Continuous winning streak! Knicks 2:0 Celtics, the defending champion is in desperate situation!

The East has really won the bottom and the top + the winning streak. With the traffic significantly worse than the West, it has played a more intense and suspenseful game.

For the Knicks, judging from their record of winning only 1 game against the top three in the East and West in the regular season, they were not expected to do anything from the Celtics, and their team system is actually not so suitable for playing against the Celtics - everyone knows that the wing lines of OG+Bridge+Hart are prepared for the Celtics, but the defensive weakness of the end and end of the Downs+Brunson is also like ordering dishes for the Double Tanhua.

But in the actual game, the double-Tanhuajuan really can't play this one at the end, so there are indeed problems to be picked when the Celtics' three-pointers are not accurate.

We have praised the Celtics for handling the ball, sense of space, misaligned targeting and defense integrity, which are all OK, but their underlying logic must be three-pointers. On this basis, they can use defense, misaligned attacks, and rebounds with sense of space - because the opponent's inside will be called out of the basket - to hedge and adjust the volatility of the three-pointers.

But in this game, none of their trimmers played a big role:

Have they defended the Knicks? From the perspective of the whole game, yes, the Knicks only had 18 points in the first quarter, but they did not limit the Knicks in the critical fourth quarter. They scored random goals in the middle distance. The Celtics are known as the top defender of all players, but they also had to invest more resources in Brunson. Bridges Harts and the others found opportunities in the offline and on both wings;

Did they punish Towns and Brunson in misplaced? Obviously not doing enough. Brown's offensive effect in the first half was excellent, but the subsequent attacks to Towns and Brunson were also very mediocre. Tatum simply couldn't play everything. He passed the ball in some of the rounds of the attack, and was unable to break through to the penalty area when he really faced Towns - it seemed that he could only make a stable breakthrough against Doncic - and returned to the ultimate proposition about the Celtics:

Are their core attackers not strong enough?

As for rebounds, they still got better frontcourt rebounds and second-point scores at the data level, but when they use double towers more in the docking and facing the Knicks, the advantage of body shape and impact is finally offset, and when there is insufficient defense and misalignment, this rebound is not enough to adjust the fluctuation of three-pointers.

So when the trimmers are not very effective, the Celtics naturally cannot save themselves from 25 of 100 three-pointers in two games, and were conquered two home games in a row, with almost no fault tolerance.

I still think that the Celtics are a much stronger side. As long as their subsequent three-pointers return to normal, there is still a greater possibility of advancing - as long as they can win the next game - but for the Celtics, which already relies on three-pointers, there is indeed no fault tolerance now. The Knicks have two home games in the future. If there is any turmoil in the feel or key ball, this series of games will go far.

Only in this way can we seem to have reason to torture Tatum's main attacker - the Celtics were a bit out of range last season, and there was a "face-frame-hand amplification device" like Doncic in the finals - Tatum himself did not get all of it, but it significantly loosened the Celtics' misaligned dispatch and the basket offense - so that the Celtics used three-pointers + trimmers + amplification devices to push to the championship. This level of crushing, it seems a bit boring to talk about Tatum holding the ball.

But in his comparison with Huazi and Booker, he has always mentioned that his ball holding is unstable. For strong defense, he can sometimes break into the basket and get into the middle distance, but sometimes he cannot. In the face of delayed shots, he is definitely not the best level among the forwards. He has been slowly improving on the "bass forward" track, but it is still not good enough. There will be problems occasionally in such a game, and the entire chase in the second half cannot be stable into a round.

But he is definitely not useless. After all, the score against the Magic in the first round is not for nothing, but the upper and lower limits are indeed very large among forwards at this level, so he looks stupid in some occasions, and when the Celtics fail to make three-pointers, he will especially seem like a "peach-picking" person.