The strongest unicorn in basketball

Chapter 332 Foul Trouble
James' hunch was really correct. After the Kings defeated the Cavaliers 108:100 in the first game, they immediately won the second game of the finals.

Compared with the first game, the Kings won the second game more easily.

At 103:82, the Kings basically encountered no resistance, and Li Pu even clocked out of get off work in three quarters!

James, who scored 44 points in the last game, made only 22 of 7 shots in this game and only scored 20 points.

Against James, the Kings adopted the mode of Butler's lead defense + Li Pu's supplementary defense, which completely locked James' breakthrough route.

The loss of breakthrough ability, coupled with the fact that James' outside shooting rate is not high tonight, made him unable to play the explosive efficiency of the previous game.

Even James is like this, and the performance of the rest of the Cavaliers is even worse!
After all, the Cavaliers have the ball in James' hands. Others want to play, but they don't have the ball in their hands!
After two games, the Kings have achieved a 2:0 lead, while the Cavaliers are at a precarious point.

After all, if they lose another game, they will fall behind 0:3. In NBA history, no team in the playoffs has been able to reverse 0:3!
So, for this third game, the Cavaliers are fighting with their backs!
On June 6, the Kings traveled to Cleveland for Game 9 of the series.

After the game started, Li Pu heard the long-lost whistle again.

Just over 4 minutes into the game, James made a breakthrough layup and was blocked by Li Pu. The referee actually called him his second personal foul!
"What are you kidding? Did I meet him?"

However, no matter how Li Pu explained, the referee would not pay attention.

The Kings are already 2:0. In this game, no matter what, the Kings cannot win again. Otherwise, how can the ratings of the finals be guaranteed?How much less tickets does the league have to make?
However, what the referee didn't expect was that even though Li Pu was blown off, the Kings still didn't collapse.

Although Jokic, who came off the bench, does not have Lip's ability to assist in defense, his ability to protect the basket is also online.

As long as this big white fat man stands under the basket with his arms open, the Cavaliers players will have to reduce their shooting percentage by more than ten percentage points if they want to break through and make a layup.

In this case, the referee is also anxious. If you don't hurry up and open the score, Li Pu will be back in the next quarter.

As a result, the referee began to exert his strength again, constantly using whistles to interfere with the game.

Not long after, Butler also received his second personal foul, and at the end of the first quarter, Giannis also received two fouls.

The team's three main players were sent off. Logically speaking, the referee is enough to help the Cavaliers.

But even so, at the end of the first quarter, Covington's two three-pointers helped the Kings chase the score to 20:20 at the end of the first quarter.

The Cavaliers still didn't take any advantage.

Although the Kings were sent off three best defensive players, the lineup composed of Bledsoe, Thornton, Middleton Covington and Jokic is still very good defensively.

They let the Cavaliers have nowhere to start, and they can only score through James' breakthrough and damage.

In this case, the Kings passed the first quarter smoothly.

When the combination of Li Pu + Butler + Giannis appeared on the court in the second quarter, the Cavaliers were desperate!

Such a lineup is used to play the Cavaliers' bench, which is simply too high for the Cavaliers.

As a last resort, James, who hadn't taken a break in the first quarter, only took a minute of rest in the second quarter before being sent on the court again.

Soon after returning, James rushed towards Li Pu and chose to lay up directly in front of him.

Li Pu couldn't dodge in time and collided with James again.

"Drip!"

Not surprisingly, the referee's whistle sounded again.

"groove!"

Li Pu, who never liked to swear, couldn't help but curse at people now!
This kind of foul, I really can't avoid it.

Coach Brown also beckoned helplessly to replace Li Pu.

Li Pu didn't even think about playing for the rest of the first half.

In the entire first half, he only played 7 minutes, which is too miserable!
So Jokic took office again. Who would have thought that a first-year rookie would get such a long playing time in the finals.

What a substitute!
What the hell is an MVP substitute!
After the game restarted, the Cavaliers still couldn't seize the opportunity, facing the Kings' iron-barrel defense, they couldn't break through.

The Kings even sent Butler, Giannis, Covington and many other players to defend James, which made James miserable.

The reason why so many people were changed to defend James was not to use the wheel to fight, but the first two people were fined one after another.

It can be seen that the Kings are really miserable.

If it weren't for the large number of people who could play, I'm afraid there wouldn't even be five players on the field at this moment!
But even so, the Cavaliers still failed to take the lead.

The two teams actually played again at 15:15 in this quarter, which was still a tie.

Not to mention the fans of other teams, even the fans of the Cavaliers were ashamed to watch this scene.

So ugly!

Two teams that are good at offense, the score at the end of the half was only 35 points, which shows how bad the offense of the two teams is?
After the start of the second half, the Kings finally entered the normal rotation.

However, God seemed to be joking with them, oh, forgot, this place is not under the control of God, but God.

It stands to reason that the king's main force returns to the field, and the defense should only be strong but not weak.

Unexpectedly, the Cavaliers' three-pointer suddenly opened up, and the arrows rained down, almost reaching the point where thousands of arrows pierced the heart.

Fortunately, the offense of the Kings returned to normal. Even though Li Pu received his fourth foul in the middle of the third quarter, after he left the court, the offense of the Kings remained unabated.

In the end, the two teams scored a high score of 35:31 in this quarter, and the Cavaliers entered the final quarter with a 4-point lead.

At the beginning of the fourth quarter, Li Pu returned to the court and played 15 minutes tonight, full of energy.

As soon as he came up, Li Pu held the ball in the low position, faced with the pincer attack of TT and James, he chose to turn around and dunk, and he dunked the two directly.

Then, it was the Cavaliers' turn to attack, and James broke through to Li Pu again.

But this time, Li Pu had already learned how to behave. He directly put his hands behind his back and leaned his body back, not giving him a chance to make physical contact with James at all.

It may also be that James didn't expect that he would drop his hand during the layup, and he missed this layup that was a surefire layup. After Li Pu picked up the rebound, he dribbled the ball forward.

Of course, some people wanted to come up to intercept Li Pu, but Li Pu passed them one by one with exaggerated movements, and finally finished a dragon with a single stroke of Huashan.

The score was tied.

Li Pu's physical advantage was fully displayed at this moment.

(End of this chapter)