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Chapter 386 The Celtic Problem

Most of the time, among all the factors that can determine the trend of a game, physical strength is the most important one.

At the end of the third quarter, after the Celtics struggled to get the score back to five points, they fell into a physical crisis in the fourth quarter.

They returned after recovering from a short break, but with just over 3 minutes left, they failed to make another field goal, allowing the Nuggets to take away a game they valued so much from here. victory.

Harvesting the first defeat of the season, the Celtics, who were full of flowers along the way, finally ushered in tomatoes and rotten eggs.

But this game finally allowed Rivers to find what he was looking for, and he found the root of the problems the Celtics showed!
However, there is no solution!
Everyone regards the Celtics as a stepping stone, whether it is a strong team or a weak team.

The strong team will test their team and find their own problems through the game against the Celtics.And the weak team wants to gain attention for themselves by defeating the defending champion!
Everyone is innocent and conceived a crime, a coveted championship ring, but the Celtics have become "public enemies" this season!
However, what is even more unfortunate is that the Celtics have not been able to become stronger this season, but have declined to a certain extent.

At this time, Rivers finally understood that everything was not as easy as he thought. At the same time, he was a little thankful that Shi Lei prevented them from trading Ray Allen in time!

"Maybe I should be more decisive sometimes!"

Realizing the problem, Rivers opened the Celtics matchup table for this season in the document, and added question marks after some "checked" games.

In this way, in the "conquest" of the media, the Celtics set off from Boston to Milwaukee to see their second game against the Bucks in the new season.

This game further confirmed Rivers' speculation.

Reid's continued absence of the Bucks forced the Celtics into overtime!

The gap in strength did not make the Bucks accept their fate. Their strong desire to win allowed them to counterattack in the second half when they trailed by 12 points at halftime. With 8 minutes left in the fourth quarter, Jefferson and the rookie Mbah a Moute hit a wave of 8:0 scoring climax, narrowing the point difference to two points.

Rivers, who "plans to be more decisive," began to hesitate again.

"Kevin seems to have a physical problem again, so should I replace him?"

"But if we lose this game and the team has lost two games in a row, how will the media evaluate us?"

Fortunately, the Celtics are not a team that is particularly dependent on the coach. When Rivers hesitated, the stars used their personal abilities to stabilize the situation.

After Shi Lei cooperated with Pierce, he dodged Bogut's block and made a layup to help the team stabilize the situation.

After that, the scene became anxious.With more than 2 minutes left in the game, another rookie, Mbah a Moute, caused a defensive foul on Perkins. He scored three points with a penalty shot and the Bucks took the lead with 89:88.

At this time, Rivers finally didn't need to make a decision. With less than 2 minutes left in the game, it was too late to make any decisions.

Shi Lei, who was still younger, didn't have any physical problems. He first caused Gadzuric who was defending him to make a defensive foul. After making two free throws, he then hit a three-pointer, widening the point difference to four points.

But the anxiety of the game made Garnett, who was not playing very well, very angry. In the process of grabbing a rebound, he failed to grab a rebound, but elbowed Bogut in the face.

This was a very untimely foul, after which Garnett was expelled from the game, and the Bucks recovered the two points that Shi Lei had managed to open by adding penalties.

In the final moments of the game, any point is crucial.With dozens of seconds left, the Bucks still did not give up hope of victory, and Ridnour hit a goal to tie the score in the last second of the regular game, and the game was substituted into overtime .

The media comment after the game was: "The state of the defending champion is worrying!"

So euphemistic, this is because the Celtics won in the end.Ray Allen, who replaced Pierce, played a decisive role in the overtime game. After his physical strength recovered, he first started the Celtics with a three-pointer and regained the lead.And in the last 20 seconds or so, after the Bucks equalized the score again, Ridnor made an offensive error and hit the winning goal after a steal, allowing the Celtics to pass the test and avoid a two-game losing streak.

At the end of this game, the Celtics became the only team in the NBA with 10 victories in the new season. However, the progress of the game did not give them any praise. They urgently need a convincing game. In this case, they ushered in the Knicks!
Well, thanks to the Knicks, they gave the embarrassing Celtics a chance to breathe.

With stars like Chandler and Randolph in the team, the Knicks should have some competitiveness, especially when Garnett was suspended for an additional game.But with such an obvious inside advantage, the Knicks just couldn't open the door to victory.

After the start the Knicks started to fall behind. Then the game was over!

It's hard to understand, with such an obvious inside advantage, why they are so persistent in throwing three-pointers from the outside, and they threw [-] three-pointers. Could it be that Shi Lei, who played as a guest power forward, has such a strong deterrent effect?

Well, Shi Lei really played well in this game. As the team's starting power forward, he played 36 minutes and scored a double-double of 27 points and 14 rebounds.But in fact he did not encounter a decent defense.

But this is irrelevant. The important thing is that the bad luck of the Celtics seems to have passed. In the next game against the Pistons, the Pistons only played good shots for 3 minutes in the whole game. After playing nearly half of the game as a substitute, the Specialists easily passed the strongest opponent in November with an advantage of 18 points.

After the three-game winning streak, the Celtics seem to have become the generally optimistic team at the beginning of the season, and the negative news about them disappeared in an instant. Even their only loss before was here. Sometimes the media found an excuse.

"The Nuggets defeated the Celtics physically, who will be the next lucky one?"

"With the Piston Cavaliers, the Celtics have no rivals in the East!"

(End of this chapter)