Chapter 578: A Compliment from Stevens (2/3, Ask for Subscription!) )
On the bench on the right side of the court, the Lakers' benches gasped and listened to Wharton's tactics, although Tang Shuai had given them a reminder, but in the end they were careless, and carelessly, the efforts in the first three quarters were almost in vain.
"Don't mess around, steady the rhythm, play the success rate, we are still 10 points ahead." Seeing that the substitutes were a little confused, Wharton raised his voice and pointed to the scoreboard above his head.
The players looked up at the 90-80 score, and their eyes became a little calmer.
"The success rate of the game, as long as you play the next three minutes, we have a good hope of winning, can we do it?" Wharton asked the benches at the end.
"Yes!" The team members raised their voices and shouted, which was kind of cheering for themselves.
"Go and beat them!" At the other end of the court, Stevens yelled at the players, and then slapped Zhou Qi, who was a little slow, with a tactical board.
“Let’s.go! Celtics! ”
As soon as the timeout returned, the fans cheered loudly for the home team, with a determined look in their eyes, believing that the home team could make a comeback.
It's like a full-court buff, and the Celtics' benches are playing harder.
In contrast, the Lakers' bench came up and successfully defended the next round, and then lost his ground amid the roar of the crowd.
Smart steals Ezeli's outward pass and passes to the team's No. 4 pick Jaylen Brown for a jumper layup.
There was a deafening cheer from the crowd, and after Brown scored the goal, the Celtics continued to work hard and unleashed a 10-2 attack wave in the space of two minutes to chase the score to two points within reach.
Wharton shook his head helplessly, the toughness of the Celtics was beyond his imagination, and he had to turn around and get up and change the main force in advance.
Stevens also reacted quickly, and when he saw that the Lakers had changed their main team, they immediately changed their main team.
The two sides entered the final 7 minutes of the contest.
Tang Shuai held the ball to the frontcourt, beckoned Gasol to play in the low post, and then handed the ball in.
Gasol hit Horford with his back, and after a few beautiful foot moves, he turned lightly to the basket and hooked his right hand with his arm.
This series of technical moves is quite beautiful, but he didn't notice that Olynyk had come to help defend, and as soon as the ball was shot, it was interfered with by Olynyk, and the interference was not large, but the fingertip touch changed the trajectory of the basketball.
With a "bang", the basketball smashed to the back edge of the basket and was grabbed into his arms by Claude, who rushed behind him.
The Lakers' offense came to naught.
Tang Shuai hurriedly beckoned his teammates to retreat.
The Celtics didn't have a chance to launch a fast break, Thomas dribbled to the frontcourt, beckoned Horford to block the pick-and-roll, burst to the basket and then made a fake faux spurt, squeezed past Knoll and sent the ball into the basket safely.
90 to 90!
After Thomas's goal, he threw a punch in excitement!
The Celtics played with unprecedented resilience, scoring 18 points in a single quarter and tying the score with more than five minutes left in the game!
"Beat the Lakers! Beat the Lakers! ”
The fans at the scene fell into a frenzy, and the familiar slogans shouted out of the fans' mouths, and the momentum shook the sky.
"I love the basketball atmosphere, here, Boston, it's definitely a respectable team, they don't have absolute talent, but they play with the toughness that you need most as a basketball player!" Barkley was moved by the momentum of the home stadium and couldn't help but sigh.
"The Lakers are in trouble." Smith nodded, looking up at the field.
Tang Shuai's hand on the dribble trembled a little.
Not because of fear, but because of excitement, the Celtics were more resilient than everyone imagined, including him, standing on the opposite side, and if he was on the Celtics, it would be difficult for him to think about recovering 18 points in the half quarter, but it did happen right in front of his eyes.
It's a respectable opponent, so he's excited and he's got plenty of reasons to give it his all.
“defnese! defense! ”
As soon as he dribbled to the front court, the scene turned into a shout of defense.
Bradley stood in front of him with a twinkle in his eyes.
He took a deep breath and lowered his weight and beckoned his teammates to pull away.
"Shhhhh
A flurry of boos followed.
Tang Shuai didn't listen, just focused on Bradley, and could clearly feel that affected by the atmosphere of the scene, Bradley's state had reached his peak, and his defensive ability already had about equal to exclusive strength.
Tang Shuai flickered, Bradley took a step back, and his center of gravity only fluctuated slightly.
Sure enough, it's unrealistic to get rid of it just by relying on the previous actions.
Realizing this, he did not give up, but suddenly lowered his center of gravity violently, and followed the rapid movement in an ultra-low position about twenty or thirty centimeters above the ground.
Bradley didn't expect it at all, but he lowered his center of gravity with super concentration and then reached for the ball.
Tang Shuai also maintained a very high concentration, and after seeing Bradley's hand reach over, he jerked the ball to the right at a height of 30 centimeters.
This action is quite extreme, at such a low altitude, if you are not careful, you will get rid of it.
But Tang Shuai did it, and it was quite perfect, Bradley reached out and didn't break the ball, because he exerted his strength, and he didn't control his body after the center of gravity was too low, and his right knee was not controlled, and he knelt down on one knee in front of Tang Shuai directly.
The fans at the scene were all stunned.
Everything happened too suddenly, one second Tang Shuai was guarded and seemed to have no way out, but the next second Bradley fell to his knees.
The fans hadn't reacted yet, but Don had accelerated to the right after shaking Bradley down, and to Olynyk's surprise, a drifting pick-and-roll sent the ball into the basket.
It was only then that an uproar rang out at the scene.
With this one goal, Bradley lost face, and the momentum that the Celtics spent more than half a quarter playing was also wiped out in an instant.
"Don't ...... that," Barkley couldn't help but reach out to hide his face, "it's going to make Avery psychologically overshadowed, man, you can't do this to your opponent!" ”
"It's going to be the first of the top 10 of the week, it's really brutal!" Smith also looked at it and shook his head.
The Celtics' morale took a hit, while the Lakers' morale was on the rise, peaking when Noll slapped Thomas' layup off the floor.
Looking back, Tang Shuai hit Bradley with his back, faced Bradley's kraft candy-style defense, and once again scored 2 points above his head.
Bradley was already a little stunned, he was already working quite defense, but Tang Shuai was completely in a state of rage at this moment.
In fact, Tang Shuai is indeed like this, he is extremely excited, the team was chased for 18 points to play, he was already excited enough, plus the shaking blow just now, if you let him go off the court now, he may be able to fight with you.
The Celtics' offense, Thomas's tough layup continued to score for the team, and continued to show the resilience of the Green Shirts.
But looking back, Tang Shuai took advantage of Gasol's blocking, used his speed to pass Horford, and staged a two-handed elegant slam dunk, which stunned the fans of the entire North Shore Garden Arena.
They didn't know whether to rejoice or complain, and saw Tang Shuai who was running away with all his might.
Stevens also shook his head helplessly, he has tried his best to arrange defense, you can't really let him give up a person to defend Tang Shuai, that is not much different from admitting defeat.
In the final half of the game, Tang Shuai scored 16 points on 6-of-7 shooting, and under his violent performance, the Lakers played a strong half-quarter game, even though Thomas rushed into the interior again and again, but still failed to pull the Celtics back from the edge of the cliff.
106-96, with a 16-6 attack wave in the final moments, the Lakers won the game.
This is also their third consecutive win after giving up the small-ball strategy, and the first time in a row this season.
Tang Shuai completely went on a rampage in this game, scoring 49 points on 24-of-40 shooting, directly breaking his regular season scoring record, in addition to contributing 4 rebounds and 4 assists, he was the absolute hero of the team's victory.
Losing such a game is obviously not happy, but Stevens still accepted the result, and in the post-match press conference, in response to a question from reporters about the team's performance, he said very calmly: "We played very well, our tactics and style have been played, we didn't give up when we were 18 points behind, and we caught up with the score, I think my players have worked hard enough, and I'm proud of their performance, but unfortunately we met Don, That guy changed the game in an unbelievable way, he's a superstar, a super point guard, I guess tonight, he can't defend. ”
There is no doubt about Stevens' answer, in fact, not only him, but also the fans present have this real feeling, and they finally understand why Angie paid so many chips on the trade deadline and draft day to trade for Tang Shuai, if it really succeeds, it is destined to be a "robbery".
Later in the press conference, Stevens was naturally asked about his attitude towards Tang Shuai's joining, he smiled wryly, and continued: "Of course I am very, very happy to see Tang Shuai join our team, I appreciate him, in fact, our management has been trying to get him, but the reality is that he is now a part of the Lakers, our players are great, losing is not a happy thing, but we are all lucky to be able to witness such a great performance." ”
From Stevens's words, it is all revealed that the young marshal's praise for Tang Shuai has reached a point of salivation, but as he said, the Celtics have worked hard and have a great opportunity, but now they want to trade Tang Shuai again, unless Kupchak takes the wrong medicine, otherwise it is already a thing that will never happen. (To be continued.) )