Chapter 288: Speed is the only chance
When Pierce saw Zhang Yu slapping Rondo's ass, he thought he was sowing discord, and hurriedly interjected: "You guys don't want to seduce the rising star of our team, do you?" ”
Garnett laughed: "This guy is famous for seducing everyone, and it is said that there is no star who plays against him who is not seduced by him." ”
Zhang Yu's eyes moved, and he said along the lines: "You are right, I not only seduce Rondo, but also want to seduce you together, if you don't want to stay in Boston, I welcome you on behalf of the Big Apple." ”
The Big Three are all speechless now, which sentence of Zhang Yu is true and which is false, even the three girls can't tell the difference, what are the Big Three?
Celtic's starting lineup today: Rajan. Rondo, Ray Allen, Paul. Pierce, Kevin. Garnett, Kendrick. Perkins
Knicks starting lineup: Nate Robinson, Zhang Yu, Gerrard. Wallace, Kenyon. Martin, David Lee.
D'Antoni will be Nate today. Robinson switched back to the starting line-up and faced a blazingly fast Rajan. Rondo, Crawford's speed and agility will suffer, Rondo doesn't shoot well, the main means of scoring is breakthrough, and the speed is not inferior to his small potatoes can reduce Rondo's breakthrough threat to the maximum.
Gerrard. In D'Antoni's eyes, Wallace will play a more important role in this series, and in the semifinals, the defensive titan will be blown up by James, and no one in the league can limit the little emperor. But today in the face of Paul. Pierce, the speed and explosiveness of the truth have begun to decline, although he has an advantage in strength, Wallace does not suffer much, and he can withstand it completely.
Now the two are compared in athleticism. Overall, Wallace is better, so he should be able to restrain Pierce in theory, but it doesn't look like theory when it comes to the court. No one can pack a ticket.
The Celtics still have the strength to win the championship this year, which can be described as good both offensive and defensive, with both overall coordination and star singles, Garnett can be in the middle, and can also play singles on the wings in the low post; With two corners and a 45-degree three-point line, Ray Allen is a threat from almost anywhere outside the three-point line. No one dared to relax their guard against him; Pierce is one of the most versatile small forwards, and he's one of the league's best back-to-back singles players at this position, even though the impact is no longer comparable to James' in the previous round. But under the pin of the other two giants, Paul. The threat that Pierce exudes is in no way inferior to LeBron. James.
D'Antoni couldn't think of a way to limit the Celtics, and his defensive setup in the first game was very simple, Zhang Yu never left to defend Ray Allen; Gerard Wallace stayed on his feet defending Pierce; Kenyon Martin stayed on his feet defending Garnett. It's TMD again, and it's the same man-to-man defense for 10,000 years.
Charles. Barkley asked before the game began, "Game 1 of the Eastern Conference Finals is about to start. Let's start with the main point of dealing with the Celts. ”
Kenny. "The point is to stop the three-point shooting of the Kais, who were one of the teams that shot the most three-pointers last season, and you can't put the defender too far from the three-point line, you have to stay close to the three-point shooter, and if you don't look closely at the perimeter, you can get into big trouble," Smith replied. ”
As the two spoke, the game began.
In the opening scrum, Garnett easily defeated David Lee, and the Wolves experienced seven big battles with the Magic. I was finally able to win the scrum again today.
Rajan. Rondo dribbles forward, at which point the TV camera gives a shot to the sidelines. In the picture is actually Warcraft center Dwight. Howard.
This guy has just been eliminated, and at the moment he is actually grinning and sitting in the Celtics' home stadium with a big smile, and I don't know if he is heartless, or that he is naturally open-minded and optimistic? However, since Warcraft entered the NBA, it has been this character for four seasons, and at first some people criticized him, but later found out that this guy is like this every time, and slowly everyone accepted this setting.
Rondo is now the Big Four, but the ball has been in his hands for a limited amount of time than last year. Dribbling the ball from the back to the front, Rondo still has to give the ball more to Pierce or Garnett.
The role of the Celtics' point guard has indeed become more important this season, but Garnett is not injured, he is still the junior fourth, the youngest on the team.
Ray Allen started to run, Perkins covered for Killer Ray on the baseline, Garnett was raised to cover for Pierce, Celtics double-covered, and Rondo had already handed the basketball to Pierce at this time, and he became the response point for the outside.
Garnett pulled away immediately after the screen, and Pierce used the cover to shake off Wallace in a split second and dribble towards the basket.
In less than three seconds, the Big Four of the Green Shirts had at least five or six chances, and that's the terrible thing about the Celtics, there are too many people to attack, and they can't defend against it.
Kenyon Martin switched to Pierce, and he couldn't keep up with the opponent, and Pierce dribbled to the basket, attracting two interior defenders from the Knicks and quickly splitting the basketball.
Garnett catches the ball at the free-throw line and uses his height advantage to hit a mid-range shot over Wallace's head.
The "TD North Shore Garden" arena immediately resonated with deafening cheers from Celtics fans to celebrate the team's first victory and also to demonstrate to the enemy.
The Green Shirts' offense was actually only halfway complete, and they had already created a scoring opportunity.
If the Knicks' defense is excellent and Garnett doesn't have a shot, the Green Shirts can follow up with Ray Allen and Rondo on the perimeter, or Pierce can come out and regroup. In short, the Celtics' offense can have countless changes under the cyclic running position of the Big Three, and can defend their offense in 24 seconds, which only a few teams in the league can do, and the Knicks are obviously not on this list.
D'Antoni sighed in his heart, Mustache is now willing to put down his pride and hire an assistant coach for the team who is good at defense next year, just like Thibodeau, who is good at adjusting the defense in the current Celtics coaching staff, he really has no way to deal with the Celtics.
The Knicks players didn't react after conceding the ball, and the coach told them in advance that it didn't matter if they couldn't prevent it. Today's strategy is only two points, rebounding and offense, as long as you hold these two points. They have a chance to win the game if they can't prevent it.
Nate. Robinson dribbled forward, and the little potato was extremely fast, chasing the Greenshirts' butts and rushing up.
Zhang Yu and Wallace were neck and neck with him, and the Knicks picked up the pace very quickly, much faster than the previous two series.
Rondo is not inferior to Little Potato in speed, and can completely keep up with each other.
But Ray Allen and Pierce were in pain, and neither of them could run fast. The short distance is okay, and a few more trips to this kind of full-field sprint are almost deadly.
Zhang Yu received the pass and dragged Lei Laren to the basket without slowing down.
Wallace caught up from the other side. After receiving the pass and quickly slamming a one-handed dunk, it took only three seconds for the Knicks to complete the offense.
Pierce tried his best to defend himself, but he still couldn't keep up with Wallace's speed, and he was one step slower and could only watch the opponent slam the dunk.
The Celtics were clearly ill-prepared for the first time defending. I didn't expect the Knicks to be so fast. It seems that the Knicks have not been less prepared these days.
The huge cheers at the "TD North Shore Garden" arena were much smaller after Wallace scored the blue ball, and the Green Shirts fans didn't know anything, and the Knicks' speed was one of the most restrained weapons.
Rondo received the serve, the Celtic's pace was slower than the last time, Rondo deliberately controlled his own advancing speed, and just now the Big Three all desperately returned to defense, although they did not have much effect in the end. However, the body consumption is quite a lot, and the recovery speed of the Green Shirts is very slow. At this time, I want to give the three eldest brothers a breather.
The Celtics fell into the field station, Pierce flanked the ball, and this time Truth was going to sit and play.
Garnett and Ray Allen moved to the weak side to open up space for Pierce to play singles.
Pierce squeezed back twice, Wallace gritted his teeth, but the former suddenly turned around and broke through, carrying Wallace's defense with his body in two steps to break through to an emergency stop outside the paint area.
Wallace's center of gravity was shaken by Pierce's very rhythmic movements, and the Celtics captain easily hit the board and threw it, and the basketball bounced into the frame.
"Help me make up for it."
Wallace said to David Lee when he served, Perkins has excellent single defense, the Celtics eliminated the Magic, and a few games were related to him limiting Howard, but this guy's offensive ability is almost none, and he will only dunk under the basket.
Kenyon Martin can't leave Garnett lightly, only David Lee can divide his energy to help defend, and it can be seen from Guò that Pierce is in excellent form at the beginning and needs someone to support.
David Lee nodded and happily agreed to the request of the second master.
Gerrard. Wallace and Jamal. Crawford: Who is the second best Knicks?
This issue has not yet been decided, but within the team, Crawford is introverted and rarely communicates with his teammates off the field, and he doesn't care about any second-in-command, third-in-command, and does not fight for these false names. And Gerald. Wallace is more versatile, more aggressive in the game, passionate in play, and most importantly, he has the experience of being the boss of the Bobcats, so more people in the team regard Wallace as the second leader of the team.
The Knicks' offense continued to maintain a high speed, and the Celtics defended faster this time, not competing for frontcourt rebounds at all, but grabbing the advantageous route while retreating, maintaining a solid defensive formation and retreating.
Nate. Robinson dribbled to the front court, where he was intercepted by the Celtics defenders, not as fast as last time, but fortunately he had excellent ball handling skills, and this time he was a little slower but not conceded.
Rajan. Rondo wanted to break the ball, but was almost cleaned by the little potato, and it was Ray Allen who helped him to block Nate. Robinson.
Once this guy has Zhang Yu on the court, his passing ability will be +10, and he will distribute the basketball to Zhang Yu in time.
Rondo's reckless break left Celtic's already impregnable defence porous.
Zhang Yu immediately accelerated to break through after receiving the ball, hit the three-point line like lightning, and then collected the ball and flashed Pierce and Garnett with a ball-wrapping action, and only took three steps from outside the three-point line to the basket, and jumped up to score two points with a one-handed dunk.
Garnett is indeed getting old, and even if he doesn't get injured, his pace has dropped a little bit since last year's playoffs.
Zhang Yu was a little faster than at the beginning of the regular season, and he had already put the basketball into the basket before the wolf king blocked and landed safely.
"Steady, don't be reckless!" Pierce said beside Rondo that the truth had just made up for the defense, but Zhang Yu broke through the ball from the top of his head, which was a big humiliation for the Celtics captain.
Naturally, Zhang Yu can't be blamed for this, so he can only remind his little brother.
It seems that Zhang Yu complimented Rondo a few words before the game, which made this little guy mentally inflated, which is not a good sign, Pierce, who has seen strong winds and waves, knows when to knock his little brother with a small stick. (To be continued......)