Chapter 325: Two Presidents
Today's game attracted the incumbent President of the United States, George W. Bush and his family came to watch the show, and said they would go to watch the U.S. and Chinese teams play at the Summer Olympics.
President Bush stressed that no matter who succeeds him as US president in the future, the United States will continue to pursue a policy of "active engagement" toward China, that is to say, the United States will continue to support Taiwan independence, continue to support Hong Kong's troubles, continue to support Da Dan Lai, and continue to give strong support to Li and Hongzhi.
In addition to the current president's show, this game attracted many celebrities to watch the game, such as former US President Clinton, music diva Maria. Celebrities such as Kelly and boxing champion Mayweather were in attendance.
Many fans wondered, isn't Clinton, a bastard, an Alzheimania stupid, who can still understand basketball, what if saliva comes down in the first moment?
In addition to these stars and celebrities, NBA celebrities have been on hand to watch the game, the Lord of the Rings, Cassel and Larry. Bird sat together, and Ji Guoyi shamefully said that he couldn't tell who was Bird and Clinton; Jordan and Pippen pointed at the country on the sidelines, attracting a lot of cameras; Stockton and Malone sat together again, expressionless, and must have seen the trophy on the technical table touch the scene again.
The referee for today's final game was still Dick. Bavita, the old guy is a loyal dog in the NBA, and in the controversial fifth game between the Lakers and the Kings, it was this old guy who acted as the referee and blew the King to death at the behest of the league. So today, the media of the Celtic family think that this old guy is simply unreliable, and if they don't do it, they will repeat the mistakes of the king.
During this time, the Boston media has been reporting the news of betting referees, which can be regarded as putting pressure on the league in disguise, hoping to make the league honest spectators, and the championship should be decided by the players themselves.
After the game began, despite playing away, the Clippers were like a rainbow, and Billups and Ji Guoqiu teamed up to make a 14-6 golden start.
The frenetic home atmosphere at TD North Shore Garden did not affect the Clippers players, and their start on 5-of-7 shooting made the home Celtics players start to feel anxious, and Coach Rivers called a timeout in time to stabilize the players' mentality.
Rivers looked at the five starters who walked off the court, and found that only Ray had not changed his expressions. Alan. Regardless of the ability of the three giants of the Green Army, it is only the psychological element zhì this one. Allen is one of the best and this season has transformed into a super shooter for Ray. Aaron, it is impossible to do it without a heart that is calm and calm in the face of danger.
Garnett and Pierce wouldn't have been affected by this kind of scene, but they had Ray on the team. Allen, a player like Allen, who plays better in adversity and critical moments, must of course focus on thunder. Alan.
The game resumed, Ray. Aaron lived up to expectations, and scored five points with a free throw.
Not to be outdone, Ji Guoqiu returned four points with free throws, Perkins was killed by the Pandas twice on the defensive back, and the Celtics had to replace the main center with veteran PJ Brown in less than half of the first quarter.
Jeff. Van Gundy said after the Celtics' substitution: "Garnett's worst game in the first six games was not against the twin brothers, but the Clippers did the opposite today, using the Panda brother to attack the Celtics' interior pillar in the first quarter, which unexpectedly achieved good results." ”
O'Neal laughed: "Garnett had the upper hand in the Finals for the whole series, but he didn't win easily, and you can see that he did everything in his power to solve his opponents. That's how I dealt with Yao Ming when I was a rookie, at that time you only knew that I taught the little giants a lesson, but you didn't know that I didn't have an easy win, and against a rookie like the twin brothers, I think Kevin felt even more uncomfortable than I did at the beginning. ”
The score was 7 minutes and 50 seconds in the first quarter, and the score was 18:11.
After a smooth ride in the first half of the first quarter, both sides chose to strengthen their defense to limit the opponent's offense, and the result was that the offense on both sides could not be played, and there was no performance for two consecutive minutes, until the 5th minute and 20 seconds, Pierce made a strong three-point shot to break the deadlock, and then Garnett also had a table, and the Celtics slowly caught up with the help of home court advantage.
With three minutes left in the first quarter, the Celtics tied the score at 20-18.
The elder Dunleavy called a timeout, replacing the twin brothers and Artest, and replacing them with the old cats Mobley and Amir. Johnson and Tim. Thomas, the Clippers swapped into their second echelon early.
Although Rivers felt a little passive, he still went-for-tat to replace Kassel and Al. Thorton, and he did even better, even thunder. Allen and Garnett also went off, and the big three went off the field together, and they were replaced: Cassel, Toney. Aaron, Al. Thorton, Glenn. Davis, PJ Brown's pure bench lineup.
Dunleavy Sr. saw the Celtics replace the Big Three early, and knew that Rivers was afraid that the twins would bully their bench interior in the second quarter.
In the first few games, when Ji Guo was ashamed to meet Glenn. When Davis was around, he would always play a small high tide, and the consecutive scoring made the Celtics extremely passive.
ESPN has calculated that when Garnett or Pierce defended Ji, he scored less than 10 points in that period, averaging just nine points in nearly 30 minutes in six games. But in the face of Glenn. Davis or Al. When Thorton, Ji Guoyan was ashamed to score 9.5 points in just ten minutes of play, and the efficiency value more than tripled.
Many media call him "Vegetable Abuse Maniac" This is where the dead fox comes from, and the dead fox is really tough when facing rookies or ordinary players, just like having an attribute bonus effect, which is too annoying.
That is to say, if Ji Guo, a bastard, hadn't relied on abusing vegetables to brush up on the number jù, he might have only averaged more than 10 points per game in the finals, but now he has brushed an average of 18 points per game, which is only 3 points less than Garnett's number jù.
At the end of the first quarter, Billups, Mobley, Tim. Thomas alternates offense, the Clippers lineup focuses on man-to-man on the defensive end, and the defensive intensity is not large, the task of the old Dunleavy to the second echelon is to go up and grab points, and the defense is completely dependent on individual single defense, and there is no need to assist in the defense to fill the position. But the offense has to be good, they can't defend against others, but they have to keep scoring.
The Celtics are different in that their bench lineup is a top priority for defense, and the last game even the Clippers defended the black hole Tim. Thomas is playing with his life, and the Celtics' already strong defense will not be left behind. In order to limit the Clippers' bench scoring, Rivers put Tony, who has not had many playing opportunities this season. Aaron was sent up, and he was tasked with defending the old cat Mobley.
The bench lineups of the two teams attacked and defended, and the substitute period played extremely fiercely!
With 31.5 seconds left in the quarter, Kassel fired another shot from the outside to help the team close the score again.
At the end of the first quarter, the Clippers led the Celtics by three points, 27-24.
In the second quarter, Dunleavy Sr. replaced Blevin. Knight, Mobley, Garcia, Ji Guoyi, Ji Guoqiu.
Rivers represented: Kassel, Ray. Aaron, Al. Thornton, Garnett, Perkins.
After the start of the game, Ji Guoyi, who had a good sense of hand, was brilliant again, with the help of his teammates to cooperate to cause misplaced abuse, one person scored five points in a row, and then Mobley hit another three-pointer.
The score was 35:24, and the Clippers extended the score to double digits with an attacking wave.
Rivers was on the sidelines like the regimental commander, battalion commander, company commander or something in the domestic red radio shadow, shouting at his players: "Hold on to me, don't let them get a chance to shoot!" ”
At the critical moment, Ray. Allen hit a three-pointer from the outside to stabilize the position, and the Celtics couldn't score again, and Rivers was about to call a timeout.
ABC's Reggie. Miller laughed: "I don't think at this time, no one will mention anything like Ray. Aaron is the subject of poison, and I heard it a lot a week ago, they said that Ray. Aaron has lost his ability to play head-to-head singles and can no longer break through the dunks as before, but they don't know how powerful a super shooter can be in crucial matches. ”
Ji Guoqiu defensively, to the old cats who are more than ten years older than him, Mobley and Blevin. Knight said softly: "We play man-to-man defense, but according to the position of the three-two joint defense, you don't have to worry about the paint area, there is the territory of our two brothers."
The two veterans looked at each other and did not raise any objections, Ji Guoqiu's arrangement is equivalent to putting the pressure on the restricted area guarded by the two brothers, and at the same time reducing their pressure on the defensive end, now they only need to defend the opposing player to shoot, and if they are broken through, it will completely depend on whether the two big men on the inside can stop the ball.
"Damn, why are you so great, do you want to defend my territory?" Ji Guoyan looked at Garnett beside him shamefully, and felt that he couldn't handle such an opponent, and then he couldn't help the outside line fill the position, and four hands were not enough.
"With great power comes great responsibility, haven't you heard?"
"Of course I've heard of it, but the old man is only 19 years old now, and he has a little cabbage, and he doesn't have that much ability."
Ji Guoyan was complaining in his heart, his feet were not slow, he ran to the outside to make a no-ball cover for Mobley, and then received a blank cover from Blavin. Knight's ball, eyes on the inward Mobley, but the basketball was passed by him from the human slit to the weak side of the panda brother.
"Beautiful!" Old Dunleavy clenched his fists on the field and shouted excitedly.
Ji Guoyan was ashamed to point to the east and west this time, and crossed most of the court to pass the basketball directly from the right wing to the left wing, quite like his brother.
Ji Guoqiu was unguarded at this moment, and immediately shot and hit a high jumper, without wasting the fox brother's exquisite pass. R1152