Basketball League of Legends

Chapter 231

In the second quarter, the Celtics replaced the bench lineup, allowing Jonny to play the main lineup of the Supersonics with the bench lineup.

But that didn't help Johnny, who still had to go it alone.

"At the beginning of the second quarter, the Supersonics had the ball, and Gary Payton took the ball to the frontcourt. This game was a defensive battle between him and Johnny, but obviously, Gary Payton's defense was better. Jonny, who is shooting 52 percent this season, is 11 of 4 from the field."

"Gary Payton broke into the paint and made a layup. The SuperSonics led by 9 points." Johnny couldn't keep up with the ball and could only watch Gary Payton hit the layup.

Then the Celtics attacked, and under Gary Payton's very aggressive defense, Jonny rushed into the three-point line, made a fallback jumper, and finally hit the iron again, making 12 of 4 shots. Jonny was very helpless , Just at the beginning of the second quarter, he was already a little exhausted, and he began to gasp for breath. Under normal circumstances, Johnny would have to fight until the fourth quarter before this situation would appear.

Following the supersonic attack, in order to recover a little physical strength, Jonny chose to use the W skill of the Promise Juggernaut, temporarily regaining physical strength, but missed Gary Payton again.

"Gary Payton rushed inside and dunked successfully. Johnny watched Gary Payton rush in with this ball. Maybe his physical fitness has problems. After all, the Celtics have played 6 consecutive back-to-back games."

After regaining some strength, Jonny turned around and hit a three-pointer on the offensive end, slightly recovering from the decline. He made 13 of 5 shots, and his shooting percentage was a little better.

However, Gary Payton, who was waiting for work, actually showed the defensive strength of the playoffs. The defensive strength increased again, and Jonny hit the iron one after another. At the end of the second quarter, the Celtics were already 15 points behind, and Jonny But he has already made 22 of 7 shots and hit iron 15 times in the half, with an extremely poor shooting percentage.

At the beginning of the second half, Jonny continued to hit the iron, and finally the whole game ended. Although Jonny scored 44 points, he made 37 of 11 shots and hit 26 irons. The Celtics also lost the game.But the Supersonics were not much better. Gary Payton made 27 of 7 shots and also hit 20 irons, but the Supersonics performed well inside. Under 5+20, the Sonics finally won.

This game was very bad for the Celtics. Not only did they fail to win, but they also wasted a lot of physical energy. In order to catch up with the score, Jonny played a full 43 minutes in this game!

And then they will face the Trail Blazers, which is another tough nut to crack. The Trail Blazers with Arvidas Sabonis, Rasheed Wallace, Damon Stoudemire and others are also a strong team. However, at this time, Jonny's physical fitness had reached its limit, so Rick Pitino directly removed Jonny from the 12-man activation list.

Since the next game was the last of the Celtics' road trip, Jonny was allowed to go straight back to Boston.

On February 2, Boston, after the All-Star Game ended, that is, on February 22, he went to the west to start the western road trip. Johnny has not returned to Boston for 2 days, and his teammates will not be able to return until tomorrow. This schedule is really scary.

After returning to Boston, Jonny paid attention to the situation of the Portland game. Sure enough, without Jonny, the Celtics lost the game without any suspense. This is the Celtics' No. .15 losses.

After returning to Boston, Jonny directly rejected the interview invitations of several media, and went home to rest.

For Johnny, the last game against the Supersonics made him feel very bad. He hit 26 pig irons, which is already his own record for hitting irons. And Johnny knew it with his butt, those media When applying for an interview, he must be asking about blacksmithing. Jonny doesn't want to get entangled in this issue. He knows that he is a player with a high shooting percentage and rarely hits irons.

And this crazy iron strike is just the result of lack of physical strength, plus Gary Payton's defense, and the poor state of his teammates had to do it by himself. The combination of these reasons, and the Celtics just met Supersonic 2 times, and the super-long Western Conference road trip, Jonny only encountered such a time, so it is still difficult to appear crazy again.

Johnny has confidence in himself, and he will definitely not be so crazy about blacksmithing in the future, so Johnny doesn't want to waste any saliva on this topic.

Jonny took a day off in Boston, and the Celtics team came back from Portland the next day. Rick Pitino also announced that he would stop training the next day and asked all players to rest at home. I also called Jonny and asked him not to go to the training hall for training the next day.

Johnny also agreed. If it was normal, he would go to the arena for extra practice even if the team didn't practice, but this time he really wasn't going to go. After three days of rest, the Celtics went to the gym again. At home ushered in the king's challenge.

At this time, the Celtics have recovered from the exhaustion of the previous consecutive away games. In this game, facing the king who came from the original road, the Celtics ended the game in three quarters and won the 41st victory of the season. , [-]% of the winning rate is already in the pocket of the Celtics.

On February 2, the Celtics defeated the chaotic Warriors at home and won the last game in February.

Then came the game in March. At this time, the players union has started labor negotiations with the league. On March 3, in the Denver Plateau, league officials and representatives of the players union started the first round of talks here. Johnny also paid a little attention, and it seemed that the situation was not very good.

The old labor-management agreement will expire on June 6, which means that if the new labor-management agreement has not been negotiated by that time, then the NBA players will have to leave the NBA, and then the league will begin to shut down.

Now not only the league is anxious, but the players are also very anxious. They don’t want to play without the ball like this. In the Celtics team, Derek Coleman is very concerned about the new labor agreement, and it has also started uncharacteristically. In the locker room, I communicated with other teammates about the new labor agreement, and constantly complained about the unkindness of the league.

Jonny just smiled, he knew what Derek Coleman was thinking, Derek Coleman just wanted to make more money, his contract will expire this season, and the game is up to now, Derek Coleman just wants to make more money. Coleman should be considered worthy. Since he transferred to the Celtics, Derek Coleman has averaged 18 points and 10 rebounds per game. It can be said that once the new labor agreement is negotiated, for Derek Coleman , A ten million contract cannot be escaped.

And Jonny's new contract will also be delayed. After the Celtics beat the Blazers at home, Carl rushed to the arena in person and told Jonny that they could not renew the contract with Jonny in advance because of the unfavorable labor agreement negotiations. Now, maybe Jonny can only sign a contract after finishing the last year of his rookie contract,

For this, Jonny is still very heartbroken, which means that Jonny will lose a sum of income, and it will be a large sum, because the team revealed before that they will give Jonny a five-year contract worth hundreds of millions. With a rookie contract with an annual salary of hundreds of thousands, Jonny lost tens of millions of income!
(End of this chapter)