Chapter 967: Owen is the boss
In the face of the Cavaliers' most ferocious counterattack, the Pelicans' counterattack method is very simple, which is to use the combination of breakthrough and shooting to seek their own best interests.
This style of play is simple, but very practical, in line with the basic rules of basketball, and also in line with the characteristics of the Pelicans' lineup, this invincible state in the ordinary is very similar to the style of the Spurs.
The Cavaliers finally got the advantage they have now, how can they give up all of a sudden, the Cavaliers hit again, and Irving immediately blocked with James.
Irving turned around and dismantled the basketball to James in anticipation of James finishing the offense, but James took a step away from the ball and passed it to Haslem on the baseline.
Haslem is also an unusually stable player in the middle distance, and Haslem is a major tournament type player, the more critical the occasion, the more stable he tends to be, and at this time Haslem's table is the same, and the shot is hit.
The Cavaliers are now not just fighting alone with Owen, but the whole team is heating up.
Both teams were in full swing in the fourth quarter, fighting for flesh and blood, and this situation continued into the second half of the fourth quarter.
The fierce battle between the two teams finally made the audience see the taste, at which time Dorty and Hubby Brown said:
"This is the finals, and this kind of competition is the rhythm of the finals."
Hubby Brown also said:
"In the final stage of the game, in the moment of life and death of the Cavaliers, the Cavaliers finally radiated the strength of the top team!"
The two teams fought on the court with flesh and blood, killing extremely tragically, and playing extremely tense every time they attacked and defended, this situation continued, and fans didn't dare to blink when they watched the game.
By the last three minutes of the fourth quarter, the two teams were still deadlocked at a score of 93-92.
At this time, both teams adjusted their most stable and strongest lineups, with point guard Irving and scoring guard Waiters on the Cavaliers' side. Small forward James, big forward Haslem, center Love.
The Pelicans also came up with a strong lineup, point guard Turner, scoring guard Pierce, small forward Li Feng, power forward Henson, and center Gasol.
In fact, the style of the lineup is similar to that of the two teams in the end, the inside line is used by big men who can defend and open up space, and the outside line is players who are good at breaking through and attacking.
A match between two teams with this lineup. Definitely the offense will look good, it won't be a wrestling match.
At this time, in the last 3 minutes, both teams entered the final crazy morale, at this time Li Feng took the ball and pushed up, but his palms were sweaty, and the game hit the heart to not allow anyone to make any mistakes.
In the face of the Cavaliers' airtight defense, Li Feng turned his ass and used his ass to deal with James, and James was still very effective in defending behind Li Feng.
James is just a little entangled on the offensive end, and the pressure on Li Feng on the defensive end is quite large. Without the help of his teammates, it was not easy for Li Feng to deal with James alone. So Li Feng came up and quickly called a block.
Gasol moved quickly and blocked outside the three-point line, and Li Feng used Gasol's block to break through and directly face Lefou's defense.
Lefu moves fast enough. But he's not a super interior defender, and he lacks the stubbornness of a top-tier defender.
Li Feng had more chances to hit Lefou, and rushed to the Knight's penalty area with an acceleration, in the Knight's penalty area. Li Feng jumped up and protected the basketball with both hands, folded and folded again in the air. Two consecutive folds shook a group of people under the Cavaliers' basket at a loss, and Li Feng grabbed the basketball towards the rebound with both hands and completed a difficult layup.
Under normal circumstances, if Li Feng had completed such a difficult layup, he would have shocked the whole court a long time ago.
But at this time, the Cavaliers' home stadium is silent, because the fans at the Cavaliers' home stadium have watched too many such balls today.
Throughout the fourth quarter, Irving's chances were so desperate to kill the basket, so they were already aesthetically fatigued, and the Cavaliers' home court was also conquered by Irving, and Irving was simply playing with his body in the fourth quarter, but with his life. Owen's desperate spirit and will really shocked that person.
Li Feng also desperately hit the basket at this time, and the Cavaliers' Irving seemed to respond to Li Feng.
After half court, he immediately got the basketball and began to accelerate towards the Cavaliers from halftime.
On James's side, because he was getting softer and softer, the Pelicans simply used Pierce or Turner to defend him, and released Li Feng to defend Irving.
Owen took the ball and faced Li Feng, it was a desperate collision, he lowered his head and hit Li Feng at once, and then with the help of the rebound force on Li Feng's body, he dribbled to the side and took a step, at this time Haslem's blocking and dismantling arrived just right.
Haslem and Irving worked together perfectly, and this one pick and roll was extremely smooth and just right.
In this case, Owen used this block to pass Li Feng by half a step, and with this half a step.
When Owen rushed in front and Li Feng chased behind, Owen slyly drilled directly under the basket.
In this position, because the basket is above, the offensive players have a poor shooting angle, and the defenders are the most difficult to defend.
It was at this time that Irving made a folding backhand layup, and at a very tricky angle, he made a layup and sent the basketball into the Pelicans' basket.
The Cavaliers' point difference still can't be opened, and both teams are holding their last breath at this time, and whoever can hold this last breath for a long time will win.
The Pelicans won, with an 11-game winning streak, and the temptation is not small.
The knight's side is a pure death struggle, this time it is a matter of life and death, and the knight's counterattack is also absolutely ferocious.
When Owen scored again, Li Feng already had that real respect for Owen in his heart.
Either way, it doesn't matter if the team loses, as long as you can score, that's fine.
Therefore, Li Feng respects Ou Buchuan too much, and it is precisely because of his inner respect that Li Feng is even more determined to fight with Owen.
In the Cavaliers' half, he got the basketball again, Li Feng also desperately came up to play, before Li Feng believed in his teammates, but at this critical moment, Li Feng wanted to use his actual actions to prove that he was the core of this team and the most powerful player in this team at a critical moment.
Li Feng made such a plan. So the first action of taking the ball was to attack, taking the ball with a feint, shaking James's seat, and then Li Feng immediately leaned towards James, and Li Feng leaned against James two steps with his back.
When the knight was hesitating whether to wrap up Li Feng, Li Feng turned around and squeezed the other party behind him with a beautiful back turn.
Li Feng finally got past James here, but the Cavaliers' interior Haslem quickly came up to help.
Haslem is not only a big player, but also a tough guy, facing Li Feng who rushed up. Haslem opted for the toughest sniper.
came up and directly fought with Li Feng in close hand-to-hand combat, Li Feng resisted Haslem with his body, and then under the protection of his body, he made a throwing that wiped the board.
This kind of attack, Li Feng can generally score, 95 goals can be scored in 100 goals, but today is a fatal moment. Li Feng didn't hit a wipe board, and the basketball hit the edge of the basket and jumped out.
Li Feng missed a nine-ten-ten-ten layup, he was suddenly anxious, and eagerly grabbed the rebound under the basket. Get up again with a basket under the wipe board.
Li Feng attacked under the basket this time, and felt that he should be nine out of ten, but Li Feng was too eager.
Playing on the court is like this, the more anxious you are, the more you don't score, and the impatience of your mentality can't solve anything.
The only way to maintain a high hit rate is to maintain the best mindset. So James now has a low shooting rate, and Li Feng's mentality has become agitated, and he can't shoot.
Li Feng missed two consecutive shots, and the Cavaliers finally found an opportunity and quickly advanced back with the ball.
The knight advanced fast. But at this time, the Pelicans' defense is also at the highest level. The Pelicans quickly retreated, blocking the Cavaliers' fast break.
It was also quite difficult for Irving to break through the Pelicans' well-prepared position at this time, and he could only keep going around in circles in the high post at a time of crisis.
At this moment, Lefu suddenly came up and gave Owen a cover. Owen passes the ball to Love.
At this critical moment, Lefu actually made a big move, took the ball and turned around with a dribble in the face of Gasol, and directly passed Gasol is a big dunk.
"Bang dang!"
LeFou's dunk was successful, and Lefu also gave the Pelicans a fatal blow at the final juncture.
Seeing that the Cavaliers scored two goals in a row, the Pelicans turned around and immediately prepared to complete an efficient offense.
The Pelicans started playing Pierce and Li Feng's double cover again, and this time the Pelicans came up with this tactic again.
The knights are indeed still not good at defense, although Li Feng's side is defending, but Pierce leaked.
Pierce got the ball at his very solid free-throw line, and Pierce's shooting percentage in this position was extremely high, but Pierce didn't shoot in this position today.
"Bang!"
Pierce struck the iron, and Pierce actually struck the iron in this position. This ball is extremely crucial, and Li Feng rushed up to grab the rebound.
But the players around him didn't know who tripped up, Li Feng was clearly very close to the rebounding ball in the front court, and he didn't touch the ball.
From Li Feng's missed basket to now that the rebound is gone, Li Feng feels that his luck seems to have run out.
The Cavaliers got the rebound, and when they went back to play again, because they had slightly opened up the advantage, the Cavaliers played slowly.
That's when James' advantage came in, James held the ball on the Pelicans' wing, and he stood up for the playmaking.
The Pelicans couldn't decide whether to wrap up or not for a short time, and it was at this time that James suddenly made a pass.
At this critical moment, Waiters reached the bottom corner and received the ball and threw a three-pointer directly in front of Pierce's defense.
Mr. Truth is a bit old now, and without the help of his teammates, Pierce is suddenly very tricky in the face of the young and energetic Waiters.
Waiters hit a three-pointer to extend the deficit by eight points, and with only 1:20 left before the end of the game.
At the last critical moment, the Cavaliers played a fatal wave, and at this time the Pelicans had to fight back, and it was a huge risk for the Cavaliers to reverse at a critical moment, and the Pelicans won the Lakers in this way.
So the Pelicans came over again and played another Pelicans signature tactic, Li Feng and Henson's high pick-and-roll.
At this time, Li Feng was also desperate, taking advantage of Henson's blocking, and resolutely and ferociously went to the knight's basket at once.
Under normal circumstances, Li Feng plays this tactic to score points or create fouls.
But today. Although Li Feng was successful, he successfully fought against the opponent in the air on the inside, and then found a chance to make a move.
But in this hook hand under the basket, Li Feng's position is clearly okay, this kind of ball Li Feng can generally score, but the hell is that this time the basket attack actually failed again.
Li Feng hooked his hand, and the basketball spun around from the hoop, and then actually spun out.
The rebound was also grabbed by James on the other side, and Li Feng wanted to scold his mother angrily, but it was not the time to scold his mother. Li Feng still followed the large army and chased wildly behind.
Li Feng finally retreated and found Owen, but Owen didn't know what to smoke at this time.
Actually running without the ball at this time, turning most of the circle, Owen ran out to get the ball on the wing.
Owen took the ball, Li Feng hurriedly pounced, but at this time, Owen came up with a feint, Li Feng made the most correct defense, stuck to it and then opened his hands.
Li Feng had no problem defending. But at this time, Owen actually jumped up and threw one against Li Feng's body.
Irving's foul was a bit reluctant, but it was on the Cavaliers' home court, and the referee gave the foul with a very tendency, but damn it wasn't all. Irving's casually thrown shot actually hit the rebound and actually went in!
At such a critical moment, Irving beat the Pelicans 3+1, which is too important for the Cavaliers.
All of a sudden, the knight's morale and superiority were built!
Li Feng and the Pelicans players can do nothing but curse.
In this case, the difference in the last minute was stretched to 12 points. The pressure was on when the Pelicans got the ball again.
In the face of this pressure, Li Feng once again showed his strong side with the ball, and Li Feng quickly got rid of the ball on his side. After that, he scored 2 points with a difficult back-up shot.
Li Feng's difficult scoring was very exciting, but then the Cavaliers immediately James came to control the ball, and James controlled the ball and dragged the ball for 24 seconds before passing the ball to Haslem who was pulling on the baseline.
Haslem deserves to be a player in the tournament, and when he receives the ball at such a critical moment, he is more focused and the shot goes in!
As soon as Haslem scored the goal, today's game was over, and the Cavaliers dragged their time, so that the Pelicans only had more than 30 seconds left, but the difference was 12 points.
In this case, Li Feng obviously still wanted to fight, and came up to make a quick shot and forcibly shot a three-pointer.
Li Feng's three-point shot is in!
But then the balance of fate tipped and the Pelicans could only play foul tactics next, but the Cavaliers did not concede a single ball at the free throw line, so the Cavaliers returned to their home court and locked up the victory.
The Cavaliers won, winning such a fateful ball, ending the Cavaliers' 10-game winning streak.
After the game, the Cavaliers fans and media were naturally greatly relieved, but the James Blacks were able to be active again.
Because the Cavaliers won the game not to James' credit, although James's organization stabilized the team, but this winning game was Irving-style.
Now Owen is the spiritual symbol of the talented knight, and the spiritual core of the knight. It was a win for Irving, not for James, who played an auxiliary role in this game.
In this way, the James blacks have enough thigh-hugging facts to take out the black James, although the ball is won, but James has endured more criticism.
When James' side was crazy black, Irving was praised by the fans, and the internal unity of the Cavaliers was more difficult to maintain in comparison.
James and Irving were tactically difficult to coexist before, and now they are treated differently by the media, and it is impossible to say that there is not the slightest complaint or complaint between the two men.
No matter how good friends are facing a huge failure in life together, they will have a gap again, and James and Irving also have a delicate gap at this time.
This situation is not good for knights! It can even be said that the Cavaliers can lose, but the locker room can't be messed up, the Cavaliers lose, and the second season can be repeated.
If there was chaos in the locker room, the dynasty that the Cavaliers had carefully built would collapse. Problems in the dressing room are more difficult to deal with than problems on the pitch.
Lenovo once seasoned Lakers' four kings, O'Neal, Kobe. Payton, Malone, no matter how bad this combination is, it won't be so difficult to make the playoffs. In the 03-04 season, the Lakers lost so happily that they couldn't do without the struggle in the locker room. This kind of locker room struggle, although it is a common drama of the Lakers giants, but the locker room struggle is definitely the most lethal thing for the team, he can destroy a team and a dynasty for no reason.
At this time, the Cavaliers faced the Pelicans' aggressiveness off the court. Half a step back, the knight is going to die, and there is an inexplicable gap between the brothers in his team, no matter whether the game is won or lost, the knight has contradictions, how to play this kind of game?
In fact, if the Cavaliers want to win at this time, there is only a little brotherly unity, abandon a qiē previous suspicion, and both of them need to change their playing style.
For such a difficult matter, it is easy to unite the front psychologically and change the style of play. Can this be done between one or two sessions? It's hard, it's almost impossible.
So although the Cavaliers won the game, but after seeing the media reports after the game, Hubie Brown immediately wrote his own article:
"How a multi-core team is formed!"
Inside this article. Instead of going straight out about the win or defeat of the two teams in the Finals, Hubby Brown began to discuss how the team should work together once it has players of the average star level on the outside.
Hubbie Brown believes that the way to match the two stars on the outside is the most difficult type of defense to match.
Team up in this way. If they want to succeed, both players must either have their own irreplaceable characteristics of the other or have the spirit of sacrifice. Able to complete self-transformation.
Otherwise, they will be confronted with targeted defense in the playoffs and beyond.
Hubbie Brown's article doesn't have much new ideas, because in recent years, the NBA has also had a lot of two-guard and two-outside combinations.
The most famous is the golden twin guns Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook, this pair is indeed fascinating, but the two are not complementary at all, there is no compatibility, and they have no intention of accommodating each other to change their intentions. The end result is that the old ones go away and the young ones continue to go their own way.
Therefore, this road is very difficult to walk, and it is even more difficult to walk well, and the knight who chooses such a road is destined to be full of thorns.
The Pelicans lost the game, but the focus of the media was not on them, although the Pelicans were slightly negligent in the second half, but they quickly counterattacked, as for the final defeat, several key shots were strangely not scored, this is luck, there is not much to say.
Although the Pelicans have lost so far, their performance is still very normal.
The next "coincidence" is that the next game between the two teams will face each other again, back-to-back two matches of the same team.
Of course, after losing this game, the Pelicans also realized that their biggest enemy was now Irving, so they immediately tilted their defensive focus towards Irving.
The Pelicans adjusted their defensive focus and just waited for the next game.
At this time, Li Feng did not forget to tease James, and he continued to defend James in an interview:
'James is the smartest player I've ever met, he knows how to win, he doesn't need the media to guide him, he's going to decide the game in his own way. Everyone should have their own way! ”
Naturally, James is encouraging James not to shoot, right! You're never going to shoot! That way we'll be able to defend more easily, and we'll only need to defend Irving.
Li Feng continued to blow the wind to James, although James was dismissive of the enemy's words, but at least he felt more comfortable.
Especially in response to media criticism, the media always compares himself with Jordan and Kobe, and this way of comparison does make James particularly unhappy, and he doesn't like Jordan Kobe's way of playing.
James is really anxious now, he can't lose the game, he can't get along with his brothers, he can't explain to the media, and the fans don't agree with him, this is the darkest and most difficult period of James's life.
In this case, James is very difficult, but from another perspective, this difficulty is shared by everyone, and growing or overcoming one's own flaws requires a person to go through some labor pains before he can be reborn.
Now James is going through this most difficult time period, and this time period is the Pelicans' best chance to rise.
The Pelicans have undergone adjustments last season, and the whole team is finally in a very strong state, and now the Pelicans have Li Feng as the core, and the following interior helpers are Al Jefferson and Gasol, as well as the young Henson, Henson is also a good addition to the interior type.
The outside Pelicans are Corey, Turner, Pierce, Granger and other types of players, this kind of lineup and bench depth are on par with the Cavaliers, but the Pelicans have no locker room problems and no tangled superstars, so the Pelicans still have a very high chance of winning the next game.
Now it's just a matter of waiting for the game to begin...... (To be continued......)