Chapter 318: The key game 3

The Celtics’ strong offensive power soon overwhelmed the Nets. In the first half, the Celtics grabbed 5 more offensive rebounds, 11 more free throws, and continued to use breakthroughs in the offense. And inside scoring to tear the Nets inside. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge. info Kenyon Martin fouled three times in the first half and had to sit off the court to watch the second half of the second quarter.
At 63:45, the Celtics led the Nets by 18 points in the first half, but they were not satisfied with the 18-point advantage in the third quarter. Instead, they continued their strategy in the first half with a simple and brutal attack. Strategies to beat the Nets.
Kidd could feel that his pace was getting slower and slower. During the intermission, he underwent knee physiotherapy to relieve the pain, but after playing, as the gap between the two sides opened up, he could feel the hope of winning. A little bit of loss, because the Nets can't organize an effective offense and defense to resist the Celtics' advancement.
In just two years, the Nets went from defeating the Celtics to the Finals, and now they have watched their opponents become an insurmountable mountain.
Kidd still strives to maintain his inner peace. Although he is a grumpy guy, he is off the basketball court. On the basketball court, he is a calm and wise organizer and defensive master. He knows that this is a series, and maybe they will lose miserably this game, but this is only the first game. In the series, a loss of 30 points is equivalent to a victory of only one point.
Any NBA superstar will not give up lightly before the end of the series.
In the final stage of the first game, the Nets head coach Frank replaced the bench, announcing the arrival of garbage time. At 101:81, the Celtics won the semifinals with a 20-point victory. The victory of the game came out on top. And it seems that the Celtics didn't do their best in the game.
Two days later, in the North Shore Garden, the second game between the two sides started, but it seems that this game is not much different from the first game, and the opening performance of the Nets is even worse. Because in the Boston hotel, they accepted the traditional courtesy of Boston fans. A series of activities such as fire harassment in the middle of the night and setting off firecrackers outside the window caused the players to be troubled.
As a result, on the day of the game, the players were in a sluggish state. In addition, the Celtics were very motivated at home, and the Nets could be described as collapsed. They fell behind by 20 points in the first half, and there was almost no fight back. Such a big hole really wanted to be filled but could not be filled, 111:89, another big loss, the Celtics already lead 2:0, a powerful step towards the sweep.
However, Kidd said in a press conference after the game: The series has just begun, I think we will have a better performance in New Jersey.
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On May 9, Leon and the team went to New Jersey with a 2-0 lead. This was the third time in three years that they went to New Jersey in May. They are only across the river from New York. The city, Leon is already very familiar.
The Nets' home field is in East Rutherford County, which not only belongs to New Jersey, but also a district of New York, so the Boston Celtics are equivalent to fighting the New York team in two consecutive rounds.
Because Boston is relatively close to New York, the whole team took a bus to go to the game. When the bus entered New York, on a billboard beside the road, Leon saw "wele-to-new-york, go-" to-hell-celtic" (Welcome to New York, Celtics to die).
And when the bus came to East Rutherford, the slogans put up by some fans on the side of the road were even more explicit. Leon even saw his cartoon portrait hung on a telephone pole on the side of the road, painted with paint. With "get-over-yourself" (don't be self-righteous), it is clear that the Celtics and Leon want to sweep all the way, angering fans in the New York area.
Now that the disappointing Knicks have been swept out, the New Jersey Nets will be the last hope to teach the Celtics. The media in the entire New York area are hyping up the third game, as if they seem to have won the entire series as long as the Nets win the third game.
After arriving at the hotel where he stayed, Leon issued a ban on the players, prohibiting the players from going to New Jersey at night to find flowers and ask Liu. After all, this is the territory of New York and the nightlife is colorful. Leon does not want the players to waste their energy on the belly of the New Jersey girls. Go on, I don’t have enough energy to play online tomorrow.
"Any slackness is not allowed. We are the strongest team, and we must also play our strongest strength. When everything is over, I will take everyone to Las Vegas for three days and three nights. , I am the vip there."
Leon said to the players this way, Leon knows that in the long regular season, the players may need entertainment adjustments, and in the sprinting playoffs, it is very important to work hard. He doesn't want the team to fall into any long fights, the Celtics don't need such a promotion game to temper themselves, they have been tempered enough.
On the night of May 10th, match day, Leon and his players arrived at the Continental Airlines Arena early to start their warm-up training. Before the game, Leon spent a few minutes to observe the situation of the Nets players. From the warm-up, I can feel that the Nets players are still very relaxed. After all, they are back at home, and 0:2 behind is not a desperate situation, as long as they win third. Field, everything is possible.
As the time from the start of the game gets closer and closer, there are more and more fans in the arena. Leon can feel the deep malice from the New Jersey fans. People are constantly booing at him from behind, and some Slogans mocking him repeatedly appeared on the big screen in the center of the arena, which was a good show for the live director.
Years of training have long made Leon dismiss this. He gathered the players together and made the last exhortation before the start of the game. This is his habit. Whether the players can listen or not, he must treat himself Instill in them.
The referee in charge of the game tonight is Dan Crawford, a black referee from Chicago, and Leon has not always had a good impression of him. Leon’s brain is so easy to use, there is a referee database in his mind, and every referee in every game knows all the Celtics penalties Leon is well aware of ~ EbookFREE.me~ although most of them The referees are fairly fair, but she can still filter out a few Celtics referees who are not friendly. This Crawford is one of them.
Sure enough, after the game started, Arenas was fouled on the first layup with the ball in the first quarter. He pushed Kidd with his arm during the layup. In the first two games, the referees passed this action. Tonight is different. As soon as the referee comes up, he tells Arenas and Celtics players with a whistle that he wants to use this brutal method to score on the Nets, but it is not that simple.
On the contrary, for the Nets, once the Celtics' offense is not so fierce, Kidd can spare more energy to organize the offense. Tonight, the head coach of the Nets, Frank, made an important adjustment, that is to let Rodney Rogers replace Gitles to start, let Jefferson go to the shooting guard position against Reid, and let Rogers strengthen the basket. The backboard protection ability of the net.
This trick worked very well in the first half. The strong Rogers effectively withstood the Celtics' outside rebounds on the backcourt. If it was a two-person confrontation, Collins and Martin would not be false. Garnett and Brown. .
In the first half, with the smooth conduction of the ball on the offensive end and good rebound protection, the Nets, which collapsed in the first two half of the game, bit the score-because of the Celtics, Pierce and Reed's offense. Still unstoppable.
At 55:57, the Nets trailed the Celtics by two points at halftime. This undoubtedly gave the fans a shot at the scene. Obviously, the Nets have hope to kill the Celtics at home. The key lies in the third quarter. Up.
While Leon looked at the team's data during the halftime break, he was thinking in his mind what method would be used to defeat the Nets in the third quarter to hurt their self-esteem to the greatest extent. (To be continued.)