NBA: Start by torturing Jordan and add points to upgrade

69: 38!

At the end of the first half, the Knicks used their almost crazy firepower and bombardment to force the Celtics to flee in panic!
This time, it’s not just Lin Tian who is killing it all, the whole Knicks team’s feeling is back!

In today's Knicks team, Lin Tian is the only one who can fight tough battles, play against the wind, and engage in high-intensity defensive battles.

But you want to fight against them in terms of firepower and shooting?
Hehe, I’ll beat you to death!

Especially when it comes to kicking a fallen dog’s back, everyone can do this and everyone is good at it!
In the first half of the game, Lin Tian scored 11 points, 10 assists and 8 rebounds!
He played the easiest and most comfortable half-court game of this series, and he almost completed a triple-double in the first half of the game!
At the same time, his score was only the third highest in the team!
Anthony scored 20 points in the first half!
This is the highest half-time score of his playoff career. At the same time, Okur made 3 three-pointers in the first half and scored 3 points. This is also the best half-time playoff score in Okur's career!
The only regret is that Stoudemire still has few methods to deal with Duncan and Howard.

As a physical and impact-type inside player, he really has no way to deal with inside players who are taller, stronger, more physically fit, and more powerful than himself.

too difficult!
Stoudemire is the most difficult player on the team!
While the whole team was bombarding all directions, he only made 7 of 2 shots in the first half, which was a very poor performance.

But even so, the team still led by 30 points and they beat the Celtics!
The entire Celtics team, although two players scored in double digits, although Duncan got a double-double of 2 points and 15 rebounds in the first half, and although Pierce also scored 10 points.

But apart from these two, the rest of the team only scored 9 points!
They had a big problem!

During the halftime break, when Rivers led his dejected players into the locker room, everyone found that Auerbach was actually waiting for them there.

"Are you back?" Auerbach didn't smile, but just sat there, looking at everyone. The players were so scared that they didn't even dare to walk into the house, but just stood at the door.

"Everyone come in." Auerbach smiled and said, "Paul, especially you, you really disappointed me today! I found that you have not only made no progress in the past few years, but have been constantly regressing!"

"Do you remember how you quarreled with Antoine in the locker room? Do you remember how you only took one halftime break to grab the position of team leader, not only making Antoine play your supporting role peacefully, but also accepting you as the team leader?"

"You were much tougher back then! But look at you now. You got the maximum salary, but you just became a piece of mud! I rejected the team's top management's ideas and suggestions to trade you countless times."

"But now I regret it. I found that you are completely different from the Paul I imagined. You have changed into a weakling, a rubbish and a loser."

"And you, Tim. Didn't you major in psychology? Didn't you teach everyone how to deal with Lin's trash talk before the series started? Didn't you become a double-first team member in your sophomore year and lead the team to the finals, almost defeating the combination of Jordan and Ewing?"

"When I asked you to join the team, I thought you were a leader. I thought you could be the new flag bearer of the Celtics, but what happened? How did you repay me? Just because Marbury is missing, you idiots and wimps are so distracted and lost?"

"And... forget it, I don't want to talk about the others. If these two guys are trash, then the others are not even trash. I'm too lazy to criticize you one by one. You guys are so trash that it makes me sick! I can't imagine it. I once thought you could restore the team's glory in the 80s!"

"I once thought that I had finally waited for the day when the Celtics would rise again! I thought I could see the Celtics win the championship again before I died!"

"But now I realize I was so stupid."

"I'll tell you all this!"

"Next season, Marbury will not be on our team, nor will he be on the other 29 teams in the league! His NBA career is over! If he still wants to play? No problem! Go to the Continental Basketball League or Europe!"

“Hopefully he can get enough food in those places.”

"But as for you, you disappoint me. To be honest, you might as well learn from Marbury and just run away. I think you are more shameless and more courageous than standing in the North Shore Garden like a woman and getting beaten like this."

"You little brats, do you know what North Shore Garden means?"

When Auerbach said this, perhaps because he hadn't output so much information at once in a long time and was too tired, or perhaps because he wanted to see the players' reactions, he stopped, gasped, and looked at every player in front of him.

"Now, I need a leader, the kind who is responsible and dares to support the team." Auerbach said while raising his hand. "He doesn't even have to be good at playing, but he must be able to speak and must stand up when it is time to stand up, right?"

"I am the leader of this team." Duncan's muffled voice came over, attracting everyone to look at him.

This big guy is very powerful, really powerful!

But to be honest, he is not talkative. He is always alone and depressed, looking silly. At least half of his communication with his teammates comes from his occasional cold jokes and key complaints.

But this guy has never taken the initiative to make any speeches or declarations in the team. He is just a guy who plays hard and quietly.

This kind of person is indeed not suitable to be a leader.

"This incident was my fault! I was too impulsive and had an argument with Stephen on the court. I didn't communicate during the timeout, but told him to get out. After the game, facing the overwhelming doubts and sarcasm, I didn't clarify, but kept quiet again."

"At that time, I felt that I didn't need to care about these things. I also felt that I shouldn't waste my energy on unnecessary things. I just played basketball."

"But now, obviously, I was wrong! I was wrong completely and obviously. My wrong choice put the team in a desperate situation. My bad behavior made everyone pay for my mistakes. Even in this game where we were most likely to advance to the Eastern Conference Finals, we were 30 points behind at halftime!"

"I take full responsibility!"

Duncan said this, walked out of the crowd, bowed to everyone, raised his head and continued: "I swear here, except for what everyone saw, I have no private conflicts with Stephen or any communication that you don't know about."

"I didn't force him to leave. We had an argument, that's all. I was just unhappy about those few rounds. I am willing to apologize, to you and to Stephen."

"After today's game, whether we win or lose, I will tell the media the truth. I will no longer keep silent because I am too lazy to deal with them. I will no longer remain silent."

"I will pay for my mistakes, but now, I want to ask everyone one thing: in the second half of the game, we must continue to work hard! Let's play well!"

"I know that it is impossible to make up for the 30-point gap. I know that with our offensive ability, it is almost a pipe dream to turn the game around, but I don't want to give up! We have to let them see our strength and resilience!"

"Even if we don't win, even if we still lose by 20 points in the end, we have to let New Yorkers see our strength!"

"Then, in the seventh game, we'll let them realize how powerful we are! We'll win in Madison! We'll win another game in Madison!"

At this point, Duncan fell silent. He first looked at Auerbach, who gave him an encouraging look, then turned to his teammates and asked, "Are you willing to support me and help me?"

"I support you!" Pierce was the first to come out: "Fuck them!"

"Of course, I am also wrong. I shouldn't..."

"Paul, I'm not disrespecting you." Auerbach interrupted Pierce with a smile, but his face was still quite relieved: "I just want to say that this is not an internal meeting. We don't have 5 hours to admit our mistakes one by one."

"We only have five minutes left before we go out and start the second half." "So now, I believe that everyone is like me, no matter what you did wrong, we are willing to forgive you, but now the question is: What about the others? Can we unite and become a perfect team again?"

"I don't need everyone to answer one by one. Just give me a unified answer, okay?"

"can!"

"Very good, Doug, I leave it to you. I have to go out and get some fresh air! Whose locker is this?" Orbach pointed to the locker next to him and said, "It's time to wash my socks. They smell so bad that it will affect my lifespan, okay? Please! I almost died while waiting for you guys just now."

"You know, I don't have much time left."

After Auerbach finished speaking, the entire locker room burst into laughter again. After the greatest contributor in the team's history left, the players looked at Rivers.

It's his turn to perform.

As for Auerbach, who walked out of the locker room at this time, he leaned against the wall outside the locker room, took out a box of medicine from his pocket and took a pill, then leaned against the wall, gasping for breath. He looked quite weak. Where was the high-spirited look he had just had in the locker room?
"Mr. President, are you okay? Your body no longer allows you to give long speeches. This kind of passionate voice is not suitable for you." Danny Ainge came out from somewhere and supported Auerbach, who was almost unable to stand.

"How many times have I told you, Angie, that you are the president and I am just a consultant. If you want, you can call me special consultant, senior consultant, chief consultant or something else, but the president is you!"

Looking at Auerbach who was still joking at this time, Angie could only sigh helplessly. He knew that he could not persuade this old man, but he could also see Auerbach's weakness. He could feel that life was slipping away from Auerbach.

"Come on, teacher. I'll take you to the box to get some oxygen."

"I'll just smoke a cigar, that stuff is much more useful than oxygen!"

"By the way, in three years, find a way to get Lin to me! I've been using tricks all my life and was known as the king of tricks, but today I was defeated by that kid's tricks!"

"I worked so hard to put together this team, but he almost broke it up! Danny, I didn't do it eight years ago, so you should think of a way three years later."

……

The second half of the game continues!

At the beginning of the game, the Celtics' basketball came into the hands of Ricky Davis. Davis gave the ball to Howard. After taking the ball, Howard leaned back and then used his rather clumsy one-on-one moves, turning around and doing a little jump hook, and shot the ball towards the basket.

"Shh!"

After a crisp sound, the Celtics scored the first goal in the second half.

"The Celtics' first attack was to attack the cooperation between Davis and Howard?" Barkley was stunned for a moment, then looked at Kenny and said, "Do you think they have given up, or have developed a new tactic?"

"A new trick." Kenny said without hesitation: "Look at the court, the Celtics are fighting hard!"

"Their defense is back in shape. Their defensive intensity and confrontation level have increased again! They are back to their previous state! Look! Davis and Howard cooperated in defense again, forcing Anthony into a dead corner, and Anthony forced the ball..."

"Failed to pass the ball! Pierce stole the ball! The Celtics counterattack! The one running in the front is... Howard?"

"This big center rushed to the front! Pierce's pass was perfect, Howard jumped up... beautiful! He dribbled the ball to the basket with both hands!"

"Roar, roar, roar!" Howard, who scored 4 points in a row at the beginning of the second half, was extremely fierce. He raised his hands, flexed his muscles, and roared at the court!
Even though the team is still trailing by 20 points, Howard is still full of passion!
His passion was rekindled by Auerbach's stimulation during the halftime break!
But unfortunately, the Boston fans had lost their passion at this moment. They became quite quiet, and very few fans responded to Howard's roar.

The fans felt that the game was over and they felt that there was no hope for the game.

Howard is just trying to attract attention and put up stats in garbage time.

Because all teams in the league today believe: once the Knicks start shooting, they are unstoppable!
In the first half of the game, the Knicks were completely on fire and they had already entered the game into garbage time.

At least more than half of the audience and the vast majority of fans in front of the TV believed that the Celtics were finished in this game.

The entire second half will be garbage time!

"They are wrong." Lin Tian took the ball from the baseline and said cautiously, "It seems that during the halftime break, Rivers made chicken soup for them again. They didn't give up and they are still playing with all their strength! Everyone, be careful! Maintain the 25-point gap! Don't allow them to narrow the score!"

"Focus on this and widen the gap! Make all their efforts go to waste!"

"understand!"

All the players on the Knicks team cheered in unison. They shot so accurately in the first half, so of course they were more confident now!
But sometimes, faith alone is not enough!

For example, tonight, confidence is quite worthless.

When the Celtics' defense tightened up again, when Anthony had to face Pierce's desperate entanglement every time he attacked, when Okur couldn't get an open space outside the three-point line, and when Stoudemire was still powerless against the Celtics' twin towers in the interior, the Knicks' offense stagnated again!

This group of players can’t score a goal again!

In this round of the series, they finally understood the difference between the playoffs and the regular season, and the gap between the first and second rounds of the playoffs.

They know that when the league's top defensive team is defending with all their might, their offense is nothing!
To put it more clearly: he just can't play in high-end games. He is invincible in the regular season, but becomes a weakling in high-end games.

The Knicks players started to miss shots continuously. Lin Tian's ammunition was still delivered to the right place, but they could not make the shots they could make in the first half in the second half.

The Celtics started to catch up!

In the third quarter, they beat the Knicks 27:11!

The Celtics recovered 16 points in a single quarter, narrowing the gap between the two sides to 15 points!
At the end of the third quarter, the fans at the scene finally realized that their team had no intention of giving up, and they were trying their best to catch up!
The Celtics' five starters played the entire third quarter. They defended with all their might and attacked frantically. Relying on their renewed intensity, they saw the possibility of victory again at the end of the third quarter!

In fact, if Lin Tian hadn't scored 3 points in a row with a 5-pointer and a mid-range shot at the end of the third quarter, the Celtics might have narrowed the gap to within 10 points!
"They are really playing." Lin Tian looked at his teammates again during the intermission and said fiercely: "They haven't given up, so in the fourth quarter, give me the ball!"

"They think there's still suspense, so I'll personally destroy their suspense and delusion completely!"

"You're delaying my early clocking out!" (End of this chapter)