At the end of the second quarter, the Lakers led their opponents by 14 points at home at 57:43 and entered the second half. The Cavaliers actually know that their chances of winning this game are not great, after all, although James started this game quite well, but the other points of the Cavaliers have not been opened, and the shooting rate is also very average, so they don't have a good way to take the Lakers' joint defense, and they are also very difficult to defend Ye Xuan, at this time they finally remembered a player who didn't seem to be very important in the team before, that is, Dellavedova, The last time he played against Ye Xuan's team in the playoffs, it was obviously a very safe thing to send Dellavedova to defend Ye Xuan, under his defense, although Ye Xuan was still able to score with his personal ability, it would definitely not be as easy as he was now.

Moreover, many small actions of Dellavedova on the defensive end can also mess up Ye Xuan's mentality, so that Ye Xuan's efficiency on the offensive end will be slightly reduced, and he plays more desperately, so at this time, the knights faced an almost inexplicable Ye Xuan did think of the player who was not remembered by them very much at the first time.

The second half of the game started quickly, and for the Lakers, the rhythm of this game was basically in their own hands, so the Lakers played slowly, neither giving the Cavaliers the opportunity to speed up and disrupt the rhythm of the game, nor deliberately slowing down the offensive speed to reduce their team's offensive efficiency. In particular, the Lakers, under the leadership of Wade and Ye Xuan, played very well, which made other role players also get a lot of confidence, which made the Lakers play more and more easily.

However, in the third quarter of the game, the Cavaliers did not have any outstanding performances, first of all, Irving hit two three-pointers in a row at the beginning of the third quarter, even if Randle had interfered with some of his shots after the pick-and-roll, but he still threw the basketball into the basket steadily. These two three-pointers were also the reason why the Cavaliers faced a high-morale Lakers at the beginning of the third quarter without being pulled away by their opponents.

However, after the Lakers called a timeout, and then re-made a targeted arrangement, it was a bit whimsical for Irving to use this kind of forced three-point shot after blocking and dismantling to get points, and Irving's hand was not really so incomprehensible, on the contrary, his hand also decreased after a timeout, so the Cavaliers also benefited from Irving's two three-pointers to play a wave of 8:2 small high. Immediately because of Irving's next two shooting misses and a mistake under defense, the Lakers returned a small 7:2 high court, which made the Cavaliers originally narrow the gap to single digits, but now the difference is back to 12 points.

But fortunately, the Cavaliers do have more than one All-Star level player, the second player to break out in the Cavaliers is Kevin Love, Lefou's role in the Cavaliers has always been the kind of awkward position between star players and role players, to say that he is the core of the team, but the team can get thirteen to fifteen shots in a game is already considered a normal level, in last year's finals, although the Cavaliers did not bring it up, However, Love's performance in the first four games was definitely one of the reasons why the Cavaliers were beaten 1-3 by the Warriors. Even in one game, he played less than ten minutes in the first half, not to mention one of the core of the team, and even the average substitute should be able to play for about ten minutes at halftime.

However, in this game, Lefu finally hardened, in the first half he had a short period of outburst, helping the Cavaliers break the scoring drought and at the same time be able to narrow the difference slightly, if it wasn't for the coach's frequent fainting tricks, plus their hand also declined a little, then maybe Lefu could become a hero to save the team in the first half.

And after the start of the second half of the game, the Cavaliers are still facing all kinds of ups and downs, they have a strong scoring explosiveness, but the difficulty is the ability to continue scoring, after Irving helped the team play a wave of small high courts, they were immediately hit by the Lakers A wave of counterattacks, at this time they urgently need follow-up firepower to continue their lives, otherwise the Cavaliers are likely to surrender directly in this quarter of the game under the heavy firepower attack of the Lakers. And at this time, it was Lefu who didn't seem to have much status in the Cavaliers.

He first received Lao Zhan's pass on the inside and then hit Randle with a tough back, and after turning around, the small hook threw the ball directly into the basket, which is not Lefou's most commonly used offensive means, but at least he scored, followed by Lefou, after blocking and dismantling Lao Zhan, quickly cut into the inside, Lao Zhan's pass was very secret, and the ball was sent directly from Randle's armpit to Lefou's hands, this time Lefu did not have a buttery hand like in the first half, and he dunked directly after receiving the ball.

Of course, this is not the final report card handed over by Lefu, he made a comeback after half a minute, this time it is still the blocking and dismantling cooperation between him and Lao Zhan, but this time he did not follow Lao Zhan to go down, but stopped at the top of the arc after blocking and dismantling, Lao Zhan successfully helped him attract the defense after a look back and sent the ball to his hands, Lefu finally did not waste Lao Zhan's pass this time, and hit the three-point shot steadily, and this goal also narrowed the difference to 8 points again, The Lakers were also forced to call a timeout because of this.

After the timeout, the Lakers replaced Clarkson, and his role on both ends of the offensive and defensive ends seemed to be better than Randle, although Randle is now in the power forward position, which made the Lakers have to let Clarkson or Solomon Hill defend TT or Love, but Randle's performance is not very good anyway, instead of letting him sleepwalk on both offensive and defensive ends, it is better to replace Clarkson and let him help the team on the offensive end, And his footwork can also ensure that when he is on the defensive end, he will not be torn up too much space by the opponent using the pick-and-roll.

The timeout ended, the game continued, the Lakers came back and scored a beautiful goal under the linkage of Ye Xuan, Gasol and Wade, Ye Xuan attacked with the ball, Ye Xuan quickly completed the breakthrough with the help of Gasol's blocking, and at this time Wade took the opportunity to slip the bottom line to find the opponent's defensive blind spot, Ye Xuan's breakthrough attracted a lot of energy, and as a result, he sent the ball to Wade's hand, Wade got up and down, and scored two more points, This way of Ye Xuan attracting defense and then letting Wade complete the offense has been staged many times today, and Wade has unknowingly scored 20 points after hitting this ball.

On the Cavaliers' side, after the two deputies stood up to help the team, Lao Zhan also began to break out, after Wade hit the ball, Lao Zhan immediately held the ball and singled Solomon Hill, because in the first two rounds of the Cavaliers, Lao Zhan used Lefou's blocking breakthrough to attract the defense, and then gave the ball to Lefu This point, so as to help the team complete the offense, so this round Solomon Hill's defense was a little slack, which made James seize the opportunity and directly break through the one-handed layup to end the offense.

Then in the defense, James stood up again, after Ye Xuan successfully broke through George Hill's defense, it was Lao Zhan's supplementary defense that made Ye Xuan not able to use this breakthrough to score points in the end, and because of Lao Zhan's supplementary defense, Ye Xuan's attack almost made a mistake, and finally although the ball was passed out, there was little time left to attack, and Wade, who received the ball on the outside, could only make a hasty shot, and finally ended up playing iron.

Tristan Thompson stuck Gasol behind him again, allowing James to smoothly pocket the backcourt rebound, James immediately launched a fast break after getting the ball, and rushed to the Lakers' halfcourt, Ye Xuan and Wade were also quick to defend, but the Cavaliers' three-line fast break was also very orderly, after James rushed to the three-point line of the Walkers, Hill and Irving came to a 45-degree angle outside the three-point line to wait for the pass, which made Ye Xuan have to defend on the outside, James, who entered the inside line, took the opportunity to lean on Wade and forcibly got up and hit the ball.

This is also a rare head-to-head confrontation in this game of Zhan Wei, in the end, it was the more physically dominant Lao Zhan who was better, and hit the ball into the basket, and in the next round, Lao Zhan hit an unreasonable stepback jumper, which narrowed the gap to only 4 points, which gave the Cavaliers a new hope of winning.

But in the next three minutes, the Lakers' offensive firepower finally broke out, Ye Xuan alone scored 5 points in these three minutes, a three-pointer and two free throws, plus a three-pointer from Clarkson, a mid-range jumper from Wade, and a mid-range shot from Solomon Hill, the four of them scored a total of 12 points in three minutes, and the Cavaliers suddenly entered a vacuum after the Big Three took turns to break out. If Tristan Thompson or George Hill could have stepped up to help the team score a few points at this time, then the Cavaliers might have really found a chance to complete the comeback, but they both suddenly disappeared at this time, and the 12-5 Xiao Gao Chao not only stretched the difference to more than ten points again, but also took away the Cavaliers' hope.

At this time, the Lakers' nerves, which were still a little nervous, finally relaxed, although it was more than a minute later than the planned rotation time, but at least they can now carry out the rotation of personnel with peace of mind, Wade and Gasol The two veterans will be replaced, and Spetts and Matt Barnes will be replaced, which is equivalent to entering the normal rotation rhythm that the Lakers like.

And the Cavaliers are not so easy, although they also made substitutions, but they simply replaced TT, replaced Channing Frye, who can shoot three points, and then replaced George Hill, replaced another pitcher, Korver, although this lineup seems to be the Big Three with two pitchers playing, but because Ye Xuan is still on the court, Irving's ability to attack independently is still locked, and among the remaining few people, only Lao Zhan can carry out the ball-holding attack, and the heavy responsibility is all on Lao Zhan's body.

In this way, it is not so much that this lineup is three cores with two pitchers, it is better to say that Lao Zhan is a superstar with four pitchers, after all, these four people basically have no ability to complete the offense by themselves now, although Owen can attack with the ball, but in the face of Ye Xuan, as long as he feels a little worse today, then the final shooting result can only be iron, and now they are in the critical stage of chasing points, and they can no longer bear the consequences after hitting iron. So letting Irving continue to play alone to find touch is no longer on the Cavaliers' radar.

In this way, the main lineup of the Cavaliers played back and forth with several substitute players led by Ye Xuan, originally the Cavaliers should seize the opportunity to recover the score since the main force was present, but they were not able to find a breakthrough in the game, and they could only continue to play a stalemate with the Lakers, and the result was naturally obvious, consuming time is the most willing thing for the Lakers to see.

The Cavaliers have no choice but to replace Irving and Love for a while at this time, at least to give them some stamina for the next final battle. And the Lakers obviously felt that the time had come, and at the beginning of the fourth quarter of the game, they replaced the main forces, plus Ye Xuan, who played eleven and a half minutes in the third quarter of the game, the Lakers were obviously ready to blow the horn of the final offense in advance.

Lao Zhan played a full quarter in the third quarter of the game, and now he still hasn't been replaced, so he looks a little tired, this is also the best time for the Lakers to end the game, the main players are full of firepower as soon as they come up, in just four minutes, the Lakers' main force used the offensive success rate of up to 75% to instantly expand the difference from 11 points to 16 points, during this time James is also trying his best to resist, but in the face of the efficiency of the powerful Lakers team, One person's efforts seemed a little insignificant, and when the Cavaliers hurriedly replaced the main players, they still basically couldn't find a chance to turn the tables.

At this time, the Cavaliers were still trying to struggle again, but on the one hand, because their physical problems had been highlighted, and on the other hand, because the Lakers began to set up a turtle shell formation again, so the Cavaliers' chasing effect was not particularly obvious, and finally under the slow consumption of the Lakers, the Cavaliers chose to surrender with the last 1 minute of the game and they were still 17 points behind.