Chapter 505: Looks like garbage time.
For the current situation, the Knicks' morale is also a little low, you know, a long time without scoring will naturally make the players have the illusion that the game has been lost. Especially the feeling of scoring a goal, the feeling of scoring a goal seems to be a very ethereal thing, but in fact it is indeed an ethereal thing, but it is a very important thing.
Once you lose the feeling of scoring a goal, it will have a great impact on your confidence in shooting, which is why there are many times, when a player plays with confidence, after consecutive goals, the team will give this person more balls, because this person is now full of self-confidence, it is the perfect time to shoot, at this time, this player no matter where he is, in any form of way, he himself will feel that the goal must be scored. And, often, the ball does go in.
And now the Knicks' players are not as good as the Celtics' players in this regard, and they have just experienced a small climax. The Celtics players are at their most excited, when they are on the spot, and when they are ready to slaughter the Knicks. Naturally, the Knicks were very passive.
Chen Jiyuan failed to get a shot in several consecutive attacks in the fourth quarter of the game.
In the middle of two forced shots. Doug Rivers immediately changed the tactics of the defense. is not a tactic of holding the ball and trapping Chen Jiyuan, but has become a man-to-man defense. This is because Doug Rivers feels that Chen Jiyuan at this time is no longer so confident in making a move.
In the fourth quarter of the game, the Knicks couldn't open the situation for a long time, and Chen Jiyuan assisted Sessions to hit a three-pointer. It was a slight slowdown in the progress of the point difference being widened. However, this does not fundamentally prevent the difference from widening.
By the halfway point of the fourth quarter, the score between the two sides had been stretched to an 18-point gap. This gap is a bit big. It's already a relatively obvious loss of points that is impossible to recover.
But Thibodeau clearly didn't want to give up this first game win so easily, so the main players were still left on the field.
However, although Chen Jiyuan can finally not be caught by the Celtics at this time, he can finally score. But it doesn't matter much about the outcome of the game.
Because everyone except Chen Jiyuan doesn't seem to have any desire to win, and sure enough, the long-term scoring drought has fallen behind by a big score, which will still make people feel disappointed.
However, the more Chen Jiyuan was at this time, the more combative he became. This is because Chen Jiyuan is gradually developing a new thinking circuit for himself.
That is, when the New York Knicks were down by a big score. Chen Jiyuan felt that he had no pressure, because everyone thought that the New York Knicks had lost this game, even the opponent, even his own people thought so, then, if he could recover the lost points at this time, if he could reverse the game at this time, then it would be a miracle. And it will make everyone extremely excited, but if the reversal is unsuccessful at this time, everyone will only think that this is a matter of course, and there will be less disappointment. Therefore, when the game is behind by a big score, when the game seems to have entered a stage that cannot be reversed, it is the time to abandon the burden of a qiē, but it is the time to play easily regardless of whether the stock wins or loses.
Chen Jiyuan thinks like this, so now he has no idea in his heart at all, and he doesn't have any pressure in his heart at all. Therefore, in the face of the Celtics' defense, Chen Jiyuan is now playing more and more easily.
Chen Jiyuan first directly agreed on the two plus one of the status. The success cost Perkins a fifth foul. At the same time, the free throws were also steadily hit.
However, Doug Rivers obviously knew that Thibodeau would not give up the game so easily, so he had no intention of replacing the main player at all.
The Celtics are three and a half giants, Pierce, Ray Allen, Garnett, and Rondo. All four remained on the field.
Perkins was substituted off the court, and Eddie House, who was better in this game, was replaced, which is also to make the team's offense more fluid, so that even if the New York Knicks can score on the offensive end, but if there is no way to successfully curb the offensive momentum of the Celtics on the defensive end, it will be useless, and now that the team is leading by a large score, the players are more relaxed inside, and they will naturally be more confident in their shots on the offensive end. Therefore, when the score is leading, the players are often able to show stronger strength on the offensive end.
Doug Rivers pinched on this point, so he dared to do it.
Because the team has become a large and four small lineup, the heavy responsibility of defending Chen Jiyuan naturally falls on Garnett. However, in fact, almost every time he plays against the Celtics, it is Perkins who mainly defends Chen Jiyuan, and Garnett is more of a co-defense, but every time Garnett defends Chen Jiyuan alone, Chen Jiyuan will be very unopen, not because Garnett's defense is difficult to deliver, after all, he has unlimited confidence in his offensive power, so Chen Jiyuan will never affect his mentality because of how strong the opponent's defensive strength is, but Garnett is different, this small action is very much, It made Chen Jiyuan annoyed. And these little gestures, if you say he fouled, not yet, but it's a bit unsportsmanlike. However, the NBA is a league of money, everyone is to make money, how can anyone give up their money because they are afraid that others will not be upset.
Another ball, after Chen Jiyuan received the ball, Garnett defended in front of Chen Jiyuan, Chen Jiyuan turned his back and was ready to play the ball with his back, but Garnett used all kinds of bad small actions in a place that the referee couldn't see, which made Chen Jiyuan very uncomfortable, but in the end, Chen Jiyuan is also a guy who has been in the league for two years, so he naturally knows that this kind of thing is a normal thing, even if you take it out to theorize, no one will pay attention to you. It will only make people feel that you are playing too softly. However, for some excessive small actions, Chen Jiyuan hated it, and it should be said that everyone hated it. For example, Bowen, who was beaten by Chen Jiyuan, you want to make your defense more powerful, we have no opinion, but your black foot is a bit excessive, you are cutting off the road to life in the future than others, and you can't eat in the NBA in the future, you do this, it's like working in a company, you deliberately frame your colleagues, and then let your colleagues be fired by the boss It's almost the same, what's worse is that when you are dismissed, also made this person wear a wound on his body that may last a lifetime.
For Bowen Chen Jiyuan, he really can't bear it. That's why Bowen, who was punched, and his mother didn't know him. Although he paid a small price because of this, Chen Jiyuan didn't care at all. Even if some fans think that Chen Jiyuan is putting the interests of the team behind his head and is not a calm behavior, but Chen Jiyuan doesn't care about that, he is reborn once, if he still thinks about how to please others every day, then Chen Jiyuan feels that he really might as well not be reborn, and live a life in the ordinary life of his previous life.
Why does Lao Tzu want to beat you, because Lao Tzu wants to beat you, the reason is as simple as that. Chen Jiyuan no longer looks like he is packaging himself too complicated.
However, the main purpose of Garnett's small gestures is to provoke offensive players, and in this regard, Garnett is many times stronger than Bowen.
Although Chen Jiyuan felt unhappy, he would never be angry because of this, then lose his cool, and then do the wrong thing. That would be right for Garnett.
Chen Jiyuan's favorite thing is to play a fair and honest revenge, for example, this ball, Chen Jiyuan leaned on Garnett with his back, and then pretended to turn around with a bottom line, shoulder movements and footsteps are all feints, Chen Jiyuan kicked the ground with his right foot, and went directly to the middle line, Garnett's defensive experience is still very rich, and he will not eat lightly, this ball, Garnett still kept up with Chen Jiyuan's footsteps, when Chen Jiyuan came to the front basket, it suddenly looked like he was going to jump and jump, but this is also a feint, Garnett didn't eat this shake, but stuck it up, straightened his hands, his feet didn't leave the ground at all, and his body kept as straight as possible. Try not to infringe on Chen Jiyuan's column. Chen Jiyuan shook it and saw that Garnett didn't jump. So he forcibly jumped against Garnett's defense, and threw a backward jumper, this ball Garnett couldn't reach, so he simply didn't jump to block the ball, Chen Jiyuan's difficulty in this ball is still relatively large, but this ball is still crisp and hollow through the net. 100:85。
Chen Jiyuan scored five points in a row, which helped the team stabilize its position, but the effect was not very good, because between Chen Jiyuan's five points, Rondo also hit a layup, so the difference was still 15 points. But there were only 5 minutes and 4 seconds left.
As long as the Celtics play steadily, there is basically no suspense in the game, and as a favorable contender for the championship, it is difficult to imagine that the Celtics will pay for Na's low-level mistakes.
However, Chen Jiyuan obviously still doesn't want to give up the game, and Thibodeau also has the same idea, after Chen Jiyuan scored five points in a row, his teammates still have no desire to attack, Chen Jiyuan had to shoulder the heavy responsibility of attacking again.
However, for the Knicks right now, how to defend the Celtics' offense is the focus.