When Celtics faced being eliminated by Philadelphia, Tatum first played the worst 38 minutes of his career, and he was not wronged to retire in place; Then it was the best 4 minutes of his career.

Temporarily Saved Celts-and their career reputation.

Until the last 5 minutes of today’s competition, the situation is as follows:

— The Celts with the second record in the regular season league, 2-3 behind Philadelphia and facing elimination.

— Coach Ma Zula, who has always been calm, was finally changed after five games by Lao Li’s face. Rowell started: The Celtics played the defensive team that entered the finals last season. Lowe scored 10 points and 9 rebounds today, and the team’s highest +18.

— Harden, who scored 42 points in the first game, 45 points in the fourth game, 5 middle shots in the second third game, and 5 “perfect baseball catcher” in the 28th game, is unpredictable. Today, he scored 4 middle shots in the 16th game, no goal was scored 20 minutes after the match.

— But everyone who watched the game understood: in the third quarter, Harden saved the score difference.

The Celtics started with Lowe. The exhibition was relieve a garrison. The inside line was tough, but the weak side rotation, peripheral defense and offensive space naturally deteriorated. Harden and Maxi saw the score clearly:

In the first section, Harden first looked for the weak side Tucker to throw three points, and once fell behind 3 to 13, he continuously gambled to break the ball and counterattack.

In the third quarter, Philadelphia changed its rhythm and continued to speed up its pursuit: Lowe ate the hat, Harden looked for Maxi’s pursuit; Enbide attracted the attack and looked for Tucker’s rotation of Rowe; harden looked for enbide’s shield to be removed and cut out. He took a slow beat and waited for the Celtics to turn empty. He broke through and played three points. Then he even looked for Maxi’s weak side attack:

A wave of 19 to 5 in Philadelphia reversed the score difference.

At that time, the Celtics’s attack was full of food: Philadelphia forced the Celtics to attack with the online relieve a garrison. Lowe could end the defense but could not open the space after all. Every time Jay Lun called the block and split, he had to face enbyd’s LUSN body. Tatum made 0 of 10 shots in the first half, and 1 of 3 shots in the third quarter: He was also successful except shooting, especially with smat.

Today, Smart is the best for Celtics:

The team’s highest 22 points, 7 assists, 2 steals, and no effort to defend. Holding the ball to block and tear down, cold arrows at the bottom corner, quick attack and sneak attack, even making a cover Wall for Tatum, did everything.

Rao was so, Philadelphia gradually recovered its advantage in the fourth quarter: Harden broke the ball and made the fourth mistake of Tatum. Enbide saw through the trap route of Celtics and wanted to refuse to hit the 24th point against the ground; then Harden sent out his last assist, showing that he had understood Celtic defense:

He broke down with enbide, forced out Horford relieve a garrison, passed the bottom corner, Maxi faced the rotating Lowe, broke through and dunk. 79 square meters.

“You rotate, you relieve a garrison, you target harden and enbede, but there must be a counterposition on the weak side to pay the price.”

After this goal, Jay Ren replaced Lowe. Since enbide and Maxi attacked again, the Celtics were 81 to 83 behind.

If the game is over, Tatum can simply retire in situ:

— He has just announced the annual lineup of the regular season for the second consecutive year.

— Facing the situation of being eliminated today, the whole team has worked hard, the coach has changed, and Lowe has also played. Smart has played the best single game in the playoffs this season, horford fought hard for the highest rebound in the whole game. Brogden’s play was worthy of the sixth person of the year, and he made 1 in the first 14.

But anything can happen in this series.

The gambling passes in philadelphia have been tested many times today, and tatum’s hands are too cold to be ignored. So jellun held the ball and tatum stood on the sideline. Maxxi, who was so powerful, was happy and copied one by hand-missed, rotate, Tatum bottom corner receive the ball, face enbide, start three points. 84 to 83, instead of exceeding.

Horford interfered with enbide’s block removal. Tatum faced maxi, stepped back and started a super far three-pointer, 87 to 83.

Lao Li paused immediately, and Maxi was probably upset, “today I am the protagonist! Why did a broken ball and a three-point head-on all rush at me?” Back to a three-pointer, this is the moment I think the game is the most underestimated:

— How did Harden make the winning three points in the fourth game? Jay let him go. I doubt that when Harden started, Jay Lun would remember for a lifetime.

— Today, when Maxi left wing started the three-point ball, Jay, who had taken care of Harden in the internal line, rushed to interfere to make up the position without hesitation:

Maxi threw away.

I doubt very much that maxi began to worry in this series of “the loss of gambling to copy the ball was three points by tatum, three points by tatum, and three points by jay lun”. After that, he was fined one by two; smart shot a cunning shot: The ball of Tatum took Tucker Crosscut.

Then it was smart who went to Tatum to take off the block. Tatum started to shoot far away, and on the opposite side was Maxi: the third three-pointer in a row, 92 to 84.

Then Harden failed, the Celtics paused and Maxi was replaced.

This can be Maxi’s career masterpiece:

Home court, potential promotion, the highest 26 points in the game. Lao Li trusted him, enbide trusted him, Harden trusted him, and he had been imposing until the last 5 minutes.

If Philadelphia wins the Eastern finals, he will be reborn from now on.

But it happened that Tatum, who had a bad hand feeling, suddenly woke up. Aiming at him, he met him, dangdangdang was three times bored and beat maxi, he also played PHILADELPHIA-Philadelphia probably transferred to maxi Taishun before, and forgot that there was enbide on the court in the last 4 minutes of the fourth quarter.

After that, Tatum took a three-point retreat to enbide, which was regarded as Yu Xing’s program.

After the first 38 minutes, 14 shots hit 1, 4 Life-killing three-point goals ended in 4 minutes.

Tatum could not say that he saved the celtics-after all, the team was deadlocked and had nothing to do with his bad performance in the first three quarters-but he saved himself.

After the game, Tatum said that he thanked the coach for supporting him, and said that although he had thrown a mess before, he still believed that “I have time to make changes.” The team tried hard to drag the game to the fourth quarter and bought him time, and then he did accept the game.

A little more:

The four consecutive three-pointer game, for him and the Celts, fought for a seventh game to change everything.

Nuggets on the sixth stage of the Sun, promotion, revenge success.

Yokedge had two previous games in Phoenix, one with 53 points and 10 assists, one with 30+17+17, and two historical data. Both games lost, and the fourth quarter was too tired to live, one-Armed Optimus can’t win yet. It’s the most annoying-you can’t get angry with how much Coke you drink.

“Stop working early today!”

Yorkich rested for 15 seconds in the first quarter, 14 points, 4 rebounds and 5 assists, and the team led by 18 points, contented to fish in the underground.

Of course, it also lost the Sun’s cooperation: the Booker + durant combination with 86 points in total in the third game and 72 points in the fourth game, and today’s first 12 votes 2. If it is not Payne’s first 10 points, the Sun has no room to struggle in the last three sections.

However, it is not that Payne is better than those two combined.

Payne’s first five shots 4 included a three-point right wing after pushing forward: PROTONIC looked at him in the penalty area, and KCP followed Booker and ran away from his side.

A counterattack layup passed Murray-PROTONIC ran with Booker beside him and glanced back at him.

A guard-to-turn layup-KCP looked at booker on three point line and gordon followed durant on three point line.

The left bottom corner is well connected with Booker’s cross-field long pass-Booker is stared at by Murray and Jokic on the right wing.

Booker’s other assist in the first quarter was to give landale a dunk-he was surrounded by yorkies and passed a ball passing through PROTONIC to make up the position.

Booker finally tried to attack one in the first quarter. Bruce emptied Payne to build him.

So it’s clear at a glance.

The strategy of nuggets, from the first stage, was to crack down on Booker + Durant when blocking and removing; in the third game, durant used the starting speed to attack directly-8 balls in 12 balls were completed in 10 seconds-dismantling, and in the fourth game, booker + durant used a lot of same side to empty, and then fed to shamet; the battle of tianwang mountain nuggets used soft extension to reduce the pinch. Today, it is extension + blocking: booker and durant can break the bottom line, but they cannot transfer the ball to the weak side comfortably.

The first 8 minutes of the first day of the sun was not bad. At one time, it was 24 to 23 leading: the nuggets hit two trump cards, but payne and randal were still able to score; But brown and braun played. After durant came off, A wave of Nuggets 17 to 0 opened the score:

The key to this wave is that bismarck was eaten raw by yokki, while braun restricted booker fengshui ball with defense, giving yokki enough time to delay.

So the sun was tuck stitch, and then it couldn’t come back.

This is also the epitome of the entire series:

At both ends of the attack and defense, the Nuggets are trying various methods to cast various attack and defense combinations. Although the team is in charge of everything, the second score of the team can be Murray, Gordon and Bruce Brown. PROTONIC basket, Gordon’s relieve a garrison, KCP’s three-pointer, Braun’s defense, Jeff Green’s internal cut, Murray’s two-man turn, and jokedge’s omnipotent.

The change of the sun is mainly: how to make Booker and Durant play Historical Scores.

Finally, the team that played more like a team was promoted.

Today Booker played the only bad game in the playoffs this season. Previously, he had a minimum of 26 points in a single game, and 7 hit rates in 10 games were 53 percent away. There is nothing to be picky about, especially considering that after Paul was injured, he had to shoulder the task of the team’s chief ball holder. Losing is lost, with an average of 34+5+7 games and a hit rate of 59%+51%+87%. It is still one of the few outstanding playoff journey of sun young pioneer team history. There is nothing to say.

And, what was mentioned after the elimination of the Clippers: Durant rarely was not the team’s chief scorer in the whole series; But this season’s playoffs, he was the team’s second scorer in two consecutive series.

Booker praised Durant’s gravity, but as he said before:

Although Durant was able to score 29 points on average with unprecedented efficiency, he was making up for the rest of his loss with a brilliant shot-he could still reach the end of the basket, but it took too much effort, especially now the whole league is mixing his lower plate with a small man (this is still the head of Paul and Tony Allen in 2014); For him, china Investment Bank is more labor-saving than strong outburst.

Fact:

In this series, Booker scored 31 points and 8 assists and 3 mistakes in 21 free throws per game.

Durant scored 30 points in 9 free throws of 23 shots per game, 5 assists and 4 mistakes.

Booker hit rate is 57%+55%+88%.

Durant 45%+22%(you are right) +88%.

2010-2016, Thunder version durant 16 series, hit 50%, four series.

2017-2019, the Warriors version durant 10 series (removed to the Raptors only played 12 minutes), hit 50%, seven series, is the so-called death.

2019-present, Durant has five series. Hit 50%, two series.

The three-point rate of 22% in this series is the lowest in all Durant series.

On the one hand, of course, there is a way for nuggets to deal with defense. Gordon, KCP and Bruce tried their best to fight against each other. Jokedge actively extended the resistance and the PROTONIC turned enthusiastically.

On the one hand, the sun has few tricks in half, and Paul is even more stretched after being injured.

But as a player, Durant’s peak has indeed passed.

Size and shooting will never betray him, but when he entered, he was fengshui ball tall and thin, so he played Iron continuously in the first three months of his career.

The progress of his ability to hold the ball kept pace with his peak, so that he once relied too much on no-ball attack (cishiping publicly said Durant could only get rid of himself by no-ball cover in 2010), in 2018, he was commented by Cole that he held the ball to attack too much, but at that time, he held the ball to attack with amazing efficiency and could smooth the problem.

He is 34 years old now. As an end point threat, he was praised as gravity by Booker; But he could adapt to less play: This is the reason why the sun makes Booker hold more balls, booker can play without a ball, can block and split, and can shoot at various distances.

Durant’s most suitable play is like the third and fourth games in this series: direct attack with the ball.

If he wants to tear down one or two rounds of attack, he is still the most credible attacker-just like Joe Johnson, no matter how old he was, to which team, if the tactics run to death, you need someone to throw a deadly ball, and everyone will look at him.

But the 48-minute match does not require singles.

The other side……

Yokiki, who had won the regular season MVP for three times in the previous four years, not only lost the MVP, but also lost it for a while this season.

Even the regular season has only 9.8 assists, missing the three double feats of the season: he played 50 minutes in the last two weeks of the season and has been fishing.

Then this series:

The average field is 35+13+10, and the average field is three pairs.

We all know that passing and handling are the values that he really cannot match and is not right in the current world, but he also gets points by the way-the average score in this series is 35 points, the hit rate of 59%+44%+85%. Three pairs, 53 points in a single game, the best series of career, revenge sun.

In the playoffs this year, he scored 1.1 points per round, 1.2 points per round, 1.1 points per round, 1.1 points per round, 1.1 points per round, 1.2 points per round, cut out the shot (!) 1.1 points per round (Durant 0.9 points, which was originally Durant’s housekeeping skill).

13 points are blocked for each cover assist. Field average double-digit assists.

What is his least efficient play? A: make up the rebound in the front court. Although he made up 3.3 points every 100 rounds, he scored only one goal after about two points: after all, his explosive power was not enough, and he often stood on tiptoe “I’ll grab me and order again”, then run back awkwardly.

In this series, the Nuggets team scored 13 points for each of them except jokiki and Murray. But the existence of jokki was to make the Nuggets run the tactics and run to the end. Murray and jokki took over.

If the match is a 2-to-2 bullfight of jokich + Murray vs Booker + Durant, I will definitely bet the latter to win.

But the unique value of yokiki lies in: the more people participating, the more valuable he will be; No matter what teammates come from, as long as you have merits in attack and defense, he can adapt to you, help you out. You can see it and don’t stay.

Take today as an example, think like this:

How many people in the league can take Jeff Green, Braun, Bruce Brown and KCP to fight the Sun 17 to 0 in Phoenix?