Legendary star

Chapter 722 Shaking
"Erwin, is this the first time LeBron has missed an open shot today?"

In the first game of the Eastern Conference finals between the Pacers and Cavaliers, the Pacers shrunk to the basket very simply after the game opened, and at the same time focused on marking the Cavaliers' two perimeters, Larry Hughes and Alexander Pavlovich. As for the Cavaliers' The core LeBron James, the Pacers' defensive strategy for him is that as long as James does not enter the three-point line, then he can shoot as he wants, and he can shoot as he wants, emptying the core of a team's offense, Rick Carlisle's The defensive strategy can be described as very bold, but this kind of defensive strategy of taking risks has played a miraculous effect today. The Pacers have already led the Cavaliers by as much as 17 points before the halftime game is over.

If it were replaced by a player with above-average three-point ability, if the Pacers dared to play like this, they would have been shot to death long ago, but James' three-point ability belongs to the group of below-average three-pointers. After missing two consecutive three-pointers, James also obviously lost confidence in his shooting in the following games. In the subsequent games, he has missed open shots many times.

"It should be the sixth." Rick Carlisle's defensive strategy against James is very effective today, but for James, today's game is completely a torment, but Magic Johnson doesn't think it is what it is The bad thing is that you can only grow through setbacks. As the best new generation player in the league, James really needs to go through some setbacks in order to go further and become one of the strongest players in the league.

"For a long time, Rick Carlisle has given me the impression that he is very stable, even conservative, but the strategy he developed today to defend James is very bold, and it can even be said that he is taking risks." In the conference finals, Rick Carlisle's tactical arrangement today was completely daring, even Don Nelson, known as the "tactical genius" and "madman", would not Blank a Superstar in one match!

"This is the precipitation from the championship." For the successor chosen by Larry Bird, Magic Johnson was not very optimistic at the beginning, although Rick Carlisle built the Pistons into a team when he coached the Pistons. The top three defensive teams in the league also won the best head coach there, but Rick Carlisle has always given the impression that he is conservative. A head coach with this style is obviously not suitable for the Pacers at the time , but Larry Bird still resolutely chose Rick Carlisle.

And Rick Carlisle did not live up to the trust of Larry Bird. After leading the Pacers to the best record in the regular season for four consecutive seasons and winning two championships, Rick Carlisle also changed his previous staid , Conservative, become confident, and bold, or it can be said that Rick Carlisle is a head coach who looks at the dishes at his core. Whatever type of players he has in his hand, he will play whatever type of tactics.

Back on the court, after another open shot missed, James, who was slowly retreating, was full of confusion and unwillingness in his eyes. James didn't know why he was fighting with Meng Xu in his first division finals full of hopes and longings. It will become what it is now, wandering around the court like an abandoned child, James doesn't know what to do, how to solve this situation on the court.

And the Cavaliers' bench is full of sorrow at the moment. From the head coach Mike Brown to the many substitute players, they are all watching what happened on the court with a blank face. Perhaps most of them have already I don't have much hope for this game.

In today's game, the Cavaliers played extremely aggrieved, especially the head coach Mike Brown, who obviously felt that he was suppressed by the IQ of Rick Carlisle on the opposite side. Originally, before the start of the game, Mike Brown had some mental preparations for the difficulty of the Eastern Conference finals. In Mike Brown’s view, even if the Cavaliers will be at a disadvantage, they will not be completely suppressed by the Pacers. After all, the tactics of the Cavaliers and the Pacers are very similar The Pacers understand the Cavaliers, and the Cavaliers also understand the Pacers. The most important thing is that James, the Cavaliers' offensive and defensive core, has almost the same strength as Meng Xu, except for his lack of experience in the playoffs.

However, after the game started, Mike Brown discovered that the source of his confidence, James, the core of the Cavaliers, had become a shortcoming of the Cavaliers and the target of the Pacers. Seeing a solution to the problem, he can only passively pin all his hopes on James himself, hoping that he can lead the Cavaliers out of the current predicament with a flash of inspiration.

At the same time, Larry Hughes, who had high hopes from Mike Brown, was completely locked up by Tony Allen of the Pacers today. Originally in Mike Brown’s plan, James and Meng Xuduizi exchanged blows , and Larry Hughes is the sharp knife and surprise soldier for the Cavaliers to win, but Larry Hughes let Mike Brown down today. Throughout the first half, Larry Hughes was defended by Tony Allen and made 4 of 1 shots. There is simply no way to play the role that Mike Brown expects.

Not only Larry Hughes, but another outsider of the Cavaliers, Alexander Pavlovich, is also invisible under the defense of Tyshawn Prince, and Drew Gooden and Zajunas I The performance of Ergoskas is quite normal, but to beat the Pacers, it is not just something that two players can do normally.

The offensive end couldn't play the desired attack, and the defensive end couldn't limit the Pacers' offense. At the end of the half game, in Mike Brown's view, the Cavaliers have already explained today's game, although Mike Brown said I don't want to admit it, but Mike Brown knows very well that the gap between the Cavaliers and the Pacers is all-round.

For all NBA players, when the game has not started, they naturally hope that they are the final winners, and the Cavaliers are the same. They have worked hard to reach the conference finals, not just for a few days in the Western Conference Finals , Everyone in the Cavaliers hoped to take one step closer, or even two steps further, but when the game started, they found that they could not see the slightest hope, and the confidence of almost everyone in the Cavaliers had been shaken.

(End of this chapter)