Chapter 711 710. Pierce's Sorrow
Antoine Walker said it was a bit of a cancer, but his strength is there. When he was there, he and Pierce could lead the team to the top four in the Eastern Conference and enter the second round. Without him, the Celtics It's hard to get into the playoffs.
The Eagles didn't pay much attention to the game against the Celtics, but because of the "yellow and green army united against the Eagles" that the media advocated, the Eagles attached great importance to this game.
It may be many years later, this season will become one of the small years in the long history of the NBA, and it will not be so memorable, but people are living in the present, others do not remember, but individuals will remember their craziest The coolest year ever.
For example, now, the Eagles players are quite motivated to fight the Green Army first, then the Lakers, and defeat the "yellow-green coalition" advocated by the media!
At seven o'clock in the evening, the Eagles' home game against the Celtics is about to begin.
As the boss of the visiting team, Pierce was the last one to come out. As soon as he came out, he saw a guy on the Eagles bench who looked like he was going to do big things——Matt Barnes, standing at the entrance of the home team's player tunnel waiting for the starter to come out The outermost of the two rows of substitute players looked at him with a grim smile.
Barnes alone was fine, and it was not a big problem for Liu Mang, who was the first starter to come out, applauded Pierce and "fired" at Pierce with the finger of a gun. When the home team was the last starter, The boss of the Eagles, Sherif Rahim, came out and threw two "winks" at Pierce. Pierce was in a bad mood!
Seeing the Eagles starters, Liu Mang, Prince, Raheem, Muhammad, Kwame Brown, and Barnes standing next to the starters, and a big white bear Ostertag, Pierce I feel the deepest malice in this world...
Although the rotation plan cannot be interrupted, it can be adjusted!
The Celtics' strongest lineup is the outside lineup. The outside trio of Chucky Atkins, Mike James, and Pierce is also well-known in the league. With the addition of the sixth man Ricky Davis, it can't be said The super outside line combination is also top-notch, and such a four-person outside line team is really strong.
So to deal with the Celtics, the Hawks take turns to rest Rasheed Wallace and Ratliff's strongest interior defensive combination in the league. Come out and start.
As a result, Pierce encountered the darkest game in his life...
When the video of Rasheed Wallace's recorded Roar of Heaven was played on the big screen, accompanied by wild cheers, even Pierce, who was stabbed eleven times, felt the desolation in his heart at this moment... …
Chucky Atkins, Mike James, Vin Baker, Mark Blunt...
Compared with the other party, even the strongest outside combination on his side is a notch weaker!
"Brother, I miss you so much!" Looking at his teammates, Pierce began to miss Antoine Walker at this moment. A dazzling figure, the first generation of 96 to reach the All-Star by strength, one of the twin stars who was once more dazzling than Iverson.
Now, all the opponents are targeting him, Pierce alone...
After the start of the game, no matter whether Pierce defended against Liu Mang or Raheem, both of them were aggressive with the ball.
Raheem has rarely turned on the offensive mode. Raheem, who has averaged 22+ per game for five consecutive years since the second grade, is the two years when Liu Mang got up, and his scoring began to decrease, but it doesn't mean that he can't attack. Well, on the first ball after the start of the game, he rolled over Pierce and chiseled inside, hit the basket and smashed the ball into the basket across Mark Blunt.
The Celtics’ outside combination can attack well, and their defense is like a sieve. Pierce’s defense still has few people to supervise him. Before his boss Antoine Walker himself was a sieve, what he taught Pierce is comprehensive offensive skills , defending this kind of thing, Pierce still needs to focus on scoring now, and even after Antoine Walker left, he had to be responsible for organizing the offense. He played 20+5+5 for the first time in his career, averaging 22 points, 6 rebounds and 5 assists per game. It's more gorgeous, but the defense has become less focused.
At the beginning of the game, Raheem jumped on Pierce a few times. After 3 of 5 shots and a 2+1, Pierce had to switch to defend Liu Mang.
Then, Liu Mang broke through to the basket, and Pierce retreated to defend and then shot a three-point shot...
Pierce, as the boss of the team, would never be able to defend Prince, a pure offensive shooter! Don't want to lose face! No matter how inattentive and ineffective the defense is now, at least he has to guard against the opponent's No. 2 outside scorer. Originally, he wanted to guard against Raheem, but unexpectedly, Raheem suddenly changed back to the previous bear king, holding The ball is dry.
Anti-Liu Wei...Liu Wei is more direct, directly spraying on his mouth to "rewrite the truth"...
If it was only the defensive end that was blown up, Pierce would not be so sad.
The point is, the Eagles' defense, with Kwame Brown guarding the basket alone, and Vin Baker completely lost the first-class inside performance of 15+8 per game during the defeat of the Eagles at the beginning of the season. , his data has dropped to an average of 11 points and 5 rebounds per game. The difference in performance is not 4 points, but in the more than 20 games after the All-Star Weekend, his average data is only 5 points and 3 rebounds per game. Vin Baker can continue to start. , It's completely that the Celtics have no one inside!
Last summer, the Celtics spent more than 70 million yuan in six years to sign up. The former Nuggets and former Mavericks top-notch center Riff, who has averaged 13+7 per game for six consecutive years since his rookie season- LaFrentz, in the first six seasons, was a big center who could both shoot and defend. He once had a three-point shooting rate of 43% in a single season, but when he came to the Celtics, he was not acclimatized. It may be that he has fallen after signing the big contract he dreamed of. In this year with the Celtics, he shot 20% from three-pointers and averaged 7 points and 4 rebounds per game. Enthusiasm, after taking the money, who cares about you so much...
Mark Blunt is a purely defensive player. He and Vin Baker form an inside combination, and Kwame Brown can defend alone.
Then, Pierce faces Raheem + Muhammad, or Prince + Muhammad, or Liu Mang + Muhammad...
When Muhammad is not on the court, he is very enthusiastic about waving the towel on the sidelines. Whenever he has the opportunity to play, he will do his best and do what he is asked to do.
Then, Pierce was infinitely double-teamed offensively.
The darkest moment of Pierce's life has come...
The key is that Pierce handed over the ball and wanted to play without the ball. The Eagles would not let him go, and would rather be scored by Chucky Atkins or Mike James and Mark Blunt's pick-and-roll than let him have any running position Chance to catch the ball.
Role players are not able to break out every day, they can break out every day, that is not called a role player, but the normal performance of a superstar, Mike James and Chucky Atkins' back line is already good, but Pierce was Blocked, just the two of them, even if they play pick-and-roll shots, their shooting percentage is not very good. The Eagles' rotation defense is quite fast!
Although the starting lineup of the Eagles is not as good as the Super Five when Rasheed Wallace and Ratliff were there, the poor man’s version is still worthy. The Walters were 15 to 7. When the first quarter was officially suspended, the Eagles had already led by 8 points.
In 7 minutes, Pierce didn't score a point, made 0 of 3 shots, and it was difficult to shoot!
During the official timeout, the Celtics replaced Pierce.
The Eagles also had a big rotation here, going up and down! Replaced Stockton, Jason Terry, Korver, Boozer, Ostertag, played double evil tactics, and started a hurricane attack! Jason Terry can't move without the ball, but he catches and dribbles and makes two shots very well. Although Stockton secretly hates that no assists are recorded, he passes the ball without hesitation.
The Eagles, which only scored 15 points in the first seven minutes, scored 14 points in the next five minutes, but the Celtics also started to score smoothly. After the first quarter, the Eagles led 29 to 19 by 10 points.
Pierce sitting on the sidelines felt targeted!
After Pierce played in the second quarter, when he saw Liu Mang, Barnes, Raheem, Mohammed, and Kwame Brown were replaced by the Eagles, he was sure that he was being targeted!
Pierce feels the world is dark...
The Eagles blocked Pierce alone. When Pierce was on the court, the scoring gap between the two teams was even smaller. In other words, the Eagles only wanted to play with Pierce.
Throughout the game, Pierce was targeted, and he was targeted for only 25 minutes before being replaced by coach Jim O'Brien and never played again.
Liu Mang scored 31 points, Raheem scored 26 points and 15 rebounds, Jason Terry scored 19 points, and the three eaglets who had already spread their wings scored 76 points, leading the Eagles to easily kill the Celtics 99 to 87.
The most tragic, of course, is Pierce, 2 of 13 shots, 7 points, 9 rebounds and 6 assists. Pierce scored less rebounds in this game! Almost more assists than points!
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With 63 wins and 10 losses, the Eagles won 4 consecutive victories!
Killing the Celtics and defeating the "Yellow-Green Army's joint conspiracy" is half done.
Liu Mang will definitely not tell Pierce that the Eagles' defensive strategy in this game is to "blow" in Raheem's ear, mobilize Raheem's enthusiasm, and try to defend Pierce to death.
Liu Mang is not the kind of person who simply wants to play on opponents. Even if the Eagles become very motivated to kill the Celtics, they will not specifically target Pierce. Obviously, because of pinching Pierce, the Eagles themselves sent out Such a lineup is not only hindered in offensive efficiency, but also not really at its best on the defensive end.
The main reason is Liu Mang's mission!
"Temporary mission: the conspiracy of the most powerful family."
"The 'conspiracy' guided by public opinion turned the non-existent 'conspiracy' into reality. The Celtics and Lakers did not have a conspiracy against the host, but public opinion, the strongest behind-the-scenes leader, made this matter a reality. In fact, the conspiracy of the two most powerful teams in the NBA is triggered."
"The conspiracy of the strongest giants: the host needs to lead the team to defeat the Celtics and the Lakers conditionally. The conditions for defeating the Celtics: Lock up the Celtics' newly promoted star Paul Pierce; defeat the Lakers Team conditions: In one-on-one matchup with Kobe Bryant, score higher than Kobe Bryant. Mission reward: A random star card of the two most powerful superstars. Failure penalty: within one week The host will get a nosebleed every time he sees the exposed parts of the sexy beauty."
For Liu Mang, this task is a dream come true!
Celtic! Lakers!
The random star cards of these two NBA superstars... Liu Mang and Brother Blacksmith made fun of the little blacksmith on the phone and then received this task. The pig-like laughter was not only the joy in the heart, but also this task!
The Green Army is dead, and the Eagle King is here!
Get rid of the Lakers!
The luckiest thing is that Malone started resting at the end of the season to prepare for the playoffs. Malone came to Atlanta purely to meet Stockton, Liu Mang and his successor Boozer. The Shuangsha of Stockton and Malone will not meet again, but this is undoubtedly the biggest good news!
Originally, if you beat Kobe again, you could get Kobe's star card this season. If you win 68 wins, you can get the star card of Kobe's first championship. Now there is a chance to get the yellow-green superstar random star card...
"Blacksmith! My buddy is here! Hahahaha..."
In the Eagles locker room, a familiar pig cry was heard again...
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