The Strongest Bishop in the NBA

Chapter 259 Activating Skills

As the game draws to a close, the Celtics' Big Three have physical problems again. Although Desperate Saburo's style of play is very strong, it will undoubtedly consume a lot of players' physical energy.

In fact, not only the Celtics, but also the Wizards are not doing well.

In order to get rid of the Celtics' defense, the Wizards must use faster offensive and defensive transitions and more frequent passes and cuts to find gaps, which also made several players on the Wizards field run far longer than in previous games.

Thompson has been off the field, replaced by Caron Butler on the bench, and McGee, who served as center, was also replaced by Jamison.

Jamison's height is a bit difficult to play as a center. Fortunately, the Celtics have no strong center. This season, the Celtics' starting center is veteran O'Neal. However, O'Neal only played 24 games this season and was reimbursed for the season due to injury The Celtics' insiders are all served by Garnett and Brandon Bass.

Garnett doesn't like to play the center position very much, and his weight often suffers when fighting against the center. Brandon Bass is only 2.03 meters tall, and his height is also a disadvantage in the interior.

Faced with such a combination of insiders, Jamison can play the center position and protect the rebounds.

With Jamison on the field, the main point of attack on the court has become George again. Jamison's style is biased towards shooting. He is 2.08 meters tall. It is very difficult for Bass to defend. He can only let Garnett mark and Bass defends. As George at the power forward position, George struggled a little offensively against Garnett, but against Bass, who was about the same height as him, he was able to handle it with ease.

After receiving a pass from his teammate from the outside, George signaled his teammates to open up space and he wanted to play singles with the ball.

Curry and others pulled out from the outside line one after another, including Jamison. At this time, the Wizards can shoot three-pointers from five positions on the field. They all followed him out, and as a result, the inside line was completely emptied.

George dribbled the ball, and immediately made a sudden effort to break through to the left of Bass.

Bass reacted quickly and immediately blocked it, but at this moment, George suddenly turned around, avoided Bass and rushed to the basket in two steps, raising his hand to lay up.

Although Bass was passed by George, he was not completely out of position. He followed closely behind George. When he saw George raising his hand for a layup, he reached out to give George a big hot pot to taste.

Obviously, George would not be so easily blocked by Bass, who averaged less than one block per game in the regular season. He tightened his waist and abdomen, took the basketball back into his arms, and then made a pull-up layup, and the basketball fell into the basket basket.

Suddenly, the audience burst into cheers.

The players on the Wizards bench also jumped up excitedly.

This is undoubtedly a beautiful goal, and George's picturesque offensive style makes people think of Jordan Kobe even more.

In fact, George's playing style was often praised later as a combination of Kobe and Tracy McGrady. He himself also said in a TV interview that he was deliberately imitating his idol Kobe to play.

Rivers looked a little ugly, he looked at the scorer, 89:85, the Celtics trailed by 4 points, and there were 3 minutes left before the end of the game.

Although it seems that there is still time, but if 3 minutes is replaced by 24 seconds of offensive and defensive transitions, there are only 7.5 times, which is less than 4 times for the Celtics!

With the defensive strength of the Wizards, it is not that simple to catch up or even overtake the 4-point gap.

Rivers, who only held two timeouts in his hand, hesitated for a while, and chose to call a timeout. He must arrange the next attack well. If this attack fails to score, and the opponent scores again, the point difference will widen To 6 points, then the team is basically declared a failure!

The timeout was called, and the cheerleaders rushed to the field, but Wang Xiao focused on the Celtics, thoughtfully.

He also understands that the next attack and defense will determine the outcome of the game.

Although the big score led 3:1, Wang Xiao didn't want to play another game. Although playing against the old guys like the Celtics, the rookies like the Wizards could learn something all the time, but Wang Xiao pays more attention to the rest time he can get after ending the series as soon as possible.

You know, the next thing waiting for the Wizards is the Eastern Conference Finals, the most difficult opponent in the league, the Miami Heat.

Thinking of this, Wang Xiao said silently in his heart, "Activate the skill, predict the enemy's victory!"

With the deduction of 500 victory points, the SSS props card is activated instantly when the enemy wins.

Wang Xiao's eyes blurred, and the next Celtics attack appeared in his sight.

A few seconds later, he waved to the players with a smile and said, "Next..."

After the timeout, players from both sides reappeared.

The Wizards made a change here.

Curry was replaced by Beverley, and both Thompson and McGee reappeared.

At this time, the Wizards lineup is Beverly, Thompson, Leonard, George and McGee. This is a suffocating defensive lineup.

Rivers' pupils shrank slightly, and his eyes were fixed on Beverly who replaced Curry.

Meeting in the playoffs for three consecutive seasons, Rivers is already very familiar with the Wizards' substitute player, and he still remembers his mad dog defense. This is a guy whose defensive ability is not inferior to Rondo.

With only 3 minutes left in the game, Beverly was replaced to strengthen the defense. Could it be that guy Wang Xiao guessed my tactical arrangement?

In the Wizards' starting lineup, the weakest defensive ability is obviously the strongest scoring point Curry.

Rivers' tactical arrangement just now was also aimed at Curry. He wanted to use the pick-and-roll to pass and cut, causing a misalignment between Pierce and Curry.

Now, Curry has been replaced, but the tactics have been arranged, and the arrow has to be launched. Rivers can't call the only remaining timeout to rearrange the tactics.

The Celtics serve in the frontcourt, and Bass passes the ball to shooting guard Ray Allen, who stands at the top of the three-point line and waits for his teammates to run.

Rondo and Pierce started an off-ball pick-and-roll screen.

Leonard, who was marking Pierce, was blocked by Rondo, and Pierce successfully received the pass from the outside. It was Beverly who was at the point guard position who went up to defend the first time.

Pierce is 2.01 meters tall, and Beverly is only 1.85 meters. There is a huge height difference between the two. Even if Beverly is tough on defense, Pierce has no reason to avoid fighting.

Unfortunately, Pierce didn't know that in the future 2019, Beverly, who was in the Clippers, was even arranged to face the super scorer Kevin Durant who was over 2.1 meters tall in the playoffs, and forced Durant Rant only scored 21 and 23 points in the first two series. Although Durant recovered his form in the following games and beat Beverly, he averaged 35 points in the entire series. The shooting percentage is as high as 56.7%, but Beverly's defense is still praised by many people, after all, it is Durant.

Although Pierce is also a very strong scorer, there is still a big gap compared with Durant. More importantly, Pierce is already 35 years old and has already passed his peak period, even if the current Beverly may not be as good as The Heibei who had been in the league for many years in 2019 was by no means something the elderly Pierce could easily bully!

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