From today on is the king

Chapter 520

The Celtics are now in a little ecstasy.

Seeing to be surpassed by the Bucks, the last few games were very difficult.

The Celtics are in a bad situation this year. Last year they got 49 wins and 33 losses and made it to the second round. This year they hoped to introduce Wen Baker, whose annual salary is higher than that of Antoine Walker and the newly renewed Pierce, and exchanged Rodney Rodgers for Tony Delk, a high-quality point guard.

But unexpectedly, when Wen Baker came to the Celtics, he didn't even know his mother.

Although Wen Baker's state has collapsed after the lockout, he is still at the level of NBA starters. Last season, he played the worst performance of his career so far last season, but at least he averaged 14+6 per game. At any rate, relying on his fat body, he can be a big killer inside, and his singles shooting rate is about 40.00%.

But this year, Wen Baker collapsed to an average of 5+3 per game, and he was out of breath after playing for 10 minutes.

In addition, Antoine Walker also has problems. Similar to Madman’s contract, the contract can be renewed in advance after the first four years of contract.

Of course, since the Celtics don't have a better scorer than Pierce, and Antoine Walker has 7 rebounds and 4.5 assists this year, it's acceptable.

But this record is much worse than last season.

But at least it lasted until now, the playoff seats have been determined, it depends on the ranking.

The Bucks are chasing after them. No one wants to meet the Nets in the first round of the playoffs, but the last four games of the Celtics are against the Hawks, Knicks, Raptors, and 76ers. Except for the Raptors, the other three games are difficult to play. The Bucks are much more lucky. Although they also have to play opponents like the Pacers and Pistons, the other two games are the Cavaliers and Bulls.

In this way, the 43-win Celtics are likely to be tied by the 42-win Bucks, and the Celtics and Bucks have a record of 1 win and 2 losses against each other, and the Celtics are likely to be overtaken.

However, who would have imagined that the Eagles, who performed well from January to March and had the strongest record in the Eastern Conference since 1, would do things on a whim.

The Celtics players never dreamed that the Eagles themselves played some weird tricks at the last moment, even the Cavaliers lost, and the offense was a mess.

For the Celtics, this can undoubtedly be regarded as a timely help!It can be described as bright and dark.

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Boston, one of the world -renowned education centers, Harvard, MIT and other famous universities in Boston are in Boston. Therefore, there are many international students, overseas Chinese, and Asian people in China and Asian regions. The rogue alliance also has a rudder here. Most Asians and Asians in the United States will choose to hold the heating. Following the flags behind the American buttocks, except the United States, they are consciously superior to other countries. After all, they are the number one younger brother of Americans.

The Celtics fans were very worried about being overtaken by the Bucks, so they wanted to win the remaining four games. When the Eagles entered the field, there were boos everywhere, but in Boston's fanatical and consistent basketball atmosphere, the hundreds of fans behind the technical table seemed to be a clear stream, cheering loudly for the Eagles.

The Eagles only come to Boston twice a year. Even including the Rockets, Lakers, and Spurs, Asian players come to Boston for five games a year. Like Wang Zhizhi and Battelle, it is difficult to be regarded as a star. So this season, Liu Mang is already very famous, and Yao Ming is the No. [-] pick. When they come to Boston to play, it is a carnival for local Asian fans.

The fans are always the cutest. Due to the recent bad state of the Eagles, Liu Mang’s fans in Boston are worried about the Eagles. The Eagles came to Boston. They took the risk of being beaten and got the tickets behind the technical table.

When Liu Mang entered the field, he expected the Celtics fans to target them, but he didn't expect there to be so many of his own fans. Not to mention, he was really touched!

Liu Mang pulled Jason Terry to the front of the technical stage, and waved to the fans like a big star, as if this was not the game site, but his fan meeting...

Jason Terry seems to have dug a hole to get in, this is the home court of his team!Our team is already like this, and even ran to provoke.

Seeing Liu Mang coming to greet his group, the fans became even more excited and cheered loudly.

But the fans at the scene quit, hey, this is the home court of our Celtics!
And you have such a bad record recently, 1 win and 3 losses, and you still have the mood to interact with fans?
Celtics fans have a strong feeling of being underestimated. They are sixth in the Eastern Conference, while the Eagles are only eighth in the Eastern Conference!The Celtics fans were very annoyed when they saw Liu Mang interacting with the fans, and immediately booed to cover up the cheers of the hundreds of Eagles fans.

Liu Mang "cut", these Boston fans are so unlovable, fuck their team to death!

When the starters of the home team Celtics entered the field later, they happened to see Liu Mang interacting with the fans. Pierce still had the expression of repelling others, and Antoine Walker couldn't stop laughing.

"Ace is really interesting, and we also went to say hello to the fans." Antoine Walker ran out with Pierce with a cold face.

Pierce is so helpless, what a joke!They make 2.4 three-pointers per game, and you have to make 2.5 three-pointers per game, but they average 5.9 three-pointers per game, and you average 8 three-pointers per game. They shoot 40.00% of the field, and you shoot 30.00%. The good ones don't follow the bad...

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"Jason, don't worry, all of us will support you, you don't need to be pressured, just play out your tactics, don't worry about the pressure of the game, our position in the playoffs is very stable..."

The game is about to start. Coach Kruger still decided to try again in this game. This kind of thing is hard to say. What if he gets the hang of it all at once? Sometimes there will be a situation where he can’t get used to it after 82 games in a season, but what if he gets the hang of it?

After finishing the pre-match mobilization and seeing the starting players go to the field to do the opening moves, coach Kruger returned to the bench and sat down.

"Lang, isn't it too risky for us to continue trying this way?" Mike Woodson felt that the previous style of play was pretty good. He was a defensive-oriented coach. He thought that the offense was enough, and if it couldn't be done, the defense should be strengthened.

"The last time! If you don't succeed today, let's put it next season and adjust it when we play the Pacers next time." Coach Kruger is also under a lot of pressure. These days, most teams have a combination of inside and outside, and often have a playmaker on the inside and outside. There are very few teams with this kind of two-guard playmaker. He is under a lot of pressure on such an attempt. If it succeeds, the team will become more difficult to defend. If it affects the original tactical cohesion of the team, it will not be worth the candle.

Therefore, for coach Kruger, if this game is not successful, the plan can only be shelved temporarily.

The two teams came to the field as starters. Antoine Walker came to greet the Eagles players enthusiastically. Liu Mang looked at Antoine Walker, who was getting fatter and fatter, and smiled so brightly. Then he looked at Pierce, with a frosty face. The Twin Stars are really different.

Eagles' starting lineup: Liu Mang, Prince, Raheem, Mohamed, Ratliff.

Celtics starters: Tony Delk, Pierce, Eric Williams, Antoine Walker, Tony Batty.

Delk played for the Celtics in the second half of last season, but was given up due to poor performance. Later, he signed a one-year contract of 200 million yuan with the Nets. Who knows, it exploded. This year, he made 30.00% of the 1.8 three-pointers, averaging [-] three-pointers per game, and was replaced by the Celtics with Rodney Rogers.

Eric Williams was a rookie in 1995. At the end of his rookie year, together with Rasheed Wallace and Garnett, he was called one of the three most potential forwards of the year. He was rated higher than the No. 15 pick of the year, second only to the best rookie Flying Mouse. The data of the three rookie seasons was almost the same. They also improved at the same time in the second grade, becoming a quasi-first-class insider with an average of 7+19 per game, but a serious injury in the third grade ruined his explosive power. It's really embarrassing. Before the third-year season was reimbursed, he averaged [-] points per game, which was better than Garnett and Rasheed Wallace at the time.

Batty, who had an aggrieved face of bitterness and hatred, looked even more miserable when he saw Ratliff, whose arm was a circle thicker than his own. As the No. 5 pick in Duncan's draft year, he didn't play the kind of dominance he had in college at all, but was extremely soft.

The referee blew the whistle to start the game and threw the ball into the air.

Ratliff likes to ravage this kind of soft inside, let out a strange cry before the ball reaches the highest point, jump up, and push the ball back.

Batty glanced at the referee with an aggrieved expression, but the referee ignored it. Fortunately, the Celtics have strict defensive discipline, and Batty quickly returned to defense when Pierce shouted.

Liu Mang received the ball and pushed forward quickly, but Pierce had already defended in place, and Eric Williams, a tenacious small forward, was one step outside the free throw line and was ready to double-team at any time.

After Ratliff and Muhammad entered the inside line, the Eagles did not pause, and the tactics ran immediately.

It was Pierce who defended Liu Mang. Delk was short of height and couldn't jump up, so he couldn't guard Liu Mang, so Pierce defended him.

Liu Mang took a step forward with his right foot, but Pierce didn't move. Seeing this, Liu Mang followed the step and accelerated!
It is too straightforward and hasty to say speed up!Pierce hurriedly moved to the rear left, but was a bit slower. Muhammad, who was run out of the pick-and-roll, got stuck in the position first, and Pierce and Muhammad collided!Muhammad gripped Pierce's jersey tightly.

Liu Mang took a step back and shot a three-pointer!Antoine Walker, who followed Muhammad's defense, was unexpectedly fast. He rushed forward and caused a lot of interference to Liu Mang. Liu Mang leaned back a little, and the angle of his shot was crooked!

"Rebound!" Liu Mang yelled when he felt that the shot was missed.

The two people under the basket immediately... Not at all fiercely stuck, Ratliff pressed Batty to press the ball into the basket.

Ratliff didn't expect that one day he would be able to play O'Neal's posture, and ran back excitedly after dunking.

Coach Jim O'Brien asked Vin Baker to prepare to play quickly, and the inside tonnage was insufficient.

The offense and defense switched, the Celtics attacked, and Delk pushed forward with the rhythm.

After advancing to the frontcourt, Delk handed the ball to Eric Williams, and Eric Williams responded with the top arc.

This year's Celtics have become a three-point team, playing a very different offense from last season. Except for Batty, the other four starters have an average three-point shooting percentage of 30.00%.Second only to the Dallas Mavericks' 7.1 three-pointers, it's nearly one more than the Hawks' average of 8.8 three-pointers per game.

Eric Williams held the ball in the top arc, and everyone else was running in the pick-and-roll. After running for a long time, it didn't work very well. The Celtics' offense has always been a big problem. It seems that there are many scorers, but there are not many stable scorers. On the contrary, the defense is good. The average conceded points are 93.4 points per game, and the average points per game are only 92.7 points. They run very vigorously, but they don't get rid of the defense.

With four seconds left in the press, Eric Williams threw the ball to Antoine Walker who came to a 45-degree angle on the right, and Antoine Walker caught the ball and shot!

It's true that Antoine Walker is quite difficult to guard against. He hit everyone in the wrong position. Muhammad didn't keep up. Antoine Walker caught the ball and made a three-pointer.

After Liu Mang broke through, Raheem gave Prince an off-ball pick-and-roll, and Prince received a pass from Liu Mang for a three-pointer and returned the favor.

Antoine Walker is a standard player who starts like a tiger. He scored 7 points in a row after the start of the game.

But the Celtics scored 3 points in 11 minutes, which did not affect the Eagles.

For the Eagles, they played steadily. Liu Mang organized the offense, shot when he needed to shoot, and passed when he needed to pass. Although he failed to defend the Celtics at the beginning, Liu Mang was not in a hurry to let Raheem defend Antoine-Walker in the most violent minutes at the beginning of each game.

Coach Kruger changed Liu Mang to the starting lineup. In addition to strengthening his defense, he wanted to free Raheem from the vicious circle of singles that consumed a lot of energy at the beginning. Liu Mang's scoring ability may not be as strong as Jason Terry's. He may be stronger in explosive scoring, but his stable scoring ability is now better than Jason Terry's.

If it was the first few games, in order to create better time for Jason Terry to run in, Liu Mang must have tried his best to open up the score at the beginning, and then Jason Terry came up and gave the lead back to the opponent...

But today, Liu Mang is not in a hurry, Antoine Walker broke out?Then break out, Liu Mang controlled the tempo, played slowly, followed the score steadily, and used team offense to survive Antoine Walker's strong performance of 7 points and 3 assists at the beginning.

When 5 minutes passed in the first quarter, the Celtics couldn't sit still, and coach Jim O'Brien called a timeout.

Scoring 5 points in the first 16 minutes, this scoring efficiency is simply terrifying, and it did not make Coach O'Brien happy, because the Eagles also scored 14 points!
Ratliff’s offensive rebounds broke out at the basket. The Celtics’ 16 points in a row relied on their personal ability. Even if the Hawks couldn’t make outside shots, no one inside could win against Ratliff and Muhammad. The Celtics’ best rebounders were Antoine Walker and Pierce. They only averaged 7 rebounds per game, and the rebounding disadvantage was too great.

And it’s mainly because the Celtics are the team that played in the first and fourth quarters. They rely on Antoine Walker in the first quarter and Pierce in the final quarter.

In this first quarter, when Antoine Walker made such a beautiful start, he failed to open the score, so Coach O'Brien was not in a hurry.

Coach O'Brien called a timeout in advance with one purpose, to let the Eagles replace Jason Terry!

After watching the first few games of the Eagles, Coach O'Brien discovered the beginning of the Eagles' collapse, which was to replace Jason Terry, and the start was often very good, but after Jason Terry was on, the Eagles collapsed.

In this game, Coach O'Brien found that he couldn't suppress the Eagles' starter, so he immediately called a timeout.

The Celtics replaced Batty with Vin Baker to increase the inside tonnage, 1300 million for 10 minutes, and these 10 minutes must be used well.

For the Hawks, coach Kruger hesitated, and replaced Prince with Jason Terry and Muhammad with Boozer.

Seeing Jason Terry's rare nervousness, Liu Mang patted him on the back and whispered, "It's okay, play at your own pace, and leave the rest to me."

Jason Terry didn't expect that one day he would need this kid to comfort him, and it felt amazing.

Liu Mang has also grown up. He understands a sentence written by Jin Yong, with great ability comes great responsibility. In the past, Jason Terry and Raheem gave him all kinds of slaps, and now, he has come to be the one who takes responsibility!

(End of this chapter)