Chapter 902 An Indecent Start
Thursday, May 26, 2016.
One side has decided the final result for the NBA division final.
In the Western Conference, the Golden State Warriors were broken by the Thunder and advanced to the finals for two consecutive years with a 4-1 record.
The Eastern Conference, the 76ers led the Cavaliers 3-2, and the game 6, their inside core DeMarcus Cousins was suspended, so they will face the challenge of the Cavaliers with an incomplete lineup.
Without Cousins, the problem of lack of staff in the interior will be more prominently exposed.
Quick Loan Center, this is the Cavaliers' last home game, and they have no reason to lose the game.
From the day Cousins was suspended, they had to play with a clever reputation behind their backs.
After the 76ers entered the venue, the Clevelanders' booing continued for a long time, and their persistence in this regard was just like a city that had not won any professional sports championship cup in half a century, with a desire for victory.
They last very long.
All 76ers were solemn, and they did not use fancy dunks to warm up the game.
Everyone made layups, shots, and passed and followed layups.
They only do things that can warm your hands and feet and adjust your feel.
"The people who think that the 76ers and the Cavaliers will definitely play to the tiebreak will have time to change their minds now," Jeff Van Gundy said with a funny look. "I saw a look similar to the angered Michael Jordan in the faces of these people."
Mark Jackson said in surprise: "A irritated mj is already trembling. Does the 76ers have a group?"
They exaggerated and indirectly showed how amazing the momentum the 76ers are currently showing.
The core players of the two teams did not even exchange a few greetings in the midfield.
Wei Xia and James both made a warning gesture of not being able to speak for too long.
Time passed by second by second, and Cleveland's local singer came to the stage to sing the US national anthem. The song ended, and DJ began to introduce the starters of both sides. The uninnovative cutscene ended, and the starting lineup of the 76ers in this game first appeared on the central screen.
Holiday, Weisha, Robertson, Hayward, Farid.
Strictly speaking, this is what Pat Riley calls "future basketball". Of course, there is no exaggeration as "future basketball is five James". The 76ers lineup does not have an orthodox inside line. The biggest player is Hayward, and the defense of the five starting players has no blind spots.
The knight opposite is also having an alternative mind.
Cousins cannot play, they want to magnify their inside advantage, so they let Thompson and Loff start again, James returns to the third position, Jefferson starts as the second position, and Irving cannot be beaten at the first position.
The 76ers lost the jump ball, and Wei Xia immediately came to James' side. He took out the close-fitting defense of his body, which was rigorous and serious, but did not overthink James's body.
This kind of defense puts little pressure, mainly torment, and is very capable of testing the offensive party's patience.
"I can feel your dissatisfaction from your defense." James longs to get more from Cousins' suspension, "I'm glad to infuriate you."
"Irritated me? Oh my God, my king, you don't know how excited I am."
The moment he finished speaking, Lof actually wanted to pass the ball when James didn't keep his position tight.
Such a pass is like a hot-bodied woman deliberately wearing sexy underwear to seduce a virgin with uncontrollably powerlessness.
Wei Xia stepped forward in an instant and took away James' position and the ball.
He rode alone to fast break, and James had no intention of catching up, so his first goal in this game was so easy - a direct tomahawk dunk.
2 to 0
"You think you are sure to win. In fact, if you lose this game, I believe that public opinion will definitely increase the hairline of your wise and powerful head by 5 cm."
Wei Xia walked to James with a sneer: "I am looking forward to that moment very much!"
James' response was to catch the ball at a low post.
He is no longer the person who was single-handedly defended by Barria. Although his skills in low posts have not improved much, he has enough weight to sit and play all players in the same position.
Wei Xia defended his attack, but he couldn't help but cooperate with Thompson.
Thompson cut from the outside, and the 76ers had no height inside, so James raised his hand to pass the empty call.
2 to 2
"The starting lineup of the 76ers has the strongest defensive mobility."
"But again, they sacrificed their superiority."
“It’s hard to get both height and speed.”
Holiday's starting lineup symbolizes that the 76ers gave up their systematic tactical offense, and they wanted to use their athletic ability to dismantle the Cavaliers' offense and defense.
Seeing Holiday holding the ball on the top of the arc, facing Irving, the 76ers teammates gave him a luxurious high-end double pick-and-roll.
Wei Xia and Hayward were responsible for the pick-and-roll.
Their pick-and-roll quality is not as good as the inside, but the threat they disassembled is far from comparable to that of the inside.
The greater the threat of disassembly, the better the tearing effect on the defense.
In the end, they ended up in exchange for Holiday.
Lof immediately showed his best defense during his Timberwolves - shooting, you can do whatever you want, and I will let you do it, but I will definitely make a fierce defensive posture and make people think I have done my best. In fact, my attention is all about the defensive rebounds you may generate after you take action.
Holiday did not have the little thoughts of Lof. He used the ball to move the ball, and when he saw the opportunity to attack, he stopped and shot.
"Swish!"
4 to 2
The Cavaliers' offense began to become difficult.
Weisha only took two rounds to adjust from Ka James' position to the front defense and did not receive the ball.
Although Holiday could not defend against Irving, Robertson's athletic ability and cooperative defense area were underestimated.
Wei Xia's existence and Hayward's stable starting position have made Robertson's defense overlooked by many people. In fact, he may be the third best player in the 76ers' defense ability.
Size, physical fitness, athleticism, defensive willingness and experience, almost impeccable, contemporary perfect basket collar wings.
As long as he is not allowed to attack, he can completely satisfy the coaching staff in other aspects.
His defense is used to underestimate Jefferson, so he will pay more attention to the positions of Irving and others on the defensive end, and abandon Jefferson to assist in defense as soon as the time is right.
Someone started to fall to the ground.
Jefferson's aging body seemed to be unable to cope with the high pressure defensive intensity of the 76ers coming up.
What was even more unexpected was that the referee actually acquiesced to the 76ers' actions.
James took the ball with great difficulty, and he hit the ball a few times on his back, but he couldn't get it in, so the ball could only be passed to the outside.
When Irving received the ball, he had no time to fight one-on-one again, so he just pulled the ball from the outside.
"Bang!"
"Your heroic figure in the last second that you threw the bomb into your teammate's arms has been deeply imprinted into my mind." Wei Xia whispered behind James.
The result of chasing James to speak Yin-Yang dialect is that they face the top position head-on in the frontcourt.
James's original defense was Hayward, but suddenly it was Wei Xia.
The opportunity is rare, Wei Xia asked the ball to get his teammates away.
No pick-and-roll, no cover, no tactics.
There are only wonderful individual singles, Wei Xia's enthusiasm for playing James is like O'Neal's receiving the ball at a low post and found that the defender was playing Nate Robinson. If this scene happened in the real world, O'Neal would not knock Robinson out of his shit, even if he wasn't full tonight.
Such extreme excitement appeared on Wei Xia's face.
He used the ball to beat James' defense in rhythm. James's defense is no longer comparable to him on the defensive end.
Wei Xia carried the ball in a wonderful way, turned around, stopped urgently, and called James to completely destroy his defense before throwing the ball.
"Swish!"
6 to 2
"So, people who try every means to drag the series to the seventh game can only make this level of defense?" Wei Xia put his hand sarcastically, "I feel your wish to be ridiculed by fans across the United States, and I swear you will get what you want!"
Wei Xia's Yin-Yang dialect is like a locust that harms the fields, densely spraying out space without giving James a breath.
What he said and done was angering the entire Cavaliers team.
He really couldn't believe that the Cavaliers had made a decisive battle without the opening. Do they think that if the 76ers had no Cousins, they could do whatever they wanted?
If this is true, Wei Xia will sigh again.
God really hates Cleveland, otherwise how could this group of guys compete for the championship?
James's face gradually became cold. At the beginning of the game, he still had unfinished pride, which was the pleasure that could not be extinguished after the plan succeeded.
He knew that doing so would make the 76ers team as disgusting as if they had swallowed shit, which was what he was happy to see.
Now, Wei Xia's trash talk began to make the whole team disgusted.
At the start of 6-2, the 76ers played without rules, and their defense was extremely oppressed by athletic ability. It was like the Dream Team playing a Fiba game, and the offensive end was even more confusing. There was no tactical offense at the beginning of the three goals, and it was all singles.
James was eager to get the ball, but Wei Xia suddenly increased her physical contact and did not give him a chance to get the ball.
The two of them fought for 16 seconds, and the gasps one after another were swallowed by the messy stadium atmosphere. Irving's single-handed fight finally ended with a complex way of stopping, turning around and then turning back and falling back to jump shot.
4 to 6
"If I were Kairi, I wouldn't be willing to be the No. 2 player under a guy who passed the ball first." Wei Xia laughed insidiously.
"You can say all this nonsense, if you find it useful." James responded with a tense face.
Nonsense? Wei Xia asked himself, which of his words are not the truth?
The truth is so unpleasant.
James couldn't accept it, which means that his new clothes were still worn on his body, their offense and defense were not fierce enough, and the emperor wanted to be decent. However, this happened. Tonight, Wei Xia could not make him decent every second of this game.
Chapter completed!