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"Let's take a look at the starting line-up for the Green Shirts, they don't have Ever-Bradley, huh, Hassan Whiteside......"

Mike Brin immediately snorted when he saw Whiteside's name appear in the starting lineup, but he quickly continued to read it back.

"Jarred Sullinger, Jeff Green, Lee Yang, Marcus Smart, Brad Stevens took us a bit by surprise with Hassan Whiteside topping a starting spot on the inside. ”

"Yes, however, Hassan Whiteside has been really good lately, and this is the first start of his career......"

Indeed, this is Whiteside's first start in the NBA in four years, and the first start was broadcast live in the United States, and in Li Yang's words, Whiteside's treatment is comparable to that of all famous superstars in NBA history.

However, for the time being, there is not much excitement on Whiteside's face, and Li Yang is not surprised by this, Whiteside is still quite excited in the locker room, as for entering the court, well, Whiteside is probably reading the game at the moment.

At the debut ceremony, to the cheers of the fans in attendance, the starters of both teams took to the field, with Whiteside and Joaquin Noah standing in the center circle to jump the ball.

When the referee tossed the ball, Whiteside pressed his jump button, quickly jumped in the air, pulled the ball into Smart's hand, and the game officially began.

Smart dribbled to the half, and the ball was immediately handed over to Li Yang, and Jimmy Butler immediately opened his hand to stop Li Yang.

Although Rose is back again this season, his form is no longer comparable to the peak season of 10-11, while Butler has improved significantly this season and has become the Bulls' top scorer.

Li Yang has played at the level of a top star this season, and Jimmy Butler has become an All-Star caliber player, and more importantly, both are top defensive players in the league, which is why their matchup has attracted much attention in this game.

At this time, Li Yang was not in a hurry to split the victory with Butler, the Celtics adjusted the starting lineup again, and in the face of the league's top defensive team like the Bulls, Stevens gave Li Yang the task of first connecting the team's offense.

Whiteside was the point of attack at the beginning of the game arranged by Stevens, and it was hoped that the Bulls could take advantage of the fact that the Bulls did not understand this and caught the Bulls off guard.

So at this moment, after dribbling to the halfcourt, Li Yang immediately signaled Whiteside to step forward to block and dismantle.

As the league's top defensive team, the Bulls naturally did a very good job of defending the pick-and-roll, Noah flashed out of front of Whiteside to block, and Butler squeezed past Whiteside and quickly pasted up, and the two formed a pattern of pinching Li Yang.

Seeing the Bulls' defensive strategy, Li Yang immediately knew that the opponent's defensive focus was still on him, which was undoubtedly exactly what he wanted.

didn't rush to pass the ball to Whiteside, taking advantage of the fact that Noah and Butler were not completely trapped, Li Yang forcibly rushed towards the inside line with the ball, and Noah and Butler, who were originally just trying to pinch Li Yang, immediately rushed towards Li Yang after seeing this scene.

Continuing to rush forward, Li Yang's corner of his eye was to pay attention to Whiteside's position, and when he saw Whiteside appear in the three-second zone, he immediately passed the ball over.

Whiteside received the ball in the three-second zone, at this time Noah finally reacted and turned back to defend, while Pau Gasol on the other side quickly rushed to the defense.

It's just that Li Yang's pass made Whiteside very comfortable receiving the ball, he got the ball almost completely without adjustment, took a step forward, and rushed to the Bulls' two big inside lines to block the ball with both hands and blasted the ball into the basket!

"Beautiful cooperation, Yang broke through the ball, Hassan followed up to complete the violent dunk!"

"Yang is too intimidating on the court, when he has the ball, the opponent can only be forced to pinch the ball, and he can always get the ball into the hands of his teammates!"

As if to prove that what Brin and Van Gundy said is very reasonable, in the next game, the Celtics directly handed the ball to Li Yang, and Li Yang used his impact ability to constantly impact the Bulls' defense, once the opponent was attracted to the attack, the ball was quickly transferred to the hands of his teammates.

Playing a split ball with Whiteside helped Whiteside draw a foul on Noah inside, and Jeff Green blocked and assisted the latter on a three-point shot...... There are three big ones in the field, which gives Li Yang more options for blocking and dismantling.

The Bulls' defense is undoubtedly very good, and they can rotate the defense in time to interfere with the offense of the Celtics players, but even so, Li Yang also delivered 4 assists in the rest of the first quarter, completely connecting the Celtics' offense.

The Bulls have always relied on their defensive foothold, and their offense is not very good, while the Celtics' defense this season has improved significantly, unable to limit the Celtics on the defensive end, and the Bulls were at a disadvantage in the first quarter of the game.

At 21:24, after the first quarter of the game, the Celtics had a slight lead by 4 points, of course, the scores of both teams were not too high, and it also reflected the defensive ability of both teams.

At the end of the first quarter, Tom Thibodeau looked at the Bulls players walking to the sidelines, and when all the players walked to the sidelines, he immediately took the strategy board and began to lay out the tactics.

"We need to change our defensive strategy, Jimmy, when Li Yang holds the ball outside the three-second zone, hand it over to you to defend alone, and the rest of the players will stare at their own defenders, especially pay attention to the cutting of opposing players, there is no stable three-pointer in the opponent's lineup, so we just need to protect the penalty area, and Yang's pass will be greatly reduced!"

In the first quarter of the game, Thibodeau, who is good at defense, immediately found the shortcomings of the Celtics, the Celtics were not good at three-point shooting, and there were only three relatively stable three-point points in the team, such as Li Yang, Thorton and Bradley, and now Bradley is injured, and the Celtics' three-point points are even weaker.

So Thibodeau made the current arrangement, he believes that this arrangement can choke the lifeblood of the Celtics, both to limit Li Yang's passing and Li Yang's breakthrough, which is the safest way to defend, unless ...... Li Yang was able to beat his team on Butler's defense by relying on shooting.

However, in Thibodeau's view, this is almost impossible, and he is very confident in Butler's defense, which has caused James a lot of problems.