The Celtics played like a joke

20 points is a fart, Du Feng's guidance is still rising.

So far in this year's playoffs, there has been the fifth game of 20+ point reversal, and only the Thunder have a 29-point reversal in the West. And there are 4 games in the East, two for the Pacers and two for the Knicks. The Pacers were 20 points against the Bucks and yesterday's Cavaliers, with Haliburton hitting the game.

The Knicks were even more dramatic, in the first two games of the semifinals, they were both 20-point reversals against the Celtics, and the plot was exactly the same, the difference was widened to 20 points in the third quarter, and then the reversal was completed in the final quarter. Yesterday the Pacers were the only team to complete two 20-point comebacks in the playoffs in one year, and today the Knicks are joining them.

In the last game, the Knicks scored 11 points in a row in the last quarter to change the situation on the court, and today it was Bridges, who was 8-of-0 in the first three quarters, suddenly broke out and scored 14 points in the last quarter. The bridge was very depressed in front of him, not to mention that he couldn't shoot in the first three quarters, and he was frequently beaten by the Celtics to consume, and he breathed a bad breath again at the end of the day.

In the end, Brunson scored again in a row, rebounded twice, and scored nine points in the final quarter. The Celtics didn't call a timeout for the final attack, and the backcourt serve was given to Tatum again. The previous time they were in a similar scene, Tatum sprinted and hit a fast shot, and Miro couldn't react to being dunked directly by Tatum.

The Celtics want to do it again, but the Knicks aren't stupid and won't step into the same river two rounds in a row (so who is?). )。 Miro did a good job of controlling his footwork, Tatum didn't have a chance to break through on the right side, and broke through on the left side to enter the Knicks' encirclement.

In fact, Tatum can come to a mid-range dry pull, after all, he is facing a big center, but Tatum seems to have forgotten this skill in his mind, and if he can't shoot three-pointers, it is a hard burst. Tatum instantly fell into the encirclement of Miro, OG and Bridges, Tatum jumped up and didn't think about shooting, thinking about Brown, who was moving the ball to the open space on the wing.

However, Bridges once again played the role of killing the game, slapping the basketball with one hand and completing the steal again. In the last game, he snatched it from Brown's arms, and today he took it directly from Tatum's hands, and the defense was clean both times, and he couldn't find any faults, killing the suspense of the game twice.

Defense must be the basic set for the Knicks to complete the reversal in two consecutive games, Thibodeau unexpectedly reused Miro in this round of the series, protecting the basket and rebounds well, the twin towers of Miro and Towns, played a very good effect, and even the Celtics wanted to use slashing tactics to cut Milo down.

However, when Miro was cut down and Downs was pinned down to the outside, the Celtics still couldn't hit the basket, still superstitious about the feel outside the three-point line, and then lost the game with a cold hand again.

The Celtics' three-point shooting seems to have been engraved in the muscle memory of these players. In the last game, he threw 60 and lost 45; Voted 40 and lost 30 today. Combined, the two games made just 100 three-pointers and only scored 25, and the shooting percentage was very good.

In fact, in the final half of the game, the Celtics still held a 12-point lead. But they were once again stuck in a vicious cycle of not making three-point shots, not being able to go inside, and then continuing to shoot three-pointers. In the end, the double tanhua began to try to get to the basket, but Tatum made 1 of 5 in the last quarter and scored a semi-fast-break dunk.

Brown was 0-of-4 in the final quarter and didn't score a single point, and he was once the Celtics' No. 1 scorer in this game, but the final quarter was completely dumb. None of the balls could reach the basket, and there was a clumsy foul making that didn't work.

After all, Jaylen Brown's technical characteristics are still too limited, and he can't be the core ball carrier, and the level of control and dribbling under high-intensity defense is not enough to see, and can only be used as an endpoint. He scored 20 points on 8-of-23 shooting today, disappeared in the late quarter, and had six turnovers.

The only ball-handler who can really change the opponent's defensive formation through offense is Tatum, but he played worse than Brown today, scoring 2 points on 1-of-7 shooting in the half, 13 points and 14 rebounds on 5-of-19 shooting in the game.

But even so, they still relied on random shooting to take a 20-point lead in two games, and then both lost a 20-point lead in the fourth quarter due to the random collapse of shooting, and finally the key ball was blown out by the opponent, losing two home courts.

In these two games of the Knicks, the word "shooting randomness", which has been very popular in the past two years, was simply rubbed on the ground. When you don't have a strong enough offensive strength and rely heavily on three-point accuracy, there will be a collapse after all.

But despite trailing 2-0 in the series, the Celtics still have a big advantage over the Knicks, and they are still the better team overall. Including the same with the Cavaliers against the Pacers, the Celtics' three-point shooting will not continue to be so bad, and the Cavaliers' injury situation does not look hopeless.

It's just that the two teams that led the cliff in the regular season in the East have not won one of the four games in the semifinals, and the so-called gold content of the regular season is decreasing infinitely.