Less than two minutes into the second quarter, Durant paid his third foul in this game on Paul Pierce. He could have helped Stephen in the offense, but Calesimo didn't want to replace him so early, but now he has to replace him.

Durant's defense is not satisfactory. After all, this is still his rookie season, and the players he faces are Paul Pierce, who is a master of offensive skills, but his offense is still worthy of it, especially his huge height advantage and technical characteristics of outside shooting. Paul Pierce is not very effective in limiting it.

Paul Pierce is a floor player, both offense and defense. Although his defensive ability is not as good as his offense, it is also a first-class level in the league. However, his height is nearly ten centimeters away from Durant, and the wingspan gap makes it a bit difficult to prevent Durant's shooting.

Not to mention that Durant had to jump up when he made a move. In addition, Durant's attack was very fast and fast. It was a bit lacking in other Durant's ability, but shooting was his strength, so although he couldn't defend Paul Pierce, Paul Pierce didn't have much to do with him.

This is also the main reason why Durant was selected as the second place. His physical condition and shooting ability are his two major advantages. Although he also has weaknesses in lacking confrontational ability, many experts are still optimistic. After Oden's season reimbursement, he has become the most eye-catching rookie player this season.

After the game, Caresimo replaced Wilkins. While he came on the court, he also brought Stephen Caresimo the defensive adjustment, which was to Stephen defend Paul Pierce, who was particularly active in recent minutes, and let Wilkins defend the slightly silent Ray Allen.

This is a reasonable choice, and Stephen's defensive ability is obvious to all, which is recognized by everyone. Although after joining the Supersonics, due to the different playing style and status of the team, he no longer plays the team's outside defense gate as before, no one can underestimate his defensive ability.

Now Stephen is like Kobe, McGrady and others. When he meets an opponent worthy of attention, Stephen will do his best to deal with it. Generally speaking, it is good to be able to use three-pointers in defense, because he has to devote his energy to offense.

Now, among the Celtics' outside players, Paul Pierce is the most active. At the second half of the first quarter and at the beginning of the second quarter, the Celtics scored a total of fifteen points, and Paul Pierce scored nine points alone, which shows his activity level.

So Calesimo's adjustment is just right. If Durant is still on the court, although he is a very intelligent player among the big guys, even if he is not inferior to ordinary small players, Ray Allen is not an ordinary player.

Having two outside star players, Ray Allen and Paul Pierce, this makes it difficult for defense, because you must have a choice between the two. Carlesimo knows that Paul Pierce is more threatening, which does not mean that his ability is much higher than Ray Allen, but that his position in the Celtics will inevitably lead to his greater chances.

Because he is the original core of the Celtics and the boss of the team. Whether Garnett and Ray Allen are All-Stars or the original team is the boss, he must be under Paul Pierce when he arrives here. Of course, as a competitive sport, basketball must have strong support, but Paul Pierce's strength is not bad.

So his status is still unshakable. In the Celtic system, Ray Allen plays a role like Durant in the Supersonics, and Paul Pierce is similar to Stephen in the Supersonics. Of course, the Supersonics do not have Garnett.

However, when the pre-match strategy was formulated before the game began, Calesimo did not intend to compete with the opponent in defense, because with the current situation of the Supersonics, fighting against defense with the opponent was no different from suicide. After the Celtics traded Garnett and Ray Allen, the coaching staff introduced Thibert and transformed into the league's leading defensive team, while the Supersonics' defense level was medium to the water.

If you fight against the opponent to defend, you will fight against the opponent's strengths with your own shortcomings. How can you win the game? The Supersonics' consistent winning policy is to defeat the opponent with offense. Being able to achieve such a good result now depends on offense.

There is no reason to give up his own way of victory. Of course, it’s just that if you don’t fight for defense, it doesn’t mean you don’t want to defend. Calesimo was quite successful in formulating game strategies. When he was with the Spurs, he was mainly responsible for this work.

In terms of offense, the Supersonics are not opponents of the Celtics, which has the Big Three. Moreover, the on-the-spot performance factors are very important in the offense, but the improvement of the quality of defense is not a matter of overnight. Until now, the game is in progress, in general, Calesimo's tactics are still the opponent.

The reason why Wilkins came up and asked Stephen to defend Paul Pierce was that Paul Pierce was too active recently. On the other hand, with Wilkins' ability, defending Ray Allen is almost the same, so it would be too difficult to defend Pierce.

When Stephen stood in front of Paul Pierce, he felt that Pierce now had earth-shaking changes in spiritual and especially confidence in the previous two seasons. Although Stephen only played against Celest twice a season when he was with the Spurs, Stephen was the main defensive player to defend Paul Pierce, so he still knew Paul Pierce well.

At that time, Paul Pierce was extremely skilled in offensive skills and had an ability to seize opportunities in offense, but at that time, the Celtics seemed to make people unable to see the future. Therefore, although Paul Pierce was not lazy or did his best because of the team's record, he lacked a struggle to win with all his strength.

But this season is different. In addition to his calm expression, Paul Pierce has a little more sharpness and murderous aura, and he also has a high aura. But the more this happens, the more it arouses Stephen's desire to win.

The more you think you are stronger, and then defeat you, this task will make Stephen full of fighting spirit. At the same time, Stephen also feels more flirting. In terms of confidence, Stephen is not inferior to his opponent, and even has it.

When Stephen was in the Spurs, he was just a star in the league, and his status in the Spurs had never been legitimate orthodox. Although he had certain privileges in the team, it was more like a temporary measure. At that time, although Stephen had received many honors and achievements, it was not enough that people really valued and felt that it had formed a threat.

It's different now. It's the first scoring person in the league this season. Stephen has used his data to prove his ability. No team or player can really limit Stephen. Stephen also leads the top three in the West to prove that he is not only a data maker, but also has good team-leading ability.

Many players are tainted. For example, Zach Randolph, who was once the boss of the Portland Trail Blazers, was regarded as a player who only knows how to use data. However, data represents contribution and effort. His average of 20 rebounds per game also shows that he has made contributions to the team.

However, the team's record has made him a reputation for playing for data. In fact, he has only had more things off the court. There are not too many things to talk about his bad deeds on the court. Many of them are just malicious comments and speculations from the media.

But Stephen does not have this problem. He has a very good relationship with the media industry. Innovative artist agency has an inseparable relationship with many media across the country. Stephen is very good at dealing with the media, so Stephen rarely appears in the media.

Since the beginning of this season, Stephen has been constantly using his outrageous performance to wash away people's impression of him, including the media, fans, and naturally the opponent. No matter who it is, he is no longer right to regard Stephen as a second-round rookie who suddenly explodes, but instead deals with it with the attitude of a league superstar.

As a result, Stephen gradually developed a noble temperament. When the two collided, they immediately realized the difference between the other party and the past, and immediately improved their fighting will and focused on their opponents.

At this time, the ball was still in the hands of the Celtics. After the ball was handed to Rondo, Rondo quickly handed it over to Paul Pierce. Paul Pierce habitually turned sideways and leaned against Stephen, but after only a little bit of the ball, Paul Pierce gave up the offensive plan of playing back-to-one.

He knew Stephen's strength advantage, and Stephen was also good at defending, but what he didn't expect was that Stephen's current defensive oppressiveness would be so strong that it would not be appropriate for such a player to use ordinary offensive methods, so he immediately turned around and exerted force from Stephen's left side. However, as soon as his body started to start, he increased the speed, and his tonnage was about to rush over, his body suddenly stopped completely, and his body swung forward like a strange move. With this movement, Stephen had already rushed to him and lost his defensive position. However, before Paul Pierce took action again, Stephen quickly took back the steps, and turned around and blocked Paul Pierce again.

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