Chapter 135: Fifth Battle Three
readx; The next time in the first quarter has completely become the Lakers' show time, dunks, three-pointers, layups, two plus one, and all kinds of scoring. In just twelve minutes www.biquge.info the knight was beaten to thirty-three to seventeen. After the first quarter, the Cavaliers trailed the Lakers by 16 points on the road, a score that no one had expected before the game.
The Lakers scored 33 points in a single quarter, which shows that the Cavaliers have problems on the defensive end, and only this explanation can explain why the Cavaliers gave up 33 points in a single quarter. And not only on the defensive end, but also on the offensive end, the Cavaliers also had problems, because in the entire first quarter, the Cavaliers scored only 17 points as a team. This kind of scoring is very rare for a Cavaliers who have performed very well on the offensive end this season.
"Today's Cavaliers had a lot of trouble in the first quarter, trailing by 16 points in a single quarter, and the firepower on the offensive end was choked. The defensive end was completely blown up by the opponent again, I really didn't expect the Lakers' performance to be so good in this game, it seems that the Lakers don't want to be eliminated by the opponent so easily. Barkley said in the first quarter after the end of the first quarter, the Lakers shocked him in the first quarter of this game, he never expected the Lakers to perform so well in this game. It seems that the teams that can enter the finals stage are not so simple.
Coupled with the fact that the Lakers also have a superstar Kobe Bryant, Barkley thinks this game will be very good. It seems that the Lakers are likely to win this game and drag the game into Game 6. For this, Barkley firmly believes that he still knows very well what kind of person Kobe Bryant is. A player who will never give up, a player who is confident no matter what the situation, this is Kobe.
"Yes, in this game, the Lakers don't want to give up easily. The Lakers played very well in the first quarter, but the Cavaliers won't give up so easily. Although they fell behind by 16 points, they still had 36 minutes left in the third quarter. A difference of 16 points is not much of a difficulty at all. If you want to catch up, it depends on whether the Lakers' performance can be so efficient. Kenny said.
The game in the second quarter started quickly, and although the Cavaliers trailed by sixteen points in the score, Mike Brown was still very calm in the lineup rotation. Instead of continuing to change his starting lineup on the court at the beginning of the second quarter, he followed up with a second lineup, a second lineup led by Iverson. It is true that they are 16 points behind in the score, but this does not prevent their players from resting. If that's the case, then the second half of the game will likely be even tougher, and Brown knows that very well, so he won't take risks easily.
Of course, there's another reason, and that's because he thinks his players need to calm down. In the first quarter, the Lakers' change of formation made their performance not so natural, with many unnecessary mistakes, unnecessary shots, and poor understanding on the defensive end. So he felt that during this break, his players must calm down, otherwise the game will not go on. Without the starting lineup, the Cavaliers become nothing, and it is absolutely impossible to stop the opponent's offensive firepower. So now he also very much needs the main players of the Cavaliers to come out of the slump in the first quarter smoothly and bring enough help to the Cavaliers.
At the beginning of the second quarter, after the Cavaliers sent a bench lineup, they played very well, and Iverson kept hitting the opponent's basket. In addition to breakouts, Iverson also had some performances in terms of jump shots and three-point points. In just five minutes into the second quarter, Iverson scored eleven points for the team, and these eleven points showed that Iverson was not far away from them and was still fighting.
In five minutes, he recovered a six-point difference for the Cavaliers, which was not much, but the difference was only ten. Instead of being pulled to twenty points, he was chased to a gap of only ten points, which made the knight breathe a sigh of relief. The performance of the substitutes did not disappoint them, and of course if they were pulled out of 20 points, then they would not blame their substitute brothers. Because their main players were 16 points behind their opponents in the first quarter, how could they ask their benches not to be pulled away?
Fortunately, the bench players did not disappoint them, narrowing the score further to just eight points before they came on the court, and at this time the Lakers' Phil Jackson could not sit still. Finally, with only five minutes left in the second quarter, a timeout was called. It was the first timeout he called in for the game. This will make the Cavaliers feel like they are going to fight back, and it is also a counterattack that belongs to the opponent's bench lineup, which makes him a little unacceptable. So he asked for a very crucial timeout at this critical moment.
"Aaron, your performance is very good, I didn't expect your performance to be so good, in just a few minutes, you managed to chase the difference from sixteen to only eight points. In the first quarter, our main players were sorry for the team, and our performance almost put the Cavaliers in a desperate situation. If it weren't for your outstanding performance, then our main players would have really become the biggest culprit in this game. LeBron James stood up as soon as the substitute came off the court and took the initiative to speak.
James was also very annoyed by his performance, they never thought that he and others would perform so badly in the first quarter. If there were no such powerful substitutes, then the game might have ended in the first half. And now the substitutes can't help but chase the difference to within 10 points, and it also boosts the morale of the players. That's the most important thing, and he believes that their performance will not be as sluggish as in the first quarter, and they will definitely play very well in the rest of the game.
"LeBron, what you said is too obvious, the first few performances were your best, so many games, our bench lineup will eventually have a game to break out, right? That's the only way we can win the championship, right? Iverson said modestly that he was still very satisfied with his own performance in the first few games, but not so very satisfied. However, when he first came on the pitch, he felt very stressed because he understood what it meant for him to be on the pitch.
It means that if they and others do not perform very well in the next place, but are pulled apart by the other party, then they are likely to lose this game. So the pressure on their group of substitutes is still quite high, but when the opponent called a timeout and looked at the score difference on the field, Iverson was relieved. Because they all know that they have done the job given to them by the manager and they have not disappointed their main players.
Iverson stayed on the pitch and the other four came down to rest. I hope to tie the difference for me in the next game and that's the only way we can come back and come back in the first half. You can't go into the second half with a big score. Because that is very bad for us, and then we may be completely passive, and there will be no counterattack at all. So for the rest of the day, I hope you can chase me down to a five-point difference, and five points is the best point difference. Mike Brown said seriously.
Soon the game continued in the second quarter, and the ball on the Lakers' side, Kobe Bryant held the ball until half court. He was still very angry about the performance of the Lakers bench just now. The reason is simple, because before that they had a sixteen-point lead, and this sixteen-point advantage was hard to win by their main players. But in the blink of an eye, the difference is only eight points. Although they are still in the lead, their team has missed one of the best opportunities, and it is still very difficult to pull the difference to more than 15 points. In this way, the suspense of this game will resurface, and although the suspense of the game is very exciting, no one knows who the victory will belong.
If it's in the regular season, then Kobe Bryant likes suspenseful games and last-minute shots. But now he doesn't like it, it's simple, because he wants to make sure that the win is theirs as soon as possible. It's not unclear at the end, it's the finals, not the regular season. And this game is still a key game for them, and if they lose this game, then they will lose this year's championship.
This is very difficult for Kobe, and he has been proving that he will definitely bring another championship to the Lakers after leaving O'Neal. Prove that even without O'Neal, he can still bring a championship to the Lakers. Last year he didn't prove himself in the end, and this year he hopes he can prove himself well, but looking at the current situation, it is obviously not so good, which makes him not know what to say.
Bynum pulled in from the inside and gave Bryant a solid cover. Bryant took advantage of this excellent cover to shoot to the three-point line from the side, and then completed a pull-up jump shot in no man's land. With Kobe Bryant's jumper, the difference between the two sides was once again stretched to ten points.