In the Celtics' visiting team locker room, Rivers was very dissatisfied with his team's offensive end.

"Ball, please give the ball to Rajon."

In the last two games against the Pacers, it was indeed the players of the three young giants who stood up and won the game, allowing the Celtics to advance to the second round smoothly, but no matter what, the Celtics' real offensive core now has to be Rondo.

Rondo was not able to participate in the offense in the first half. The Celtics were more single-handed and small-scale cooperation on the offensive end. The Knicks in front of them also endured the Eastern Conference Finals last season. Compared with the young men of the Pacers, the Knicks were not so easy for the Big Three to solve them with experience.

Rondo is also a very rebellious person. He was already very dissatisfied with not getting the ball in the first half. At this time, he also expressed his thoughts.

However, the Big Three did not have any objections to this point. They are not people who disagree with the elderly, and they also understand that it can be said that the Celtics are also Rondo's team, and his opinions are quite important.

In the first attack in the second half, Garnett stepped forward to help Rondo pick-and-roll.

This season, these two people started pick-and-roll from high positions, which is probably the most offensive method used by the Celtics, and Garnett's age can no longer allow him to hold the ball like a peak and break through like a small forward. Now his score is more about receiving passes and then using the legendary iron-blooded jump shot to complete the score.

Garnett's pick-and-roll was very strong, Lin Yang couldn't get around, and Rondo held the ball and rushed to the inside.

The Knicks' defense was changed very quickly. Although Chandler is now defending the big and small, he starts from the middle distance. Moreover, Rondo has no ability to make a long shot, so Chandler has a safe step.

Rondo did not want to shoot, but instead killed further.

One-handed ball pass!

On the other side, Garnett's synchronous follow-up, this back pass seemed to be a pass for him, and Chandler's movement was also very fast. Although Lin Yang's defense has improved a lot in recent times, it is obvious that he does not think Lin Yang can defend Garnett. Even if the elderly Garnett is in the inside, no one thinks that Lin Yang with 196cm can defend Garnett from 211 under the rebound.

But the pass was not passed. Rondo's palm was quite large. When he held the ball in one hand and everyone thought it was real.

As soon as Chandler's center of gravity was shaken away, Rondo's subsequent breakthrough layup became a bit natural.

In the second half, Rondo did not use his best assist to help the team, but instead first found a way to score by himself. After this breakthrough, there was a beautiful middle distance.

Originally, the Knicks' grudges were caused by Lin Yang and Rondo. Lin Yang scored half a quarter and scored 22 points in the half. This was a bit inappropriate for the audience.

But after all, his offensive ability is limited, otherwise he would not be at the average level of 13 points in the regular season, and this has to be dependent on Lin Yang, who has just defended him, in the defensive trough stage.

Lin Yang's defense has indeed risen a lot, such as facing the 76ers' two-round steal and block, it looks like the best defensive player's performance. But occasionally, you can also see Lin Yang's defensive end sluggish, such as the middle distance just now, Lin Yang didn't even lay it on.

"Lin! Focus, focus!"

Jeff Hornersek on the sidelines was a little dissatisfied with Lin Yang's defense. With Lin Yang's status in the Knicks, there are not many people who dare to yell like this now, and only D'Antony and Jeff Hornersek dare to give opinions to Lin Yang.

Because D'Antoni is the head coach, Jeff Hornersek... Lin Yang dare not have any objection.

This is true. Lin Yang was a little embarrassed to be beaten in these two rounds.

After Lin Yang raised his defensive intensity, this was not a problem. Rondo was still defending seriously when facing a player who was taller than him and faster than him, and he had to use Garnett's pick-and-roll again.

Brother! You still want to block it? This time, if you don’t change defense, you will chase it directly from the back. Lin Yang is quite fast. In this game, Lin Yang already has a chasing attacker in the back, and Rondo doesn’t dare to make a layup easily.

He accurately passed the ball to Pierce who was standing outside, and received the ball and made a three-pointer!

As soon as Rondo scored 4 points and 1 assist, he scored 7:2.

The Knicks did not pause, but continued to choose to attack.

In the half, the Knicks determined his tactics and speed in the second half. The three-pointer just fell into Stoudemire's hands under the rebound, and quickly walked outside the bottom line and passed the ball to Lin Yang.

What is the advantage of the Knicks? It is not just the advantage of the lineup, but also the time advantage after sweeping the 76ers in the first round.

The Celtics actually consumed a lot of physical strength on the defensive end in the first half. Now the Knicks are still speeding up, and they don’t plan to pause at all. It doesn’t matter if they have a lead of more than ten points, giving them a 7:2 goal.

When the Knicks ran through the halftime with four people, the Celtics ran back to the halftime with Rondo and Bass.

In the frontcourt, Lin Yang's pass was sent to Stoudemire who rushed in from the middle, and the air relay was made.

Are you strong in attacking? But you have to defend us.

In the third quarter, the basketball returned to Rondo's hand, and the few passes in the back were also good, but just like D'Antoni's central idea, the Celtics did have a headache when they were injured in the speed of the attack, and they had to use more rotations, but the Celtics did not have any strong bench strength.

"The Celtics' physical strength can't keep up. I can now announce that they lost this game." Jeff Van Gundy's judgment was very decisive. In one minute, the Celtics replaced so the main force.

As time went by, the Celtics were unable to recover the score in the third quarter, and Rivers was quite decisive and simply gave up the first game after only 4 minutes in the fourth quarter. At this time, they were only 17 points behind at 73:90.

When all the main players of the Celtics were replaced, a huge boo sounded from Madison Garden Square, because in normal games, they had to play until the last 4 to 5 minutes of the game before giving up, let alone the Eastern Conference Finals are now.
Chapter completed!