"Today the Knicks weren't tough enough on the inside, and they did a good job in the opening game, but after the fouls increased, they seemed to hold back, which made James even more uncontrollable." At halftime, Barkley commented on the Knicks' defense.

Kenny. Smith shook his head: "In such a LeBron. In front of James, it is obviously not enough to rely on fouls to deter, if they eat technical fouls, they will not lose more than they gain, their internal and external joint defense is not good, and once they over-defend James, they will be negligent to other players of the Cavaliers, and they do not seem to be prepared a proper way to defend James. ”

"That's what D'Antoni's team is, we should look at his offense, their offense has been good so far, and if the Cavaliers' defense is described as a shield, the Knicks are obviously the spear."

"In addition to a shield, the Cavaliers also have a machete, and that's LeBron. James, they have defense and offense, so I fancy the Cavaliers to win this game, especially since they are still at home. ”

At the beginning of the second half, the Cavaliers attacked, James suddenly pulled up and shot a three-pointer from the outside, and the basketball roared away......

With a "clang", the basketball smashed into the net!

The "Quick Loan Center" immediately sounded a screaming air alarm. James put pressure on the Knicks players by waving his arms at the home fans and inciting them to cheer even higher.

The Knicks didn't let him get better, took the opportunity to attack quickly, Zhang Yu took the ball and ignored it, and rushed directly to the Cavaliers halfcourt.

LeBron. James cursed in his heart, there was no time to arouse the emotions of the fans. Hurriedly retreated to defend.

Zhang Yu ran wild with the ball, and he and Nate. Robinson is different in that he can get up fast. It can also be stopped. Dribbling to advance to the knight's half, Zhang Yu found that the opponent retreated quickly, immediately stopped, and started a positional battle.

The Knicks continued to pass the ball and used the pass to deal with the Cavaliers' high-pressure defense.

Nate. When Robinson and Zhang Yu were on the court, it was strange that he could also transfer the basketball decently. This is the role of a real core that can drive teammates to make the right choices and judgments.

Zhang Yu passed the basketball from the left side and slipped to the bottom line by himself. Running to the other side, his teammates just passed the basketball back into his hands, and then looked behind him, followed by two full Cavaliers players.

The Cavaliers' defense was disrupted by Zhang Yu's running on the baseline. For a while, they were all led to the right by him.

Zhang Yu once again transferred the basketball on a large scale. From the bottom corner of the right side, pass the ball from outside the baseline to the left corner of the opposite side, where there is a large open space.

Crawford was standing right here, and after receiving the basketball, the nearest defender was three meters away from him.

The Cavaliers knew it was too late to make up for it, so they could only stand and watch him shoot.

The man with facial paralysis and convulsions raised his hand to shoot the basketball and hit a three-pointer in the bottom corner, which he was not good at.

Compared to the Knicks' various interspersed runs, off-ball screens and pick-and-roll coordination. The Cavaliers' offense is much more monotonous, and it's LeBron. James. The gorilla's back attracts two people to defend. Passed the ball to the outside, his teammates missed the shot, and Da Z succeeded in making the basket with his height and arm length.

"Rebound, can't let that big guy get close to the basket and push him out of the three-second zone!"

D'Antoni shouted loudly on the sidelines, but unfortunately the "Quick Loan Center" was full of Cavaliers fans cheering, and the Knicks players couldn't hear what their coach was shouting.

However, there is no need for D'Antoni to remind them, and the Knicks players also know that they can't let Big Z always grab rebounds in the frontcourt, which is too demoralizing.

The game went to 7 minutes and 20 seconds in the third quarter, the score was 56:56, and the two teams were tied.

The Knicks took the lead in changing the lineup, and played 1 big and 4 small tactics, and the players on the court became Zhang Yu, Crawford, Richardson, Wallace, and David Lee.

D'Antoni also didn't want to switch to a big four squad at this time, but Kenyon. Martin committed three fouls, Anderson committed four fouls, only David Lee, who has average defensive ability, is better, but he also has two fouls, and they have no interior line available, so they have to do it as a last resort. If there was a small Si in hand, D'Antoni would not use such a strange formation.

The small lineup has to play faster, so the Knicks' offense is even more crazy, except for the big power who can't shoot three-pointers, the other four are all three-point players, and the Cavaliers' outside defensive pressure is unprecedentedly huge.

Mike. Brown quickly called a timeout, changed his strategy of shooting and breaking, and ordered his team to expand the defense to the outside.

The defensive line expanded, the defensive oppression naturally became smaller, and Zhang Yu began to break through on time.

The other three Knicks spread out, drawing defensive attention for Zhang Yu's breakaway, while preparing to pick up Zhang Yu's open shot.

At this point in the game, it was too early to say who would win and who would lose, and the Knicks put a group of musketeers on the court, and the formation was quite scary!

The stronger the offense and the weaker the defense, the Knicks are extremely mobile defensively, but the height disadvantage is also extremely obvious, which is equivalent to giving up the interior defensive ability, focusing on the outside players of the Cavaliers, and focusing on the defense of LeBron. on other Cavaliers players other than James.

James beat Richardson, who weighs 230 pounds, but his height of 198cm puts him at an absolute disadvantage in terms of strength and height, except for the speed to keep up, and the only way to prevent James is to use fouls.

In the third quarter, the two teams were evenly matched, with the score of 68:68, and the two teams were still tied.

Although the Knicks can't prevent James, it has had a great impact on the other players of the Cavaliers. Williams only scored 10 points, and only those two had double-doubles.

Zhang Yu had 35 points, 5 rebounds and 3 assists in the third quarter, shooting 13-of-22, 5-of-8 three-pointers, and 7-of-8 free throws.

Charles. Barkley took advantage of the break to comment: "This game is not so much a battle between the Cavaliers and the Knicks, but a showdown between Zhang Yu and James. ”

Kenny. Smith disagreed with Barkley, disagreeing: "I think the Cavaliers have a more reasonable set-up. As the game moves to the final quarter, the shooting percentage of both teams will decline, and the team with the better defense will win. ”

Section IV. Zhang Yu only rested for two minutes, and LeBron. James was on the court at the same time.

If Zhang Yu plays the fourth quarter today, he will play 43 minutes, which will be the most minutes since entering the playoffs. James played a minute more than him, and neither man had much rest.

Last quarter, 10:05. The score was 72-70, and the Knicks led by two points.

The Knicks are better off the bench than the Cavaliers, but the main players in the playoffs have played more than 40 minutes. The strength of the substitution has been greatly weakened.

Substitutes who still had a lot of playing time in the regular season are now limited to a maximum of 10 minutes of playing time.

The same goes for the Knicks, with five starters plus Crawford and Birdman Anderson, basically the seven-man rotation. The rest of the players struggled to get playing time. Like Quentin. Richardson played just five minutes today. Wilson. Chandler didn't get playing time at all today, and D'Antoni didn't trust the regular season benches in games like this.

Little Potato dribbled to the front court, passed the basketball to Zhang Yu, and quickly ran his position.

Today Nate. Robinson only played 20 minutes, if the Knicks interior line is David Lee, Kenyon Martin, Anderson three rotations, then the Knicks' guard line is rotated by Zhang Yu, Crawford, Little Potato, plus Wallace, who played more than 40 minutes, this is the Knicks' player rotation.

Zhang Yu consciously accelerated the pace of the attack. It's the beginning of the fourth quarter, and the big guy still has a body. At this time, you can play fast attack for a while, and if it works, you can keep fighting. If you can't penetrate the opponent, you have to slow down the pace in the second half of the quarter to block and dismantle the attack. When you don't have a body, you can speed up your attack and get the most mistakes.

This time, James was forced to change Zhang Yu on the defensive end, the two rarely faced each other today, and the coaches on both sides consciously did not let the two kings meet, and neither of these two could prevent anyone, only mutual explosion!

Zhang Yu decided to make good use of his ball-handling ability to play with the gorilla, because the two faced each other last time in the last quarter, but that time he was bullied by James with his body, and this time of course he had to take revenge.

"I made it to the second round of the playoffs in my first season, am I much better than you?" Zhang Yu didn't forget to tease the other party before breaking through.

"Awesome what? I'm going to be eliminated in no time! ”

Zhang Yu smiled at the gorilla twice, and the continuous cross-step suddenly connected with a body in front of the body to change direction and break through, causing James to move his feet to defend, but he immediately turned around and broke through the opponent in the opposite direction, dribbling into the penalty area.

James's face was not good-looking, Zhang Yu's breakthrough dazzled him, his steps were already chaotic, and he couldn't defend against Zhang Yu, who was as flexible as a rabbit.

Zhang Yu broke through James, covered his layup with his body in the restricted area, and changed the shooting rhythm in the air, making Vallejo's block useless and staged a beautiful one-horse breakthrough.

"Wade has decided to come to New York, what are you waiting for? The three of us are invincible in the world. Zhang Yu continued to seduce James, and the red rabbit lied now that he has truly done it without blinking.

James said expressionlessly: "You will be eliminated by me." ”

"What are the bunnies and gorillas talking about? I asked a lip reader after the game to see what the two of them had said during the game. "Barkley saw the close-up, the two were obviously communicating, and the big ass was curious what they were saying?

Zhang Yu is always called James orangutan, and everyone thinks it is very appropriate, so now American fans have begun to call James that, and Barkley is no exception.

James wanted to get the ball back in front of Zhang Yu, but the little rabbit didn't fight hard with him, and he was far away, obviously taking advantage of it and running.

Gerrard. Wallace was blown out of James today, and Wallace, who weighs only 230 pounds, faces James who weighs 260 pounds, like a light tank crashing into a heavy tank, and it is too difficult for him to defend the little emperor alone.

Zhang Yu let go of West this time and helped defend James from one side, he felt that there was an opportunity to take advantage of it, and planned to break the ball on the gorilla.

James took the ball into his arms and pushed Wallace into the box at the same time, and Birdman Anderson could only stop James with a single foul.

This is Anderson's fifth foul, and the Birdmen have only played less than twenty minutes today, and have already picked up five fouls, four of which were against James. (To be continued......)