The strongest bishop in the NBA

Chapter 192 The Explosive George

In the fourth quarter of the game, the situation on the Celtics' side deteriorated further.

Not only Pierce and Garnett, but also Rondo and Ray Allen began to lose their physical fitness due to too much playing time.

Originally, the Wizards were a team that focused on fast offense and defense. In the last game, the Celtics relied on strict defense to contain the Wizards' offensive rhythm, and also allowed the Big Three to consume a certain amount of energy. buffer.

But in this game, Paul George's outburst shredded the Celtics' defense and made it impossible for the opponent to suppress the Wizards' offensive rhythm.

Throughout the fourth quarter, the two sides scored 33 points and 22 points respectively. The Wizards scored 33 points and the Celtics scored 22 points.

At the end of the whole game, the Wizards beat their opponents by 109 points by 91:18.

George lived up to Wang Xiao's expectations. Facing an All-Star player like Pierce, George made 26 of 14 shots in the game, including 3 three-pointers, and scored a game-high 54 points with a 31% shooting rate.

At the press conference after the game, Celtics head coach Rivers also admitted with a heavy face that he had a huge loophole in his tactical arrangement and completely ignored George's problem, which caused the team's defensive system to collapse and eventually lost. drop the game.

Pierce, who played against George throughout the game, made 18 of 8 shots and scored 44 points on 19% shooting, kept quiet about George.

"This is the NBA. Everyone has a performance that feels like Jordan is possessed, but you have to know that it's not their normal level, and they can't maintain that fiery feeling in every game." Pierce said. That's what the reporter said. "Now we are in the playoffs. The two teams have to play at least 4 or more games to decide the winner. There is still a lot of time to prove who is qualified to continue. At least for now, in the opponent's We have the advantage to win the next game at home, and two days later, at our home court, I believe the total score will soon become 3:1...Of course, 3 refers to us."

Pierce is full of confidence, which happens to represent the general thinking of Celtics fans here.

The home court for the playoffs at the North Shore Garden Arena is not an ordinary home court. As the home court of several famous devils in the league, the Celtics obviously have an advantage there.

And this lost game, although it exposed a lot of problems of the Celtics, such as the physical problems of the main force, the lack of bench lineup, etc... But the problems of the Wizards are also still obvious.

Even if George's outbreak allowed the Wizards to win the game, Curry and Harden's performance in this game is still unsatisfactory.

库里全场比赛20投7中，三分球9投2中，算上罚球全场比赛勉强砍下了20分。

On the other hand, Harden made 16 of 6 shots, but because of more fouls and free throws, he also scored 18 points in the game.

This is the result of tearing apart the Celtics' defense when George broke out.

It is entirely conceivable that if George's state declines in the next game, can Curry and Harden regain their state under the Celtics' high-pressure defensive system?

At least fans on the Celtics side think it's unlikely.

To be honest, Wang Xiao also felt that the possibility was unlikely.

In the final analysis, this group of players is still too young, and their experience cannot be compared with the Celtics' old fritters.

However, Wang Xiao does not think that George's state in the next game will decline.

Throughout the regular season, George has been accumulating. He has played against almost all the top strikers in the league, and has always been under the addition of Wang Xiao's training skills.

Now is the time for him to accumulate a lot of money, so how can he decline after just one game?

What's more, in order to limit the performance of Curry and Harden, the Celtics paid a lot of money. They don't have much experience to take care of restricting George. It's just George. With Pierce's defensive ability, it is absolutely impossible to prevent the current George.

In the next game, at the home court of the Celtics, Wang Xiao is going to make further tactical arrangements around George.

Don't you look down on George and think his outburst was just a flash?Then wait and see!

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The third game between the two teams began on May 5. With a big score of 6:1, the Wizards visited the home of the Celtics, TD North Shore Garden Arena.

No one expected that the Celtics lost the third game amidst the cheers and cheers of 1.8 fans at North Shore Garden.

The score between the two sides was 89:87. The Wizards only won by a slight advantage of 2 points, but no matter how big the difference is, victory is victory. After winning this game, the Wizards took a big lead by 2:1.

No one thought that the Wizards actually won this tough battle at home to the Celtics.

It is not too much to describe this game as a tough battle. This can be seen from the extremely close scores of the two teams and the fact that the Wizards did not even score 90 points in the whole game.

In this game, the biggest contributor to the Wizards is still George.

After scoring 31 points in the second game, George scored a game-high 28 points in the third game again, and hit a key shot at the last moment to help the team win.

In this game, Pierce, who had previously said that he could win and claimed to score 30+ to reveal George's true colors, scored only 16 points.

31 points, 28 points.

George's highlight performance in two consecutive games surprised many people.

The little-known Paul George in the regular season is actually so strong?In the case that Curry, the popular candidate for MVP in the regular season, and Harden, the best sixth man, are both restricted, they can actually face Pierce with such a strong performance!

On the same day, many sports newspapers reported on George's performance in a large amount of space, and his limelight even overshadowed the Heat's Big Three and the Western Lakers Kobe Bryant and other stars.

"Ghost coach Wang Xiao's most failed draft? Paul George told everyone with his performance that he is no worse than anyone else."

"There is nothing wrong with Wang Xiao's miraculous vision. George's potential is astonishing. I'm afraid he will become a big killer for strikers in the future!"

"Amazing, how good is the vision of the Asian coach? So far, he has never missed a shot. If he gets him, he may get a whole team of All-Stars!"

The NBA is like this, especially in the playoffs, when you win and lose, everyone will praise you to the sky, and similarly, if your performance is poor, then someone will belittle you Nothing.

Wang Xiao was very vigilant about this. He was a little worried that George would float up because of this, so he specifically talked to him and beat him a little bit. After all, there are never lack of players in the league who become famous overnight and become inflated immediately.

But beating is beating. For the next game, Wang Xiao will still use George as the core of the team.

The current score of the two teams is only 2:1, and it is still early from the end of the game.

(End of this chapter)