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After the first two rounds of testing, the Eagles' defense began to increase.For the Cavaliers, Ben Wallace is a natural offensive black hole. As long as he is not in the three-second zone, he can be completely empty. When Garnett is mainly defending against Big Z, he can take care of Big Ben and let Dior rest assured. Boldly filling the vacancy left by former Battier.

And this is exactly Mike Brown's strategy. He arranged for James to pick and roll a big player who has no offensive threat, that is, to use the shooting ability of the other three to contain the other three defenders, and let James forcefully play one against two!

As long as James can penetrate the defense of Battier and Diaw, the Cavaliers' offense will be considered successful; if the Eagles send more people to help defend, then the defensive formation will be chaotic, and James' overall view and passing ability will be enough Find an open teammate; on the contrary, if Ke Yan turns a blind eye, then wait to be hammered to death by James~

James launched a pick-and-roll, using the slight gap Battier left for him when he went around the screen, he quickly started and went inside.Diaw confronted James head-on and confronted James. Although he was carried away, his impact was delayed; Battier quickly completed the replacement and got stuck on the line of James' attacking frame; behind Battier, Garnett also moved When they got to the restricted area, they laid out a net and waited for James to get in. . . . . .

Seeing that he was forced into a dead corner, James could only distribute the ball to the next big Ben.The latter wanted to directly attack the frame, but with Garnett sitting at the basket, Daben's handwork may not be able to grasp this offensive opportunity. In desperation, he stopped the ball on the spot and looked left and right before passing the ball to the forward. Damon Jones who responded.

After such a toss, the Cavaliers' offensive time was running out, and Jones had no time to hesitate. He adjusted his dribble and forced a shot under Paul's interference.

The ball spun around the rim, but still fell into the rim. (6:5)

"The defense of this ball is already in place, that is, Paul is shorter, otherwise he will be blocked!" Zhang Lili also complained for the Eagles' defense this time, and also felt that the Eagles' defense was relatively good at handling James. .

The Eagles attacked, Joe Johnson caught the ball in the half court, asked Garnett to play a pick-and-roll, misplaced singles Ilgauskas, used the shooting fake to shake the opponent away, broke into the basket, and scored a layup against James' supplementary defense. (6:7)

The round changed, the Cavaliers attacked, James didn't call the pick-and-roll, suddenly Battier, attracted Garnett to help defend and then scored the ball, Big Z faced Dior's supplementary defense, took a step, and succeeded in a mid-range shot. (8:7).

The Cavaliers played relatively difficult offenses in these two rounds, which is also a drawback brought about by this wave of lineup adjustments.Although Gooden is a "nervous knife", he still has considerable scoring ability, and he can eat cakes fairly safely; as for Daben, there is really no threat on the offensive end.

The Eagles' offense was still cleared by others. Joe Johnson and Garnett played a pick-and-roll, and after a dislocation, Garnett made a mid-range shot and hit the front of the basket.

After two consecutive high-difficulty scores, the Cavaliers’ offense was also blocked by the Eagles. James broke into the basket with the help of a pick-and-roll, but was missed by Garnett and Battier; James immediately Looking for a foul from the referee and delaying his return to defense, Garnett followed up with a dunk in the back row. (8:9)

"For this ball, James showed his immature side. The opponent is already fighting back, and he is still complaining to the referee. At this time, he should return to defense as soon as possible!" Very strict.

In the next few rounds, the Cavaliers did pretty well on the defensive end, but the offensive end was really monotonous. They couldn't play any other tactics except James rushing inside, and the point difference came to 7 points in a blink of an eye.

After playing 4 minutes in the first quarter, Mike Brown made a decisive decision and replaced Pavlovich and Damon Jones with Szczerbiak and West.

The effect of this hand adjustment is immediate. Compared with Pavlovich and Damon Jones who rely more on James to feed the ball, West and Szczerbiak are better at handling the ball. The technique is also more accurate than Pavlovich.The appearance of the two made the Cavaliers' offense smoother, and at the same time, James could also free up more energy on the defensive end to assist Big Ben in defending a tougher line of defense.

Compared with the 4.0 version of "Engineering James", the 1.0 version of James obviously has the "pure" of a basketball player, willing to do anything on the court to help the team; and speaking, James at this stage may represent Looking at the peak form of human physical fitness, it is really not too much to exaggerate "flying into the sky and escaping from the ground", and he has a full sense of presence on the court.

That is to say, the Eagles have the Big Three to suppress this beast; after the first quarter, the Eagles led the Cavaliers by 28 point 27:1.

After the start of the second quarter, both sides changed into a connecting lineup. The Cavaliers have James with Damon Jones, Szczerbiak, Joe Smith, and Varejao; the strength of this lineup is not far behind the starting lineup. where to go.

Ke Yan boldly deployed a full bench lineup of Barea, Rush, Bass, Anderson and PJ Brown, leaving no one in the starting lineup.

Compared with the starting lineup, the Eagles' bench lineup has obviously improved the height. Anderson and PJ Brown are two relatively pure inside lineups, in order to limit James' attack frame to the greatest extent.

After Mike Brown saw the Eagles' lineup, he immediately instructed James to increase his personal assault and use breakthroughs to disrupt the Eagles' defensive system, thereby creating open shots for Szczerbiak and Jones on the outside.

This strategy itself is correct, but Ke Yan dared to use this pure substitute lineup to deal with James, not to die, he naturally made some targeted arrangements.

The Cavaliers served from the backcourt. As soon as Damon Jones received the ball, he encountered a fierce attack from Bass and Barea. As a point guard who favored shooters, Damon Jones' possession of the ball was not very stable, but fortunately, Barea Damon Jones barely returned the ball to Joe Smith, who passed the ball to James who dropped back to catch the ball, and Bass quickly returned to defense.

Among the Cavaliers, only James and West were able to break through the frontcourt attack and steadily advance through the half court. If the latter is not on the court, only James is left. The task of advancing the backcourt is on James. In other words, there is an extra layer of "consumption".

And they lack passers like Diaw, Paul and even Garnett, who can seize the loopholes in the empty backcourt caused by the Eagles' frontcourt flanking, which also further increases James' consumption.

After completing the early flanking and harassment, they fell into positional warfare. The Eagles adopted a strategy of "preventing breakthroughs and not preventing shots" against James. Bass was one step away from James, allowing James to shoot outside the penalty area. Once James charged into the penalty area , you will encounter double attack.

Historically, in the 07 Finals, the Spurs also "indulged" James' long-range shots and strictly controlled the penalty area, thus "sweeping" the Cavaliers; . . . . . "humiliation".

That is, during this period of time, James made 5 shots outside the penalty area, hit 3 goals and scored 7 points.The efficiency is acceptable, and he led the Cavaliers to overtake the score as expected, but it did not achieve the effect Mike Brown wanted.

Halfway through the second quarter, the Cavaliers regained a 5-point lead, but James worked very hard to get it back; and with the return of the Eagles' main lineup, Mike Brown once again fell into a "dilemma" situation , Is it to replace James, buy him some rest time, or encourage James to continue to "persist"?

If it was under the guidance of Tyronn Lu, at this time, he would creatively call three timeouts in a row to restore James' physical strength. James, who is younger in the current 1.0 version, has a high probability of being able to last 48 minutes under the battery life strategy of Guidance; But Mike Brown does not have the level of Bass guidance. Looking back on the painful experience of being taken away by the Eagles in a short period of time many times in the past, Brown decided to let James persist.

Seeing that Mike Brown left James on the court, Ke Yan stood on the sidelines and gestured continuously, signaling the team to open up space and create more singles opportunities for Paul and Joe Johnson.

Whether it's Paul facing Delonte West, or Joe Johnson taking Pavlovich alone, they are quite sure; and once the Cavaliers help defend, the Eagles also have a good pair of backcourt double guns. Passing vision gets the ball to an open teammate.

With a heavy offensive task on his shoulders, no matter how hard it is for James to support the team's defensive rotation, the Eagles scored consecutive offenses, slowly approaching the score and overtaking.

"The Cavaliers are strong in James, and weak in only one James." Hamblen beside Ke Yan said suddenly, he still admires James.

The two James have to be compatible!

But objectively speaking, although the Cavaliers are willing to spend money for James, it is an indisputable fact that the team building ideas have been chaotic.Hiring Hughes with a high salary can be justified as pressing the wrong treasure. The twin tower configuration of "Big Ben + Big Z" for James who needs space can be called suffocating. The restricted area is not blocked enough!

At best, this is called doing bad things with good intentions; at worst, it is purely brain kicked by a donkey!

At the end of the second quarter, the Eagles overtook the Cavaliers by 59 points at 55:4.It seems that the advantage is not big, but the situation of the Cavaliers is completely brought back by James playing 24 minutes in the first half.From Ke Yan's point of view, he couldn't say anything other than shouting "James is awesome".

You can't say "Xiao Zhan, if you have the ability, you can continue to play in the second half!", James now definitely has this physical ability!

At the beginning of the second half, Mike Brown changed the team's starting configuration in the first half, and West and Szczerbiak directly entered the starting lineup.

In fact, Mike Brown knows that two new aids are more suitable to be the starter; but sometimes, for the stability of the team's locker room, when the strength of the new aid does not "crush" the original starter, it is still a little "excessive". It's better to do it at once.Just like this game, in fact, Szczerbiak and West played more time than Pavlovich and Damon Jones, but the "face" of the starting lineup was still given to the latter.

At the beginning of the third quarter, on the Cavaliers side, Szczerbiak led the first offense, using the space created by the pick-and-roll to make quick shots and hit accurately!

The helpers around him took the lead in the attack, and Garnett was not to be outdone. He took the initiative to play a high pick-and-roll with Paul. (57:61)

The round changed, the Cavaliers attacked, West played a pick-and-roll with Big Z, faced Garnett's defense, went inside and accelerated the breakthrough, walked the bottom line around the basket and hit a back, and was caught by Garnett "waiting for a rabbit" With that, he took the ball off abruptly.

The Eagles launched a quick counterattack. Paul and Joe Johnson's two-line fast break compressed the Cavaliers' defense. Battier caught the ball at 45 degrees, made an open shot, and made an accurate hit! (57:64)

The Cavaliers attacked, James held the ball, Big Z wanted to come up to cover him, James waved his hand and refused, he wanted to single Battier.

After his teammates opened up the space, James exhaled heavily from his nose, slapped the ball hard with his right hand, strode forward, swiped his left hand forward, and rushed into the Hawks inside with Battier on his shoulders!

Battier followed James sideways, gritted his teeth and stood firm, but the weight difference between the two of them was such that the center of gravity was still out of balance due to James' brute force.

But Battier never expected that he could defend James by himself. He was only the team's first line of defense, preventing James from getting up to speed, and the two entangled to the inside. Garnett's help defense was timely Keeping up, James immediately fell into a tight siege and barely missed a layup.

"@#￥%..." James yelled at the referee again, asking for a foul, but the referee didn't call the foul.

As James complained to the refs, the Hawks made another transition, as Joe Johnson drove away Szczerbiak's defense with a skillful combination and dunked. (57:66)

In a game, making the same mistake repeatedly, for a star, it really shouldn't be.This time, not only Zhang Lili complained, but even his teammates were a little dissatisfied.

Fortunately, at this time, Mike Brown called a timeout in time and said some scene words to dispel the emotions of the players and comfort James at the same time.

It has to be said that with continuous experience, Mike Brown's coaching level has also improved. This timeout was called very timely. At least after the timeout, the two sides re-entered the balance of power. Until the end of the third quarter, the Eagles failed to Widen the gap further. (81:91)

The three quarters played a full 36 minutes, and even though James is strong and strong, he was more or less tired at this time.At the beginning of the fourth quarter, Mike Brown replaced James to fight for a 2-3 minute break for him.

Unexpectedly, Ke Yan just exerted his strength at this time, dispatching a lineup of Paul, Joe Johnson, Battier, Bass, and Garnett, and started running vigorously.

"Blitzkrieg" plus "on-line pincer attack", the Eagles' two major killer moves were two-pronged. In just 2 minutes, they played a wave of 11:2 attacks, and instantly opened the point difference to 19 points!

All this happened so suddenly that Mike Brown didn't even respond, and even the "FUXK" from the fans in the Quicken Loans Center didn't stop, and the suspense of the game was almost wiped out by the Eagles!

After the timeout, James is ready to go into battle for a final fight.

However, before the Cavaliers sent the ball, the Eagles called a timeout, which meant nothing, just to engage the Cavaliers mentality.

"Hey, Ke Yan's trick is really... just playing psychological warfare. But sometimes, this is the art of command." Zhang Lili praised.

There is a saying called "one effort, then decline, and three exhaustion", which is very suitable for James at this time. At the most "smug" time, he was suspended for a timeout and held in his seat to think wildly. After playing again, the exposed On the contrary, it is my own immature mentality.

The Eagles seized the opportunity and took advantage of the situation to open the point difference to more than 20 points, which basically ended the suspense of the game.

In the end, the Eagles defeated the Cavaliers 121:104 with a wave of strength at the beginning of the third and fourth quarters. (17-5)

In the whole game, James contributed 39 points, 7 rebounds and 8 assists. Regardless of the outcome, it is definitely MVP-level data.However, falling in front of the Eagles in a row made James himself very frustrated, so that in the interview after the game, James, who has always been "high emotional intelligence", didn't say a few words, looking very tired.

Instead, Ke Yan, who won the game, praised the Cavaliers deal at the press conference after the game.

"In my opinion, for most of the game, the Cavaliers were evenly matched with us. Whether it was James or other players on the team, they were causing trouble for the Eagles. In fact, we still win in the details of the game. We played better, especially at the beginning of the third and fourth quarters."

Just saying that doesn't mean that Ke Yan thinks the same in his heart.In fact, unless James can play a full 48 minutes and has been powered on, otherwise, with the Cavaliers' lineup structure, it is easy to be beaten down by opponents with sufficient offensive capabilities.

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After the game against the Cavaliers, the Eagles took a special plane back to Atlanta that night to prepare for the back-to-back games against the Kings the next day.Just after the meeting, Ke Yan was stopped by Kenny Atkins.

"What's the matter, Kenny?" After commanding a big battle and having a short meeting, even though Ke Yan was still a young man, he couldn't hold back his energy at the moment, and asked with a yawn.

"There is something I want to tell you. I want to take a leave of absence and go to Minnesota." Atkins said.

"Minnesota?" Hearing the name of the city, Ke Yan wrinkled his nose slightly. The Timberwolves had a poor start and there were rumors of a coaching change. Could it be that Atkins was here for an interview?

There is no need to add "?", judging by Atkins' seriousness, this matter is sure.

"If you decide, I don't think I have the right to stop you." Ke Yan's expression was a bit uneasy, but he still accepted the fact that his companion might leave.

Unhappiness is inevitable.If it was before the start of the season, it would be much easier for Ke Yan to find an assistant; in the middle of the season, good coaches already have jobs, and it is still very troublesome to find someone to take over the job temporarily.When Snyder left, he found Atkins to replace him with great difficulty.

But there is actually no way around this kind of thing. Whether it is Snyder or Atkins, they all had a solid resume before coming to the Eagles. After being "gilded" by his side, it is not surprising to be picked up by other teams .

Even Hornacek received an invitation from the Knicks during the offseason to serve as the head coach of the Knicks.It’s just that, as a good man and father who takes care of his family, Hornacek plans to stay with his daughter in Atlanta until she goes to college. In addition, the current chaotic environment of the Knicks is not something that Hornacek can solve. , so the other party's request was rejected.

"Don't worry, I will do a good job handover and won't cause you any trouble." Atkins emphasized.

The United States talks about "human rights" and "people go to high places", so Atkins will not feel "guilty" about this kind of thing.Just as Ke Yan left D'Antoni that year, D'Antoni didn't think there was any problem.

Keep looking for new teaching assistants~

After arriving in Atlanta, Ke Yan directly gave Atkins a vacation and asked him to prepare for the interview with the head coach of the Timberwolves.

"A mere Kings team, I can handle it!" These are the exact words Ke Yan gave Atkins.

End of Adelman's "Princeton" era, Kings fans do not know, the longest dark period in franchise history has begun.

Right now, their lineup seems pretty good, Mike Bibby, Kevin Martin, Artest, Raheem, Brand Miller's lineup is not too much to say "all five".

However, it’s not like that at all in the fight. Since Artest joined the Kings, he has never integrated into this team. He only wants to prove that he is also a star in singles; Mike Bibby, as a point guard, has a great desire to attack In organization; Kevin Martin can efficiently cut 20+ data, but this is the only contribution he can make on the court; Raheem has never been a power forward who can lead the team to win. . . . . . .

Dealing with such a team that has been "fighting on its own", the Eagles have not played easily.

It may be that facing a strong team, everyone will always "same hatred and hatred". The Kings team unexpectedly united in the first half and played the best performance since the start of the game.

However, "illusion" is only "illusion" after all, and it is easy to be punctured once it is under pressure.In the middle and late part of the second quarter, the Kings' brief slack was caught by the Eagles, and a wave of 12:3 attacks helped the Eagles open the point difference to double digits;

Since then, the short-term unity of the Kings has disintegrated from within, Bibby has started sticking to the ball again, and Artest has started to paddle again when he can't get the ball. Brad Miller and Martin themselves are not able to change the game players. . . . . .

The Eagles slowly "boiled the frog in warm water" and defeated the opponent who had no desire to fight 123:104! (18-5)