Chapter 687: Sealing the Wolf King
The second Eastern Conference Finals game between the Knicks and the Celtics, in this game, the Celtics want to steal a win on the Knicks' home court, so that the Celtics will play well in the next game. The Knicks, on the other hand, want to completely defend their home court. At the same time, like Celtic, they also want to steal a win on the opponent's home field. In this case, the outcome of the series is basically decided.
In the second game, there were no changes to the starters on both sides.
The Knicks' starting five are Chen Jiyuan, Sessions, Stephen Jackson, Iguodala, and Love.
The Celtics' starting five are Pierce, Ray Allen, Rondo, Perkins, Garnett.
At the beginning of the game, Chen Jiyuan jumped the ball and won Perkins.
In today's game, Sessions showed a very good offensive touch at the beginning, and Chen Jiyuan did not rush to attack at the beginning, but gave his teammates more opportunities, and Sessions broke out with quite strong energy in it. At the beginning of the game, he hit two three-pointers in a row by himself, helping the team start the game with a small 6:0 difference.
However, the Celtics are old and spicy, and this situation did not cause them to panic at all. Today Pierce really responded to yesterday's Stephen Jackson defense.
After Sessions hit two three-pointers in a row, Pierce quickly responded from outside the three-point line, received a pass from Garnett, and hit a three-pointer steadily.
After the goal, Pierce also glanced at Stephen Jackson, who was struggling to defend with disdain, and the meaning of provocation was self-evident. However, Stephen Jackson is also a veteran and doesn't bother with Pierce at all. The whole Pierce punched the cotton, and he was not strong.
After that, Sessions assisted Iguodala for another mid-range shot.
8:3。
Sessions' performance clearly stimulated Rondo on the opposite side. Rondo actually threw a mid-range, and what was even more amazing was that this mid-range went in. Rondo then assisted Ray Allen and Pierce for three-pointers.
The first quarter of the game became, to a certain extent, a targeted offensive and defensive battle between Rondo and Sessions.
Sessions also played with his life to defend Rondo, and Rondo did not cherish his physical strength to defend Sessions. They all wanted to block their opponents, but they didn't do it.
In the end, in the first quarter of the game, Sessions' performance alone could not compete with the Celtics' full team performance.
Garnett, Pierce, and Ray Allen, together with Rondo's outstanding performance, allowed the Celtics to take the lead in the first quarter.
In the first quarter of the game, the Celtics did a pretty good job of defending Chen Jiyuan, Chen Jiyuan made 6 shots, hit only one shot, and got 2 points and 4 rebounds.
Today, the Celtics are no longer letting Perkins defend Chen Jiyuan, but choosing to let Garnett defend Chen Jiyuan, and Perkins is guarding Lefou. Lefou's movement speed is slower than Chen Jiyuan's, and in this way, Perkins' speed disadvantage can be barely covered.
Chen Jiyuan's poor performance also put the team behind by 6 points. After the end of the first quarter, the Knicks trailed the Celtics by a score of 18-24.
The 18 points in the first quarter were mostly related to Sessions.
Sessions had 8 points and 3 assists in the first quarter, and thanks to Sessions' excellent play, the Knicks were not stretched to double digits by the Celtics.
In the second quarter of the game, Thibodeau's original intention was to let Thorton and Curry, the two-point prince, shoot three-pointers or something to help the team chase points and lose points. But alas, Thorton doesn't feel very good today. Although Curry hit a three-pointer on the court, and also broke into the interior to make a layup, but it still didn't make too many waves, in the first half of the second quarter of the game, the Celtics put Rondo on the court, the team under the leadership of Rondo, is still steadily advancing, Rondo frequently sent assists, helping the team maintain the lead. And in the third minute, the Knicks replaced Chen Jiyuan, and the Celtics replaced Pierce and Garnett. The situation has worsened.
Pierce hit two three-pointers in a row and had already been fouled by Stephen Jackson. 4-of-4 from the free-throw line. got ten points in an instant, and the Knicks received assists from Chen Jiyuan and Thorton respectively, and also hit a three-pointer, so that the difference was not widened.
Six minutes into the second quarter, the score was 31:44. I don't know if it should be said that the Knicks' defense is too poor, or the Celtics' offensive touch is too hot today, in the second quarter of the game, the Knicks actually lost 44 points, which is unimaginable.
Actually, you can't say that the Knicks' defense doesn't work hard, don't you see, Stephen Jackson is about to fight hard to defend Pierce? That guy has more body hair than body hair defense. But Pierce really had a good touch on the outside today, and he simply ignored Stephen Jackson's defense to a certain extent.
No one can do this, after all, the defense itself is passive, and the offensive ball is the initiative in this round. The key to defending is to judge the next move of the attacking player and keep up with the attacking player's movements. But, at the end of the day, you are you, an offensive player is an offensive player, and you can never really fully know what is inside someone else, you can never know what is really going on inside someone else.
Your perception of others, in fact, to put it bluntly, is all your cognition, and it is all speculation. It's all speculation based on the fact of what you see. It's the same when you're defending, where your next move is just a guess based on the body movements of the attacking player.
The Knicks' defense is very desperate, but such desperate defense cannot prevent the opponent from scoring, which is very demoralizing to the defense.
Originally, the hardest hit people should have been Iguodala and Stephen Jackson. Chen Jiyuan also wanted to play the role of the leader of the team, to comfort the two of them, and let the two continue to work hard, but he found that he seemed to be thinking too much.
Stephen Jackson hated it, but he didn't lose his fighting spirit at all. Not to mention Iguodala, who regulates his state of mind with his eyes closed. There is no need for Chen Jiyuan to say anything at all.
For a moment, Chen Jiyuan suddenly wondered if he was the most wasteful in the team.
And soon, Chen Jiyuan let out his own roar in order to prove this!
With half of the game left in the second quarter, the Knicks' offensive possession, Chen Jiyuan was in the low post on the left side, stuck Garnett who was defending himself, and then reached out to ask for the ball, Sessions took the ball to the left high post, and after hanging the ball high to Chen Jiyuan, Sessions wanted to cut inside, but Rondo's reaction was also very fast, and did not give Sessions a chance, Sessions decisively changed his tactics and withdrew from the three-point line, opening up space for Chen Jiyuan.
For this ball, Iguodala stood at the top of the three-point line, and Ray Allen was just about to come over to help defend for a while, when Chen Jiyuan instantly passed the ball to Iguodala. Ray Allen quickly retracted to defend Iguodala.
However, in the inner line that Ray Allen can't see, something else happened.
Chen Jiyuan turned around with a bottom line, and secretly raised his elbow with his right hand to support Garnett. Then Iguodala at the same time, a high cross. Chen Jiyuan, who rose from the ground here, received Iguodala's pass with both hands, controlled the ball, and then made a steady one-handed violent dunk in the air. Slam the ball into the hoop. There is no way for this naughty little ball to jump out.
This ball is the beginning of Chen Jiyuan's proof of himself.
Garnett complained about Chen Jiyuan's actions. found the referee and signaled Chen Jiyuan's elbow behavior just now, but the referee ignored it.
Chen Jiyuan's ball actually relies solely on strength to turn around and appear empty opportunities and space, but before, Garnett has been making all kinds of small moves on Chen Jiyuan, which makes Chen Jiyuan annoyed, and the referee doesn't care about these small actions, so Chen Jiyuan deliberately retaliated against Garnett for this ball.
On the defensive end, Chen Jiyuan defended Perkins, and Lefu defended Garnett. Compared to Garnett, it is obvious that Perkins has less of a role on the offensive end of the Celtics. Chen Jiyuan can also save a little physical strength, and at the same time, he can also focus more on assisting defense.
Perhaps because of the good feel on the outside, Rivers let the team focus on the outside on the offensive end. Garnett only occasionally drew the Knicks' defensive attention in the low post on the inside.
In this ball, Rondo holds the ball and Pierce blocks and picks, but the quality of the pick-and-rolls is not very good. Rondo passes the ball back to Pierce. After Pierce received the ball, he shook it for a moment, and then shot directly at the three-point shot.
It seems that Pierce's hand is still in the hot stage. This ball, even if Stephen Jackson's defense has been blocked to the eye. Not a good opportunity at all. But Pierce's goal, he M just scored.
33:47。
On the offensive end, Chen Jiyuan received the ball in a high position this time, poked his right foot, and then jumped directly and threw a shot, Garnett's speed was very fast, but he was only able to seal Chen Jiyuan's eyes and interfere with Chen Jiyuan's shooting, but he couldn't block Chen Jiyuan's jump shot.
Chen Jiyuan seems to have regained his feel through that dunk, and this ball went in steadily.
35:47。
Perhaps stimulated by Chen Jiyuan, Garnett's ball also reached out for the ball, and he wanted to play singles in the low post.
Garnett singled Lefu with his back, a feint of shaking his shoulders, which looked like he was going to turn to the bottom line, but after Lefou's footsteps and center of gravity moved, Garnett suddenly turned to the front. This action can see the difference between injured and uninjured Garnett. If Garnett was injured in that world, it would never have been possible to do it so quickly.
Garnett rushed in. However, Chen Jiyuan has long been paying attention to Garnett's movements.
decisively let go of Perkins and came over to make up for Garnett, and Garnett did not instigate.
"It's to put one on your head. Drives you crazy. ”
Garnett held the ball in one hand and leaped high.
The same goes for Chen Jiyuan. Chen Jiyuan's ball was not in a hurry. Instead, the smart choice was to wait for Garnett to come to the door himself.
A dunk is definitely about putting the ball in the basket. Chen Jiyuan put his hands on the edge of the basket. Just waiting for Garnett's hand and the ball.
And Garnett didn't let Chen Jiyuan wait too long. Garnett's one-handed cleavage. Chen Jiyuan's two-handed volleyball net-sealing cover. The two of them were on the air bar.
Can this Chen Jiyuan get used to him?
Both hands slammed into force. I shouted angrily in my heart: I qnmlgb.
I squeezed the ball down.
Countless cheers rang out on the pitch in an instant.