Chapter 367: The Green Army Blocks the Way
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In the regular season, the Pacers played a total of three games against the Celtics, and the Celtics lost all three games, whether it was against the Pacers before the regroup, the Pacers after the regroup, or the Pacers when they were physically exhausted. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
The Celtics haven't won a game, but this doesn't mean that their own level is poor, Garnett, Pierce, Ray Allen, Rajon Rondo, Rade Wallace, and other players, except for Rondo, who was very brave in the regular season, the others just didn't play, and didn't use all their strength.
That's what the veterans think, they don't have much passion for the regular season anymore, and now they like to play in the playoffs! So in the playoffs, although they are only ranked fifth, they still kill the finals of the Eastern Conference.
Facing the Eagles ranked above them, the Celtics didn't give them a chance at all and killed them directly! Facing the Cavaliers, who have the highest demand for winning the championship, the Celtics still didn't give James any chance, and seized the weakness of the Cavaliers and slammed it.
stunned to cripple the Cavaliers, advanced to the Eastern Conference Finals with a total score of 4-2, and the Pacers with Zhang Kong are here, ready to fight it out! Against the aging Celtics, the Pacers' players are even more nervous than when they face Magic, because they still know how to play to win, play the outside of Magic, and then limit the play of Magic, so that's fine.
But against the Celtics, they have some helplessness, there are too many offensive points, and they can't start.
Playing the Magic, the Pacers can wrap up Howard, in fact, the fifth and sixth games can be easily won, all because of Howard's absence, Howard is the strongest offensive point of the Magic team, and if you want to win, you have to defend him.
This is also the biggest weakness of the Magic team, and against the Celtics, who do you say you want to cover? Bag Clip Garnett? There's also Pierce, Ray Allen, and Rondo, who wrap up Pierce, and three others, who defend the interior, and Pierce and Ray Allen can shoot threes from the outside.
On the outside, Rondo and Garnett can also play strong offense on the inside, and if they want to win the championship, the only criterion is to have multiple scoring points in a team, and the Celtics do a very comprehensive job, not only their main players, but also many scoring points on the bench.
If you want to beat Celtic in such a situation, this is almost an impossible task, even if it is empty, it will be difficult to do.
Now the only way for the Pacers to compete with the Celtics is to let their players feel restored, as long as the players on the Pacers' side recover their feelings, the Celtics can only deliver food, but according to the situation in the previous games, the players on the Pacers' side have always been uncomfortable, especially in the face of such a strong team in the league.
In the playoffs, the Pacers' player feel is really not ordinarily bad, it's okay in the regular season, Granger can score 20+ in the regular season, and after the playoffs, he now has an average score of only 19.7 points per game, not even 20, if Granger can't score, then what kind of shooting team are the Pacers called?
According to the recent rules of the Imperial Court Channel, this game was still not broadcast by the Imperial Court Channel, which made countless fans scold their mothers.
At the same time, the attendance rate of the Internet café and the ratings of the local station broadcast also increased a lot in an instant, which also made those who wanted to go to the Internet café to play the little pot friends lose the opportunity to skip class again, because the Internet café near the school was occupied by the teachers on vacation, and they could only reluctantly go back to school to attend classes.
The starting lineups on both sides have not changed much today, and Roy Hibbert on the Pacers' side of the interior finally doesn't have to face Howard Hibbert is very excited today, and he is going to play Perkins today, a strong defense and weak offense.
Although I don't know if my offense can penetrate this pachyderm bear, at least I don't have to worry too much on the defensive end.
And because Al Jefferson's movement range is not large, it is Troy Murphy who plays the power forward, and asks him to watch and defend Garnett, and now Garnett's strongest offensive means is not to play hard inside, but to shoot backwards.
This allows Murphy, who has the advantage in height, to defend Garnett, which is also one of the ways! Danny Granger at small forward, Dundee Jones at shooting guard, and Kong Zhang at point guard, a recent trio that has recently been dubbed the horror outside trio by the league.
Because whether it is facing Rose's Bulls or Carter's Magic, these three outside players have an advantage.
On the Celtics' side, center Kendrick Perkins, the best player in the league to defend Howard, is not one of them...... But it's a pity that this time let him defend and shoot, and Hibbert, who is 218 cm tall, is a bit troublesome.
Big forward former Wolves, current Celtics interior defensive gate Kevin Garnett, small forward Green Army leader, Paul Pearce, scoring guard three-point marksman Ray Allen, point guard is Rajon Rondo, who has been particularly hot recently!
This duel between Rondo and Zhang Kong was also marked by the media as the duel of the strongest defenders in the East! The west side is Rondo vs Paul, and the east side at least for now looks like Zhang Kong vs Rondo! However, in the regular season, Zhang Kong kept pressing Rondo, and it seems that Rondo wants to be ashamed in the playoffs this time! Deal with Zhang Kong well.
At the beginning of the game, Hibbert, a big man, naturally had the advantage in jumping the ball, and he slapped the basketball to his side for the first time.
After Zhang Kongkong dribbled the ball after half court, he handed the ball to Granger first for him to play alone, Granger tried the touch, but it was not very good, the shot was off, allowing Rondo to pick up the rebound, and Rondo took the ball and slowed down before rushing forward.
Zhang Kong saw that the opponent did not have time to play fast attack, and also retreated to his own half-court defense, after Rondo dribbled after the half, he also tried to break through Zhang Kong, but Zhang Kong's defense has always been rocky, so that the opponent has no way to get off the foot, and finally Rondo has no choice, so he had to hand over the basketball to Paul Pierce next to him, just now Granger was forcing Pierce to shoot a ball and did not score, and this time Pierce wants to eat it back, these old fritters in the league are not fuel-efficient lamps.
Pierce stepped back after a simple shake for three points, and then directly threw the basketball out, Pierce's luck was good, the first three points of the trial shot actually went in, it seems that the three-point king of the new branch is still very confident in shooting three points!
Then Zhang Kong was still trying his teammate's touch, and the Green Army on the other side opened up again, this time it was Kendrick Perkins, Perkins also took a step-back shot after receiving the ball, this time it was Hibbert inside.
He was really careless this time, he didn't follow up, and he didn't expect Perkins to be shot.
So the ball was put on Perkins, and just like that, Perkins hit it directly, making the Pacers' players helpless.
"Focus, concentrate!" Jim O'Brien, who was on the sidelines, looked at Hibbert's appearance and couldn't help but shout.
Hearing the coach's roar, Hibbert touched himself a little embarrassed, but in the next attack, it was obvious that he had adjusted his mentality, and in the next attack, Zhang Kong broke through Rondo, and handed the ball to Hibbert in the inner pass, which meant that he would play one! But the other party is not so easy for him to fight.
Although Hibbert has jumped, it has been destroyed by Ray Allen, although Ray Allen also paid a foul, but it has not made Hibbert and the Pacers' momentum not rise, this is the experience of veterans, which has played an important role.
Hibbert hit one of two free throws and Garnett picked up the second, and a team like the Green Army is fundamentally different from the Spurs.
Sometimes the Spurs have a chance to break fast, they don't play, they seek stability, and they play positional battles! And the Celtics, as long as it is a fast break opportunity, they will seize it, so after Garnett got the rebound, he did not pass it to Rondo, but directly handed a long pass to Pierce, who was still in the Pacers half, and Pierce rushed over after receiving the ball directly in front of the basket on foot.
This time there was no way, and Dundee Jones next to him could only foul him, pull him down, and send him to the free throw line at the same time.
In the first minute and a half of the game, the offense and defense on both sides switched very quickly, and the Celtics also caught the Pacers off guard with experience, opening the game with a 7-1 score, for such a score, Doug Rivers is still relatively satisfied.
After all, it has been played until now, and with such an Eastern Conference Finals, it can be said that the Pacers cannot be the bad team last year! It can be said that they have been reborn, in this case, the Celtics can still take the lead, for Doug Rivers, it is a very happy thing, but before he can smooth out this happy air, the Pacers over there will be a demon moth, Zhang Kong's pass finally has an effect, this time the effect appeared in Murphy's hands, Murphy received Zhang Kong's pass, he felt that his hand instantly burst out, just in front of Garnett, shot a shot, made Garnett's face extremely ugly, and Murphy was still recalling the shot just now while retreating, Zhang Kong's pass can really help his teammates become stronger, Zhang Kong also wants to point the pass level directly to 99, it is estimated that this effect will be more obvious at that time.
But unfortunately, it is not so easy to get a surname from 90 to 99, 80-90, the need to consume 5 caste points per point, a total of 50 points, and from 90-99, each caste point needs 10 castes, that is to say, it takes 99 points, and it is found that in Zhang Kong, 8 points per game are calculated, and if you want to put a surname from 90 to 99, it takes at least 11 games.
For Zhang Kong, this is simply a matter of Arabian Nights, if you want it all to belong to 99, let's talk about it in a few seasons!
(To be continued)