682. Sworn enemy

There's something in the NBA called team culture.? ? Huoran? Wen???.? r a?n?ena`com

For example, sworn enemies.

It's hard to understand.

Paul Pierce has been a Lakers fan since childhood, but he is indeed one of the hardest blows to the Lakers so far in the 21st century, he hindered the birth of Kobe's second dynasty, and led the Celtics to turn Kobe's second dynasty into a "meagre" two-game championship.

After Paul Pierce entered the Celtics, he was deeply influenced by the Celtics' team culture and became the soul of the Green Shirts, another Hall of Fame player of the Celtics, who will definitely return to the North Shore Garden in the future to retire his jersey.

So although the current Celtics players have changed wave after wave, the players who fought the Lakers in the Finals five years ago to the coaching staff have all been replaced, and there is no one.

However, every time they meet the Lakers, Celtics players will unconsciously enter the identity of the biggest enemy in basketball history, just like the Lakers who can't lose to the Celtics, the Celtics are also who can't lose to the Lakers!

Despite the terrifying 13-man all-main lineup when the Lakers played them, the Celtics players still regained their fighting spirit after complaining!

Lakers start LaVine, Kobe, Liu Ren, Green, Whiteside.

LaVine's strength is very good, and changing teams is definitely a core training, but it is still a bit reluctant to play as a starter in the Lakers, after all, the potential has not been fully developed, and he is only in his second year, which is not as good as Clarkson, who is already known for his immediate combat power.

But Clarkson is better off the bench than LaVine, the Lakers are not worse than Clarkson in the starters, but LaVine has more physical talent and can better wipe Kobe's ass on the defensive end, Kobe Bryant's single defense ball handler is okay, but the defense without the ball and blocking is really not good, and Clarkson went to the second team to make the second team's scoring ability better.

Celtics start Dragic, Avery Bradley, Evan Turner, Jared Sallinger, Olynyk.

The Celtics' lineup is not bad, compared to the Lakers, they are only a little less star-like, or they don't have the momentum of stars at all, but these players are definitely practical.

In terms of squad depth, the Celtics are not bad at all, the Nets brought back by trading Pierce and Garnett a few years ago until the 2018 draft pick or the first round of exchange power After the Nets played the league's lowest record in the past few years, they finally began to bring benefits to the Celtics.

It's just that because of the trade of Pierce and Garnett, the superstars are not too afraid to go to them, but there is still a first-class player who eats crabs first, and he is Goran Dragic.

After the addition of Dragic, the Celtics have strengthened the playmaker that the Celtics are most lacking, and the Celtics have led the Celtics with Dragic and Evan Turner, who is still not worthy of the list but at least plays at a quasi-first-class level, and is now competing with the 76ers for the fifth place in the East to enter the playoffs.

As for why not strive for a higher ranking...... Who let them be in the Atlantic Division, just like the Clippers, with the Knicks and Raptors in front of them to dominate the second and third places in the East, and the Hawks, who returned to the dull or even only ordinary playoff strength after playing an amazing season last year, are lying down and occupying the fourth place in the East as the top player in the Southeast Division.

In fact, there is a bug in the league's ranking system, if there is really a year when the league's strength becomes extreme, and there is a division in the east or west that does not even have a team with a record in the top eight, they still have to be ranked fourth?

It's not impossible, it's just that it hasn't happened yet.

The Lakers and Celtics players do not communicate, and many players from both teams will happily greet opponents they haven't seen for a long time before the game, after all, the exchange of information is convenient these years, and many players who are not on the same team can have a good relationship, especially those who were selected in the same year, such as Liu Ren and Klay Thompson, Irving, Jimmy Butler, Leonard...... The relationship between people is so harmonious and friendly.

This situation first started with the 2003 class of players, and the Four Heroes of the Wind and Dust were famous that year, and almost Wade alone brought all the superstars of the 03 class to suffer from syphilis......

However, the Lakers played the Celtics, and there was no atmosphere of harmony and friendship at all, and both teams wanted to skin each other alive!

The atmosphere at the Staples Center was also somber, with every Celtic player booing when they took the court.

In this atmosphere of hatred, the referee blew the whistle for the start of the game, and Whiteside won the jump ball without any suspense

LaVine dribbled the ball to Liu Ren, Liu Ren was caught in the bag, and the ball was given to Kobe, Kobe Bryant quickly changed direction a few times, so that Avery Bradley was overwhelmed, Kobe did not play without the ball but chose to break through strongly, which was completely out of the Celtics' pre-game arrangement, they let Avery Brad defend Kobe Bryant is to prevent Kobe from running, and use Avery Bradley's speed to deal with Kobe.

I didn't expect Kobe Bryant to use his footsteps to break through strongly, Kobe's experience is too good, to be honest, he doesn't know how many times stronger than Liu Renqiang in his use of his strength, otherwise he can't play the performance of a first-line player in the league at the age of 38, this is the experience accumulated in his 20-year career, which can't be taught, only to feel himself to accumulate this experience,

Kobe Bryant's unexpected strong burst completely took advantage of Avery Bradley's lack of height and weight, and then gave full play to his advantages in height, strength and footsteps, and broke into the Celtics' interior line in Liu Ren's stunned.

Liu Ren knew that the tactic arranged by D'Antoni was that Kobe Bryant would go to the Celtics first and give full play to Kobe's scoring ability, because now there was no need to deliberately let him find his form, so he resumed the style of play that the Lakers had been using before the All-Star Weekend.

But Liu Ren just felt hell, this Avery Bradley was sucked dry by a clubber in Los Angeles last night? Easily beaten by such an old man?

Kobe Bryant burst inside, the Celtics' interior line was chaotic, Kobe passed the ball in the gap to Green who ran back after pulling it out, and Green cut into a one-handed pick and scored the ball.

Coach Stevens said that he was slapped in the face, he kept emphasizing before the game that he should guard against Kobe's running and receiving the ball, and he couldn't let Kobe Bryant attract the bag without the ball, who knew that the Lakers directly let him play with the ball, and the 38-year-old veteran actually burst Avery Bradley, the best scoring guard in the East, so easily.

Of course, Coach Stevens, as a coach, naturally knows how powerful Kobe Bryant is, but many young players of the Celtics are as surprised as Liu Ren, this old man is so unreal that just one or two feints will shake Avery Bradley Lang away! As teammates, the Celtics players know just how strong Avery Bradley's defense really is!

It was the Celtics' turn to attack.

Dragic passed the ball to Evan Turner, Liu Ren marked the opponent's arrow Dragic today, Evan Turner handed it to LaVine to defend, and Bryant was responsible for defending Avery Bradley, who has the ability to score just like that.

However, Evan Turner did play at the league's quasi-first-class level after coming to the Celtics, and it was still a little difficult for LaVine to guard against him, Evan Turner passed LaVine in one step and hit the Lakers' interior line, entered the free throw line and threw it directly.

There is no way to prevent this, this is the most commonly used way of playing after the current outside players enter the inside line, purely look at the feel, because the timing of the shot is basically impossible for the defender to grasp, if the outside line does not play a role in delaying the opponent's smooth breakthrough, so that the opponent completely rushes, this kind of shooting is unstoppable, just like the 2007 Tony Parker threw the Cavaliers led by James, who was still a young man and was not a thirty-year-old man, to win the championship MVP, it was difficult to prevent.

Since then, the throwing technique has only begun to be taken seriously, and just as Jordan led the development of the step-back jumper, Tony Parker is regarded as one of Europe's biggest contributors to the NBA, not just winning a championship MVP, but also adding another efficient scoring tool to the perimeter.