Chapter 778: The New Green Shirts Five
The Celtics called a timeout.
Doug Rivers pulled out the tactical board, drew a red and black tactical map on the tactical board, and arranged a regular offensive interior strategy in the final minute or so.
He still opted for a safe two-pointer, which is almost the norm in this era. If you have to find a weaker link for the Celtics, it's three-point shooting.
Pierce alone can be regarded as a consistent three-point shot.
So the Warriors' defensive tactics are particularly obvious, except for Trevor Ariza, who is marking Pierce, the rest of them are shrinking inside.
"Toot ~"
At the whistle, the Celtics serve from the sideline.
As a defender, Rondo ran directly to the outside of the sideline to serve, Pierce came out to catch it, then moved to the top of the arc, pulled horizontally with his left hand, and turned his back against Ariza.
The Warriors don't have a bag, Ariza has a strong defensive foundation, and in terms of defense, he is even better than Danny Granger, but Danny Granger has more talent on the offensive end, at least for now, Danny Granger can make threes, dribble and stop, and even break through the ball.
Ariza has plenty of physical strength, and he doesn't dare to be careless in defending Pierce.
Pierce held the ball with his back and forced Ariza, his power was top-notch among small forwards, and Ariza was pushed back by Pierce by half a step.
Pierce leaned over again, and Ariza subconsciously raised her arm, trying to stop him with her own force.
Pierce took advantage of the situation but turned around, turned his back and dribbled inside.
Approaching the basket, Yang Di flew over to wrap Pierce, Pierce used an unstandard shooting posture, turned around and shot strongly, Yang Di almost covered the tips of his fingers.
"Can't really cover it?"
Yang Di is a little unbelieving, can he still throw himself in like this?
Pierce squeezed everyone away with his body almost entirely on his body, and his technical movements were out of shape.
When the basketball is thrown, it is obviously a crooked trajectory.
"Bang!"
"Huh!"
But the exaggerated thing is that after the basketball played the board, it still fell into the basket, and Pierce in this game was simply in a supergod state, and he fought against Yang Di in overtime, and he had already scored 35 points in the whole game, second only to Yang Di who scored 40 points.
According to the duel between the two teams with only more than 90 points each, in fact, the two are already super high scores.
92-93, Pierce's key goal extended the life of the Celtics.
With less than 30 seconds left, the Warriors called a timeout.
......
After the timeout, the Warriors, who teed off in the frontcourt, guided the ball twice, and finally handed the ball to Yang Di.
Yang Di turned his back and held the basketball high, and after Ben Wallace went off the court, the Celtics replaced veteran James Posey, one of the best defensive players in the league, who just turned 30 this year, and his joining is tantamount to a tiger for the entire Celtics.
And James Posey's departure from the former favorite Heat team also marks that the Heat's achievements in the past two years can no longer prove that they have the strength to compete for the championship, especially when Shaquille O'Neal's court performance is not as good as day by day, the Warriors, Suns and other small ball teams rise and win the championship, and many people begin to find another way.
It's hard to guarantee that Pat Riley doesn't have that in mind.
James Posey is replacing Big Ben, but the Celtics are equivalent to a more mobile small lineup, and Jandy is facing Pau Gasol.
When Yang Di was the boss of the Warriors, he was most afraid of encountering Gasol and Garnett, and their defensive style was very restrained against him.
Yang Di faced Gasol and calmly switched from his back to a face frame attack.
Gasol gestured to his teammates, signaling for a clamp and a defense, and Yang Di shook him off and broke inside, and immediately encountered James Posey's timely pack.
The two faced each other in the air, Yang Di grabbed the basketball with both hands and waved it in the air.
With a stiffened waist and abdomen, he glided for a distance, and with the power of confrontation, he made a floating shot.
"Huh!"
The basketball hit steadily, and he didn't even hit the wrench.
95-92, Yang Di dominates overtime!
The audience at the scene couldn't help but let out an exclamation, Yang Di's performance was too amazing, in overtime, he was like a tiger out of the gate, scoring 8 points in a row, all the Warriors' scores were taken by Yang Di alone, and after the Celtics got off Ben Wallace, it seemed that they couldn't suppress Yang Di's tiger at all.
Yang Di raised his arms high, his face was calm, and tilted his head to look at James Posey.
Then he glanced at "Double Paul" again, but the audience didn't like him no matter how they looked at him, and the calmer he was, the more arrogant he looked.
Doug Rivers crossed his hands on his hips, he didn't know what to say, in his eyes, it was clear that the Celtics had played all kinds of tactics, but the Warriors seemed to be a little luckier today and scored more goals.
The Celtics served the baseline ball and Pierce attacked with the ball.
This time Pierce was caught by the Warriors, and then Pierce chose to split the ball, the Celtics were blocked by the Warriors on the outside, and the young Rondo broke through and distributed it to James Posey in the bottom corner.
Posey was a good opportunity, absolutely empty, but Posey watched the game for almost twenty minutes, and then suddenly came on the court, there was no touch, and the three-point jumper from the baseline was missed.
This was not a tactic arranged by Rivers, and Rivers yelled, expressing his dissatisfaction with the team's choice this time.
"Bell!"
The basketball bounced off the back edge, and Yang Di and Pau Gasol grabbed each other, Yang Di was in a better position, touched the basketball first, picked it up in front, and then got up again, grabbing the basketball before Pierce wanted to grab the rebound in the front court.
The Celtics had no choice but to foul.
"Steady!"
Yang Di also breathed a sigh of relief, walked over and high-fived his teammates, and fought a fierce overtime game before he could barely win the Celtics.
Yang Di walked to the free throw line, and the audience let out a tsunami-like boo.
His face did not change, and ESPN's footage showed that Yang Di's free throw shooting rate this year was still as high as 83 percent, and the NBA ranked in the top five inside.
"Smack!"
Yang Di slapped the ball twice on the ground, then raised the basketball and threw the ball.
"Huh!"
First free throw, 96-92.
"Huh!"
In the second free throw, 97-92, Yang Di had already scored 44 points, and one person scored 10 points in overtime, with the last 19.8 seconds left.
Rivers called out the last timeout, which was more like a frustration, and the Celtics served forward.
After handing the ball to Pierce, Pierce turned over and missed a jumper, but the rebound was still grabbed by Yang Di, who landed and handed a horizontal pass to Ray Allen.
James Posey looked at Ray Allen and subconsciously hesitated to foul him.
Stunned, Ray Allen ran away, and the time passed by several seconds, and the Celtics saw that the tide was gone, and finally gave up struggling.
In the end, the Warriors won back-to-back games against the Celtics 97-92 in overtime.
Yang Di scored a game-high 44 points and 16 rebounds, and cut 40+15 double-doubles back-to-back, and there is no second person in the NBA.