How to defend James is a problem that all teams need to face, and this is the same problem that all other teams need to face to defend Chen Jiyuan.

There are always superstars in the league who make it impossible for you to defend them, and you have to watch them do whatever they want.

That's why they get tens of millions of dollars in contracts every year, while a lot of people only get a few million dollars.

Thibodeau changed tactics and switched to a trio of Stephen Jackson and Iguodala with Matt Barnes.

sent a lineup of three swing forwards, putting power forward Ty Gibson and Ibaka off the court, Chen Jiyuan sitting on the inside, and Curry with the ball. Such a five-person lineup can be said to be quite bold.

In this way, when Chen Jiyuan and O'Neal are entangled with each other, it is very easy to lose the team's rebounds, which is not easy to defend. But on the offensive end, it's more flexible.

Because the Cavaliers let JJ Hickson defend Chen Jiyuan, and O'Neal's transfer speed rushed beyond the three-point line to defend Matt Barnes or Stephen Jackson? That is clearly unrealistic.

There is still some hope for JJ Hickson to defend Stephen Jackson or Matt Barnes, after all, JJ Hickson is 2.06 meters tall and moves very fast, so he can defend the perimeter.

After the timeout, the five men sent by the Cavaliers were Zajunas Ilgoskas, J.J. Hickson, James, Gibson, and Mor Williams.

O'Neill and Zajunas Ilgoskas, although O'Neill is the starter, but, in fact, the playing time, O'Neal will not be much more than Zajunas Ilgoskas, because O'Neill is an old player after all, so the playing time must be strictly controlled.

And Zajunas Ilgoskas, after all, is also a veteran, the strength is still there, and the attack power is okay, although because of the increasing age, the already bad rebounding protection ability is even worse.

But you can still contribute to the team. No way, the Cavaliers' interior players are a little old. There's no way to hold up the team's inside sky on its own.

Back on the court, the Knicks attacked, and this ball was decisively handed over to the outside players to attack, after all, when sending three swing men, it was to better find the opponent's defensive weaknesses on the outside when they were on the offensive end.

Chen Jiyuan took the initiative to attract people to the interior, and the Cavaliers' defensive strategy was that Zajunas Ilgoskas sat on the inside, and JJ Hickson followed Chen Jiyuan. But now the Knicks' lineup is completely disrupting the opponent's arrangement.

After Curry dribbled the ball through the half, he passed the ball to Iguodala, and now the Knicks' offensive point is very obvious, that is, Iguodala, Stephen Jackson, and Matt Barnes will let whoever has an open space.

Iguodala was steady with the ball, looking for opportunities on the perimeter, and the Cavaliers' defense was already in disarray.

Zajunas Ilgoskas didn't come out on the inside, while James continued to follow Stephen Jackson, Mo Williams defended next to Curry, and Chen Jiyuan pulled JJ Hickson to the bottom of the three-second zone inside, as if Zajunas Ilgoskas and JJ Hickson were defending Chen Jiyuan.

And Matt Barnes on the outside line, of course, was completely leaked.

Iguodala decisively shifted the ball wide and threw it to Matt Barnes. Matt Barnes received the ball and shot a three-pointer.

Maybe it's because people have made three-pointers before, so the people on the side of the basket don't refuse to shoot three-pointers.

Matt Barnes' three-pointer was also hollow into the net. 56:50。

The score is trending wider.

James' decisiveness began to command his teammates. At this time, of course, the leader of the team has to stand up and change the shape of the field.

First of all, James changed the point of letting JJ Hickson defend Chen Jiyuan, after all, this is the biggest reason for the Cavaliers' leakage on the defensive end.

It is still necessary to let Zajunas Ilgoskas defend Chen Jiyuan.

And then let JJ Hickson follow people on the outside, in this way, it has some effect, after all, JJ Hickson is tall and has long arms, and the transfer speed is not slow, of course, it can make Stephen Jackson, Iguodala, Matt Barnes feel uncomfortable for anyone in the three.

The Cavaliers attacked, Mo Williams was still attacking with the ball on the outside, Zajunas Ilgoskas stepped forward to block Mo Williams, Mo Williams made a direct lateral move, dodged Curry's defense, went around the interior from Zajunas Ilgoskas, and went straight to the basket.

However, Chen Jiyuan followed him to the inside line by Williams' side.

With Chen Jiyuan here, the deterrent power of defense is still very large.

But Mo Williams is also a very brave person, supporting Chen Jiyuan with his left hand, wanting to make a little safe layup space between the two people, and holding the ball as far as possible with his right hand to make a layup, Mo Williams thought that in this way he could avoid Chen Jiyuan's block.

But reality gave Mo Williams a big mouth.

What the hell do you think is what you think, what you think you think is reality.

In the time of such a tongue twister, Chen Jiyuan simply ignored Williams Williams's left hand and jumped with Williams Mo's movements.

After Mo Williams made the shot, Chen Jiyuan was still rising. Until Chen Jiyuan reached this ball.

Chen Jiyuan was deep in the palm of his right hand, and told Mo Williams not to pretend to be forced in the future, and pretended to be more than being struck by lightning!

A neat big hat flew the ball fan directly to the place where it was gone, and after Mo Williams landed, he could only watch the ball fly into the distance.

And Chen Jiyuan was still more polite, not only watching dryly, but also singing silently: "I'll send you away, thousands of miles away." ”

Chen Jiyuan sent out a wonderful block, this block shocked the hearts of the players who broke into the inside line of the cavaliers in a large way, and told them, Lao Tzu is still sitting here, and it is not time for you to do whatever you want.

In fact, the baseline serves. This time, Mo Williams learned smartly and made a mid-range jumper from the outside. I don't rush to the inside line to challenge Chen Jiyuan.

Although the mid-range jumper bounced twice on the basket and made Mo Williams' heart jump, it finally got into the basket.

56:52。

The Knicks attacked again, and this time, under James' arrangement, the Cavaliers changed their defensive strategy and became JJ Hickson following Stephen Jackson on the outside, while James followed Matt Barnes, who had less defensive offensive power, which also made it easier for James to be "lazy" and save his body.

Iguodala still let Daniel Gibson follow. After all, Daniel Gibson and Curry are basically the same as each other, and on the defensive end, they will more or less resemble the image of defensive weaknesses.

Chen Jiyuan saw that the defender had become Zajunas Ilgoskas, so he decided to play a ball himself.

After receiving the ball, Zajunas Ilgoskas used his height advantage to expand his defensive range as much as possible, making Chen Jiyuan uncomfortable.

Chen Jiyuan raised his hand and shook it, making it look like he was going to shoot.

Zajunas Ilgoskas didn't shake it at all. And Chen Jiyuan followed with a right-footed probe, Zajunas Ilgoskas thought that Chen Jiyuan was going to take the right side to break into the inside line this time, after all, Chen Jiyuan had the advantage of speed and flexibility of steps when facing him, but Zajunas Ilgoskas guessed wrong, although the two had also been teammates, but Zajunas Ilgoskas was far from knowing Chen Jiyuan.

Chen Jiyuan still chose a high-post jumper for this ball, and as soon as Zajunas Ilgoskas moved, Chen Jiyuan immediately followed up with a jump, and the high-level jumper shot directly. The ball went safely into the basket. 58:52。

In the first half, Chen Jiyuan became very uncomfortable under the close defense of JJ Hickson, but his feelings for the jump shot were still there, and if he had the opportunity, Chen Jiyuan still chose a direct jump shot.

The Cavaliers attacked, James broke through with the ball, and after blocking and dismantling with Zajunas Ilgoskas, Chen Jiyuan decisively helped Stephen Jackson to wrap James together, and on the other side, Matt Barnes also temporarily let go of JJ Hickson, who was on the defense, and focused on James's side.

But this ball, James chose to pass back to Zajunas Ilgoskas, who took advantage of his height to shoot directly in the high post. The ball also went in.

58:54。

In the rest of the third quarter of the game, the shooting rates of both sides were relatively high, and Chen Jiyuan's side gradually regained his touch under the defense of Zajunas Ilgoskas.

However, that's not the point, and it's not the highlight.

The highlight is the style of play of this three-forward swingman sent by Thibodeau.

This knight with a neat style of play was a little uncomfortable for a while.

Because the Knicks have always been a classical style of play, with two twin towers on the inside, strong defense and rebounding ability, although the outside players have strong fast offensive ability, but they simply let the outside players go to the fast attack, and like now, this lineup is a bit like the Suns' style of play.

Run Boom Stream. But it's not a complete run-and-bomb, because Chen Jiyuan's storage is the most powerful weapon in positional warfare.

No one dared to ignore the role of Chen Jiyuan in the field of positional warfare. for that would be tantamount to self-inflicted death.

Relying on this somewhat three-way play, the Knicks played a little blindfolded by the Cavaliers for a while.

At the end of the third quarter, the Knicks managed to maintain their lead, and they exaggerated the advantage by that margin.

The score was 75:65.