God's hand behind the scenes

Chapter 360
To be on the safe side, Brown temporarily put the pitchers on the bench in the second quarter, used Snow to partner Arenas in the backcourt, temporarily used Lynch to replace Bell at the small forward, and the inside combination was Tyron Hill and Deller. Mbert obviously wants to further improve his impact on the basket. Anyway, Dalembert and Arenas are both young, and it doesn't matter if they play for a while.

In fact, Brown could have put Okur at the fifth position, so that Dalembert can also get enough rest time.But Brown suspects that the cold feeling is contagious, and it is not unheard of in the games he has coached before, so Brown still does not let Okur off the field, so as not to affect morale after consecutive missed shots.

The Celtics took Pierce down, and O'Brien hoped that he could rest for a few minutes, and the team's main attack point during his rest period will be Walker.This arrangement is in Brown's hands. Obviously Lynch can't compete with Pierce, but now that Pierce is sitting on the bench, it won't be too late to replace Bell when he reappears. In this way, 76 People should take advantage of the counterpoint, but it's hard to say whether it can be turned into an advantage.

However, after the game restarted, the 76ers' touch seemed to show signs of recovery. In the first round, Iverson hit a large two-pointer from a high position, and his shooting percentage at this distance in the first quarter was... …0%, all 4 strikes.Although this does not mean that he will be able to kill the Quartet soon, it is at least a relatively positive signal.

What's more, it doesn't matter even if he shoots hard. Hill and Dalembert may be the 76ers' most rebounding inside combination. When they are on the court, the team's rebounds are very guaranteed.And Arenas still insists on breaking through and attacking the basket. As a supplement to the offensive method, he can do so to Brown's satisfaction.

With rebounds guaranteed, the firepower of the 76ers was the first to recover. They all knew that even if they couldn't make a shot, there were teammates who could wipe their butts.For offensive players, being fearless is a very important mental state. Only when you believe that you can score can you really send the ball into the basket.And now the joint appearance of Hill and Dalembert is obviously telling his teammates: Just shoot, even if you don't make the shot, there are still us!
The advantage of climbing out of the quagmire first is that you can hit a small climax while your opponent is still battered. The 76ers did exactly that. Before the Celtics could react, Iverson and Arenas scored 10 points together, helping the team quickly widen the gap.Looking at the numbers on the scoreboard, O'Brien was dumbfounded: Why did he become like this all of a sudden?In desperation, he could only ask for a substitution immediately, hoping that Pierce could play to drive his teammates' offense.

Seeing that O'Brien replaced Pierce, Brown also removed Lynch and replaced Bell, who had rested.After his reappearance, Pierce's touch seems to have recovered, but his teammates are not very strong. His repeated passes eventually turned into defensive rebounds for the 76ers. Feeling helpless and disappointed, he can only choose to hold the ball by himself. Go it alone.

In this way, it is easier for the 76ers to defend. Whenever Pierce attacks with the ball, they can always build layers of solid defenses. By the time Pierce comes to the basket, he has lost his indomitable spirit at the beginning .This makes him have to use the mid-range jumper more often, which is obviously bound to be interfered by Bell.

Even Pierce is in trouble, so the other players of the Celtics can imagine that they simply don't have Pierce's offensive ability.Brown was relieved by the changes in the situation on the court. The team has begun to get on the right track. As for the Celtics who are still struggling in the iron?Who cares how they play?
But Brown is still a little worried, because now the 76ers' offense is all focused on mid-range shooting and scoring at the basket, and their sharpest weapon, the three-pointer, has not yet been used.Under Chang Wei's deliberate influence, the 76ers have become the league's favorite team to shoot three-pointers, and their overall shooting percentage is as high as 36.6%. Many opponents were completely defeated under their indiscriminate bombardment. The Celtics haven't been able to enjoy such "treatment" for the time being.

Of course, Pierce alone cannot be compared with the multi-point blooming 76ers. Although he continued to help the team score piecemeal, his offensive efficiency and game rhythm have declined significantly.By the end of the second quarter, the Celtics only scored 50 points while the 76ers scored 62 points. The halftime score was close to 70 points. This is the 76ers' consistent style.

During the intermission, O'Brien made arrangements for the 76ers' scoring to be concentrated on the inside. He asked the players to shrink the defense in the second half and not give opponents easy shots within the three-point line.As for outside the three-point line, O'Brien believes that the opponent has yet to find a touch in this game. In the first half, the 76ers only made 9 of 2 three-pointers.

O'Brien's thinking is of course correct. Any head coach will give an order to shrink the defense line when encountering an opponent who is not good at three-pointers. In short, it is to let the opponent score in the position he is least good at.Obviously, the 76ers' performance outside the three-point line in the first half was a mess, and it didn't seem like a big deal to let them shoot three-pointers.

However, O'Brien forgot one thing. There are many pitchers in the 76ers. People's strategy of shrinking defense is their reminder.Sure enough, Brown sent Iverson, Reed, Bell, Lewis and Okur into the starting lineup in the second half. All five of them have the ability to shoot from beyond the three-point line. A handful.

Of course, if the 76ers didn't lead by double digits at the end of halftime or even became a trailing side, Brown would definitely not make such a decision. He would use the safest way to slowly lay the foundation for victory.Perhaps in the eyes of many people, it is a bit reckless for Brown to arrange the starting lineup in this way, but Chang Wei can see the true thoughts of the old coach.

In a sense, Brown is now taking a gamble with minimal risk. If this lineup continues to hit the iron, it can be decisively replaced before the two sides return to the same starting line, but if this lineup shows strong firepower Woolen cloth?Then the 76ers can almost use this quarter to lay the foundation for victory for themselves.

(End of this chapter)