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Stephen was watching the news that happened on the other side of the ocean at this time. The Boston Celtics were beaten by the Los Angeles Lakers at home in the first game, losing the home court advantage that the media called the only advantage, but then the Boston Celtics The Special Team won two games in a row, especially the first game at the Staples Center Arena, the home of the Los Angeles Lakers, and defeated the opponent with a hearty victory, especially Paul Pierce. Nothing can stop anyone.

The position of small forward can be said to be the biggest weakness of the Lakers at present, and the defensive system of the Lakers has not strengthened this position, which caused this disastrous defeat, although the Lakers then relied on Kobe's 43-point super Played beat the Celtics, but still tied two to two, and the Celtics still have home court advantage.

It's just that at this time, no one is blindly optimistic about the Lakers anymore. The Celtics are playing more and more fiercely. Whether it is the Big Three, Perkins or Rondo, they all play very resolutely, and Doug Rivers is not weaker than Phil Jackson in commanding and adapting to changes on the spot.

If the Celtics still have to play to the seventh game in the finals, they will also become the first team that needs to play seven games in the entire series after changing to a seven-inning four-win system. If you win the championship, you will also become the first championship in history that each team has played seven games.

The road to the championship is extremely painful, Stephen thought, if I were a reporter or editor of the media, I would definitely write such a headline on the report of the Celtics winning the championship. I hope that my road to the championship will not be like this The Celtics are such a pain in the ass, but if they are still eliminated early like this season, Stephen would rather be a pain in the ass.

The broadcast technology here is not as pervasive as in the league, and the positions behind Stephen are all staff members of the national team, so Stephen dared to look at his mobile phone during the game, otherwise he would not dare to do so even if it was a warm-up match. Stephen made up his mind not to play in the first half. Watching the game for a while is really boring. The Croatian national team is not very strong. In terms of tactical quality, it is much higher than the Chinese team. The offense is not good, and the defense is weak. , except for three points, basically does not have any advantage.

If a team can beat an opponent purely by three-pointers, it may be possible in one or two games, but in most cases it is impossible. Taking the league as an example, the Houston Rockets and Orlando Magic both prefer to shoot three-pointers players, but both teams have huge advantages in the interior without exception.

The difference between the two teams is that the Rockets rely on Yao Ming's offense to open up the situation and create machines for the outside line, while the Magic rely on Dwight Howard's rebounding and tipping ability, holding that they can't make a shot anyway. It's no big deal, we have a human mind inside.

So the Rockets' three-point tactic is to open up space for Yao Ming, while the Magic's three-pointer is the team's main offensive method, but this tactic needs to have enough rebounding ability, but Croatia has no inside line like Yao Ming. They don't have a good offensive player like Dwight Howard, and they don't have a good rebounder like Dwight Howard, so their three-pointers can't be called tactics at all, but their offensive habits.

So their three-pointers are not stable, and if they can't make a three-pointer, they have no other way. After observing for a while, Stephen began to get distracted. Such a team, even if they are leading, there is no other way. no big deal.

That's why Stephen started to get distracted, and in the end he just looked at his phone, but by the time of the intermission, Stephen had already started warming up for the game in his mind, and then he was warming up physically, until the second half started. , Stephen has made all the preparations.

Seeing that Stephen took off his training uniform and appeared on the sidelines wearing a formal jersey, the audience had already started cheering. At the beginning of the game, it was not announced that Stephen would not play. Most fans came to the scene, except thinking Watching Stephen just wanted to watch Yao Ming, but in the end, neither of them played, and many people were a little disappointed.

During the intermission, I thought that the team was behind, maybe Stephen and Yao Ming would come up, but thinking about the fact that the warm-up match might deliberately let the other party win, in this case, it is also very possible that Stephen and Yao Ming will not play. When Stephen was about to play, many people were surprised and pleasantly surprised.

In addition to the cheers from the fans, the work enthusiasm of the media reporters was also driven by Stephen's action of preparing to play. The Shanghai stock market is a big city. Compared with the previous warm-up matches, there are more media reporters who came to the scene Several times, seeing Stephen getting ready to play, many people started to focus their cameras or eyes on Stephen.

After playing, Stephen found that the Croatian national team seemed to be prepared for their own playing. In addition to deploying Zoran Praninic, who had a better defensive effect on him, he also used Ivanovacic to defend himself. Double teamed.

Stephen thought it would be an easy task to launch a stormy offensive when he came up, and overtook the score in a wave. At first, it seemed that this matter was a bit difficult, but the more difficult it was The more Stephen wants to challenge the same, not to mention that the difficulty of this task is not that great.

Stephen slammed left and right, and squeezed forward from the middle of the two people. Although Zoran Praninic and Ivanovasic were both strong men in their early two meters, they still looked a little bit awkward against Stephen. Not enough to see, just like this, Stephen abruptly broke through their joint defense line, and then faced the center of the Croatian national team Vujacic. Shot from behind the box and scored the ball.

In many people's minds, the brute force breakthrough in the front and the elegant pick in the back cannot happen to one person, whether it is elegant, or elegant, or neat, or violent, every player has Different styles, but players who combine two seemingly completely different styles are rare.

This is especially true for the audience at the scene. This gymnasium is one of the few high-standard gymnasiums in Shanghai. It was not planned to be here for the warm-up match. It was only temporarily changed here after learning that Stephen was participating in the warm-up match. The venues with nearly 8000 people are basically full. Compared with other cities, the venues with 3000 people are also full, which is not bad.

Yao Ming's home team used this venue before he entered the league, but after Yao Ming left, the team's performance declined, the audience became less and less, and the tickets were extremely cheap. Can't afford a stadium like this.

After the ball was scored, as soon as the Croatian national team served the ball, Stephen used his empty-handed stunt to steal the ball from Jokic, then took a big step, two steps to the basket, and another very light layup Score.

Although it is not as exciting as a dunk, but Stephen's transition between movement and movement and his easy game attitude are still very enjoyable for fans to watch, especially seeing Stephen perform so well as soon as he enters the court, it is even more impressive Confidence soared.

After Croatia made a shot, Stephen turned back and assisted Wang Shiyue to make a three-pointer. Then Croatia missed the shot. Stephen grabbed the rebound from the crowd and passed a long pass to Sun Yue, who then passed back to him in the three The shot hit from outside the line.

Croatia's original [-]-point lead was chased to only [-] points in less than two and a half minutes. The players of the Croatian national team were not in a hurry. When they came back, Ivanovicic once again chose a three-pointer. Going in, Stephen chose to step back and score a jumper after a back-to-back single. After catching up to five points again, Zoran Planinic also made a three-pointer.

Stephen came over and also chose to shoot from outside the three-point line, but it was a pity that he missed the first attempt, but Yi Jianlian grabbed the offensive rebound and handed it to Stephen. Stephen made another shot from the spot, and this time it finally did not fail.

Jukic missed a three-pointer, and Stephen made another three-pointer when he came back, narrowing the point difference to only two points. The head coach of the Croatian national team, Ivan Sunara, quickly called a timeout, but still failed to score after the timeout , Instead, Stephen assisted Yi Jianlian to hit a three-pointer, directly overtaking the score.

Croatia is still obsessed with their three-pointers, but when they failed to make five consecutive shots, they finally chose to shoot three-pointers regardless of reason, while the Chinese team has all kinds of offensive methods, including baskets. , There are mid-range shots, three-pointers, and free throws.

After Stephen led the team to overtake the score, he seldom took his own shots, and even after the point difference was expanded to [-] points, he went off to rest. But even so, the Croatian national team failed to make it to the end of the game The point difference narrowed to less than [-], and Stephen scored [-] points, [-] rebounds, [-] assists, [-] steals and [-] turnover in a little more than one quarter of playing time. Finally, Wake Company didn't need to pay so much money, although they would rather pay more. Come out a little.

After the second warm-up match against Croatia, the national team set off again to the next city to prepare for the third game. At the same time, after consideration and consultation with Bob Deng Huade and others, Jonas was recruited again. Two new players were replaced, Wang Lei and Zhang Kai, who were not in good condition or not suitable for the current situation of the team.

In the third game, both Stephen and Yao Ming played, but they only played one quarter each. The Croatian team lost confidence in winning. Ivan Sunara actually regretted it at this time and should not have come to China Come to play this warm-up match, who would have thought that I would just meet Stephen, otherwise, I wouldn’t have lost all three games, not to mention that the warm-up effect didn’t work, and I was beaten consecutively by others, it’s really shocking .