Chapter 20 Two and a half
Rick Pitino was also very decisive, and immediately called a timeout, then asked Jonny: "Jonny, how about it, can you play?"
Faced with a problem like Rick Pitino, Joni naturally nodded. He can play. For Joni, even if he plays at the beginning of the second quarter, it is no big deal.
Soon, the Celtics replaced Jonny. Kevin Harlan laughed when he saw Jonny return: "Rick Pitino changed Jonny very decisively again. At this time, the Magic had just narrowed the score to 16 points. They just saw a little hope. I don't know if Jonny's re-appearance will smash the Magic's hope again!"
The game started again, and at the request of Chuck Daly on the sidelines, the Magic started double-teaming against Joni from the beginning. They were unwilling to be destroyed by Joni's chasing momentum. After Joni got the ball, he felt the difficulty. When Doug Christie and David Wesley, the two players, were tightly attached to you, anyone would feel difficult.
Joni held the ball, looked down at the three-point line, right in front of his feet. At this time, Doug Christie was frantically pushing himself against him. If Joni fell to the ground, it might be Doug Christie's defensive foul. Of course, it is hard to say. Maybe the referee would call Joni to fake a fall, so Joni wouldn't be so stupid that he really fell to the ground.
The reason why he glanced at the three-point line was just...
Then! Joni explained this with his own actions. After seeing the three-point line, he actually pulled it up directly and made a three-pointer directly! Pull it out!
Swish~~~! The white nets swung again! The td North Shore Garden Arena heard cheers!
Kevin Harlan's exclamation was a little unaware of the cheers: "Jonny came up and made a strong three-pointer! A very amazing three-pointer! He even made a shot against two defenders! The score difference remained at 19 points!"
After the ball was shot, the Celtics' bench suddenly became boiling, and the substitutes waved towels one after another. Even Rick Pitino applauded wildly. Joni's three-pointer was of great significance, which directly stabilized the morale of the army and extinguished the momentum of the Magic's pursuit of points.
Sure enough, the Magic wanted to get a three-pointer for the next goal, but Mark Price was no longer magical. Joni's personal defense made the ball outrageous. Ben Wallace easily grabbed the rebound, and then the Celtics' fast break came! When Joni came out, although the Celtics' fast break could also be played, it was not so smooth.
After Joni made a comeback, the smoothness of the fast break was obviously different.
Joni quickly rushed to the frontcourt, and then made another emergency stop and three-point jump shot! With a swish, the Magic players were stunned. Joni made a sudden cold arrow and left them unprepared, and this ball made the difference reach 22 points. The difference hit more than 20 points again. The Magic saw that after Joni appeared again, he was about to collapse again!
"The Magic are too relaxed. They didn't know how to stare at Jonny, and made Jonny hit an emergency stop three-pointer. Maybe Chuck Daly needs to call another timeout." Kevin Harlan said so. Although Chuck Daly did not call a timeout, this does not mean that Kevin Harlan was wrong. In fact, Chuck Daly accepted his fate. Although the team is strong in the bench, it is just a mess. It can't achieve any results in a short period of time!
Chuck Daly suddenly had the urge to leave the Magic.
Especially when he saw the rhythm that the magic had just found, he was taken away by the Celtics the moment Joni appeared, and he wanted to roar at the sky: Why!
Joni is so good at controlling rhythm, which Chuck Daly didn't expect. When Anfini Hardaway was injured, what the Magic lacked was a player who controlled the rhythm. For a strong team, rhythm is extremely important. The reason why the Celtics were able to defeat the Bulls in his opening game was because they firmly controlled the rhythm on the field.
And now, the Celtics have controlled the rhythm again, and when the magic has to run around the Celtics' rhythm, the result of this game is also destined.
After Joni made a comeback, he made consecutive hits, no matter how the Magic defended, it would have no effect.
Finally, at the moment before the end of the half, Joni made a quick breakthrough and then made a very quick stop jump shot. When the timer was about to end, a three-pointer shot was directly a sleek three-pointer! The shooting point was very high, the basketball parabola was also beautiful, and Joni's super long stagnant air was also very beautiful. This was a picturesque shot!
With a swish, the timer beeps sounded, and Chuck Daly turned his eyes to the scoreboard. The gap between 78:49 and 29 points, 29 points behind in the first half was almost doomed to have a disastrous defeat of the Magic.
During the halftime break, there was laughter and joy in the Celtics' locker room. Rick Pitino had already arranged his style of playing in the second half. At the beginning of the second half, the main player would continue to play for about 5 minutes, maintain the current score difference in the middle of the third quarter, and then end the game directly.
On the other hand, there was silence in the Magic's locker room, and everyone was doing their own things silently. Chuck Daley hid aside and smoked. He did not make any adjustments to the second half. Now Chuck Daley is hesitating about whether he should resign directly. Chuck Daley knows what kind of impact it will have if he resigns directly, at least he and John Gabriel will become laughing stocks!
And magic is even more of a laughing stock in the laughing stock!
In fact, in the first half, someone began to laugh at the Magic. If the Magic did not choose to change coaches, they would allow Ricci Adubatu, who had made significant progress in the playoffs, continue to serve as head coach, Joni stayed at the team, Ronnie Sekali stayed at the team, and Mark Price and Derek Harper signed this season, the Magic would have a chance to challenge the Bulls' throne!
But now, with Anthony Hardaway seriously injured and Anthony Walker showing his IQ, the Magic lost two games to the start of the game, and perhaps even the hope for the playoffs is gone.
The halftime break ended with the Celtics' laughter and the Magic's silence. The second half of the game continued to begin. Chuck Daly made no adjustments on the Magic's side. The Magic player, who was at a loss, could only continue to play according to the Magic's lineup in the first half, but it still changed a little. Anthony Walker strongly requested to play, and Bootero chose to give up his position.
At the beginning of the third quarter, Joni was full of fighting spirit. In fact, he was unwilling to leave the game early. This game was a battle of revenge against his old club, and he must have fun, but Rick Pitino had already set aside for him to play for another 5 minutes in the third quarter. Joni had to choose to compromise. After all, he had a bad face to refute the head coach from the beginning. Although Joni knew that as long as he proposed to continue playing, Rick Pitino would not disagree.
The referee whistle sounded, the Celtic serves, and Joni took the baseline ball from Ben Wallace and dribbled the ball to the frontcourt.
When Joni took the ball and stood at the top of the three-point line and waved to his teammates to open up the space, everyone understood that Joni had to play singles for this ball.
Doug Christie was very nervous. In this game, Joni had few singles like this. Most of them were shooting or breaking through very neatly. Joni had never used this way of playing with a hanging game.
And just as Doug Christie was nervous, Jonny took one step and actually passed Doug Christie directly. The nervous Doug Christie tripped himself up as he turned around!
There was no one in front of Joni, and it seemed that he could just layup or dunk directly. Of course, he had to rush into the penalty area first.
But at this moment, Anthony Walker suddenly gritted his teeth and pushed him up. He still remembered Chuck Daly's arrangement at the beginning, that was, when Joni broke through, he needed to make up for defense.
Joni watched Anthony Walker suddenly rushed over and completely abandoned Tim Thomas. At this time, Joni only had a simple pass, and Tim Thomas could hit this unguarded shot in the open space, but Joni had to play singles. No matter how many defenders there were in front of him, he was unwilling to pass the ball.
Joni and Anthony Walker collided outside the penalty area. Anthony Walker did not fall to the ground because he knew that falling to the ground would only be called by the referee for a defensive foul because he was moving over, and Anthony Walker forced himself to hold on.
But at this moment, Joni suddenly turned around and directly wiped Anthony Walker. He turned around very neatly. Anthony Walker was unstable and was about to fall to the ground. Joni took a big step and then jumped and dunked!
"Bang!"
When Anthony Walker heard a roar from behind, he knew that he was finished. This time he became the background emperor. At the beginning of the third quarter, Joni completed a single dunk!
The basket shaking, and the Celtic fans at the scene gave off another earth-shaking cheers, and the game almost made their voices hoarse!
In the next 5 minutes, Joni finished the game without much effort. He also made a beautiful 360 turn and add a hip - a switch to the bottom and dunk, which directly shocked all the fans.
Just as the td North Shore Garden Arena was cheering, the difference reached 36 points, and the suspense of the game was completely over. The main force of the Celtics first chose to rest, and then the Magic also replaced the entire substitute and announced surrender.
Chuck Daly said the first sentence of the second half when he was replaced. Obviously he was very disappointed. He originally chose to join the Magic because of the promising double-player combination of Magic. He could be said by the outside world to be as famous as Phil Jackson, so he naturally didn't want to watch Phil Jackson go further and further on the road of the dynasty, so he chose the Magic team that is most suitable for sniping the Bulls.
But now, magic really disappointed Chuck Daly. (To be continued, please search for Astronomy, novels are better, updated and faster!
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