Chapter 473: Urgent Defense

In the fourth quarter of the game, Chen Jiyuan still didn't find his offensive touch, but fortunately, today's Knicks' outside players scored good points, you know, so far, Chen Jiyuan only scored 10 points, and the Knicks were able to lead the Cavaliers by 1 point. Basically, it's the perimeter players who score.

For the Knicks, Sessions scored 11 points, Starkey scored 17 and Crawford scored 15. Stephen Jackson scored 15 points.

The outside players combined for 58 points, a large portion of the team's 79 points.

In this crucial fourth quarter of the game, the two sides began to fight defense, and the scoring efficiency of both sides was relatively low.

The Knicks took the lead in attacking in the fourth quarter of the game, Chen Jiyuan singled Ben Wallace in the low post, but Anderson Vallejo's bag was still so fast, Chen Jiyuan had no choice, he could give the ball to the outside, speaking of which, in the fourth quarter of the game, Thibodeau got the sweetness in the third quarter of the game. So let's continue to have Tony Allen and Stephen Jackson as a defensive combination on the outside. Both Starkey and Crawford were pressed to the bench because the team's defense is what Thibodeau values more, and in the end, Starkey's defense is still a little worse than Tony Allen, who is better than Starkey in terms of defensive experience and defensive investment.

Chen Jiyuan's ball was passed to Stephen Jackson on the outside, and Stephen Jackson exploded in the third quarter of the game, so that the Cavaliers players did not dare to relax on Stephen Jackson.

Stephen Jackson didn't shoot a three-pointer after receiving the ball, but chose to shake it and then cut inside, but after entering the inside, Stephen Jackson had to make a quick throw under the interference of Anderson Valejo, who quickly returned to the defense, but because of the wrong rhythm, the ball bounced out of the frame.

Although the ball didn't go in, the rebound was grabbed by Tony Allen on the other side, and Gibson's rebounding ability was still slightly weak, because Tony Allen was able to squeeze Gibson out lightly, and there was no chance to grab a rebound at all.

Tony Allen didn't rush to attack after grabbing the rebound, but hit the ball out and gave it to Sessions on the outside, Sessions received the ball and began to organize the next offense, Sessions dribbled under the crotch, and Mo Williams looked at Sessions in front of Sessions, maintaining a high level of concentration.

Sessions' absolute speed is not fast, and it is difficult to rely on his absolute speed to break through the opponent, which is the limit that Sessions is difficult to break through, no matter how hard a person tries, he will not be able to reach the top on the wrong path.

Sessions is not the development direction of those who break through into the interior and then score goals, what Sessions needs to improve is his outside feel, and let his breakthrough not rely on speed, but rely on feints to complete the breakthrough, this is the direction of development that Sessions should have, and about this, Thibodeau is still an assistant coach has told Sessions, and Sessions himself knows very well where the limits of his physical talent are. Naturally, I know that what everyone said is right, so I will be more diligent in exercising my three-point shot.

Sessions dribbled under the crotch of the ball, while Mo Williams was paying attention to Sessions's movements, Sessions was also paying attention to the shape of the players on the field, the ball shuttled back and forth left and right under Sessions crotch, suddenly, the ball came to Sessions after his left hand, Sessions was slapped to the sky with his left hand, the ball flew in the air, and Mo Williams followed the direction of the ball, only to see where the ball flew, it turned out that Chen Jiyuan was on the inside, preparing for the air relay, Chen Jiyuan had been leaning back to Ben Wallace and reaching out for the ball, but this ball, Sessions did not give it for the time being, Chen Jiyuan understood what Sessions meant, so he suddenly withdrew his strength, Ben Wallace's original forward strength could not be recovered, and as a result, Chen Jiyuan took the opportunity to slip into the inside line, Chen Jiyuan was in the air, received a pass from Sessions, and in the absence of people, it was directly a strong and heavy clasp of both hands.

Although the Cavaliers' defense did a good job today, the Knicks still dunked a lot of baskets. 81:78。

Cavaliers offense, the Knicks in the fourth quarter of the game is still used man-to-man defense, in fact, when defending James, the use of joint defense to defend James' breakthrough is very good, and it is also the most effective method relatively speaking, but the problem is that now the Cavaliers have a guy named Gibson, this little guy's storage zài, so that many teams dare not carry out excessive shrinkage defense against James, you know, Gibson is the person who has shot the most three-pointers in the league in a single season. Moreover, it is also the new record for the number of three-pointers hit in a single season in the league.

Gibson is averaging a staggering 8.5 three-pointers per game this season, totaling 680 three-pointers. The total number of three-pointers made was 270. He averaged 3.375 three-pointers per game. He shot 39.7 percent from three-point range. Although Gibson's shots did not reach 140%, Gibson never passed the ball timidly at any time, so to speak, although opponents know that Gibson is a three-point shooter and will take special care of Gibson, Gibson is still able to do this, which is inseparable from the Cavaliers' tactical needs.

Gibson's 270 three-pointers in a single season also broke the old-timer Ray Allen's record of 269 three-pointers in a single season in 2005-06, and Ray Allen's 653 three-pointers in 2005-06 at a 41.2 percent shooting percentage. Hit-wise, Ray Allen is still a bit taller. However, this is not to say that Gibson can be shorted, you know, Gibson's advantages and disadvantages are very obvious, after the statistics of the whole season, it is obvious that Gibson will be heavily defended when the three-point shooting rate will drop significantly, and when the position is vacant, Gibson's shooting rate is quite high.

It can be said that Gibson may indeed have many shortcomings, but it is an important part of the Cavaliers.

Gibson, combined with Mo Williams' threat from the outside, has the opponent to distract his defense from the perimeter at all times.

Mo Williams did not pass the ball to James, but singled himself, Mo Williams singled out Sessions, although Sessions has a problem with his feet on the defensive end, but he is not particularly strict, Sessions is just not particularly fast, but if you want to keep up with the offensive players, as long as you want to do it, you can still do it.

Mo Williams suddenly accelerated forward with the ball, and then pulled the ball back from under the crotch, but Mo Williams made a little mistake with the ball, and the action of pulling back was a little slow, Sessions seized the opportunity and reached out directly to pull the ball, Sessions successfully pulled the ball away, although Sessions' defense is characterized by stability, but it is not a good opportunity and does not dare to break the ball.

After Sessions pulled the ball away, he quickly grabbed the ball in front of Mo Williams and ran forward, and after Sessions ran past half court, he bought a small pick-up basket in front of the empty basket in front of him, but Sessions apparently forgot that the Cavaliers had a perverted storage zài, a big black hand pressed the ball on the rebound before the basketball touched the rebound, and then the ball collapsed.

A wonderful big hat that instantly ignited the enthusiasm of the Cavaliers' home fans.

Sessions' shot was blocked, and the Cavaliers' side was followed up by Mo Williams who picked up the basketball, and quickly came back to his senses, James also quickly ran to the Knicks' half, and Sessions was because when he was just blocked, because James's leg hit Sessions' back, the director Sessions lost his balance and fell to the ground. Out of the bottom line. But Sessions quickly got up and ran back. Otherwise, the Knicks will have a hard time defending five or five.

When James ran to the Knicks' half, Mo Williams gave the ball to James, and after James received the ball, a sudden acceleration rushed past Stephen Jackson's defense, but the interior of Love and Chen Jiyuan were ready to chase and intercept James.

However, James still overlord forced the ball up, Chen Jiyuan wanted to block, but he didn't reach the ball, so he could only watch James's basketball score. James' layup is more about using his body to force out the space. 81:80。

It's not that easy for James to score on the Knicks' interior either.

The next ball, the Knicks' offense, Love's high jumper shot, the ball didn't go in.

After the Cavaliers grabbed the rebound, they launched a fast attack, but Mo Williams, who wanted to make a fast layup, was directly fanned out of bounds by Chen Jiyuan, and Chen Jiyuan also wanted James to come to a chasing hat, and the clean hat behind him instantly made Mo Williams' layup a failed offense.

The Cavaliers organized the offense again, but Gibson missed a three-pointer from the outside, and James grabbed the rebound in the frontcourt. But James jumped up inside and wanted to make a second layup, but under Chen Jiyuan's interference, the ball did not score.

On the other side, Sessions grabbed the rebound on the baseline and then quickly launched a fast attack, but after halftime, Sessions passed the ball to Stephen Jackson on the outside, and Stephen Jackson received the ball and shot a three-pointer directly, but the ball was interfered with by Gibson who rushed back and the ball did not go in.

Both sides defended aggressively and both teams struggled to find good chances to score.