Chapter 257: Total score 3:1

123:98, the score difference of 25 points also means that the Wizards and the Celtics' big score came to 3:1, the Wizards took the lead to win the match point, and the Celtics, after last season, again in In the playoffs with the Wizards, half a foot stepped into the cliff.
In the press conference after the game, as the former three-point king, the league's most famous three-point shooter, Ray Allen expressed his heartfelt sigh in an interview.
"Curry is a historical "shooter". His ability to shoot "three-pointers" is unique. I have never seen a player who can use three-pointers as a conventional weapon like him. What is more terrible is that He is only 24 years old now, and it is difficult to imagine how the league’s three-point tactics will evolve under his guidance in the future."
As the historical three-pointer, Curry's previous single-season three-pointer record holder can make Ray Allen express such a lament that Curry's three-pointer has indeed been tough to a certain extent.
Garnett praised Paul George's performance.
"Under the situation where the team's main offensive point was targeted at a poor feel, this second-year rookie can stand up and shoulder the banner of the team's offense. This tenacious spirit is worth learning for every professional player. Paul George is an excellent player, as long as he continues to adhere to this spirit, he will definitely become a superstar in the future."
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Although the series is not over yet, the Celtics and the Wizards are still in a hostile relationship and face the situation of being eliminated immediately, but the Celtics players are all positive comments when evaluating the Wizards.
There is no way to face a group of young people whose average age is not even 25 years old. If they have to say something provocative or unconvinced at this time, it is a loss of grace.
The Big Three are all veterans of nearly 40 years old, and each one is as good as others. It is impossible to make such a low-level mistake.
But even so, after being asked whether they have confidence in overtaking the score overturn, the Big Three still gave a positive answer.
"Of course, we will definitely try our best to win every game."
Praising the juniors is due to the demeanor as a senior, and as a leader, it is absolutely impossible to be timid before the game. If even they admit that they have no confidence, what else do the Celtics players use to fight for life and death?
The fifth game between the two sides returned to the Wizards' home Washington, the difficulty of this game is far beyond everyone's imagination.
Already in a desperate situation, the Celtics team played very hard, and even reached the point where every ball must fight.
The Wizards were caught off guard in the first quarter. They were beaten 29:18 in the single quarter, 11 points behind at home.
Fortunately, Curry and others were not fledgling rookies anymore. After the initial discomfort, they quickly recovered their rhythm and started to catch up. The three of Curry Thompson George flowered more and gradually caught up with the score.
Pierce played very hard in this game, but Leonard, who has played against him, has adapted to Pierce's offensive style.
Leonard's progress is amazing, unlike another time and space experience in the Spurs for many years, Wang Xiao's team took a season, almost every training, he enjoys the highest training bonus of the system, plus Wang Xiaoxiao has long known Leonard's future technical characteristics, and can train it towards the future template, making him grow very fast.
In the first round of the playoffs, the series matchup with Cameron Anthony gave Leonard an evolution.
Anthony, as one of the most abundant small forwards in the league, has better scoring ability than Pierce.
auzw.com Now faced with Pierce, Leonard has been able to cope with it. The brown sugar defense and the terrible wingspan make Pierce feel very uncomfortable.
In this game, Pierce's several shots were effectively restricted by Leonard, the shooting rate was just over 40%, and the efficiency was extremely low.
In the Wizards' home court, whenever Leonard successfully defended Pierce's offense, it would be accompanied by a burst of cheers from the fans of the ball.
To be reasonable, as the first-round lottery rookie selected by Wang Xiao this season, Leonard's performance has always made the ball "fans" unsatisfied, unlike the three-point precision running position who diligently defends the "color" and can assist Curry pulled Thompson from space, Leonard's performance on the Wizards is not particularly outstanding.
After all, from an offensive ability point of view, Leonard is really awful, especially the three-pointer, even not as good as Chandler Parsons on the bench.
Throughout the regular season, Leonard averaged even less than double-digit points per game, and was only selected for the second rookie of the best rookie team.
This is almost the worst player in Wang Xiao’s first round of lottery picks.
But now, in the playoffs, the fans of the ball are finally beginning to realize the power of Leonard.
Limiting Anthony in the first round and locking Pierce in the second round, Leonard did more than George last season.
At least in the playoffs last season, when facing George Anthony and Pierce, George could not effectively limit the offensive efficiency of the two, only to achieve mutual offense on the offensive end, and not allow the opponent to go beyond the gods.
From this point of view, Leonard's defensive ability has even surpassed George. No wonder Wang Xiao will let Leonard serve as a small forward, pushing George who showed "color" in the small forward position last season to the power forward position.
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But even so, Leonard's outstanding defense is only to help the team narrow the score gap, but there is no way to overtake the score.
After all, the Celtics are a combination of the Big Three, not Pierce's own team.
In the series that won the 2007 finals, Pierce's shooting percentage was not high, averaging only 43%, but the Celtics still defeated the Lakers and won the championship trophy, relying on the joint efforts of the Big Three and the green The army's suffocating defense succeeded in limiting Kobe's shooting percentage to 40%, and no Lakers player except Kobe averaged more than 15 points per game.
Now the Celtics' defensive strength may not be as good as before, but it is still strong. At least in the regular season, the Celtics are still the second-lowest team in the league in points per game, averaging only 89.3 points per game.
The next game became a defensive battle. The Celtics guarded against the dead, and the Wizards showed no signs of weakness.
Since the selection of Thompson and Leonard this season, the Wizards' defense has been on a higher level despite the departure of Jordan, and the defense has no counsel to the Celtics.
This also made the game to the fourth quarter, both sides scored only 70 points.
The suffocating defense and fierce confrontation of the Wizards' ball "fans" are a bit dumbfounded. In the games of the previous years, they have not seen the Wizards have such a tough game.
Whether it is the Arenas period or the Curry + Harden double-gun period, the team is mainly offensive team, the main energy is on offensive rather than defensive.
They couldn't even remember, when did Wang Xiao transform the previous Wizards team, no matter what the defensive Wizards turned into the all-round team with excellent offense and defense.