Basketball League of Legends

Chapter 239 The rotation is different
After scoring an arrogant three-pointer, Jonny then grabbed the basketball from Glen Rice and assisted Bruce Bowen to hit a three-pointer from the corner.

Then Big Ben blocked Vladi Divac's layup on the inside. After the Celtics passed halftime slowly, Jonny directly made an emergency stop jumper. In this way, the Celtics opened Just beat the Hornets 8:0.

At the beginning of the game, the situation was still as everyone expected, the Celtics had an absolute advantage on the field, and the Hornets could only linger under the crazy attack of the Celtics.

After 8:0, the Hornets finally started to score. Glen Rice made a strong two-pointer and scored the Hornets' first point.But then, the Celtics began to steadily expand the point difference.After the Celtics found the touch, they began to use continuous fast breaks and continuous impacts to the basket to ensure their offensive success rate.

Compared with the regular season, the Celtics in the playoffs played more aggressively on the defensive end. The defensive system composed of Ben Wallace, Bruce Bowen and Jonny Lee made the Hornets a little breathless. , Glenn Rice's shots were frequently missed, and Vladivac on the inside also behaved a little abnormally. He didn't seem to adapt to the sudden increase in strength and physical confrontation of Big Ben.

As for the Hornets, who were beaten by the Celtics in the last game, the defense shown on the defensive end at the beginning of this game was even worse than the previous game. In the first quarter of the game, Derek Coleman actually got 15 points and 7 rebounds. This is really a surprise. After all, the Hornets have a powerful power forward like Anthony Mason. According to Derek Coleman's urine, the normal rhythm of this game should be that Derek Coleman Herman was completely disoriented after encountering Anthony Mason.

This point has been proven countless times. Someone once made a summary. When Derrick Coleman met another All-Star power forward, he averaged only 13.2 points and 6.5 rebounds per game. When Coleman meets a team without an All-Star power forward, Derek Coleman's data will soar to 19.8 points and 11.2 rebounds.

Perhaps it is true that defense has involved too much energy of Derek Coleman, so that he can only misfire when facing these powerful power forwards.In this game, the Hornets did not put too much pressure on the Celtics, so Derek Coleman broke out.

Derek Coleman broke out, which was obviously not what people expected. Dave Cowens was a little bit crying. Originally, according to Derek Coleman's attributes, in this game, Derek Coleman Mann is also an overlooked player. Even when the expert reporters discussed this round of the series before the game, they did not take Derek Coleman into consideration.

Derek Coleman's status and attributes are obvious, and now Derek Coleman has gone berserk. For the Hornets, the difficulty of defense has risen to another level.

Derek Coleman scored 15 points and 7 rebounds in the first quarter. Jonny's task was much easier, but Jonny still scored 11 points in the first quarter, and two people scored in double figures in the first quarter. Kyle The Celtics undoubtedly took a big lead in the first quarter. They scored 37 points in the first quarter, while the Hornets only scored 19 points. The Celtics led by 18 points in the first quarter!This is an even bigger difference than the previous battle!

The experts and reporters on the sidelines were silent, this is the rhythm of another massacre!

At the end of the first quarter, Dave Cowens felt a little bit about giving up. He was a little helpless. In the 1978-1979 season, he coached the Boston Celtics, but at that time he created the worst Celtics in history. Get out of class after the season, and played for the Celtics for most of his career as a player, and at the same time owns the retired Celtics No. 18 jersey, which makes Dave Cowens have a Celtic complex. Losing to the Celtics again, Dave Cowens' heart is very complicated.

Especially when he saw Johnny and then at Glen Rice, Dave Cowens sighed even more.

He has coached the Charlotte Hornets since the 1996-1997 season, and it has only been two years so far. He has achieved a regular season record of 50 wins in both years, but he was defeated by Jonny Lee.And Dave Cowens deeply felt the gap between Glen Rice and Jonny Lee, and this gap is not just the gap that it seems now.

Dave Cowens knows even more that Glen Rice is already on his downhill road, although Glen Rice is a shooting small forward who has just passed his 30th birthday.

From Glen Rice's every move, Dave Cowens can see that Glen Rice's state and strength are gradually declining.What Dave Cowens knows better is that the Hornets uniform team is already hesitating whether to trade Glen Rice.

Therefore, if there is no accident, this season should be the last glory of the Hornets in recent years. Once Glen Rice leaves, Vladi Divac, whose contract expires next summer, will definitely not be able to keep it. Forget about Anthony Mason Jr. Anthony Mason's state has been fluctuating up and down in the past two seasons, which is also a sign of a sharp decline in his level of strength.

Perhaps starting next year, the Hornets can only rely on the newcomer David Wesley.Dave Cowens couldn't help sighing, two seasons of glory are not bad.

In the second quarter of the game, after the Celtics put on the main force and played for three or four minutes, they replaced the substitutes, and the Hornets could finally breathe a sigh of relief.

On the bench, the Celtics are much worse.The Hornets have Dell Curry, JR Reid, and BJ Armstrong as three super-strong bench players, while the Celtics have only one Dana Barros on their bench, at most plus A Di Brown.

Therefore, in the second quarter, the Hornets chased some points difference, which is also the reason why the Celtics relaxed. In the last game, Jonny only rested for three or four minutes in the first three quarters, but now, in the second quarter In the second half of the game, Jonny is not going to play.

After half a quarter of rest, the game turned into a point-chasing battle for the Hornets.

Dell Curry is the best three-point shooter in the league, not to mention BJ Armstrong, the main shooter of the Bulls in the first three championships, and JR Reid, a power forward with starting strength. It can be said that the excellent backup of the Hornets is not counted. Many, but very fine.

And such an elite bench group, coupled with Dave Cowens' rotation policy, 8-man rotation, and the Celtics can be regarded as 10-man rotation or more, so it can be said that the Hornets in the second quarter are a semi-main lineup. , played in the second quarter.

So the Hornets are chasing points very fast. At the end of the second quarter, the Hornets are only behind by 2 points!

Only 2 points behind at halftime, this gave the Hornets hope again, and their confidence suddenly returned, and it seemed that the game was about to have suspense again.

(End of this chapter)