The Basketball Court Swordsman

Before the game started, the media believed that the Celtics and Pacers still had to fight. One of the main reasons is that the Celtics' offensive firepower is very powerful.

But now, with the Celtics game data, Reggie Miller really doesn't know how their offense is related to the word "powerful".

Jason Tatum has only scored 4 points so far. You must know that he has an advantage in height compared to Oladipo, who is against him. However, Tatum's shot selection today is very bad, many times he throws the ball out of interference.

Kobe may be able to do this, but this does not mean that Tatum will be able to copy after a summer of training with Kobe.

Jaylen Brown is better than Tatum and has scored 10 points so far. However, compared with what people expect of him, Jaylen Brown's performance is certainly not satisfactory.

On both ends of the offense and defense, Jaylen Brown became Paul George's background board. Today George has scored 33 points so far, which is given by the "defensive champion" by Jaylen Brown.

He desperately desires that he can play the same state he was in last season's playoffs, but the more he thinks so, the more impatient the offense is. The more impatient, the more unstable the offense. The more unstable the offense, the more careless the defense.

After a vicious cycle, Jaylen Brown lost a whole game, as if he was the epitome of this season.

Kelly Irving’s performance is equally worrying. Although "Uncle Drew" has scored 25 points today, his shooting percentage will exceed 40%. His high scores are entirely based on the high number of shots.

Where does Owen's high number of shots come from? Undoubtedly, drawn from Tatum and Jaylen Brown.

In this game, the Celtics who really feel that they are playing are Horford and Marcus Morris.

Morris made 4 of 6 shots and made a three-pointer. In the case of only 6 shots, he scored 9 points.

Horford made 3 of 5 shots from beyond the three-point line today and scored 20 points with a 50% overall shooting percentage. And, there are 11 rebounds.

Unfortunately, Horford's 20 points and Morris's 9 points can't kill the defending champion. Two outstanding players can only watch the Pacers widen the difference between them. Until now, the difference is big enough to make them give up the game.

On the court, George's long three-pointer widened the point difference to 23 points. At this time, it was only 2 minutes before the end of the game. In other words, George's three-pointer not only made him look better in scoring data, but also completely ruined the Celtics' hope of miracles.

After George scored, Stevens called a timeout. Henson then stood up from the bench leisurely. He had to make some substitution adjustments for the garbage time.

"Coach Henson finally stood up. Since when did he start to be the shopkeeper? In my impression, almost from the second half of the game, Coach Henson never stood up."

"He really doesn't need to stand up, the Celtics are playing so badly. In their state...To be honest, I don't think the Celtics can pose any threat to the Pacers. ."

On the commentary stage, people have gone from what they expected of the Celtics from the beginning to become extremely disappointed now. Only Henson was not disappointed, because from the beginning, he knew that the Celtics were in such a state.

After returning from the timeout, as expected, Stevens almost replaced all the main players.

Owen, Tatum, Jaylen Brown and Horford all sat on the bench. Dennis Theis and Aaron Bain and other players outside the playoff rotation have also appeared.

Owen sat down the court, looking lonely. If you are unlucky, his hit rate will even drop below 40%. He struggled on the offensive end and was at a loss.

Jaylen Brown and Tatum sat beside them with serious expressions. The former has a positive or negative value of -21, and the latter is -20. Hayward, who played for 22 minutes, held his chin, his expression sluggish.

On May 9th two years ago, he played a whole game with the Jazz and the Warriors. In that game, he scored 25 points, 5 rebounds, 3 assists and 2 steals. Today, 7 points, 2 rebounds and 2 assists...

In Game 4 of the 10-year Finals against the Lakers, the Celtics faced foul troubles from the main players. The bench came up with "big baby" Glen Davis and "little potato" Nate Robinson. The two joined forces to score 16 points in the fourth quarter, and the angry saliva from the "big baby" became a classic moment for the Green Army Jagged.

But today, the bench scored only 9 points... This Celtics has become even stranger to the Celtics fans.

"This is the Celtics with the least Green Army culture." Reggie Miller commented in the commentary.

In the end, the Celtics were naturally unable to close the score without giving up the game. At the end of the game, the score was 124 to 101. In the first game of the Eastern Conference semifinals, the Pacers crushed the Celtics on the ground like an ant.

A 23-point victory almost wiped out the confidence of the Celtics players. Although the series is 7 games of 4 wins, but sometimes you want to win the series, in fact, only 1 game is enough.

One game hit the opponent's confidence, and the remaining three games were just a numb massacre.

At the end of the game, Stevens dropped his arms. He wanted to give Henson a vigorous duel, but he wanted to fight with Henson on the court. But he knew that he had let Henson down.

He walked up to Henson, smiled bitterly, and shook hands with him.

"Sorry, I said I would give you a vigorous duel, but I didn't do it."

"It's not to blame you, Brad. After this season...take a good rest and spend more time with your family. At the end of the year, you are already exhausted."

Henson didn't know how to comfort his good friend. The playoffs were like that, cruel and ruthless. In the end, only one team can reach the top. The others, strictly speaking, are losers.

Unfortunately, Henson had to personally let his good friend fall into a failure again.

After the game, the media's attitude towards the Celtics also changed 180°.

At the beginning, everyone was bragging about how powerful the Celtics were. But now, everyone is unanimously starting to complain about how thin the Celtics are playing.

In addition to those three-in-class media, some well-known figures also stood up and severely criticized the Celtics players.

Former Celtics center Kendrick Perkins said without a word: “They don’t have much communication on the court and they don’t seem to be united enough. When you move your eyes to the bench, you can see them. Talking in frustration, so it gives me the feeling that they are not at the same stage at all. This phenomenon can actually explain a lot of problems. From an outsider's point of view, they have no unity at all."

At the same time, Perkins also said that Irving did not play the role of a good leader, he is simply squandering talent.

In short, the loss of a game instantly beat the Celtics back to their original form.

But in this regard, the Celtics players did not refute or refuse to admit.

Irving doesn't care what others say about him. This guy is probably thinking about whether he is going to Los Angeles or New York next season. Hayward doesn't care what people say about him, he's used to it after a season anyway. Tatum and Jaylen Brown also didn’t care, they wished Owen would leave soon, and then they would get back their own shot rights...

As for Henson, he didn't get into trouble either. Although the media touted the Celtics before the start of the game delayed him, the Celtics are Stevens's team after all, so Henson still didn't stand up to complain.

But the most important reason is that Henson's attention is no longer on the Eastern Conference semifinals. As he planned before, the first two rounds of the playoffs will not have any difficulty for the Pacers. The real challenge has to start from the Eastern Conference Finals.

Today, the 76ers and Raptors meet in the Eastern Conference semifinals "on time". The winner between the two teams will become Henson's opponent in the next round.

The most disturbing part of the road to the championship is coming. Henson has no mood to appreciate the conquered scenery behind him.

Leonard and Jimmy Butler, no matter who they eventually meet, Henson believes that they are much more difficult to deal with than the absent-minded Kelly Irving.