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Chapter 657 North Shore Garden
Fleet Street in Boston, where the "North Shore Garden" arena is located. The name "North Shore Garden" is actually a customary term for Celtics fans. After all, their team's legendary achievements are all won in the "North Shore Garden" arena. By the way, the arena on Fleet Street was actually called the Fleet Street Arena when it opened in 1995. This arena is the shared home of the Boston Grizzlies and Celtics of the Ice Hockey League.

Although it doesn't have as long a history as the name "Madison Square Garden", when it comes to achievements in the NBA, New York teams can't keep up with the Celtics, not to mention some emerging teams in the West, even the Lakers. It was also from the 80s that they had the ability to challenge the Celtics. The entire 60s of the last century belonged to the Celtics. The achievement of eight consecutive championships will be unprecedented, and it may even be a feat that no one will come after.

Liu Han and the Mavericks players came to Boston on December 12th. It was almost Christmas, and the whole Boston was filled with pre-holiday anxiety and impatience.

Pierce and Liu Han did not meet before the game. After all, today is going to be a direct match. It is always not very good to meet each other, so it is best to meet directly on the court.

The current head coach of the Celtics is Jim O'Brien. He took over the Celtics since the 00-01 season. Unlike the Celtics' previous traditions, Jim is also a player who pays great attention to outside shooting and speed. This makes him not very important in the team's management. His performance in leading the team in recent years has been pretty good, and he has stabilized the team in the top eight positions in the Eastern Conference. However, it must be explained that , The management of the Celtics team always has a lot of "old guys". In fact, there are also various internal differences, and those who are reluctant to leave always feel that they have the most reason.

When Liu Han stepped into the North Shore Garden Arena, the arena was already full of voices. This can be regarded as an arena with a relatively high attendance rate in the entire league. Boston is always full of sports fans.

When he saw Paul Pierce again, Liu Han could see the vicissitudes on the other's face. He knew Pierce's strength, so he could see the difficulties and dangers he had gone through.

Sometimes, psychological training is more likely to make people vicissitudes than physical ones.

After the warm hug, Pierce didn't say much, he just patted his old friend on the back heavily, and Liu Han didn't say much, everything was kept silent.

The game officially started, the Celtics jumped the ball in the middle circle is the former all-star player Wen Baker, but Wen Baker's state has declined rapidly in recent years, although he has just passed 21, but Wen Baker's physical condition is really not good , At that time, he could average 10 points and 10 rebounds per game in the next season, but now he plays less than [-] minutes per game at most.

However, Wen Baker successfully defeated Nowitzki on the jump ball. The heights of the two sides are similar, but Wen Baker's bounce speed is still much faster than Nowitzki.

Liu Han directly faced Pierce. This is a very normal matchup. Aaron McGee will definitely not be able to defend Pierce, but he can still defend Michael James.

Mike? James is now the Celtics' extra starting point guard, but he is a player with too strong desire to attack.

Walter McCarty got the ball from Wen Baker. This is a non-standard power forward player. His style of play is similar to that of Nowitzki, but his athletic ability is better than that of Nowitzki.

The Celtics' offense is also launched from the outside. In their tactical system, Pierce is not only the offensive terminal, but also the ball's movement and transfer. Too much reliance on Pierce's performance is one of the Celtics' shortcomings.

Liu Han clung to Pierce after halftime. He had already felt the changes in Pierce. At least this kind of relaxed state was something Pierce couldn't achieve before.

In the past, Pierce was always in a tense state. When he was doing various movements, he was always unable to give out seven parts and receive three parts. Although performing all the movements would make some movements look powerful, but Also tend to go to extremes and be caught by the opponent.

But now Liu Han feels that Pierce's body is in a relaxed state, but Liu Han also knows that as long as Pierce wants to move, it is also very threatening.

However, the Celtics' offense seems to have deliberately bypassed Pierce today, or rather bypassed Liu Han. After Mike James dribbled the ball to the frontcourt, he directly used Wen Baker's high cover to shoot outside the three-point line. Hit, the Celtics are in good shape today.

The Mavericks' next offense will also revolve around Liu Han. Nowitzki is not the main offensive point today. Even though Wen Baker is not in good physical condition, he still has rich defensive experience. After all, he was an All-Star player back then.

After Liu Han dribbled the ball to the frontcourt, he faced Pierce directly. When Pierce defended, he was in a leisurely state. He knew Liu Han's strength, and at the same time he knew that he couldn't try all his strength at once. Liu Han deceived the center of gravity.

Liu Han saw that Pierce's defense was relatively simple, so he didn't make too many moves. He knew that facing such a defense with too many fake moves would easily make him lose his rhythm. Step back and shoot a three-pointer. The speed of the shot is very fast. Pierce has already shot the three-pointer before he has time to save Liu Han's three-pointer.

It is still the same arc as before, and Pierce has to lament that Liu Han's strength has been maintained so well.

The game between the two sides started here, both teams were mainly outside attacking teams, and the playing styles of the two teams also tended to be simple and effective, so the rounds of the game between the two teams were played very fast, which made The fans at the North Shore Garden Arena had enough fun. Although the Celtics were still slightly better than many Mavericks to a certain extent, the scores between the two sides were not stretched too far.

Pierce seldom took shots today. He focused on defense, and at the same time attracted Liu Han's defense in offense.

Without Liu Han's supplementary defense, the Mavericks' defense is relatively weak, and if they defend the zone defense, they are easy to be seized by the Celtics' outside offense, so the Celtics' score has been tightly biting the Mavericks.

Halfway through the first quarter, the score of the two sides has reached 17 to 15, and the scores of both sides in the half quarter have almost caught up with the Spurs or the Rockets in the first quarter.

(End of this chapter)