Chapter 329: Shark (4/4!) )
The Cavaliers attack first.
The fans were a little unconvinced, and the boos didn't stop.
However, the players on the court didn't care about this, and after James went to the front court to get the ball, he asked Wallace to block and dismantle it, and then burst into Lewis.
The Magic didn't have a catch.
It can be seen that Stan Van Gundy has studied the Cavaliers' first-round game carefully, and he is letting Lewis go one-on-one with James.
Lewis is the former supersonic team duo, Mr. 100 million, strength and experience, obviously much better than Gibson or Brad Miller before, this time against James, the disadvantage is not particularly big.
James turned to the basket and shot, Lewis interfered, and the ball slid out of the basket.
The ball bounced towards where Howard was.
There was a burst of cheers from the audience.
As long as Lewis can defend James, Howard's advantage under the basket will be infinitely magnified.
Howard, however, didn't jump.
O'Neill's whole body was pressed on him at this time, and it was a little difficult for him to reach out.
James jumped quickly after hitting the ground, grabbed an offensive rebound and then went up to cause a foul on Lewis's beater.
Howard turned to the referee to complain, but the referee ignored him.
O'Neal didn't make a noticeable foul just now.
James went to the free throw line and made both free throws.
The Cavaliers took the lead.
The Magic serve in the backcourt, and Beverley forces Nelson.
Nelson didn't have the ability of Rose, he was forced to choke enough, and leaned on Carter to come over to answer it before transitioning the ball to half court.
At this time, Howard fell directly to the low post and asked for the ball with his back.
When he first entered the league, he was bullied by O'Neill badly, but now he is at his peak, and O'Neill is old.
According to his thoughts, a veteran should have the consciousness of being a veteran!
Take the ball and chisel hard, turn around and turn around again, and directly shake off O'Neal to shoot.
But just then, O'Neal pushed him, and the ball flew straight over the basket.
"Toot!"
The referee blows the whistle for O'Neal's push foul.
Howard's two free throws.
Howard was a little upset and argued loudly with the referee about a technical foul from O'Neal.
The referee ignored it, and although O'Neill pushed, the amplitude was well controlled, and it was completely unrelated to the dangerous action.
Howard's anger did not subside at the free throw line, and he made two free throws in a solid row.
O'Neal took the defensive rebound and handed it to James.
The Magic retreated quickly at this time, and Stan Van Gundy did work hard to keep the Cavaliers from beating the fast attack.
The Cavaliers went to the frontcourt and played position, James didn't have a good chance against Lewis after the block, he returned the ball to Wallace on the outside, Wallace gave Matthews a surprise, and Matthews borrowed Wallace's three-point point after the pick-and-roll.
O'Neill also pressed Howard.
Howard blew up directly.
He slammed an elbow directly at O'Neill, and then pushed him away with all his might.
"Toot!"
The referee immediately blew the whistle for Howard's technical foul.
There was boos from the audience.
The Cavaliers got a free throw.
Tang Tian touched his chin thoughtfully at this time.
Jumping in the opening game, grabbing rebounds and pressing people, pushing people to foul.
He had the impression that O'Neill didn't play like this, and even disdained to play like this, and it should be Rashid Wallace who played like this.
But it seems that the chat between O'Neill and Wallace on the plane seems to be bland, but O'Neill should care.
Everyone will be old, but some people can let go, and some people can't.
O'Neill, nicknamed "The Shark", definitely has arrogance, and it is inevitable that his ability will deteriorate when he gets old, but he doesn't want to admit defeat.
What is outside the scope of the rules is called playing dirty, and what is within the scope is experience.
Old O'Neal opened with such a fight, and it was clear that he wanted to anger Howard.
Now he has succeeded.
Howard was directly replaced by Van Gundy and went to calm down.
As soon as Howard got off the court, the Cavaliers' interior disadvantage disappeared at once, and the game became the Cavaliers' show time.
At the end of the first quarter, the Cavaliers led the Magic 27-19.
At the beginning of the second quarter, Van Gundy replaced Howard again.
Possession of the ball by the Magic.
Howard received the ball and hit Brown with his back, and with continuous foot movements, he was pushed away by Brown.
The referee blew for a foul on Brown.
Howard's expression didn't have too much turbulence at this time, and he could see that he had sat in the audience for nearly a quarter, and he finally calmed down.
Two free throws and one hit, play normally.
After a while, the calm Howard completely pressed Brown to play again, playing his dominance on the inside, and the Magic team also caught up with the score little by little.
With more than two minutes to play in the second quarter, they had already closed the score to 25-29.
"Coach, I'll go on." O'Neill took the initiative to walk to Tang Tian's side at this time.
Tang Tian nodded and called James up as well.
Howard's shot caused Brown's third personal foul, and the game went into dead-ball time, and the Cavaliers replaced Brown and Ryan Anderson with James and O'Neal to play a small lineup.
As soon as O'Neill came on the field, there were sporadic boos from the scene.
It can be seen that they are still very unhappy with the way the old sharks played in the first quarter.
Howard went on to hit one of two free throws.
O'Neal pressed Buss for a defensive rebound.
Louis Williams advanced to the front court with the ball, he reached for James to block the pick-and-roll, dismantled it and walked to the three-point line, followed the ball to James who was going inside.
James sped away from Anthony Johnson, who was switching, and went straight to the basket.
Howard came out to help defend, and Buss also shrank to the basket at the first time to prevent James from passing the ball to O'Neal under the basket.
The Magic did a very good job of defending this time.
James had no better option and threw the board at Howard.
Howard was under a lot of pressure and the shot was a bit far forward.
"Bang!"
The ball was noticeably shorter and bounced out of the front of the basket.
Under the basket, Buss jumped up to collect this defensive rebound.
But at this moment, a black and pressed figure appeared directly in front of him.
"Bang!"
O'Neill jumped up and dunked the ball through Bass!
The referee also blew the whistle and signaled for a blocking foul on Bath!
2+1!
The scene was in an uproar.
This!
Van Gundy was stunned on the sidelines, old O'Neal could still buckle like this?!
O'Neal was also quite excited after the dunk, he shook the basket, bent the basket several centimeters, and after landing, he clenched his fists with both hands and roared excitedly at the sidelines.
James was also excited at this time, and ran directly over to hit O'Neal's chest, and yelled at him.
At this time, the scene gave a replay of the dunk just now, and the fans were in an uproar again.
The sudden rise after the center of gravity sank reminded people of O'Neal's peak play, the shark went to the bottom of the basket and raged!
He can play with a lot of "experience", but he can also be tyrannical with the basket!
This buckle just now is worthy of the name of shark!