May 5.

With the fans' high expectations, the second game of the Eastern Conference semi-final Magic vs. Celtics will also officially start today.

Due to the visual feast that the two teams contributed in the first game, not only the Orlando Arena home tickets were sold out before the game began.

Even the reporters who came to the scene to shoot were in a hurry, and even all the vacant seats on the scene were basically occupied by media personnel.

Even the staff who were responsible for finding opportunities to wipe the floor on the sidelines had to find a corner to join in and sit down.

Before the game began, Magic fans at the entire Orlando Arena were still dressed in blue body.

This also leads to the players who feel like they are in a blue ocean after entering the stadium.

With the passionate and crazy shouts from home fans, there is really a kind of suffocation fear in the Orlando Arena at this moment.

Before the game started, the players of the two teams also warmed up shooting in their respective halfs, but at this moment, the big screen on the scene was given to the players watching from the field.

It can be clearly seen from the large screen on the scene that many big stars came to the Orlando Arena in this game.

In addition to the NBA stars who missed the playoffs early, there are also many real estate tycoons from the entertainment industry and various industries.

Among them, the players found based on the large screen on the scene are Chris Paul of the Hornets, Chris Boss of the Raptors, Crawford of the Warriors, and Yi Jianlian, who is also from China.

And among these four people, Crawford and Yi Jianlian were both wearing uniform outfits issued by the Magic before the game.

It's clear that this looks are cheering for the Magic.

Jamal Crawford has a good relationship with Iverson. They often communicate with each other on dribbling skills on the court.

Although it was originally due to Crawford's support for Iverson, these two similarly stinky head players later became pretty good friends off the court.

However, while the large screen on the scene continued to capture the crowd, the atmosphere at the scene suddenly burst into a very fierce cheer.

Looking along the eyes of all the fans at the scene, the figure that was shown on the big screen on the scene was Katy Perry!

For fans who have watched NBA games for a long time, some gossip rumors about Su Jiu and Katy Perry outside the court are basically well known.

It’s just that unlike other NBA stars’ romances, the relationships of other stars have proved that there must be some relationship between the two once they are announced.

However, Katy Perry and Su Jiu are only closely connected with each other on the Internet, but in fact there is no further development.

So this feeling as if it was wearing a mysterious veil also made many media report on Su Jiu in a follow-up manner.

Unfortunately, two months later, the paparazzi who were responsible for gossiping Su Jiu still got nothing.

Because Su Jiu practices in the stadium every day except for games.

After finally getting a rest time, Su Jiu would drink drinks with Courtney and Li in the room, bragging, and there was no news to capture at all.

So after wasting two months of resources to track Su Jiu, even the paparazzi gave up on the character Su Jiu.

It can be said that if Su Jiu hadn't been a new star who is currently attracting attention in the NBA, then Su Jiu would have been blacklisted by the paparazzi long ago.

Because in the eyes of the media, this kind of person is simply a money-losing thing...

As the game is about to begin, both sides also announced the starting lineup for this game.

Magic:

Sujiu, Iverson, Petrus, Amir Johnson, and Howard.

Celtics:

Rondo, Ray Allen, Pierce, Garnett, and Perkins.

Both sides continued their employment in this round of the series.

For the Magic, Stan Van Gundy didn't do much in changing the lineup.

So apart from some pre-prepared series, the Magic rarely make a change to the main lineup.

After all, whenever the main lineup changes, this means that the tacit understanding between each other will decrease.

This leads to the strong teams in the league not making too big adjustments to the lineup without having to.

Compared with the Magic, the Celtics' starting lineup in this game was completely expected.

After all, the Celtics have always used these people to start this season. Apart from injuries, the Celtics have never made any adjustments to the lineup.

Before the game began, the fans at the scene were already in a state of excitement.

Because according to the large screen on the scene, although the game is far from beginning, the players on both sides seem to have sparked on the court.

Not only did they not hug each other, but they even looked at each other with a full murderous aura.

The most conspicuous ones are Rondo and Su Jiu. The game has not yet begun, but the two of them have always had verbal communication on the court.

Judging from each other's expressions, these communications are obviously not good things.

After the game started, in the midfield's jump ball, the ball rights were still the first to be obtained by the Magic.

After all, even though Perkins had a harsh effect on Howard in the penalty area, Perkins was completely at a disadvantage in the jump ball at the beginning.

If nothing unexpected happens, then in this round of the series, the Celtics will probably find it difficult to enjoy the leading offense from the first quarter.

After the opening, Su Jiu also spent the half with the ball in a stable manner. After the baptism of the previous game, Su Jiu has gradually begun to adapt to this strong intensity of the game.

After halfway through the ball, Su Jiu also discovered that the Celtics took the lead in defending the second and third-tier defense as soon as the game started.

It seems that in the last game, Su Jiu and Iverson's successive breakthroughs also made Rivers feel some trouble.

So as soon as the game started, Rivers arranged for the team to guard the joint defense he was most reluctant to arrange.

The purpose is naturally to control the Magic's personal scores in the penalty area. After all, in the last match between the two teams, most of the Magic's scores came from the impact on the basket inside the three-point line.

As for the shooting efficiency outside the three-point line, he fell into a relatively embarrassing situation.

In the entire last game, except for Lewis who was quite accurate on the outside, the other people's personal hit rate was in a relatively bad stage.

Especially Courtney Lee and Su Jiu, two players who shot nearly 40% of the three-point shooting percentages in the regular season, missed the accuracy.

So in this game, Rivers' defensive routine for the Magic is to defend the inside of the main defense, forcing the Magic to end at a further position.

The defensive intensity of both sides on the court was instantly increased in the first quarter, and because the Celtics focused on defending the penalty area, this led to the Magic having to complete more shots in the middle distance and outside the three-point line.

However, due to Amir Johnson's starting lineup, the Magic's ending points available to choose from on the offensive end can be said to be a very small number of them.

Especially when Howard was already targeted in the penalty area, the only ones who were able to end the Magic were Su Jiu and Iverson.

However, under the joint defense tactics of the Celtics' focus on shrinking the defense zone and taking a step outside the three-point line to shoot, Iverson's attacking ability can be said to have a discount directly.

Although Allen Iverson also has the ability to shoot outside the three-point line, for Iverson, breakthrough and mid-range shooting are the fundamental reason why he can kill all sides in this league.

So after trying two consecutive three-pointers on the outside, Iverson's brows unconsciously frowned.

Even though this situation is not enough to interfere with Iverson's persistent confidence in the offensive end, it has been unable to help the team open up the situation on the offensive end. This bad result also makes Iverson's heart more and more pressure.

However, while the Magic were troubled in the offensive end of the entire first quarter, Su Jiu, who was not afraid of a tiger, resolutely stood up.

Faced with the obviously rogue contraction defense of the Celtics, Su Jiu took advantage of the pick-and-roll and the Celtics' relaxation from outside the three-point line and began to fire frequently at the top of the arc.

After all, Su Jiu has drawn many experience card characters who have made great achievements outside the three-point line in this long season.

Among them are top scorers such as Klay Thompson, JR Smith, etc.

With the three-point badge you are currently wearing, this also adds a lot of confidence to Su Jiu's projection outside the three-point line.

Although the threat outside the three-point line is not Su Jiu's most powerful offensive method.

Because compared with the shooting outside the three-point line, Su Jiu's impact on the basket end and the pass after the breakthrough are the main means that he can truly gain a foothold in the league without relying on the system.

However, when the team is facing breakthrough trouble on the offensive end, Su Jiu will never be too indecisive in the shooting outside of three cents.

So while the Celtics' defense began to shrink to the inside, Su Jiu also seized the opportunity very well and frequently killed outside the three-point line.

Faced with Su Jiu's fierce attack that suddenly began to exert force outside the three-point line, especially when Su Jiu had already hit two consecutive three-pointers, this also made Celtics head coach Rivers unconsciously start to feel panic.

But when Rivers looked up at the team in front of him who was still leading the game, he still did not change his defensive formation at the first time.

As one of the few champion coaches in the league, although Rivers has always been talked about in terms of people's employment, Lao Li has always had his own persistence in tactical literacy.

It is because the Celtics' defense contracted to the inside too loose, which caused Su Jiu to frequently cause damage outside the three-point line.

However, compared to Su Jiu opening the situation on the outside, Rivers still wanted to limit the performance of other players, so he let Su Jiu shoot from outside the three-point line.

Because Rivers doesn't believe that Su Jiu can kill the Celtics by himself.

Or it can be said that compared with the personal single-core outbreak of Su Jiu among the starter, Rivers wants to make other players get into trouble as much as possible.

After all, compared with individual heroism, team basketball is often the most troublesome existence.

And Old Rivers has a deep understanding of this, because they happened to defeat the Los Angeles Lakers with a total score of 4:2 in last year's finals.

Even Kobe averaged 26.7 points, 4.7 rebounds and 4.8 assists per game in that round of the series.

But under the Celtics' concerted defense, Kobe, who is individually heroic, still had to defeat Boston.

The reason why the Los Angeles Lakers were able to achieve the best record in the league this season.

This is also inseparable from Kobe's offensive transformation this season.

You know, Kobe Bryant this season has hit a record high in assist conversion rate in recent seasons.

So when he saw Su Jiu's hot form outside the three-point line, Rivers still did not let the team make defensive changes as soon as possible.
To be continued...