Chapter 135 World War III

The next first quarter is completely the Lakers' performance time, dunk, three points, layup, two plus one, all kinds of points. In just 12 minutes, the knight was beaten to 33 to 17. After the first quarter, the Cavaliers were 16 points behind the Lakers on the way, which no one expected before the game.

The Lakers got 33 points in a single quarter, which shows that the Cavaliers have a problem on the defensive end. Only this explanation can explain why the Cavaliers lost 33 points in a single quarter. And there are problems not only on the defensive end, but also on the offensive end of the Cavaliers, because in the first quarter, the whole team only got 17 points. Such a score is very rare for the Cavaliers who have performed very well on the offensive side this season.

"Today's knight encountered a lot of trouble in the first quarter. He was 16 points behind in a single quarter, and the firepower point on the offensive end was stroped. The defensive end was blown up by the opponent again. I didn't expect the Lakers' performance in this game to be so excellent. It seems that the Lakers don't want to be eliminated by their opponents so easily. Barkley said at the first time after the end of the first quarter that the Lakers shocked him in the first quarter of the game. He never expected the Lakers to perform so well in this game. It seems that the team that can enter the stage of the finals is not so simple.

In addition to the Lakers' team and a superstar Kobe Bryant, Barkley thinks this game will be very good. It seems that the Lakers are likely to win the game and drag the game into the sixth game. On this point, Barkley firmly believes that he knows very well what Kobe is like. A player who will never give up, no matter what situation, is a confident player, is Kobe.

"Yes, the Lakers don't want to give up easily in this game. The Lakers played very well in the first quarter, but the Cavaliers would not give up so easily. Although it is 16 points behind, there are still 36 minutes and three quarters in time. The 16-point difference is not a big difficulty at all. If you want to catch up, it depends on whether the Lakers' performance can always be so efficient. Kenny said aside.

The second quarter of the game began quickly. Although the Cavaliers were 16 points behind in the score, Mike Brown was still very calm in the lineup rotation. Instead of continuing to change his starting lineup on the field at the beginning of the second quarter, he followed the second lineup, the second lineup led by Iverson. The score is indeed 16 points behind, but we can't give our players time to rest because of this. If this is the case, the second half of the game is likely to be more difficult. Brown is very clear about this, so he will not take risks easily.

Of course, there is another reason, because he thinks that his players still need to calm down. In the first quarter, the Lakers' change of formation made their performance not so natural. There were many unnecessary mistakes, unnecessary shots, and tacit understanding on the defensive end. So he feels that during this break, his players must calm down, otherwise the game will not be able to continue. Losing the starting lineup, the knight is nothing, and it is absolutely impossible to stop the opponent's offensive firepower. So now he also needs the main players of the Cavaliers to get out of the downturn in the first quarter and bring enough help to the Cavaliers.

At the beginning of the second quarter, after the Cavaliers sent a substitute lineup, they played very well. Iverson kept hitting the opponent's basket. In addition to breakthroughs, Iverson also did some performance in terms of jump shots and three points. In just five minutes from the beginning of the second quarter, Iverson scored 11 points for the team, which made people see that Iverson had not been far away from them and had been fighting.

In five minutes, the score difference of six points was recovered for the knight. Although it was not much, the score difference was only ten points. Instead of being pulled to 20 points, he was only ten points away, which made the knight relieved. The performance of the substitute players did not disappoint them. Of course, if they were pulled beyond 20 points, they would not blame their substitute lineup. Because their main players are 16 points behind their opponents in the first quarter, how can they ask their substitutes not to be pulled away?

Fortunately, the performance of the substitute players did not disappoint them. Before they played, the score was further reduced to only eight points, and at this time, Phil Jackson of the Lakers could not sit still. Finally, when there were only five minutes left in the second quarter, a timeout was called. This is the first time he has called a timeout in this game. This time, the knight gave him the feeling that he wanted to counterattack, and it also belonged to the counterattack of the opponent's substitute lineup, which made him a little unacceptable. So he asked for a very critical timeout at this critical moment.

"Alan, your performance is very good. I didn't expect your performance to be so excellent. In just a few minutes, you successfully chased the difference from 16 to only eight points. In the first quarter, our main players were sorry for the team, and our performance almost put the Cavaliers in a desperate situation. If we don't have such an excellent performance as you, then our main players in this game have really become the biggest sin in this game. LeBron James stood up at the first time the substitute player was off the court and took the initiative to say.

James was also very annoyed by his performance. They didn't expect that their performance in the first quarter would be so bad. If there are no powerful substitutes, then this game may be in the first half. Now the substitute players can't help but chase the difference within ten points, and also improve the morale of the players. This is the most important point. He believes that their performance will never be as sluggish as in the first quarter, and they will definitely play very well in the next game.

"LeBron, what you said is too much. The first few performances are your best performance. With so many games, our substitute lineup will eventually have a game to explode, right? Only in this way can we win the championship, right? Iverson said modestly that he was still very satisfied with his own performance in the previous games, but he was not so very satisfied. However, when he first played the game, he felt that he was under great pressure, because he understood what it meant for him to wait for others to play.

means that if they and others are not very good in the future, but are pulled away by the score, they are likely to lose the game. So the pressure on their group of substitutes was still quite great, but when the opponent called a timeout and looked at the score difference on the field, Iverson was relieved. Because they all knew that they had perfectly completed the tasks assigned to them by the team's head coach, and they did not let their main players down.

"Next, Iverson will continue to stay on the field, and the other four will come down and have a rest first. I hope that in the next game, we can equal the difference. Only in this way can we complete the reversal and complete the reversal in the first half. You must not enter the second half with a big score behind. Because that is very unfavorable to us, we may be completely passive and there will be no counterattack at all. So in the next time, I hope you can catch up with me to only five points. Five points is the best point difference. Mike Brown said seriously.

Soon, the second quarter of the game continued, the Lakers' right to play, Kobe held the ball to the half. He was still very angry about the Lakers' substitute performance at that time ago. The reason is very simple, because they were 16 points ahead before that, and the advantage of 16 points was hard won by their main players. But in a blink of an eye, the difference was only eight points. Although they are still in the lead, their team missed the best opportunity. Now it is very difficult to pull the difference to more than 15 points. In this way, the suspense of the game will emerge again. Although the suspenseful game is very wonderful, no one knows who the victory will belong to.

If it's in the regular season, then Kobe likes suspense games and the final game. But now he doesn't like this feeling. It's very simple, because he wants to establish that the victory of the game belongs to them as soon as possible. It's not unclear in the end. This is the finals, not the regular season. And this game is still their key game. If they lose this game, they will lose this year's championship.

This is very difficult for Kobe. He has been proving that he will definitely bring another championship to the Lakers after leaving O'Neal. Prove that even if he doesn't have O'Neal, he can also bring the championship to the Lakers. Last year, he finally failed to prove himself. This year, he hoped to prove himself well once, but from the current situation, the situation was obviously not so good, which made him not know what to say.

Bynum took it out of the inside line and gave Kobe a strong cover. Kobe directly used this excellent cover to kill from the side to the three-point line, and then completed an emergency stop jump shot in the no man's land. With Kobe's jump shot, the gap between the two sides was pulled to 10 points again.