Chapter 366 The easy finals, the troubled Stern
Update time: 2012-08-30
After Stephen came on the court, he quickly broke the team's scoring drought. A shot after a breakthrough and a two-plus-one behind him helped the team equalize the score. McBrown immediately replaced LeBron James. There was no way, just like the Spurs arranged for Stephen to defend LeBron James, the Cavaliers could only use LeBron James to defend Stephen.
At this time, the fans' interest was raised. The first game made people look boring. Although Stephen and James were both directly in the face, the showdown between the two was not so fascinating. James was trapped by defense, but Stephen seemed to have no moves.
In fact, after playing in the first quarter, Stephen had lost interest in the finals. The Cavaliers' strength was even worse than he thought. I really don't know how they came to the finals. Could it be that the strength of the Eastern Conference is really that bad? The Miami Heat and the Detroit Pistons can't even beat such a Cavaliers?
Without interest and fighting spirit, Stephen naturally had no good performance, and LeBron James really could not adapt to such a level of defense, just like his performance was not very good when he was against the Pistons. He also couldn't taste the benefits of the better Spurs.
In the second quarter, when Stephen saw the Cavaliers' performance, he slightly raised his fighting will. After getting up to tie the score, LeBron James came to the court again. After feeling LeBron James' defense against him, Stephen became interested.
After Stephen got the ball, he started to play LeBron James with his back singles. His excellent body and super high rebounding IQ made LeBron James' defense very well. However, after two seasons of baptism, Stephen's skills have also made great progress. He swayed left and right to get rid of LeBron James' defense, took action in the space between inches, and sent the ball into the basket.
LeBron James dribbled through the half. Facing Stephen's defense, he did not attack himself, but passed the ball to Larry Hughes. After Larry Hughes missed, James and Stephen jumped in the air, grabbed the rebound from Stephen's head, and then lowered his body and prepared to break through to the basket. However, Stephen's speed was not slower than him at all, and turned around and blocked him.
LeBron James tried a few times but failed to break through Stephen's defense, so he had to jump back and jump. The ball turned around the basket twice and then rolled down. However, Ilgoshkas relied on his height advantage to snatch the rebound from Elson's head.
Then it was passed to LeBron James. LeBron James made another move, and this time he finally made a move. This was also the first goal LeBron James made in the sports game today. After coming back, Stephen's move was interfered by LeBron James, and the move went out of the basket. Ilgoshkas grabbed the rebound again, but the pass was intercepted by Ginobili.
Stephen and Ginobili made a fast break. The only one who can keep up with the Cavaliers is LeBron James. Facing two opponents, which one should they defend? LeBron James ran between the two and kept carefully observing the movements of the two.
In his heart, he tends to pass the ball to Stephen, and Stephen takes action, but if he doesn't put pressure on the opponent's defense, Ginobili may also take action by himself, so LeBron James has been pressing Ginobili's footsteps, but his mind is on Stephen's side.
When it was about to be under the basket, Ginobili suddenly stopped his steps, and when he turned around, he raised his hand, the ball seemed to be about to fly out of his hand. LeBron James immediately turned around and jumped to prevent Stephen from taking the ball and making a layup or dunk. However, after he jumped up, he saw Stephen's hand was empty and nothing. When he turned around, he saw that Ginobili had already sent the ball into the basket.
LeBron James' ability is really not bad, but he is so hard to support himself. When his teammates cannot count on him, he alone encountered such a strong defense of the Spurs, which made him really difficult to deal with. He is not as great as the "Next Magician" as the media said.
In fact, the main reason is that LeBron and James are very comprehensive, scoring, defense and passing, but in terms of offense, he lacks a killing skill. His breakthrough is indeed very good, but he is not as unstoppable as Wade. His shooting is also very good, but he is not as skilled as Carmelo Anthony. His passing vision is very broad, but he is not as able to penetrate the defense like a real organizational guard.
This is the disadvantage of comprehensive technology. In addition, he really has no choice when encountering a player who can defend him. He is not as good as Wade in dealing with defense. His shooting is not as fast as Carmelo Anthony and requires a lot of space.
So LeBron James' performance has been very struggling. He just performed a little better, but he quickly fell silent again. In the third quarter, his performance was still not satisfactory, and the Spurs basically locked in the victory, which made the fans who were originally intended to see an extremely exciting game very disappointed, and only the fans of San Antonio were still so happy.
In the fourth quarter, the Cavaliers began to counterattack. By the end, everyone's physical strength was not that strong. LeBron James' physical advantage began to show. Although he had no gains in breakthroughs, he found his shooting feel.
With six minutes and fifteen seconds left in the game, LeBron and James scored eight points in a row with free throws, and the Cavaliers caught the score to only nine points. At this time, Stephen stood up again, first used a three-pointer to calm down, and then caused LeBron and James to make a foul through defense, and then assisted Robert Horry to hit a three-pointer.
Then until the end of the game, the Cavaliers were unable to catch the score within ten, and finally lost the first game of the finals 72-84. LeBron and James only got 16 points, 9 rebounds and seven assists, but Stephen's side was not better, with 24 points, 7 rebounds and three assists, which was two "historic showdowns" that were desperately exaggerated by the media before the game.
Seeing such a final, the most headache is David Stern. As soon as the first game ended, many media canceled their subsequent broadcast plans, which is no better than the Detroit Pistons entering the finals. If they had known this, it would be better to let the Detroit Pistons enter the finals.
He has no grudges with any team, and he will not deliberately be unable to get along with that team, but he will not be unable to get along with money. As a financial backer, the league can affect the referees in a limited manner. At some point, it can indeed change the results of the game, but this time the choice seems to be wrong.
Originally, David Stern felt that the Spurs are no longer only able to defend as before, and they can also play beautiful offenses, especially when playing against the Rockets, the Spurs are like a fast attack team, playing very beautifully, which surprised David Stern, who was originally worried about the ratings of the Western Conference Finals. Especially in China, many TV stations have purchased programs.
It made him feel that he should have admired the Spurs, but he didn't expect that in the finals, this **Vic actually made an old problem again, and what bothered him even more was that the two defensive teams met together, and the game was extremely ugly.
If one defends and attacks, he can still accept it. It is impossible to require every team to play as beautiful as the Suns. The Warriors seem to be good, but unfortunately he didn't expect the Warriors to hack the Mavericks, otherwise the programs in those games would be sold for a few more money, but there were many people who came to buy the program video later.
After thinking for a long time, he had no solution. The two teams had already entered the finals, so he had no way to influence them and let them give up defense. He was just the president of the league. The league is a relatively loose institution and has no management rights for the team.
However, he made up his mind that he would never let two defensive teams enter the finals in the future. This year's ratings revenue seemed to be ruined. David Stern was thinking about it, and news came from the media department, and two more media canceled the purchase of broadcast rights.
David Stern's distress, the Spurs and the Cavaliers naturally don't know. The Spurs won the first game and won easily. Naturally, both the team and the fans were very happy. When the Cavaliers defeated the Pistons, they failed the first two games and won the next game, and they felt that they still had hope.
It was with this feeling that the two sides entered the second game. Stephen still felt that there was no sense of urgency in the game. Although LeBron and James had an offense compared to the last game, he was still seriously trapped by defense. Gibson caused some trouble to the Spurs, but the problem was not serious. The Spurs still won.
In this game, Tony Parker exploded, scored 30 points, Duncan scored 24 points, Stephen's score dropped to only 21 points, James' performance improved, and scored 25 points, but made five mistakes. After losing the game, both sides moved to Cleveland to prepare for the third game.
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Thanks to Xiao Juhua Al's book friends for supporting the show. The Spurs defeated the Cavaliers, and there is really nothing to write about, so let's end this plot as soon as possible and look forward to the new season, a passionate season.
Chapter completed!