basketball boulder

Chapter 122 2 to 2 draw

The game continues.

The Heat attack.

Wade broke through, Grant blocked Blount and helped Wade create space.

Wade finally smashed the ball into the basket.

boom!
14: 6.

In terms of team awareness, the old Grant is not bad.

Celtics offense.

Pierce played Li Lei in the low post.

Grant took the initiative to come up to help defend.

Pierce glanced out of the corner of his eye, held up the basketball directly, and hung it inside.

Grant reached out to block it, and the basketball flew past his hand.

Blount catches the ball and dunks directly.

boom!
14: 8.

The Celtics are only 6 points behind.

Coach Da Fan on the sidelines did not relax his brows.

If Cato had defended the ball just now, Pierce would have dared to pass it like that?

The Heat attack.

Jones missed the mid-range shot.

Blount received the backcourt rebound.

The Celtics counterattacked.

The Heat retreated quickly, and the Green Army fell to the ground.

Pierce draws the defense low and creates a chance for European striker Vershko.

Welshko takes the ball, adjusts, and shoots straight away.

Bang!

Yeri Vershko was iron tonight.

But Blount pressed Grant to grab the offensive rebound and scored with a second shot.

Swish!
14: 10.

Blount again.

After Cato left the field, Mark Blunt, who had no sense of existence in the first three games, suddenly broke out.

He grabbed rebounds in a row, including the frontcourt and the backcourt, and scored 4 points in a row.

Grant couldn't stop him.

The Heat attack.

Odom hit a mid-range shot.

16: 10.

Celtics offense.

Pierce directly lobbed the ball to Blount, and Blount forced Grant, causing Grant to foul.

The 29-year-old Blunt is 213cm tall and has flexible feet.

Grant's height is disadvantaged and he is also old, so it is very difficult to defend.

Coach Da Fan shouted from the sidelines: "Lamar, Stone, pay attention to protecting the basket."

Li Lei and Odom nodded.

Blunt then made 2 of 1 free throws.

16: 11.

The Heat attack.

Wade broke through for a layup and missed under the interference of Blount.

The offensive end is exciting, and Blount's defensive quality is also improving.

Bang!

Blunt once again protected the backcourt rebound.

Celtics offense.

Pierce continued to hang in.

布朗特远比想象中得强，他常规赛场均10.3分7.2篮板1抢断1.3盖帽，篮下命中率高达67.5%。

The reason why there was no sense of presence in the first three games was because Cato was tall and strong enough to have an advantage at the basket.

Now it is replaced by Grant, who is two sizes smaller, guarding the basket, and Blount explodes.

Don't be afraid of comparing goods, just be afraid of comparing people.

You can't say that Grant is bad.

In the past few years, Grant has always been the starting insider of the Heat, and his statistics are better than Blount.

However, as he got older, Grant had declined severely in the past few years, and facing Blunt again, he was really powerless.

Seeing that Grant couldn't hold it, Odom immediately rushed to the inside to help Grant defend Blount.

Relying on his height advantage, Blount easily distributed the ball.

Big shooter McCarty catches the ball, adjusts, and makes a spot-up shot.

The basketball crossed a parabola, piercing the heart with an arrow.

Swish!
16: 14.

As soon as Cato came off the field, the Celtics instantly chased the point difference to only 2 points.

Drip!

Coach Da Fan called a timeout.

He specially arranged the corresponding defense for Grant.

Back on the court again, with the help of his teammates, Grant finally restrained Blount.

But the Celtics' shooters: McCarty and Vershko got more opportunities and gradually opened up.

End of first quarter, 22:22.

The two teams drew.

The second game.

Pierce still only rested for 3 minutes before going into battle again.

Relying on Pierce's offensive firepower, the Celtics' weak substitute and the Heat stalemate for half a quarter.

More than half of the second quarter, 30:30.

The two teams are still tied.

After that, the head coaches of the two sides changed players and replaced all the starters.

The two teams stalemate again until the end of halftime.

45: 43.

At halftime, the Heat only led by 2 points.

Intermission time.

The narrator and the guests had a lively discussion.

"Why would the Heat suddenly be affected so much just by playing Cato?"

This topic also attracted the attention of fans.

At the beginning, the Heat almost crushed the Celtics.

But after Cato left the field, the Celtics quickly caught up and stalemate with the Heat until halftime.

The two teams looked evenly matched.

Kevin Cato, averaged 7.2 points, 6.7 rebounds and 1.8 blocks per game in the regular season. The data is just average. Is it so important to the Heat?

"Of course it matters!"

The guest commentator said affirmatively.

"Defense is not a stack of data, but a three-dimensional system."

"The Heat's defensive system is a powerful perimeter trio with Gong Wei on the outside, and the meat shield center Cato guarding the basket. A combination of inside and outside is a complete defensive system."

"But Cato is off. Grant is too small to play the role of Cato at all."

"The interior defense collapsed, and the entire defensive framework of the Heat collapsed."

The commentator nodded and added: "Actually, the Heat's defense has problems. Odom is still too thin to play the [-]th position. He is at a disadvantage against most of the [-]th positions in the league. Originally, there were outside guards. , The insider Cato has the bottom line, this weakness is not obvious. But now, this weakness is likely to be exposed."

He does not mean that.

Immediately, Celtics staff ran to the locker room to report the incident.

The narrator also realized that a mistake had been made.

This is to help the Celtics make a plan.

But the words have been spoken and cannot be taken back.

Come back for the second half.

Celtics lineup: Blount, McCarty, Pierce, Vilshko, Davis.

Heat: Grant, Odom, Li Lei, Jones, Wade.

The game begins.

Pierce took the initiative to ask for the ball and met Odom through the screen of his teammates.

This is actively looking for Odom.

Sure enough, the Celtics knew what the announcer was thinking, and they used it right away.

Coach Carroll is also flexible.

Pierce stuck his back to Odom and gouged in as hard as he could.

Odom really couldn't bear it.

Pierce is 201cm and Odom is 208cm, but Pierce is still bigger than Odom.

Odom was chiseled back continuously, suddenly roared, and used all his strength to resist Pierce.

Pierce is not angry but happy.

All of a sudden, he felt Odom's center of gravity.

Pierce leaned on Odom, turned his back suddenly, passed Odom clean in one step, and then made a mid-range jumper.

Swish!
45:45 level.

Pierce glanced at Odom contemptuously: What a left-handed magician, his defensive ability is much weaker than that rookie.

To defend a super scorer with comprehensive skills, when he is backed up, he must not try his best to top.

To leave room, always ready to defend against his turn jumper, or breakthrough.

Do you not understand this?

The Heat attack again.

Jones broke into the basket and missed the shot under the interference of Blount.

Pierce himself received the rebound, fast break one-stop layup.

45: 47.

At the beginning of the second half, the Celtics took the lead.

Heat attack.

Li Lei ran without the ball, received a wonderful pass from Wade, and made a three-pointer.

48: 47.

The Heat took the lead again.

Celtics offense.

Pierce had tasted the sweetness before, and this time he found Odom through the cover of his teammates.

Odom didn't dare to exert his full strength this time, but it resulted in insufficient confrontation.

Pierce wobbled from side to side and suddenly turned over for a jumper.

Swish!
and also.

48: 49.

Pierce got excited and started babbling again.

Playing Odom really made him feel very relaxed. He didn't receive any decent defense at all.

The Heat attack.

Odom missed a shot.

Blunt once again received a backcourt rebound.

The Celtics counterattacked.

Pierce continued to find Odom.

This time Li Lei took the initiative to rush forward to help Odom defend.

But Pierce is very experienced, he has long realized that the Heat will double-team him, and he is ready.

As soon as Li Lei rushed over, Pierce gave the ball away.

Big shooter McCarty catches and shoots.

Swish!
48: 52.

The Heat attack.

still none.

As the quality of defense declined, the Heat's offense did not open.

On the other hand: the Celtics have opened up their offense, their morale has been boosted, and their defensive quality has been greatly improved.

Celtics attack.

Pierce is still looking for Odom.

Li Lei didn't dare to let go of the fiery McCarty.

Old Jones made up defense.

Pierce remained calm and gave the ball to Vershko.

Welshko catches and shoots.

Swish!
Vershko has it too.

48: 55.

Unknowingly, the Celtics led by 7 points instead.

As the commentator said during the intermission: Cato is not here, and Odom's weakness is exposed.

The Celtics stared at Odom to play.

End of third quarter, 62:71.

The Celtics led by 9 points.

Come back in the fourth quarter.

Wade and Li Lei played a wave of 9:2 attacks together, chasing the score to 71:73.

At the critical moment, Pierce scored 5 points in a row and opened the gap again.

71: 78.

Afterwards, the two sides had their own contacts.

Li Lei and Wade can still keep scoring, but Pierce is also using Odom to keep opening up the situation.

The Heat can score, but they can't prevent their opponents from scoring. The point difference has always remained at 5 to 7 points, but they just can't catch up.

Until the last 5.8 seconds, Li Lei forced a shot against Pierce's defense and missed a three-pointer.

Bang!

Blunt accepted the backcourt rebound and handed it to Davis.

Ricky Davis runs out of time.

The game is over.

89: 95.

The Celtics won Game [-].

The two sides tied with a big score of 2:2.

In this game, Pierce played 43 minutes and scored 31 points, 6 rebounds and 7 assists. He is still the biggest contributor to the Celtics.

With 18 points, 12 rebounds and 2 blocks, Mark Blunt became the surprise player of the Celtics and the key to their victory.

Davis had 14 points, 7 rebounds and 2 assists.

Atkins had 11 points and 4 assists.

McCarty had 10 points and 4 rebounds.

Heat here:
Wade had 27 points, 6 rebounds, 3 assists and 2 blocks.

李磊19分5篮板3助攻2抢断1盖帽。

Odom had 14 points, 7 rebounds and 6 assists.

Butler had 14 points, 8 rebounds and 2 assists.

Unfortunately, the Heat still lost.

(End of this chapter)