The Whip of the God of Basketball

"I'm sitting in the high stands to broadcast tonight's game for you, the 2003-2004 season NBA playoffs Eastern Conference finals, good evening everyone, I am Dick Stockton, I will watch the Celtics with you The game against the Pacers. I will explain with me that the guest of the game tonight is Steve Kerr, hello Kerr."

On the night of the game day, the t-nt commentator Dick Stockton, who was sitting on the sidelines, imitated the classic commentary of the Boston Celtics legend Johnny Most, and kicked off the Eastern Conference finals. His partner is former Celtics player Steve Kerr. Kerr joined* to start his commentary career after retiring. His experience with the Celtics made him the guest commentator tonight. .

After greeting the audience, Stockton asked: "Steve, seeing the current Celtics, do you regret the decision to retire in the summer?"

Cole has undoubtedly been asked this question many times. He smiled and said: "I lack a lot of things, but I don't seem to be short of championship rings." Indeed, three consecutive championships with the Bulls made Cole not a champion. It’s a pity, otherwise, the fact that he left the Spurs to join the Celtics last year, and finally lost to the Spurs in the finals, will make people talk about it for a lifetime.

"Let’s not gossip and give a prediction. Steve, let me talk about myself first. I think the Pacers have a chance to win the Celtics in the first game. The Celtics have rested for too long. This is not necessarily a good thing for the team. Although the Pacers have fought for seven games, their players are very young, and their fierce battle with the Pistons has improved them. I believe they have the possibility of defeating the Celtics. Very big.” Before the game started, Stockton first dug a hole for himself. The legendary commentator of the NBA has broadcasted countless NBA games, and there are countless pits dug. Anyway, this one is not bad.

"If I hadn't been with the Celtics and hadn't played under Fox Leon, I think I would hold the same view as you. Indeed, the Pacers’ reversal in the semifinals is truly impressive, and as a past NBA players, I know what this experience means to young people. However, I still believe that Fox-Leon and his Celtics are a team that does not fight unprepared battles. , He never breaks his promise." As a former Celtics player, Cole stood on the Celtics side without hesitation and blew a wave of Leon.

"Never break his words, did Leon tell you that he owes you a championship?" Stockton joked, knowing that Leon was the one who traded Cole from the Spurs, and Cole lost the championship.

"Of course! He told me that he would pay me back in the future." Cole said, he still remembers that after Game 6 of the Finals, Leon hugged Cole in tears and said in his ear. Of course, Cole didn't take it all into his mind.

The two said each other, but the game was about to begin. Before the game, the rap duo Oscost sang "the-way-you-move" and the American national anthem in North Shore Garden, and then this high-profile battle will begin.

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Before the start of the game, Leon and Bird’s quarrel had spread, but Leon was obviously not as completely confident and relaxed as the outside world seemed. In fact, any seemingly easy establishment and Casual success comes from the dedication and carefulness behind the back.

After returning to the locker room, Leon spent half an hour laying out the first half of the team's tactics in detail, and how the players should respond to possible problems. Taking vaccinations in advance will help players calm down and get out of trouble when facing difficulties.

In the lineup arrangement, Leon made a very bold decision-let Michael-Reid sit on the bench as a substitute, and Lagabert on the starting line as a shooting guard.

On-the-spot change is a big taboo for military strategists, especially the Celtics belong to the superior side, the time and place are favorable, and both have advantages. They should have changed in the same way, but he came on the spot like this, which makes people feel very strange. .

"Look at the Celtics' starting lineups, oh, they have changed. Pj Brown, Kevin Garnett, Gilbert Arenas, Paul Pierce, the starting shooting guard changed to La Gabel!" Stockton was also surprised to see the Celtics lineup. He didn't expect anyone to change the starting lineup at the beginning of the Eastern Conference Finals, and the Celtics did not report that Reid was injured. Sick news.

"This is really surprising, but as I said, he is a coach who does not fight unprepared battles. I believe that he must have done a lot of thinking and work during this one-week break. Decision." Cole still unconditionally supported Leon and the Celtics.

Indeed, Leon has done a lot of preparation work. In fact, as early as the middle of the season, he had such an idea. Let Lagarber start and Reid as a substitute to improve the lack of independent offensive ability of the team's substitute players. , So that the two lineups of the team are more balanced, and the game connection is more smooth and stable.

When playing against the Kings this season, Leon let Reid sit on the bench in the second half, but Reid played well in that game and defeated the Kings in one fell swoop. However, afterwards, for the smooth progress of the regular season, Reid remained in the starting lineup as usual. In some games, Leon will try to start Bell and Reid will play the Super Sixth Man. So, letting Reid off the bench tonight is not without preparation, but for a long time.

"This guy, let Reid substitute...fuc-k..." Larry Bird, who was sitting in the audience watching the game, cursed in his heart because he knew that the Pacers did the same before the game started. Change.

"Let’s take a look at the Pacers’ starting...Oh, it’s changed... The starting is Jerry Foster, Jermaine O’Neal, Ron Artest, Jamal Tinsley and Ray Ji Miller! They used Stephen Jackson as the starting shooting guard in previous games. Now, Jackson is sitting on the bench! Did Fox-Lyon guess that the Pacers are going to change?" See the Pacers Stockton will no longer think that the Celtics’ starting is a silly starter. This is simply an unknown prophet!

"The Pacers have really changed? This must be Vogel's idea, this kid..." Leon looked at the Pacers' starter, and he was relieved, although he was not sure that the Pacers would definitely Changes, but this is also within his consideration. Secondly, he knew that this must be Vogel's suggestion. O'Brien rarely made such risky decisions. On the contrary, as a younger generation, Vogel had some ideas in his mind.

This season, after the Pacers introduced Jackson, the backcourt strength has greatly increased, but there has been a conflict in how to arrange the scenes between Reggie Miller and Jackson. They have tried to play a small lineup and let O'Neal play as a center. In his senior year, he was beaten badly by the Celtics, so he didn't use it much later. In the end, Miller took the initiative to give way for Jackson to start and play off the bench by himself. The result was very effective. The Pacers also achieved 60 wins this season.

Now, they suddenly delegated Jackson to the bench, obviously they had ideas. It's just that those who have ideas met with more ideas, and the Celtics did the same and put Reed on the bench.

"I want to give myself a back hand, I don't know which back hand is more ruthless... This stadium is really noisy, how can I endure here for more than 40 years?" At this time, sitting in the other side of the stand, Dai Auerbach, wearing sunglasses, thought to himself that the noisy North Shore Garden Arena gave him a headache. In fact, the use of the sixth man started from Auerbach.

This ancestor who used the Super Sixth Man sat quietly on the sidelines and watched his apprentices and grandchildren carry forward this method, fighting wits and courage.

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The game started, the ball jumped, Pj-Brown suppressed Foster and assigned the ball to Garnett, the Celtics won the first offense. UU Reading www.uukanshu.com

The Celtics often have two types of starting offenses in the opening stage. One is Garnett’s high-level organization and jump shots, and the other is Arenas’s breakthrough points. These two offensive modes are precise and integrated, and the other is simple and crude. , Which one mainly depends on what kind of opponent you face. Against a defensive team like the Pacers, Leon has always liked the second one, the harder first, to disrupt everything.

Sure enough, Arenas quickly moved forward after taking the ball, and then facing Tinsley, he first turned his back to open the space, then used Garnett's pick and roll to pass through, and went straight in from the middle. Then he did not choose to go deep. Instead, he pulled up a mid-range jumper directly near the free throw line. This is a good position, and there is no interference in the ball.

The Celtics scored the first point.

As for the Pacers, Reggie Miller made a 45-degree jumper from the right side of the pass from Tinsley. It seems that both sides have a good opening touch. The game was not as people expected. At the beginning, no one scored in the defensive battle, and soon the score broke zero.

Looking back, Arenas made a breakthrough again. This time he divided the ball to Pierce. Pierce took the ball and gave it a flick, a beautiful back turn and a step backward, and he made a jumper. Then the Pacers launched a quick counterattack, Jermaine O'Neal quickly inserted into the basket, avoided the defense of Garnett and Brown, and made a left-handed counter-basket.

In the next few attacks, both sides shot very high, and the game was unexpectedly smooth, which made Stockton couldn't help saying: "Did the two sides have discussed it, everyone should not defend too tightly and run slowly?"

In this way, the two sides did not die in the first five minutes, and the score reached 14:13. The Celtics led by one point and had to enter the official timeout.

However, the storm is gestating in the calm of the only beginning. (To be continued.)