The Celtics beat the net to make it 3-0.
After the first Tatum kill, I said it was rare to see Durant being held down in the playoffs.
Today Durant scored 16 points and Irving 16 points, adding up to 32 points — Tatum 39 points.
Of course, it's no surprise: the Nets doubles add up to 28 shots, and Tatum made 29 shots today.
He packs the first three quarters and finishes, and Jaylen packs the fourth quarter. Double Tanhua won the double giant.
Durant played nearly 46 minutes with just 11 shots and 2 free throws.
11 shots?
After Harden was eliminated by Ginobili in 2017, the life-and-death battle, home, notoriously depressed battle was eliminated by the Spurs by 39 points, that Harden shot 2-of-11 in 36 minutes and 6 free throws.
Why so few?
Digression.
DeRozan, who scored 41 points on 31 shots against the Bucks in his second game, made nine shots in the 32 minutes of the third game yesterday. Although because the Bucks swept the bulls away in the first quarter, but also because the Bucks finally sent the chief peripheral lock Holliday, and also used the Harden strategy.
Three years ago, when Harden was still frantically flying, Coach Budenholzer invented a method: Bledsoe stuck Harden's left hand, let his right hand break through, and then made up the position.
There is also a jazz version of this method, which is the famous "Harden ass rear defense".
Yesterday's typical ball: the Bucks used Holliday to lock DeRozan's right hand, almost to stick to his right hip, forcing him to dribble through with his left hand, and the teammates behind him made up for the defense, which was an adjusted version of the original treatment against Harden, and the effect was good.
Few shots, except for psychological reasons, are forced by tactics.
After the second game, it was mentioned that the Celtics used the pinch Durant strategy to force the net to beat themselves with Bruce Brown, forcing the game to finally become a Brown battle between Jaylen and Bruce.
Today the net shot the most shots and the highest scores in the whole team, and it is really Bruce Brown again: 26 points.
When Bruce Brown's shooting and scoring were higher than Durant and Irving's, it proved that the Celtics' defensive strategy was successful again, and it also proved that the net had no effective adjustment compared to the second game.
Durant shot six goals today. The second was a single Gwee in the crowd, and the third was a rebound in front of him after being dropped by Tatum and shot under Smart.com. This was followed by a quick-break against Horford, a three-pointer over Smart's head, and a dunk from Irving's pass in the quick-break.
The only time he was let go of the position battle was the first shot he hit: he was on the weak side, under Tatum's basket, Jaylen rotated Durant a slow shot, and Durant scored a three-pointer.
Immediately after the goal, Coach Uduka called a timeout.
After this timeout, the Celtics did not let Durant in the position battle, get any comfortable free opportunities to catch the ball.
Coach Uduka's first timeout in the second half was when Durant walked away without the ball and then received irving's pass, Gwe slowed down, and Lowe rushed to pounce. Durant lost the shot, Tatum made a mistake and the Celtics suspended.
After the timeout returned, the Celtics were on the smart and Lowe high doubles, White made up for the penalty area, and Bruce scored a rebound in the frontcourt.
Durant then found himself pinched and gave Clarkston and Mills back-to-back assists — a dunk and a three-pointer — and coach Uduka paused.
After the timeout, Durant was given the opportunity to single gway, but Gwei infame him from the set; Smart waited for Durant to reach below the free throw line before coming to pinch.
This late attack was the Celtics' first strategy.
- Why is it caught below the free throw line? Because then Durant can't see Mills at the far end who wants to pass the ball.
Coach Uduka kept fine-tuning his strategy, constantly letting Durant guess what the Celtics were going to do with him next.
Nash played until the third desperate situation before finally deciding:
Let go of the Chuang Shen and try to change Griffin, maybe that will make the Celtics less pinch Durant?
Digression.
Yesterday pelicans to the sun. Ingram scored 23 points in the first three quarters, especially after facing a turnaround shot from Bridges, Doris shouted "Ingram is another difficult jumper!" Bridges couldn't have defended better! Paul had 10 points and 12 assists in the first three quarters.
For a full five minutes in the fourth quarter, Ingram hit just one goal. Because the Suns let Nance Jr. empty in the last half, he hit Ingram and let Ayton sit under the basket.
Paul scored 6-of-19 points in the fourth quarter, and the Suns won.
Why didn't the Pelicans pinch Paul?
Paul had 14 assists yesterday, opening with four in a row for Ayton and an empty pick-up for McGee to keep the Pelicans afraid to put in the box. Cayo and Shamet were then given two strong and weak side transfers, and the pelican's weak side contracted.
At the beginning of the second half, it was fed to Ayton again, then a strong and weak side shift to Bridges to let him break through the layup; a dunk was fed to Ayton, and then a weak side shift shot was given to Bridges and Claude.
After Paul's 12 assists in the first three quarters, the Pelicans did not dare to give up the inside line or shrink the weak side.
So in the fourth quarter, Paul comfortably took six shots and brought the game home. Little Jones must have been uncomfortable: "Big brothers, why don't you come to help me make up the position?" ”
"No way! Inside the line he fed Ayton! Weak side complement he looked for Bridges! You're on your own! ”
Yesterday was Paul, the no. 1 mid-range pitcher in New Orleans history, who defeated Ingram, the no. 1 mid-range pitcher in New Orleans, but not just the mid-range pitch.
As mentioned above: The Suns dare to clip Ingram, the Pelicans can't clip Paul, and it comes down to the difference between passing and space.
This is actually the problem that Durant has to face in the past three games.
Of course today he had a new problem: Rowe's comeback.
— The de facto best defensive player of the season, Robert Williams, who owns Smart's defensive team of the year, the Celtics.
Rowe changed to Durant, Durant made a fourth mistake, and Jaylen chased after him.
Seth and Griffin scored three-pointers, but Jaylen singled out Griffin twice in a row.
When Jaylen singled out Griffin for the third time in a row, Durant made up the position, and Jaylen gave Tatum an empty three-pointer, and then singled out Mills to shoot and stop the net.
After the timeout came out, the net sent a sideline ball.
Seth was obscured by Jaylen, Irving was in the bottom corner of the weak side, and the strong side was only Griffin at the free throw line and Durant on the perimeter.
Do you guess whether the net-side ball will be given to Griffin on the free throw line or Durant from beyond the three-point line?
I guess it's Durant.
Gwe is much smarter than I am, copying the ball straight. Tatum forced Durant to play a three-pointer.
Durant slapped the ball toward the basket in chagrin.
Immediately after the timeout, he was cut off and scored three points.
Shelve who collapses.
After that, Tatum finished steadily.
It's very interesting that the big picture is timed, and in the last 3 minutes of the game, the net played a magnificent 11-4.
How did you type it?
I've been saying before: small teams have space, big teams have bodies. The net, on the other hand, is often present with three players under 193 centimeters, and there is no room for them — the two sides are not next to each other.
Nash is finally on the Mills + Irving + Seth + Bruce + Durant lineup.
Maybe Nash suddenly thought, "Actually, it doesn't matter if the center doesn't need Zhuang Shen or Clarkston, there is no Embiid Jokic on the other side!" ”
The Net hit eight three-pointers in the first 46 minutes today, a small-ball lineup in the last 2 minutes, and four three-pointers.
Of course, unfortunately, it was too late.
It's easy to classify the result of the game as "Irving made another mistake, Durant didn't shoot", but in fact, Irving didn't play badly today except for not having a basket:
Passing, defending, flying to save, he wants to win.
Durant, for his part, has been trying to discern what new defensive moves the Celtics are making toward him — in a very limited space.
But you may also find that before the net changes to the final small ball, the space is narrow, and the routine is single.
Also, the adjustment is really not fast enough.
Coach Jenkins saw adams in the second game that adams could not decisively put it down, and in the third and fourth quarter, he decisively put Morant on the bench.
Towns' second and third games against the Grizzlies were a bit dizzy until today's fourth quarter, and Coach Finch was once beaten 21-0 without suspension. But today in the fourth quarter, the Timberwolves still had a new job: don't expect Downs to play back, so they pulled a lot of empty blocks on the line to cut him the ball, and let him play a Ray Allen-style arc to cut a three-pointer, and Towns lived.
Paul's threat of passing scared the Pelicans from hitting him and took the game away for the Suns yesterday.
Everyone is more or less thinking about it, and Coach Uduka sees that the two rounds are not right, and will adjust the defensive strategy against Durant.
The whole Celtics are fighting meticulously and desperately - today Tatum more than once took advantage of Durant's request for the ball to pick up the ball behind his back, and if you look back, you will find that his center of gravity was lower than Durant's knee before copying the ball.
If the opponent is young and tenacious and still trying to constantly change the meticulous and complex tactics, carefully arrange every move, Lowe just got injured and quickly came back, and you just went back and forth two sets of methods, really to the desperate situation to remember "maybe you can use Griffin", "maybe you can use a small ball array", trying to rely on a variety of on-the-spot reading judgment to play, it is not quite right, right?
The Celtics' greatest success is not just physically limiting Durant. Today Durant admitted that he "thinks too much" about this series — as a scoring machine, this should not be something he should worry about.
The biggest contrast here is this: Nash — I think — is clearly the smartest player in basketball history, the smartest, the most adept at using and creating space, the best at finding attacking opportunities for attackers, the best at reading on the spot and improvising!
At last......
In the first round of last season, the Celtics also fell behind the net 2-0. In the first two games, Tatum was almost tickled by Durant, scoring 31 points on 9-of-32 shooting.
In the third game, Tatum exploded with 50 points against Durant — 39 points against Durant.
A year later, he led the team to a 3-0 lead in the net, 39 points at home in Brooklyn, more than Durant and Irving combined.
Blood comic plot.
Also, this is the first time in Durant's career that he is behind 3-0 in the playoffs.
Yes, he's lost to Kobe Dick LeBron and to the Grizzlies and Spurs, but that's the first time Durant is behind 3-0.
Of all the full series Durant has played before, the lowest was an average of 25 points per game against the Jazz in 2017.
So far in the series, Durant has averaged 22 points per game.