In the case of a 2-2 draw in NBA history, whichever team wins the fifth game has an 80% chance of advancing to the next round, so the fifth game is customarily called Tianwang Mountain by fans. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

The head coaches of both sides understand the importance of Game 5 and take it very seriously, especially Casey, who desperately needs a win to stop the decline after two straight losses on the road.

The same is true for the Knicks, who have to work hard after losing the lead, otherwise it will be even more difficult to win without home-court advantage once the momentum is interrupted.

Game 5 returned to the Air Canada Center Coliseum, and the Raptors players, especially Lowry and DeRozan, desperately needed to prove themselves and take off the title of "Trash Brothers".

"Shaq, such an important match, I'm sure the two sides will definitely not fight!"

Before the start of the game, in the T-NT live broadcast room, Barkley and O'Neal partnered to explain the game, and Barkley spoke first to lead O'Neal's army.

"Charles, what you say is not credible!"

O'Neal pursed his lips and rolled his eyes, expressing disdain for Barkley's words.

"Why? Shaq, in your eyes, am I just a person who is not sincere? ”

Bacchus cleared his throat, pretended to be pitiful, looked innocently at O'Neill, and asked.

"In 99, you also told me that you wouldn't fight, I believed it, but as a result, if you didn't say a word, you threw me to the ground, and I still remember it vividly, you are a fat man who deceives!"

O'Neill stood up, walked to the front of the commentary platform, paced, walked back and forth to the left and right, resting his chin in a pensive manner, and after a few moments, lay down in front of Barkley, and said with a look of grievance, as if Bacchus had abandoned him.

Barkley was deflated, and after a moment of speech, he couldn't bear it anymore, and directly pushed away O'Neill's big face, shaking with his mouth wide open and laughing.

In 99, in a game between the Rockets and the Lakers, O'Neal and Barkley clashed, and the hot-tempered Barkley rushed up and threw O'Neal to the ground, which caused quite a stir at the time, and to this day, there are still people talking about it.

Before the game, the live broadcaster announced the starting players of both sides, and Casey played five more small lineups to prevent the Knicks, and put Valanciunas back in the starting position, so the Raptors lineup on the court is Lowry, DeRozan, Patterson, Carroll and Valanciunas.

Wang Zhuo also made simple changes, Calderon and Lopez returned to the starting lineup, Grant and O'Quinn returned to the bench, and the players on the field were Anthony, Afflaro, Porzingis, Calderon and Lopez.

At the beginning of the game, Lopez and Valanciunas jumped the ball in the middle circle, Lowry got the ball, the Raptors took the lead in attacking, Lowry dribbled to the top of the circle, Valanciunas blocked and dismantled high, Lowry borrowed cover, moved a step sideways, stepped directly on the three-point line to shoot, and hit steadily.

Lowry is physically strong, has good ball-handling skills, weak single-handedness, relies too much on blocking and pick-and-roll offense with the ball, and has only practiced an accurate open three-point shot in recent seasons, so the Raptors mostly use Valanciunas's high-post blocking and pick-and-roll as a starting style on the offensive end.

Wang Zhuo is clear about Lowry's technical characteristics, so he is very targeted when arranging defense, except for the strong outbreak in the second game, the remaining three games, Lowry's shooting rate is limited to less than 35 percent, at the beginning of this game, Lowry actually hit a goal with a pull-up jump shot that he is not good at, which shows his strong desire to attack, and also proves his determination to find his form.

"Kyle, firstblood!"

The live broadcaster dragged his deep voice and explained loudly.

The fans were also infected by the atmosphere, holding up Lowry's head and cheering for Lowry's name, which directly detonated the atmosphere of the home stadium.

The Knicks served in the backcourt, Calderon made steady progress, pushed the ball to stay at the top of the circle, faced Lowry, there was no offensive opportunity, Calderon hit the ground and passed to Anthony on the left.

Anthony received the ball, Carroll put his arms close together, Anthony leaned back, immediately turned around and bent down to try a step, trying to find an offensive opportunity, Carroll did not move, Lopez stepped forward to block and dismantle, Anthony bypassed Lopez and burst into the paint area, Valanciunas made up the defense very well, jumped high under the basket to protect the basket.

However, Anthony was not afraid at all, and after the physical confrontation with Valanciunas, he changed his right hand in the air to his left hand, avoiding Valanciunas's body, and steadily threw the ball into the basket, and the delicate offensive touch was amazing.

Casey and Wang Zhuo both understand that key games require key people to step up, and at this moment, the star of the house has a heavy burden and cannot shirk the responsibility, and it is clear that Lowry and Anthony have also successfully done it.

The opening score was 2-2, the Raptors attacked, Lowry dribbled at the top of the circle, Valanciunas mentioned the high block again, Lowry changed the offensive method, broke directly into the interior by covering, faced Lopez to make up the defense, Lowry knocked back, Valanciunas took a step with the ball to attract the defense, Lowry ran to the bottom left corner, DeRozan ran back to the right side 45 degrees, forming a double cover, Patterson ambushed on the left side of the circle.

Calderon chased the defense in a timely manner, Lowry did not get an open three-point opportunity, Valanciunas had to hang DeRozan back, cut inward, blocking Lopez's supplementary defense route, DeRozan broke through two steps with the ball, and made a jump shot, Avlaro jumped hard, but DeRozan shot very high, and could only watch the ball draw a parabola hollow into the net.

Turning around, Porzingis received the ball on the right side of the baseline, shook off Patterson in small steps, and hit the board to return the ball when Valanciunas was not in place.

Both sides had a high hit percentage, there wasn't much physical contact, and there wasn't a fight like O'Neal and Barkley had said.

However, it was all an illusion, and in the next round, the Raptors missed on the offensive end, and Lopez grabbed a defensive rebound and hit Valanciunas's chest with an elbow when he jumped to the ground, causing DeRozan's displeasure.

With the intervention of the referee, the conflict did not continue to evolve, but when Afflaro broke through with the ball, DeRozan directly pulled him to the ground, and Aflaro got up from the ground in anger and rushed directly to DeRozan, but fortunately was stopped by Anthony in time.

The referee blew DeRozan for an early foul and no free throws, and the Knicks continued to attack, but the emotions of the players on both sides were already infected, and the court was full of gunpowder.

The Knicks sent the ball on the sideline in the front court, Anthony held the ball, Lopez blocked and dismantled high, Anthony broke through to the inside, and on the other side, Porzingis cut into the inside without the ball, and received Anthony's high-throw pass and rose into the air, ready to catch the dunk in the air, but at this time, Valanciunas, who was out of position, struggled to jump and directly hit Porzingis in the air.

Porzingis' body was unbalanced, his body lost its support point, and he fell heavily on his side to the floor.