The convulsion superstar of basketball

Chapter 302 301. Where magic has passed, the knight discards his helmet and armor (4.8K words ask for a monthly ticket)

As the game is about to start, the two sides also announced the starting lineup for the game.

For the Cavaliers:

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

For the Magic:

Su Jiu, Iverson, Pietrus, Lewis, and Howard.

In this game, both sides continued their rotation in most cases this season.

Among them, the main reason why Van Gundy chose to put Turkoglu back on the bench in this round of the series and use Pietrus as the starter is to let the latter try to limit LeBron James' performance.

After all, if Turkoglu is allowed to defend LeBron James, then this scene can definitely be said to be horrible.

As for the Cavaliers, although the Cavaliers' lineup seems a bit bluffing at first glance, because of the five players in this starting lineup, four of them have been selected to the All-Star lineup in the East.

And among them, Ben Wallace was the famous Piston Five Tigers! !

However, although the Cavaliers' lineup looks very strong, so far it really only has the function of bluffing.

Because in this Cavaliers team this season, the only players who can really play are LeBron James and Mo Williams.

As for the average scoring of other players, they are all under 13 points per game, and only four players scored in double figures.

Among them, Ben Wallace, one of the Pistons' Five Tigers, has degenerated to an average of 2.9 points and 6.5 rebounds per game this season.

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

However, with injuries and age, the current Ben Wallace has truly degenerated into a blue-collar player, and even this season he has to use defensive experience to make up for his lack of movement speed.

Not to mention the performance on the offensive end. Ben at his peak had no offensive ability, so at this stage, Ben is basically useless except for dunks...

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

As for Ilgauskas, another former All-Star player inside the Cavaliers, he is even sicker this season, and his personal data also dropped to 12.9 points and 7.4 rebounds.

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

You know, Ilgauskas is a big center with [-] meters, so this shooting percentage is obviously very low.

Even if Ilgauskas is more than ten centimeters taller than Howard, but with Ilgauskas' physical condition this season, Howard can definitely press him to the ground and rub it crazily under the basket.

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

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

But for the current Stan Van Gundy, the pressure brought by this Cavaliers team at this moment is definitely much less than that of the Celtics.

Although this Cavaliers team is also very strong, and has won the No. [-] position in the Eastern Conference with an impact, but after this Cavaliers entered the playoffs, its shortcomings are too obvious.

Except that the team relies too much on the offensive end of LeBron James and Mo Williams.

The defect that James is not good at long-range shots in the playoffs will also be used by other opponents to make a big fuss.

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

Because although this Cavaliers team played very fiercely in the regular season, but in the playoffs where the two sides will continue to confront each other, the shortcomings of this Cavaliers team will become too obvious.

Once they go to fight a tough battle, the flaws exposed by the current Cavaliers will definitely be a fatal existence.

Even in Su Jiu's view, this season's Cavaliers are definitely very similar to the later Bucks.

That is, relying on the overwhelming impact and the iron man body of the head star, both of them can play a good record in the regular season.

But in the playoffs, the team's leading star has a very big shortcoming in terms of offense.

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

Therefore, in the case where the two sides will fight seven consecutive games at most, if LeBron James just blindly makes a breakthrough, then this can definitely be called a fatal flaw.

After the game started, the center forwards of both sides stood in the middle circle to jump the ball, although Ilgauskas was ten centimeters taller than Howard.

But in the jump ball stage at the beginning of the game, Howard relied on his excellent jumping ability to get the ball first for the Magic.

Holding the ball through halftime, it was Cavaliers' second-in-command Mo Williams who was defending Su Jiu in front of him.

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

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

Holding the ball and standing in a high position, Su Jiu found that the Cavaliers were still defending a 2-3 zone defense as in the regular season.

Because the Cavaliers have always played with the Twin Towers lineup this season, and when Ben Wallace is injured, Mike Brown will use Ilgauskas and Varejao to start at the same time.

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

After all, Big Z has a height of [-] meters, he can completely play a role in deterring enemy players from breaking through under the basket.

But once Big Z is transferred out of the penalty area by the opponent's center, then in terms of Big Z's defensive center of gravity and his current movement speed, this will definitely be a loophole on the defensive end.

So this season, Mike Brown is using a first line of defense to let the opponent break through as much as possible.

It even drives the opponent's initiative to advance to the inside, so that it is a defensive strategy for Ilgauskas and Ben Wallace to block the inside.

After all, the current era is far from the dead five, not to mention that all teams in the league have very limited threats to outside the three-point line.

Just to say that most of the current teams in the league are equipped with a two-tower lineup, and the last time they also have a powerful center to sit in the paint.

So in this case, Mike Brown's strategy of sitting on the basket with two towers and never going out 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 can't move the Cavaliers' twin towers out of the penalty area, the Magic will try to end as far away from the penalty area as possible.

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

Among them, Allen Iverson's mid-range throwing this season is even more proficient.

So after the opening, the Magic's range of shots on the offensive end is basically far away from the penalty area.

Faced with this situation, the head coach of the Cavaliers, Mike Brown, has obviously become 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. Mike Brown off the court did not feel anything wrong.

Because in the Eastern Conference semifinals, the Eagles also used this kind of offensive method and wanted to beat the Cavaliers in this way.

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

You know, compared to the dominance of the defensive end, the reason why this Cavaliers have been so strong in the regular season is that the biggest reason is their offensive performance.

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

Therefore, after the Cavaliers entered the playoffs, the team's offensive with an average of 108.6 points per game is by no means a vain reputation, and the team's average of 108.6 points per game is without any suspense, ranking first among the 16 teams in the playoffs.

However, there is a very big gap between the Magic and the Eagles this season, so facing the defense of the Cavaliers, the Magic are playing with ease, hitting from the middle and long distances at the beginning of the game.

Especially Su Jiu of the Magic team, who faced Mo Williams' defense in this game, played very happily.

On the offensive end, the whole person even only needs a small pick-and-roll from Howard, and he can use the space to quickly complete the three-point shot.

After all, in the last round of the game, Su Jiu had been facing Rondo's stalking and Garnett's iron elbow to clear the way.

It's not even an exaggeration to say that if there are two more games in this series between the Magic and the Celtics, Su Jiu doesn't know if the Celtics will lose their physical strength seriously.

But Su Jiu knew that the disc in his waist would definitely be a little bit serious by the two "old men" Rondo and Garnett...

So at this moment, the defensive intensity in front of Su Jiu suddenly dropped to Mo Williams.

This feeling is like a fish swimming in the sea, everything becomes more relaxed and enjoyable.

Facing the crazy bombardment thrown by the Magic at the beginning of the game, Mike Brown's face off the court at this moment is obviously a little dark, even though his face is already very dark.

Because Mike Brown at this moment can't understand at all, this Magic team obviously fought the Celtics for seven consecutive games.

In terms of physical strength, it is impossible to reach an optimal state in a short period of time. As a result, as soon as the game started, the Magic team hit a three-pointer after a while. Tell me this is poor physical strength? ! ! !

That's it? ! !

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

But as the Cavaliers were not only blocked by the Magic on the defensive end, but most importantly, the offensive end that the Cavaliers are most proud of was also hit.

Among them, when Pietrus defended James in this game, he always used a two-step approach to defend.

But if this is the case, Mike Brown will not feel too surprised, after all, most teams in the league are like this when defending James.

After all, James' shooting percentage from beyond the three-point line is only 28.4%, so it is easy for other teams to make a choice between defending James' breakthrough or three-pointers.

The reason why the Magic really led to the Cavaliers' offensive decline was because of Pietrus' excellent personal efficiency when defending James.

The most important thing is that when James used his personal ability to knock Pietrus away, he still had to face a big mountain in the paint, which was Howard, the best defensive player in the league.

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

After all, after James spent a lot of effort and finally squeezed Pietrus away, he suddenly found that there was still a mountain like Howard standing in front of him. This feeling was really too sour.

You know, there is a big difference between the Cavaliers and the Celtics.

The main scoring method of this Cavaliers team comes from James' breakthrough to the inside and the distribution of the ball to outside shooters for projection.

However, when the Magic team is determined not to double-team James in this game, James can only try to score for the team by breaking through.

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

Conversely, when a team like the Celtics finishes most of its shots at mid-to-long distances and has Perkins in the paint who can handle Howard, this is what the Magic fear most.

So if the Celtics have a natural restraint on the Magic in this season's lineup, then the Magic's lineup this season definitely has a natural restraint on the Cavaliers.

This situation also led to the fact that the game had just begun, and the Magic seemed to be gradually beginning to dominate the game on both ends of the offense and defense.

The situation on the court at this moment obviously surprised the reporters and media of this game too much.

Even those experts who analyzed well before the game felt that their faces had been slapped at the moment.

Before the game started, those who supported the Cavaliers' ability to win the first game of the Eastern Conference Finals were definitely in the majority.

After all, compared to the haste of the Magic, the Cavaliers, who have rested for about ten days after the semifinals, obviously have more advantages in physical strength.

So before the game, most of the media and experts conducted numerous analyzes on this point.

Although speaking from the overall probability, there are still many experts who believe that the Magic is likely to defeat the Cavaliers in a tiebreaker and enter the stage of the finals.

But even for this group of experts who are optimistic about the Cavaliers, most of their views on the outcome of the game before the game are also on the side of the Cavaliers.

The reasons given are mostly due to the players' physical strength and pre-match preparations.

However, no one thought that after the start of the game, the situation on the court gradually moved in an unpredictable direction.

You know, after defeating the Celtics, the Magic only had one day of rest to make adjustments, and then they had to take a plane to Cleveland to prepare for the game.

On the other hand, the Cavaliers, the team went home early for a rest, and only needed to sit at home and wait for the arrival of the Magic.

As a result, after the end of the first quarter, even though the head coach of the Cavaliers, Mike Brown, called two timeouts in a single quarter, in the end the Magic were still mainly anti-customers:

27:19

Leading the Cavaliers by 8 points, the first quarter of the contest between the two sides ended! !

After the end of the first quarter, the fans in the entire Quicken Loans Center arena were in a mess, and there were even quite a few fans shouting about the shady scene.

Because the scene in front of me is simply too unbelievable.

With the Cavaliers having the right time, location, and harmony, in the end they were still defeated by the exhausted Magic by 8 points in a single quarter.

This result obviously made the fanatical Cleveland fans feel unbelievable, even more incredible.

Because in the entire first quarter of the contest between the two sides, the efficiency shown by the Cavaliers on both ends of the offense and defense was short of writing a sentence on their faces.

"Where magic passes, knights throw away their armor..."

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