Chapter 296: The Power of the Iron Elbow

With 3:20 left in the third quarter, the score was 70:72, and the Knicks trailed by two points.

D'Antoni glanced at the time and did not replace Zhang Yu, replaced Crawford, and replaced Nate. Robinson, the backcourt combination of Little Potato, Zhang Yu, and Wallace continued to attack the Celtics.

For the first time today, the Celtic Big Three all sat on the sidelines, and D'Antoni thought it was a good opportunity to chase points, and they had to take advantage of this time when the Big Three were all sitting on the sidelines, taking the opportunity to move back to the disadvantage and get back points.

However, the bench lineup led by Rondo is not easy to deal with, the big baby's blocking and dismantling allows Rondo to dribble to the basket, this little man's breakthrough speed is as fast as lightning, and he can attack and pass after the breakthrough.

David Lee was bewildered by Rondo's pass feint, who retracted the basketball and forced a layup. This is Rajan. Rondo scored 14th points of the game, and the Celtics' point guard contributed 7 assists in addition to scoring high today, which can be called all-round.

Zhang Yu knew that it was time for him to perform, and Rivers knew it, and made gestures off the court, and the Celtics' bench team played a half-court tight defense in the last three minutes of the third quarter.

Tony. Allen is a great defensive player, he didn't play much in the playoffs, Ray Allen is not as good defensively as the former, but he is not a lag in the Green Shirts' defensive system, and the killer Ray has contributed on the offensive end is Toney. Allen is far from being able to do it, which makes his position very awkward, and he can only play as a substitute for Ray Allen in a limited time.

Zhang Yu dribbled past the midfield and wanted to use his speed to force a breakthrough through Tony. Aaron, but was stopped by the latter with a small move.

Tony. Allen's defense wasn't particularly dirty. But don't expect the players from the Celtics, especially the guys who have been teammates of Garnett, to be clean. That's impossible, and few players in the NBA who defend well are clean. It's a little bit of a small gesture.

Zhang Yu took a step towards the three-point line and raised his hand to make a shooting pose.

Tony. Allen didn't jump, he just stepped forward and reached out to block Zhang Yu's eyes, and the substitute small forward on the other side, Lyon. Bao Wei immediately came up to the bag.

The Celtics are without Garnett, Big Baby and Mickey. Moore wasn't that quick to switch and make up for it.

Wallace cut in, Zhang Yu finally found a route that could pass the ball, a ground-hitting pass broke through the entire Celtic defense, Wallace received the ball and hit a one-handed dunk!

Rivers immediately shouted at his players from the sidelines to cancel the zone defense.

Defensive is not something that any player can do. Especially in the NBA, there is a three-second zone and a reasonable collision zone, which requires players on the court to have a very good sense of defense, and the timing of changing defenses, assisting defense, filling positions, and pinching are very high requirements for players. The most important thing is that playing joint defense in the NBA also needs to have interior killers like Garnett and Duncan, and without these two, at least there must be a Tyson. Chandler is such an insider.

NBA teams are not particularly willing to use joint defense, except for the existence of a reasonable collision zone in the three-second zone that makes the joint defense in name only, but also because of the excellent athleticism of black players, even if they don't use joint defense, they only rely on man-to-man marking and a certain amount of help defense. Under the rules of the NBA, it can be as powerful as the joint defense.

The Celtics withdrew their joint defense and switched to man-to-man, and such a defense Zhang Yu even faced Tony. Aaron didn't feel too much pressure, and he felt like the sky was high and the birds were flying. This feeling is not only Zhang Yu. The same goes for Wallace and Nate Robinson, and the Celtics' defensive center is Garnett, the king of the Wolves, without a pillar. The Celtics' defense wasn't too powerful.

In the last three minutes, the three of them broke through frantically. Lead the team to a wave of scoring!

The Celtics, who don't have Garnett and the Big Three, can't defend themselves against the Knicks' outside impact, but on the offensive end. They also left the Knicks helpless.

Rondo's breakthrough also made it difficult for the Knicks to defend, relying on the blocking and dismantling of his teammates, the Celtics No. 1 position continued to shuttle through the Knicks' defense, and scored 4 points and 2 assists in the last three minutes, increasing his personal data to 16 points and 9 assists, and only three quarters have obtained a very good personal data, which is a reflection of his ability.

At the end of the third quarter, the score was 80:79, and the Knicks relied on the main force not to get off the court and overtook the score by one point.

D'Antoni wasn't particularly happy with the result, and he expected the team to have at least a five-point lead in the fourth quarter to withstand the Celtics' counterattack, and a one-point lead was not a lead at all.

Zhang Yu said that he had done his best, and today he scored 34 points, 4 rebounds and 2 assists in the third quarter, shooting 12 of 20, 4 of 8 three-pointers, and 6 of 7 free throws.

In this game, Zhang Yu pressed the defense in order to break through the Celtics' variant 212 area, and was put to the ground several times by the Celtics' ferocious inside. He doesn't have the strength of James, and it's a very risky way to play, and now he has a lot of bruises on his body, which were caused by Perkins and Garnett.

In the fourth quarter, Rivers took the lead in replacing Pierce and Ray Allen, who put a lot of pressure on the Knicks' bench defense.

D'Antoni is replaced by Nate. Robinson, Crawford, Quentin. Richardson's backcourt combination hopes to make up for the lack of defense with offense, and use offense instead of defense to withstand Celtics' counterattacks.

Pierce back-to-back singles Quentin on the offensive end. Richardson, the two weigh about the same, but at the moment Quentin. Richardson couldn't withstand Pierce's offensive firepower and was singled out by the Celtics captain in a row.

D'Antoni didn't dare to send someone to trap Pierce, and Ray Allen, a dangerous man, has been wandering outside the three-point line, ready to deliver the fatal blow at any time!

New York fans finally know that defense is always passive, Crawford does not have Zhang Yu's defensive ability, and in three minutes of game time, he was still run out of space by Ray Allen on the outside, shooting two three-pointers in succession and hitting one.

The two giants of the Celtics combined with the impact of Big Baby on the inside, and by the time D'Antoni replaced Zhang Yu at 8:05, the team had already handed over the measly two-point advantage they had achieved in the third quarter.

With the score 85-87, the Knicks trailed the Celtics by two points.

At the same time, Rivers made a substitution adjustment, replacing Garnett, who had had enough rest, and then using Toney. Allen replaces Ray Allen.

The Green Shirts lineup became: Eddie House, Tony Allen, Pierce, Big Baby, Garnett.

Knicks' on-court lineup: Zhang Yu, Crawford, Wallace, David Lee, Birdman Anderson.

Although the two teams have not yet replaced all the main forces, they have entered the final battle in advance!

Zhang Yu felt that his physical strength could last until the end of the game, he played for almost 40 minutes today, and he could still eat, it seems that his physical strength is no longer his shortcoming.

Tony. After Allen came on the court, he stalked Zhang Yu, on the one hand, it was to consume the physical strength of the red rabbit, and on the other hand, he wanted to provoke Zhang Yu with small actions. In the playoffs, without exception, the stars will be provoked by the opposing role players, and the more famous you are, the more the opponent will be excessive.

James and Kobe Bryant will be treated like this every game, the boss has iron elbows to protect his body, and it is not easy to suffer; Gorillas are the most tragic, everyone likes to bully James who rarely fights back, from the earliest Bowen and Stevenson, to the current Kenyon Martin and Zhang Yu, it is not easy for gorillas to be blamed, if they don't pay their bodies, they are estimated to have been abolished.

Zhang Yu inherited Kobe's advantages in this regard, only to see Tony. After Aaron got entangled, he suddenly screamed, and fell to the floor with a "poof", and even the braces were knocked out.

The "TD North Shore Garden" stadium resounded with invective, countless racist swear words sprayed at Zhang Yu, and the stadium was full of earth-shattering boos and abuse for a while!

The referee made an offensive foul gesture, but did not show a technical foul to Zhang Yu.

Zhang Yu made a helpless gesture, still playing the role of an innocent victim.

The big screen over the court began to play Zhang Yu's breakthrough repeatedly, only to see the little rabbit's hand protecting the ball raised, and the iron elbow seemed to emit a cold light and Tony. Allen's jaw came to a close touch, and Celtics fans could feel Zhang Yu's elbow at the moment, and his teeth were sour. Aaron's teeth were probably going to be knocked out.

"Wait......"

Live footage to Tony. Allen, the Celtics' defensive titan with blood all over his mouth, doesn't know what came out of his mouth.

Zhang Yu rubbed his iron elbow, he didn't know what solid thing he had touched just now, and he was also very painful.

Celtics fans just let out a little scolding when they saw Tony. After Aaron was really knocked out of his front teeth, he immediately rushed to Zhang Yu with more violent scolding and boos......

This bastard just pretended to be innocent, and even his teeth were knocked out, so he still has to be shameless?

Zhang Yu was expressionless, he didn't pretend to be innocent, and began to pretend to be deep!

Rivers shouted to the referee that the previous penalty against Zhang Yu was obviously too light, and he almost ate a technical foul as a result.

Celtic meet Tony. Aaron looks like this, he must not be able to continue the game, only to put the thunder who has just been replaced, and the ass has not yet sat hot. Allen came on again, and today only the veteran played a little longer on the field.

New York fans feel very happy, elbow out the opponent's defensive titans, only pay the price of a foul, it's really worth it!

Zhang Yu thought the same in his heart, but he didn't be happy for long, Garnett hit a turnaround jumper in the waist position, which made Zhang Yu pay another 2 points.

"Damn, that's still worth it!"

Zhang Yu's thoughts did not fall, and the indignant Celtics used a full-court pressure on the Knicks, and it was also not trivial for the old men to get angry.

Thunder. Aaron and Tony. Allen's defensive style is different, and Killer Ray relies on accurate judgment and defensive awareness, not too much on the body, and belongs to the technical stream of consciousness. (To be continued......)