With three points at the start, Nash begged for a maximum salary to renew his contract

Chapter 139 Overturning Pierce
The Magic, which won the first victory in the Eastern Conference finals, followed up in the second game of the series on May 5 and made another victory at 22:99. They won both home games and gained an absolute lead of 96:2.

Compared with the first game, the score in the second game was more stalemate, and the Celtics, who had suffered a loss in the first game, adjusted their defensive strategy in the second game and strengthened their belief that even if they couldn't defend against Wang Chao and Howard's The pick-and-roll cooperation must also resolutely cut off the connection between Wang Chao and Howard. You can let Wang Chao break through the frame with the ball, but you can't let Howard cut inward after the pick-and-roll.

In terms of the lethality of the attack frame, Howard is much stronger than Wang Chao.

The Celtics have realized that it is impossible to completely prevent Wang Chao from scoring, so they can only give up selectively.

The effect of this move is good. Howard can't pick and roll to eat cakes, and his offensive firepower plummets. After all, Howard himself does not have the ability to hold the ball inside. Facing some centers who are thinner and slower than him, he may be able to use his body. Howard has the advantage of attacking with the ball, but facing a standard heavy blue-collar center like Perkins, Howard's efficiency in singles with the ball in the paint is very low.

The result was this game. Howard made 8 of 3 shots and 8 of 4 free throws. Only 10 points were recorded.

Of course, Howard himself is not a center who is good at offense. Although he has no contribution on the offensive end, he still shows the dominance that the league's first center should have in other aspects.

18 rebounds, including 7 offensive rebounds, and 4 blocked shots, proved that Howard's honor of rebounding leader and blocking leader this season was not picked up.

On Wang Chao’s side, due to the change in the Celtics’ defensive strategy, the number of three-pointers shot dropped sharply. He only made 5 of 2 three-pointers in the whole game. The number of shots and hits failed, but in exchange for Yes, there are a lot of opportunities to attack the frame with the ball.

Although his breakthrough attack frame lethality is relatively weak, but it is only relative.

Throughout the long season, Wang Chao still insisted on high-frequency and high-intensity training. With the support of training potions exchanged for a large number of points, Wang Chao's ability value has been rising steadily and sustainably every day. In addition to physical fitness, Wang Chao The most over-trained is offensive ability.

Before the start of the playoffs, Wang Chao's offensive end mainly involved the related abilities of attacking the frame, and all of them had been raised to above 90.

94 layups, 82 dunks, 95 short-range shots, 97 free throws, 93 throws, and the three mid-range shooting abilities also reached an average of 96.

Such a super high basic attribute value determines that Wang Chao's lethality in the basket is not low, but compared to James, Wade, Kobe Bryant and other top stars.

In the G2 game of the Eastern Conference Finals, Wang Chao showed the Celtics what level of offensive ability he had without a three-pointer.

整场比赛23投12中，罚球10中9，加上5中2的三分球，王超全场砍下35分2篮板3助攻，发挥完全不比前一场比赛命中大量三分球的情况下差多少。

The Celtics' defensive strategy has actually been adjusted very well. Although it failed to limit Wang Chao's scoring, it at least cut off the connection between Wang Chao and Howard's pick-and-roll and successfully reduced Howard's offensive firepower.

But the Celtics can make tactical adjustments based on the game, and so can the Magic.

In this game, the Magic also targeted the Celtics' style of play, the most obvious being the Celtics point guard Rajon Rondo.

In the last game, Rondo used his mobility to break through with the ball to help the Celtics increase their firepower on the offensive end.

But in this game, Rondo's performance was a lot worse, with only 8 points, 4 rebounds and 7 assists in the game, and only 11 of 3 shots.

The reason for this is that whenever Rondo holds the ball to face Magic point guard Nelson, Nelson will simply retreat to the free throw line, as if you can shoot if you have the ability.

Seeing that there was nothing in front of him and no defensive player, Rondo looked confused.

This is Wang Chao's proposal.

Rondo is one of the four famous point guards who don't shoot, and the reputation of not being able to shoot has accompanied Rondo for almost half of his career. Shooting ability, but that is only a little bit.

At this stage, Rondo's three-point shooting percentage in the regular season can't even reach 30%, and the main offensive points all come from within the restricted area of ​​the basket.

When Nelson gave Rondo the outside space, Rondo would not play anymore.

He tried to shoot a few shots from outside the three-point line, and the result was 4 of 1 shots. This result made him decisively give up the shot from outside the three-point line and turn to other methods.

Therefore, there was a very strange scene on the field. Rondo stood alone in the top arc with the ball, and there was no defensive player around him, but he didn't make a shot. Instead, he kept gesturing to direct traffic.

Ten years later, the same picture will appear on Draymond Green of the Warriors. Going back, Russell Westbrook of the Lakers and even the Clippers will also enjoy such treatment.

But in 2009, such a picture is really quite rare and extremely funny.

The great success of the defense against Rondo is also one of the main reasons why the Magic won the second game and successfully defended the two home games.

It's just that the loss of 2 games did not plunge the Celtics into despair.

On May 5, the third game in the Eastern Conference, the game venue returned to the Celtics' home court, Boston's North Shore Garden Arena, and the situation immediately reversed.

The strongest devil in the league has reached the Eastern Conference finals at home, and the pressure has reached the extreme.

Not only are the loud shouts of the fans on the field disturbing, but many of the effects have even spread outside the field.

The day before the game, all members of the Magic arrived at their hotel in Boston.

However, many fanatical Green Army fans had already obtained the news of the Magic players staying in the hotel through various channels, and they carnivaled outside the hotel all night. The tossing Magic players couldn't sleep well all night.

The leader of the Magic called the police to report the nuisance, but the police in Boston seemed to be extremely busy that day. It was not until three or four o'clock in the middle of the night that the police finally arrived at the scene. After more than an hour of negotiation, the extreme Green Army fans dispersed.

The players of the Magic team, who were finally able to take a rest, had just fallen asleep when they were woken up by a harsh construction sound.

The angry team leader went downstairs to question the hotel, and was told that the water pipe in the hotel had burst and was being repaired urgently.

It must be admitted that the hotel's water pipes burst in real time.

After a whole night of tossing, all members of the Magic team were depressed and listless.

"I'm convinced, these bastards in Boston are really amazing." With a pair of dark circles under his eyes, Howard complained to Wang Chao speechlessly. "Yesterday, I wanted to sneak out to a nightclub to relax and relieve stress, but in less than 10 minutes, there were no less than 5 people swearing at me. I was afraid that I might be shot dead by these lunatics when I really got to the nightclub... ..."

While speaking, Howard looked at Wang Chao but was startled.

"Wang, why are you in such good spirits? How did you fall asleep last night?"

The refreshed Wang Chao shook his head and said, "I didn't fall asleep much, but maybe it's because I'm young, and I can still bear it if I stay up all night occasionally."

Howard: "..."

I believe you bastard you are very bad old man.

Can young people stay up late?
How young are you?
Wang Chao, who was born in November 83, is now 11 years old and will soon be 25. Although Howard and Wang Chao are both rookies in 26, he is a high school student participating in the draft. His birth date is December 04, and he is not yet 1985 years old.

Wang Chao said that he was young in front of him, it was a blatant mockery!
Of course, Wang Chao is not really because he is young and can bear it, but it is actually because of the training potion.

Although it is called physical potion, in the process of using it, Wang Chao has discovered many additional functions of this potion, the most important of which is naturally to enhance the male's ability to achieve the buff effect of a golden spear. Secondly, after taking the potion Within the 8-hour continuous effect, not only the physical recovery effect is increased, but also the spiritual level is also restored, just like drinking Red Bull.

This effect can also be used when Wang Chao uses a lot of bullet time to cause mental power loss, but it may be to prevent Wang Chao from cheating by using the physical potion. Super use bullet time to relieve the pain when the mental power is overdrawn and the headache is splitting, dizzy and uncomfortable.

Wang Chao himself did not expect that the physical potion used for training would one day become a good medicine to resist the troubles caused by the devil's home fans.

It's a pity that only Wang Chao can use the physical potion, so he is the only one in the Magic team to maintain a normal state.

In the game that night, almost all members of the Magic team stretched their hips. The mental fatigue caused by not sleeping well all night, coupled with the fact that the home fans of the Celtics made all kinds of noise during the game, made people upset.

The final result was that the Magic lost the game 88:95.

Throughout the game, the only player on the Magic team who played normally was Wang Chao, but he was alone. Seeing that Wang Chao's state was not affected, the Celtics decisively double-teamed Wang Chao, so he did not have too explosive performance on the offensive end. In the end, he scored 27 points, 5 rebounds and 3 assists.

After the game, all members of the Magic team immediately chose the nearest plane to hide in Orlando. Although there is still an away game to be played in Boston, everyone in the Magic team agreed that they should stay in Boston for two more days. They must be driven into nervous breakdown.

Game 5 of the Eastern Conference finals starts on May 26.

The Magic didn't fly to Boston until the day of the game.

Thanks to the same eastern team, the distance between Boston and Orlando is much closer than that of the western teams. The distance of 2000 kilometers can be reached in three hours by plane.

Anyway, all the members of the Magic team would rather take a three-hour plane before the game than spend the night in Boston, which is too tortured.

……

The fourth game of the series is a crucial game for the Celtics.

Winning this game means that the Greens have successfully defended their home court and evened the total score to 2:2. They have the capital to compete with the Magic in the Tianwangshan battle.

But if this important home court is lost, the score will become 3:1. At that time, the Magic will hold 3 match points and occupy the absolute initiative. The situation will be bad.

As for the Magic, even if they lose this game and are tied 2:2, they still have the upper hand in this series with home court advantage.

But who would want to make extra trouble?If you can defeat your opponent as soon as possible, you must not give the opponent a chance to breathe. After all, this is the Celtics Big Three, the biggest favorite to win the championship besides the Lakers.

Therefore, as soon as the game started, the intensity was instantly full.

In less than 3 minutes of the first quarter, the number of fouls committed by both teams reached the free throw standard.

Turkoglu was overturned by Garnett arbitrarily in the process of blocking the rebound.

Rondo broke into the basket with the ball for a layup, and was slapped by Howard with the ball.

In the next round, Perkins deliberately retaliated, entangled with Howard and then turned into a wrestling.

The referee's whistle sounded from time to time, and the process of the game became fragmented. Along with the larger defensive actions, the anger between the two sides continued to accumulate and increase.

Wang Chao was also not spared.

When shooting from outside the three-point line, Pierce took the initiative to go forward to defend, and slapped him in the face with his palm.

"You fucking!"

Wang Chao became angry immediately, he was not the one to suffer, and Pierce was obviously here against someone!

After landing, Wang Chao rushed towards Pierce immediately.

Seeing this scene, all the players of the Magic team suddenly felt bad.

"No, Wang Chao has to control his temper!"

Director Zhang, the CCTV sports commentator who was broadcasting the game live, was also a little anxious when he saw this.

"Don't be impulsive. The opponent wants to use this method to provoke Wang Chao's impulsiveness. Once Wang Chao is sent off for making a move, the game will be lost!"

Simply, Wang Chao who rushed in front of Pierce still held back and didn't make a move, just bumped Pierce with his chest.

Pierce didn't take it seriously, but the moment Wang Chao bumped into him, a huge force that he didn't expect surged in, causing Pierce to stagger and nearly fall to the ground.

Immediately, Pierce's eyes turned red. This time he was not aggressive but extremely insulting.

As a relatively strong player among small forwards, Pierce has always been extremely confident in his own strength. Except for players with perverted strength like James and Artest, no outside player can surpass him in strength, let alone everyone. It is generally recognized that Wang Chao is not particularly strong in confrontation ability?
Such views are clearly outdated.

During the Olympics, Wang Chao's strength has reached a good level through conscious training, and at this stage his strength ability value has reached 85, which is completely comparable to Pierce. One of the two is actively exerting strength, and the other is Standing in place and passively receiving force is a matter of course.

Pierce staggered back two steps to gain a foothold, and immediately rushed up to entangle with Wang Chao.

"Squeaky-!"

The referee's whistle sounded quickly, separating all the surrounding players, and then Wang Chao and Pierce each received a technical foul.

"Pity……"

Seeing such a penalty result, Director Zhang shook his head regretfully. "If Wang Chao can control his temper, Pierce's defensive action just now must have been a technical foul, but it turned out to be a top [-] board."

"Having said that, the scene where Wang Chao knocked Pierce just now was really cool." Director Yu couldn't help but said with a smile: "When it's time to make a move, we Chinese players don't just allow themselves to be bullied. "

This sentence is said in the hearts of all the fans watching this game.

It's certainly not a good thing to fight on the field, but when the opponent is so aggressive, if Wang Chao doesn't even react at all, it would be too cowardly.

"Brother Chao NB! Combination punches are waiting for you, beat him out of the ring!"

"I've seen this guy Pierce upset for a long time, why are you dragging? If you can't beat him, just use small moves, and you can't afford it!"

"But if there is a real fight, Brother Chao doesn't know if he can beat Pierce. This guy is also a fierce man. He was hacked 11 times in a nightclub, and he was discharged from the hospital after 3 days. It started in less than half a month. Participate in team training."

Fans in the webcast room kept swiping their screens with various comments like a waterfall, discussing the game hotly.

On the field, after executing free throws for a technical foul, Stan Van Gundy called a timeout to adjust the rhythm.

Looking at the expressionless Wang Chao, Van Gundy thought for a while and asked. "Wang, do you want to adjust first?"

Wang Chao shook his head, still looking at the Celtics bench. "No, I haven't returned the one just now."

Van Gundy was a little nervous because of the cold tone in the words. "Don't be impulsive, or you will be fooled by the opposite party."

Wang Chao smiled, shook his head and said, "Don't worry, I'm referring to fighting back on the field, not going to PK with him in real life."

Although the real person PK Wang Chao will not boo at all, but this is an NBA basketball game after all, not boxing. In the 90s, the style of the iron-blooded tough guy was advertised. In Wang Chao's view, it is a group of rascals who cannot afford to lose. All kinds of malicious fouls outside of the game to prove his toughness, what kind of skill is that?If you are really tough enough, you will defend your opponent's attack upright.

Pierce's action just now also belongs to this category.

Although Wang Chao will not follow suit, he must fight back on the field!
(End of this chapter)