Chapter 285 The decline of the Big Three
At 23:16 in the first quarter, the Knicks barely scored 23 points under Anthony's outbreak. Of course, fortunately, the Celtics were even more overwhelmed.
In the second quarter, Lin Yang did not forget to continue to sing "trash talk" to his teammates before playing, and said to Anthony before playing: "I appreciate my performance below and won 4 points. Not enough, too few."
However, at this time, the Knicks had no Chandler, and the Celtics, Rondo, Ray Allen and Garnett were all present. The Celtics' strength on the defensive end still did not decrease.
Lin Yang serves as the point guard in this lineup, but it is said to be the point guard. In fact, Lin Yang is more like the top offensive point guard similar to Lillard, Curry and Irving in a few years. The attack is the main focus and passes are the auxiliary. Moreover, Lin Yang plays the No. 2 position in regular time, but in this lineup, there are really no players in the substitute players to control the field.
Of course, without Chandler, the Knicks had to add up the rhythm and not have too many passes. During the offense and defense of the half court, he borrowed Stoudemire to a pick-and-roll and rushed straight to the inside, facing Garnett's assisted defense and low-handed layup.
Garnett is not the best defensive player in 2008. This defense is in place, but facing Lin Yang's scoring champion, the effect of just being in place can be far from what I imagined.
The Celtics turned around and attacked very patiently. Why are they patient? They just had no space left.
Finally it was transmitted to Ray Allen's hands, but when the 24-second time was about to return to zero, Shampoo was still standing in front of him.
Forced to pull out three points! Failed!
Pierce is old and Garnett is old. As the oldest among the Big Three, Ray Allen is the one who has declined the most.
This season, his shots were basically empty in the regular season, and he could not see the previous strong shots, which made his three-point shooting rate reach a new high of 45.3% in the regular season.
But in the playoffs, both the Pacers and the Knicks had no bad defense. In the first round, Ray Allen basically never made an open spot. The tall rookie named Paul George was close to him throughout the whole time. He didn't know why a player who played the striker's swingman grew so tall and was still so fast. Ray Allen made 7 of 24 three-pointers in 6 games in the first round, making less than 30% of his shots.
Now in the second round, Shampoo gave him quite good care. He has never seen any open space in this game. This is the third three-pointer in this game, but it is still 0 points now.
Take the rebound!
The Knicks pushed forward a familiar counterattack, but the Celtics' small lineup had no problem with retreating and defense. Even if it was old, the lineup was small after all.
However, Lin Yang resolutely got into the pocket set by the Celtics.
"Lin Chong in? Oh my god, Kevin is standing inside."
Jeff Van Gundy felt that Lin Yang's impact was a little irrational. Garnett stood in front, with Rondo, the third-place player in the steal list behind him.
If the ball is passed to the outside, it is very likely to create a very good open opportunity. Moreover, among the few people present on the Knicks, Stoudemire, who has the lowest three-point shooting percentage, has a three-point shooting percentage of 28.7%, while the other three are all over 35%.
But in the first quarter just now, Anthony triggered the calls from all the Knicks fans. To be honest, Lin Yang, who had a good rest for 5 minutes, was a little "jealous", so he had to do it himself if he had the chance.
The Mitsuru Step is activated, right and left first, but this move is not as good as you imagined for the experienced Garnett. Especially Wade, the original user of Mitsuru Step, is Garnett's old opponent.
Garnett quickly adjusted the center and moved his body to the left and then took off. The defensive position was chosen quite well and the defense area was also very wide.
However, Lin Yang played a very difficult attack in this round. Seeing that his shaking did not play the role he had originally expected, Lin Yang simply played a step back, and the steps back, Wade didn't dare to play like this, but Lin Yang did it, after all, he watched Harden play for several years.
The retreat was quite large. Garnett looked at Lin Yan's body getting farther and farther away from him in a daze, and then the basketball he shot flew over his palm and drilled into the nets.
"Beautiful! So beautiful. Lin's goal is so exciting. It seems that the person who competes with Mero to attack the kaleidoscope is already in the team!" Jeff Van Gundy shouted with fists clenched in both hands.
This made Bill Walton a little dissatisfied: "Wait, Jeff! You just said that Lin Yang's offense is problematic, and you are also the one who scored a wonderful goal in Lin Yang. It's a bit contradictory for you to do this."
"No, no, no! It is because this offense shouldn't have been achieved that this wonderful goal? A difficult and exciting goal is often accompanied by an offensive opportunity that ordinary people think is wrong, such as Kobe crossing the four-man trolley at the basket and leaning back against two people. For example, Stephen Curry threw a three-pointer directly after halftime! Do you think these offenses are reasonable? It's unreasonable at all, but it doesn't prevent these goals from turning into exciting goals."
...Bill Walton was speechless, I was really convinced by you.
"But this goal is also based on Kevin Garnett's slide. I can feel it from this jump that Kevin is really a bit old."
Bill Walton saw it very clearly that among the previous big players in the league, the best jumpers in this defense, that is matchbox jumping. Walton, who was once a defensive gate, was getting further and further away from the defensive gate after returning due to his foot injury. He understood Garnett's difficulties.
"So, Bill, you said before that the Celtics have a chance. Sorry, from now on, it can be seen that the old Celtics three have no chance at all."
Anthony broke through the first quarter! He made 6 of 8 shots and scored 14 points.
In the second quarter, Lin Yang once again broke through the Celtics' defense. Within 4 minutes of the second quarter, he made 5 of 6 shots and 3 of 4 free throws and scored 13 points.
He led by 15 points at halftime with 57:42.
Who would have thought that the Knicks, who had not scored a single point in the first half of the game, could score 57 points in the first half? The Knicks scored 42 points in the first half. It was as high as the Celtics' team's score. In terms of star performance, the Celtics' Big Three were completely suppressed.
Chapter completed!