Chapter Seventy-Nine: Leonard's Enlightenment, Against James

"Hey, guys, don't be careless!" Knowing that the Cavaliers are not easy to mess with, although they led 8-2 in the opening game and took the advantage on the court, Heat captain Wade still reminded his teammates immediately after the timeout.

But Wade's reminder didn't seem to be heed, Leonard took advantage of James's laxity in defense, inserted from the middle, received Yuan Shu's pass and easily dodged Anthony's defense in the air, and used his long arm to put the ball in the basket.

Originally, this kind of cooperation often appeared in the internal and external tandem of Owen and Yuan Shu, but what I didn't expect was that Owen just dangled a shot, which attracted James's attention, and then Leonard burst into the penalty area and completed the attack of this passing and cutting cooperation.

"Don't worry, there won't be a next time." James didn't wait for Wade to speak, and took the initiative to speak.

When it was the Cavaliers' turn to attack, James took the initiative to hold the ball and single Leonard, in James's opinion, he succeeded in singleing Leonard several times in a row, and this player, who claims to be sure to win DPOY in the future, also feels the same in James's heart.

So James planned to attack on his own, and after making a few feints on the spot and still not helping himself to shake Leonard, James still chose to break into the box in a tank-like way.

This time, Leonard learned smartly, did not pay attention to James's pace like normal defense, and never judged the timing of the block, but completely gave up the idea of blocking the opponent, and kept defending his defensive position while retreating in the process of the opponent's breakthrough, while constantly fighting close to the body.

Sure enough, James, who did not completely get rid of Leonard, deviated from the basket with a layup under the interference of the opponent's long arm, and Leonard finally got a successful defense!

Unfortunately, it didn't make Leonard happy for a while, as the Heat's center Joel Anthony grabbed the frontcourt rebound in the crowd and passed the ball to Wade on the outside to reorganize the offense. Since Yuan Shu and Bosh are fighting, Anthony was able to grab this frontcourt rebound, which is entirely the responsibility of Vallejo's poor protection.

Wade immediately flashed Parker in front of him after receiving the ball, although Parker's defense has been commendable in the position of scoring guard, but in the face of Wade, it is still a little difficult.

Wade, who flashed past Parker, immediately held the ball and hit a stop-and-go jumper to end the offense for the Heat, and the score became 10-4.

"Damn!" Looking at Joel Anthony, who was half a head shorter than himself in front of him, Vallejo couldn't squeeze the other party, feeling that the other party's feet were like old tree roots, tightly wrapped around the floor, and it was difficult to move half a minute with his body fighting!

Yuan Shu ran to the outside to catch the ball, Irving ran to the inside and took Chalmers away, and Parker moved closer to the bottom corner, bringing Wade aside to open up space for Yuan Shu.

Bosh immediately ran to the three-point line and waited, after all, judging from Yuan Shu's performance this season, his three-point shooting and shooting ability were completely different from last season.

Leonard ran over to block and dismantle for Yuan Shu, Yuan Shu used Leonard's blocker to break through from the weak side, James and Bosh, who were originally defending Leonard, immediately rushed up at the same time, forming a situation of entrapment, only to see that the three of them immediately gathered together, but... The ball is gone!

By the time everyone reacted, Leonard had already dunked the ball into the basket with one hand, adding another 2 points to the Cavaliers! 10-6!

It turned out that at the moment when Yuan Shu broke through, he had already completed a hand-to-hand passing action with Leonard, because he was facing away from the Heat defenders, so James and Bosh did not see this hidden passing action, and when Yuan Shu found that the ball was missing, Leonard, who was unguarded, had easily completed the offense.

"Damn, I've been scored by Ke Huai in a row." Leonard's back-to-back scoring caught James' attention.

As the Heat's offense approached 24 seconds, James had not yet shaken off Leonard's rubber-like defense, and immediately threw the ball into Chalmers' hands at the 23-second mark.

With two steps from the three-point line, Chalmers immediately threw the hot pot to the basket and finally finished shooting 24 seconds earlier.

The ball bounced high on the basket and fell in the direction of Valejo and Anthony, Vallejo was about to jump, and was suddenly stuck behind by Anthony, don't look at Anthony's muscles are not developed, but the bones all over his body hurt when he touched them, and he immediately pushed Vallejo behind him and controlled the landing point of the rebound.

A muffled voice suddenly came, and Anthony's face changed, his eyes rolled, and he almost fell.

Vallejo held his breath and picked up the rebound that fell on the floor as everyone under the basket evacuated, and immediately handed it to Irving.

"My mom, I can't stand it anymore." It was only after running out of the penalty area that Vallejo dared to open his mouth to breathe in the fresh air.

Irving launched a fast attack when the Heat players were a little confused, throwing the ball directly to Yuan Shu in front, Yuan Shu dribbled in the face of James' defense, threw the ball behind the opponent, Leonard raised his arms high and waited in the air, and after receiving the ball, he dunked the ball directly into the basket at the back of James's head! James acted as a good backdrop for the aerial relay goal.

James couldn't have been humiliated like this, especially when Leonard scored three goals in a row, and the score had been pulled closer to 10-8.

James once again made a breakthrough move, rushed to the basket in five steps, shook Irving, Parker and Leonard in successive small steps, and dunked the ball in with one hand.

Valejo, who was all right, had already appeared on the baseline and complained to the referee that the ball was a walk.

The referee was expressionless, and Vallejo was a little angry.

Shortly after Vallejo left, the referee's expression suddenly changed, first his nose twitched twice, then he puffed out his cheeks and made a gesture of vomiting, and hurriedly ran to the other side of the court.

"Hmph, you must not be merciful when dealing with such a referee!" Vallejo suddenly felt that it was not all bad to feel sick to his stomach in this match, and it was only less than 30 seconds before the last release, Vallejo reloaded the cannonball, aiming at his opponent, ready to collapse at any time.

While these episodes were going on, Irving made several consecutive crotch drops and broke through Chalmers, the Heat's defense quickly shrunk, and when the opponent's defense just shrank halfway, Irving had very quickly and accurately found Leonard outside the three-point line.

James immediately rushed back to his defensive position, ready to defend the opponent's breakthrough, but he didn't expect Leonard to not dribble after receiving the ball, but directly shot three points!

The ball fell into the basket accurately with James's gaze, 12-11! The Cavaliers are only 1 point behind!

The hero of chasing points is none other than Leonard, who is currently scoring consecutive points under James' defense.

"Don't underestimate me, I don't just score!" Leonard, who has always been low-key and reticent, rarely showed his wild side after hitting this three-pointer.

"Very well, you managed to get my attention." In the face of the rookie's provocation, James responded without showing weakness.