Lowry controlled the ball into the frontcourt and paused for a moment.
Lin Yu penetrated into the inside line, and then suddenly reversed and retreated to the top of the key. Ben Gordon did not face Lin Yu. Following Lin Yu was LeBron James.
Lin Yu caught the ball, followed up with a crotch move, changed direction, and squeezed James in.
Ben Wallace came over and Lin Yu chose to pass the ball.
"Lin Yu's pass found Wilson Chandler in the corner. Ben Gordon's defense obviously couldn't stop him, but when faced with the opportunity, Wilson's layup went wide..."
Ben returned to the basket and grabbed the rebound, but the Knicks failed to score on the first attack.
But for the Knicks, the most important thing is not the offense in this round, but the next defense.
When Ben handed the ball to James, and James immediately accelerated forward and rushed forward, the Cavaliers' first and fourth players immediately came into play.
Except for Ben, the other four knights fired four arrows and rushed towards the front like a tide.
"Defend based on position, grab rebounds and then seize the opportunity to counterattack. LeBron James attracted the defense, and he distributed the ball to the wing. Ben Gordon, his mid-range shot!"
Whoosh!
Ben Gordon's mid-range shot accurately hit the basket and passed through the heart. The Cavaliers scored the first point of the opening game.
Then, the Knicks launched another wave of offense.
Lin Yu's possession of the ball once again encountered a decisive and quick attack from the Cavaliers. He was forced to pass the ball and find Lowry on the other side.
After Lowry received the ball, he had no chance to shoot directly, but against Daniel Gibson's defense, the individual singles progressed quickly.
But after breaking through to the basket, with the help of Ben Wallace, Lowry's throw also missed the basket.
The knights were very decisive in the continuous flanking attacks. Lin Yu noticed this and he somewhat understood the knights' adjustments and arrangements for this game.
The defense limits Lin Yu to one person, and the offense wants to flourish more.
I have to say that Mike Brown's idea is very good. If he encounters Lin Yu who enters the field, he will still give it to him for free. Fortunately, he is lucky. In this game, Lin Yu is not in the field.
The Cavaliers launched another counterattack, but the Knicks were on guard and blocked the counterattack.
But James forced a breakthrough and went for a layup, and the referee blew the whistle decisively.
An uncontroversial foul, Wilson Chandler's defense violated James' cylinder a little, and the Knicks just complained.
After Dick Bavetta's warning, they quickly evacuated.
James stood on the free throw line and made one of two free throws. At the beginning of the game, the Cavaliers led 3:0.
Back on the offensive end, Lin Yu received the ball from the backcourt, quickly pushed across half court, and immediately received a high screen from Zach Randolph.
But after covering, the Cavaliers chose to attack Lin Yu from both front and back, completely leaving Randolph open.
There was no chance for a three-pointer, but Lin Yu didn't pass the ball either.
Instead, he turned around and got rid of the attack. Under James' follow-up defense, he found another cover from Kwame Brown. With the help of this cover, he directly scored a three-pointer from the outside!
Bang, the basketball smashed out of the frame.
With a mediocre touch, Lin Yu retreated quickly, even shaking off his hand in the process of retreating.
But because the ball bounced far enough, the Cavaliers, who took off the rebound, counterattacked even faster. Although the Knicks retreated quickly, they still couldn't stop James' impact.
"LeBron rushed to the basket and dunked successfully. The opening game was 5:0. The Cavaliers had a perfect start!"
"The Knicks need to pay attention. So far in the game, their offense has been very frustrated. Facing counterattacks, their defense is also somewhat unorganized..."
The knight's opening was perfect, but Lin Yu was not in a hurry.
The first three offensive rounds were just experiments for him. He already understood how the Cavaliers should play in this game.
Obviously, the Cavaliers just want to prevent Lin Yu from scoring. As for Lin Yu's teammates, it seems that they are all difficult to use.
The Knicks' lack of a second ball-handling point other than Lin Yu has long been a well-known problem.
Lin Yu knew that if this game wanted to proceed smoothly, he must first open up his own personal offense, and then have the opportunity to drive his teammates.
This is difficult, very difficult, but this is the performance and game process that the Knicks should really have when they face opponents like the Cavaliers and Celtics.
It can only be said that in the past four games, Lin Yu, who is a master of blocking and killing, has covered up almost all problems.
Even in the fourth game, Lin Yu had an outstanding long-range shooting feel in the opening game and an unexpected super long three-pointer.
But in this game, the touch was average, and the surprise of the long three-pointer was gone. What he had to face was an epic and difficult start.
After another round of attack, Lin Yu chose to dig in.
He broke through to the mid-range, faced a double attack, and once again chose to use a jump shot to solve the attack in this round.
"China Lin's fadeaway jumper!"
With a bang, the basketball hit the frame again.
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At the second minute and 41 seconds of the first quarter, Lin Yu came through the screen and hit a pull-up jumper, scoring the Knicks' first point of the game.
At this time, the Cavaliers already had a 7-point lead with a score of 9:2.
The situation of the game seemed to be tilting towards the Cavaliers.
…
After Lin Yu hit the pull-up, the Knicks' scoring account opened up. They scored one after another, but overall, their performance was very inefficient.
After the first quarter, the Cavaliers took a 9-point lead with a score of 28:19, relying solely on this simple and crude offense to focus on counterattacks, and the defensive style of attacking Lin Yu without thinking.
By the second quarter, Lin Yu was forced to rest off the court due to physical constraints.
The Cavaliers relied on a better substitute lineup to further widen the score gap.
By the time Lin Yu returned to the court, the score gap had widened to 15 points.
It looks like this game is going to be one-sided.
"Lionel Hollins called a timeout. This was a timeout that had to be called. The Cavaliers had already shown their momentum on the court, and the score gap widened to 15 points almost instantly. It seemed that the Cleveland people
We have to end the suspense of this crucial battle in advance at their home court!”
After watching this quarter and a half of the game, Reggie Miller was quite emotional: "The Cavaliers finally found their way to play the game correctly, and they are working hard to drag the series into a tiebreaker."
At this time, Magic reminded Reggie Miller: "But Reggie, Lin's poor condition in this game is also one of the main factors. For the Cavaliers, hidden worries still exist."
"But what we have to say is that the Knicks were on the verge of collapse in this game, and the Clevelanders showed their tenacity in a desperate situation!"
On the sidelines, Lionel Hollins prepared to replace Lin Yu.
Unlike his teammates and coaches who had a somewhat unbalanced mentality, Lin Yu was still very calm. The gap was only 15 points, and the situation was still within control.
For the "three black minutes", what Lin Yu had to do was to ensure that the score difference was about ten minutes before the game entered the last three minutes.
Therefore, the hope of winning this game still exists.