Chapter 35: Eleven points behind at halftime
When the game reached the last five minutes of the second quarter, Huang Jun James and others were substituted, and the rest time was enough for the two, and the situation on the court was not so good for the Cavaliers, in the short seven minutes of the second quarter, the Cavaliers, who were only three points behind in the first quarter, were already eleven points behind at this time.
The second lineup of the Cavaliers is not the opponent of the second lineup of the Magic at all, although the Cavaliers have Iverson to lead the team, but the Magic side is a team, so it is not unusual for the Cavaliers to be eleven points behind.
Iverson was obviously very dissatisfied with his performance, and when he got off the court, he felt very angry about his performance, and at the same time blamed himself: "Coach, it's all my fault during this time, I didn't organize the team's offense during this time, so I fell behind by 11 points." ”
Brown looked at Iverson and shook his head, and said, "What we need is your offense, not your organization, if we need organization, we can just replace Huang Jun, why replace you?" Iverson, you don't need to change your own positioning, I give it to you, and your original positioning is based on scoring, although we are eleven points behind during this time, but this point difference is not much, you can catch it back at any time, do you say? ”
Iverson listened to Brown's words, nodded, and said in his heart: "In the future, it is best to avoid this situation, Iverson will definitely change the result that I am on the court, the situation is behind, I believe that I will do it, when I am there, the situation will be our side ahead." ”
Iverson is indeed not that kind of playmaker, although he can also pass the ball, but his heart is still attack-oriented, this is the difference between him and Huang Jun, if the two can be extremely tacit and complement each other, then this backcourt combination is undoubtedly the most threatening backcourt combination in the entire league, and it can even be said that there is no one.
It's just that this kind of tacit understanding is not something that can be had, it takes countless games to establish, the two have only played a dozen games together so far, if they play together for a few seasons, then this tacit understanding is there, but a few seasons are obviously too long, don't say that everyone can't afford to wait, Iverson himself can't afford to wait. He's not young anymore, he's in his prime, and it's been great to be in that form this season.
After coming to the knight, don't lose the pressure on his body, not everything has to rely on him, which is very helpful for his physical recovery. And as the whole person relaxed, Iverson's performance naturally got better and better, and in more than a dozen games with the Cavaliers, he played as a sixth man, but he averaged 16 points and three assists for the team.
Scoring and everything else are career lows, but his role is slowly becoming apparent. It's just that in this game, Iverson didn't know why he couldn't find his touch for a long time, so the team was eleven points behind. This is also the reason why Iverson blames himself very much. Although Iverson blamed himself very much, the other players knew that this falling behind the score was not Iverson's own business, but the whole team, and everyone was responsible.
After Huang Jun and James came on the court, the Magic side also changed their team's main force to the court. The Cavaliers have replaced their main forces, and if they don't replace their main forces on the court, then they are likely to bury the eleven-point advantage that they have built up with great difficulty, so it is naturally impossible for Van Gundy not to replace his main force on the court.
The eleven-point advantage was still an eleven-point advantage when James and others played until the end of the first half. Although James and Huang Jun both performed well in the next five minutes, the Knights' interior line was too weak to pose much threat to Warcraft, so in the five minutes, the Magic side was mainly playing Warcraft, so they were able to withstand the Knights' offensive counterattack and keep the score at eleven points.
In the Cavaliers' lounge at halftime, Brown looked at his players with a relaxed face, and did not feel bad because the game was eleven points behind in the first half, and yelled at the players or anything. This made the players in the locker room very puzzled, especially Iverson and Huang Jun, who were really puzzled.
In the end, Iverson couldn't bear it anymore and said, "Coach, why are we down by 11 points in the first half, and you are not only not unhappy, but also very happy, why is that?" Iverson finished his sentence and turned his gaze to Brown, hoping for an answer.
Iverson's question was also the one that everyone wanted to ask, so after Iverson's question, the other players turned their eyes to Brown, and like Iverson, everyone was expecting answers from Brown's mouth that they didn't know.
Brown took everyone's eyes in his eyes, smiled and said, "You guys are doing a great job, why should I look like a dead man?" I saw the performance of each of you, it was really good, and you did it even better than usual, and the reason why we were 11 points down at half-time was because of the opponents, because the opponents were so good, the form and the feel were top-notch, so we were down at half-time."
The Cavaliers' players naturally know that they and others are doing well, but they are not so good on the defensive end. If they're doing really well defensively. Then they wouldn't have trailed by 11 points at halftime, and they wouldn't have allowed the opponent to score 60 points at halftime while their side only scored 49 points.
Everyone thought Brown was trying to comfort them, so they said that. This makes them even more ashamed, they feel that they have failed the trust of the coach, and they have really failed the trust of the coach. After listening to Brown's words, everyone swore in their hearts one by one, vowing to play better in the next games, and they must play even better in the next games, strive to recover the score, and win this game.
If they lose this game, then their post-All-Star record will be over, and they are now on a nineteen-game winning streak, so they must not allow this game to be lost, and thus the winning streak will be ended.