On the night of the first game of the finals, ABC interviewed Yu Fei before the game.

They wanted to know what Yu Fei thought about the Celtics in the finals.

"Do you believe in the cycle of cause and effect?" Yu Fei said, "I believe it. There were issues between me and Boston that needed to be resolved, but they looked like a mediocre team for the last couple of years, and only now have we had a chance to compete on the same stage. ”

In fact, Yu Fei said it very implicitly.

But those unpleasant words, the media behind him have already finished helping him.

Before entering the NBA, Yu Fei came to Boston for a tryout, during which he had a big fight with the late Eddie Griffin. The Celtics thought that it would be difficult for them to select Yu Fei for their draft pick, so they spread negative news about Yu Fei to the outside world and shifted the responsibility for the fight to him.

But in the end, the Celtics still failed to select Yu Fei.

Even the consolation prize Joe Johnson was traded by them.

Looking at it now, all the decisions the Celtics made that year were wrong.

This should have been an old talk, but Yu Fei talked about him in a very serious way, so as to show his thoughts.

Seven years have passed, but he still remembers everything.

On this night, North Shore Gardens was the noisiest arena in the world.

Boston's celebrities came to the scene.

Local dignitaries, businessmen, celebrities in Hollywood.

Alan Pampai, the heroine of "Grey's Anatomy", has a bunch of fans behind her holding a banner: "Fry, if you let us win, Alan will give you a kiss!"

It also has Alan's autograph on it.

This is because it was discovered that Yu Fei's ex-girlfriend and some of the women who had a brief relationship with him photographed by the paparazzi were mostly older than him.

But these idiots just didn't find out that being older is not the key, the key is that a prominent, obvious, and feminine component must have a pure natural and impurity-free talent that comes from the innate, and Da Fei will like it.

In terms of temperament alone, Allen is undoubtedly a top MIFL, he was 36 years old when he played Grey, but he still didn't show obvious age like other white actresses, but he was not talented enough, so Da Fei was not interested in the words on the banner at all.

Among the series of celebrities on the sidelines of Boston, the only ones that can make Yu Fei care are Bill Simmons and his dad.

"Fry, come to your senses, this year is ours!"

At this time, Simmons was no different from ordinary fans, and he took the initiative to stand up and shout in the front row.

"If you guys lose tonight, will you write a long article overnight criticizing Doug (Rivers)?" Yu Fei asked with a smile.

"I will." Simmons said, "And I've done it before!" ”

And he did.

When the Celtics entered the playoffs and struggled to find a win on the road, Simmons broke the defense.

He asked Rivers if he wanted the Celtics to be the first team in history to win a championship on the road.

Then, the Celtics haven't really won a single away game so far (since the start of the playoffs).

But even so, they still made it to the finals.

So what else is there to say? That's what home field advantage does, isn't that? As long as the Celtics can keep all of their home courts, it would be acceptable to become the first team in history to win every round of games.

Soon after, the game began.

Surprisingly, the Celtics, who are mature and stable, with an average age of being the oldest team in the league in the playoffs, have shown signs of discomfort.

However, experts expressed full understanding.

"This is the Celtics' first Finals game in 21 years, and they need time to get used to their environment."

Throughout the first half, Celtic showed nervousness and timidity, and the motivation to win and fear losing was very obvious.

Then, as a precocious point guard, Rajon Rondo quickly found the only unintimidated core of the starter - Michael Reed.

Reed followed Yu Fei to defeat the Spurs in the Finals, and now he represents the Celtics in the Finals, which is a battle for him to prove.

Reed's three-point Celtics stabilized the first half.

However, the superSonics, who had a more stable mentality, dominated the visitors, leading the Celtics 58-51 in the first half.

This does not bode well.

Bill Simmons on the sidelines said to his dad: "If Doug doesn't start the second half effectively, we're going to have a hard time tonight." ”

Simmons has watched Coach Pighead play for several years, and before this season, he was a staunch "fire pighead" faction. He wrote far more about scolding Rivers than he did about Pitino. Of course, this is not to say that Rivers is worse than Pitino, but that Pitino did not catch up with the "good times".

Simmons was not co-opted by ESPN until the beginning of the century, and reached his creative peak with a steady and substantial income, and Pitino happened to be the Celtic who left during that time.

Rivers was not favored by Simmons from the time he took office, because he replaced Jim O'Brien, who was hailed by Simmons as the "savior of the Celtics" (1). Rivers' ascension to the throne was also a symbol of the Celtics' entry into the Angie era. Angie wants to rebuild, and Rivers is the main part of the rebuild. But in Simmons' opinion, it was Rivers' incompetence that led to the suffering of the Celtics in those years.

(1) This man cleaned up the mess of Pitino in one year and brought the Celtics to the Eastern Conference.

WHEN THE BIG THREE ARRIVED, SIMMONS WAS STILL NOT OPTIMISTIC ABOUT RIVERS, AND IT WASN'T UNTIL COACH PIG-HEADED POURED "HEAVENLY CHICKEN SOUP" INTO THE BIG THREE AND CREATED AN EXCLUSIVE TEAM CULTURE "UBUNTU" FOR THE CELTICS IN THE BIG THREE ERA, WHICH CHANGED HIS OPINION OF HIM.

However, Simmons still knows that Rivers has a problem, that his strain is terrible, very bad, pretty bad, and it's not an exaggeration to say that he's the worst of all the coaches in the playoffs.

Therefore, the change in the opening of the second half for Celtic will be decisive.

Rivers is the kind of coach who is a stick-by-the box and knows what his team's strengths are and will do nothing if their strengths don't make a difference. But at home, the Celtic advantage always works.

Knocked out in the first half, the players couldn't get into the groove for a long time? It doesn't matter, there are still tricks.

At the beginning of the second half, the Celtics took the supersonic speed to appreciate the classic "If you don't understand how to play, I can play people".

The Celtics increased their physical confrontation, increased their defensive intensity, and were extremely ferocious in their scramble for rebounding, which indirectly activated Garnett.

Excellent defense, airtight help defense made the supersonic tactics unable to be used, and they were forced to rely on star singles.

And Roy's singles didn't work much in the second half, and the supersonic began to rely too much on flying's individual ability.

Yu Fei used his strength to control the situation on the one hand, and on the other hand, he wanted to pass the ball to wake up his teammates' offense, but the Celtics' great rotation defense made him make several mistakes.

The intensity of the Celtics' interior was on full display in the second half.

Especially when Rivers replaced David Lee and rotated Garnett, Perkins and PJ Brown, the Green Army's interior line was unshakable.

The strong defense brought a lot of iron, countless floor balls, and it became a time for the Celtics to preach their iron blood and show the glory and spirit of the Celtics.

Every time they fell to save the ball, every time they hit the floor, the North Shore Gardens fans let out a nostalgic roar, and in those moments, Dennis Johnson was back, Kevin McHale seemed to be alive, Larry Bird's spirit was shining, and John Havlicek, the legends who played like blue-collar workers and shone the Celtics history, seemed to be back on the court.

Then, something dramatic happened.

The Celtics, who looked like they were going to go berserk, had an accident at a crucial moment, and Pierce's knee collided with teammate Perkins, and he screamed and fell to the ground, being carried off the field by two teammates.

There was a shrill howl of rage at the scene.

You only hear that in particularly important games, when the unthinkable happens to the good players of the home team.

But when it looks like there's a tragedy, that popping and cacophony fades away in a matter of seconds, like someone slowly turning the knob that controls the audience's volume from 8 to 7 to 6 and finally to 1, and everyone in the stadium is stunned.

"No, no. Don't do that kind of thing."

Even if Bill Simmons' own dad had a heart attack around him, he wouldn't have reacted like this.

Pierce was carried out, and Celtics fans were in fear and despair, believing they were done and that the season was just a dream about to be shattered.

A few minutes passed like this, and at the end of the third quarter, an astonishing voice rang out from the sidelines, and the audience began to cheer incredulously.

"Pierce is back!!"

The Bostonian roared excitedly.

It happened so suddenly, so quickly, that it took only minutes for the Celts to go from despair to hope, and then the North Shore Gardens became a hellish slaughterhouse.

"Defeat the hypersonics!"

"Let's go to Boston!"

Such slogans are everywhere, supersonic is starting to be suppressed, and the terrible home atmosphere symbolizes the prospect of victory for Celtic.

Yu Fei's terrifying 45 points in a single game lasted the suspense of the game until the last second.

But Garnett's offensive rebound, Reed's three-pointer, and Pierce's hero's return singles beat the SuperSonics in the final minute.

"That's it!" Simmons shouted out of control, "Rush, Boston!" ”

103 to 97

Celtic win at home against SuperSonics.

The home myth of the Green Army continues, only tonight, their Finals opponents have a more intuitive idea of how terrifying North Shore Gardens can be.

There's an atmosphere here that injects a wave of energy into the Celtic players in the garden.

You have to admit that there is a historical underpinning, and those who fought for the Green Army really believed that they were defending Celtic glory.

But the drama of what Pierce called "the return of the hero"?

"Just a bad parody of the great Willis Reed moment." Josh Childres, the supersonic brainstorm, said, "No one really believes it, does it?" ”

Yes, there are really people who believe it.

Childis angered the Bostonians.

That night, Childis' hotel room received multiple threatening phone calls.

When the game is war, nothing can be decided by common sense.

PS: I kept reading the information last night and saw five o'clock, because I wanted to start writing at six o'clock and write until twelve o'clock, so that it should be able to return to the normal time update. And guess what, I fell asleep at half-past five

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