The most feared thing about the joint defense tactics is the players who shoot too far from the outside, because if you want to limit the opponent's hand-held ball breakthrough, you must shrink the defense line and be ready to help defend at any time.

But Wang Feng, who has a golden long-range battery, can stand farther away than the three-point line to shoot, and if he wants to limit Wang Feng's shooting, the Celtics must send an additional defender to mark the whole process.

The Celtics only have a total of 5 players on the court, excluding the black hole Thomas Jr. on the defensive end, if one more person is assigned to mark Wang Feng, there will only be 3 players left in the joint defense system, how can this stop James, Irving and other players?

The Celtics can only make a choice, whether to target Wang Feng or choose the overall defensive rhythm of the whole team not to be disrupted.

Celtic ultimately opted for the latter.

There is no way, James's performance in the first two rounds of the playoffs is too explosive, with 32.8 points in four games in the first round and 36 points in four games in the second round, which can really shoot people to death!

On the other hand, Wang Feng, although the scoring efficiency is very high, whether it is the regular season or the playoffs, the average score per game is only about 24 points, and the number of games with higher scores is a minority after all.

What's more, even if it is a joint defense, if Wang Feng wants to get a chance to be completely empty, he must be one step away from the three-point line, and at this distance, even Curry can't guarantee a high shooting rate.

However, as it turned out, they lost the bet.

Wang Feng, who scored 12 points in the first quarter, became more intensified after entering the second quarter of the game, making a large number of shots without hesitation, hitting 5 of 10 outside shots, and the three-point shooting rate of up to 50% directly collapsed the Celtics.

Wang Feng, who scored 27 points in the half, continued to feel in the second half, and hit another three-pointer as soon as he came up in the third quarter.

The Celtics are finally afraid, Wang Feng's three points can really throw people to death!

Green Army head coach Stevens began to arrange for players to guard Wang Feng closely, and he couldn't let him continue to shoot three-pointers no matter what!

But as a result, the Celtics' defensive system directly appeared loopholes, and James and Irving frequently broke through and attacked the basket with the ball, completely destroying the Celtics' defense.

By the end of the third quarter, the score had reached 91-64, and the Cavaliers led by 27 points at home.

The game loses suspense early.

Wang Feng, who scored 27 points in the first half, still scored 14 points in the second half, scored 41 points in the game, made 12 three-pointers, and shot 52% from three-point range.

12 three-pointers in a single game broke the NBA playoffs single-game three-point shooting record, Wang Feng completely single-handedly relied on three-point shots to shoot the Celtics alive!

After the game, in the face of the media, Celtics head coach Stevens was helpless.

"We've done everything, but the Cavaliers are significantly better, they have the best players in the league, and they have one of the top three-pointers in history."

"Today we're witnessing a new NBA record, I couldn't have imagined that a player could shoot so many threes from so far away from the three-point line, and that's okay, we're going to be fine, the series has just begun, and the next thing we need to think about is how to curb the opponent's completely unreasonable three-point play."

Having said that, there are times when manpower is exhausted.

The Celtics' performance this season is indeed remarkable, but the upper limit of strength is limited to this, even if there is no Wang Feng, the original 17-year Cavaliers team can still eliminate them with a score of 4:1, not to mention that the current Cavaliers have one more Wang Feng who has a total rating of nearly 90?

On May 19, the second game of the Eastern Conference Finals was still on the home court of the Cavaliers.

In this game, the Celtics really changed their defensive tactics and began to defend Wang Feng strictly, but what can they do?

Wang Feng's shots from beyond the three-point line have become fewer, but a large number of mid-to-long-range shots still allow him to maintain a relatively stable scoring output.

Because of the change in defensive tactics, the Celtics' ability to assist in defense has deteriorated, and James, who could not be limited by helping defense, was even more jumpy, shooting 12 of 18 in the game, with a shooting rate of 66.7% and 30 points, 4 rebounds and 7 assists.

On the other hand, on the Celtics' side, the defensive end could not successfully limit the Cavaliers, making the opponent blossom more, and the offensive end was also unsuccessful.

During the regular season, the Celtics mainly relied on Thomas Jr.'s super offensive ability, and Thomas Jr., who averaged 29 points and 5.9 assists per game this season, was the Celtics' main scoring point.

However, entering the playoffs, with the improvement of the defensive intensity of the game, the flaws and disadvantages of Thomas Jr.'s short height were exposed.

In the first game, Thomas Jr. showed his decline, hitting only 7 of 19 shots, shooting only 28.6%, and scoring only 17 points.

In the second game, it was even worse.

Thomas Jr. only made 6 shots in the entire first half, missed all of them, and barely scored 2 points on free throws, and in the second half, Stevens simply put him on the bench all the way.

Thomas Jr., who is already a defensive black hole, can't even help the team on the offensive end, and is already a complete drag on the court.

It's a pity that even if Thomas Jr. is replaced, he can't recover the decline.

At 130:97, the Celtics continued to lose, and the 33-point margin was wider than the previous game.

……

The Cavaliers led 2-0 in the Eastern Conference Finals, with a net win of 60 in the two games, which made the entire league sigh that the Cavaliers were strong, and at the same time, the score also came to 2:0 in the Western Conference Finals, and the Warriors beat the Spurs in two games in a row.

History has not changed.

Spurs' No. 1 core main player Kawai. Leonard was still injured in the first game.

Although the process and method are somewhat slightly different, the same is zaza. Pachulia, too, is when the Spurs are in the lead.

Obviously, the other party did it on purpose.

Pachulia, who maliciously fouled, was criticized by all walks of life in the league, and even the entire Warriors team was also invected, but so what? Without Leonard, the Spurs completely lost the capital to compete with the Warriors, losing the second game by 36 points, a bigger margin than the Eastern Conference finals.

"Two 2-0, it seems that the Cavaliers and Warriors will meet in the Finals, and now we can start to guess who the championship will be."

"Although the battle between the two powers makes the first few rounds of the playoffs look a little boring, the sense of anticipation for the finals is really full, Mars hits the earth! It's all to be expected that this will be an epic battle that will definitely go down in history! ”

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