Chapter 80: Owen's Small Universe, Breaking Through the Sky

James deserves to be James, and after taking his attitude seriously, his performance on the court was much better, especially in the confrontation with Leonard, and after learning the lessons of the opening game, James began to play basketball. directly occupied Bosh's No. 4 position, let Bosh stand near the three-point line, pulled away Yuan Shu's defense, and at the same time hit Leonard with his back to the basket with the body of No. 4.

Leonard's defensive awareness and long arms do have a good effect when breaking through the defensive perimeter, but after all, he has just entered the NBA and has not undergone a lot of physical and muscle training, even if his body is as bad as James, he only became an ape tank after entering the league for 3-4 seasons, so Leonard, who is still slightly thin, has significantly reduced his defensive effect under the basket.

After Joel Anthony scored on a whistle-blowing layup over Vallejo's nest in the frontcourt, the Heat ended the first quarter with an eight-point lead over the Cavaliers at 32-24.

The physical confrontation between the two sides in the first quarter was very intense, so several players who came off the court gasped for breath. James scored 16 points in the first quarter, and although Leonard also scored 9 points, it was only half of James's. As for Valejo, he was even more depressed, in the first quarter, Joel Anthony won 4 frontcourt rebounds, the value of frontcourt rebounds is self-evident, and some data scientists have analyzed and concluded that the value of a frontcourt rebound is equivalent to two backcourt rebounds, so it is not an exaggeration to say that Vallejo's rebounds were completely blown up by Anthony in the first quarter.

At the same time, the Cavaliers were whistled for 10 fouls in the first quarter, while the Heat only had 3 fouls in total, and the Cavaliers were undoubtedly a very losing side in terms of the referee's penalty scale.

In the second quarter, the Cavaliers needed to make changes, Scott asked Owen to attack more with a relative advantage in the position according to the situation on the court, which was also strongly supported by Yuan Shu, and Leonard decided to do his best to limit James' play in the second quarter, as for Vallejo, he already had his own attention.

"If the game itself is based on unfairness, then let me make it fair." Vallejo made a decision.

In the second quarter, the Heat team took the lead in attacking, and let the main team rest for about 1 minute before the end of the first quarter, and the Heat once again sent all the main forces, and it seemed that they did not dare to be careless, and the Cavaliers also saw the move, and also let the main players who had rested for 1 minute start the second quarter.

James wanted to attack the basket again with a crushing style of play as soon as he came up in the second quarter, but found that Leonard actually carried his offense, and when James looked back, he found that Leonard's body center of gravity sank, almost at a 45° angle to the ground, against James's back play. This trick has been used by Daniel Rodman, as has Yuan Shu, who was a fledgling last season, and now it is Leonard's turn.

After James held the ball and couldn't get into the interior a few times, he had lost a good offensive opportunity, so he had to throw the ball to Wade, and there were only 2 seconds left before 24 seconds, Wade threw it to Bosh, and Bosh had no choice but to press 24 seconds to throw the ball, and the unadjusted shot naturally brushed out of the basket.

Joel Anthony squeezed together with Vallejo, and just as Anthony grabbed the rebound in the front court and was about to make a rebound, the referee's whistle suddenly blew.

Anthony looked back and saw Vallejo on the ground, on all fours, as if he had been hit hard.

The referee signaled Anthony to elbow, which made Anthony very dissatisfied, but he could not argue with the referee with his influence.

"To deal with the godson of the alliance, you really have to play some tricks, right?" Valejo, who ran past Yuan Shu's side, winked at Yuan Shu.

"Hey." Although he has always been not very interested in Valejo's fake fall, Yuan Shu at this moment is unable to make any righteous accusations.

At this moment, Yuan Shu seems to have suddenly understood that no matter what happens on the court, adversity or good, only by constantly moving forward can you win! Everything that stands in your way needs to be thrown off.

"Anderson, I'm going to give you a thumbs up this time."

"Yuan..."Valejo, who was originally worried that Yuan Shu would be dissatisfied with his fake fall, suddenly felt that his acting skills had been recognized, as if he had won the actor, which made Vallejo feel that he could defeat Anthony who was opposite him only by relying on his performance.

When Chalmers was still stunned, Irving had already broken through the opponent to the vicinity of the small penalty area and made an easy pull-up jump shot to recover two points for the Cavaliers.

The Heat's Chalmers didn't hit the shot when he wanted to get back to the court, and Vallejo and Anthony, who were squeezing each other under the basket, were fighting for the rebound, and seeing that Vallejo, who didn't occupy a good position, quietly grabbed the corner of Anthony's shirt with his hand, making it impossible for him to jump, he let go and jumped up to pick up the rebound in his hand.

"Damn, referee, are you blind?" Anthony roared in his heart, of course, he didn't dare to yell at the referee, after all, it was the prerogative of the team boss to complain to the referee.

After receiving the ball, Irving changed direction twice in a row, breaking through Chalmers' defense again, Wade immediately stepped forward to make up for the defense, Irving didn't look at the ball at all, and Parker, who shook off Wade's defense, rose to the ground after receiving the ball, and the three-pointer rose and fell.

"Damn, it looks like this guy can't be let go." Wade felt that his defense was a bit of a pander.

After James's breakthrough failed, he made a Maddie-like turnaround and backward jumper, which was a little ugly, but the ball was still thrown, but it was deflected out of the basket under Leonard's full defense, Vallejo immediately held the corner of Anthony's jersey with his hand, but this time Anthony was prepared in advance, and when the corner was just pulled by Vallejo, he immediately pulled the corner back.

"I would never make the same mistake twice!"

As soon as Anthony finished speaking, he realized that Vallejo had already jumped, and it was then that he realized that he had missed the best opportunity to grab the rebound.

After Vallejo grabbed the rebound, he found that Irving had already played a fast break!

got the rebound handed by Valejo, Yuan Shu directly threw the ball forward vigorously, although Irving's start speed was very fast, but James and Wade's return speed was also fast, Wade even had returned to the defense in place, appearing on Yuan Shu and Irving's passing route.

"It seems that this time the Cavaliers' fast-break long pass is going to end in a steal." Barkley explained.

"Really?" All the Cavaliers didn't think so.

Wade, who was in place, jumped high and was ready to intercept the long pass halfway, but Wade, who jumped up, found that the height of the pass was a bit outrageous, and it was much higher than the top of his fingers.

Wade, who was in the air, looked at the trajectory of the ball and suddenly understood the goal of this long pass!

The ball actually hit the rebound in the Heat half and bounced straight back!

On the path of the ball bounce back, Owen is like a rocket breaking out of the ground, drawing a parabola in the air, catching the ball with one hand, and dunking the ball into the basket with the momentum of breaking through the sky.

Barkley's mouth opened wide in surprise and didn't say a word for a long time.

After the goal, Irving crossed the surprised James and Wade, and pointed to the sky, as if to tell everyone that the sky is his limit.

James's cold sweat slid down his forehead, and the Cavaliers' two rookies this year are really incredible.