"You're going to give me more balls."

"What's the use of giving it to you, you only took a few points in the first half?"

"If you don't give me the ball, how can I shoot, how can I score?"

"When I'm not there, you shoot, did you score?"

"Have you had enough trouble in the past few games, isn't it obvious now? Play the way I play, we can win, we can get to the finals. Play the way you play, we're only going to lose, we've lost three games in a row and this will probably be the fourth! ”

At halftime, in the Cavaliers' locker room, a heated altercation broke out between LeBron James and Kyrie Irving.

James thinks Irving dominates the ball, and Irving feels that even if James has the ball, he can't score points and can't lead the team to victory.

Of course, James disagrees with Irving's statement, because with James as the core, they have reached the Finals twice and have a 2-0 lead in the series.

Just when James felt that Irving should have nothing to say, Irving retorted: "That's because I feel comfortable playing for you, so I can take you as the core and enter the finals, but according to this style of play, we can't win the championship." Even if we win against the Nets this time, can we beat the Clippers in the Finals? Coach Kerr showed the way last season, LeBron you should be an all-around support, a No. 4 position, and I'll hold the ball so we can play at our best. Now I'm holding the ball as the core, and we're losing all the time, not because I'm not doing the core right, but because you don't want to play support at all, or you don't know at all! ”

Irving's words are a bit murderous, his meaning is very clear, you James is the core, I, Irving is at ease to assist, we have good results, but we can't beat the Clippers in the finals.

I'm Owen as the core, and if you James assists at ease, our ceiling will be higher, but the problem is that you don't want to assist at all, so you keep losing.

So losing is not a problem of me Irving stealing the ball, it's a problem that you James doesn't want to play well without the ball.

James didn't know how Owen had the audacity to say such a thing, he looked at the others, and everyone didn't speak, just watched the two arguing.

This situation couldn't be worse, it shows that there is no cohesion within the Cavaliers, everyone is just working and playing, and they have no interest in who is the boss and who the ball is for.

If you like to quarrel, you can quarrel, anyway, at the end of this season, the team is likely to fall apart, so it's important for us to take care of where to go on vacation and train in the summer, and where to play next season.

At this time, Steve Cole, as the head coach, still stepped up and stopped the two from continuing to argue, "Now is not the time to discuss this, if we lose the game, all arguments are meaningless. ”

But Owen said, "No, it makes sense, it's an argument for the truth!" ”

Both Kerr and James looked at Irving with retarded eyes, and the guy sometimes spoke to make people wonder what was going on in his head.

A person like this either has little root in his head, or he really has great wisdom.

For some reason, Cole saw Smart-Min in Owen, and the guy often said something amazing to make people think there was something wrong with the man's brain.

But Min Congda proved that he was right, and that the strategy of playing with the ball was considered idiotic at first, but now it has built an extremely powerful Los Angeles Clippers.

A team that has won three consecutive titles, but it feels like their journey to the title has just begun, and for Kerr, who has lived through the late dynasties, he knows how rare it is.

Therefore, in the face of Irving's "nonsense", Kerr was also in a trance for a while, maybe Irving was right, and it was James and the Cavaliers who were wrong?

Because Kerr's transformation of James in the past two seasons has indeed failed, James has changed back to the ball-handling core style he was familiar with after trying the "ball control four" for half a season.

Kerr is of course disappointed, he thinks James is not really playing to his full talent, in order to build his image beyond Jordan and the Chosen Son, he does not allow himself to be a super support player, he must be versatile, he must have the ball in hand, he must be the absolute core of the team.

In fact, even Jordan is willing to be a green leaf in many games and be a screw in a set of offensive tactical systems.

Of course, it's too late to say that 15 minutes simply can't heal the rift between Irving and James.

The Cavaliers trailed the Nets by five points in the first half, and the margin was not huge, and if the whole team worked together in the second half, they could win the game.

But I'm afraid it's already hard.

At halftime, the players left the locker room and restarted, and Irving said, "Our team is outdated in terms of style of play, don't you read the NBA-batman article?" Pick-and-roll, air cuts, and defensive changes, we play too bulky, and this is not the direction of basketball! ”

With that, Owen left the locker room and ran towards the pitch with his head down.

Kerr thought to himself, it turns out that this kid is still a big fan of NBA-Batman.

Indeed, some of NBA-Batman's tactical articles have gained a lot of fans among coaches and players in the league for their professionalism and forward-thinking.

To be honest, most players in the NBA don't read books or articles to understand tactics, and for some players, it's better to let them read books than to let them die.

Their understanding of tactics comes from training, from the dictation of the coach, the formation of muscle memory through repeated practice, and the fact that they play a lot of ball, they will naturally feel it.

For example, when you run a game, you may not have a good idea of how to run next, but when you see the person with the ball walking in your direction, you know in your heart that I can either go up and cover or walk away and give him space.

Or after a teammate runs and passes the ball, there is a gap in a certain direction, then he will naturally run in the direction of the gap and play too much, which is part of the basic skills.

As for the team's tactical strategy, the overall style of play, style, and direction are not issues for players to consider, especially not for star players.

It's a good thing that a young star like Irving is willing to read NBA-Batman's articles and study them seriously.

But Cole always felt like he was a little crooked?

It's like a person who lacks internal cultivation to read a profound classic, isn't that going to go mad?

Cole shook his head, his heart was almost tormented by the Knights, Owen, and James.

If you want to blame Smart, this dog thing, he pulled himself from the position of TV commentator to be an assistant coach, but he didn't let himself be the head coach later.

After that, he fired himself halfway, introduced Cleveland, a defeated player who doesn't as a head coach, and then took James and Irving, two strange players.

Both of them are men with their own systems, one with their own public opinion, tactical system, and one with their own brain hole system, and other idlers can't get close at all! Not to mention controlling them.

The only gain from Kerr in the past two years is that financially, the contract of the Cavaliers, the contract of the Clippers, the contract of the TV station, the termination compensation, etc., the money is really not less.

After thinking about it, he still fell for Smart, but fortunately, Kerr's contract is only one year, and the team can't make it to the finals this year, so it's time for him to get out.

This may also be Min Congda's most miscalculation, thinking that James was assigned a master of control, but he didn't expect that such a coach was not suitable for James at all.

James is suitable for the kind of dog-licking, chicken-soup type coach, everything is based on James, and the coach does a good job of other people's deployment and psychological work, so that everyone can give him a hand with peace of mind.

James needed a prime minister, not a true mentor.

Back in the third quarter, the Cavaliers were already a little unmotivated, but the game had to go on.

The Cavaliers are not without hope, anything is possible on the basketball court, and sometimes the comeback is a split second.

It is entirely possible for a team on the verge of rupture or collapse to save the team and save the series because of an opponent's mistake, death, or someone on their own side who was born to save the series.

This is also the charm of competitive sports, which, like a war, can solve all problems and cover up all the tattered places.

James understood this, so he didn't give up, but started to go all out in the third quarter — not only for the sake of the team, but also for his own reputation.

By half-time, he had only scored four points, so what would he do if he lost the game in single digits?

But the Nets coped well, and Kidd single-handedly defended James in the 2011 Finals and knew James' weakness: shooting.

This weakness is still quite fatal for a star, James's shooting percentage is actually very good, quite good, but he has relatively high requirements for shot selection, rhythm and feeling.

So, Kidd had Pierce constantly disrupt James' shooting rhythm from the first quarter onwards, ruining his shooting sensations, and James barely shot much in the first half.

Pierce also suffered a loss in 2012 and knew that once James shot and felt unstoppable, he must suppress his shooting feeling.

Fortunately for the Nets, James never found his shooting rhythm, and he didn't hit an outside three-point attempt at the start of the third quarter.

The Nets' offense is methodical, under the leadership of Kobe, making good use of Kobe Bryant's outside one-on-one problem-solving ability, and the success rate of one ball at a time.

At the Barclays Center, the enthusiasm of Nets fans reached a boiling point, and every time the Nets attacked, they shouted desperately to cheer for the team, especially for Kobe.

Kobe Bryant played very much like Kobe tonight, unlike the Kobe Bryant in the past, Kobe Bryant only shot 9 times in the first three quarters, hit 4 balls, and the shooting rate was still very Kobe, scoring 11 points.

But Bryant grabbed eight rebounds, seven assists and two steals, much like he did in the 2010 Finals, and he was willing to do anything to win the game, as long as it was good for the team.

He also focused most of his energy on defense, defending Irving, who has lost weight and is more agile on his feet and much better than he was last season.

The Nets don't have the kind of power that can destroy the opponent in one fell swoop, which Kobe, Kidd, Pierce, and Garnett all know in their hearts, so even if the situation is dominant, they are still very calm, play very carefully, grasp every offensive opportunity, even if they miss, don't leave a flaw for the opponent.

The 5-point advantage seems to be pressing the opponent to play, but in fact, a certain round is not grasped well, and the knight makes a slight effort, and the 5-point difference can be smoothed out in an instant, just a matter of an instant.

The core of the Nets team is an old fox who has become a fine, Pierce and Garnett have played against James a lot, and I know that this man is still very scary, but tonight I don't know why, as if dreaming back to 2010, James's state on the court gradually fell into a sleepwalking state again, as if the key battle of Tianwang Mountain in the semifinals that year.

Afterwards, it was known that James had injured his elbow at the time, but tonight he didn't look bothered by any injuries, and he probably suffered heartbreaks.

On the contrary, it was Irving, who was as excited as a chicken in the face of Kobe, and in the second half of the third quarter, Irving began to attack with a large number of balls and one-on-one Kobe.

Irving's skill is really out of words, and as a third-year grader, he's already shown amazing dribbling and shooting from the field.

At the beginning of the fourth quarter, Irving relied on a strong three-point shot and a steal layup to tie the score!

However, Bryant immediately returned the color, one-on-one in the middle to eat Danny Green, dribbling through the pull-up jump shot.

Kobe Bryant's key shot, he retained the physical strength of the whole game, in order to be able to shoot at this time, he didn't want to be like the previous two seasons, when it came to a critical moment.

The two sides entered a life-and-death duel, at which time no tactics were effective, and it was completely a contest of players' willpower and personal ability.

The two teams played iron in a row, missed consecutive shots, and the score maintained for a long time at 80:78.

With James missing another three-point shot, the Cavaliers missed another good opportunity to overtake the score.

Pierce won the backcourt rebound, signaled to steady, passed the half, blocked and dismantled in the high post, and cooperated with Garnett to hold the ball and hit the basket!

A layup resulted in a foul on Anderson, and Pierce went to the free throw line and hit both free throws to regain a four-point lead for the Nets.

It was getting closer and closer to the Nets entering the Finals for the third time, when James forced his way to the basket on offense, collided with Garnett and fell to the ground.

The referee blew the ball out of bounds, and it was still the Cavaliers' possession, and Garnett lay on the ground and did a few push-ups, although he didn't know what it was for, but it looked very morale-boosting.

James fell to the ground and couldn't get up, and several teammates came to check on him (excluding Owen) and pulled James up from the ground, and James stretched and seemed to feel a little unwell.

Then he limped off the court from the players' tunnel without saying hello to his teammates or coaches, and when he left, he took off his Cavaliers jersey, lowered his head, and slowly disappeared from the fans' sight.

(End of chapter)