Beep~

Three minutes later, the Nets chose to pause, then replaced Newman with Cage, Chi Liang moved down to start playing against Pierce.

When the hand feels hot, Walker will become difficult to stop. Walker is in this state now. Even Chi Liang can hardly limit him.

Coach Rivers's idea is very simple. Since it is difficult to limit Walker, then limit the other Celtic Gemini, Paul Pierce, and Walker will be temporarily handed over to Cage. He doesn't believe that Walker can always maintain this state.

After discovering that he was playing against Chi Liang, Pierce became much more solemn, but he gave people a vague feeling of excitement. He liked to show off against the strong, especially the other party was a player of the same class as him.

For Pierce, this is also a test, which also makes his fighting spirit significantly increase, and he wants to suppress Chi Liang in the matchup.

Speaking of Pierce, we have to mention a fight that happened not long ago.

On September 25, 1999, Pierce was pulled to the bar by his teammate Barty to drink, and had an argument with a scoundrel in the bar, and then the bar suddenly became a fight. Pierce, who had no experience in group formation, was hit by his head with a bottle by his opponent, and someone even stabbed him 11 times. One of the knifes was 8 cm deep and had already entered the lungs, and the difference was 0.25 cm that would pierce the heart.

Unexpectedly, Pierce began to be discharged from the hospital three days later and went home to recuperate. 18 days later, on October 13, on Pierce's 23rd birthday, he miraculously started training. 40 days later, he started participating in the competition and he did not miss a preseason game.

In terms of physical fitness, Pierce has an advantage in 201 cm and 107 kilograms. In both aspects, Chi Liang is very imaginative in both aspects, and is a floor stream player.

In the first attack after the substitution, Chi Liang did not use a low-single single. He had faced Pierce several times and was very clear that this efficiency was not very high.

Pierce's defense seems average, and his defensive attitude and awareness are not outstanding, but he is strong, tough and knows how to move his footsteps. His defense is obviously seriously underestimated.

Chi Liang dribbled skillfully, his shoulders swayed left and right, and the frequency began to increase, trying to disrupt Pierce's severity.

Pierce spread his hands and his knees slightly bent, and he was one step away from Chi Liang. His eyes did not blink, staring at Chi Liang's movements at all times. His defense was not first-class, but he rarely took risks and made steals, focusing on stability.

The next moment, Chi Liang took a quick look at a gap, tentatively stepped out with his right foot, and then accelerated to break through to the right.

When Chi Liang was moving, Pierce's steps were not slow at all. He used his sliding steps to move to the left, blocking Chi Liang's front.

At this moment, the friction between the soles of the shoes and the floor sounded, and Chi Liang stopped suddenly and pulled the ball back with his right hand.

At this time, the two had already arrived at the front of the penalty area.

At the moment of the emergency stop, Chi Liang smoothly made a series of movements of knee bent, jumping and pressing his wrist.

Pierce was shocked and jumped up in a hurry. His right hand was raised high, trying to organize the other party.

But during the jump, Pierce was surprised to find that the distance between the basketball and him was getting farther and farther away, and saw Chi Liang stretching out his body and leaning back slightly.

In the air, Chi Liang narrowed his eyes slightly, stared at the basket not far away, and after rising to the highest point, he gently threw the basketball in his hand.

Chi Liang's leaning back is very standard, and his movements are quite smooth, like a textbook. Although he is not very high, he still gives people a picture-like feeling.

The moment he shot the basketball, Chi Liang landed on the ground, subconsciously took a step back, stabilizing the trend.

On the other hand, after landing, Pierce immediately turned to the basket and subconsciously wanted to compete for rebounds.

Swish~

Unfortunately, Pierce did useless work, and the basketball was hollowed into the net, and a burst of net flowers were swayed, and finally fell to the floor.

With such a close-range back jump shot, Pierce did not jump high, and Chi Liang's height and wingspan advantage, his hit rate was naturally very high.

After the offense and defense transition, Pierce immediately asked Anderson for the ball, and he wanted to play back.

Without hesitation, Anderson chose to pass the ball.

Near the three-point line, Pierce received the ball with both hands and made three threatening moves. His passing skills are not superb, but they are also threatening.

In terms of offense, Pierce rarely works hard in the game and is good at using various small skills to score on the opponent's head. His offensive skills are simple and effective, and he uses multiple skills in combination, and is called an offensive kaleidoscope!

Of course, Pierce is not yet known as an offensive kaleidoscope, but his offensive methods are comprehensive and it is still extremely difficult to defend.

Chi Liang did not act rashly, and also set a distance from Pierce. His legs bent slightly. As long as Pierce moves abnormally, he will block it with thunder.

There was almost no warning, Pierce started to move, trying to use his left foot to tempt the steps to get rid of Chi Liang. This guy liked to learn Jordan's tempt step during school, and it was also his most commonly used tempt step in the game. He usually didn't have too many fancy dribbling balls, and often used tempt step to get his opponent past!

However, Chi Liang reacted very quickly and stood at the position first. At this moment, Pierce pulled the basketball and seemed to want to break through to the other side, which also made Chi Liang subconsciously take some action.

But at this moment, Pierce took a step back and appeared outside the three-point line to jump shot. What he was best at was to test the ball and then use his footsteps to withdraw and create shooting space.

When Chi Liang jumped up, he was already one step late, and his defensive target shot the basketball first.

Bang~

Unfortunately, Pierce's luck was not very good. The basketball hit the front of the basket and bounced high towards this side.

After landing, Pierce wanted to compete for the flying basketball, but Chi Liang stood at the best position, gently slacked off his ape's arm, and grabbed the defensive rebound.

Before Chi Liang grabbed the rebound, Armstrong and Billups seemed to have received a signal and immediately rushed to the frontcourt as fast as possible.

As they ran through the middle lap, Chi Liang broke away from Pierce's entanglement and passed the ball to Armstrong.

As a small player, Anderson was very fast. At the moment Armstrong received the ball, he was already following him and wanted to harass him.

In fact, Armstrong did not stick to the ball, and one hit the ground pass, passing the ball to Billups on the other side, who was unguarded and scored easily with a layup.

For the Celtics' offense, this time, Pierce is going to basketball again. He has excellent ball-holding and breakthrough skills and extraordinary dribbling skills, such as the unique skills of "butterflies wearing flowers".

Both are "butterfly wears flowers", but Pierce is different from Iverson. In addition to changing direction through the crotch, Pierce also added some factors of European steps, or "butterfly wears flowers" behind the back. This offensive method has brought great trouble to the defenders.

In addition, under the restraint of his unique skill "butterflies wear flowers", Pierce also worked hard to develop mid- and long-distance jump shots.

Without hesitation, Pierce broke through with the ball. Even though Chi Liang tried his best to block it, the defense was more passive and Pierce quickly found the gap. His body was strong and his confrontation was no worse than Chi Liang. In addition, Chi Liang had lost his position and was successfully squeezed into it by him.
Chapter completed!