Celtics G1: Tatum is the only one who loses the game? Why did the three-point team lose their touch in the first game?

The Celtics ruined an almost sure-win game. In the third quarter, they led by as much as 20 points, but next, Brunson led the Knicks to set off a counterattack horn, dragging the suspense into overtime. In overtime, Bridges' final steal ended the Celtics' final equalization fantasy. After the first game of the

series, the Celtics lost to the Knicks by 3 points, falling behind 0-1 with a big score.

The Celtics lost, is it just a Tatum problem? Why did the Celtics lose their nearly crazy three-pointer in the first game? In this review, we focus on analyzing the offensive and defensive shortcomings of the Celtics after lacking the Wave God, the problems arising from a large number of three-point shots, and the tactical sharing.

Due to illness, Posses missed the second half of the game, and Horford replaced Possesses to take on the starting task in the second half.

Losing the Wave God led to a complete change in the Celtics' offensive logic: the offensive end was from the original use of high-level cover to create an inside dislocation and a "paracious" outside shot, while the defensive end lacked the first assisted defense point and card board advantages.

Because Thibodeau adopts conventional alignment, he uses the same size to counter the Positive God of Downs, who cannot use his size to create a threat to the penalty area. Therefore, Mazula usually designs some opportunities to use high-level continuous covers to create misalignment for Boss, first creating threats in the penalty area, causing the opponent's defense to shrink and create opportunities for outside shooters.

The second attack started in the first round, the Celtics launched a "double drag" at a high position to create a misalignment opportunity for Tatum, sending the opponent's weak defense Brunson to Tatum to improve the success rate of singles, but Towns "ice" defense destroyed this opportunity; however, the first cover of the Posses had already gone down and stuck the bridge, so Tatum passed the ball with the ball. The Possessessessed the inside and attracted the attention of three people. After failing to score for the first layup, he passed the ball to White, who made a three-pointer.

After failing to hit a three-pointer in a continuous conversion, the Celtics began to slow down and switch to the position. In this round, the God of Wat successfully caught the misplaced position when he landed, but was stuck by Hart and unable to jump to catch the ball, resulting in a pass error.

In the next round, the Celtics still built a chance to cover the penalty area around the God of Wat and the ball holder: The God of Wat quickly moved out after covering White, and White jumped to pass the ball after breaking through, but because the bridge stuck the God of Wat in advance, the bridge in front directly completed the steal.

It is obvious that the Knicks did their homework on the disadvantage of creating misalignment around the Celtics, restricting the Pole God from receiving the ball by going around and positioning, but rarely directly forming double-teams, and not giving the Celtics a three-pointer to the outside of the empty space. Moreover, despite the disadvantage in size, Hart, Bridge and OG are all very aware and skillful on the defensive end. If you are not a misplaced expert, it is difficult to become a weak defensive ring.

On the defensive end, Mazula used 45 error defense to prevent the decline in the penalty area protection ability caused by the wave god being raised to the top of the arc, and also reduces the risk of being named by the defender. This will greatly release the threat of the frame protection and assisted defense of the Wave God in the restricted area. When the opponent tries to attack the frame, the Wave God can complete the interference as soon as possible.

Just like this:

Knicks performed the "pistol" tactic at the beginning. After Brunson received the ball, he accelerated the attack on the box. The God of Wave quickly assisted in defense of interference. After Brunson passed the ball, he used his figure to cover Hart, who was unable to take action.

In this round, Towns used the bridge flex to cover the ball at low post, and used his turn to break through the attack box to the bottom line, but was still interfered by the helping defender. After Brunson served the ball to the bridge, he tried to catch the ball and transferred to the weak side with the "double drag" on the top of the arc, but the bridge broke through the attack frame with a fake hand, and the God of Wat immediately let Hart go and directly assisted in defense.

When facing Hart, Pope usually chooses to take one step or even two steps to "encourage" his actions. In the middle of the first quarter, Hart even had a scene where there was no one in front of him but he did not dare to take action, and eventually won the "Five Embarrassment" with a pass mistake.

The importance of the Beat God to the Celtics on both offense and defense is self-evident. Without the Beat God, it is difficult for the team to establish a system on both offense and defense in the inside. Horford is limited due to age issues, and the efficiency of frame protection and assisted defense are limited. The team was relegated in the offense and defense in the first and second half.

Porcela was absent in the second half, and Mazula had to increase Connet's appearance time. However, Connet was able to only maintain the task of receiving the ball or scoring the second time on the offensive end, and the team was unable to complete too much extension around the inside, which was also the main reason why the Celtics increased their outside shots in the second half.

, and Brunson turned on the "zone" mode in advance. Whether facing Horford, who is slow or Prichard, who is in a disadvantaged body, he can use his skills to shoot half a basket near the basket.

This exposes the disadvantages of the Celtics' lineup. When the team's rotation depth is limited and they have obvious weaknesses, how should Mazula make a decision? Should we shorten the rotation and seek victory, but the price is the core risk of injury, or to maintain rotation, as long as the connection section does not lose points, and take away the game when the starter is started.

At least in this game, Mazula chose the latter. With the establishment of a lead in the first half, the Celtics attempted to take the Knicks away with three-pointers, but obviously, the Celtics underestimated the Knicks' determination to win.

Therefore, the Celtics can only continue to use cover to attack and even make some unreasonable three-pointers. Their threats in the penalty area are only the breakthrough killing after a single on the weak side, and the lower forward attack box after a pick-and-roll.

In the post-match interview, Tatum said, "Sometimes we choose a more relaxed way of shooting - including myself, but in fact we should have hit the basket more and put more pressure on the opponent's inside.".

The Celtics have not played games without the Filipinos. For most of the regular season, Mazula intends to "protect" the Filipinos, including but not limited to reducing the difficulty of matchup, shortening the appearance time, and reducing back-to-back games. Most of the time, Tatum needs to increase the threat of the penalty area and reduce the ball holding at the top of the arc.

In other words, in the absence of the wave god, Tatum needs to improve his "engineering attributes", similar to the regular season, taking on more frame protection, cardboard, and assisted defense tasks.

This will be a big test for Tatum.

Finally, share a common horn tactic of the Celtics, using far-cut cover to create shooting opportunities for running players.

In the fourth quarter, Holiday held the ball at the top of the arc, Horford made a flex screen for Tatum and then received the ball. Then Tatum made a flare screen for Holiday to block the defender, who received the ball and completed the shot.

Tatum and Horford made an STS (covering the screener) start action, which made OG mistakenly think that Tatum wanted to use the misaligned single to Brunson, and then chose to interfere in the front of the left, which gave Holiday the opportunity to take the open position, but unfortunately he failed to hit.

In the regular season, the Celtics often use "horns flare" to create opportunities for pitchers.

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The God of Wave made a flare screen for Tatum. Tatum got a mobile phone chance when he received the ball, but Tatum made a fake move to attract double teams, and then passed the ball to the God of Wave, who made a three-pointer.

This round is still horns flare, and Tatum cut in and caught the ball after White Flare screen, causing the opponent to foul.

made a large number of three-pointers, which is the usual way of playing in the Celtics. In the regular season, they averaged 48.2 three-pointers per game and led the way out. Similar to the Cavaliers G1, the poor shooting condition is just a small sample. In subsequent games, they will still adjust to the normal value.

Losing a city, the Celtics are not in a state of doom. As defending champions, they can still solve these problems after a brief adjustment.

It's just that they should revisit this team that was swept by them in the regular season.