On May 4, Beijing time, the Celtics and the Bucks ushered in the second game of the semi-finals, because the Greenshirts ranked high (second in the East, the Bucks ranked third in the East), so the first two games were played in the Celtics' home boston North Shore Garden Arena, the first game Celtics swallowed up by 12 points, but today's key battle, the Celtics relied on the excellent play of double probing flowers, and finally won 109-86 against the defending champion by 23 points, equalizing the total score, so that the two sides returned to the same running line.
The only member of the starting Five Tigers who did not score in double figures, White almost became a back cooker
Due to Smart's injury, so the game Green Army coach Uduka also sent Derrick White to start, the remaining 4 players in the team's starting five players scored to double digits, but only White's score was unfortunately zero, the whole game he played 28 minutes, 6 shots, 4 of three-pointers, one point did not get, only 4 rebounds and 5 assists, and 5 fouls, if it were not for the strength of the double probe on the offensive end, white would have to become the back cooker.
Switching to the Celtics this season, thanks to Uduka, White became the key to the Green Army's rebound
As a backcourt player that the Spurs have focused on cultivating in the past few seasons, White was abandoned by the Spurs before the trade deadline of this season, and was sent to the Celtics by the team, fortunately, greenshirts coach Uduka had served as a Spurs assistant coach for a long time and was very familiar with White, so when White just joined the team, he quickly adapted to the team's tactical system, and throughout the regular season, White averaged 11 points, 3.4 rebounds and 3.5 assists for the new owner, although the shooting accuracy was not good (shooting 40.9% from the field. And 30.6 percent three-point shooting percentage is a career worst), but on the defensive end, White's addition has indeed become the key to the team's bottoming out later in the season.
The "Spurs halo" didn't work, and White was completely lost in the playoffs, fearing that the Bucks would stop him at the East Finals
Just when Celtic fans expected White to continue to play steadily on both ends of the playoffs, he unfortunately dropped the chain in his third playoff trip, the first round against the Nets, White did not score a single game to double digits, playing iron almost became his "routine operation" No game shooting rate reached 45%, and in the semifinals with the Bucks, White still failed to support, he shot a total of 12 times in two games, only hit 2 goals, and these 2 goals, It was also the two three-pointers shot in the first game, which means that in terms of two-pointers, White has not yet opened in this semi-final.
White, who originally came to Boston with the "Spurs halo", was extremely optimistic about Celtic fans, but this playoff trip, White averaged only 5.2 points, 4.3 rebounds and 2.3 assists per game, shooting as low as 28.6%, and the three-point shooting rate came to a pitiful 16.7%, fully exposing his weak underbelly of poor projection. With Smart likely to be absent for a while due to a thigh injury, if White can't bring himself back to recover, the Celtics will probably be fierce in this series. I thought that Middleton's absence would greatly improve the Celtics' chances of qualifying, but if White continued to slump and could not share the offensive pressure for the double detective flower, they would really be blocked by the powerful defending champions at the door of the Eastern Conference Finals, and they would have no chance to compete for the championship.