Chapter 202 Cocooning oneself
James has been interfering with Artest's offensive end with small movements. The beast has its own way to defend the little emperor. He is sometimes far away from two big steps and sometimes he is mentally humiliated by his opponent, and sometimes he is like a dog skin plaster and he is still stuck with James... The players' personal defense is the same as their joint defense. The same method cannot be used endlessly. Changes are needed to make the defended players feel uncomfortable. Now the gorilla feels extremely uncomfortable!
Artest can withstand the physical defense of the gorilla, which makes the little emperor limited the way he can take. Most of the time, he can solve the opponent by relying on "body" or "speed".
LeBron James used to deal with Artest to open up the space for breakthrough and use his own speed to break through. Although Artest's strength is enough, his horizontal movement and footsteps cannot keep up with the Little Emperor. Therefore, the two of them had an absolute advantage in playing against the gorilla this season, and they could beat Artest with speed every time.
This season, the Clippers' twins were able to help defend James' breakthrough in time in the interior. Their two long arms greatly reduced the threat of the Little Emperor's breakthrough. Once the speed and strength were ineffective, James has not yet mastered his outside shooting and back, and he immediately was as powerful as returning to the finals last season.
LeBron James was forced to do nothing, and in addition to his anxiety, he pushed Artest away with a foul on his shoulder, dribbling the ball into the inside and entered Ji Guomeng's defensive area.
The fox brother immediately came up to help with defense, spread his hands and covered the sky. It didn't matter if he couldn't cover it, he just wanted to interfere.
The gorilla used his unique skills at this time. He used a step to pull the ball with both hands... or a jump... Anyway, the referee couldn't tell the difference, so everyone saw the gorilla jumping with both feet and jumping directly from the little fox. After landing, the axle's foot did not move, and another disguised appearance came. Ji Guomother completely flashed, and finally jumped up with a one-handed heavy deduction to get two points.
The Pandas also returned to the basket to make up for defense at this time, but his blocking was slower and he could only stop in the end to avoid being beaten into two plus one for the foul.
"Walk!"
Ji Guomeng and his teammates made a stroll gesture to the referee as soon as possible. The gorilla's doily breakthrough this time was not clear than what he explained last time. If you play like this in broad daylight, why don't the referee blow this ball?
The referee really doesn't yell. It's hard to tell whether James' moves are walking with the naked eye. The criterion for judgment depends on the player's movements coherence; whether the league has instructions; or the referee's mood and personal preferences; since Ji Guomo had the same move before, the little emperor should have the same judgment, which is fair!
The Clippers fans scolded the referee for collecting black money, completely forgetting that Ji Guomeng's previous ball was not so clean, and the referee treated him equally and had no black spots.
The game went to 3 minutes and 30 seconds in the second quarter, with a score of 44:41, and the Clippers led by 3 points.
Ji Guoqiu held the ball with a high frame, and the one who defended him was Daz.
The Panda Hero decisively dribbled through the high position, and dribbled the ball and accelerated it to pass the clumsy Lithuanian. Facing James's countermeasures and forced his move, he scored a goal due to his height and length of his arms. He also created a defensive foul by the Gorilla.
A tsunami-like "mvp" cheer immediately sounded in the Staples Arena. They deserved to shout like this after the All-Star Game, especially Ji Guoqiu, who won the rookie match MVP and All-Star Game MVP. Lakers fans are unwilling to give up any problem. They are really MVP now.
LeBron James was very dissatisfied with the penalty for the ball and stepped forward to protest loudly at the referee, believing that he had not committed a foul.
The large screen on the scene was played back in slow motion. The gorilla foul was indeed optional. This was an ambiguous penalty, but considering that this was the Clippers' home court, it was sentenced.
Ji Guochou scored a penalty and scored his 10th point in this game.
Today, when dealing with Big Z, who is taller than me, but far more clumsy than me, Panda Hero strengthened his breakthrough, and this method has had a good effect.
James is also looking for a way to deal with Artest on the offensive end. The Gorilla continues to increase his breakthrough action and wants to test the referee's bottom line. This time, when he broke through and stopped, the ball guard's hand raised an elbow. This action was not very obvious, but Artest took a step back. James had an open shot at the free throw line.
"Swish!"
The gorillas' shooting percentage in the free throw line area is still very good, and this goal is hollowed out into the net.
Now Artest complained to the referee. This time the referee saw it but pretended not to see it. A typical star whistle. To be honest, Kobe used more of this action than a gorilla. If you were not a star, you would have to admit defeat.
Billups transported the ball to Ji Guomeng outside the 45-degree three-point line on the right wing.
Ben Wallace is facing the same dilemma as Daz, that is, he can't keep up with the Fox brother, and what's worse is that Da Ben Zhong is not even tall enough, and it doesn't disturb Ji Guomo's shooting much. He can't defend against breaking or shooting.
Cavaliers fans saw Ben Wallace being beaten up on the court by Ji Guomo, whose salary was more than ten times lower, and he was in tears. The money was spent really - a sucker!
Ji Guomeng made a three-threat move outside the three-point line. The Cavaliers formation began to tilt towards him. Other Cavaliers players were ready to make up for the leaks for Big Ben at any time. In the past, this was the work of Wallace. Unfortunately, time has driven people to grow old, and a generation of newcomers replaced old people...
When the Clippers players saw the Cavaliers' movements, they immediately pulled away in the opposite direction and all of them landed on the weak side.
The Cavaliers go left and the Clippers go right, in short, they want to make the opponent feel uncomfortable in all kinds of ways.
Ji Guomeng broke through the dribble, Ben Wallace moved his footsteps and blocked the Fox brother at 15 feet. The latter immediately changed from breaking to back-on, and continued to play back.
When James saw Ji Guomomiya leaving behind his back, he thought to himself: You are really looking for shit on your own!
The little emperor felt that there was an opportunity to take advantage of it, so he immediately came up to double-team, and Artest took the opportunity to pull it to the top of the arc at this time.
Ji Guomo was waiting for the moment when James was about to surround him in telepathy, and turned around and jumped up without shooting, but threw the basketball to Artest at the top of the arc.
West's defense is backed up. Artest passes again...
Billups received the ball from the other side of the wing three-point line. No one defended it. He made a three-pointer from the outside!
Mike Brown, in front of the Cavaliers' bench, saw the team's defense on which the team relied to win, was hit hard by the Clippers' fast and deadly passer. He couldn't help but pull his hair, but forgot that it had fallen out of the ground long ago and naturally nothing was caught. But this action almost made Charles Barkley laugh in the live broadcast room.
Mike Brown couldn't touch his hair and looked at the score again. 50:43. Billups' three-pointer made the Cavaliers in an extremely bad situation. Logically, he should have called a timeout at this time. Black Bread himself knew this very well, but... but... he has no solution. How can this timeout be called?
The problem with the Cavaliers is that they cannot defend against the two big men of the Clippers, which can affect their whole body. Simply put, they were broken through from the inside by the Clippers today, and eventually lost to the outside.
The two twins usually don’t make much breakthrough with the ball, but today they use high-level breakthroughs as conventional weapons. It is obviously a big deal to seize the disadvantages of their inside players. He has tried to use the retraction of the inside to deal with the twins’ breakthroughs. However, the Clippers’ long-range shooting ability is far better than theirs, so this trick doesn’t work at all.
Black Bread racked his brains off the court, hoping to find a way to deal with the Clippers, but until the end of the first half, he was helpless.
The solutions he could think of were without exception, and there was no condition to execute. After all, the Cavaliers were not strong enough this year. He could not let Ben Wallace, the best defensive player, recover from his peak, recover? If he was given a big Ben at his peak, instead of a big Ben that was about to retire, Mike Brown would be sure to kill the Clippers' twin inside.
The score was 58:48, relying on James's long three-pointer who hit the national luck before the end of the half, the Cavaliers were lucky not to fall behind by 13 points.
The Cavaliers team entered the halftime break and ran into the player channel quickly after cheering from the 20,000 boat fans in the Staples Arena. The first half was not good for them at all.
In the visiting team's locker room, Mike Brown thought for a long time and only thought of one way, which was to bring LeBron James to the fourth position.
"Guys, falling behind does not mean the end of the world. Believe me, we have not lost the game yet. The champion team must have the courage to lose, and the confidence to turn defeat into victory at any time."
Mike Brown did not arrange tactics first, but released his mouth cannon skills first, hoping to arouse the morale of the players first, otherwise no matter how good the tactics are, it will be a dead end without fighting spirit.
LeBron James has a leader temperament and is unquestionable. In the first half, he had a difficult time scoring 16 points, 5 rebounds and 5 assists. At this time, when the assistant coach finished speaking, he slapped and said, "Guys, cheer up. In the second half, we can still turn the defeat into victory..."
Black Bread is very pleased that it is better to have such a team leader, and he doesn't need to say too much about this situation.
The Cavaliers player was first attacked by the assistant coach's mouth-cannon skill, and then the leader's words "Demacia" were boosted, and a lot of fighting spirit was restored during the intermission.
"In the second half, LeBron mentioned the fourth position and Wally played the third position."
This is the change of Black Bread. He switched James to the fourth position and let him hard chisel in the inside, and put Daniel Gibson, West, and Szebiak on the outside, waiting for the pass from the Little Emperor to the inside.
Before the second half, Charles Barkley said: "Before the Cavaliers entered the game for the second half, our live reporter interviewed their assistant coach Mike Brown. He said that although the score was the Clippers leading, they could do better. He paid great attention to the players' missed people during defense, and hoped that they could stare at the opponent's shooter in the second half and not allow them to shoot easily."
Kenny Smith said: "Focusing on the opponent will make it more difficult for the opponent's players to shoot, but I have not seen the Cavaliers show this ability so far."
As it turned out, the coach couldn't believe what he said during the halftime break. Mike Brown did not emphasize this arrangement at all. In the second half, he sent Daniel Gibson, Deronti West, Wally Szebiak, LeBron James, and Big Z's starting lineup.
Old Dunleavy thought in his heart, no matter what formation the Cavaliers set, they must be focusing on James. So will James in this lineup be different from the first half? Wouldn't this send himself to the inside to send shit?
At the beginning of the second half, Ji Guomeng tried to break through James on the offensive end, but this time he had no show. His breakthrough skills were enough to deal with Ben. Wallace and Daz were still there. When he met the serious gorilla, he almost got off the ball just after he had already broken through. The fox was so scared that he hurriedly passed the basketball out.
Billups used a pass to fake action, but suddenly turned around and broke through Gibson, and scored two points in the inside with a small flipping shot.
The score was 60:48, and the key was always not disappointing at critical moments. The Cavaliers changed their teams in the second half. Although they didn't know what the opponent had plans, the importance of the Clippers getting two points first was self-evident.
The Cavaliers' offense, Billups was very cunning. More than ten years of game experience told him that after the Cavaliers changed their team, no matter what their plans were, as long as they did not let James catch the ball, it was the best choice. So they paid special attention to guarding Daniel Gibson's passing route, which made the offensive point guard search for a long time but couldn't find the opportunity to pass to James inside.
Ji Guomomori received an order from his brother and changed to defend James around the front, with the same purpose as Billups, which made Mike Brown immediately sweat on his head off the court, and he sighed in his heart that the fox was very cunning!
The spontaneous defense of the Clippers players made Mike Brown know that it was not good on the sidelines. Ji Guomeng's height of 210cm and his super long wingspan were used to be able to stand in front of James with his flexibility that surpassed the Gorillas, preventing the latter from receiving the outside pass.
Even if Kidd comes at this time, it will be difficult to pass the ball to James under the dual defense of Billups and Ji Guomo. Moreover, the other giant panda also devotes most of its energy to the gorilla running into the inside.
Daniel Gibson could not pass the ball, so he could only pass the basketball to West, but the latter was also unable to pass the basketball into the inside. These two had limited organizational capabilities and were not pure organizational guards.
The Clippers suddenly started a joint defense in the second half, and the whole team moved with the ball, forming a siege net to trap the Cavaliers players who took the ball, but instead of oppressing and defending the Cavaliers outside players, their purpose was to separate the connection between James and the Cavaliers outside players.
Chapter completed!