Chapter 285: Let go

Leon called a long timeout and another long timeout, so they only had one long timeout left in the second half.
The Celtics players went off the court and surrounded Leon, sweat was steaming, everyone's complexion was not good, and they suddenly fell behind so much. This is the first time they have encountered this situation this season.
Leon was holding the tactical board in his hand but did not speak, and there was a terrible silence near the Celtics bench, forming a circle of silence centered on Leon in the noisy arena.
Sometimes silence is more frightening and scary than shouting.
Garnett pursed his mouth and lowered his head, Pierce looked at the sky with his hips akimbo, Arenas was biting his finger, Reid looked helpless, and Pj-Brown was constantly wiping sweat.
In short, the sudden appearance of Leon, the sudden fall into silence, and the embarrassing situation of falling behind by 16 points all made the Celtics players feel shameless facing the coach.
"Fu-ck..." After a minute of silence, Leon finally squeezed a word from his teeth.
Although it was a curse, the players seemed to feel a lot easier when he said this.
"Your defense is a shit. I remind you that this game must be won, especially Kevin. I don't understand why you seem to have no fighting spirit. Do you feel sorry for the fans here? Or think you are still a Timberwolves. Players? If you think so, then I ask you to take off the Celtics fans and sit on the bench until the end of the game!" One minute of silence was exchanged for one minute of bursts, Leon first put the sluggish performance of Gannet Insulted.
He just felt Garnett's mediocre performance in this game through the live broadcast of the taxi in the taxi. The mid-range non-neutrality and the quick break points that he lost were directly related to him.
After scolding someone, Leon took the tactical board and squatted to the ground. The Celtics players also squatted down and surrounded Leon. Leon looked at everyone and said, "I miss our There should be no problem with the offense. The problem is with the defense. Next, we have to draw the score closer before the start of the fourth quarter, and dragging it to the fourth quarter will only make us sink deeper and deeper. So, I decided to use our test in advance Defensive tactics..."
Carlisle heard Leon's words on the side and couldn't help but ask: "Is it used early like this? Will it be rushed? If it is not used well, it will only..."
Leon stopped Carlisle's next words, and only replied: "Can the situation be worse than it is now?"
After talking about the timeout, Leon stood up, pointed to the bench seat, and was about to start the substitution.
On the other hand, the Timberwolves are still immersed in the joyful atmosphere brought by the big lead, but Sanders obviously dare not take it lightly. He knows that the Timberwolves are great this season, and the Celtics lineup really made him dare not be small at the beginning. watch for.
In particular, the sudden appearance of Fox-Leon made the psychology of both parties fluctuate. Sanders knew that the players' emotions must be stabilized at this time and even encouraged everyone.
But how to cheer up the players may be the worst thing Sanders is good at. His old-fashioned motivational words and calm tone often make the players into an inexplicable embarrassment. When Garnett was in the Timberwolves, it was Garnett rather than Sanders who encouraged the team's morale. The story of the animal organization
After the suspension ended the game and restarted, Sanders did not change the team's lineup, but when he looked at the Celtics lineup, he was a little confused. What kind of lineup is this?
I saw that after the timeout, Leon replaced Arenas with Laga Bell and James Posey for Pierce, so that the Celtics point guard became Bell and the small forward was Posey. . With the team trailing by 16 points, Leon actually took down two offensive arrow figures and replaced them with two substitutes.
In particular, Bell, in the previous games, he hardly got any chance to play, playing time is less than Wang Zhizhi, and he is not a point guard background, let him play a point guard, Sanders doubts whether he can control the ball for more than half of the game .
However, the Timberwolves players can clearly feel that the Celtics players who are back on the court are completely different from before.
Kevin Garnett was holding the ball in his hand and constantly gritted his teeth and smashed his head, as if he was about to awaken his previous self.
When he returned the ball to the referee, Garnett's eyes were no longer the hazy fog at the beginning of the game, only firmness and fierceness remained. He hammered his chest hard, as if bid farewell to himself before.
Posey served from the baseline, Bell took the ball, and then he passed the ball to Garnett, who controlled the ball for halftime.
"Stupid, let Kevin control the ball, although he has this ability, but he is not a point guard after all." Sanders saw Leon let Garnett control the ball for half the time, feeling incredible. He knows Garnett, he is indeed an all-around wizard, but with Arenas, Alston and Strickland, let Garnett dribble through the half, it is really hard to understand.
Sure enough, Garnett dribbled the ball steadily past half-court, but the Celtics did not effectively organize the offense. Without Arenas and Pierce on the perimeter, the offense of this lineup was really a little urgent.
Garnett was busy with the dribble and then fell to the low post. He rarely asked for the ball from his ribs, pushed Walker behind him hard, and Reed dropped the ball into Garnett's hands.
Garnett took the ball and turned inside cleanly, facing the defending Milicic, one-handed high toss and hit the board!
However, such a goal does not worry Sanders. He knows that Garnett is not the kind of super scorer who can score consecutively. With a gap of 14 points, Sanders feels that it is quite stable.
But Sanders' peace of mind lasted only five seconds. The Timberwolves served from the backcourt and Bell defended Cassel. His defense was like a brown sugar. At the same time, Reid was always swimming around Kassel, like a shark waiting for the smell of blood.
Soon, after halftime, Kassel suddenly realized that he had been forced into a blind spot!
He has to pass, but Reid is blocked on the left, and on the right... the right is the touchline.
Walker tried to catch up, but greeted Garnett, who was even more terrible. Cassel made a mistake! Bale broke the ball in his hand, which is very rare for Kassel!
Bell passed the ball to Reid. Reid had no other thoughts. He dribbled the ball all the way, pushed Hassel's defense, barely clasped his hands, and took two more points. City Fairy Legend
Sanders was a little worried, but he couldn't call a timeout. He squatted down when he was standing. Then they only need to score a goal and stabilize the situation.
But this idea was shattered in two seconds.
Milicic made a throw-in error, Posey took the ball from Sprewell, made an easy layup and made another two points!
The Celtics scored six points in one minute, and the Timberwolves didn't even make a decent shot, and were cut off two consecutive goals.
Sanders was anxious, he stood up from the ground again, yelled at the players to make them concentrate. Now that Sanders has reached the critical point, if the Timberwolves can't score any more and are successfully countered by the Celtics, he will call a timeout.
The Timberwolves players are also a little daunted, because the Celtics' defensive position is quite strange, neither marking people nor the ball, but it seems to be marking people and the ball.
The serving players are under a lot of pressure because they always feel that the Celtics players are blocked in the passing lane, as if every passing lane of theirs has been touched.
Only Cassel felt something faintly in his heart. The Celtics' defense reminded him of how he faced the Supersonic when he was in the Rockets. The Rockets’ biggest hardship was the Rockets’ defense at this time. The method is very similar to the supersonic speed-it is amoeba defense!
However, it is different from the Amoeba. The Celtics players' double-teaming and stance are very erratic. They don't want the Amoeba to be as clear as the inside and outside. The two outside lines are the pinch holders.
When Cassell carefully dribbled the ball past half-court this time, he began to observe carefully, trying to find some flaws in the Celtics' defense. As long as it is defense, there will always be flaws.
Yes, the Celtics’ defense does have flaws~EbookFREE.me~ But with Kassel’s ten years of point guard experience, I can’t tell whether the Celtics’ defensive formation is man-to-man or zone defense. Still double-teaming. They are like a real amoeba, undergoing endless changes.
"Om!" The buzzer sounded for 24 seconds, Milicic barely took a shot, the ball hit the front of the basket, a buzzer barely shot, Brown got a backcourt rebound.
This time, Garnett took the lead. He has crossed the midfield line and crossed the free throw line. Brown made a long-range long pass, which is rare in the Celtics' offense.
But Garnett received this pass, no one, no one can stop him!
"Hey!" Garnett took off three steps from the basket, gliding one-handed and slamming, after scoring, he was like a werewolf on a full moon night, screaming under the basket. He no longer cared about the gaze of the fans at the Target Center, and was no longer subject to the emotions of eight years, now he is a Celtic player.
"Beep!" The referee's whistle rang and Sanders had to call a timeout. The Celtics chased for 8 points in two and a half minutes.
Leon got his haircut, and he knew he was right again. (To be continued.)