Under Wei Xia's leadership, the Lakers ruled the second quarter.

35 to 21

The score exceeded the Celtics by 14 points in a single quarter, which led Tom Heinthorne to self-deprecating: "The only thing we can be happy about is that the Celtics performed very stably, they scored 20 points in the first quarter and 21 points in the second quarter - if only they could get their opponents to get such a low score."

Wei Xia made 6 of 7 shots in a single quarter, including four three-pointers.

"What is the secret of how good you performed?"

Question from reporters.

Wei Xia had nothing to hide: "To be honest, it is definitely the flags and jerseys above the garden. For others, those things are sacred and inviolable honors, for me, that's the same, but not the same. I hope one day in the future I can proudly raise the flag I won for the team as they do at home. When I retire, I hope the Lakers can retire my jerseys and I won't feel ashamed."

The reporter asked: "So, you are paying tribute to the history of the Celtics."

"So that's it." Wei Xia answered crisply.

The reporter did not talk much about his performance, and just passed by.

Wei Xia returned to the locker room with a calm mood.

The Lakers led the Celtics by 12 points in the first half. If they keep it, they will break their opponent's unbeaten home court tonight.

This is something that the Eagles, Knights, and Pistons have not achieved until they are eliminated.

The Lakers' midnight break room was lively and didn't seem to be playing in the finals at all.

"Don't be too happy too early. The Bostonians would never let us win the game so easily!" Tex Winter scolded loudly.

He is right, completely correct.

In the process of breaking out of the Eastern Conference, the Celtics experienced blood and fire, and endured various tests earlier than the Lakers. Although the overall strength of the Eastern Conference team is not as good as that of the Western Conference team, they are willing to fight, dare to fight, and dare to fight in the playoffs.

Fighting a life-and-death battle with such a team has greatly trained the Celtics' ability to fight hard.

Tonight, the problems encountered by the Celtics, in a nutshell, are not as good as those of the Lakers.

The entire Lakers team is good at attacking.

The Celtics are actually not bad, they are just the upper limit on the offensive end, not as good as the Lakers.

Now that they can't keep up with their performance, what can they do to change the situation? They just need to think about how the sluts in the east fought hard with them again and again, and then there will be an answer.

Yes, the answer is simpler than Boston thought.

fight.

The simple word brings a surprising change like a head replacement surgery to the game.

At the beginning of the second half, the first offense that started was as unsuccessful as the first half, and they still maintained their "stable" feel of 20.5 points per quarter in the half.

The rebounding ball was about to bounce into Radmanovich's hand.

As a result, Kendrick Perkins actually exerted force from behind him and pushed his body hard to the outside world. Although it was a foul, it took the initiative, indicating a series of changes that the Celtics would have next.

Radmanovic was extremely angry and his reaction was not as rough as his opponent.

The other person directly knocked him to the ground in front, and he just fouled an ordinary thug behind him. Although they were both fouls, the blows they gave were different.

The Lakers just stepped into the trap prepared by the Celtics.

Hand-to-hand combat itself is not a trap. The Lakers take the initiative to fight with the Celtics, and it is a matter of using their own shortcomings to beat the opponent's strengths. How can they be defeated?

Some people fell down, some people started to hang up the lottery, some people began to decline in their condition and their feel deteriorated.

Fisher's nose was bleeding;

Gasol and Wei Xia fell to the ground countless times, especially Wei Xia. He scored 17 points in a single quarter and received the first defensive treatment from Kobe.

In addition to being very strong in defense against him, the Celtics' attack was also fierce.

He fell to the ground countless times to compete for the ball, fought with his opponents in a hands-on manner countless times to get the ball and was hit by the Celtics countless times to get the ball.

No one can guarantee his feel under this defense.

Wei Xia scored in a single quarter and was beaten.

How bright he is in the second quarter, how dim the stars are in the third quarter.

At the same time, Pierce became the only player in the game who can still perform at normal offensive level.

No one in the Lakers can defend Pierce.

Although Radmanovich is tall enough, the referee does not give him face. He wants to fight according to the European rules, but the Whistle wants to teach him how to be a human being. Moreover, his speed is too slow, even Pierce can't compare, so don't be concerned about defending Ray Allen or Rajon Rondo.

The Lakers will not let him defend Allen or Rondo, but the Celtics will try their best to get them into the match. On the one hand, Radmanovic cannot limit Pierce's pace, but on the other hand, he is constantly racing Tian Ji by his opponent, which hurts his self-esteem.

In the third quarter, almost every front breakthrough in the Celtics triggered the Lakers to rotate and fill up the team, which was due to the slow defense of Radmanovic.

Pierce and Rondo magnified this shortcoming of Europeans to the extreme.

Until Kobe and Wei Xia came to defend alone in the last moment, even Rondo messed up the Lakers. He and Pierce were two misplaced points, and the Celtics did nothing: they were just staring at these two points and fighting to death.

With high resistance and more physical contact, there will naturally be more fouls.

Until the third quarter, the free throw comparison between the two sides was 21 to 29 (Celtics).

To remove controversial penalty, the Celtics have a move that has been implemented since the Eastern Conference semi-finals - or in other words, Rivers learned from Phil Jackson back then: before entering the inside, first foul the opponent in advance to destroy the opponent's offensive rhythm and feel.

Paul Gasol, the Lakers' most hidden abnormal player, was defeated by Garnett and Perkins for the second consecutive game, and PJ Brown was a perverted physical contact to cause a mental imbalance.

Radmanovic frequently used the stadium evaporation technique on the offensive end.

The smartest Lakers seem to understand the greatest cleverness is silence, silence is gold!

Fisher and Radmanovic are only eye-catching when they come to the defensive end.

The two of them are the "Walking Dragon and Phoenix Chicken" on the Lakers' defensive front. What's even more outrageous is that their defensive problems are too slow. One is because the pace is too slow and the opponent's step is passing by various steps. The other is because the pace is too slow. As long as the opponent's ball holder sees her, he looks like he has a bloody attack, and he always succeeds.

Wei Xia was targeted by the Celtics to lose her feel. In addition to fighting hard for all her strength, the only thing the Lakers can count on on the offensive end seems to be Kobe.

However, there are a lot of problems with Kobe, but most of them have nothing to do with him.

When Kobe was moving on the weak side, no one opened up space for him and passed the ball to him.

For a long time in the third quarter, Kobe had to receive the ball from the backcourt to have the opportunity to take the ball and attack.

game1, it can be said that the Celtics made a splash in the shooting and suppressed Kobe's breakthrough, and made him rarely focus on personal attacks when taking into account the overall situation, and many of the attacks were relatively sloppy.

game2. When Kobe obviously intends to conduct a serious personal attack, the Lakers cannot pass the ball to him properly.

Although the visual effect is excellent, when Kobe is moving up and down the free throw line alone, the positions of others are always piled up on the other side - the bad thing is that the ball is also on the other side.

In the tragic season, the ups and downs were so large that it was difficult for the elderly on the scene to digest.

The Celtic strategy was successful.

They were 12 points behind at the end of the first half and chased after 3 points through the bloody battle in the third quarter.

When the fourth quarter arrived, the Lakers made a bold decision.

Jackson decided to let Wei Xia, who had played the first three quarters, rest. He should have had a long time ago.

Wei Xia's rotation schedule is like this. If the situation is tense, the Zen master will let him play for 15-17 minutes in a row, and then change it and rest until the end of the first half. Depend on the situation in the third quarter, if the situation is favorable to the Lakers, find an opportunity to replace Wei Xia. If the situation is still tense, Wei Xia will not have any rest time, either play until garbage time or until the end of the game.

Today's situation is quite special.

Wei Xia exploded in the offensive end in the second quarter and scored 17 points alone. Jackson could not replace him at that time.

Although there was halftime break, Wei Xia could not withstand the Celtics' defense like a torrent of steel in the third quarter.

Swapping him down is not only to let him take a breath and restore his feel, but also to calm him down and think about what to do if he returns to the court later.

No one expected that the few minutes after substituting Wei Xia would become the Lakers' death talisman.

The Lakers' lineup was Fisher, Walton, Kobe, Ryan Hollins and Gasol.

The Celtics opposite, there is an overlooked role player: Leon Powe (PF), a power forward with a low height, stirred up the situation in the Lakers' inside.

No one expected that he would use his impact to blow Hollins.

No one expected that this guy would use 15 points and seven rebounds in a single quarter to help the Celtics secure the victory in one fell swoop.

Judging from his figure, this person is a small cannon. Like the Pistons Mark Hill, the power forward is short and the small forward is slow. He is full of flesh and flesh, his playing style is not generous enough, and he will cause back injuries if he is long in the future - Larry Johnson and Barkley are the lessons learned from the past.

But this night, the Lakers had no choice: they could rely on their inside height advantage to block Boozer in the Western Conference semi-finals, but this guy is not Boozer: his inside skills are far from skilled enough, hard bridges and hard horses can rush - and the Lakers just happen to have no such type of dealer. The only way to deal with him is to think about it - if Andrew Bynum is still there, maybe there is a solution?

But Bynum is not here.

The Zen master sat steadily by the bed for five minutes as before.

Then…

"The Lakers are dead!!!"
Chapter completed!