Basketball Legends: Strikers Are King

"Can we walk the horse in the second half?"

Seeing that the starting lineup was beaten by the opponent and the substitutes failed to catch up, Pacers fan Huang Mao immediately panicked.

"What are you afraid of?"

said his companion,

"With Danny the boss, he will definitely be able to get the score back."

This is the meaning of team leadership. When the team falls behind, the leader must stand up.

"Give me the ball!"

Granger had the same idea. When the team attacked, he directly reached for the ball and turned around to hit Pierce alone.

"snort!"

Although Granger's athletic ability is slightly better than Pierce's, his defensive experience is enough to make up for the difference in physical fitness between the two.

Pierce immediately moved sideways to block Granger's breakthrough.

However, Granger had already made up his mind to score. Seeing Pierce move laterally, he changed direction again and broke through, and then stopped and shot a jumper.

The basketball drew a beautiful arc and accurately fell into the basket.

"Whoosh!"

"36-42."

Pierce retaliated by hitting Granger in a high post, deceiving his opponent with a feint shot, and then forced a breakthrough to the basket.

"Where to run?!"

Granger used all his strength to catch up two steps in a row, rushed behind Pierce, and jumped up to block Pierce's shot!

"What?"

Pierce was shocked, but could only watch as West jumped up and collected the basketball.

"Quick attack!"

Granger ignored the cheers of the fans on the sidelines and immediately turned around and headed towards the Celtics' half-court breakthrough.

Bradley and Pietrus tried their best to catch up, but they could only watch Granger score an easy layup.

"38-42."

Granger scored 4 points in a row to help the team chase points. He did not get carried away, but quickly turned around and returned to defense, waiting for the Celtics' next attack.

"Handsome!"

Huang Mao and his companions waved the Granger portrait in their hands and cheered for Granger's performance together with the others.

The excitement level was also the same on the bench. Qi Tian wildly twirled the towel in his hand and cheered.

"Hold on!"

Rondo was not around, so Pierce came to the outside to pick up the ball, made a gesture towards his teammates, and prepared to land.

The Pacers relied on Granger's burst to narrow the point difference. The Celtics had to respond. If they couldn't, they would have to sit back and watch their opponents continue to catch up with the score.

Taking advantage of Pierce's call for a pick-and-roll, Bradley ran away from his opponent Collison and came to the basket.

Pierce immediately hit the ground and passed the ball in, but Hansbrough reacted quickly and immediately covered up the defense. He raised his arms and successfully interfered with Bradley's layup.

"clang!"

The basketball hit the edge of the basket and bounced out.

Buss immediately jumped up to grab the offensive rebound, then dunked hard with his right hand and returned the favor.

"38-44."

The Celtics finally scored, and the fans who came to support the home team breathed a sigh of relief.

Collison organized the offense at the top of the arc and called Hansbrough to pick and roll.

Bradley knew it was bad when he was blocked, so he quickly bypassed the screen and tried to catch up with Collison who broke through.

And Collison has already broken through to the inside and faced Bass.

"Chance!"

No matter how stupid Hansbrough was, he knew that now was the perfect opportunity to score. He immediately threw away Garnett and rushed towards the basket.

Sure enough, he received Collison's pass and jumped up directly for a layup.

Bass slowed down a beat and saw Hansbrough jumping up, so he had no choice but to foul.

"Dudu!"

The referee blew the whistle, indicating that Buss had committed a shooting foul.

"Two free throws."

Hansbrough stepped to the free throw line.

Hansbrough made two free throws, once again narrowing the point difference to 4 points.

Pietrus missed a jump shot, Granger blocked Pierce, turned around to collect the rebound, dribbled to the frontcourt, found West, and assisted his teammate to hit a jump shot.

"42-44."

Seeing his opponent's strong fighting power, Pierce also put away his contempt for his opponent and held the ball in singles at the top of the arc. However, he was not forgiving and began to provoke Granger:

"You played well, but there is still a gap between you and me."

Granger smiled contemptuously and retorted in a low voice:

"The gap between you and Bird cannot be narrowed by a few trash talks."

Pierce's face froze and he said nothing.

The Celtics have a very glorious history, with an unprecedented eight consecutive championships, but when it comes to the strongest small forward in team history, it has to be Larry Bird, who led the team to three championships in the 1980s.

On the one hand, it was because the leaders of the Celtics at that time were point guard Bob Cousy and center Russell;

On the other hand, it is also because Bird still has three consecutive MVPs after the 1980s.

As a Celtics forward in the new era, Pierce will inevitably be compared with Bird, but his personal honors lag behind Bird in all aspects, so this comparison is meaningless.

Since he couldn't beat his opponent, he decided to find another way. Pierce decided to stand on the shoulders of giants in trash talking and try to go as far as possible.

He came back to his senses, sneered, and said to Granger:

"I hope you will have such confidence after the game."

Pierce broke through quickly, squeezed Granger away, faced West's defense, and hit a layup.

"42-46."

Pierce glanced at Granger proudly and cursed in a low voice as he passed by his opponent:

"Human hot chick."

Granger's eyes were filled with anger. He turned around and looked at the back of Pierce's head without saying anything.

Collison advanced with the ball and came to the frontcourt to prepare to organize the attack.

George, intending to save some face for his elder brother, suddenly ran away from Pietrus and rushed towards the basket.

Seeing George pick up the ball, Pietrus could only foul, preventing his opponent from scoring.

"Shooting foul, two free throws!"

The referee blew the whistle and George stepped to the free throw line.

"Whoosh!"

"Whoosh!"

George adjusted his rhythm and made two free throws steadily.

"44-46."

"pretty!"

George and Qi Tian on the bench looked at each other, smiled slightly, and turned back to defend.

"Huh, will you just hide behind your teammates?"

When Pierce and Granger passed by each other, he once again made provocations.

"Give me!"

Bradley saw Pierce reaching for the ball and passed it.

"Here, let me hit you alone again."

Pierce stretched out his hand and asked Granger contemptuously to guard him.

"Paul was having fun."

Garnett whispered as he sat with Hansbruck.

Garnett was known for his trash talk when he was in the Timberwolves. When he came to the Celtics, he was pleasantly surprised to find that Pierce and he were like-minded, and the relationship between the two quickly became very close.

Seeing Pierce provoking Granger one after another, he knew that his teammates were planning to use psychological warfare.

Pierce also saw the meaningful look from Garnett, so he smiled and continued to harass Granger.

"You made it to the playoffs last season? Why didn't I see it?"

"Ah! I even forgot that you went home after the first round..."

Granger's face was calm. Just when Pierce wanted to continue to provoke, he quickly reached out, stole the basketball, quickly ran to the frontcourt, and hit a layup.

"46-46."

Granger glanced at Pierce, who was running back, and whispered:

"You can see my strength now."