In the Lakers' offensive round, Tang Shuai advanced to the front court to share the ball Westbrook, who then handed over to Cousins inside, Cousins beat Thompson strongly, turned around and encountered Anthony's help defense, and he shot early. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

"Bang!"

The basketball bounced off the rebound and bounced into the net pocket.

Cousins opened with a pretty good hand.

However, this did not affect the Cavaliers' offense, Irving recommended to the frontcourt, split James, and when his teammates opened up space, James held the ball and then rushed Mike Dermott.

He seems to have eaten Mike Dermott tonight.

Although Mike Dermott can't be prevented, the players who came out of the Bulls have a fighting spirit, and the stubborn defense at this time still plays a certain role.

James felt that the breakthrough was blocked, closed the ball and made a pass Anthony feint, and after feeling that Mike Dermott's center of gravity was deflected to the right, he turned his back to the left, and followed the ball with his left hand to take the ball is a dunk.

Mike Dermott was knocked away and couldn't use his strength, and shook his head helplessly, although James was past his peak, his ability was still a strong pervert.

Looking back, Tang Shuai organized an offense, using Yi Jianlian's blocking to break into the basket, attracting the Cavaliers to wrap and distribute the ball to the outside Mike Dermott.

Sure enough, as Lucid said before, the Cavaliers didn't try to do perfect defense, and this time the tactics got a good three-point shot for Mike Dermott.

"Bang!"

I don't know if there was a change in mentality after being slammed twice in a row by James, and Mike Dermott's three-point shot finally jumped out of the basket.

The rebound was grabbed by Thompson.

The Cavaliers advanced to the front court again, and Irving directly handed over to Anthony in the low post, and Anthony followed up and pouted his ******back to beat Yi Jianlian.

Cousins pounced to help defend, Anthony saw the opportunity, turned and jumped the feint turned into a straight plug ball, and stuffed it directly to Thompson under the basket.

Thompson pulled it up with a powerful two-handed slam dunk.

The scene suddenly erupted in a burst of excited cheers.

The Cavaliers opened the game with all their firepower.

Tang Shuai went straight to the basket in the frontcourt and threw a ball against Thompson's defense to help the Lakers continue the score.

But looking back, Anthony received the ball in the high post and hit Yi Jianlian again, a probe followed by a step-back step, and the two-point shot fell steadily again.

That's how Anthony was after being traded to the Cavaliers, and the offensive end took a lot of pressure off Irving and James.

Tang Shuai went to the front court and played Irving again, and after a false shake, he activated the handsome guy to break through the dry pull bag, and also hit a dry pull jump shot on the right side of the free throw line.

The Cavaliers' offense, Irving took Thompson's block to the basket, and a quick stop between the lines shook Tang Shuai, but Tang Shuai was unmoved, he didn't get a good chance to shoot, and could only choose to return the ball to the outside James.

James dribbled the ball, and when Irving came out, he gave the ball back over.

At this time, the Cavaliers' offense was running out, and Irving chose a stop-and-go jump shot after a strong burst, but under Tang Shuai's interference, he was almost cut off, and the rhythm of the shot was completely disrupted, and finally the shot jumped out of the basket, and the rebound fell into Yi Jianlian.

The Lakers' offense, Tang Shuai once again used the handsome guy to break through the dry pull, this time attracting the help of Shambaugh's defense, and he immediately distributed the ball to Westbrook on the outside.

Westbrook catches the ball and makes a three-point shot.

"Bang!"

The ball was a bit of luck, and the Lakers' offense was in vain.

Owen then held the ball to the frontcourt, at this time he learned to be obedient, beckoned his teammates to run tactics, and when Anthony came out with cover, he passed the ball directly.

Anthony catches the ball with a big two-point shot.

"Huh!"

Shoot and still have!

At the beginning of the game, Anthony made 3 of 3 shots and had already scored 6 points.

In the next few minutes, Tang Shuai continued to help the team with points and assists, but as in the previous rounds, the success rate of the offense was much smaller than that of the Cavaliers.

Attacking offense to offense, the Cavaliers perfectly met their pre-game goals in this game.

Anthony, in particular, has continued his hot form since the playoffs.

He played the No. 4 position in the Cavaliers, against Yi Jianlian and Gasol Sr., and even Harkless, a dozen and one accurate, although he was older, but after all, he had a strong scoring ability, and the speed of handling the ball was much faster than that of Love, which made the Lakers a little helpless to take him.

Tang Shuai has a death-wrapped defensive package, and with his defensive awareness and judgment, he can guard against Durant.

But Anthony and Durant are completely different concepts, not that Anthony's ability is much stronger than Durant's, but the weight and playing style of the two people are not in the same concept.

As a simple example, Durant hit Tang Shuai with his back, and he could block it with pure strength, but Anthony hit his back, and as soon as the weight pressed up, coupled with the extremely fast turn and breakthrough, even if he had the strength, it was difficult for him to react in a short time.

122-111, with Anthony's 43-point supernatural play, coupled with James' 29 points, 8 rebounds and 10 assists, the Cavaliers won the first game of the series between the two sides, extending their unbeaten record in the playoffs.

When the final whistle blew, the fans at the scene let out bursts of excited cheers, judging from the first game between the two sides, Anthony's joining gave the Cavaliers an absolute strong point in the matchup, and this strong point was enough to help the team win this round of the series.

In other words, the victory in this game was not just a 1-0 lead, but a series decision for both sides.

There are proud, naturally there are frustrations, and the Lakers players looked very frustrated after the game, they are all professional players, and naturally they know this.

After taking a shower, the players all sat in the locker room in a bit of confusion, playing with their mobile phones or tablets, looking a little absent-minded.

"Hey, guys, don't do that, we've come to this point, the game has just begun, let's just win it back." Gasol sensed the atmosphere in the locker room and got up to speak.

The team members looked up at Gasol and nodded one after another, but judging from their unchanged faces, this was mostly a perfunctory formality.

"When I was with the Thunder, in 2012, Kevin and I led the team to the Finals." At that moment, Westbrook suddenly spoke.

When he opened his mouth, the team members all looked at him curiously.

Stories are always more compelling than straightforward encouragement.

Westbrook's face had a look of remembrance, but it was not pleasant, and it was clear that the memory he was about to talk about was not so good.

"It was the first time in my career that I went to the Finals, I beat the Spurs with Kevin, Sergi and others, and we were all desperate to win the championship, and in fact in that series, we won the first game of the series and we took a 1-0 lead."

"At that time, the Miami people couldn't do anything with Kevin, and his performance on the offensive end showed us that it was possible to win the championship, but ......" Westbrook said, the expression on his face became ugly, "and you should know that I didn't get a championship ring, and after that, the Heat eliminated us 4-1 and they won the championship." ”

"I don't tell this story to share my past with you, but to show you that the outcome of a game, even if it's the finals, it's not that important, and when we stand on the championship stage, we have to be ready to play seven games." Westbrook said as he glanced at the rest of the team one last time.

The frustration on the faces of the Lakers players faded significantly, and these words had a very good effect.

When leaving the locker room, Tang Shuai went over and patted Westbrook on the shoulder, leaned over and said, "Russell, thank you for those words, I know, it was not a good memory, we will not let that happen again." ”

Westbrook nodded, although it was to boost morale, but he reached the finals and really wanted to win this championship.

Flying back to Los Angeles the next day, the Lakers arranged their daily practice that afternoon.

With the encouragement of Westbrook the day before, the players' energy has obviously returned, and I believe that the second away trip will be full of blood again.

But morale is morale, and the real response and change is not just about morale.

Billups stood on the sidelines and watched the players practice, without saying much, and when the game was over, he called Westbrook, Cousins and Tang Shuai to the coach's office.

"Merlot, do you have any good ways to restrain him?" Billups asked straight to the point.

"That's an unbelievable guy, he's 33 years old, I've tried, it's hard to limit him on the inside." Although Cousins and Anthony are not directly opposed, many times the assistant defense has also been misplaced, and he should be the most vocal of the three.

"We don't have interior players who can defend and that's a big problem." After a pause, Westbrook said, "In the previous game against Golden State, Don's defense limited Kevin and we won the game, but now, no one can limit Melo, which is a big problem. ”

Billups nodded, what Westbrook said was the key point of the series between the two sides, if the Cavaliers were still the same team last year, letting Cousins go to defend LeFouve, it would be completely effective, but against Anthony, it would be not much different from suicide.

"Don, what do you mean?" Billups noticed that Tang Shuai hadn't spoken, and then looked at him and said.

"Restrain Merlot." Tang Shuai said and turned his head to look at Westbrook, turned around and said, "This is something we can't do at the moment, but I think it's ......."

He said with a sudden change of words: "I don't think we have to limit Merlot. (To be continued.) )