The Spurs were out in the first round, and Zhang Xiaotian also sighed a little.

Danny Green, who was clamoring to see him in the finals a few days ago, was also silent, Leonard's side, Zhang Xiaotian originally wanted to comfort him, but in the end, he thought about it and forgot it, that kid still became the core of the team one step faster than him.

There was time to go to training together for a few days, and Leonard was too bored except for basketball.

The Eagles' game ended quickly, but they were the first to start the second round.

The arrangement of the alliance is a little incomprehensible, and the ones who take advantage of it are of course the wizards who have been resting for a long time.

The Hawks were very efficient in the first half, but in the second half, they were defended by the Wizards, who took the initiative to remove an interior lineman and play Otto Porter with one big and four small, which was the key to the reversal.

But the main thing is Wall, in the last few minutes, Wall controlled the whole court, all the Wizards' scoring was related to him, and the Hawks just lacked such players.

The first to appear in the second round of the West are the Warriors and Grizzlies, but unfortunately Conley will not play this time.

Without Conley, the Grizzlies' outside firepower is really not good, but the Warriors are not the Trail Blazers, they defend well and offense better, and they are fully blooming and taking the Grizzlies lightly.

The black and white bears still dominate the inside, but they can't help the team win.

On May 4, the second round of the Cavaliers playoffs finally began.

For the Cavaliers, the Bulls are one of the last opponents they want to face, especially after Love's injury.

The Bulls are good both individually and teamly, and they have a lot of experience in limiting James.

With Rose, they won't lose the number one position.

The only thing that is better should be Zhang Xiaotian, on the front line, they lack a second single defense master in addition to Jimmy Butler.

The other is that the overall tempo of the bulls is on the slow side, and the Cavaliers can take advantage of this.

Now that the Cavaliers only have two interior players left, the starters will definitely have to make some adjustments.

After the coaching staff deliberated, they decided to play one big and four small, and Smith was suspended for two games in the league, and the team is now short of personnel, so they can only try Mike Miller.

Why try it, because Mike Miller has struggled to adapt to high-intensity games this season, and starting the playoffs requires more than just shooting, and the defense can't be porous.

It has to be said that as soon as the game started, Mike Miller's start proved to be a failure.

Facing Mike Dunleavy, who is about the same age, Mike Miller looks faltering.

The inability to hit the shot and the back-to-back hit by Mike Dunleavy put the Cavaliers behind by double digits all of a sudden.

It's not just a problem with the outside defense, it's also a bit of a failure in the face of the Bulls, James has lost weight this season, and it feels okay to face the Celtics on the inside before, but it's difficult to do in front of Pau Gasol and Noah.

So the Cavaliers' first substitution is to replace Tristan Thompson, or let the two interior players resist inside, as for what to do next, we can only look at the score first.

There is also the Cavaliers' offense, James is taken care of, Irving's hand is still being adjusted, and Zhang Xiaotian took on the heavy responsibility of cutting points in the first quarter for the first time.

Fortunately, James can't defend it alone, otherwise if Jimmy Butler is freed up to defend Zhang Xiaotian, the Cavaliers' offense will really be over.

With a 12-point lead in the first quarter, the Bulls were still relatively satisfied.

They felt they could keep the advantage going, after all, the Cavaliers were missing two big men, and Smith won both on the road before he returned.

However, the Cavaliers launched a counterattack in the second quarter, and the Cavaliers only had two interior players and certainly couldn't be on the court all the time, so they switched to one big and four small in the second quarter, but the second position became Iman Shampert.

Shamppert is a problem offensively, but there will be no problem defensively.

The Cavaliers actually regretted it a little, if they had used Shampert in the first place, it is estimated that Mike Dunleavy would not have so many shooting opportunities.

James stepped up the offense after a two-minute break, but the horn of the counterattack was blown by Irving.

Owen's continuous iron in front of him is not how good Rose's defense is, Owen has always looked at the feel, and the feel has been adjusted, no matter who is in front of him, he can shoot, not to mention that the defense is not particularly good Rose.

When Shamppert, Zhang Xiaotian and James were all on the court, the Cavaliers' defense was also the best, and Mike Dunleavy was basically defended and had no chance to shoot.

The Bulls' strongest three-point point was limited, and their offense became ordinary, mainly because of Rose's star play.

In the first round, the Bulls suffered a loss in this regard, but Rose's style of play has already taken shape, and it is unrealistic to insist that he organize honestly.

However, the Bulls are not as efficient on the offensive end as the Cavaliers when they play like this.

The Cavaliers are not strong in attack on the inside now, and Shampert also throws empty positions at most, that is, Irving, Zhang Xiaotian, and James are three people with the ball, but it is by relying on this simple tactic that they slowly chase the score back.

To put it bluntly, the tactics of both sides on the offensive end are not rich, but the Cavaliers have stronger individual offense and more ball-holding points, and they will not lose this kind of matchup.

By halftime, they were just five points behind.

At half-time, the team based on the performance of both sides in the first half and formulated the tactics for the second half.

The bulls are not afraid to fight them, but it is better to be able to play them more easily.

The first is to play a good offensive and defensive transition, and the second is to use one large and four small to open up the space, and combine the breakthrough with the outside three-pointer.

In Lefou's absence, sending an outside player can also open up space, but the defensive end suffers a little.

There's also the rebounding problem, which worries the Cavaliers as well.

This season, they brought in a few shooters who did not play a good role at all, and at this time they also hoped that a few strong points could be played, after all, Irving, Zhang Xiaotian and James all have the means to shoot from a distance.

Of course, when there were not enough players, the three of them did not have a few minutes of rest throughout the game, and playing the second half was also one of the plans.

But the key is to win, if you can't win the game, the main force is looking for death, then it is better to control the playing time, Smith comes back and then fight with the Bulls.

At this time, David Blatter misses Love very much, and if there is Love to guarantee rebounds, it will be much easier to play the Bulls.

In the second half, the Cavaliers directly let Shampert start, and at the beginning of the third quarter, James broke through the ball twice, Zhang Xiaotian and Shampert shot one after another, and the score became 51:51.

But the Bulls immediately changed their defensive strategy, they didn't pinch James and let him shoot.

After James' hand-to-hand fight, he really had a bit of a problem with his hand, and he was led by the Bulls after consecutive misses.

What's even more troublesome is that Big Gasol has played continuously on the inside, and the biggest weakness of the big four small ones that has not been used much this season has been exposed, and the crisis of the Cavaliers is coming.