swing striker

Chapter 450
The night in Atlanta is more noisy than in Boston. Without the fetters of family members and heavy games, the situation has become extremely clear. The Celtics players have also let go of the burden on their hearts, and go out in twos and threes to feel Atlanta's beautiful night view, to enjoy the city's lights, or to meet a charming girl.

Shi Lei rejected Pierce's invitation and returned to his room alone.Since getting to know Jenny, he has become less and less fond of the luxurious life. He prefers to quietly watch a basketball video, his own or his opponent's, when he is alone.

Skills can change dramatically overnight, and the "basketball tattoo" has given him the ability to grow rapidly in this area, but game experience, understanding of team tactics, and clarity of court situations require Shi Lei to work hard on his own.

People will only see the brilliance of a player under the fluorescent lights, and they won't care too much about how much loneliness that person has experienced, how many dead nights the accumulation of nights will use that kind of achievement, but Shi Lei is still willing to for that moment of brilliance, Give all he can do.

Picking up a video tape, Shi Lei silently put it into the DVD disk of the computer. This is the clip of the four playoff games between the Magic and the Cavaliers that he asked Schwartz to collect.

Although the Celtics have only won three games now, Shi Lei knows that the Atlanta people are no longer to worry about, they are one step closer to their goal, but every step after that, Shi Lei also knows the difficulties involved .

The Cavaliers forced the Celtics into the tiebreaker last season, and Garnett was still healthy, and the team still had Posey and Cassel on the bench. The means, the team is likely to stop here.

So this is an opponent that needs to be treated carefully by the Celtics.

But if he can choose, Shi Lei is still willing to choose the Cavaliers as the team's opponent in the playoffs. Compared with them, the Magic will cause even more headaches for the Celtics.

Howard, the core of the Magic, can be said to be a typical black player. After entering the NBA for so many years, there is still not much obvious technical progress, and he is still in the low-level stage of playing with his body.This will cause him to slide quickly after losing his physical advantage later in his career, but the scary thing is that this season is really Howard's peak.

Who can resist Howard like this?

Having been triple-killed by the Magic, and had played against Howard twice in the regular season, Shi Lei knew how difficult he was, even though he used close defense to defend against the opponent's sudden state in the last game of the regular season between the two sides. It was a big loss, but because of Howard's defense against France, Shi Lei was obviously capable, but he couldn't involve the outside line in the defense of the team.

"Play the outside line first, let the outside line shoot from the outside, and open up the space under the basket!"

On the open notebook, Shi Lei recorded the Magic's tactical changes every minute one by one.

"Anti-punching is not anti-shooting, only interferes with James' shooting!"

After Shi Lei finished writing, he added a note at the end: (Maybe they will defend me like this!"

"The three-point threat is great, and the height of Lewis and Turkoglu can easily cause defensive misalignment!"

"The Cavaliers' defense began to shift to the outside, and the Magic immediately shifted their offensive power to the inside!"

"Howard's attack at the basket!"

"Magic's defense is too dependent on Howard!" (maybe consider doing something in this regard!)
"Howard has some problems with foul control!"

"Alston. Turkoglu, the team's playmaker!"

"Howard made a strong attack at the basket, the Cavaliers' defense shrank, and the Magic's offensive power shifted!"

As time passed by, Shi Lei opened the notebook in front of him, and he also wrote three pages densely. This was streamlined, professional basketball experts deleted many unnecessary parts of the game disc, and finally played all of them. After finishing, Shi Lei clicked on fast forward again, and after a rough scan, he added a few places that were missed in the record just now.Only then did the playback of the disc be paused, and compared with all the problems recorded in the notebook, he looked at the detailed tactical changes and player positions of the Magic for each attack and defense.

It wasn't until he had a clear understanding of all the changes in magic that Shi Lei picked up his notebook and analyzed the problems he had recorded.

This was a boring and complicated process, and it was also what Shi Lei did the most during the three-day offseason between the two sides.

Soon, it was time to compete again, "Old Scholar" Shi Lei had no choice but to put down his pen and put on his "battle robe" again!
"We're going to kill them all here, aren't we?"

In the locker room, before leaving, Shi Lei asked Pierce.

"Of course!"

When it was game time, Pierce got serious too.

"So dude, why don't you give us your victory speech ahead of time? You know no one likes to hear your rant after the game!"

Pierce was taken aback, and immediately understood the meaning of Shi Lei's words. The current Celtics are indeed a little too relaxed. Although they have already led their opponents by 3:0, they can no longer experience any setbacks!

"Okay, rookie, let me tell you how to lead a team to conquer their opponents!"

Pierce immediately joked to Shi Lei.Then he clapped his hands: "Listen, guys, now we're 3-0 ahead of them, which is good, we've almost booked a place in the Eastern Conference finals, but we still can't relax!
Everyone is saying that the Celtics will get nothing this season because their great inside core Kevin is injured, so guys, we should work harder and tell everyone with our performance that we are still the best in the NBA. Strong team!So what are we going to do? "

"Sweep!"

The Celtics players had their answers right away.

So the fighting spirit re-condensed in the hearts of the Celtics players. Although it was not as vigorous as the previous game, at least it could guarantee that the Celtics would not let their opponents get any chances because of their negligence.

In fact, for the Celtics now, this is enough!
In this game, the Eagles still used their strongest lineup. After Woodson made countless adjustments in the previous three games, they did not find a better way to restrain the Celtics, so the Eagles could only do this , Use your strongest combat power to face the opponent in this game.

The Celtics did not make any additional adjustments. Shi Lei was still the team's starting small forward, and Ray Allen was the team's sixth man.

Although Ray Allen had long been preparing for the arrival of the day, when the day actually arrived, he still felt a little lonely, but Ray Allen didn't hate Shi Lei for taking his position away, he was just unwilling Complain that I am "old" so quickly!

"Come on bro, try to do everything you can, just like you did before!"

Before the match started, Ray Allen lightly shook his fist with Shi Lei.

"Will do!"

Shi Lei smiled and nodded.

Players from both sides stood on the court, and Perkins jumped the ball with Horford.

The Eagles got their first chance, Bibby had the ball and Rondo immediately came up to intercept.The rest of the Celtics seized the time to return to the basket for defensive arrangements.

The Hawks players seemed to have regained some confidence, but this did not include Josh Smith. In these three games, he was severely tortured by Shi Lei.Shi Lei, who usually only defends the opponent's offensive vanguard, this time because he has to take care of the inside line, finally let Smith know why Shi Lei's defense is so praised by some basketball experts.

"Hey man, how are you doing, nice to see you again!"

Shi Lei couldn't forget Josh's insolent look when he was injured, so whenever he had time, Shi Lei wanted to tease him.

Josh, who was already powerless to refute, simply ignored Shi Lei's words, but he didn't move around much, knowing that he couldn't get rid of the other party, so he was waiting for Shi Lei to leave him on his own initiative.

"rub!"

Shi Lei quickly moved to Williams' side.

Williams, who had just received the basketball and was about to cut through Davis, suddenly threw the basketball out.

Quiet Smith makes a jumper on a basketball.

The Hawks' tactics seem to have changed a little bit, but this can only play a role when they are surprised, but Woodson can only do so much, because their inside support ability is actually very average now.Horford hasn't grown up yet, and Williams isn't a natural second-in-command like Odom.

The Hawks’ quick offense made their home court a little bit more lively, but there were too few fans who came to the scene today. Their cheers could neither inspire the team nor let the Celtics What stress.

With Bibby on the court, Shi Lei handed over the ball to Rondo, ran to the free throw line, and replaced Garnett as the pivot connecting the inside and outside.

So in fact, in this lineup, when attacking, Davis takes on the responsibility of being a gunner, while Shi Lei is in charge of the team's high-level support. He is in line with Rondo and controls the team's offense and the ball. transmission.

To defend Rondo, Bibby can only use the method of preventing breakthroughs and not preventing shots. If there are more, he will be powerless.Williams and Josh sandwiched Shi Lei one after the other, and Joe Johnson defended Pierce alone.

Shi Lei pulled out, Rondo's pass was in place in one step, Shi Lei forcibly broke through along the left diagonal line.

Josh stepped back step by step without suppressing it. Williams couldn't care less about Davis at this time, completely let go of his guard, and always followed Josh not far away, occupying Shi Lei's possible space. on the way to breakthrough.

Shi Lei took a step back to shoot the ball, but in mid-air, his wrist suddenly pressed down, and he threw the basketball into the hands of Davis on the other side.

Davis' shooting accuracy is one of the best in the team's top line, but his shooting speed is a bit slow, but he is still very reliable when there is no defender.

The Eagles unexpectedly turned the basketball from the inside out and scored two points. The Celtics also unexpectedly temporarily gave up the outside attack, which has a great advantage, and instead hit two points from the inside counterattack.

But the same unexpected results, the effect is very different. In the Hawks' second attack, after the Celtics strengthened the defensive operation more closely, the so-called internal and external combination of the Hawks began to become a strong outside line. Hit, or forcefully hit inside.

But the Celtics are different. After Shi Lei made continuous breakthroughs and passed the basketball to Davis on the weak defensive side, Davis actually shot a wave of 5 of 4 shots steadily. .

This puts the Hawks' defense in a dilemma, should they defend Davis?This was a problem, so Horford involuntarily lost his focus on defense, and Shi Lei immediately completed an alley-oop with Perkins.
pause!

The Celtics' first six offenses were all done inside, completely disrupting the Hawks' defense and forcing Woodson to call the first timeout.

At this time, the score on the court was 10:4, and the game started with only 3 minutes and 11 seconds.

Some fans began to leave the field. In this game, the Eagles still did not let those who supported them see hope.

Woodson also sees no hope, what can he do?In fact, he had no choice, he couldn't let go of his defense against Shi Lei, nor could he let go of his defense against Pierce.But the problem now is that he can no longer turn a blind eye to Davis!
"Mike's defensive arrangement for the team was a complete failure. He failed to make any of the opponent's players perform worse. Instead, he made a substitute player play an All-Star stat! However, it is undeniable that their small forward's breakthrough ability is too strong. This is the most fundamental reason. So our road to the playoffs may end here!"

The Atlanta TV commentator who broadcast the game was very pessimistic, the fans at home were also very pessimistic, and their players, they couldn't see the hope of victory!
"Turn up the team's offense, Mike (Bibby), bring up the team's offensive speed!"

With Shi Lei present, Woodson didn't think it would be useful, but there are many ways to die, and Woodson hoped that his team could die more beautifully.That's the whole point of his adjustments.

After the Hawks speeded up their offense, they were indeed much better. In many cases, they were always able to leave the Celtics' insiders behind, which gave them a greater inside advantage.

However, when the opponent adjusted the defense to man-to-man, the Celtics' perimeter group began to show off.

Well. This game is relatively good-looking, all I can say is that when a team doesn't think about winning or losing, they can always make themselves look gorgeous.

"Well, it looks like it's time to say goodbye to the playoffs again, but the boys have done a good job, but the opponent is doing better than them!"

Shortly after the game entered the fourth quarter, after the Eagles' symbolic resistance, they simply put on the bench.

Sweeping the opponent again, the Celtics became the first team to enter the conference finals!

"Continue to sweep and advance, and the defending champion that no one is optimistic about continues his journey!"

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