You should cross the mountains like a brave man

Chapter 894 This Is Not a Basketball Game Anymore
James and his teammates prepared to use a brutal game to offset the follow-up impact of Vershaw's two consecutive dunks that can be recorded in the history of the Eastern Conference Finals.

It is the tradition of the eastern team to make the game brutal.

In recent years, there are still many Eastern Conference teams continuing this tradition.

It's just that it's not James' team that usually continues the tradition, but their opponents.

So James fans will think that although the competitiveness of the East is not as strong as that of the West, they are all dead pigskin and hob meat, and they will lose their skin after a fight. If you don't believe it, let the Western teams try it.

Although this kind of hard-to-achieve behavior is unreasonable, it is true that the Eastern Conference teams play savagely, and it is true that they will become more savage in the playoffs.

If the Cavaliers suddenly take that route, the trend of the game will be even more unpredictable.

James took the lead in a strong confrontation against the Cavaliers, and the game became like this.

Wei Xia wanted to make a layup. Although he avoided the block, the body collision from the side was deemed legal by the referee.

Even if the opponent has knocked his cylinder out of order, as long as the referee does not blow the whistle, these actions are legal.

Fortunately for the 76ers, they used the same action against the Cavaliers without calling a foul.

In this case, it is actually fair, and the Cavaliers took advantage of it a little bit, because their inside line is better.

The pace of the game was thus set back a decade.

In the Western Conference Finals, the Warriors used small balls to bury the Thunder's king bomb. Their offense is pleasing to the eye, like art, and even laymen who don't understand basketball at all will be attracted.

The 76ers and Cavaliers took the game to another extreme.

It doesn't pay attention to the extreme of sports aesthetics at all. If you remove the basketball from the basketball court and say that they are fighting, there is no sense of disobedience.

The collision of muscles, the struggle of the body, the exhaustion of physical energy and the test of willpower, all the potentials for challenging the limit burst out on the field.

The iron blood in Rondo's body was forced out.

When he was in the Celtics in his early years, he listened to Garnett's martyr-like screams every day. Although he didn't approve of KG's way of leading the team, he couldn't deny that he couldn't help being mobilized by him when he was with that kind of person.

The way the Cavaliers played reminded Rondo of the Celtics' style of play.

He goes in, gets knocked to the floor for the score, but at the same time, his layup hits.

Scoring is so difficult that every time you score, you have to be prepared to be bruised.

Rondo slapped the floor and shouted, "Again!"

33 is better than 30
A 3-point lead is not safe.

The Cavaliers' offense is just as difficult, and James has taken on too much without Irving on the court.

Frye was crippled after being kicked off by Wei Xia, and the feeling that seemed to be about to explode was no longer glowing like a black dwarf that had exhausted all its energy.

JR Smith's heads-up ability is less than half of Irving's, and James still relies on himself after much deliberation.

Wei Xia's impeccable defense is exactly the power that the three-time DPOY player should show on the defensive end.

All of James' scoring opportunities are blocked by his defense, and the only thing he can do is to shoot jumpers under high difficulty.

This is the dilemma that superstars must face.

A player who cannot face this dilemma, a superstar who cannot give people hope when all hope is lost, is not qualified to be a superstar.

James emptied everything inside.

Before the shot, his elbow gave Wei Xia a great reaction force.

Wei Xia was pushed away by him and couldn't jump up to defend. James made a jumper and scored with a rebound.

"I'm going to end you!" James shouted excitedly.

32 is better than 33
Everyone heard what James said, that's not his norm.

In order to win, he has smashed the hypocritical mask of labeling. It should be said that James at this time is the purest and closest person to James.

James is the most powerful in this state, but unfortunately he only awakens his true self when he is cornered.

He has the top talent in history, and can even be said to be one of the five best talents in history. He has a mature personality and an overall view. He didn't need to go to college to understand the truth that Kobe never understood in his life-one more pass can create better opportunities-he is the combination of Larry Bird and the magician.

How rare it is to see such a James - Wei Xia, who pursues to stimulate the emperor to the point of smoke every time he competes with James, knows it best.

Because the opportunity is rare, Wei Xia must also correct his attitude and use his full strength to deal with the full strength Zhan.

Unexpectedly, what James has to do is not only to blow up his defense on the offensive end, but also to use defense to suppress his offense.

The specific method is the same as Wei Xia's previous method, using aggressive defense to prohibit him from receiving the ball.

Since he is determined to complete the domination of both offensive and defensive ends, so as to prove that he is the real No.1, Wei Xia had to do the opposite.

James' approach will consume a lot of energy for him.

Wei Xia ran with all his strength. He was not in a hurry to get the ball, and first consumed James. In the last few seconds of running, the ball from his teammates barely passed.

James wanted to chase but didn't have the corresponding speed to keep up.

JR Smith, who came to change defense, could just open his hands, and Wei Xia caught the ball and turned around without any pause. He held the ball above his head and threw the ball desperately.

"Unfortunately, this goal must be scored."

While Wei Xia turned to speak, the three-pointer flew over Smith's head and fell into the basket accurately.

36 is better than 32
Wei Xia looked back at James, separated by a trembling JR who dared not speak, and raised his voice: "With just these few words, the wish to end me can only come true in your dream."

After Wei Xia finished speaking, what greeted the Cavaliers was a new round of high-intensity defense.

James failed to attack with the ball and moved out.

JR was knocked down by the pressure, the catcher slipped and made a turnover.

The terrible defensive pressure haunts everyone like a nightmare. This is not just a problem for the Cavaliers, but also for the 76ers.

Everyone except Wescia and James is plagued by this pressure.

This round of dead ball allowed the two sides to switch back to the full main lineup.

James can breathe a sigh of relief, and Irving's return will relieve him of some of the offensive burden.

Wei Xia can also save some energy to defend.

It's just that the hidden dangers of the 76ers' insiders are becoming prominent.

Odom, Hollins and Faried, each with two criminals.

Any one of them encounters a foul crisis, and the 76ers' inside rotation will have problems.

Hayward couldn't get the ball out of the high post, and the Cavaliers had enough defensive pressure on the 76ers.

Since the support is not enough, we will switch to face-to-face singles. The advantage of this is that it saves a lot of troublesome steps.

Because teammates are so defended that they can't run tactics, playing by yourself is the most cost-effective.

Passing for the sake of passing is also prone to turnovers.

As a result, Hayward had a round with Richard Jefferson before his shot.

As a result of the confrontation, his shots were not sticky.

The scramble for rebounds showed the bloody part of the game.

Obviously it was Thompson who got the rebound, but Faried took it off.

The ball lost control and fell to the floor, and one player after another jumped on the ground to grab the ball.

In the end, Wei Xia and Owen got together.

The referee gave a jump ball penalty.

Such a judgment is tantamount to returning the ball to the 76ers, and Irving has no chance to take the ball away from Weixia's hands.

The result is also the same, Weixia allocated the ball to Hayward.

Hayward passes to Holiday.

The 14-second attack time was plenty, and Holiday decided to let others pull himself apart, and his breakthrough successfully penetrated the Cavaliers' defense.

When he rushed to the basket and lost his balance under the help of the two, the referee seemed to appear suddenly and gave the Cavaliers a defensive foul.

Breen joked: "I thought there were no referees tonight."

"The intensity of the game between the 76ers and the Cavaliers is rare in contemporary times." Van Gundy exclaimed, "It's hard to imagine that such a game can be seen in 2016! This is the scale of 1990!"

Jackson used this to express that the contemporary era needs more such confrontational games.

"The fans have to know what the real game of basketball is like," Jackson said deliberately. "This game has never been a gentleman."

In fact, Jackson is in no position to say that, since he himself is one of several major figures who have made the sport ugly.Before the five-second back-up rule was introduced, the defenders headed by him played all kinds of infinite back-ups, which seriously affected the enjoyment of the game.

Few viewers are willing to watch a group of men push their buttocks into the belly of another group of men.

Even though the league has been advocating offense, the rules have been relaxed repeatedly for the offensive side. In the playoffs, defense is still the life and death line of strong teams.

The usual smooth three-pointer is no longer smooth, and the body hair that blows the whistle at a casual touch is basically gone. Instead, there are strict foul standards, greater intensity and a mid-range jumper that can determine the outcome.

The 76ers and Cavaliers are pushing this game to extremes.

Every possession someone goes down, either for a rebound or gets knocked off the ball.

Some people fell to the ground and were slightly suspected of diving, but as the first half drew to a close, the number of falls became more and more frequent, and the intensity of the action was beyond the scope of any basketball game.

It is impossible for the Australian basketball league to have such a confrontation.

Wei Xia couldn't guarantee his shooting percentage at this level of intensity, so he went inside at the risk of being brought down consecutively.

James' honed body couldn't sustain the pressure of his opponents, and he passed more.

Irving was completely unable to single-handedly score.

Hitting the iron is the norm, and all scoring seems to be accidental.

When the game first saw all ten players fall to the ground for a floor ball, the atmosphere in the Quicken Loans Center was so cruel that it was hard to breathe.

"Jeff, do you think Stephen Curry can keep his touch on a defense like this?" Mark Jackson asked.

Van Gundy shook his head with a solemn expression: "No one can maintain the touch under this intensity. This is no longer a basketball game."

(End of this chapter)