The Whip of the God of Basketball

? On November 20, the Celtics ushered in the New Jersey Nets at home, a crucial game. Zero reading

After a happy and exciting day at the Golden God Casino on the 19th, Walker and his team returned to Boston with Leon overnight, and then the whole team trained on the morning of the 20th. Leon arrived at the training hall at nine o'clock in the morning as usual. This time he found that there were not many of them, and everyone had arrived at the arena early. Including Walker and others who spent a day drinking and drinking at the casino yesterday, they arrived at the training hall on time. A good team training atmosphere can stimulate the morale and fighting enthusiasm of the team. When everyone is focused on training, even the laziest players will maintain a high degree of concentration during normal training hours.

Leon knows that this is not only because of his ideological and political lessons for the team yesterday, but also because tonight their opponent is the New Jersey Nets, which wiped out the Celtics finals last year. The dream team. Although Leon understands that last year's Celtics are far from reaching the level of a finals team, but seeing the finals stage, which has been 15 years away, is close in front of him, no one will give up the opportunity to regain glory, let alone Said that if they enter the Finals their opponent will be the Los Angeles Lakers.

With a 2:4 defeat and Rodman’s departure, Auerbach’s old body is one step closer to death. To the current Bostonians, the current New Jersey Nets are like the New York Knicks in the 1960s. The Washington Bullets in the 1970s and the Philadelphia 76ers in the 1980s were the biggest enemies in the same division. Maybe there are many teams in the West that are stronger than the Nets, but in the real playoff contest, the Nets are the stumbling block.

Especially this summer, the Nets introduced Dikembe Mutombo to enhance their defensive strength in the interior. They undoubtedly want to go further in the new season, and their vision is to go beyond the Boston Celtics and directly aim at After being powerful in the west, the Green Army was completely ignored. Leon felt this from the press conference before the game. On the afternoon of the 20th, when the two sides took turns in the North Shore Garden for an hour of public training and were interviewed, the Nets coach Byron Scott kept talking. Their changes on the defensive end and offensive end this season. They dismissed their opponents, the Celtics, but said that they have made significant progress and may be a threat.

The Celtics' training is carried out after the Nets. Leon is mentioned the most in the recent two-game losing streak of the team. After experiencing nine consecutive victories in the season, the Celtics have been in the hands of the Eastern team. After some trouble, the 76ers are 01's overlord of the Eastern District. The Bucks also competed with the 76ers in 2001, and now they have to meet the current Eastern Conference Kings. Naturally, it will feel bad and bad.

"We were well prepared. After the two-game losing streak, we had three days to rest. During these three days, I talked to some players, exchanged views with them on the future development, and solved some problems. I I think the two-game losing streak has passed, and now is a new beginning. We will start from tonight's game and continue to move towards the goal." Leon is still very confident in this game and he has made very full preparations. And one thing he believes is a big benefit to the Celtics, that is, Mutombo played a role after coming to the Nets not as good as expected.

Although in previous games, the Nets had beaten the Spurs Twin Towers, Dikembe Mutombo seemed to have played a very good role, but in the recent game against the Mavericks, Mutombo’s declining state caused It is difficult for him to keep up with fast-paced games for a long time. He has become accustomed to the 76ers' defensive strangulation that relies on offensive rebounds and slow pace, and the high intensity of defense against the Nets. The offensive track team's style of play is not applicable.

On the 20th, Leon spent almost three hours editing and watching the Nets’ previous game video. He was convinced that Mutombo would be a breakthrough point. If Byron Scott continues to trust this The words of the four-time best defensive player.

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The Celtics players, who had been away from the game for three days, stood back on the parquet floor of North Shore Garden at 7:30 in the evening. They swept away the haze of previous consecutive defeats and regained their vigor and vitality. Two days' rest. And today’s moderate-intensity training made them look energetic, Leon once again lined up the regular starting lineup, Gemini, Arenas, Reid and Tony Barty, this is also the Celtics in the Eastern Conference finals last year Against the main lineup of the Nets, one summer has passed, and they are no longer the same as last season.

Jason Kidd was the first to experience this. After the opening game, he found that the defender he faced was Michael Reid. Reid has undoubtedly become a defensive engineer for the Celtics outside this season. Where is the strong point to block, use your first line of defense as a barrier for the Celtics' relatively weak inside defense. Kidd can obviously feel the strong pressure from Reid, he almost completely gave up the defense and echo in the defense, completely fixed on Kidd one-on-one.

This makes the Nets’ offense unable to unfold as they want. Although Kidd’s pass still has the ability to change the offensive situation on the court, Reed’s sugar-like defense has reduced Kidd’s autonomous offensive threat. This is a control. It is terrible for the guards. A point guard without offensive threats is unrealistic to rely solely on passing to drive offense. After all, this is not football, and a point guard is not a quarterback who only needs to pass the ball.

However, the scores of the two sides did not open in the first quarter. Because the Nets are also very good at dealing with the Celtics, that is, they are stuck on the outside, constant frontcourt delays and double-teaming in the backcourt. Kenyon Martin is like a dogskin plaster. It hurts. Celtics He couldn't fight his second quick counterattack at all, and could only rely on the personal abilities of Walker and Pierce.

Leon is also having a headache on the sidelines. Arenas has a fast advancing speed, strong shooting ability, and basic point guard passing ability. He can also learn the set of rules he set for him, but as a point guard, he In offensive creativity is still far from enough, he is very good at creating shooting opportunities for himself, but often turn a blind eye to some fleeting offensive opportunities. In contrast, Kidd on the opposite side is at the other extreme. His shooting ability is like the Six-Medition Excalibur, but his passing is killing people without seeing blood.

Leon has been in contact with basketball for less than three years. He has a superhuman talent in tactics. Auerbach did not allow him to learn tactics too early in order not to obliterate his sensitive tactical sense of basketball. Bound by those rules and a single line. Leon can be sure that Jason Kidd must have a similar talent. He may not learn tactics seriously and systematically, but the constant accumulation of experience and innate spirituality makes him seem An ordinary pass, but it has the beauty of leveraging the entire tactical operation.

Fortunately for Leon, even if Kidd could send a wonderful pass, the nets with a weak offensive level could not tear through the Celtics' defense. The two sides fought for 24 minutes in the first half and tied. Into the second half. The turning point of the game happened in the third quarter. Leon replaced Arenas with Joe Johnson. After playing double point guards against the Mavericks, he used an uncontrollable lineup in the game.

Unexpectedly, this lineup has a surprisingly good effect on the Nets, especially on the offensive end. The Celtics have completely entered a one-on-one training mode, and several one-on-one good players take turns to solve the problem with singles. In terms of tactics, Leon is not the kind of academic who loves running and air cuts. He loves efficiency. All means that can efficiently score, whether it is subtle tactics or rough singles, can be the choice he needs.

Joe Johnson is exactly the player he needs now. In the Eastern Conference finals last season, he had a dazzling performance, completely not afraid of Skiles and Kidd's defense. Tonight, when facing the Nets’ defensive Titans Skiles, he once again demonstrated wonderful one-on-one skills. He kept in his mind what Leon said to him before the game, “Nothing is on the basketball court. One singles can't solve it. If there is, then two." He doesn't need to worry about the running position of his teammates. As long as he puts the ball into the basket wholeheartedly, he finds he is very good at catching this.

Joe Johnson scored 9 points in the third quarter to help the Celtics widen the difference to 11 points in one fell swoop. UU read www.uukanshu.com and forced Scott to replace Mutombo and Jason. -Kidd goes to match Joe Johnson.

Driven by Johnson, the Celtics' players had a high morale in the third quarter. All players on the court showed everyone their offensive methods, such as breakthroughs, jump shots, dunks, three-pointers, and hooks. The two sides were caught in a chaotic battle.

Scott is a well-organized and well-organized coach, but Johnson's singles completely disrupted the Nets' routines and disrupted the Celtics' offense. The two sides fell into one from the third quarter to the fourth. Kind of the state of each other's eight punches. In this state, it is really the brave victory in the chaos. Mutombo, who is not good at chaos, has no chance to play in the second half of the third quarter and the fourth quarter. The more and more brave Celtics team’s The offensive enthusiasm was inspired and maintained until the fourth quarter. The Nets were hacked to death by the Celtics in the North Shore Garden. The Celtics were also regarded as a tabloid in the Eastern Conference finals last year. hatred.

However, after the game, he returned to the locker room. Joe Johnson, who played well, did not seem particularly excited. He silently went into the shower room and started taking a shower. He refused the reporter's interview. After taking a shower and changing his clothes, he chose to leave. . Because the day he left Boston is getting closer. (To be continued.)

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