NBA: The strongest trash talk

“This is incredible, there are four-star 76ers on the opposite side, but Chen Xu doesn’t seem to care about this at all, playing the 76ers’ defense line in the palm of his hand, it’s too powerful!”

Paul Pierce couldn’t sit still.

Chen Xu did not fall into the “rookie circle” that surprised people at the beginning and then quickly fell in the playoffs, he gave people the feeling that he was stronger and stronger and unbelievable one by one.

You know, this season’s 76ers are not a persimmon to pinch, but a team that is really waking up!

But.. Even if there are four all-stars on the opposite side, Chen Xu can still become the most dazzling person, one at a time, attracting everyone’s attention! Lead the team to victory.

In the second quarter, the 76ers’ defensive system was a little overwhelmed, but fortunately, the Celtics players’ hands were not too hot, except for Chen Xu, the other four shot 12 of 21, 5 of 12 from three-point range, rolled away 30 points, and Chen Xu scored 8 points and 6 assists in a single quarter.

On the other hand, the 76ers, in addition to Jimmy Butler and Embiid can steadily score for the team, Simmons was pestered by Chen Xu, who originally shot 61%, shot 2 of 7 in this game, and only scored 6 points.

After halftime, the Celtics led by 13 points 65-52, which greatly surprised people!

After all, everyone thought that this would be a close match, but from the half, the 76ers could not limit Chen Xu.

The Strongest Spear and Strongest Shield duel before the start of the tournament now seems like a joke!

At half-time, in the dressing room of the two sides, Brett Bulang was very angry, he had been studying how to limit Chen Xu’s system early, but at the beginning of the game, he was easily defeated by the other side!

This feeling of punching on cotton made the 76ers coach very distressed.

“In the second half, try to play your skills, don’t think about limiting Chen Xu, we can’t limit him, we can only play against Celtic!”

“Especially Jimmy, Joel, as for Tobias and JJ Redick, you two can go on whenever you have the opportunity, let’s give it a go!”

Coach Bulang said to his players.

A 13-point lead at halftime is not too much, after all, there are 24 minutes left in the game, and maybe after a wave or two of climax, this score will be erased.

The biggest headache for Bulang is that the team cannot effectively limit Chen Xu, whether he scores or assists, the team has no way at all, entering the second half in this state, it will definitely lose.

Since he can’t limit Chen Xu, he can only attack Chen Xu, and I hope that the opponent’s hand will feel a little cooler in the second half.

After all, the Celtics only have one offensive strong point from Chen Xu, and the 76ers really have Jimmy Butler and Joel Embiid’s two offensive strengths, plus Tobias, a high-quality scorer who averages 20+ per game and Redick 18+, in terms of offensive firepower, the league is above the 76ers, I am afraid that only the Golden State Devils Warriors.

On the Celtics side, Stevens emphasized paying attention to defense, although the 76ers were not efficient offensively in the first half, but the opponent did have more talent and scorers than the Celtics.

As for the offense, Stevens rarely emphasized, and the players also knew that that kind of thing, hand the ball to Chen Xu, he can arrange it for you clearly!

At the beginning of the third quarter, both teams followed the coach’s deployment, one focused on offense and the other on defense.

Throughout the third quarter, the two sides played back and forth, after all, the Celtics, as a defender, have more physical exertion than the attacker, not to mention the Celtics’ feel in the first half is not very good.

Only Chen Xu, the efficiency is still above average, Jaylen Brown Horford is also good, and Hayward’s shooting percentage has dropped very much.

On the 76ers side, JJ Redick and Harris seemed to have found the shooting button, and the two shot 4 of 5 in 3 minutes, playing a wave of 12-2 small climax, and the difference instantly became 3 points, within 1 goal.

Fortunately, Chen Xu stood up in time, and at the end of the third quarter, he hit a 34-foot (2 meters from the three-point line) long-range three-pointer, and the momentum of the entire team was called back by this ball.

By the fourth quarter, due to physical reasons, the efficiency of both sides decreased, and there was even a time, a full 3 minutes, both teams did not score a goal, at this time, it was time for superstars to step up and score.

76 over there, naturally Joel Embiid, relying on the physical strength of Horford, although Horford is not tall, but fast footsteps, experience, Embiid hit one of the 3 goals and found that the other party was not a soft persimmon, had to give up singles, and the team to do team cooperation.

And the Celtics, Chen Xu can still stabilize the output, at this time, the role of Jordan’s peak card comes out.

Continuous back-to-back singles, sometimes even the opponent did not have time to pinch the shot, Chen Xu had already attacked the basket with a picturesque reclining.

“Beautiful! Continuous left shoulder sinking, right hand rollover jumper! But Simmons was not thrown off, but pasted anyway! OMG, is it a fake action! Shaking past Simmons, Chen Xu turned over again with his left hand and jumped and the ball scored! ”

After blocking with Horford, Chen Xu threw off Simmons and rushed straight inside, and Embiid came to make up for it. No, it’s too slow! Chen Xu leaned back and the ball scored! ”

“Nice S-line footsteps, OMG! Chen Xu was like a human ball as one, and he shook Simmons and Butler at once, oh my God! There are still people in the alliance who can make such a move! But Embiid is already in place at this time! Nice pass! Chen Xu gave it to Horford, who was already vacant, and the latter easily made a layup! ”

In the fourth quarter, just when the situation was deadlocked, Chen Xu finally began his individual singles performance.

At this time, although passing is a better choice, the teammate’s hand is not good, so Chen Xu chooses to believe in himself.

It turned out that Chen Xu’s choice was completely correct, and in the last 4 minutes, Chen Xu made a sudden shot, shooting 4 of 8 while taking away 2 assists by the way, and also grabbed 1 front rebound to make up the basket.

On the 76ers side, in this physical and psychological situation, no one can stand up, only Butler tried singles, but after 2 iron hits, Butler was also out of spirit.

In the end, with the excellent play of Chen Xu in the fourth quarter, Celtic defeated the 76ers 118-112 and won the first victory of the second-round series!

At the end of the game, Paul Pierce made a concluding remark.

“In this day and age, even having four regular All-Stars on your team is of little use. Because at critical moments, only historical supergiants will show tough performance! It turns out! Four all-stars can’t stand up to Chen Xu alone! ”

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