In the first game of the Eastern Conference Finals, Lin Yu's explosion caused more heated discussions in North America and the excitement of watching the Celtics.
Danny Ainge has been pulled out and ridiculed time and time again. At the beginning of the season, he was regarded as a god because of the trade to form the Big Three. As a result, Danny Ainge is now considered to be a living thing in the team's managerial circle.
"Looking back on last season, the Cleveland Cavaliers lacked one thing, which is called outside three-point firepower. In last year's playoffs, the Cavaliers lost because there were no three-pointers. Without three-pointers, there is no space. LeBron James was directly eliminated.
Many people surrounded and suppressed us, but in the end we lost to the Heat without any chance of fighting back."
"Then in the summer, Danny Ainge did a good job and directly gave China Lin, who showed top three-point ability in his rookie season, to the Cavaliers. The price the Cavaliers spent was only Alexander Pavlovic and two first-rounders.
round and a secondary round.”
"The Celtics didn't keep these bargaining chips. Alexander Pavlovich and a future first-round pick were sent to the Timberwolves as one of the bargaining chips in the trade for Garnett."
"Another first-round pick, the 25th overall pick in the first round of the season, was sent to the Suns, and they acquired Rajon Rondo in a deal plus cash."
"There is one second-round pick that is still in the hands of the Celtics."
"In summary, they used the chips they obtained from trading China Lin in exchange for almost one-fifth of Kevin Garnett, Laga Rondo and an unused second-rounder."
"But judging from the regular season, playoffs and the first game of the Eastern Conference Finals, even if China Lin cannot be equal to Kevin Garnett, he is at least 70% of the value of Kevin Garnett."
"So, Cleveland fans should be grateful to Danny Ainge. Without Danny Ainge, they wouldn't be able to see the Cavaliers' strong performance now."
One of the most liked discussion threads on reddit, a long string of words helped North American fans review last summer's trade.
The following series of replies are all mocking Danny Ainge and the Celtics fans who were already pre-ordering the O'Brien Trophy at the beginning of the season.
"Green Army fans before the start of the season: We are the champions, Danny Ainge is the god of trading! Green Army fans after the first game of the Eastern Conference Finals: Danny Ainge get out of here!"
"Originally, the Celtics could have formed the Big Three more easily. They could have retained better role players instead of signing a group of veterans who were weak in key games. Originally, the winner of the first game of the Eastern Conference Finals would be the Celtics.
Celtic people.”
"There is another original story. Originally, the Cavaliers couldn't even advance to the Eastern Conference Finals, but now, they are going to the Finals! Thanks to Danny Ainge's assist."
A Green Army fan passed by downstairs: "Why do you want to deny an entire season with one game?"
A second Celtics fan passed by: "Just after the first game of the Eastern Conference Finals, the discussion on reddit was as if they had won the entire Eastern Conference Finals."
A third Green Army fan passed by: "No matter what the outcome of the first game of the Eastern Conference Finals, Danny Ainge's contribution is indelible. He used a few resources to help the Celtics form the first team in the history of the league.
A Big Three."
A fourth Celtics fan passed by: "Come on, you guys upstairs, when Lin was traded, how many people were against it? Look now, the stubborn Danny Ainge made a big mistake!"
During the intermission of the series, Lin Yu, who had nothing to do, came across this post. Judging from the replies from Green Army fans, after the disastrous defeat in the first game, the majority of Green Army fans still supported Danny Ainge.
"It seems that the loss was not painful enough."
After browsing Reddit for a while, Lin Yu went back and browsed domestic forums.
Compared with North American fans who only made fun of the Celtics and Danny Ainge, and only slightly praised Lin Yu's personal performance, Lin Yu in domestic forums has already been praised to the sky.
If Lin Yu simply glanced at domestic basketball forums, all he could see were various posts praising him, such as
"In terms of 10 three-pointers in a single game, has Dayu become one of the best three-pointers in NBA history?"
"Since the playoffs, Dayu has been the Cavaliers' best player. If a playoff MVP is to be awarded, there is no doubt that Dayu will be the final winner!"
"When we met again in the playoffs, Dayu crushed Junzi Lei again. Plus the regular season, is he already a level above Junzi Lei?"
"..."
Under the wild boasts, there must be cynicism hidden, but Lin Yu is not worried about being cynicized. When he was hacked by the entire domestic network, it was much worse than now, and even worse than in the foreseeable future.
In other words, what part of the world has he not seen? He has long forgotten about the evil people in the country.
In the first game of the Eastern Conference Finals, Lin Yu's outburst was unexpected by many people.
At least before the game, most media expert commentators believed that the winner between the Cavaliers and Celtics would depend on whether LeBron James could break through the Celtics' steel defense.
But the final result of the game was that at the beginning of the game, the Cavaliers relied on Lin Yu's 4-of-5 three-pointers to instantly defeat the Celtics' defense.
An easy victory was achieved, and Mike Brown felt it was unreal.
During the intermission after the game, as usual, Mike Brown held a coaching staff meeting. He wanted to summarize something, but found that he could not summarize anything.
Do you want him to say: Our victory in the last game was all due to Lin Yu's explosion, and his tactics had no effect?
Mike Brown obviously wouldn't and couldn't say that.
At the same time, he also agreed with what Kevin Garnett said in an interview that the first wild victory in the Eastern Conference Finals was very random. He could not think that the Cavaliers would be able to crush the Celtics in every subsequent game.
Celtic people.
Therefore, in the second game, Mike Brown still needs to be careful and prepare more killer moves, especially killer moves like Zhan Lin's pick-and-roll, which obviously still need to be improved.
There were two days between the two games in the Eastern Conference Finals. Compared to the Cavaliers, who only held one coaching staff meeting, the Celtics had two days and 48 hours, non-stop discussing how to play the next game.
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Although Li Hanks, the assistant coach of the Celtics, said: "China Lin's state cannot be so explosive in every game. We only need to return to regular tactics in the next game, and there should be no big problem."
Doc Rivers shook his head: "We can't pin our hopes on China Lin's state. This is the Eastern Conference finals, not those insignificant regular seasons."
But LeBron James, who has always been a hot spot, and Lin Yu, who may break out and become another hot spot, give the Celtics a headache.
Although they have a historical-level defense, they are still powerless when facing two historical-level explosive points.
The Celtics coaching staff discussed and discussed, and finally chose two plans, one is a conventional plan, which is used in the scenario where Lin Yu does not break out, and the other is an unconventional plan, which is used in the scenario where Lin Yu breaks out.
They already attach great importance to Lin Yu, but before the second game, Kevin Garnett continued to speak out and further said: "I made a mistake in the last interview. The reason why Lin Crazy became Lin Crazy is because of his
The state fluctuates too much, so to be precise, in the next game, he will no longer be in a fiery state, on the contrary, his state will be extremely poor!"
