May 30

The first game of the Eastern Conference Finals will be held at the Auburn Hills Palace Arena.

With the Pistons being strong, the Celtics are the only team in the East that still have a chance to stop them.

Tonight's game, TNT sent Ernie Johnson and Kenny Smith to cooperate with Vinier Johnson for live broadcast.

The Pistons fought against the Celtics in the regular season, but the Celtics at that time did not show any strength to play to the Eastern Conference Finals.

At that time, they were just an ordinary playoff team, with superstars like Duncan, and the lower limit was not much lower.

It's just that their upper limit is limited.

In the playoffs, Rick Pitino finally let go of his last stubbornness and focused on Duncan as the core. In addition to retaining the old almanac of the frontcourt, the tactical system on both offense and defense was completely led by Duncan.

Duncan also proved with his strong performance that he is indeed worthy of the ball and tactical status given to him by the team.

In order to enable Duncan to perform better, the Celtics' starting lineup also has major adjustments.

Apart from Duncan, the other four starters are Antoine Walker, Tony Barty, Bruce Bowen and Marlon Garnett.

Do you think the name is very domineering? It is indeed very domineering. Although he has a domineering name and surname, he is just a loser and has only played in the NBA for a year.

The reason he was allowed to start was because Pitino had no better candidate.

Garnett is 188 cm tall and 88 kilograms. Although his height is not as high as Mo Mengchen, his weight is 1 kilogram heavier than Mo Mengchen, which is his advantage.

His skills are very poor, and fortunately the Celtics have changed the tactical starting point to Duncan, otherwise they would have faced the same problems as magic.

No one is available at No. 1.

Every opponent who plays against the Pistons will have similar worries. Mo Mengchen puts too much pressure on his opponent. As long as his opponent is not a star-level No. 1 position like Penns Peyton Kidd, he can defeat his opponent in a short time.

Most of the people who were defeated by him would completely lose their fighting spirit, and some people saw him like rabbits seeing snakes. They were afraid of avoiding it, so how could they dare to fight him?

Garnett hasn't played against Momonchen yet, it's like scraping a lottery. Maybe he can bring surprises, maybe not, the situation can't get worse, and Pitino is willing to take a chance.

“gogo, Detroit!”

Adrian is very eye-catching in the front row because he has an obese figure beyond his age.

The referee whistle sounded and the ball was thrown into the air.

Immediately afterwards, Rashid gave the racket to Hill.

Mo Mengchen unexpectedly didn't get the ball, but it didn't matter. Hill took the ball and Mo Mengchen got the ball, the effect was the same.

At the beginning of the offense, Hill failed to play a trick quickly, and the Celtics retreated quickly.

Devil Mountain passed the ball to Mo Mengchen.

Mo Mengchen held the ball and faced the domineering Marlon Garnett. Garnett also knew very well that if he wanted to gain a foothold in the NBA, tonight would be his last chance.

If he cannot prove that he can match Mo Mengchen, he will lose his last foothold in NBA.

Mo Mengchen saw that his opponent was a stranger and was not in a hurry to attack. He passed the ball to Rashid. He roared at the sky master's attack in front of the basket. He was blocked by Duncan and had to pass it to Wallace at the basket.

Wallace got the ball strong and was ready to score. He didn't take Tony Barty's defense seriously.

As the No. 5 pick in the first round in 1997, he was abandoned after only one year of playing for the team, which is enough to show that he is a disappointing parallel, otherwise the team would have tried for a few more years. The reason why he abandoned him was because he saw him thinking about what he missed for such a person - but he was just a parallel, not a bad guy. Wallace was so strong that he did not take the opponent's 211 cm tall seriously, which was wrong.

Barty stretched out her long arm, covered Wallace's attack in front of her, and shouted: "Don't think of going wild here!"

Garnett received a pass from the inside and wanted to advance. He was 188 cm tall, but his speed was not very fast. Mo Mengchen easily followed, forcing him to stop and wait for the position to fight.

However, Walker quickly followed up, landed in the top three-point line at the arc, got the pass every second, and he pulled up and shot.

3 to 0

"Boston is not in a normal state," Johnson said. "They still have the momentum of eliminating the Pacers in the semi-finals."

The frontcourt press that remains unchanged for thousands of years.

This pressing made Mo Mengchen laugh. He really didn't know what the meaning was.

He has seen the speed of Marlon Garnett. At the opponent's speed, he can't keep up with him at all, but he still has to hold on to the frontcourt press.

It can only be said that Pitino cherishes his face to the extreme, and he can also make some speculations. For example, the big change in the Celtic system may not be Pitino's instructions, but a strong will from within.

Although Pitino holds several major positions alone, the team board is above him, and they are the people who hold the power of life and death.

How ridiculous is this pressing? Mo Mengchen will do it for them to see soon.

Garnett's expression was firm, and he was the kind of resolute male protagonist's face that could be completely placed in the second dimension, but unfortunately that's all.

Mo Mengchen accelerated one step, no stronger than Garnett, but stronger than his body was like a tornado attacking land. He broke away in a blink of an eye, and his eyes were empty, and no one could stop Mo Mengchen from accelerating.

"What a fast speed!"

This talent made Garnett envious. Mo Mengchen was nearly 10 cm taller than him, but his speed was far faster than him. In the face of this speed, his frontcourt was really joking.

How can it be prevented?

Garnett was thrown away in a blink of an eye. In the frontcourt, Bao Wen immediately came to defend and wanted to stop Mo Mengchen, so he prepared a series of secret moves for this.

As soon as the two met, Mo Mengchen smiled calmly, pulled the ball in his hand back, and then threw it forward with force.

The basketball hit the floor, crossed the Celtics' defense and flew into the palm of Alan Houston, who made a jump shot.

2 to 3

"This is the first time I have seen such a bad frontcourt press. Are you serious?" Mo Mengchen seemed to mock the Celtics' defense, but in fact he was humiliating Pitino's game philosophy.

This is the defensive system that Pitino relies on for fame. Even if it has been proven to be a failure in the NBA, he doesn't want to give up. This is his label.

Without this system, he is a mediocre coach who has no characteristics in the NBA and relies on superstars to make a living.

Pitino's face reminds people of Al Pacino's reaction when he heard his wife aborting her child in the second part of "The Godfather", and the blue tendons appeared and loomed in his cheeks.

He was already very angry.

Duncan was silently in his position and decided to score the goal back for the head coach.

Rashid was defending from behind, and Duncan received a cross from the outside.

No one double-teamed because the Pacers have double-teamed him countless times in the semi-finals, allowing Duncan to average 6 assists per game.

With two consecutive collisions, Duncan's offensive momentum seemed to be trying to use a pure inside back, and Rashid was also simple and did not consider other factors.

The third back hit failed to come as expected. Duncan turned his steps and moved his direction. His body was in contact with his back. He turned around and supported his body with his left foot, and took his right foot into the inner step, driving his body away from the ground. Rashid reacted too slowly. When he discovered what Duncan was doing, it was too late.

With a dunk, the referee whistle sounded.

Rashid made a defensive foul and the ball was effective!

“no!!”

Rashid shouted.

Just as he was about to have an attack, Ben Wallace hurried over and pulled him away, and comforted him nicely beside him.

"I didn't foul at all!" Rashid shouted unwillingly.

"I know...I know..." Wallace said it more than a dozen times in half a minute.

Still pressing in the frontcourt.

They probably don't know how to write the word "death".

Mo Mengchen smiled and took the ball. Pitino's tight-fitting routine was used to putting two people in the frontcourt, and if necessary, hit the ball holder, and put another person in the midfield to prevent the opponent from passing long passes or blocking it in time after the first line of defense was broken.

Because Momonchen was too fast, Garnett's defense was false, and Antoine Walker was forced to completely prevent him from having time to help with the defense.

Bowen wanted to stop Mo Mengchen from advancing in the midfield, but the same sentence: Mo Mengchen is too fast.

Within five seconds, Mo Mengchen broke through two defense lines in a row, and there was no one on the three-point line. He stopped directly from the outside and pulled up and shot a three-pointer.

Hollow into the basket.

Mo Mengchen listened to the cheers of the audience and came to Pitino and said, "Although your pressing is not tight at all, it's enough for me to play all night."

"Please keep keeping this defense, I love this." Mo Mengchen pointed his little finger at Pitino approvingly, just like an idol seducing the fans.

Pitino was furious: "This bastard!"

He is unwilling to abandon his usual defensive system, which will also become the biggest variable in the game.

Since the Celtics' frontcourt tightening limit on Mo Mengchen was basically zero, Mo Mengchen became the protagonist of the game in the seven minutes of his appearance in the first quarter.

The Pistons' offense is so simple.

Mo Mengchen took it and quickly broke through the two defense lines, either shot or scored in the frontcourt, and the offense ended.

This is how the Pistons took a 16-point lead at the end of the first quarter.

38 to 22

"After going through such a quarter, if Rick Pitino doesn't know what the problem is, then I think Boston should change head coach after the season ends." Kenny Smith said half-jokingly.

Even fans can see that the Celtics "is not tight at all" and Pitino can't see it?

It's just unwilling to accept it and unwilling to do so.

Mo Mengchen sat off the court and watched as they finished the first quarter, they led by 16 points.

It seems that there is no need to be afraid of Duncan in advance?

Because the Pacers are not as fast as Momonchen's defender, they cannot grab Pitino's weak point in the frontcourt press.

If Pitino still doesn't plan to change this strategy next, the Celtics will undoubtedly be slaughtered by the Pistons at home tonight.
Chapter completed!