Chapter 591: Pull the Score

After Ye Xuan hit this three-pointer, the morale of the Cavaliers was also hit again, and what hit them even more was their fourth mistake, Lao Zhan broke through with the ball, and after blocking and dismantling, he wanted to send the ball from the crack to the hands of Lefu who went down, but Lefu buttered his hand again, and the ball came out again, and Solomon Hill, who was next to Lefu, would not give the opponent a chance to make amends at all, and quickly held the ball in his arms, and then directly came to an ultra-long-distance pass, sending the ball to the frontcourt. In an instant, the basketball court instantly turned into a sprint game, Ye Xuan, Wade and Owen were on par with each other, but Ye Xuan was better in terms of hard work, although his position was almost the same as Owen when he was close to the basketball, but he used a forward action to complete the catch, and after falling to the ground, Ye Xuan did not let the ball stop, and sent it to the side, Wade got Ye Xuan's pass again.

This is the third time that Ye Xuan has completed the cooperation with Wade in the fast break, and Wade will not live up to Ye Xuan's pass, and easily completed the attack with a one-handed dunk again, and the Cavaliers have also exploded a little, in less than four minutes, the Cavaliers have made four mistakes, and these four mistakes directly caused the Cavaliers to now fall behind by only about two points to 9 points behind, and even the commentator on the scene also opened his mouth to mock, saying that the Cavaliers have changed their name to the Cleveland Mistakes team.

In the next two minutes or so, the Cavaliers finally found a little rhythm of the game, and the offensive end finally found some feeling, at least there were no more serious mistakes, which freed Lefou, and in more than two minutes, he hit a shot on the inside and outside and scored a valuable five points. And Owen finally played some bloody in the face of Ye Xuan's defense, using the acceleration after the block and demolition to force a breakthrough, causing Ye Xuan's defensive foul. The Cavaliers managed to stabilize the score at around five points.

The first quarter of the game basically ended like this, the Lakers entered the intermission with a 6-point lead, the substitutions of the two teams are also very interesting, the Lakers are relieved to boldly replace all the big three, among which Gasol may even be able to get a break for half a quarter, the same treatment is Wade, Wade scored 11 points in the first quarter of the game, the highest score on the team, and he is also the only player on the court who scored more than 10 points in a single quarter, Although 6 of them came from Ye Xuan's pass in the fast break, it also shows that Wade's insight is very good, and he can always run to the right position to receive the ball when Ye Xuan needs him.

At the beginning of the second quarter of the game, the Lakers directly let Randle, Clarkson, Nick Young, Matt Barnes and Speights play five people on the court, the core of these five is naturally Clarkson's point, the Lakers are still very optimistic about Clarkson's future, although he is now being cultivated as the next Crawford, but he is still young after all, and who knows what he can grow into in the future? And this lineup is actually not very scientific, because the five people on the court do not have a pure point guard, fortunately, Clarkson and Nick Young can take on the responsibility of dribbling the ball through the half, so it is barely good.

The substitutions on the Cavaliers' side are a little stiff, the first to be replaced is Deron Williams, and then George Hill is also replaced, James is also on the court at this time, plus Richard Jefferson and Channing Frye, these five people are not good at all for the protection of the interior, although the Lakers are now on the court with Randle and Speights, but they can still cause a lot of trouble to the Cavaliers' interior. And the bigger problem is that the coach is too good to put Deron Williams and George Hill both on the court, for fear that the team's ability to organize the offense will not be good, but don't forget, he is still implementing his 'hand over the ball' tactic, James, a player who needs absolute ball possession, is still on the court, one ball, three people in possession? Although George Hill has gradually adapted to playing without the ball in his final year with the Pacers, and when he came to the Cavaliers, he mostly played without the ball, but DeLong is different, without the ball in his hands, his role has dropped by at least 70 percent.

At the beginning of the second quarter of the game, the Lakers attacked with the ball, Clarkson held the ball to face Lao Zhan, he was a newborn calf who was not afraid of tigers, and directly rushed to the opponent's inner line with the ball, but he obviously did not feel Lao Zhan's physical strength, and when he rushed inward, he hit it up, not only did not knock Lao Zhan away, but also knocked himself into a stumbling one, if he hadn't passed the ball to Speights in time, he might have been cut off by the opponent.

And after Speights received the ball, the way he handled the ball was also very ingenious, taking advantage of the poor defensive characteristics of Frye to force the opponent's interior line, the Cavaliers hurriedly wrapped him up, and Speights also immediately passed the ball out, Nick Young received the ball directly and decisively, today the Lakers except Ye Xuan, no one has been able to hit three points, and Nick Young has not been able to break this curse and shoot iron.

At this time, Matt Barnes gave full play to his strengths, directly led the defense of James on the court, and was not afraid of physical exertion, and interfered with James's ball control like a mad dog, but fortunately, there were still two other ball-controlling players on the opponent's court, so Lao Zhan did not stick to the ball, and passed the ball directly to Delong.

After coming to the front court, Delon immediately passed the ball back to Lao Zhan, and Lao Zhan quickly started to advance to the opponent's inside after receiving the ball, but this time he was unable to hit the ball, and he didn't even have a chance to shoot, so he was directly forced to cut the ball by Matt Barnes, and the basketball flew directly out of the bottom line, and the Cavaliers had the ball.

After sending the ball out, Lao Zhan chose to break through forcibly, and when he forcibly shot, Lao Zhan's body was already a little distorted, but he still threw the ball steadily, and Barnes saw Lao Zhan hit the ball, and he also showed a helpless expression, after all, he had defended this ball well enough.

The two teams played back and forth for another two minutes, and the Lakers replaced Ye Xuan with a foul opportunity from the opponent, replaced by Nick Young, who did not play well, and the Lakers still did not break the three-point curse in these two minutes, Yang Shaoxia and Clarkson each tried a three-point shot again, and they all ended in iron, and the 6-point lead was gradually eroded.

However, the Cavaliers also made personnel adjustments, replacing Irving, and Tristan Thompson was also replaced, and Deron was replaced by Deron who did not play well and Lao Zhan, who has played nearly 15 minutes in a row. Without James, the Cavaliers can only rely on George Hill and Irving to support them, but it is obvious that one Irving has no way to drive the entire Cavaliers bench, under the leadership of Ye Xuan, the Lakers quickly found the rhythm of offense, Lao Zhan was only replaced for a minute, and the Lakers once again reopened the difference to 6 points, Irving shot zero in two shots under Ye Xuan's defense, plus the offensive firepower of the Cavaliers lineup is very single, so they did not score at all in this minute.

So after playing for a while, the Cavaliers immediately called a timeout, and when the timeout came back, the Cavaliers replaced James again, and then James only rested for more than a minute, and it seems that if this game has been deadlocked, James's playing time in this game will break 40 again. However, although the Cavaliers replaced James, the situation was just a five-five fight with the Lakers team with Ye Xuan present, in fact, this is where the Lakers are most dominant in the playoffs now, most of the other teams are in the playoffs for eight to ten rotations, but the Cavaliers are a little different, although there are also eight or nine players who can play, but Delon's playing time is very short, and Channing Frye can only get a very short playing time, So they look like they're in a nine-man rotation, but the playing time is still focused on six or seven people.

And even if they put Channing Frye, who was not very useful in the playoffs, on the court, they still don't have enough manpower, and James Jones, who usually doesn't have many opportunities, has to come off the bench to play for a while when the game is going on.

The Lakers also saw this, and were not very eager to end the game in the first three quarters, but to carry out regular rotation, and let many people take turns to contain James, the core of the Cavaliers, the tone of the game in the second quarter was very obvious, the Lakers began to fight a war of attrition, and the Cavaliers' offense suddenly fell into a quagmire, originally their outside firepower was still very good, but under the strict defense of the Lakers, their breakthrough success rate dropped significantly, and the entire lineup appeared on the court. Only Irving's breakthrough ability is relatively good, and he is still under Ye Xuan's strict defense, Channing Frye is a fixed-point shooter, but today his crosshairs are a little inaccurate, and Tristan Thompson's attack range is not very large, so the Cavaliers can only float on the outside to bet on three points after James is off the court, and the result is a bit tragic, they didn't hit a single three-pointer, and Lao Zhan was forced to be replaced in advance.

In the middle of the second quarter of the game, the Lakers replaced the main players, and the Lakers, who felt cold for a quarter and a half, finally found some feeling on the outside, Gasol was replaced and hit an empty three-point shot, which seemed to break the Lakers' three-point curse, and in the next few offenses, Wade and Solomon Hill also hit three points respectively, plus Ye Xuan broke through again and caused Tristan Thompson's foul, and the situation on the court suddenly opened, The Cavaliers' offense is like squeezing toothpaste, if Lao Zhan works hard, he will be able to take a step forward, and if Lao Zhan is tired, then everyone will be able to stand still.

Irving, the second leader, and Lefou, the third leader, also have no intention of standing up to dominate the game, although everyone is two outside All-Stars and one inside All-Star on the books, but when they really fight, the Lakers feel that the opponent is only James, although they have no way to prevent James, but people are always tired, as long as Lao Zhan feels tired, then the Lakers will take the opportunity to continue to open the difference, and the Cavaliers will slowly be eaten away by the Lakers.

Fortunately, at this time it was the first half, Lao Zhan's physical strength was quite sufficient, and James still broke out a little in this quarter, and when the game was more than 8 minutes in the second quarter, James suddenly began to attack with the ball continuously, first hitting a dry three-point shot on the outside, and then hitting the ball after forcing a breakthrough through Solomon Hill for two consecutive rounds, one of the balls was scored when Randle had already fouled and the whole person was hanging on him in the air. This kind of physical explosiveness also frightened Ye Xuan next to him, but unfortunately, this style of play consumes too much physical strength, and a strong man like Rao is James began to be a little unbearable after a few rounds of continuous outbreaks.

After withstanding this wave of counterattacks from Lao Zhan, the Lakers once again used the overall cooperation and Ye Xuan's personal ability to gradually let the balance of victory slowly fall to their side, and when there was still the last minute left in the second quarter of the game, the Lakers had unknowingly extended their lead to 12 points, and they narrowed the difference to only one point shortly after the start of the second quarter, but due to the lack of outside firepower, plus the mental outlook of the players was not very good, So in the end, they sent back the score they were chasing back.

In the last minute, Lao Zhan breathed a sigh of relief again, ready to look for opportunities again, and use his personal ability to play a wave of scoring offensives, but this time the Lakers have long been on guard against him, once he holds the ball to pull the singles, the Lakers will decisively choose to wrap the bag, even if they let Irving and Love go to shoot, they will not give James a chance to play singles, which makes Lao Zhan very uncomfortable, but his passing vision is not bad, Two consecutive offenses were sent to the hands of empty teammates when facing the bag, but these two passes were not very good, one was to send the ball to the hands of TT who had no projection ability, TT could only stand and wait for Lao Zhan to come back to receive the ball and reorganize, and the other time was to send the ball to Lefou, Lefu turned and hooked and did not be able to hit, as a result, the Cavaliers wanted to chase the score in the last minute, but they could only rely on free throws to score a point, but the Lakers shot a three-pointer again, The margin was extended to 14 points.