The Celtics are in a little bit of fun right now.

Seeing that they were about to be surpassed by the Bucks, the last few games were very difficult.

The Celtics are in very bad shape this year. Last year they got 49 wins and 33 losses and reached the second round. This year they are hopeful that they will spend a lot of money to bring in players with an annual salary higher than that of Antoine Walker and Pierce, who just renewed his contract.

Vin Baker and Rodney Rogers were exchanged for Tony Delk, a high-quality point guard.

But I didn't expect that when Vin Baker came to the Celtics, his mother didn't even recognize him.

Although Vin Baker's condition has collapsed after the lockout, he is still at the NBA level. Last season he had the worst performance in his career up to last season, but at least he averaged 14.6 per game. At least he relied on a lot of fat.

He can be a big killer inside, with a singles shooting rate of about 45%, and can stir up trouble in the inside. As long as he does not encounter a first-rate defender, Vin Baker is still very strong in the inside singles.

But this year Vin Baker dropped to an average of 5.3 per game. After playing for 10 minutes, he was out of breath and unable to run.

In addition, Antoine Walker also has problems. Similar to the Madman's contract, he can renew his contract in advance after the first four years. Therefore, Antoine Walker has been moving towards renewing his contract. For the sake of data, he is in average condition.

Just take the ball and throw it away, shooting 38% from the field and 31% from the three-point range, averaging 20 points per game and 2.5 three-pointers per game, tied with Tracy McGrady for second place in the league.

It's absolutely heartbreaking.

Of course, since the Celtics have no better scorer than Antoine Walker except for Pierce, and Antoine Walker has 7 rebounds and 4.5 assists this year, it is still acceptable.

But this record is much worse than last season.

But at least we have managed to survive until now, and the playoff spot has been determined, it just depends on the ranking.

The Bucks are chasing after them. No one wants to meet the Nets in the first round of the playoffs, but the Celtics, who are so stubborn, will play the Hawks, Knicks, Raptors, and 76ers in their last four games.

, except for the Raptors, the other three games are difficult to play, while the Bucks are much luckier. Although they have to play opponents like the Pacers and Pistons, the other two games are the Cavaliers and Bulls.

In this way, the 43-win Celtics are likely to be tied by the 42-win Bucks. The Celtics and Bucks have a record of 1 win and 2 losses against each other. The Celtics are very likely to

Therefore it was overtaken.

However, who would have imagined that the Hawks, who performed well from January to March and have the strongest record in the Eastern Conference since 2003, suddenly do things on a whim. It seems that as long as they make the playoffs, they are not interested in rankings.

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The Celtics players never dreamed that the Hawks would do some weird tricks at the last minute, even the Cavaliers would lose, and the offense would be in a mess.

This can undoubtedly be regarded as a timely help for the Celtics! It can be described as a dark time.

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Boston is one of the world's famous education centers. Famous universities such as Harvard and MIT are all in Boston. Therefore, there are many foreign students from China and Asia, overseas Chinese, and Asians. The gangster alliance also has a branch here, and most of the Asians

People and Asians in countries like the United States, where skin color problems are serious, will choose to stick together for warmth. Except for island countries, island people do their own thing no matter which country they go to. At most, they follow the Americans and wave the flag and shout. Except for the United States, other countries

They all feel superior to others, after all, they are America's number one little brother.

Celtic fans were very worried about being overtaken by the Bucks, so they wanted to win the remaining four games. When the Hawks entered the court, the audience was booed, but in Boston's fanatical and unanimous basketball atmosphere

, the hundreds of fans behind the technical stage were like a breath of fresh air, cheering for the Eagles at the top of their lungs.

The Hawks only come to Boston twice a year. Even if you include the Rockets, Lakers, and Spurs, there are only five games a year. Asian players come to Boston to play. Like Wang Zhizhi and Battelle, it is difficult to be regarded as a star.

So by this season, Liu Mang was already very famous, and Yao Ming was the No. 1 pick. When they came to Boston to play, it was a carnival for local Asian fans.

The fans are always the cutest. Due to the recent poor state of the Eagles, Liu Mang's fans in Boston are worried about the Eagles. When the Eagles came to Boston, they risked being beaten and got together to get to the technical table.

The tickets in the back supported the nearly 20,000 local team fans around to cheer for the Eagles.

When Liu Mang entered the arena, he expected the Celtic fans to target them, but he didn't expect there to be so many of his own fans. Needless to say, he was really touched!

Liu Mang pulled Jason Terry to the front of the technical stage and waved to the fans like a big star, as if this was not a game but his fan meeting...

Jason Terry seemed to have dug a hole and crawled in. This is the home court of his team! Our team is already like this, and yet we went to provoke him.

Seeing Liu Mang coming to greet his group, the fans became even more excited and cheered loudly.

But the fans at the scene quit. Hey, this is our Celtics’ home court!

Also, your recent record is so bad, with 1 win and 3 losses, how are you still in the mood to interact with the fans?

Celtics fans had a strong feeling of being looked down upon. They were sixth in the Eastern Conference, while the Hawks were only eighth! Celtics fans were very angry when they saw Liu Mang interacting with the fans and immediately called

The boos drowned out the cheers of just a few hundred Eagles fans.

Liu Mang said "cut", these Boston fans are so unlovable, fuck their team to death!

When the Celtics, the last team to enter the stadium, happened to see Liu Mang interacting with the fans, Pierce still had the same alienated expression, while Antoine Walker couldn't stop laughing.

stop.

"Ace is really interesting. Let's go and say hello to the fans." Antoine Walker ran out, dragging Pierce with a cold face.

Pierce is so helpless, so funny! He shoots 2.4 three-pointers per game, and you have to shoot 2.5 three-pointers per game, but he averages 5.9 three-pointers per game, and you average 8 three-pointers per game.

Others' shooting percentage is 48%, and you are 38%. If you are good, don't imitate the bad and follow suit...

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"Jason, you don't have to worry, all of us will support you, don't be pressured, just play out the tactics, don't worry about the pressure of the game, our playoff position is very stable..."

The game is about to start. Coach Kruger still decided to try again in this game. You can't say this kind of thing. What if you suddenly get the idea? Sometimes it happens that you have to run in for 82 games in a season.

It doesn’t work, but wouldn’t it be right if it does?

After finishing the pre-game mobilization and seeing the players go on the field to do their opening moves, Coach Kruger returned to the bench and sat down.

"Lon, is it too risky for us to continue to try this way?" Mike Woodson felt that the previous style of play was quite good. He is a defensive-oriented coach. He thinks that the offense is enough, but if it doesn't work, just strengthen the defense.

But now it's not even as good as the original offense. No matter how good the defense is, it's useless. Even if the opponent is limited to less than 95 points per game, he can't score 90 points. What's the use?

"The last time! If you don't succeed today, it will be postponed to next season and adjusted back when we play the Pacers in the next game." Coach Kruger is also under a lot of pressure. Most teams these days have a combination of inside and outside, and often

There is a playmaker on the inside and outside. There are very few teams with this kind of double-back playmaker. He is burdened with a lot of pressure in such an attempt. If it succeeds, the team will become more difficult to defend. If this affects the team's original

Tactical cohesion, then the gain outweighs the loss.

Therefore, for Coach Kruger, if this game is not successful, he can only shelve the plan temporarily.

When the two teams came to the court, Antoine Walker came to greet the Eagles players enthusiastically. Liu Mang looked at Antoine Walker, who was getting fatter and fatter, and smiled so brightly. Then he looked at Pierce, with a cold expression on his face.

Frost, Gemini are really not the same at all.

Eagles: Liu Mang, Prince, Raheem, Muhammad, Ratliff.

Celtics: Tony Delk, Pierce, Eric Williams, Antoine Walker, Tony Batty.

Delk played for the Celtics in the second half of last season, but was given up due to poor performance. Later, he signed a one-year contract of 2 million with the Nets. Who knew it would explode? This year, 39.5%

3-point shooting percentage, averaging 1.8 three-pointers per game, and was traded back by the Celtics for Rodney Rogers.

Eric Williams was a rookie in 1995. At the end of his rookie year, he was named one of the three most promising forwards that year, along with Rasheed Wallace and Garnett.

They all have high ratings, second only to the best rookie, Little Flying Squirrel. The three rookie season statistics are almost the same. They also improved at the same time in the second grade and became a quasi-first-class insider with an average of 15.7 per game. However, in the third grade, he was seriously injured and ruined.

His explosive power can now only be reduced to a role player, which is really disappointing. Before being reimbursed for his junior season, he averaged 19 points per game, which was better than Garnett and Rasheed Wallace at the time.

Barty, who had a bitter and resentful face, looked even more miserable when he saw his opponent, Ratliff, whose arms were thicker than his own. As the No. 5 pick in Duncan's draft year, he didn't play well at all.

The kind of dominance I had in college was so weak.

The referee blows the whistle to start the game and throws the ball into the air.

Ratliff likes to ravage this kind of weak insider. He makes a strange scream before the ball reaches the highest point, jumps up, and pushes the ball backward.

Batty glanced at the referee with an aggrieved expression, but the referee ignored it. Fortunately, the Celtics were very disciplined on defense. Batty quickly returned to defense when Pierce called.

Liu Mang received the ball and advanced quickly, but Pierce was already on guard, and Eric Williams, a tenacious small forward, was ready to double-team one step outside the free throw line. Seeing that his teammates were not in a position to respond, Liu Mang

Mang slowed down his pace and waited for his teammates to get into position for positional combat.

After Ratliff and Muhammad entered the inside, the Eagles did not pause, and the tactics immediately started running.

The one guarding Liu Mang was Pierce. Delk was not tall enough and couldn't jump, so he couldn't guard Liu Mang, so it was Pierce who guarded him.

Liu Mang took a step forward with his right foot. Pierce did not move. Seeing this, Liu Mang followed the step and started to speed up!

Speed ​​up when you say speed up, it's too direct and hasty! Pierce quickly moved to the left rear, but a moment later, Muhammad, who was running out of the screen, got stuck in position first, and Pierce and Muhammad collided!

Muhammad clutched Pierce's jersey.

Liu Mang stepped back and shot a three-pointer! Antoine Walker, who was guarded by Muhammad, was unexpectedly fast and pounced on Liu Mang, causing great interference to Liu Mang. Liu Mang leaned back a little.

The shooting angle is crooked!

"Rebound!" Liu Mang felt the shot was missed when he shot it, and shouted immediately.

The two people under the basket immediately... got into position without any fierceness at all. Ratliff pressed Batty and pushed the ball into the basket.

Ratliff didn't expect that one day he would be able to play O'Neal's posture, and ran back excitedly after dunking.

Coach Jim O'Brien asked Vin Baker to prepare for the game quickly, as there was insufficient tonnage inside.

The offense and defense transitioned, the Celtics attacked, and Delk pressed the rhythm and pushed forward.

After advancing to the frontcourt, Delk handed the ball to Eric Williams, who pushed the arc to support.

This year's Celtics have become a three-point team, playing a very different offense from last season. Except for Barty, the other four average three-point shooting percentages are 35%.

The Celtics averaged 7.1 three-pointers per game, and the entire Celtics averaged 8.8 three-pointers per game. After Delk was traded back, the Celtics played until the end of the season, ranking second in the league in three-pointers per game! Second only.
To be continued...