Chapter 624
O'Neal is indeed older, both the speed and the bounce power have declined very quickly, and he is no longer the nightmare of the basketball court - the flexible dead fat man.
The Knicks attacked first, the first ball, the Cavaliers' defensive intensity was very large, obviously the last game was lost, so that the Cavaliers' players were stimulated a little bit, any strong team, will not treat their losses as a normal thing, in the eyes of the strong team, every time you lose a game, you must first reflect on this game, why you lose, where did you lose? What should I do next time I encounter this situation? Then, the second thing is to take revenge the next time you meet this opponent.
Now that he is actually on his home court, he has met the Knicks again, and of course it is impossible to easily let the Knicks get out of the Cleveland Quick Loan Center.
The first ball, Chen Jiyuan and his old opponent O'Neal were in the opposite position again, Chen Jiyuan played in the frame, this is a situation that O'Neill is very worried about, because O'Neal's height and weight are not at all at a loss when facing Chen Jiyuan's back basket, despite his age, but in a limited time, O'Neal is still able to use his strength.
Therefore, what Chen Jiyuan has to do is to use his dexterity to make O'Neal difficult to defend when O'Neal's strength has not been exhausted.
Chen Jiyuan holds the ball and moves forward.
At this critical moment to maintain a winning streak, everyone should be in a highly nervous state of mind, but Chen Jiyuan did not. In fact, Chen Jiyuan doesn't like to create those records, if he has the opportunity, of course Chen Jiyuan also hopes that the league's longest winning streak is his own, but, before that winning streak, what Chen Jiyuan wants more is that the championship ring is the flag hung above the Knicks' arena under his leadership. And not the so-called record.
This first ball, Chen Jiyuan played very freely.
Chen Jiyuan dribbled the ball, accelerated, and walked from the right side, O'Neill quickly turned his body weight to the left, following Chen Jiyuan's movements.
Chen Jiyuan accelerated on the right side, only took one step, kicked the ground with his right foot, directly with his left foot as the axis, turned back, O'Neill also tried his best, followed Chen Jiyuan's footsteps with his life, and wanted to keep up with Chen Jiyuan's footsteps, however, Chen Jiyuan was only a half-turned, before he completely turned around, he directly kicked the ground with his right foot again, his left foot did not move, turned around again, and then raised his hands and made a shooting look, O'Neill forcibly moved his body, wanting to keep up with Chen Jiyuan's movements, However, Chen Jiyuan's speed is really fast, at least in O'Neill's opinion, too fast. The footsteps are also very flexible and flexible, although O'Neill's eyes keep up, but many times his body is a little unable to keep up.
This ball, O'Neill followed Chen Jiyuan's rhythm, but he didn't completely keep up, Chen Jiyuan's fake turn made O'Neill a little out of balance, as a result, Chen Jiyuan was shaking, O'Neill's center of gravity followed, just came together, but when he saw that Chen Jiyuan didn't jump at all, he found out that he was eating a feint.
But even if he knew, it was too late, Chen Jiyuan waited until O'Neill flew past him, and he didn't panic, slowly, steadily, and properly hit this middle distance.
2:0。
The Cavaliers attacked, and after Mo Williams dribbled the ball past halfcourt, he handed the ball to James, who directed his teammates to play tactical runs, and then, James and O'Neal played a pick-and-roll combination.
James's blocking power is really very great, because after James blocking and dismantling, the speed is very fast, and the powerful James is difficult to block, although it is not very good, but James still has the ability to shoot.
When James blocked, how to defend was always a huge problem.
But here in the Knicks, there is a defensive system with James' headache, when James blocks and dismantles, the Knicks do not hesitate to make direct substitutions, Stephen Jackson follows O'Neal to prevent O'Neal, and does not let O'Neal comfortably enter the interior for layups and dunks, although he can't always defend O'Neal, but it is still okay for Stephen Jackson to limit O'Neal within a little time.
Don't look at Stephen Jackson as a little skinny, but the power contained inside is very powerful.
As for Chen Jiyuan's defense of James, although James is a combination of perverted strength and speed, it is too coincidental, and so is Chen Jiyuan. It just so happens that two people can talk about life and ideals together.
After James moved the ball sideways, he ran into Chen Jiyuan.
The two of them faced each other, James couldn't take a step forward at all, James took a step back, Chen Jiyuan just followed forward, James suddenly got up, taking advantage of Chen Jiyuan's center of gravity to move forward, James wanted to take advantage of this gap, but Chen Jiyuan also reacted quickly, followed James's footsteps to the inside line, Chen Jiyuan has a height advantage, this ball James is difficult to shoot. The shot is very easy to be blocked by Chen Jiyuan.
James is also very clear, but the arrow has to be sent on the string, at this time, he can only avoid Chen Jiyuan's cover as much as possible.
James rushed to the basket, opened his right hand as far as possible, trying to avoid Chen Jiyuan's block, and used his left hand to resist Chen Jiyuan, not letting Chen Jiyuan stick too close to him.
However, James's idea is good, however, the physical contact between the two people is very intense, such a contest of strength. Of course, it will make it difficult for a person to use all his strength to jump, this ball, James is, Chen Jiyuan is similar.
However, the consequence of James not jumping is that although Chen Jiyuan can't change James here, someone is coming on the other side.
All James' attention was on Chen Jiyuan, but he didn't notice that on the other side, Iguodala let go of his defensive Anthony Parker after James rushed inside, ready to come over to block James, and this ball was really waited for by Iguodala.
Although James made Chen Jiyuan unable to reach this ball, he couldn't guard against this later guy.
James's ball, before it left his hand, was directly covered by Iguodala.
Iguodala pulled the ball from the baseline to near the free throw line.
Sessions grabbed the ball as soon as he could, then quickly dribbled forward.
Sessions wanted to get the ball on the fast track, but Sessions didn't take a few steps with the ball before he was pulled by Mo Williams, and the tactical foul was very correct.
Although Mo Williams was in front of Sessions, Sessions started much earlier than Sessions, and if MoreWilliams hadn't fouled, Sessions would have easily passed Sessions, and then Sessions would have been able to make an easy layup.
Such a painless foul would give the Cavaliers plenty of time to reorganize their defense.
The Knicks attacked again, this time Sessions and Chen Jiyuan also carried out a blocking and dismantling cooperation, to say that the Knicks' outside players, the top first-class attackers do not have, but they can all attack, this is the characteristics of the Knicks' outside line, you can't relax any of them.
Sessions took advantage of Chen Jiyuan's blocking and dismantling to avoid Mo Williams' defense, and when the Cavaliers were defending the pick-and-roll, they chose to chase the guard players, because if O'Neal defended Sessions, the speed difference was not a little bit and a half, which would be fatal.
This is one of the main reasons why the Cavaliers' defense is not as good as the Knicks, and none of the Knicks' five positions is a defensive weakness, which is even more obvious after the return of Sessions and Love.
And the current Knicks really have no loopholes, and they can do all the defense in any position. It already has the appearance of an impregnable wall. With the defensive formation Thibodeau wants.
Mo Williams must have been a step slower to chase Sessions, Sessions rushed directly to the inside, JJ Hickson quickly stepped forward to make up for the defense, JJ Hickson in that world is estimated to have no movement when he encounters this situation, it can be seen that JJ Hickson has indeed changed considerably, the only thing that has not changed may be his physical talent.
I don't know what happened here at the knight that made this guy change so much. The defensive side is much more active, and on the offensive end, he is gradually developing his own offensive ability, of course, JJ Hickson's independent offensive ability is still not seen.
However, even though JJ Hickson came to defend the ball, Sessions dodged JJ Hickson's block, and the ball flew from JJ Hickson's hand to the basket.
4:0。
Although the Cavaliers have a very strong sense of revenge, and the Knicks are also back-to-back, the game against the Bucks is not so tiring. The main reason is that the opponent is a little weak, so the Knicks players naturally can't raise all the desire to fight.
So this game, at the beginning, still had good physical strength.
In the first quarter of the game, the Knicks relied on the ironclad defense of copper money and successfully led the Cavaliers.
This result made the Cavaliers' players, especially James, very difficult to accept.
James is full of confidence in today's game and has a strong desire to win, facing the Knicks, facing Chen Jiyuan, if he can't win, then what can he say about beating the three old men of the Celtics.
In the first quarter, the Knicks led by five points with a score of 22:17.
Under the defense of the Knicks, the Cavaliers played very hard.