858 evenly matched
The two sides were in a difficult position to solve the problem at the beginning. Although the Cavaliers had been sentenced to death by 90%, James still wanted to fight again.
The little emperor is considered a royal relative and nobleman. He was very eager to think that can the death penalty be converted into a death sentence, a death sentence is changed to a period of time, and a period of time is changed to a medical parole?
The Cavaliers' only hope is to protect this game and then return to home games, which may be possible to turn defeat into victory.
The Warriors obviously know the true meaning of playing games such as taking your life while you are sick and fighting a snake and playing seven inches. They don’t want to give their opponents any chance, so even if Bl takes the lead with absolute advantage, he will still take every step of the game and play steadily, with an attitude of putting the Cavaliers to death.
James did not hesitate to carry the ball and launched a death charge. The ball was like a pack of explosives in his hand. When he arrived at the inside, he took the ball and made a layup without saying a word, seizing every opportunity to make a heavy deduction.
Genius is genius. Jackson's defense is very good. He even used foul tactics to stop James, but it was useless. In front of the red-eyed James, Jackson's defense repeatedly had loopholes, and he had fouled three times early, and replaced Barnes to pester him.
Chamberlain was also in a turbulent lineup, turning around and jumping shots and scoring with hooks. He and James faced each other in the first quarter and played a slight match. However, the Warriors still took advantage of their home court advantage to gain a 22-leading lead.
The second quarter was the Cavaliers' ball rights. Brown taught in the coach's seat: "Young men, we don't have many opportunities anymore, so don't be stingy with your physical strength. We change our defensive strategy and follow the ball in full. Not only Chamberlain's bitch, but anyone who gets the ball will have to attack them.
This tactic belongs to the right to hit the ball. Although it often leads to the problem of missing people on the defense line, the right to hit the ball can well hit the offensive player, making him feel frustrated when facing countless enemies in his life.
Of course, passers like Billups and Curry cannot be attacked by crossing, otherwise they will be assisted.
However, at the beginning of the first quarter, Billups ended. Instead, Iverson and West cooperated. The two of them used a storm-like attack to defeat the James organization's defense line from the outside and compete with him.
But at the start of the second quarter, Old Nelson replaced Billups again, which made Brown feel a little disappointed.
Players from both sides entered the court, and in order to perform double-teams, Brown also put in a effort to replace the combination of Big and Valaijo in the inside, while Mo was a partner of Anthony in the outside.
The Cavaliers attacked first, James took the ball at the high position and leaned forward, took the three-way move, arched forward, and then accelerated suddenly, rushing to the defensive line deployed by the Warriors at the high position, jumped up and passed the ball to Xiao Mo who ran out of the open position. The latter took action and the ball fell into the basket.
I have to say that Xiao Mo is selected by the Cavaliers uniform group to be James's imperial guard commander. Unfortunately, James still looked down on him. The little emperor found that what he needed was not the guard commander, but the Marshal of the Army and General of the Pillar Kingdom.
At this time, Curry was defending West, who was partnering with Billups on the outside.
Curry and West are completely different players. One is rational and the other is crazy, the other is the most skilled in offensive mechanism, and the other is best at disrupting battles. The defense is even more different. West's defense is like a storm. He can directly overturn the opponent with a gun. Curry's defensive pressure is much worse. Bowen works hard to train, but he does not have the aggression like West.
This way, Xiao Mo finally felt a little more relaxed. In the first quarter, he was very lightly by West - because Wei Shengmei and his precious daughter were also on the scene, to watch his championship battle.
Curry raised his hand and signaled himself to be responsible for the defense. Chamberlain shook his head, and Billups ran forward with a normal expression.
Billups ran through the half with a steadily ball possession. Anthony Bac was a little nervous, staring at him with his eyes tightly, and stepped backwards to stand at the three-point line. He was ready. If Chamberlain came to cover, he would switch defense with Vallejo.
Billing to the front of the three-point line, Billups slowed down. He looked up at the inside line as if he was looking for a pass route, and then he rose from the ground with a surprise gaze of the Cavaliers.
Billups is also the No. 1 heavy gunner. His long shot is very sharp. The four Lakers kings who used a three-pointer to fall apart. But now they are here with the Warriors, especially with Curry's strong rise, he hasn't done this for a long time, so the Cavaliers also ignored the big Buddha in front of them.
With a three-pointer, Billups still looked as usual, lowered his head and ran back, ready to defend.
Old Nelson responded to the angry Brown with a bright smile. The finals reached this point. Both sides were extremely familiar with each other. Whether it was tactics or player abilities, there was no privacy between them. In this way, winning was the final say.
If you can enter the finals, how big can you be? A rookie coach like Brown is really going to compete with the Warriors for hard strength, but Old Nelson didn't do that. He cunningly designed a few small tactics and was waiting to get cold-hearted in the critical battle to get the Cavaliers.
Unexpected is the king of tactics
The Cavaliers adapted to the Warriors' general direction and strategic policy, that is, Chamberlain first covers at the high position on the offensive end, the ball handler takes the opportunity to break through, and the two front lines meet from the left and right wings, and then Chamberlain takes the lead to see whether he chooses to follow up or shoot in the middle and long range. Generally speaking, although the defender launches an attack, Chamberlain ends the attack.
Billups began to make changes. Before, he was a mediocre passer, and his strength was on the defensive end, and it seemed that he had nothing to do with scoring.
He has been mediocre for four games, and suddenly appeared in the second quarter of the fifth game.
Since then, the Cavaliers still attacked honestly, and the Warriors defended without any loss. James made a jump shot and Chamberlain turned around and took the rebound, and threw it to Billups and continued to run forward.
This time, Anthony Phack began to press on. Billups ran slowly, but when he reached outside the three-point line, Chamberlain rushed up and helped him with a cover. Billups got into it like a swimming fish, and Chamberlain followed in, and the Cavaliers' defense line couldn't help but shrink.
At this time, the Warriors set up a cannon outside the three-point line again. Curry found the open space trickyly, took over Billups' passer and scored another three-pointer.
After that, James used his strong push to widen the distance and made a domineering jump shot. The Warriors' offense was much more bizarre. Chamberlain put the ball on the surface, and he always had to pass through him, but he was not the one who launched the final attack.
The tactical advantage allowed the Warriors to control the advantage of the game. The Cavaliers were a little confused because their tactics were double-teaming, but the ball always fell into the hands of Billups or Curry in the end, and they did not dare to double-team these two people, so the more they played, the more chaotic they became.
At this time, the fans began to curse angrily: Brown is a cheating person
The two sides were still hard to distinguish in the first quarter. After only three and a half points in the second quarter, the Warriors pulled the lead to double digits.
Brown had no choice but to call for a timeout. James walked down the court with a dark face, panting heavily, and even a dog could tell the dissatisfaction in his heart.
Brown has no choice. Although he is the head coach, he is not the H6 of this team. James is nicknamed the Little Emperor in the NH, but in the Cavaliers, he is actually nicknamed the Local Emperor.
Calling the players together, Brown first encouraged his players. He tried to say in an excited tone: "Young guys, you're great. Cleveland is proud of you. Although we are still behind in the score, our momentum is stronger than our opponents. What does this mean? Our defense is effective, but you still have to be careful and don't leave any gaps or loopholes for them."
Compared to Old Nelson, Brown's tactical ability is too low. No wonder some people say that the gap in the strength of the teams in the east and west is the gap in the head coach's ability.
Look at what kind of coaches are in the West? There are a lot of old foxes, Popovich, Old Nelson, Zen master Jackson, iron coach Sloan, George Carl, Adelman, even the new generation, there are also many talents. Carlisle of the Mavericks and Scott of the Thunder are all talents who can hold back the scene.
What about the East? Riley is of the same level as Popovich and others, but this old guy has been obsessed with being a godfather recently and threw the coaching staff to a Filipino rookie. What about the others? Except for Reeves, who is barely good in Boston, the other head coaches are all scumbags.
Someone has counted that in the past five seasons, the general manager of the 15 Western teams has changed 7 head coaches, while the Eastern team has changed 2ls, which is a full triple difference.
Brown has been in charge of the Cavaliers for so many years, and this team has not yet built any defensive system. His defense is to let James block the opponent's strongest outside, and then the others go one-on-one. If they can, they can defend themselves. Even if they can't, even if they can't, their offense is not bad anyway. There is a very strong James.
After the timeout, Old Nelson began another arrangement, Chamberlain guarded the top of the penalty area, Ibaka paid for him in the inside, and the outside line was basically within a range scattered from the penalty area, which means that they locked the center line to the wings and released the bottom line.
The offense is like flowing water, and you can go wherever you are under pressure. After Xiao Mo controlled the ball, he was almost strangled to death. He subconsciously entered the bottom line position and rushed forward along the bottom line.
Old Nelson is an old hunter. Now the Knight is his prey, and the bottom line of getting out of the way is the trap he deploys.
Xiao Mo was very polite and entered the trap of Old Nelson from the beginning.
After breaking through with the ball, Xiao Mo started easily and rushed to the basket at a glance. Then Chamberlain and Ibaka suddenly spread their arms to block the inside line. Suddenly, Xiao Mo was blocked.
If you have no choice, or if you don’t have the scoring skills of the peak McGrady Iverson Kobe, don’t go to the bottom line. This kind of offense is also a sword-like move. Although you can catch your opponent off guard, once you encounter the opponent’s sea of people, it will be miserable. It’s hard to even pass the ball at the bottom line.
Sure enough, Xiao Mo saw that the situation was not good and threw the ball out. Curry, who had a pair of quick-witted hands, made up for the loophole, intercepted the ball, and ran backwards.
"Counterattack" roared, a craze
The Warriors' counterattack was very fast. Chamberlain ran to the inside immediately, and Valejo followed him, but Curry passed the ball to Billups, who quickly dribbled under his crotch to break through.
Seeing this, the Cavaliers deployed their heavy troops on the outside. At this time, Chamberlain took the lead. Billups threw the ball to him. The Cavaliers immediately shrank their eggs - only Valejo was on the inside.
The matter behind it was simple, Chamberlain pushed the defensive Valaijo and shot with a light hook.
Chamberlain began to attack the inside frequently. On the defensive end, they guarded the middle lane, while on the offensive end they still launched a slam from the middle lane. So in the TNT studio, Barkley and Smith shouted one after another:
Chapter completed!