time"

"Needless to say," McHale waved his hand to stop Wen Hao, "Let's watch the game in peace." Wen Hao, I know you have a lot of ideas, but you are a player, at most a player with a coaching mindset, but you are not a prophet, it is impossible to know what the opposing coach will take next. All we have to do now is wait and see where they go, and then think about what to do. ”

Wen Hao was about to say something, but Da Yao next to him shook his head at Wen Hao without a trace. It's better not to talk too much now, his relationship with the coach has only eased for a short time, and don't rush the coach too much.

Wen Hao understood what Da Yao meant, sighed helplessly, and endured it.

With the referee's signal, the fourth quarter of the decisive battle finally began. First of all, the Rockets assisted by Jeremy Lin and hit a three-pointer, directly extending the difference to 11 points.

McHale glanced at Wen Hao, meaning: I'm right, just fight like this, no need to make any changes.

But as soon as McHale looked back at the court, he saw Rondo and Babu making a block on the outside, and after Babu got the ball, he shot outside the three-point line and hit the basket accurately after Babu got the ball. Not only did he break through, but he also had three points from the outside.

But McHale didn't care, it was just luck, no one could hit a three-pointer every time.

Then the Rockets missed the offense, came back, Babu dribbed beyond the three-point line, Joel? Anthony suddenly mentioned on the three-point line to do a cover, and Babu flashed past Jeremy Lin, and another shot from the three-point line hit again.

The Rockets played a fast break and Jeremy Lin hit a layup for two points.

Looking back, Babu was dribbling outside the three-point line again, and McHale was busy directing the players to go up and hit Babu on the sidelines, and he had already scored two three-pointers in a row and couldn't let him shoot again.

But at this time, Babu passed the ball to Rondo's hands, and Rondo was in the air, raised his hand, and hit another three-point shot.

Celtics head coach Stevens excitedly punched his right hand in his left palm. It seems that he got the bet right this time, with both Rondo and Babu hitting three-pointers. The difference narrowed to 4 points.

At this point, the Rockets had to call a timeout, and McHale said to the players: "Pay attention to defending their three-pointers, you must expand the defense, as long as they cross the halfway line, immediately go up and force the defense, and don't give them the slightest chance to shoot easily." ”

Stevens, on the Celtics side, seemed to anticipate McHale's strategy and said to the players: "We threw in three three-pointers, and the Rockets will definitely defend our threes next, so the next is our chance to break through." Of course, we can't rush to the basket and die, we just get halfway to the free throw line and make a pull-and-go jumper. After all, this kind of shooting percentage is a bit higher than three-pointers, and now we are chasing points, and the higher the shooting percentage, the better.

After the timeout, the main players of the Rockets were already on the court. However, the monster was fouled four times, and he didn't get on, while Da Yao still stayed on the court.

The Rockets attacked, organized by Jeremy Lin, and scored with a dunk by Jones. In retrospect, the Rockets defended according to McHale's arrangement, focusing on the Celtics' three-point defense, but after Rondo got the ball, he made a block with Babu and then suddenly hit the three-point line. Then he made a stop-and-go jump shot away from Da Yao. Another hit on the ball.

Then the Rockets made another turnover, and turned back for Babu to also hit the three-point line, and although he missed the pull-up jumper, Rondo quickly grabbed the rebound and scored two more points. By this time, the Celtics were already chasing only two points away.

The Rockets players were a little blind on the court at this point. Didn't the coach say that they would shoot threes, how did they break through in a row?

McHale is also a bit of a blind man, and if his team has a good three-pointer, he will definitely let the players continue to shoot threes. Unexpectedly, the Celtics did the opposite and began to break through.

While McHale was still in the dark, Celtics Rondo missed a shot and was defeated by Joel? Anthony grabbed the rebound and then gave the ball to Babu to hit another two-point shot.

As soon as the goal was scored, the two teams were tied. The entire North Shore Garden Arena was boiling, and the Celtics were in high spirits. Stevens was beaming, and although he wasn't a famous coach, he could still win against a coach like McHale who didn't know how to be flexible.

McHale finally came to his senses at this point, and knew it was time to call a timeout. Although he hasn't figured out a way to deal with Stevens yet, at least interrupt the opponent's momentum and feel.

After a timeout, the Rockets players were a little depressed. Just now it was 8 points ahead, and in less than three minutes, it was a draw, and the points were lost too quickly. Of course, they don't dare to say that the manager's strategy is wrong, and as insiders, most of them don't see anything wrong with the manager.

In the live broadcast room of Xinlang, Ke Fan saw that the Rocket team was tied up, and said helplessly: "It seems that the rocket game is to prepare a quick-acting heart-saving pill, and it was up to 11 points ahead just now, but it was chased in a blink of an eye." Mr. Yang, tell me, what is wrong with the rocket? ”

"In my opinion, the problem with the Rockets at this stage is mainly in the defensive strategy. When the Celtics put a three-pointer, they didn't go to the three-point defense in time, and after the timeout, they started to defend the three-pointer, and they hit another two-pointer. This is one of them. The second is that the backcourt rebounds are not well protected, and the Rockets players have rushed outside to prevent three points, leaving only Da Yao alone to grab rebounds inside, of course, they can't grab the three Celtics, and they grabbed two frontcourt rebounds in a row, and they all scored. That's the problem with Team Rocket. ”

"How do you fix that?" Ke Fan asked again.

Yang Yi thought for a while and said, "The Rockets' first task now is to defend the opponent, and the second is to solve the rebound. Rebounding is easy to solve, everyone grabs it together, but it is not easy to defend the opponent. Because you don't know how your opponent is going to play next, and McHale isn't the kind of flexible coach, it's a tough problem to solve. ”

Indeed, as Yang Yi said, McHale was also having a headache at this time. The problem of rebounding is easy to solve, but the problem of defending opponents is not easy to solve. Stevens is not the kind of coach who is set in stone, he will always take the initiative to seek breakthroughs, and he has no idea how they should attack next, how to solve this?

But just when McHale was annoyed, Wen Hao calmly turned his head and said to McHale: "Coach, I have a way to ......" (to be continued.) )