Chapter 308: Get moving
The referee for the third game of the Finals was Steve Brown. Jarvey, Clippers fans don't have much impression of the referee, and I remember that this season, Jarvey officiated the Clippers' game neither favoring nor targeting the Clippers. And in the first two games, the referee was Joe. Crawford, the famous bald referee.
Clippers fans have reason to think that the big bald head deliberately targeted the Clippers in the game and favored the Celtics even more, which is one of the main reasons why the Clippers lost two games in a row. But neutral fans feel that Joe. Crawford's first two penalties were fair, the Celtics were at home, and it was normal for the referee to be slightly biased, as long as the home whistle was not too excessive, which is also one of the characteristics of the NBA.
Scarlett. After Johnson took advantage of the little fox, even if the pre-game show was over, the game time was approaching, and the players on both sides were polite to each other before the game, waiting for the game to officially start.
Today the Celts sent: Rajan. Rondo, Ray. Aaron, Paul. The starting lineup of Pierce, Garnett, Perkins, which is also the Green Shirts' regular starting five in the playoffs, even if Al Brown. Thornton has been on the rise very quickly, averaging 11 points in 25 minutes per game in the playoffs, and he still can't replace Ray. Alan.
Al. Thorton and Rajan. Rondo, the two rising stars of the Green Army, has been considered by Boston fans to be the hope for the future of the Celtics. As we all know, the peak state of the Big Three will not last long, they are together to win the championship quickly, once the Celtics cannot win the championship in two years, then these two players will become the Celtics to prepare for the future disintegration of the Big Three. As long as the Green Army can develop these two rookies well and pick a good interior player in the free agency market in the coming years, the Celtics will still be competitive.
The two brothers knew about this El. Thornton. This guy is indeed a player with excellent immediate combat ability, outstanding athleticism, the disadvantage is that he is older, and his potential may not be so good, and the ball quotient generally limits his line. Most people think he's a quasi-All-Star like Margeti at best.
But such an El. Thorton is a very suitable player for the Celtics at this stage, and there is a need for such an impactful, that is, strong rookie outside the Big Three, plus the old monster Cassel, the Celtics' lineup at the moment is more powerful than in another time and space.
"We ran to the Clippers and the ripple effect was Al. Thornton went to the Celtics. But no matter who they are, we managed to make it to the finals, and I don't want to make it to waste. After the substitutes on both sides left the field, Ji Guoyi stood in his own half, looked at Garnett, who was standing in the midfield and was about to scramble for the ball, and said secretly in his heart.
"I don't want to. If we lose this game, we're finished, and I'm going to win him today." Ji Guoqiu also looked at Garnett secretly ruthlessly, he has been in the jump ball this season in addition to Tyson. Chandler and Howard, the two perverts, don't seem to have lost much. Especially in the playoffs, he didn't taste defeat before playing against the Celtics. Unexpectedly, in the finals, he actually lost two games in a row to the 31-year-old Garnett. The giant panda couldn't help but think: "This is already Garnett who has begun to go downhill, if it is replaced by the peak Garnett." Don't I even have the slightest chance? ”
"Needless to say, of course you don't have a chance, not even when your template is at its peak. So he doesn't need to care about these at all, can he jump or still hasn't won a championship so far? Duncan has won it 4 times. ”
As soon as Ji Guoyi's voice fell, Brother Panda bounced to the ground, and this time he finally relied on his better reflexes to jump up before Garnett and dial the basketball to his teammates.
Garnett failed to jump the ball and was very unhappy when he landed. He thought that Ji Guoqiu had skipped too early and had committed a foul.
Javi shook his head. He thinks that Ji Guoqiu's kick is perfectly timed, just in sync with his whistle. It was a perfect jump ball, and the protest was invalid!
Charles. Barkley pre-game and Kenny. Smith bet on five cents who would win the jump ball, and the big ass took the five cents happily at the moment, and said with a smile: "Brother Panda's height and arm span are a little worse than Garnett, and the two of them are about the same at this time, but the giant panda has one ability that is better than Garnett, that is, his reflexes." Fans who often watch the Giant Panda game know that the little guy fully embodies this ability when competing for rebounds, and he reacts faster than other players, which is very beneficial to the jump ball. ”
At the beginning of the game, today the Celtics adopted a strict defense against the Clippers' interior play, Garnett not only had to defend Ji Guosha, but also to make up for Perkins, otherwise it would be difficult for the Celtics' big fat to withstand the strong attack of the Pandas.
The Clippers are just the opposite, the old Dunleavy encouraged Ji Guoqiu to attack Perkins after the opening, and after attracting the pack, he had the opportunity to pass inside with the fox brother, as long as he penetrated Perkins first, he could drive the fox brother, just like they dealt with the Spurs in the first round, no matter how good Garnett is, one defense and two ends up may not be much better than Duncan.
Ji Guoqiu played very resolutely today, scoring four points on Perkins' head in the opening three minutes. The little fox only knew that without Ji Guoqiu's help, he couldn't single out Garnett, and on the offensive end, he tried his best to put Garnetra on the outside and didn't let him go to the inside to help defend the pandas. And it's not just Ji Guoyi, the whole Clippers team is consciously running, pulling the Celtics' defensive formation to create a low-post single space for Ji Guoqiu.
With 8 minutes and 02 seconds in the first quarter, the score was 7:2, and the Clippers played fiercely at home, and in less than four minutes, Artest and Ji Guosha plus Posey each got a foul. However, despite the excessive fouls, they did not allow the Celtics to score in the open game, and the two points that the Green Army scored were all free throws.
On the Clippers' side, Ji Guoqiu scored 4 of the 7 points, and just now Billups took advantage of the opportunity of Rondo to wrap Ji Guoqiu on the outside, and received a three-point shot from the Panda inside, and the Clippers have not played an inside pass, but they have played an insideout that a reasonable master has been talking about all day long, and the Celtics saw that the situation was not good, and immediately called a timeout.
"We're going to use the joint defense against that panda, Kevin, you follow that fox and follow the plan we predicted before the game." The Celtics' coaching staff, like the Clippers, prepared a variety of plans before the game, and this passivity was also expected by the Celtics before the game, and they had a plan to deal with it.
After the pause, the Celtics replaced P.J. Brown, who was experienced in the playoffs, to defend the Panda brother, and the team played a mixed defense, which was basically the same as the one-man defense that the Clippers used to deal with Kobe Bryant in the Western Conference finals, and the four-man defense was basically the same, and the Celtics treated Ji Guoqiu as Kobe Bryant, and Ji Guoqiu as Gasol, in order to cut off the passing route from the inside to the outside.
Ji Guoqiu's offensive skills are still some distance from Gasol, but his athleticism is better, and Dunleavy Sr. also called a timeout after seeing Ji Guoqiu being caught by the Celtics, coupled with the excellent defense of the old pj Brown, after two consecutive offenses without scoring.
"Their defense is similar to ours, and we were breached by them against the Lakers, so we know what this defense is most afraid of, and as long as we can make them take care of one or the other, this net can't trap us. Panda, now you have to run, don't stand still and fight. That old guy doesn't eat feints, but he's 39 years old, and his footsteps are his disadvantage, everyone move, see if they can cover the two of you together? ”
The little fox heard old Dunleavy shouting "Get moving", and couldn't help but sing beside him: "Cheer for the new power!" ”
"Fox, what are you muttering?"
"Oh nothing, I mean: get moving, and you've got a bright future."
"Less nonsense." Ji Guoqiu slapped the dead fox, he knew what old Dunleavy meant, the defensive range and reaction speed of the joint defense are limited, and he is most afraid of the team with long range and fast breakthrough speed, neither of which is the top in the league, but they are both excellent, so they are not too worried about the joint defense.
After the timeout, Ji Guoqi and Ji Guoqiu, two close in size and the same appearance, stood on the left and right, and the two were completely separated, tearing apart the Celtics' defensive formation in the most simple and direct way, and then Billups broke through from it and relied on his league's top speed to eat Rajan. Rondo, after a timeout, the Clippers quickly hit a 6-2 to come.
5 minutes and 40 seconds in the first quarter, the score was 13:4, the Celtics had big trouble in Staples today, they didn't stop the Clippers on the defensive end, and their offense couldn't get in, the Clippers used savage defense to knock out the shooting touch of the Green Army, and the Celtics have made 11 shots so far, only hitting 1 time.
The Celtics called another timeout in the second half of the first quarter, and Rivers didn't look good, and the Clippers' setup today made him feel very tricky, and his previous strategy was basically useless, which was terrible.
Rajan. Rondo and Papj Brown are the two most wolf players of the Celtics today, 12 of the 13 points scored by the Clippers were scored by Ji Guoqiu and Billups, one of them could not keep up with the speed of Ji Guoqiu, and the other could keep up but could not withstand the strength of the other party, and today the Celtics No. 1 and No. 5 positions were completely blown up!
The cheers at Staples Arena were overwhelming, and the Celtics were beaten to the brim today, leaving most of the Clippers fans worried. Their confidence before the game was far less than that of the Clippers players, and these fans are used to seeing their team's fish belly status, and suddenly reaching the Finals this year has always felt a little unreal. So when the wind is down, they do look like nouveau riche, as Lakers fans have always despised. And once they encounter setbacks, they can easily have an inferiority complex, thinking that other people's stars are better than themselves, and other people's teams are better than themselves.
This is just like the psychology of many Chinese people, they always feel that the moon in foreign countries is farther away, and domestic things are never as good as foreign things, even if foreign things are actually made in China...... Even when playing games, if these people don't have a bullshit English or Japanese name, they seem to feel that they are bowing their heads for nothing, and they are embarrassed to play in foreign clothes.
These people talk all day long about how good foreign countries are, how bad they are at home, and they can't live if they don't immigrate all day long, but if they really let him emigrate, they may still feel that their lowly yellow skin is not worthy of stepping on noble foreign land. (To be continued) R655