Chapter Twenty-Four: The Last Running Line (Part 1)
The Cavaliers quickly made adjustments again, swapping back to the real giant Kevin Love, and dealing with the impact of Anxi alone with a combination of two giants. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
Then, in the second half of the second quarter, he replaced Kelly Irving and replaced LeBron James to maintain the Cavaliers' competitiveness on the court.
Anxi played from beginning to end, another 7 points in the second half of the second quarter, 13 points in the second quarter, plus 9 points in the first quarter, Anxi scored 22 points in the half, plus 4 rebounds and 7 assists, the highest score and assists in the whole game, plus 2 steals and 3 blocks.
Sparing no expense, Anxi showed his domination of the court for the first time, no one could defend against his attacks, and at the same time, no one was able to break through his defense.
As a result, the 76ers took an eight-point lead at halftime, 52-44.
At halftime, for the 76ers' lead, Shaquille O'Neal gave a surprised expression at the right time, his prediction before the game was completely opposite to the current situation, before the game, in his prediction, the score was no problem, but the 76ers should be the side behind, and the Cavaliers should be the leading side, but now, the situation is completely opposite, the 76ers are ahead, the Cavaliers are behind, is there still an accident in this game?
Anxi wants to defeat the knight by himself?
Shaquille O'Neal has covered his face, he suddenly felt that it was a wrong decision for him to make a prediction in this game, this role was Charles Barkley in the past, but in the finals last year, Charles Barkley personally declared that he was a fan of Anxi, and he was an Anxi fan second only to Kenny Smith in the commentary world, so Charles Barkley obviously could not play the role of a Cavaliers supporter in this game, so this role could only be played by Shaquille O'Neal.
Anxi seems to be very restrained by LeBron James, Anxi has been beating LeBron James last season, if you count the two seasons of the Spurs, it seems that LeBron James has not won against Anxi in major competitions.
Thinking about it like this, Shaquille O'Neal's face was bitter, and he always felt that the knights were lost.
But the second half of the game started quickly, and Kelly Irving exploded directly.
In the first shot of the second half, he stood up to Ismael Smith's defense and scored a three-pointer to help the Cavaliers narrow the gap to five points.
Then, Anxi, who continued to play, faced Matthew Dellavedova's defense and threw a back-to-back jumper that was missed.
The Cavaliers grabbed the rebound, and it was Kelly Irving, who changed direction at high speed in the fast march, burst into the interior and scored another 2 points.
At the beginning of the third quarter, the Cavaliers played a wave of 5:0, and Irving scored five points in a row to narrow the gap to three points.
The difference of 3 points is already very small, and Anxi's next attack is still a back-to-back single for the sake of safety, but Anxi added a lot of feints, and finally accelerated with a turn and rushed into the inside line to split the dunk.
2 points are hit, and the difference is back to 5 points.
But in the next round, it was Kelly Irving, who rushed to the frontcourt, ran back to catch the ball, and directly flew out three points.
With a bang, the Wachovia Arena was in shock, and the Knights' bench was boiling.
At the critical moment, it was Kelly Irving who stepped up.
After scoring eight points in a row, Kelly Irving single-handedly helped the Cavaliers narrow the gap to two points.
Then, in the third quarter, Irving continued to explode, and after scoring 17 points in a single quarter, the Cavaliers completed the comeback over the 76ers in the third quarter.
As early as the Heat period, many people will always discuss a rule, the downwind ball looks at James, the headwind ball looks at Wade, and the desperate ball looks at Ray Allen, this rule is a truth in the Heat period, when the downwind ball, LeBron James is invincible, he can always score, so that the opponent can't chase the victory.
And when the headwind is playing, Wade will always step up and help the team complete the comeback.
When the ball is desperate, Ray Allen can always deliver a magical lore, and when the ball is against the wind and the ball is desperate, LeBron James always disappears.
Now that it's the Cavaliers, the state of the Cavaliers is still the same, LeBron James is invincible in the tailwind, and some look at Kelly Irving when the upwind is in the headwind, for example, in this game, Kelly Irving stood up in the third quarter and scored 17 points in a single quarter, helping the Cavaliers complete the overtake.
In the end, at the end of the third quarter, the Cavaliers outscored the 76ers by 7 points.
Shaquille O'Neal was alive again, and after 12 minutes of third-quarter play, the game was back on track, certainly as Shaquille O'Neal predicted.
"At the end of the third quarter, the Cavaliers led the 76ers by seven points, and as I predicted before the game, the Cavaliers would take a certain lead, but not by too much, and in the end, they would have a small lead to win the event. ”
Shaquille O'Neal began to mention his pre-match prediction again, because the situation on the field matched his pre-game prediction, so O'Neal seemed very nervous at this time.
However, Kenny Smith still has a different opinion, and he still believes that the 76ers can complete the comeback.
In the final quarter, the Cavaliers played their main forces, and the Big Three all played, while on the 76ers' side, Brett Brown sent a semi-main lineup.
Point guard Louis Williams, point guard Anxi, small forward Jack Crowder, big forward Channing Fry and center Noren Snoll are actually the 76ers' whirlwind lineup.
At the beginning of the fourth quarter, the 76ers' ball possession, Anxi opened the game alone, because of the threat of the outside three-shooter, the Cavaliers did not dare to easily wrap Anxi, so Anxi had more opportunities.
The Cavaliers still let Matthew Dellavedova defend Anxi with good results at the beginning of the second quarter to defend Anxi, but Dellavedova is too much worse than Anxi.
This was Anxi's 34th point of the game, and in the third quarter, Kelly Irving scored 17 points alone, and Anxi also scored a 10 points in response. And at the beginning of the fourth quarter, he scored his 34th point of the game, and it seems that Anxi's individual score in this game must be more than 40 points.
After Anxi scored 2 points, the Cavaliers' offense began.
The current Cavaliers are still very short of outside shooters, and the impact of this shortcoming will soon be evident in this offense.
LeBron James burst out, the 76ers were sandwiched, James then shared the ball, Matthew Dellavedova on the outside received the ball, he was the only three-point shooter on the outside of the Cavaliers except for Irving and Love, because this ball Irving chose to cut in the air, and Lefou's three points were not stable, so LeBron James chose to give the ball to Matthew Dellavedova.
But Dellavedova's three-point shot was actually unstable, and with a bang at the end, this empty three-point shot was actually iron.
Inside's Nolen Snoll grabbed his 10th rebound of the game, and then threw the basketball to Anxi, who counterattacked to the frontcourt and scored two more points with a layup.
Then, two minutes later, Anxi hit a three-pointer on a counterattack, and the Cavaliers' seven-point lead before the start of the final quarter was gone.
With five minutes left in the game, the 76ers and Cavaliers were back on the same page.