Chapter 470: Eastern Conference Semifinals (3)
Starkey and Crawford were able to bombard the team in turns to help the team turn the score around, or did it when there was really no cooperation between the two people, it can only be said that it was really speechless.
However, compared to the Knicks, the Cavaliers will obviously feel more speechless.
In the final three minutes of the first quarter, Starkey and Crawford were the two men who scored all of the Knicks' points. Helped the team to take the lead. This reversal is so surprising. Because of Starkey and Crawford's various singles, the Cavaliers really can't prevent it.
Gibson himself is a defensive hole, although Gibson has worked really the defensive end, but Gibson, as a scoring guard who is not tall and strong, really can't prevent it, let Gibson defend Stucky, Starkey can use his body to squeeze out the space, so it's better to let Gibson defend Crawford, but even Crawford can use his body to bully Gibson, which shows how thin Gibson's body is. Thankfully, Crawford himself is not particularly athletic, using his "strong" body to attack.
If Gibson can't make himself stronger, then this is the bottleneck that restricts Gibson's development, Gibson has no way to have greater development, nor will he become stronger, and he will not become a star in his own right, but can only be a second-in-command forever, or even a third-in-command is actually more appropriate.
Because if the second-in-command of a championship team is a player of Gibson's level, then the players in other positions are only slightly worse than Gibson. Otherwise, it would be a bit difficult to point to James and Gibson to win the championship with their families in tow.
Many people compare Gibson and Nash together, because both of them are typical black hole defensive guards, but it is very unfair to compare the two of them together, and it is very unfair to Nash, Nash, as a two-time regular season MVP winner, although not good on the defensive end, but Nash's organizational ability and overall view are not comparable to Gibson, and in terms of three-point ability, Nash is also very strong, although not as crazy as Gibson, But Nash's three-point shot is definitely super awesome, and no one dares to let Nash shoot a three-point shot.
Gibson wants to train his overall view of the big picture, in fact, compared with that aspect, Gibson strengthens his physical confrontation and strengthens his defense, and this development direction is more suitable for Gibson. But Chen Jiyuan didn't say these words to Gibson, first of all, the fact that Chen Jiyuan is no longer Gibson makes Chen Jiyuan lose his position to speak, even if Chen Jiyuan and Gibson have a good relationship, but if Chen Jiyuan just calls Gibson to talk to him, then Gibson obviously won't take it seriously, these things can't be found by Chen Jiyuan, let Gibson enhance his physical confrontation ability, someone will definitely say it to Gibson, Gibson's trainer can't not find this, But whether Gibson does it or not is another matter. Even the trainer is paid by Gibson, and he doesn't dare to offend his own owner. There is no shortage of sparring partners in this world.
It is impossible to predict where Gibson's future holds. It's up to Gibson to choose.
At the beginning of the second quarter, both sides fielded a second lineup, with Nate Robinson, Crawford, Tony Allen, Landry, and Love on the Knicks' side. In fact, the height of this lineup is a bit short. However, the Knicks have no better backup center, so they can only let Love play a cameo center when Chen Jiyuan is not on the court.
However, Love is indeed capable of playing the position of center, and it is true that the Knicks will not fall behind as a center. In a sense, Love is indeed the most indispensable part of the Knicks.
The second lineup on the Cavaliers' side is Wally Szebiak, Daniel Gibson, Ben Wallace, and Joe Smith. Terrence Kings.
In fact, the Cavaliers' bench lineup is quite weak, if it weren't for Gibson's super three-point attack power that made the Cavaliers' bench lineup score well, then the Cavaliers' bench would really not be worth mentioning. Now it's Gibson's save that makes people ignore the fact that the Cavaliers' second team is too weak as a whole.
Thibodeau grasped this very well, and knew very well who should be killed the most now. It's simple, just let Tony Allen defend Gibson, and then the Cavaliers' bench will be difficult to play.
Tony Allen is a guy who is very good at using his body to defend, you know, in normal training, Thibodeau often asks Tony Allen to defend Chen Jiyuan, and Chen Jiyuan's height and Tony Allen's height are not half a little bit different. But it's Tony Allen's ability to defend big men. Chen Jiyuan used his body to shoot in front of Tony Allen, and asked Tony Allen to find a way to reduce Chen Jiyuan's shooting rate and interfere with Chen Jiyuan's shooting, even if it was not to reach out and block, there were other ways to interfere.
Tony Allen's defense of Chen Jiyuan was very difficult at the beginning, and it was difficult to limit Chen Jiyuan's shooting rate, after all, Chen Jiyuan was a big man of more than 2.10 meters, and the biggest possibility that his shooting was interfered by Tony Allen, a guard with a height of 1.93 meters, was that Tony Allen used his strength to interfere with Chen Jiyuan's shooting, but Chen Jiyuan's anti-interference in this regard was still good, so Tony Allen's defense was very troublesome at the beginning. However, little by little, I began to find the trick. Although Chen Jiyuan's shooting percentage still can't be completely pulled down, it is indeed improving.
And now defending Gibson, a skinny running shooter, Tony Allen doesn't care at all. After all, the offensive end doesn't need Tony Allen to be involved too much, all he needs to do is block Gibson.
After the second team on both sides played for three minutes, sure enough, the weakness of the Cavaliers' bench lineup with relatively few attack points was exposed, and after the Knicks' Tony Allen was presumptuous to Gibson, the Cavaliers' scoring efficiency was very low.
Szczebiak is no longer the All-Star player of the year, although Szzambiak is still able to score now, but he obviously does not have the ability to lead the team out of the predicament.
Three minutes, just three minutes, let the Cavaliers' bench players be blown up by the Knicks' players. said that it was a blowout, but in fact, it was just that the Cavaliers were defended in these three minutes and scored 5 points. The Knicks, on the other hand, scored 12 points. As a result, the score on the field became 29:38.
The margin is already close to double digits.
The offense on the Knicks' side is basically to launch a fast offense and turn the defense into an offensive opportunity, when the Cavaliers can't attack, the Knicks grab the rebound, the first family chooses to throw forward, pass forward, even if it can't be scored, in turn, the Cavaliers can't score under the Knicks' defense.
Gibson is not a no-shot, but there is no chance to shoot, he has been pestered by Tony Allen, and there is always no chance to shoot, and forcing a defensive shot is not Gibson's forte, running without the ball and then catching the ball and shooting is what Gibson is good at. But now the Cavaliers really have no choice but to let Gibson strengthen the bench. Otherwise, the bench will be even more dish.
However, there is no defender on the bench who can pass the ball to Gibson. So Gibson is actually quite tired. High salaries aren't so easy to get.
Gibson also tried to force two shots, but under the interference defense of Tony Allen, it really didn't work, Gibson couldn't open, let alone the others.
As a result, the main players had just rested for three minutes, and the Cavaliers had to replace the main players early.
The Cavaliers were replaced by James, Mo Williams, and Anderson Vallejo.
Zajunas Ilgoskas continued to rest off the pitch.
The Cavaliers have been replaced, and the Knicks naturally can't let all the benches fight, and they have also replaced Sessions, and now the five people on the Knicks court are Sessions, Tony Allen, Stephen Jackson, Landry, and Chen Jiyuan.
Chen Jiyuan rarely rests for such a short time, but now it is different, because if Tony Allen and Stephen Jackson are sent on the court together, then the Knicks' aggression will be weakened, so at this time, Chen Jiyuan's storage is needed.
After both sides were replaced, the effect on the knight's side was immediate.
In minutes, the knight began his journey of chasing points.
James broke through the ball and gave it to Gibson, and after Gibson received the ball, he shot a three-pointer directly and hit it steadily, making it a little difficult for Stephen Jackson to defend James alone.
As long as Tony Allen is a little distracted, Gibson can find an opportunity to shoot, and Gibson only needs to use a cover to create space between Tony Allen and Tony Allen, and then Gibson can shoot in an instant, and Gibson hits this three-pointer easily.
Chen Jiyuan made a total of 3 shots in the first quarter of the game, hit one shot, and now can no longer continue to pass the ball to his teammates.
After Chen Jiyuan received the ball, Ben Wallace stepped forward to defend Chen Jiyuan alone, and there were many fights between Ben Wallace and Chen Jiyuan, Chen Jiyuan leaned against Ben Wallace, and then directly made a jump shot, slightly adding some back, Ben Wallace naturally couldn't reach Chen Jiyuan's ball. Chen Jiyuan also successfully hit the ball. 32:40。