super small forward

Chapter 467
Celtics, Spurs, these two teams that the core of the Lakers often hate.

Both teams love to play some very unpleasant defensive players.

After the Spurs coached from Popovich, Bowen and Leonard appeared successively.

The Celtics have this tradition throughout history. Let’s not talk about it far away. Tony Allen, who made Kobe the most difficult to deal with in the latter part of his career, was produced by the Celtics. Radley is also produced by the Celtics.

The task given to Bradley by the Celtics head coach is to stare at Liu Ren.

This task is not easy, as difficult as letting Bradley stare at James.

The hardest thing for Bradley isn't defensive skill, or aggressiveness, or even physicality.

But height!

Bradley is not as tall as Clarkson, but he has to defend a [-]-meter small forward like Liu Ren.

So Bradley can only use various strange tricks.

Tough, brave, defensive IQ... and shameless!

That's what Liu Ren thinks of Bradley.

Liu Ren was entangled by Bradley. He wanted to get inside and had Bass, a muscular man, to help him. Liu Ren played very hard.

Fortunately, the overall strength of the Celtics is only at the average playoff level, and Kobe is the one who gets excited when he sees the Celtics. Kobe scored 7 points in the first 15 minutes to help the Lakers lead 19-13.

The game entered an official timeout, and the two sides began to make substitutions.

The Celtics' defense against the Lakers at the beginning has met their expectations. What their head coach Stevens wants is to let Kobe continue to consume Kobe's physical energy in singles, and then use Bradley and Bass' help defense to limit him. Liu Ren and everyone else were on their own defenses, keeping the score tight so as not to let the Lakers start with an absolute advantage.

If there's one advantage the Celtics' roster has in the East, it's their rotation.

The Celtics benefited the most from trading Garnett, Pierce, Rondo, Green and others, except for a lot of draft picks, those role players who were acquired as extras!

The Celtics' ability to rank among the top eight in the East depends on their overall strength.

Stevens traded Mo Williams for Alvin Turner and Crowder for Bradley.

Bradley consumes a lot of physical energy when defending Liu Ren, and it is not easy to pester Liu Ren, a brutal physical man.

The Lakers also started to rotate. They replaced Clarkson, who was so-so today, with Nash. Dragic performed very well today, and he performed very well in organizing offense when facing Liu Ren's defense. This is also what made the Celtics General manager Angie is hesitant to continue to play poorly or simply rebuild around the backcourt combination of Dragic and Bradley.

D'Antoni is going to use Dragic's big brother Nash when he was in the Suns to deal with him. Gasol and Kobe were replaced by Whiteside and McCollum.

Sometimes defense doesn’t mean better skills and better physical fitness. Nash knows Dragic too well, and he almost taught him by hand. Don’t say it, judge Dragic’s next move Nash did a very good job of this matter. After returning from the timeout, Dragic was terribly prevented.

Then McCollum took over from Bryant and started scoring streaks...

And Liu Ren is in trouble again.

"Why are there so many weirdos like Celtics?" Liu Ren looked at Claude unhappily.

Claude is obviously imitating Bradley, his face almost sticks to Liu Ren's!

Claude is as tall as Liu Ren, and his physical fitness is much better than Bradley. He is a man with standard physical fitness. Perhaps it is because Brad uses this method to defend Liu Ren that the effect is very good, and Claude followed suit. this way.

"My God!" Liu Ren no matter how he runs or picks and rolls, the Celtics are ready to use Bradley and Crowder to take turns to stare at him.

Fortunately, it was McCollum who was defending him at this time. Mo Williams, an average defensive guy, was defending him and scored consecutively. He quickly opened the score to 25 to 15 and expanded the point difference to 10 points.

Liu Ren also resigned to his fate, and took the initiative to play the role of attracting defensive firepower, using casual moves to disrupt the Celtics' defense and create opportunities for his teammates.

Just as the point difference was being widened by the Lakers, someone on the Celtics side got mad.

It was Mo Williams who was blown away by McCollum, a second-year player!

Mo Williams had the nickname Mo Buchuan at the beginning, because he often did not pass the ball to Yi Jianlian and was criticized by domestic players, but his strength is not covered, and he has made the All-Star.

Now Mo Williams is old and wandering around, but it doesn't mean he's out of breath!
At the end of the first quarter, Mo Williams scored three consecutive three-pointers against McCollum's defense from outside the three-point line, reducing the score to 27 to 32 in one fell swoop, reducing the point difference to 5 points!
The Lakers didn't care about Mo Williams' sudden outburst, and then something happened next.

After the start of the second quarter, Stevens continued to put Mo Williams on the field, and played in the main control position, and this time he played a brilliant game, putting the Celtics' three best defensive players Play together.

Marcus Smart, Bradley, and Crowder, who were the sixth pick in the first round in 14, came on the field together.

Not to mention, when the three play together, Liu Ren, Korver, and Jeremy Lin on the Lakers side are guarded to death. Only Whiteside and Antetokounmpo on the inside have a good chance to score.

Of course, the Lakers also seized this point, using Whiteside's huge physical advantage and Antetokounmpo's excellent flexibility to blow up the Celtics inside.

But the Celtics went crazy from the outside!
Mo Williams continued his excellent touch at the end of the first quarter and scored 19 points in the second quarter. The touch is contagious. Bradley and Crowder also hit three-pointers in a row. Ren scored 33 to 28 and tied the score to 60 at halftime!
The fans at the scene were excited!

No one thought that the Celtics would be able to fight the Lakers hard, even when all the Lakers' main players were on the court!

Although the Lakers fans hate the Celtics the most in the entire NBA, they hate the Celtics. They have great respect for the Celtics, the team that has caused them the most trouble in history and defeated them the most times. This is respect for powerful enemies, and only the Celtics, the only team in NBA history that has won more championships than the Lakers, will make Lakers fans respect from the heart.

After the Celtics were all traded away from the previous core, they were able to play so well. The hearts of the Lakers fans were lifted, and the Lakers players also began to get nervous.

(End of this chapter)