swing striker

Chapter 129 Rhythm
In this game against the Nuggets, Garnett did not bring much help to the team. In the whole game, he only scored four points and grabbed eight rebounds.But his block on Anthony at the basket became a turning point that affected the trend of the game.

The momentum of the Nuggets has plummeted, and the Celtics' tight defense makes every attack of the Nuggets extremely difficult.

At halfway through the third quarter, the Celtics opened up a 13-point gap in one fell swoop.

In the end, 124 to 118, the Celtics won the first victory of this wave of away games.

After the game, the Celtics stayed in Denver for one night, and early the next morning, they flew to another city, the Golden State Warriors.

In the NBA, the status and qualifications of players are very clearly established.Just like Shi Lei and Posey, although they boarded the plane together, their seats had to be separated.

Pierce, Garnett, Ray Allen, Shi Lei, and then Rondo, and then James Posey.At the end of the seats were two first-year rookies, Glenn Davis and Bryant.

After getting off the plane, the players were taken to the hotel where they stayed. The intensive and terrifying road trip of five games in seven days made them have to cherish every second of rest.

The Golden State Warriors are a team that focuses on offense and is almost pathological, but unlike another team known for its offense, the Phoenix Suns, the Warriors' offense does not have an overly clear routine. It seems that as long as the mood is up, any position, Can be the location of the shot.

After a game of adaptation, Garnett finally found the feeling of being lost in this game.However, Rondo was in trouble. Facing Baron Davis, the most tonnage point guard, Rondo was quite embarrassed.

At the end of the first quarter, Rondo's leak made the Celtics, who played well, fall behind by three points in a single quarter.

Yesterday the Celtics won on defense, and today their defense is still sharp. In the second quarter, they defended the Warriors with only 19 of 5 shots. The Celtics won 28:18 in a single quarter and led 57:50 in the first half.

Tight defense is sometimes not the root cause of the Warriors' loss. In comparison, the poor hand feel, or the opponent's better hand feel, account for a larger proportion.

In the third quarter, the Celtics' defense remained the same, but the Warriors' shooters suddenly broke out, and the scores of the two sides were firmly torn together.

The Warriors overtook several times in the last quarter. With 7 minutes and 35 seconds left in the game, the Warriors led 96:94.

But what makes no sense is that at this time, the Warriors' touch suddenly cooled down. The Warriors failed to make a shot in the next 2 minutes. After a wave of 10:2, the Celtics took the lead with 104:98.

拜伦.戴维斯全场拿下了29分、6个篮板和6次助攻，蒙塔.埃利斯也得了26分9次助攻，比德林斯21分13个篮板，阿尔.哈林顿22分12个篮板。辉煌的数据，可是这没有帮助勇士拿下这场比赛。

Ray Allen scored 32 points, Paul Pierce 23 points, Kevin Garnett 17 points and 15 rebounds, Shi Lei 18 points and 7 rebounds, James Posey 14 points.

The Celtics, who scored in double figures with five players, defeated the Warriors with four players who scored in [-] by four points.

The Celtics' opponent in the next game is the same Phoenix Suns known for their sharp offense.

In the past two years, the Suns have set off a terrorist offensive frenzy called "Bombardment" in the NBA. As the core of this team, Steve Nash is even the title of the most valuable player in the regular season .

This is O'Neal's first home game since arriving in the Suns.

"Big Shark" returned to the West and lost to the Lakers in the first game, but he performed well.In today's game, O'Neal still doesn't look like a 36-year-old veteran. Although he doesn't have many scoring opportunities, he is still very agile around the basket and still extremely dominant.

The Celtics' defense was very tenacious, and the Suns' offense was extremely sharp. In the first 7 minutes of the second quarter, the two sides fought 26-27.

O'Neal was replaced, and Nash's performance really began.

In this Suns team, no matter how many points O'Neal scores, how many rebounds he protects, he is famous, he is a big threat around the basket, and with a bigger body, he actually plays the role of a team's "burden" more often. Role.His existence seriously slowed down the team's operation.

Rondo is not a qualified court rhythm controller, and the Celtics do not have the conditions to play fast with the Suns.But under Nash's control, the rhythm of the game was accelerated again and again, and all of a sudden, the Celtics' offense completely lost its flow.

After returning to normal, the Suns played a wave of 16:4 and ended the first half with 43:30.The Celtics only scored 30 points in the first half, a season low.

In the third quarter, O'Neal continued to sit on the court to rest. Stoudemire was fully activated and hit jump shots continuously. He scored 11 points in the third quarter. The Suns once led by 16 points and entered the final game with 63:49. Festival.

After several adjustments to no avail, Rivers, who realized that the team lacked a rhythm controller, simply replaced Perkins and pushed Shi Lei to the power forward position again.

Shi Lei's speed was indeed much faster than Perkins'. Although the Celtics still couldn't form a good organization in terms of offense, at least in terms of defense, they operated much more smoothly.

With 7 minutes and 37 seconds left in the game, Ray Allen hit a three-pointer, and the Celtics tied the score at 59:68.

However, Stoudemire dunked back, Nash then hit two three-pointers, and the Suns opened the gap 3-36 with 79 minutes and 63 seconds left in the game.

这场比赛结束之后，太阳38：17的战绩重回太平洋区榜首。阿马尔.斯塔德迈尔拿下了28分6个篮板，史蒂夫.纳什18分5次助攻，格兰特.希尔14分13个篮板，沙奎尔.奥尼尔抢下了14个篮板，不过只得4分。

Kevin. Garnett scored 19 points, Shi Lei 12 points, Ray Allen 11 points, Paul Pierce only 13 of 2 shots, only 8 points.

Facing Nash, Rondo's poor organization of the team made the team play the worst game of the season.

Through this game, Rivers realized that the team not only lacks a qualified backup power forward, but also lacks a point guard who can control the rhythm at critical moments!

(End of this chapter)