Timberwolves say goodbye to the Warriors, Boston still stands

Celtics 2-3 Knicks.

Tatum fell, but the defending champion has not yet fallen.

Jaylen Brown, who made 20 points, 2 assists and 4 turnovers in the last game, took over Tatum's ball today: a career-recorded 12 assists.

Derek White, who was beaten and beaten by the Knicks in the last game, scored 37 points, today's highest score of 34 points.

But most importantly, Luke Conat.

Porkingisbon's series was injured and under pressure, and the ice and snow were melted. In the second half of today, Coach Mazula simply didn't use him. Connat starts.

After two minutes of fighting, Old Master Horford committed another four more fouls. The two towers that the Celtics are proud of are both short of. Connat alone.

The magical moment is here.

The Celtics set up the three-back lineup of White + Prichard + Holiday + Jaylen + Connate, and the space is wide open. White chases Brunson, and Jaylen aims at Towns.

Knicks can attack the Celtics' inside, but:

Towns attacked the basket, Connate blocked; Hart broke through, Connate blocked; Towns made a tip-off, Connate blocked; Brunson shot, Connate blocked. Anunobi shot, Conat blocked.

In the 8 minutes of the third quarter, Conate held five big hats with one arm. When Wenban Yamachet saw him, he would call him brother.

At the end of the third quarter, Connat was already panting and as white as paper, but he was like Jokic, as if he was about to faint on the court the next second - but he could still fight.

In the fourth quarter, Coach Mazula continued to let Conat hold on. Then the funny moment in the whole audience came out:

Hart yelled at Towns and asked him to deal with Connert.

- Celtics asked the 191 cm Holiday to go against the seven-foot Towns in order to protect Connat.

- The Seven-foot Giant of Conat, going to deal with Hart 193 cm.

The Celtics' three-guard team, as long as Towns defeated Connert, he would make a contribution in one battle, but Connert did not. The Celtics won this group of misaligned decisions.

On the other hand, Jaylen named Brunson and forced him to 6 fouls; Knicks defended solo, Jaylen took it alone; Towns hit Jaylen and passed the Knicks to dunk; Knicks surrounded him, Jaylen passed Prichard to the weak side long shot: in the middle of the fourth quarter, Jaylen made a 16-pointer in one go, his lips were bloody, and his eyes were fierce, and he really held the ball with a big core.

—because he took over Tatum’s ball, and because of space.

—The space is supported by the Celtic defenders group.

- Connate was in the inside, so the Knicks couldn't beat him, so the Celtics could last for three guards.

The foundation is in Conat's basket protection.

Celtics won two games in this series: one game Tatum defended Towns, and the other game Connert was not washed away.

Luke Connert, when the pillar Tatum was injured, one of the two towers could not hit, and the other was trapped by a foul. In the literal sense, the building was about to fall and turn the tide was overturned. Five blocks in the third quarter opened the Celtics' three-point lineup, White shot from a long time, and Holiday hindered Towns.

Jaylen Brown defended against Brunson, and attacked the best ball-holding battle in his career.

To make an inappropriate example, the Celtics showed the temperament of the Knicks in 1999 today: When Ewing, who supported the team, was injured, suddenly everyone discovered that they had new possibilities:

Jaylen and White fired two guns like Spreville + Alan Houston at the time, and Connate dominated the inside like the young Camby at that time.

After Tatum was injured, there was no way to rely on the championship path last season. Suddenly everyone, "It turns out that we can do more."

The Celtics are still alive: before being eliminated, they are the defending champions.

Timberwolves 4-1 Warriors, the second consecutive season of Western Conference Finals. Edwards, who is in the 2020 class, and Halliburton, the same classmate next door, has been in the division final for two consecutive years.

It's great to be young.

Three moments of the game:

Watz fed the sixth assist in the second quarter, Randall scored a three-pointer from 8 meters away, breaking the Warriors' attack on Watz, and Curry shook his head.

Watz fed McDan in the third quarter and dunked inward, leading by 18 points and stopping the Warriors.

In the fourth quarter, Jimmy fed Moody's long shot and chased him to 9 points. Watts also shot with a long shot. McDan dunked the ball and destroyed the Warriors' counterattack.

Edwards's career-high 12 assists in the game - like Jaylen Brown next door.

The Celtics next door lacked ace Tatum and beat the Knicks at home.

The Warriors lacked ace Curry and were beaten four consecutive games.

Tatum is a hexagonal panacea, which can be used to defend against five positions, and can be used to attack and shoot with the ball without the ball. It can lubricate the Celtics' joints in each inch, with only a little less skill, so the score will fluctuate with the long shot. Without him, everyone in the Celtics had to take more responsibility.

Curry is a unique shooting threat from ancient and modern times, and the Warriors' passing and cutting system is built around this. He is gone, and the role of Little Payton and Dream Chasing is immediately discounted, but instead he does not rely on Ku's gravity Kumingga to fight.

Watz played Durant last season, with 33 points in the first game and 8 assists in the second game. 44 points in the fourth game against the Nuggets and 9 assists in the next game.

This season's first game against the Lakers, facing a pincer attack, with 9 assists in the first game.

The previous two games, Edwards scored a big score in the third quarter. The Warriors attacked on the side today, so Edwards led the team forward with 6 points and 6 assists in the first half, and scored another point in the second half and won.

In this series, Edwards averaged 20 points in the second half: first look at the situation, pass the ball, and then explode. Today is the game's pass to the end: 12 assists tied up the entire team.

Kor's first half is basically the speed array of Jimmy + Dream Chasing + Hilder + Boger + Kumingga, and he travels back and forth at high speed. He probably hopes to improve his offense.. But the size of this lineup is limited, and it is difficult to protect the basket by hitting Edwards in the first half: the Timberwolves made 14 of 16 shots at the basket in the first half, Gobert, Randall and McDan simply stayed at the basket and refused to leave.

The Warriors can only count on Boj and Kumingga. Kumingga played well in the first quarter and Bojie in the third quarter, but he couldn't hold on.

is similar to the Lakers' dilemma in the first round: the Timberwolves have the advantage in size and speed. If they fight quickly, they will be attacked by the forward group, and if they hit the position, they will not be able to pry out the defense.

To say something more about Bojie:

The defensive scale is tight.

For example, Curry's 12% of his shots were large opens this season. 49% of the shots are tight defense and strong shots.

Jimmy, 21% of the shots (mainly three-pointers) are large open positions. 46% of the shots are tight defense and strong shots.

Off topic, Jokic next door shots were large opens, and 59% of the shots were tight defense and strong shots. Alexander, 13% of his shots were large opens, and 48% of his shots were tight defense and strong shots.

This is the defensive treatment of offensive ace: about half of the shots are strong shots, and there are scattered large open spaces.

Relative:

Boger, 34% of his shots were large opens.

36% of dream pursuits. Hilder 37%.

You have to feed these empty people so that the ball can continue to play.

Peton Jr.'s 49% of his shots were large opens - he could not make any shots even if he was released, so he could not stay on the court.

Kumingga is indeed fierce, but he is already exhausted in the second half of the last game: in the last game, he made 4 of 6 shots and 4 of 12 shots; today he made 3 of 4 shots and 8 of 19 shots: He was very active when he first appeared, but his strength in the second half would be unstable; and if he had not cut inside and attacked the basket, it would mean that the ball would have to stop.

So today the Warriors struggled to ask Bojie to find the touch, and gave him the opportunity to play the double-player, and they did find it: Bojie played the third quarter with the best long shot in the playoffs, and then the fourth quarter's throw, which was all right.

But I can't stop the Timberwolves' attack: if you don't pinch Edwards, he explodes; if you pinch, he passes the ball, and the second half will still burst.

And there is Randle around Edwards.

Randall was responsible for 11 assists in the second game of the series; then a triple-double; in the last game, he scored 19 points in the first half of Edwards, with a career-high 31 points; today's career-high 29 points, and the 8-meter long shot in the second quarter broke the Warriors' attack, 15 points in the first half, and took advantage of Edwards' shot in the Warriors' inside in the second half.

After Gordon finished his third game against the Thunder, someone asked me if he was Gordon the best No. 4 position so far in the playoffs. I said it was Randle: his greatest significance is that he became a tactical countermeasure around Edwards:

Long shot and the basket order were given, and he could do anything. He is the hexagonal panacea around Edwards.

Last season, I joked: The Timberwolves' ace point guard + double towers + left-hand old point guard + defensive monster structure is a bit like the 2010 Lakers - Old Conley, Old Fish, McDann is Pierce, if Edwards is Kobe in this lineup, Randle in this playoffs is Edwards' Paul Gasol.

and advanced to the division final one step ahead of Towns.

Randy Orton previously said that Edwards was a legendary killer - in the past two years of playoffs, he has eliminated Durant, Booker, Jokic, Murray, Luca, LeBron, and today ended Curry, Jimmy and Dream Chasing Season.

In the next round, Edwards will either face three-time MVP Jokic or the new MVP Alexander.

23 years old, are you going to play so many legends?

I really got the script of the protagonist of the hot-blooded idiot in the comics. I played all over the Four Emperors and Seven Warriors in two years...

Today Edwards scored 1,000 points in the playoffs, and his 37th playoff game in his career.

- LeBron and Durant also scored 1,000 points in the playoffs in Game 37.