~.-~     At the same time, the Celtics also replaced Ray Allen, Garnett, and Paul Pierce back on the court. With Rondo in the main lineup, they replaced Tony Allen, Stecoppollard and Scala Bryan to form the lineup on the court.

The Supersonics' lineup is Robert Swift, Nick Colinson, Szebiak, Wilkins and Watson. This lineup has excellent defense. Carlesimo wants to use this lineup to stabilize for a period of time and try to drag until Stephen has enough time to return to the court.

Under the tight defense of the Celtics, Stephen, the Supersonics, can maintain normal scoring, but the Celtics are currently replacing this lineup and are mainly defense-oriented, so for a minute and a half at the beginning of the second half, neither team was able to score.

Until Paul Pierce beat his old teammate Szebiak, causing Szebiak to make both fouls and free throws, the Celtics' scoring suddenly came alive. Paul Pierce began to score continuously, break through, shoot from the outside, and occasionally play back one-on-one, which is extremely lightweight to see Szebiak's defense in nothing.

In just three minutes, Szebiac had already paid the price of two fouls, but it still could not stop Paul Pierce from showing off. After the score was overtaken, the gap continued to widen with Paul Pierce's performance. To make matters worse, Tony Allen's touch also began to explode.

The two people added together quickly widened the gap in the score to more than double digits, while the Supersonics only relied on Szebiak's three-point shooting and Wilkins' breakthrough to score five points. In other words, the Supersonics were beaten by their opponents with a 17-5 high cháo.

Seeing that the gap was still going to expand, Calesimo felt that he could not continue like this. His opponent was a defensive team like the Celtics. The score gap was widened. If you want to reverse it, you would have to work more than several times more than other teams, so Calesimo immediately called a timeout.

To be honest, Calesimo only found the feeling of a head coach in the last two or three games, and at the same time he also felt a little handy about the overall control of the team. During the two years with the Spurs, he was only responsible for tactics and game strategies, and was used to only considering this aspect, and became a little rigid in his mind.

In fact, as a head coach, you have to deal with much more than this, including the handling of relationships in the locker room, the progress and improvement of players, the team's season goal planning, these are still big or long-term aspects, and some subtle matters that are not all handed over to the assistant coach.

Although Calesimo was the chief assistant coach when he was in the Spurs, he didn't need to participate in many things, because **Vic himself is a very capable person. In addition to the head coach, he also assumed half of the job as a general manager.

After finding the feeling of being a head coach, Calesimo's on-the-spot decision has increased a lot, and he has more confidence than before. Although his opponent is a strong team like the Celtics, it is not invincible in his heart. This confidence comes from his understanding of Stephen and his record since the start of the game.

During the timeout, he replaced three players, Szebiak, Nick Colinson and Watson, and replaced Stephen, Cott Thomas, and Reedno. It was obvious that it was to enhance the team's offensive ability. With the current situation of the Supersonics, he never thought of fighting against his opponents to defend. He just wanted to give Stephen a rest for a while before he could play better, but he did not expect that Paul Pierce could still get so many points when his team tried his best to defend.

While the Supersonics were substituting, the Celtics were also substituting Tony Allen, Paul Pierce, Rondo, Scarab Bryan, and Ray Allen, James Posey, Garnett and Eddie House Tony Allen. Both sides made large-scale substitutions at the same time, but after the replacement, they were all half-main and half-substitutes.

Now it has only been six minutes and forty-seven seconds in the third quarter, and it is less than the time to decide the winner. Although the Celtics are now leading the Supersonics eleven points, for the Supersonics and Stephen, eleven points are not a big gap.

With Stephen's scoring ability, the eleven-point gap is indeed not a problem. As soon as he came on the court, although James Posey was also a defensive defender in the league in the forward guard's swinging position, he was still a bit too far from looking at the face against Stephen.

First of all, he is no longer the James Posey when he was in the Heat. A defensive player like him has high requirements for physical fitness. Two years have passed, and his physical function will inevitably decline. However, Stephen has become more adapted to this body and is more proficient in the use of technology.

So Stephen first stepped forward, then took a step back, and made a move. James Posey immediately rushed over. Stephen immediately lowered his body, and then immediately got up and took action. While the ball was thrown, James Posey's hand swept to Stephen's arm.

James Posey's impression of Stephen was still at that time. Stephen's attack was a little stubborn. He never thought that Stephen had grown to this point now. James Posey had violated the lesson of empiricism and had to swallow the bitter fruit himself.

Since James Posey's foul did not have much impact on Stephen, Stephen's shot flew into the basket accurately, but when Stephen took the shot, one foot stood outside the three-point line and the other foot stepped on the three-point line, so this ball was just a two-pointer.

As Stephen made the penalty, the score between the two sides became 73 to 65, and the away team was still in front and home team was behind. The Celtics began to organize the offense. Eddie House, who controlled the ball, was born at Arizona State University. Due to his height, he often appeared in the point guard position. In fact, his organizational ability was not outstanding, but he was more like a shooting guard.

Ridno's defense was not outstanding, but he almost made a mistake and hurriedly handed the ball to Ray Allen, but Ray Allen was not good at organizing. When it came to Eddie House, Ray Allen handed the ball to Garnett, who was inside.

After Garnett got the ball, he faced Cott Thomas' defense. Whether it was height or wingspan, Cott Thomas was far from Garnett, but Cott Thomas' defense was crazy, which is also the reason why he was called "Eye of Crazy" or "Dirty Cott".

Garnett is not good at or likes strong attacks at the basket. His shooting range is roughly at the periphery of the three-second zone, usually mainly based on mid-range jump shots and turn jump shots behind the back. However, under the defense of Cote Thomas, his back-to-back jump shot did not hit the rebound after making a single shot. However, he quickly jumped up and took the rebound.

He can actually take action when facing the basket. With Cott Thomas' height, he dares to take action without even leaning back. However, at the moment of his attack, the light of his eyes found that Ray Allen was just at the forty-five-degree angle of the left wing. He was running towards the bottom corner, so he quickly changed his intention and passed the ball towards the left bottom corner.

When Ray Allen arrived, Garnett's pass also came. Ray Allen turned around and could take action directly after receiving the ball. At this time, Wilkins was still two steps away from him. Although he had increased his speed to the extreme, it was still too late.

This position is the most threatening position of Ray Allen. According to special analysis by technicians, Ray Allen's shooting percentage in this position is as high as 78%, but it is even higher than the free throw percentage of many people. Sure enough, after the shot, the ball flew into the basket without any obstacles, and the score difference returned to 11 points.

Stephen made a secret gesture at Reedno at this time. Reedno nodded immediately. After serving, as soon as Reedno received the ball, he rushed forward quickly. In terms of speed, he was much stronger than Eddie House, even if he controlled the ball.

Eddie House didn't expect it and was suddenly pulled away. Although James Posey came and delayed it, Reedno controlled the ball very steadily and suddenly stopped early. When James Posey also stopped, he suddenly accelerated again, crossed James Posey, continued to accelerate, and rushed towards the Celtics' basket.

However, there was Garnett, the best defender of the outside player, standing at the Celtics' basket. Although Reidnor was as clever as a cat, Garnett blocked his route in advance, and tried his best to stretch his limbs and expand his defense range. However, Reidnor met him without fear, but the two were about to come into contact with each other and passed the ball to the outside.

Stephen was not in a hurry to come because he knew, but how threatening Ridno's performance was, the Celtics' defense always focused on himself, so he did not rush to take action, but was like standing there watching, giving people a feeling that he was not satisfied with Ridno's solo work.

When Ridno started to rush to the basket, he suddenly took his own steps and ran behind Ridno from one side. Although James Posey had been alert to Stephen's actions, Stephen was too fast. When he found out that he wanted to chase him, Stephen had already run out several steps away.

It was too late to keep up without a single step, let alone three or four steps. When he chased him, he saw Stephen standing there, receiving the ball that Ridno threw out from his back, and then jumped out. The ball flew into the basket as smoothly as Ray Allen's three-pointer just now.

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I got home yesterday and it was already eleven o'clock in the evening. I didn't have time to update. I had something to do today and couldn't make up for it. But please rest assured that the matter in Xuanzhong is about to be processed. Once life is on track, updates will be resumed immediately.

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Chapter completed!