redvbooks Chapter 655 Sweep the magic to advance to the second round! 【Subscription】
Chapter 655 Sweep the magic to advance to the second round! 【Subscription】
After winning the first game by 45 points, the Celtics looked extremely relaxed and casual, as if this was a normal thing.
In the post-match interview, no one took the big win seriously.
Payton said: "We should have beaten them so much, that's our real strength gap.
Big Ben complained directly: "Their shots are too few, and there are too many offenses that are not converted into rebounds, which makes me very boring on the court! I don't know what to do, maybe the next game, I will shoot A 3 points!
And team boss Lin Long, once again stood for Ginobili, he said easily: "Now, who do you think is the most improved player in this league?"
As for Manu Ginobili, he even showed a rare arrogance: "I am the most improved player, no matter who you send the award to, I think so! Also, I hope the 76ers can best enter the Eastern Conference finals! Don't let us down! I'm fully prepared to let McGee know who the better player is!"
In the face of the arrogance of the Celtics team, the reporters wrote down one after another and gave tonight's press release.
"Ben Wallace bluntly said the game is boring! Can the Magic respond?"
"Everything is as it should be! Gary Payton says winning 45 is just a sprinkle!"
"Who is the most improved player? Lin Long smiled and asked but made the whole Orlando tremble!"
"Looking forward to the Eastern Conference Finals! Does Ah 880 Dragon McKee dare to enter the Eastern Conference Finals?"
"The best way to deal with it is to eliminate? Will the 76ers choose to lose the game to avoid retaliation?"
Just when everyone is looking forward to whether the McGrady Magic can play blood in the next game and give the Celtics a response, and many non-Celtics fans feel that the Celtics are too arrogant and not When it should be so defiant.
The remaining two games of the first round of the Eastern Conference also began to contest, and gave everyone an answer.
That is: we are so arrogant, we are so confident.
Because we are so strong!
The second game between the two sides at the North Shore Garden became a replica of the first game. Miller and Armstrong were well taken care of by Payton and Jackson, and could not give any strong response at all. As for McGrady's personal defense against Lin Long , is not able to play the slightest All-Star level.
The score between the two sides once again opened to 20 points in the first quarter!
In the face of the Celtics' bench gangsters, the Magic also couldn't give any decent response. Once again, they were completely crushed by the pair of Ginobili and Lewis!
In the end, the second game ended with 131:90, the Celtics won by 41 points, and the Celtics once again had no one to play for more than 25 minutes, and everyone played more than 15 minutes!
And Manu Ginobili is completely insane in this game!
He made all 15 shots and scored a career-high 41 points, 5 rebounds, 5 assists and 4 steals!
And this is also the first time in the past year that the Celtics have not led the team in scoring without Lin Long!
In this game, Lin Long only played for 21 minutes, scored 20 points, 10 rebounds, 10 assists, 5 steals and 4 blocks on 8 of 10 shots. Don't take it to heart at all, just a very heartfelt praise for Ginobili's great play!
And, when facing the media after the game, Lin Long asked the sentence again: "Now, who is the most improved player?"
This time, there were no more voices of questioning and no whispers from reporters.
The Celtics used their strength in the first two games to teach everyone a good lesson.
Before the game, he had high hopes and thought that at least McGrady would be able to perform brilliantly and then lose.
It was a hellish performance in two consecutive games.
In the first game, he scored 10 points in 3 of 16, and in the second game, he scored 12 points in 4 of 15. The average shooting rate was only 22% and 11.5 points per game. The reporters who have good deeds simply did a trick for everyone. Math problem, if McGrady wants to break the 35% shooting percentage set by Lin Long to score 15 points per game, then he must get at least 23 points in the next game, and the shooting rate exceeds 60%.
Judging from his performance in the first two games, even if the third game is held in Orlando, no one is optimistic that McGrady can recover.
The Celtics' targeted defense is really scary! And the Magic players can help McGrady is too little!
And the fact also proves, the advantage of the home court, can't help the Magic to get a victory!
They tried their best to make their losses less miserable.
In Game 3, the Celtics narrowly defeated the Magic by 110:90, 20 points, ending the series!
Although the Magic maintained the suspense for a while in this game, they even led the Celtics in the first quarter, and until the end of the second quarter, the Celtics reversed the score and began to score points. difference widened.
But all this is not related to McGrady. Tonight's McGrady encountered Lin Long's targeted single defense again. Although his state has slightly recovered, he scored 15 points, 5 rebounds and 5 assists on 5 of 15 shots. In one game, he met the standard set by Lin Long, and his turnovers were reduced to three.
Although his state has improved a lot compared to the previous two games, as the team leader, this performance is still unqualified!
The Magic's ability to maintain the lead and advantage in the first two quarters depended on the collective burst of their role players.
Especially this year's Rookie of the Year Mike Miller, who hit 5 3-pointers from beyond the 3-point line, and veteran Dee Brown also scored 17 points. As for Armstrong, although there is still no way for Payton's defense, but He can finally pass the ball out and stop making mistakes.
Armstrong's performance of 8 assists and 1 turnover was also the key to the Magic's ability to bite the score in the first half!
The variables that can be played come from the second half of the second quarter.
Just in the first 18 minutes, the Magic team mastered the moves on the field, which made all fans happy.
When I thought I could take a win tonight and not be swept away, Lin Long came on!
In the first two games, Lin Long, who barely attacked very hard, showed his domineering attack mode as soon as he came up in the second quarter!
First, facing the defender, he made 2 consecutive 3-point pull-ups, and then he stole McGrady again and made a dunk!
Then Lin Long was even more out of control. He completely opened his arsenal in the second half of the second quarter and shot frantically at the Magic's defense!
The poor generals of the Magic team couldn't give any response other than being beaten in the head!
In just 4 minutes, Lin Long scored 17 points by himself, not only overtaking the score in one fell swoop, but also making McGrady lose 2 fouls. When the team needed him most to provide firepower to stabilize the situation, he only Able to watch the play off the court, unable to help the team.
As a result, from Lin Long's appearance to the end of the first half, the score between the two sides changed from 45:40 to 50:61, with the Magic leading by 5 points, and the Magic trailing by 11 points.
And since, the Magic have never been able to close the gap to less than 10 points, have never been able to pose a threat to the Celtics, and once again, they were swept out of the playoffs by the Celtics.