Chapter 574: Overtime!
With James' weight, it will not be a trivial matter to press a person casually, not to mention that this time James still has a premeditated revenge on the referee, he can't quarrel with the referee, so he will only get another foul, he only uses this method, James's acting skills are first-class, which is an accident that no one wants.
In the past, only the referee could take the player off the court, but James took the referee off the court as a player today. James has always disdained to do such a thing, and he also attaches too much importance to the outcome of this game, and his emotional approach is no longer the same as before.
Now there has also been an uproar on the Internet, and everyone thinks that James at this moment is terrible and unfamiliar.
"Isn't Xie always fond of playing these tricks? Me too! "James seems to be a little influenced by Xie Chen, and now he compares Xie Chen with him in everything he does.
In fact, James has always been very envious of Xie Chen, since Xie Chen entered the league, Xie Chen's style of play and style are different from others, Xie Chen wants to play how he wants, how to play, at first others didn't understand or like it, but Xie Chen can win, the data is good-looking, and in the end, as long as he wins the championship and becomes a big winner, in this era, who cares how you play!
Su Qun has commented on NBA games for so many years, and he has watched James play since the day James entered the NBA, and he couldn't help but exclaim when he saw this scene: "Such a cold James, it's the first time I've seen it, I think it's the consequences of this loss that affected his emotions, James can lose to Xie Chen once, can't lose to Xie Chen twice, and Xie Chen's team lineup this year is obviously not strong, last year it can be said that there were Wade and Da Baibian to help Xie Chen, and if you lose this year, you will really lose to Xie Chen alone." As time goes by, James will only become worse and worse than Xie Chen, so it is understandable that James is now irritable and even extreme. After all, he is also an ambitious player. He wants to win a few more championships and be on an equal footing with Michael Jordan. ”
James is great, the fly in the ointment is that he has entered the finals a lot of times, but he has won too few championships, if James can't grasp the opportunity of these two years, wait until the peak is over. If he wants to win the championship again, I'm afraid he won't be an absolute leader.
Tonight, Xie Chen encountered all the strength Zhan!
Not only full Zhan, but also full Irving and Lefou, these two giants are really powerful, Owen has scored a number of difficult goals, Lefu has also been shooting from a distance, a great threat to the Knicks, James did not urge the two today. On the contrary, the two of them felt panicked, and they were worried that a bad performance would make James angry.
After Irving's not tall body made a successful layup under the sprint basket, he first glanced at his teammate James, he wanted to see James' look of cheering for himself, but no, James still looked serious.
"I'd rather he yelled at me." The team boss is like this, and Owen is not sure, he can only work harder. Let's get James back to normal as soon as possible.
James didn't yell at his teammates like he used to in this game, and he stopped stealing coaching with Tyronn Lue during the timeout. I sat quietly on a stool and listened to you, whatever you said, whatever you did, as if you were disheartened.
The championship is everyone's championship, and James is not the only one who has won the honor, which is a good thing for everyone. James didn't understand why they had to force them to do such a thing.
And James's anomaly allowed the Cavaliers to lead the score all the way, and everyone had an amazing play.
During the timeout, Knicks coach Fisher was a little irritable. Because the team's ace Xie Chen has already scored more than 50 points, and the other people's performance is also good, but the team is still behind the Cavaliers!
Fisher said: "I believe everyone can see that the opponent is different today as usual, LeBron James's eyes have not changed since the beginning, they want to win, far more than we want to win, because they have no way out, I hope everyone also thinks of us as them, there is no way out, only to win this one!" ”
The game quickly had only two minutes left, and the score was 95-91, with the Cavaliers leading by four points.
Ke Fan said: "There are only two minutes left, the Knicks have to hurry up and catch up with the score, how can they narrow the gap to only one goal, otherwise, if it is still like this in the last minute, I am afraid that this victory will be taken away by James." ”
Although he was still leading the score in the final moments, James's demeanor didn't show how relaxed it was at all.
Su Qun looked worried: "It's not easy, Xie Chen has played a lot of time today, and now he has scored 55 points, 7 boards, 5 assists, 2 steals and 3 blocks, he played very hard throughout the game, and there were a lot of physical struggles with the opponent, I don't know if he has any physical problems." ”
At the beginning of the game, seeing Xie Chen playing so wildly, everyone guessed that Xie Chen would be physically exhausted in the end, but until now, Xie Chen did not have this sign.
"He doesn't look tired at all." James secretly glanced at Xie Chen, and found that he was in better condition than himself, but Xie Chen was always suddenly tired from time to time, James didn't think that after taking so many points and doing so many things, Xie Chen's physical strength would be less than the last one.
In fact, Xie Chen's physical strength was indeed less than the previous one.
"There should be a problem with his physical and mental concentration." Kyrie Owen also paid attention to Xie Chen's expression at all times, although he couldn't see anything from his facial expressions, but based on the experience of the previous game, Owen judged in advance that Xie Chen was tired.
In the last game, Owen broke Xie Chen's ball at the last moment, and this time, Owen wanted to do it again.
Owen still defended Xie Chen, let Xie Chen break through, once he broke through, there would be teammates to help defend, and when it was time for Owen to take advantage of the chaos, Xie Chen broke through a step, JR Smith immediately blocked Xie Chen's way, Xie Chen stopped suddenly, and the ball in his hand was dribbling in his left hand.
"Chance!" Kyrie Owen saw Xie Chen pause, thinking that Xie Chen's mental attention would not be on the ball at this time, so he rushed over directly to pull out the ball.
At this time, Xie Chen kept up with Xie Chen in the second half of the fourth quarter, but he was in a completely different state, at the last moment of the last game, Xie Chen had already played two games in a row, and he was tired and fainted after being on the court for so long. Mental attention can't be maintained all the time, so Owen broke a ball.
But today is different, no matter how hard Xie Chen fights, it's just a fight, the time is there, Xie Chen's state is very good.
"You want to break my ball again?" Xie Chen dribbled the ball behind his left hand. Immediately made Owen pounce.
After getting rid of Irving, Xie Chen took advantage of this opportunity to quickly break through to the right, and then make an emergency stop, JR Smith was deceived, Xie Chen directly stepped back and made a jumper, and hit two points steadily without any interference.
At 93:95, the Knicks trailed by two points.
The fans who saw the hope cheered collectively!
Owen let Xie Chen shoot such a crucial goal so easily. I felt remorseful in my heart, and hurriedly said to James beside me: "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry for this ball." ”
James saw that Owen wanted to steal Xie Chen, and it was indeed a very suitable time to steal at that time, if the steal was successful, James on their left would immediately accelerate and go down, and then Owen made a pass. James would have easily scored two points, at that time. The Cavaliers would have a six-point lead, and in less than two minutes, a six-point lead would have a chance of winning more than 80 percent.
Unfortunately, the plan did not work out, not only did it not expand to 6 points. On the contrary, it has been narrowed to only 2 points, and the odds of winning may have fallen to 50%.
James patted Owen on the shoulder: "Don't care, keep going." ”
James rarely said a word of encouragement to Owen today, and Owen was inexplicably moved when he heard it......
Owen was really encouraged, and he made a beautiful change of direction with the ball and passed the defense. Straight into the basket, Irving's layup ability is still a little weaker, the ball did not go up, however, Irving attracted the defense of three people, the Knicks jumped up to all three, and the rebound was easily picked up by James, who followed behind, and James made up the ball to the basket with a light touch in the air.
At 93:97, the Knicks trailed by four points again.
"This guy ......" Xie Chen glanced back at James who scored the rebound, and was also under a lot of pressure from James's play, Xie Chen only cared about defending Irving, and didn't notice James behind him at all.
There are only two minutes left left, whether to return to Cleveland or directly advance to the finals, it depends on Xie Chen's next performance.
This offense, Xie Chen and his teammates cooperated very tacitly, they completely guided the opponent's defense, and finally the ball was passed from the top of the arc by Anthony to Xie Chen under the basket, which was already a must-score for Xie Chen, but when Xie Chen shot, James rushed over and pulled Xie Chen down, forcing Xie Chen to make free throws.
Because it was too close to the basket, and the defender under the basket was taken away, there was no defender, Xie Chen could throw it in with a light throw, so Xie Chen didn't use the system ability, this time James was afraid of giving Xie Chen a 2+1 opportunity, so he was very ruthless, and Xie Chen was not lightly pulled by James.
Seeing Xie Chen's expression struggling when he walked to the free throw, Anthony asked with concern: "Xie, are you okay?" ”
Xie Chen waved his arm and said with a smile: "It's okay." ”
Xie Chen couldn't let his teammates worry about him at this time.
Fans, including the commentator, also felt that Xie Chen should be fine, Ke Fan said: "James's action should have no impact on Xie Chen, I think Xie Chen's biggest problem is physical fitness, he lost both free throws at this time in the last game, I don't know how his free throws were today." ”
Su Qun also said: "These two free throws are very critical, there is not much time left, the Knicks must score goals every time they attack to have a chance to win, and if they don't score once, it will be dangerous." ”
Xie Chen knew the importance of these two free throws, and physical strength was not a problem for him at all, so he moved his arm and temporarily endured James' injury to himself, and hit the first free throw.
"It looks like Xie Chen is in good shape."
Xie Chen continued to hit the second penalty shot.
"Damn it!" James scolded secretly.
At 95:97, Xie Chen once again chased the score to only two points.
James felt that Xie Chen was forcing himself to the cliff step by step, forcing him to jump off the cliff!
"Okay, keep coming!" James was full of fighting spirit, but this ball was successfully defended by the Knicks.
Then, Xie Chen assisted Anthony to complete the equalizing goal!
Seeing Anthony shoot the equalizing goal, James was about to collapse, in the leading position, James has been cautious, as always, every attack and every defense is played seriously, but after all, he still can't escape the fate of being tied up!
After that, neither side scored again, and both sides went to extra time!
Before the start of the overtime, Cavaliers coach Tyronn Lue said to everyone: "We have to be confident, the overtime is good for us, the longer we play, the greater the physical threat to Xie, he can't always score like this, we must protect every rebound, next, rebounding is the key to winning!" ”
The players and coaches of the knights all think that Xie Chen, who has been crazy to score almost 60 points, will soon change from magical to ordinary, the more fierce Xie Chen plays in front, the greater the physical damage to his back, overtime is the opportunity for the knight to defeat Xie Chen, as long as no one stands up except Xie Chen, then the knight will win.
The Cavaliers' group of guys, especially the Big Three, are still in good physical condition, and at the beginning of overtime, James took the lead and led the score.
"It's overtime, thank you, you have what it takes to keep playing like you just did!" James really wanted to step forward and provoke Xie Chen at this moment.
In fact, there was no need for James to stimulate, because Xie Chen had planned to do this.
A Wei Shao's pull-up jump shot, Xie Chen also hit two points.
Tyronn Lue said secretly: "This is only the first overtime, and the overtime has just begun, his form is understandable, but I don't believe he can continue to play like this!" ”
Owen hit two points next, Xie Chenrao covered the ball and directly leaned back to shoot and hit again.
101 flat!
"Again!" Tyronn Lue looked surprised.
Ke Fan also swallowed in shock: "Xie Chen is still in such good condition in overtime!" Is this going for 70 minutes tonight......"
Su Qun, who had always been worried about Xie Chen's physical fitness, did not speak, he always felt that Xie Chen was holding on, he said: "It may be that if you win this game, you can advance to the finals, this excitement makes Xie Chen forget the consumption of physical energy for the time being, I think Xie Chen can still hold on to this overtime with this excitement, he had better solve the opponent in this overtime, otherwise, if there is another overtime, Xie Chen may not be able to hold on." ”
Xie Chen also wanted to end the game in this overtime, but unfortunately the Cavaliers became stronger in overtime, and none of them were physically troubled, and in the end, the two sides tied again, and the game entered the second overtime! (To be continued.) )