Chapter 381: The Beginning of a Brutal Journey (2/4!) )
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The Cavaliers and 76ers started the game first.
The Quickloan Arena was packed, and fans waved various cheering slogans to cheer for the home team.
Unlike last year, this year's Cavaliers are so strong that they just have to have a good time eating burgers and ice cream and watching the team beat their opponents, which is a fairly relaxing experience.
The mood is relaxed, and the interest is naturally high.
At the opening ceremony before the game, they cheered with all their strength, and the momentum of the entire stadium was overwhelming.
And after nearly two months of rotational rest, the Cavaliers' Big Three finally made their debut again.
At the end of the opening ceremony, the starters of the two teams were released one after another.
On the Cavaliers' side, the Big Three led Green and Anderson.
On the 76ers' side, Ju Holiday and Jordi Meeks on the outside, Iguodala and Brand on the front, and Hawes at center.
Yao Ming jumped to win against Hawes, and the Cavaliers took the lead in attacking.
Paul held the ball to the front court, didn't call for blocking, and directly signaled Yao Ming to fall low.
The 76ers look good in configuration, but the interior is thin, and Hawes's 2.16-meter-tall man can shoot three-pointers, which is a copy of Oku, but the confrontation is much weaker than Oku.
At the same time, the other points of the Cavaliers were pulling fast.
After Yao Ming received the ball, he turned directly to hit his back, and his continuous footsteps shook, and Hoyce couldn't find the north at all.
One turned around and shook Hoyce clean, and Yao Ming easily scored on the board.
The cheers were overwhelming, and the feeling of this kind of playfulness was not too cool for the home fans.
Holiday advanced to the frontcourt organization, Meeks borrowed Brand to block and dismantle, and received the ball from the outside to fly directly to the three-pointer.
However, James flew over, and the interference of the jump scared him directly into a three-no-stick.
Yao Ming picked up the rebound and threw it forward.
James had just jumped up and blocked it, and he had already caught the ball and thrown everyone away when he ran two steps forward.
"Bang!"
Rushing to the front court was a signature Zhan axe slam buckle, and the atmosphere of the scene exploded again.
The Cavaliers felt unhurried during the break, but in the playoffs, when they got serious, they started to show off.
The 76ers' offense, Holiday looked for Iguodala's pick-and-roll, and Meeks and Brand also made off-ball pick-and-rolls on the weak side.
The double-block tactic is significantly more aggressive than the previous round.
Holiday sees an opportunity to pass.
"Smack!"
However, as soon as he got out of the ball, Paul sprinted out from behind Iguodala.
Quiet as a virgin, moving as a rabbit!
Paul cut off Holiday as soon as he could, like a sports car with full horsepower, and instantly rushed out of the three-point line.
The rest of the 76ers didn't react at all.
Derrick Rose is known as the "Son of the Windy City", speaking of Chicago, and also described him as fast and rare in the league.
But in fact, Paul, who is not injured, is not necessarily much slower than Rose.
This time, it's a gallop.
Paul's arrival in the front court was an easy pick-and-roll score.
6 to 0.
It's really scary when the Cavaliers get serious.
76ers head coach Doug Collins reached out and rubbed his forehead vigorously.
In both rounds, the 76ers played out their tactics.
But once it was almost covered, and once it was directly broken.
In the face of absolute strength and experience, tactics or something, it's really a ball!
The game on the court continued, and the pressure of Paul and James put enough pressure on the 76ers on the court, a playoff team, but at this time it was stumbling, as if it couldn't play.
Wave after wave of fast attack, Collins wanted to call 911 to call the police.
16-4, Collins called a timeout.
Tang Tian also stood up from the bench at this time.
In his previous life, he often saw fans in some forums discussing whether ordinary people could score points when they played in the NBA.
The answer is actually not suspenseful.
These players of the 76ers are all NBA starters, and even like Iguodala and Holiday are quasi-first-line star players, but in the face of the oppression of the Big Three, they are really depressed.
The gap between them and the Big Three is obviously much wider than that of ordinary people and NBA players.
Ordinary people really want to go to the NBA, I'm afraid that they can't dribble the ball even if they are forced to do it, they don't have a chance to catch the ball, and they can't score at all.
At the end of the first quarter, Yao Ming scored 14 points and 6 rebounds in a single quarter, and the Cavaliers led the 76ers by as many as 20 points 32-12.
The scene was completely one-sided.
Coming up in the second quarter, the 76ers made substitutions for Thaddeus Young, Louis Williams, Evan Turner and Maris Speights, leaving only one Iguodala as the starter.
The 76ers have been able to perform strongly in the second half of the season, in addition to correcting Holiday Another important reason is that they have enough good benches.
Thaddeus Young, Louis Williams and Turner have all been able to start on some teams.
Collins' eyes were blazing, clearly expecting the benches to give the team a glimmer of hope.
The Cavaliers also entered the normal rotation, with Kwame Brown, Artest, and Stephenson coming on one after another, and James and Paul were retained in the starting lineup.
Compared with Yao Ming, Paul and James, who are recovering from injury, are younger, and they are playing soy sauce for most of the first quarter, and physical strength is not a problem at all at this time.
Of course, there is a more important point, Tang Tian does not want to give the 76ers too many opportunities.
Williams advanced to the front court with the ball and went straight to Speights to block it.
After taking it apart, he swooped Brown and scored a layup with a low hand.
As a veteran of the Cavaliers, and he was traded away, he is still very energetic in the game.
"Pay attention to the defense!" Tang Tian got up and shouted to the team members at this time.
Paul went to the frontcourt, found Brown to block and go straight to the basket, accelerated to shake off Speights, and scored the same low-handed layup.
This is a direct search for Brown.
Williams went back to the same tactic, the Cavaliers shrunk, and he turned back to split the ball to Speights.
"Smack!"
Speights had a solid mid-range hand, but the Cavaliers didn't give him a chance to play at all, and James surged out to cut off the pass, and then accelerated straight forward.
Turner wanted to foul early, but James turned around and threw him away.
"Bang!"
Another iconic tomahawk.
James slapped the fan twice on the chest after the dunk, slightly excited.
After Yao Ming got off the field, it was finally his turn to play.
Williams was caught and gave the ball to Young, Young's three-point miss, Artest received a defensive rebound, and James and Paul were on a two-line fast break for the first time.
Paul accelerated to the frontcourt, saw James following up, and threw the ball directly into the air behind his head.
James followed up, like a goshawk, jumped up and smashed the ball straight into the basket with both hands.
"Bang!"
With a button, the entire Quick Loan Arena was set on fire.
In his previous life, "Jenway Connection" was talked about by fans, but the connection between Paul and James was only strong and not weak!
After four minutes of the second quarter, the scene Collins expected did not appear, and after a 12-2 offensive wave, the Cavaliers had a 44-14 lead over the 76ers by as many as 30 points!
And this has only been played for less than a quarter and a half.
The brutal scene even made the audience a little unbearable to watch.
"What...... What......" Barkley was even more speechless in the commentary box, leaving only laughter.