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Chapter 297 296. Tie-break! ! (5.5K words ask for a monthly ticket)

February 5.

Under the expectation of the national basketball circle, the tiebreaker between the Magic and the Celtics will finally start today at the Orlando Arena.

Before the start of the game, the atmosphere in the entire Orlando Arena was already very enthusiastic. Looking around, the entire auditorium was completely packed, which perfectly set off the atmosphere of the tiebreaker.

And at the same time, because the gold content of this round of the series is very high, and the highlights of the game are also full of fun.

So about 15 minutes before the start of the game, according to the data center behind the TV station, the ratings of this game were already as high as 15.7%, breaking the league's highest ratings record in the past ten years in one fell swoop.

From this point, it can be seen how much the fans are looking forward to this game.

Presumably at this moment, even if you are not a fan of the two teams, you still want to know who can win the tiebreaker in the end, so as to complete the promotion with difficulty.

After all, the Magic and Celtics are too strong this season, so when the two teams meet in the Eastern Conference semifinals, the effect is as tragic as sparks hitting the earth.

In addition to the hype of the media and the alliance before this game, it also successfully hyped this game to a new high in ratings.

And this is obviously very good news for the league, and it also has a unique meaning for the Magic and Celtics.

Because the ratings have reached a new high, this just represents the expectations and attention of outside fans for this game.

So at this moment, no matter what the outcome of this round of the series will be, it can be said that the Magic and the Celtics have already contributed a wonderful round of pinnacle battles for everyone! !

Before the start of the game, the players of both sides were shooting warm-ups in their respective halfs, and the head coaches of both sides were also holding tactical boards with the coaching staff on the sidelines. They did not have the relaxed state of the previous games at all.

After all, the game has reached the stage of the tiebreaker. Whether the Magic or the Celtics can survive the risk depends on who can perform better in today's game.

So while this game has attracted much attention from the outside world, it also invisibly put tremendous pressure on the two teams.

And under this huge pressure, whether it is a player or a coach, this time also has a crucial test for the individual's psychological quality.

As the game is about to start, the two sides also announced the starting list of the game:

Celtic:

Rondo, Ray Allen, Pierce, Garnett, Perkins.

Magic:

Su Jiu, Iverson, Lewis, Turkoglu, and Howard.

In this game, the two sides still continued the starting lineup of the previous game.

For Doc Rivers, the Celtics' starting lineup is basically the same for thousands of years.

Unless it is due to some external injury factors, there is basically no need to adjust each position.

After all, apart from the Celtics' bench lineup being significantly worse, this lineup is also the main lineup for the Celtics to win the championship last season.

And the team obviously has a very high degree of fit in terms of tacit cooperation and individual division of labor.

So as long as there are no special circumstances, it is basically difficult for Rivers to make changes to this starting lineup.

As for the Magic, although Van Gundy made adjustments to the starting lineup many times in this round of the series.

However, as the team used this full offensive starting lineup to beat the Celtics by as much as 39 points in the last game, this also added a lot of confidence to Van Gundy invisibly.

So in this crucial tiebreaker, Van Gundy finally dispatched this offensive lineup, intending to have a final showdown with the Celtics.

With the sound of the referee's whistle, the centers of both sides also stood in the middle circle and prepared to jump the ball.

In fact, it is a jump ball. Basically, in this round of the series, the jump ball is a form.

After all, at this stage of the opening jump ball with the Magic, the Celtics lost without any suspense in the first six games, so for this stage, Rivers has already had no choice but to give up.

Anyway, this can be called innocuous, at best, the odds of the Magic winning a good start are a little higher.

And when Howard and Perkins were about to jump the ball, Su Jiu who was at the side of the court silently used the 00-01 Iverson experience card.

[Ding~It is detected that the host is in a competition, and the card is being activated for the host (optional), please wait~]

[Ding~ The star experience card for this game has been activated. Congratulations to the host for successfully using an Allen Iverson experience card for the 00-01 season. 】

[The experience card will be completely invalid after the end of the game, I wish the host a happy basketball~]

When Su Jiu heard the response from the system, he finally heaved a long sigh of relief, and even gained a lot of confidence in this game.

After all, no matter how you say it, Iverson's strength at the peak is much, much stronger than himself.

So no matter whether he can lead the team to win this game, at least Su Jiu has done what he can

As for what the final result will be, Su Jiu can have a clear conscience, after all, he has worked very hard to fight for it.

After the start of the game, in the jump ball stage at the beginning of the game, Howard still got it without any accident.

After receiving the pass from Howard, Su Jiu only felt that he was as flexible as a wild cat at the moment.

Even when Su Jiu held the ball to advance, he felt that his state of the game was very different from before.

Although Su Jiu didn't know if it was a psychological effect or if it really had an effect, this feeling still made Su Jiu feel a little obsessed, and he even wished he could go directly to the inside line of the Celtics at this moment to vent the excitement in his heart.

After Su Jiu held the ball for halftime, looking around, the Celtics were still defending a two-three defense.

However, different from the past, the distance between Rondo and Su Jiu this time was kept at one step.

This can be said to be a very clever distance, because this distance can not only defend Su Jiu's breakthrough, but also defend Su Jiu's three-pointer.

Although this distance is difficult to achieve the ultimate in a single defense, this distance can ensure that Rondo can respond immediately to Su Jiu's outside line and breakthrough.

So from this point, it can be seen that Rivers in this game no longer intends to let Su Jiu shoot from any position.

Even with Rondo's distance-keeping defense, it is very likely that Su Jiu will use the pick-and-roll to disrupt the Celtics' formation on the defensive end.

But Rivers still didn't dare to let Su Jiu shoot from any position, because he had already paid a bloody price in the last game.

Even after the Celtics lost to the Magic by 39 points, Rivers endured relentless abuse from a large number of fans on the Internet.

The reason is precisely because he let Su Jiu shoot from the mid-range position many times in the last game, but in the end Su Jiu played a very efficient game.

Regarding this point, although Rivers wanted to argue a few words, but when interviewed by the media, Rivers didn't know how to defend himself.

After all, on the field of play, fans and the media will not listen to the coach's specific analysis of the arrangement of this tactic, because all they need to see is the result.

Once this result is unsatisfactory, then no matter how reasonable your analysis is, in the eyes of the fans, this is just a sophistry.

And once the result of the game is very obvious, even if you don't arrange any tactics on the court, they will still call the coach a master of tactics.

While this may sound ridiculous, in the NBA, this is the stark reality.

Seeing the position of the Celtics in this game, Su Jiu didn't feel any surprise. After all, the Magic team slaughtered the Celtics by 39 points in the last game.

So if Rivers doesn't make any changes in this game, it will really surprise Su Jiu.

As Su Jiu advanced to about three cents with the ball, he gestured on the court and asked Howard for a pick-and-roll.

Seeing the gesture given by Su Jiu, Howard immediately mentioned the high position and performed a high-quality pick-and-roll for Su Jiu.

Taking advantage of Howard's pick-and-roll, Su Jiu suddenly accelerated and made a breakthrough from the right side, and this time, Rondo was left behind in an instant.

In fact, the speed of Su Jiu's speed up this time is not very fast. As long as Rondo stands a little behind when facing this pick-and-roll, he will definitely be able to react immediately.

However, because Su Jiu's threat from outside the three-point line is too great, Rondo is afraid that Su Jiu will directly complete the shot from outside the three-point line after using the pick-and-roll.

So when Su Jiu and Howard were playing pick-and-roll, Rondo had no choice but to continue to move to the high position to chase and defend Su Jiu.

While ensuring that I can interfere with Su Jiu in the first place, I also try not to be easily surpassed by Su Jiu.

And the difficulty of this situation is obviously already hell-level difficulty, after all, you can't have both fish and bear's paw.

What's more, Su Jiu's current ability is completely an all-around fighter.

Whether it's a shot from inside or from outside, or even a shot after a breakthrough, these are all Su Jiu's personal forte.

So in this case, this invisibly also increased the difficulty of Rondo's defense against Su Jiu when he used the pick-and-roll.

And this is the main reason why the effect of star players in pick-and-rolls is often more significant than that of role players.

Taking advantage of the pick-and-roll and Rondo's fear of shooting outside the three-point line, Su Jiu easily passed the Celtics' first step of defense.

However, just when Su Jiu used the pick-and-roll to break through to the mid-range position, Garnett, who was inside, did not stay inside as usual.

From this point, it is not difficult to see that when Su Jiu missed Rondo's first step of defense, Rivers arranged for Garnett to make up the defense immediately, and resolutely refused to give Su Jiu any chance to make a move.

Even though this situation will greatly weaken the team's ability to defend the penalty area, compared to Su Jiu, for Rivers, everything else is no longer important.

After all, if Su Jiu doesn't control this point, then Rivers will be terrified, and even dare not think about the previous things, because it is like a nightmare.

Seeing Garnett's immediate defense, Su Jiu didn't slow down at all while walking, but continued to break through from the right side.

Facing Su Jiu's explosive breakthrough, although Garnett was physically not as good as before, but with his excellent defensive experience, he was still stuck on Su Jiu's breakthrough route at the first time, preventing Su Jiu from getting closer to the basket.

However, just when Garnett's center of gravity shifted to the right, Su Jiu, who was walking, suddenly shifted the ball to his left hand without any deceleration, and the whole person completed a crossover while walking smoothly! !

With Su Jiu's frontal change of direction without slowing down while walking, even Garnett, who has a lot of defensive experience, couldn't react immediately at this time.

Instead, Su Jiu directly completed a surname.

"My God! Su, this move is really beautiful, and Su didn't slow down at all!!"

"This set of movements is simply too smooth, and it completely deceived Kevin's defense!!"

Following this jaw-dropping crossover, Su Jiu, who passed Garnett directly, immediately completed a layup.

In addition to winning a good start in the tiebreaker for the Magic, it also instantly aroused the enthusiasm of the entire Orlando Arena.

Even though the fans of this game had shown enough enthusiasm, no one thought that Su Jiu would throw Wang Zang directly at the beginning of the game, and completed this layup that was enough to be selected as the top five goals in the playoffs! !

Even at this moment, many fans have already thought clearly about the lines of Wu Jiaqiu.

"Let's look at the first place in today's five best balls. Let's see that the green army is a little bit fast, changing directions ahead of time, and the blue devil Su Jiu has two people in a row. It's enough to take two points with a clean board..."

After all, most of Perkins' attention at the basket was on Howard, for fear that Su Jiu and Howard were completing the inexplicable aerial connection.

So by the time Perkins found out that Su Jiu was really making a layup, it was already too late when he was thinking of moving over to defend.

In the end, he could only stand under the basket like a "three donkeys", watching Su Jiu complete the layup! !

After Su Jiu's goal was hit, no matter whether it was the fans who watched the game online or the fans who watched the game live, they immediately exploded.

Shouting frantically at Su Jiu, to vent the excitement in his heart.

After all, this goal was too exciting, and many fans even saw the shadow of Iverson in Su Jiu's body at this moment.

And many fans have begun to speculate whether Iverson has quietly taught Su Jiu all he has learned in his life since he came to the Magic team! !

Is this the rhythm of planning to accept a closed disciple and retire gracefully? ! !

For the next period of time, the two sides played extremely hard on both ends of the offense and defense, and everyone seemed to be full of energy, running wildly on the field.

It is not even an exaggeration to say that among the ten players on the field from both sides at this moment, all of them must have the determination to fight their lives, without the slightest reservation.

And after Su Jiu completed such an eye-catching layup just at the beginning of the game, Celtics head coach Rivers was so angry that he wanted to vomit blood on the sidelines.

He could only yell loudly at the players on the field, expressing a greater degree of pressure on Su Jiu.

And in the Magic's next offensive round, Su Jiu also obviously began to realize that the Celtics' defense focus on him had once again completed an upgrade.

Even this time, Rivers did not hesitate to enlarge the offensive space against Turkoglu and Iverson, and tried his best to stifle Su Jiu's momentum on the offensive end.

From this point, it is not difficult to see that at this moment, Rivers already feels a great threat to Su Jiu's ability on the offensive end.

Even in order to stifle Su Jiu's momentum on the offensive end, he did not hesitate to give up the defensive pressure on the penalty area and other players.

You know, in the first six games of this series, what the Celtics did most was to protect the penalty area.

Even if Su Jiu is allowed to shoot from the outside, it is necessary to ensure that the team's penalty area will not be easily captured by the Magic.

And at the same time, the Celtics' defensive pressure on each player is also relatively evenly distributed.

And this is the main reason why the magic team, except for Su Jiu, played poorly in the first few games.

But today, in order to stifle Su Jiu's momentum threat on the offensive end, Rivers has not hesitated to relax the team's ability to protect the penalty area.

And at the risk of being killed by other players, he had to kill Su Jiu's momentum on the offensive end as soon as possible.

It can be said that although Su Jiu has won the title of "Blue Devil" this season, I am afraid that until now, in the eyes of the Celtics, Su Jiu can really be called a devil...

As the Celtics' defensive pressure on him gradually began to increase, Su Jiu did not blindly start attacking.

Although he has the personal ability of the peak Iverson in this game, he can be called impeccable in terms of scoring.

But when the teammates around him had better shooting opportunities, Su Jiu still put the overall situation first.

Started to use the method of frequently killing the inside to try to attract the Celtics' double-teaming, so as to create better shooting opportunities for teammates.

After all, for Su Jiu, his goal has never been to score so many points in this round of the series, because he has only one goal, and that is to do his best to lead the team to win this difficult tiebreaker.

Finally, after the end of the first quarter, relying on Su Jiu's excellent personal performance and his personal ability to attract defense, the Magic also successfully played at home after the first quarter:

28:22

Leading the Celtics by 6 points, the first quarter of the contest between the two sides ended! !

Throughout the first quarter, Su Jiu encountered huge defensive pressure on the offensive end. Even later, as soon as Su Jiu breaks through to the inside, he will at least face the sidelines double-teamed by the Celtics.

But the good news is that in this airtight double-teaming state, Su Jiu also gave the ball to teammates who were open on the outside many times.

Although there were a few big and small mistakes in this process, generally speaking, Su Jiu still resisted a lot of pressure and used his own containment ability to successfully drive his teammates' offense in the first quarter.

Su Jiu, who played 12 minutes in the first quarter, finally contributed 7 points, 2 rebounds and 5 assists in a single quarter.

It can be said that since the Magic team completed the massacre with 39 points in the last game, in this life-and-death tiebreaker, Su Jiu once became a major nightmare in Rivers' coaching career...

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