Jim Bass Ambition

Chapter 79 A Different Script
The former Boston Garden Arena was the nightmare of Elgin Baylor and Jerry West. The huge shadow of Reed Auerbach shrouded here, and the green of clover was the only main color.Gold has been submerged countless times here.

Later, the Garden Arena was demolished.Auerbach's dynasty ended with the untimely deaths of Len Bias and Reggie Lewis, but Bostonians never forgot their former glory, and they renamed their new arena, the Fleet Center, North Shore Gardens.

Last season, under the leadership of Paul Pierce and Antoine Walker, the Celtics made it to the playoffs again after six years, and reached the Eastern Conference Finals all the way, and almost joined the Lakers in the Finals again. Boston fans see the dawn of Celtics greatness.

In the deafening "Beat LA!" slogan of 18624 fans in the North Shore Garden Arena, the battle between the Lakers and the Celtics began.

The jump ball players on both sides are Garnett and Tony Batty.

Legend has it that Garnett could put a coin on the edge of the backboard and flip it 20 times in a row.

While this was confirmed to be a rumor, Tony Batty wasn't bouncing enough to get the ball out of Garnett's hands.

Billups dribbled the ball slowly. Facing his old club that had abandoned him all the time, Billups took a breath of anger. He joined the team in the dark period of the Celtics. Billups was not targeted at all. The training was casually treated as a bargaining chip.

The Celtics' starting point guard is Tony Delk of the 96 golden generation. As a man selected between Steve Nash and Jermaine O'Neal, Delk also has his own glorious history. He played for the Suns , Delk, who averaged 12 points per game, was blessed in the game against the Kings. He made 27 of 20 shots and 1 of 0 three-pointers. He scored 53 points and disgraced White Chocolate.

In addition to Delk and Antoine Walker, the Celtics also have kite insider Walter McCarty with the 96th pick in the first round of 19.In terms of the number of golden generation players, it is tied with the Lakers 3-3.

Billups lobbed the ball to Garnett, who was running near the free throw line, and ran to the corner by himself, setting an off-ball screen for Bryant on the way.Garnett attracted Antoine Walker's defense, doing swingman triple threat moves.

Bryant ran from the bottom corner, took advantage of Billups' delay, got rid of Eric Williams' defense, turned into a sharp knife, and went straight into the Celtics penalty area from a 45-degree angle.

Garnett stretched out his hands and smashed the ball over Antoine Walker's head to Kobe in an air cut. Celtics big man Tony Batty hurriedly moved laterally to cover.

Kobe took off and threw the ball to the basket with one hand. The ball bypassed Tony Batty's raised hands and flew to the other side of the basket. Ben Wallace had already understood it. !

The smooth cooperation took less than 10 seconds. Except for Artest who stayed in the weak side corner, everyone else touched the ball, but only once.

As one of several Williams in the league, Eric Williams was also a promising newcomer, but a serious injury ended his upward trajectory, and he and Ron Mercer began to be in the The process of the Celtics coming in and out.

Williams, who entered the palace for the second time, has completely changed from a swingman back then to a 3D player. The offensive end is responsible for sinking in the bottom corner, watching Walker and Pierce perform duo.

Walker held the ball first, facing Garnett's defense, Walker dribbled from the outside wing and broke through, leaned on Garnett to the free throw line, stopped the ball and waited for an opportunity.

Pierce used Tony Batty's off-ball screen to come out, received a pass from Walker's underarm pass, cut to the low post from the other side, evaded Artest's defense, and hit a jumper.

The trajectory of the two on the court is two arcs, one big and one small. This is also the killer feature of the Celtics rushing to the Eastern Conference Finals last season. Walker averaged about 6 assists per game, half of which came from this way.

Walker, who sent a coquettish pass, returned to the defense slowly with a shoulder-shaking dance, but saw the basketball draw a rainbow and landed in his own half.

Kobe sneaked away as early as Pierce turned over to shoot. After the ball was scored, Billups quickly sent the baseline ball, and a quarterback-style long swing directly found Kobe in the frontcourt.

The rest of the Celtics hadn't retreated to half court, only the opposite Eric Williams desperately returned to the defense. Kobe took off and dunked after receiving the ball, and Williams quickly jumped up to block the shot.

As a result, Kobe just raised the ball with one hand and made a feint. Williams, who couldn't stop the car, flew out of the baseline helplessly, and Kobe made an easy layup.

The Celtics attacked, and this time it was Pierce's turn to hold the ball, but under Artest's extremely aggressive close defense, Pierce had difficulty breaking through easily and had to pass the ball to Delk for a transition.

Delk passes the ball to Walker who comes out the other side.

As a space-type fourth position, an all-around power forward, and a high-post trebuchet, Walker made 645 three-pointers insanely last season, far surpassing the No.2 Ray Allen. 222.

Garnett did not follow beyond the three-point line, and Walker of course chose to make a confident three-pointer.

The ball was scored, and cheers erupted in the North Shore Garden Arena.

Walker learned how to behave this time, and instead of continuing to show off his dance moves, he quickly returned to his defensive position.

Kobe attacked with the ball, and Ganetra made a pick-and-roll outside the three-point line.

Walker and Williams' attention is on Bryant, as for Garnett?He's outside the arc, don't worry about him.

Garnett has only shot more than 300 three-pointers in his career so far, which is less than half of Walker's.

Kobe attracted a double-team, swung his right hand from behind, and threw the ball to Garnett who was standing at the top arc.

Facing a three-meter open space, Garnett did not hesitate, shot a three-pointer and made a hollow hit.

"Look! How about it! I said our pitchers are in the lineup!" Jim also came to the North Shore Garden Arena and sat in the row behind the Lakers bench. After seeing Garnett hit the three-pointer, Excited to yell.

Garnett followed Jim's advice and practiced three-pointers for a summer. So far, the results have been pretty good, at least the open space is reasonable.

Walker and Pierce planned to repeat the same trick and continue to perform duets, but Tony Batty failed to block Artest, who had been prepared for a long time this time, and Artest squeezed through the screen abruptly. He shot in an instant and snatched the ball from Pierce with brute force.

Immediately afterwards, Artest ignored Billups who was asking for the ball, and carried Pierce all the way to the Celtics' half. As a result, he dribbled the ball to his feet halfway and popped out of the sideline.

The generals of the Lakers looked at each other in silence, and they seemed to hear the barbell-like laughter of Charles Barkley in the TNT studio across thousands of mountains and rivers.

　Before the company commander, Delk was the masterpiece of a small person scoring a high score.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)