Game 4 of the Eastern Conference Finals arrives. Vertices

The entire Bulls team in the warm-up before the start of this game with a sense of decisiveness, they have fallen behind 2-1, if they lose this game tonight, the Knicks will get the match point, and more importantly, no one in history has been able to do it on the stage of the playoffs, in the case of 1-3 down, three games in a row, no one can do it, which means that if the Bulls fall into such a situation, they are actually no different from being eliminated!

So tonight this game must win!

Kenny Smith: "I think not many people imagined this before the start of this series, the Knicks will lead the entire series 2-1, after all, the Bulls beat the Knicks in the regular season, before the start of this series, more people think that even if it is not the Bulls 4-0 elimination of the Knicks, it is almost the Bulls 4-1 elimination of the Knicks, not many people will think that the Knicks can win this series, from the current situation, Instead, the Knicks became the team that could get out of the series! But if you think about it, it's really not a big deal, this is the NBA, this is the NBA playoffs that can create miracles! ”

Kenny Smith talked eloquently, and his partner Charles Barkley laughed evilly: "Kenny, I think what you said is not accurate, there are still many people who are optimistic about the Knicks, at least Yi's fans must believe that he can achieve the final victory!" And it is worth mentioning that Yi is the ticket king of this year's All-Stars, with more than 5 million votes! If we discount it slightly, then the people who support Yi will have at least more than 3 million fans! ”

"It's a terrifying number, and Yi did what we, the fans, have always believed he could do, and now the Knicks are ahead, and they are only 1 game away from taking more initiative, I believe that the result of this game will not change much, Yi will win the Bulls for the third game in a row, get the third win of the series, and rewrite the big score to 3-1!"

Barkley is now completely convinced by Yi Jianlian, and he opens his mouth and closes his mouth to say that he feeds Yi Jianlian's fans, which is rare in his entire commentary career.

He admired Yi Jianlian to the same extent as he admired Michael Jordan back then!

The race will soon begin in earnest!

In the fourth game of the series, Thibodeau obviously prepared a lot of different things for this victory, and the first target was against Dragic, who had a great impact in the previous game, and he asked Hamilton in the second position of the Bulls to constantly interfere with Dragic with confrontation.

The sudden increase in the defensive lineup made Dragic very uncomfortable for a while!

The Bulls took the initiative on the court during the period when the Knicks' No. 1 position was sluggish, and Derrick Rose was on fire, and the Bulls led by 3 points 12-9.

"Today, the momentum of the entire Bulls team is obviously different from the last game, their game is obviously more organized and calm, and now they are like the Eastern overlords who stood at the top of the East for half a season in the regular season!" ESPN's commentator Bill Wharton was full of praise for the Bulls' form at the start of the game today, but in the end, Bill Wharton turned his words: "It's just that if they don't put enough defensive pressure on Yi, then their lead is really not an advantage!" ”

"Huh!"

As soon as Bill Wharton finished speaking, Yi Jianlian suddenly held the ball at this time, and hit a 3-point shot from outside the three-point line, directly smoothing out the 3-point gap behind!

There was a huge cheer at the scene!

Superstar moments like this are the images that all fans look forward to, and they love these kinds of crucial goals, especially when they are particularly unexpected!

"Sure enough! If you don't put pressure on Yi to defend, but only care about defending a main player who is not the core, then this Knicks team can always find a way to score, and this kind of goal will not be an accidental phenomenon, let alone a goal that took a lot of effort to score, no matter how much effort Yi Jianlian just scored, I am afraid I will not think that Yi Jianlian just spent a lot of effort to score the goal, on the contrary, this goal Yi Jianlian scored too easily! ”

Thibodeau looked at what was happening on the field with a heavy face, he didn't know what these commentators were talking about now, if he knew, he would definitely go straight to the storm and yelled at the commentators: "I don't know if it should be easy to defend? Didn't I know that Yi Jianlian was the core of the Knicks? But what did you think of him in the last game? Didn't he end up with a score that didn't stop him? Didn't the Knicks still win the same game? ”

Thibodeau thinks, or all the media believe that the key to the New York Knicks winning a game lies in Dragic, if it weren't for this guy's outstanding ability to run and bomb with the ball, then the Knicks would never have reversed the Bulls so easily!

Since everyone said that Dragic was Mr. Key in the last game, Thibodeau naturally wanted to look for a breakthrough from him!

Outcome...... Obviously, Dragic can't score or not, whether he can organize the offense well is not the key to the Knicks winning or losing, the person who can really decide whether to win or lose this game is Yi Jianlian!

That's the end of the first quarter!

Yi Jianlian made a strong effort and led the Knicks to 28-22 after the first quarter and established a 6-point advantage!

This point difference can be regarded as the biggest difference between the two teams after so many previous games!

"The Bulls are going to lose!"

Almost all experts have come to this conclusion in their hearts.

There is no way, the Bulls can't take care of the head and the tail now, Dragic is still Yi Jianlian, they can only choose to target one, and they can't target two points at the same time.

The Bulls really couldn't do anything, and the rest of the game was surprisingly uneventful, with the Knicks leading by six points in the first quarter and eight points at the end of the first half.

Seeing that the difference is about to go to double digits!

Judging from the worse state of the Bulls in the second quarter, it is a matter of time before the double-digit point difference arrives!

But no one expected that Derrick Rose would actually break out in the third quarter of the game, and he personally shot 5 of 7 and 5 of 5 free throws, scoring 17 points in a single quarter.

Even Yi Jianlian only scored 11 points in this quarter, allowing him to compare.

His power also stopped the Bulls' continued decline, but unfortunately, he only managed to stop the decline, and the Bulls were still 8 points behind.

In the crucial fourth quarter of the game, Derrick Rose, who fought for a full third quarter, continued to play at the beginning of the fourth quarter, only taking a few minutes off from the intermission.

But at the beginning of the fourth quarter, D'Antoni also packed Derrick Rose, and Derrick Rose obviously didn't expect D'Antoni to suddenly use a trap against him at such a time, and his performance on the offensive end struggled all at once.

"Shameless!"

Thibodeau looked at the Knicks players who were always by Derrick Rose's side, and couldn't help but curse in his heart.

The Knicks are so shameless, they actually cover the whole process!

He completely forgot that he also treated Yi Jianlian like this in the last game!

In the bag, Derrick Rose lost himself, and the firepower attenuated at the beginning of the fourth quarter, and then the efficiency dropped to the extreme due to physical problems, and all four shots in the end were missed.

Derrick Rose is the toughest spear of the Bulls, and when this spear breaks, the offensive firepower of the entire Bulls team drops a notch.

The Bulls, who barely managed to retain the suspense, were stretched to a 10-point gap by the Knicks in the last four minutes of the fourth quarter.

And with Yi Jianlian's three-point shot in 2 minutes and 20 seconds in the fourth quarter, this game completely lost its suspense!

In the end, the Knicks defeated the Bulls again 108-97 at home, and the series was extended to 3-1!

The Knicks are one game away from continuing their final victory!

Yi Jianlian got a triple-double of 31 points, 12 assists and 11 rebounds in this game, and got 33 doubles again after a game.

He actually played with ease in this game, except for a few times in the third quarter to suppress Derrick Rose's scoring momentum, he basically stepped up at critical moments, and the rest of the game, he was more feeding his teammates with cannonballs.

Dragic had two assists in this game and finished with nine points, four assists and two rebounds.

I have to say that in the case of being targeted in the playoffs, it is indeed difficult for the current Dragic to take on the core responsibility of the offensive end.

But it's also because he attracts defense that the rest of the Knicks have benefited from it.

For example, Felton, who scored 18 points in this game!

When the Bulls' more defensive targets were focused on Yi Jianlian and Dragic, he, as the only remaining point on the outside, got a lot of good shots in this game!

Xiao Si also had 21 points and 14 rebounds in this game.

The Knicks' "four cores" still performed their duties in this game and completed their tasks well.

And in the Bulls, who lost the game again, Derrick Rose's stats are still superstarious: 37 points, 8 rebounds and 6 assists.

There aren't many players in the league as a whole who can get this kind of statistic in the playoffs, and even fewer players who can get it for a few games in a row.

It's just a pity that Derrick Rose also had problems in today's game, he also lost himself in the Knicks' sudden bag, if it wasn't for his poor play in the fourth quarter of the game, the Bulls have a chance to win this game!

Of course, it would be unfair to blame Derrick Rose alone for the Bulls' loss!

After all, no matter how you say it, today's game would have been gone without Derrick Rose's sudden outburst in the third quarter, he stepped up when his teammates couldn't stand up, but none of his teammates stood up when he needed help!

Derrick Rose did his best, but his teammates were a little bit behind.

Derrick Rose, who lost tonight's game, looked visibly bad as he made his way through the visitors' tunnel to the dressing room.

The big score of 3-1 means what you want to know with your ass!

While it's good news that they can go back to their home stadium for the next game, that's the only good news!

And in this case, a home-court advantage really doesn't make a difference, and the fifth game of the Bulls is really hard to play!

***

"Yi, tomorrow you will go to Chicago to play the fifth game of the series, I wonder if you are confident that you can win this game?"

"Of course, our performance tonight is enough to show that we are getting easier against them, we have found a way to beat them, and they are obviously very difficult to adapt to this change, and I believe that even if the fifth game is in Chicago, we can still win!"

"And!" Yi Jianlian's expression became mysterious, "Moreover, we still have a tactic that we haven't used yet, and I believe this tactic can ensure our victory!" ”

Well?

D'Antoni looked at Yi Jianlian with a confused expression, I, what tactics do we haven't come up with? Is there really a tactic that hasn't been taken out?

His expression was captured by the media sitting below, and a reporter immediately asked D'Antoni: "So Coach Mike, I don't know what tactics Yi is talking about, can you tell us about it?" ”

"Can't!"

D'Antoni simply refused!

Although he doesn't know what the specific tactics are, he has also been the head coach for so many years, and he must know what to say: "The fifth game of the series is a very crucial game, if we win, we can advance to the final finals, and if we lose, we will be in an embarrassing situation, so we can't say the final tactics, even if it's just a hint, I hope everyone can understand!" ”

I believe you're a ghost, you're a bad old man!

A group of reporters listened to D'Antoni's calm face to the end, and they were also slandered in their hearts, obviously they didn't know what Yi Jianlian was talking about, and they pretended to be serious! Why are you so thick-skinned?

Yi Jianlian also looked at D'Antoni with a strange expression, and D'Antoni seemed to notice that Yi Jianlian was looking at him.

Yi Jianlian must know that he doesn't know tactics!

was looked at like this by Yi Jianlian, and D'Antoni finally blushed.

"Anyway, wait and see! I am confident that our final tactics will ensure that we win the fifth game! Yi Jianlian made the final finish very confidently.

……

"Really? I'm looking forward to the final tactics that Yi said, but it's not easy to knock us out in the fifth game, and we're definitely going to win one game at home! ”

A reporter brought Yi Jianlian's words to Derrick Rose, who had already collected his mood and regained confidence.

In the fifth battle, he will also try his best to keep it!