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0678 Small wins rely on tactics, big wins look at Curry

After some inspection, Cousins ​​held George and Antetokounmpo to stand up. Following the guidance of the team doctor Tom Kaufman, he turned his arms continuously and confirmed repeatedly. He found that there was no problem. He immediately turned his head and looked at the king's bench and signaled to Su Yang that there was no problem.

Su Yang nodded, relaxed with a slightly nervous expression, and the referee also signaled that the game would continue.

It's a good thing to have a false alarm.

Cheers were everywhere in the stadium, and the Kings kicked off the left sideline of the backcourt, and the frontcourt had a high and four low formation. Curry dribbled the ball to the top of the arc, and cooperated with Cousins ​​with pick-and-roll, and suddenly threw away Irving and entered the inside line. Love was forced to move sideways and delayed.

Cousins ​​got a lot of space, raised his hand to catch Curry's pass, jumped at the basket, and slashed hard with a clang!

The basketball flopped the basket into the net, and Cousins ​​scored 8 points in a row, helping the Kings start 8-3, and the cheers of fans exploded again.

Zhang Heli said excitedly: "The King is too strong! Just because he surpasses the Cavaliers in four positions in lineup configuration, he not only has to double-team Curry, but also beware of Antetokounmpo's impact on the basket. They don't have so many defensive resources available."

Yang Yi continued: "If the Cavaliers lose the finals, they really can't blame LeBron. He has done enough. It's not that the Cavaliers are not strong enough, but that the Kings are too strong. In terms of inside defense, Thompson can't defend Cousins ​​when he goes to defend Antetokounmpo. We know what level of defense after Love loses weight, let alone Coach Tyron Lu also asked to delay Curry as soon as possible..."

On the court, LeBron faced George with the right wing, lowered the center of gravity and rushed to the basket. Seeing that the Kings and the generals gathered, they steadily closed the ball and jumped, and made a move to prepare for a difficult layup, but in fact they threw the ball out of the crack and passed it to the 45-degree three-point line on the left.

The pass is appropriate and the position is accurate, and it is amazing.

Love received the ball in a large open space, rushed towards Brogdon to make up for defense, and hurriedly made a three-pointer in a panic, and hit the iron with a clang.

But TT grabbed the offensive rebound and caused Cousins ​​to foul.

The Cavaliers got the ball again, kicked off on the left sideline, Irving took the ball and found TT Thompson, and took the opportunity to launch the pick-and-roll.

Brogden squeezed through the cover to catch up, but his explosive power was slightly worse and he could not keep up with the pace, so he could only forcefully accelerate.

As soon as he accelerated, Irving immediately stopped and took off the ball and jumped. He leaned back with difficulty with the cover, and then slammed the iron again.

"Actually, both attacks were considered good opportunities, but unfortunately the Cavaliers didn't grasp it..." Su Yang felt a little glad that the Cavaliers' tactics were a bit extreme, either running a single with a complicated single like the beginning, or playing singles with personal abilities like just now.

The entire Knights team was not connected, as if everyone was fighting in a dispersed manner and could not play out the team's strength when encountering the king.

While thinking, Curry grabbed the rebound, landed and turned around and pushed quickly to counterattack, successfully attracting the Cavaliers to double-team, slowed down to protect the ball at the top of the arc, and scanned the half-court formation and found that the Kings at the basket were 2-for-1, and Cousins ​​and Antetokounmpo faced Love.

He raised his hand and passed the ball. Antetokounmpo received the ball from the right side. Taking advantage of Love's gaze, he immediately passed the ball at the basket.

With a clang, he succeeded in dunking again.

Cousins ​​scored 10 points in a row at the beginning!

"Is this still called a timeout? I feel that the Cavaliers are about to collapse. Their defense is like a shaky dangerous building under the rush of the king. The similar loss of points is too hurtful. The King scores easily every time, and they all score hard..."

"I think the Cavaliers' thinking may be like this. Anyway, we can't defend against the offensive problems that need to be solved..."

Amid the cheers of the audience, the Cavaliers rushed to make a quick attack.

LeBron dribbled the ball and rushed straight to the left of the frontcourt at 45 degrees. George saw that he intercepted, lowered the center of gravity, closed the ball and forced the basket, pushed George against the jump and made a basket, and shouted to remind the referee and one, but unfortunately the basketball rebounded and fell.

The referee didn't call a foul either. LeBron was so anxious that he spread his hands, as if saying: "I don't understand! Why?"

No response.

The Kings grabbed the rebound and pushed the counterattack. George caught the ball and walked across the center line. Seeing that there was no one in front of him, he decisively accelerated into the paint area. He pushed the ball forward and changed direction. He easily passed Love who was trying to defend, jumped high and threw the ball and scored two points steadily.

12 to 3, the king killed crazy, cheers came one after another, Tyron Lu raised his hand to signal, and the referee blew a whistle to pause.

Su Yang stood up and applauded, then slapped the king generals back to the bench, and asked Cousins ​​about his injuries.

There are not many gains and losses in the game that need to be summarized. Su Yang focused on complimenting Curry's pass, and then made a simple prediction: "The Cavaliers should continue their previous strategy next, that is, try to block our three-pointers, and we must boldly rush the basket. As for the defensive end, we will continue to defend LeBron alone on the perimeter. If LeBron hits the basket, he will shrink and close the ball and try to cut off his pass..."

The pause ends between conversations.

The game continued, and the two teams did not make personnel adjustments.

The Cavaliers kicked off the ball in the backcourt, and all the players in the frontcourt opened up space. LeBron looked for Love's pick-and-roll at the top of the arc and forced the basket.

As usual, the Kings and the generals retreated and prepared to join the siege. Unexpectedly, the referee blew the whistle and fouled Antetokounmpo, and made two free throws.

Antetokounmpo shrugged his shoulders to show his confusion. Boos were everywhere in the stadium. Su Yang looked up and found that Antetokounmpo did make a foul. It was mainly because LeBron went around the ball and tried to interfere, touching LeBron's shoulder, but the whistle rang slowly.

There is no problem with a foul, but it shouldn't be given a free throw foul. The Cavaliers should reorganize the offense. It's hard to say whether it is a misjudgment.

There was a constant stream of booing in the stadium, and LeBron stood on the free throw line, with the first free throw and the iron bang, and the second free throw was hollow into the net.

The King took the ball and launched a counterattack.

The frontcourt moved from right to left to start with strength and weakness. Curry crossed the ball on the right and then walked down, making a move to provide George with a cover. Seeing this, LeBron started to catch up, but George stopped and ran back and cut the basket, while Antetokounmpo, who was holding the ball on the left, passed the ball simultaneously.

With a clang, the basketball fryed the basket into the net, and scored an empty score.

"Oh, haha, on the Cavaliers, LeBronfed won 1 point in free throw, and the Kings only took 9 seconds to easily dunk. You said that with such a gap, how can the Cavaliers defeat the King? That's no chance, the gap is too big."

"In terms of the start of less than three and a half minutes, the Kings are completely a higher-level team, and there is no need to play in this game."

On the field, the offense and defense were changed. LeBron controlled the ball on the left wing and looked for pick-and-roll. He suddenly raised his hand to pass the ball to the right wing. Love took the ball and moved sideways to find the rhythm. Antetokounmpo, who was responsible for defense, was blocked by Thompson because he paid too much attention to LeBron's movements.

Although Antetokounmpo pounced on him in time, it was too late. Love's move was not affected, and three-pointers entered the net.

The Cavaliers' bench cheered loudly, and Love's goal this time raised his morale, helping the Cavaliers catch up to 7-14.

It was a 10-point gap before, but now it is a 7-point gap, and it feels like you can still play, and it has not reached the point of surrender.

Seeing this, Su Yang sighed: "LeBron really trusts Love, of course there may be no choice. As for our king, we look down on Love's killing, or pay too much attention to LeBron's breakthrough, which needs improvement..."

Just as he was thinking, Curry broke through and rushed to the basket, suddenly stopped and raised his hand to pass the ball behind his back, directly passing the ball out of the sideline, making a mistake.

"This is playing..."

Su Yang raised his eyebrows slightly, but did not remind him that it was normal for Curry to relax his mentality.

However, if you don’t open your mouth to remind you to destroy the atmosphere, you must also have tactical arrangements, at least to ensure that the scoring momentum is progressing normally.

Make up his mind and immediately shouted to command: "Get a stack, pass the ball to Curry and shoot a three-pointer..."

He directly conspired and told the Cavaliers what tactics to play, so it would be best to make LeBron guess whether it is true or false and make a mentality.

The Kings' generals immediately did as they did, Antetokounmpo stood outside the right wing, Antetokounmpo went to the right bottom corner, Curry and Cousins ​​stood in the elbow area on the left and right sides, and Brogdon stood in the waist position on the left and right sides, and the referee blew the ball and the whole crew began to move.

Antetokounmpo started to rush to the basket, Curry rushed to the right wing with the help of Cousins' cover, and the Cavaliers hurriedly chased each other.

LeBron shouted on the sidelines to remind him to pay attention to the left.

But Wiggins didn't pay attention, mainly because Curry and Antetokounmpo's off-ball run completely took away his defensive attention.

The next second, Brogdon started and also used Cousins ​​to cover it, getting rid of Wiggins and heading straight to the right side of the free throw line.

George raised his hand and threw the ball into the court. Brogden took the ball and shot it, while Wiggins, who was in charge of defense, was three positions away.

Dong! The basketball is hollow into the net.

16-7, the Kings' lead approached 10 points again. LeBron was so angry that he rushed straight to the frontcourt.

The Cavaliers attacked, LeBron received the ball, and cooperated with the pick-and-roll running Irving, trying to misplace the game against Curry.

Curry followed Su Yang's pre-match arrangement and ignored such situations and continued to chase Irving into the inside.

George also relied on LeBron's three-pointer and chose to take a step back to defend his breakthrough, and LeBron jumped decisively.

When! Three-pointer iron.

But I never thought that Antetokounmpo jumped to grab the rebound, collided with Cousins, and the basketball fell into Irving's hands.

In the chaos, Irving may have thought he was playing as a center forward, but he actually took the circumference under the basket and was hit by a big hat.

But the basketball was forced to fly backwards and was picked up by LeBron on the periphery. The king, who was about to launch a counterattack, was forced to return to defense.

As he came and went, the defensive formation had become messy. LeBron raised his hand and threw the ball towards the bottom corner on the left, and Irving received the ball and made a three-pointer.

Swish! Hollow into the net, 16 to 10.

The Knights bit the situation again and were quite tenacious.

The two teams continued to attack and defend, and they went back and forth, and the Cavaliers resolutely scored three-pointers, especially Curry's three-pointer. Soon after the half-time game, the Kings only led 68 to 56, not as crushing as expected, and the game's victory or defeat remained suspense.

Back in the locker room, Su Yang took the statistics table handed over by Mike Brown and found that Curry only made 5 of 13 shots in the first half, including 2 of 5 three-pointers, while the team made 4 of 13 three-pointers, which did not play the previous dominant style of the game.

"Stephen, we need you to play at a normal level!"
Chapter completed!
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