king of defenders

Chapter 1274 The Most Anticipated Showdown ([-])
The second half begins.

Entering the second half, the Celtics began to share the ball more, reduced individual singles on the offensive end, and paid more attention to tactical cooperation.

It's just that the first half was dominated by individual singles, and it was difficult to change it for a while. In addition, coach Spoelstra on the Heat's side ordered the players to deliberately play singles for the Celtics, so Kyle The Special Team slapped and slapped and turned into the first half again.

This is obviously beneficial to the Heat. At the end of the third quarter, the Heat opened the point difference to 11 points.

This made the head coach of the Celtics very angry. In the third quarter, his goal was to chase points, reduce the score, and even overtake the score. However, the point difference did not narrow, but further expanded. When it reached more than ten points, only the last one left In the quarter, the difference of 11 points is not small.

"Huh, what did I say, I told you to pass the ball more and pay attention to tactical cooperation, but what about you?" The head coach of the Celtics yelled at his players, but he also knew that some things were difficult to change in a short time, not to mention It's not entirely a problem with the players. The Heat consciously pulled away and gave themselves a chance to play one-on-one. With the abilities of Durant and Irving, it makes no sense not to play.

And many times they did score.

It's just that the more this kind of singles, when the occasional pass is given to other players, other players will inevitably be out of shape, and the shooting rate is not high, so that the overall shooting rate is not high, and they lost to the Heat.

The Celtics players were silent. Durant thought for a while, stood up and gave a few words of encouragement, emphasizing that he should share the ball more later.

But when it came to the fourth quarter, it was only for a few minutes, because in the last few minutes the situation was very different.At this time, what is needed is not to share the ball, not to pass more, because the Celtics are behind, and when it comes to the critical moment of the victory, they have to chase points and reverse, and the role players are even more helpless.

This is a critical moment, a moment that belongs to the core players.

Durant stood up and relied on his personal ability to score consecutively, leading the Celtics to play a wave of small shock waves, reducing the point difference to 5 points at once.

The Heat requested a timeout.

"Huchihuchi." Lu Wei panted, and said, "As expected, I knew it would not be so easy to defeat the Celtics."

"The point difference is only 5 points." Gay frowned. There are 5 minutes left in the game. The situation is a bit delicate. At this time, it is beneficial to the Celtics. They have more star players.

Meng Yun took a deep breath, stood up and said, "Brothers, fight as you like, defend well, believe me, we will win."

Everyone looked at Meng Yun and nodded in unison.

There is no need to say anything, because there is Meng Yun, they believe in Meng Yun.

"beep"

Pause ends.

When the two sides returned to the court, all the fans in the auditorium became nervous and stared at the court without blinking. When they saw the Heat attacking, the home fans booed.

However, it did not constitute any interference to Meng Yun and the Heat players. Meng Yun advanced to the frontcourt, suppressed his speed, wandered outside the three-point line, and wasted some time.

Seeing that the consumption was almost done, Meng Yun gestured to his teammates, and Xiang Long came up to pick and roll.

Now it is generally Xiang Long who does the pick-and-roll for Meng Yun, not Whiteside. First, Xiang Long and Meng Yun have a better understanding, and second, Xiang Long has the ability to shoot three-pointers. He can have more tactical changes when he picks and rolls. .

Using the pick-and-roll, Meng Yun threw Durant away, but someone rushed up again immediately, it was Jaylen Brown.

"The reason why I changed to Brown was to stop Meng Yun in this situation." The Celtics coach nodded secretly, "Well, Brown's defense is still very good, he has excellent physical talent, he is tall enough, and The defensive enthusiasm is very high, one-on-one may not be able to prevent Meng Yun, but when Meng Yun wants to break through through the pick-and-roll, it is still a good person to switch defenses."

Brown is not as talented as Tatum on the offensive end, but he is worse than Tatum on defense, so the Celtics coach deliberately put him on the court to replace Hayward, just to defend against Meng Yun.

With Durant and Irving, the Celtics coach is not worried at all on offense. One less Hayward may not have much impact, but one more Brown will have a very different effect on the defensive end.

At this time, defense against Meng Yun is the key.

Brown opened his hands and stared at Meng Yun, with a high degree of concentration. He knew his mission and cherished this opportunity very much.

When Durant comes, it means that young players like Brown and Tatum will have fewer opportunities. If they want to get more opportunities, they need to work harder and prove their worth.

For Brown, defensive ability is his advantage, and now is the opportunity to prove his worth.

"The reaction is quite fast." Meng Yun chuckled, not abruptly, because there were people inside besides Brown, and the space was a bit too small, so he passed the ball to Lu Wei.

At this time, the lineup on the court was Whiteside, Xiang Long, Gay, Meng Yun, and Lu Wei.

After Meng Yun passed the pass to Lu Wei, he immediately returned to the outside line. Lu Wei immediately passed the ball back to Meng Yun. Meng Yun stood more than one meter away from the three-point line. Durant was running towards him, and Brown was retreating. , he should retreat to his defensive position and continue to defend Gay.

But just as Brown retreated and Durant hadn't fully rushed forward, Meng Yun suddenly made a shot more than one meter away from the three-point line.

"What?" Brown was shocked.

"Damn." Durant couldn't help cursing, but it was too late to stop.

The next moment, with a bang, the net rolled over and the basketball went into the net hollow.

This is a super long three-pointer, and the point difference between the two sides has become 8 points!
"It actually let him throw in."

"The point difference has become 8 points, good defense, don't let Meng Yun score!"

The home fans yelled.

The Celtics players looked at each other, and then launched an attack. The ball was given to Durant. Durant singled out, took a tentative step, and then accelerated suddenly. Guy retreated, but Durant suddenly stopped and pulled out. hand.

Swish!
Also enter.

"Although the Celtics have various problems because of their large number of stars, at this time, having more stars is an advantage." Coach Spoelstra shook his head, not blaming Gay for his poor defense, because this kind of ball There is no way to prevent it, it just depends on whether Durant can make the shot.

The difference is 6 points.

Both sides failed to score in the next two rounds, and the game time became less and less. There was only a little more than one minute left, and the point difference was still 6 points. The Celtics called a timeout.

The head coach of the Celtics looked dignified and said in a low tone: "There is more than a minute left, we must score, preferably a three-pointer. In addition, Meng Yun must not be allowed to score easily."

Durant and the others looked at each other, feeling quite helpless. We didn't want Meng Yun to score easily, but it was really too difficult to do so.

(End of this chapter)