May 7.

As the semi-finals between the eastern and western regions became more intense, on this day, the Magic also ushered in the third match against the Celtics in this round of the series.

However, unlike before, the Magic team in this game will visit North Shore Garden Stadium for the game.

As the saying goes, after experiencing two consecutive home advantage, the Magic team in this game also had to face deafening booing on the away game.

When the Celtics players came on the court, the entire North Shore Garden Arena was directly heard.

When the Magic players entered the stadium, they were greeted with waves of booing.

This huge contrast between the front and back seems to cast a shadow on the Magic team's players.

After all, in this round of the series, the Magic itself is the weak side, and now the team is playing away again, so for the Magic's generals, this game will inevitably be a battle.

Before the game began, both sides also announced their starting lineups in this game.

Celtics:

Rondo, Ray Allen, Pierce, Garnett, Perkins.

Magic:

Sujiu, Iverson, Tkoglu, Lewis and Howard.

In this game, Van Gundy obviously made some adjustments to the starting lineup.

The most obvious one is that the two defensive players Michael Pitrus and Amir Johnson were both taken off the court by Van Gundy.

The starting lineup sent by Stan Van Gundy in this game is obviously intended to have an offensive battle with the Celtics in this game.

This kind of choice that actively gives up defense and instead wants to invest in offensive ends, outsiders cannot comment on whether it is right or wrong.

Because after the two teams' first two games of the battle, Stan Van Gundy also clearly discovered that when the main lineups of both sides were all on the court, it was extremely difficult for the Magic to gain some advantages with a balanced lineup of offense and defense.

During the period when Van Gundy chose to fight against the Celtics with all his strength, although the Magic did very well on the defensive end, he was also subject to sanctions from the Celtics on the offensive end.

This also led to the Magic's offense being unable to open up in the second series.

In the end, with the strength of individual stars on both sides, the Celtics, which has the four giants, had a slight advantage and successfully defeated the Magic away.

So before the team came to visit North Shore Garden Arena, Stan Van Gundy had decided to change his strategy in this game.

Put the focus that has been put on the defensive end and try to put it on the offensive end to see if it can bring some turning points to the outcome of this round of series.

After all, in the last quarter of the second round of the series, the Magic's offensive performance also made Stan Van Gundy's eyes shine.

Although the team finally faced losing in that game, the reason for the final loss was that the players frequently missed key shots in the final stage.

So when both sides regain their strength and fight again, Stan Van Gundy will choose to change the lineup to see if this change will allow the Magic to win this game away.

After all, facts have proved that if Van Gundy really fought against the Celtics in this round of the series, the Magic are likely to lose a lot.

Even though the team has the best defensive player, Howard, the entire Celtics' offensive area is completely out of the basket.

Whether it is Pierce or Garnett, the shooting areas of these two people are basically at the middle distance.

And Lei Allen needs no more, most of his shooting areas are also ending at the three-point line.

So in this case, Howard's defensive ability to dominate the basket is directly reduced.

Although Howard's current movement speed is fully capable of defending any position within the three-point line.

But compared to the troubles the Celtics caused to the Magic on the defensive end, the Magic's ability on the defensive end is indeed a bit worse.

This is also the main reason why Van Gundy will choose to suddenly change the lineup in this crucial series of g3.

After all, even if there are some changes to the team's starting lineup, this lineup is still a routine that the Magic often use in the regular season.

So this time the change of the formation is entirely caused by the playing style on the court, and there is no problem with the running-in between the players.

Before the game began, both players warmed up at halftime.

However, compared to the worry of the Magic, the Celtics, who returned to Boston's home court in this game, were obviously more relaxed in their mentality.

This can be clearly seen from the expression on the faces when both sides warmed up before the game.

It’s not that the Celtics are already very good at this game. After two consecutive away games in the playoffs, they returned to their home court, which also added a lot of confidence to the Celtics.

Before the game officially started, Su Jiu seemed relatively relaxed at this moment than the extremely solemn way of coaching other players of the Magic.

At least compared with the rookie Courtney Lee who entered the league in the same year as him, Su Jiu can definitely be called relaxed and happy at this moment.

It’s not that Su Jiu doesn’t want to win this game, but even if Su Jiu is anxious, it still cannot change the fact that both sides need to try their best in the game.

After all, no matter what, Su Jiu can be called a two-person life because he knows very well that the biggest function of those anxiety before the game is to interfere with his confidence in shooting on the court.

So compared to caring too much about the winning or losing of the game, it is better to think about what you should do in this game.

At least for Su Jiu at this moment, he had already made a plan before this round of competition began.

That is, in this G3 showdown between the two sides' Eastern Conference semi-finals, the system's random draw function is enabled, and they plan to take advantage of their own luck.

Su Jiu obviously had a long struggle with this decision before the game.

Because as Su Jiu's own strength becomes stronger and stronger, Su Jiu is becoming more and more resistant to the system's random selection function.

If he just entered the league, it was because Su Jiu's own strength was not good. If he did not rely on the system's random drawing function, then he had no strength to gain a foothold on the NBA stage.

However, as Su Jiu's personal strength becomes stronger and stronger, Su Jiu is also afraid of drawing experience cards that are not as strong as him.

This led to a qualitative decline in one's own strength not only.

So this is one of the main reasons why Su Jiu rarely enables the system.

However, as the two sides have already fought two games in this round of the series, Su Jiu has now roughly understood the overall strength of this Celtic team.

If we really talk about the team's overall strength, then the Magic are actually not inferior to the Celtics.

Because the strength of the Celtics is that his starting lineup is not only very reasonable, but also his strength between the five players on both offense and defense is also very strong.

Therefore, in the Devil's schedule where stars average playing time exceeds more than 38 minutes per game, the Celtics' lineup actually has an advantage.

At least compared to the fact that the Magic's strong lineup has been greatly compressed.

Because when the scores of both sides are very urgent, once the Celtics make some adjustments to the lineup.

Then Van Gundy also dared not put the substitute lineup on the court and played for too long.

Regardless of whether this mentality is a subconscious choice to believe in the starting lineup, or because a substitute player with better physical strength is really inferior to the main force who consumes physical strength.

Anyway, the effect of the feedback in the end is that when the main players of both sides are not low per game, the Magic are slightly at a disadvantage.

Especially when the Celtics' lineup naturally has a grammatical effect on the Magic, this also makes Su Jiu less and less confident.

Because Su Jiu's high energy performance in the g2 game was not able to lead the team to win the final victory at home, this strengthened Su Jiu's determination to enable the system in this game.

To put it bluntly, before the start of this game, Su Jiu did not have much confidence to take away this victory.

So instead of pinning his hopes on Howard being able to show off his power under the double-team of Perkins and Garnett.

Or if Iverson can dream of returning to the peak and turning into a lone hero, it would be better for Su Jiu to make a random draw and try his best to take advantage of the mysterious and mysterious luck.

After all, even if this game really lost, Su Jiu believes that the first target of the media's attack should be Howard...

So when he is not the star and he will definitely take the blame for him, Su Jiu also plans to win this 50% chance.

Take a try before the race, and turn a bicycle into a motorcycle!

But I go to the country for every game. This is the living Buddha of the country...

As the game is about to begin, the players on both sides are standing on the court, waiting for the center to jump the ball.

After Su Jiu chose to use the random drawing function before the game, the familiar voice finally rang again in Su Jiu's mind many days later.

【Ding ~ It was detected that the host is playing a competition and random selection is being performed for the host, please wait ~ 】

[Ding~The star experience card for this game has been drawn. Congratulations to the host for obtaining a Wayne Ellington experience card in the 17-18 season.]

[The experience card will be completely invalid after the end of this game. I wish the host a happy basketball~]

"Cao, this group of relatives is a bit serious."

Su Jiu drew the Ellington Experience Card in this game in the 17-18 season. In the 17-18 season, Ellington averaged 11.2 points, 2.1 rebounds and 1.0 assists per game.

Although his shooting percentage is only 40.5%, his three-point shooting percentage is as high as 39.4%.

Although this three-point shooting percentage can be completely destroyed on the Celtics' outside line, it even poses a huge threat to it.

But Su Jiu, who has a Wayne Ellington experience card, still showed a sad face before the game.

Looking around, I basically feel that the future is promising...

Pooh!

The future is not bright!!
Chapter completed!