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Chapter 673
Chapter 673
After some inspection, Cousins held George and Brother Antetokounmpo and stood up. Following the instructions of team doctor Tom Kaufman, he turned his arms continuously and checked again and again. When he found that there was no problem, he immediately turned his head to look at the king's bench and signaled to Su Yang. no problem.
Su Yang nodded, his slightly nervous expression relaxed, and the referee signaled for the game to continue.
It's nice to have a false alarm.
Cheers erupted in the arena, the King kicked off from the left sideline of the backcourt, and the formation of one high and four low in the frontcourt settled down. Curry dribbled the ball to the top of the arc, took advantage of the opportunity to cooperate with Cousins in a pick-and-roll, and suddenly threw off Irving and entered Inside, Love was forced to move laterally for a delay.
Cousins, who was going down, got a huge space, raised his hand to catch Curry's pass, aimed at the basket to take off, and smashed hard!
The basketball blasted into the net, and Cousins scored 8 points in a row to help the Kings start 8-3. The cheers of the fans exploded again.
In the commentary seat of CCTV5, Zhang Lili said excitedly: "The king is too strong! In terms of lineup configuration alone, they surpassed the Cavaliers by four positions. Not only did they have to double-team Curry, but they also had to guard against Antetokounmpo from hitting the basket. They don't have that many players." Defensive resources are available."
Yang Yi answered: "If the Cavaliers lose the finals, I really can't blame LeBron. He has done enough. It's not that the Cavaliers are not strong enough, but the Kings are too strong. On the inside defense, Thompson went to defend Antetokounmpo. We can’t defend against Cousins, and we know the level of defense after Love’s weight loss, let alone Coach Tyronn Lue’s request to delay Curry for the first time...”
The offensive and defensive transition on the court, LeBron's right wing faced George, lowered his center of gravity and rushed to the basket. Seeing the Kings surrounded him, he received the ball steadily and took off, preparing for a difficult layup, but actually threw the ball through the gap. Long pass to the left 45-degree three-point line.
The passing strength is appropriate, the position is accurate, and it is absolutely perfect.
Love received the ball wide open, flew towards Brogdon to make up the defense, and hurriedly shot a three-pointer in a panic, hitting the iron with a bang.
But TT grabbed an offensive rebound and caused Cousins to foul.
The Cavaliers regained possession of the ball and kicked off from the left sideline. Irving found TT Thompson with the ball and launched a pick-and-roll.
Brogdon squeezed through the screen to catch up, but his explosive power was a little bit weak, and he couldn't keep up with the rhythm, so he could only forcefully accelerate.
As soon as he accelerated like that, Owen immediately stopped to collect the ball and took off.
"Actually, the two attacks are considered good opportunities, but unfortunately the Cavaliers didn't grasp it..." Su Yang felt a little lucky. The Cavaliers' tactics went to extremes. They either ran a singles as complicated as the opening, or relied on their individual ability to play singles like just now. .
The entire Cavaliers team was not connected, as if everyone was fighting separately, and they couldn't play the team strength when they met the Kings.
While thinking about it, Curry grabbed a rebound, landed and turned around to quickly counterattack, successfully attracting the Cavaliers to double-team, slowing down to protect the ball at the top of the arc, while scanning the half-court formation, he found that the Kings were 2-on-1 at the basket, Cousins and Antetokounmpo Go up to Love.
He raised his hand to pass the ball, Antetokounmpo received the ball from his right waist, and while Love was watching, he immediately divided Cousins under the basket.
With a bang, another dunk succeeded.
Cousins scored 10 points in a row at the start!
"Isn't this called a timeout? I feel that the Cavaliers are about to collapse. Under the impact of the Kings, their defense looks like a crumbling dangerous building. Similar loss of points hurts morale. The Kings score easily every time. They're all tough scores..."
"I think, ah, the way of thinking of the Cavaliers may be like this. Anyway, we can't prevent it. The offensive problem that needs to be solved..."
Amidst the cheers of the audience, the Cavaliers made a fast break.
LeBron dribbled the ball straight to the left side of the front court at 45 degrees, saw George intercepting it, lowered his center of gravity, collected the ball and started to rush to the basket, jumped against George's defense and released the basket, and yelled to remind the referee AND ONE, what a pity basketball Bounce down.
The referee didn't call a foul, and LeBron spread his hands anxiously, as if to say: "I don't understand! Why?"
No response.
The King grabbed the rebound and counterattacked. George caught the ball and crossed the center line. Seeing that there was no defense in front of him, he decisively accelerated into the paint area. He pushed the ball in front of him and changed direction. He easily passed Love, who was trying to defend, and jumped high. Take the ball and put the basket, and get two points steadily.
12 to 3, the king was crazy, cheers came one after another, Tylen Lue raised his hand to signal, and the referee whistled to pause.
Su Yang got up and applauded, then followed the king's generals who returned to the bench to high-five, and asked Cousins about his injury.
There is not much to sum up the game's gains and losses. Su Yang focused on praising Curry's pass, and then simply predicted: "The Cavaliers should continue the previous strategy, which is to try to block us from shooting three-pointers. We must boldly rush to the basket. As for On the defensive end, we continue to defend LeBron on the outside alone, and if LeBron hits the basket, we shrink and close the circle, try to cut off his pass..."
Between the speeches, the pause ends.
The game continued, and the two teams did not make personnel adjustments.
The Cavaliers kicked off the ball from the backcourt to launch an offense, and all the frontcourt members opened up space. LeBron asked Love to pick and roll at the top of the arc and forced a rush to the basket.
The king's generals shrank and prepared to encircle as usual. Unexpectedly, the referee blew his whistle and called Antetokounmpo for a foul and made two free throws.
Brother Antetokounmpo shrugged his shoulders and spread his hands to show his confusion. There were boos everywhere in the arena. Su Yang looked up and found that Brother Antetokounmpo did make a foul move. The main reason was that LeBron reached out to interfere with the ball and touched LeBron's shoulder. But the whistle blew slowly.
There is no problem with fouls, but free throws should not be fouled, and the Cavaliers should be allowed to reorganize their offense. It is hard to say whether it was a misjudgment.
There was a steady stream of boos in the arena, LeBron stood on the free throw line, the first free throw hit the iron, and the second free throw went into the net.
The king took the ball and launched a counterattack.
The frontcourt shifted from right to left, and Curry moved down after crossing the ball from the right, as if to set up an upper screen for George.Seeing this, LeBron started to catch up, but George stopped suddenly and ran back to cut to the basket, while Antetokounmpo, who was holding the ball on the left, passed the ball synchronously.
With a bang, the basketball blasted into the net and scored an alley-oop.
"Hey, ahaha, on the Cavaliers side, LeBron made a free throw and scored 1 point. The King came back and scored an easy dunk in 9 seconds. How can the Cavaliers beat the King with such a gap? That's no use. , the gap is too great."
"As far as the opening time is less than three and a half minutes, the Kings are completely a higher-level team, and there is no need to play this game."
The offensive and defensive transition on the court, LeBron's left wing controls the ball to find a pick-and-roll, suddenly raises his hand to pass the ball to the right wing, and Love catches the ball and moves sideways to find the rhythm. Antetokounmpo, who is in charge of defense, has been caught by Thompson because he pays too much attention to LeBron's movements. Block the wall.
Although Antetokounmpo rushed forward in time, it was too late, Love's shot was not affected, and the three-pointer went into the net hollowly.
The Cavaliers bench cheered loudly, and Love's goal boosted morale very much, helping the Cavaliers catch up to 7-14.
There was a gap of 10 points before, but now there is a gap of 7 points. There is a faint feeling that they can still play, and they have not yet reached the point of surrender.
Seeing this, Su Yang sighed: "LeBron really trusts Love. Of course, it may be a choice. As for our king, we are a little bit underestimating Love's damage, or paying too much attention to LeBron's breakthrough. Need to improve...”
Just thinking about it, Curry broke through and rushed to the basket, suddenly stopped and raised his hand to pass the ball behind his back, and passed the ball directly out of the sideline, making a mistake.
"It's time to play..."
Su Yang raised his eyebrows slightly, but he didn't remind him that it's normal for Curry to relax because the king started so smoothly.
But if you don't open your mouth to remind you to destroy the atmosphere, you must have tactical arrangements, at least to ensure that the scoring momentum is advancing normally.
After making up his mind, he immediately opened his mouth and shouted: "Come on a stack, pass the ball to Curry for a three-pointer..."
Directly plot, tell the Cavaliers what tactics to play, it is best to let LeBron guess whether it is true or false, and engage in mentality.
The king's generals immediately followed suit. Antetokounmpo stood outside the right wing, and Antetokounmpo went to squat in the right corner. Curry and Cousins stood at the left and right elbows respectively, while Brogdon stood at the left waist. The referee The moment the ball is whistled, everyone starts moving.
Antetokounmpo started to rush to the basket, Curry used Cousins to cover and rushed to the right wing, and the Cavaliers hurriedly chased each other.
LeBron yelled from the sidelines to watch out for the left side.
But Wiggins didn't pay attention, mainly because Curry and Antetokounmpo's off-ball running completely took away his defensive attention.
The next second, Brogdon started, also using Cousins to cover, got rid of Wiggins and went straight to the right of the free throw line.
George raised his hand and threw the ball into the field, Brogdon caught the ball and shot, and Wiggins, who was in charge of defense, was three bodies away.
Boom!The basketball is hollow into the net.
16 to 7, the king's lead approached 10 points again, LeBron was so angry that he buried his head and went straight to the frontcourt.
Easy-side Cavaliers attack, LeBron catches the ball, takes advantage of the situation and cooperates with Irving who runs up the pick-and-roll, trying to misplace Curry.
Curry followed Su Yang's pre-match arrangement, ignored the situation, and continued to chase Irving into the interior.
George also relied on LeBron's three-pointer, and chose to take a step back to defend against the breakthrough. LeBron took off decisively.
when!Three-point strike.
Unexpectedly, Antetokounmpo took off to grab a rebound, collided with Cousins, and the basketball fell into Irving's hands instead.
In the chaos, Irving might have thought he was playing a center forward, but he jumped under the basket with a siege on his shoulders and was miserably blocked.
But the basketball was forced to fly upside down, and was picked up by LeBron on the outside. The King, who was about to counterattack, was forced to return to defense.
Between coming and going, the defensive formation has been messed up, LeBron raised his hand and threw the ball to the left corner, Irving received the ball for a three-pointer.
bass!Hollow into the net, 16 to 10.
The Cavaliers bit the situation again, quite tenaciously.
The two teams continued to attack and defend. Between you and me, the Cavaliers resolutely pinched three-pointers, especially Curry's three-pointers. Soon after halftime, the Kings only led 68 to 56, which was not as crushing as expected. , The outcome of the game still remains in suspense.
Back in the locker room, Su Yang took the statistical form handed over by Mike Brown and found that Curry only made 13 of 5 shots in the first half, including 5 of 2 three-pointers, while the team made 13 of 4 three-pointers , did not play the previous dominant game style.
"Stephen, we need you to play at a normal level!"
(End of this chapter)
After some inspection, Cousins held George and Brother Antetokounmpo and stood up. Following the instructions of team doctor Tom Kaufman, he turned his arms continuously and checked again and again. When he found that there was no problem, he immediately turned his head to look at the king's bench and signaled to Su Yang. no problem.
Su Yang nodded, his slightly nervous expression relaxed, and the referee signaled for the game to continue.
It's nice to have a false alarm.
Cheers erupted in the arena, the King kicked off from the left sideline of the backcourt, and the formation of one high and four low in the frontcourt settled down. Curry dribbled the ball to the top of the arc, took advantage of the opportunity to cooperate with Cousins in a pick-and-roll, and suddenly threw off Irving and entered Inside, Love was forced to move laterally for a delay.
Cousins, who was going down, got a huge space, raised his hand to catch Curry's pass, aimed at the basket to take off, and smashed hard!
The basketball blasted into the net, and Cousins scored 8 points in a row to help the Kings start 8-3. The cheers of the fans exploded again.
In the commentary seat of CCTV5, Zhang Lili said excitedly: "The king is too strong! In terms of lineup configuration alone, they surpassed the Cavaliers by four positions. Not only did they have to double-team Curry, but they also had to guard against Antetokounmpo from hitting the basket. They don't have that many players." Defensive resources are available."
Yang Yi answered: "If the Cavaliers lose the finals, I really can't blame LeBron. He has done enough. It's not that the Cavaliers are not strong enough, but the Kings are too strong. On the inside defense, Thompson went to defend Antetokounmpo. We can’t defend against Cousins, and we know the level of defense after Love’s weight loss, let alone Coach Tyronn Lue’s request to delay Curry for the first time...”
The offensive and defensive transition on the court, LeBron's right wing faced George, lowered his center of gravity and rushed to the basket. Seeing the Kings surrounded him, he received the ball steadily and took off, preparing for a difficult layup, but actually threw the ball through the gap. Long pass to the left 45-degree three-point line.
The passing strength is appropriate, the position is accurate, and it is absolutely perfect.
Love received the ball wide open, flew towards Brogdon to make up the defense, and hurriedly shot a three-pointer in a panic, hitting the iron with a bang.
But TT grabbed an offensive rebound and caused Cousins to foul.
The Cavaliers regained possession of the ball and kicked off from the left sideline. Irving found TT Thompson with the ball and launched a pick-and-roll.
Brogdon squeezed through the screen to catch up, but his explosive power was a little bit weak, and he couldn't keep up with the rhythm, so he could only forcefully accelerate.
As soon as he accelerated like that, Owen immediately stopped to collect the ball and took off.
"Actually, the two attacks are considered good opportunities, but unfortunately the Cavaliers didn't grasp it..." Su Yang felt a little lucky. The Cavaliers' tactics went to extremes. They either ran a singles as complicated as the opening, or relied on their individual ability to play singles like just now. .
The entire Cavaliers team was not connected, as if everyone was fighting separately, and they couldn't play the team strength when they met the Kings.
While thinking about it, Curry grabbed a rebound, landed and turned around to quickly counterattack, successfully attracting the Cavaliers to double-team, slowing down to protect the ball at the top of the arc, while scanning the half-court formation, he found that the Kings were 2-on-1 at the basket, Cousins and Antetokounmpo Go up to Love.
He raised his hand to pass the ball, Antetokounmpo received the ball from his right waist, and while Love was watching, he immediately divided Cousins under the basket.
With a bang, another dunk succeeded.
Cousins scored 10 points in a row at the start!
"Isn't this called a timeout? I feel that the Cavaliers are about to collapse. Under the impact of the Kings, their defense looks like a crumbling dangerous building. Similar loss of points hurts morale. The Kings score easily every time. They're all tough scores..."
"I think, ah, the way of thinking of the Cavaliers may be like this. Anyway, we can't prevent it. The offensive problem that needs to be solved..."
Amidst the cheers of the audience, the Cavaliers made a fast break.
LeBron dribbled the ball straight to the left side of the front court at 45 degrees, saw George intercepting it, lowered his center of gravity, collected the ball and started to rush to the basket, jumped against George's defense and released the basket, and yelled to remind the referee AND ONE, what a pity basketball Bounce down.
The referee didn't call a foul, and LeBron spread his hands anxiously, as if to say: "I don't understand! Why?"
No response.
The King grabbed the rebound and counterattacked. George caught the ball and crossed the center line. Seeing that there was no defense in front of him, he decisively accelerated into the paint area. He pushed the ball in front of him and changed direction. He easily passed Love, who was trying to defend, and jumped high. Take the ball and put the basket, and get two points steadily.
12 to 3, the king was crazy, cheers came one after another, Tylen Lue raised his hand to signal, and the referee whistled to pause.
Su Yang got up and applauded, then followed the king's generals who returned to the bench to high-five, and asked Cousins about his injury.
There is not much to sum up the game's gains and losses. Su Yang focused on praising Curry's pass, and then simply predicted: "The Cavaliers should continue the previous strategy, which is to try to block us from shooting three-pointers. We must boldly rush to the basket. As for On the defensive end, we continue to defend LeBron on the outside alone, and if LeBron hits the basket, we shrink and close the circle, try to cut off his pass..."
Between the speeches, the pause ends.
The game continued, and the two teams did not make personnel adjustments.
The Cavaliers kicked off the ball from the backcourt to launch an offense, and all the frontcourt members opened up space. LeBron asked Love to pick and roll at the top of the arc and forced a rush to the basket.
The king's generals shrank and prepared to encircle as usual. Unexpectedly, the referee blew his whistle and called Antetokounmpo for a foul and made two free throws.
Brother Antetokounmpo shrugged his shoulders and spread his hands to show his confusion. There were boos everywhere in the arena. Su Yang looked up and found that Brother Antetokounmpo did make a foul move. The main reason was that LeBron reached out to interfere with the ball and touched LeBron's shoulder. But the whistle blew slowly.
There is no problem with fouls, but free throws should not be fouled, and the Cavaliers should be allowed to reorganize their offense. It is hard to say whether it was a misjudgment.
There was a steady stream of boos in the arena, LeBron stood on the free throw line, the first free throw hit the iron, and the second free throw went into the net.
The king took the ball and launched a counterattack.
The frontcourt shifted from right to left, and Curry moved down after crossing the ball from the right, as if to set up an upper screen for George.Seeing this, LeBron started to catch up, but George stopped suddenly and ran back to cut to the basket, while Antetokounmpo, who was holding the ball on the left, passed the ball synchronously.
With a bang, the basketball blasted into the net and scored an alley-oop.
"Hey, ahaha, on the Cavaliers side, LeBron made a free throw and scored 1 point. The King came back and scored an easy dunk in 9 seconds. How can the Cavaliers beat the King with such a gap? That's no use. , the gap is too great."
"As far as the opening time is less than three and a half minutes, the Kings are completely a higher-level team, and there is no need to play this game."
The offensive and defensive transition on the court, LeBron's left wing controls the ball to find a pick-and-roll, suddenly raises his hand to pass the ball to the right wing, and Love catches the ball and moves sideways to find the rhythm. Antetokounmpo, who is in charge of defense, has been caught by Thompson because he pays too much attention to LeBron's movements. Block the wall.
Although Antetokounmpo rushed forward in time, it was too late, Love's shot was not affected, and the three-pointer went into the net hollowly.
The Cavaliers bench cheered loudly, and Love's goal boosted morale very much, helping the Cavaliers catch up to 7-14.
There was a gap of 10 points before, but now there is a gap of 7 points. There is a faint feeling that they can still play, and they have not yet reached the point of surrender.
Seeing this, Su Yang sighed: "LeBron really trusts Love. Of course, it may be a choice. As for our king, we are a little bit underestimating Love's damage, or paying too much attention to LeBron's breakthrough. Need to improve...”
Just thinking about it, Curry broke through and rushed to the basket, suddenly stopped and raised his hand to pass the ball behind his back, and passed the ball directly out of the sideline, making a mistake.
"It's time to play..."
Su Yang raised his eyebrows slightly, but he didn't remind him that it's normal for Curry to relax because the king started so smoothly.
But if you don't open your mouth to remind you to destroy the atmosphere, you must have tactical arrangements, at least to ensure that the scoring momentum is advancing normally.
After making up his mind, he immediately opened his mouth and shouted: "Come on a stack, pass the ball to Curry for a three-pointer..."
Directly plot, tell the Cavaliers what tactics to play, it is best to let LeBron guess whether it is true or false, and engage in mentality.
The king's generals immediately followed suit. Antetokounmpo stood outside the right wing, and Antetokounmpo went to squat in the right corner. Curry and Cousins stood at the left and right elbows respectively, while Brogdon stood at the left waist. The referee The moment the ball is whistled, everyone starts moving.
Antetokounmpo started to rush to the basket, Curry used Cousins to cover and rushed to the right wing, and the Cavaliers hurriedly chased each other.
LeBron yelled from the sidelines to watch out for the left side.
But Wiggins didn't pay attention, mainly because Curry and Antetokounmpo's off-ball running completely took away his defensive attention.
The next second, Brogdon started, also using Cousins to cover, got rid of Wiggins and went straight to the right of the free throw line.
George raised his hand and threw the ball into the field, Brogdon caught the ball and shot, and Wiggins, who was in charge of defense, was three bodies away.
Boom!The basketball is hollow into the net.
16 to 7, the king's lead approached 10 points again, LeBron was so angry that he buried his head and went straight to the frontcourt.
Easy-side Cavaliers attack, LeBron catches the ball, takes advantage of the situation and cooperates with Irving who runs up the pick-and-roll, trying to misplace Curry.
Curry followed Su Yang's pre-match arrangement, ignored the situation, and continued to chase Irving into the interior.
George also relied on LeBron's three-pointer, and chose to take a step back to defend against the breakthrough. LeBron took off decisively.
when!Three-point strike.
Unexpectedly, Antetokounmpo took off to grab a rebound, collided with Cousins, and the basketball fell into Irving's hands instead.
In the chaos, Irving might have thought he was playing a center forward, but he jumped under the basket with a siege on his shoulders and was miserably blocked.
But the basketball was forced to fly upside down, and was picked up by LeBron on the outside. The King, who was about to counterattack, was forced to return to defense.
Between coming and going, the defensive formation has been messed up, LeBron raised his hand and threw the ball to the left corner, Irving received the ball for a three-pointer.
bass!Hollow into the net, 16 to 10.
The Cavaliers bit the situation again, quite tenaciously.
The two teams continued to attack and defend. Between you and me, the Cavaliers resolutely pinched three-pointers, especially Curry's three-pointers. Soon after halftime, the Kings only led 68 to 56, which was not as crushing as expected. , The outcome of the game still remains in suspense.
Back in the locker room, Su Yang took the statistical form handed over by Mike Brown and found that Curry only made 13 of 5 shots in the first half, including 5 of 2 three-pointers, while the team made 13 of 4 three-pointers , did not play the previous dominant game style.
"Stephen, we need you to play at a normal level!"
(End of this chapter)
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