After the confession failed, I went to the NBA to play and lose weight

Chapter 268 Trash Talk

"In the first quarter, the defensive focus on both sides was very high. The Cavaliers' defensive strategy is to attack Li Chengming and force Li Chengming to get the ball out. The teammates will have more opportunities to play more and less in a short period of time. Unfortunately, there are two good opportunities. Teammates Didn't get it right..."

It's not that Director Zhang made Li famous by his teammates in the chaos. Lewis and Evans did miss two excellent opportunities for large open positions.

However, more often than not, the Cavaliers can rotate in place, and if they interfere in time, it will affect their confidence in shooting.

In fact, this may also be the Cavaliers' defensive strategy, which is to ensure that the inside line is not vacant as much as possible. On this basis, it can allow appropriate vacancy of the outside line.

However, except for Howard, the other four members of the Magic's lineup can shoot three-pointers, and Lewis and Nelson's three-point shooting percentages in the regular season this season are both over 39.5%, Evans is slightly worse, also 37.6%, Li Chengming It was even worse at [-]%.

And if Turkoglu is replaced, it will be more accurate. Turkoglu's three-point shooting percentage this season is also above 40%.

Of course, this is only the case in the regular season, but since entering the playoffs, both Lewis and Turkoglu's shooting percentages have dropped to 42%, while Nelson and Evans have risen instead, with Evans reaching 47.6%, and Nelson even more. There are [-]%, but they basically catch the ball and shoot open three-pointers, and the shooting rate fluctuates greatly when there is interference.

Li Chengming's three-point shooting rate has also increased, but his percentage of three-point shots per game is very low. This round of the series does not include this game. Currently, he only takes 2.25 shots per game, and most of them are at 40+ points. pitched.

Moreover, Li Chengming is generally in a low position surrounded by double-teams, which is a point of attraction for defense. When he goes out of the three-point line, he usually runs out by himself and faces big Z and others who cannot expand defense.

Therefore, the Cavaliers can be properly shorted, but only Lewis is the point, and there is no way to do it, because with Lewis' height, he is not as easy to be disturbed as Nelson and Evans. There is a difference between one step or two. Not that big.

Facts have proved that they also gambled right, Lewis missed two three-pointers.

I have to say that Lewis's performance this season is really unstable. When he is good, he can hit 3 or 4 three-pointers and score 20+. Just hit 3 or 4, and get a ten out of ten.

From another perspective, this is the case from the regular season to the playoffs. Maybe this is also a kind of stability?
Therefore, the outside world has not been very high on the signing of the Magic. However, because of the sudden emergence of Li Chengming this season, it seems that Lewis's hip stretching is not so unacceptable, and it also prevents Austin Smith. The outside world criticizes and criticizes.

Just as some people commented on the Internet before why Smith failed to get the best manager, it was because Lewis's signing and Li Chengming's draft value and role offset each other.

As for Lewis' tactical role, it does exist from a professional point of view, but how can fans see this?

And the media that follows the traffic is more popular about any topic, and they will mention it if they pay attention, so Lewis's reputation not only did not come back after the playoffs, but it was even worse than the regular season.

Unless he can perform better and better later...

Because the penalty scale was the same, and the scene was always seesaw, neither team led by more than 3 points. On the contrary, the game went "smoothly" to the last 3 minutes of the first quarter, and the official forced a timeout.

This timeout was also directly recorded on the head of the Magic, which had not used the timeout before. The score was 14:15 at this time, and the Magic temporarily led by one point.

In the past few minutes, both sides played two offenses each. Li Chengming made a 2+1 in the low post, helping the team overtake by 1 point. At the same time, this was Wallace's second personal foul. He is not substituted.

The inside performance of the Cavaliers in this round of the series is disappointing, especially the big Z who performed well in the first round of the series against the Wizards. In these few games, Li Chengming and Howard are completely unable to hold back, and his offense is also intermittent. Never found the feeling.

And Wallace, who was traded during the season, did not play the role the Cavaliers needed.

On the contrary, Joe Smith played very well in this round of the series. After playing, he passed the pick-and-roll and received the ball along the way, which caused Li Chengming's blocking foul.

Li Chengming was still a bit slow in moving. The ball was originally intended to help defend and create an offensive foul, but it hit him before he could stand still, and there was no excuse for it.

As a result, Smith stretched his hip at the free throw line and missed two free throws, which made the Magic fans at home laugh.

"Hey buddy, you have to work hard!" Li Chengming walked past him and patted him on the shoulder deliberately to cheer him up.

Speaking of which, the Eagles in the first round felt that there was no threat, so there was no conflict except that Josh Smith was slightly slapped in the face.

But with the Cavaliers, not to mention the so-called grievances with James before, the away treatment in the first two games made the Magic players extremely sick.

Even if he knew it was the fault of the league, he couldn't blame the players, but when he returned to the home court, he felt that the penalty was not better for him, and naturally he felt unbalanced.

So Li Chengming couldn't help but still talk trash. If it can affect the opponent's mentality, it will achieve his goal-not that he needs trash talk to survive, but that it will make it easier.

Wouldn't it be easier to fight if the opponent's inside line was all punished?
Although this kind of thing is basically impossible...

Smith's face was a little ugly, but he held back and said nothing.

As an old fritter who has played in this league for more than ten years, Smith has long lost the youthful vigor of a guy in his twenties.

Maybe he can choose to fight against Li Chengming for the team and help the team win this victory, but will it be of any benefit to him?

Whether he can stay in the team or not depends on his statistical performance, so for him, his own performance is more important than other things.

As long as you can stay on the court, it is a normal choice to endure the momentary anger.

James, who was also preparing to retreat next to him, glanced at them, but thoughtfully.

Of course, Li Chengming didn't talk trash to Smith for no reason. On the offensive end, he faced Smith again. At this time, Howard and Lewis were both off the court. Van Gundy seemed to be planning to let him play the first quarter again.

Of course, this kind of rotation arrangement also depends on the situation. If the main attackers in front of Li Chengming consume a lot of energy, then it is a bad time to take a break, but he is basically paddling in front of him. Van Gundy also knows that this kid's physical fitness is getting better Well, there's no need to worry about him being overwhelmed at all.

As long as a game is controlled within 36 minutes and don't play consecutive games, Li Chengming's physical strength is enough to support his online performance.

And in this way, it can be guaranteed that the team will have at least one core starting point of offense on the field during the transition period - Li Chengming, Turkoglu and Howard. Any one of the three on the court can lead the offense for a period of time. Rhythm, and the method is not the same.

This is also due to the fact that at the end of the regular season, the coaching staff boldly began to train troops and lineups, and the results of the training.

Like howard and Li Chengming at the beginning, after Howard went down, it became Li Chengming and Turkoglu. At the beginning of the second quarter, Turkoglu and Lewis will be on the court, and then Howard will come back, and then Li Chengming will replace Turkoglu. , so that the Cavaliers must maintain defensive attention at all times, which is really a difficult challenge for them.

In fact, it was a challenge for Smith to face Li Chengming in the rotation. The teammates had to be ready to come forward to pinch and force Li Chengming to play the ball.

However, the Magic team's conduction ball sometimes even goes around and then returns to Li Chengming's hands, because he will also look for opportunities when he is off the ball, or simply get stuck directly under the basket to respond to the reverse lob.

Except that Big Z can interfere with his height and wingspan, the Cavaliers can only foul or make him foul.

But today the referee's whistle is indeed relatively loose. He basically doesn't blow the whistle for this kind of important position. The result is that he can only continue to pester him.

In this way, at the end of the first quarter, driven by Li Chengming, the Magic still ended the first quarter with a 4-point lead.

(End of this chapter)