Three Hundred and Forty-Eight. There Are Always Tricksters Who Want to Steal Rebounds
The game became a bit special. When Sun Ce and Rondo played, it was when the two teams had a chance to gain the lead.
Because the rest of the Grizzlies are exhausted in order to bite the score, Sun Ce has become a key factor.
On the Celtics side, Pierce retained his physical strength, defending and occasionally helping with pick-and-rolls. Rondo was already one of the Celtics' best players.
Whether the two can help the team gain the lead depends on the Grizzlies' protection of defensive rebounds, that is, the rebounding battle between Sun Ce and Rondo!
When the rest of the Grizzlies tried their best to get stuck with the Celtics' inside group, if Sun Ce protected the defensive rebounds, he would have a chance to counterattack and speed up.
Don't look at Rondo's many assists today, but in fact it's mainly because the Celtics have strong players. The Grizzlies defended very well today, especially after Sun Ce found a small way to defend against Rondo. The Grizzlies used tall players. The guard went to defend Rondo, and Rondo couldn't attract flanking attacks at the basket, so Ray Allen, Garnett, and Pierce were able to throw the ball in with strong abilities.
When the Celtics can only complete the offense in this way and still be able to cling to the score, if Rondo grabs an offensive rebound, he can get extra points to offset the counterattack led by Sun Ce.
And Rondo... the thief is great when the rebound breaks out!
For Sun Ce, it means being a thief.
Stealing his rebounds like a thief!
Sun Ce remembers watching the Celtics beat the Cavaliers in the 2010 playoffs in his last life. Rondo’s offensive rebounds almost drove the Cavaliers crazy. Restricted, but couldn't guard Rondo, and even Rondo scored 29 points, 18 rebounds and 13 assists in a single game. In that game, Rondo scored 8 free throws and 4 assists by relying on offensive rebounds. Fucked the Cavaliers.
At that time, Sun Ce still felt that the Cavaliers were so stupid inside.
Now this matter has fallen to his grandson!
The adjustment made by the Grizzlies during the halftime break is mainly to reduce Sun Ce’s physical exertion, so that Sun Ce can play for a while, like Gay. In the second half, when Sun Ce is on him, he will use it to contain Tony Allen. defense.
Pierce's defense is also good, but it is definitely worse than Tony Allen. Tony Allen is at the quasi-best defensive team level. Pierce has nothing to do with the best defensive team at his peak. He is more suitable for defending against James, Heavy players like Stephen Jackson and Artest.
As long as Pierce defends Guy,
Sun Ce passed the ball to Gay, and Gay swung it first, and Gay scored two goals as hard as he could.
And Pierce really couldn't prevent Gay from counterattacking. Once Sun Ce got the defensive rebound and Gay went to the frontcourt to receive the ball, it would be difficult for the Celtics to prevent his cut and pass after attracting the defense.
In order to avoid this, Tony Allen finally let Sun Ce go and compete with Guy.
In order for Sun Ce to play well and to drag the game to the last moment, Coach Hollins has already exerted his strongest coaching ability!
If it was such a difficult game before the All-Star weekend, the Grizzlies might give up and save their energy to play other games.
But the situation is different now. I need to play against the Celtics to test my ability and give the players confidence. Now is the time to lay the foundation for the playoffs!
This fight is over!
After three quarters, the offense of the two teams in the third quarter was relatively okay. The Grizzlies have clear tactics here, and the Celtics also specially formulated tactics for Rondo.
The Grizzlies scored 23 points in the third quarter. Compared with the first half, this efficiency has been earth-shattering. The Celtics scored 24 points.
After the first three quarters, the two teams tied for 60!
In the third quarter, two key players rested. Gasol Jr. of the Grizzlies only played two minutes in the third quarter, and Garnett played only four minutes for the Celtics.
After the start of the fourth quarter, the Grizzlies started all the way, and the Celtics finally brought out their strongest defensive lineup, Rondo, Tony Allen, Pierce, Garnett, Perkins together play!
The battle between the five-man team with the highest defensive efficiency in the league and the five-man team with the third defensive efficiency is simply bloody!
Even if the physical strength is well preserved, in the fourth quarter, the physical strength is definitely not as good as it was at the beginning of the game.
The biggest impact is not the defensive efficiency, but the shooting accuracy.
The two teams did not score a goal in sports in the first two minutes of the fourth quarter, and each team only scored two goals in sports in the first five minutes, and the scoring basically stagnated.
The Celtics' two sports goals were scored by Pierce. His one-on-one ability is the strongest in the history of the Celtics; The most capable players in history scored one-on-one, and Randolph scored two goals.
Except for these two, no one else scored a field goal in the first five minutes of the fourth quarter.
A wave of 6 to 6 was played in 5 minutes...
After Pierce hit the second goal to tie the score again, the two teams scored zero in the next minute. They stayed until the sixth minute of the fourth quarter. The Grizzlies called a timeout and entered the official timeout.
Sun Ce broke out in a cold sweat during the half-term rest...
Entering the timeout, Sun Ce saw that a staff member had come to him to pick up the training uniform he had taken off. Sun Ce took off the training uniform silently. It was the first time he felt scared when he played.
Take a deep breath, afraid of wool!
Isn't it just a regular season?
And if you don't play, how can you beat Rondo!
Sun Ce played 24 minutes in the first three quarters and scored 10 points, 16 rebounds and 6 assists. The rebounds in the three quarters have already broken his regular season rebounding record. He had 15 rebounds in a single game before.
Sun Ce feels that he is hopeful for 20+10.
Rondo has played 32 minutes so far, and scored 8 points, 12 rebounds and 9 assists, almost a triple-double.
At present, Sun Ce is still leading 22 to 21. Thanks to the rough defense of the two teams in the first half of the fourth quarter, Rondo did not have a good chance to get to the basket. The waving long arm is too terrifying.
Coach Hollins replaced Battier, Randolph, Gasol Jr., and Conley, leaving only Gay with excellent physical strength, and replaced him with Sun Ce, Anthony Parker, Cook, Jr. Jordan.
Cook, who has performed well in three-pointers recently, Anthony Parker, who has been very stable, plus the two counterattack arrows of Gay and Jordan Jr., and the organizer Sun Ce, this is already the best that Coach Hollins can come up with at this stage. Good lineup now.
It's not that I don't want Randolph to play. Even Randolph can't hold it anymore. Otherwise, after Pierce responded, Randolph would definitely continue to fight.
We can only arrange suitable tactics for Sun Ce as much as possible.
On the Celtic side, the current situation is something they didn't expect!
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