You are the pearl, Mo Mengchen

Chapter 355 A Good Horse Becomes a Bad Horse

Judging from the shooting percentage, Mo Mengchen didn't feel very good tonight, so he deliberately reduced his shots in the second half.

This seems reasonable, and the outbreak of Alan Houston made his slightly conservative choice more logical.

No one is going to pay attention to how many points a player who is not good at scoring is going to score tonight, except his fans.

Mo Mengchen's fans felt frustrated when they saw him pass the ball again and again. They are not professional fans and cannot appreciate the benefits of passing. Scoring is everything in this sport.

This kind of understanding cannot be said to be wrong, because no matter how basketball develops, as long as the scoring mechanism is still there, it is a sport that scores more points than anyone else, and it is understandable that fans like to watch the score.

In the 8th minute of the third quarter, Alan Houston came out of the weak side with great speed and easy pace and got the pass.

The person defending him took a step slower and accidentally hit his hand in order to block the shot.

Crude fouls failed to change his shooting posture.

Houston jumped into the sky, aimed at the basket, and released slowly. Everything froze, and his shooting touch was extremely soft.

"Shh!"

"The goal is valid, and there is an additional penalty!"

"Looks like tonight is Alan Houston night, he's totally unstoppable!"

Houston also clenched his fists and shouted excitedly, hoping to look as domineering as Jordan, who beat the Jazz at the buzzer in last year's Finals.

With this goal, the Pistons' lead was extended to 9 points.

80 to 71, and Houston still has a chance to open the point difference to double digits, as long as it can grasp the penalty.

This game is like a roller coaster. There are times when the fans are comfortable and times when they are uncomfortable.

The Celtics led by up to 16 points. Duncan proved that he is a genuine superstar. However, the explosion in one quarter or two cannot dominate the entire game. Duncan is not the kind of superstar who can set the tone on both ends of the offense and defense.

He can complete the tasks assigned to him by the coach with ease. This is the case in his rookie season, and it may still be the case ten years later.

But it would be an unrealistic wish to expect him to blow up the opponent's inside line like O'Neill.

Steady, he's been steady.

Stable performance also means that he lacks great changes, and the energy that bursts out is rarely unexpected.

Duncan has tried his best. He can lead the team to lead the Pistons in the first half, but when his opponent turns around and counterattacks, they have no power to resist.

The Celtics lineup is not as strong as imagined. The combination of Shifo and Fat Toutuo is more like Duncan accommodating Walker.

In terms of the achievements of the two men later, such accommodating is ridiculous.

Houston was about to make free throws, and Frauses replaced Mo Mengchen, who played 8 minutes in the third quarter.

Counting the play in the third quarter, Mo Mengchen played 19 minutes tonight and scored 10 points, 10 rebounds and 14 assists, a very economical triple-double.

The gap of 10 points is not too small. If the Celtics play better next time, it will not be difficult to get back. Duncan shot a few deadly three-pointers, and with the counterattack ability of Hill and others, the point difference went 15 minutes away.

The psychological burden brought by the score difference of 15 points and 10 points is completely different.

With 10 points, you can still chase after it, but with 15 points, you can only play tricks.

Seeing the state of the Celtics, Mo Mengchen felt absurdly familiar.

Rick Pitino, the famous college coach who personally ended the old Celtics era, even if he changed his destiny and got the coveted Duncan, it seems that it did not improve the status quo of the team.

Hiring Pitino, the Celtics paid 6 million in 4200 years.

Because of Pitino's huge salary, the market for good coaches has been bullish all the way, and Larry Brown, Phil Jackson, Larry Bird, and Lenny Wilkens have all followed suit.

The coaches got huge salaries that were unimaginable in the past, but Pitino reversed the fate and got Duncan, but failed to change the mental outlook of the team.

Mo Mengchen originally thought that the Celtics got Duncan, which would change the dark age that the Celtics fans couldn't bear to look back on, but looking at it now, it seems that Duncan can only guarantee their place in the playoffs, and wants to go further, even To reproduce the glory of the ancestors, that is not even thinking about it.

A team with Duncan can only guarantee the playoffs?
Thinking about Duncan's achievements in the Spurs, you should know how much Pitino ruined him.

With Duncan's character, it's hard to say whether he will fall in silence or explode in silence. He is inseparable with Popovich in the Spurs. The Spurs are a team that matches Duncan extremely well. The silver and black jerseys are retro and simple. He has always been a player who has no lace, just wants to play well and then go home to sleep.

Duncan failed to go to the Spurs. The most regrettable person is Mo Mengchen. No one wants to be in the same division as such a strong player.

If it is an afterthought, this is the best choice. Duncan is not happy in Boston. Pitino blindly suppresses the player's personality in order to reproduce the glory of his college days. Even players like Duncan have to pay for Antoine Walker. Serve.

The game on the field continued.

Pitino kept biting the gum in his mouth to relieve his tension. Walker's performance made him want to trade this disciple several times, but this decision was difficult for him.

Walker is his direct subordinate and an important contributor to Kentucky's championship season. Pitino chose to join the Celtics partly because Walker is here and he can better control the team.

But now, Walker was no longer the Walker he was familiar with.

He ignores discipline, shoots casually, and is irresponsible, but in just one year, he has developed so many bad habits. The NBA is really a bad place to kill geniuses.

At this time, Walker finally made a three-pointer.

His teammates didn't respond. After all, he hit so many irons before, what's the big deal about scoring a goal occasionally?
It was a great encouragement to Pitino. When Walker was in college, he repeatedly used this unreasonable shooting to help the team open the situation.

This is the Antoine Walker that Pitino is familiar with. If you don't consider that when he made this goal, the Celtics were already 13 points behind. This is an excellent Antoine Walker moment.

Walker's three-pointer provoked Hill's counterattack. He dribbled fiercely and attacked, which did not give the Greens a chance to survive.

Walker was full of desire when attacking, and his eyes were full of desire when defending, but his hands and feet seemed to be frozen and did not move.

Just by looking at his eyes, you even think he wants to save the world.

However, eye-to-eye defense doesn't work in the NBA.

Hill dribbled and ran, like a thousand troops rushing head-on, Duncan isolated the basket alone, ready to block Duke Devil Mountain.

Hill, however, swindled after the jump, tricking Duncan into jumping with him and passing the ball to Scott Pollard, who was mocked by fans for his weird hairstyle.

Pollard jumped up with a weird cap hairstyle, suppressed Duncan who just fell to the ground, and scored a violent dunk.

"Me! Damn! The strongest!"

Pollard roared, his peaked cap-like hairstyle, especially the black cat protruding like a duck's tongue, shook several times, which weakened his aura several times out of thin air.

"I swear, I must lose that pinch of bird feathers tonight!" Barkley looked at it painfully.

For the first time, Mo Mengchen supported Barkley's violence from the bottom of his heart, and Pollard's bird feathers looked really rotten.

The momentum of the Celtics was stifled before they got up, and Hill was cruel.

There are many strong opponents in the Eastern Conference, but the Celtics are the opponent that needs to worry the least. Compared with other teams, they lack the ruthlessness of strong teams.

It's unbelievable that this team that once dominated the era lacked that kind of ruthlessness.

Halfway through the fourth quarter, the audience has already started to exit.

Mo Mengchen didn't play again, he sat off the court, and the point difference never narrowed to less than 9 points.

He had just come back, and in order to protect him, Frauses didn't want him to work too hard.

Collins is ignoring the health of the players for the sake of victory and using the main force ruthlessly; Frauses is the other extreme. In order to protect the players, he will paranoidly carry out rotations. Sometimes even if the timing is not right, the main force is needed to suppress The situation, he will not change.

What should be changed should be changed.

Because of his reasonable substitutions, the Pistons have hardly encountered any injuries due to fatigue this season, but there have been many accidental injuries.

For example, Houston was bleeding from Malone's elbow, Mo Mengchen caught a cold, Barkley lost weight-if this is considered a fucking injury-stable lineup, reasonable rotation allocation, continuous firepower output, this is how the Pistons can still lead the record so far Ranking, and the reason why he averaged 121 points per game.

The game is over.

今晚，活塞打出了惊人的13人次轮转，连坐在板凳孔末尾的劳德代尔都在最后4分钟上去狼了4分2篮板1封盖。

In the entire 13-man roster, the longest playing time was model worker Alan Houston. He played 27 minutes. Because he felt hot, Mo Mengchen and Hill frequently fed him the ball on the court. He efficiently scored a team-high 25 points 6 rebounds.

No one expected that the Celtics led the Pistons by 16 points in the first half, but lost 22 points at the end of the game.

"What happened? What caused your collapse?" The reporter interviewed Duncan after the game.

Duncan suppressed his complaints and said, "They play better than us, that's why."

Mo Mengchen, who saw the problem and liked to play with his opponents, was not so easy to explain.

He truthfully expressed his views on the Celtics: "I have to say that they are chasing after the bottom line. They have such a good player as TD, but they don't build a system around him, but stubbornly pursue rationality and teamwork."

"You think Boston's use of TD was unreasonable?"

"Of course, for example." Mo Mengchen said, "If we get Shaq O'Neal, will we still run and run? Of course not, we will slow down the pace, wait for Shaq to settle down, and pass the ball to him , and then step aside and wait for him to deal with the opponent."

"That's what superstars do."

These are Mo Mengchen's sincere words, but these sincere words will inevitably lead to discussions from the media and fans. Pitino may still have a spat with him in front of the media, but Mo Mengchen will not tangle with him. Responsible for picking things, whoever likes to do the follow-up finishing.

A chaotic Green Army and a depressed Duncan are the good Green Army and Duncan.

——For Mo Mengchen.

PS: Now that a game requires me to write more than six chapters, I really can’t do it. I can’t help but admire my previous self. How did I manage more than ten chapters in a game?
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