In the second quarter of the game, both sides were replaced with bench players, at this time, the Knicks showed their bench advantage, for the Cavaliers, the bench players are actually relatively reliable, first of all, Anderson Vallejo is a good interior blue-collar worker, or can do a lot of work.

Zajunas Ilgoskas is also a near-All-Star player, and although he is no longer as strong as he gets older, he can do a dozen. On the outside, it's Gibson, and Daniel Gibson is one of the candidates for the Sixth Man of the Year, with very accurate shooting ability and unlimited stamina running without the ball.

Gibson gradually exercised his strength after specializing in three-point shooting, and slowly began to develop his own ball-holding offensive means, of course, this ball-holding offense will not be developed for a while, Gibson now has only a sudden jump shot with the ball.

The rest of the time, Gibson was running back and forth in various positions, looking for opportunities to catch the ball.

Mo Williams doesn't need to look for good shooting opportunities in the chaos of attacking with the ball, but only needs to stand there with the ball, and when someone covers Gibson and gives Gibson a good opportunity, Mo Williams can pass the ball directly, as long as you don't lose the ball and pass it comfortably, then Mo Williams is likely to turn the ball into an assist.

This is one of the reasons why Mo Williams' assist count has increased so significantly in the past two seasons. It's tactical growth.

The Knicks' bench players are more balanced, Curry and Thorton are both independent offensive players, especially Thorton, compared with Curry, Thorton has a stronger desire to attack, and Curry may be a little "shy" because of the new NBA. In terms of offense, sometimes he doesn't "dare" to attack independently, and this problem is not serious, but when the backcourt player paired with Curry is Thorton, this problem leaks out, because Thorton's offensive desire is extremely strong, and he often reaches out like Curry wants the ball, and he does not hesitate when he is single.

Regardless, the Knicks' bench perimeter players are definitely not lacking in offense. With the addition of Bart Barnes, a veteran and veteran slipper, the second lineup is even more stable. Although Serge Ibaka and Ty Gibson on the inside are not a great inside match, they are also super lively players who are motivated and driven. The movement speed is very fast, and it is very advantageous when blocking and dismantling and changing defenses, but when encountering interior players with relatively large tonnage and internal grabbing, they often suffer.

In the bench competition between the Knicks and the Cavaliers, the Knicks still have the upper hand.

It is true that Thorton's defensive ability is not very good, this is limited by innate physical talent, there is no way, however, Thorton has strengthened his defense as much as possible. Thornton's physical fitness is mediocre, and he is still relatively short among shooting guards. However, Suoton's hard training has had a good effect, no one knows how much training Suoton has every day, Chen Jiyuan because he has a stadium at home, he doesn't go to the gym every day for training, but at his own home.

Sometimes Lefu comes to practice, sometimes Sessions comes to practice, anyway, whoever comes to practice can see Thorton, and whoever sees it, they will think, what a coincidence, just together. And no one will know that Thorton has never been absent.

Thorton's idea is actually very simple, and it is easy to guess that Thorton just wants to be stronger than his brother, and he just wants to be better than his brother in this alliance.

All these things are unknown to no one.

But Thorton knew he had to get stronger, or he wouldn't be able to stay on this team (the Knicks). I must not be a guy who is not as good as my brother.

After hard workout, Thorton's innate physical fitness must not be fundamentally solved, but Thorton developed a body of muscles and successfully gained 5 kilograms. Although he gained five kilograms, it did not affect Thorton's speed, which is Thorton's greatest achievement.

Thornton has been through several joint training sessions within the Knicks since he was drafted by the Knicks, and he has seen how hard the players of the New York Knicks are training.

and also saw what Chen Jiyuan, who was the last to go every day, was doing. Since then, Thorton has quietly practiced every day.

Although it is unrealistic for Thorton to completely keep up with Gibson, Thorton still relied on his own strength and caused some interference with Gibson's shooting, but he also received two fouls because of this. Thorton's experience is clearly insufficient.

Gibson's performance during this period is very good, but he alone is not enough to make up for the gap in the strength of the entire team, and it is difficult to beat a team by relying solely on three-point shooting, and the combination of inside and outside is a must.

After five minutes of play, the Knicks extended their lead from five to 10 points, and Thorton did well in it, making six shots in five minutes, hitting two of four three-pointers, two two-point layups, and 10 points in five minutes, and Gibson's three three-pointers.

Thorton is always a player who is able to give his full strength in a limited amount of time and achieve results.

Now although Thorton is a rookie, many people are already saying that Thorton fell to the second round, and it is really those experts who are blind.

In fact, you can't blame those draft detectives, after all, many things can't be seen by looking at them, otherwise Kobe Bryant wouldn't have fallen to the thirteenth pick, and the champion must have been selected, Chen Jiyuan is also like this, and it must be impossible to be at the end of the first round.

All scouts can see is what the player looks like now, and the physical talent of the player, but what is acquired, scouts can't find out, and hard work is always the main factor in whether a player can become a superstar.

After five minutes, the Cavaliers couldn't wait to bring in James.

The current James is still the young and strong James, who has not reached the age of 30, has no intention of reducing his playing time, and has played an average of nearly 40 minutes per game throughout the season, and it is common to play more than 40 minutes in a game. Not at all taken to heart. Moreover, in previous seasons, it is not without the average playing time of 42 minutes per game, and now it is still far from it.

As soon as James came on the court, the Cavaliers trembled.

James's significance to the Cavaliers is not only the leader of a team, but also the spiritual pillar of the team, as long as James is there, he will give his teammates a feeling that they will never lose.

The cooperation between James and Gibson is already very ripe. Sometimes, spending time together is not necessarily a complete representation of the mutual familiarity between two people. For example, James and Gibson, you say that the two of them have been together for a long time, and it is quite long, but you say that it is not long, in fact, it is only three years. It's not long.

However, James and Gibson really have a pretty invincible tacit understanding. Many times, James dribbles through and has broken through to a deep position, and it seems that it is impossible to pass the ball out, because James has to turn back to find someone first if he wants to pass the ball at this time, and he is passing, but James often does not need to look back, he knows that Gibson should have run there at this time, this kind of thing is mysterious to say, but it really happened on the basketball court, just on James and Gibson, and often some teams feel that James has been forced into a desperate situation, There was no chance to pass the ball, and a large number of people came to chase and intercept James, but James could always pass the ball to Gibson, and then hit an easy three-pointer. And then, and then there was no then.

After James came on the court, it was really a number of breakthroughs to Gibson, and Gibson did not waste the opportunity given by the boss, although it was Thorton who played with his life in defense, Gibson still easily shot the ball.

In the second quarter, Gibson had already made a total of seven three-pointers. 21 points in a single quarter. James has also been looking for opportunities for Gibson to make a move.

It is clear that Gibson now has a fever. The heat on the hot head reached his hands. So there is the current situation.

With the combined efforts of James and Gibson, the Cavaliers finally overtook the score. and finally put the game into the rhythm that James wanted.

The Cavaliers ended the first half with a four-point lead.

The Knicks are really calm, or Thibodeau is really calm.

After the game was controlled by James in the second quarter, Thibodeau still did not rush to replace Chen Jiyuan on the court, but replaced Stephen Jackson and Iguodala, with Curry, and the combination of Ibaka and Ty Gibson on the inside was still Ibaka and Ty Gibson.

The result of such a lineup is that the game is completely into the rhythm of the Cavaliers.

This also caused it to be difficult to open the situation when Chen Jiyuan played.

So at the end of the first half, the score was 47:50.

Obviously, in the second quarter of the game, the Knicks Cavaliers did a very bad job of limiting. Especially the restrictions on Gibson.

Thibodeau, a crazy defensive player, has asked Iguodala to limit Gibson, and this is indeed very effective, whether Iguodala has defensive experience, defensive talent and physical fitness on the defensive end, these things have become the defensive gate Iguodala is not lacking, Gibson is difficult to find good opportunities.