Chapter 21: The Battle of James

December 12, 2014. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info

7 p.m.

The Wajovia Arena was bustling with 20,000 fans, dressed in the white 76ers' home jerseys and waving colorful cheering cards and scarves, decorating the Wajovia's stands into a sea of cheers.

The game is about to start, Brett Brown pulled the team's starters in this game, and hurriedly said something: "Ann, you come to the No. 4 position in this game, pay attention to the defense of Kevin Love, he is a big forward who can shoot three-pointers, don't give him too much space......"

In this game, Brett Brown made adjustments to the starting lineup, and Anxi went to the No. 4 position to make up for Pau Gasol's absence.

Ismael Smith, who joined the 76ers through a training camp contract this summer, was selected as a starter by Bret Brown in this game by relying on better defense, with Evan Turner at shooting guard, Jack Crowder at small forward, Ann Creek at the power forward position, and center unchanged, Noren Snoll.

On the Cavaliers' side, the starting point guard is naturally Kelly Irving, scoring guard Sean Marion, small forward LeBron James, power forward Kevin Love and center Andre Vallejo.

LeBron James returned to the Cavaliers, the biggest difference between this lineup and the Heat is that the Cavaliers are not short of interior players, whether it is Andre Vallejo, or Tristan Thompson and others on the bench, they are absolute interior players.

It's just that the Cavaliers' current lineup is also obvious, although LeBron James brought Mike Miller and James Jones, two royal guards, from the Heat, but the Cavaliers' outside three-point shooters are still very scarce, even less than the 76ers' outside three-point shooters.

That's why the Cavaliers had a terrible record in November, because the Big Three needed to grind and the outside was short of three-point shooters, so they couldn't find an effective way to win.

Now, the run-in of the Big Three is over, and victory is on the way.

With both teams starting in the middle of the pitch, the game is about to begin.

The Turner Sports trio put on headphones and began their commentary on the game.

"Shaquille, who do you think will win this match?" As the game was about to start, Charles Barkley looked at O'Neill and asked.

"Cavaliers, I talked about it before the game, the Cavaliers will win the final victory." It was a cliché at the start of the game, and this time Shaquille O'Neal was a lot more serious. "After Pau Gasol's injury, there is not much suspense about the outcome of this game, the Cavaliers have a big three, three All-Star level players, and the 76ers are left with Anxi alone, basketball is not a one-man sport, although Anxi is strong, he alone cannot beat three people......"

"Then the 76ers don't have a chance to win?"

Shaquille O'Neal laughed: "Of course there is a chance, but it depends on the Cavaliers, as long as one of the Cavaliers Big Three plays badly, the 76ers' chance will come." ”

"So if the 76ers want to win, they need the Cavaliers' god assist?!"

Charles Barkley picked up again, and at this time, Kenny Smith on the other side was already talking.

"My thoughts are the opposite of Shaq, I think the 76ers will win this game, and I believe Anxi, who hasn't lost to LeBron James since Anxi moved to Philadelphia."

Obviously, the trio of Turner Sports each played a role in this game, with Shaquille O'Neal leaning towards the Cavaliers, Kenny Smith leaning towards the 76ers, and Charles Barkley being that neutral.

The game started quickly, and the Cavaliers began to attack the 76ers' interior from the beginning, with Kelly Irving and LeBron James taking turns to attack, and the 76ers were really a little irresistible for a while.

On the contrary, the 76ers' own offense was negligent, Anxi lost two goals in a row at the beginning, and then finally found his touch back, but by the time he completely regained his touch, the game had been played for more than 2 minutes, and the Cavaliers also led by 6 points with a score of 10:4.

Shaquille O'Neal was triumphant, and the direction of the game was as Shaquille O'Neal's prediction said, the Cavaliers triumvirate was powerful, and Anxi was difficult to stop with one punch.

At this time, it was the 76ers' offense on the court, Ismael Smith controlled the ball to the frontcourt, Anxi came out from the inside, and the Cavaliers immediately changed defenses, and they let Sean Marion play against Anxi, freeing Kevin Love to protect the rebound.

Before the game, Anxi consumed a glory pool and directly got a 200% physical bonus, so from the very beginning of the game, he began an infinite singles breakthrough.

The reason why he chose to add physical fitness is also another consideration for Anxi, his strength is no problem, the kaleidoscope on the offensive end, and the gate on the defensive end, no matter what, they are all strong and have no shortcomings, so only physical fitness is left to limit Anxi.

The 200% physical strength bonus is enough for Anxi to run all over the court and play singles all over the court.

Anxi began to single Sean Marion, and he forced a step towards the inside, which immediately attracted LeBron James's help defense.

Anxi didn't do it brutally, and passed the ball directly to Evan Turner on the other side.

Turner's shooting is much more accurate than last season, but this time in the face of Vallejo's supplemental defense, he came to a step-back jumper, which was a bit more difficult.

Bang, didn't go in.

On the other side, Kelly Irving rushed inside, picked up the rebound, and then launched a counterattack.

As in the Heat era, LeBron James' team's favorite thing is to get easy scoring opportunities through quick counterattacks, and LeBron James is the main endpoint in many counterattacks.

The same goes for this ball, Irving took a few steps and quickly passed the basketball to LeBron James.

Anxi began to defend back, and he just clung to LeBron James, trying to block LeBron James's fast-break counterattack.

He didn't try to make a steal, just followed LeBron James so closely, and the two came to the backcourt of the 76ers.

When James stepped into the free throw line, he picked up the ball, directly against Anxi, and stepped on three steps.

LeBron James is still very confident in his physical fitness, he knows that Anxi's body is also strong, but his body has always been stronger, this ball, the 76ers have no other defensive players inside, and Anxi is the only one left in front of James.

So, James moved his mind and used his physical advantage to forcefully crush An Xi and impact the inside line.

But this time, as soon as he took the ball and took a step forward, he found that he couldn't stand up to Anxi......

At this time, LeBron James was a little panicked, he turned sideways, took the second step, and still squeezed An Xi.

But it still didn't squeeze at once, and LeBron James realized that something was wrong.

But at this time, he found out a little late, and the third step he hurriedly took, LeBron James glanced up at the basket, he was still far from the basket, and this three-step layup was a complete failure.

So there was nothing he could do, and in a hurry, James could only jump up in three steps now and send the basketball to the basket in an extremely awkward position.

An Xi directly took a step forward and stretched out his hand in front of James's eyes, covering the sky and the sun.

This ball was originally thrown very reluctantly, and Anxi's interference was in place, so bang, there was no surprise that this ball hit the iron.

Anxi turned around and picked up the rebound, ignoring James's surprise, turned around again, dodged Sean Marion's block, and launched another wave of counterattack fast break.

Of course, LeBron James was surprised, every time they met before, even if Anxi won the game and data, he would always be suppressed by LeBron James in physical confrontation, and Anxi actually suppressed LeBron James in this game, which was surprising and unexpected.

In fact, it is also very easy to explain, Anxi consumed a glory pool before the game, although the bonus is physical fitness, but the strength of the body is closely related to physical fitness, and naturally there will be some influences.

On the field, Anxi counterattacked to the frontcourt, taking advantage of the knight's stunned kung fu, he rushed directly into the inner line, clanged, a light deduction, and successfully scored 2 points!

At 10:8, after Anxi regained his form, the 76ers also began to slowly chase points.