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When everyone on the team was performing poorly and their shooting was bad, Lin Tian obviously took on more offensive responsibilities, made more choices to shoot, and conducted more personal offenses!
In this season's regular season, Lin Tian has rarely used such full firepower, using this offensive method to attack with all his strength!
This season, he is obsessed with passing the ball to his teammates and sharing the ball. He prefers to save his firepower for the fourth quarter to kill the game.

But tonight, when he found that Anthony and Okur missed their shots, and when several players who came off the bench were a little restrained and didn't play well, Lin Tian decisively opened fire!
It turns out that he was just too lazy to attack himself and started enjoying passing the ball, rather than being unable to play.

The Cavaliers' defense was torn to pieces by Lin Tian!
No matter whether it was Wade, McGinnis, or Snow and Pavlovic who came off the bench, they were all completely unable to defend Lin Tian. He could easily make inside and outside shots and get whatever he wanted!
Fortunately, although the Knicks' two stars played bravely and scored high points together, the Cleveland Big Three also performed well. Facing the Knicks' offense but not defense, Wade scored 16 points, 3 rebounds and 2 assists in the first half, Big Z scored 12 points and 6 rebounds, and Gooden also had 11 points and 5 rebounds!

With the team's three core players all performing well, at least in the first half of the game, the Cavaliers withstood the Knicks' firepower and did not fall behind by too much.

56: 65!

At the end of the first half, the Cavaliers were only 9 points behind the Knicks!

In the second half, when the players from both sides changed sides and the game just started, Lin Tian still wanted to help Anthony and Okur find their feeling again, so he passed the ball to them several times in a row.

But tonight, Okur's three-pointer just didn't go in, and Anthony's signature mid-range shot also didn't go in.

Within 2 minutes after the start of the game, Anthony missed two consecutive shots and Okur also missed an open 3-pointer.

Seeing that the Cavaliers were about to overtake the score if Anthony and Okur were allowed to find their rhythm, Lin Tian decisively stopped waiting and, together with Stoudemire, launched a new round of attacks on the Cavaliers!

The pick-and-roll between the two of them was still invincible, and the Cavaliers were also completely unstoppable from Lin Tian's personal offense.

At the beginning of the third quarter, despite the poor condition of Anthony and Okur, Wade continued to attack and narrowed the gap to 4 points.

But when Lin Tian and Stoudemire opened fire again, the Cavaliers' firepower immediately couldn't keep up!
At the end of the third quarter, the Knicks had once again widened the gap to 12 points!
In the fourth quarter, both Wade and Lin Tian did not rest and continued to lead the team. Because although both teams scored high points today, the coaches of both teams knew that without these two players, the state of their teams would immediately decline drastically!
In the fourth quarter, the two finally started a face-to-face confrontation!

In the first three quarters of the game, the two had some matchups, but not many. Overall, the two were intentionally separated by the head coaches of both sides.

But at the crucial moment of the fourth quarter, the coaches of both sides naturally no longer had any reservations and directly took out their trump cards to hedge.

Therefore, in the fourth quarter, Lin Tian once again showed the same defensive focus that earned him the title of Best Defensive Player last year. Starting from the backcourt, he provided meticulous and constant close defense to Wade!
From the end of the Knicks' offense to the beginning of the end of the Knicks' offense, Lin Tian stayed close to Wade all the time, not giving him any chance or time to easily receive the ball or initiate an offense!
If he faces someone else, Wade can use his speed, grasp of pick-and-roll, and varied breakthrough footwork to complete the breakthrough.

But who is Lin Tian?

His defensive ability has long been recognized as the top active players in the league's 1-2 positions. Looking at the entire history, only Jordan and Payton can compare with him.

More importantly, if Lin Tian defends technically proficient No. 2 players like Kobe and McGrady, he might be helpless because of their height disadvantage and they might use the direct pull-up shot to make him feel helpless.

But Wade himself is only 193 cm tall, and he has no height advantage over Lin Tian. At the same time, not to mention that the second-grade version of Wade is not good at shooting, even in his peak period, he was not a player who was good at indiscriminate pull-up shots and quick stop jump shots.

And, more importantly and more fatally, when Lin Tian's defensive intensity was completely raised, the pick-and-roll offense on which Wade relied for his survival was also greatly hindered.

Lin Tian can always find the Cavaliers' pick-and-roll path and the timing for the pick-and-roll players to move forward in time, then he will quickly take a step forward to block the position, and choose to force his way through the front of the screener, making the Cavaliers' pick-and-roll fail time and time again.

His strengths could not be outweighed and his weaknesses were exploited. Wade struggled in the fourth quarter!
Wade scored 29 points efficiently in the first three quarters. Halfway through the fourth quarter, he broke through and caused Lin Tian to foul. He then got his first points of the fourth quarter at the free throw line.

In the first 6 minutes of the fourth quarter, Wade made 4 of 0 shots, had 1 turnover, and only 1 assist. He was completely defeated by Lin Tian's defense!

When Wade performed like this, the Cavaliers' offense naturally became unsustainable, and they were unable to give the Knicks any response.

And Wade was unable to lock down Lin Tian with his defense. Even if he tried his best, he was still easily controlled by Lin Tian!

同样是第四节前6分钟，锁的韦德只能靠罚球拿到2分的同时，林天自己却6投4中，3分球1投1中，罚球2罚全中，拿下11分的同时还送出3次助攻！
By this time in the game, Lin Tian had already scored 44 points, 7 rebounds, 14 assists and 3 steals! Although Wade also seemed to have 31 points, 6 rebounds and 5 assists, everyone who watched the game knew that the influence and effect he and Lin Tian showed on the court were absolutely far apart!

The difference between the two sides has reached 20 points!

In the last 6 minutes of the game, Lin Tian once again put away his sickle and started feeding the ball to Anthony, Okur and other teammates who were not in good form tonight.

Because Lin Tian knew very well that it was almost an impossible task for him to win the championship alone. This year's league was stronger than last year's. Starting from the second round this year, there would definitely be a series of bloody battles and duels!

Whether he can maintain his physical strength is one thing, not to mention sitting back and waiting to take advantage of other teams.

Therefore, if the Knicks want to go further this year and compete for the championship, guys like Anthony and Okur must regain their feeling and find their own offensive rhythm.

Only by attacking, attacking and attacking again, the Knicks will have a chance!

This is also the reason why Lin Tian has always hoped that Anthony and others can find the feeling.

After today's game, he has confirmed: the Cavaliers are not strong and he can easily defeat the Cavaliers!
Since this round of games is easy, we must let our teammates participate more in the game, let them attack more, let them find the feeling of the playoffs, and return to the state of the regular season!
If they don't do it in the second round, when will they do it? Will they wait until the semifinals against the twin towers of Duncan and Howard, or the Eastern Conference finals against the Pistons' iron-clad defense?

It’s too late to finish it!
But unfortunately, despite Lin Tian's continuous delivery of shells, Anthony and others could not find the feeling tonight and had difficulty putting the ball into the basket stably.

I can only say that in their first playoff trip, the young players on the team really performed quite abnormally.

As for Stoudemire?

He was indeed in a hot mood tonight, but Lin Tian was still not at ease with him.

This year, Scooter hasn't developed his mid-range shooting skills yet! On the offensive end, he relies on recklessness and ferocity to conquer the world. Of course, he can easily bully the big white soft like Big Z and the short-statured technical flow like Gooden.

But what if he faces Howard, who is even more beastly than him, and Duncan, the king of technical flow, in the semifinals? What if he faces Ben Wallace, who is the best at dealing with beasts like him, in the Eastern Conference Finals?
What will he do? Can he maintain his efficiency tonight?
Obviously not!

Therefore, Lin Tian had already determined the game strategy against the Cavaliers since the beginning of the first round.

Unless your teammates are really not good enough, you must do your best to help them regain confidence and the feeling of the playoffs!
Otherwise, this year's playoffs will be really difficult.

In the end, the Knicks won the game without any danger.

110: 124!

In the end, the Knicks beat the Cavaliers by 14 points.

From this score difference, we can see how badly Anthony and others played in the last half of the game, and we can also see how brilliantly Wade played after getting rid of Lin Tian's defense in the last half of the game. That night, Lin Tian restrained his firepower in the last 6 minutes of the game and got a large quasi-triple-double of 47 points, 8 rebounds and 16 assists.

Wade made a breakthrough in the second half of the fourth quarter and scored an impressive 38 points, 7 rebounds and 6 assists!
At least in terms of data, he is not much inferior to Lin Tian!
Even if you only look at the technical statistics after the game, Wade can still be said to have managed to win despite the defeat and almost make a comeback!

In addition to their respective absolute top core players, the Knicks' Stoudemire scored 28 points and 12 rebounds. His first playoff game was quite successful, even amazing!

But apart from Lin Tian and Stoudemire, Anthony only scored 15 points and 5 rebounds with 14 of 5 shots, Okur only scored 8 points with 1 of 3 shots, and Jackson scored 8 points. If it weren't for the veteran Ward on the bench who stepped forward and withstood the pressure to score 15 points, Lin Tian would have had to work hard to win the game tonight.

On the Cavaliers side, in addition to Wade, Big Z scored a nice statistic of 24 points and 12 rebounds, Gooden also had 19 points and 9 rebounds, and McGinnis made 3 3-pointers and scored 15 points. The team's four main players all played their parts.

But unfortunately, their firepower could not catch up with the Knicks, and their defense could not withstand the Knicks' firepower.

The result of the first game may not explain too much, but if you watch the process, you will definitely find that the strength gap between the two teams is still quite obvious. If the Knicks want, they can easily defeat the Cavaliers!

In other words, if Lin Tian wanted to, he could easily control Wade!
Controlling Wade is equivalent to controlling the lifeblood of the Cavaliers.

This feeling of holding someone's life in your hands and playing with it at any time, humiliating it at any time, and playing with it however you want...

Lin Tian felt a little sick.

Pretty disgusting.

Wade is Wade, and it has nothing to do with his life!

After the game, Lin Tian, ​​as the leader and best performing player of the Knicks, naturally went to the post-match press conference.

The reporters' first question was quite direct and sharp, which is also the usual habit of the New York media!

They don't care what results you achieve as a team, or whether you are a city hero or not. They just dare to ask anything without any reservations.

The most obvious example is the press conference after the Knicks won the championship in 99. On such a day of celebration, after Jordan sat in the chair of the post-match press conference, the first question he accepted almost made him throw his cigar directly in the face of the reporter.

"Michael, do you think you got a bargain by winning the championship this year? If the Pacers hadn't been injured, would you have a high probability of not having a chance to win the championship? If there were 82 games this season, do you think you would have the stamina to hold on at your age?"

It’s that direct!
This is one of the reasons why many basketball stars, even though they yearn for and like the bright lights and nightlife of New York, are unwilling to play here.

The pressure is too great! In New York City, which has the most developed news industry and the most journalists in the world, if you do something wrong, you will be immediately attacked and criticized by crazy journalists!
If this is the case for those stars who have won the championship, what about Lin Tian, ​​the new 'city savior' who has just arrived?

"Lin, first of all, congratulations on your victory in the playoffs. My question is: tonight you only played full-court press defense on Devin for about 6 minutes. Why didn't you do that for the whole game? If you did that for the whole game, maybe we would have won a long time ago."

"Are you worried that the score difference will be too big and you won't be able to continue playing, or is it because your physical strength is not enough to support you to press and defend against a young star like Wade throughout the court?"

A standard trap question! Once Lin Tian falls into the trap, he will either have to admit that he is brushing data, or he will have to admit that he is old and lacks physical strength.

But who is Mr. Lin? He can easily answer this kind of question from the reporter without even thinking about it.

"Didn't we maintain the lead throughout the game, firmly control the tempo of the game, and maintain a lead of more than 10 points most of the time?"

"I think we won easily and comfortably, and that's the best way for us to win."

"You mean, even if Carmelo, Mehmet and others perform badly and miss the shot, it won't affect your victory and you can win in the easiest way, right?"

"In other words, they didn't play well, so you won easily?"

As for questions like these from reporters, most of the time they are asked by reporters from rival teams. Which serious reporter would chase after their star player and ask such questions that would affect the harmony of the team?

New York Press Conference!
"Everyone on the team is part of the team. This team is indispensable to everyone. Everyone has ups and downs, everyone has happy and unhappy times, even me, there are times when I am in bad shape."

"It's normal for a young man to have some ups and downs in the first playoff game. If he scores 55 points with a 40% hit rate in every game, I will definitely tie Carmelo up and send him to the ET Research Center to see if he is from Mars or the Moon."

Lin Tian’s answer was standard: I said a lot, but I didn’t directly answer your question. But if you say that I didn’t answer my question, then what I said was obviously the same thing you asked.

To put it simply, it is just standard nonsense and nonsense, with two jokes added in at most.

This move is a skill that Lin Tianshang acquired during his lifetime in business.

The core is just one sentence: never speak human language.

To give another example, even if the other person asks you what 1+1 equals, your answer cannot be 2.

一个合格的废话学大师，这个时候的回答应该是：我无法明确的告诉你1+1等于几，我也无法告诉你1+1是不是等于2，我只能说1+1可能等于2以外的任何一个数字，但我也不能排除它等于2的可能。

Or to put it more simply: shameless.

But no matter how Lin Tian responded, the first two questions from the reporter were bad enough.

Fortunately, there were still some of their own people at the scene. The Knicks' press officer nodded at one of their own people who was wearing an MSG work badge in the field, and the reporter immediately stood up.

"What do you think about the poor form of Carmelo and others, Lin? How do you plan to adjust the next game plan?"

Compared with the first two, this question is much milder and is a question that every team will be asked after every game.

"Carmelo's talent is beyond doubt, and his ability has long been recognized. I'm not going to do anything because I think Carmelo's performance tonight is just a normal fluctuation. He may come back at any time and become the omnipotent 'Melo' at any time."

"We just need to wait quietly and watch his performance!"

"I always trust my teammates and my brothers 100%! I know they can do it, and they can do it too!" (End of this chapter)