king of defenders

Chapter 1269 The Most Anticipated Showdown ([-])
"beep"

The Celtics requested a timeout.

This timeout surprised the fans. In fact, the Celtics are still slightly ahead at this time. Of course, they are only leading by 2 points, but they are leading after all. Why is it called a timeout?
However, the head coach of the Celtics is not satisfied with the performance of the players. With his starting lineup, he can only compete with the Heat. Can this be considered good?

When the players came down, the Celtics coach said: "I mean to play our offense, but that doesn't mean we can lose our defense."

The players' hearts sank.

He added: "Look at our defense in the past few minutes, how many points have the Heat scored? And the Heat's scorer is not Meng Yun, but Xiang Long."

The players bowed their heads, not knowing what to say.

The Heat scored a lot of points in the past few minutes, so the score between the two sides has always been anxious. The Celtics did not take advantage of it. It would be understandable if these points mainly came from Meng Yun. After all, we all know Meng Yun's strength. It's hard to stop trying to score.

But that's not the case.

Most of these points came from other players on the Heat team. Meng Yun only scored 2 points. Among them, Xiang Long scored the most. He has already scored 7 points, one three-pointer, one two-pointer, and two free throws.

This is where the head coach of the Celtics is angry. Allowing the Heat's role players to score so many points shows how poor their defense is.

This is the Eastern Conference Finals, how can such a defense work?

"Hmph." The head coach of the Celtics snorted and said in a deep voice, "We need to strengthen our defense, switch defenses quickly, and defend aggressively and toughly. This is the Eastern Conference Finals, not the regular season."

"Yes."

"clear."

The players responded.

The timeout ended quickly, and the Celtics coach watched the players walk onto the court, still frowning, and sighed: "Maybe I should have adjusted the lineup a long time ago."

Everyone knows that the Celtics' starting lineup is gorgeous. They also have a strong scoring ability and are very impactful.

But the defense is not so good.

Among the starting players, Morris is not a particularly good defensive insider. After all, he is a little short in height. Horford is an excellent defender, but apart from him, Irving's defense has always been criticized. The physical fitness itself is not particularly good, and he is a little weak on defense. Durant has no problem defending, but he is the team's strongest scoring point, and the main focus should be on offense.

This also led to the Celtics' main lineup having more than enough offense and not enough defense.

"A team with five starters, if there are three or four All-Star players looks gorgeous, but there are also many problems." The head coach of the Celtics understands the distress of the Warriors head coach Cole up.

In reality, the Celtics have bigger problems than the Warriors.

Among the first few starting players of the Warriors, at least Green and Thompson are very good defenders, and they are also willing to defend, but what about the Celtics?

In fact, the head coach of the Celtics has been considering changing the starting lineup to put Brown or Tatum in the starting lineup. Young people are energetic, defensively active, and willing to do these drudgery.

but
The Celtics coach sighed secretly and looked towards the court.

As the game continues, the Celtics have strengthened their defense, but because of problems with the lineup itself and the players' personal defensive capabilities, it is still difficult to limit the Heat's scoring.

Moreover, Meng Yun began to increase his shots.

"Pick and roll."

Meng Yun wants to pick and roll, Durant is defending him now, it's not that he can't play, he can also play Durant, but it doesn't feel necessary, except for Durant, he is misplaced against anyone.In this case, why bother to single out Durant?
Using the pick-and-roll to get rid of Durant, the defender of Meng Yun became Morris. Meng Yun suddenly lowered his center of gravity and made a gesture to break through. Morris was startled and quickly backed away.

At this moment, Meng Yun retreated, jumped up, and flicked his wrist.
Swish!
With a soft sound, the ball goes in.

Turning around, Owen advanced to the frontcourt. Facing Meng Yun's defense, he didn't score the ball. Instead, he chose singles, continuous cross steps, gorgeous moves and many fake moves, but Meng Yun was unmoved at all.

Owen's left shoulder suddenly sank, but instead of breaking through, he took a step sideways and jumped up quickly.

Meng Yun also jumped up, but this time Owen not only retreated, but also leaned back, and Meng Yun failed to cover it.

Swish!
The ball goes in.

Meng Yun didn't care about being beaten by Irving. In fact, if he could, he would rather let Irving beat him like this than Durant.

Owen needs to spend a lot of time holding the ball in singles. Facing Meng Yun, he needs to make more complex moves and more difficult shots. Whether it is the consumption of offensive time or Owen's own physical fitness, it is absolutely cost-effective. Not as good as Durant singles.

In a round, if there are only two options, either Durant singles or Irving singles, both can score, Meng Yun of course would rather let Irving singles.

So in the next round, Meng Yun deliberately pulled people away to make room for him and Owen.

Seeing this situation, Owen secretly hated and felt slighted. He couldn't help but snorted coldly, and decisively decided to play singles. Although he scored, Meng Yun didn't care because his goal had already been achieved.

As for allowing Irving to score two points, just take it back!

Coming to the frontcourt, Meng Yun asked for another pick-and-roll. Durant was a little depressed. His purpose of defending Meng Yun was to limit Meng Yun's shooting, but once he switched defenses and became someone else, the effect would not be good.

On the sidelines, the Celtics coach reminded: "Horford, step forward."

Horford understood that although he switched defenses, the defensive strategy could not be changed. He still had to guard against Meng Yun's shots, so he rushed forward. Meng Yun sneered, and immediately broke through. Morris was waiting inside, and Durant had already circled around. Guo Xianglong chased after him, but Meng Yun didn't pass the ball and jumped towards Morris.

"Looking for death." Morris snorted coldly and jumped up.

But soon he discovered that Meng Yun jumped too high, the basketball in his right hand was already higher than his arm, and he smashed it towards the basket through him.

Although Morris is an inside player, he is actually only 206 cm tall, only 1 cm taller than Meng Yun. Meng Yun didn't need to hesitate when facing him, and took off directly.

With Meng Yun's bounce, it is impossible for Morris to block him.

Bang!
There was an explosion that shocked the audience.

The fans clicked their tongues, exclaimed, and screamed one after another.

This is a slam dunk, very explosive, which makes the fans feel blood spurting and excited.

(End of this chapter)