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At the end of the first quarter, the Sonics trailed the Cavaliers by six points. Stephen was ahead of LeBron James in terms of personal data, but in the confrontation between the two coaches, Carlesimo lost to Mike Brown. Gibson scored eight points in a row after playing, which greatly changed the trend of the game.

When the core players of the two sides are almost at the same level, it depends on how the teammates around them perform. Unfortunately, on the Supersonic team, except for Stephen, no one can stand up to help him relieve the pressure. , but several teammates around LeBron James have stood up.

"I don't deny Stephen's personal ability, but he still has a certain gap with LeBron in terms of making his teammates better. This is an aspect that he needs to improve." Bill Walton is a very outstanding player on both offense and defense. Super center, someone once commented on him, on the offensive end, he is Wilt Chamberlain, on the defensive end, he is Bill Russell, at the same time, he also has a very good passing ability, Luke Walton inherited This is what he said, so he is very authoritative when he says this.

"I agree with your statement, but you have to see that he is still young, and this is his third professional season. At the same time, you also need to know that when he was in San Antonio in the first two seasons, he played a role in the team. He is not like LeBron, he is the boss when he enters the team, and he has just learned how to be the boss. I think his performance is still qualified , I believe he will get better and better." Although Mark Jackson agreed with his statement, he helped Stephen explain.

"What you said is also very reasonable. Let's see how the two of them will perform in the second quarter." Bill Waldenwin said with a smile, and at the same time the director in the background switched the screen to the field where the game had already started.

Stephen and LeBron James continue to stay on the court. Both of them are the best candidates to defend the opponent. Even if they don’t talk about their offensive roles, they still have to stay on the court just to defend the opponent. But apart from the two of them, Other players on the field have undergone new changes.

The Sonics lineup is center Robert Swift, power forward Kurt Thomas, small forward Stephen, shooting guard Wilkins, point guard Luke Ridnour, and the Cavaliers have also become center Valle Joe, power forward Drew Gooden, small forward LeBron James, shooting guard Devin Brown, point guard Damon Jones.

There is nothing new about lineup changes on both sides. Perhaps it is a tradition inherited from the Spurs. Both teams have a relatively large rotation lineup. Many head coaches like to use a relatively fixed eight-man or nine-man rotation. The lineup, but both of their teams have more than ten people.

When both sides were the main lineup, the competition was between Stephen and LeBron James. Now it is replaced by a substitute lineup. It makes no sense not to continue to be like this. All the media and fans are paying attention to the performance of the two of them. , to see who will win the individual and team victories.

But at this time, the two teams each stood up as a spoiler. On the first attack, LeBron James passed the ball to Varejao. Varejao is a South American player who was born in Brazil. Domestic to European professional experience, and then participate in the draft.

His draft pick is the same as Stephen's, first in the second round, only one year earlier than Stephen's, and his position in the Cavaliers is also the same as Stephen's position when he first entered the league. A blue-collar substitute, at the beginning of the season, due to contract issues He was very unhappy with the team. The team even hid him for nearly a month and banned him from participating in the game. He didn't start to play until he signed a three-year contract worth 700 million US dollars.

In everyone's impression, he is thought to be a very active defensive guy, sometimes even over the top. As for his offensive performance?Will he attack?But today, he surprised people. Facing Robert Swift's defense, although Varejao was at a disadvantage in height, he first played a back position. Robert Swift had just made a defensive move, but Varejao Standing up suddenly, he turned around and went to the basket. Robert Swift reacted very quickly, turned around and followed. Seeing Varejao about to make a shot, he jumped into the air and stretched his long arms to cover Varejao.

Varejao turned his back to Robert Swift, but he seemed to have eyes at the back of his head. He retracted his hands, squatted down, and then jumped up quickly, hooking the ball into the basket with one hand, causing Robert Swift Swift's foul and free throw scored another point for the team.

The offense returned to the Sonics. Kurt Thomas sent the ball to Ridnour and blocked Damon Jones for Ridnour. Ridnour dribbled the ball through half court and passed Gave it to Stephen, and then ran behind Stephen.

Damon Jones is wearing a pair of shoes in China named after a certain sports name. He is also the first player to wear a Chinese sports brand besides Stephen. He once claimed to be the best shooter on the planet, although he has some boasting Composition, but it also shows that his ability in this area is really good, at least full of this confidence, it can prove that he is very daring to make a move.

However, his weakness is that his defense is very poor, at least it can't match his offense. A player with a strong offense and a weak defense, but he is playing for a defensive player in the Cavaliers. The treatment can be imagined. The Cavaliers would rather use Eric Snow, who has a poor offense and is often plagued by injuries, is unwilling to use him as the team's point guard.

When he wanted to go around Stephen, Stephen had moved his feet and blocked him. At the same time, Stephen received the ball on the right and passed it to Ridnour from the left. LeBron James had to switch to the defense. Deno, facing LeBron James, Ridnor was very calm, calmly dribbled the ball in front of LeBron James, made a fake breakthrough and found no effect, quickly retracted his steps and made a change of direction Action, but still not fooling LeBron James.

At this time, he suddenly turned outward, and quickly came to the outside of the three-point line. After turning around, he lowered his body, raised his head, and was ready to shoot. LeBron James had just chased him, and before he could stand Steady footing, Ridnour suddenly jumped up and shot, while leaning forward, colliding with LeBron James.

How hard LeBron James’ body is, Ridnour was bounced back at that time and fell directly to the floor, but the ball flew into the basket, and at the same time the referee’s whistle sounded, Ridnour actually LeBron James completed a four-pointer.

Even LeBron James, who has always been calm, couldn't keep calm about this ball. When Ridnour made a free throw, he twisted his mouth to the side where the camera couldn't see, and muttered a few words, no way, his Basically every move is being tracked by the camera all the time, even if you want to yell and curse.

It was the turn of the Cavaliers to attack. At this time, it was still Varejao. When he went down, he directly received a pass from LeBron James and strode forward. Robert Swift had no choice but to stand in front of him and let Varejao Knock yourself to the ground.

The referee just called a foul by LeBron James, and this is the home court of the Cavaliers. Faced with this situation where both sides can call a foul, it is natural that the referee called a foul on the Sonics side, because Varejao has already started the offense , So he was directly awarded two free throws.

After two free throws, the ball came to the Sonics. After receiving a pass from Ridnour early on, Stephen slipped from the baseline to the basket alone, and passed the ball suddenly from the crowd to the top of the circle. Ridnour at the three-point line, Ridnour shot directly after receiving the ball, and threw the ball into the basket steadily.

LeBron James' shot was blocked by Stephen, the ball was picked up by Wilkins, passed to Ridnour, and then he was in the middle, Ridnour was on the right side, and Stephen launched a three-way fast on the left. Offensive, the Cavaliers only had one LeBron James to follow.

Youdao said that two fists are hard to beat with four hands, not to mention that the Sonics have three people, while the Cavaliers have only one. The first thing he interfered with was Ridnour who was dribbling, and Ridnour immediately passed the ball It was given to Wilkins in the middle. At this time, Wilkins has passed the free throw line and can layup or dunk by himself. However, because he is worried about being blocked by LeBron James, the top five or top ten shots often There was a shot like this, so he passed the ball back to Stephen.

This is completely redundant. Stephen has already rushed down enough, and has lost his shot position after receiving the ball. When he forcibly turned his body around and prepared to shoot, LeBron James had already arrived. Stephen was about to shoot. LeBron James reached out and knocked the ball away, and the ball flew out of the baseline.

Although the ball is still in the Supersonics, the fast break that was foolproof did not score, wasting a great opportunity in vain. In this round, Stephen blocked the opponent's attack with a block, but LeBron James interrupted it with a steal. The Sonics' offensive performance is still comparable.

After Damon Jones made a three-pointer, in the subsequent offense, he failed to hit the basket three times. For the fourth time, when the opportunity was not good, he still chose to make a shot on his own. A good teammate, who was replaced by Mike Brown after the miss.

The replaced Gibson maintained his touch in the first quarter and made a three-pointer as soon as he came up. With the help of him and Varejao, although LeBron James only scored six points in this quarter, he sent four times Assists, the Cavaliers still maintain their lead.

Stephen scored 51 points in this quarter, and Ridnour, who scored 56 points, was the biggest contributor to the team's ability to maintain the score. Except for them, the performance of the others was very average. At [-] to [-], the referee blew the whistle to end the first half.