This game is an extremely important game for the Boston Celtics and Grizzlies, the Grizzlies hope to win at least one of the first two games, and this one is the most likely, if this game the Grizzlies can't win, this is really too bad for them who just ended the seven-game battle with the Wizards three days ago, after all, the Boston Celtics have been resting for 8 days, and in this case, their game is slightly better than the Celtics, And the physical fitness is far from being comparable to the Celtics. If you wait until Celtic adjusts their game to the top, it's hard to say that they will sneak up on this team again.

So this game can even be said to be the only game that the Grizzlies can steal on the road, and it is also the most likely game to win away, although Carlisle was caught off guard by Zhuang Fei in this game, but he still did not give up the hope of winning this game, and in fact, although the Grizzlies are slightly unfavorable, this is not to say that his team has no hope. For the Grizzlies, the Grizzlies can't afford to lose this game, losing this game is likely to be 2-0 in the first two games, and when the time comes, they will also be under pressure to win both games at home.

And in the same way, for the Celtics, the pressure of losing this game will completely come to their side, which also means that they must also win one game away from home, and it is more likely that after the first two games are 1-1, this round of the series is very likely to be rushing to grab seven, which is not what Zhuang Fei wants to see, you know, the biggest opponent of the Boston Celtics this season is not the Grizzlies in the East, but the Lakers in the West, who knows how many games the Lakers and the Timberwolves can play.

In fact, in this year's regular season, the Timberwolves almost couldn't win against the Lakers, and according to Zhuang Fei's estimates, this round of the series is estimated to be over in six games at most. In fact, Zhuang Fei does not want his team to end the series after the Lakers, which is extremely disadvantageous to the Celtics, after all, the sooner the series ends, the longer the preparation time will be, in this case, Zhuang Fei naturally hopes to be able to win 4-2. Even a big score of 4-1 into the finals, if you really want to ensure such a score, then the first two Celtics must be won, there is absolutely no doubt about this, of course, the current development of the situation is indeed extremely beneficial to Zhuang Fei and his Kyle Tiere.

"Beautiful ball control, Artest doesn't dare to be close, huh? Voted again? Dry pulling, dry drawing of the three-point line at the top of the arc! Very nice arc. Artest jumped up and blocked, but it didn't stop the basketball line, and the beautiful, hollow net, the Boston Celtics once again widened the gap to 8 points. Carter's last effort was in vain again, and it was Maddy's second pull-out in the fourth quarter against Artest, who was too cautious defensively, and perhaps he has been thinking about that brawl at North Shore Gardens a year ago right now. The scene was the same at that time, when it was difficult for him to find a rhythm to defend Maddie, and in fact, in the entire NBA now, the only thing that can do better than Maddie is probably Carter. And the players who can do the same level as Maddie in this regard are probably only Arenas or Kobe? This game is a test for Artest, and now should the Grizzlies switch to Carter to defend Maddie and let Artest go to the No. 4 position? However, Artest is similar in height to Carter, although Carter is slightly stronger in strength, but can his footsteps stop O'Neal? It's hard to say, the Grizzlies are in trouble, and for any team that wants to chase points, when they can't stop the other team from scoring, it's impossible to talk about such a chasing point."

"Ron, calm down and don't stir things up"

On the court of North Shore Garden, Vince Carter, the Grizzlies' leading player, patted his teammate, who was becoming more and more hideous, and said comfortingly, the last seven minutes of the fourth quarter, even if others don't say it, he knows that this is his seven minutes, and it is also his cousin's seven minutes, maybe this game is a direct contest between the two of them, and in fact, after the last seven minutes of the fourth quarter, both Carter and Maddie have opened their personal offensive mode, Carter started in the middle of the third quarter and rested to the middle of the fourth quarter, so to speak, a full quarter.

And Maddie was asked by Zhuang Fei to play soy sauce in the first half, which was to prepare for Carter's outbreak in the fourth quarter, in this case, the two naturally would not be humble, and in the same way, when the two began to score, whether it was Artest or Xiao Ao who defended the two, they were facing great pressure, in fact, Carter didn't know what Xiao Ao was thinking at this time, but he knew very well what Artest was thinking, It can be said that the North Shore Garden incident more than a year ago has always been Artest's heart disease, and the fuse of that incident was caused by his complete explosion by Maddie on the defensive end, and finally uncool retaliation against the Celtics players.

This incident almost made the Grizzlies with a dynasty foundation fall apart immediately, although now the Grizzlies don't have much blame for Artest, but obviously, for the player himself, such a thing can make him extremely self-reproachful, although he is not a very reliable person, but the feelings for the team or Carter are still there, and not low, in this case he almost held back for a season to beat Maddie again in this year's playoffs, and then let the team enter the finals again, And then the overall championship again.

It is precisely because of this idea that he sees this game as extremely important, or as important to this series, and this has become the biggest reason why he is a little cautious on the defensive end, he doesn't want to make mistakes or mistakes, and the more he does this, the more he loses his essence, he is not a defender known for his calmness, his defense is extremely crazy, and when he loses these madness, his defense simply loses the greatest threat and deterrence.

And in fact, this is similar to the mentality of the current Celtics' big forward Xiao Ao, the two have similar personalities, and in fact, the current encounter is similar, Xiao Ao is also ready to take revenge, and he is also ready to beat Carter in this game or this round of the series, and the more he thinks about it, the more difficult it is to play his strength, and sometimes it is definitely not a good thing to take some things too seriously, and it is easy to lose his balance. This balance is both technical and psychological.

Jermaine jumped up again, he always thought Carter was going to shoot in front of him, but in fact, Carter rarely did that in this game, Jermaine O'Neal should calm down, although his footwork is not as good as Carter, but it can be a little smarter. He kept his distance from Carter, but he didn't do so for the whole game, so it's rare that Coach Z is really preparing the power forward to comprehend this on his own? Maybe for the victory of this game, Coach Z needs to impose his influence on Jermaine O'Neal, otherwise it will be difficult for Yao Ming to sit under the basket, when he faces Carter one-on-one, he is not a sensitive inside, he can only stretch out his hands and stand straight there to deter Carter, but this kind of deterrence is difficult to have a good effect. Carter is the best 'blue' player in the league right now, and when he jumps to the basket, he can do a lot of incredible moves in the air, just like his dunks, and maybe he can have a very good blocking effect on the defense of Yao Ming, the rest of the league. But it didn't work for Carter, a beautiful layup, Carter threw it out, and the Boston Celtics countered with a quick baseline shot. Artest is slow, and Maddie has already made a fast break in advance, with a beautiful dunk. James Posey's long pass is very good, Artest didn't find his defender, his concentration is a little loose now, Carter's two points that he finally got were filled by the Celtics again, there are 3 minutes left in the game, the Celtics are still leading by 8 points, the Grizzlies have no time, Carlisle chose to take a timeout, I think after the timeout, this team should change a little, maybe Carter should need to be released from the fourth position, Maybe it would be a good attempt to let Artest defend Jermaine O'Neal, who is also a bit out of sorts. ”

"Kenny, you're right, Carlisle put Carter in the number three position after the timeout" Barkley smiled as he looked at the two players on the pitch who were already facing each other, and that it had always been something he wanted to see, and it was happening now.

"Well, this can liberate Carter's attack power and suppress Maddie's attack power to the greatest extent, but I don't know if Artest can defend O'Neal, but judging from this game, O'Neal's condition is not very good, and the pressure on the Grizzlies should not be very great." Kenny Smith said with a final frown

"Vinnce, I won't lose again this time" Maddie hunched his waist and stared fiercely at the person who was dribbling in front of him, before this game, he had even given up the idea of such a direct duel with him, because in the current Celtics, he didn't need to do this, but what he didn't expect was that at the beginning of this game, his head coach was creating such an opportunity for him, in fact, from the first quarter, when the head coach made him an auxiliary point, and James Posey and Jackson became the main attack point, He already had a hunch that this game was an opportunity for his manager to speak directly to Carter.

And sure enough, such an opportunity has indeed arrived, although Maddie is no longer so obsessed with the idea of a direct confrontation with Carter, but this goal is his biggest goal after playing basketball after all, so this obsession does not mean that there is no such obsession, and in fact, when such an opportunity appears, Maddie's heart at this time is extremely hot, just like this time, This can almost let the people next to him see that the Celtic boss, who has never had much momentum, is actually up now.

"Yes, I hope you will think so after this game" Carter was also slightly stunned after listening to Maddie's declaration, and then smiled slightly, at this time the basketball in his hand has been in a rhythmic cloud, no one knows what his next move is, this kind of dribbling is more unpredictable than Maddie's teasing Artest before, so at this time Maddie's eyes are almost wide as if he was staring out, and his expression is extremely concentrated.

And at this time, Carter, who had been dribbling at a constant frequency, suddenly accelerated the speed of the dribble, and after the acceleration, a rapid cross-step breakthrough, Maddie, who had been staring very tightly, did not shake and was able to stick to Carter, and when Carter couldn't break through and stepped back to shoot outside the three-point line again, Maddy, who had been very nervous, flew up directly, And Maddie, who flew up, could only watch Carter, who made this shooting feint, in the air at this time, smiled slightly at the corner of his mouth, and then made a shooting action again, and leaned on him, which was a foul outside the three-point line.

"Brush"

After the ball left Carter's hand, it crossed a beautiful arc and hollowed into the net, and almost at the moment when the ball was shot, the referee had already sounded the whistle, this was a four-point attack, and for a while the North Shore Garden was silent, and Maddie, who came down from the air, also looked at the smiling cousin in front of him with a solemn face, Maddie knew very well that this was an accident deliberately created by his cousin who took advantage of his current impatience, which also calmed Maddie's manic mood a lot.

He knows very well that if he still can't keep his normal heart this time, then he is still the one who loses this time, just like Zhuang Fei has always said, when you want to challenge a person or a team, you must put yourself on the same level as him, instead of always taking the weak to challenge the strong mentality, such a mentality will bring failure nine times out of ten, when I thought of this, Maddie's heart was also a little calmer, just clenched his fist and turned around to go to the middle circle, And this time Carter's four-point shot was also successful.

"Since Carter played the No. 4 position, we have rarely seen such an attack like this this season, and now there are four points left in the difference, and the Grizzlies' chance is here, of course, this time they need to defend it" Just when Kenny Smith finished speaking, this time the Boston Celtics' offense was quickly completed, and as just now, this time the referee also blew the whistle, and this time, when Kenny Smith looked at the Grizzlies halfcourt, they only saw Maddy flying out from the free throw line, And just as he flew out, the shot basketball also crossed a beautiful arc and hollowed into the net.

This was a two-plus-one by Maddie Punch, and when Maddie fell to the ground, Kenny Smith, who thought that the suspense of the game would start again, was also embarrassed to look at Barkley, who was a little gloating on the side, and shook his head with a wry smile.

"Now, it's not two years ago"

Maddie gently got up from the ground and said lightly as she walked to the free throw line. At this time, Carter gently skimmed the cousin who passed by him, and his face was a little dull. (To be continued.) )