As the game is about to begin, both sides have announced the starting lineups of this game respectively.

Cavaliers:

Mo Williams, West, James, Ben Wallace, and Big Z Ilgoskas.

Magic:

Sujiu, Iverson, Petrus, Lewis, and Howard.

Both sides continued their rotation lineup in most cases this season.

Among them, the main reason why Van Gundy chose to put Tkoglu back on the bench in this round of the series and used Pitrus as the starting lineup is that he wanted the latter to try his best to limit LeBron James' performance.

After all, if Tkoglu was asked to defend LeBron James, then this scene could definitely be said to be terrible.

As for the Cavaliers, although the Cavaliers' lineup seems a bit intimidating at first glance, because among the five starting lineups, four of them have been selected into the Eastern Conference All-Star lineup.

And Ben Wallace was the famous Piston Five Tigers at that time!!

But, although the Cavaliers' lineup looks very powerful, so far, there is only the bluffing function left.

Because in this Cavaliers this season, only two players, LeBron James and Mo Williams, are truly able to play.

As for other players, they are all under 13 points per game, and there are only four players who score in double digits.

Among them, Ben Wallace, one of the five Pistons Tigers, has even deteriorated to averaging 2.9 points and 6.5 rebounds this season.

It can be said that Ben Wallace at his peak was a completely blue-collar player, but Ben Wallace at that time could definitely be called the peak overlord among blue-collar players.

However, with injuries and age, Ben Wallace has truly regressed to a blue-collar worker, and even has to use defensive experience to make up for the lack of movement speed this season.

And it goes without saying that his performance on the offensive end is that Daben at his peak has no offensive ability, so Daben at this time can basically be said to be useless except for dunks...

I have to say that this can be regarded as the end of a generation of tough guys.

As for the Cavaliers' other former All-Star player, Irgoskas, who was even more ill this season, his personal data also dropped to 12.9 points and 7.4 rebounds.

After entering the playoffs, Irgoskas' average data has shrunk to 10.1 points and 6.2 rebounds, and his shooting percentage is only 47.2%.

You know, Irgoskas is a big center with 2.21 meters, so this shooting percentage can be said to be very low.

Even if Ilgoskas is more than ten centimeters higher than Howard, given Ilgoskas' physical condition this season, Howard can definitely press him to the ground and rub him wildly at the basket.

So for the Magic, the only ones who can really pose a threat to the team in the entire Cavaliers are James and Mo Williams.

Even though the Magic had fought seven bloody games with the Celtics before, they finally barely won the ticket to the Eastern Conference Finals.

But for Stan Van Gundy, the pressure this Cavaliers has brought to him at this moment is definitely much less than that of the Celtics.

Although this Cavaliers are also very strong and have won the first place in the Eastern Conference with a shock force, but after entering the playoffs, the shortcomings of this Cavaliers are too obvious.

In addition to the team's offensive reliance on the performance of LeBron James and Mo Williams.

This flaw in James's not good at long-range shooting in the playoffs will also be taken out by other opponents to make a big fuss.

So this is also the main reason why the Cavaliers clearly achieved the first place in the Eastern Conference in this year's regular season, but in the championship predictions of many expert media, they can only barely rank fourth in the end.

Although this Cavaliers play very fiercely in the regular season, when both sides will confront each other continuously, the shortcomings of this Cavaliers will appear too obvious.

Once you fight a tough battle, the flaws exposed by the Cavaliers will definitely be a fatal existence.

Even in Su Jiu's opinion, this Knights this season are definitely very similar to the Bucks in later generations.

That is, with its unstoppable impact and the iron body of the star, both of them can achieve a good record in the regular season.

However, in the playoffs, the team's leading stars had very big shortcomings in offense.

Even if they can still win data that is not inferior to the regular season and even hand in a better data, this data is far from helping the team win.

So when both sides will have a battle of up to seven consecutive games, if LeBron James just blindly breaks through, then this can definitely be called a fatal flaw.

After the game started, the centers of both sides stood in the center circle and jumped, although Ilgoskas was as much as ten centimeters taller than Howard.

However, in the jump ball at the beginning, Howard was the first to get the ball for the Magic with his excellent bounce ability.

After spending halftime with the ball, the second leader of the Cavaliers Mo Williams was defending Su Jiu at this moment.

When Su Jiu saw Mo Williams in front of him, he breathed a sigh of relief.

After all, although Mo Williams has strong offensive ability, his defensive ability is very poor. At least compared to Rondo, who was responsible for defending himself in the last round, then Mo Williams in front of him is simply weak.

Standing at a high position with the ball, Su Jiu found that the Cavaliers were still guarding a 2-3 joint defense like they did during the regular season.

Because the Cavaliers have always played in the double tower lineup this season, and when Ben Wallace is injured, Mike Brown will use Ilgoscas and Valaijo to start at the same time.

This is also because the two inside players of the Cavaliers are currently very limited in movement speed, so in order to accommodate the inside, Mike Brown has never used the human-to-man tactic.

After all, Big Z is two meters tall, and he can completely shock enemy players to break through under the basket.

However, once Daz is transferred out of the penalty area by the opponent's center, this will definitely be a defensive loophole with Daz's defensive center of gravity and his current movement speed.

So this season, Mike Brown is using the first defense to try to break through the opponent.

He even drove the opponent to take the initiative to move forward to the inside, so that Irgoskas and Ben Wallace can block the inside.

After all, there is still far from the current era of death. Not to mention that the threats from the league teams to outside the three-point line are very limited.

Just to say that most teams in the league are currently paired with a double tower lineup, and the most powerful center is in the inside.

So in this case, Mike Brown's strategy of staying at the basket and not going out has also helped the Cavaliers achieve an excellent record this season.

However, Stan Van Gundy, who knew this well before the game, made some arrangements for the Cavaliers' defensive formation early in the morning.

That is, since the Magic cannot transfer the Cavaliers' double towers out of the penalty area, the Magic will try to end at a position far from the penalty area.

After all, among the five starting players of the Magic, except Howard, the other four have three-pointers and mid-range shooting abilities.

Among them, Allen Iverson used the ultimate in mid-range shooting this season.

So after the opening, the Magic's attack range on the offensive end was basically taken away from the penalty area.

Faced with this situation, the Cavaliers' head coach Mike Brown has obviously become a little used to it. After all, the Cavaliers have always had such a defensive habit this season, so the Magic will choose this way to complete the offense, while Mike Brown off the court did not feel anything wrong.

Because in the Eastern Conference semi-finals, the Hawks also used this offensive method and wanted to defeat the Cavaliers in this way.

The final result was that the Cavaliers swept the Eagles with a big score of 4:0.

You should know that compared to the dominance of the defensive end, the biggest reason why this Cavaliers are out of the way in the regular season is that they perform on the offensive end.

Especially when it comes to defensive counterattacks, this Cavaliers' defensive counterattack is definitely one of the fastest teams in the league.

Therefore, after entering the playoffs, the team's average offensive of 108.6 points per game is by no means a flaw, and the team's average of 108.6 points per game is also ranked first among the 16 teams in the playoffs without any suspense.

However, there is a huge gap between the Magic this season and the Hawks, so facing the defense of the Cavaliers, the Magic plays easily and hits at mid- and long distances at the beginning.

Especially Su Jiu of the Magic, he played very happily against Mo Williams' defense in this game.

On the offensive end, the entire person even needs to use Howard's small pick-and-roll to quickly complete the three-point shooting.

After all, in the last round of the game, Su Jiu was always facing Rondo's desperate battle and Garnett's iron elbow to lead the way.

It is no exaggeration to say that if the Magic and the Celtics have two more games in this round of series, Su Jiu doesn't know whether the Celtics' physical strength will be severely lost.

But Su Jiu knew that his waist disc would definitely be slightly severely given to him by Rondo and Garnett...

So when the defensive intensity in front of Su Jiu suddenly dropped to Mo Williams.

This feeling is like fish swimming in the sea, everything becomes relaxed and pleasant.

Facing the bombardment thrown by the Magic at the beginning, Mike Brown's face was obviously a little dark, even though his face was already very dark.

Because Mike Brown could not understand at this moment, the Magic team had obviously had a seven-game battle with the Celtics.

In terms of physical strength, it is impossible to achieve the best state in just a short time. As a result, at the beginning of this game, the Magic made a three-pointer. Tell me that this is poor physical strength?!!!

That's it?!!

If it was just a continuous loss of points on the defensive end, then Mike Brown could also classify all this as the Magic's overwhelming touch.

But as the Cavaliers were not only shot into a plug by the Magic on the defensive end, but most importantly, they also suffered a blow on the offensive end, which the Cavaliers are most proud of.

Among them, when Pitrus defended James in this game, he always used two steps to defend.

But if it were just that, Mike Brown wouldn't feel too surprised, after all, most teams in the league do this when defending James.

After all, James' shooting percentage outside the three-point line is only 28.4%, so other teams can easily make a choice when it comes to defending James' breakthrough or three-pointer.

The reason why the Magic really caused the Cavaliers' offense to decline was not only because of Pitrus' excellent personal efficiency when defending James.

The most important thing is that after James used his personal ability to break away from Pitrus, he still had to face a mountain in the inside, that is, Howard, the best defensive player in the league.

So for LeBron James, who wants to score as close as possible to the basket, Howard's existence is definitely a big nightmare for him.

After all, after James spent a lot of effort to finally squeeze out Pitrus, he suddenly found that there was a mountain like Howard standing in front of him. This feeling was really too sour.

You know, there is a large difference between the Knight and the Celtics.

The main scoring method of this Cavaliers comes from James' breakthrough into the inside and passing the ball to the shooters on the outside.

However, when the Magic refused to double-team James in this game, James could only score as much as possible for the team through breakthroughs.

When facing such a team that mainly attacks the basket, Howard can definitely be called the real arrival of the Warcraft.

Conversely, when teams like the Celtics end most of the shots at mid- and long distances, and still have Perkins in the interior who can handle Howard, this is the existence that the Magic fear the most.
To be continued...