Chapter Ninety-Nine: The Crazy Eagle

At the Quickloan Center Arena, Cleveland actually didn't give the Atlanta Hawks any chance, and finally won by 100:://.Although the difference was only 10 points, as long as the audience watched the game, they would never think that it was a game with a big gap.

The Cleveland Cavaliers took the lead from the start to cheers from the crowd and pulled the score to more than 10 points with an 11-2 shockwave in the seventh minute of the first quarter. Then there was no chance for the Atlanta Hawks to take any lead, or even a chance for the Hawks to close the gap back to within 10 points, and the maximum difference between the two teams reached 25 points at one point.

The Atlanta Hawks have been catching up, but no matter how much they try to catch up, they don't have a chance.

Losing Josh Smith's defensive tandem can be fatal for the Hawks' defense. Josh Smith stands in the position of power forward, although his height is a weakness, but his explosiveness, his bounce, and his motor nerves make up for these weaknesses very well.

When he's on the court, Cavaliers players have to be careful with Josh Smith's defensive blocks while attacking, and his ability to chase blocks is on the same level in the NBA as LeBron's blocking blocks. And now, without Josh Smith, although Pachulia is a passable big man, he is only an inside blue-collar worker, not an excellent blue-collar worker.

Horford is a good interior player, but his height doesn't allow him to limit one-on-one. And Pachulia could not bring him more help.

When Woodson put out such a lineup in desperation, he already had a certain psychological awareness of his interior being blown up. After all, in the first game, Zhang Kong had already shown the Eagles what it meant to be lethal inside. But he still underestimated......

Halfway through the second quarter, he had to substitute Pachulia off the court. Because Pachulia has already had four fouls on him. Although Horford remained on the court, Horford also had three fouls on his back. In order to stop Zhang Kong's unbridled play on the inside, the interior lineup of Horford and Pachulia can only use constant fouls to block Zhang Kong's scoring. But this shark-cutting tactic did not work well......

"Huh~~~~" As Zhang Kong hit two free throws, the muscles in Woodson's face twitched. Even a foul couldn't stop Zhang from scoring easily, and his lethality in the box was comparable to that of O'Neal, the shark at his peak, but his free throws threw O'Neal out of the solar system.

How do you defend against such a player?

Well, maybe there's a way!

Bag clip, double bag clip is not good, three bag clip!

But there is still a LeBron James on the other side!

Three-person bag, you're looking for death!

When two dominant superstars come together in one team, it's a disaster for the others, and for two such people, letting either of them go can be a desperate ending.

What's even more desperate is the offensive end, the Atlanta Hawks are now difficult to break into the restricted area, Ilgoskas is tall enough to act as an interior barrier, and Zhang Kong's strong aerial interception ability makes the Eagles' swing guards have to be careful when breaking through to score, Zhang Kong's big hands are always shrouded in the basket, ready to send bloody blocks at any time.

At this time, Woodson missed Josh Smith immensely.

While Josh Smith would make the mistake of being intermittently brain-dead,

In the second game, the Eagles lost the game without any suspense. In this game, Zhang Kong played 30 minutes and scored 25 points, 17 rebounds and 5 assists, including 12 frontcourt rebounds from the heads of Horford and Pachulia.

In addition, on the defensive end, he made 8 blocks in the game, making the Cavaliers' restricted area a completely no-fly zone. If it weren't for the big gap in the game, halfway through the third quarter, Zhang Kong would have sat on the bench to rest, and it would not be difficult to block over 10.

And LeBron James continued his stable play, with 33 points, 8 rebounds, 7 assists, and quasi-triple-double.

In addition to the two of them, Ilgoskas also scored 18 points, Stephen Jackson had 16 points, 6 rebounds and 3 assists, and Larry Hughes had 10 points, 2 rebounds and 3 steals. Gibson 21 points

The Cavaliers had six players in double figures, including five of them in double figures. The Cavaliers, who completely emptied the game, still made the media assert that the Hawks were completely unable to stop the Cavaliers.

The media is not wrong, the Eagles really can't stop the Cavaliers.

This is not because of the momentum and mentality, but because of the complete gap in strength. Even in the third game, the Cleveland Cavaliers challenged the Atlanta Hawks away, and they still played extremely easily. The game ended with a score of 127:109.

Although the score is high, the game is not intense, just like the second game, the game has been included in its own rhythm by the Cavaliers from the beginning, although the Hawks players can get some points, and the performance seems to be able to chase the score at any time, but in fact, the entire court is under the control of the Cavaliers.

In this game, Zhang Kong did not deliberately pursue offense, and more often chose to concentrate on defense, as well as pass assists after attracting the attention of the defense on the inside.

But even so, he still scored 25 points and scored a quasi-triple-double of 20+20 with 22 rebounds and 7 assists.

Zhang Kong didn't feel anything against xìng for the whole game.

It was almost the easiest game for Zhang Kong so far in this series, and neither Al Horford nor Zaza Pachulia seemed to have any intention of going against Zhang Kong. The Eagles' interior line is as empty as a backyard for him to gallop freely.

"The Hawks Gave Up the Game" The local media in Atlanta slammed the Hawks' performance on the court in a hateful tone

"3:0 is there, will 4:0 be far away?" The local media of the Cavaliers encouraged the Cavaliers to make persistent efforts and advance to the second round of the playoffs with a sweep in a celebratory tone.

In the fourth game, countless people sang the Aging Eagles. But the Eagles burst out with the courage to break the boat, and if they didn't succeed, they would succeed. If this game is lost, it will be the last game of the year, in this case, the entire Hawks team has broken out with the words to fight for their lives, and the return of Josh Smith has also stimulated the Hawks' play to a certain extent, and the Hawks have played very passionately from the beginning, for a ball, people like Josh Smith and Al Horford can even throw their whole person out, just to get a ball.

Defensively, the brutal defense is taken to the extreme, although it has not yet developed to the point of not hitting the ball against people, but once you find that there is no way to stop the goal, the Eagles players will definitely drag you from the sky with the ball without care.

Especially Josh Smith!

After Zhang Kong's death clasp, Josh-Smith seemed unaffected. No, it should be said that Zhang Kong's death buckle and the media hype made Josh Smith burst out of all his energy in this game after the ban was lifted.

It's impossible to describe Josh Smith's attitude when he plays right now.

Josh Smith did a crazy close-fitting snag on James. The two maintained frequent physical contact. His defense feels like he is not ready to defend against LeBron's breakaway, but is prepared to make LeBron simply unable to control the ball properly.

With Josh Smith's mad dog-like defense, LeBron was in trouble. He has no way to control the ball well, as long as he catches the ball, Josh Smith will entangle like a mad dog, leaving no space for James, even if James breaks through, Josh Smith will immediately follow and use his strong body to impact James.

And on the inside, the inside line composed of Pachulia and Horford took the start today, and they almost took out all their remaining physical strength, crazy defense, crazy closeness, crazy impact, not letting Zhang Kong's side have a momentary gap, physical contact anytime and anywhere, even if it is as strong as Zhang Kong, he feels a little unbearable.

But today's referee's whistle is still very soft!

This stimulates the defensive intensity of the Eagles even more!

The home fans of the Hawks saw the attitude of the Hawks fighting for their lives on the court, and they were all awakened, and they were crazy to cheer for their team in the stands, once the Cavaliers players got the ball, they were greeted with crazy boos!

Home of the Devil!

The home of the Atlanta Hawks, today's performance fully deserves the title of the home of the devil!

Although the Atlanta Hawks' home attendance has not been high for a long time, and today it is only 70% full, but the atmosphere of the scene like a volcanic eruption makes people can't help but suspect that they have come to hell!

The Cavaliers were dragged into the quagmire by the Hawks, and the referee's incessant whistle interrupted the game again and again. Under the rough defense of the Atlanta Hawks, the anger of the Cavaliers has also been provoked, and even the good old Ilgoskas can do something like slapping Joe Johnson in the face when Joe Johnson makes a layup, and you can imagine how rough the actions of others have become.

The referee was the busiest man on the court for a while, but if it weren't for his indulgence with the Hawks at the start of the game, the situation wouldn't have gotten to this point.

He first gave a technical foul to Ilgoskas, who had fouled the rough, for the first time this season, and then called the captains of both teams, James and Johnson, to his side and gave him a call.

The content is like: "Be fucking careful with Lao Tzu, don't get out of control, or Lao Tzu won't mind blowing you all down!" ”

The referee himself also sensed that the game was starting to develop in an abnormal direction, and was ready to adjust the intensity of his whistle, and if anyone dared to foul rudely, he would definitely not mind sending one or two people to the two teams to be careful with their movements.

After that, the two teams moved a little more cautiously, but intense physical contact was still everywhere. The score has been scorching and struggling to rise.

played until the second half of the third quarter, the score of the two teams was 44:42, a one-goal gap, a very low score, it can be seen how high the iron rate of the two teams is today, even Zhang Kong can not guarantee his consistent and stable shooting rate, under the tough and unscrupulous defense of Horford and Pachulia, he repeatedly misses.

Both arms hurt even more, and there are still anthurium prints from Horford when he blocked his dunk!

"It's not going to go on like this!" Zhang Kong thought with a frown.

Source: Forrest Gump