Chapter 845: Suppression II
In the most critical minutes of the game, the fans stood up.
The flags in their hands were no longer waving, and the fans couldn't think of anything else they could do except cover their mouths and hold their breath.
Their attention was higher than that of the players on the field, and the sound of the whole stadium suddenly became quieter.
The voice was quieter, but it was more tense than the previous verses.
Pierce held the ball on the outside, and the three-threat posture faced Danny Granger, who also had long arms, and was ready to fight, not negligent at all.
There was no trash talk between the two, and the overall game in this round was still relatively dull, except for a few occasional verbal altercations between Big Ben and Chandler, everyone else still belonged to the single-minded game, including Yang Di, including star players like Pau Gasol.
Pierce touched the ground with his right foot, held the ball in his left hand and placed it between his waist, his shoulders sank, and made a tentative motion.
Danny Granger was unmoved, and the whole court was already stretched out, allowing two people to play alone.
Suddenly, Pierce dribbled and broke through from the right side, holding the ball right with his right hand very quickly.
Compared to his overall rhythm, the explosiveness from stationary to activation is extremely strong.
Danny Granger, who was facing the frame, reacted quickly and stretched out his arm to block in front of him, and the two directly touched the side, and Granger's arm was bounced off.
Pierce was like a strong little tank, crushing inside, and Granger gritted his teeth and held on.
"Bang!"
When he walked to the elbow area, Yang Di came over and waved his long arms.
Pierce immediately stopped his step, changed direction in front of his body very low, exchanged from right hand to left hand, took a small jump, and shot a mid-distance jumper!
It looks like it's against Granger's defense, but there's actually a hint of room to shoot.
"Huh!"
Pierce hit a jumper, a crucial two-pointer!
93-97, the Celtics trailed by four points with two minutes remaining.
There was a sigh in the stadium, the goal scored by Pierce was too crucial, if this goal was not scored, the Celtics would be more than lucky.
Now the score looks like it can still catch up.
The Warriors didn't call a timeout, Byron Davis on the outside advanced with the ball, and Montgomery shouted from the sidelines.
"Give the ball to Yang Di, give the ball to Yang Di!"
Byron made a gesture, and the Warriors pulled the right half of the court, Yang Di fell to the low post, Ben Wallace and Gasol switched defenses, and Ben Wallace defended against Yang Di.
Yang Di received the ball in the low post, turned around, and attacked with a frame.
Ben Wallace, who was defending him, was very close to him, out of sight, secretly dragging Yang Di's clothes with his hands, Yang Di's chest was raised, his hands were held high, and he used strong force to open up a little space.
Both are the few remaining S+ level forces in the NBA, and the confrontational NBA history is the top.
The muscles on Big Ben's arms are one by one, just like granite stones, and Yang Di's arms are also very thick, but compared with Big Ben's, the sense of line is stronger.
The two are old rivals and representatives of two generations of best defensive players.
Big Ben's defense has nothing to say, so even if the Celtics face Yang Di, they still take a non-entrapment approach, and Yang Di singles out Big Ben, and the previous success rate is not particularly high.
Yang Di narrowed his eyes and leaned down, like a cheetah ready to attack.
The whole stadium was staring at the heads-up between the two of them, as if to decide the final course of the game, and the fans in the Bay Area folded their hands and prayed for Yang Di's goal.
"Will he choose to shoot or break?" Everyone is secretly speculating.
Suddenly, Yang Di's hands holding the ball landed, the basketball was controlled on his right side, and at the same time stepped out of his right foot.
Ben Wallace moves sideways, certainly not giving Yang Di a chance to squeeze in easily.
Yang Di turned around, his left foot was on the central axis, and the whole person rotated over, stepped on the ground with both feet, and jumped up.
He raised his arm in the air, clutching the basketball in the palm of his hand.
It was like dancing a gorgeous waltz, in front of Ben Wallace, opening up a large space to shoot, and there was no need to use much waist and abdomen strength in the air to smoothly move the ball out.
Basketballs flew out of his fingertips, tumbling in the air.
He drew a perfect parabola and fell headlong into the basket.
"Huh!"
The basketball rolled up a burst of white nets.
"What a ball!"
The fans raised their arms and cheered loudly, Yang Di's goal was too handsome and too crucial!
It only took a goal to go from calm to boiling at the entire Oracle Arena, and the loud noise of the stadium pierced through the night sky throughout the summer and reverberated above Auckland.
The Celtics asked for a timeout, and the Greenshirts coach instinctively sensed the crisis.
Yang Di jumped up and celebrated with his teammates such as Byron Davis and Ray Allen.
Clenched his fists and roared, the pressure of this ball was extremely high, but the throw was extremely comfortable, he pretended to go to the baseline to break through, suddenly turned on the spot, and used the basket footsteps learned from Olajuwon, turned around to get space to shoot, Ben Wallace, although he was the best defensive player, was a beat slower and didn't keep up at all.
99-93, with 1 minute and 31 seconds left in the clock, the Warriors' victory horn was officially sounded.
This point difference is quite large for the Celtics, and they are not a new team like the Suns or the Warriors, and their game style and lineup selection are still relatively old and conservative.
The three-point shot has never been something that the Celtics pay attention to and supplement, but when it really hits this key point, it seems that the three-point shot has become the most critical thing.
In the next offense, the Celtics will have to make sure they hit all of them, or create fouls, and defend the Warriors to have a chance of equalizing.
The atmosphere on the bench throughout Celtic has become extremely solemn.
Ben Wallace is the only one with Finals experience, and it stands to reason that playing like this on the Warriors' home court is already very good.
Rivers' requirements are a bit high, and he is talking to the Celtics players with a loud voice, "The defense that has been repeatedly emphasized has not been done well at all, and the Warriors have scored more than 100 points, and we have no hope at all, this analysis, I told you long before the Finals began, what about you?" ”
Big Ben listened to it a little unpleasantly, Yang Di got the score on his head, and Rivers said this, which was a little bit unpleasant to give him face.
Rivers is notoriously bad-tempered, and there is nothing to talk about in the tactical arrangement at this time, the tactical board was taken out, and a simple set of Pierce outside receiving the ball, blocking and dismantling the cover after holding the ball to attack the basket tactics, handing over the ball to the Celtics' leading star, and the rest of the outside running positions are actually not much different from the original.
The Celtics players walked onto the pitch with solemn expressions.