Chapter 605: Getting the Match Point
This three-pointer narrowed the gap between the two teams to one point, and it also helped the Cavaliers successfully renew their lives. The game has entered the final minute of overtime, the Lakers are still one point ahead of their opponents, and most importantly, they are still in control of the ball, so the Lakers are still in the same dominant state as they are in the final period of regular time.
But this so-called advantage made the Lakers a little less good at handling the ball, Ye Xuan began to press the time after controlling the ball and came to the frontcourt, and then waited until the timer countdown was only 8 before it started, but he didn't expect the opponent to give up the defense of Randle directly, the two pounced on Ye Xuan and clamped Ye Xuan wanted to pass, but there was not much time left for the offense, so he could only choose to force the shot, and the result was naturally only one result of this shot.
James hurriedly protected the rebound, and then the Cavaliers called a timeout, they are only thinking about one problem now, that is, how to put the ball in the basket, as long as they can hit the ball in this round, then they can achieve overtake, so that all the pressure falls on the head of the Lakers, and the Lakers have only one Ye Xuan who has the ability to complete the kill under high pressure, although Wade also has such experience, but Wade, who did not play for a minute in overtime, I don't know if the bottom of the hand feels or not.
The timeout ended in the blink of an eye, the Cavaliers made personnel adjustments, Tristan Thompson's point was replaced, and the role of TT for the Cavaliers has been played, after all, although he did not score in overtime, he was very good at holding back Hibbert's point, and did not let Hibbert get any chances, they replaced TT and replaced the more offensive Korver.
The ball was sent, James controlled the basketball to press the offensive time, until there were only 10 seconds left in the offensive time, James's side moved, using Lefou's blocking to avoid Solomon-Hill's defense, and then sent the ball to Irving's hands, and then Owen made a dummy and passed the ball back to James, Korver quietly went to the bottom left corner at this time, James's pass was immediately delivered, Korver pulled it up and shot, the red light of offensive time turned on, and Korver's three-point shot was also shot.
"!!!!Shh Three-point hit, the Cavaliers overtook the Lakers by two points at the last moment, 116:118, the audience at the scene was boiling, all cheering and shouting desperately, but the game was not over yet, although the Cavaliers pressed the offensive time to the end, but they still left the Lakers nearly 9 seconds of offensive time, and the Lakers immediately called a timeout to arrange the last shot.
The number of kills of the Lakers this season is not less, Ye Xuan has shot a total of 4 kills this season, one of which was when facing the Warriors, he hit 4 three-pointers in a row at the last moment, and one of them is a 3+1 difficult three-pointer, the most terrifying thing is that Ye Xuan only has a total of 6 kills this season, Ye Xuan's kill rate also makes other teams in the league feel scared, and in addition to Ye Xuan, the Lakers also have a killer, Wade naturally needless to say, He beat a Celtics player last season, and Nick Young is also a player with a big heart, who has played a three-point shot many times. So the Lakers were also ready to fight to the death, and at the last minute, they chose a pure small lineup, swapping Hibbert and Randle for Wade and Nick Young.
At this time, the Lakers' on-court players have become a pure outside lineup, Clarkson and Ye Xuan have become the team's tallest two people, and Solomon Hill, Wade and Nick Young have not even reached two meters, although their height has dropped, but the three-point shooting rate is definitely the top level in the league, among these five people, except for Wade, the three-point shooting rate of the other four people is above the league average, especially Ye Xuan and Nick Yang, a three-point shooting rate ranks first in the league, The other is ranked 6th in the league, and he is all in front of Curry, Klay Thompson and the like.
The timeout time is over in a blink of an eye, little Wharton actually has nothing special in the tactical arrangement, the ball is sent out to find Ye Xuan, and the rest depends on how Ye Xuan chooses, but unfortunately the opponent's homework has also been done very well, and Ye Xuan was not given a chance to catch the ball at all, because there are only four people running on the Lakers team on the court, and five people are running on the Cavaliers, so there are two people around Ye Xuan at any time, which makes Ye Xuan have no chance to catch the ball at all.
Fortunately, Solomon Hill on the sidelines was very witty, and directly passed the ball to Wade, who ran a small half circle to catch the ball, Wade received the ball, and then made a momentum to break inward, which scared the players of the Cavaliers to quickly retreat, but this shrinkage gave Ye Xuan out, Wade quickly passed the ball over, Ye Xuan immediately took two consecutive steps back after receiving the ball, and then looked up at the timer with only 6 seconds left, and directly thought about the direction of the Cavaliers' arc at a forty-five degree angle, which was the Cavaliers' defensive weaknessIn addition to Richard Jefferson, who is guarding himself, there is only one player in charge of defense over there, Irving's offense is indeed a superstar, but his defense is a little worse.
Ye Xuan came to the three-point line in two steps, pulled it up and was about to make a three-point shot, Owen hurriedly met it, pounced and wanted to block, but he didn't expect that at this time, Ye Xuan actually dared to pass the ball, and there were still three seconds left in the countdown, Ye Xuan pressed his wrist down, waved between his fingers, and sent the ball to the hands of Nick Yang, who was in charge of defense by Owen on the side, and Yang Shaoxia pulled it up and threw it after receiving the ball.
The basketball flew out of Yang Shaoxia's hand, and everyone's eyes were focused on the orange sphere, at this time the timer had been reset to zero, the red light had turned on, and everyone knew that this ball was the goal that decided the outcome of the game! I saw the basketball in the air through a wonderful arc, and then smashed on the back edge of the basket and bounced high, the Lakers general sighed lightly, and the Cavaliers gave a sigh of relief, but I didn't expect the script this time to be so bizarre and complicated, the basketball smashed on the back edge of the basket and bounced, fell down and smashed on the front edge of the basket, and then bounced twice, and finally slipped into the basket unwillingly.
The ball is in!! Yang Shaoxia was still stunned at this time, as if he hadn't come back to his senses, and a group of players from the Lakers had already rushed over to celebrate him, Yang Shaoxia's stunner also directly helped the Lakers win the third victory of the series at the Quick Loan Center Arena, and also helped the team get the match point, 119:118! The Lakers battled hard in an overtime battle to knock their opponent to the table.
This game also created a lot of historical records, first of all, for the first time in history, two players scored more than 45 points in the same finals, these two people don't need to guess to know that it is James and Ye Xuan, James scored a total of 48 points in this game, and Ye Xuan is more exaggerated, Ye Xuan because he took the team's offense in the first half of overtime, so he scored 52 points.
Secondly, in this game, there was also the first time in the history of the league that two players got a 40+ triple-double record, these two people are still Ye Xuan and James, and they also benefited from overtime, James made up the number of assists to ten times in the third minute after the start of overtime, so he got a triple-double, and Ye Xuan also got a triple-double because of overtime, and when the overtime was a minute and a half minutes, Ye Xuan grabbed his tenth rebound, In the end, he got a crazy triple-double of 52 points, 10 rebounds and 12 assists.
At the same time, James played a total of 53 minutes in this game, although this data did not break the record of Zhang Dashuai and others who did not play for 60 consecutive minutes, but he played 53 minutes in a row is also the only one in the finals. In addition, the game also set a new record for overseas viewership, and of course, a large part of it came from China. So it's not too much to say that this game will be recorded in history in the future.
Of course, the most important thing is that the Lakers won three consecutive victories in the series, rewriting the score to 3:0, the victory of this game not only helped the Lakers get the match point, but also broke the confidence of the Cavaliers in one fell swoop, they have played a very bumpy season, the position of the Eastern champion in the regular season was taken away by the Celtics, and in the playoffs, it was seven games with the Pacers, it was very difficult, and it suffered a lot of blows, For example, the inside line finally recruited a champion center, but he didn't play two minutes, and he was directly injured and reimbursed for the season. Coupled with the fact that Vallejo, the former meritorious interior lineman, turned against the team, and Tristan Thompson, who is getting worse and worse after getting involved with Khloe Kardashian, it can be said that the Cavaliers have struggled to reach the Finals this season.
In fact, 3-0 is not the end, although there has never been a team in history that has been able to pull the game back after falling behind 0:3 in the series and achieve the final victory, but last year, there was no team in history that came back from 1:3 down and won the championship. Similarly, in the Western Conference finals, the Warriors also completed such a feat of 1:3 turnaround, so in the NBA, no matter how impossible it is, there is a chance to happen after all, and the Lakers can't celebrate it now.
In the post-game press conference, the Lakers took Nick Young, the last hero of this game, to the press conference for the first time, you must know that as soon as Ye Xuan joined the Lakers, the press conference was basically contracted by Ye Xuan alone, of course, Ye Xuan was not absent from the press conference in this game, and Wharton Jr. brought both Ye Xuan and Nick Yang with him.
At the press conference, the reporter who stood up first was like eating gunpowder, and asked, "Coach Luke Wharton, do you think the Lakers won this game tactically, or did they win against a group of players who can help Ye Xuan withstand the pressure?" ”
This question obviously embarrassed little Wharton, after all, if he answered that he won tactically, then it would be tantamount to offending all the players except Ye Xuan, if he wanted to answer that he won on the players, wouldn't it be tantamount to denying his own tactics? Isn't this equivalent to a declaration of resignation for a coach?
Fortunately, Ye Xuan, who was on the side, had rich experience in fighting wits and courage with reporters, and immediately took over this conversation: "I think good tactics are the key to a team's victory, but if good tactics are not implemented by good players, then there is no way to turn the tide, so Mr. Reporter, your question itself is contradictory, isn't it?" ”
Ye Xuan's words directly made this reporter speechless, and Xiao Wharton also looked at Ye Xuan with a grateful face, in fact, this reporter was brought by the Cavaliers to disgust Ye Xuan and the others, after all, this is the home of the Cavaliers, so the advantage of the home field cannot be used without taking advantage of it.
The next few reporters returned to normal, so the questions they asked were basically relaxed, nothing more than asking Ye Xuan how he felt about getting a 50+ triple-double in the finals, and asking Nick Young how he felt after shooting the killer shot in the finals, and so on, after the three of the Lakers' master and apprentice dealt with the reporters casually, they got up and left the press conference.
However, after coming out of the press conference, Ye Xuan couldn't help but sigh, "It seems that our opponent is not dead yet, and our next game may be very difficult." Looking at the bewildered look of Wharton and Nick Young next to him, Ye Xuan immediately explained, "If they have basically given up in the 0:3 situation, it is impossible for them to let these reporters carry out this kind of provocative attack, if they are not careful, these reporters will affect the performance of our team in the next games." ”
"Also, I don't think the reporters who came after me really wanted us to praise us, do you believe that the reporters in Boston sincerely wished the Lakers the game would? They're killing us, they're trying to numb us with all kinds of compliments, and then make us complacent, and don't forget how tough it was for us to win this game, so I'm sure the next game will be a lot tougher than this one. ”
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