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At the beginning of the second quarter, the Celtics were led by Pierce, Cassel, Brown, Powe, and James Posey played together.

The Cavaliers were led by West, Varejao, Joe Smith, Wally, and Alexander appeared together.

The Celtics have the ball, Kassel advances with the ball, travels to the top of the arc and passes it to Pierce in the low post, Wally steps forward to lead the defense, takes a tentative step, speeds up the breakthrough of the face frame, makes an emergency stop for a mid-range shot, and hits the net hollowly. 23:23, the Celtics equalized the score.

West advanced with the ball and went to the top of the arc to signal Varejao to pick and roll. He accelerated past the defense, and James Posey switched over. At the same time, Varejao cut inside to the basket. Varejao made an easy layup, 23:25, and the Cavaliers led by 2 points.

Cassell continued to push forward with the ball, West stepped forward to lead the defense, and went to the top of the arc to catch the ball from Pierce, Pierce held the ball with his back, pushed Wally into it, came near the free throw line, turned over and shot a jumper , out of the box, Varejao received the rebound.

West catches the ball and pushes forward quickly, marching to the top of the arc to signal Varejao to pick and roll, and uses the screen to make a three-pointer, and hits the net hollowly. At 23:28, the Cavaliers lead by 5 points.

Bowie switched defenses a step slower, gave West a step to shoot, and the defense made a mistake.

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Rivers requested a timeout with 9 minutes and 10 seconds left in the second quarter.

Back from the timeout, Garnett replaced Powe and James replaced Alexander.

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The Celtics have the ball, Cassel holds the ball and pushes forward, marching to the top of the arc to signal Garnett to pick and roll, one speeds up and throws off the defense, Varejao steps forward to change defense, at the same time Garnett cuts to the basket, Cassel A pass to Garnett, who went down, succeeded in dunks with both hands. At 25:28, the Celtics narrowed to 3 points.

James quickly advanced with the ball, marched to the top of the arc to signal Varejao to pick and roll, James Posey was blocked by him, James accelerated past the defense, Garnett immediately switched up, James accelerated again, and changed direction in front of him, Shaking left and right, Garnett retreated and defended, forced a layup against the defense, and caused Garnett to foul, beep! ! , the referee signaled Garnett to block the foul, the goal was valid, and a penalty was added.

James made a steady hit with the extra penalty this time and successfully hit a three-pointer. At 25:31, the Cavaliers led by 6 points.

Looking back, Pierce and Garnett picked and rolled, Pierce made a mid-range shot, 27:31, and the Celtics continued to narrow the gap.

In the next round, James made a mid-range shot, 27:33, and the Cavaliers stabilized their lead.

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43:45, the Cavaliers led by 2 points, and the second quarter ended.

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The second half of the game started, the Celtics had the ball, Rondo advanced with the ball, marched to the top of the arc, Garnett raised the pick-and-roll, accelerated to throw off the defense, Ray Allen ran without the ball on one side, and came out from the baseline to catch , Rondo received the ball, raised his hand and scored a three-pointer, picturesque, hollow into the net, 46:45, the Celtics overtook the score.

James continued to advance with the ball, and passed the top of the arc to the big Z in the low position. At the same time, James quickly went to the basket, Pierce was left behind, and the big Z immediately passed back to James. Adams slammed the ball into the basket and completed the death dunk. 46:47, the Cavaliers overtook the score.

This buckle instantly ignited the audience, and the Quicken Loans Center erupted with thunderous applause and cheers!

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Rondo continued to advance with the ball, and the top of the arc signaled Garnett to pick and roll. He strode away from the defense and went straight to the basket. The hand split was successful, 48:47, and the Celtics took the lead again.

James quickly advanced with the ball, an accelerated defense, and went to the basket. In order to prevent James from breaking through, the Celtics returned to the basket. Point shot, hit steadily, 48:50, the Cavaliers lead by 2 points.

Rondo continued to push forward with the ball, observing the running position of his teammates from the top of the arc, Pierce and Ray Allen crossed running, Pierce received the screen of Perkins to get rid of James' entanglement, came out from the bottom line to catch the ball, made a long two-point shot, steady Hit, 50:50, the Celtics equalized.

West advances with the ball and prepares to pass it to Big Z at the top of the arc. Seeing this, Rondo's long arm interferes with his pass. The ball is intercepted by Rondo. Completed the layup, quickly accelerated to take off to cover Rondo's layup, nailed the big cap, and received the rebound.

James immediately switched offense, quickly put up the ball to West, five-for-four in the frontcourt, and passed the ball, Gibson made another open three-pointer and made a steady hit. 50:53, the Cavaliers led by 3 points.

Looking back, Ray Allen made a strong three-pointer against the defense, and the ball went into the net hollow, 53:53, and the score was evened.

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The two sides came and went, the score alternately led, 65:68, the Cavaliers led by 3 points, and the third quarter ended.

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At the beginning of the fourth quarter, James still led the bench, advancing with the ball, breaking through, layups, dunks, mid-range shots, and assists. He played a small climax of 8:0 for the Celtics, 65:76. The point difference was pulled to 11 points.

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Seeing this, Rivers immediately paused, switched back to the starting lineup, signaled to double-team James, and let other Cavaliers players handle the ball.

After the timeout, the Celtics' offense improved slightly. The defensive end spared no effort to double-team James, and James can always find open teammates and send out assists again and again.

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At 12:20, the Cavaliers won by 8 points in the fourth quarter, and the Celtics' offense was cut off, scoring only 12 points in a single quarter.

77:88, the Celtics lost to the Cavaliers away, the series scored 2:2, and the Cavaliers evened the score at home.

James played the full second half, played 44 minutes, scored 31 points, 6 rebounds, 13 assists, 3 steals, and 2 blocks.

On the other side, none of the Big Three of the Celtics scored 20 points. Garnett scored 15 points, 10 rebounds and 4 assists; Ray Allen 15 points, 6 rebounds and 3 assists; Rondo 15 Points, 3 rebounds, 4 assists, 2 steals; Pierce 13 points, 5 rebounds, 3 assists.

James equalized the score by himself, changed the trend of the series, and made the following games more exciting!

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Li Kang watched the live broadcast of the game and shook his head. How long can James last alone? He is more optimistic about the Celtics entering the Eastern Conference Finals. Leading the team alone, and the Cavaliers rely on James alone, and Big Z also needs someone to feed the ball to play.

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