NBA: Start by torturing Jordan and add points to upgrade

The Celtics' next attack missed!
Although they have many superstars in the team, they really don't have any good offensive tactics or systems. This team's offense basically relies on two moves.

Star players’ individual plays and the sudden and inspiring cooperation between stars.

As for any system, coordination or other things, the Celtics really don't have much.

This is also one of the biggest reasons why Rivers asked them to slow down the pace and get into position.

If your offensive tactics are not good, then attack less and try to hide your weaknesses as much as possible.

The Knicks' next attack also failed!

Because although the Celtics are not good at offense, their defense is really good.

The defensive abilities of these guys on the court and the team's defensive system are absolutely top-notch. Even for Lin Tian, ​​when his teammates don't perform well, it is difficult for him to maintain his lethality and efficiency and continue to score points.

In the next few minutes of the game, those who couldn't attack met those who couldn't defend, and those who were good at attacking met those who were good at defending. After this rather strange collision between the two sides, the effect displayed was also quite peculiar.

Damn...this ball didn’t even go in?

as well as……

Holy shit... can this be prevented?

As for the final result, the scoring efficiency of both sides became extremely low, and they missed shots at the same time. From 3 minutes and 30 seconds before the end of the game to the last minute of the game, the two sides were still tied.

85: 85!

The two sides were tied at 2:30 in the last 2 minutes and 2 seconds.

What does it mean that a chess player meets a worthy opponent and a general meets a talented person?
That's it.

A perfect match of Crouching Dragon and Phoenix Chick.

"It's hard for me to tell who had the upper hand in this game, and who played more efficiently and at their own pace." Barkley could only shake his head and sigh at this situation, saying that he couldn't understand it: "I can't even tell if this is a matchup between two top five teams in the league."

Kenny nodded in agreement, "That's right! You said the game was in the Celtics' rhythm, but they didn't even lead by 1 point. You said the Knicks controlled the game and took the initiative, but they only scored 85 points."

"It's been bad enough on both sides tonight."

At this time on the court, the timeout ended and players from both sides returned to the court.

The Knicks still replaced Stoudemire with Smith, who performed brilliantly in the fourth quarter, while the Celtics played with all five starters at the same time.

"Let's score this goal!" Before Lin Tian received the ball, he raised his hand and shouted to his teammates, "Let's take the lead!"

Then he crossed his arms, called out a tactic, signaled his teammates to get ready, then took the basketball and started attacking.

In the last 59 seconds, the Knicks attacked.

After Lin Tian came to the frontcourt, he did not rush to attack, but waved to signal Okur to come up and cover him. Then he changed direction and passed Marbury. Okur quickly pulled out, creating space for Lin Tian to break through, while also pulling out the Celtics' inside defense.

Duncan had no choice. Even though Okur was not accurate tonight, he could only take two steps outward to prevent Lin Tian from passing the ball, while Howard stayed under the basket, waiting for Lin Tian's attack.

Smith was let go again!
After all, the Celtics still don't believe Smith can continue to score! Even though he has scored 3 goals in the fourth quarter tonight, the Celtics still chose to let him go at this time.

If you dare to let it go, then Lin Tian will dare to pass it on!

Lin Tian, ​​who was about to enter the free throw line, suddenly clasped the ball with both hands and threw it towards Smith.

Howard under the basket could only look over there and then start to help defend his good friend from high school.

You can't just watch Smith take an open shot, right?

But Howard realized something was wrong after only one step.

The basketball never appeared in Smith's hands!
NO PASS LOOK!

Lin Tian just took a look and made a passing gesture, the basketball was still in his hand.

But even if Howard is gifted and has supernatural powers, it would be impossible for him to return to the basket in time.

"boom!"

Then there was a crisp sound, and the defensive system that the Celtics relied on to survive was directly broken by Lin Tian's pick-and-roll!
85: 87!

In the last 45 seconds, the Knicks finally took the lead again!

With a two-point advantage in hand, the Knicks will take the initiative next!

"Beautiful! I knew that the Knicks' final solution would still be Lin! It would still be Lin's personal ability to save the world! Just like what Lin has done time and time again over the years."

Barkley screamed with excitement at Lin Tian's fake pass and slam dunk, as if the Knicks had secured the victory.

In the next Celtics attack, their entire team once again fully deployed to create space for Duncan. After all, Duncan has the biggest status and the highest position in the team. Although Pierce is an old Celtic, at this time, everyone still trusts Duncan!

However, after Duncan got the ball, the others did not just stand there and watch. Pierce and Marbury moved towards Duncan's side one after another, hoping to get a chance to shoot.

Then, after the two were successively watched by Lin Tian and Jackson, Marbury and Pierce had another idea. They suddenly did an off-ball screen on the wing and hung each other.

This extremely simple operation directly caused problems for the Knicks' defense.

Jackson wanted to switch defense, but Lin Tian decided not to. The two made completely different defensive decisions. This was because the Knicks had not practiced defense much in the past year and the players had no tacit understanding at all.

The result is that the Celtics have a fairly good shooting space.

With Duncan's vision and selflessness, he certainly would not miss this opportunity. He quickly passed the ball to Pierce who had already rushed to the bottom corner, giving him a good opportunity to catch the ball and jump shot directly.

Even though Lin Tian was running as fast as he could, trying his best to catch up, jump, and interfere, Pierce had already shot directly after getting the ball. It was still completely unknown how much effect Lin Tian's desperate defense would have.

"Boom!"

There was a dull thud worthy of the entire Madison Square Garden's revelry, and the basketball bounced out of the rim and failed to hit the basket.

Duncan, Smith, Howard, Okur and others under the basket immediately gathered together to grab the crucial rebound. Everyone squeezed into the 3-second zone, trying to grab this crucial rebound. Neither side had an advantage in positioning, so it was a - fight.

In this case, it all depends on luck and talent!

As the basketball bounced up and down, Howard and Smith, two of the league's top spring men, jumped at the same time, but their jumping heights were almost the same, and when they touched the ball at the same time, neither of them could control the basketball.

They could only try their best to point the ball towards the sky, letting the basketball fly up again, and then the two of them could only land on the ground with regret.

The second wave of competition will depend on timing and experience.

Okur and Duncan were also huddled together.

At least in this rebounding round, the two players were evenly matched.

"Stop him!" Lin Tian's loud shout suddenly came from behind Okur. Okur, who trusted Lin Tian very much, immediately turned around and no longer cared about the rebound. Instead, he tried his best to push Duncan out of the rebounding position so that he could not grab the rebound.

Even Duncan was helpless in the face of this kind of play where the opponent would rather not grab the rebound himself but push it out first, and it was difficult for him to grab the rebound.

He is not afraid that Okur will snatch it from him, he is afraid that Okur won’t want it either!

Seeing that the two people were out of the rebounding area at the same time, Lin Tian finally rushed to the position, hugged the rebound and shouted to his teammates: "Score another goal! Let's secure the victory!"

"No foul! No foul! Hold on! We must hold on to this ball!" Rivers, who was standing off the court, took a look at the 29 seconds left and Lin Tian's almost 90% free throw rate, and decisively chose not to foul and to have a complete defensive round. According to Pierce's idea, as long as they could defend this ball, they would have at least 5-6 seconds of offensive time left, which was enough for them to make a buzzer beater!
Guard it!
“Don’t fucking dream!” Marbury slapped the floor, ready to fight, staring at Lin Tian intently. He was also going to fight to the death: “I will definitely defend against this shot of yours!”

"Stop dreaming!" Lin Tian snorted, then changed direction and accelerated, leaving Marbury behind in the blink of an eye.

You are so overwhelmed by talent. If you can stop Mr. Lin just by hard work, then why would I cheat?

Also, Marbury himself thought that at this point in the game, Lin Tian should calm down for both emotional and practical reasons, and only launch an attack when the offensive time was almost used up.

But he obviously forgot one thing, that is, the so-called common sense and rationality do not apply to Lin Tian!

Seeing that the Celtics' defensive formation was not yet in place, Lin Tian rushed in directly, catching them off guard.

After passing Marbury in one step, Lin Tian continued to go deep into the inside, just to attack you directly! He just wanted to use the simplest way to destroy you Celtics!
After Lin Tian made his way to the inside, he encountered Howard's defense again, and Duncan once again had to rush out to the outside to guard against O'Neal's shot.

Everything is so similar to the last round.

Lin Tian still held the ball with both hands, and then waved it towards Smith at the baseline.

This time Howard was unmoved. He wanted to guard his own territory and prevent Lin Tian from rushing in and attacking the basket!
But this time, the basketball really disappeared and flew to Smith at the baseline.

Smith was left open again and caught the ball without any hesitation. He just jumped up and threw it!
After the shot, this flirty guy didn't even look back to see whether the basketball went in or not. Instead, he turned around with great confidence and ran towards his own half of the court.

This ball is definitely going in, I have to go back to defense!

"Shh!"

Then there was a crisp sound and Smith hit his third 3-pointer and fourth goal in the fourth quarter!
With 11 points in a single quarter, Smith became the biggest surprise for the Knicks tonight!

85: 90!

With 20 seconds left in the game, the Knicks successfully extended their lead to 5 points!
They basically secured the victory!

If the Celtics want to win next, they can only hope for a miracle or for the Knicks to make a huge mistake and give them a gift.

Rivers called a timeout. He had to arrange an extremely fast 3-point tactic for the team so that the team could score quickly.

This goal was particularly difficult for the Celtics.

They need 3 points, and it must be 3 points, so the Knicks will definitely defend them on the 3-point line, which will make their shooting extremely difficult.

At the same time, they had to be quick! With 20 seconds to spare and a 5-point gap, even if they could make the 3-pointer, they had to foul immediately and then pray that the Knicks would make 2 of 1 free throws at most, so that they could have a chance of a comeback.

In short, to put it simply: after Lin Tian's dunk and pass, the victory of the game was basically in the pocket of the Knicks. Whether they can take it out of their pockets again depends on how strong the Celtics are!
Soon, the timeout ended, and Rivers replaced Howard with Tony Allen, the team's rookie drafted this year and also the team's most stable 3-point shooter off the bench!

Hmm...little-known fact: When Tony Allen was first drafted, he was good at offense and had a good 3-point shot. He was once trained by the Celtics as an offensive core on the bench.

Then? God knows what happened to him, and he became a top defensive player who was selected as the best defensive player for 6 consecutive times and could compete for the best 1-2 defenders in NBA history.

Well... those are not important. What’s important is that the Celtics now need at least two three-pointers to win this game!

"beep!"

The referee blew the whistle, and the tall and long-armed Pierce stood at the sidelines ready to serve the ball. The rest of the Celtics players started running with Duncan as the axis. They needed a chance to shoot.

After a series of runs, Allen, who had just come on the court, created an opportunity on the wing, and Pierce's pass arrived immediately.

Although Jackson ran as fast as he could, trying to interfere with Allen's shot, Allen still shot the ball calmly.

"Boom!"

With a dull thud, the Celtics missed the 3-pointer!
Fortunately, they still had Duncan. Duncan under the basket didn't even think about holding the ball in his arms, but slapped the ball away. The basketball immediately flew towards the 45-degree angle on the wing where he had already aimed, and it was Pierce who caught the ball.

After Pierce got the ball, he faced Anthony in front of him, and after a simple fake and sideways dribbling, he forced another 3-pointer!
"Boom!"

Unfortunately, he failed to shake off Anthony and the shot was a little short.

It's still Duncan!

This inside giant was like a pillar at this time. He grabbed the rebound again and then passed the ball to Marbury who was missed on the other side.

After getting the ball, Marbury had no time to adjust or observe, and shot again from outside the three-point line.

The third consecutive 3-pointer!

"Snapped!"

But this time, what was heard was the sound of the basketball colliding with the arm.

"It's never-ending, is it? Get out of here!" Lin Tian shouted, and flew up from the side and slapped Marbury's shot away. At the same time, he just took a glance and immediately ran towards the frontcourt.

Jackson had already made a diving leap, got ahead of everyone, grabbed the basketball, and then threw the ball to the frontcourt before the Celtics players caught up.

Lin Tian grabbed the basketball, dribbled quickly to the frontcourt and completed another slam dunk!
"boom!"

After this explosion, the suspense of the game completely disappeared.

85: 92!

7 points lead!

There are only 5 seconds left in the game.

The outcome is decided.

"MVP! MVP! MVP!"

"Lin! Lin! Lin!"

"Our King!"

"New York will win!"

"Sweep away these Boston bastards!"

"Kill them!"

As Lin Tian scored this goal, the fans at the scene, who were originally a little nervous, finally exploded completely, releasing all the depression that had been suppressed throughout the night. Their cheers, shouts and swear words lasted for several minutes.

Even when the Celtics sent a baseline ball, and Marbury dribbled the ball helplessly to use up the time, waiting for the game to officially end, and the players from both sides high-fived and hugged each other, the voices of the fans finally gradually faded away.

The series score is 1:0!

"The Knicks won. It was a very tough game!" Barkley said: "The overall rhythm of this game was completely under the control of the Celtics. They controlled the rhythm from beginning to end. The process and style of the whole game were what they wanted."

Kenny followed up, "But they still lost. There are two biggest reasons for their loss. One is of course Lin! Tonight, Lin's shooting percentage was only 37% of the team. Stoudemire had a terrible performance in the first three quarters and was DNP in the fourth quarter. Although Anthony scored 22 points, he only made 18 of 7 shots."

“独自一人拿下了39分13篮板10助攻3抢断3盖帽的完美数据！他一个人连投带传，就创造出了64分的分值，球队70%的得分都和林有关！”

"But to be honest, Lin's outburst and wonderful performance were definitely what the Celtics could have anticipated and were part of their game plan. The real core reason for their loss was Smith's outburst."

"Tonight Smith definitely played the best game of his career so far. In the fourth quarter, he made 4 of 4 shots, including 3 of 3 3-pointers, and scored 11 points in a single quarter. Not only did he score consecutively in the early part of the fourth quarter to help the team catch up, but he also scored 3 points in the final moments to seal the victory!" (End of this chapter)