After the confession failed, I went to the NBA to play and lose weight

Chapter 283 Counterpoint Garnett

"Okay, the game restarted. We saw that the Celtics had the ball first at the beginning of the third quarter. The Magic have settled down and prepared to defend. Their defensive formation has also changed a bit, and it has become a two-three defense. Obviously It is also aimed at the inaccurate outside shooting of the Green Army, it depends on whether Ray Allen can seize the opportunity at this time..."

Among the five starters of the Celtics, only Ray Allen is a threatening outside scoring point. Although Pierce can shoot, he is not stable, not to mention that he is really not accurate today. He has lost two attempts so far.

After some trials in the first half, the Magic are now planning to let them shoot, paying more attention to defensive breakthroughs and low positions, so that both Rondo and Pierce have been further restricted.

At this time, Howard's defensive ability is also very well demonstrated. All kinds of replacements, except for a foul caused by Garnett's force at the basket, are more successful defenses.

The Green Army can only rely on the mid-range to score, the inside can't get in, Perkins can't be ignored, and Garnett can't get in when facing Howard.

Pierce was blocked by Turkoglu in the low post, and Howard would interfere with him if he went in a little further, and he couldn't attract the defense from the outside.

This is really a problem with the offensive tactics of the Green Army. The difference from the movement of all members of the Magic is that if it is a single game, the Green Army will often fall into an embarrassing situation of one-on-one play and four-watch. If the single play cannot achieve results , then this attack attempt is probably a failure.

Of course, moving may not be effective. For example, even if Rondo starts to run, Nelson doesn’t have to chase so closely, and Pierce may not give him an open opportunity—nor may he pass.

Ray Allen relied on his running position and got two good chances with the help of Perkins' cover, but Evans chased him so tightly that he didn't dare to delay at all, and shot directly without adjusting the ball , barely hit once.

But most of the time, it is difficult for him to even get a chance.

Although the Magic team is defending in the second and third defenses, it is only in this point that they have not relaxed much. Before the game, Van Gundy specially let the starting lineup practice. The player must step forward to interfere as much as possible, and cannot let him make a comfortable shot.

Defense is a test of the tacit understanding and cooperation of the players. Of course, it also requires everyone to have a certain positional ability in their respective positions, preferably across two or three positions.

In this regard, Li Chengming can't do it. On the contrary, he has this condition for starting.

Playing like this for a small half quarter, although the Green Army did not further increase the score by relying on defense, they were not able to approach the score. This is obviously not the result they want to see.

Rivers called a timeout, and seemed to want to change and adjust again, but he really didn't have many cards in his hand, or in other words, he didn't have the ability to make ends meet and turn decay into magic.

Judging from the composition of the Celtics' assistant coaching team, their entire coaching team seems to be more defensive. Except for Garnett and Pierce's occasional singles, they basically didn't design any special outside shooting tactics for Ray Allen. .

It's like leaving such a top three three-point shooter in history for nothing, but he hasn't been able to play his biggest role.

And they have been playing like this throughout the season. Even if they realize the problem at this time, it is not so easy to change hastily.

On Van Gundy's side, he praised his disciples during the timeout, and then began to prepare for adjustments. First of all, of course, Li Chengming was put on the field first, and once he played, the offense was fine, but the defense had to change.

Since they knew that the opponent's intention was to injure him, the Magic should protect him as a matter of course.

The most important thing is for his teammates on the inside and on the wing to recover in time to help him share the defensive pressure.

In the low post, Li Chengming's single defense is not likely to cause major problems. Instead, he switches defenses after the pick-and-roll. According to Van Gundy's instructions, he only needs to make a slight delay, and then switch positions with his teammates in time.

If you are facing Rondo, the big deal is to put him a little distance away, and bet that he dare not shoot.

The Celtics didn't dare to bring up Tony Allen at this time, so that the two outside points could be empty, and the Magic would shrink even more, and they couldn't get in.

It took a lot of effort for the Celtics to attack this time, and finally relied on Brown to receive a pass from Garnett and fly to the basket and hit the basket. Fortunately, it did not exceed 24 seconds.

Looking back at the Magic's attack, Howard was watched by Brown on the other side, and Li Chengming faced Garnett.

When he was about to reach the ball, he turned around, stared at Garnett with a low center of gravity, and suddenly laughed, "Guess how I'm going to hit you next?"

It is said that Wang Daniao told his opponent more than once that he would fight as he wanted, and then he succeeded.

In terms of the magnitude of trash talk, the most powerful part of Bird's trash talk is not the words themselves, but many of what he said are realized on the court.

This is to force the king, and to kill people is to punish the heart.

In comparison, although Mr. Kevin turned on his trash talk switch, Li Chengming felt that Garnett was relatively inferior in terms of trash talk.

Earlier, he didn't know much about American slang, especially the so-called black slang in the so-called community culture of black people.

What kind of personal attacks, disasters to the family, dirty, pornographic, violent, Garnett really carried forward the mouth of gangsters.

The difference is probably that people can not only talk, but also use knives, and Garnett...

Staring at Li Chengming, the former wolf king said viciously: "How do you think I will pull you down later? If you dare to leave the ground three feet, believe it or not, you can't walk away from this game?"

The imposing manner on this Heiwa's expression is indeed very bluffing, but Li Chengming is not frightened, how could he be afraid.

I even think it's a bit funny, you really did it yourself when you said that, it's not just talking, is it?
No, no, no?

Looking at Li Chengming's smiling expression, Garnett was secretly annoyed.

Of course, what he said was just for intimidation, just talking casually, not to mention whether he has the courage, he must consider his own reputation.

After all, he is not an unknown person, nor is he a full-time dirty job like Uncle Bao.

It's okay to do small things usually, even if something goes wrong, he has a reason to say it, but if it's really a big move that cripples people, the impact will be great.

Although competitive sports wins and loses, if you win the championship in the end, no matter how dirty the process is, it will slowly wash away after a few years.

Just like now, in addition to Suns fans, how many people will talk about the Spurs?

But Garnett still has to consider his commercial value, he has to make money, and his preferred reputation is more important.

Besides, it's only the Eastern Conference finals now, and it's not worth it in his opinion.

And if the "effect" is not achieved, and I have to be suspended for one game instead, it is even more unworthy.

This season from the Timberwolves to Boston, Garnett is also under pressure.

Even if the outside world tells them how rare they are after being exaggerated by the media, such as "three old men come to chase dreams together", just listen to it yourself, and you will be really stupid if you believe it.

If he fails to win the championship, all the hype now may come back in the end.

Li Chengming didn't know what the other person was thinking, but he seemed to be a little distracted, so he moved immediately.

However, Garnett's reaction was faster than expected, as if it was just a disguise, and he moved sideways in an instant to block Li Chengming's progress.

Li Chengming then turned around and took a step in. At this time, Brown let go of Howard to meet him, and Garnett immediately turned around behind him to catch up, and the speed was also very fast.

On Howard's side, Li Chengming's vision saw that Rondo was already moving this way. He had an idea, and without turning his head, the ball was sent directly from the middle where Brown and Garnett were not yet encircled.

"Li Chengming attracted double-teams and passed the ball to Nelson in the crowd. The ball was a bit low, but Rondo couldn't recover it, so Nelson can make some adjustments and shoot again. Three points——Yes!"

(End of this chapter)