The convulsion superstar of basketball

Chapter 277 276. Do you dare to agree to let me let you go for three steps?

"Oops, the Magic have not been able to break through the Celtics' shrinking defense in the first quarter. It seems that the Magic is more dangerous in this game."

"Hey, I just said that the Magic's victory over the Celtics in the first game is entirely due to luck. How about it, the Magic will show their true colors as soon as this game comes up."

"The Magic team is too dependent on Su's performance on the outside. I think Coach Stan should send more players who can shoot from the outside to play. Otherwise, the Magic team in this game will be really dangerous."

"Sure enough, it's the Orlando referee team. Without the referee's help, it will be paralyzed immediately, haha."

After the end of the first quarter, at this moment, whether it is the fans watching on the spot or watching the fans on the Internet, they all have various thoughts in their hearts.

Among them, the loyal fans of the Magic, of course, hope that the Magic can play better and better in the last three quarters, and strive for another victory at home, so as to tie the total score of this round of the series to 2:0.

However, as the so-called temple attracts the wind, since the Magic team's sudden emergence this season, although it also relies on its own relatively violent playing style, it has ushered in the love of many new fans.

But at the same time, it also ushered in a group of annoying black fans. For these people, they don't like to see other teams better than their home team.

So once there is a Magic game, these people will definitely attack on the Internet. If they win, they will say that the Magic rely on referees, and if they lose, they will say that the Magic has revealed their true colors.

But even if these people are dancing happily on the Internet, the Magic team who are actively preparing for the game at the moment don't know it at all.

After returning from the second quarter, the two sides also sent a substitute lineup to compete.

In the last game, the Magic were able to defeat the Celtics with a slight advantage. Among them, the huge firepower provided by the substitute lineup headed by Lewis is definitely an important part of the Magic's ability to win.

Because facing the second team led by Lewis, Turkoglu and Polish hammer Gortat, the Celtics are completely at a disadvantage in the second team competition.

And it is precisely because whenever the main lineup is off, the Celtics will be completely suppressed, so the Magic used their physical and strategic advantages to defeat the Celtics in the last game.

However, the head coach of the Celtics in this game, Rivers, obviously made some responses to this.

The most obvious of these is that Rivers will arrange for the Big Four to rest in a staggered manner in the first quarter.

Except for Pierce who played the full 12 minutes for the Celtics throughout the first quarter, the other three players will rest and play at different times.

Although this method of frequent on and off field substitutions will cause a small decline in the tacit understanding of the Celtics' lineup on the field.

But for the Celtics who have been running in as the defending champion for two seasons, the disadvantages of this method are basically negligible.

The most important thing is that this kind of frequent substitutions on and off the field can ensure that the Celtics' lineup has at least one giant-level player on the field to lead the team at any time.

This situation has obviously alleviated the situation where the Celtics' second team is at a disadvantage.

Because compared to the overall ability of the defensive end, the reason why the second team is really at a disadvantage is because the team has no offensive backbone at all during this period.

To put it more bluntly, the substitute players are like a group of dragons without a leader. Although they seem to be playing team basketball, the Celtics are at a disadvantage when facing Lewis.

With the start of the second quarter, the Celtics are currently led by Ray Allen to conduct Zhou Xuan.

However, unlike the previous game, in this game Rivers sent Tony Allen, who was only 1.9 meters tall, to defend Lewis.

Although there is a gap of fifteen centimeters in height between the two, if Lewis catches the ball and makes a jump shot, it will be difficult for Tony Allen to block him head-on.

But in the whole round of the last G1 game, the big baby Davis has fully proved that he can't keep up with Lewis's footsteps.

On the defensive end, although the big baby Davis is only 131 meters tall, his weight of [-] kilograms allows him to easily reach the fifth position and match up with players like Howard.

However, in the case of the Celtics' lack of insiders, Davis's personal defense against Lewis in the last game was absolutely horrible.

Although the heights of the two are similar, and even Davis is a full two centimeters shorter than Lewis, but in the case of a large weight difference, Lewis can be said to be able to shoot inside and outside with ease.

And Lewis' super long performance in the last game is definitely the most important part for the Magic to win the game.

Because in the entire game of G1, the two teams combined did not perform abnormally, and only Rashad Lewis was left.

So in this situation where he has already suffered a loss, Doc Rivers really has no choice but to let Tony Allen go to match up with Lewis.

Although the height gap between the two is too large, Rivers can only pray that Tony Allen can use as close as possible to limit Lewis' offensive shooting efficiency.

In fact, in terms of the original lineup arrangement, the Celtics' inside lineup is relatively deep, with all types of players available.

Whether it is the low-post overlord Perkins or Davis, or Garnett and Leon Powe, who have excellent mobility and super pick-and-roll ability.

These people are able to ensure that the Celtics have enough inside. When dealing with any kind of inside-rich team, the Celtics can use different inside collocations to impose targeted sanctions on them.

But what is worse for the Celtics is that in the first round of the playoffs against the 76ers, Leon Powe was seriously injured. The inner and outer meniscus and anterior cruciate ligament of his left knee were all torn, and he bid farewell to the season ahead of schedule.

And if nothing else, after the Celtics evaluate Leon Powe's injury, it will be difficult for him to appear in the Celtics' roster for next season.

After all, although Powe can be called the Celtics' loyal minister for winning the championship, for Angie, who is cold-blooded like a wolf, in his eyes, he has never had feelings, but only value.

It can be said that Leon Powe's season reimbursement has absolutely devastating effects on the Celtics' inside attack.

Although Bowie averaged only 7.7 and 5.1 rebounds per game throughout the season, Bowie's value on the court is far from what the data can reflect.

In the second-round series against the Lakers in last year's finals, the Celtics relied on Leon Powe's impactful style of play to forcefully disrupt the formation of the Lakers' twin towers, so they finally took away the game in a wave.

In that game, Leon Bowie contributed a total of 21 points in the game, which is definitely a major contributor to the Celtics' ability to win the championship.

But it is a pity that in the last year of this year's rookie contract, Powe suffered the most serious injury in his career.

It is not even an exaggeration to say that this injury has completely changed the direction of Powe's entire career.

After all, the value between a young insider who was full of impact and successfully helped the team win the championship, and a player who has experienced a torn cruciate ligament and meniscus in his left knee is completely invaluable.

But this is the case with competitive sports. When you originally thought that you could have a bright future, maybe your future will really become "bright" with no future.

However, Leon Powe's season reimbursement is very bad news for the Celtics.

But for the current opponent Magic, this is a slightly breathing gap.

It is because Powe was reimbursed for the season in the first round of the playoffs, so when Garnett is not on the court, it is difficult for others to control Lewis' offensive performance.

After all, once a dubious player like Lewis successfully earns his worth, his role on the court can be said to be very obvious.

Facing players shorter than him, Lewis can shoot directly after using the pick-and-roll.

And against stronger players, Lewis was able to use his speed to create shots.

So in this round of the series, Lewis can definitely be called a nightmare for the Celtics, unless Rivers can make Garnett average more than 40 minutes per game.

However, in terms of Garnett's current physical condition, it is already a luxury for him to be able to play the entire playoffs without any problems.

As for insisting that Garnett play an average of 40 minutes per game, this is as nonsense as insisting on running a second-hand QQ with a displacement of 0.8 for 180 miles on the high speed...

In the first half of the second quarter between the two sides, although Tony Allen was 15 centimeters shorter than Lewis, he still brought Lewis a lot of trouble by virtue of the mad dog-like death entanglement on the defensive end.

But when Turkoglu is also on the bench, Lewis can completely play an off-ball role.

Coupled with Gortat's relatively high-quality pick-and-roll, the Magic still lead with a relatively slight advantage.

"I suddenly feel now that putting Rashad on the bench is really a more interesting thing, which really takes too much advantage."

"However, Tony's defense is really amazing. You must know that he is 15 centimeters shorter than Rashad, but he has caused a lot of trouble for Rashad with his ruthlessness."

"I think we can think about it after his contract expires."

On the bench, Stan Van Gundy, who was sitting on the sidelines watching the team slowly recover a little disadvantage, said with a little emotion.

Obviously, facing the Celtics in the semifinals is definitely a big challenge for the Magic's coaching staff.

But in this round of the series, it was not any of the Big Four who really left a major impression on Van Gundy, but Tony Allen, who was not well-known on the bench.

Therefore, Van Gundy also moved his heart for this defensive champion who is very tough and clean.

Even if this kind of player is impossible to become the core of a team, but for a head coach, it is hard for someone not to like such a player.

As the game between the two sides continued, the Magic also quickly narrowed the score on the field, and there is still a faint trend of overtaking.

However, just as the Magic was about to start, Rivers called a timeout very decisively. After all, the Magic's bench lineup in the last game made him suffer a lot.

After returning from the timeout, Rivers gradually brought the main lineup back to the field, because in this round of the series, Rivers is very clear about where his team's advantages lie.

That is, the personal ability and tactical execution ability of the main players are far stronger than the Magic, so compared with the large-scale rotation of the bench lineup, increasing the playing time of the main players is really a helpless move for Rivers.

After returning from the timeout, the Magic also made some relative adjustments to the lineup.

Obviously, Stan Van Gundy also had expected off the court that Rivers would rotate the lineup after this timeout.

And as the main players of both sides gradually returned to the field, in the second half of the second quarter, the two teams launched a very fierce field hand-to-hand fight.

In this round of the Eastern Conference semifinals, the two teams can be said to have played their defensive actions to the fullest.

The defensive moves that can be used on the defensive end are basically taken out, such as swinging elbows, standing up, pushing people, and pressing jumps. These actions have become commonplace in this round of the series.

And thanks to the referee not blowing all these actions according to the standard, otherwise this round of the game would definitely be played intermittently, and in the end it would be forced to develop into a free throw shootout.

In fact, the referees are completely aware of the more secretive actions of the players on the court.

But the reason why there was no whistleblowing was really because there were a lot of such sidelines between the two teams.

In this case, if the referee cannot guarantee the fairness of whistleblowing between the two sides, then I am afraid that they will face many doubts from the team and players after the game.

Therefore, when the game trend is gradually becoming more intense, the referee also adheres to the principle that more things are worse than less things. As long as the actions between the two sides are not too outrageous, the referees are also happy to watch the excitement.

After coming back in the second half of the second quarter, something interesting happened on the field.

Facing Rondo's attack with the ball, Su Jiu directly let Rondo take three steps to shoot.

You know, in the previous defensive tactics of the Magic, although Rondo was allowed to shoot from the outside, they basically kept the distance between one and two steps.

But after returning from the second quarter, Su Jiu directly let Rondo take three steps to shoot for the first time, and he even came to the free throw line to defend with one step.

Such a distance obviously made this scene on the court look more funny.

Facing Su Jiu's unheard of defensive tactics, Rondo, who was holding the ball in the high position, frowned subconsciously.

The whole person started to curse at Su Jiu in his heart:

"I am Nima!"

In fact, during the regular season, many teams chose to let Rondo shoot when facing the Celtics, thus using this method to try to disrupt a rhythm change of the Celtics on the offensive end.

However, even if these teams are at most two steps away from Rondo, it is unheard of for Su Jiu to basically be in a state of big shortfall.

In this case, Rondo also seemed a little embarrassed. If you say vote, Rondo really doesn't have the confidence in his heart.

But if he doesn't shoot, this Su Jiu has already been released three steps away. If he doesn't shoot again, where will I put the face of the champion point guard from now on? !

As the situation on the field began to be awkward for a while, Rondo took a deep breath, and then started to join the ball, aim, and take off and shoot from a high position.

After this series of actions, what they did was simply flowing.

In the end, under the eyes of all fans, this goal was also a success! !

Blacksmithing...

"boom!"

With the sound of "bang", Rondo's face immediately turned from white to black.

When the whole person returned to defense quickly, he cursed directly and loudly at Su Jiu:

"I'm Nima!!"

In the next few defensive rounds, Su Jiu kept letting Rondo three steps away to shoot.

At the beginning, Rondo was still aiming from outside the three-point line to his heart's content, preparing to shoot in a decent manner.

However, when Rondo deeply realized that his 13.5% three-point shooting percentage in the playoffs was not a vain reputation, his whole person fell down like an eggplant beaten by frost.

Fortunately, Rondo has long since become used to the feeling of being emptied on the offensive end. Although Su Jiu's range is a bit too large this time, at least from a tactical point of view, it plays the same role.

Facing many defeats outside the three-point line, Rondo can only use this method to deceive himself as much as possible.

Then in the next game, I started to organize with all my heart.

In order to prevent Su Jiu from participating in the double-teaming of other players on the defensive end, Rondo has been running back and forth on the court, intending to use the method of air cutting to attract Su Jiu's defensive pressure as much as possible.

After all, it's not Rondo's fault that the shooting is not accurate, but if the shooting is not accurate and you don't find something else to do on the court, then this 4 on 5 situation will really be fucking hammered! !

In the end, after halftime, the Magic also relied on a lot of tenacity to tie the score evenly:

42:42

flat!

　I don't know why, but after I woke up from sleep, my right eyelid was swollen, which was very obvious, and my right eye could only be opened halfway.

　　Checked Baidu, his grandma's, even said that my kidneys are not good...

　　Grass, Baidu must be a lie! !

　　I still believe that it must be because I didn't sleep well...

　　

　

(End of this chapter)