At the beginning of the second quarter, Adrian chose to rest off the court to recover his strength. Turkoglu replaced him, and Van Weaver also came on as a substitute. However, Adrian was surprised to find that although the Cavaliers also substituted
Substitute, but LeBron James remains on the court.
"Is this guy planning to play the entire first half?" Adrian thought for a moment. Even with his physical strength, he would be exhausted if he played the entire half in a high-intensity confrontation.
As for his performance in the second half, what's more, LeBron James just played a difficult game yesterday and played 42 minutes. If he continues to play like this today, Adrian can be sure that his physical strength will not be able to keep up in the second half.
"Ed, do you want to play too?" Stan Van Gundy turned to ask Adrian.
"No need." Adrian shook his head and glanced at LeBron James on the court. Without Adrian's entanglement on the court, the Orlando Magic lacked someone who could block LeBron James' impact from the outside.
A strong defensive player. Keith Bogans' defense is good, but obviously there is no way to deal with such an opponent who rushes and hits hard with his super physical fitness.
Adrian watched with his own eyes LeBron James forcefully dunked Bogans and got a foul on him, but this time, James did not walk. In fact, after being repeatedly whistled for walking by the referee, he knew
Today, it was impossible for the referee to indulge himself as usual. James obviously restrained his footwork.
Sure enough, the playing habits in high school were taught this way by the coach... They are all excuses. There is no basketball coach in the world who would teach his players to play like this. They are just acting recklessly based on the importance of the league.
Adrian still attaches great importance to LeBron James's strength. However, Adrian has always disliked LeBron James' character.
The league will indeed open the door to some stars who can bring attention. Stars can often get some preferential treatment on some penalties that can be blown or not. But that is just between what is possible and what is not, in the rules
It's just partiality within a limited range. Among other things, Adrian himself has also received this kind of care, so Adrian feels that he cannot criticize others on this point. But like LeBron James,
With the league attaching great importance to it and simply ignoring the rules of basketball, Adrian felt that maybe David Stern was really a bit old and confused, and was a bit desperate in order to create the 'next Jordan'.
The most ridiculous thing is that this guy has made a fortune relying on the referee's care, and he can just keep silent. He insists on saying that this is his playing habit since he was a child, and this is how the coach taught him. This kind of thing is not convincing at all.
If you tell lies, such behavior will not only make people laugh, but also make people look down upon you.
LeBron James stayed on the court, taking advantage of Adrian's rest off the court to score points like crazy. The referee still took care of him. Although he was not allowed to walk, it was obvious that some decisions could be made or not.
Among the fouls, the referee chose not to call or preferred James' penalty, especially when it came to hitting someone with the ball.
When LeBron James took three steps and had a violent physical conflict with the defensive player, the referee obviously chose not to call or call a defensive foul.
But Weaver, who had already performed brilliantly in the last game, still burst out with good scoring firepower after coming off the bench. It seems that he is a crazy guy, and the more people pay attention to the game, his performance will be better.
It became more and more popular. LeBron James' crazy scoring seemed to stimulate him.
On the defensive end, he first gave James a vicious foul, and directly pulled James out of the air after knocking Keith Bogans away for a dunk. James landed smoothly, but after landing, he suddenly dropped the basketball
It hit Van Weaver, who had a nonchalant look on his face.
This rough foul and James' actions almost ignited a conflict on the court. Fortunately, the experienced and mature Keith Bogans saved Van Weaver. The referee on duty also quickly intervened. Van Weaver
-Weaver and James each played 50 rebounds, and each received a technical foul to eliminate a possible brawl.
LeBron James and Turkoglu executed foul free throws and technical foul free throws respectively. LeBron James made two of three free throws, Turkoglu made two of two free throws and then served directly from the center line. Weaver slipped to the baseline and then received the basketball and made a backhand dunk.
He scored two points first. He made a comeback two minutes later. He faked a real shot and confused the defender and hit a three-pointer. Then he hit a two-pointer with a jump shot directly under West's defense.
Although the Cleveland Cavaliers narrowed the score gap with the strong performance of LeBron James when Adrian was not on the court, the performance of Lewis, Weaver and Turkoglu was not bad, especially
Weaver, who only came off the bench in the second quarter, showed his scoring ability to help the Orlando Magic stabilize the score. It was not until the seventh minute of the second quarter that the Cleveland Cavaliers were able to close out the score with a score of 48:51.
The point difference narrowed to three points. Immediately afterwards, Adrian replaced Carlos Arroyo and appeared again.
As soon as Adrian came on the court, LeBron James immediately changed his defensive target and rushed to guard Adrian. Obviously, today's LeBron James was very resolute in executing the one-on-one duel between Gner's chains. He must be here.
In this face-to-face duel, he proved that he was better than Adrian.
"It's really immature." Adrian thought secretly. He could see that at this time, James' speed and reaction had dropped significantly compared to when he first came on the field.
The impact of the back-to-back was finally reflected on James.
"Papa..." Slapping the basketball hard, Adrian resisted LeBron James and broke through directly to the baseline along the right side. One step...two steps...three steps, Adrian was already very close to the basket.
, the direct result of the decrease in speed and strength caused by the loss of physical strength is that LeBron James cannot push Adrian to the sideline like he did at the beginning of the game.
James can feel his legs trembling slightly every time he comes into physical contact. The impact of James' defense on Adrian is no longer 50% of what it was at the beginning. Adrian even has time to raise his head to see if his teammates have the right skills.
The space to take action.
With a slight raise of his hand, James jumped up immediately. Adrian, however, waited patiently for James to jump up, then took off with all his strength, stretched out his arms and sent the basketball in his hand to the basket!
"Bang!" In desperation, LeBron James chose to foul and hit Adrian's right hand holding the ball hard. Such an obvious foul had to blow the whistle no matter how much the referee took care of it.
But the basketball in Adrian's hand still firmly broke away from his hand and flew towards the basket!
"Bang bang..." The basketball that came out of the hand lightly rubbed against the side of the backboard, and the rebound landed on the inside of the front edge of the basket. After bouncing up, it fell into the hoop.
"Oh, this is the first time today. Adrian has responded positively to LeBron James' challenge." Charles Barkley shouted excitedly: "Adrian has always been obsessed with organizing the team's offense.
It seemed that he was finally starting to score on his own. He scored a layup over LeBron James's head in his first shot, and also created a 2+1 opportunity. Considering Adrian's free throw shooting rate, this free throw is a sure shot.
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Sure enough, as Charles Barkley said, Adrian's extra penalty hit easily.
As soon as he reached the defensive end, LeBron James rushed directly towards Adrian with the ball.
"You should choose to pass the ball at this time." Adrian stuck closely to LeBron James. Different from the first quarter, Adrian's defense at this time was more aggressive.
"You are already very tired, aren't you? You can't score on my head at this time. It's time to pass the ball."
"Shut up!" LeBron James said viciously. Strictly speaking, what Adrian said cannot be called trash talk, because there are no dirty words at all, and the words are spoken extremely clearly, but these words made James
Even more angry.
He hit the inside several times in a row, but the loss of physical strength greatly reduced the power of LeBron James' breakthrough. Seeing that there was not much offensive time left, James had to choose to stop the ball under Adrian's continuous pressure.
Because if he doesn't stop the ball, he can hardly control the basketball.
Ilgauskas, who was pretending to hang the basketball to the free throw line, felt Adrian's defensive posture being shaken by his fake move, and James suddenly pulled out a jumper!
Adrian immediately took off with all his strength, stretching his arms high to block LeBron James's shooting path. Before the basketball was released, Adrian's right hand slapped hard on LeBron James's hand that had just left his hand.
In basketball, even though he was affected by James' fake move, Adrian still covered James by jumping high. The impact of physical exertion made it difficult to use his terrifying jumping advantage.
"Crack!"
The basketball was touched by Adrian's three fingers. After landing, Adrian quickly pushed James behind him. After jumping up, he pushed the basketball toward the frontcourt with one hand.
"Quick attack!"
Van Weaver flew down like an arrow from the string. In the fast break, his superhuman physical strength was fully displayed. West started almost at the same time as him, but after passing the midline,
Delonte West has been separated by one position from Van Weaver. (To be continued...)
