Chapter 640: Kobe’s Curiosity and Rivers’ Confidence

At the beginning of the game, Yees scored 12 points in a row in the face of Pierce's challenge of "setting a small draw goal" and hitting him several times. This surprised most of the viewers who followed the game.

Because Ye Si's 12 points were indeed unexpected.

Before the game, no one thought that the matchup between Pierce and Yes would be like this.

Most people think that Yess is at least 50-50 with Pierce. Because of the serious decline in speed and jumping ability, Yess will even be beaten by Pierce.

But the development of this game is really completely different!

The contest between Yes and Pierce was indeed one-sided.

But this time the tilt is not one-sided to Pierce's side, but to Yes' side!

It's really hard to imagine that Paul Pierce, an offensive kaleidoscope as famous as Anthony, Kobe and others, would have such a big disadvantage in front of the fat Yes.

It’s really untouchable at all!

Everyone could see what the Celtics' start meant.

Isn't it just that after using Pierce to suppress Yes, he can do whatever he wants to the Sonics?

This strategy is perfectly normal and correct.

Most people would make this choice when faced with such a situation when they were the head coach of the Celtics.

Even if Pierce fails to successfully suppress Yes, even if Pierce is only 50-50 with Yes, this series is already here.

Who could have imagined that the final result would be like this?

Such a result, for this series, is not as simple as a ten-point difference.

This result has another meaning, since the result of the matchup between Yes and Pierce can be completely different from what media experts predicted.

So will there be problems with the 4-0 or 4-1 predictions for this series?

For the Seattle SuperSonics, maybe there is still something to pursue in this finals?

Seeing Boston Celtics head coach Doc Reaves requesting the first timeout of the game so early,

Not to mention that all SuperSonics fans at the scene feel that the outcome of this series may change, but most of them will definitely have the illusion that the outcome of this series may change.

So after Doc Reeves requested a timeout and the two teams were listening to their respective head coaches explaining tactics on the bench, the reporters in the media box and the commentators from various countries were The commentators are now excited.

"Yes's athletic ability has not declined, Garfield's hurricane-style three-point counterattack, and the humiliating fast break that deliberately slowed down the pace of the fast break in the game... This is Yes's response to recent public opinion, and this is also Yes's response to the Celtics As soon as he came up, he arrogantly used Pierce to suppress his counterattack!"

"It's incredible. It's really incredible. Yes's defensive aggressiveness is definitely not as bad as imagined. At least judging from the current performance, Yes's defensive aggressiveness was insufficient in previous games. It's definitely not because he can't do it. , but because of his defensive style and defensive positioning in Seattle."

"Yes's role in the Seattle SuperSonics' defensive system cannot be lost. Any risky defensive behavior is difficult to accept!"

"Now, Yes finally shows his fangs, and Pierce is the first victim!"

Now the media box and commentary box in the arena have exploded. Of course, as the head coach of the Celtics, Doc Rivers cannot see such an explosion.

But even if he can't see these media unlocks that have exploded now, Douglas Greaves can know what is happening in the world now and what may happen in the future world from the cheers of the Seattle SuperSonics fans at the scene.

"Seattle SuperSonics fans have the illusion that the Sonics can beat the Celtics!"

Since the whole world thinks that Pierce can say yes, and now it has been proved that Pierce cannot say yes, then the results based on the fact that Pierce can say yes are naturally not credible.

Doc Reeves is not looking down on the Seattle SuperSonics, nor is he looking down on the Seattle SuperSonics fans. Even though the Sonics are now 12-2 ahead of his team, he is still willing to believe that the feeling generated by the Seattle SuperSonics fans is an unreal illusion. .

Isn’t there always someone in this world who feels that he likes me, or that I can fight back?

I'm afraid today's SuperSonics fans and many fans at the scene or in front of the TV have this illusion, right?

It's not that Doc Rivers is arrogant. This time his request for a timeout was definitely not stopped by Yes. For the Boston Celtics, being 10 points behind the SuperSonics is nothing at all. The Boston Celtics have 10,000 There are many ways to smooth out these points differences, and he has at least a hundred thousand ways to eliminate all these points differences.

The reason why he asked for a timeout was entirely because of Pierce!

Pierce, who was already confident before the start of this game, actually had such doubts about himself. This is difficult for Doc Rivers to accept.

"Paul, don't care about those failures. Don't forget our failure last year. We don't need to care about these things now. Paul, do you remember what I said to you before the game?"

"I asked you to hit Yes a few times because I hope our road to the championship can be simpler and easier. It does not mean that you hit a few of them to be the only way for us to win the championship!"

"Paul, believe me, you don't need to put too much pressure on yourself. I want to see Paul Pierce who can remain confident and calm whether he is facing Kobe, McGrady or Iverson Carter on the court!"

On the bench of the Boston Celtics, Doc Reeves was constantly massaging Pierce.

To be honest, Rivers himself actually felt a little regretful at this time.

This isn't Pierce's first Finals appearance.

But it's obvious that Pierce is still very nervous facing this year's finals.

He wants to perform and perform in the most watched NBA Finals in NBA history.

Pierce knows what it means to perform in this game.

Pierce also knows very well that if the Sonics lose this game, the attention of the next game will drop off a cliff.

In this case, the outcome and data of the first game have a huge impact on the final FMVP.

Pierce wants FMVP, there is nothing to hide about this.

The reason why Douglas Reeves asked Pierce to suppress Yes at the beginning of this game was because he saw Pierce's eagerness. At the same time, as long as Pierce can really suppress Yes, the Celtics will not be able to relax.

The arrogant Doc Rivers and Pierce, who wanted FMVP, hit it off like this.

As soon as the game starts, go and gnaw on the hard bones!

No matter how much Yes declines, he will always be the strongest player on the Sonics.

Faced with such a player, it is not a wise choice to confront him like this.

This operation seemed so eager and impulsive.

This operation does not look like something that a veteran with experience in the finals can do. At first glance, it looks more like those young people who are playing in the finals for the first time.

"Pierce's mentality has changed!"

That's why Doc Rivers requested this timeout.

Just like Pierce, who was beaten by Yes for three minutes, it can be said that no matter who wins this year, the possibility of Pierce winning FMVP is almost zero.

Although Pierce experienced the last failure in the Finals with the Suns, the competitive relationship between Pierce and Garnett and Allen has been completely reconciled, and will not do some strange things to compete for that personal honor.

However, that is FMVP!

Even Pierce, who had been prepared for a long time, even if he was no longer the first brother in the finals, couldn't accept it for a while.

When the opponent is a cooked duck, everyone wants to reach out to catch it, but the person who reaches out first ends up burning his hand. That is indeed a very miserable and uncomfortable thing.

Pierce is like this now and feels miserable and uncomfortable.

What Doc Reeves said to Pierce after requesting a timeout was cryptic, but the Celtics players around him were not fools.

It's normal to be awarded FMVP.

Among Garnett, Pierce, and Ray Allen, one of the three will always be the most successful player.

When the SuperSonics were like bones in a grave, the Big Three began a secret battle from the first minute of the first game.

As the original bosses of the Celtics, Garnett and Ray Allen gave this early opportunity to Pierce.

It's just that Pierce was smashed by Yes.

Seeing Pierce in such pain, Garnett and Ray Allen were certainly willing to sympathize.

But deep down in their hearts, both of them breathed a sigh of relief.

This is the method and rules that Doc Rivers found to resolve the FMVP dispute, and they are willing to accept such rules.

As Rivers said, there are 10,000 ways the team can beat Yes and the Sonics.

Some methods are based on Pierce as the core. With this method, if the team wins, the final FMVP will of course belong to Pierce!

Some methods are based on Garnett as the core. With this method, if the team wins, the final FMVP will of course go to Garnett.

There is also a way to defeat the Sonics with Ray Allen as the core. If there is one left in the end, the final FMVP will of course go to Ray Allen.

The strength gap between the Celtics and the SuperSonics is too big, and there is no suspense about the outcome. How to distribute the benefits after the war has become the key.

How to get the other two superstars to accept the idea of ​​defeating the Sonics with another superstar as the core?

This is a difficult thing.

For Rivers and Garnett Pierce and Ray Allen, they are not ready to make a one-time deal with the Celtics. They have greater pursuits.

They want to pursue a dynasty of their own.

Now is just the beginning.

Likewise, sometimes starting is the most important thing.

The first FMVP of the dynasty...

Everyone is jealous, but Pierce is the original boss of the Celtics, so both Garnett and Ray Allen accepted Rivers' arrangement.

First use Pierce as the core method to defeat the Sonics.

However, I really didn't expect that Pierce would get off to such a bad start.

Considering the huge gap between Pierce and Yes in the previous three minutes, it may not be so easy to defeat the Sonics with Pierce as the core.

Now, it depends on whether Pierce is willing to accept this reality!

Garnett, Ray Allen, Tony Allen, Perkins and others all looked at Pierce with a towel covering his head quietly.

What happened in front of the Celtics bench was quite bizarre.

Even if it was really stopped by Yes, there is no need to be so solemn, right?

Isn't it just ten points behind? What's this?

With the strength of the Celtics, catching up is not a matter of minutes?

Of course, although I don't know what happened on the Celtics bench.

But for a lot of media and commentators.

The Celtics are like this because of Yes!

Now there is no need to worry about so many things, just blow it and it’s done!

It's just obvious that the Celtics are in such a strange situation at the beginning of the game, and it's definitely not that no one can see it.

Such as Kobe.

"Yes, it's so cruel. It's a direct dream-destroyer!"

Kobe has always felt that he is a psychologist in the NBA. He has been with Phil Jackson for so many years. He has always felt that after hanging out with Phil Jackson for so long, he has not learned other skills. Psychological warfare is the only way to play. Clean house and clean house.

Double-teaming players whose contracts are about to expire is his masterpiece.

What Yes is doing on the court now is similar to his masterpiece.

In the finals, a superstar from a giant team was directly knocked into the abyss. Yes, this is the rhythm to prepare Pierce to go undercover!

Who is the boss of the Celtics, Pierce or Garnett, has not yet been determined.

Both said they were humble, but both were quite proud people.

In last year's finals against the Suns, there were some differences between the three of them.

Kobe believes that these three people must have learned well after last year's finals.

That's why Pierce wanted to perform so much and was so crazy after the game started.

Pierce is so arrogant. If you think about it for a moment, you will understand the reason. It turns out that he has learned how to distribute.

"I have to say, Yes is really smart!"

He saw the Boston Celtics' plan at a glance and used every trick to push Pierce into such an abyss.

only……

"Yes is too cruel, what should Pierce do?"

If you really accept it, you will give up not only the FMVP, but also the position of team boss!

Is this an easy choice to make?

Kobe believes that Pierce is not the kind of person who would rather give up the victory and championship to Yes than to trick Garnett first.

But anyone facing such a tragedy would need a game or two to adjust, right?

And this is the opportunity for Yes and the Sonics!

"Yes, where did you learn this conspiracy? This move is indeed perverted!"

Just think of Yes's ruthless attitude towards Pierce before, Yes truly believed that Pierce would do something like that to cheat Garnett for the team boss.

This kind of thing rarely happens in the history of the NBA, or almost never happens.

He was hacked to the extreme in 2004, but he was not hacked to the point of deliberately leading the Pistons to win for O'Brien.

There was no other reason for the accident in the 2004 Finals. He also wanted the Lakers to win, but it was just him!

"Yes has seen someone actually cheating his teammates to win the championship for the sake of the team's status, so he can be so convinced of this conspiracy!"

Flower Q!

Who in NBA history is so Dior?

If he really did such a thing, wouldn't he be hacked worse than he was in 2004?

But there is no one in NBA history who is worse than him in 2004, right?

So, who did Yes see do such a crazy thing?

To be honest, Kobe is really curious now!

Ye Si didn't know that Kobe understood his thoughts and ideas so quickly.

If you knew it, you would be very shocked.

Not shocked by Kobe's IQ, but shocked by Kobe's filthiness.

You can guess all this, this heart is as dark as his teammate James who played him crazily for 3,000 games!

Just respect and worship this kind of person, never become a teammate!

Of course, Ye Si definitely didn't know this at this time.

He was indeed looking at the bench next door with some leisure.

Ye Si has experienced giant teams. There are many people who can escape from such discord, but it takes time.

He is indeed looking forward to Pierce's choice now.

After the timeout, the game between the SuperSonics and Celtics continued.

The first offense after the timeout was the Boston Celtics.

Because the Boston Celtics do not have a point guard, Ray Allen and Pierce take turns controlling the ball, and the organization is composed of two people plus Garnett.

In the regular season, the three will often pick and roll each other, and their power is quite outstanding.

But in this game, the three of them have not played a pick-and-roll. They were all challenges from Pierce to Yees.

And this time, after returning from the timeout, Ray Allen controlled the ball and dribbled across half court before passing the ball to Pierce again.

But this time, Pierce did not choose to play in isolation with Yeez, but chose to play a pick-and-roll with Garnett!

After Pierce picked and rolled with Garnett, he handed the ball directly to Garnett's hands, and Garnett hit a mid-range jumper against Leafs.

Chasing the score of the game to 4-12!

After Garnett hit a mid-range jumper, Pierce was the first to go up and high-five Garnett.

Seeing Garnett and Pierce high-fiving, Ye Si's face looked quite surprised.

Ye Si had thought that Pierce could get out of his scheme.

However, Ye Si really didn't expect it to happen so soon!

It didn't take two games, or even half a game, for Pierce to make his choice.

Ye Si could tell that Pierce was unwilling to make such a choice, and it could be seen from the way Pierce looked at him.

But Pierce still chose to sacrifice his personal honor for the team and the team.

Pierce attaches great importance to his personal honor, but for the sake of the team, he can give up his personal honor immediately.

Such magnanimity, such decisiveness, such magnanimity!

Yesi took a deep look at Pierce and Garnett before slowly walking towards the frontcourt.

"The Boston Celtics changed their tactics again after the timeout!"

Anyone who is not a fool can see that after the Celtics timeout, the protagonist on the team changed from Pierce to Garnett.

Such changes did not make these people aware of any problems.

Since the Celtics failed in their attempt to use Pierce to suppress Yes, there is absolutely no problem in choosing to shift the team's tactical center from Pierce to Garnett.

When Garnett took over the Celtics' offensive and defensive tactics, the Celtics' offensive and defensive standards indeed improved by more than one level.

Garnett and Pierce's pick-and-roll, Garnett and Ray Allen's pick-and-roll, it can be said that Garnett is the only player who can connect Pierce and Ray Allen.

Pick-and-roll with Ray Allen, screen for Ray Allen and pass the ball to Ray Allen, screen for Pierce and pick-and-roll for Pierce, and finally pass the ball to Pierce. After Pierce was closely watched by Yeez, Pierce was very selfless in every choice he made. Instead of playing alone against Yes, he used his height and passing ability to pass the ball to Tony Allen and Ray Allen.

Not to mention Ray Allen circling Quentin Richardson, even Tony Allen can stun Rondo without the ball!

"After Garnett took over the Celtics, let's not talk about whether the Celtics are the strongest Celtics, but the tactical quality of this team has risen by more than one level!"

“The influence of this competition is truly incredible!”

"In the history of the NBA, Garnett's strengths may not be the strongest, but his weaknesses are the least weak!"

"Many people say that Duncan is the Yes of the inside, but I personally am more willing to accept that Garnett is the Yes of the inside!"

"Whether it's Yes or Garnett, to a certain extent, they have both achieved perfection in their respective positions!"

"And such a player is also the player who has the greatest influence on the game!"

After Garnett led the Celtics' offense and defense, the Celtics' tactical literacy was astonishingly high.

They fell behind by 10 points at the beginning. Such a point difference would have been nothing to the Celtics. They would definitely be able to catch up in this game.

But whether it was the audience at the scene or the audience in front of the TV, they really didn't expect that the 10-point difference could be caught up so quickly!

After the first quarter, the score between the two teams was 30 to 27. The Boston Celtics went from being 10 points behind to only 3 points behind.

At the beginning of the second quarter, it was the rotation of the two teams. The SuperSonics rotation of Barea, David Lee, Wilkins, P.J. Tucker and Kwame Brown faced off against Leon Bowie, Eddie House, and James. A rotation of Posey, Glen Davis and Ray Allen.

The Celtics' rotation lineup is very famous. Whether it's Ray Allen, Eddie House, or James Posey, they are all great players. Even former NCAA players James Lyon-Powe Jr. and Glen Davis are very good players. A player with characteristics.

The Celtics' bench is not the strongest in the NBA, but it is definitely the weakest. Both offensively and defensively, they are excellent.

Therefore, Doc Rivers is very satisfied with the Celtics' rotation.

Facing the very fast and small SuperSonics rotation in the first two rounds, he was very confident.

It's just obvious that the SuperSonics' rotation in this game is not small.

This time the SuperSonics' center position is Kwame Brown, and the small forward position is PJ Tucker because Quentin Richardson has moved to the starting lineup.

The SuperSonics' rotation lineup was originally purely offensive. After Nelson made these two changes, it actually changed from pure offense to the same offensive and defensive balance as the Celtics.

"Competing with the Nuggets, Suns and Rockets on offense, and competing with the Boston Celtics for offensive and defensive balance, the Seattle SuperSonics' rotation is the same as the Celtics' rotation, and they almost never fall behind!"

After the start of the second quarter, the duel between the rotations of the two teams surprised many people at the scene, including of course Celtics head coach Rivers.

Pierce's inability to play Yes alone was what surprised him most before this game.

And when the rotation lineups of the two teams came on stage, another advantage point he estimated became a balance point!

The Celtics' rotation couldn't catch the SuperSonics' rotation!

You know, the Celtics' rotation is led by Ray Allen!

It is precisely because the Celtics' rotation is led by Ray Allen that it makes Doc Rivers even more surprised.

If it weren't for Ray Allen's scoring stability, even the SuperSonics' rotation could beat the Celtics' rotation!

Finally, when there were seven minutes left in the second quarter and the rotations of the two teams were finished, the score of the game became 45 to 40, and the Celtics went from being behind by 3 points to falling behind by 5 points. , this result surprised many people.

If Ye's performance of completely suppressing Pierce at the beginning gave many people some illusions, and Garnett's explosion instantly shattered such illusions, then after the rotations of the two teams were completed, such illusions, Once again it appeared in many people's minds.

But this time, the reason why these people have fantasies about this series is completely different from Yes' suppression of Pierce.

"The Seattle SuperSonics' rotation actually has the upper hand?!"

"Isn't this the first time that the SuperSonics' rotation has been so clearly dominant in the playoffs?"

"This group of once rubbish players have now evolved into players who can suppress their opponents in the finals!"

"Not only the SuperSonics' rotation players performed well in this game, but other SuperSonics players also performed quite well in this game."

"Although Milicic did not suppress Perkins, Milicic was the slightly dominant side in the physical fight between the two. Quentin Richardson and Millsap were defeated by Ray Allen and Garnett. It was a bit miserable, but these two people tried their best."

"Judging from this game, if Durant is still there... maybe the result of this finals..."

"Yes, it really took two years to build a dynasty-level team in Seattle!"

The strength shown by the Sonics players so far in this game has really shocked many people.

If the series with the Rockets is a battle for Durant's reputation, then this round of the series has the meaning of a battle for the reputation of other Sonics players.

Among those who were shocked was naturally Celtics head coach Doc Rivers.

Before the start of this game, he and his team had always felt that even if the Sonics had Durant, it would be a gift.

but now……

Rivers knew he was oversimplifying the problem.

but!

Luck is sometimes part of strength!

This is why the only person who can break luck, break fate, and break all rules is God.

Because God is the strongest!

And you are definitely not God, and you are definitely not the strongest!

"After all, without Durant, the team you have worked hard to build is no longer complete, and victory will definitely be far away from you!"

Doc Rivers looked at the back of Sonics No. 9 walking towards the court, his eyes full of confidence!