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Soon, it was time to play against the Celtics.

The game started in the evening, and the Lakers went away to challenge the Celtics.

The classic yellow-green battle, even if it is just an ordinary regular season, the enthusiasm of the Boston Celtics home fans is still very high.

An hour and a half before the start of the game, a large number of fans had gathered outside the home stadium of the Boston Celtics to check in for tickets.

By the time the Lakers came to the game site to start shooting warm-up training, the Celtics' home stadium was already full of fans.

The Celtics fans booed the Lakers players as they entered the field.

For this situation, all members of the Lakers are prepared.

After all, the Celtics and the Lakers are rivals.

"Okay, fans and friends, the game is about to start, tonight's game will be very exciting!"

"You're right! Both the Lakers and the Celtics are on the winning streak. Tonight's game will be head-to-head, and it will definitely be very exciting!"

In front of the technical stage, the classic commentary duo O'Neill and Barkley chatted with each other sentence by sentence.

With the gags of the two brothers O'Neill and Barkley, the originally boring waiting time has become faster.

After a while, the game officially started, and the starting players of both sides entered the field.

According to the pre-formation deployment, the Lakers have a five-forward lineup:

James, Covington, thick eyebrows, Boucher, Brogdon.

The overall height of this five-forward lineup is extremely high, with an average height of nearly two meters. The athletic ability and outside organization ability are supported by James and Brogdon. Great.

This lineup is the most balanced lineup the Lakers can come up with.

It is also the most suitable lineup to deal with the Celtics.

On the side of the Celtics, head coach Udoka sent a regular starting lineup:

Tatum, Jaylen Brown, Smart, Horford and Lowe.

Uduka put out a lineup of twin towers, double Tanhua and bulldogs.

The characteristics of this lineup are relatively obvious. Lowe provides the inner line protection, and Smart provides the outer line defense.

Tatum and Jaylen Brown serve as the engine of the two teams to propel the team.

Horford plays a jack-of-all-trades role, providing outside firepower, inside top defense and rebound protection.

The Celtics' lineup is also very good in size, but it is still a bit worse than the Lakers.

Not to mention that the Celtics' lineup has a more fatal weakness, that is, they don't have enough space.

After all, Lowe has no way to shoot.

But all in all, the strength of the starting lineups of these two teams is still on par.

This game must be very exciting.

Soon, with the referee's whistle, the basketball was thrown high by the referee.

Lowe and Brother Nongmei, who were near the center line, jumped high and competed for the right to jump the ball this time.

Nongmei's physical talent is a little stronger than Lowe's. In addition, Lowe's knee is injured, which affects the take-off height, so the ball was finally accepted by Brother Nongmei.

The Lakers have the ball, James controls the ball and quickly advances towards the frontcourt.

At this time, the Celtics are guarding a man-to-man defensive strategy, with Smart marking James.

As a DPOY-level guard, Smart's defensive ability is online, and he has gained weight this season. It is not a problem to defend a heavy striker like James.

James also knew that Smart's defensive ability was good, so he immediately called a pick-and-roll, trying to pick the Celtics' inside Lowe to play.

Calling Lowe out for military training is also the style of play that Vogel specifically explained before the game.

With a tactical gesture from James, the thick-browed brother of the Lakers quickly ran over to pick and roll for James.

After successfully facing Lowe, James began to prepare to attack.

First, he took two steps back with the dribble, and after opening the breakthrough distance, James kicked the ground quickly to start.

Under the extremely high acceleration, James' speed quickly increased.

After approaching Lowe, James quickly changed direction with a push ball, and strode past Lowe with a big stride.

Horford of the Celtics saw that his teammate was passed by James, and hurried over to help defend.

Seeing this, James didn't try to force Horford to kill the inside line, and directly chose to pass the ball in his hand to Boucher who was open on the baseline.

Boucher's three-point shooting rate this season is very high. Such an open three-point opportunity for Boucher to shoot must be sure!
Sure enough, after Boucher took the ball, he made a quick three-pointer.

The basketball draws an arc in the air and hits it easily!

The Lakers took the lead and scored three points.

The ball returned to the hands of the Celtics.

Horford sent the baseline ball, Tatum took the ball, controlled the ball and dribbled it to the frontcourt.

For this ball, Tatum still wanted to use his previous style of play, attacking the basket and using his own restraint to distribute the ball.

But when facing the Lakers, Tatum's trick is hard to show!

After all, it is James who is defending in front of Tatum. Tatum wants to eat James alone, but it is not easy.

After making a few attempts, Tatum found that he couldn't break through, so he hurriedly called a pick-and-roll and changed to another player.

But Tatum quickly discovered a problem. The Lakers' five-forward lineup at this time, each player's physical fitness is very good.

Covington, Boucher, James, Brogdon, Big Eyebrow, these five players, no matter which one Tatum faces, it is not easy to play!