Chapter 289: An Unexpected Competition

As the referee threw the ball into the sky, the game officially began, Chen Jiyuan and Da Z competed for the ball, and Chen Jiyuan still won Da Z very easily. Big Z's bounce is his eternal injury, and Big Z's advantage lies in his height.

The Knicks attack first. Sessions was firmly in possession. Against the Cavaliers, the last game taught the Knicks a lesson, not being able to play fast-paced ball with the Cavaliers, just like not being able to compete with the Suns on offense. The Cavaliers' offensive and defensive transitions are very fast, especially James's fast offensive ability is very strong, once he finds an opportunity, then James can easily break through the opponent's defense, fast attack, and even the number of 2+1 is very much, no way, who made James have a strong body like a beast.

In this game, the Knicks will definitely slowly suppress the rhythm, which will be more beneficial to the Knicks.

Although the Knicks are trying their best to win, accidents always come so suddenly, just like Chen Jiyuan didn't expect today's Sessions to feel cold in the first quarter with 1 of 5 shots, just like Chen Jiyuan didn't expect that he scored 13 points on 4 of 4 and 5 of 5 free throws in the first quarter, Chen Jiyuan also didn't expect James to score 21 points in the first quarter. In the first quarter, James was 8-of-9, 3-of-5 from three-point range and 2-of-2 from the free-throw line. This situation was completely unexpected. Richardson couldn't contain James at all, and after Daniel Gibson was on the court, James's wrap-and-wrap tactics were basically bankrupt. Gibson will not be so simple to be locked by Sessions, when James broke through into the interior again, although Sessions all his attention is on Gibson, but, there are people to help defend James, at this time, empty people help Gibson to block, so there will be a good shooting opportunity, at this time, even if Gibson is not a great shooting opportunity, Gibson will not hesitate, still decisive shot, this is Gibson's characteristic. It's also the most amazing thing about Gibson.

The Knicks were stunned by the Cavaliers' offensive firepower, and couldn't find the direction at all, even if Chen Jiyuan was able to score, but he couldn't find the Knicks' rhythm at all, Sessions played abnormally, and continued shots didn't score, which made Sessions' confidence severely frustrated, and when there was a good opportunity, Sessions would hesitate, and the more he hesitated, the more he wouldn't score, and this black nightmare cycle was difficult to break.

At the end of the first quarter, the Knicks' momentum was very low, falling behind by 18 points in the first quarter, and the score was 17:35. Not only is the Knicks not able to attack smoothly, but they also can't defend themselves against the Cavaliers' offense, especially James, James is accurate on the outside today, and the inside line is to break through the inside line to play, and there is basically no mid-range and large two-point shots, James is the kind of person who likes to choose a more efficient way to attack. James who rushed to the basket is very difficult to defend, after being fouled by James for the first time, Chen Jiyuan changed his defensive methods, and he didn't dare to defend with all his strength, Chen Jiyuan was empty in his heart before defending, such a defense, how can he prevent James's breakthrough, you must know that James's high success rate under the basket is very high. Even high scary.

The demoralized second quarter of the game started as scheduled, and the Knicks' players returned to the court dejectedly, Chen Jiyuan originally wanted to have a heavy dunk to boost morale, but Da Z covered Chen Jiyuan with a big hat, which not only did not help the team improve morale, but also hit the morale of the Knicks, and as a result, the game just passed, and the Knicks fell behind the Cavaliers by 23 points at 42:65. The gap is getting wider. The pace of the game is getting more and more wrong. In this game, the Knicks' loss is getting bigger and bigger. Everyone has the shadow of defeat in their hearts, and everyone is thinking about the consequences of losing this game. If you lose this game and return to your home court in New York, whether the Knicks can hold their home court is also a problem, and the morale of the Knicks who have lost two games in a row will be greatly affected, and whether they can hold the home court will be a big problem at that time. After all, it must be admitted that the strength of the Knicks and the Cavaliers is not the kind of equal, but slightly different. At this point, even if Chen Jiyuan has selected so many good rookies, even if these rookies are basically instant combat power, even so, they still have room to grow in strength, and they are not at the peak of their careers for the time being, and they have not fully developed their talents. Chen Jiyuan has reason to believe that the Knicks will always want to be brilliant in the future, but not now.

In the fourth minute, Chen Jiyuan couldn't bear such a fiasco, James had scored 38 points in the second quarter in just four minutes, everyone thought that the scoring momentum of James, who was crazy about cutting points in the first two quarters, would be deposited in the third quarter, and this time was the best time for the Knicks to turn the tables, but the reality gave the Knicks a stick, James's scoring was already ferocious, and what was even more desperate was that James came up and broke into the inside, desperate to improve morale Chen Jiyuan, stepped forward to block James, Chen Jiyuan hopes to help the team see the hope of victory in this way, at least not to play as depressed as now, the current Knicks give people the feeling that they have not been a team that has not been eager to win, it seems that they have given up this game, drowsy, Chen Jiyuan knows that there is no chance at all if it goes on like this, so he took the risk of wanting to block James two, but Chen Jiyuan paid the price for his idea, and Chen Jiyuan made two rules on James. Chen Jiyuan has already committed three fouls this time, and Thomas resolutely put Chen Jiyuan on the court for the hope of the final comeback, and the result was a desperate fourth foul, this time Thomas had to replace Chen Jiyuan. Otherwise, the fourth one will be even more difficult to beat.

As soon as Chen Jiyuan got off the court, the situation became clear in an instant, and the Knicks were beaten by the knights on one side, and they had no power to fight back at all. Chen Jiyuan could only watch the abused Knicks continue to be abused, today's situation was completely beyond everyone's expectations, no one thought that the Knicks, who could still play a dozen in the last game, would collapse so hard in this game, this feeling is like the Knicks have reached the end of the world.

By the end of the third quarter, the score had become 70-103. The 33-point deficit foreshadowed the outcome of the game, and the fourth quarter became garbage time without any suspense.

Before the game, Chen Jiyuan swore that he would win this game, but judging from the results after the game, this is simply a joke. Because in this game, the Knicks didn't even form a decent point of resistance, and the game was completely dominated by the Cavaliers, the situation of the game was very clear, the Cavaliers have always led the Knicks by a large score, and James's score in today's playoffs is also very high, reaching 47 points, although it is not the highest score in the playoffs in James' career, but it is a very remarkable thing to be able to get nearly 50 points. James' highest playoff score came last year, on May 10, 2007, in the third playoff game of the Cavaliers vs. the Bulls, which the Cavaliers won.

James didn't play at the beginning of the fourth quarter, but Chen Jiyuan still came to the court, however, this did not affect the Cavaliers' plan, James is still resting off the court, and now the score gap is so big, and Gibson is still on the court, it shouldn't be chased back so lightly.

Chen Jiyuan was also dissuaded, saying that Chen Jiyuan would only be regarded as playing to score points, but Chen Jiyuan didn't care about those at all, even if there was the slightest hope of winning, Chen Jiyuan wanted to catch it, Chen Jiyuan didn't need to rest so early to recover his body, Chen Jiyuan knew his own physical situation, Chen Jiyuan looked at the screen above him with a resolute face, and finally, Thomas decided to shoot all the main forces, they were all young people, and they were all very young. The problem was very small, so Thomas decided to keep an eye on the pressure to put all the main forces on the line.

Although everyone in the Knicks is staring at a lot of pressure to chase points, Gibson's role on the court is still not small, Gibson hit 3 balls, Chen Jiyuan and others can't fill the abyss hole they dug before, even if they work hard. This pit is just too big.

In the end, the game fell and ended when Chen Jiyuan and others were over. The Knicks lost the game with a score of 102-121.

James slashed a quasi-triple-double with 47 points, 9 rebounds and 7 assists. Gibson also scored 26 points, Curry also got playing time in the fourth quarter today, in the limited time, Curry did a good job, it seems that Curry should want the Cavaliers to make a certain compromise, after all, Curry can't fight James, this is because Curry is fighting with the Cavaliers' management, and the outcome of such a battle has long been noted. As for whether Curry will be used more in future games, that's a matter for Cavaliers management.

Although Chen Jiyuan scored 41 points in the game, there was news of scoring points. This makes everyone question Chen Jiyuan's work ethic.