In the second quarter, the Cavaliers fielded all benches from West, Gibson, Moon, Vallejo, and Ilgoskas. They have a lot of people playing, and there is still a veteran Leon sitting on the bench? Bowie.

The Warriors got Ellis, Green, Jackson, Randolph Jr., and Turiaf.

The Cavaliers have a weakness and rely too much on the play of their stars, and James is messy on offense. The Warriors have done a little better in this area this season, unlike last season, where Zhou Xuan fought on their own, and their approach was to run and play as fast as they could.

In addition to Turiaf, the Warriors had four fast breaks, controlled the situation, and narrowed the difference. Brown saw that the momentum was not right, so he replaced James 3 minutes later, replaced "Big Z", and let James make a cameo appearance at the No. 4 position to compete with the Warriors for speed. Only Valejo is left on the inside, one big with four small.

As long as "Big Z" is there, the Cavaliers are at an absolute disadvantage in speed, and he may be the slowest person in the league.

James defended very strongly, and sent Green a big hat on the side after 1 minute, Ellis was missed by his two shots, and the Cavaliers played a wave of 8-0, and the difference widened again.

Smart also replaced Zhou Xuan and replaced Green to stabilize the situation. After that, the scores of the two sides alternated and the Warriors could not close the gap.

At halftime, the Warriors trailed by 14 points, 50-64.

Yao Ming sat on the bench for the entire quarter, and the Cavaliers still led as James scored 10 points in a single quarter. 17 points, 5 rebounds, 5 assists and 2 blocks in the half, headed for a triple-double. Zhou Xuan was trapped in the bag, but also got 9 points, 2 rebounds and 6 assists.

At halftime, the CCTV5 commentator talked about the knights coach Mike? Brown, I don't understand what he often doesn't let Yao Ming play in the second quarter. In fact, this is a very smart approach, which preserves Yao Ming's physical strength, and he can play a little longer at the critical moment in the second half, and in case James has a bad hand, he can also hand the ball to a low position. Vallejo, on the other hand, is a qualified interior bench who can score, has the height, and can fake falls when defending.

Judging from the team's results alone, Brown is undoubtedly successful as the head coach of the Cavaliers, breaking into the playoffs every year, leading the team to the Finals for the first time in 2007, maintaining the highest coaching win rate in team history, in addition, the local media in Cleveland also believes that this season's Cavaliers are the best team in team history. All this is enough to establish Brown's lofty status.

But few attribute the team's success to Brown's coaching ability. Moreover, he gives people the impression that he really has little to do with the team's success in front of the camera. Many people think that he is like James's puppet, as long as he can make James "dragon heart happy", he can sit firmly in the position of coach.

Not only words, but also actions. Sometimes, during the game, Brown would take the initiative to tap James on the shoulder; At other times, he even kissed James on the forehead with his mouth. Brown's performances make it easy to think that he is obedient to James.

A lot of people think Brown is a good guy at best. He also has the image of a good old man: an oval face, a pair of glasses on the bridge of his nose, and a bald head that resembles Mr. Potato Head.

In fact, the so-called success is the accumulation of daily progress.

Brown has set a lot of rules for the team, such as starting at 11 a.m. every day. The doors of the gym close at 11 a.m., and it's based on the time on his watch, and if someone arrives at 11:01, I'm sorry, not only can't you train, but you'll have to pay a fine.

Brown has his stubbornness, and one of his credos is "defense wins championships." But in the middle of the season, the Cavaliers' offense was weak and they lost frequently, and the players led by James began to complain: "We know the importance of defense, but you can't score points yourself, how can you win the game?" Finally, Brown gave a plan: "As long as you do a good job defensively, you can attack at will." After this remark was revealed by the media, some people said that Brown was paid two million but only did half the work. But it doesn't matter to Brown, it's that he sticks to his philosophy.

After reaching the Finals in 2007, Cavaliers owner Gilbert was proud of his wise choice, saying: "Hard-working, genuine, good communication skills, outstanding leadership, standing up for what they believe in, let alone a team, the kind of person who can succeed in any organization." ”

In the third quarter, Brown sent Yao Ming and let James play the No. 4 spot, along with West, Mo Williams, and Parker on the outside. This is Yao Ming's tactic with 4 pitchers, James is still attracting defense on the weak side, and Parker and Mo Williams are on the strong side to Yao Ming to drop the ball inside.

Once the Warriors went around, James singled with the ball. The current Cavaliers have the shadow of a triangle offense, and the core single ability is very strong.

Randolph and Zhou Xuan's blocking and dismantling cooperation played well, and Ellis could also score, but in addition to the three of them, Margetty and Jackson were wilted, and the performance was not as good as Azubuike, who was a fixed-point pitcher on the court, and the Cavaliers' compression defense was very successful in protecting the restricted area.

At the end of the third quarter, the Warriors trailed by 20 points, 77-97.

Zhang Li sighed: "The Warriors didn't play well in these two games, they were behind by up to 23 points against the Bucks, and now they are 20 points behind the Cavaliers." ”

Yu Jia said: "I feel that the Warriors have problems on both offensive and defensive ends, the perimeter three-point is too poor, and the ability to evacuate inside has decreased compared to last season. Blair, a newcomer who has performed very well before, has not played many games in the last five games, and he did not play a minute today. When defending James, I think I can try to let Blair play, he has the speed and the strength is also very strong, and Randolph's defense is too poor. ”

"Jackson doesn't work as hard defensively as he did last season, and his threat on the offensive end doesn't look as good as Azubuike, who has scored 13 points today, and hopefully the Warriors' offense will improve, otherwise their winning streak will come to an end," Zhang said. ”

Smart certainly didn't want to lose like this, and made adjustments to the lineup, outside Zhou Xuan, Azubuuk, small forward Gerrard? Green, power forward Magetti, center Randolph.

This is a pure offensive lineup, desperate to catch up with the score, the Cavaliers interior defense is great, anyway, you can't get in, it's better to bet directly on the perimeter shooting.

When he came on the court, Smart instructed: "Zach, you are responsible for defending Yao Ming in front of you, and if you catch the anti-lob ball, you will foul it as soon as possible." Others pay attention to the rotation position, Corey guards the pick-and-roll, and don't let up the defense against Hixon. ”

Hickson wasn't a soy sauce player today, James made multiple passes to him after attracting the defense, and he shot 6-of-8 and 3-of-4 from the free-throw line, and he has 15 points and 6 rebounds.

Zhou Xuan came on the field expressionlessly, but he was actually anxious and was already high blood pressure. He didn't want to lose, the Warriors didn't lose much last season, and the six-game losing streak still drove him almost crazy. After winning the championship, he began to look up to the three-time champion Lakers in his heart, and he didn't want to give up every game. If you lose to the Cavaliers by a big score, how will you play in the Finals? Looking forward to Yao Ming's injury?

The Cavaliers rested Yao Ming and brought on Vallejo, Hixon, James, West, and Morsera on the inside. The veteran Parker also rested, and he used a lot of energy to keep up with Ellis, who was incredibly fast.

Jackson didn't play, someone had to shout slogans, and Margety shouted: "Fight, we still have a chance, shout with me: Defeat the knight!" ”

"Defeat the knight!"

It seemed a bit too crazy to shout to defeat the opponent by 20 points, but Ellis, Green, and Zhou Xuan all felt that there was nothing wrong, they were all energetic guys.

Zhou Xuan now has 13 points and 8 assists, not far from 20+10, if no one is covered in the fourth quarter, he is ready to shoot more.

The Warriors attacked, Green and Azubuke went to the bottom corner one left and one right, which is an important part of Smart's positional tactics, pulling out space and waiting for the ball.

Margeti stood on the right side, and Randolph pulled it out to cover Zhou Xuan. This is a star tactic, abandoning the troublesome running position, and directly allowing Zhou Xuan and Randolph to play in a misplaced position.

Vallejo was still in the low post, and Green had more than two steps on his side, ready to go to the basket at any time to make up for it. Hickson defended after the block.

Zhou Xuan shook his shoulders first, pretending to break through to the weak side, and then changed direction to go to the right side towards James, and Margeti ran to the basket at this time.

As long as James wraps up Zhou Xuan, he has a chance to drop the ball inside, Vallejo must make up for the defense, Margeti If he passes the ball to the bottom corner, Green is vacant and does not pass, and Vallejo also has the advantage of speed and explosiveness in singles.

James chose to follow Margety, Zhou Xuan didn't wait for Hickson to catch up, and made a stop-and-go jump shot! 79 to 97.

The Cavaliers attacked, Yao Ming didn't play, and Randolph was more relaxed, directly defending Vallejo under the basket. Hickson pulled to the perimeter to cover Green, and Margeti switched defenses. James did not pass the ball and chose to play Margeti alone, Green is 201CM tall and does not suffer against Hickson, who lacks the ability to attack with the ball.

James and Margeti fought their muscles inside the three-pointer on the right side, turned around and dribbled under their hips, pulled the ball up, and jumped into the basket to score a layup. 79 to 99.

The ball was suspected of walking, but James' home whistle added a star whistle, and the referee turned a blind eye.

If you look closely at James's layup, you will find that he often has the pivot foot when he receives the ball, and then takes two big steps to make a layup, and the whole action is very coherent, but the audience looks a little awkward! In the process of his layup, the pivot foot was actually stolen, and when he received the ball, it was one, and when he started, the pivot foot should still be that foot, but he made the other foot as the pivot foot, and the whole look looks like four steps!

In order to develop and make a profit, the NBA deliberately changed the rules to legalize such layups. Despite this, there are still many fans who hate James because of this.

The Warriors position attacked, the players pulled away again, Zhou Xuan brought to the frontcourt, faced Mo Williams suddenly made a cold arrow, hit a three-point shot, and returned a ball. 82 to 99.

At this time, the knight didn't wrap Zhou Xuan, he was full of firepower!