The Celtics fell, Tatum retreated from injury, his dream of defending was shattered, and the league curse continued to ferment!

The Celtic Army's dynasty dream was once again shattered in spring.

When the final whistle rang, Tatum sat on the bench with a lonely face, and the expectations of Boston fans dissipated with the wind. G6's crushing defeat was not sudden, because this team most optimistic this season has actually planted the seeds of retreat.

It has only been a year since the championship was won and eliminated, but this super battleship, once known as "the most likely to break the championship curse", capsized in the cruel playoffs. When they were eliminated by the Knicks with a total score of 2-4 in the series, it was not only the end of a season, but also the entire team building logic was questioned.

In the past five years, the NBA championship has been like a baton, from the Raptors to the Lakers, Bucks, Warriors, Nuggets, and then to the Celtics. But no team can reach the end on the "road to defend the title" with high intensity and high attention.

The Celtics were placed on high expectations. They have the most terrifying outside firepower in the league, and averaged 17.8 three-pointers per game in the regular season, breaking the historical record. The joining of Porzingis and Holiday also made the defensive end more perfect, and the strength on paper is almost impeccable.

Not only that, the senior Celtics did not break up the lineup after winning the championship, but instead spent more than $500 million to renew the contract, trying to create a dynasty template by continuing the chemical reaction. Tatum, White, Jaylen and others are all considered to be at their peak, with both experience and talent.

But when this team really needs to show resilience and adjustment ability, they choose to rely on their seniority.

The first round of magic, although it seemed easy to advance 4-1, it was sweating all over every game. The players of the Celtics played impatiently, but they were still immersed in the hallucination of the "Defender". In the semi-finals, they faced not only a hot opponent, but also a completely different game intensity.

The Knicks spoke with their bodies and used every round to oppress the Celtics. The tough defensive rhythm completely disrupted the Celtics' original exquisite tactical system.

Two 20-point leads were reversed, Tatum retreated from injury, coach Mazula responded unruly on the spot... All of this reminds us: the Celtics are not fully prepared for the bloody playoffs.

**Mazura believes in data and theory too much, and does not believe in the physical reactions of the players. **In the critical stage of the game, he still made a large number of three-pointers and was unwilling to try to break through the inside line; when Tatum was already exhausted, he had to defend against the opponent's center, which eventually led to a torn core Achilles tendon and ended in a tragedy. The defeat of the Celtics was not an accident in a certain game, but a systematic error.

Perhaps, they are too obsessed with the "magic ball" but ignore the emotions and human nature of the game itself. When you think you have the perfect model, your opponent wakes you up in a more primitive way with one punch and one punch.

The changes in all these are precisely what the Knicks bring. They do not have a gorgeous three-point feast, no exquisite tactical transfer, and some are the "Hell Week" level training under Thibodeau's tough coaching, which is the indomitable endurance of role players, and the outbreak of "engineering" players such as Bridges, Anunobi, and Divinsonzo.

The Knicks, who entered the Eastern Conference Finals for the first time in 25 years, is no longer a joke, but a representative of "farm basketball" in the new era. Many years later, when people look back at this series, they may not remember the Celtics’ three-point shooting percentage, nor their regular season net score, but only remember: a once perfect machine, rusted, crushed, and overturned from the throne in the playoffs.

Champion is not the person who can calculate the data best, but those who are willing to shed blood and sweat and move forward step by step.

In the past few years, the Celtics have been regarded as a model of small ballism, and many teams imitate their team building philosophy and personnel selection criteria. Now, their exit also sounds a wake-up call for the entire league - basketball is not a laboratory data simulation, nor is it a test field for magic ball theory.

Fighting depends on will, not on model prediction.

With the fall of the Celtics, the defensive curse continued again. Every spring in the NBA reminds people of a fact: there is no eternal king here, only the challenger who is constantly evolving.

Perhaps, dynasty does not belong to this era.