Chapter 640
The current game situation, for Celtics fans, is looking forward to when it will be able to turn around, and for Knicks fans, it is looking forward to when Chen Jiyuan will be able to score 40+ points.
Fans of the Knicks and Chen Jiyuan don't think that the Knicks can be overturned at this time.
You know, today's game was smooth for the Knicks, of course, not just because of luck.
Strength is crucial, but it doesn't mean that the Knicks are much better than the Celtics, the most important question is that the Celtics' knife players are not there, that is, Pierce, how important is Pierce to the Celtics? To put it simply, Pierce is to the Celtics what Chen Jiyuan is to the Knicks. I don't need to say how important that is.
Therefore, even if today's game is won, it does not mean that the Knicks should be able to win if they meet the Celtics in the playoffs, but if the Knicks are overturned by the Celtics today, then for the Celtics players, it will be a great boost to the team's confidence when they meet the Knicks in the playoffs.
The fourth quarter of the game began quickly, and the Knicks did not send five starters at the first time, but chose to let the main players rest off the court.
The two people who came on the field to match the inside line were Ibaka and Love. Although the height of both of them is less than 2.10 meters, the attributes of the two people are still relatively compatible. Lefou's is the type of player with super strength, while Ibaka is athletic enough to run back and forth. Lefous is responsible for resisting people, and Ibaka is responsible for back-and-forth defense.
No matter who you match with the inside line, Lefou's responsibility is basically to resist people. The main thing is to resist the opponent's back-to-back singles. It's a bit similar to Perkins' role, but Lefu is much better than Perkins, Lefu not only has good offensive means and shooting touch, but also on the defensive end, the speed is also a little faster than Perkins, Perkins is mainly stronger than the strength, and excellent defensive awareness.
The Knicks' outside players are Thorton, Iguodala, and Matt Barnes. Because Thorton and Curry are both slightly flawed on the defensive end, Thibodeau doesn't like to put two people on the court together, more often, as long as there is a choice, then Thibodeau will choose to let one of Thorton and Curry play, and then the No. 2 and No. 3 positions are equipped with two crazy people on the defensive end.
The Knicks' swingmen, whether it's Stephen Jackson or Iguodala or Matt Barnes, are tough guys on the defensive end.
The five men sent by the Celtics during this time were Garnett, Daniels, Rondo. Ray Allen and Glenn Davis, it seems that the Celtics are trying to find the point difference during this period of rest for the Knicks' main players. Then the game can continue to play in the fourth quarter.
The Knicks took the lead in attacking, Thorton was under Rondo's defense, attacking with the ball, Thorton took a step sideways with the ball, and then directly stopped and shot a jumper, but Rondo's arm span is very good, and Thorton's height itself is not high. So the ball was seriously interfered with by Rondo, and the ball really popped out of the frame.
Glenn Davis on the inside grabbed the rebound and passed it to Rondo, who let him dribble to the front.
The person who shot the Celtics' offensive shot this time was Garnett, Garnett singled Lefu in the frame, however, before receiving the ball, Garnett's receiving was more difficult, Lefou's defense was very tight, and he was dangling around Garnett, just not giving Garnett a good chance to receive the ball. However, the Celtics were able to find an opportunity to pass the ball to Garnett through a quick revers.
After Garnett receives the ball, he turns his back into a frame break, and then takes a step to the right, and then accelerates quickly to the left, which is a step that Garnett likes to use very much. Garnett only needs to cause even 0.1 seconds of hesitation to give him a lead and break down the defender's defence.
Although Lefu is no longer a rookie, but after all, he is a young man, and Lefu assures that he has really done a good job, but it is only a momentary hesitation. It made Lefu slightly lose the best defensive position in defense,
Garnett will not let go of this slim opportunity at all, Garnett directly led the bottom line, but although Lefu is not in the best position, he still has not completely lost his defensive position.
After Garnett burst into the basket, because the Celtics were relatively low, Garnett wanted to dunk the ball to boost morale, but after all, Lefu was trained by Thibodeau, are you really thinking that Thibodeau's training is funny?
The dunk is still a bit too much.
Lefu ran to the basketball in Garnett's hand, and he didn't intend to give himself face as an old-timer at all.
However, Garnett is still very experienced, of course, he knows that this ball dunk is very reluctant, so he holds the ball in his left hand and dunks it early, and his right hand sets up his elbow early, and the card owner Lefu makes it difficult for Lefu to get close to his body in the air, although Lefou's body is very thick, but it is obviously a harder elbow.
Garnett managed to dunk the ball in.
75:64。
After Lefu landed, he looked at his chest and then at Garnett, still very angry. But Thibodeau often taught his disciples not to argue about the useless, those small actions just don't become the rules, unless the action is very excessive, or the defender reacts very violently, and then the referee will choose to blow.
Garnett's action, Lefu knew that arguing would not be useful, so he chose to shut up and chose to respond to Garnett with behavior.
The Knicks were attacking, Thorton dribbled the ball through the half, broke through with the ball, and after a few steps, gave the ball to Iguodala, Iguodala shook it and made a shooting action, Tony Allen, who was rushing over, was shaken away by Iguodala's action, Iguodala chose to shoot by himself, but passed the ball to Matt Barnes, who is now very safe, Matt Barnes received the ball and shot directly on a three-point shot.
Matt Barnes' three-point shot is the kind of thing that is accurate, not exactly, but it can't be missed. Hey, you can't get in.
This three-pointer, yes, went to the basket. 78:64。
The Celtics attacked again, and it was still Garnett's singles. Lefu defended Garnett steadily this time, and in such a short period of time, it was impossible for Lefu to eat the same move for the second time so soon.
Garnett chose to turn over this time with a hook move, but Lefu resisted Garnett to the death, making Garnett's hook move a little out of shape, and the ball naturally did not go in.
After all, Garnett is really old, although he is still in his playing years, but he is no longer in the state of the young wolf king of the Timberwolves.
Lefou's success in defending the ball. The Knicks attacked again, Thorton held the ball, but there was no chance, Rondo's defense was still very tight, Thorton passed the ball to Iguodala, and the person who defended Iguodala was Ray Allen, and Ray Allen's body was not strong enough, which was Ray Allen's weakness.
Iguodala held the ball, just shook it for a moment, and then accelerated to the inside, no skills, purely relying on strength to crush Ray Allen, after a few steps, Iguodala felt that this opportunity was not very good, although Ray Allen is not a power type, but if a random person can use his power to crush Ray Allen, then Ray Allen will not be able to become a superstar. With such a huge defensive black hole, what kind of superstar can you talk about? The giant cave is pretty much the same.
Iguodala passed the ball reluctantly, after Stephen Jackson received the ball, because the ball was not very comfortable, so he couldn't shoot at the first time, Stephen Jackson adjusted the control of the ball, and then a rubbing step, dodging Daniels, who came to defend, successfully rushed into the inside, but after getting to the basket, he found that there were a lot of people, Glenn Davis and Garnett both came to make up for Stephen Jackson, there was no space and opportunity to shoot, Stephen Jackson also forced the pass to the outside, because there was no time, and after Thorton received the ball, he couldn't close the Rondo in front of him, and shot directly on a three-point shot.
If you don't make a move, it's 24 seconds.
Luckily, the ball dodged Rondo's block and made it to the basket.
81:64。
The score difference is getting bigger and bigger.
The Celtic players are getting impatient. If this continues, Celtic will have no chance of winning this game.
At this time, there had to be something on the court to break the Knicks' morale.
The Celtics attacked again, and Ray Allen missed a three-pointer from the outside, and the inside line was already a mess.
In the end, it was still a bear-like Lefu who successfully won the rebound.
However, Garnett had no intention of returning to defend at all, Garnett forcibly reached out to take out the ball, and Lefu must have held the ball in his arms a long time ago. Garnett naturally couldn't take it out, but Garnett didn't let go, so he hung Lefou's hand, and the two of them became entangled in an instant.
Garnett's original intention was to provoke the anger of Lefou.
The referee has already blown the whistle though. But Lefou's anger was indeed provoked by Garnett.
Lefu threw the ball aside, and then clenched it so tightly that he almost threw a fist into it. However, at the last moment, Lefu calmed down.
The clenched fists pushed Garnett, but Garnett raised his hands high and hit Lefour with his chest. An unyielding look.
Lefu soon became unhappy again. However, the arrival of teammates and referees put an end to this conflict temporarily.
Lefu said to Garnett across his teammates: "You soft egg, you can't do anything, when you are old, go home and pick up the child, don't be so embarrassed." ”
Of course, Garnett will not stand and be scolded: "Little guy, you still have a lot to learn, or I'll teach you how to play." You're a mouthful of a great guy. ”
Thibodeau decisively asked for a timeout at this time, Love had lost his cool, and at this time the Knicks needed to adjust and stabilize the situation. The Knicks, who are so far ahead, can win as long as they hold steady.