NBA: This Center Is So Stable

The first time, the second time.

Chapter 190 The price of a prank in the locker room

As the starting lineups of both sides came out.

In the live broadcast room, comments were flying.

——【The Celtics clown who overestimated his own abilities, won a game and made a mess of it! 】

——【I don’t believe that Pierce can explode in every game. The Celtics relied on the upper limit of the players’ explosion to touch the lower limit of the Knicks. I don’t know what’s so good about it. 】

——【Pierce was in a hot state during the warm-up just now. At least he made more than a dozen three-pointers in a row. But there is an old saying: Fierce as a tiger before the game, soft as a dog during the game! 】

——【The Celtics’ explosive victory over the Knicks continued in the next four games. The probability of this happening is about the same as my winning 100 first prizes in the lottery. 】

——【The above person answered correctly. Can Pierce, who is the only one in the team, explode in every game? Then the regular season MVP should be awarded to him, instead of letting the Celtics fall to eighth in the Eastern Conference. 】

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North Shore Garden Arena!

The players are warming up, and the coaches on both sides are being interviewed before the game.

“Hello, Mr. Mike, what do you think went wrong with the Knicks in the last game?”

“Coach D’Antoni, will New York fans be disappointed if they stop in the first round?”

“I heard that any team will have great pressure when they come to the North Shore Garden to play away. Is there such a situation in the Knicks?”

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The media threw sharp questions at D’Antoni.

Especially the last question, which made D’Antoni recall the episode about the locker room.

The top coach in the Eastern Conference, who is always calm in front of the camera, rarely showed his emotions in front of the camera: “Any ideas and theories about losing will become empty talk after this game. In any case, the Knicks are now the team leading by a large score. What I want to tell the Celtics is to take those off-court tricks to the court. We are happy to fight them head-on.”

“But if their goal is to anger the young people of the Knicks… then I congratulate them. They succeeded, but the price of success will be very tragic.”

After leaving these two sentences, D’Antoni ended the pre-match interview.

The Boston media listened to this answer in confusion, but they heard that this remark was addressed to the Celtics.

When they interviewed the Green Army coach John Carroll, they relayed this remark intact.

Carroll’s sneer said it all.

Seeing that the coaches of both sides were full of gunpowder before the game, the media on the scene also adjusted their cameras to focus on this game.

The gunpowder smell before the game will undoubtedly continue into the game, and that will be the source of news.

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After the pre-game interviews ended and the players finished warming up, the opening ceremony was held.

Paul Pierce, who made his final appearance, trotted out to enjoy the cheers of the fans. He and his teammates celebrated with a complicated ceremony. In Nash’s original words, I can make 10 three-pointers in a row with this time.

As a white man, Nash has never understood these black cultures.

And Pierce, a “gangster” who crawled out of the slums of Brooklyn, obviously brought this atmosphere to the Celtics.

Under the gaze of the entire stadium, Pierce, with his adrenaline soaring, completed his combo.

After the celebration at the opening, the game officially began, and the starting lineups of both sides were released.

Celtics starting lineup: Chucky Atkins (guard), Jerry Wilshko (shooting guard), Paul Pierce (forward), Walter McCarty (forward), Mark Blount (center)

Knicks starting lineup: Steve Nash, Alan Houston, Shandon Anderson, Tayshaun Prince, Wang Song

After having the experience of winning the last game, Carroll did not make any major adjustments to the Celtics’ lineup. Except that Ricky Davis was still arranged to play as the sixth man, the Celtics still maintained the original lineup.

Before going on the court, the coaching staff of both sides cheered up the players.

On the Knicks side, D’Antoni looked calm: “Boys, I believe I don’t need to say more. The importance of this game is self-evident. Win the game as quickly as possible. This is what I ask of you.”

Wang Song took the lead in extending his palm.

One call and a hundred responses!

Even the players sitting on the bench stood up and joined in the cheering.

This huge momentum attracted the attention of Boston fans, and there were bursts of jeers and boos.

“What’s wrong with the New York Knicks? This scene has never happened before. They made such a big fuss out of nothing.”

“Eh~ The Knicks are scared! They are afraid of losing the game again, so they have to shout and vent before the game.”

“Yeah, I’m also nervous if I’m replaced by the black eight, haha!”

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The noisy Celtics fans did not divert Wang Song’s attention.

He had already felt the power of this away game in the last game, and with the experience of the regular season, he is no longer the rookie who just entered the league.

But he didn’t expect that the tactical abandonment in the last game would make the Celtics fans, a group of jumping clowns, so crazy.

Coupled with the locker room incident just now, he decided to temporarily give up collecting [Steady Experience Points] in this game.

Jump ball session!

Perhaps because they were afraid that Blount would suffer another blow of losing the jump ball, the shouts of the Celtics fans on the sidelines penetrated directly into the court.

“Don’t jump, Asian boy, Blount will get the ball over your head.”

After these words came out, Wang Song didn’t react.

Blount blushed first.

In the first three games, he and this Asian boy jumped three times, but never touched the ball. It seemed that both he and the opponent were tall and thin centers.

But every time he jumped, the opponent’s sense of smell and height made him feel desperate.

So when Blount heard the fans’ ridicule, he had such a reaction.

Wang Song ignored the interference outside the court.

With a light jump, he took the first attack ball!

On the sidelines.

Unlike the noise of the fans, the Celtics, both the bench and the coaching staff accepted this result calmly.

They would not have any delusions about the gap in hard power, but Alan Houston’s reaction surprised them. Before Wang Song even touched the ball, the “mid-range shooting king” had already run to the front court and squatted in the bottom corner.

What confidence!

The Celtics didn’t know.

But Nash just got the ball in the midfield and threw it to the baseline, and a three-pointer passed the Celtics’ net.

The stopwatch had just run for less than 3 seconds, and the Knicks had already completed the first attack.

On the sidelines, the Celtics assistant coach kept muttering: “What a fast attack!”

Carroll, who was standing near the sideline and walking all the time, cleared his throat and shouted to the court: “Pay attention to the defense! Hurry up and get back on defense!”

If the regular season was taken over midway, there were only two games against the Knicks.

Then after three games in the series and countless pre-game video reviews, he can be said to have a more thorough understanding of today’s opponent.

The first rule against the Knicks is: give up offensive rebounds and retreat with all your strength!

(End of this chapter)