I'm not really a role player

Chapter 207
"Rivers' strategy succeeded. He completely abandoned Lagalondo and Tony Allen. The point guard position was rotated back and forth, and it was Eddie House and veteran Sam Cassell."

Among other things, the depth of the Celtics' bench is enviable.

Eddie House, the main substitute who averaged 8.4 points per game with the Nets the previous season; Sam Cassell, the Clippers' main control half a season ago.

From the first round of the playoffs to the first four games of the conference semifinals, both Eddie House and Sam Cassell sat on the bench and only got a little garbage time to play.

If it weren't for Rondo and Tony Allen being fucked, they might have to sit on the bench until the end of the playoffs.

The most wronged and unwilling is Sam Cassell, who played well in the Clippers starter, agreed to terminate the contract, and joined with a basic salary for the Gold Cup.

But now, if the lagging Celtics want to make a comeback, Kassel has to play by themselves. What about hugging the thigh?

In the final quarter, as the leading party, the Celtics certainly did not change anything.

As a backward party, the Bobcats have not changed.

After all, they are not far behind, and the three-point difference is completely acceptable, or even negligible.

In this way, the opening of the fourth quarter was no different from the first three quarters. The game was still anxious, as if it was constipated.

There was no noise in the empty North Shore Gardens, let alone cheers, boos, shouts and curses.

The sound of banging irons kept ringing, and the score never opened.

The camera came to the sidelines from time to time, Sam Vincent looked calm, but Rivers was very impatient, standing on the sidelines constantly, directing offense and defense.

The score has not been opened, of course he should be anxious.

The Celtics are behind by a big score. They are standing on the edge of a cliff, and if they are not careful, it will be an abyss.

And the score was tight, giving the Celtics the feeling that the threat of falling into the abyss has always existed.

"Abandoning Ragalondo and Tony Allen has significantly improved the Celtics' offense, but correspondingly, the Celtics have also missed more opportunities on the defensive end..."

Rondo and Tony are strong and weak in defense, Eddie House and Sam Cassell are strong in offense and weak in defense. The Celtics focus on the offensive end, which will inevitably lead to weak defense, unless they have a player like Li Ke who integrates offense and defense.

Rivers calmed down his struggles as the game wore on.

Because he found that struggling is useless, no matter how much emphasis, no amount of adjustment, no matter how much command, there is only one result. If they score one, the Bobcats will also score one. If they defend one, they will also miss one when they turn around.

That's it. Fortunately, the Celtics have always been ahead.

From 73 to 70 at the beginning of the last quarter, to 5 to 81 after 77 minutes, the Celtics, who have been leading all the time, are at least closer to victory in this game.

"The Bobcats should have no other moves. This game is almost like this."

Rivers silently made a judgment, but he didn't know that on the other side, Sam Vincent kept pinching his watch.

"It's not time yet, it's not time yet..."

In the private room of the stands, Boss Qiao was silent.

In the first half of the game, he was talking and laughing with Vic Grosbeck. In the second half, the situation was tense, and the only few spectators in the game began to get nervous.

Vic Grosbeck is actually okay. Long before the game started, he lost confidence and no longer expected his team to win.

The so-called lower the expectation, the lower the disappointment, and correspondingly, the tension is not so strong.

Boss Joe is different. He expects the team to get rid of the Celtics and advance in this game.

But now, the situation is not very clear, even a little gloomy.

"This game doesn't look good..."

Boss Qiao shook his head secretly, but comforted himself secretly: "If you lose, you lose. It's not bad to play another home game. That's three or four million dollars in income..."

After more than two minutes, the score was 85 to 80, the Bobcats' round.

Sam Vincent, who was pinching his watch, went straight to the sidelines and called a rather abrupt timeout.

"This time suspension, is Sam Vincent going to adjust something?"

The game has maintained the same rhythm and has been maintained for the entire game. Both Kenny Smith and Barkley believe that this game will no longer change.

But now, Sam Vincent paused suddenly, telling everyone, no, change is a must!

On the court, Li Ke walked to the sidelines with cheerful steps.

Sam Vincent held the tactical board and looked at Li Ke: "Can we start now, Sheldon?"

"Of course, if you don't do it now, when will you wait?"

Li Ke nodded and sat on the bench.

Then, he looked at Sam Vincent and dispatched troops.

"Dai Quinn, you go on the court and replace Shaq. From now on, our style of play has only one focus, run..."

On the bench next door, Rivers looked puzzled: "Tom, what do you think they want to do?"

The answer to Rivers was Thibodeau shaking his head. No one knew. Three minutes before the end of the game, the Bobcats called a timeout, what was their intention.

Unable to guess the opponent's thoughts, the Celtics have little room for adjustment. Rivers once again played what he is good at.

Looking at the players who had returned to the sidelines, Rivers pointed to the scoreboard above his head:
"85 to 80, we are now leading by 5 points, and there are only 3 minutes left in the game!"

"After 3 minutes, we will take the first step of a big reversal from 1 to 3. Believe in ourselves, we can do this."

"As Paul said, falling behind 1 to 3 is not the end. As long as we reverse, we will still be the super Celtics that swept the NBA!"

"..."

The timeout ended, and the excited, excited, and fighting-minded Celtics' five main players stepped onto the field. The next second, their expressions became stunned.

"Daequan Cook replaced Shaq, Bobcats...?"

Kenny Smith and Barkley's faces are full of question marks, but obviously, the Bobcats' substitutions have been completed, the facts have been set, and there will be no more changes.

"From tall to short, the Bobcats actually formed a five-small lineup of Jared Dudley, Gerald Wallace, Sheldon Lee, Daequan Cook and Allen Iverson?"

The word self-explosion was about to be uttered again, but Kenny Smith held back, because the Bobcats had given him many, many surprises and surprises. It seemed that all kinds of impossible things could become possible in front of the Bobcats.

He didn't dare to jump to conclusions, and decided to take a look first.

On the sidelines, Rivers did the same, frowned, but made no next move.

"Look at how the five little Bobcats played. The ball was kicked off, and Allen Iverson received the ball."

Lao Ai received the ball, and Li Ke, who was kicking off the sideline, rushed to the field. Li Ke blocked Lao Ai, and immediately walked in after taking it apart.

The Celtics' defense is a bit confusing because they don't know how to match up.

Dudley guards the bottom corner, Daquin Cook is on the left side of the top of the arc, Li Ke and Lao Ai are in the middle of the pick-and-roll, and even Hua's second is in the middle distance, not deep.

KG directly pushes out, Perkins hesitates, seeing the vacant No. [-] Hua who is unmarked, he can only pull it out.

In this way, with a pick-and-roll by Li Ke, Lao Ai got the space and accelerated to rush out.

Without KG's help defense, and without Perkins' rim protection, he rushed to the basket unstoppably, raised his hand and threw it...

Swish-!
"All five players were stretched out, and almost every Bobcat player on the court had range covering half the court. The Bobcats' unique strategy seemed to be successful. They forced the Celtics and gave up their chain defense."

"82 to 85, the score gap is close to 3 points."

On the sidelines, Rivers frowned: "Switch to the zone defense?"

Xibodu nodded: "It can only be zone defense."

But they didn't move, and their eyes were fixed on the court. In their view, the Bobcats' five juniors must explode on the defensive end.

With five small lineups, the first question to face is, who will top Perkins?

Lao Du stood up: "Push up, no matter who is afraid of whom."

Anyway, it's just a blue-collar who can't afford to eat cakes. If he can't stand him, can he still turn the world upside down?
Who will top KG?Li Ke stood up, and no one doubted this matchup.

The rest of the matchup was exactly the same as in the third quarter of G4.

Faced with such a defensive matchup, the Celtics played very shrewdly.

They handed the ball to Ray Allen, relied on Ray Allen's breakthrough to attract pincers, and then gave the ball to Perkins.

This aimed at the Bobcats lineup's two big gaps, but Perkins let them down.

"Down, Kendrick Perkins, deflecting Jared Dudley's layup..."

Bang-dang-!
"Not in!"

Sure enough, it's not easy to eat cakes, this Perkins, so what if you give him a free time?Can't turn the sky.

Lao Du, who defended Perkins, squeezed his fist and wanted to wave it, but then he heard the voice of his teammates:

"Counterattack counterattack!"

The second Hua grabbed the rebound, and the focus of the fifth junior was to counterattack after grabbing the rebound. When Lao Du heard the call, he immediately turned around and rushed out.

"Lynx counterattacked, five arrows fired..."

A second later—

"It's over, the Bobcats' counterattack momentum is unstoppable!"

Five people arrived in an instant and surrounded the front field.

Pierce, who retreated, blocked Hua's second child, Ray Allen stared at Lao Ai, and finally, Eddie House blocked Lao Du, but Li Ke and Dai Quinn Cook were so empty that they couldn't be more empty.

The second Hua who holds the ball knows exactly how he should choose——

"Gerald Wallace's pass, Sheldon! Three points!"

Swish-!
85 to 85, the score jumped violently. After a timeout, they counterattacked one after another, and the Bobcats had already tied the score.

In the stands, Boss Joe clenched his fist and waved it.

Beside him, although he had given up hope, Vic Grosbeck still frowned.

He turned his head and glanced at Danny Angie behind him. Angie nodded, and then Vic Grosbeck turned his head back. It seemed that the two had completed a wave of private communication.

On the sidelines, Rivers had a bad feeling.

He got up, swept around the bench, and called a timeout first.

"It's timed out, and the Celtics are also suspended. This time, Rivers' reaction is fast enough."

On the sidelines, Rivers turned his head and asked Thibodeau: "Leon or Glenn?"

"I choose Glenn."

So, in a pause, Rivers called the rookie power forward off the bench, Glenn Davis.

After the timeout, the Celtics made a substitution. Glenn Davis replaced Perkins.

"Glenn Davis?"

Li Ke frowned. This time, he had the same opinion as Kenny Smith and Barkley in the commentary, and Rivers reacted a little too quickly.

At the last moment of the last quarter, they really don't need to think about this or that. As long as it can help the team score, it is a good adjustment.

In this way, it was no different from the previous Celtics offensive round. Ray Allen played a single first, and then sent the ball to the basket. One-on-one, Glenn Davis crushed Lao Du.

"Glenn Davis, he's got great footwork around the rim, a turn, a hook..."

Swish-!
"The goal was scored and the Celtics took the lead again!"

On the sidelines, this time it was Sam Vincent's turn to frown.

"Glen Davis? How to prevent this?"

Now, he is really envious of Rivers, the cards in his hand are really inexhaustible.

It's all at the end of the game, and Rivers took out another new card, who can stand it!

One-on-one scoring at the basket, offensive and defensive transitions, the Bobcats' round is over.

Li Ke didn't think too much about it. He returned to the offensive end and just hit the damn ball in.

But in positional warfare, the advantage of the fifth small was gone in an instant.

"The Celtics resorted to the zone defense, and the Bobcats' fifth team has been running, but there is no effective way to open the gap..."

Finally, Li Ke received the ball.

"Sheldon, he got the ball, time was running out, a mid-range pull!"

Bang-dang-!
At the basket, KG grabbed the rebound and the ball changed hands.

"The strategy has failed..."

Li Ke frowned, Wu Xiao is very beautiful, but the reality is very skinny.

The fact is that the fifth little one is too detached from this era, and in one or two rounds, he might be able to play a surprise game and gain something.

But after a long time, as long as the opponent reacts, Wu Xiao's advantage will disappear immediately.

Back on the defensive end, the Celtics still played the same old way. Gentleman Lei singled out and went to Glenn Davis. The big baby caught the ball and played another single. This time, Lao Du narrowly resisted.

When under the basket, Li Ke picked up the rebound and called a timeout without any hesitation.

"Sam, no, we have to switch back."

Li Ke's first reaction was to replace the old shark.

Sam Vincent grinned mysteriously: "How about not changing?"

"?"

Li Ke was puzzled for a moment, and Sam Vincent said: "Psychological warfare."

Li Ke understood immediately.

"Then don't change!"

With a buzz, the timer roars, and the pause ends.

A surprising scene appeared, the Bobcats did not make any substitutions, but the Celtics changed first.

"Perkins for Glenn Davis, Celtics for back!"

With Bobcats' offense and positional warfare, Wuxiao still doesn't have any advantage.

Relying on Li Ke's pick-and-roll, Lao Ai rushed out to make a sudden stop and made a mid-range shot. With a bang, the score was evened.

Turning his head, the Celtics' round, Rivers smiled wryly: "Pause?"

Thibodou nodded: "Otherwise? Count on Kendrick's singles?"

Beep!
This time it was the turn of Kenny Smith and Barkley in the commentary booth. They wiped their faces: "The final stage of this game is almost a timeout."

"Fortunately, the two teams only have one last timeout left, and the timeout battle should not continue."

(End of this chapter)