Chapter 384: The First Person in the Alliance
After the Lakers resisted Cleveland, under the organization of Tang Hao and Kobe, the players quickly devoted themselves to training. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
According to the NBA schedule, the Eastern and Western teams only meet twice a season, and now the Cavaliers are the league's favorites to win the championship, and the players are naturally holding back their energy to win against their opponents.
While the Lakers players were nervously preparing for the game, the Los Angeles media covered the game with a lot of hype.
Tang Hao's strength, Cousins' pre-game declaration, Kobe's comeback, in the words of the media, this is a "chance to take the Clevelands lightly", and even worse, describe this game as the Lakers' "revival battle".
This high-profile approach of the media quickly spread, and after the Lakers' practice was over, a local reporter in Cleveland came to interview him with the question.
"Don, the Los Angeles Daily and the Sports Newspaper described this game as a battle for revival, do you have any thoughts on that?"
"The war of revival?" is a very special statement. Tang Hao said with a smile.
"yes, they're reporting like the Cavaliers are a stepping stone, and the Lakers are going to step on it and rise, and the fact that the Cavaliers have LeBron (James) at the helm, is that going to put pressure on you?"
"Stress? non-existent. Tang Hao waved his hand, "I don't want to comment on what the media says, but the morale of the whole team is high now, and defeating the Cavaliers is our goal." ”
The reporter was stunned, he originally wanted to get some humble answers from Tang Hao, but he didn't expect Tang Hao to look not much different from the arrogant media in Los Angeles.
This reporter also has a heart, after interviewing the Lakers here, he turned his head and went to the Cavaliers, James just finished training and was caught by him.
After relaying Tang Hao's words to James, the first person in the league clasped his forehead with his finger, and then said: "This is a very interesting remark. ”
"Is there anything you need to say to Don?" the reporter asked.
"Well, no, anyway, it's good that he's happy. James said with a smile.
Such an answer represents an attitude, James didn't care too much about Tang Hao's words, or, in his eyes, except for the championship and the Warriors, there were not many things in the league that were worth caring about.
The Quick-Loan Arena was extremely hot this night, and the Lakers' pre-game remarks made the attention attracted by this game skyrocket.
To paraphrase the popular phrase, the Lakers media are forcibly pretending to be forced before the game, but unfortunately they picked the wrong target, James and the Lakers team led by him will give the Lakers a head-on attack.
Many spectators at the scene held up slogans such as "Fat beat the Angelen" and "Let the arrogant Angelenos know that they are powerful", expressing the fans' inner desires.
In order to defend James, Scott made changes to the team's starting lineup.
Derrick Williams, who had just been traded to the team, had his first start, and the purpose of arranging him to start was clear, that is, to make him defend James.
Tang Hao appeared for the first time as the Lakers' starting point guard, Kobe Bryant was the starting point guard, and Cousins and Anderson were still on the inside.
The Cavaliers, for their part, still maintained their previous starting lineup, with the other two being J.R. Smith and Russian Mozgov in addition to the Big Three James, Kyrie Irving and Kevin Love.
As soon as the players from both sides appeared on the stage, they were greeted with a sea of cheers from the audience.
Mozgov and Cousins on the jump.
Cousins took advantage of his body and pressed Mozgov to push the ball back to the Lakers' half, Tang Hao held the ball and pushed forward, and the Lakers got the opportunity to take the lead in attacking.
Owen rushed up to Tang Hao at the first time.
There is no doubt that this game is a direct confrontation between Tang Hao and James for most fans, but in fact, Irving, who is the team's main control and the representative of the new generation of point guards in the league, is the one who directly confronts Tang Hao.
Tang Hao withstood the pressure of Owen and advanced to the front court without danger.
Dribbling is not Tang Hao's strong point, so the scene looked a little thrilling, which immediately attracted bursts of laughter from the audience on the sidelines.
"Watch out for falls, Don, this is Cleveland, you're going to pee!" shouted from the sidelines of an aggressive fan.
After Tang Hao advanced to the front court, he handed the ball to Kobe, and Kobe Bryant transferred his hand to Cousins on the right side of the free throw line.
Cousins pressed Love and punched him inside.
Cousins is in an absolute position in terms of strength and weight, and Lefu is a little reluctant.
Cousins turned around and was ready to go to the baseline for a layup.
But at this moment, a figure in the oblique side suddenly came out, slapped towards the ball in his hand, and then "snapped" and cut off the ball in his hand.
James!
There was a burst of cheers from the audience.
James is a bug in modern basketball, as the first person in the active league, his dominance on both offensive and defensive ends can enter the top three in history, this ball is clean and beautiful, after the break, he is the first time to run to the frontcourt.
Derek Williams tried to foul and didn't catch anyone.
After James rushed to the front court with the ball, he directly staged a stride dunk.
"Bang!"
The basketball was slammed into the hoop, which immediately attracted explosive cheers from the scene.
The Lakers pushed forward again, and after Kobe Bryant received the ball, he beat JR Smith, his movements were very smooth, and although he was returning from injury, it could be seen that he was in good shape.
With a beautiful shake and turn, he managed to get rid of Smith's defense and get to the basket.
Mozgov under the basket came out to make up for it.
Bryant dodged Mozgov for a layup with a nice slow three-step, a light pick-and-roll.
But at this moment, it was James again, striding into the interior and facing Kobe's basket directly.
"Bang!"
A big blow to the top plate.
The expressions of the audience were already quite exaggerated.
I don't know if it's because of the war of words before the game, James's desire to perform in this game is quite strong.
The ball was dropped, and the rebound was played by James, who threw it to Irving.
Irving, known for his speed, rushed to the frontcourt at a gallop and scored a one-handed dunk before the Lakers could get back to defense.
4-0, the Cavaliers opened with momentum.
"Look clearly, this is the strength gap!"
"You can't win!"
"The Battle for Revival?
……
Such a start also made the fans at the scene burst into emotions and roared unscrupulously on the sidelines.
And in this momentum, Anderson's shot was taken away by Love, and the Cavaliers played a wave of counterattacks, and JR Smith, who once played in the CBA, chased a three-pointer, bringing this momentum into a small climax.
7-0, the Cavaliers showed the strength of a championship-winning team, and the Lakers were powerless to fight back.
Scott was forced to call a timeout.
Taking advantage of the pause, the whistles of the audience came and went.
After the pause, the Lakers did not change much in the lineup, but they made minor adjustments in the position, Tang Hao advanced to the front court and handed the ball to Kobe Bryant, and let Kobe organize the offense.
And Tang Hao himself ran around the three-point line.
In the case of Kobe Bryant and Cousins making mistakes one after another, if they want to break the team's scoring drought, the Lakers only have Tang Hao left.
Cavaliers head coach David Blatter shouted from the sidelines to remind his teammates, and the Cavaliers' help quickly followed.
Tang Hao didn't get a good chance to make a shot after going around in a circle, but Kobe's pass still passed in the next second.
Not for anything else, just because at this time, the person who defended Tang Hao had been replaced by Lefu, a small opportunity to fight big.
After Tang Hao received the ball, the rest of the Lakers team all pulled away, giving enough space for singles.
The cross step swayed, Tang Hao quickly changed the direction of attack, and Le Fu retreated again and again.
After Tang Hao pressed forward to make a breakthrough feint, he suddenly retracted his body, followed by a direct emergency stop and leaned back.
Lefu pounced back on the defense, but his movements were noticeably slower.
"Smack~"
"Huh!"
Lefou's hand hit Tang Hao's elbow, but the ball still went into the net.
A beautiful 2 plus 1 at a time.
There was a burst of boos at the scene, in their opinion, Lefu's hand was not obvious, and the referee had a problem!
Tang Hao walked to the free throw line and hit the free throw steadily.
With these three points, he successfully broke the scoring drought on the field for the team.
The Cavaliers' offense, James held the ball and rushed directly, Derrick Williams couldn't withstand it at all, and finally when he got to the basket, James directly knocked Williams away and scored a layup, which attracted a burst of cheers from the audience.
James is worthy of being the first person in the league, and the tank-style play in the offense is like dominating the world, and no one can stop him.
The Lakers' offense is still Kobe Bryant's top organization.
Tang Hao used the reverse run to cut the basket and successfully shook off Owen.
Bryant's ground-hitting pass was given in as soon as possible.
Tang Hao received the ball, dodged Mozgov's supplementary defense, and jumped up for a layup.
At that moment, a figure came out of the diagonal side and blocked his layup.
James!
The audience cheered, and the ball was the same as Kobe Bryant's previous layup.
Getting up is a pegboard......
In the next second, there was a sudden uproar at the scene, Tang Hao's shot was not blocked!
Tang Hao made a big lever in the air, dodged James's block, and after the whole person slid to the other side of the basket, he pulled the ball up again with his right hand and dunked the ball directly into the basket.
James and Tang Hao passed by in the air, and a look of shock flashed in his eyes, to complete this action, this bounce, it had to break the sky.
Tang Hao's pull-up dunk caused a stirring at the scene, but after landing, he didn't have much emotional change, and then ran back.
", pretend to be X!" A fan on the sidelines couldn't help but curse.
On the Cavaliers' offense, Irving broke through with the ball, but under Tang Hao's defense, he didn't get too good a chance, so he could only throw his hand to Smith on the outside, and Smith gave it to James, who was still James, and rushed to the basket to cause Cousins's beater foul.
After going to the free throw line and hitting both free throws, James had scored as many as six points after the opening.
Looking back, Tang Hao encountered the Cavaliers' bag and passed to Cousins under the basket in a second.
Cousins turned around and shook off Mozgov, which was directly a two-handed slam dunk.
After a strong opening game, the Cavaliers were locked in a stalemate with the Lakers.
And it was Tang Hao who caused this stalemate.
James is still unstoppable on the offensive end, but on the defensive end, the Cavaliers can't do anything about Tang Hao.
Tang Hao can shoot and pass, and his deterrence on the offensive end seems to be completely worthy of James.
In the exclamations of the audience one after another, James and Tang Hao entered the battle against Biao.
The more the audience watched at this time, the more anxious they became, although the team was still ahead, the Cavaliers were aiming to win the championship, and the Lakers, to be honest, were at the bottom of the West in their pre-season predictions!
The Cavaliers' offense made a mistake, the Lakers counterattacked, and Rondo, who had just been replaced on the court, threw the ball to Tang Hao.
At this moment, the scene suddenly became agitated.
Because at this time, the person defending Tang Hao was James.
James is indeed very experienced in defense, and did not try to steal Tang Hao, but kept his defensive position and retreated to the backcourt.
Tang Hao saw James's defensive strategy and knew that if he went deeper, there was a great chance that he would be defended, so he didn't think much about it, so he simply made the offense easier.
After rushing into the free throw line one step, he jumped up, pulled the ball up with both hands, and chose to dunk!
The scene was in an uproar.
James' face was cold, Tang Hao's choice to dunk like this was completely contemptuous of him.
He jumped up and prepared to press the ball down.
Tang Hao knew that James's strength was not bad, although he could also knock James away, but after the crash, he estimated that he would not be able to dunk the basket, so he used his body control ability to dodge James in the air, changed his two-handed dunk to a one-handed dunk, flashed sideways in front of James, and continued to dunk the ball with his right hand.
The audience was stunned.
When it comes to changing attitudes in the air, the most famous Michael Jordan, the shot that turned into a layup when he dunked in the air is still one of the league's top 100 classic goals.
But now, Tang Hao is completely more than that, he is dunking and has not changed!
Where is this playing, it's basically dancing ballet!
However, James is worthy of being the first person in NBA history to compete with Jordan, and just when he was about to dodge with Tang Hao, he also forcibly adjusted his posture in the air, and his right hand rushed towards Tang Hao's ball.
The audience was stunned.
These two perverted guys are really playing in the air!
Tang Hao felt the wind in the back of his head, and he was also a little surprised, but he didn't panic, he threw the ball directly to the rebound.
James' hand swept over his head, bursting into the air.
At this moment, Tang Hao landed on the ground and jumped quickly.
Then, in the disbelief on the faces of the audience, Tang Hao jumped for the second time, grabbed the ball that bounced back on the rebound, faced James's back, and pressed the ball into the basket fiercely.
James didn't have time to adjust his posture when he landed, and was directly knocked out of the field by Tang Hao.
There was a sudden silence at the scene.
The audience was completely dumbfounded at this time.
Tang Hao detained James......
And it's doggy ......